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Ever wonder how something was made or forget how you made something or needed to teach a class? Well now you can and Xara Pro Xx will help you do it, have Xara Pro Xx keep tabs on every object in your drawing and the steps it took to make it. This feature keeps track of named objects, get started by simply making your object with any of the drawing tools or importing a graphical element such as a picture or vector drawing, then right click the object and select “Names” from the pop-up menu, give the object a name and click the “Design Notes” check box, now Xara Designer Pro Xx will build a list of actions it took you to make the object including but not limited to color values, stoke weight, effects, contours with repeat steps, File Menu actions and more and this feature works for grouped named objects as well, Xara Pro Xx will first list in the Design Notes the grouped object and then break down the details for each object in the group, so you will be able to see it all from start to finish.
Design Notes are great for teachers too, just right click the objects you wish to include in your lesson in the “Name Gallery” and select “Add to Design Notes” then you can print out your notes for your tutorials by going to “File > Print Design Notes” and give them to your students for their assignments.
And as a added bonus Xara Designer Pro Xx can make Design Notes starting from a blank document with all file menu actions and shortcut keys assigned to those actions, so if you go to “File > Import” Xara will list in the “Design Notes” as ex: “File > Import (Ctrl + Alt + I) C:\Users\Teacher\Desktop\Image Correction Tutorial\Image_01.jpg and the great thing about starting with a blank document is you have the added feature to click the Pause button to stop recording program actions as you work out your design project then click the Pause button again to have Xara Pro Xx start recording your actions were you left off. No more will you have to keep separate tutorial documents because it’s all contained right in your Xara Pro Xx document. Also print your documents to pdf from your printer selection menu and include your tutorial lessons with your video screen cast for download to help your students grasp your lessons from start to finish. Xara Pro Xx will start off printing your “Design Notes” with the name of the file, date and then the comments from the document info dialog box found in File > Document Info > Comments and then the page size and units and then finally the object notes, each page is numbered for your convenience. You can view your notes on screen by going to File > View Design Notes.
If you need to take a break or open your document another day to work on it no problem because of the way Xara Pro Xx keeps track of the “Design Notes for each named object so any future actions you do to any object will be added to the object. Note: If you delete a named object the “Design Notes” for that object will also be deleted.
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