Adding fills to the fill gallery

You can easily add folders of your own bitmaps to the Fill Gallery so you can use them as bitmap fills. The Fill Gallery automatically creates thumbnail images for any folder containing bitmap files so you can see your files in the gallery. You can only add bitmap files to the Fill Gallery, not vector files. Once you have added a folder of files to a gallery, you can add more files, see Adding files to a gallery.

To add a folder of bitmaps to the fill gallery

1. Copy the bitmaps you want to add to the gallery to a folder.

2. From the Utilities menu, choose Fill Gallery.

3. Click the Disk Fills button to open the Add Folder dialog box.

4. Browse to the folder containing the bitmaps.

5. Click the Add button.

Xara LX creates thumbnails for each of the bitmaps and places them in a folder called XaraInfo. If you add bitmaps from a CD other than the Xara LX CD, the XaraInfo folder is placed in your temporary folder as it cannot be written to the CD.

Tips

If you want to add the fills from the CD to the Fill Gallery, follow the instructions above and browse to the "fills" folder on the CD.

You can add a PhotoCD of images to the Fill Gallery. See Importing PhotoCD files.

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