I have to admit, Illy's pretty darn good

[handrawn]

We all know that for artwork Xara is capable of anything illustrator can do - when the right artist is using it.

you know I get a serious attack of the raised eyebrows heavenwards whenever anyone says anything like that - what [I hope] you mean is that the vector drawing tools in xara will do everything the vector drawing tools in illustrator will do .... but it doesn't stop there, there are lots of other issues eg color space to name but one ...

anyhow I've probably said enough

[pauland]

Lets just say "for most intents and purposes", then your eyebrows can return to the normal position .. ;-)