Do a search in this site for your problem. So many of us have had problems printing with Xara X you will get a huge amount of information on the subject so do not be surprised.
The way that I have done it before when I was in your position was to export your drawing as an AI eps. with shadows and any bitmap effects taken out like bevels and some transparencies and then import that eps file into FH as it is quite good at this type of import. If when importing into FH the drawing does not display and you get a rectangle with two diagonal lines relook at your original drawing in Xara X1 and see if there is any other effects causing the problem.
FH is shadow tool is not the best, it can not hold a candle to Xara's, so I would style your drawings so that whwn you finish them off in FH that your boss is not disappointed.
Just to make it worst for you if you are using FH MX and the drawing or output to the printer contains a lot of different fonts FH MX has some bugs in this area on eps which stops the text being printed. Use export eps with TIFF preview in FH as your output for the printers as they can see if there is any problems before the negs are made.
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