Re: Illustrator CS 2
The worst feature of the Adobe CS product range is that they love 'to call home'. I've heard they quit running if you don't have an Internet connection (rumors?).
But even though Xara X doesn't export CMYK color separations, you can achieve great results if you throw in the new Acrobat 7 Pro, because this version adds CMYK color separations. Adding the price for Acrobat plus Xara X, you don't spend as much as for Illustrator alone, and you have a superior set up in regards of speed, ease of handling, precision and all the nine yards.
One of the most important feature we use in coop with our photo studio and print shop is to create bitmaps with a high resolution for poster printing. We just add some text on a second layer, and then re-render the pictures, burn them to DVDs and send the extremely large formats to a subcontractor - RGB format! The largest 'poster' we've printed this year was almost 3 x 5 meters, thats around 9 x 15 feet.
If you try to render a TIF @600 dpi with Photoshop CS, it takes ages - with Xara just a few seconds (with a laptop!). Amazing and really a cutting edge advantage.
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