What's Under Development
Xara LX is work in progress, so not everything is functional yet. Consequently, areas of this temporary help guide will refer to tools and functions that aren't currently functional. This page gives a quick overview of the main working and non-working parts of the program. Click here to see a more complete list of working features listed on our web site.
Please report any bugs you find as described here. Remember that this help describes all the Xara Xtreme features, some of which are not yet enabled in Xara LX. Therefore please don’t report missing features as bugs.
Save/Load
Save and load are both fully working, but It is not possible to drag and drop XAR files from an external file browser into LX to open them.
Tools
All the major tools work, but some are limited in their functionality. Profile controls are not working in the transparency tool, feather tool, etc. There’s also no support for brushes currently. And there is no Live Effects tool or Xara Picture Editor (XPE).
Export
JPEG and PNG are the only export formats currently available. No previews are shown in the export dialog when exporting.
Import
JPEG, GIF and PNG are the only import formats currently supported.
Galleries
The only galleries available are the color, bitmap and layer galleries. There is no clipart gallery yet - see /usr/share/xaralx/Examples for some example designs supplied with Xara LX.
Color Editing
Colors can be edited by clicking on or dragging from the color line at the bottom of the Xara LX window. Also the color editor works, allowing finer control over colors. However the advanced forms of the Xtreme color picker are not yet available in LX and neither is the 'eye-dropper’ that enables color sampling.
UI and Docking
Xara LX uses a completely different window docking mechanism to Xtreme and it is not yet to the required standard. It will be improved soon.
Printing
No printing is available yet, and no support for separations.
Document info
The document info dialog is not working yet.
Movies/updates
The mechanisms for downloading of movies, update of the program etc. are not available yet.