I fire up XWDPv15.0 on occasions and wrestle with the inability to squish or squash an image.

Today after 18 months of Xara not bug fixing it, I may have cracked it.
It is very complicated and requires an entire chapter of discourse that I cannot fit into the margins of TG.

Drop an image onto your design page. In the Fill Tool, change Fill tiling to Repeating tile.
Squish or squash to your heart's content.

If someone else solved it earlier, all hail.

Acorn