Dear Xara... I have been running through the improvements to the photo grids in particular. The resizing aspect makes them much more attractive to use, so thank you.

There are still individual niggles.

The photo montage of Square Photo Grid 34 fails:
  • No mechanism to make a single photo pop-up.
  • The squishing or squashing of the grid results in the "film strip" pop-up returning as squished or squashed.
  • No means, other than painstakingly re-position each single photo, to change the ordering.


At the same time, you almost deliver a solution in the new Tables.

Even here, though, your approach to adding text differs from the new Text Inside mechanism.

No joined-up thinking: three incomplete paradigms, fighting in the same head space.
I can see that the smart shapes controls are beginning to come of age but their employment in real design work is way behind.

Acorn