Quote Originally Posted by Rik View Post
Thanks for the quick reply Ivan.

The first link to the website: http://fr.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/...OmbresEtLueurs

It is in French. As I don't speak or read French, I don't know what the web site is saying? Is it that you can purchase these add-ons for Xara?

Rik.
Rik,

Inkscape is a free vector drawing and editing program which supports bitmaps like Xara : http://www.inkscape.org/

This is a work in progress already with many interesting features, but its approach is somewhat different from Xara and at the moment for example its rendering engine is far from being as quick as Xara's one is.

Exchanges between Inkscape and Xara are possible through pdf and svg, but if you apply some filters to vector objects in Inkscape it's better to export them in png and then import them into Xara.

And sorry for the link in french. At the moment I write my doc in my mother language and it will be translated when finished. The link to english doc is this one : http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Inkscape/WebHome but the pictures only are there.

kindly,
ivan