Description
Xara announce a new release Xara Designer Pro X11, the ultimate all-in-one creative software, that provides powerful vector illustration, photo editing, page layout and website design, in one unrivalled WYSIWYG design tool.Most creative design work for page and website design consists of arranging content on the page, typically a combination of illustration, text and photos. By combining these tools in one program, Xara Designer Pro achieves faster performance with no program switching, lower memory and computing requirements, an easier learning curve, higher productivity and significantly better value for money. Designer Pro has one of the most powerful vector design engines at its heart, and this release brings new vector-based Art Brushes, offering real time ‘painting’ of complex vector or bitmap brush designs along an editable freehand vector path. A range of realistic textured brushes are included. In addition there are vector shape processing plug-ins to manipulate vector shapes and lines (third party API to be published later). The Transparency Tool introduces five new W3C standard, web-safe and PDF-safe blend modes. New plug-ins include a Spiral SmartShape tool.Xara Designer Pro X11 has some great new features for creating state-of-the-art contemporary websites. With one click objects can be stuck to any given place in the browser window while the content scrolls under. This is very useful for ‘sticky’ social icons or a permanent navigation bar across the top of the screen. Website designs with no obvious page boundary are now very popular so Xara make it easy to stretch rectangle backgrounds and photos to fill the browser width.New web animation tools make it super-easy to make objects animate (in a variety of styles) on mouse-over, click and even when an object first comes into view. This ‘reveal’ animation takes advantage of HTML5 animation features. Users can now use any font on their computer and Designer Pro X11 will automatically create a WOFF font that is compatible with all modern browsers. This is in addition to the integrated Google Font picker that provides nearly 700 fonts.Xara Designer Pro is a ‘design focussed’ website creation tool and does all of this with no HTML hacking, programming, scripting or CSS. The focus is on the design, not on the technical.