Xara Xtreme verison 4

[steve.ledger]

Well said Paul http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/icons/icon14.gif

[handrawn]

I reckon its a good job done too Xara Team

I am very reassured that the product is going in the right direction, commercially.

And it is a commercial product, it has to be seen in that light.

We all want our favourite stuff and for the program to go in the precise direction we think it should - but it has to survive.

I would say that for that very reason it is not at all trying to satisfy everyone, but pitching very specifically.

[The Doc]

Thumbs up to the Xara team for a (potentially) great update to Xara. Typical of me I had not been around much for a few days due to working on some themes for the upcoming release of vBulletin 3.7 and missed the announcement by Charles about v4. Well to cut a long story short I downloaded the beta and within a couple of minutes decided this was a must have upgrade. My bank account says ouch but thanks Xara team.

[Giovanni]

Thanks Xara team, good job! New features go in a direction I appreciate.

[BQ]

What exactly is "path clipping"?

I checked in help but couldn't find any information.

[Charles Moir]

Sorry I accidentally lapsed into Adobe's mad techno-gibberish speak there. By path clipping I mean shape intersection. i.e. the Combine Shapes set of operations is now more accurate. You no longer have the very small straight line piece at each intersection, which has annoyed some users.

(For some unfathomable reason Adobe don't call them simple plain English things like 'lines' and 'shapes', but paths, strokes and other silly stuff. Once you've gone through the Adobe product indoctrination you too can sound clever by using such terms. I should not have done, and apologize. Plain English descriptions are always better.)

[handrawn]

that is very good news Charles

This terminology thing is why 'bitmaps' are now 'photos' even if they are hand drawn and no camera was implicated at any stage?

I will get used to it no doubt

[sunland]

I can confirm this. The combine shapes procedures produces extremely clean results, minimum of nodes needed to retain the shape. Much better than v. 3.2.4 and a much welcomed improvement.

eobet at least you are consistent in your whining.......
dead as a vector application...... no I do not think so.
bloatware....... definitely not.

I believe this is a signature release. My tests reveal incredible responsiveness, fast on about every level, and I am running Xara in a WinXP virtual machine on a Mac Mini.

And as for interface I have always run in full screen mode with a stripped down set of menu bars.
Modern Icons and Themes ????????

Anyway, thanks Charles and Co. for a great release.

adios
sunland

[BQ]

Sorry I accidentally lapsed into Adobe's mad techno-gibberish speak there. By path clipping I mean shape intersection. i.e. the Combine Shapes set of operations is now more accurate. You no longer have the very small straight line piece at each intersection, which has annoyed some users.

(For some unfathomable reason Adobe don't call them simple plain English things like 'lines' and 'shapes', but paths, strokes and other silly stuff. Once you've gone through the Adobe product indoctrination you too can sound clever by using such terms. I should not have done, and apologize. Plain English descriptions are always better.)

Charles,
Ah, now it makes sense. Thank you for the explanation and thank you for all the new features in the new release.

[Egg Bramhill]

Eobet,

Your main complaint about XXPro has been the inaccuracies of the Combine Shapes / etc function. This now works spot on. Please rejoice.