Utilities menu
Galleries
Color Gallery (Galleries control bar or F9)
Displays or hides the Color Gallery (see Color Handling).
Page & Layer Gallery (Galleries control bar or F10)
Displays or hides the Page & Layer Gallery. Only used in non-animation documents (see Layers).
Bitmap Gallery (Galleries control bar or F11)
Displays or hides the Bitmap Gallery (see Bitmap Handling).
Line Gallery (Galleries control bar or Shift+F12)
Displays or hides the Line Gallery (see Drawing Lines).
Fonts Gallery (Galleries control bar or Shift+F9)
Displays or hides the Fonts Gallery (see Text Handling).
Designs Gallery (Galleries control bar or Shift+F10)
Displays or hides the Designs Gallery (see Importing and Exporting).
Fill Gallery (Galleries control bar or Shift+F11)
Displays or hides the Fill Gallery (see Bitmap Handling).
Frame Gallery (Galleries control bar or Shift+F12)
Displays or hides the Frame Gallery. Only used in animation documents (see Web Graphics).
Name Gallery (Galleries control bar or Ctrl+Shift+F9)
Displays or hides the Name Gallery (see Document Handling).
Color Editor (Ctrl+E)
Or right click and choose Fill Color.
Opens the Color Editor (refer to Color Handling).
Names
Or right click and choose Names.
Opens the Apply/remove names dialog.
Imagesetting
See Imagesetting for details.
Web Properties (Ctrl+Shift+W)
Opens the Web Properties dialog, which allows web features such as links, popup layers, anchors, etc. to be added to your document.
See Web Properties Dialog for details!
Website Variants
- Share with all variants: Allows the selected object to be shared with all variants, if the object is not available to be shared then there is an option to create a non-shared copy of the object in the other variants.
- Delete from all variants: Deletes the selected object from all variants.
- Stop sharing with variants: Stops the selected object being shared with all variants.
- Copy page to all variants: Copies a selected page to all variants.
- Website variants: Opens the Website Variants dialog.
Web Animation
Opens the Web Animation dialog.
Web Sticky/Stretchy
Opens the Web Sticky/Stretchy options dialog.
Web Export Options
Opens the Web Export Options dialog
Optimize Photo
Or right click and choose Optimize Photo.
Optimize bitmap resolution for use in Xara Designer Pro+ designs. See Photo Optimization for details.
Optimize all Images
Optimizes all photos and bitmaps in the design. See Photo Optimization.
Bitmap Tracer
Opens the Tracer dialog box (see Bitmap Handling).
Animation
This menu is only available in animation documents and offers three choices:
- Animation Properties: With this dialog box you can change the options for the animation and for each frame.
- Preview All Frames: Use this to preview all the frames of your animation.
- Preview GIF Animation in Browser: This item creates an animated GIF file from the frames in your document and opens it in your web browser so you can see what it looks like. There is a button on the animation bar for quick access to this operation.
Screen Capture
Open the Screen Capture Tool.
Check spelling as you type
This option activates the Spell Checker in the Text Tool.
Customize Key Shortcuts
This command allows you to change the keyboard shortcuts. See Integrated key shortcut utility in Menus and Keyboard shortcuts for details.
Auto-Fit to page...
Open the Auto-fit to Page... dialog.
SmartFields...
Opens the SmartField dialog allowing you to insert a SmartField into the current doc.
Options (Ctrl+Shift+O)
Or right click and choose Page Options.
Opens the Options dialog box (described in Customizing Designer).
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