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Xara X1 Massive discount (expires 28th September)
mrainey:
Thanks a bunch for that one Carol. I opted for the download version, it's already installed and looks very nice. If you and allen think that highly of it, I'm sold already.
One of the few programs I've run across that actually wouldn't install until I closed everything else (firewall, anti-virus, etc.)
Deozaan:
One of the few programs I've run across that actually wouldn't install until I closed everything else (firewall, anti-virus, etc.)
-mrainey (September 25, 2006, 05:22 PM)
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That's useful information to know!
Carol Haynes:
It's from the UK and it comes in a DVD case with some documentation.
-Carol Haynes (September 25, 2006, 02:08 PM)
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Documentation is good! I don't feel so bad about the shipping now.
So I decided to try to look into what I had bought, and I can't find any information on X1. Just Xtreme. Are they basically the same thing but with Xtreme has a few more features?
-Deozaan (September 25, 2006, 05:10 PM)
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The sequence of programmes was:
ArtWorks (on the Acorn RiscOS platform - probably mid 1980s but I can't remember - I still have a copy somewhere)
Xara
Xara X
Xara X1
Xara Xtreme
Xara and Xara X were long term developments of ArtWorks moved to the the Windows platform and enhanced. X1 was a single upgrade to X and then Xtreme became the next version - so basically X1 is just the previous version to the current one.
Don't expect too much from the documentation - IIRC it was a keyboard shortcuts card. Having said that $8 delivery is probably cost price with UK postage prices these days - they certainly won't make a lot of profit out of that (if any) - and at least they deliver properly packaged CDs unlike most suppliers these days you usually just send stuff out in a paper slip cover!And they still give the option to download while you wait for the package.
My only gripe with Xara deliveries is that they tend to be a bit slow (esp. when they are running promotions) but that just refelects the fact that they are a small company doing everything by hand.
allen:
It's from the UK and it comes in a DVD case with some documentation.
-Carol Haynes (September 25, 2006, 02:08 PM)
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Documentation is good! I don't feel so bad about the shipping now.
So I decided to try to look into what I had bought, and I can't find any information on X1. Just Xtreme. Are they basically the same thing but with Xtreme has a few more features?
-Deozaan (September 25, 2006, 05:10 PM)
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For the most part. Xara X1 was undoubtedly a solid version of Xara, though some of the additions to xtreme are really cool (and definitely worth the upgrade if you find you like X1 -- no better vector editing app out there ;)
Changes are here--http://xara.com/products/xtreme/whatsnew.asp
Deozaan:
So I decided to try to look into what I had bought, and I can't find any information on X1. Just Xtreme. Are they basically the same thing but with Xtreme has a few more features?
-Deozaan (September 25, 2006, 05:10 PM)
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For the most part. Xara X1 was undoubtedly a solid version of Xara, though some of the additions to xtreme are really cool (and definitely worth the upgrade if you find you like X1 -- no better vector editing app out there ;)
Changes are here--http://xara.com/products/xtreme/whatsnew.asp
-allen (September 25, 2006, 05:32 PM)
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Heh. I'm more interested in finding out What's Old. I know that back in the early days when you and I first met, Allen, that you used Xara to make animations. I thought it was weird to have one file for every frame (at that time I was using PSP & Animation Studio) but now that I've gotten Flash I can't stand the idea of going back to the old way. So I know Xara is tried and true for you, but I've never explored it before and don't know how it compares next to Flash.
I guess I'll just look at Xtreme and subtract the things I see in What's New and that will tell me what X1 is all about. Thank goodness for common math education!
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