Xara Designer Pro X11 released

Xara has released Xara Designer Pro X11, the latest version of its graphics software that provides photo editing, vector illustration, page layout and website design functionality, all in one WYSIWYG design tool. New features include:

Illustration and Graphic Design

• Vector-based Art Brushes – real time ‘painting’ of complex vector or bitmap brush designs along an editable freehand vector path. A range of realistic textured brushes are included.
• Vector shape processing plug-ins to manipulate vector shapes and lines
• New plugins include a Spiral SmartShape tool

Website Design

• Objects can be stuck to any given place in the browser window while the content scrolls under – useful for ‘sticky’ social icons or a permanent navigation bar across the top of the screen
• Stretch rectangle backgrounds and photos to fill the browser width
• New web animation tools make it super-easy to make objects animate (in a variety of styles) on mouse-over, click and even when an object first comes into view
• Automatic creation of WOFF fonts that are compatible with all modern browsers

Text layout

• Advanced hyphenation controls
• Auto-correct options for faster text creation
• Text background colour controls
• Document-wide font search & replace
• Text wrap options for inline graphics
• Automatic scaling of inline graphics – for multi-column work or ‘mobile-friendly’ responsive website design
• Improvements to PDF import and export

Xara Designer Pro X11 costs $299 / £219.99 (inc VAT) / €279 (inc VAT) with upgrades from £65 / €89 / $99. It works on Windows Vista 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10.
Find out more on Xara’s website.