FINALLY! THE NEW INTERFACE I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR... THANKS XARA

[yellowbird]

Here is the link I found https://www.xara.com/us/designer-pro/whats-new/
It states WHAT'S NEW IN DESIGNER PRO
Latest Updates: Designer Pro+ July 2022: Designer Pro X March 2022. You can find a summary of our latest updates below, with more details in our Release Notes.
You'll automatically receive all the latest Designer Pro+ updates if you have an active Pro+ subscription purchased direct from Xara.
If you own Designer Pro X you can download the latest updates if you have an active Update Service purchased from our retail partner Magix. I have Designer Prox not plus with active active Update Service, where do I download this? Is it just the trial download?

Also, on this link: https://www.xara.com/us/designer-pro/buy/ , it looks like I would have to get a credit from sales, then subscribe to the desktop product. Still seems like a subscription to me. More info is appreciated!
Nancy

[Acorn]

Here is the link I found https://www.xara.com/us/designer-pro/whats-new/
It states WHAT'S NEW IN DESIGNER PRO
Latest Updates: Designer Pro+ July 2022: Designer Pro X March 2022. You can find a summary of our latest updates below, with more details in our Release Notes.
You'll automatically receive all the latest Designer Pro+ updates if you have an active Pro+ subscription purchased direct from Xara.
If you own Designer Pro X you can download the latest updates if you have an active Update Service purchased from our retail partner Magix.

I have Designer Prox not plus with active active Update Service, where do I download this? Is it just the trial download?
Also, on this link: https://www.xara.com/us/designer-pro/buy/ , it looks like I would have to get a credit from sales, then subscribe to the desktop product. Still seems like a subscription to me. More info is appreciated!
Nancy

Nancy,the trial link(s) are in https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...creative-tools.

Xara is very helpful for those crossing over.

Acorn

[Peter Prewett]

My problem with new user interface is that the contrast is very low making it very difficult to see, dark grey on black is impossible to see.
With rectangle coordinates I have to look very closely at as a number 1 is barely readable.
I could not see why it had to change.

[handrawn]

maybe your monitor needs calibrating/adjusting ?

[gwpriester]

My problem with new user interface is that the contrast is very low making it very difficult to see, dark grey on black is impossible to see.

Having worked for many hours with the new interface on a 4K monitor since the release I think that on many monitors the value differences are going to be really difficult to distinguish. I have used a Xara product since 1996 so I am familiar with the interface and know where everything is. But I feel that new users are going to have a hard time. The icons/buttons are smaller, at least on my monitor, than the previous version and the lack of color makes it harder to determine one from the other.

[handrawn]

on my monitor, which is calibrated, the contrast is about the same as affinity and harmony ...

[Egg Bramhill]

Not a great lover of this new interface, I find it very bland. In fact I'd prefer Xara stop messing about on the UI and develop better vector apps but that's a cry we've been hearing for years.

[handrawn]

with you on that egg

and wasn't it zeb who said he didn't care what the UI was like because he spent most of his time looking at the workspace....

[Daniel]

I've used the new interface for a few days and while I wouldn't have chosen to switch, I don't think that it's a bad step.

Looking side-by-side at the previous icons and the new ones, it's obvious that someone has put in a lot of work.

I really feel for whoever had to make them in single colours though - it really can't have been easy: seeing what they included, removed, and had to change is fascinating.

I think the "Photo Heal" button is interesting, why it isn't a X shaped plaster anymore - it isn't obviously a plaster now but I'm interested to know what it would've been like if the original was just made a single colour.

The"Palette from photo" tool lost its squares of colour, obviously, and that's I think my favourite change - tied with the "Panorama" button: having lost the visual clue of grassy hillside and sky to imply panorama, the new button is clever.

The "Clone/Magic Erase" button is very pin-on-a-map or "location"-like, and less stamp-like.

[Rob-H]

I agree with Egg on this one... I do not prefer dark interfaces, and love vibrant enough colors so as to actually assist me... regarding the vector tools again, I agree... more powerful and yet user friendly tools... I am not sure how to quite describe such. Yet lol

Don't forget you can always switch to a light and colourful interface by using Sift+Control+Alt+S although this seems to have been forgotten by Xara recently and has a couple of minor issues with visibility of some elements (e.g. in the page and layer gallery) also the button pallet has display problems as lots of the button on that are not visible!