Goodbye Xara

[gwpriester]

Xara rules in my book, silly licence or not :-)

[DavidDB]

Olympia London Windows 3 Show - Charles Moir was demoing XARA STUDIO - a notorious CorelDRAW file that could render in exactly the time it took to visit the loo and pop the kettle on.
In Xara Studio it was almost instantaneous, I refused to believe what I was seeing on screen and insisted going behind the scenes to see if there was a crafty Video running.
I bought into XARA that day.
At the time I was a main UK dealer for Corel, and advised clients th lasers publishing including running a range of courses at a London University.
After a recent bout of cancer I have considerably slowed down lol But I still maintain about 10 sites, Restaurants, Computer Dealership, Doctors surgery, Ecig Chain and a 360 degree Street View agency.
One min Im designing a FAVICON, the next a roadside billboard - many of those clients are supported with Cheap 1080p TVs with a USB keypen and what we call "Screensavers". I might do 50 in a week (many have extensive templates).

I got listed in my Current Xara search 1.5 GB of stuff
Dread to look at the archive lol

So clearly I am not even contemplating moving now - yep I upgraded to 365 on day one if only to be rid of the wait every year while WebDesigner gets all the love before the Pro Users.
Am I happy this year yea mostly, although some of the things I know may of us had the the wishlists have yet to appear, and I sure wanted some support for the mushrooming #360 cameras appearing everywhere.

I have also found Tech support to be nothing short of brilliant going beyond anything I dared to expect for such a cheap package.

At the same time I can see why some users might feel there is less to see this year, I can certainly see some polish but suspect the dripfeed of new features might start trickling down quite quickly.

[Egg Bramhill]

Olympia London Windows 3 Show - Charles Moir was demoing XARA STUDIO - a notorious CorelDRAW file that could render in exactly the time it took to visit the loo and pop the kettle on.

I can remember seeing that demonstration David. If I recall correctly it was a rendering of a red barn surrounded by conifer trees. As you state Corel Draw was painfully slow whilst Xara rendered it in seconds.

[Grenou]

Whilst we are singing Xara's praises... (well deserved I might add)..
A friend who worked for Corel at the time they took over PaintShop Pro, said that the difference between Corel and Xara is that Xara cares and it shows.
Amen to that.
Corel doesn't invent/develop anything. They acquire a good program and then strangle it.
I test for Corel PSP and feel it's an opportunity missed, nay, lost.
Vector tools haven't been touched since the Jasc days (2004). So yippee for the wonderful Xara!

:-)
Grenou

[pauland]

It was as though a dark cloud passed over the world when Corel was "selling" Xara software.

I first came across Xara when visiting a computer show/exhibition in Islington. Xara had a stand there and I bought Xara Studio 1.0.

[Barbara B]

I'm going to close this thread out. I think that all that can be said, has been said.