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This article is from June 9, 2009, and is no longer current.

Xara Xtreme Upgrades to Version 5

Whether it’s creating high quality illustrations, designing your brochures or designing your website the versatility of than Xara Xtreme or than Xara Xtreme Pro 5 is the solution.
Already appreciated by many as the fastest graphics illustration program with pioneering graphics technologies, it now has many more features to assist website creation and photo handling,
Favored by many professional designers for its slick workflow, new in this version 5 release are:
* New website design features aimed at designers who want to focus on design, not coding, Xara Xtreme is a supreme rapid website prototyping tool producing fully cross-browser, cross platform, standards compatible (X)HTML.
* Fast photo editing tools enhanced to include Content Aware Photo Scaling which allows images to be stretched without distorting key points of interest in the photo. Combined with the new photo masking tool you can additionally protect any part of your photo.
* The ability to anchor graphics (vector, or photo) to text so they flow with the text.
* Automatic font embedding, enables Xara documents to be distributed, viewed and printed WYSIWYG with any fonts.
* A new multi-language real-time check as you type spell checker.
* A new Object Gallery enabling easier page / layers / object identification, re-ordering and selection. e.g. you can now just drag the page thumbnail for page re-ordering.
* Improved file import / export including EPS, PDF import and export, camera RAW
* Improved Flash creation
* A new range of professionally designed templates, ready for easy customization, including business media, flyers, brochures and now a wide range of website templates.
* …and more than 100 other improvements.
Xara Xtreme is a great all-round graphics and document production tool, able to create vector illustrations, web graphics, flyers and now high-quality websites with ease. This one tool can produce all your documents. Instead of using separate, often expensive, difficult-to-learn software packages, with Xara Xtreme you can re-use the same creatives for brochures, (it includes excellent PDF export) and websites.
Create once and use for multiple creative media – DTP style documents, brochures, PDF files and websites.
Xara Xtreme works with Microsoft® Windows® XP/Vista/7 and retails for only $89. Xtreme Pro is only $249.

James Fritz is a Principal Program Manager: Content Tools and Workflows at LinkedIn.
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