Re: Designer Pro X - new Text Tool fly-out menu
no fix in the latest update..
can I just say that I don't do body text in xara
but no matter which way I make drawings - vector raster scan all three whatever - I always do the 'paste-up' and the lettering in xara
and when lettering speech/text in cartoons kerning in particular is crucial for legibility, especially when the art is going to be reduced in print to a size that is within a given range rather than fixed - tracking often looks too mechanical [edit: especially where you have a mix of font-size/bold/italic], kerning each space is usually far preferable.. and this flyout is dreadful
it would be acceptable if you could toggle it open/closed - it's having it disappear after each operation that is the pita for me...
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I think this is a backward step too.
+1 for putting back all the text options in a single bar
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it would be acceptable if you could toggle it open/closed - it's having it disappear after each operation that is the pita for me...
I like this idea, as well as kerning I use the baseline shift a lot when doing ad layouts with prices
Re: Designer Pro X - new Text Tool fly-out menu
+1
Maybe put the bullet and indent buttons in a flyout instead?
Marc
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SmartEd
+1 from me, as already said, pain in the arse and a backward step.
+1!! All text options including bullet should be available in one spot with no fly out menus whatsoever. It's very time wasting clicking another icon for things that need constant editing. It seems like the idea was to force the user to save these settings into a font style? While this is correct for multiple page documents, it's painful for designing 1 page documents such as flyers.
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Can't say that I use it all the time, but I also miss this controls on the default control bar.
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One solution would be for Xara to make all of the buttons available on the Infobar (for any tool) available as single buttons (not grouped flyouts) on the Control Bars / Button Palette so users could create their own custom button bars with these.
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+1 for this eminently sensible suggestion.
Bob.
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StevenWWinters
One solution would be for Xara to make all of the buttons available on the Infobar (for any tool) available as single buttons (not grouped flyouts) on the Control Bars / Button Palette so users could create their own custom button bars with these.
whilst I can see the argument, it is quite possible that infobar button coding is integral to their tool coding - true some, eg 'reverse path', 'scale line width' and 'lock aspect ratio' whose actions persist would be useful to have globally but I'm thinking that this may involve a heck of a lot of work programming-wise and be fraught with potential bug-inducing situations...