If you don't want to use the Autopackage provided, download one of the tar files instead and unpack it using the following tar command (the archive is bzip2 compressed):. Tar Archive Installation Instructions on Linux on 32 bit x86 architecture (i.e. Click here for a long list of it's current capabilities. Xara Xtreme on Linux is now close to having all the features of the Windows version. This comparison, using the Windows versions of Xara Xtreme and Illustrator CS2 illustrate the relative speed of both products. We don't believe Cairo or GDI+ support graduated transparency separate from the graduated fill (important for many graphic designs), but Adobe Illustrator, and PDF 1.4 do (as does Quartz on the Mac). More complex polygon rendering involving graduated colour fills and graduated transparency show even greater advantages. Tests performed on identical bezier shapes on the same machine calling the rendering engines directly. These tests were using the platform portable C version of the Xara rendering engine. Performance is directly related to productivity (less waiting around) and also enables more rich, more complex designs to be created more easily. In graphics software, performance matters.

This is partly due to using the world's fastest vector rendering engine and partly due to the inherent Xara X architecture. Xara Xtreme is the world's fastest vector drawing program, by a huge margin.

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