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What's New in Xara X
XARA X has many enhancements and improvements over its predecessor,
CorelXARA. The pioneers of real-time on screen anti-aliasing
and transparency now bring you a whole collection of new features
to make Xara X an irresistible choice for the creation of
vector graphics of any sort.
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- A button bar tool including automated
creation of JavaScript rollover button
bars, exported with the necessary HTML and JavaScript
- Real-time brush stroking, including
simulated air brushing, with fully editable
strokes
- User definable brush designs
- Pressure sensitive graphic tablet support
- Feathering to smoothly merge objects
into their backgrounds
- An interactive bevel tool that adds
bevels to any object
- Integration with Dreamweaver
- Image slicing on export
- Object clipping (sometimes called 'paste
inside')
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- Optimized bitmap export including comparative
preview of different formats and low level control
over color palettes and transparency from within the
export dialog
- New fully interactive shadow tool for automatic
creation of soft shadows
- Export of static .swf Flash files
- Contour tool for expanding and shrinking
the borders of an object (inset path operations)
- Support for non-linear profiles (the transition
or rate of change) for the position and attributes
of blends, transparency, color fills and shadows
- Multi-stage live and interactive graduated color
fills
- Improvements to the already powerful blend tool,
including editable blends on a curve
- A new 'Names' gallery, which makes it easy
to select and simultaneously edit groups of related
objects within a document
- 'Linked Stretching' of objects, a real time saver
for linking the scaling of text to a graphic, typically
a button or heading
- A collection of professionally designed web graphic
templates set (all user-editable)
- Full automatic on-screen bitmap anti-aliasing for
rotated and scaled bitmaps
- Improved color handling including an eyedropper
color tool
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- Further transparency developments (in
a package which has offered transparency since
1995) - including new transparency types
- RGB hex web color support in the color
editor and websnap palette option on export
- PNG alpha channel support on import and
export
- Improved AI and CMX import and export filters
- Bitmap file preview in the import dialog
- Convert lines to shapes
- Numerous UI refinements requested by existing
XARA users.
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System requirements
- Windows 95/98/XP/Me/NT 4.0/2000
- Intel compatible 486 or better
- 64MB RAM
- 20MB of available hard-disk space
- Minimum screen resolution of 640 x 480
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