Designer Pro 6 Manual Now Available

[gwpriester]

Thanks to Designer Spirit for the lead.

For information, the printed manual of Xara Designer Pro 6 is now available for sale at 30 $ or 20 €.

Visit Xara website for purchasing it at :

http://www.xara.com/store/

[JaffDave]

I can't see it here?

[Nostaw]

Is there an option to include the printed manual together with the DVD (when it's sent out in a couple of weeks) to save shipping cost?

[gwpriester]

It's perhaps too subtle?

[Nostaw]

ha ha Gary It's only $8 to Australia, so I ordered my copy. I haven't read the manual since version 3, would be good to refresh my memories.

[Odat]

I'd like to get the printed manual, but $30 is a bit to steep for me unfortunately.

I sort of feel a little penalized as well; If I was a X5 user, I wouldn't have a manual, but $99 would net me the new Pro version plus a manual. As an XP5 user, I have an outdated manual from the very first Pro version, but I still get to pay $99 to upgrade without getting a manual.

Still, I can live without being able to read up on things away from my PC. $30 is a significant contribution towards my next Guitar.

[Nostaw]

Odat: I think we (Xara users) have been *really* lucky in the past about pricing, really.
I can't blame Xara to increase their price.

Xara Designer Pro6 = $299
Update from Pro5 to Pro6 = $99 - 33% of the original price.

Adobe CS5 Master Collection = $2.599
Adobe CS4 to CS5 upgrade = $899 - 34% of the original price.

I think it puts things in perspective.

Regarding the manual, $30 is not cheap, but not too expensive either. CS5 doesn't come with printed manuals either (except the installation 'Manual' on how to enter the DVD's in your drive).

[Odat]

The only problem that I have with the $99 price is that some of that is to pay for web features that I'm not really interested in at all. I can't really fault Xara too much on that front however, that's just a peculiarity of my own. The other enhancements are still enough that I will most likely upgrade (haven't pulled the trigger just yet, but it's inevitable I think).

I guess what sort of rankles is the idea that someone else can pay the same amount of money but get (arguably) $30 more value out of the purchase, not including also getting more added features than I do (because they will get the pro only features that I already have). I guess presumably that fixes itself after the trial period or something. I don't know if the price for both upgrades will still stay the same or not.

In any case it's not something I'm all up in arms about by any stretch, and it's certainly nothing that would stop me from upgrading or anything like that. Just sort of a disappointment is all.

[ankhor]

Odat: I think we (Xara users) have been *really* lucky in the past about pricing, really.
I can't blame Xara to increase their price.

Xara Designer Pro6 = $299
Update from Pro5 to Pro6 = $99 - 33% of the original price.

Adobe CS5 Master Collection = $2.599
Adobe CS4 to CS5 upgrade = $899 - 34% of the original price.

I think it puts things in perspective.

I think this wasn`t the comparison he made.
XX5 users get to pay $99 for XDP6 AND get the new manual, bargain upon bargain.
but XXP5 users get to pay $99 for XDP6 AND ..... that was it.

So already Pro users have to pay $99 + $30 = $129 to get what non Pro users,
who have XX5, get for $99. When they already have a bargain for not paying the
higher price that already Pro users already payed years ago.

Get it now?

PS. non Pro users are still very very veeeeeeeeeeeeery lucky considering pricing
if they upgrade from XX5 to XDP6. Only already Pro users are not. They seem to forget
that not all Pro buyers are Pro's, I don`t make money from it

[tonylondon]

Yes, Ankhor is absolutely right. So far as I can see we don't even get a PDF version