Copyright: Copyright ©


1,2,3,4 Previously Loaded Files (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.

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Loading files


About CorelXARA Viewer (Help Menu)

This displays general information about CorelXARA Viewer.


Adding to the Clipart Gallery

If you want you can add a folder of your own pictures to the Clipart Gallery in CorelXARA Viewer.

1. Copy all the pictures you want to add into their own folder on your hard drive.

2. Open the Clipart Gallery.

3. Click the Add Clipart button in the gallery.

4. Browse to the folder of clipart.

5. Click the Add button.

Tip

If you want to add files to an existing folder, copy them into the directory with the other files, browse to the directory in the Add Folder dialogue box and click the Update button.

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Updating the clipart gallery


Alter gallery display format
Altering gallery display format

1. Click the Clipart Gallery button [image] to open the gallery.

2. In the gallery, click the Options button.

3. From the menu, choose Properties. This opens the properties dialog :

3. Select the display option you require (large icons, small icons, or full information).

4. Click Apply.


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. The full version of CorelXARA anti-aliases on screen and also in any bitmap files you export.


Arrange Icons (Window Menu)

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


Arrange Views (Window Menu)

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


Cascade (Window Menu)

This option stacks the open document views along a diagonal line across the main CorelXARA Viewer window.


  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.

Open	Loads the selected file.

Options	Allows you to sort, search and change the display format of the gallery.

Add clipart	Allows you to add clipart to the gallery. See Adding to the clipart gallery for more details.

Remove	Removes all the selected sections from the gallery. To restore the section to the gallery, see Adding to the clipart gallery.

Import	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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Loading files

Searching the clipart gallery

Closing the gallery

Altering gallery display format

Selecting pictures in the gallery

Reordering gallery sections

Reordering pictures in the gallery

Moving & resizing the gallery

Sorting the gallery


Clipart Gallery (Utilities Menu)

Opens the Clipart Gallery.

Key Short-cut

SHIFT+F10


Close (File Menu)

Closes the active document and all views open onto it. If you only want to close one view, double-click on the document control box in the top left corner of the document window.

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Exit


Closing the gallery

Click on the icon in the top right 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.


Contents

Graphic File Viewer

CorelXARA is an advanced graphic illustration package for Windows computers. CorelXARA Viewer is based on the full CorelXARA package and lets you display files, not just from this CD but also from many other sources. Using it, you can judge for yourself the speed and display quality of CorelXARA.

Online Demonstrations

Click here if you would like to see one of the two multimedia movies of the full CorelXARA program in action.

Online Brochure

Click here for details of the complete CorelXARA package.

Loading Files

Click here to find out how to load the example files off the CD. Don't forget you can load your own files too!

How do I.... ?

Click here if you want to know how to do something with CorelXARA Viewer.

Copyright Xara Ltd 1995 & 1996.

Corel & CorelDRAW are trademarks of Corel Corporation

Illustrator is a trademark of Adobe Systems Inc.

All other trademarks acknowledged


Corel and Xara On-line

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

Corel Corporation

Email	custserv@corel.com

WWW	www.corel.com

Xara Ltd

Email	info@xara.com for general queries

WWW	www.xara.com


CorelXARA Viewer Menus
CorelXARA Menus

File Menu

Utilities Menu

Window Menu

Help Menu

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The button bar


Document Info (File Menu)

Opens the Document Information dialog which displays statistics about the current document.

Note

In CorelXARA Viewer, you cannot edit the Comment field.


Exit (File Menu)

Closes the CorelXARA Viewer program.

You can also exit CorelXARA Viewer by either:

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

Double-clicking the application Control-menu box.


File Menu

Open Command

Close Command

Document Info Command

1,2,3,4 Commands

Exit Command

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CorelXARA Viewer Menus


  Full Screen (Window Menu)

CorelXARA Viewer 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. For instance one mode might have no button bars, scrollbars or a status line.

You can swap 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 very top of the screen, the menu will drop down.

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Switching to full screen mode


Help Menu

Help about this program

More about CorelXARA

About CorelXARA

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CorelXARA Viewer Menus


Help about this program (Help Menu)

Opens the CorelXARA Viewer online documentation.


How do I...?

Move around a picture

Zoom

Switch to full screen mode

Use the Clipart Gallery


Loading files
Loading example files

1. Click the Clipart Gallery button [image] .

2. Click on the folder icons on the left of the gallery to open the sections.

3. Drag the picture from the gallery onto the main window (or double click on it).

Loading your own files

1. Click the Open button [image] .

2. Choose the format of the file you want to load.

3. Browse to the file you want to load.

4. Double click on it.

Tips

You can add your own files to the Clipart Gallery. See Adding to the clipart gallery.

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.

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.


More about CorelXARA (Help menu)

Displays an online specification giving you more information on the full CorelXARA package.


Moving & resizing the gallery

You move and resize the Clipart Gallery in the same way as other windows - drag the title bar to move the gallery and drag the edges of the gallery to resize it.


Moving the page

1. Choose the Push Tool [image] .

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

Tip

You can also move the page by dragging the scrollbars.


New View (Window Menu)

Opens another view onto the current document.

Tips

If you have multiple views open onto a document, each view can have a different Quality Control setting.

You can arrange several document windows using the arrange options on the Window menu.


Online Demonstrations

These demonstrations show you more of the features available in the full CorelXARA package.

Windows 3.1 and 3.11 uses : CorelXARA multimedia demonstrations require Microsoft Video for Windows to be installed. This is supplied with CorelXARA Viewer (in the VFW\DISK1 directory, run setup.exe). Windows 95 and Windows NT users do not need to install Microsoft Video for Windows.

If your machine uses a screen-saver, we suggest you disable it during the demonstration (The Windows User Guide describes how to disable a screen saver). Note that you will only hear the sound track of the demonstration if your computer is fitted with a sound card.

Introductory demonstration of CorelXARA and its tools.

Demonstration of using CorelXARA to create a stunning picture

Starting the Demonstrations

The demonstrations start when you click one of the demonstration buttons above.

Pausing playing

Click the Pause (bottom left-hand) button on the movie window. Click again to restart.

Rewinding/Advancing the demonstration

Drag the slider at the bottom of the movie window

Full screen/Normal mode

For maximum image size you can run the demonstration in full screen mode. CTRL+click on the Pause button in the movie window to enter full screen mode. Press any key to return to Normal mode.

The Demonstration menu

To display this do one of the following :

Click on the Menu button (to the right of the Pause button)

Right-click anywhere on the window.

View	Lets you select from several pre-defined window sizes.

Volume	Lets you alter the volume from external speakers connected to your computer.

Speed	Usually demonstrations are run at normal speed. You may want to slow down a demonstration to view the actions more carefully.

Copy	Copies the current demonstration to the clipboard as an AVI movie clip.

Config	Lets advanced users set the default options.

Command	For advanced users only.


  Open (File Menu)

Opens an existing document or file in a supported format in a new window. For details on opening files, see Loading files.

To quickly open a document:

Click the Open button.

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

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

File Name	Select or type the name of the document you want to open.

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

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.

Key Short-cut

CTRL+O


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. You cannot load Base/64 images.


  Previous Zoom

This option on the Button Bar restores the magnification to its previous level.

Tip

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

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Moving the page

Zooming


  Push Tool

The Push Tool lets you use the mouse to slide the document around, see Moving the page for more details.

Key Shortcuts

ALT+X

SHIFT+F8


Quality (Window Menu)
  Quality Command (Window Menu)

The Quality submenu on the Window Menu and the Quality slider on the Button Bar control how CorelXARA Viewer displays documents. There are four options on the Window menu:

Anti-aliased

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

Normal

Not anti-aliased and so faster. Full blends and smooth 256 step graduated fills as with the Anti-aliased setting.

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'.

Tip

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


Re-installing Win32s
Reinstalling Win32s

This section applies only if:

you are running Windows 3.x

and

you have to reinstall your Win32s extension software.

You may find you cannot reinstall Win32s (supplied with Viewer) after reinstalling 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. Delete 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. In the following line from the [BOOT] section in the SYSTEM.INI file:

      drivers=mmsystem.dll winmm16.dll

delete winmm16.dll so the line reads:

      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.


Reordering gallery items
Reordering pictures in the gallery

Pictures can be reordered 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.

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Reordering gallery sections.


Reordering 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.

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Reordering gallery items.


Searching the gallery

1. Click the Clipart Gallery button [image] .

2. Click the Options button in the gallery. This displays a menu.

3. Choose Find. This opens the Find dialog.

4. 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.)

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


Selecting items in the gallery
Selecting pictures 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 Picture

Click on the picture.

Selecting Several  Picture

1. Click on the first.

2. CTRL-click on each subsequent picture.

Selecting a Block of Items

1. Click on the first picture in the block.

2. SHIFT-click on the last picture in the block. This selects all the pictures between the first and last.


Sorting the gallery

1. Click Options. This displays a menu.

2. Choose Sort. This opens a dialog box.

3. 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.

4. Click Apply.

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Reordering pictures in the gallery

Reordering gallery sections


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.


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.

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

.KFX	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

,XAR	CorelXARA

.CDR	CorelDRAW (3,4 & 5)

.WMF	Windows Meta File

Note

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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Open Command


Switching to full screen mode

To switch to full screen mode, just click the full screen mode button [image] on the button bar. Click it again to return to normal mode. Entering full screen mode means there are :

No scrollbars

No visible menu bar

No title bar

No status line

This means there is more space on the screen to see your document.

Tip

If you want to choose a menu option, move the mouse pointer right to the top of the screen - the menu bar will appear.


The Button Bar

The Button bar is displayed at the top of the CorelXARA Viewer window. Most of the buttons do the same thing as items on menus.

Open file

Push Tool

Zoom Tool

Set View Quality

Clipart Gallery

Time redraw

Full screen mode


  Time Redraw (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. From the Utilities menu, choose Time Redraw.

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


Updating the clipart gallery

If you add files to a folder in the clipart gallery or change the files on disc you can update the clipart gallery to show the changes.

1. Click the Clipart Gallery button [image] .

2. In the gallery, click the Add Clipart button.

3. Click the Update button.


Using the Clipart Gallery

Adding pictures to the Clipart Gallery

Changing the format of the Clipart Gallery

Closing the Clipart Gallery

Moving and resizing the Clipart Gallery

Reordering pictures in the Clipart Gallery

Reordering sections in the Clipart Gallery

Searching the Clipart Gallery

Selecting pictures in the Clipart Gallery

Updating the Clipart Gallery


Utilities Menu

Clipart Gallery Command

Time Redraw Command


Window Menu

Arrange Views Command

Cascade Command

Arrange Icons Command

Full Screen Command

Quality Command

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Cascade Command


Xara Ltd

Gaddesden Place is the home of Xara Ltd

Xara Ltd is the developer 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


  Zoom Menu

The zoom menu on the Button Bar allows you to select a preset magnification or type in custom value. The menu also includes options for zooming to the Page, Drawing and returning to the Previous zoom.


  Zoom Tool

The Zoom Tool allows you to zoom in and out and magnify a particular area of a picture. See Zooming for more details.

Key Short-cut

ALT+Z

SHIFT+F7


  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.


Zooming

Returning to the Previous zoom.	Previous Zoom

Zooming to the entire drawing.	Zoom to Drawing

Zooming to the entire page.	Zoom to Page

Preset magnifications.	Zoom Menu

Increasing and decreasing zoom.	Zooming in and out

Magnifying a particular area.	Zooming on a specific area.

Tip

Remember CorelXARA Viewer can zoom up to more than 25000% !!


Zooming in and out

1. Choose the Zoom Tool [image] .

2. Do one of the following :

Click to zoom in on the document.

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

Tip

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

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Zooming


Zooming on a specific area

1. Choose the Zoom Tool [image] .

2. Drag the mouse to create a rectangle around the area.

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Zooming