Since I have so often been critical of Xara's handling of the PostScript file formats, I must now report that XaraX's EPS export format now actually works pretty well! Even very complex files, with tons of transparency, etc, are rasterizible in Photoshop - 6 and turn out fine. And Illustrator 9 is also able to import fairly complex EPSs from XaraX, although transparency does not work too well, and Illustrator often screams a lot at handling all the objects - but this is Illustrator's problem. As far as imports into these Adobe apps go (and they must surely be considered the stronghold of PostScript!), it seems that XaraX's code output to EPS is - finally - quite reliable.
I have not done any actual PostScript printing from these files, so printability is still an open issue - I particularly question how well they will separate, owing to the absence of GCR/UCR controls - but there is now at least much greater file compatibility with the PS universe!
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