This question is squarely directed at professional* graphic designers/artists, illustrators, sign makers, publishers, printers or anyone who is currently in business or the industry where typically Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, Freehand or other better known software is the accepted 'Industry Standard'. I'd like know what occured which brought about your change to Xara and why now choose to use it for most (if not all) of your output?
It's a fairly simple and straight forward question which I ask as I've been coming across resistance to Xara by a significant amount of people. Xara is simply dismissed because it is unknown and not an 'industry standard'.
Most have never even heard of Xara, although a couple have 'heard of' CorelXara and therefore (in their own minds) this somehow qualify's their use of CorelDraw because, well it's 'the same thing isn't it?' (!?!)
In conversations, I mention such things as 'intuitive & fliud ease of use' and that Xara software runs better on older hardware but this is shrugged off.
Serious doubt is expressed by my assertion that their own workflow speed as well as that of their staff's would increase, & their output would probably be better as staff would actually enjoy their work more. Training time for new staff would be reduced, allowing more employment opportunities for less skilled newcomers and of course the lower cost of purchasing Xara software with it's less restrictive licensing terms are pretty convincing factors that again are shrugged off.
I'd like to see an objective response to this, rather than an intellectual debate (which may stray off topic).
*By Professional, I mean those who derive all or some of their main income from their work output.
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