Xara Xtreme Pro announced

[Xhris]

Let's celebrate with a Xara-produced flash firework.

[Christine Farrelly]

Just one word 'WOW'

Christine

[Squeaky]

It IS my Birthday!!!! A step in the right direction and hopefully the first of many. (leading to a graceful Tango around the opposition)

[MarciaB]

CONGRATULATIONS XARA !!! (and Squaeky)
I downloaded the beta and gonna play with it tomorrow...

[Thatch]

So far it's great. I really like the mulitpage feature. The text overflow is a god send, and so far the improvements to pdf and swf export seem to be working great! I'm in the middle of a flash icon project so this has already come in handy, especially the incompatability notices that come up makes it so fixing any issue is really quick.

My only negative so far is, who ever came up with the name 'Xortcut'. Good lord what were you thinking? :P

Seriously, I am a bit disappointed that there aren't any improvements to any drawing tools. One more little toy to play with. One more item that would end up showing up in gallery submissions over the next few weeks... Most of the improvements are workflow issues that will greatly impact users on a day to day basis, just not too much on the actual product itself. Not a gripe, just a mild grumble.

All in all, great job Xara. I hope this helps fuel the ongoing and quick advancement of the product.


J

[Charles Moir]

My only negative so far is, who ever came up with the name 'Xortcut'.

not us actually. Xortcuts is a utility that was created and donated to us from Rubem, as a result of a thread of TG forum some months ago about short-cuts. It's his code and product really - we just told him what the config files were to modify the short-cut sttings.

I think even Rubem agrees it's not the perfect tool, but on the other hand a LOT of people have asked to be able to configure short-cuts and so it is a very useful utility - and Rubem very kindly let us include it.

[Thatch]

Oh agreed. I think it's a great addition to have and very kind of Rubem to allow it to be included. I just couldn't let the name pass with out a quick jab.

Great job on the release Charles. Take the team out for a pint. They deserve it.


J

[rubem]

Oh agreed. I think it's a great addition to have and very kind of Rubem to allow it to be included. I just couldn't let the name pass with out a quick jab.

Point taken... Will change it for the next release

[Squeaky]

Hi Joe.
What a coincidence. Me too.
A bit disappointed that the new flash 8 output opened in Flash 8 doesn't recognise curved but caps as it says it should. In all probability a Flash 8 problem rather than Xara.

Charles - Very nice to have the extra options on export (Page/selection/drawing) many thanks!

[Soquili]

Great news!! Downloading the Beta now!

Thanks Charles and the entire staff.