Is that true?

[Acorn]

You shell out the money for the bugfixes,...
... Honi soit qui mal y pense.

When out of Update Service cover, you lose the bug fixes back to your purchase version if you re-install, unless Xara chose to release a specific bug release.

Xara needs to ensure bug fixes in the year of cover are retained but its approach cannot accommodate this.
Why should anyone be shamed to criticise Xara on its subscription model or are you reflecting the term back onto Xara?
'Dieu et mon droit' might be more apt.

Acorn

[Acorn]

When out of Update Service cover, you lose the bug fixes back to your purchase version if you re-install, unless Xara chose to release a specific bug release.

Xara needs to ensure bug fixes in the year of cover are retained but its approach cannot accommodate this.
Why should anyone be shamed to criticise Xara on its subscription model or are you reflecting the term back onto Xara?
'Dieu et mon droit' might be more apt.

Acorn

P.S. Do review Xara's explanation for the Update service: https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...ting-Explained.

[ss-kalm]

"Caveat emptor" may also be appropriate.

[ernie-f]

I have decided not to update this year.

But now that I only have to pay 88,- € (99,-$) I did it.

Since yesterday the beta of Affinity Publisher is available and was one reason to continue supporting Xara.
The publisher has good beginnings but before you get prof. work with it it will still take some months.

So I ended up back with my beloved and hated Xara. And if you are honest, there is no better program to insert and edit PDF's outside Adobe.

Maybe something will change at Xara-Desktop and we finally get the tools we've wanted for 10 years. Hope is the last to die.

[handrawn]

I got the offer for $200 off - ie $99, just like I got last week's offer of $170 off, and the offer the week before that, and before that and.....- not upgrading; the cost differential is frankly irrelevant in the face of nothing new for me

I am looking at affinity publisher beta, been looking forward to this...

[Pixelpusher]

I am looking at affinity publisher beta, been looking forward to this...

I downloaded the Publisher beta this week and I'll tell you, I believe that this will be a great piece of software when all is said and done. They included an email with 16 tutorials and are asking those using it to report any bugs or suggest any features that we would like to see added to make it even better. They have set up a dedicated forum for all of us to report our findings... that is really cool!

[behzad]

Just upgraded xara pro for another year. I do not mind the upgrade since I use it for pro work/clients, so it pays off thousand time over.