2016 - 2017 new feature requests

**Gare** · 02 August 2016, 10:55 PM

Originally Posted by angelize

Also Development time on the dark UI is desperately needed, it needs to be user adjustable.

+10

Support for the Classic UI is so stillborn, several features I've discovered crash the program when in Classic UI mode.

I'd be happy to leave it if the DARK UI could be tuned. But I understand with Xara's code base, it's not possible and we actually have tow UIs in every version, is this right?

-g

**Albacore** · 03 August 2016, 10:47 AM

Gary on #10 you mentioned the Calligraphy Brush well you've got a nearly there brush already it's called the Shape Painter Tool. You can change the roundness, the angle, the smoothing before you start and the softness which I don't touch. I have been banging on about the usefulness of this brush since I got updated to vers. 11 for drawing cartoons and it is a vector shape. When I draw cartoons I always like to emphasise the outside lines to give the cartoon depth and this works and it's controllable.

Here 2 that I did directly from the mouse. I would normally use a Wacom when using the brush but too lazy this morning. The only thing wrong with this is that it is a shape not a line so it doesn't have end/start line profiles but a quick F4 editing sorts that out.

If I can emphasize to all members here if you want a calligraphy brush use the Shape Builder tool shift+B

**Gare** · 03 August 2016, 11:30 AM

Thank you for your advice, Peter.

Thumbs up, man.

My Best,

Gary

**iamtheblues** · 03 August 2016, 11:57 AM

Great piece of advice, Peter. I spent a long time playing with the Shape Painter Tool the other day.
Your results with the mouse are much better than mine with the mouse.
Bob.

**Gare** · 03 August 2016, 12:03 PM

Oh, I forgot to mention:

The Shape Painter is fine for what it does, but I still request a paint-style brush that lays down an inner path you can modify at any time later.

As in Illustrator.
As in InkScape.
As in in Affinity Designer.
As in CorelDRAW.

There's a pattern here!

-g

**MarcT** · 03 August 2016, 01:13 PM

Hi,

Better mould tool.
Editable pressure profile.
Join Tool.
Levels and hue adjustments that remains vector.
Flood fill.

Thanks

**Gare** · 03 August 2016, 01:21 PM

Originally Posted by MarcT

Hi,

Better mould tool.
Editable pressure profile.
Join Tool.
Levels and hue adjustments that remains vector.
Flood fill.

Thanks

Better mould tool. +10
Editable pressure profile. +10
Join Tool. We already have that capability if I understand your request. Select two open paths, drag one end to the other, they become one path. No?
Levels and hue adjustments that remains vector. Don't understand, sorry!
Flood fill. For bitmap imports?