I know many of you were surprised when we launched Photo & Graphic Designer 9 without Pro X9. Well, we have another surprise for you – we’ve just announced a completely new product in the Xara range, Xara Page & Layout Designer. As the name implies it draws together the text and page layout features from existing Designer products, combines them with some new DTP type features and templates, adds in some of the drawing and photo tools to create a Designer product optimized for any type of print document creation. We’re planning to launch this next week, but you can already find out all about the new product on the Xara site @ http://www.xara.com/page-layout-designer/

It remains the case that Designer Pro is our top of the range, so v9 it will get all the features of Page & Layout Designer. So if you are a Designer Pro owner you might want to hurry along to Gary Priester’s ‘Quick Look at Page & Layout Designer’ on the Xara Xone @ http://xaraxone.magix.net/PLD/index.htm where you’ll be able to deduce some more of the new features you can expect in Pro X9, which will be arriving very soon!