Xara as a DTP

[Kish Ranai]

Dear "ernie-f"

Your response to my query is fantastic. This is what I wanted to know. Looks like you are the right guy that I need to speak to for a dude like me who is just starting on publishing e-book, magazine, newsletter and print books. I need to get some standard templates that I can follow. By the way I am using Pro X17.

Will you be so kind enough so send me a template with some dummy pages in which there are mix double-spread and single pages that is setup correctly so that I can use it to follow? I need a template say for creating a book to be printed by a printers hence need the bleed, safety margins set as well.

With this template I can then modify for say e-book or any other output.

There was one other question that I started in another thread titled "Headers and Footers" regarding on how do u go about creating them in a true DTP sense using Xara. Can u please provide your response in that thread so that all answers related to this topic will be in one place. Gary Priester, Acron have also given their input. Your valuable input will be much appreciated in this thread to so many of us who may starting out.

Thanks alot...hep much apprecaited.
Best Rgds
Kish

[ernie-f]

Hello, Kish. Remember,

I’m a professional graphic artist.

Everything I do is paid for. Here I gave you the most important stations for free.
Garry and Acorn did the same.

Now it’s up to you to learn something from it. As written on my homepage (AGB) I demand 65,00 EUR per hour for further support.
There’s nothing free, only the death. For this You pay with Your life.

And YES, you can do headers and footers in Xara.

The best thing you do is deal with Xara and learn it. Then came back for questions.

I never will do a template for people to charge my work for free.

[Acorn]

Hello, Kish. Remember,

I’m a professional graphic artist.

Everything I do is paid for. Here I gave you the most important stations for free.
Garry and Acorn did the same.

Now it’s up to you to learn something from it. As written on my homepage (AGB) I demand 65,00 EUR per hour for further support.
There’s nothing free, only the death. For this You pay with Your life.

And YES, you can do headers and footers in Xara.

The best thing you do is deal with Xara and learn it. Then came back for questions.

I never will do a template for people to charge my work for free.

Kudos ernie.
For those interested my hourly rate is £50 and I accept commissions where I will negotiate.

I rarely do freebies and prefer to explain a technique so you can learn from it and develop in ways unimagined. Otherwise, you end up with endless requests to alter/tweak/redesign it all over, all for free.

Acorn

[Kish Ranai]

Hi

Ok got your point. Thanks for the help so far.
Rgds
Kish

[ernie-f]

Kudos ernie.
For those interested my hourly rate is £50 and I accept commissions where I will negotiate.

I rarely do freebies and prefer to explain a technique so you can learn from it and develop in ways unimagined. Otherwise, you end up with endless requests to alter/tweak/redesign it all over, all for free.

Acorn

Right point of view.
I’m happy to help, but when it comes to something you can learn for yourself, I’m not willing to do a job for someone else for nothing.

I live on what I do. It secures my livelihood.

[browj2]

Look at this link and mouse over Tutorials to see a listing of excellent tutorials. There is one on typesetting and a couple on page design that can help you.

Overall, XaraXhris has a series of excellent YouTube tutorials on using Xara Designer Pro X.

And there are also tutorials on XaraXone.

[Kish Ranai]

Look at this link and mouse over Tutorials to see a listing of excellent tutorials. There is one on typesetting and a couple on page design that can help you.

Overall, XaraXhris has a series of excellent YouTube tutorials on using Xara Designer Pro X.

And there are also tutorials on XaraXone.

Thanks a lot will look into these links. Much appreciated.

[Gamerprinter]

My Xara based DTPing is pretty straight forward. I use standard two column layout with border art, full page art, half page art, quarter page art, white background with black text around 11 point so as not to be too small, easily readable. Because Xara isn't a full DTP program, I place in page numbers manually. I primarily design for PDF, but sometimes the PDF is specifcally optimized for print, and then I use PDF/x1a format at 300 dpi and printers marks. Here's a free tabletop roleplaying game adventure module I created using Xara, and is what my typical product looks like. You can download it here, though you may have to create a customer account to get it - it's FREE.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...erm=rude+awake