I recommend going for the upgrade from your current version of Xara Xtreme or Pro or previous version and see what the discount is calculated for you.
You can always cancel the purchase if you decide the upgrade price is more than you want to pay.
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Ah-so you're saying there is a discount for users like me who own BOTH XXPro and f Xara3D? Sure would have been useful if they had made that clear in the 'prices' section of the announcement.
EDIT:No mention here:
http://xara.com/products/xtreme/upgrade.asp
of a discount for users like me who own both Xara Xtreme Pro ***AND*** Xara3D. What do I need another copy of X3D for?
Last edited by Doug; 12 June 2007 at 05:22 AM.
Yes I know an extra X3D is a waste for some of us (I think I may pass some of my spares onto friends!) but we are talking about $64 (with postage etc), so they might drop $10 off. For those of us who use XPro some or all of the time professionally, the tweaks will save most of us at least an hour a month so that will pay. And for the others, either don't upgrade or regard it as a charitable donation which keeps Xara interested in upgrading our favourite software.
Ah! I have seen nothing I don't like yet in Xara Xtreme 3.2! I'm still digging in the candy dish of the king of vector arts. Lime anyone?
A department manager where I work sends out a quote for the day every morning. The one he sent today seems to be appropriate
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Last edited by Soquili; 12 June 2007 at 02:24 PM.
Soquili
a.k.a. Bill Taylor
Bill is no longer with us. He died on 10 Dec 2012. We remember him always.
My TG Album
Last XaReg update
Really? Like what? I don't see anything but bloat in this upgrade, as an excuse to charge us for bug-fixes. If this is what Magix brings to the table, I'm not sure I want any. This is Xtremely disappointing to me.
Since when does time determine version numbers? That is just absurd.
I hope they work better than the existing filters. Last Friday I tried to export a simple graphic for a T-shirt - a rectangle, four words of text and a couple of registration marks - and I couldn't get it to work as a .cmx [32 bit] or .ai. Worse still, it somehow corrupted the file afterwards rendering it completely unopenable....new filters that have been developed such as XPS and SVG export.
Yes, instead of getting bug-fix patches for free in a timely manner, we now have to put up with the bugs until a few useless things are thrown in to justify an upgrade charge. Very impressive.
I cannot overstate my disappointment at this turn of events. I was wondering why we hadn't had the usual patches since Pro was released, now I know. Is there a list of big-fixes somewhere so I can decide if enough useful work has been done to justify the upgrade price, which I think is what I originally paid for Xara 2.0? I certainly don't want to have to overwrite my current installation just to decide I won't be upgrading [for the first time in 9 years].
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