![]() Maybe Xara LX made some sense back in 2008 but in 2012 it's 100% Inkscape for vector graphic design. My understanding of the problem with Xara LX was that around the time of LX release they got bought by someone and the new owner was not interested in making Xara open source and also did not have resources to continue its development as a proprietary software on Linux.Īnyhow, back to your point: no, there is absolutely no reason to keep officially recommending Xara LX since it's a pretty much dead project and so far behind Inkscape that it would only lead to a disappointment which, in turn, will reflect poorly on Ubuntu. After sitting on a fence for about a year I felt like I gave Xara LX a very honest try but enough is enough and completely switched to Inkscape for anything vector-related and never looked back. ![]() I tried to use LX for some projects I started in Win but LX was missing tools and did not fully understand Windows Xara files I tried to open with it. ![]() At the time Xara LX came out, it was already two or three years behind its Windows versions. ![]() ![]() I was a devoted Xara user before switching to Ubuntu some 4 years ago and Xara LX was the very first program I installed in addition to the stock Ubuntu software. ![]()
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