Xara Photo & Graphic Designer v19 Release Notes

Scroll through this document to see a description of all the great new features & content released in v19. If you have an active subscription to Xara Photo & Graphic Designer+ purchased from Xara, then these updates and any later ones are free. If you are an owner of an older version purchased from Magix, then check out our current offers on upgrades to Photo & Graphic Designer+. You can find Release Notes for the earlier Photo & Graphic Designer v18 here. You can find Release Notes for the new Photo & Graphic Designer v20 here.

Contents v19 Release Notes............................................. 1 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 19.0.2........................................................... 4 Web Windows to Edge.............................................. 4 Google Font Finder.................................... 4 Symbol picker................................................ 4 Erase Tool Guide window...................... 4 Account Menu................................................................ 4

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.

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.

Version 19.0.2

Note 19.0.2 is the version of 19 sold by Xara, these features are not in v19 if purchased from Magix.

Web Windows to Edge

There are several functions in Photo & Graphic Designer that bring up a web browser window inside the application, to display content, including:

Google Font Finder

Launched when you click Add in the Google Fonts section of Fonts menu.

Symbol picker

Launched when you click Insert > Symbol

Erase Tool Guide window

A guide to using the Erase tool Until now these have relied on using a variant of Internet Explorer. But since Internet Explorer is coming to the end of its life and support for it on the web is declining, it’s time to upgrade these windows. So with this update, all the above web windows are now using the latest Microsoft Edge technology instead.

Account Menu

The new Account menu has options to help you manage your copy of Photo & Graphic Designer.