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Title	Price	Code	Purchase
Xara Xtreme Pro Academic	195.00	xara_xxp
Xara Xtreme Pro Retail	299.00	xara_xxpr

Academic Licences: 10 or more users (each)
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Prices in NZ dollars. Excludes GST (NZ only) and freight
# of licences	10+	20+	40+	80+
Xara Xtreme Pro Academic	132.00	114.00	99.00	81.00

Xara Xtreme Pro is the ultimate vector illustration tool, ideal for both print and the web.

Xtreme's industry leading rendering engine enables photo-realistic vector illustration. Xara Xtreme Pro introduces new features requested by our growing base of professional users, who already value the versatility, performance and productivity of Xtreme. Pro features include for example PDF/X support and PSD file compatibility, color separation and PANTONE® support, multi-page capability and simple animated Flash creation. The integrated XPE photo tool has also been enhanced with the addition of a photo levels plugin.

What's new in Xara Xtreme Pro

Animated Flash export

Xtreme Pro brings one of the easiest ways to produce really efficient Flash animations.

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 these tools. 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.

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 compact Flash 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 areas

Linked flowing text stories across text areas and pages (including text stories flowing from any to any page, even backwards).

Word and character count of text stories

This brings Xtreme well into the Desk Top Publishing arena. Along with the lightning fast screen update, Xtreme is now perfect for producing documents such as brochures and flyers.

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.
•	Spot color support

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 import

Xara 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).

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/X support 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.

PANTONE® color support

Xtreme Pro includes PANTONE® color libraries for use as both spot color and PANTONE® process color equivalents.

Levels control

• For the advanced user the Xara Picture Editor (integrated into Xtreme) now includes a Levels control to adjust brightness levels of images. This single control offers: • Histogram view of the brightness levels of the image • Control over input black, white and gamma and output black and white levels. These controls provide a far more powerful way of adjusting brightness, contrast and gamma than the traditional simple brightness and contrast controls. • Single click before and after compare • Color correction e.g. to adjust for a color cast from using the wrong white balance settings • Overlaid before and after histograms. As you adjust the levels you can see the original and the modified histogram.

Short cut key configuration

Xtreme Pro now includes a bundled utility that allows users to configure the Xtreme key shortcuts to most features and functions.

Many other improvements and fixes requested by existing owners of Xtreme

• •	Name gallery improvements - Improved so that it shows more detail on the fonts used in a document, using the full font name as shown in the font gallery. It also shows variations of a font as a separate selectable font name, as well as the font family (e.g. "Arial Bold", "Arial Italic", "Arial Regular"). It shows at a glance which fonts have had to be synthesized and which are not installed.
  •	Improved clipboard compatibility with MS Office and other applications - e.g. You can just copy and paste direct into Outlook and it embeds a JPEG
  •	Print dialog completely re-designed
  •	Document Info dialog improved
  •	Error handling improved so that in the event of a program crash you’ll normally get the chance to continue and save your work
  •	Automatic zoom out when importing photos, so the whole image is instantly visible
  •	New '100% zoom' operation added to zoom toolbar and key short-cut of Ctrl+Shift+1
  •	Improved support for using Xtreme with multiple monitors
  •	Improved support for accented characters, Unicode and non US keyboards
  •	Frame (animation) gallery order reversed, so it now shows first frame at the top
  •	Line width now shown in pix if the page unit is Pix
  •	The main toolbar should automatically show small icons on small screens
  •	Dragging a file onto the title bar no longer opens MDI windows
  •	Copy / Paste attributes on text now works more reliably. You can more easily create 'text styles' using small snippets of text.
  •	New option in Grid & Ruler to allow the ruler origin to be top left and coordinate values to increase downwards
  •	Improved compatibility withMicrosoft Windows Vista
  •	And the most significant feature improvements of the lot - the caret in the text tool now blinks!

  
  Plus there have been dozens of smaller fixes.
  
  As some of you may realise, most of these smaller improvements have been requested on the TalkGraphics forums. For the day-to-day user they are significant improvements.