I am in and out of Illustrator frequently during my working day but I always use Xara as my first port of call in the design process. Many times a in a month I use Illy to produce a repeating pattern for a fill and its all vector keeping the file size down. I would like this to be done in Design Pro as an Xara produced PDF is smaller than Adobe.

I know that people who read this thread will say why don't use Xaras bitmap fill and yes it works but to get the file size down requires you to Create a Bitmap Copy of your pattern and then delete the pattern. This cause problems and more work if the resulting PDF is scaled up for a different document like a poster. It would be also handy for the people who produce web pages for both navigation backgrounds and page design before the export to publish web sites. I know the developers would make a better job of it than they have in Illustrator and it would be so nice to see in Design Pro