What was new in Photo & Graphic Designer 7 / Designer Pro 7?
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The Pro 7 Intro Workbook by Gary Priester on the Xara Xone Xara Trove (they cover PGD 7 features too, just be aware that some of the features shown are Pro 7 only).General Improvements Enhanced Galleries Xara Designer Pro 7 galleries now give faster access to the information you need. Fly out galleries and flexible docking options provided. Live Copies A dynamic new way of linking multiple copies of an object so that if one changes, they all do. Improved Object Snapping As you drag an object, it 'snaps' to points and lines of interest nearby and indicates what it has snapped to by displaying dynamic snap lines and points. This makes it easy to align objects with each other, or with guidelines or the page centre or edges. Improved object anchoring Creating anchored objects is now a one-click action and objects that you anchor in text can now also repel text. New paste operations New paste operations including the ability to copy and paste entire pages. Edit Inside It's now even easier to edit groups and other composite objects within a separate Tabbed document windows All open documents are displayed as tabs at the top of the workspace. Quick Object alignment Aligning of objects can now be accessed by a new right click menu option. AVI Export Export your animations as AVI HTML5 Video Better support for visitors using devices which do not support Flash. MP4 movie files added to your website will now play without Flash installed if the browser supports HTML5 video Photo Improvements Photo Magic Erase Automatic erase of unwanted objects from your photos Improved photo optimisation Optimise your photos whilst maintaining the photos current resolution Web Improvements New Widgets New additions to the widgets and an entire new set of Eyecatcher widgets Presentation Websites Create web-based 'slide-show' style presentations that your website visitors can step through using the keyboard arrow keys. Transition Effects Add a wide range of animated effects to the layers and page links in your website. Enhanced auto repeating All instances of a repeating object are now automatically updated when editing an instance. Favicons Apply a favicon to your website. Sitemap Support Export a sitemap with your website Improved built-in preview The Built-in preview allows you to navigate using back, forth and a home button. You can also preview your website in the most popular web browsers and in full screen mode. Improved FTP options A built-in webspace explorer allows you to browse and delete files and folders on your web server. Other Improvements Extended spell check support Includes Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak and Turkish. PDF and EPS import improvements Various improvements to the PDF and EPS import filter.
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Created On: 25 May 2011 02:20 PM
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