What's new since Xara X
What was new in Xara X¹ since Xara X
  • 3rd generation rendering engine, for even faster, higher quality graphics rendering

    While Xara X was always the fastest drawing and illustration program around, it's now even faster. With the third generation Xara rendering engine, the most advanced vector rendering engine on the planet, many drawings are 20% faster and some more than 100% faster.
  • Live 'solid' drag, rotate and resize

    Xara X¹ offers one the world's first live solid dragging, scaling and rotation of objects, for the ultimate in WYSIWYG, fluid editing. As you reposition, resize or rotate an object the whole object moves, rather than just an outline, making it far easier to judge the effect of your edits in real time.
  • Multi-layer, multi-file alpha channel PNG export
  • New Xara Picture Editor, an integrated bitmap editor bringing:

    • Zero memory bitmap editing
    • Infinite undo
    • Full Alpha-channel support
    • Plug-in support to add filters and extend the program

    The Xara Picture Editor is a completely new tool integrated into Xara X¹ . This is not a pixel editor or painting program but provides the most common photo editing operations such as cropping, rotating, enhancing, sharpening etc,with a very fast, interactive UI. The unique zero-memory footprint editing means that you can use the XPE to edit and enhance photos in Xara X¹ , and each new edited image requires no memory or file space.
  • More than 50 other improvements and fixes, including:

    • Improved color picker
    • New look icons
    • Thumbnail view option for .xar files added to OS File Explorer and Open and save dialogs
    • Better alpha-channel PNG support
    • Support for bitmap export sizes up to 16,000 pixel wide or high
    • Automatic demo movie download, along with new demo / tutorial movies