DESIGNER PRO 16 !

[gracehjs]

have to say Daniel - when I go to that link I only get offered the ver 16 option....

after all that though it won't accept my ver 15 activation, possibly because it is HumbleBundle.. ?

hey ho

My 15 activation code worked with no problem

[handrawn]

Hi Grace

was yours an HB purchase ? if so I'll try it again, there may just be a lag in the system

[Rockwallaby]

Got mine via HB and the V15 serial # does not work in V16.

[Rob-Xar]

Hi Everyone, sorry for the delay, spent most of last week with a cold and then come back to the hectic release of V16!

There should be an announcement, if there isn't I'll check with Kate as I imagine one will be coming very soon.

As with version 12 as well, you will need to download V16 from the website (as mentioned by Daniel earlier link here if you need it) as it is a major version and requires a new installer. You can install V16 alongside V15 and they will all share the same serial number (although you will need to re-enter your serial number).

If you purchased the humble bundle version then this will only work for the version that was offered (in case of the last offer - v15.1). I'm just inquiring with sales as to what Humble Bundle users need to do to upgrade to version 16 if they want to. Will update my post as soon as I find out.

We will only offer Xara in 64 bit from now on also. I'm afraid we will no longer be offering 32 bit versions of Xara.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

Kind Regards
Rob

[yjs]

Hi Rob,

Thanks for checking this out, but I was told categorically by Humble Bundle Support (Ticket: 2121308) that we would get exactly the same updates as the regular customers including the updates for tables (and indeed, if this was not the case, Humble Bundle would have had to state it in their initial description of the product, where it was said that the normal price for what they were offering was over $200).

Thanks,
Yaffa

[handrawn]

thanks Rob - my understaning is the same as Yaffa's

[yjs]

thanks Rob - my understaning is the same as Yaffa's

The previous Humble Bundle for XWD Premium and P&GD made clear that the software differed from the regular software in that updates were included only for around four months. So we could make an informed decision to pay the fee and have a fully updated four month subscription. With the recent (Pro) Bundle, no such restriction was mentioned and we were told that we'd get the same as regular customers for a year.

[Fred vanderZee]

Hi Everyone, sorry for the delay, spent most of last week with a cold and then come back to the hectic release of V16!

<nipperdesnip>
We will only offer Xara in 64 bit from now on also. I'm afraid we will no longer be offering 32 bit versions of Xara.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

Kind Regards
Rob

I have two questions: since you only offer 64-bit versions from now on, will the width/height limit of 16.000 pixels for an exported image be removed as well? And will the colour channels be upgraded from 8bit/channel to 16 bit/channel?

[Fred C]

What Fred said...+1 Please!
Other Fred

[Fred vanderZee]

I have two questions: since you only offer 64-bit versions from now on, will the width/height limit of 16.000 pixels for an exported image be removed as well? And will the colour channels be upgraded from 8bit/channel to 16 bit/channel?

The maximum export size of an image is exactly 16.383 pixels.
So I had a little fun with numbers: taking a signed 16 bit integer and turning it into binary you get [0]111 1111 1111 1111 (the [0] is the sign bit, decimal number is 32.767).
Now use the second leftmost bit as a signal bit as well, so you don't use it in calculating integers: you get [00]11 1111 1111 1111. The decimal value is (drum roll)... 16.383! Coincidence? I think not.

So doing this for a 64 bit number, we would get [00]11 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111, which is 4.611.686.018.427.387.904 pixels.
To be honest, I would settle for the 32 bit version with the 2 signal bits. 2^30 = 1.073.741.824 pixels/height for an image would be quite OK for me. In 16bit/channel of course