This new release of Xara Designer Pro X contains major enhancements for both web and graphic design, including significant improvements to Xara Online Designer, and a new delivery model that gives access to new updates as they happen in the 365 days after purchase.

Xara’s popular Designer Pro X is the ultimate all-in-one creative software, that provides powerful vector illustration, photo editing, page layout and website design, in one unrivalled WYSIWYG design tool. By combining all these tools in one program, Xara Designer Pro achieves faster performance with no program switching, lower memory and computing requirements, an easier learning curve, higher productivity and significantly better value for money.

The photo editing tools have been enhanced with two new W3C standard transparency blend modes and a new ultra-easy way to rotate, scale / pan and crop (which is great for horizon straightening). The photo editor provides vector based, editable, non-destructive photo editing so the user can return to the original image at any time.

Applying popular effects to photos is quick and easy with the new Photo Filter Pre-sets. There are almost 30 of these ready-made effects in the Content Catalog. Users can also create some dramatic contrast and saturation effects with the new Cross Process Photo Effects that simulate a traditional photographic effect created by mixing up the chemicals. The Effect Painter tool is a new way to paint effects directly on the photo, such as, brighten, dodge and burn, saturation changes and a growing range of other effects.

There are two new types of photo grids. ‘Static’ Photo Grids are simple, fixed, visually attractive grids of photos onto which users can drag & drop their own photo. ‘Smart’ Photo Grids smartly resize to fill the rectangles as photos are added or deleted, and users can swap the positions of the photos, adjust the number of rows and columns and the border / gap between all the photos.

The Xara SmartShapes are an amazingly quick and easy way to create and edit some of the most commonly required shapes. Xara has also evolved this concept to include more complex objects, such as smart charts for percentage ring, bar chart and column charts. There are new smart text panels and photo panels and an enhanced version of the popular Spiral SmartShape.

Flexible text handling is one of the strengths of Xara Designer Pro X, yet Xara has still found room for some improvements. The popular Font Awesome collection of symbols has been updated, and is now supplemented by a collection of Google Material Design Icons providing more than 1500 symbols in total. To find the required symbol there’s a quick search function. Xara Designer Pro X symbols can be inserted as editable vector graphics, or inserted inline into text as a font (where they are automatically placed in a subset of symbols used, converted to WOFF and included in the website HTML).

For Web Designers there are new Parallax scrolling effects, 30 types of scrolling animation, plus 40 new ‘on reveal’ animation types. The popular ‘sticky’ feature has also been enhanced, so that items such as NavBars can scroll and stick to the top of the window when they reach it.

Web designers also benefit from 9 new general website themes and 166 Business theme sets that were previously sold for $15 each set (a total value of nearly $2500).

Xara Designer Pro X includes the cloud-based editor, Xara Online Designer. This gives Web designers the unique ability to edit their document both offline or online and sync their files with Dropbox, Google GDrive and Microsoft OneDrive. Furthermore, it gives commercial designers the option to enable their clients to update their own website to edit text and replace photos. Client access is free.

Xara Online Designer is evolving rapidly with planned enhancements (which will be released under the Update Service) including more editing controls such as colour, transparency, stack order, smart snap and SmartShapes.

Xara Designer Pro X includes an upgrade to ‘Website M’ hosting, free for one year (worth $1.99 a month). This includes 2GBytes of free web hosting space and one free domain name (e.g. yourname.com).

Xara’s Update Service means that users will no longer have to wait a year between releases to access new features and content. Users will have access to new features and content as Xara develop them, at any time during the year after their purchase. An enhanced Online Content Catalog will also be included free for one year as part of Xara’s new Update Service. The catalog will provide access to a new library of over 500,000 quality royalty-free, high quality, high-resolution stock photos, provided under a CC0 license.

Charles Moir, Managing Director said “This release of Xara Designer Pro represents a significant change for us as we move away from yearly releases to a more regular release cycle. So features that we develop 3 or 6 months from now, which would traditionally not be available until the 2017 release will now be included in this year's product.

Although Xara Designer Pro 365 includes a component of online services that are subscription, (hosting, domain name, Online Designer) it's important to understand this is not a subscription product in the way that Office 365 or Adobe Creative Cloud are. With Designer 365 you purchase the program which is yours to keep, and it will remain functional even if you do not renew or upgrade. We think this is a fundamentally better deal for customers.

There are also significant new features in this release plus completely cost and royalty-free, searchable libraries of stock photos and stock vector illustrations and 166 Business theme sets worth $2500 that previously sold for $15 each set.”

Xara Designer Pro X365 costs $299/ £2199 (inc VAT) / €299 (inc VAT)
System requirements are Windows Vista, 7, 8 and 10 and it requires a minimum 500MB of RAM and 300MB hard-disk space.

More information and downloads

Please see the press center.
This includes press materials, example graphics, screenshots, product information and details of what's new.

For detailed information on the new features see the release notes and Update Service.

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Xara announces a new release of their creative design and photo editing software, Xara Photo & Graphic Designer, that comes with a new and unique Update Guarantee which provides regular updates during the year.

Xara Photo & Graphic Designer is an easy-to-use program that provides all the tools needed for a range of graphic design and photo editing tasks. The new release provides some exciting new photo tools and SmartShapes, significant text enhancements and some great new content.

There are two new types of photo grids. ‘Static’ Photo Grids are simple, fixed, visually attractive grids of photos onto which users can drag & drop their own photo. ‘Smart’ Photo Grids smartly resize to fill the rectangles as photos are added or deleted, and users can swap the positions of the photos, adjust the number of rows and columns and the border / gap between all the photos.

Applying popular effects to photos is quick and easy with the new Photo Filter Pre-sets. There are almost 30 of these ready-made effects in the Content Catalog. Users can also create some dramatic contrast and saturation effects with the new Cross Process Photo Effects that simulate a traditional photographic effect created by mixing up the chemicals.

The Effect Painter tool is a new way to paint effects directly on the photo, such as, brighten, dodge and burn, saturation changes and a growing range of other effects.

The photo editing tools have also been enhanced with two new W3C standard transparency blend modes and a new ultra-easy way to rotate, scale / pan and crop (which is great for horizon straightening). The photo editor provides vector based, editable, non-destructive photo editing so the user can return to the original image at any time.

Flexible text handling is one of the strengths of Xara Photo & Graphic Designer, yet Xara has still found room for some improvements. The popular Font Awesome collection of symbols has been updated, and is now supplemented by a collection of Google Material Design Icons providing more than 1500 symbols in total. To find the required symbol there’s a quick search function.

The Xara SmartShapes are an amazingly quick and easy way to create and edit some of the most commonly required shapes. Xara has also evolved this concept to include more complex objects, such as smart charts for percentage ring, bar chart and column charts. There are new smart text panels and photo panels and an enhanced version of the popular Spiral SmartShape.

Xara's Update Guarantee means that users will no longer have to wait a year between releases to access new features and content. Users will have access to new features and content as Xara develop them, at any time during the year after their purchase. An enhanced Online Content Catalog will also be included free for one year as part of Xara’s new Update Guarantee. The catalog will provide access to a new free library of over 500,000 quality royalty-free, high quality, high-resolution stock photos.

Charles Moir, Managing Director said "Xara Photo & Graphic Designer has evolved into being a supremely capable non-destructive photo editor. The under-pinning vector graphics are the basis for everything resulting in vector editing of photos, which is pretty unique. It remains the fastest vector graphic editor available - and with new features such as SmartShape charts, inclusion of Font Awesome and Google's Material Design symbols fonts, gives searchable access to more than 1500 great quality vector symbols.

Photo editing now includes the ability to paint enhancements or effects onto images, new preset filter effects, new ways of cutting images out of backgrounds and more. This really is the greatest version of Xara Photo & Graphic Designer we've ever released."

Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 365 costs just £49.99 (inc VAT), €59.99 (inc VAT), $59.99

System requirements are Windows Vista, 7, 8 and 10 and it requires a minimum 500MB of RAM and 300MB hard-disk space.

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Please see the press center.
This includes press materials, example graphics, screenshots, product information and details of what's new.

For detailed information on the new features see the release notes and Update Guarantee.

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Xara Web Designer 365 is the first release from Xara under its new and unique 365 Update Guarantee. Customers who buy Designer 365 products will be purchasing a perpetual license to the very latest version, but they will also be able to access new features and content as Xara develop them in the 365 days after purchase. What’s more all supporting online services – such as hosting and Xara Online Designer - will be included free during those 365 days.

The first release of Xara Web Designer 365 is already packed with new features, and there will be more to come under the 365 Update Guarantee. Parallax, reveal and scroll animations are popular in contemporary websites, so the April 2016 release adds parallax scrolling, 30 other types of scroll animation, plus 40 new ‘on reveal’ animation types. The popular ‘sticky’ feature has also been enhanced, so that items such as NavBars will stick to the top of the window when scrolling the page up.

Xara has also evolved its unique Xara SmartShapes concept to include more complex objects such as smart charts and photo grids. A SmartShape API will soon be available to third parties enabling developers to add new enhancements to Xara Web Designer. Those JavaScript SmartShape plug-ins will work with both the desktop Xara Web Designer and Xara Online Designer.

The initial release of Xara Web Designer 365 includes two new types of photo grids. ‘Static’ Photo Grids are simple, fixed, visually attractive grids of photos onto which users can drag & drop their own photos and then scale / rotate / pan to adjust the photo within its frame. ‘Smart’ Photo Grids smartly resize to fill the rectangles as photos are added or deleted, and users can swap the positions of the photos, adjust the number of rows and columns and the border / gap between all the photos.

The photo editing tools have also been enhanced, with a new ultra-easy way to rotate, scale / pan and crop - great for horizon straightening!

Another addition recognises the popular trend of incorporating simple vector graphic symbols into websites, such as social media symbols, shopping cart or credit card symbols. The existing Font Awesome symbol collection has been supplemented with Google's Material Design icons, providing integrated access to more than 1500 high-quality, professionally designed vector icons. And to find a symbol, there’s a new easy search function. The Xara Web Designer symbols can be inserted as editable vector graphics, or inserted inline into text as a font (where they are automatically placed in a subset of symbols used, converted to WOFF and included in the website HTML).

Xara Web Designer includes the cloud-based editor, Xara Online Designer. This gives Web Designer owners the flexibility to edit their Web Designer sites in a browser, from anywhere and with any device and sync their files with Dropbox, Google GDrive and Microsoft OneDrive. Xara Online Designer is still in beta but evolving rapidly with planned enhancements (which will be released under the 365 Update Guarantee) including more editing controls such as colour, transparency, stack order, smart snap and SmartShapes.

The combination of Web Designer and Online Designer means that Web Designer customers have the unique ability to edit their document both offline or online. Furthermore, it gives commercial designers using Web Designer the option to enable their clients to update their own website to edit text and replace photos. Client access is free.

Charles Moir, MD of Xara said “Xara Web Designer 365 is an important change for us, away from yearly releases and version numbers towards more regular releases throughout the year. So features that we develop 3 or 6 months from now, which would traditionally not be available until the 2017 release will now be included in this year's product.

Although Xara Designer 365 includes a component of online services that are subscription, (hosting, domain name, Online Designer) it's important to understand this is not a subscription product in the way that Office 365 or Adobe Creative Cloud are. With Designer 365 you purchase the program which is yours to keep, and it will remain functional even if you do not renew or upgrade. We think this is a fundamentally better deal for customers.”

Web Designer Premium includes an upgrade to ‘Website M’ hosting, free for one year (worth $1.99 a month). This includes 2GBytes of free web hosting space and one free domain name (e.g. yourname.com or .co.uk, etc).

Example websites showing some of the new features

Example 1 - With a parallax effect on the heading graphic, new scrolling animations, percentage ring and chart SmartShapes, a photo grid and new photo panels.

Example 2 - With a 'scroll and stick' NavBar, new on reveal animation types, percentage ring SmartShapes and new photo hovers.

Example 3 - With more new on reveal animation types, and two 'Packed Photo Grid' SmartShapes (home and gallery pages).

Xara Web Designer Premium retails for £69.99, €99.99 and $99.99 An entry level (reduced feature) version, called Xara Web Designer, is available for £34.99, €49.99 and $49.99, which is ideal for customers who are completely new to web design.

Xara Web Designer operates on Windows Vista, 7, 8 and 10 and requires a minimum 500MB of RAM and 300MB hard-disk space. Web Designer includes free hosting with 500MB of web space. Premium includes an upgrade to ‘M’ hosting, free for one year, which includes 2GBytes of web hosting space and a domain name (e.g. yourname.com or .co.uk, etc).

More information and downloads

Please see the press center at http://www.xara.com/press-center/web-designer
This includes press materials, graphics, screenshots, product information and a full list of new features.

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Xara announces the release of the latest new version of their creative design and photo editing software, Xara Photo and Graphic Designer v11 - an easy-to-use program that provides all the tools you need for a range of graphic design and photo editing tasks.

Charles Moir, Managing Director said “As the name suggests 'Photo & Graphic Designer' is more than just another photo editor. It's one of the most advanced and powerful vector graphics programs available, and seamlessly combines vector graphics with the photo editing features that any graphics enthusiast, small company or academic user are likely to need. It's simply the most advanced photo and graphics editing tool available, for the money. We believe the new real-time brush features are the fastest, most fluid available anywhere".

In this release there’s a big step forward for the Brush Tool with new Art Brush technology that smoothly stretches either vector or bitmap, in real time, along a freehand drawn line. We include a range of high quality realistic textured brush effects emulating paint, chalk and water-color effects. Users can, of course, create their own bitmap (photo) or vector brush designs.

New to this version is the ability to sync files via Dropbox and Google Drive. So if a user has the same file open on multiple computers, and makes an edit then saves the file on one computer, it will be immediately updated in Photo & Graphic Designer on the other computers. As a bonus Dropbox and Google Drive maintain older versions of user’s files, thus providing an easy way of viewing and reverting back to earlier versions. This is a safe, easy and storage-saving way of maintaining multiple versions of website files.

Fans of the Shape Painter Tool will love the extra flexibility offered by a new selection of vector shape editing tools (in the drop down list in the Shape Painter InfoBar). In the Transparency Tool 5 new W3C standard, web-safe and PDF-safe blend modes have been added - Overlay, Hard Light, Soft Light, Luminosity & Color.

There are new and improved text features including autocorrect (the ability to create a personal list of abbreviations that expand when typed), text background color options, easy font replacement throughout an entire document, and more. There are also significant improvements to the PDF import and export.

Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 11 includes two valuable free additions – the Premium version of MAGIX Online Photo Album to share photos with friends, families and colleagues (free for one year) and Photolooks 2, a powerful and flexible plug-in (previously sold by Red Giant for $199!) that can change the color and light effects in a photo. It includes over 100 presets, but provides a powerful way of manipulating color and light so that users can create their own custom effects.

Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 11 costs just $89.99 for US customers, £49.99 (inc VAT) for UK and €69.99 (inc VAT) for the EU.
Upgrades from v10 to Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 11 cost $35 for US customers, £20 (inc VAT) for UK and €25 (inc VAT) for the EU (intro offer)

It operates on Windows Vista 7 / 8 / 8.1

For more information and a trial version visit xara.com

More information and downloads
Please see the press center at www.xara.com/press-center/photo-graphic-designer/
This includes press materials, example graphics, screenshots, product information and details of what’s new in v10.

For detailed release notes see www.xara.com/photo-graphic-designer/notes

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For more details or a serial number to unlock the trial version please contact: Nova Fisher, nova@xara.com Tel: +44 1442 351035

Xara announces a new release of Xara Web Designer Premium, a programming-free web design tool. This new version 11 has some great new features for creating state of the art sites in contemporary styles, with features such as sticky navigation, full width stretching backgrounds, new animations as well as an innovative new way to update websites online, using cloud.xara (in Beta).

Sticky Objects
Navigation bars, social media links, text panel or images can be stuck in position on the browser so they remain visible on screen as the page scrolls under. This increasingly popular web technique is an easy one-click on the item wanted to stick.

Stretchy Backgrounds
Website designs with no obvious page boundary are now very popular. It's common to see a strip background, sometimes an image, that covers the entire browser window and dynamically stretches to fill the browser width. With Web Designer 11's new Stretchy feature this is also one easy click. See the demo website.

Animations
Another fashionable web trend is toward more exciting animations, taking advantage of modern HTML5 animation capabilities. For example, images that slide or fade in as a viewer scrolls down a page or objects that animate during a mouse-over or when they are clicked/tapped on a touch device. These animations are now possible in Web Designer 11.

Cloud-sync
Xara Web Designer 11 can now sync files via Dropbox and Google Drive. So if a user has the same file open on multiple computers, and makes an edit then saves the file on one computer, it will be immediately updated in Web Designer on the other computers. As a bonus Dropbox and Google Drive maintain older versions of users files, thus providing an easy way of viewing and reverting back to earlier versions. This is a safe, easy and storage-saving way of maintaining multiple versions of website files.

cloud.xara
Xara Web Designer 11 comes with the beta version of cloud.xara which is an ultra-simple way to view, edit and update the content of a Xara website using a web browser on any computer or tablet (yes, even a Mac or Apple or Android tablet!), from anywhere in the world, and to re-publish the website.

Users will be able to update the text (blogs, news and prices, for example) or replace images and re-publish their own website from any web browser. After editing a website using a web browser, click Save and this updates the master Xara file in the cloud, and even back to the user's desktop computer.

For commercial designers, cloud.xara gives controlled editing rights to their clients, allowing them to edit text and replace images and update their website, without needing to own or know anything about Web Designer (most small business owners have neither the time or inclination to learn web design).

Other Features
Xara Web Designer 11 also includes a flexible new widget for creating slideshows and more than 30 new website themes with up to 16 page layouts, all including mobile variants. Other additions include text handling enhancements, and import and export improvements.

Xara Web Designer 11 Premium includes Task Pilot 'M' hosting, free for one year (worth $1.99 a month). This includes 2GBytes of free web hosting space, one free domain name and Task Pilot Organizer (including cloud based calendar and contacts).

Charles Moir, Founder and Managing Director of Xara said, "Google made a well publicized change to their search engine recently, promoting 'mobile friendly' websites. Xara Web Designer 11 is one of the simplest, and most powerful 'programming-free' ways of creating mobile-friendly responsive websites. Version 11 can produce the most contemporary website designs, that are as slick as the most expensive 'hard coded' custom designs. cloud.xara is the start of something totally new for Xara: a universal web app, a way to update your Xara file just using a web browser. It's early Beta at this stage but will rapidly evolve in the future."

Xara Web Designer is an ideal choice for novices as well as professional designers, infact, anyone wanting a high quality website, without the need to know HTML coding, scripting or the usual technical jargon. The websites produced are compatible with all modern mobile and desktop browsers.

Example Websites showing some of the new features:
http://www.xara.com/web-designer-examples/site1/
http://www.xara.com/web-designer-examples/site2/

Xara Web Designer 11 Premium retails for £69.99, €99.99 and $99.99
An entry level (reduced feature) version, called simply Web Designer 11, is available for £34.99, €49.99 and $49.99, which is ideal for customers who are completely new to web design.
Existing Xara Web Designer users can upgrade for as little as £19.99, €24.99 and $24.99 (Web Designer 11) and £39.99, €49.99 and $49.99 (Premium version)

Xara Web Designer 11 operates on Windows Vista, 7, 8 and 8.1 and requires a minimum 500MB of RAM and a minimum of 300MB hard-disk space.

More information and downloads

Please see the press center at http://www.xara.com/press-center/web-designer
This includes press materials, graphics, screenshots, product information and a full list of new features.

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Xara announces a new release of Xara Web Designer 10 Premium, a programming-free web design tool. This new release features an innovative new publishing technique called Xara Supersites and also supports Responsive Web Design, a technique to create multiple layout variations of the same website optimised for different devices such as mobile, tablets and desktop computers.

Supersites
Xara’s single page ‘Supersites’ are an alternative way of publishing a website; instead of just being a separate set of web pages, with the typical  ‘click-wait-load’ way to navigate a website, a ‘supersite’ provides instant navigation between pages, along with slick animated page transitions - all designed to make a website stand-out from the crowd. In addition, users can choose to have all web pages, presented as a single scrolling list of pages, one below the other (ideal for pages to be viewed in a pdf style format), or arranged horizontally, one beside the other, with swipe actions (on touch devices) to navigate from page to page.  The website can be set to ‘fit to screen’ so that it smoothly and automatically resizes to fit any browser window.

Responsive Web Design
With the surge in popularity of browsing on mobiles and tablets it is becoming essential to create websites that are tailored to the needs of these visitors. Xara has created a responsive web design solution that allows users to create a single file of content containing multiple variants of their website at different widths, so that the website responds dynamically to the screen size of the viewer, presenting the design most appropriate to their device. Users have the ability to freely customize the layout of the variants to suit the target device size, eg. desktop, tablet and phone.
Web Designer 10 Premium exports a single HTML file that can dynamically change from one layout to another depending on the screen size of the viewer.

Smartshapes
Drawing something simple such as an arrow or a speech bubble on a website can be an extremely complex process for even the most skilled of designers. Xara SmartShapes are a new and innovative way to drawing aesthetically attractive shapes on your document, that require no knowledge of any drawing tools, and furthermore, they remain fully customizable. The library of SmartShapes will grow over time, but starts with text panels, speech bubbles, arrows and more.

This release also includes a new online content catalog, new templates and widgets, free 2GB of web hosting for Premium users, presentation creation usability improvements and various other improvements.

Charles Moir, founder and Managing Director of Xara said “We realised that, with the use of the latest HTML5 and CSS3, we could create a new type of website using hardware accelerated animated transitions. Supersites are a great attention-grabbing way of creating a website, while still being compatible with all modern web browsers. 

Creating Responsive Websites is normally a complex time consuming technical process. For the first time we have created a simple no-programming system where you can create alternative page arrangements for the same content. For example one layout can be for phones and another for tablets; even one for portrait and another for landscape arrangements. Web Designer 10 Premium does all the clever work to automatically show, and instantly switch (respond) to the changing browser size.”

Xara Web Designer  is an ideal choice for novices as well as professional designers, infact, anyone wanting a high quality website, without the need to know HTML coding, scripting or the usual technical jargon. The websites produced are compatible with all mobile and desktop browsers. The usual limitations of HTML web authoring simply do not exist in Xara Web Designer. Users have the freedom to use any font, to place anything anywhere on the page with pixel precision, the freedom to automatically repel text around irregular shapes or alpha-channel images and the freedom to draw vector graphics on the page, with transparency.

Example websites 
xaragroup.magix.net/vue2/ - A responsive website (the new Vue theme) with desktop, tablet and mobile variants
xaragroup.magix.net/menu2/ - A print style Supersite, designed for tablets & desktop browsers including landscape and portrait variants
xaragroup.magix.net/menu3/ - A scrolling version of the same Supersite
xaragroup.magix.net/menu1/ - A version of this Supersite with transitions, responsive to browser width (includes a mobile version) and tablet orientation
xaragroup.magix.net/islands1/ - A responsive Supersite with transitions and Scale to Fit
xaragroup.magix.net/WD10releasenotes1/ - The V10 Release Notes as a scrolling Supersite
xaragroup.magix.net/WD10releasenotes2/ - The V10 Release Notes as a Supersite with transitions

Xara Web Designer 10 Premium retails for £89.99, €99.99 and $99.99

An entry level (reduced feature) version, called simply Web Designer 10, is available for £39.99, €49.99 and $49.99, which is ideal for customers who are completely new to web design.

Existing Xara Web Designer users can upgrade for as little as £19.99, €29.99 and $29.99 (Web Designer 10) and £39.99, €49.99 and $49.99 (Premium version)

Xara Web Designer 10 operates on Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 8.1 and requires a minimum 500MB of RAM and a minimum of 300MB hard-disk space.

More information and downloads

Please see the press center at  http://www.xara.com/presscenter/webdesigner
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• Combines the full functionality of the suite of Xara creative tools:
  • Web Designer 9 Premium for website creation and rapid website prototyping
  • Photo & Graphics Designer 9 for vector illustration and photo editing
  • Page & Layout Designer for printed documents, PDF and Xara's unique 'DTP for the web' document publishing
• Includes both 32-bit and 64-bit versions for large memory configurations
• Google font integration of 600+ fonts suitable for print, PDF and websites
• Automatic image optimization for Retina or very hi-res displays on modern phones & tablets
• Produces HTML 5 / CSS3 compatible websites
• Advanced photo healing brush with content aware scale and zoom and color select and erase
• Significant new page layout tools
• 'DTP for the Web'. Pioneering production of precisely accurate 'brochure style' documents for the web, without using PDF
• Hand-tuned assembly-language rendering engine for ultra-fast and responsive working environment
• One program resulting in a smaller memory footprint, faster performance and reduced hardware requirements

• Text Styles
• Multi-column support
• Google Fonts integration (600+ fonts, with advanced font picker an automatic download and install)
• Headers & footers, repeating objects, page numbering styles
• Word processor-like text flow with automatic page creation for easy long document handling
• Multi-language spell checkers
• Automatic repel text around irregular shapes or images

• Comprehensive vector drawing tools
• Incredible 72,000 dpi working resolution
• Fast and powerful photo editing
• CMYK, PANTONE ® color support
• Fast, high quality PDF and PDF/X support
• A huge range of import and export types including Word .docx support

Following the widespread unease at Adobe's move to force users to a subscription model, Xara is offering a special discount on their flagship creative design software 'Xara Designer Pro' to disgruntled Adobe users who want to find a suitable alternative.

Xara Designer Pro is often quoted in the press as having features that compare very favourably with Adobe’s Creative Suite applications, being faster, cheaper and easier to learn. Xara Designer Pro is a professional level graphic design tool, that offers integrated tools for illustration, DTP, photo editing and web design in a single package using a fraction of the memory resources of the Adobe Creative Suite of products.

Charles Moir, Managing Director, said: "You can understand from a business income point of view why a subscription revenue is desirable. However, what's good for Adobe, is not necessarily good for their customers. For many users, especially the smaller or independent freelance designer, the cost of a subscription is simply prohibitive. Adobe have upset swathes of users with their new pricing model.

For online services such as hosting, or purely web-based services we agree that a subscription model makes sense. But not for downloaded, installable desktop software.

Xara has always had a loyal enthusiastic customer base, many of them ex-Adobe users, so we're offering a special discounted price, to make it even more attractive for Adobe users to try Xara software.”

Xara Designer Pro is a one-off purchase - no subscription and no obligation to purchase future versions - it's yours to do with as you want, forever. It normally retails for $299, but is offered to registered owners of Adobe software for just $199. In addition to the 30 day no-quibble money back guarantee Xara is offering a free upgrade to the forthcoming Xara Designer Pro X9 due out shortly.

Xara Designer Pro is available for Windows operating systems. For more information see http://www.xara.com/graphics/alternative-software/

Contact:  

For more details or a serial number to unlock the trial version please contact: Nova Fisher, nova@xara.com Tel: +44 1442 351035

What the press say about Xara and Adobe

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,199999-order,4/description.html

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/software/3365672/xara-designer-pro-x-review/?tab=verdictTab#top

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/software/3362396/xara-photo-graphic-designer-mx-2013-review/

http://www.graphics.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4982

• Advanced Healing Brush – remove blemishes with a single click, or brush over an area to erase it.
• New Mask and Selection tools. Easily paint, or draw a region or area to enhance, such as adjust the brightness, sharpness, color temperature etc.
• Advanced background erase. Extract complex shapes such a people or objects in the foreground, and place them on alternate backgrounds.
• Drag and drop re-colouring of clipart and vector groups.
• Google Font support. Browse, preview and install any of the 600+ Google Fonts. Although Google Fonts were primarily designed to be web fonts, they are open source Truetype or OpenType fonts and Xara has built in a way to automatically download and install the font as a Windows font.
• 11 new Photo Effects including Fake HDR, Polarized Grayscale and Color Splash to highlight a color.
• New clipart including a wide range of ‘company logo’ designs

• Advanced Healing Brush – remove blemishes with a single click, or brush over an area to erase it.
• New Mask and Selection tools. Easily paint, or draw a region or area to enhance, such as adjust the brightness, sharpness, color temperature etc.
• Advanced background erase. Extract complex shapes such a people or objects in the foreground, and place them on alternate backgrounds.
• Drag and drop re-colouring of clipart and vector groups.
• Google Font support. Browse, preview and install any of the 600+ Google Fonts. Although Google Fonts were primarily designed to be web fonts, they are open source Truetype or OpenType fonts and Xara has built in a way to automatically download and install the font as a Windows font.
• 11 new Photo Effects including Fake HDR, Polarized Grayscale and Color Splash to highlight a color.
• New clipart including a wide range of ‘company logo’ designs

• HiDPi or Retina compatible websites - automatically
• Direct integration of 620+ Google Web Fonts
• HTML 5 and CSS3 support ( websites are automatically backwards compatible with older browsers)
• Improved Google Analytics integration
• A 32bit and a 64-bit version for 64-bit Windows. No more memory limits.
• Bundled web hosting, with simple no-FTP-jargon publishing. ¹
• A Free top level domain for one year. (e.g. a .com, .co.uk or .de, etc)
• 100+ new business-specific website templates available ²

• Xara Web Designer
• Web Designer 9 detailed feature description
• Examples of the 100+ business-specific template designs
• An example web page using a few of the new features

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Xara today announced the availability of their new version 8 Designer products - Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 2013 and Xara Designer Pro X.

Both products are super-fast, easy-to-use single integrated programs that provide all the tools for a range of graphic design tasks that would normally require three or more separate ‘suite’ programs; iIllustration, photo editing, advanced page layout, web graphics and animations – and in the case of Designer Pro X building complete websites and online presentations.

Xara Photo & Graphic Designer and Xara Designer Pro X are the world's highest performing graphics software titles, with their speed enabling more complex and realistic graphics to be created more easily and in less time.

Xara Photo & Graphic Designer is ideal for any graphics enthusiast, small company or academic user that requires the best value general purpose photo and graphics design tool.

Xara Designer Pro X is the flagship of the Xara product line, the ultimate all-in-one creative tool. As well as the website design features, it provides tools that might typically be required by professional designers such as PANTONE®, CMYK, color separations and PDF/X. It also supports multiple processors for even faster performance.

New features in Xara Photo & Graphic Designer and Xara Designer Pro X include:

• Powerful Color Erase /Selection to enhance (change color, adjust brightness, blur, etc) or make parts of photos transparent based on the selected color.
• Photo hue adjustment to change the color tint of any part of a photo.
• An innovative new Shape Erase Tool that can perform both vector erasing or path adjustment, as well as 'soft mask' painting to perform detailed soft-edged erasing of vector, text and photo objects.
• A new Text Styles feature that offers an efficient and powerful way of controlling the global appearance of text. Generates CSS compatible styles.
• New Inline Graphics for embedding symbols and icons into text.
• Many new Template Designs including a selection of modern new print templates, such as greeting cards, brochures, business cards, CD covers and certificates, plus many new categorised clipart designs.
• Many other Photo Tool improvements and additions including the integrated Panorama stitching tool, a more efficient ‘Optimize all images’ function and ability to optimize images upon upload.
• Media Exchange. All titles in the MAGIX/Xara range can share media files with each other and with some important third party services such as Flickr and Facebook.

In addition to the above features Xara Designer Pro X includes:

• A Shape Builder Tool to ‘paint’ onto an existing shape to enlarge it, add new areas or adjust the shape or outline. This compliments the new Erase Tool to provide two basic new shape editing tools, that are entirely vector in nature (resolution independent, fully editable) that can edit vector outlines of shapes, or provide soft air-brush like painting and erasing.
• Smart object positioning and page resizing which automatically adjusts the size of a web page and position of objects as you enter more text
• Embedded fonts – website creators are no longer limited to a small list of websafe fonts, but can use just about any font (assuming the font allows website embedding).
• New resizable JavaScript Widgets, such a smooth photo slideshows and an interactive Chart Widget for embedding high quality charts into documents or websites.
• MP3 player widget - just drop an MP3 audio file onto the page, and this will embed a fully cross-platform compatible audio player (including iOS for iPad and iPhone) into your website. This joins the existing MP4 player that does the same for MP4 video files.
• Create numbered lists and graphical bullet points - using Xara's vector graphics capabilities you can now design your own graphics for use in numbered and bulleted lists.

Managing Director, Charles Moir says “The Adobe approach of selling separate, expensive programs to perform the common creative editing operations is fundamentally wrong in our opinion. Modern documents (whether printed, PDF or web document) should not need separate tools to edit the text, the graphics or the photos. This is not just a costly process, in time and money, but totally inefficient.  Xara's approach offers not just dramatically better value, but we believe it makes the software considerably faster and easier to understand and learn.“

Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 2013 costs just $89 for US customers, £69 for UK (inc VAT) and €69 (inc VAT) for the EU.

Xara Designer Pro X costs just $299 for US customers, £249 for UK (inc VAT) and €279 (inc VAT) for the EU.

Upgrades from v7 to Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 2013 cost $45 for US customers, £35 for UK (inc VAT) and €35 (inc VAT) for the EU

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• A new text styles feature that offers an efficient and powerful way of controlling the global appearance of text. Design your own named styles, and a single edit can update all text throughout your website. Generates CSS compatible styles.
• Automatic object positioning and page resize ensures that all of your content is adjusted to fit neatly on the page when you add new content.
• New inline graphics for embedding symbols and icons into text.
• Many new page and graphic templates and over 3000 new categorised clipart designs
• Many improvements and additions such as in-document pop up link checker, resizable color editor, reposition or re-order multiple pages together, fast optimize all images on the page, photo enhance the hue, new key shortcuts, new widgets and many more.

• Embedded fonts – website creators can now use just about any font (assuming the font allows website embedding) and Xara Web Designer will create the special font and script required and automatically upload it to the website.
• New photo transition and improved slideshow Widgets. These no-Flash Widgets are compatible with all modern browsers including phones and tablets.
• New interactive Chart Widgets. Enter your CSV data and create a resizable interactive chart, line graph or pie chart. Again this no-Flash solution is compatible with all modern browser and devices
• Create graphical bullet points and numbers – using Xara’s vector graphics capabilities you can now design your own graphics for use in numbered and bulleted lists, greatly enhancing the appearance of lists, especially valuable in Web Designer’s presentation feature.
• Many other improvements and additions such as a Live effects tool that introduces support for Photoshop plug-ins (and a bundle of over 30 plug-ins), support for SVG, OpenOffice Impress (.odp) and PowerPoint (.pptx) imports and updated camera RAW import.

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Xara Celebrates its 30^th Anniversary with 30 Days of Birthday Presents!

Xara is celebrating its 30^th anniversary with a series of very special offers for new and existing customers.

For all 30 days there will be birthday giveaways with all purchases of Xara’s key titles. For example there will be 3 photos a day for 7 days from Fotolia, worth $210 or more (customer’s choice from Fotolia’s subscription collection of over 12 million quality photos) and free photo clipart with all new purchases of Xara Designer Pro.  Xara Photo & Graphic Designer will also include free Fotolia photos, Xara 3D Maker free fonts, and Xara Web Designer will come with free web page and website templates.

And there will be plenty of other offers during the month, including upgrade deals and a very special offer on the MAGIX music and video titles now sold by Xara.

Xara  was formed in 1981 as Computer Concepts, making it one of the world’s oldest continuously trading software companies. Its first highly successful software, the word-processor Wordwise, secured its place as the major software developer for the Acorn BBC micro, one of the first micro computers in the world.  Since then Xara has developed a wide range of products covering the whole realm of publishing and graphics software, constantly building on its reputation for speed, quality and reliability, currently supporting products used by more than 2 ½  million customers worldwide.

“I have been a loyal user since 1996, and Xara keeps getting better and better.  The programs offer a solid set of tools for vector and bitmap editing and I typically use them for DTP, web design and compositing. Xara unseated Corel as my primary “go to” package for that type of work.” Says Tony Thomas, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Tony Thomas' TechTrends

Xara has a particularly strong technology and innovation history. It pioneered many of the graphics technologies and techniques now standard in the industry today such as anti-aliased vector graphics, vector transparency, object feathering, etc. Many of its user interface techniques have been adopted by the industry.

With over 100 software titles, many of them internationally successful, Xara is truly a formidable software company.

Charles Moir, Founder and MD of Xara Group Ltd said, "When I started this business, leading edge computers had 16Kbytes of memory - and that was enough for me to create a fully functional word processor which was one of the company's most successful early products.

At the time it was impossible to imagine desktop computers with 10,000 times more RAM, and storage and processors running 1000 times faster. The fact that the phone in your pocket can now have all this shows what an incredible ride the last 30 years has been.

Xara as a software developer has survived those 30 years making us one of the very few companies still in existence from those early days. The values that made our products stand-out then are exactly the same as now - the best value, the best performance, and the easiest to use software you can buy."

For more information on the offers see  - http://www.xara.com/30years

For the complete company history see – http://www.xara.com/history

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Nova Fisher, nova@xara.com Tel: +44 1442 351035

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Xara today released Xara Web Designer 7 and a new more advanced version called Xara Web Designer 7 Premium.  Xara Web Designer allows free-form, anything-anywhere web page design and is perfect for creating graphical webpages containing text, graphics, photos, widgets and Flash. Xara Web Designer Premium offers a host of additional exciting new and innovative features that enable novices and web designers to quickly create and optimize content for greater impact on the web.

Xara Web Designer 7 includes customizable web graphics, web page and website template designs plus tools for creating vector graphics, for photo editing (an integrated ultra-fast, non-destructive photo tool), and for advanced text layout including text wrap around objects and a check-as-you-type spell checker.

All aspects of the design can be customized. Users can re-arrange all page elements, add their own text, graphics and photos, anywhere on the page. It's genuinely WYSIWYG, what you see in Xara Web Designer is exactly what you get on the web page. Xara Web Designer provides fast single-click re-coloring of all graphical elements throughout the entire website. The Designs Gallery includes a collection of widgets to add more dynamic functionality to the website. Site upload is covered too and there's even a free web hosting offer from MAGIX Online World! 

Many improvements have been made to make it even easier to create a website in either version. For example, the user interface has been enhanced for page management and gallery docking, there’s a new ‘magic’ snap for object alignment, footers now automatically move as the page is resized, graphics and photos can be anchored into flowing text, and repeating objects – such as NavBars, headers and footers – automatically update throughout the document with just a single edit.

There are many new template designs and customizable graphics. Web pages can now be edited in single or multi-page view, and previewed instantly in the 5 most popular web browsers. Favicons are easy to add to web pages and for extra promotional exposure users can add their website to the Web Designer Website Gallery.

Xara Web Designer 7 Premium offers some more advanced web and graphic design functions. For example it is easy to add a wide range of animated effects to a website. With Premium you can create effective flash animations, and/or Javascript based animated transitions can be added to any page link or pop-up layer. Websites can be made more eye-catching and dynamic with a range of new smart widgets that enable slick photo and text animations to be added to web pages without the need for any coding knowledge. Other Premium benefits include the automatic creation of Sitemaps for search engines on export, and support for HTML5 video.

Xara Web Designer 7 includes many customizable graphic templates and a good set of basic drawing tools, but Xara Web Designer 7 Premium includes a range of additional graphic creation tools for those who wish to create their own graphics from scratch. These include freehand and quick-shape drawing tools, shadow, bevel and mould tools, 3D extrude and feathering. Plus additional photo features such as red-eye removal and content aware scaling.

Xara Web Designer 7 Premium takes web authoring and publishing to a new level with capabilities such as an innovative web slide-show style presentation feature, suitable for both website presentations and remote presentations to an invited audience.

Managing Director, Charles Moir said, “With V7 we're now releasing two new versions of Web Designer, already one of the most successful Xara products of all time.  We've improved dozens of features, and updated the user-interface to make it even easier to create beautiful websites. The new Premium version includes a real innovation: you can create PowerPoint-like presentations for the web, either as a stand-alone presentation (the viewer can step through at their own speed) or as a remote 'webinar' where  one person controls the presentation for invited guest viewers.  And unlike PowerPoint or other Webinar software, there's no download required, or software to install in order to view the animated presentation - it's just a web page!”

Xara Web Designer 7 combines time-saving workflow and productivity features with easy to use creative tools, and enables designers and developers to publish a truly professional website with creative content and maximum impact.

Xara Web Designer 7 costs just $49.99 or €49.99 (inc VAT) for EU and £39.99 (inc VAT) for the UK.
Xara Web Designer 7 Premium costs just $99.99 or €99.99 (inc VAT) for EU and £89.99 (inc VAT) for the UK.
Existing Xara Web Designer 6 users can upgrade for $39.99, €39.99 (incl VAT) and £29.99 (incl VAT).
It operates on Windows XP, Vista and7 and requires 256MB of RAM and 400MB hard-disk space.

For more information see www.xara.com/webdesigner

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Xara 3D Maker 7 is designed to create the highest quality 3D text and graphics, such as headings, logos, movie titles and buttons. It's the perfect way to add impact to your web pages, mailshots, presentations and movie opening and closing credits (all images are fully anti-aliased for that smooth, professional quality).

Xara3D Maker 7 can also create awesome 3D animations in seconds - GIFs, AVIs and simple Flash movie sequences - and you can even enhance your desktop by saving any animation as a screensaver! Xara3D Maker is extremely popular with Photoshop owners for creating 3D typographic effects for use in Photoshop.

Version 7 includes some more great new animation types and 7 new bevel styles. Plus there are new controls over X & Y position and viewpoint, a wireframe mode, some essential updating for Win 7 compatibility and automatic save and restore of the current design on program exit and start-up, or on Windows shutdown.

There’s a new ‘scroll’ animation type, designed to create dramatic animating 3D ‘credits’ for the start or end of your movies. The text can be scrolled vertically, horizontally or into and out of the screen, with full control over the speed. There’s a second new ‘scroll in/out’ animation type, that includes separate control over how the text enters and leaves the screen - so for example it could scroll in slowly from the right, hesitate and then exit quickly upwards!

“Traditional 3D programs are notoriously difficult to use and understand. But Xara 3D Maker is different – it is very simple to use! Unlike many 3D programs that take an age to learn and understand, Xara 3D Maker has been created to perform one job - create stunning 3D text headings - and it performs that job with style, speed and simplicity. Xara 3D Maker is one of our most popular products; it's affordable for anyone wanting to create high quality 3D headings and logos in seconds” said Charles Moir, Managing Director of Xara.

Xara 3D Maker 7 costs just $39.99 for US customers, £29.99 for UK (inc VAT) and €29.99 (inc VAT) for the EU.

Existing users can upgrade for $19.99, £14.99 (incl VAT) and €14.99 (incl VAT)

It operates on Windows XP/Vista/7

For more information see - xara.com/products/xara3d
For some examples see  xara.com/products/xara3d/examples/

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• A totally new and modern application appearance and user interface
• Innovative new photo features including Content Aware Zoom
• New photo editing options including selected-area photo enhancements using the mask, new clone tools and curves brightness tool
• Additions to the world class transparency support, with new a ‘enhance’ transparency type and vector-based transparency masks
• Enhanced graphic tablet support with powerful pressure profile controls and real-time variable width drawing
• Extended page layout capabilities, including an enhanced Page & Layer Gallery
• Many new web graphic and presentation templates and (Pro only) website templates
• Xara Developer Pro also has significant additions to the web design capabilities including easy NavBars & DHTML menus, enhanced Widget integration and new Widget library, powerful new publish options and a free hosting offer.

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The MAGIX brand has become known for its economically priced multimedia software for consumers. This reputation, known the world over, is more than deserved. Now, the MAGIX products will be available for the first time on the Xara international websites. Initially, there will be six of the most popular MAGIX products available

Movie Edit Pro 16 Plus  - video editor to produce perfect high definition videos

Music Maker 16  - taking the user from beginner to advanced hobby music producer

Audio Cleaning Lab 16  - record, edit and restore recordings from LPs, tapes and MP3s

MP3 deluxe 16 – organize your music collection and find any title with a quick search

PhotoStory on CD & DVD 9 delux  - for a perfect movie slideshows in 3 minutes

PX Check & Tuning 2010 – tune up with intelligent testing and maintenance for a faster PC.

Xara, one of the oldest UK software developers, was acquired by MAGIX AG in January 2007 and operates as a wholly owned subsidiary. Consequently, Xara are now able to offer the MAGIX products to its customers.

Editors’ notes:

To obtain a review copy, or for more details on the MAGIX product range please contact:

Europe:
Tom Schwarzer, PR & Communications Manager,
www.magix.com
email:  tschwarzer@magix.net
Tel:    +49 30 29 39 23 31

USA:
Adam Zarboni, PR & Communications Manager, North America
www.magix.com
email:  azarboni@magix.net
Tel:    +1 (905) 470-0400 x.225

To obtain a review copy, or for more details on the Xara products please contact:
Nova Fisher
Communications Manager, Xara Group
www.xara.com
email: nova@xara.com
Tel: +44 1392 209509 

• New NavBars with DHTML sub-menus, intelligent, automatic stretching as you enter text and automatic linking to all the pages of your website.
• New photo slideshows and improved, more slick, photo thumbnail pop-ups.
• Drag 'n' drop multiple photos in one go to populate a gallery page.
• Enhanced text tool to include bullets, numbered lists, indents and fully justified text wrap around images and graphics.
• Anchored graphics so photos and graphics can flow with the text.
• Gallery changes include auto-updating designs gallery, drag 'n' drop Widgets from the Designs gallery, a new Widget library, lots more designs in the Template Gallery, enhanced 'Page & Layer' gallery providing a quick way to view and re-arrange pages by simple drag & drop and pre-built color schemes.
• Easy MP4 video upload and built-in video player.
• Ability to support rounded corner pages, and with drop shadows.
• Paste HTML snippets in directly with an automatic preview/placeholder created.
• Easy way to add links to (and upload) external files such as PDF and Word files etc.
• Better page color and background support so you can color the pasteboard separately from the page.
• Automatic backups and save of open documents on application closedown.
• Incremental Publishing for faster upload so only the changed files are uploaded.
• FTP details can be stored with the document including password. As if that isn't enough, Xara Web Designer 6 also comes with a free web hosting offer.

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• Work with vector paths that look like paint strokes
• Tag colours to dramatically change complex drawings in seconds
• Build multi-page, graphically rich websites in a few hours
• Convert bitmap web graphics to resizable vector shapes
• Design artwork in minutes that looks like it took days
• Create and export original Flash animations for the web in no time
• Create 3D text and apply special effects to imported photos and vector shapes
• Invisibly retouch photographs with feathering, fractal fills, multi-step gradients, and transparencies

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• New website design features aimed at designers who want to focus on design, not coding, Xara Xtreme is a supreme rapid website prototyping tool producing fully cross-browser, cross platform, standards compatible (X)HTML.
• Fast photo editing tools enhanced to include Content Aware Photo Scaling which allows images to be stretched without distorting key points of interest in the photo. Combined with the new photo masking tool you can additionally protect any part of your photo.
• The ability to anchor graphics (vector, or photo) to text so they flow with the text.
• Automatic font embedding, enables Xara documents to be distributed, viewed and printed WYSIWYG with any fonts.
• A new multi-language real-time check as you type spell checker.
• A new Object Gallery enabling easier page / layers / object identification, re-ordering and selection. e.g. you can now just drag the page thumbnail for page re-ordering.
• Improved file import / export including EPS, PDF import and export, camera RAW
• Improved Flash creation
• A new range of professionally designed templates, ready for easy customization, including business media, flyers, brochures and now a wide range of website templates.

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• Ultra-fast non-destructive photo editing features,10 times faster and resulting in files 10 times smaller, than other graphics tools
• Real-time, fully shaded, 3D extrude
• Multi-core support. An average of 40% faster and up to 80% faster on dual-core processors (Xtreme Pro only)
• WYSIWYG website creation. Supports free-form web page design, 'anything anywhere' and advanced features such as text flow around shapes, mouse-over effects, pop-ups and more
• Real-time 'flow around' text repelling
• more than a dozen other new features and improvements

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• Multi-page support. DTP style page layout, including single or double page spreads. Suitable for leaflets, flyers, newsletters etc.
• Enhanced text tool and improved text flow. Support text frames and you can flow text from any page to any other.
• An innovative and easy approach to efficient Flash animation creation.
• Pre-press and color separations supports for professional document production.(see below)
• Improved file interchange - more compatible than ever with Adobe and industry standard products. (see below)
• Photo levels tool in the integrated Xara Picture Editor.
• Improved Microsoft Office integration (e.g you can copy any graphics in Xara and paste in Outlook - it is embedded as a compressed JPG)
• Lots of additional smaller improvements.

• PDF export specifically able to be imported into Adobe Illustrator.
• Photoshop PSD export and import file support including mapping of PSD layers to Xara Xtreme and Xtreme layers to PSD layers, RGB, Lab, and CMYK support.
• TIFF import support including Adobe alpha channel (transparent TIFFs).
• PDF import. Not just for importing vector graphics from a wide range of applications, but also general PDF files. (note this does not import encrypted files).

• CMYK color separations, on screen printer gamut simulation, on screen plate preview, spot colors, Pantone spot and process support.
• Much improved PDF export, including real PDF transparency support of PDF versions 1.3 through 1.6.
• PDF font embedding, and subsetting. Layer support (you can switch Xara Xtreme layers on and off in Adobe Reader).
• Xara file embedding - you can now embed Xara Xtreme files into PDF files - for the ultimate in file portability and readability.
• PDF/X export including ICC color profiles, 2001 and 2003 standards, spot color support, crop and printers marks and many more professional features.

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• All source code compiles under GCC and has been made 32-bit and 64-bit compatible.
• The framework, based on WXWidgets, replacing the Windows MFC framework is largely done and works very well.
• It loads and renders Xar files and demonstrates the speed and quality of the Xara rendering.
• Working tools and functions include:
  • Select an object, scale, and drag it on the page. Delete, group, ungroup, duplicate objects. Undo and redo work.
  • Zoom and pan tools work with a really slick Windows update
  • Xara is making its subversion server public so that anyone can now download the source code and compile.

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• Easy and fast creation of 3D text, graphics and animation for websites, presentations and print.
• Animate any TrueType font or 3D shape in seconds.
• Style Picker for copying settings from previous work (700 examples included).
• Real time shadows, bevels, textures and extrusions.
• Apply separate animation to individual characters or shapes.
• New design styles include boards, boards with holes, borders and buttons.
• Full, interactive control over color, extrusion, bevels and lighting.
• Outputs JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG (including full PNG alpha channel), ICO (icon), CUR (cursor), animated GIF, AVI, SWF (vector and bitmap) and screensavers.
• Full optimization of output graphics and animation for use in web pages.