Increasing the available work area

To help you gain as much screen area as possible, this page lists changes you can make to Xara LX so you can see as much of your document on the screen as possible. For instance, you can move the control bars around, remove any buttons you do not use and turn off the scrollbars.

To increase the work area you can...

Maximize the main document window so it fills the screen. To do this, double-click on the title bar or select Maximize from the application control menu.

Remove any buttons from the bars that you do not use (see Removing and restoring buttons).

Move the control bars so they make more efficient use of the area around the edge of your document (see Moving and resizing control bars).

Change the size of the buttons on the control bars (the Toolbar has large buttons by default). See Setting the size of buttons.

Use the Push Tool (see Moving the page) instead of the scrollbars and turn them off (see Hiding the scrollbars). This setting only affects the current document, if you want it to apply to all future documents you'll need to change the template document. See Changing the template document.

Turn off the rulers if you do not use them. See Displaying the rulers.

Make the colors on the Color Line smaller. See Changing the size of the Color Line.

Turn off the Status Line. See Hiding the Status Line.

Tips

Xara LX has two modes - full screen mode and normal mode. You can change the settings of these two modes independently. See Switching to full screen mode. Full screen mode saves even more space as the title bar and menu bar are not visible.

You can use Zoom To Page and Zoom to Drawing to fill the screen with your drawing. See Zooming to the whole page or Zooming to the whole drawing.