Possible bug in Designer Pro 16
Hi,
With individual cells in tables, I am finding that I cannot place tab stops within. It worked in 15, but not in 16.
With the text cursor in an individual cell, I drag the tab stop to where I want it, then it simply disappears and does not get placed.
If I open a version 15 DPX file where this has successfully been done (in 15), they are present, but cannot be edited.
I am thinking this is a bug as Xara did do some work on tables for version 16 of DPX
Can someone who has DPX 16 verify this?
Note: I have also sent Xara a support request about this.
Re: Possible bug in Designer Pro 16
Hi Promidi,
Many thanks for your message, I can produce this as well, I'll check with the developers and log an issue with them.
Kind Regards
Rob
Re: Possible bug in Designer Pro 16
Yes... and there's one more....
If you 'merge' two cells, you no longer can reposition a row or column.
Re: Possible bug in Designer Pro 16
Also.... we're back to NOT being able to 'alt' stretch a picture. Was, is, working fine in ver15.
Re: Possible bug in Designer Pro 16
maybe smart transform is set on by default in the new insatalation ?
Re: Possible bug in Designer Pro 16
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Originally Posted by
handrawn
maybe smart transform is set on by default in the new insatalation ?
No handrawn... checked out every config... but... the only way I just found out how to do it is to apply the a 'Mould' to it first. Either 'Envelop or Perspective'
Then just the mouse alone with push/pull/stretch etc.
Re: Possible bug in Designer Pro 16
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Originally Posted by
cmpan1
No handrawn... checked out every config... but... the only way I just found out how to do it is to apply the a 'Mould' to it first. Either 'Envelop or Perspective'
Then just the mouse alone with push/pull/stretch etc.
Here are the steps that work for me.
Import Table 04.
Enable Selection bound handles so when you select an image you get the black control squares and not the round blue circles.
Check Smart Transform is off.
Click and drag a mid-point control.
Acorn
Re: Possible bug in Designer Pro 16
'SELECTION BOUND HANDLES'! Of course...... sheeesh....
Thanks... once again.... Acorn!
Re: Possible bug in Designer Pro 16
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Originally Posted by
cmpan1
Also.... we're back to NOT being able to 'alt' stretch a picture. Was, is, working fine in ver15.
I have "smart transform" off, but I switched it on for this test. I held down "ALT" before adjusting a border of an image and it distorted correctly. Remember, you have to be in scale mode for this to work.
Re: Possible bug in Designer Pro 16
Hi cmpan1,
Thank you for your report. Whilst I don't believe it's possible to move merged cells (I don't think this is possible in Excel or Sheets either) it should at least let you move other cells / rows that don't contain merged cells. I have logged this with our developers also to investigate.
Thanks for bringing it to our attention.
Rob
Re: Possible bug in Designer Pro 16
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Originally Posted by
Rob-Xar
Hi cmpan1,
Thank you for your report. Whilst I don't believe it's possible to move merged cells (I don't think this is possible in Excel or Sheets either) it should at least let you move other cells / rows that don't contain merged cells. I have logged this with our developers also to investigate.
Thanks for bringing it to our attention.
Rob
Thanks Rob... aside from that... I gotta tell you... I'm lovin' the new version. Is it my imagination or is it a heck of lot peppier than 15... Everything seems to just pop/react so much faster.... Again, I like the upgrade!
Re: Possible bug in Designer Pro 16
Getting back to topic, I think the Tables feature still needs some work.
If I apply a Paragraph style to just one selected row, it changes the entire table. Maybe that's because, internally, Xara deems the entire table a single paragraph. I tried to create, and apply, a character style to some text in a table. However, the change did not take and the selected text retained the style it had before I attempted the change.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong, or maybe applying styles to table text still needs some work.
Hoping some kind personal can't text this for me. Changing styles of text within a table.
Re: Possible bug in Designer Pro 16
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Originally Posted by
Promidi
Getting back to topic, I think the Tables feature still needs some work.
If I apply a Paragraph style to just one selected row, it changes the entire table. Maybe that's because, internally, Xara deems the entire table a single paragraph. I tried to create, and apply, a character style to some text in a table. However, the change did not take and the selected text retained the style it had before I attempted the change.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong, or maybe applying styles to table text still needs some work.
Hoping some kind personal can't text this for me. Changing styles of text within a table.
Promodi, if you try to change the text style of more than one cell the change seems to be applied to all cells. I find that I can alter the text styles in a single cell without any issue.
Acorn
Re: Possible bug in Designer Pro 16
Hi Promodi,
Thank you for bringing this to our attention, I will investigate and log with our developers. I think the issues with styles has been partially fixed already.
Thanks
Rob
Re: Possible bug in Designer Pro 16
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Originally Posted by
Acorn
Promodi, if you try to change the text style of more than one cell the change seems to be applied to all cells. I find that I can alter the text styles in a single cell without any issue.
Acorn
Yes, I can change individual cells... but it would be nice to be able to change the formatting of an entire row or just a column without it having any affect on the rest of the table.
I am getting the impression that Xara have not finished with this feature. I am going to be on the lookout for updates as I am confident that Xara will include refinements in the handling of tables. I am hoping that they take on board what is in threads like this.
Re: Possible bug in Designer Pro 16
We are planning a patch to fix a large number of issues with tables and other features, some fixes that didn't make it in time to the release and others reported from the community after release. No dates yet but soon.
Re: Possible bug in Designer Pro 16
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Originally Posted by
Rob-Xar
We are planning a patch to fix a large number of issues with tables and other features, some fixes that didn't make it in time to the release and others reported from the community after release. No dates yet but soon.
My last response I received from Magix support indicated that they could not reproduce the tabs in tables issue. However, she did indicate that this may be because she was using Designer Pro 16.1. This probably means that, they are already using update 16.1 internally and are testing it there before release.
At least she was able to confirm that this issue may be fixed by the time we receive the 16.1 update.
