Import and Export Supported File Formats

You can change the order of supported import and export file formats in the File > Export and File > Import dialogs by editing the FileFormats.xml file found in the program folder where you installed Xara Designer.

 

Import formats

It is important that you use the three letter file extensions listed below when you load files into Xara Designer.

Bitmap Import Formats

.BMP Windows Bitmap

.CUT Halo CUT (256 color)

.DCM Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) image format

.DCX DCX

.FAX Fax image from a fax received or created with fax software

.GIF Graphics Interchange Format

.ICO Microsoft Windows Icon (16 color)

.JPG JPEG

.JP2, .JPX, .J2C, .J2K, .JPF JPEG 2000 image format. An improvement to the standard JPEG format that can compress image files using lossy or lossless compression.

HD Photo

.HPD, .WDP,.JXR Microsoft Photo HD / Windows Media Photo/ import (also known as JPEG XR)

.PBM UNIX monochrome

.PCD PhotoCD

.PCT PICT

.PCX PCX Paintbrush

.PGM UNIX grayscale

.PNG PNG

.PPM UNIX color (up to 24 bit)

.PSD Photoshop (see importing and exporting PSD files)

.RAS Sun Raster

.SGI Silicon Graphics Image

.TGA TrueVision TARGA

.TIF TIFF (RGB, RGBA with alpha-channel transparency & CMYK).

Xara Designer Pro supports: fax TIFF files (black and white images. Multi-page faxes will be imported as multiple pages); Mac or PC byte order TIFF files; TIFF with layers and transparency (if saved from Photoshop the rules for blend mode compatibility are the same as for PSD files); JPEG in TIFF (transparency is not possible in this case).

.XAR Xara's native format

.XBM X Windows (2 color)

.XPM X Windows (256 color)

.WBMP Wireless Bitmap Image. Black and white (1-bit) bitmap image format used by mobile devices.

.WEBP Google WebP

.RAW camera import formats (see RAW photo import for a list of supported file types).

EPS Import Formats

.AI Illustrator EPS

.EPS ArtWorks EPS

.EPS Illustrator EPS

.EPS CorelDRAW 3 & 4 EPS

.EPS FreeHand 3.0 EPS

.EPS Photoshop EPS (For importing data from Photoshop into Xara Designer Pro+, use PSD files instead of EPS files for best results).

.EPS XaraX EPS

Other Import Formats

.ART Xara Studio

.WEB Xara's native web files

.AFF Acorn Draw

.CDR CorelDRAW (3,4 & 5)

.CDT CorelDRAW Template

.CMX Corel CMX 5 & 6

.DRW Acorn Draw

.HTM, .HTML Graphics on HTML pages, HTML files

.PDF (see importing a PDF file) (on page 472)

.WMF Windows Metafile (16bit)

.EMF/ .WMF Enhanced Windows Metafile

.ODP OpenDocument Presentation, Open Office Impress.

.PPTX Powerpoint (Microsoft Office 2007 Onwards)

.DOCX Microsoft Word Document

.RTF Rich Text Format

.SVG Scalable Vector Graphics

.XPS (beta level only)

.IDML Adobe InDesign (Beta)

.WIX For internal use by Xara

Palette Import Formats

.CPL CorelDRAW Palette

.PAL CorelDRAW Palette

.PAL Microsoft Palette

.PAL PaintShop Pro Palette

.ACT Adobe Color Table

.ACO Adobe Color Swatch

For information on how to import palettes, see Importing colors and palettes.

Note: If you attempt to import the following file formats into Designer, an error message is displayed informing you that the movie format is not supported: AVI, DV-AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MXV, MJPEG, QuickTime™, WMV(HD). Click the More Info button to go to a MAGIX web page displaying movie conversion options.

Export formats

Bitmap Export Formats (see GIF, PNG, BMP and JPEG export dialog overview)

.BMP Windows Bitmap

.DCX DCX

.PCX PCX

.GIF CompuServe GIF

.GIF Animated GIF files (see Creating animated GIF files)

.JPG JPEG

.PSD Photoshop (see importing and exporting PSD files)

.PCT PICT

.PNG PNG

.RAS Sun Raster

.TGA TrueVision TARGA

.JP2, .JPX, .J2C, .J2K, .JPF JPEG 2000 image format. An improvement on the standard JPEG format that can compress image files using lossy or lossless compression.

.TIF TIFF (RGB and CMYK)

.WEBP Google WebP

.WBMP Wireless Bitmap Image. Black and white (1-bit) bitmap image format used by mobile devices.

EPS Export Formats

.AI Illustrator EPS

.EPS ArtWorks EPS

.EPS Illustrator EPS

.EPS Xara Xtreme EPS

Other Export Formats

.AVI AVI animation (animation documents)

.XAR CorelXARA

.XAR Xara's native format

.WEB Xara's web file format

.WMF Windows Metafile

.EMF Enhanced Windows Metafile

.CMX Corel CMX 5 & 6

.HTM Image map

.HTM, HTML Complete HTML websites and web pages

.PPTX .PPT Microsoft PowerPoint®

.PDF + PDF/X-4 Portable Document Format, High quality PDF files.

.DOCX Microsoft Word Document

.RTF Rich Text Format

.XPS Microsoft XML Paper Specification

.SVG Internet Scalable Vector Graphics

.WIX For internal use by Xara

 

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