Xara Photo & Graphic Designer+ minor DTP features omitted

[CharlieJeit]

Hi

Can I just confirm that while Xara Photo & Graphic Designer+ has full multi-page functionality along with multicolumn text flow, that simple DTP features such as text breaks and page numbering have been omitted?

I can live without these (and I can't justify the cost of the full Xara package anymore), but it does seem a great pity.

Charlie

[Acorn]

Charlie, the omissions are tabled here: https://www.xara.com/uk/designer-pro/compare/.

Acorn

[Boy]

I hadn't seen that comparison chart yet. The product naming is confusing: Web Designer+, P&G Designer+? Sold and serviced by Magix?

Also strange that the Magix version of XDP is not included in the chart.

[Acorn]

I hadn't seen that comparison chart yet. The product naming is confusing: Web Designer+, P&G Designer+? Sold and serviced by Magix?
Also strange that the Magix version of XDP is not included in the chart.

Boy, the + (Plus) products are all Xara. Xara is trying its best to decouple its products from the Magix listings.
If you want XDP then you need to go to Magix.

Acorn

[Boy]

Boy, the + (Plus) products are all Xara. Xara is trying its best to decouple its products from the Magix listings.
If you want XDP then you need to go to Magix.

Acorn

That's why I posted, Acorn. Look at the rows "Sales & Support from Xara" and "Sales, Support & Update Service from Magix" and which boxes are ticked.

[CharlieJeit]

Charlie, the omissions are tabled here: https://www.xara.com/uk/designer-pro/compare/.

Acorn

Thanks, Acorn - very useful - I had missed that.

There is nothing of interest for me in Designer Pro+ except page/column breaks and page numbering. Hardly what I would call "professional" grade features though!

Charlie

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That's why I posted, Acorn. Look at the rows "Sales & Support from Xara" and "Sales, Support & Update Service from Magix" and which boxes are ticked.

oops...

[Acorn]

That's why I posted, Acorn. Look at the rows "Sales & Support from Xara" and "Sales, Support & Update Service from Magix" and which boxes are ticked.

Boy, if you look at the individual Plus products, you'll see they're Xara subscriptions. They're flagged as version 22. Magix do not sell these.

Sloppy copy on Xara's part.

Acorn

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Sloppy copy on Xara's part.

Acorn

did I say oops....

[Boy]

Boy, if you look at the individual Plus products, you'll see they're Xara subscriptions. They're flagged as version 22. Magix do not sell these.

Sloppy copy on Xara's part.

Acorn

I know that Magix doesn't sell the Plus products. But what a foul-up Xara made, in the first two rows of their chart! It must be a carry-over from an older comparison chart listing Magix products (like the one of XDP and XDP+. Or else they mixed up the product images since Magix offers the same products. Or whatever.