If I were going to do national borders, which I almost never practise, rather take a given region with a defined geographic surface area and put the Kingdom Proper name at the Heart, then exercise the aforementioned to every other "nation", which means borders are in dispute and only by and large known.

However, if I were wanted to identify real borders instead, this is how I'd do it, Xara Xtreme Pro iv.0:

1.Decide where the border is supposed to become, then create a line (in this case dashed) to place at the border, and then cutting the line (to put it in the cache).

2. Adjacent I would "paste in place" the line and catechumen information technology to a solid ruby-red line (for example) and so give it a slightly feathered edge - oh about iv-5 pixels. (In Xara there is a function "paste in place" that lets me copy/cut any object anywhere on my design, then I can "paste in place" pregnant the object is pasted back at the same location information technology was cutting, rather than to the eye of the design - as with most other apps.)

3. Next I would "paste in place" that aforementioned line but catechumen information technology to a 0 point line, I would convert the red line into a shape, then combined the 0 point line with the red line shape, to cut it exactly in half. Then delete the bottom one-half.

4. I would "paste in place" another cerise line, convert it to a green line, and so do the same performance equally to a higher place; ie: convert to shape, "paste in identify" line convert to 0 point, so combine and slice in half. Deleting the top half.

Below are the steps illustrated as a calorie-free duty tutorial...

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