Xara Designer Pro X (v8)

New Features of Xara Designer Pro X v8

Photo Tools:

• Clone Tool (Clone and Magic Erase) - This tool been re-worked. Users can copy, clone even magic erase areas using the current edited photo as the source rather than the original photo.
• Color Select / Erase Tool - With this powerful set of tools you can erase parts of photos based the color. Even adjust color-selected areas using the Photo Tool Enhance operations such as Brightness, Blur, Hue adjustments and many more.
• Integrated Panorama stitching tool - Users can now stitches up to 8 photos (previous limit was 6) and processing is multi-threaded for higher performance on multi-core computers.
   

Design & Use-ability Enhancements:

• Shape Eraser Tool - This is two powerful tools in one, and can be used to perform hard-edged vector erasing of shapes and photos, or soft erasing.
• Text Styles - Xara Designer now supports Text Styles, a powerful way to alter the appearance of text throughout the document with just a few clicks. Update an element of your Text Style eg font, color, line spacing etc, and all text with that Style applied throughout your document is instantly updated – headings, titles or body text. Consistent
• Shape Builder Tool- This feature enables users to ‘paint’ onto an existing shape to enlarge it, add new areas or adjust the shape or outline. It does this in a vector way, and is a much more direct and often easier way than using the Shape Editor tool. You can adjust the size of the ‘brush’ as well as its aspect ratio and rotation angle.

Web Authoring / Web Publishing:

• Automatic object positioning & smart page resizing - Xara Designer Pro X now has the ability to make growing text areas automatically push other objects down the page, and also lengthen the page automatically to accommodate the enlarged text areas. Creating websites based on templates will now be considerably easier and faster.
• Embedded fonts - Designer Pro’s font embedding technology overcomes the serious design limitation of having to stick to the very small selection of so called ‘web safe’ fonts.