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This upgrade is for customers of Xara Xtreme 4
Xara Xtreme is quite simply the world's fastest graphics software, with truly flexible illustration tools and revolutionary photo handling. It will form an integral part of your creative workflow, whether it's vector drawings, DTP designs, photo compositions or Flash animations for your website.
Xara Xtreme is simply the best graphics software for all your drawing and photo design needs, ideal for both print and the web.
If you're looking for drawing software then Xtreme is a perfect solution for everything from simple logos to astonishingly detailed illustrations.
If you're working with photos then Xtreme will match your ambitions from simple one click auto-enhance of your photo through to awesome photo compositions.
If you are looking for software for creating web graphics then Xtreme can help you produce all the graphics you'll need for your site, from smart buttons to eye catching Flash animations and even complete HTML web pages.
Whatever graphics you need and whatever your skill level, the famously friendly user interface and fast processing of Xara Xtreme will make it an absolute pleasure to be creative. And at a price that won't break the bank!
Xara Xtreme Compatible PluginsXara Xtreme's great Live Effects tool allows Photoshop and Xara plug-in effects to be applied to both photos and vector graphics, opening up a huge range of special graphical effects. What's more if these are modern 'scriptable' plug-ins, then you can still edit the vector shape (or text) and the effects are automatically updated. We have included more than 35 such scriptable plug-ins from Magix with Xtreme and Xtreme Pro, plus the 17 plug-ins listed below from Alien Skin, AV Bros., Redfield and Mehdi. Free with Xara Xtreme and Xara Xtreme ProFrom Alien Skin Eye Candy 4000 From Alien Skin Xenofex 2
- Classic Mosaic
- Crumple
- Television
From Edfield plugins - Craquelure 3D
- Water Ripples
- Seamless Workshop
- Lattice Composer
- Jama 3D
From AV Bros. From Mehdi - Eraser Classic
- Fur
- Grain Natural 2
- HSL Plus
- Melt 1.1
Vista Compatibility This release is now fully operational under Windows Vista e.g. it can be used from non-Admin accounts (on both Windows XP and Vista).
What's new in v5
- Content-Aware Scaling
The Photo Tool has been enhanced with a new intelligent image scaling technology that allows images to be stretched or squashed while retaining the proportions of important parts of the picture.
This can provide a near miraculous ability to stretch and change the aspect ratio of photos, without apparently distorting the content of the photo. - A new Object Gallery
The Object Gallery is a powerful and flexible tool for viewing, re-ordering, hiding and locking layers and pages in your document.
Everything in your document is presented in a heirarchical, expandable list - at the top level are the pages, and inside each page are the named layers of the document.
This is a new and intuitive way to manage layers, and also to organize pages (for example re-ordering them).
- Significantly enhanced webpage and website export
Xara Xtreme 5 now includes all the web features recently introduced in Xara Web Designer, making Xtreme a first class web authoring tool in its own right. The many improvements include:
- Complete freeform WYSIWYG web page design - no layout rules
- One click preview, and one click publishing to your web server
- Automatic photo re-sampling and photo optimization
- Full support for CSS layers including transparency effects
- Pop-ups and mouseover effects. Automatic photo thumbnails with pop-ups
- Support for thousands of web page widgets (e.g. embedded movies, Google maps, RSS feeds, forms etc)
- Website wide or per page title, keyword, description and tracker code
- A large range of new web page templates, with easy theme coloring, photo replacement etc
- Cross browser, cross platform compatible, fully standards compatible (X)HTML
- Spell Check as you type
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Xtreme 5 includes a multi-language spell checker offering check-as-you-type, word suggestions and a user-dictionary. You can even mark different regions as being in different languages.
- Supported languages include English (US and UK), German (Germany, Swizterland and Austria), Italian, Dutch, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian.
- Other Text Tool Enhancements
- Automatic Font Embedding. You can send a document using any fonts to any other Xtreme or Web Designer user and they will see exactly what you see, fonts and all (even if they do not have the fonts installed on their computer)
- Anchored text objects. You can tie graphic objects to be anchored to a specific spot in your text and they will move as the text flows
- Improved font selection menu. Now with three sections for used fonts, web safe fonts and other fonts. Plus instant, live font size preview when selecting fonts and font size
- Link underline made more intelligent and improved link color control (global site-wide and ability to override on a per link basis)
- Text syncing of Soft Groups so all identical text strings in a soft group get updated when one is changed (this is how multi-layer button editing is done and it's also useful in Flash templates)
- Improved button and heading stretching
- 'Windows Compatible Font rendering' mode (to adjust font metrics to emulate the incorrect Windows font rendering used by Windows browsers)
- Better more reliable replacing, or pasting, of selected regions. Takes on style of paste point
The boxed version will not be ready until July 2009, so you will receive a serial number that unlocks a download version while you waits for the box to arrive. The download does not have the full set of templates/fonts/clipart etc etc, that will come on the DVD.
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