Designer Pro X - new Text Tool fly-out menu

[edm3]

+1 - there is plenty of screen real estate to not use the PIA flyout. At least give us the option if someone has strong feelings for it.

Ernest

[SignPig]

+1 here too. As someone who does a lot of typography in my work very day, I find his nonsense change so irritating that I have reverted to using XDP7 instead.

[ckh]

+1 from me also.

[Jonopen]

+1 from me, but not to make tool bar too wide - my screen is 1024 wide.

Also reinstate feature that dynamically changes selected text to the fonts listed in the dropdown list as you mouse over them.

[steve.ledger]

Also reinstate feature that dynamically changes selected text to the fonts listed in the dropdown list as you mouse over them.

There's been no change to this feature in DPX, Jono.
I assume you have selected the text you want to change before mousing over the fonts in the drop-down list?

[Jonopen]

There's been no change to this feature in DPX, Jono.
I assume you have selected the text you want to change before mousing over the fonts in the drop-down list?

Yep. Just nipped back to v7, in case it was my imagination, and it works as per your video clip (thanks, nicely demonstrated), but doesn't do that for me in v8. (note: I am using the unsupported grey UI - but also in v7).

My work-around is to select the text as before, then double click a font from the font gallery, which is fine for my needs. In fact the font gallery almost makes the whole thing unnecessary, as it displays a sample of each font.

But the fly-out, that's another matter!

[handrawn]

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...