Copyright: Xara Ltd


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CorelXARA is an advanced graphic illustration package for Windows computers. This viewer program is based on the full CorelXARA package and lets you display files, not just from this CD but also from many other sources.  It will let you judge for yourself the speed and display quality of CorelXARA.

This viewer contains only a few of the tools and menu options available in the full package. To see the full range of tools in the full package in use, run the Multimedia Demonstration (click here) on the CD and read the CorelXARA On-line Specification (click here).

Using CorelXARA Viewer

•	Loading the example files

•	The button bar

•	How To...

General Information

•	Supported File Formats

•	Re-installing Win32s

Copyright Xara Ltd October 1995.

Corel & CorelDRAW are trademarks of Corel Corporation

Illustrator is a trademark of Adobe Systems Inc.

All other trademarks acknowledged


What


The Button Bar

The Button bar is displayed at the top of the CorelXARA Viewer window. You can select functions either from the Button Bar or from the Menus.

Open file

Push Tool

 	Zoom Tool

   	Set View Quality

Clipart Gallery

Time Redraw

Full screen mode


  Push Tool

The Push Tool lets you use the mouse to slide the document around in the window.

Push Tool Operations

Moving the Page

Key Short-cuts

ALT+X

SHIFT+F8


  Zoom Tool

The Zoom Tool allows you to alter the magnification of the current document view.

Button Bar Controls

Zoom Command

Previous Zoom Command

Zoom to Page Command

Zoom to Drawing Command

Zoom Tool Operations

Zooming

Key Short-cut

ALT+Z

SHIFT+F7


Commands


CorelXARA Menus

File Menu

Utilities Menu

Window Menu

Help Menu

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See also

The Tools


File Menu

Open Command

Close Command

Document Info Command

1,2,3,4 Command

Exit Command

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See also

CorelXARA Commands


Open Command (File Menu)

Opens an existing document or file in a supported format in a new window.

To quickly open a document:

•	Click the Open button.

•	Drag the file from the File Manager (or equivalent) onto the CorelXARA window.

•	Double-click the file from the File Manager (or equivalent).

If CorelXARA is already displaying a document, you are asked if you want to close it before displaying the new document.

CorelXARA keeps track of the documents of the most recently viewed files. You can quickly open any of these by selecting its name from the bottom of the File menu.

When you finish viewing a document and you want to remove it from your screen, close it by using the Close command.

Dialog Box Options

Windows 95: CorelXARA uses the standard Windows 95 Open dialog box and not that shown above.

File Name

Select or type the name of the document you want to open. This box lists documents of the type selected in the List Files Of Type box. To see a list of files with a particular file extension (suffix), type an asterisk (*), a period, and the three-character extension, and then press ENTER. To see files with more than one filename extension, type a semicolon (;), a second asterisk (*), a period, and another three-character extension. For example, if you want to see all files with the .ART extension and all files with the .BMP extension, type *.doc;*.bmp.

List Files Of Type

Select the type of file you want to see in the File Name list.

All Files (*.*)

Lists all files in the current directory or folder.

CorelXARA Documents (*.ART)

Lists all files in the current directory or folder that were saved with the .ART extension.

Other File Types

Supported File Formats lists the other file types that CorelXARA supports and their file extensions.

If you drop a file onto the Viewer window or use a generic translator such as Bitmap or EPS, the Viewer checks the file and selects a suitable translator. Usually the file is translated correctly. However, occasionally the file format is ambiguous and the file is not correctly translated. If this happens, select the specific translator and try again.

Drives

Select the drive that contains the file you want to open.

Directories

Select the directory that contains the file you want to open.

Network

Opens the Connect Network Drive dialog box so that you can make a connection to a network

drive. For more information, click the Help button in the dialog box.

Key Short-cut

CTRL+O


Close Command (File Menu)

Closes the active document.

If you have multiple windows open for a single document, the Close command on the Document control menu closes only one window at a time. To close all windows at the same time, choose the Close command from the File menu.

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See also

Exit Command


Document Info Command (File Menu)

This command opens the Document Information dialog which displays statistics about the current document.


1,2,3,4 Command (File Menu)

Use the numbers and names listed near the bottom of the File menu to open any of the documents recently viewed. Select the number or name that corresponds to the document you want to open.


Exit Command (File Menu)

Ends a Viewer session.

You can also exit CorelXARA by either:

•	Opening the application control menu by pressing ALT+SPACEBAR. Then choose Close.

•	Double-clicking the application Control-menu box.


Utilities Menu

Clipart Gallery Command


Clipart Gallery Command (Utilities Menu)

This command opens the Clipart Gallery.

Key Short-cut

SHIFT+F10


Time Redraw Command (Utilities Menu)

This tells how long CorelXARA Viewer took to redraw the current document. We know CorelXARA is fast - Time Redraw lets you see exactly how fast. Viewer uses background redraw, updating every half second. The main CorelXARA program has an option to turn off background redraw. which speeds up redraw considerably so only use Viewer redraw times as a guide. (Screen redraw also depends on how much memory is in the computer and on the complexity of the image.)

To time redraw of a file, open the file and click the Time Redraw button on the Button Bar.

To get a fair comparison of the speed of CorelXARA to the speed of other programs you should:

1. Load the file into CorelXARA.

2. Scale it the same size as it is in the other program's window.

3. Set the View Quality down to Normal (so that CorelXARA doesn't anti-alias).

4. Select Time Redraw.

CorelXARA's Anti-Aliasing  slightly slows down screen redraws (but gives you much better image quality).


Window Menu

Arrange Views Command

Cascade Command

Arrange Icons Command

Full Screen Command

Quality Command

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See also

CorelXARA Commands


New View Command (Window Menu)

This option opens another view onto the current document.  If you have multiple views open onto a document, each view can have a different Quality Control setting.


Arrange Views Command (Window Menu)

This option tiles all the open document views to fill the Viewer window.


Cascade Command (Window Menu)

This option stacks the open document views along a diagonal line.


Arrange Icons Command (Window Menu)

This option arranges the icons of all minimised documents in the bottom left-hand corner of the main CorelXARA window.


Full Screen Command (Window Menu)

CorelXARA works in two modes. Normal and Full Screen. Each mode has its own display settings. CorelXARA remembers the current settings which then apply next time that mode is entered. This makes it possible to switch between two completely customised modes.

You can toggle between normal and full screen modes using either the option on the Window menu or the button on the Button Bar.

To display the menu bar in full screen mode:

Move the mouse pointer to the top of the screen.


Quality Command (Window Menu)

The Quality submenu on the Window Menu and the Quality slider on the Button Bar controls how CorelXARA displays the current view. There are four options on the Window menu:

Anti-aliased

The highest quality setting. All edges are anti-aliased to reduce on-screen jaggies and give the same effect as a higher resolution screen.

Normal

Not anti-aliased and so faster. Full blends and smooth 256 step graduated fills.

Simple

No graduated fills shown. Reduced number of steps in blends.

Outline

No solid colours shown - only outlines (even for those with no outline colour). This type of display is sometimes called 'wire frame'.

The slider lets you select these options and also intermediate settings.

If you have multiple views onto a document, each view can have a different quality setting.


Help Menu

Help about this program

More about CorelXARA

About CorelXARA

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See also

CorelXARA Commands


Help about this program (Help Menu)

This command opens this help file and displays the contents page.


More about CorelXARA (Help menu)

This displays a specification document giving you more information on the full CorelXARA package.


About CorelXARA Viewer (Help Menu)

This displays general information about CorelXARA Viewer.


Other CorelXARA Commands

Previous Zoom Command

Zoom to Drawing Command

Zoom to Page Command

Zoom Command


Previous Zoom

This option on the Button Bar restores the magnification level to that which it was previously.

You can use this option to swap between two zoom values.


Zoom to Drawing

This option on the Button Bar scales the current view so the drawing fills the window..


Zoom to Page

This option scales the current view so the page fills the window.


Zoom Command

This menu on the Button Bar allows you to select a zoom from a list or type in a user defined value.

It also includes options for zooming to the Page, Drawing and returning to the Previous zoom.


Clipart Gallery

The Clipart Gallery lets you easily preview and load clipart from the CorelXARA Viewer CD and other sources.

The Clipart Gallery can be opened by :

•	Selecting the Clipart Gallery option from the Utilities menu.

•	Clicking on the Clipart Gallery button on the Button Bar.

•	Pressing SHIFT+F10.

Loading Pictures

To load one of the example pictures :

•	Drag it from the Clipart Gallery onto CorelXARA Viewer.

or

•	Click on the picture and then click the Open button.

Options

This button opens the Gallery Options dialog. This dialog allows the gallery to be sorted and searched as well as offering different options for the format in which the gallery items are displayed.

Add clipart

Clicking this button opens a modified version of the Open dialog box that lets you select a clipart directory to add to the gallery. See Adding to a gallery for more details.

Remove

This lets you reduce the number of clipart categories (sections) displayed in the gallery. Click on a section's title bar and then click Remove. This action only removes the section from the gallery; it does not alter the CD.

To restore the section to the gallery, use Add clipart to select the CD again.

Import

This button is disabled in Viewer. In the full CorelXARA program, clicking this button imports (merges) the selected file into the current drawing.

Folding and Unfolding Gallery Sections

To fold up a section in the gallery click on the folder icon next to its name or double click on the title strip.

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See also

Selecting Items in a Gallery

Search a gallery

Close a gallery

Alter gallery display format

Re-ordering gallery sections

Re-ordering gallery items

Move & resize galleries


Status Line

The Status Line text tells you what options are currently available to you. Also, if an operation takes more than a few seconds (for example, loading a complicated file), the Status Line shows a progress bar.

On the right-hand side of the Status Line is the Transparency indicator. This shows when a document uses CorelXARA's advanced transparency option. For more information see More about CorelXARA.


How to...

Clipart Gallery

•	Closing the gallery

•	Selecting items in the gallery

•	Moving & resizing the gallery

•	Re-ordering gallery items

•	Re-ordering gallery sections

•	Searching the gallery

•	Altering gallery display format

•	Adding pictures to the gallery

Miscellaneous

•	Zooming

•	Moving the page


Gallery How


 Close the gallery

Click on the icon in the top left-hand corner of the gallery.

When the clipart gallery is open, its button on the Button Bar is pressed in - the gallery can be closed by clicking the button again to pull it out.


 Select items in the gallery

The Clipart Gallery allows you to perform operations on pictures (loading, importing etc). Before you can perform an operation, you must select the picture(s) in the gallery. Selected items are shown highlighted.

Selecting a Single Item

Click on the item.

Selecting Several Items

1. Click on the first item,

2. Ctrl-click on each subsequent item

Selecting a Block of Items

1. Click on the first item in the block,

2. Shift-click on the last item in the block. This also selects items between the first and last items.


 Move & resize the gallery

You move and resize the Clipart Gallery in the same way as other windows. That is, drag the Title Bar to move the gallery and drag the edges of the gallery to resize.


 Re-ordering gallery items

Items can be re-ordered simply by dragging them around within the gallery. The gallery contents can also be sorted from the Gallery Options dialog accessible from the Find button on the gallery.

See also Re-order gallery sections


 Re-ordering gallery sections

Drag the Title strip (the bar showing the name of the section) up or down the gallery to move a section before or after another section.

See also Re-ordering gallery items


 Search the gallery

1. Click the Options button in the gallery.

2. Click Find. This opens the Find dialog.

3. Type in the search name.

Items in the Clipart gallery also contain information about their subject. For example, you can search for "Insect" and find all entries that show insects. (Any items you add to the gallery will not contain subject information.)

4. Click Find first to find the first match or Find next for subsequent matches.


  Alter gallery display format

1. Click Options. This opens the Options dialog.

2. Select the display option you require such as large icons, small icons, and so on.

Entries are initially sorted according to Primary key. (In the illustration, by name in alphabetic order.)

Particularly when sorting by name length or file size, there may be two files with identical name lengths or file sizes. In this case, these entries are further sorted by the Secondary key.

3. Click Apply.

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See also

Re-ordering Gallery Items

Re-ordering Gallery Sections


  Adding to the gallery

You may want to include more clipart to the Clipart Gallery. To do this you add a folder (or directory) containing the pictures you want to add. You can add more items to an existing folder and also include these items in the gallery. Folders contain the items and an index of the items.)

To add a new folder, first copy the items you want to add into a separate directory.

To add to an existing folder, copy the new items into the existing folder.

Click Add clipart. This opens the Add Folder dialog box:

To select the folder either:

•	Select from the Drives menu.

•	Click Network to add a drive from the network (if your computer is connected to a network).

•	Click FindCD to select the CD drive on your computer.

then select the directory in the usual way.

Adding a new folder

Select the directory then click Add. This adds the folder as a new section in the gallery.

Clipart gallery: you will be asked if you want to include previews; choose NO if the new files are all CorelXARA files otherwise choose YES. (Previews are the small images that appear in the gallery.)

Adding to an existing folder

Select the directory then click Update.


Other


 Zoom

Previous Zoom

Previous Zoom Command (Button Bar)

View Entire Drawing

Zoom to Drawing Command (Button Bar)

View the Entire Page

Zoom to Page Command (Button Bar)

Pre-set Magnifications

Zoom Command (Button Bar)

(Zooming in, out and on specific areas).

Zooming In and Out

Select the Zoom Tool

Click the mouse to zoom in on the document.

SHIFT-click (or right-click) the mouse to zoom out from the document.

The Status Line displays the zooms that will occur with mouse clicks.

Zooming on a Specific Area of a Document

Choose the Zoom Tool.

Drag the mouse to create a rectangle around the area.


 Move the page

To move the page

1. Choose the Push Tool.

2. Place the pointer over the page and drag. The page will follow your movements.

You can also move the page using the Scrollbars.


Link Topics


Anti-Aliasing

Anti-aliasing improves the quality of on-screen images by inserting extra pixels of calculated colours around the edges of objects on screen. This has the effect of smoothing the edges and of appearing to improve the resolution of the display.


Supported File Formats

The following is a list of the file types which can be imported into CorelXARA Viewer.

If you drop a file onto the Viewer window or use a generic translator such as Bitmap or EPS, the Viewer checks the file and selects a suitable translator. Usually the file is translated correctly. However, occasionally the file format is ambiguous and the file is not correctly translated. If this happens, select the specific translator and try again.

The full version of CorelXARA supports a slightly wider range of file formats than are listed here.

Bitmap Import Formats

.301	Brook Trout

.BM	X Windows (2 colour)

.BMP	Windows Bitmap

.CAL  	CALS (2 colour)

.CUT	Halo CUT (256 colour)

.DCX	DCX

.GIF	CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format

.GX2	GX2

.ICA	IOCA (2 colour)

.ICO	Microsoft Windows Icon (16 colour)

.IFF	IFF

.IMx	Sun Raster

.IMG 	IMG (16 colour)

.JPG 	JPEG

.i	KOFAX

.LV	LaserView (2 colour)

.MAC	MacPaint (2 colour)

.MSP	Microsoft Paint (2 colour)

.PCD 	PhotoCD

.PCT	PICT

.PCX	PCX Paintbrush

.PSD	PhotoShop

.RAS	Sun Raster

.TGA	TrueVision TARGA

.TIF	TIFF

.WPG	Word Perfect Group (256 colour)

.XBM	X Windows (2 colour)

.XPM	X Windows (256 colour)

EPS Import Formats

.AI	Illustrator EPS (88, 3, 4)

.EPS	Illustrator EPS (88, 3, 4)

Other Import Formats

.ART	CorelXARA

.CDR	CorelDRAW (3,4 & 5)

.WMF	Windows Meta File

Note

The CorelDRAW importer included in the full CorelXARA program is better than that supplied with Viewer. CorelXARA Viewer will sometimes not import some objects correctly.

Bitmap import filters are licensed from AccuSoft Corporation. The full version of CorelXARA allows all bitmaps and illustrations to be exported in most of these formats.

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See also

Open Command


Photo CD Files

PhotoCD is a Kodak proprietary process for storing photographs and transparencies in digital form on a CD. The CD can contain up to six copies of each image at different resolutions. These are defined by Kodak as :

Name	Resolution	Memory Required

Base/64	96x64	24Kb

Base/16	192x128	96Kb

Base/4	384x256	384Kb

Base	768x512	1.5Mb

Base*4	1536x1024	6Mb

Base*16	3072x2048	24Mb

Base/64 is used for 'thumbnail' previews of the image.

The generic bitmap translator loads the Base image (768x512 pixels).

The PhotoCD loader opens a dialog box that lets you select which image to load.


Window Controls

The following are the controls available to manipulate the CorelXARA window and its document windows.

Arrange Views Command

Cascade Command

Arrange Icons Command

Full Screen Command


On-line Demonstration

This lets you see more of the features available in the full CorelXARA package.

If your machine uses a screen-saver, we suggest you disable it during the demonstration as it may cause problems with speech synchronisation during the demonstration. (The Windows User Guide describes how to disable a screen saver.)

You will only hear the sound track of the demonstration if your computer is fitted with a sound card. You may find that the sound goes out of synchronisation with the vision during the demonstration. This is particularly likely if you fast-forward or pause.

Sometimes, parts of the screen might not update correctly. Please be assured that this is a problem with the ScreenCam demonstration software and not with CorelXARA. (The ScreenCam demonstration software was written by a third-party and not by Xara Ltd or Corel Corporation).

The demonstration was recorded at a resolution of 800x600 - if your screen is smaller than this some parts of the demonstration will not be visible.

Some computers can display the wrong colours in the demonstration. If this happens on your computer, minimise Viewer to an icon. (The Windows User Guide describes how to do this.)

  Click this button to start the demonstration of CorelXARA.

Note

This demonstration refers to 'Xara Studio' - the old name for CorelXARA.


Re-installing Win32s

This section applies only if:

you are running Windows 3.x

and you have to re-install your Win32s extension software.

You may find you cannot re-install Win32s (supplied with Viewer) after re-installing your windows software as the Win32s installer claims the software is already installed. The following instructions describe how to remove Win32s, it is then possible to complete a new installation.

1. Remove the following line from the [386Enh] section in the SYSTEM.INI file:

        device=<WINDOWS>\<SYSTEM>\win32s\w32s.386

where <WINDOWS> and <SYSTEM> are where the Windows and System directories are, respectively.

2. Modify the following line from the [BOOT] section in the SYSTEM.INI file:

      drivers=mmsystem.dll winmm16.dll

to the following (remove winmm16.dll):

      drivers=mmsystem.dll

3. Delete the following files from the <WINDOWS>\<SYSTEM> subdirectory or

   from the SYSTEM directory in network installations:

      W32SYS.DLL

      WIN32S16.DLL

      WIN32S.INI

4. Delete all the files in the <WINDOWS>\<SYSTEM>\WIN32S subdirectory or the <SYSTEM>\WIN32S subdirectory in network installations.

   Then delete subdirectory itself.

5. Restart Windows.

NOTE: <WINDOWS> refers to the windows installation directory. On a networked Windows installation, the system directory may be located on a remote share. If you are only removing Win32s from your machine, then you do not need to remove the shared files (in <SYSTEM> and <SYSTEM>\WIN32S). Before removing these files from the network share, make sure that all users that use Win32s have removed the references to Win32s from the SYSTEM.INI file.


Corel and Xara On-line

Corel Corporation and Xara Ltd (developers of CorelXARA) are both present on the Internet.

Xara Ltd

Email	info@xara.com for general queries

sales@xara.com for sales, licensing and ordering information

WWW	www.xara.com

Corel Corporation

Email	custserv@corel.com

WWW	www.corel.com


Xara Ltd

Xara Ltd are the developers of CorelXARA and a Corel Reseller

Xara is a new company set up by Computer Concepts Ltd. to develop CorelXARA (originally known as Xara Studio). Computer Concepts have been developing mainstream application software since 1981. CC was one of the pioneer microcomputer software houses of the early eighties in the UK developing applications such as the Wordwise word processor which sold a quarter of a million copies.

With nearly 15 years of development experience, the last six of which have been developing 32-bit windowing based applications for RISC based computers, this has given us an unrivalled experience of developing microcomputer application software. This experience predates the arrival of 32-bit Windows based environments by many years.

The recent arrival of 32-bit Windows programming environments (Windows 95, Windows NT and Windows 3.1 with Win32s) has meant we can now exploit that experience in the wider PC and Windows market, rather than the more niche markets we occupied before.

The CorelXARA project was started at the beginning of 1993 and currently involves 22 programmers based at our headquarters, Gaddesden Place (pictured above).

Xara Ltd have a strong presence on the Internet (see Corel and Xara On-line) and provide a support and feedback service via www.xara.com.

     	Xara Ltd

Gaddesden Place

Hemel Hempstead

Hertfordshire HP2 6EX

United Kingdom

Tel:	01442 350000

outside UK +44  1442  350000

Fax:	01442  350010

outside UK +44 1442 350010

WWW	www.xara.com

Email	info@xara.com for general queries

sales@xara.com for sales, licensing and ordering information