HI,
I've been doing some quite complex drawings which have between 5,000 and 15,000 objects.
At this level, I'm finding Xara Designer Pro so slow that it is unusable. For example, it takes 10 minutes to export a 300 DPI JPEG. Just saving the documents takes about 5 minutes. Resizing takes 2-3 minutes.
The CPU meter reads about 20% during the various activities and the RAM usage is not significant. I have a Core i7 with 16 GM RAM and a GTX specialised graphics card in the $3000 laptop I use. I don't think the issue is with the hardware. My workflow is trashed. I've been a Xara fan for a long time, but I may have to go back to Adobe and Corel.
Any ideas?