behzad, rejoice! I had expected it for 29 March.
Xara Designer Pro X 18.0.0.61642 DL x64 Mar 18 2021, for once, has been less of a problem to update to.
A weird place for it, but file:///%localappdata%/Temp/result.html is listing the changes:
Release Notes for XARA Designer Pro X V 18.0
Features
* HiDPI support
* New handle controls for QuickShapes and Shape tool
* New Google fonts
* New publishing workflow
* Smart Duplication
* pdf 4.0
Content
* 10 new presentations
* 10 new Header designs
* 3 new photo panels
* 4 new text panels
* 5 new table designs
* 6 new diagram designs
* 30 new Facebook posts
* 30 new Instagram posts
https://www.magix.com/gb/photo-graphic/xara-designer-pro/new-features/ at least demonstrates them working.
Search with "NEW SINCE MARCH 2021".
I suggest when you have a Dear Xara... moment, use the heading MagiXara has used to describe the feature.
A major revamp seems to have gone into the installer, which deserves a mention.
Xara got the right Help file in place. Still no PDF Help Manual though.
Xara has still failed with C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Designer Pro X\18\license.rtf not opening as a proper MS Word document. Oh dear. I know how to fix it as a TGer told Xara years ago.
My defaults come over quite well. I lost:
- Default template. Just annoying to run around resetting it. Time there should be a Template Gallery.
- All my Colours. Not showing on the Colour Line but are there in the Colour Gallery. Trivial.
For some HiDPI workspace is probably worth the renewal.
The PDF Editor 4.0 looks promising.
Handles with a new look - dire.
Smart Duplication - buggy.
Header & footer designs for professional layout - not experimented with much but has potential.
1000+ Google fonts - why this is fanfared always beats me; Xara always lags what Goggle has already presented
New publishing workflow - this is a good UI integration but extremely poorly documented. Casual users will and do get lost, thinking Supersites have gone!
Header and footer designs - what would be useful is a masterclass as to how these are designed so real users can design their own versions.
Remaining Content - whatever:
- Text Panels - instead teach us about Name Gallery > Stretches then it wouldn't be 105 of them, it would be unlimited.
- e-books - they are not use for ebook publishing unless your output to PDF and jump through hoops.
- Tables - Xara has promised improvements but just churns out badly-designed content that fails accessibility, handling of external data (easily), location of a cell in the Page & Layout Gallery when editing. Also the the content is one basic table template - teach people how to manipulate stuff and unchain them.
- Facebook and Instragram - just saying such ephemera might have some use, but really? Take Google+ (not Google +) for instance. The Google+ developer API was discontinued on March 7, 2019, and Google+ was shut down for business and personal use on April 2, 2019, yet Xara still has a section for it.
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