Xara Photo & Graphic Designer

Xara Designer Pro (formerly Xara Xtreme ) is a vector-based graphic design and drawing. It is by the British software company Xara Group Ltd.. developed, which is a 100 % subsidiary of the German Magix AG since 30 January 2007.

Xara Designer Pro offers a high processing speed, which is achieved by programming in assembly language in Xaras renderer.

The development story

Various versions of the program

There are currently five different versions of the program published:

Open - source version of Xara Xtreme

On 11 October 2005, the Xara Ltd announced. to, an open- source version of Xara Xtreme for the operating systems Linux and Mac OS X to develop. On 20 March 2006, the development version 0.3 was released under the GPL. They first allowed only the loading of graphics in-house. XAR file format. As of version 0.5, the open source version also dominated functions for saving. With the currently valid version 0.7 Xara Xtreme also has functions for importing SVG files.

Only the Linux version will be developed and released as open - source version. Since the Windows version of royalty- prone code from other manufacturers ( plugins) includes the Windows version is still sold under a proprietary license.

The manufacturer has announced a collaboration with the open source vector graphics program Inkscape to jointly develop a powerful, free vector program for Linux.

According continuous information from the 2007 Pro - Linux, the 100 % conversion as an open- source version after the acquisition by the company Magix is currently unlikely, and the future of the open source project uncertain ( the proprietary version is not affected ).

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