-
Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
Hi all.
We have just launched Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6.
Xara Xtreme has had a major makeover as well as a name change.
Xara Xtreme becomes Xara Photo & Graphic Designer.
Xara Xtreme Pro becomes Xara Designer Pro.
In addition to a new look, both versions contain a variety of enhancements and new features. Additional information is available from the website as well as the support site
Many thanks
Xara team
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
A lot of hard work and creativity has gone into this release and it merits the new name, the new logo, and the new interface.
Kudos to the entire design and programming team.
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
Thank you to the Xara Team. Definitely a lot of nice new features and enhancements in the new version. Good job everyone.
Eric
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
I am still working my way through the printed off release notes
I have also checked through Gary's introduction
the only thing I have looked at closely are the new drawing functions - these I like
initial impressions very positive
thanks from me too - it does look like a very nice release from my viewpoint
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
Great work Ex-Xtreme Xara Team!
I miss the word Xtreme :(.
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
Very good work. Thanks, guys!!!
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
Hi,
A great thanks to Xara's programming crew a job well done!
JimM
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
Well done Guys! :-bd I suppose the "Xtreme" name is a bit old-hat nowadays sadly
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
Wow!!! Seems you guys were listening... Iīve just discovered this (and itīs not listed in the release notes as far as i can see):
I can now drag more than one object at a time between layers!!!
THANK YOU very much :)
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
Have you tried the Solo Mode as well? Click on the S icon and you see just what is on that layer.
You can also drag down the S icons and scroll through the layers.
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
minor panic - pressing the escape key with nothing selected restores not only line color to default [black] but line weight too [0.5pt]
fortunately AutoDeselectFreehand still seems to work fine [registry] :nerd:
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
Quote:
Originally Posted by
gwpriester
Have you tried the Solo Mode as well? Click on the S icon and you see just what is on that layer.
You can also drag down the S icons and scroll through the layers.
Yes, Gary iīve tried it. Love the dynamic soloing mode. All this offers much more control in complex drawings. Would have been great if we could force more than one object to solo mode to perform a boolean operation between two objects in a busy (with lots of objects) area for example... (why am i so picky???)
But itīs much better now :)
I still miss an hyphenation tool for justified text. Since it has a spell checker, great layout tools, a powerfull text engine (with kerning, tracking etc), repeating master objects and a lot more, Xara Designer Pro could be used for some more serious pagination work. An hyphenation tool is fundamental... The people from Magix should miss this too...german has so loooong words, even longer than portuguese.
Maybe in the next version...
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
Well.. first I was shocked at this division into "home & daddy photo edition" and "pro edition" but the discount for upgrade made me to download it and give it a try. Some basic shapes, some simple things and I can't see anything really that new and exciting. Content-aware was and will be useless for me as I'm a bit of a purist when it comes to photos plus there aren't really that many changes.
Unfortunately, as you had promised - a lot of web designer features inside, but none of them are really used by professional designers (XHTML+CSS and CMS designers) unless you want a quick, simple web site (no one serious will develop a really big web site with such tools). I'll stick to my Xtreme 5 as a small, fast tool for petty things. The upgrade price is very nice for old users and I'm giving Magix a big handshake for this one. I won't take the upgrade, though. Like I do with Corel - I'll upgrade every two editions so I get more changes.
Another thing.. today my brand new Design Premium CS5 arrived, so... goodbye, Xara. I might have a look at it next year.
Just out of curiosity - can one switch off this awful black skin into the old one? I've already uninstalled X6 but I was just wondering.
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
You have been trough the trouble of registering in the forum to post this? If itīs that bad a simple uninstall would suffice... The time you wasted writing this could be used to play with your brand new Creative Suite.
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
Bye Davidian ... :'( rotflmao
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
Let us remain civil. Davidian felt it worth his time to post.
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
Just downloaded XDP 6 and have been doing the grande tour ... so far loving it and big kudos to the Xara team!!!
One IMPORTANT question though ... (perhaps a heads up too) ... As part of my experimenting with the new stuff I tried the individual Page Preview (great feature!) but found that in the preview mode my graphics were clipping at the page boundary despite having the 'Disable Page Clipping' tweak in use.
Any suggestions? I have numerous sites that use this feature.
TIA
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
The new drawing tools have made me very happy indeed. Many thanks Xara team
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
Quote:
Originally Posted by
taccom
One IMPORTANT question though ... (perhaps a heads up too) ... As part of my experimenting with the new stuff I tried the individual Page Preview (great feature!) but found that in the preview mode my graphics were clipping at the page boundary despite having the 'Disable Page Clipping' tweak in use.
Any suggestions? I have numerous sites that use this feature.
TIA
The name NoPageClipping should be applied to any object on every page.
Also, please post Web function related issues/question in the Web Designer / Xtreme / Designer Pro forum.
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
Quote:
Originally Posted by
taccom
despite having the 'Disable Page Clipping' tweak in use
The WD5 tweakset is not compatible with WD6 and DP6. You have to use the WD6 tweakset instead.
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
Thanks John ... I'll download the tweak set
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
The Advanced features (non Tweakset) for WD6 can be found in the Talk Web area here:
► http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?t=45105
NoPageClipping isn't a tweak in the set. It's a 'name' you apply to an object.
Again, this is the wrong forum to talk about Web features.
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
Quote:
Originally Posted by
sledger
Thanks Sledger ... Appreciate the assist and direction!!
Cheers
Paul
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
Does anyone know if there is a place where the contents of the design gallery can be downloaded (for those that have purchased the software) or do we need to wait for the CD?
Thanks
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
Quote:
Originally Posted by
bcire68
Does anyone know if there is a place where the contents of the design gallery can be downloaded (for those that have purchased the software) or do we need to wait for the CD?
Thanks
Evidently there isn't.
So, can the themes from XXPro 5 be imported?
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
Looks like Scanning ability and B-spline curve got left out again. I do like the added sketching ability. Could do without all the photos effects since I have Photoshop and other.
Software Junkie here will probably buy the upgrade.
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
'Aquire' is unlikely to be added, scanners are supplied with software to control output destinations, one of which is 'scan to clipboard', many models have a scanner button that can be assigned to this. The new single paste function of version 6 actually makes this scanning workflow quicker than drilling through the file>>aquire ..etc menus.
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
George...
I agree with what Steve said but have a suggestion to add to his explanation. A lot of the software that comes with the scanners has the ability to be configured (or reconfigured) to add or edit the output destination that the scan is sent to when the scanner button is pressed. You can try to edit the current/default destination or add a destination in the software interface so that when the scan is processed it fires up and automatically pastes the image into whatever version of XX, XXP, XP&GD6, or XDP6 you have. I suggest that you at least explore the possibility.
Just two days ago I configured a Fujitsu fi-6130 scanner to launch the Paperport 11 application and save the scan(s) as a multi-page, greyscale image in a PDF file as the default.
IHTH,
Harry
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
there are exceptions to what steve has said, I have one: a mustek A3, and it does not pick up any software directly as suggested by Harry other than photoshop/word/outlook
copy/past into xtreme [from photoshop] usually works ok, but I tend to save all scans as seperate files anyway
agree b-spline would be nice
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
There are certainly some exceptions. For example there are computers that can't even run Xara Designer :(
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
Another year ... another release ... no real new vector drawing tools - just new ways of doing the same thing.
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
one improved tool you can use, is worth far more than several new ones you may not even like ;)
the new brush engine is so good it almost qualifies as a 'new' tool - I would think this was good news for you JA? :cool:
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
Quote:
Originally Posted by
JokeArtist
Another year ... another release ... no real new vector drawing tools - just new ways of doing the same thing.
I have to agree with JokeArtist. Thereīs several very good improvements (being the Page&Layer Gallery one good example) but at itīs core thereīs really nothing new or new forms of producing vector content.
The change in the name only reinforces the target shift of the app.
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
I'm just very pleased with it :) Everything in one solid program (don't have to switch anymore between WD6 and XXP5 while working). I've a lot of trust in the Xara developers by now, so I'm sure in future releases all bugs will be fixed and more smart tools will be added and/or improved.
Thanks a lot Xara !
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
-
Re: Xara Designer Pro 6 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6
Quote:
Originally Posted by
MarciaB
...so I'm sure in future releases all bugs will be fixed and more smart tools will be added and/or improved...
I have grown to sincerely doubt the first part of this statement. I notified Xara of a bug way back in the time of Xtreme 4. It was marked as 'high-priority', and another member has since been told that it would be addressed in 'the next release.' The next release has occurred, and the bug still exists: http://talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?t=42542
Per the new tools, there was once a thread where covoxer insinuated that they would be too hard to add, because they required a complete core rewrite (or something like that). I can't quickly find his post, but that was his insinuation, so I wouldn't hold my breath. The opacity mask tool must not have required a core rewrite.