Publisher's Description:
From Xara Group Limited
Xara Designer Pro is the perfect choice for professional design work, ideal for both print and the web. It's equally flexible with vector or bitmap graphics, making it perfect for any design that combines drawing, photos and text - from simple button or logo designs to incredibly detailed illustrations, posters, multi-page brochures and photo compositions. And it's great for the web as well - from Flash animations to complete HTML web pages and websites. Time saving drawing features such as automated soft shadows, bevels, contours and feathering make this a supremely easy to use and productive tool - plus Xara Designer Pro offers the fastest rendering in the business making it ideal for experimentation. The UI is designed to minimize the on-screen clutter with on-document editing that makes your design the center of attention. Supports common industry formats including PDF/X and PSD, and offers full color separation and PANTONE support for commercial print output. Download the 30 day free trial.
Features
# Speed
Xara Designer has the world's most sophisticated, highest performance vector rendering engine. Quite simply this makes it the fastest graphics software to be found.
# Direct Action Tools
Xara Designer's Direct Action Tools allow you to create effects such as transparency, shadows, bevels or gradient fills in an interactive, fast and intuitive way. No distracting dialogs - simply drag on the object!
# Drag and Drop
Many tasks in Xara Designer benefit from being able to use the drag and drop principle, which is the most intuitive way of working and a great time saver. It also supports drag and drop import of files, such as photos.
# Solid Object Editing
Instead of dragging outlines when you draw, move, rotate or resize objects, Designer offers solid live object manipulation. Only Designer is fast enough to do this on complex vector graphics.
# Undo/Redo
Being able to change what you have done is vital in a graphics package. Xara Designer allows unlimited undo, making experimentation easy.
# Zoom
The Zoom tool allows magnification up to 25,000%, perfect for detailed work. And it's super-fast and resolution independent too.
If this image was created in Photoshop with the same detail, the file would be 2000 x 3000 inches, take hundreds of megabytes of memory and file space. As a vector design it takes just 180Kbytes!
# Anti-Aliasing
Xara introduced the world's first vector anti-aliasing to bring maximum screen quality and is still a pioneer with the fastest, highest quality anti-aliasing available in any drawing program.
Requirements:
256 Mb RAM , Intel Pentium or better