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The assertion that OS X is "more stable" than Windows is subjective and generalised to the point that it's not useful information. But you'll always get people who say it.

I currently use Windows...

I've found this little (free) program to be quite good for stringing a bunch of PDFs together into one document:

http://www.ujihara.jp/ConcatPDF/

In fact, this is not correct. You can charge as much money as you want for GPL software. But as you have to distribute the source code, charging is a bit pointless.
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Xtreme is a disappointment and I won't be upgrading. It's not a complete disappointment because there are two or three nice features about the new release. But I use Xara pretty much only for vector...

Hmmmm. I just keep thinking about projects like Gobe Productive, Mozilla, Interbase, Ingres et al. Here's an interesting post:...

This is certainly a novel step to take, and as a Xara user and open-source supporter I hope it works out. But I've seen several products that can't compete in the marketplace (not always because...

Great tip.

What X1 ought to have (add it to the mile-long request list...) is a checkbox that says "Don't ask me this again" like Macromedia et al

To be honest, I disagree with the idea that Xara should be made into "the only vector application a professional will ever need". If you want a professional vector app that does everything plus the...

Agreed. I know several "average" users who use Xara to design posters for their business and the like. Now it's only a short step from that to designing a brochure, so naturally they look to Xara...

I don't use Xara for:

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<LI>Bitmap work. XPE just isn't that great, sorry. It hasn't lived up to promises/expectations, and is unlikely to ever compete with PSP/PS/GIMP/etc unless...

exactly like that http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

thanks!

Pretty much what the title says http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

I'd like to be able to wrap text round a cylinder so that viewed from the front the middle letters look normal,...

Yawn @ anti-Windows FUD.

Keep-it looks interesting though. Thanks for the link.

Anything below Win2k and I'd agree. But I use XP and we have Win2k3 on all our servers. They get rebooted about once a month for scheduled maintenance, which is pretty good. And they run...

Actually, we run Subversion+Apache just fine on Windows at work http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

It's open source, which is the good bit http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

Subversion is a version control system designed for use on development projects, but also with quite a bit of applicability for documents, drawings etc. Basically it implements a versioned repository...

Or you could just put everything into version control using something like Subversion, which is what I do.

It's actually easier than it sounds, and allows you to go back to any previous snapshot...

I'm a huge fan of the uncluttered workspace. But I do think tabs would be handy. I quite often have several documents on the go at once and it's a bit of a pain to have to use the "Window" menu -...

Thanks Jens

Out of interest, using the GNUPlot option still wasn't perfect but it brought colours over well, while ps2ai brought all the shapes over but not the colours! A combination of both...

Thanks all for your thoughts. I don't have access to any other drawing applications so I tried the AI export route from GS. It worked kind of, but didn't seem to bring colours across.

I had to do...

I have created a printer using the generic Adobe driver which I use to create EPS files. These get created fine and I can view them in GSView. However I cannot import them into Xara. Does anyone know...

I have created a printer using the generic Adobe driver which I use to create EPS files. These get created fine and I can view them in GSView. However I cannot import them into Xara. Does anyone know...

Coming in a bit late on this one, but Adobe Photoshop Album is the best I've seen for managing large numbers of thumbnailed photos (and this is coming from a huge fan of Irfanview). The starter...

Hmmmm. I get the same problem with John's logo printing to my HP LaserJet with a PCL driver. But interestingly if I print to a PDF file it comes out a-ok! And of course the PDF prints fine...
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