Xara Xtreme Pro is the new flagship of the Xtreme range, adding new high end features requested by Xtreme's already very active user base of professional designers. Xtreme Pro offers greater file compatability with industry standard applications, new PDF, DTP and text features, pro imagesetting controls and Flash animation. For more details read on.
Flash animations use vector graphics. Unfortunately existing Flash tools have a reputation for being unintuitive, difficult to master and over complex. As a result Flash has been restricted to those willing to dedicate substantial time to mastering thesetools. On the other hand, the Xtreme drawing tools have the reputation of being extremely easy to learn and slick. So now we bring the ease of Xtreme to Flash animations.
Animated Flash exportXtreme Pro brings one of the easiest ways to produce really efficient Flash animations.
Xtreme Flash animation doesn't use complex time-lines. Instead it's more like traditional animators art, where you produce snap-shots or key frames of your animations at points in time. Xtreme automatically produces in-between frames to create smooth, really compactFlash animations.
Note: Xtreme Flash animation does not support complex advanced features such as scripting, sound or embedded movies. Instead it's Flash animation for the rest of us.
Multi-page documents
Xtreme Pro includes a feature that's been high on our user's wish list since the first launch - support for multiple page documents. It's now possible to use Xtreme to produce leaflets, newsletters and more. Pages can be single or double page spreads (left and right sides) and are arranged vertically, like a word processor or DTP program.
Xtreme's ultra-fast rendering means you can scroll through pages quickly and smoothly, even on large documents
Enhanced text tool
Along with multi-page documents comes an enhanced text tool providing high-end DTP-like features, such as: * Margin and tab control (left, center, right and decimal tabs)
* 1st line indent or outdent control provides support for hanging indents, such as numbered or bulleted lists
* Three types of text object: Simple text, text columns and text frames
* Linked flowing text stories across frames and pages (including text stories flowing from any to any page, even backwards) Shown opposite.
* Word and character count of text stories.
Adobe Photoshop® PSD import and export
Full support for importing and exporting Photoshop® PSD files including layer support (Xtreme layers exported as PSD layers and PSD layers imported as Xtreme layers) including alpha channel, 16-bit color and CMYK layer conversion.
Photoshop® is the industry standard bitmap editing solution, and for many professionals Xtreme is their standard vector graphics tool. Now the two are more closely integrated than ever.
PDF/X and other PDF export improvements
PDF has become the industry standard way of transferring documents of all types from one person to another, ensuring exact WYSIWYG fidelity. Xtreme's PDF support has been dramatically improved so it can now output PDF directly, catering for the novice user to the professional.
Xtreme Pro now includes class leading PDF support including these features:
* Choice of PDF version from version 1.3 through to version 1.6, as well as PDF/X-1a 2001, x-1a 2003, X3-2002, and X-3 2003 standards.
* Full support for vector transparency (PDF version 1.4 or later)
* Font embedding and font subsetting options
* Export any selected page range
* Optional down-sampling of large bitmaps (reduces the size of PDFs for designs containing large photos)
* Full control over bitmap embedding options and compression (native, Flate, JPEG)
* Full control over bitmap transparency flattening, bitmap effect rasterization, to any required resolution and compression type
* Embedding of native JPG files for lossless JPEG transfer
* Support for Adobe Reader Layers. For PDF 1.5 and above you can now output and control Xtreme's layer visibility in Adobe Reader
* File embedding. You can embed .xar files into your PDF and launch them from Adobe Reader
* Full pre-press PDF/X support including: * Embedding page crop and printer's marks
* ICC color profiles, including all the common paper stock options (e.g. US Web coated, ISO, etc)
* Embedding of custom ICC profiles
* Document encryption, with full control over document permissions: * Password protect any PDF file, with 40 or 128-bit encryption
* Control over exact permissions, e.g. allow / disallow printing or commenting or text copying or extraction.
Thankfully for those that do not require such full control over PDF features, Xtreme provides a simple choice of 4 typical PDF profiles for the novice user: Draft, Email, High Quality and Commercial Printing.
PDF importXara Xtreme Pro supports PDF import and loads PDF files as true editable vector graphics and text (note, in common with most PDF importers it won't open PDF documents that are encrypted or include embedded subset fonts).
Important Note: this feature will only be enabled in the shipping CD version, it is not included in the current download
TIFF import
TIFF import support for a wider range of TIFF variants including Adobe alpha channel (transparent TIFFs) and CMYK. This further extends Xtreme's compatibility with other graphics programs
Color separation support
The ability to produce CMYK color separations has been re-introduced to Xtreme Pro. This includes on-screen preview of CMYK and spot color plates, Pantone color support, spot colors, on-screen printer gamut preview and a lot more. Xtreme is now able to produce professional CMYK print results either via PDF/Xsupport or via direct 4 color and spot-color separation via the print dialog.
Both options include crop and printer's marks. The direct separations printing includes control over print screening and screen types, emulsion side down and other advanced settings
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