Xara Designer - software for creating professional graphics using both vector and bitmap images. With this program you can create graphics for a variety of purposes: web graphics, vector graphics, photo-composition, Flash animation and more. Tools to automatically generate contours and soft shadows, squeezing and smoothing the edges of objects allow you to work much more productive, and the unprecedented speed of opening files and redraw the screen will save you time.
Designer offers everything you need for professional page layout, combining advanced text controls (including Text Styles, multi-column and multi-page text flow, text on a curve, spell checker, numbered and bulleted lists to name just a few) with flexible page layout features such as drag and drop of images and automatic text flow around objects. It adds up to complete design freedom for all your page design work!
Xara Designer is the primary tool of many illustrators and includes a set of powerful but really easy to use vector line and shape drawing and editing tools.
The Quickshape tools (rectangle, circle etc) allow you to draw pre-set shapes very quickly and easily. Editing shapes and lines is easy and the Freehand line drawing tool even offers a slider for retroactive smoothing after you've drawn your line.
Two powerful new tools in v8 allow you to easily erase and (in Pro only) build on your image, whether it's a vector drawing or a photo.
The world's fastest, slickest, and highest quality vector 3D extrude tool.
Take any shape, and just drag on the face to create a beautifully lit and shaded 3D version. Drag on the sides to extend the extrude depth. It couldn't be easier.
The blend tool tweens or blends from one shape to another. It's ultra-fast, click-drag simple, works with vector shapes, text and photos.
Blends can be used to create complex highlights, blurred edges on objects, repetitive patterns and many other effects, in other words it's a vital tool for creative design. Designer performs blending in a very quick and memory-efficient way compared to other drawing packages - meaning less waiting for you and less draining of your systems resources.
Xara was the first vector application to introduce transparency, and continues to this day to offer the easiest, most advanced transparency control of any software. With click-drag simplicity you can create graduated transparencies to any object, photo, text, and vector shape.
Xara was also the first application to offer vector feathering (sometimes called Soft Vectors). This is a technique of slightly blurring the edges of objects to help them blend into the background and enables high quality realistic images to be created more quickly and easily than in any other software.
The combination of feathering and transparency is great for any photo composition work, as well as realistic vector shading, vital for any good illustration.
Live Effects are plug-in effects that can be applied to any object, including vector drawings - they are called Live Effects because the vector object remains editable even after applying the effect. Most modern Photoshop plug-ins work as Live Effects, giving access to a huge range of special effects (and more than 40 plug-ins are included).
- Minimum System Requirements
Microsoft® Windows® XP | Vista® | 7
Intel® Celeron® or AMD® Athlon® processor 700MHz or newer
500 MB RAM, 300 MB hard disk space for program files
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