George--everything has difficulty involved.

However, XDP needs to be seen by Xara as something more than their web editor with some non-web stuff thrown in before substantial, meaningful, drawing and layout functionality is ever added. Xara's core user base are webbies, not illustrators or others who desire the drawing and typography enhancements many have been wanting.

Xara does get around to adding a bit here or there that has little to do with web stuff. But those features are few and far between. X11 may be a disappointment for myself but I won't really know until its release.

Dimensioning is also on my want list, but I think it is lower on my list than your needs--you do nice work, btw. I took a look on a gallery site. My wife is a turner and it amazes me to no end what y'all can do with chunks of wood.

Mike