Quote Originally Posted by onlye View Post
Struggling with renewing my update service. I am currently on Xara Designer Pro X 17.1.0.60742 DL x64 Dec 9 2020 so the March update is the only thing I get for now. Current upgrade "special" is $99 and not the usual ridiculous $149. If it were not for the $50 savings I would not be deliberating. I don't see the March update containing any great value as I use FHD monitors. After over 40 website in Xara, I left the web development functions behind two years ago. I recently purchased Affinity to do a single function I couldn't do in Xara.
I use Xara daily creating logos, editing images for websites, building online ads, etc. I have kept the product up-to-day for over 10 years. Since the subscription service I feel less and less value in updates.
Someone tell my what I might be missing.
Happy Drawing, e
onlye, you still have some web content interest so the recent inclusion of Webp, SVG handling and improved PDF probably all have a breaking.

If I were in your shoes but had the chance of website refresh of my back catalogue, I might look at a monthly subscription for access to Xara Pro+, while keeping v17 for the day job.
You get to see what's new when you are being paid to doing a specific job.

In the meantime, download the v18 trial and see if it has anything of particular interest.

I recently spent a whole $10(US) (annual subs) for Boxy SVG which so complements and augments Xara; I particularly love its UI: try Library > Photos > Search: something and right/double-click on an image.
It does loads of things I am just discovering...

Acorn