![]() There are a whole bunch of 'nice to have' features' we'd like to have, but we're not aware of too many showstopper issues that makes typical DTP work difficult. Text styles, text frames with over-flowing story support (linked to anywhere in the document), DPS spreads, automatic page creation, multi-column support, great Word/and RTF import, great PDF export, repel around shapes and alpha bitmaps - these are all supported and basic DTP requirements.Īs the designer of Computer Concept's Impression and one of the principle programmers on that project, I'm interested to know what features you regard are missing, specifically the showstopper features that makes Xara Designer not a good DTP solution? The latest V11 release, for example, included really nice and pretty advanced hyphenation system that was top of most people's wish list for DTP use. I'm interested to know what the most important DTP features you think are missing? We know quite a few of course, and are working on them. But 600 page books, with 6Gb of assets is something else though. Xara Designer can cope with decent multi-page 'long document' cases - we use it internally for 50+ page documents regularly. What software did you use to edit and layout that book, out of interest? Xara as a DTP needs to be able to do that at least. The problem here, is if I didn't select all the text overflow, I might lose text (not fully selected) and accidentally have gaps in the writing. When the text overflows beyond the boundries of the text block, I select the overflowed text, cut it to the clipboard then place it in the next column. Right now I copy large enough amounts of Word text to generate more than what is needed for a single column of a single page. ![]() Auto page numbers might be helpful as well, but I am generally comfortable hand placing page numbers directly. Now I might further change some of the titles to larger header fonts or open the text with character returns so that I can place illustrations, charts and tables, which further generates additional pages as spaces are laid open for content insertions. ![]() Thus I can select 90,000 words from a word document and automatically create a 60 page document in Xara. What I'd like to see Xara be able to do is prepare a single page, say for two column layout, then open a multi-page Word document, select all the text, copy to clipboard, then paste that into the prepared Xara double column layout and paste the text into the column placeholder, and have Xara automatically generate all the necessary duplicates of the first page, until all the pasted text is used. ![]()
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