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.


 
  • 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')
  • 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
 
  • 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.

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