Bouton's Wish List for Group Participation on v 11

[Gare]

I did as Mike W wisely suggested and, closed both versions 9 and 10 requests I'd started a new thread on "Dear Xara."

I believe that if we keep things reasonable—IOW without requesting that all the engineers tear up the core engine so one person can import PSG layer with Adobe's Layer Styles in place and editable—we might actually get as widely requested feature or two in the nest version.

I suggest if we keep this thread terse and focused without a bitchy tone, the Xara folks who read this might be more inclined to seriously ponder a "good request." And to do them one suggestion/plea per post and possibly put your request in the subject line, which requires toy go to Advanced mode.

Do anything you ca to make your request polite in tone and reasonable and popular as a request. Don't suggest something( ie. "when is a Mac version coming out?") when you post something you know benefits only one or two people.

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Me first: CorelDRAW has featured a dynamic Polygon tool since the mid-190s and I'd like to see this in Xara.

• You can set the number of sides even after you've significantly altered the polygon, the alterations including adding control points, deleting them, and turning smooth lines to curves, vice-versa, as well as changing the type of control point, which all told, lets you do stuff like this:



• I'd like to see a utility box where you can create your own strokes and pressure profiles. Xara is doing great sat providing is with presets, but what if we need a custom profile?



I think this would be do-able. I'd imagine do to this with existing code's not as hard as inventing a brush tool for the program.

By Best,

Gary

[gwpriester]

OG - I would like to make a suggestion:

Have the wish list open for 30 days.

At the end of this period, compile four lists, Vector Drawing Features, Website Design Features, Photo Editing Features, and Text and Layout Design Features.

Then let everybody review the lists and vote for their top 3 or top 5 features in each category.

This way there will be actual numbers to prioritize the features.

[Sadler]

That's not to say that Xara Designer is a total loss for custom brushes...

[Gare]

That's quite an impression, Sadler. Perhaps this request has reached the point where we can walk away from it. I've stated my wish, and we'll see something like it, or not. I do wish we could build our own Pressure Profiles, a matter entirely unrelated to skeletal strokes.

Something else I'd request is that when you bring a bitmap in,quite frequently Xara does no read the resolution of certain file types because their structure doesn't have the capability. And you being a 12MP picture in and it's 72 dpi by 45 feet by 90 feet, you know?

And then one is obliged to go to the Infobar and type in more realistic values.

Wouldn't it be nice if the status line had a filed rather than a readout of what the current resolution of the selected image is? Then if you need, for example, a 300 dpi (pixels per inch, technically) you open the field that states the current resolution, and type in your desired one and then hit Enter.

It is SO hard to set the resolution of an image if you don't know the pixel count, the readout of dimensions on the Infobar.



Please consider, dear programmers?

TIA,

Gary

[letsgofishing]

Any chance of colour management? The CMYK screen colours in P&LD10 are WAAY out...simulate print colours doesn't help much either...

[Gare]

The program is beginning to feel "loose"; not quite as responsive as say version 5 or 6, which naturally have fewer features.

The new features are causing the code to run more sluggishly?

-g

[handrawn]

no thank you

I can tell from line number two of your post that I would be wasting my time

I have already ported over 50% of my workflow elsewhere, and in a year's time it will, I am fairly sure, be just too late

I believe in asking for what I want - I respect being told that it is not possible - I am extremely disappointed, but I understand the position Xara is in; hopefully they understand mine

[timeodanaos]

Many thanks for your longtime help.

[gwpriester]

Text & Layout Design Features:

Master Pages. Master Pages. Master Pages. Did I say Master Pages? Master Pages.

Support for Glyphs and Extended Characters

Discretionary Page Numbering (so page 1 does not automatically appear on page 1 only)

Support for Spot Color in bitmaps and in PDFs

True Grayscale Support

Hyphenation Dictionery

More control for paragraph text, e.g. widow and orphan control.

Master Pages

Website Design Features:

Parallax Scrolling

More control over how sub menus are displayed, for example, centered text.

Photo Editing

Grayscale support and creation (Import and Export a bitmap that is recognized as Grayscale and not RGB)

Update the bitmap tracer or lose it.

General Features

Ctrl R (repeat last step - ala CorelDRAW)

Arrays (repeat a series of steps)

[gwpriester]

Steve - Don't participate if you don't want to. But consider that as we speak, plans are probably being made for version 11. The sooner we come up with a representative list the better our chances of getting these suggestions in early enough that they can be explored and added to the next versions.