Latest release of DPX

**Phill** · 11 October 2019, 11:02 PM

Following an email I had inviting me to upgrade to the latest release of DesignerPro. I looked up my version and saw that I had the latest version (16.2.57326). One of the new features in the upgrade offer was fitting text to shape. I tried this by importing a shape and putting a text block inside of it and then with the shape selected , clicking on the text tool but no menu came up for fitting to shape.

Thinking that I must still have the old version, I downloaded a free trial onto another computer but it was the identical version as what I had on the main pc.

I could not find any differences between my version and the new one so at this point do not see any reason for upgrading. Am I missing something here?

**Egg Bramhill** · 11 October 2019, 11:12 PM

Not a great lover of this new feature Phill but I believe if you create a shape and then in the text tool click inside the shape it asks you do you want to Auto-fit inside / Fixed inside / On top. Are you seeing this?

**gwpriester** · 12 October 2019, 12:43 AM

I think the shape has to first be selected then you click on the shape with the Text Tool and the options should appear.

**Phill** · 12 October 2019, 04:28 PM

Originally Posted by gwpriester

I think the shape has to first be selected then you click on the shape with the Text Tool and the options should appear.

That’s what I had tried. I am trying to evaluate whether it is worth upgrading and wanted to find out if the new version was any different to mine. So far I do not see any reason to upgrade.

**Acorn** · 12 October 2019, 04:45 PM

Here is a past Thread on the matter. I used Rob's Registry change and haven't missed it once.

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Xara\XtremePro x64\16\Options\TextTool\ClickToCreateTextInside: 1.

That said, the change that removes the Text area group when all text is deleted later on is most welcome.

Acorn

**Phill** · 12 October 2019, 08:42 PM

My registry value was already set to 1.

**ss-kalm** · 13 October 2019, 11:44 PM

Originally Posted by Phill

Following an email I had inviting me to upgrade to the latest release of DesignerPro. I looked up my version and saw that I had the latest version (16.2.57326). One of the new features in the upgrade offer was fitting text to shape. I tried this by importing a shape and putting a text block inside of it and then with the shape selected , clicking on the text tool but no menu came up for fitting to shape.

Thinking that I must still have the old version, I downloaded a free trial onto another computer but it was the identical version as what I had on the main pc.

I could not find any differences between my version and the new one so at this point do not see any reason for upgrading. Am I missing something here?

I'm not sure whether I'm reading this incorrectly, BUT Phill, you're NOT UPGRADING ... It is exactly what you already have. There is absolutely NO reason for you to buy it again.

**Phill** · 20 October 2019, 01:55 AM

Thank you! That is the info I was looking for. In retrospect I should have worded my question differently, maybe along the lines of "I have Designer Pro X 16.2.1.57326 DL x64 Aug 15 2019 and what would I gain by upgrading to the latest version?"
The only advantage seems that I will probably lose access to online content at some point. I have already downloaded that content to my HD, or at least the content Xara allows.