2016 - 2017 new feature requests

[digitalphaser]

By the way. Art brushes are incredibly loaded processor. Combining pieces of brush in one shape 100% leads to the freezing of the program. My machine with 64Gb memory can not cope with this. Unfortunately.

[Gare]

By the way. Art brushes are incredibly loaded processor. Combining pieces of brush in one shape 100% leads to the freezing of the program. My machine with 64Gb memory can not cope with this. Unfortunately.

I think all of this is a result of having to work with 30 year old code that the programmers are sort of locked into and need to create kludges.

Compare calligraphic or "nozzle-type" brushes in Xara to Illustrator or CorelDRAW. I'm don't know about DRAW, but Adobe re-factored Illustrator years ago to get over programming hurdles that are legacy.

It almost literally broke my heart the other day while I was trying to trace off a piece of an Art Nouveau sculpture in Xara, only at a certain point being forced to work in Creature House Expression, because it let me define the stroke as a vector, and I could customize the width of the stroke on the fly. When the stroke is simplified and it was a vector shape to begin with, it remains a vector, you can smooth it in Expression, and then export as an AI file to Xara.



This is 2003 technology, and Microsoft basically gives it away, after partially wrecking the program, and then scratching their corporate pinheads over why no one bought the program.

How about Xara makes everyone happy and puts advanced drawing tools into a Web creation program?



-g

[digitalphaser]

...It almost literally broke my heart the other day while I was trying to trace off a piece of an Art Nouveau sculpture in Xara, only at a certain point being forced to work in Creature House Expression, because it let me define the stroke as a vector, and I could customize the width of the stroke on the fly. When the stroke is simplified and it was a vector shape to begin with, it remains a vector, you can smooth it in Expression, and then export as an AI file to Xara...

Thanks for the info.
Paradox. For a long time I bought Xara to replace heavy CD and AI. Now I get more and more programs that replace Xara.
When I have to do quickly job, I open automatically XDP. I do not have time to learn(or remember) other software. At the moment, I know XDP better than any other vector editor.

I have a free idea. Xara can develop a bridge that will allow to open the selected layers in any program installed on user computer.

And developers will have more time to develop their beloved child Web Designer.

It is of course a joke. Although?

[Gare]

Thanks for the info.
Paradox. For a long time I bought Xara to replace heavy CD and AI. Now I get more and more programs that replace Xara.
When I have to do quickly job, I open automatically XDP. I do not have time to learn(or remember) other software. At the moment, I know XDP better than any other vector editor.

+5 here. Xara is my default drawing program. I know all the shortcuts like tying my sneakers, and it's light and fast.
Can't it gain some weight though, and still be fast?

I have a free idea. Xara can develop a bridge that will allow to open the selected layers in any program installed on user computer.

How about asking Adobe to work on their program, Bridge, so that a Xara file will not only open in any program on your computer, but it will also open on anyone's computer? Cloud computing at its finest.

Nahhhh.

And developers will have more time to develop their beloved child Web Designer.

It is of course a joke. Although? :)

If that were a joke, you'd hear us laughing, digitalphaser. :(

Web Designer is not the developers' beloved child. It's Magix's.

Not entirely meaning to be snarky here, but Xara Designer is fast, usually exports to bitmap beautifully, is very accommodating with different exports, mostly gets PDFs right...and doesn't show a lot of competitive nature in 2016 with other products. Or 2105, or I could go on, or shut up to the appreciation of TPTB.

Drawing tools, please...

[digitalphaser]

If that were a joke, you'd hear us laughing, digitalphaser.

Web Designer is not the developers' beloved child. It's Magix's....

Yes I know. Unfortunately, we often do, then we do not want to do.

Magix is known through its first-class(at least once it was) audio software(Samplitude). Everything else are basically hobby goods. I hope that everything else except XDP.

[angelize]

I would love to see an improvement in the galleries. The ability to import nested folders in the designs, fills, and brushes galleries.

[Gare]

I would love to see an improvement in the galleries. The ability to import nested folders in the designs, fills, and brushes galleries.

+1

And more galleries, perhaps even being ab le to minimize the galleries to a right-edge vertical dock of icons, as Adobe does, rather than teensy icons and text that's usually not possible to read.

A DTP gallery, A Brushe Editor gallery as soon as brushes become editable beyond degree of roundness and size, put the stuff "up front". People don' t like to have to drill down to find stuff.
-g

[iamtheblues]

I think all of this is a result of having to work with 30 year old code that the programmers are sort of locked into and need to create kludges.
-g

Well, there is of course an answer, but it might require the sort of overhaul that Adobe did to their Illustrator coding before the release of CS6, I think it was.
I'm sure that everyone is suffering because the developers at Magix/Xara are being hobbled by ancient code.
Time to bite the bullet, perhaps? (it might throw the scheduling of updates for the next 365, though)
Bob.