Xara and Apple

[avalon]

The color is rendered far better on my iMac and I was using a Sony Trinitron CRT and thought that was great.

One thing I should add ... it was just a bit confusing to get correct read/write NTFS storage without creating any drive problems on the external PC USB hard drive. Surely we both know how critical this is! Be cautious.

In a nutshell ... read/write to NTFS WIN XP PRO was just fine in VirtualBox VM itself. Read/write to an external was a different animal. I'll hope I'll be solving that today with Paragon NTFS for OS X.

Again I am THRILLED to have Xara ANYTHING on my iMac. I hope someone from Xara reads this! Like many of us I have using Xara for over a way over decade as many of us have.

If they were to release their product for a Mac ... WOW!! Amazing how we all became so loyal ... and for good reason.

Thanks Avalon - that is very useful info.

When running Xara on a Mac in a Windows Emulator do you notice any changes in colour rendition as compared to running directly on a Windows platform?

For example.... If you created a .xar file on a Windows PC and then loaded that file onto a Mac with a W-emulator would there be marked differences in the way colour was rendered on the screen?

T.

[silence]

I use Xara with VMWare Fusion. It works great, and in "Unity" mode Xara window acts just like any native Mac os Window. It's even possible to drag an image from Finder to Xara – and it's accepted miraculously! Funny that WinXP SP3 + Xara takes less memory than Illustrator loaded with 10 documents

Of course there are downsides; you have to install all fonts both on Mac and on Windows; there are printing issues (I have to export to PDF and then print it from Mac Os)...
But it works good enough. Still, native Xara for Mac is a dream for many many years, and I really hope to see it someday... No alternative so far.

[Rik]

I'm in the same boat as you, silence.
I too have to use Fusion 4 on my MacBook, and then use Xara.
I too have printing problems. I've tried installing the print drivers many time and tried all I can think of.

But, Xara works very well and I have not had any problems with that.

I too have wondered about a Mac version of Xara and then I wondered if I would want to spend hundreds of pounds ( or dollars) more to buy the Mac version?!

[avalon]

I just installed the trial version of Parallels...try it...it seems to be the best of all that I tried...it even accepted the VM from VirtuaBox so I did not have to reinstall WIN XP. So far so good...it is seamless so I'll be making the purchase in a few weeks.

[flickdafer]

I just installed the trial version of Parallels...try it...it seems to be the best of all that I tried...it even accepted the VM from VirtuaBox so I did not have to reinstall WIN XP. So far so good...it is seamless so I'll be making the purchase in a few weeks.

I run Xara DP 7 on my MacBook Pro using Parallels and Win 7, works beautifully. The only issue I have is booting up more than one Adobe CS5 program on the Mac at the same time, with 4GB ram things start to slow down. Problem is, try doing anything with just one Adobe program!

I daydream about Xara being native on the Mac. I guess some fantasies just remain in the mind eh!

[Rik]

With Parallels, you can phone their helpline, which I found to be very good, but with Fusion4, there is only e-mail support as far as I can see.