How do you feel about the 365 Program?

**jyoung** · 26 April 2017, 02:04 AM

Hi Egg. Mine says Xara Designer Pro X 12.4.1.47518 DL x64 Nov 17 2016

**Egg Bramhill** · 26 April 2017, 02:07 AM

Then try Help/Check for Updates.

**jyoung** · 26 April 2017, 02:17 AM

I did that first and the little wheel spun and then went away and didn't do anything. So I went to the Xara site and downloaded the program again, reinstalled and now I am at Xara Designer Pro X 12.6.1.49367 DL x64 Apr 11 2017 so I guess all is well in my little world for now. Thanks.

**Egg Bramhill** · 26 April 2017, 03:42 AM

Wandered a bit off-topic but glad you sorted it.

**benoit1980** · 02 May 2017, 06:35 PM

Hi everyone,

I have not yet purchased any Xara products and was interested by the web designer version at 99 dollars.
I have read a lot of your threads but I am very confused about the way the software and all the financial things work.

Could you please help me with this, I would like to purchase the web designer premium but I am worried with this:

1)From some of the threads I read, it looks like there is some content in the software that expires after 1 year.
Could anyone explain this please? I find this really strange, especially if your purchase the software for 99 dollar, it should come with it's own content otherwise it is in fact a subscription model which is not well explained upon purchase.

2)It is my understanding from another thread that the designs produced with the web designer premium product are not responsive, instead you have a lot of different web sizes, is this true? But would this not make the PHP integration more difficult?(one integration per web size)

3)I am not understand the thing about the version you are left with when you have to reinstall the full software later on, let's say today I buy the version(example) v10 and in 8 months there is an update to v10.2, but on month 13, my computer breakdowns and I have to reinstall the whole software, will I be able to reinstall the version v10.2?? or will I be back to v10? If I am back to v10 then this does not make any sense at all.

4)If there is some kind of subscription with only content, is there a way to download locally all of that content and not bother about the subscription the year after? Can you important your own design assets?

I will wait for your replies before buying because I am really worried to be stuck in a subscription software(this is the reason I have left photoshop).

Thank you all!

**iamtheblues** · 03 May 2017, 03:16 PM

From what I understand, the program that you buy is the program you get to keep. During the course of the following 12 months you will have the opportunity to download new features as, when and if they appear. If you choose to not renew after your year is up and do nothing, you keep what you have until you try to re-install the program, at which time your program will revert to what you had on the day of purchase - it won't suddenly become completely unavailable.
If you bought it last year when this method started and decided not to renew your subscription, you would keep what you paid for on day one, but lose everything added during the course of the year (which would not be very much, to be honest). But it would still all be yours (such as it is until you were forced into reinstalling). Unlike Adobe which simply cuts you dead if you don't renew. You pay your money, you take the risk. It's not great, in fact it's heavily weighted in favour of the manufacturer and not the consumer in my opinion.
Someone who knows better than me is welcome to chip in here.

**benoit1980** · 03 May 2017, 06:58 PM

Thank you for the reply.
I decided not to buy the software because of the horrible inline css that is coded on export.
I have just found out that you cannot modify the html/css code after the export because it is all inline, therefore selling the work you produce will be impossible as people will need the exact same software to reopen the file....very strange!