Berlin, Germany -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/13/2011 -- Xara Ltd today announced that Xara Designer Pro has been selected in the About.com 2011 Readers' Choice Awards in three categories as Best for Graphic Designers, Best for Business Professionals and Best for Personal Projects.

Now in its fourth year, the About.com Readers' Choice Awards honor the best products, features and services across more than a dozen categories, ranging from technology to hobbies to parenting and more, as selected by its readers.

"This year's Readers' Choice Awards program had a record number of nominations submitted across more than a dozen categories and featured hundreds of finalists," said Margot Weiss, managing editor, About.com. "We are thankful to all our readers for their participation and congratulate Xara Designer Pro on their success."

“We are delighted with the triple awards” said Charles Moir, Managing Director, Xara Ltd. “Xara Designer Pro offers a single application for every type of creative or artistic document. It has world-class PDF support, and it's one of the best tools for web graphics. Xara Designer Pro provides the most flexible page layout of any web authoring product. It offers website creation for designers, not programmers."  Xara Designer Pro is one super-fast, easy-to-use program that does it all – fast and efficiently.”

Why Xara Designer?

One of the unique points is that Xara Designer Pro offers a fast, single application for every type of creative or artistic document creation. Instead of requiring three or more separate programs to edit photos, or create web graphics, illustrations, or page layouts,

Faster & More Powerful

Xara Designer Pro is the world's highest performing graphics software title - by a large margin. Its speed enables more complex and realistic graphics to be created more easily and in less time.

Professional Features

Xara Designer Pro is ideal for any graphics enthusiast, small company or academic user that requires a single general purpose photo and graphics design tool. It incorporates website design features, plus support for tools that might typically be required by professional designers such as PANTONE®, CMYK colors, color separations and PDF/X. It also supports multiple processors for even faster performance.

To view the Xara Designer Pro award please visit  awards.about.com. To view Xara Designer Pro please visit xara.com/products/designer