Xara Xtreme 6

**Xcellent** · 31 March 2010, 10:54 PM

Originally Posted by sledger

Corel X5 = $809.00 AUD
Adobe CS4 = $3,006.00 AUD
Xara Xtreme Pro 5 = $349.00 AUD

Patience has it's rewards

I'm not an 'Adobe Fan' but this comparision is simply wrong.
Adobe CS4 contains 14+ programs total.
$3,000.00 AUD / 14 = $214 AUD each

**ankhor** · 03 April 2010, 10:24 AM

Originally Posted by Xcellent

I'm not an 'Adobe Fan' but this comparision is simply wrong.
Adobe CS4 contains 14+ programs total.
$3,000.00 AUD / 14 = $214 AUD each

Well, then Xara Xtreme pro is atleast 3 programs.
a photo editor, a webdesigningprogram, and a vector drawing program
oh I forgot the flash capabilities

**angelize** · 03 April 2010, 06:28 PM

Don't forget XXP can be used for basic DTP! Now that takes us up to 5!

349.00/5= 69.80

**covoxer** · 03 April 2010, 06:38 PM

And a basic animations so it's probably sums up to 6?

**highfrontier** · 05 April 2010, 09:39 AM

just out of curiosity I had a look at CS4 pricing..
looks like that version (master ed.) is even more expensive than mentioned - not just a couple of hundred either.. nearly A$1,500 more! ouch!

**Daniel** · 05 April 2010, 11:29 AM

Don't go kidding yourselves that Xtreme has even close to the featureset of between 4 and 6 components of Adobe's CS4 suites.

**highfrontier** · 05 April 2010, 01:03 PM

Originally Posted by Daniel

Don't go kidding yourselves that Xtreme has even close to the featureset of between 4 and 6 components of Adobe's CS4 suites.

True, but remember that most of us don't need the entire 10+GB span of features in all of the Adobe apps.

Unfortunately, what we do need from Adobe is spread out around lots of apps - result : the need to purchase a very expensive bulging suite of software taking up a lot of space and with a complicated workflow to do what could have been satisfied by a surprisingly capable, well written program for a fraction of the cost.

**Xcellent** · 05 April 2010, 11:35 PM

Originally Posted by Daniel

Don't go kidding yourselves that Xtreme has even close to the featureset of between 4 and 6 components of Adobe's CS4 suites.

+1.
Xara adds fantastic value to CS4 to me - but it's not a replacement for CS4.

CS4 is an amazing product, from video creation, special FX (After FX), Photoshop, Professional DVD authoring, Print post production.
In my work chain, Xara is tool #1, then further CS4.
But again, it's not for everyone. On a different topic, I think Adobe would have been better off buying Xara than Magix.

Back to the topic: Is there a release date for Xara6?