Daniel, thank you. I have endure one or two.
@Egg Bramhill knocks spots off them but I detest Webinars anyhow; my Institution runs hundreds and I speed them up x3 as they are so dire.
I can cope with the BBC Christmas Lectures, for children, when the topic is interesting.
A TED Talks approach might draw me in.
I endured the Open University BBC2 lectures at 2 a.m. out of necessity.
Video presentations rarely inspire me. If you are not hands-on, you are not learning. I do know there are many modes of learning.
Acorn
Acorn - installed Xara software: Cloud+/Pro+ and most others back through time (to CC's Artworks). Contact for technical remediation/consultancy for your web designs.
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Thank you for the update Acorn.
When the Pro+ Cloud combo was first announced there were quite a few TG threads that suggested a stand-alone Pro+ would be welcome; good to see this option materialise along with XWDP & XPGD.Xara is breaking off from Magix products and support for:
(Magix) Designer Pro X (XDPX) ==> Xara Designer Pro+
(Magix) Web Designer Premium ==> Xara Web Designer+
(Magix) Photo & Graphic Designer ==> Xara Photo & Graphic Designer+
All will now be accessed on a Subscription. Monthly cost but paid Annually. Currencies - USD/EUR/GBP with the same numeric value:
16.99/m - Xara Cloud+ - bundles in Xara Designer Pro+ with Xara Cloud Pro
14.99/m - Xara Designer Pro+
12.99/m - Xara Cloud Pro - Purely on-line. Expensive route for non-Windows users.
9.99/m - Xara Web Designer+
6.99/m - Xara Photo & Graphic Designer+
0.00/m - Xara Cloud - free sign up. Why? You can manipulate PDF content.
Xara is offering an early starter discount of 40% with EARLYBIRD07
​This might be perpetual.
I would first try the 50% LIFETIME discount; this is perpetual.
I have not yet seen anything to suggest though that Magix will cease to market Pro X or Web Designer Premium; those on these releases should know by now that the product lags behind Xara releases by 6 months or more. That said, Pro X has had two releases this year so far (March & May).
The recent upgrade offer from Magix for Pro X was GBP 72.99 and included 'Xara X Presets' (from the third party Xara templates); the latter's full price is USD 59 - interesting!
A simple comparison from the above for Pro+ is an upfront fee of GBP 14.99 x 12 = GBP 179.88 less EARLYBIRD07 = GBP 107.93. You could of course request a LIFETIME discount and shave a bit more of the licence fee.
Time of course will tell what happens to Magix and Xara (but they still have a common investor in Bellevue).
From a support perspective, I'm sure Xara is streets ahead of Magix, but the best support resource is TG anyway
Excellent summary and wise conclusion!
I'll join in a bit, I'm just an ordinary user who needs a stable program - to work all the time without restrictions. That's why I bought the XDP19. I don't go to the subscription. If the XARA unlimited version gets old, you can switch to AFFINITY easily and cheaper. Otherwise, thanks to all of you, I have already learned a lot here.
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Thank you too Gary. It is nice to have a different perspective.
The XaraTemplates.com Xara X Presets can be gained directly for around £30. I rarely see a Magix bundle offer as an incentive.
In crude terms, Xara Plus will be around a third more expensive and is a Subscription; the Magix Update Service is a pseudo-Subscription but you do retain a perpetual licence.
The trade-in is no Magix involvement (apart from its hosting servers), no roll-back and always current. Magix will deliver just enough to keep people hooked.
From a web development perspective, you could pay big money for a personal website built and maintained by someone else. In Xara Plus, its annual cost is around a quarter of a commercial single page design.
For professional web development, few products have a return of investment of less than half a day.
Acorn
Acorn - installed Xara software: Cloud+/Pro+ and most others back through time (to CC's Artworks). Contact for technical remediation/consultancy for your web designs.
When we provide assistance, your responses are valuable as they benefit the community. TG Nuggets you might like. Report faults: Xara Cloud+/Pro+/Magix Legacy; Xara KB & Chat
So for a dumb person like me, am I correct to assume that xara designer pro will no longer be available by Magix?
behzad, nowhere have I said that.
The point I am making is Xara is breaking away from Magix so at sometime in the future, the Magix suite may not continue.
Someone decided not to uplift P&LD11, X3D7 and XWD (Magix no long offers XWD).
You have to determine how or why that is.
Acorn
Acorn - installed Xara software: Cloud+/Pro+ and most others back through time (to CC's Artworks). Contact for technical remediation/consultancy for your web designs.
When we provide assistance, your responses are valuable as they benefit the community. TG Nuggets you might like. Report faults: Xara Cloud+/Pro+/Magix Legacy; Xara KB & Chat
Interesting, takes a bit to digest all of that, thanks Acorn.
I just downloaded a v22 update which seems to have the new UI. It's darker than the previous versions. Initial thoughts are it's a bit too dark and higher contrast, I wonder if the UI color can be changed back or customized. If not I'll just have to get used to it.
XT-CMS - a self-hosted CMS for Xara Designers - Xara + CMS Demo with blog & ecommerce shopping cart system.
ACORN - Magix still offers XWD Premium.
https://www.magix.com/int/web/xara-web-designer/
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