Development History
- The predecessor of Xara Photo & Graphic Designer, called ArtWorks, was developed on the Acorn Archimedes and Risc PC 32-bit RISC computers running RISC OS by Computer Concepts Ltd. Artworks for RISC OS is now controlled and actively developed by Martin Wuerthner of MW Software.
- 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.
- 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.
- In May 2011, Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 7 and Xara Designer Pro 7 were released. 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.
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