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Producing vector illustrations is quick and easy using thecomprehensive drawing tools, but many of the advanced features whichXara pioneered - such as transparency and real-time anti-aliasing - canbe applied to both vector and bitmap images. Rather than falling intothe bloatware trap that is common with graphics products, Xara hasconcentrated on creating the world's best implementation of theessential toolset that designers really need, in order to ensure thatworking with Xara X can be both highly creative and very productive. Aswell as all the drawing tools you would expect, Xara X offers optionssuch as automated shadows, bevels and contours, pressure sensitivebrush stroking, multi-stage graduated fills and feathering.
Xara Xtreme can produce compact, highly optimized graphics, makingit an ideal choice for creating web graphics, and with this in mind wehave added a tools to aid in creating graphics for the web, such as aNavBar tool, image slicing capability and Dreamweaver integration. Asthe name suggests Pro includes additional features most likely to beused by professional designers
? Drag & drop
? Solid object dragging
? Undo / redo
? Zoom
? Anti-aliasing
? Color support
? Printing
? PDF Export
? The Clipart Gallery
? Bitmap Tracer
? Profiles
? Name gallery
? Templates
PHOTO:
? The XPE Photo Editor
? Single click auto-enhance
? Crop & Rotate
? Red Eye Removal
? Maintain photo quality
? Magic undo
? Third party plug-ins
? Photo Compression
? Advanced photo work
ILLUSTRATION:
? Drawing tools
? Transparency
? Blending
? Feathering
? Contours
? Bevels
? Fills
? Shadows
? Brushes
? Molds / envelopes
? Text handling
? ClipView
? Pressure sensitivity
? Live Effects
WEB:
? Navigation buttons
? Flash export (.swf)
? Animation
? Dreamweaver integration
? Hexadecimal RGB web color
? Image slicing
? Image maps
? Exporting and optimizing
? Linked stretching
What's new in Xara Xtreme Pro:
- Animated Flash export
- Multi-page documents
- Enhanced text tool. Along with multi-page documents comes an enhanced text tool providing high-end DTP-like features, such as:
? Margin and tab control (left, center, right and decimal tabs)
? 1st line indent or outdent control provides support for hanging indents, such as numbered or bulleted lists
? Three types of text object: Simple text, text columns and text frames
? Linked flowing text stories across frames and pages (including text stories flowing from any to any page, even backwards) Shown opposite.
? Word and character count of text stories.
- Adobe Photoshop? PSD import and export
- PDF/X and other PDF export improvements
Xtreme Pro now includes class leading PDF support including these features:
? Choice of PDF version from version 1.3 through to version 1.6, as well as PDF/X-1a 2001, x-1a 2003, X3-2002, and X-3 2003 standards.
? Full support for vector transparency (PDF version 1.4 or later)
? Font embedding and font subsetting options
? Export any selected page range
? Optional down-sampling of large bitmaps (reduces the size of PDFs for designs containing large photos)
? Full control over bitmap embedding options and compression (native, Flate, JPEG)
? Full control over bitmap transparency flattening, bitmap effect rasterization, to any required resolution and compression type
? Embedding of native JPG files for lossless JPEG transfer
? Support for Adobe Reader Layers. For PDF 1.5 and above you can now output and control Xtreme's layer visibility in Adobe Reader
? File embedding. You can embed .xar files into your PDF and launch them from Adobe Reader
? Full pre-press PDF/X support including:
? Embedding page crop and printer's marks
? ICC color profiles, including all the common paper stock options (e.g. US Web coated, ISO, etc)
? Embedding of custom ICC profiles
? Document encryption, with full control over document permissions:
? Password protect any PDF file, with 40 or 128-bit encryption
? Control over exact permissions, e.g. allow / disallow printing or commenting or text copying or extraction.
- PDF import
- TIFF import
- Color separation support
- Pantone? color support
- Levels control
- Short cut key configuration
- Many other improvements and fixes requested by existing owners of Xtreme:
? Name gallery improvements - Improved so that it shows more detail on the fonts used in a document, using the full font name as shown in the font gallery. It also shows variations of a font as a separate selectable font name, as well as the font family (e.g. "Arial Bold", "Arial Italic", "Arial Regular"). It shows at a glance which fonts have had to be synthesized and which are not installed.
? Improved clipboard compatibility with MS Office and other applications - e.g. You can just copy and paste direct into Outlook and it embeds a JPEG
? Print dialog completely re-designed
? Document Info dialog improved
? Error handling improved so that in the event of a program crash you?ll normally get the chance to continue and save your work
? Automatic zoom out when importing photos, so the whole image is instantly visible
? New '100% zoom' operation added to zoom toolbar and key short-cut of Ctrl+Shift+1
? Improved support for using Xtreme with multiple monitors
? Improved support for accented characters, Unicode and non US keyboards
? Frame (animation) gallery order reversed, so it now shows first frame at the top
? Line width now shown in pix if the page unit is Pix
? The main toolbar should automatically show small icons on small screens
? Dragging a file onto the title bar no longer opens MDI windows
? Copy / Paste attributes on text now works more reliably. You can more easily create 'text styles' using small snippets of text.
? New option in Grid & Ruler to allow the ruler origin to be top left and coordinate values to increase downwards
? Improved compatibility withMicrosoft Windows Vista
? And the most significant feature improvements of the lot - the caret in the text tool now blinks!
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