Which other brand graphic design software do you use and why?

[pauland]

Here's one feature that is completely missing from Xara and is supported by my UI software and Adobe Illustrator - artboards.

It essentially allows you to have project files and within that multiple artboards for individual artwork. You can build variations of artwork easily by duplicating artboards and you can see everything as though it was laid out on a single sheet.

Xara users don't work like this and many might argue what the value of this kind of working is when essentially the project file is like a Xara directory and artboards are like files in the directory.

If you are building a lot of related items that will be used in multiple images it's a superb way to work. You can copy and paste from one part to another, easily. If you don't wish to you can use the software like Xara and have no artboards at all.

The embedded image was reduced to 3% so I could capture it. All vector.

A big thumbs-up for artboards.