Page & Layout Designer 9 Datasheet - Xara

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Page & Layout Designer is a great choice for all your DTP and
document creation needs.
Page & Layout Designer combines all the text and page layout
features of typical word processor and DTP packages with the
image editing power of our illustration and photo editing tools,
based on decades of experience creating graphic design
products. The result is a fully integrated, flexible and powerful
'Document Processor' that can be used to create all the
documents you need for your home or business.
• Business cards • Flyers • Brochures • Posters • Adverts •
Business stationery (letterheads, compliments slips, invoices,
statements) • Menus • Logos • Price lists • Greetings Cards •
Certificates & awards • Newsletters • Invitations • Scrapbooks
• Web documents • Reports
Powerful text handling
Page & Layout Designer offers everything you need for
manipulating text.
You can enter your text at any angle and you can also set your
text along a curved path. Additionally, just like any drawn object
in Page & Layout Designer, you can freely resize it on the page,
and produce creative display text by applying any of the effects,
such as transparency, fills, molds and so on - and yet the text
remains editable.
Like any word processing program, you have full control over
the text style and format - you can change the font, size, color
and justification of the text, alter the line spacing, tracking and
kerning, and have bold, italic, superscript, subscript or
strikethrough. You also have full control over indents and tabs
and you can easily create bulleted or numbered lists (with your
own custom bullets & numbers if you wish).
your solution for professional
print documents
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Text can be entered as stand alone single words or lines at any
place in the document, or in single or multiple columns with
advanced text flow controls between the columns, and with
formatting controls such as column and page breaks.
And there's an added bonus; Xara's advanced screen rendering
makes the on-screen text a more accuratere representation of
the final print result, especially at small sizes or rotated.
HIGHLIGHTS
• Integrated multi-language spell check • Text styles • Direct
support for 600+ Google fonts • Easy embedding and
anchoring of graphics in the text
Flexible & intuitive page handling
Page & Layout Designer offers everything you need for
professional DTP, combining advanced text controls with flexible
page layout features such as drag and drop editing of images
and automatic text flow around objects. It adds up to complete
design freedom for all your page design work!
Page & Layout Designer is great for single page designs such as
business cards or adverts, but it can also handle more complex
multi-column, multi-page documents with ease, with automatic
flow onto new pages, automatic page numbering, single page
or cross-document control of headers & footers, and very
flexible controls over text flow between columns. With multicolumn
layouts you can switch column count and customize
columns individually, have a common multi-column layout
throughout the document or individually designed pages. And
you can have single page or seamless double page spreads
supporting across-the-spread graphics.
HIGHLIGHTS
• Magic Snap makes aligning objects easy • Automatic text
flow around objects • Page & Layer Gallery for easy
management of your document
Integrated drawing & photo tools
For any document, laying out your text professionally is just half
the battle. To present ideas or businesses successfully you also
need images that create a professional impression. The image
editing features in Page & Layout Designer allow you to do
exactly that, quickly and easily.
With the fully integrated photo tool you can easily crop your
photo and adjust brightness, contrast, color temperature,
saturation and sharpness, so you can transform your photos in
no time at all, either manually or with the 1 click autooptimization.
Page & Layout Designer offers all the tools you need to create
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your own graphics and illustrations for your document. These
are taken from Xara's award winning illustration products, which
means they’re among the best in the industry - including
freehand and shape drawing tools and powerful tools for
creative effects such as bevel, shadow, mold, transparency, 3D
and color fills.
HIGHLIGHTS
• Non destructive photo editing • Small file sizes • Fully
integrated award winning illustration and design tools
your solution for professional
print documents
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For commercial printing Page & Layout Designer includes
PANTONE® color libraries for use as both spot color and
PANTONE process color equivalents. It also offers the ability to
produce CMYK color separations.
HIGHLIGHTS
• PDF import and export and basic PDF editing • PDF/X export
for commercial print • Import and export of Word documents
(beta) • PANTONE & color separations
Speed
Page & Layout Designer is based on the world's highest
performing graphics software—by a huge margin. It’s a
massive advantage when you’re dealing with large photos,
complex illustrations or long documents.
Why Choose Page & Layout Designer
Web Documents
Page & Layout Designer is the first DTP program that enables
you to publish a perfectly accurate WYSIWYG web version of
your print documents, compatible with all modern web
browsers, phones and tablets, no plug-ins required.
By producing a completely accurate paginated 'long document'
phone and tablet users can quickly swipe through all the pages.
If you want to share documents with friends, colleagues or
customers, confident that they’ll see an accurate copy of your
document, you no longer need to create and send PDFs - you
can just publish to the web (free hosting included).
Templates
Page & Layout Designer offers all the tools you need to create
your documents from scratch, but it is also packed with readymade,
fully customizable templates to suit all your business
needs, allowing you to quickly create professional looking
documents. Templates including stationery sets, brochures, flyers
and newsletters, cards & invitations.
Compatibility with industry standards
Page & Layout Designer offers comprehensive support for
industry standard import and export formats, so you can import
existing graphics and documents.
This includes RTF (Rich Text Format) and (beta) import and
export of Microsoft Word (.docx), plus all the common bitmap
graphics formats such as GIF, JPEG, PNG and PSD, and key
vector types like PDF, EMF, WMF and SVG.
• Everything you need to create all your documents in a single
package
• Intuitive drag & drop editing of photos & illustrations makes
page layout a snip
• Total control over the appearance and format of the text
• Extremely flexible and easy to understand text column and
page controls
• Fully integrated top quality photo editing and illustration tools
• Lots of clever, time and effort saving tricks such as text flow
around objects, text panels that automatically expand as you
enter text, and one click changing of document wide theme
colors.
• Unique ability to publish long documents to the web for easy
viewing and sharing
• Based on Xara’s ultra-fast graphics engine, invaluable when
you’re handling long documents with lots of photos and
illustrations
• Hundreds of professionally designed fully customizable
templates.
Content/ System Requirements / Pricing
The Xara Page & Layout Designer 9 software • tutorial movies •
3000+ templates/clipart & photo clipart • 200 photographs
and 500 fill textures • 250 free fonts in TrueType and PostScript
(Type 1) formats.
Price: $89.99 (+ VAT @ 20% in Europe).
Download version, an optional backup CD
can be added for $10
• Microsoft® Windows® XP/Vista®/7/8
• Minimum 500 MB RAM
• Minimum 300 MB available hard disk
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