Is Xara P&GD better than, well, EVERYTHING?

[Jon123Jon]

Thanks, GW. Might be best to just stick with P&GD anyway.
Because today I tried to download Designer Pro+... since I'm subscribed thru 2024... and it won't download!
https://xpsupdater.xara.com/Installer/XPSSetup.exe
Oh my. Fourth day of Christmas, and no joy in Tombstone...
EDIT EDIT EDIT
No, the download worked! I had tried 8 times, with seemingly no results... then went to check my Win 11 file manager one last time and they were all downloading away! 8 Designer Pro Pluses! Turned off all but one, it finished, found that my (very) old Ctrl+Shift+Alt+S trick still worked to get the (very) old gray background. So there IS joy in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, and I have put away my old Colt revolver, rather than blowing a hole in my notebook screen.

[handrawn]

that link works for me jon

[Jon123Jon]

Yes, it came and is running fine.
One minor problem --I used the old Ctrl-Alt-Shift-S trick to change the controls background to gray. But that disables the Table button. Is there a better way on this new 23.5 version to change the control background color from black to anything else?

[handrawn]

there are quite a few things you will find wrong with the UI if you use that switch - for example some things are unreadable in the page and layer gallery due to colours being to similar if not the same for different things

there has been discussion about the UI colour here, but I think the upshot is no, not without a major hack