Re: Xara Designer Pro X10 Released
I’m sorry many of you sound disappointed. We concede there was not a lot for our illustration users in v9 & 10, but our priorities were different because there were some issues – such as RWD or fixing 32 bit plugins - which simply had to be attended to, and these were big development commitments (RWD amazingly so, as it turned out). There were not the same glaring fix-or-die weaknesses in vector features. Plenty of suggestions, yes, but no consensus on ‘must haves’. We understand that means that many illustrators will understandably decide not to upgrade this time, and we have to live with that.
For v11 we are considering illustration again. You might not all value SmartShapes but one of the reasons we added this feature is that we could use that vector technology for future features that might be more interesting to you. I can’t give you any commitments at this stage, no final decisions have been made for v11, but I can definitely say that we have no policy to drop illustration.
One more thing I’d add; TG has a concentrated core of illustration users which doesn’t quite reflect our total audience. That means you maybe don’t get the sense that I do, sitting here, that similar numbers of owners are making equally impassioned pleas for us to add new web, page layout and photo features. Our surveys suggest that a typical Pro owners uses all of them – we have after all promoted it as a one-stop graphic design solution for many years! Plus we have a new project in the works too, directly related to and hopefully guaranteeing the long term future of Camelot (the engine that drives the whole Designer suite) which has been taking our resources for over a year. All of this we try to balance, at least over the life of several upgrade cycles. Nothing has been abandoned (but we are throwing more people at it!)
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Kate Moir
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