Xara Designer Pro 8 - new options

[Aciden]

Dear Developers,
The ability to work with CMYK palette is absolutely essential,however it needs some changes:
1 the possibility to make Create Bitmap Copy in CMYK;

2 unproblematic export of TIFF into CMYK; because now it is just like this (pic)



3 in Simulate Print Colours mode colours need to be more similar to those in Photoshop or Illustrator

[mwenz]

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2 unproblematic export of TIFF into CMYK; because now it is just like this (pic)

Have you checked the CMYK output in a bitmap editor? I usually get extremely close to exact readouts and they do print precisely as designed. Usually any deviation from the CMYK values I get are due to slight rounding differences that will not affect print.

I only quickly made an XDP drawing that resembled yours. But in the screen shots below, the print will be as vibrant as CMYK allows and the values are a near exact match.

Take care, Mike

[Aciden]

Have you checked the CMYK output in a bitmap editor? I usually get extremely close to exact readouts and they do print precisely as designed. Usually any deviation from the CMYK values I get are due to slight rounding differences that will not affect print.

I only quickly made an XDP drawing that resembled yours. But in the screen shots below, the print will be as vibrant as CMYK allows and the values are a near exact match.

Take care, Mike

I'm not speaking about colours. Look at patch of light, what happened to it after export

[UnmeteredIIS]

When is the DP8 release scheduled? I'd like to see everthing
in DP7 and MX8 merged into DP8 along with some Magix Magic

[Soquili]

Xara never leaks release dates for a new product. We will only know when they release a new version.

Historically the Web Designer version is released in early spring, which has happened with the release of Web Designer MX and Web Designer MX Premium.

The Designer Pro version always contains all the features of the Web Designer version released that same year. This mean the next release of Designer Pro will also have all the Web Designer MX Premium features.

[StevenWWinters]

When is the DP8 release scheduled?

Based on the last several releases of the "pro" version with all of its various name changes, it looks like May/June would be a good guess...