New Insert menu

There’s a new top level Insert menu that makes it easier (a more discoverable way) to add common items to the page. The Insert > Shape menu has top level items of the most common shapes. The items with ellipsis ... indicators will open the Content Catalog on a wider range of items of that category.  Some of these are SmartShapes, including this ‘Text Panel’. Tip: The benefit of the SmartShape text panel, compared with previous ways of creating automatically stretchy text panels, is that it’s easier to adjust, you can vary the text marginsm and the corner radius.  But you can also rotate the panel using the Selector Tool in the usual way, and it remains editable and stretchable at any angle. You can change the color of the panel by dropping a color on the object, or just bring up the color editor. To adjust the grad fill, click on it with the Fill Tool. This document, all graphics, photos and text layout was created entirely in Xara Designer Pro and published online as a ‘Supersite’ document.