Tip of the Day.
To have a Previous Tip button.
How gauche!
To have the Tip text selectable.
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Re: What existing features and tools would you want updated?
Tip of the Day.
To have a Previous Tip button.
How gauche!
To have the Tip text selectable.
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Re: What existing features and tools would you want updated?
Grouping.
(Hard) Grouping Shapes in different Layers flatten the group onto the topmost layer.
The location of the group should be the selected layer.
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Context Menu > Group.
Casual users get into difficulty in grouping shapes.
The context menu should offer the choice of Hard or Soft.
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Variants.
Keep but get rid of bundling all Variants together in one page file.
Provide browser width detection to switch to the appropriate view instead.
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Names.
An ID in the Names Gallery should change the Shape entry in the Page & Layer Gallery and the converse.
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Slider Controls.
Consistency.
slider can be controlled from the keyboard.
Input values can be entered.
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Editable Shape Control Handles.
To be selectable and then control by keyboard arrows.
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Undo/Redo.
Display all the steps as a History.
They're all there just not shown.
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Surely that's new?
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Re: What existing features and tools would you want updated?
Mentioned in https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?78932-What-existing-features-and-tools-would-you-want-updated&p=591759#post591759.
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Find/Replace.
Not just text but Attributes like Fonts, Theme Colors, Placeholder Code, Locks, Repeats, Animations.
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Page & Layer Gallery.
Tree expansion of a Shape into its Attributes.
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DTP Page Numbering.
Chapter, Section, Annex, Appending, page numbering from any value.
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Preview.
Set default preview to that of the user's current choice.
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Thematic User Interface colours.
Use the existing Color Schemes to drop onto the UI so it can be configured.
Very Fordian, any colour as long as it is black.
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File > Publish Supersite, etc.
When it is a Print document?
Right-click on the design file icon to allow change of Document type.
Few notice the icon fails to match most selections - fix that....
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File > Import from web address.
Really, type in a URL?
Open into a pop-up that is a browser so the web can be navigate and the address bar detail is copied from it.
Alternatively, create a...
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File > Export.
The Save as type order to have a User Interface to allow user order customisation and file type visibility.
This is supported to be a professional design application.
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File > New from content catalogue or other opening action.
The On-line Content Catalogue to remain open until user close action.
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File > New: right click on a template to mark it as the default.
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