I had a great experience yesterday. I brought a trial copy of Xara X to my daughter's school to show her class. I had arranged this awhile back and thought the kids would like it. I wasn't disappointed ... and neither were they. Even the class ruffians were glued to the screen, pulling quickshapes filling them ... beveling them etc.

Anyway ... the school's lab (like perhaps many schools), find it finacially tough to keep upgrading computers and so on, (luckily Xara X installed to Win' 95!)... I ran into problems with the blend steps. On most of the machines (all of them were very slow), I couldn't change the blend steps value. I only had an hour to show them around Xara. Last night the teacher asked me to come back again soon ... hopefully with a solution to the blend problem. It probably happens with the contour tool as well, but i didn't have time to check it. 25 Grade 5'ers are a handfull...
Thanks, Wayne