V15 Release Notes
You can find full details on all the new features and content in our V15 Release Notes.Auto Resize Documents
A brand new 'auto-fit' capability that enables you to create flexible documents that adapt to almost any size change you or your customer might want. It's a great time saver!For example you can now easily change a design from A3 to A4, or A4 to US Letter. It's especially useful for social media, where you can adapt a design from (for example) Facebook into Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram by simply changing page types.
The default position is for all items on a page to be automatically re-positioned when you change the page size, but Designer actually offers a great deal of flexibility if you want to control exactly how particular items in your design behave.
Other Text Handling Improvements
- You can now create Text Styles for bulleted and numbered lists, including all the list properties you might need - from indents to bullet symbols and colors
- Extra controls over objects anchored to your text flow
- Text in text panels can now be top aligned, center aligned or bottom aligned
- Improved support for multi-weight fonts
- Further list editing improvements
- Right click > Replace option for symbols inside groups
- New document language property for the spell checker
New SmartShapes
SmartShapes are an amazingly quick and easy way to create and edit some of the most commonly required shapes. We've made some great new additions to the Online Content Catalog library of these ultra-editable ready-made shapes:
- A selection of new Text Panels, in Print & Web Components > Text Panels
- New: Flowlines in Print & Web Components > Arrows
- A new time-saving Label Text Style for Charts
Import & Export
- PDF import improvements
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. The hyphenation dialog offers full control.
Photo Filter Pre-Sets
A wonderfully quick and easy way to apply popular effects to your photos.
You’ll find these ready-made effects in the Content Catalog (image resources > photo filter presets). Simply select your photo and hit Import! What’s more you can continue to edit the effects using the Enhance tool or Brightness Levels dialog, and if you replace the photo the effects are retained. See some examples.
NEW: 10 new Photo Filter Overlays with camera effects such as burn and flare, perfect if you want to make your social media profile stand out from the crowd. Now 125 photo filters in total!
New Templates
- Many new social media templates for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and Tumblr
- 3 new presentation themes (Business, Travel and Water)
- 2 completely new single page web themes (Simple & Cameras)
- 1 new Business Web Themes (Auberge)
View previews of a selection of the themes and other templates in the Online Content Catalog.
Tables
Tables have topped the list of feature requests for some time, and in v15 we've taken the first important steps with our first Table SmartShapes.V15 tables support basic table insertion and editing, including adding & removing columns, resizing rows & columns, various table formatting options and auto formatting of the table to fit contents. You'll find the new tables in the Online Content Catalog under Components > Print & Web Components > Tables.
Text Flow Inside Shapes
You can now place text inside shapes so that it flows within the shape's outline - a great new feature that'll enable you to create some interesting and eye catching designs.The Online Content Catalog incudes some new text panels that make use of this new feature (See Components > Print & Web Components > Text Panels).
Import & Export
- Further PDF import improvements
Resizeable Photo Grids
Photo Grids were introduced in v12 and they're a cool way to display your photos. Not surprisingly they've proved popular, so we've enhanced them in v15 by making the (formerly static) Photo Grids easily resizeable. The defaults are set to common sizes such as 19:9, but once you've added them to your document you can easily change the width and height to make them any size and aspect ratio you like.
You can find the Photo Grids in Components > Image Resources > Photo Grids.
New SmartShapes
SmartShapes are an amazingly quick and easy way to create and edit some of the most commonly required shapes. We've made some great new additions to the Online Content Catalog library of these ultra-editable ready-made shapes:
- Table SmartShapes (in Components > Print & Web Components > Tables)
- Text panels with text flowing inside (in Components > Print & Web Components > Text Panels)
- A selection of new resizeable text panels and photo text panels
We will soon be offering a public API for SmartShapes for anyone interested in developing their own (programmed in Javascript).
New Templates
- 3 new single page websites (Food Delivery, Coffee Shop, Water Aid)
- 2 new presentations (Campside, Consulting)
- A selection of social media graphics for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram
View previews of a selection of the themes and other templates in the Online Content Catalog.
New SmartShapes
SmartShapes are an amazingly quick and easy way to create and edit some of the most commonly required shapes. We've made some great new additions to the Online Content Catalog library of these ultra-editable ready-made shapes:
- 4 new Tables in Print & Web Components > Tables
- A selection of new Text Panels, also in Print & Web Components - 21 Smart Layouts (more complex and interesting Text Panel SmartShapes), 5 Text in Shapes, 1 Smart Object, 1 Text in SmartShapes
Other New Templates
- 2 single page websites (Wellness & Software)
- 3 Business Web Themes (Superfood Store, Law Firm and Yoga Training)
- 3 Presentations ( Energy Drink, Food Delivery, Nature)
- New Social Media graphics (Company, Food Delivery, Security)
View previews of a selection of the themes and other templates in the Online Content Catalog.
