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Perhaps what Xara need to know to improve marketing (if they don't know already), is where you saw Xara first, and what made you buy it?
For me it was a demo at (I think) the Windows 95 show in London - it just wowed me - the speed and power.
What about everyone else?
www.thelondonhouse.co.uk
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Perhaps what Xara need to know to improve marketing (if they don't know already), is where you saw Xara first, and what made you buy it?
For me it was a demo at (I think) the Windows 95 show in London - it just wowed me - the speed and power.
What about everyone else?
www.thelondonhouse.co.uk
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I bought my first PC ever in november 1999, and bought the DRAW9 suite. I often visited I-US com andwas intrigued by Gary's Xara pages. But when I finally decided to invest the money, Xara couldn't be bought anymore, and I had to wait for this mysterious "X".
Although I don't use DRAW anymore, I still wonder whether the former version of Xara wasn't more stable than this one...
X has, for me, already too much features I never use: the drawing app would be sufficient for me. But this is the case with most software. For me.
Being a little paranoid (is this an understatement?) I feel that there is still a lot of big money busy in the background, kindling the conservatism in designers to counterbalance X's superior possibilities. Think of video2000 and Betamax: the worst, VHS, has won...
If you don't work against time, time often works for you.
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I was a CorelDraw user. At a local CorelDRAW user's group meeting, a graphic designer gave a XARA DEMONSTRTATION. I REMEMBER HE SHOWED GRADIENT TRANSPARENCIES. I had never seen a vector program for the PC that could this.
So I went to the now defunct local Egghead store. They had a promotion with a 20 or 30 dollar discount. I bought CorelXARA used it a little and then about a year later a lot more when I needed to produce web graphics.
I MUST SAY THAT THE DEMOS ON THE DISKS ARE WHAT KEPT MY INTEREST, particularly since they showed that some pretty "sophisticated" stuff could be produced without a lot of blood, sweat, and tears.
I-US.com was the other vehicle which kept my attention on Xara.
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I bought it on the recommendation of one:
GARY W. PRIESTER
and things have been getting better ever' since.
[img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] ...Tad
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Thanks Erik and Tad
I saw Xara demonstrated in Huston at the CorelWorld Conference by Leah Hayman, one of the brightest people who ever worked at Corel (she left shortly thereafter). DRAW was just introducing version 6 at the time.
When I saw the gradient transparency, and drag and drop features, I was totally blown away and said, got to have it. And I bought it on the spot.
Gary
Gary Priester
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Looking for a photo-editing program, bought a bundle called Corel Graphics Pack II. Hidden inside was Xara. It's all I have left of the whole bundle.
Arnold
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I was using Draw5 and following Gary's monthly tuts. He kept sneaking in Xara stuff and boasting about how fast it was. I was sick and tired of long screen re-draws.
Judi
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A friend from England came over to visit and brought CorelXARA and gave it to my Dad about ?5? years ago. I don't think my Dad ever used it more than once. All I had known about computer graphics before that was Window's "Paint"! So when I first started using xara I was amazed by the simplest things. I started drawing boomboxes and radios and whatever we had lying around the house and was amazed by the detail I could input into the picture. I have lost those renders since then [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif[/img] would be nice to see what I was doing back then!
Many years later after everyone else had XaraX I finally saved up some money and my Dad agreed to split the cost. Best money I've ever spent
Steve Newport
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I'm sure there are more people than just me out there who maybe don't want to admit to it, but I owned an Acorn RISC OS computer and had used Artworks.
Around the time Windows 95 came out, and it was obvious Acorn computers had been dead and buried, I read about a PC version of Artworks. I think it was going to be called Camelot, but was released under the name Xara Studio.
So, I bought the Xara software because I'd used Artworks, written by Xara under the Computer Concepts name.