Wish List for V12

**Rik** · 02 September 2015, 05:45 PM

I've been comparing Affinity Designer (only available on the Mac at the moment) with Xara a few times.

So, it's about time to do the favour, the other way round.

In this great Serif product, you have some great options for corners.
(See the image attached.)
You can easily change which type of corner you want on your rectangle.

And you can control individual corners.
Whereas in Xara, it's such a chore when I want a rectangle with two corners of one size and the other two corners of a different size.

Wouldn't it be great to see this in Xara?

**mwenz** · 02 September 2015, 06:57 PM

Yes. Independent corners would be good.

**jimhanus** · 07 September 2015, 03:31 PM

I would like to be able to add to the list of Font sizes. Right now I have a need to change 10pt to 9pt size, and it's on dozens of places per page. I have to select each instance of the word then go to the top and change the setting to 9pt. I think it would be easier as part of the dropdown instead of typing it in each time.

**mwenz** · 07 September 2015, 03:37 PM

Use styles. Assuming your Xara product has styles. You may also be able to use the Names gallery...assuming the same thing. You can select the text with the pointer tool and make the change to all selected text as well in one go.

**jimhanus** · 07 September 2015, 03:51 PM

mwenz,
Thanks! Styles seems to work good, can't see how Names would work.

**mwenz** · 07 September 2015, 03:55 PM

Using the Names Gallery would only allow one to select all text in the same font and/or their styles. Which may work if say all body text was a single font versus headings and or picture captions, that sort of thing.

**zaphodeist** · 07 September 2015, 05:58 PM

Originally Posted by jimhanus

I would like to be able to add to the list of Font sizes. Right now I have a need to change 10pt to 9pt size, and it's on dozens of places per page. I have to select each instance of the word then go to the top and change the setting to 9pt. I think it would be easier as part of the dropdown instead of typing it in each time.

XaReg can do this for you - under the "Lists" tab :-)

**Rik** · 07 September 2015, 06:24 PM

Originally Posted by zaphodeist

XaReg can do this for you - under the "Lists" tab :-)

You can change/add Line Widths and you can change/add Zoom values.
But... Can you change Font Size values?

**zaphodeist** · 07 September 2015, 06:27 PM

My bad ... thinking line width ... long day

**Ron Duke** · 09 September 2015, 04:24 PM

Originally Posted by mwenz

This would be difficult to accomplish and would be error prone. Most all methods to do this now rely on accurate panose information in the font. Which is often not present or inaccurate.

Which is why I use a font manager to organize my fonts and only keep fonts activated that I need.

For some, needs change often.