Thank you and good bye! I'm no longer Xara's target audience.

[Dominique]

" Quand on veut noyer son chien, on dit qu'il a la rage"

Soit Photoshop est hautement supérieur, mais au prix stupéfiant où il est proposé, il faut faire partie des nantis ou alors économiser sur la nourriture et les vacances. J'exagère, mais à peine.

Je vous trouve un peu mesquin de nous présenter vos logiciels professionnels hors de prix alors que Xara vous a contenté le temps que vous l'avez utilisé.

Pour moi, Xara reste le must: simple d'emploi, accessible et malgré tout fonctionnel et polyvalant.

J'imagine que la multitude de logiciels professionnels dont vous avez accès, vous trouverez un programme qui sache traduire le texte d'une conscrite qui se plaît dans la "cour des petits", que vous n'hésitez pas à traiter par dessus la jambe.

[kinetica]

@ eobet, Does this mean you won't be buying version 5?

@ Dominique, un peu sévère!

[jens g.r. benthien]

I totally disagree with your post. It makes no sense.

It makes sense because Xara is still not available for the Mac. If it would be, I'd go for it.

The Mac is a very important platform for illustration and art work, so I really wonder why Xara is leaving this opportunity for others who can't even get close to what Xara can do.

I could cross upgrade most of my Win applications, in most cases with the identical serial number. ArtRage, PhotoLine, Photomatix Pro, Adobe Acrobat, LZ, VueScan, etc. Some are not (yet) available for the Mac, like Rhino (but the beta is already running), NoteTab Pro (I'm using Text Wrangler now which is close), Cinema 4D XL (version 7 doesn't run on Mac OSX and an upgrade to the latest version is too expensive and doesn't make sense to me for my purposes) and - you've guessed it - Xara.

Worst of all: I can't even open or convert the Xara file format to any other format like PDF <sigh>.

So I'm currently using Intaglio which is more finger cracking than something you can work with. Except for Acrobat I refuse to install any Adobe products because I don't like to adopt my work flow to that of some weird software engineers.

A life without Xara leaves a huge gap. But obviously that's the price you have to pay if you switch to a superior OS.

[pauland]

A life without Xara leaves a huge gap. But obviously that's the price you have to pay if you switch to a superior OS.

I think not.

http://store.apple.com/uk/browse/guide/windows

[esanabri]

Paul I totally agree, I have moved on to MAC and the first thing in my briefcase was XARA!

I do believe the the greatest thing a man or a company can do is to broaden the horizons of the "common" person...

all of the "professionals" that can't do "miracles with artwork" are few and far between... but us the "hobbiest" the people who are improving our media with a powerful simple to use and AFFORDABLE program like Xara, these are the people that by the thousands are making a difference...

so to those who moved on I say good bye, there a 1,000 new ones who will replace and enhance our lives with their contributions...

[Bob Hahn]

Next week I will have owned my iMac for 1 year now. I really enjoy my Mac and I see no reason to switch back to a PC or own a companion PC.

Currently I'm still using Xara on my Mac by running the free VirtualBox with Windows XP.

But this has been a year now for me doing this and I would like to stop the need to boot up XP in order to run Xtreme. Just as I made the switch from PC to Mac, I'm starting to look at other options out there in graphic software. I still love Xara Xtreme, but other Mac users aren't going to install Windows XP on their Mac in order to run Xtreme.

Apple software is easy to use and designed that way. Bundled programs like iMovie and iWeb, make it very easy for the home user to edit movies or create web sites. To me, Xara Xtreme is very much like a Mac program but created only for the PC.

The number os OS X users is smaller than Windows, but still that's millions of potential Xara users being turned away.

I'd like to see Xara Xtreme succeed, but I too like to succeed. If Xtreme can't venture to the Mac, I may look in seeing who else is out there and then my turn to the dark side would be complete. Come Xara. Join me. Together we can rule the galaxy!

[jens g.r. benthien]

I think not.

http://store.apple.com/uk/browse/guide/windows

I've already mentioned it in another post: why should I install a superfluous operating system on a stable and reliable system? Even Windoze XP Pro for which I have a licence needs more space on the hard drive than the highly performant OS X.

I wouldn't build a shabby Ssangyong engine into a Ferrari - would you?

[handrawn]

@EOBET Good luck... I wish you well - there are lots of things I prefer illustrator for, and lots xtreme, but this ground is trampled flat, no need [for me] to revisit

I really like the drawing - the style is one I know well, and am very fond of

[pauland]

I don't think Magix is the right kind of company for the Mac - they clearly have an agenda to chase the mass market and that doesn't really fit with Mac development, nor are they chasing the design professional, which would again score for a high percentage of mac users.

Running windows on the Mac is a second-best option, but it is there and seems to work perfectly. I think Xtreme 5 is a bit of a watershed in Xara development and continues the mass-market strategy that Magix is following.

[tonylondon]

eobet voices many of my thoughts and I wish him well. As the content of the program has changed, so has the content of this forum, such that I have very little to contribute any more.
I continue to use Xtreme but I'm not upgrading any more.