Hi All.
I'm thinking of upgrading my Xara Xtreme 2.
I was wondering when you think Xara Xtreme 6 will come out.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
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Hi All.
I'm thinking of upgrading my Xara Xtreme 2.
I was wondering when you think Xara Xtreme 6 will come out.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Typically Xara announce new versions of their software in the 2nd quarter.
Hi Amitai,
Xara released Xtreme 5 and Xtreme Pro 5 in Jun of last year. You can see their major announcements for the past 5 years at:
http://www.xara.com/us/press/
Thanks.
I hope they will have a new version out in the next few months...
The latest Xara Outsider promises a big announcement next month
Well, Xtreme 6 would be nice.. they should shoot it in in 2-3 months, not more because I guess people will want to buy either Corel X5 or Photoshop CS5.. and If one buys one of the two, then Xtreme 6 will probably be out of question..
I hope they don't make just some minor changes like they did with 5...
You have got the CDs in the mail yet?
What?
I have supported Xara for the last 10 years buying all the upgrades etc. I just hope in this next version they put some development effort back in the vector tools.
The Xara Outsider specifically references "web designers", so whatever the announcement is, it seem unlikely to be new vector tools...
From: http://www.xara.com/us/outsider/march10/
"Web Designers amongst you might want to sign up to one of our instant news services (see under Other News) to ensure you catch some Big News as it happens... before the next Outsider."
It could be that they are releasing a new version of Web Designer first, and perhaps a new version of Xtreme is coming later, so there could still be some hope for Xtreme.
Personally I would hope that if they still plan on continuing to Market Web Designer and release Web Designer 6 that they would release Xtreme 6 at the same time with all the new Web Designer features included and hopefully with some new vector tools.
I would hate to have to jump back and forth between applications like I had to do before Web Designer features were added to Xtreme 5.
I realize that there is another tread asking for leaner version of Xtreme but I like having everything in one application.
sledger not to take into account that I don't know Australian Dollars and their position to Euro/USD, price here may mean something good.. but it can mean something bad - not enough changes in Xtreme 6 could lead to people wanting to save for CS5/X5 - I am among such people.. and I'm waiting for Xara's move...
I agree with BQ, I like having everything in one program. I can design our weekly publication, layout the ads, do illustrations, make updates to my website and more all in the same program and with Xtreme speed:D
I'm saving my money for the next version of Xtreme
Now, that is the main point, I think we'll all agree! That, before everything else. You can have the kitchen sink in there (XXt) but 1) don't bog down the menu system and ui with unwanted (for some) feature (let people customize what they see/access), and 2) keep it fast fast fast. THEN, no one will mind that it does too much... :D
I had to use Adobe recently, briefly, and wow, the sludge and complicated dialogs, and this is CS4. Too many features, too many boxes and steps, and molasses.
But CS5 is coming out in April. I hope Xara will kick some you-know-what with X6, and they've done their competitive intelligence properly.
So Web Designer 6 was released. Now we know what Xara meant in their hint to web designers. I hope Xtreme 6 will also come out soon...
Something else that could come in useful - now that Xtreme is getting more text-handling facilities, would be an Ifilter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFilter) so that the inbuilt search in Windows Vista and 7 (and the Desktop Search tool for XP) could index text in Xara files.
It's by no means a huge issue, but with a growing collection of booklets, concert programmes and so forth, being able to search their contents would be handy.
Stephen
I'm not an 'Adobe Fan' but this comparision is simply wrong.
Adobe CS4 contains 14+ programs total.
$3,000.00 AUD / 14 = $214 AUD each
+1 on the hope for new vector tools! And some attention to brushes!
I haven't bought a new copy since 3. Main reason for not upgrading is the slow speed at which vector tools are developed. I've requested true pressure sensitivity for ages, but the folks at Gaddesden seem more focussed on bitmap editing and web design. Sigh... And now I'm locked in with Illustrator (and there's a lot over there since CS4 in terms of speed and flexibility) but I still long for the fluidness of Xtreme and the clean uncluttered interface of Xara. (AND DON'T GO TOO FAR WITH THE GUI! XPE is far beyond my taste)
So, if there's good support for pressure sensitive tablets (Wacom, TabletPC) i'll step up the bandwagon again.
I will probably update it's now something I just do but I am getting near to saying if they don't deal with the brushes (i.e. as in Illustrator) I will not do it any more. Having said that Xara seems to listen to the gripes from PDF support up to the spell checker and I could name many more instances where this has happened.
I would more or less upgrade 'unseen' assuming it to be as good, or better than the last release. I just hope that with the new owners influencing things Xara is not going to start making 'less' of a great product in pursuit of greater sales among the template modification brigade who are after good looking results with minimum effort on their part.
I'm fairly indiferent to the colour of the UI, in fact I now actually prefer the new darker colour, just so long as the program itself dosen't get dumbed down.
Derek
Perhaps certain "features" could only load when needed, like live effects or bitmap editing do? Even better would be the option to set what loads as default at startup and what will be loaded "as needed".
No doubt this is too fanciful an idea, but I am a little concerned that Xtreme is moving away from the program I initially wanted, rather than closer to it. There are many users happy with the direction of development, but it is clear that large numbers here have been and are still asking for more focus on vector drawing.
The objects gallery was a good step forward, now can we bring the other galleries up to date? They are like something out of a time-warp. Drag and drop to add to clip art would be ideal, but, failing that, what about a "save as clip art option" on the file menu? How difficult would it be to have an option to use an icon driven interface for the alignment and distribution palette? Being able to assign hot-keys to line shapes would be fantastic, at least for me, as would an interactive line-width adjustment. By that I mean simply pressing and holding a key and using the mouse wheel to scroll through line-widths (yes I know how to scroll line widths now, it is just not worth using as it is -too clunky). I know we will not get a dedicated macro recorder, but I had to mention it anyway.
Having had my whinge, Xtreme is still the fastest and easiest vector drawing program around and I'll keep using it until something better comes along.
I really like the idea of being able to drag an image to the folders in the Designs gallery! I have a set of custom folders that I have created, and it would make a big improvement to my work flow. One thing I would like to add though would be a dialogue that would allow us to set the file format. Then if you are doing a website you could create your banners, and logos and any other images you need and simply drag them to a folder in the Designs gallery then the dialogue would pop up and give you the option of saving as a .xar or jpeg or png.
I totally agree with Albacore the brushes really need some attention.
Don't forget XXP can be used for basic DTP! Now that takes us up to 5!
349.00/5= 69.80
And a basic animations so it's probably sums up to 6? ;)
just out of curiosity I had a look at CS4 pricing..
looks like that version (master ed.) is even more expensive than mentioned - not just a couple of hundred either.. nearly A$1,500 more! ouch!
Don't go kidding yourselves that Xtreme has even close to the featureset of between 4 and 6 components of Adobe's CS4 suites.
True, but remember that most of us don't need the entire 10+GB span of features in all of the Adobe apps.
Unfortunately, what we do need from Adobe is spread out around lots of apps - result : the need to purchase a very expensive bulging suite of software taking up a lot of space and with a complicated workflow to do what could have been satisfied by a surprisingly capable, well written program for a fraction of the cost.
+1.
Xara adds fantastic value to CS4 to me - but it's not a replacement for CS4.
CS4 is an amazing product, from video creation, special FX (After FX), Photoshop, Professional DVD authoring, Print post production.
In my work chain, Xara is tool #1, then further CS4.
But again, it's not for everyone. On a different topic, I think Adobe would have been better off buying Xara than Magix.
Back to the topic: Is there a release date for Xara6?
Well maybe some competition is good ;) No way Adobe would have dumped Xara.
Let's hope your optimism isn't put to the test :D