Dear Xara...

Would you advise Magix of the following failures in their installation for getting v16.0 working:

  • Its page, https://www.magix.com/gb/photo-graph...-designer-pro/, for the Free trial link downloads v15 downloader as do all other links I have found.

  • Once downloaded, the Local Designs gallery incorrectly shows all assets are "(updated)", whereas the local cache is empty.
    • No advice for all to open the Local Designs gallery and right-click Download All for each blue folder line.
    • N.B., this is a time-consuming exercise that should be a background service as the Update Service, when expired, stops this dead.

  • Smart Transform is enabled so newbies will not have a clue how to squish or squash images.
    • In future default to disabled and advise what ST is supposed to do. I have yet to see a comprehensible explanation.

  • There is similarly no advice on the existence of the Content Installer "The content installer adds additional content that is not included in the free trial. That includes additional fill styles for the Fill Gallery, fonts for the Fonts gallery and more spell checking dictionaries for other languages. It does not include any content for the Content Catalog / Local Designs Gallery - this is all available online in the catalog, but it does install fonts into Windows that are used by some of that content."
    • This needs to be a selectable option in the Installer.
    • For those not aware, use Help > Download content installer and Pan Studio.

  • The user configuration for the toolbars is voided.
    • A means to copy out a user configuration and re-apply is all that is necessary.

Acorn