Xara Xtreme 6

[covoxer]

And a basic animations so it's probably sums up to 6?

[highfrontier]

just out of curiosity I had a look at CS4 pricing..
looks like that version (master ed.) is even more expensive than mentioned - not just a couple of hundred either.. nearly A$1,500 more! ouch!

[Daniel]

Don't go kidding yourselves that Xtreme has even close to the featureset of between 4 and 6 components of Adobe's CS4 suites.

[highfrontier]

Don't go kidding yourselves that Xtreme has even close to the featureset of between 4 and 6 components of Adobe's CS4 suites.

True, but remember that most of us don't need the entire 10+GB span of features in all of the Adobe apps.

Unfortunately, what we do need from Adobe is spread out around lots of apps - result : the need to purchase a very expensive bulging suite of software taking up a lot of space and with a complicated workflow to do what could have been satisfied by a surprisingly capable, well written program for a fraction of the cost.

[Xcellent]

Don't go kidding yourselves that Xtreme has even close to the featureset of between 4 and 6 components of Adobe's CS4 suites.

+1.
Xara adds fantastic value to CS4 to me - but it's not a replacement for CS4.

CS4 is an amazing product, from video creation, special FX (After FX), Photoshop, Professional DVD authoring, Print post production.
In my work chain, Xara is tool #1, then further CS4.
But again, it's not for everyone. On a different topic, I think Adobe would have been better off buying Xara than Magix.

Back to the topic: Is there a release date for Xara6?

[Soquili]

On a different topic, I think Adobe would have been better off buying Xara than Magix.

Adobe would have buried Xara and we all would be mourning it's loss.

[zaphodeist]

...I think Adobe would have been better off buying Xara than Magix...

But then there wouldn't be a Xara anymore! They'd nick the best bits for their expensive product and scrap the Xara marque. We can't all afford Adobe

EDIT Didn't see your post Bill, glad somebody else shuddered at the thought!

[Xcellent]

Well maybe some competition is good No way Adobe would have dumped Xara.

[zaphodeist]

Let's hope your optimism isn't put to the test

[Soquili]

No way Adobe would have dumped Xara.

Tell that to all the Freehand users.