NEW: Xara Page & Layout Designer

**dcahall** · 27 June 2013, 07:14 PM

Originally Posted by PeteS

You can download the trial for Page & Layout Designer and give it a go yourself to see whether it would be suitable for you, once it has been released

When I go to the page to download the trial, I do not see a link to download it. What am I missing?

**Boy** · 27 June 2013, 08:07 PM

Originally Posted by dcahall

What am I missing?

"...once it has been released..."

**haakoo** · 27 June 2013, 08:09 PM

You can download the trial for Page & Layout Designer and give it a go yourself to see whether it would be suitable for you, once it has been released

Hans

**Petar_MK** · 27 June 2013, 08:25 PM

Can somebody explain to me the differences between:

1. Page and Layout Designer vs Photo and Graphic Designer, and
2. Page and Layout Designer vs Designer Pro X.

I mean if PLD is PGD + page and layout features or there are some big differences, and
What is and what is not inside PLD from DPX.

Can you give us a comparison table between all these three programs.

**gingerbeardman** · 28 June 2013, 11:34 AM

Originally Posted by Petar_MK

Can you give us a comparison table between all these three programs.

Here it is: http://www.xara.com/us/products/designer/compare/

Web Designer 9
vs
Page & Layout Designer 9
vs
Photo & Graphic Designer 9
vs
Designer Pro X

I assume it will eventually be updated for DP9

**Petar_MK** · 27 June 2013, 08:30 PM

Having in mind the price of PLD, how serious it can be comparing its features to InDesign and QuarkXPress?

**gwpriester** · 27 June 2013, 09:03 PM

Page and Layout Designer is not on the same level at InDesign and QuarkXPress. These are very high end (and very expensive) applications, But P&LD9 does offer a very excellent set of tools for intuitively working with text and page layout design. I think you will be impressed when you try it out.

The best thing to do is download the trial as soon as it is available and try it out. I think you will be pleasantly surprised.

@Acorn - No native support for tables but you can set the tabs to create the table text then create the rest of the table design.

**Petar_MK** · 27 June 2013, 09:12 PM

Thank you Gary for the answer. Can you, please, comment my previous post about comparing all three Xaras' products?

**haakoo** · 27 June 2013, 09:17 PM

http://www.xara.com/us/ here it will show all features.

Hans

**Petar_MK** · 27 June 2013, 09:29 PM

Thank you Haako, I've already seen that page, but the differences between these programs were not so evident for me. I am asking, because I would like to buy P&LD and, eventually, P&GD. But, if P&LD has all the features included in P&GD, then why should I buy P&GD? And it is the same question with DPX.