NEW: Xara Page & Layout Designer

**katemoir** · 27 June 2013, 01:56 PM

I know many of you were surprised when we launched Photo & Graphic Designer 9 without Pro X9. Well, we have another surprise for you – we’ve just announced a completely new product in the Xara range, Xara Page & Layout Designer. As the name implies it draws together the text and page layout features from existing Designer products, combines them with some new DTP type features and templates, adds in some of the drawing and photo tools to create a Designer product optimized for any type of print document creation. We’re planning to launch this next week, but you can already find out all about the new product on the Xara site @ http://www.xara.com/page-layout-designer/

It remains the case that Designer Pro is our top of the range, so v9 it will get all the features of Page & Layout Designer. So if you are a Designer Pro owner you might want to hurry along to Gary Priester’s ‘Quick Look at Page & Layout Designer’ on the Xara Xone @ http://xaraxone.magix.net/PLD/index.htm where you’ll be able to deduce some more of the new features you can expect in Pro X9, which will be arriving very soon!

**xtom** · 27 June 2013, 02:46 PM

I guess this means pro is probably another few weeks away at least. I'm mostly interested in the new web stuff from web designer but the new dtp and print document features will be nice to have too. Will pro have any exclusive new features up it's sleve?

**katemoir** · 27 June 2013, 02:56 PM

You will find out the answer to that fairly soon - it's less than a few weeks, but more than a cup of tea away!

**ad1066** · 27 June 2013, 02:58 PM

I'm incredibly excited for XDP9. If checking the features on this will give a good idea of what to expect from DTP features in Pro, then great.

-- Ben

**jyoung** · 27 June 2013, 03:18 PM

Thanks Kate. Now it makes sense. Good job. Look out indesign

**Scotty** · 27 June 2013, 03:32 PM

Is the new product 64Bit compatible? or still 32Bit?
Jim

**PeteS** · 27 June 2013, 04:02 PM

Page & Layout Designer will be available as a 32 bit program, which of course will install on a 64 bit operating system as well as a 32 bit operating system.

**Scotty** · 27 June 2013, 04:53 PM

Hi,
But will it recognize a 64Bit system full memory...or just the 4Gb that a 32Bit system recognizes
Jim

**PeteS** · 27 June 2013, 05:05 PM

As with all 32 bit programs it cannot access the full address space of a 64 bit system and will be limited to the ~3GB a 32 bit program is limited to.

**olledahl** · 27 June 2013, 05:07 PM

Originally Posted by katemoir

I know many of you were surprised when we launched Photo & Graphic Designer 9 without Pro X9. Well, we have another surprise for you – we’ve just announced a completely new product in the Xara range, Xara Page & Layout Designer. As the name implies it draws together the text and page layout features from existing Designer products, combines them with some new DTP type features and templates, adds in some of the drawing and photo tools to create a Designer product optimized for any type of print document creation. We’re planning to launch this next week, but you can already find out all about the new product on the Xara site @ http://www.xara.com/page-layout-designer/

It remains the case that Designer Pro is our top of the range, so v9 it will get all the features of Page & Layout Designer. So if you are a Designer Pro owner you might want to hurry along to Gary Priester’s ‘Quick Look at Page & Layout Designer’ on the Xara Xone @ http://xaraxone.magix.net/PLD/index.htm where you’ll be able to deduce some more of the new features you can expect in Pro X9, which will be arriving very soon!

This sounds great!
However, I would like to know if this is a useful product for me as I am working on a book with over 550 pages including photos, sketches, folded pages and more.
I am not a "friend" of InDesign 5, so if this could be useful for me I'd wait for XDP 9 or buy Xara Page & Layout Designer.

/Olle in Sweden
User of Xara since 1997