Hey all,
I am a new ( trial ) user to Xara Xtreme Pro user. I don't know how I've managed to not hear about or find about this software. I've been an avid Adobe Illustrator user for years. So last night I download my trial version of the software, install it, run through all the online video tutorials I can find ( even some on YouTube), and then jump in to see how I like the program.
My first impression is a great one. I love the ease by which I can create and manipulate the vector art. It reminds me a lot of Flash drawing in some ways ( in a good way ).
However, as I began to dabble in adding effects such as bevels, shadows, and gradients, I noticed that as I zoomed in, I got severe bitmapping. Wait! That's not supposed to happen in a vector program!! Accroding to one of the training online videos, the nice lady told me I could zoom in and zoom in and Xara would keep my drawing "tack sharp". Mind you, I was just playing around too, nothing serious. Literally seconds into placing shapes here and there and I started seeing this problem.
I was really discouraged because I really wanted Xara to be the "saviour" from those long tedious Illustrator projects. I was so utterly impressed with the gallery of art I've seen in the examples section.
Is it my system? ( AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 2.21 GHz with 4GB RAM and ATI X800XT 512MB VRAM ). Maybe the settings in my Xara trial software is not set correctly?
I outputted to a .pdf file, and first of all it took ages for the file to render to a .pdf file. Once it rendered out, it was very pixelated. Whenever I "print" out to a .pdf file from Illustrator I get no pixelization even when I zoom in using my Adobe Acrobat software!
What is going on? I am lost. It doesn't make any sense to me. Has anyone experienced this same problem? Is there a solution to this? How do I get my Xara drawings to look like perfect .pdf files? Attached are some screenshots of my initial fumbling around in this software.
at 100%:
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j3...enshot_100.jpg
at 500% ( it's hard to see here in this .jpg, but there's already bitmapping apparant in my program by this point):
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j3...enshot_500.jpg
at 2000%:
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j3...nshot_2000.jpg
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