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Xara Xtreme, the ultimate graphics software has released Xara Xtreme Version 5. By far one of the world’s best graphics tool, whether you’re working on that website design, flash animation, photo composition or a vector drawing, I tell you if you’ve got Xara Xtreme  you’re using the right tool!

Here are the some of the new features of the Xara Xtreme 5 that makes it stand out among the rest both in print and on the web.

• Text Handling *Updated* – Now Xara Xtreme allows you to enter text in lines, columns or even across multiple pages and gives you powerful control over the formatting,  making Xara Xtreme an ideal tool for DTP projects like brochures and newsletters that combine drawings, photos and text.

• Spell Check *New* – includes a multi-language spell checker with check-as-you-type, word suggestions and a user dictionary.

• Object Gallery *New*- it replaces the Layer Gallery as general method of selecting pages, layers and objects. It’s the most powerful and flexible tool, best for viewing, re-ordering, hiding and locking layers and pages in your document.

• Object Gallery (Xara Xtreme Pro) *New* – It has everything from the Basic edition plus more advanced features.

• Content-Aware Image Resize *New* – Intelligent image scaling technology that allows images to be stretched or squashed while retaining the proportions of important parts of the picture.

• HTML website Creation *Updated* – includes a complete ‘website creation’ feature that enables you to design multi-page websites with ease, including mouse-over and pop-up effects, animations and widgets. One click preview and FTP upload included. It’s the world’s most advanced WYSIWYG web page layout – and with no HTML skills required.

Plus 100 more enhancements. Read more….

Web User interface *New* - With lots of features such as links, placeholders, image type and quality, improved mouse-over and more.

Don’t miss out on this one, give your clients more than they could ever imagine and  grab your own copy of  Xara Xtreme 5 now!

If you already have one don’t miss out on the great new features that are unmatched by any other web design software, upgrade to Xara Xtreme 5 at our special upgrade price.

Until Next Time

Peter – Your Xara Guide

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Xara has came up with a competition for everyone. A competition that will test and showcase the talent, creativity and artistic sides of Xara artists.

The six winners of the competition will have their artworks showcased and published in an upcoming book, Xara Xtreme: The Official Guide by Gary Bouton. The book will be published by McGraw Hill and will be released this fall.

Gary Bouton is an Xtreme artist himself and an author of many software guides. His works are mostly on writing about graphics and multimedia applications. Through his works, he expresses all the techniques, tricks and tips about the softwares he write.

Here are the rules on how to make it to the competition:

• The images can be of any theme or style of your choice, multiple entries are accepted. Your artwork must be created entirely using Xara Xtreme (either the full version or the 30-day trial version) and must be entirely your own.

• You can’t enter artwork that’s already been published, including on the Xara CD or featured in the Xara Gallery or Outsider. (But Xara have also reserved a few additional pages to showcase some existing Grandmaster’s work)

• It must be decent and it must be legal (no incorporating copyrighted material), judges have the final say on what is decent and legal!

• Make sure to submit your entries before June 30th, 2009.

There are five judges, all from the graphics industry who will decide on who are the six artists who gets the chance for their product to published and be known to the world.

For more information about the contest and to submit your entries, see Xara Competition page.

Now head’s up Xara artist and start working on that entry.

Good luck!

Peter – Your Xara Guide

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Xara has just launched a brand new product called, Xara Web Designer, a web page editor that gives a complete design freedom for your web pages.

With Xara Web Designer, performing the following functions is easier even for you people with completely no skills in HTML, you can layout your text, graphics, animations, photos and widgets and publish your pages – no third party software required – so easy and no experience required.

Exciting features to expect from Xara Web Designer:

- Ready-made Templates and Graphics

From designed templates and customizable graphics such as headings, navigation buttons, logos, text panels and more, all of which can be simply dragged and dropped from th Designs Gallery onto the page.

- WYSIWYG

Be it using one of the many customizable templates available on Xara Web Designer or create your very own, it’s genuinely WYSIWYG, what you see in Xara Web Designer is exactly what you get on your web page.

- Auto Text Tool

Allows text flow between columns or pages and even around objects such as shapes and photos. Also includes a spell checker.

- Ultra-fast Photo Tool

This tool has many enhancement functions such as automatic adjustment of photos to its correct web resolution.

- More clever stuff

Clever tricks provided by Xara Web Designer which will surely save you time and trouble.

• Easy Mouse-over

• Thumbnail and Pop-up Creation

• One-click change of site wide theme colors and shades

• Automatic color matching of imported objects

• Automatic stretch of buttons and panels as text is changed

So, what are you waiting for? Go grab your own Xara Web Designer now!

Until next time

Peter – Your Xara Guide

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It’s called a minor release as it is not a complete new version e.g. not Xtreme 4.0, but 3.2. But I wouldn’t call it “minor” anyway.

Read on to find out why this is more than a minor release…

The 3.2 update contains a large number of useability improvements, particularly to fill, color and text handling, as well as new features such as RAW and XPS filters (Microsoft’s new rival to PDF), and improvements to existing features such as PDF import and export and Vista compatibility.

• Xara3D 6 included
• Bitmap and Photo Handling Improvements
• Smoother, Faster Zoom
• Faster Document Scrolling
• Color Handling Enhancements
• Improved Fill Handling
• Vista Compatibility
• New Key Shortcuts
• Copy / Paste to / from Microsoft Word
• Right Drag Copy
• Easy Rotate
• New Import and Export Options
• Text Tool Enhancements
• Editing Rounded Corner Rectangles
• New Templates
• And more…

(Several of these news apply to the new Pro version)

Click here to read more about Xara Xtreme 3.2
Hope to see you soon

Peter – Your Xara Guide

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