If you have bought Xara Web Designer Premium (XWDP), it has much of the functionality as Xara Designer Pro X (XDPX).
Some of the missing functions would be useful to access in XWDP as you could at least use them even if you could not Edit.
Well Xara Xtreme 5 Silver (XX5S) is still available and can act as your Editor for these missing functions.
Download XX5S from http://downloads.xara.com/downloads/...08_08_2012.exe. [225.15MB]
Xara also has a Xara Xtreme Pro 5 download [69.96MB], which is a different beast.
What do you get?
- An application that runs out of the box with no registration or licence needed.
- Access to a Designs Gallery with an interesting collection of content, usable in XWDP.
- Utilities > Bitmap Tracer. Not the best but the same as in XDPX.
- Utilities > Galleries > Name gallery. Use Stretches with Named Text and Shapes to create Photo Stretch Panel and stretchy Buttons.
- Freehand & Brush Tool > Create Brush. These are Scatter brushes but they are very powerful in their capabilities. Use Create Brush then Edit Brush.
- Contour Tool.
- Blend Tool.
- Live Effects Tool. Still works as it is a 32-bit application.
Limitations:
- 32-bit application.
- I open XX5S first as it otherwise hangs. You might need to load it as Run as administrator. I find it hangs on restart if another Xara Desktop application had been open - just quit and reopen.
- Old-style Transparencies.
- Doesn't understand Variants and Supersites.
- I just can not get used to the gallery windows opening and finding them in their last position. It is just so uncanny! :-O
Do open the Help files of XX5S and XWDP and discover other functions that I have not covered.
Acorn