Web graphics tools (Was: Re: )

Dear Julie,

XARA is a great tool for creating vector graphics for web use.  It's a neat
package and has a good amount of support from their website (w.xara.com),
plus lots of tips and ideas.  There is also an animated 3D module if you
want that too.

BTW, I also use Corel 8, PageMaker, Photoshop, Illustrator, Irfan image
viewer (freeware), all running under Win95.

Xara is so easy to use (not to say that what it's capable of is simple), I
often do page layout with it and my kids learned it easily.  Imports native
files using .cdr, .psd, .ai, .eps, freehand 3, .jpg, .html, .pcd, .ras and
.pal file extensions.  Adjusts transparency, crops bitmaps, uses bitmaps as
textured fills, easy to put text on a curve.  You get a preview of the
finished image before exporting transparent gif's, so you can set other
attributes.  Try doing any of that using Illustrator -no thank you (three
days later you might have something ready...)!

The programme costs a third of the price for Corel 8 and thinks twice as
fast.  Takes up about 7meg on the hard drive.  There are pop-up galleries
for library items like bitmaps, fonts, line styles, fills, colours, layers
and clipart.

Oh yes, and it was built in UK, so it can't be bad!

HTH,

Paul Stevenson
Inside leg 31"





-----Original Message-----
From: Julie Katzer <j.katzer2(at)worldnet.att.net>
To: hwgbasics <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Cc: hwggraphics <hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org>
Date: 17 April 1999 01:43


>Hello everyone!
>
>I've scrapped and saved every penny, now I want to buy wysiwyg software.
>
>Years of graphic art, I have to see what I am doing, while I am doing it.
>
>I am leaning toward Dreamweaver and Fireworks package. Any imput?
>I am asking due to a recent very disturbing venture into the costly land of
>untried software.
>We are almost ready to hire an attorney...do they not think it should do
>what it clearly states
>on the packaging it can do, and more? Have they ever actually tried to
>perform any real
>functions on this piece of ..... 20 minutes to download to the printer?
What
>do you mean
>it can't output a jpeg file? It's suppose to.
>
>Anyway,  back on task, any imput would be greatly appreciated, I would
truly
>love to hear
>from someone using Dreamweaver who doesn't like it and why as well as the
>fans of
>that and any other products.
>
>For the graphics end of it, without starting a war, is Corel Draw or Adobe
>Illustrator more
>appropriate for web graphics? Is there a alternative for outrageous
effects?
>
>Thank you one and all in advance. I truly enjoy "the lists" hope to see
some
>of you at
>HTML4.0 for beginners class, (see the guild site)
>
>Julie
>
>
-----Original Message-----
From: Julie Katzer <j.katzer2(at)worldnet.att.net>
To: hwgbasics <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Cc: hwggraphics <hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org>
Date: 17 April 1999 01:43


>Hello everyone!
>
>I've scrapped and saved every penny, now I want to buy wysiwyg software.
>
>Years of graphic art, I have to see what I am doing, while I am doing it.
>
>I am leaning toward Dreamweaver and Fireworks package. Any imput?
>I am asking due to a recent very disturbing venture into the costly land of
>untried software.
>We are almost ready to hire an attorney...do they not think it should do
>what it clearly states
>on the packaging it can do, and more? Have they ever actually tried to
>perform any real
>functions on this piece of ..... 20 minutes to download to the printer?
What
>do you mean
>it can't output a jpeg file? It's suppose to.
>
>Anyway,  back on task, any imput would be greatly appreciated, I would
truly
>love to hear
>from someone using Dreamweaver who doesn't like it and why as well as the
>fans of
>that and any other products.
>
>For the graphics end of it, without starting a war, is Corel Draw or Adobe
>Illustrator more
>appropriate for web graphics? Is there a alternative for outrageous
effects?
>
>Thank you one and all in advance. I truly enjoy "the lists" hope to see
some
>of you at
>HTML4.0 for beginners class, (see the guild site)
>
>Julie
>
>

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