The November 2020 update to Xara Designer Pro X 17 available.

[Acorn]

With regard to the new menu font, I wonder if the fact that has changed means the HiDPI capability is already built-in but just disabled, perhaps by a registry setting?

Beyond the Nov 2020 updates showing on the Magix/Xara Designer Pro product page (link in post #2), it looks like (for some reason) Magix/Xara are keeping this update a petty low profile affair. Unless I've missed it, there doesn’t seem to have been the usual fanfare from Webmaster Kate or Rob-Xar here on the TG forum.

Rob-Xar is on holiday.

I don't understand your reference to "the new menu font", can you expand on it?

Acorn

[Jonopen]

Sorry, that should have read ‘pretty’ not ‘petty’ in my last post

Edit: Ah, that explains it. Thanks Acorn.

[Acorn]

Sorry, that should have read ‘pretty’ not ‘petty’ in my last post
Edit: Ah, that explains it. Thanks Acorn.

thanks, I too threw an Edit into mine that you may have just missed.

Acorn

[Jonopen]

Hi Acorn, re ‘new menu font’. I was interpreting (perhaps on reflection, wrongly) the comment made by ‘rsrsrs’ in post #30 about the ‘fontsize in the menu are smaller’.

I’ll have download and install a trial version of v17.1 to actually see what it looks like, but from my recent experience from testing a trial version of DP+, that by default (on my system), also had a slightly smaller font for menu text (albeit nice and crisp/sharp looking).

I was then (perhaps again wrongly) guessing that if the menu font was smaller, the same DP+ (and thus potentially scaleable for hi res screens) font was being deployed in this latest update.

[Promidi]

With regard to the new menu font, I wonder if the fact that has changed means the HiDPI capability is already built-in but just disabled, perhaps by a registry setting?

This one perhaps?

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Xara\XtremePro x64\17\Options\HiDPI

[dpt]

Anyone else finding the new selection blobs very slow to redraw?

[Acorn]

Anyone else finding the new selection blobs very slow to redraw?

Yes

Acorn

[rsrsrs]

Hi,

text is little moved around.

[RKissane]

This one perhaps?

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Xara\XtremePro x64\17\Options\HiDPI

Checked my machine with DP and value is not set for this. Maybe someone with DP+ can check theirs?

Ray

[handrawn]

I do not have magix ver 17 so I don't know what is there

in pro+, there are two REG_SZ entries: for ScaleX and for ScaleY both set to 0

I really don't think that is the sort of thing yuou were hoping for...