I hope I am allowed to do this.... but I started on the Adobe Illustrator formum. I was told that what I was trying to do was very difficult if not impossible in illustrator and someone reccommeded I give Xara products a try. I downloaded the trail tonight and spent a few hours playing with the software. So far I am VERY impressed. I'm managed to do things in a few minutes that took me weeks to figure out with illustrator. However, I still cant figure out how to do what I initially set out to do.

Can someone please review the following posting and give me a hint to how I can do this using Xara Extreme(I downloaded pro if that makes a difference).

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/492724

The contour tool seems to do the same thing as i was doing with offset path in Illustrator (a good thing), but I need to then be able to create a non linear gradient between these to objects.

If I ma not allowed to post the link to adobe... I'll copy and paste all the text and images here.. but this just save me a lot of typing.

If this can be done, I and nearly 100% you just won yourself a new customer!

Thanks,

Doug Fletcher