What's new since Webster 2
Xara Xtreme is a significantly enhanced version of Webster 2 - it has all the print related features that are missing from Webster, some important extra drawing tools and some major new functionality for anyone creating web graphics.

So what does Xara Xtreme offer that Webster doesn't already have? These are some of the main extra features in Xara Xtreme:

  • Freehand & Pen Tool for drawing freehand lines
  • Pressure sensitive graphic tablet support
  • NavBar Tool for creating button bars (including multi-state JavaScript rollovers)
  • Image Slicing for export
  • Blend Tool - lets you create multistage blends between two objects
  • Shadow Tool - automatic creation of soft shadows
  • Real-time brush stroking with user definable brush designs
  • Mold Tool - distort or perspectivise objects
  • Bevel Tool - give objects a profiled bevel edge
  • Contour Tool - expand and shrink the borders of an object (inset path operations)
  • Automated feathering
  • Name Gallery - makes it easy to select and simultaneously edit groups of related objects within a document
  • Photoshop plug-in support for bitmap effects
  • More fill options including repeating and multistage fills

  • More transparency types
  • Support for non-linear profiles (the transition or rate of change) for the position and attributes of blends, transparency, color fills and shadows
  • More export formats including Adobe Illustrator, EPS, PSD, PDF, Corel CMX, Flash SWF and PNG (including alpha channel)
  • A quick and easy way to create Flash animation
  • Dreamweaver integration