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Sel ector tool The Selector Tool is the primary tool in Xara X. It is used for selecting, rotating, moving, skewing, stretching, flipping and scaling objects as well as other editing.

Free hand and brush tool The Freehand & Brush Tool allows you to draw freehand lines and shapes as you would with a pen on paper. You can edit freehand lines in the same way as those drawn with the Shape Editor Tool or Pen Tool

Shape editor tool Unlike other drawing programs, Xara X combines the main shape or curve editing functions and line or shape creation facilities in this one tool. The Shape Editor Tool can be used to alter curves or straight lines, insert or delete points, smooth complex curves, cut lines, reshape curves and create new lines or shapes

Pen Tool The Pen Tool is an alternative way of creating lines and shapes. We recommend using the Shape Editor Tool as it lets you create and edit lines using the same tool

Rectangle tool The Rectangle Tool creates and edits rectangular and square QuickShapes . It is a customized version of the QuickShape Tool.

Ellips tool The Ellipse Tool creates and edits elliptical and circular QuickShapes . It is a customized version of the QuickShape Tool

Quickshape tool The QuickShape Tool creates and edits QuickShapes. QuickShape Tool Operations Adding curved corners to polygons Adding curved corners to rectangles Changing curved corners on a polygon Changing curved corners on a rectangle Changing the number of sides of a polygon Drawing polygons Drawing star-shaped polygons Making a polygon star-shaped Moving QuickShapes Moving the star points on a star-shaped polygon Rotating ellipses Rotating rectangles Scaling and rotating polygons

Text Tool The Text Tool allows you to create text objects consisting of one or many lines of text which can be placed around a curve if necessary and alter existing text objects. The Text Tool Infobar shows the range of text attributes. If there is a selected region of text, any change to a text attribute applies to that region. Otherwise, the change applies at the text cursor. Start typing and the text appears with the changed attribute.

Fill tool The Fill Tool lets you apply fills to the selected object(s) in a variety of graduated color. Fills are controlled using fill arrows that control the position and direction of the fill. The colors of the fill are controlled using fill handles.

Transparancy tool With the Transparency Tool you can give objects levels of transparency using a wide variety of transparency shapes. It works in a similar way to the Fill Tool.

Shadow tool This tool lets you apply, remove, and modify semitransparent (or "soft") shadows. The transparency of soft shadows increases towards the edges, which gives a very realistic effect. Shadows are resolution independent so you can scale them without losing quality.

Bevel tool Bevels give objects an appearance of depth instead of being flat on the page. Bevels are resolution independent so you can scale them without losing quality

Contour tool You can use the Contour Tool to contour objects. Contour Tool Infobar Controls Distance between Steps/Number of Steps Remove Effect Contour Width Inner/Outer Contour Position Profile Attribute Profile Inset path Join style

Blend tool Blend Tool Operations Blending objects Removing a blend Creating a two-way blend Changing the number of steps in a blend Creating multi-stage blends Changing the way colors fade in a blend Anti-aliasing steps in a blend Blending along a curve Removing a blend from a curve

Mold tool The Mold Tool is used to apply Envelope and Perspective molds to objects to warp, bend and reform them. For more details on molds, see the Molds Overview. You can choose the Mold Tool using the Mold Pop-up Menu.

Button and Navbar tool This tool lets you create a series of buttons for use in web page navigation bars. Optionally you can make the buttons rollovers. You can then modify the individual buttons as required (for example by changing any wording) and then export them plus the associated HTML code. (For rollovers, the required JavaScript is also exported.)

Push tool Push tool The Push Tool lets you use the The Push Tool lets you use the mouse to move a document mousethe to window. move a document within The Push within the window. The Push Tool Infobar contains controls Tool Infobaron contains controls for zooming the document. for zooming on the document

Zoom, tool The Zoom Tool allows you to alter the magnification of the current document view. It only affects the view on screen - the document itself does not change