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Xara Page & Layout Designer Changelog

What's new in Xara Page & Layout Designer 11.2.0.40121

Aug 4, 2015
  • Text Handling:
  • Hyphenation
  • A new hyphenation option automatically breaks long words at line ends to give a more flowing appearance to your text and fit more words into limited space.
  • Comprehensive hyphenation controls
  • Auto-Correct / Abbreviation Expansion
  • Other Text Enhancements:
  • A text background color option so you can easily highlight words
  • An easy way to replace one font with another throughout a document
  • 'Update style to match' option
  • More detailed information on font permissions in Document Information
  • Update of the Font Awesome Symbols
  • Google fonts updated
  • Fonts will look correct in exported documents where fonts are missing if outlines are embedded
  • Option to show extended Text Tool InfoBar, instead of some controls being in a flyout bar
  • A handy Insert > Rule off option in the Insert menu.
  • Embedded Graphics:
  • When you insert a graphic into a text column it is now automatically resized down to column width.
  • You can control whether it's embedded inline in your text or whether text should flow to the left or right of your embedded graphic.
  • Other:
  • Document Sync With Dropbox or GDrive - Page & Layout Designer can now sync files via Dropbox and Google Drive.
  • Dropbox and Google Drive maintain older versions of your files, and provide easy ways of viewing and reverting back to earlier versions
  • New Content:
  • New templates in the Designs Gallery, and of course new brush designs:
  • a new category of dividers & flourishes
  • the 2016 calendars
  • some additional invitations
  • more logos (in Page Elements) making over 120 in total
  • Import & Export Enhancements
  • PDF Import - Improved text editability; better support for import of PDFs with embedded font subsets, where fonts are not installed locally
  • Other Import / Export - Improvements to Word import.
  • Other Misc Enhancements:
  • A new option Arrange > Combine Shapes > Intersect all shapes
  • Improved support in the drawing tools for modern touch devices, including the Microsoft Surface stylus
  • Two new SmartShapes, a photo text panel and a spiraldoubleclick to show the edit handles
  • InfoBar pulses on tool selection
  • Option to export retina version of web graphic at the same time as 96dpi version
  • Auto-creation of links when you type a URL so for example typing xara.com will automatically create a link to the Xara site.

New in Xara Page & Layout Designer 10.1.0.34966 (Jul 23, 2014)

  • Design & Useability Enhancements
  • Content Catalog:
  • An online extension of the Designs Gallery offering greatly improved browsing of content, within a resizeable window - especially valuable for print themes.
  • Font Awesome Symbols:
  • A quick & easy way to insert symbols from the large and growing Font Awesome selection. The full set is displayed via the Insert menu, simply browse and click on the symbol you require to insert it in your document as a text character or graphic.
  • SmartShapes:
  • An amazingly quick and easy way to create and edit some of the most commonly required shapes – for example speech bubbles, fancy arrows and text panels - with top quality results guaranteed. If you don’t have the time (or skill) to master the drawing tools you’ll no longer need to resort to clipart. Here are some examples from the Smart Shapes library (internet delivered, so more shapes will be added thru the rest of this year) that can be easily customized.
  • Insert Menu:
  • A new top level Insert menu which considerably improves the ease with which you can insert key elements into your document (eg insert new page or insert page number) including some new options eg ‘insert image from Camera’, SmartShapes and Font Awesome symbols.
  • Auto-Rotate of Photos on Import:
  • You might have recently noticed that that your photos were being randomly rotated when you imported them from some modern devices. Where necessary Page & Layout Designer now does an auto detect and rotate to fix this issue.
  • Import / Export:
  • Microsoft Word Import .doc added, .docx improved:
  • .docx import has been significantly improved and support for .doc files has been added for the first time.
  • Improved PDF Import:
  • The PDF import filter has been replaced with a completely new one which offers significantly improved editability.
  • Improved RTF Import & Export:
  • There is improved support for text styles, lists, anchored and embedded bitmaps, strikethrough text and pagination.