“A raft of new features combine with Xara's unbeatable speed and a bargain price - it's an irresistible mix."

“Xara has always stood out both for its bitmap handling and for its emphasis on interactivity and in Xtreme 4.0 the two are finally brought together in the form of a new interactive Photo tool."

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".....Xara Xtreme remains an extremely capable package, and it really is amazingly fast, with live previews of just about everything."

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“Fast and inexpensive, Xara Xtreme Pro 4.0 is an excellent choice for print and web designers on a budget – or a deadline.”

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"Xara Xtreme Pro 4.0 continues to have blazing speeds and amazingly small file sizes."

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“Xara always offers something special that lifts its products clear of the seething mass of competition.”

"Xara Xtreme comes with just about everything a serious graphic designer would want from a vector drawing package: precision editing, layers, envelopes, transparency, Web graphics, bitmap effects, 3D extrusion, the lot."

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“Xara Xtreme brings to the table are four essential ingredients.”

“First, the blazing speed of operations.”
“Second, many operations are performed live.”
“Third, Xara has strong consistency of operations.”
“Forth, Live Effects adds Adobe plugins to Xara's repertoire.”

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“Xtremely good with its superb new features, Xara just became the best vector-drawing app on the market”

"It may not be one of the 'big three' drawing programs but it beats them in features, price and performance."

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"No matter who you are and what you use now for your graphics and drawing, you should give Xara Xtreme a try."

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"At this price, Xara Xtreme is almost an obligatory buy even for users with only a passing interest in drawing software."

"Compared with rivals the program is amazingly responsive and it actually takes a few minutes to get used to the fact that you don't have to wait after you make a change or finish dragging an object around."

"Rewarding to use and fantastic value."

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"Xara Xtreme is an absolute steal."

"..the fastest, most interactive and, in many ways, most creative drawing package available."

"..enabling such enormous power to be provided at such a ridiculous prices, has to be good news"

"Xara Xtreme provides just about everything you'll need for creating and editing graphics, whether bitmap or vector."

"A powerful graphics and photo editing tool that's easy to get to grips with."

"Xara Xtreme 3.2 belongs to an increasingly rare breed: it's a vector editing alternative to Adobe's dominant Illustrator."

"Xara Xtreme 3.2 is the fastest vector illustration program we've seen."

"If you've never tried Xara, prepare to be astounded."

"The sheer simplicity of Xara Xtreme when working with gradient fills, transparency and shadows, not to mention gorgeous bevels and perfect anti-aliased output, make this program a joy to use."

"This graphics package is a good budget buy, but that's just the beginning."

"This software draws on all the powers of a modern PC to give even beginners the ability to enhance our surroundings with home-brewed works of professional looking art."

"...the greatest thing about Xara Xtreme is the enjoyment one gets from just playing. It is the adult equivalent of that first tray of watercolors that enraptures children during art time in kingergarten."

"Xara's latest release is a superb illustration tool ...One thing we particularly like about Xara is the live solid object scaling and dragging...It soon becomes a tool you'll pick up again and again for photorealistic vector 'painting' - seriously rivalling Expression and thoroughly spanking Illustrator's bottom...Xara Xtreme Pro is well worth splashing out for."

"Live Effects is the standout illustration feature. This will let you edit an object (including vector drawings), even after you have applied an effect to it. DTP tasks are made easier by new support for multiple page documents and an enhanced text tool.(tools) such as the colour picker - are one-click simplicity. The Transparency tool in particular is fast and easy to use."

"The program's main strength remains its underlying speed. Xara has always stood out for the astonishing speed of its vector handling, as well as the sheer hands-on creativity this enables. ..the ability to apply a drop shadow, graduated transparency, or both, to your text in real-time is impressive...You're getting an extraordinarily powerful package for little more than the upgrade cost of the latest Illustrator."

"Although it's primarily known as a vector-drawing program, Xara Xtreme has capabilities that extend into photo-editing and animation, making it a great all-round tool for the creation of web graphics. Optimised for quick learning and rapid workflow, this is a deceptively powerful package."

"Importantly, Xara seems committed to maintaining its software's innovative edge."

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