Scroll through this document to see a description of all the great new features & content released in March 2022 (v19.0). If you have an active Update Service then these updates are free, otherwise you can upgrade / renew your Update Service on magix.com. NOTE: If your Update Service has expired and you would like to give the new features a try, then you can download and install the trial of Photo & Graphic Designer and install it alongside your current version. You can find Release Notes for the earlier v18 here.
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Contents Version 19.0................................................................ 2 Show Profiled Colors.................................................. 2 Text Improvements..................................................... 2 New Google Fonts...................................... 2 Other Text Improvements..................... 3 Import/Export................................................................. 3 Final Notes........................................................................ 3

Version 19.0

Show Profiled Colors

The Show Printer Colors option in Window > Show Printer Colors has been replaced with Show Profiled Colors. As the name suggests, in this mode all HSV and RGB colors in your document are processed using the current document’s selected color profile, in the same way as when your document is exported to PDF/X for printing purposes using the same profile. So in this mode the on-screen appearance of these colors should now more closely match how the colors will appear in the PDF. And the colors seen on screen will vary, depending on the color profile used (as set in Utilities > Options > View). As you can see in the following example, the HSV/RGB green voucher design looks very different on screen in Photo & Graphic Designer, compared to how it appears when exported to a PDF/X for printing. By turning on Show Profiled Colors, the colors on screen in Photo & Graphic Designer look much closer to those of the PDF/X. Note that this mode does not change the on-screen appearance of any CMYK colors in your document, as these are always displayed by applying the same document color profile.

Text Improvements

New Google Fonts

We’ve added 21 new Google fonts offering new and interesting typography options.
Profiled Colors OFF (Screen Colors)
Exported PDF/X
Profiled Colors ON
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Other Text Improvements

When pages in a flowing document are re-ordered, page breaks are now added to prevent text moving between pages, which can be confusing. Spell checker: Each SmartField is now treated as a separate word. Fixed an issue with some font type icons missing in the menu, on HiDPI displays. And other minor enhancements.

Import/Export

As with every Photo & Graphic Designer release we continue to improve on our industry-leading file format support: Improvements to Word and PDF import Enhancements in PDF to Word export Fixed reported issues with import of AI files in the stock illustration folder of the Online Content Catalog.

Final Notes

We’ve also implemented a large number of minor enhancements including improvements and fixes in the button palette and Shapes.
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