Headline New Features

Content-Aware Scaling
The Photo Tool has been enhanced with a new intelligent image scaling technology that allows images to be stretched or squashed while retaining the proportions of important parts of the picture.

Significantly enhanced webpage and website export
Xara Xtreme 5 now includes all the web features recently introduced in Xara Web Designer, making Xtreme a first class web authoring tool in its own right. The many improvements include:

• Complete freeform WYSIWYG web page design - no layout rules
• One click preview, and one click publishing to your web server
• Automatic photo re-sampling and photo optimization
• Full support for CSS layers including transparency effects
• Pop-ups and mouseover effects. Automatic photo thumbnails with pop-ups
• Support for thousands of web page widgets (e.g. embedded movies, Google maps, RSS feeds, forms etc)
• Website wide or per page title, keyword, description and tracker code
• A large range of new web page templates, with easy theme coloring, photo replacement etc
• Cross browser, cross platform compatible, fully standards compatible (X)HTML

Spell Check as you type
Xtreme 5 includes a multi-language spell checker offering check-as-you-type, word suggestions and a user-dictionary. You can even mark different regions as being in different languages.

Supported languages include English (US and UK), German (Germany, Swizterland and Austria), Italian, Dutch, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian.

Other Text Tool Enhancements

• Automatic Font Embedding. You can send a document using any fonts to any other Xtreme or Web Designer user and they will see exactly what you see, fonts and all (even if they do not have the fonts installed on their computer)
• Anchored text objects. You can tie graphic objects to be anchored to a specific spot in your text and they will move as the text flows
• Improved font selection menu. Now with three sections for used fonts, web safe fonts and other fonts. Plus instant, live font size preview when selecting fonts and font size
• Link underline made more intelligent and improved link color control (global site-wide and ability to override on a per link basis)
• Text syncing of Soft Groups so all identical text strings in a soft group get updated when one is changed (this is how multi-layer button editing is done and it's also useful in Flash templates)
• Improved button and heading stretching
• 'Windows Compatible Font rendering' mode (to adjust font metrics to emulate the incorrect Windows font rendering used by Windows browsers)
• Better more reliable replacing, or pasting, of selected regions. Takes on style of paste point
• Better replacement of selected text line (e.g. triple click line and type, now does not replace CR)
• Double-click on text takes you into the Text Tool
• All fonts on screen are now rounded to whole pixels in web documents, to match the behaviour of web browsers
• Selecting small text with the Selector Tool has been improved
• It's now easy to put rotated text back exactly upright, from any angle, by holding Ctrl while rotating.

Other Enhancements

• A new Object Masking system allows parts of a drawing or photo to be marked for operations such as delete, clip, copy. Or, in conjunction with Content-Aware photo scaling, to protect parts of a photo during a stretch.
• The Transparency Tool now supports multi-stage graduated transparencies (works rather like multi-stage graduated color fills).
• Soft Groups: A new type of object grouping that allows groups to contain objects across different layers.
• Enhanced multi-page support (pages can be different sizes and have different layers, and there's easier page copying, re-ordering and deletion via the Object Gallery).
• Improved EPS and Adobe Illustrator import and export.
• Improved PDF import and export (including support for PDF 1.7, links to pages and anchors, mouseover pop-up titles, default document link color and embedded Flash).
• Improved Flash export - There have been many small enhancements to the Flash feature making it more flexible and even easier to use
• Copy / paste now retains layers.
• A new photo temperature control (warmer or cooler) and easier photo clipping.
• A new, integrated red-eye tool for removing red-eye from photos.
• Updated RAW photo support for more recent digital cameras.
• Other Photo Tool enhancements - A large number of other smaller changes have been made to photo handling and the Photo Tool, making it quicker, easier and more productive to work with photos.
• A new screen capture utility.
• Direct page resize by dragging the page edges, both horizontally and vertically.
• Repeating objects, ideal for headers and footers or repeating logos across all (or some) of the pages in multi-page documents.
• Easier object naming and name handling via a new Name dialog.
• A new sub menu File > Open Recent now displays recently used documents for easy access (default 20).
• File->New menu expanded to allow up to 20 template documents
• Stretching of rounded rectangles now retains the corner radius. Which means no more stretched corners!
• Improved 'rapid sketching' support for the Freehand Tool.
• A large number of new templates including all the Web Designer web themes.

New Headline Features

Content-Aware Scaling
The Photo Tool has been enhanced with a new intelligent image scaling technology that allows images to be stretched or squashed while retaining the proportions of important parts of the picture.

A new Object Gallery (Advanced)
The Object Gallery in Xtreme Pro is a powerful and flexible tool for viewing, re-ordering, hiding and locking not just layers, but everything from individual objects on the page to pages in your document.

Everything in your document is presented in a heirarchical, expandable list - at the top level are the pages, and inside each page are the named layers of the document. In Xtreme Pro this is taken to a further level, showing all the objects on the page. The Gallery provides thumbnail views of all objects.

The Object Gallery makes it easy to find, select, lock or hide objects inside complex drawings, or objects inside groups or even hidden under other objects on the page.

Significantly enhanced webpage and website export
Xara Xtreme 5 now includes all the web features recently introduced in Xara Web Designer, making Xtreme a first class web authoring tool in its own right. The many improvements include:

• Complete freeform WYSIWYG web page design - no layout rules
• One click preview, and one click publishing to your web server
• Automatic photo re-sampling and photo optimization
• Full support for CSS layers including transparency effects
• Pop-ups and mouseover effects. Automatic photo thumbnails with pop-ups
• Support for thousands of web page widgets (e.g. embedded movies, Google maps, RSS feeds, forms etc)
• Website wide or per page title, keyword, description and tracker code
• A large range of new web page templates, with easy theme coloring, photo replacement etc
• Cross browser, cross platform compatible, fully standards compatible (X)HTML

Spell Check as you type
Xtreme 5 includes a multi-language spell checker offering check-as-you-type, word suggestions and a user-dictionary. You can even mark different regions as being in different languages.

Supported languages include English (US and UK), German (Germany, Swizterland and Austria), Italian, Dutch, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian.

Other Text Tool Enhancements
The Photo Tool has been enhanced with a new intelligent image scaling technology that allows images to be stretched or squashed while retaining the proportions of important parts of the picture.

• Automatic Font Embedding. You can send a document using any fonts to any other Xtreme or Web Designer user and they will see exactly what you see, fonts and all (even if they do not have the fonts installed on their computer)
• Anchored text objects. You can tie graphic objects to be anchored to a specific spot in your text and they will move as the text flows
• Improved font selection menu. Now with three sections for used fonts, web safe fonts and other fonts. Plus instant, live font size preview when selecting fonts and font size
• Link underline made more intelligent and improved link color control (global site-wide and ability to override on a per link basis)
• Text syncing of Soft Groups so all identical text strings in a soft group get updated when one is changed (this is how multi-layer button editing is done and it's also useful in Flash templates)
• Improved button and heading stretching
• 'Windows Compatible Font rendering' mode (to adjust font metrics to emulate the incorrect Windows font rendering used by Windows browsers)
• Better more reliable replacing, or pasting, of selected regions. Takes on style of paste point
• Better replacement of selected text line (e.g. triple click line and type, now does not replace CR)
• Double-click on text takes you into the Text Tool
• All fonts on screen are now rounded to whole pixels in web documents, to match the behaviour of web browsers
• Selecting small text with the Selector Tool has been improved
• It's now easy to put rotated text back exactly upright, from any angle, by holding Ctrl while rotating.