Automatic hyphenation in Xara Designer 6 Pro?

[gottwavo]

When can I expect automatic hyphenation in Xara Designer 6 Pro?

I am doing a lot of Flyers and some text based graphics with Xara and this is the one feature I am still missing. If it's getting to complicated I switch to Corel Ventura Publisher which has not been maintained since ages, but is still a good piece of software.
By the way: Why does Xara/Magix not simply buy Ventura from Corel an include into their packages?

[gwpriester]

Why does Xara/Magix not simply buy Ventura from Corel an include into their packages?

Hmmm?! Not a bad idea. Anybody listening?

I have no idea, but my guess is that based on the last several versions of Web Designer or at least Xtreme to Designer Pro 6, that this may happen in the next release. But this is based on absolutely nothing more than a guess. On the other hand, I was sure Designer Pro 6 would support spot color bitmaps and it does not. So...

[gottwavo]

Gary,
thanks for listening and the question is anybody listening.

What Xara/Magix at least should do is look at the features of Corel Ventura and try to include those into their package and upgrades to Designer 6.

I mean things like:

• Having a basic frame for each page and when you fill the empty file with 10 pages of text it should be on all ten pages automatically
• managing multi columns
• all the professional typographhy stuff
• hyphenation and spell checking
• tagging of paragraphs
• tables
• data base publishing would be the killer for all other applications

Magix is just advertisung on their German website to use Designer in small and medium size business "for all your advertising". Without some more features Designer will not do this sucessfully.

And yes: It's a great product and could be so much better ...

[amoore]

By the way: Why does Xara/Magix not simply buy Ventura from Corel an include into their packages?

Sounds good to me.