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Xara Photo & Graphic Designer is an image editing program incorporating photo editing and vector illustration tools created by the British software company Xara, which was acquired by German company MAGIX AG in 2007, and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary. Xara Xtreme LX was an earlier open source version for Linux. The Windows version was previously sold under the names Xara Studio, Xara X and Xara Xtreme, and traces its origin in the late 1980s to a title called ArtWorks for the Acorn Archimedes line of computers using RISC OS. There is a pro version called Xara Designer Pro (formerly Xara Xtreme Pro). The current commercial version of Xara Photo & Graphic Designer runs only on Windows. Versions up to 4.x can be run on Linux using Wine. == History == * ArtWorks, the predecessor of Xara Photo & Graphic Designer, was developed on the Acorn Archimedes and Risc PC 32-bit RISC computers running RISC OS by Computer Concepts Ltd in the late 1980s. * The first version developed for Microsoft Windows was initially called Xara Studio, but before wide-scale public availability it was licensed to Corel Corporation, and from 1995 to 2000 was released as CorelXARA. Corel ceded the licensing rights back to Xara in 2000. * The first version under the name Xara X was released in 2000 directly by its original owner. * In 2004, the next version, Xara X¹, was released. * Xara Xtreme was released in 2005. * In October 2005, The Xara Group, Ltd. announced 〔 plans to open the source of Xara Xtreme under the GPL and to seek community help in porting it over to Linux and Mac OS X. * In November 2006, an enhanced version of Xara Xtreme, Xara Xtreme PRO, was released. * In May 2007, Xara Xtreme 3.2 and Xtreme Pro 3.2 were released. 3.2 Pro included Xara3D and both versions offered more robust typography features.〔(History of Xara up until version 3.2 (2007) )〕 * In April 2008, Xara Xtreme 4.0 was released. Major features include extended text-area handling, tighter integration of bitmap handling and HTML export. * In June 2009, Xara Xtreme and Xara Xtreme Pro 5.1 were released. Features included more text-area enhancements, content-aware scaling of bitmap images, improved file import and export, Master page (repeated) objects, an Object Gallery (replacing the Layer Gallery), website creation tools, and multi-stage graduated transparency. * In June 2010, Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6 and Xara Designer Pro 6 were released. Xtreme was renamed to Photo & Graphic Designer and Xtreme Pro was renamed to Designer Pro.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Two New Releases )〕 * In May 2011, Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 7 and Xara Designer Pro 7 were released.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Xara Photo & Graphic Designer and Designer Pro 7 )〕 Features included 'magic' photo erase, user interface improvements to docking galleries and snapping alignment and (in Pro) new web page and website design features. * In May 2012, Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 2013 and Xara Designer Pro X (v8) were released. * In May 2013, Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 9 was released.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.xara.com/press/2013-05-21/ )〕 * In July 2013, Xara Designer Pro X9 was released.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.xara.com/press/2013-07-09// )〕 New or upgraded tools for photo healing, background erase and masking. Special effects plugins. Web authoring gets improved tools for background handling, embedding of fonts and handling of high-res images for high resolution displays on mobile units. Page layout tools now have support for Google fonts, automatic end-of-document page creation, multi-column text boxes, web documents and import of docx-files. * In July 2014 (16 July) Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 10 was released 〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://xaragroup.magix.net/PGD10releasenotes/ )〕 and (23 July) Xara Designer Pro X10 was released.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.xara.com/us/press/2014-07-23/ )〕 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://xaragroup.magix.net/Pro10releasenotes/ )〕 * In June 2015 (29 June) Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 11 was released.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.xara.com/us/press/2015-06-29/ )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Xara Photo & Graphic Designer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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