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NOTE: The next several illustrations are 1/2 size so that I can show all the text in the illustration. The photo you just traced is the gardens at Gaddesden Place in England, (also the headquarters of Xara Ltd.). There is some text on the Xara website that we will use in this tutorial and which I have included on a file Gaddesden.txt. Select the Text Tool (F8). Click and drag a column width of 950 pixels. (Create a rectangle to 950 pixels wide to use for a guide). Copy the Gaddesden text (Open and select all the text in Wordpad and copy to the clipboard (Ctrl c)) Paste the text into the Column Text you just created (Ctrl v). Xara may offer you a choice when pasting the text, Unformatted Text or Windows WMF. Choose Unformatted Text. Or then again it just might paste the text without asking. Select all the text and change the font to Times Roman and the size to 12pt. Highlight the first line of text and bold face it (Ctrl b). Reduce the bitmap (not the traced bitmap) to 150 pixels and place it behind the first paragraph of text as shown above.
Insert the Text Tool cursor to the left of the "It" which begins the second line of text. In the Kerning text entry box, enter 11500 and press Enter to apply the change. (You may need to increase or decrease the kerning distance. The point is to indent the text). Repeat this step with the next 5 lines of text as show above.
Select the text and the bitmap image then select the Mould Tool. Click the Default Perspective icon to apply a default perspective envelope. Drag the corners of the envelope as shown above.
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