Q:WinXP Users, will Xara stop being "sold" and be all OpenSource for Win soon?

[remi]

Charles, I think, one of the most asked features for a 'premium' version here in the forum is a better Colour Management for those designers, who needs to print their work in CMYK mode or have to import/export CMYK images.

I have still a few further points on my wish list:

• PDF-Import
• Multipage support together with an enhanced text engine (paragraph and character styles, tabulators, text wrap, text flow from one textframe to another textframe)
• Scripting (JavaScript)
• Export Images in Slices should'nt create HTML code with <table>-tags, but with <div>-tags. Creating Webpages with complex table-layouts is no longer up-to-date.
• The same point with the button tool.
• Gradient Mesh Fills
• Functions to create 3D-effects

With you I stand in hope that some of the points are faster realized than expected by the growing community of developers.

Regards,
Remi

[outofspacero]

Thank you very much for the answer mr. Charles,
And i must say i have high hopes for xara xtreme and look forward to all of the enhancements that remi has posted just above me, i couldn't agree more with text engine ehancement, import of pdf, and web related stuff.. but also i think that the most thing that i want is the new features that people don't ask for. I mean you've stated that you were the pioneers of some technologies that other software makers copied from xara, so i look forward to xara coming back with something evolutionary again, or revolutionary
Who knows what the future will bring in the drawing software business

[amoore]

Xara XS is a cut-down version of Xara Xtreme...

Thanks, Charles. I've passed the info on.

Allison