Adds a new dimension of creativity to Xara Webster. Webster 2 has a powerful selection of drawing tools so that users can create their own artwork rather than simply importing ready-made graphics - Webster 2 is now a powerful drawing and illustration tool in it's own right. Other new features include the ability to create clickable image maps and HTML tags, and a bitmap preview facility. There are major improvements in the GIF animation tools, the colour handling and additonal fill and transparency types as well as the new clip-art and fonts.
Xara Webster 2 can normally be purchased over the Internet from the Xara site for $49 + VAT (that's currently about £35 inc) or as an upgrade for owners of Webster 1 for $25 + VAT (about £18 inc). Readers of What PC? can buy a full copy of Webster 2 at the upgrade price over the phone or on-line from the XaraClub - just run the demo version of Webster 2, press the Purchase button on start and follow the instructions (or go to the special PCW offer page at:
A Webster 2 CD with the program, tutorial movies, clip-art collection, selection of TrueType fonts, screensaver etc will also be sent in the post. Xara Webster runs under Win 95 or NT 4.0
Xara Webster 2.0 gives you unparalleled power to create top-quality Web graphics - every time.
Create your own bullets, buttons and headings, or import clip-art, drawings & images from your existing graphics program or the massive Xara professional clip-art library. Xara Webster will then output super-smooth GIFs and JPEGs for the Web, or compact, eye-catching animated GIFs.
What makes Xara Webster so special is that it is vector-based, allowing the clip-art to be edited, scaled, rotated and moved around with no loss of quality. Xara Webster employs sophisticated anti-aliasing and dithering techniques to ensure that your Web graphics look smooth and professional.
Xara Webster is an essential tool for Web designers using Windows 95 or NT 4. It's a vector graphics package that allows you to create the highest quality Web graphics, exporting not just the traditional GIF and JPEG formats, but new emerging formats like PNG and Xara's Web format. It will import vector and bitmap clip-art from a wide range of formats - from EPS to BMP - allowing you to manipulate and add to existing clip-art as well as to create your own from scratch.
Xara Webster makes use of some of the unique technology developed for CorelXARA (the 'big brother' of Xara Webster, a professional graphic design package which includes more powerful editing tools and full printing options) such as real-time anti-aliasing, dithering, color reduction, powerful transparency control. All of this means that it can produce images with superb on-screen quality, and export the best possible bitmaps for the Web.
