Xara X has many enhancements and improvements over its predecessor, CorelXARA. The pioneers of real-time on screen anti-aliasing and transparency now bring you a whole collection of new features to make Xara Xtreme an irresistible choice for the creation of vector graphics of any sort:

A button bar tool including automated creation of JavaScript rollover button bars, exported with the necessary HTML and JavaScript Real-time brush stroking, including simulated air brushing, with fully editable strokes User definable brush designs Pressure sensitive graphic tablet support Feathering to smoothly merge objects into their backgrounds An interactive bevel tool that adds bevels to any object Integration with Dreamweaver Image slicing on export Object clipping (sometimes called 'paste inside')

Optimized bitmap export including comparative preview of different formats and low level control over color palettes and transparency from within the export dialog New fully interactive shadow tool for automatic creation of soft shadows Export of static .swf Flash files Contour tool for expanding and shrinking the borders of an object (inset path operations) Support for non-linear profiles (the transition or rate of change) for the position and attributes of blends, transparency, color fills and shadows Multi-stage live and interactive graduated color fills Improvements to the already powerful blend tool, including editable blends on a curve A new �Names� gallery, which makes it easy to select and simultaneously edit groups of related objects within a document 'Linked Stretching' of objects, a real time saver for linking the scaling of text to a graphic, typically a button or heading A collection of professionally designed web graphic templates set (all user-editable) Full automatic on-screen bitmap anti-aliasing for rotated and scaled bitmaps Improved color handling including an eyedropper color tool

Further transparency developments (in a package which has offered transparency since 1995) - including new transparency types RGB hex web color support in the color editor and websnap palette option on export PNG alpha channel support on import and export Improved AI and CMX import and export filters

Bitmap file preview in the import dialog Convert lines to shapes Numerous UI refinements requested by existing XARA users.