What’s new in Xara Designer Pro+
Get the latest product changes on Designer Pro+. Learn about new features and what we’re doing to help you unlock more creative possibilities.
German Versions
The installer now includes German versions, complete with online user guide and knowledgebase.

New Web Block & Modular Website templates
Great news is you’re loving our new Web Blocks feature – we’ve added 12 new modular website templates, 92 new web blocks and almost 300 new page background styles. We guarantee that you won’t find a quicker and easier way to create that showstopper website of your dreams, and with all the new templates you can be sure that we have the layouts you need.
Introducing: Blocks - A faster way to build unique websites
Most no-code website builders sacrifice customization for ease of use. We give you both.
We are excited to announce the launch of Web Blocks – Pre-built web page sections and templates that can be fully customized and combined to build complete ‘modular’ websites in minutes.
Blocks come with layouts, functionalities like e-commerce, media, forms, appointment management, and the tools you already use so you can leave the hassles, hidden costs, and headaches of website building in the past.
Our YouTube playlist will help you get started in minutes!
New Calendar Templates
We’ve just added a new category of templates to the Online Content Catalog. You’ll find 12 new calendar designs in Print > Calendars, fully customizable to your brand – just in time to get 2023 off to a great visual start.
1200 new Photo Filter Overlays
Another major addition to the Designer Pro+ Online Content Catalog.
We’ve added nearly 1200 new photo filter overlays in 4 new categories in Image Resources > Photo Filter Presets > Overlays (Light Rays, Night Sky, Rose Petal and additions to Light Leak).
Photo overlays can be added to your photo, even on top of other photo filters, to provide a huge choice of creative possibilities.
Export tables to Word & Powerpoint
Tables created with the new Xara Table tool and exported to Microsoft Word (in docx format) are now fully editable in Word.
Xara tables should now also look visually correct when exported to Microsoft PowerPoint (.pptx) presentations, although they’re not currently editable in PowerPoint (text can be edited but the table won’t update).
New Web Themes
The template bonanza of 2022 continues with another 12 new website templates, all with the latest animation effects and SEO optimizations – and totally customizable to fit your business or personal website requirement:
- All include mobile variants
- A new wider 1280 pix wide main variant for the best possible results on your 4K monitors (but of course they auto scale to lower resolution on other devices)
- Default image export is now WebP for faster loading, giving a better experience for your visitors, and better SEO results too.
Pasting & Tables
Hot off the press, a couple of additions to our new Table Tool to smooth your table workflow:
- A new ‘paste unformatted’ option, so you can copy and paste between table cells without styles if required
- And improved handling of multi-line text when copy and pasting data from external applications such as spreadsheets into your Xara tables
Copy external data into tables
Another important step forward for our new Table Tool: You can now copy and paste data from spreadsheets or other external sources straight into your Xara tables.