Wonderful that Xara have fixed .swf export into Flash in the latest xtreme so now I can retire old xara X, and at last I can set photoshop as my bitmap editor.

But what I still really really want are two simple things:

#1 is a proper pressure pen - not a 'brush objects' thing just a simple vector pressure pen. Even Freehand's one away back in version 5 from last century would do. Silky smooth in drawing like a virtual sable brush, and in line view it consists of a minimal array of points, only double the number of points in the non-pressure line. That smoooth pressure pen for me was one of the most joyous things I ever saw in a computer drawing app (along with xara's interactive transparency), so much so that it restrained me from jumping up and down on freehand whilst declaiming in tongues more than once and that was an achievement but I digress.

#2 is a simple close-shapes button. It's a pain searching for the unclosed point in a complex shape so I can colour it. Illustrator has it, so does freehand (or did) so why not xara?? *wails*

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