Publisher's Description:
From Xara Group Limited
Add impact to your web pages with top quality still and animated 3D text and graphics, such as titles, headings, buttons and logos. Perfect for web pages, mailshots, movie titles and credits and presentations. With Xara3D you can create an endless variety of 3D graphics from TrueType fonts or imported 2D shapes, with simple controls to alter the extrude, lighting, bevel, color and texture, shadow, font size and type. And there's a whole range of animation possibilities including multi-page sequences and even animated 3D screensavers. What?s more it?s so simple to use that you?ll create attention grabbing 3D headings in minutes.
Easy Text headings
Text headings can use any TrueType font installed on your computer. 13 fonts are included in the trial download and there are 64 in the full download.
Simply select the font from the drop down menu and type away, youll create your first heading in seconds!
Full Text Controls
There's full control over every aspect of the appearance of the text, including alignment, sub & superscript, line spacing, tracking and kerning values for individual characters or over whole selections.
Character Set
There's also instant access to full character sets from within the text dialog.
Importing 2D shapes
But you're not just limited to text headings. You can create non-text headings by importing 2D graphics as Windows metafiles (WMF and EMF) or Xara Xtreme/Xara Designer/Webster files (XAR and WEB) and extruding the outlines.
Borders and Buttons
An automatic design-making tool instantly adds a border to your text or turns it into a button, board or board with holes at the click of a button.
Top On-Screen Quality
Xara 3D Maker offers top quality on-screen display, with full anti-aliasing, and real-time solid shading with optional error-diffusion dithering.
New Controls
New in V7: 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.
Requirements:
256Mb RAM, 150MB of available hard-disk space