In message <4f9413cb7ariscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Richard Ashbery <riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I really don't think Xara would be > any better than ArtWorks - but I must be honest and say I have never > used Xara so somebody will probably come back to say I'm wrong. Xara Pro 4 is simply fantastic to use 3D and photo stitching / editing, DTP live formatting move the image around and watch the text repelled by it in real time. Whilst the standard xtreme has multiple colours graduation, bevel, contour, tool brush creation .... marble / wood fills edge fading, shadow, plug ins like crumple However for the simpler uses Artworks is still the better editing set to use - I recently was given a cartoon gif to blow up to to 1300mm and tried drawing over the lines in Xara but found I could not control the lines as easy, so went over to artworks to draw/trace it then used xara to colour it in with plasma and graduation effects Hmmm - Martin would a plasma fill be easy to implement in Artworks? nick k -- ------------------------------------------------------------ To change, suspend or cancel your subscription go to //www.freelists.org/list/artworks ------------------------------------------------------------