Serif's Affinity

[handrawn]

affinity doesn't do website building, or by implication 'website-design'.. what it does is give some very good tools for those who do not need full-monty photoshop [like acorn said] stuff that should be in xara and is not - like colour management and gamut checking

oh I'll stick with xara designer 12 for the established workflows where they continue, why change what works... but future work is quite another matter and more open than it has ever been

[mwenz]

affinity doesn't do website building, or by implication 'website-design'.. what it does is give some very good tools for those who do not need full-monty photoshop [like acorn said] stuff that should be in xara and is not - like colour management and gamut checking

oh I'll stick with xara designer 12 for the established workflows where they continue, why change what works... but future work is quite another matter and more open than it has ever been

What he said ^^^ ...

I mean, who really needs color management, best in class OpenType feature support, great drawing tools, excellent live noise control, a good brush system that will continue to improve, plays nicely with layout applications, and, and ...

Why is it an either or? I'll use both as best fits the design and sometimes both (like I do with AI anyway). I do think that Xara products (XDP in my case) render and draw more quickly for me and I'll continue to use it. But XDP is over-priced in both the print design work (I can purchase almost 3 licenses of AD for the cost of a yearly upgrade of XDP) & the web marketplace and is hampered by its WYSIWYG approach when it comes to web sites.

But hey, what one uses and for what purpose is a personal decision.

[Aciden]

Xara Designer was a great tool for illustrator and graphic designer, but at some point, Xara went to evolve toward web design. I started working in CorelXARA and really hoped that the program would develop towards graphic design, but unfortunately this is not so. The correct display of CMYK colors has not been implemented yet, all the features of OpenType fonts are not supported, the development of the ability to draw has stopped (see how Stabilizer is implemented in Affinity) and much more. At the moment, I almost completely switched to Affinity, but I sincerely hope that Xara will show itself, I will return to it.

[gwpriester]

At the moment, I almost completely switched to Affinity, but I sincerely hope that Xara will show itself, I will return to it.

Hi Dimitry. I wish I could be more optimistic. But I think Affinity is where Xara was when Corel "licensed" the right to market Xara and then hung it out to dry. I just don't see the same enthusiasm or commitment.

[pauland]

Hi Dimitry. I wish I could be more optimistic. But I think Affinity is where Xara was when Corel "licensed" the right to market Xara and then hung it out to dry. I just don't see the same enthusiasm or commitment.

Umm, that confused me completely. Affinity has no enthusiasm or commitment, or did you mean Magix or Xara?

I know what you mean by the Corel licencing.

[Acorn]

Umm, that confused me completely. Affinity has no enthusiasm or commitment, or did you mean Magix or Xara?
I know what you mean by the Corel licencing.

Gary is saying up to the Corel debacle, Xara was zinging. The Magix entanglement has several resonances, n'est pas?

Acorn

[pauland]

Gary is saying up to the Corel debacle, Xara was zinging. The Magix entanglement has several resonances, n'est pas?

Acorn

Well yes, but I think Gary swapped Affinity for Magix in the sentence.

You also have to consider the times have changed and none of us are as young as we were and that includes at Xara HQ. The enthusiasm that drove the creation of Computer Concepts and Xara Studio 1.0 may not be there any more.

There really no special USP for Xara except as an all-in-one solution. When Computer Concepts was developing product they were leading the curve, but now trail it.