Xara Designer Pro 8 - new options

[ad1066]

Any addition to DTP features gets a big +1 from me.

-- Ben

[gwpriester]

Great suggestions.

You can toggle the case from upper to lower with a keyboard shortcut. With the character or characters selected, press Ctrl + w.

[MEB]

As Gary said you already can toggle between uppercase and lowercase.
+1 for all the rest plus full opentype support

[xtom]

They should add the change uppercase/lowercase option to right click menu when text is selected. It's hard to remember all the keyboard shortcuts.

[angelize]

+1
Auto hyphenation would be great for both DTP and Web Design

[tonylondon]

I would like to see a little more effort on DTP generally. It is frustrating to see so much effort going on web design. Particularly long documents: Automatic page numbers, text para styles, contents generation for a start.

[JonH27]

I'm with you on DTP-type features, Tony. FWIW, I asked Kate Moir in her thread about WD MX whether the new Text Styles feature would have an equivalent in the next Designer Pro version, and she said yes. Now this could mean that - as we would expect - the web-design aspects of Designer Pro 8 (MX?) will include this feature, OR that there will indeed be a paper-focused text style feature. I'm hoping for an InDesign or Ventura-type paragraph tagging tool which would get us nearer to a DTP-type workflow. Fingers crossed!

Jon

[bubbbab]

I'd like to see the toggle be able to work on and entire selection of text regardless of mixed case letters that are present. Right now, if I am doing it right, Ctrl-W reverses every character. All uppers become lower and all lowers become upper. I'd like to be able to toggle all of those character to either upper or lower in their entirety. Hope I explained this right

Great suggestions.

You can toggle the case from upper to lower with a keyboard shortcut. With the character or characters selected, press Ctrl + w.

[angelize]

So if I am reading this right you are asking to be able to toggle the behaviour of the ctrl+w shortcut to enable you change a word or words typed like this: aBCdeFg to this:AbcDEfG ?

[bubbbab]

Thanks Frances.

No, I believe that's the way it works now.

Steve