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Hello Lindy,
nice site!

However, I find the jpeg artifacts around the letters on the intro page distracting.

These were indeed my thoughts , too. Not that the website building is not a great asset, but the complete absence of any vector tool improvements for years make it seem like the relevant knowledge...

( Vectors ???? what are vectors ? ;-)
Xara is a photo editor and website program!!! ;-) )

Of course I am rooting for/asking for new vector tools.

Frank,
whatever Black Cipher is supposed to mean, your second last version is really a BOLD one.
For me, that is the ONE.

Corel has obviously enough problems to develop new features that would entice users to upgrade to the latest version already (developing for a single platform). Draw is certainly very usable at the...

Yes, but somehow the Magix version was quite a bit slower for me and also not really stable on WinXP SP2.

Here is a extensive thread:...

These NPR styles are indeed a lot of fun.

Ivan, which version of Inkscape are you using?
[I did try several of the latest development builds (for Win XP), and these all seem to have severe problems with bitmap handling.]

Thanks! Looks like a great resource.

It is a nautilus - more related to octopusses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus

Graphically very tempting !

Magix Xtreme Graphic Designer 2:

This new version of the Xara clone seems to have the same features as Xara 4, however on my PC it is wayyyyy slower and actually is causing some system...

Well, I guess you need to watch the demo videos, because the new capabilities of this curve drawing tool are obviosuly complex. E.g.:

1. it has a new curve model ("Ananya") that allows more...

OK, I forgot to put in the magic words "feature request"???
It seems to relate to Xara in exactly the same way as the SPIRO curves.
http://talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?t=33899&highlight=curves...

Wow,impressive video.

Another interesting new curve drawing tool - Ananya as a standalone program and as PS plug-in.
http://www.ananya.com/index.html
Ananya curves, without Bezier handles, and also has other curve...

I assume, nobody at Xara is aligning anything? Well, more likely, the old way has become so ingrained that nobody ever actually tried the "Bounds of back object" function. This approach is indeed...

I agree, this is the most practicable option for aligning I have ever encountered. Every other option seems to require moving bits and pieces around either before of after executing the alignment....

Actually, I find the font of the main text hard to read - in IE7 as well as in Opera. It seems to be anti-aliased too strongly.
I also cannot recognize what kind of device it is, that is showing the...

hello Ross,

thanks a lot for your offer! I am looking forward to it.

Certainly nobody is scared by your posting. No need to shine and wax your Vespa for us - ;-) - Allister's "dirty"...

I love the wonderful Vespa image from Ross Macintosh in the new XaraXone!

Ross, could you give us some mor einsights how you create this style?

Thanks a lot in advance!!!

great idea

- but who is able to read the tiny blue writing on black background

- I would like to see the design bigger; right now it looks almost ridiculously small on a modern monitor - I...