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Xara Designer Pro 7.0

Posted Feb.07, 2012 under Products

Xara Designer Pro 7 is a powerful and easy to use graphics and document creation tool, able to produce everything from top quality web graphics and websites to highly detailed illustrations and multi-page documents for print and PDF output.

If your task includes drawing then this is a great tool for everything from simple logos to cartoons and astonishingly detailed illustrations. And since Designer Pro is equally at home with drawing, photos and text it is the perfect solution for design work from cards and invitations to posters, adverts and multi-page brochures.

 

In addition to all of the features found in Xara Photo & Graphic Designer, Designer Pro’s features are:

  • Simple and intuitive page layout and Web design utilities
  • Powerful illustration and photo editing tools that should have Adobe running scared
  • Offers a few features for the power user; you can place “live copies” of any kind of object in a document (text, images, graphics) which automatically update when one is edited; configure shortcut keys to your own preferences; and have the ability to stitch together and edit any number of images into a flat panorama or web-based 360 degree panorama.
  • Xara Designer Pro also imports HD Photo format (Windows Media Photo), whereas Photo & Graphic Designer does not.

The Designer Pro version of the software also adds support for multi-core processors, giving Designer Pro 7 the potential for extremely high-performing and speedy graphics rendering. For those who live in the print world, Designer Pro 7 allows you to preview CMYK separations and spot color plates, emulsion position, and other advanced settings; plus gives you PANTONE® color, PDF/X, and XPS support.

For more info about Designer Pro, check here!

On Xara Guide you get tips and tricks on how to get the most out of your Xara Software.

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Xara Menu Maker 1.1

Posted Jan.17, 2012 under Products

Xara Menu Maker enables you to create professional menus and stylish navigation bars – and there’s no artistic or technical skill required! Menu Maker makes it so easy to add your NavBars to your web page – even your granny could do it.

Menu Maker incorporates the world’s most advanced vector rendering engine and its unique ‘smart button scaling’ technology which allows graphical buttons to accommodate any length text without distortion. All graphics are super-optimized to create the smallest file and the menu DHTML is the industry’s most compact to ensure fast loading websites.

This provides tight control of the size of the finished menu. It shows the current width and height and a slider can make instant changes to the size of the overall menu. Resized text is initially jagged before being rendered smooth by the software. The width of the buttons can also be adjusted.

Key Features:

Quick and easy solution

- Do not worry about UI bloat for it is a dedicated tool for creating NavBars and menus
- Graphics are automatically optimized for the web to keep file sizes small
- Creates dynamic NavBars and menus in just a few clicks

Professionally-designed fully-customizable NavBar templates

- Change color, texture, font, text, background and size with absolutely no loss of quality due to Xara’s world beating vector graphic engine
- Choose from vertical or horizontal NavBar designs
- Customize in real-time so you can view changes instantly

Create hierarchical DHTML menus

- Vertical or horizontal pop-out menus
- Uniquely compact menu code produces small file sizes

Great value for money

- The cheapest professional solution around for NavBars & Menus
- NavBars & menus can be created for multiple sites with no extra payment.

What’s New in This Release:

· Extended browser compatibility – In addition to IE 5 and NN6 , Menu Maker 1.1 now supports: Opera 7 , Mozilla
· Updated FrontPage Add - in and Dreamweaver Extension – The Menu Maker integration has been updated to support the latest releases from Microsoft and Macromedia. Menu Maker 1.1 now supports: FrontPage 2000, 2002 and 2003, Dreamweaver 3, 4, MX, MX 2004 and Ultradev
· New Templates – 23 new NavBar designs in up to 4 variations each, most with both horizontal and vertical designs, making 55 new NavBar templates in total, increasing your choice by more than 20%. See the previews on our site, or download the new Menu Maker 1.1 trial.
· Minor Enhancements – Various minor enhancements and fixes in response to user feedback and requests.

Xara Menu Maker 1.1 is simple to use and its output is compact, so its menus are not a drain on bandwidth. Users will no longer find it a chore to create and edit website navigation bars.

So why do it in hours, if you can do it in seconds!

On Xara Guide you get tips and tricks on how to get the most out of your Xara Software.

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Xara Photo Graphic Designer 7.0

Posted Dec.21, 2011 under New Versions, Products

Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 7 is a comprehensive photo editing, web graphics-creating, drawing, graphics design and deskop publishing tool. No need to keep a library of apps for your various graphics needs – Xara Photo & Graphic Designer can handle them all.

This package sets a new standard in image design with its unique combination of universal image editing, professional graphics and layout functions, intelligent portrait optimization, and foolproof slideshow creation features.

Xara Photo & Graphic Designer advantages:

  • Optimize, edit & design photos
  • Illustrate, draw & paint
  • 3D design tool (e.g. for logos)
  • Create multi-page documents, incl. text layout (e.g. brochures)
  • Complete PDF workflow (import, creation, output)
  • Create animations
  • More than 3,000 professional design templates

Productivity and Interface:

  • Speed – The fastest graphics software to be found with highest performance vendor rendering engine.
  • Direct Action Tools – Allows you to create effects such as transparency, shadows, bevels or gradient fills in an interactive, fast and intuitive way.
  • Drag and Drop – Enables you to use the drag and drop principle, which is the most intuitive way of working and a great time saver.
  • Zoom – Allows magnification up to 25,000%, perfect for detailed work.
  • Anti-Aliasing – Brings maximum screen quality and a pioneer with the fastest, highest quality anti-aliasing available in any drawing program.

Xara Photo & Graphic Designer software is a comprehensive graphics application that comes packed with useful functionality. Interface issues mean it may take a while to find your way around, but there’s plenty of help and you’ll soon feel at home.

On Xara Guide you get tips and tricks on how to get the most out of your Xara Software.

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Xara 3D Maker 7.0

Posted Apr.13, 2011 under New Versions, Xara 3D Maker

Making 3D graphics and animation is a real hard work doing it the traditional way, but with Xara 3D, everything is just a piece of cake!

Xara 3D Maker is a program to create 3D text and graphics. It provides a professional and high quality to that image that you are working on.

Now on its 7th version, Xara 3D has some  great new animation types and even more bevel styles to experiment with. There are also new controls over X & Y position and viewpoint, a wireframe mode and some essential updating for Win 7.

For more info, check out Xara 3d Maker


What’s New in XARA 3D  Maker 7.0?


‘Scroll’ animation type added. Now you can scroll text vertically, horizontally or into and out of the screen, with full control over the speed. Both the scroll and new scroll in & out animations are perfect for movie and video opening titles and closing credits (export as AVI, compatible with any movie software).

‘Scroll in/out’ animation type added. A second new ‘scroll in/out’ animation type, which includes separate control over how the text enters and leaves the screen – so for example it could scroll in slowly from the right, hesitate and then exit quickly upwards!

Integration with MAGIX movie & slideshow products. Xara 3D Maker 7 can export animations with a transparent background in a proprietary format called CFX which can be imported into MAGIX slideshow and movie editing software, Photo story on CD & DVD 9 and Movie Edit Pro 17, which makes 3D Maker the perfect choice for creating overlaid 3D captions for movies or slideshows produced in MAGIX software.

Bevel types added. 7 new bevel types, increasing even further the range of different styles you can create.

‘View options’ panel’. A ‘View options’ panel which gives additional advanced control over the X/Y position of an image against its background, allows you to precisely change the angle of rotation and viewpoint, and offers a new wireframe mode which can simplify the display and speed up animation viewing time.

Save & restore. Automatic save and restore of the current design on program exit and start-up, or on Windows shutdown.

Compatible with Windows 7. Official Win 7compatibility. Also optionally for Windows 7 rarely used fonts are hidden to unclutter the font list.

Easy access to samples. Instant access to over 700 readymade Xara 3D Maker samples via a new Open Samples option in the File menu.

Other software compatibility. You can now cut and paste your 3D images to Microsoft Word and other programs.

With Xara 3D Maker 7.0,  it will make a more dramatic yet stylish image that will lift up the presentation of your web page, movie or mail shots. You can even give your desktop an artistic life by creating a personalized animated 3D screensaver in minutes!

For more info, check out Xara3D Maker

Until next time ;-)

Peter – Your Xara Guide

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