Xara Xtreme LX was an early open source version for Linux.
[3] The first version, developed for Microsoft Windows was initially called Xara Studio.
It was licensed to Corel Corporation before wide-scale public availability, and from 1995 to 2000 was released as CorelXARA.
[11] 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.
[24] Xara Photo & Graphic Designer is known for its usability and fast renderer.
[25][26] It provides a fully anti-aliased display, advanced gradient fill, and transparency tools.
Among vector editors, Xara Photo & Graphic Designer is considered to be fairly easy to learn, with similarities to CorelDRAW and Inkscape in terms of interface.