What are you hoping to see in the next version of Designer Pro?

**angelize** · 13 April 2013, 08:50 AM

Now that we've all had a chance to check out the new web design features in WD9/P anticipation is beginning to grow about the next release of Designer Pro. What are you hoping for in the next release?

Here are a few things I am hoping for (in no particular order)

A choice of nib shapes for the shapebuilder tool
info bar transparency settings for the shapebuilder and eraser tool
Auto hyphenation
export to ebook format
brush strokes that stretch along the path

**gwpriester** · 13 April 2013, 12:56 PM

Support for spot color in bitmaps. I have been hoping to see this for many releases and I am not holding my breath.

**StevenWWinters** · 13 April 2013, 03:09 PM

**Egg Bramhill** · 13 April 2013, 07:23 PM

A fix to the delay in opening the Utilities/Options window. If I have several large photos loaded this delay can be an eternity.

A fix to the "open with" default program. For example I have jpg's & png's etc set to open by default with Xara. Unfortunately it opens them with Designer Pro 6 regardless of if I set it to XDPX. Long overdue a solution.

**Big Frank** · 13 April 2013, 09:21 PM

html5 export

**steve.ledger** · 13 April 2013, 09:28 PM

There is improved HTML5/CSS3 usage in WD version 9, Frank. This will of course make it to DP9.

Web Designer 9 automatically makes use of HTML5 whenever it can, so you get a state of the art website without having to do anything or understand anything about HTML! In v9 we ensure that your graphics are exported in the best format for current browsers (shapes such as rectangles, rounded rectangles with grad fills and transparency, shadows, text with shadows and page backgrounds, are displayed using native HTML not memory hungry PNGs) . It’s more efficient, and that means your site will be faster.

Your site will of course still work with older browsers.

**Rob-H** · 03 June 2013, 08:59 AM

I'd like to see colour management capabilities. In particular the ability to drive the printer directly using an ICC profile in the same way that is possible with the Adobe products. Anything to get the printed output closer to the colours on screen!

**ad1066** · 07 June 2013, 12:38 PM

I'd like to see the Simulate Print Colors option stick on a per-document basis. If I'm designing something for print, I'd like it to default to that mode whenever I open that particular file.

-- Ben

**wizard509** · 07 June 2013, 03:07 PM

A way to lock the tool bars.

**teonieuwlande** · 09 June 2013, 06:45 PM

I know Xara since CorelXara, which I used for signmaking. Alltought Xara support scaling, it does not support surfaces larger than 2.75 meter. I would love to see that, since it would make Xara the all in one tool for webdesign, printing and signmaking and allows for interchanging shapes, text and graphics between webdesign, printing and signmaking.