Xara Web Designer Premium 17.1.0.60742

Bug fixes and improvements:
• Fixed an issue where entering single object edit mode and back again would leave 1 layer selected
• Fixed a selection issue when toggling a layers visibility
• Fixed an issue with symbol font generation
• Fixed a crash when previewing or exporting, caused by entering placeholder code into a smartshape or group
• Fixed an issue where certain options would create multiple SmartField Dialogs
• Fixed a styling issue when pasting data into a table
• Fixed an issue when deleting and re-entering text into a button that has a shadow

Всё бы хорошо, но чтобы использовать все "плюшки", нужен доступ к Online Content Catalog, а его нет. Поэтому о виджетах только мечтаем, а весь ыункционал делаем через placeholder'ы руками ... То же касается и Designer Pro X

... немецкая компания MAGIX уже вот как 2 года если не ошибаюсь купила продукт XARA/

Xara Web Designer

Enhanced 'On Reveal' Animations:
On reveal animations were one of the hits of v11. These are animations that are triggered as your object comes into view, and we’ve added 40 new animation types that work on reveal, such as bounce, zoom and flip.
Check out our Example Site 2 and Example Site 3, which include lots of examples of the new animations (based on the new Fresh and Able themes).
Stick At Top
By popular demand, you will now have the option for an object to scroll to the top and then stick. See our Example Site 2 (the NavBar sticks when it reaches the top of the page).
THE NEW FRESH THEME HAS A STICK AT THE TOP NAVBAR:
New Scrolling Animations:
We also have a completely new type of animation. You'll find 30 'scrolling animations' in the Reveal tab of the web animation dialog, which link an animation to the position of the scroll bar.
Instead of the animation running once when the object first appears (like reveal animations), the object animates whenever the document is scrolled, and the speed of the animation is proportional to the scrolling speed.
Parallax Scrolling Effects:
The must-have effect for any contemporary site, parallax is a kind of 3D effect created by the background moving at a slower rate to the foreground.
The header in this site has a parallax effect applied
TEXT HANDLING:
Symbols & Icons:
Check out Insert > Symbol. These are not just useful symbols and icons that you can add to your text, but fully editable vector shapes!
The popular Font Awesome collection has been updated, and is now supplemented by a collection of Google Material Design Icons making more than 1500 symbols in total
We’ve added a search function for the symbols, eg search on ‘Face’ and it will show you Facebook symbols, smiley faces etc
The symbols will be automatically updated as new versions become available
Plus there’s improved handling of symbols that have been added to your text (so for example they aren’t affected by font changes to the text)
A new right click Replace Symbol option (including symbols in bullet lists)
You can now choose from over 1500 icons and symbols
Other Text Enhancements:
Better handling of text on buttons (so font and font size changes are synchronized on the mouse off and mouse over state)
Improved subscript / superscript positioning
A new rectangular text repelling option
Option to change the case of selected text, switching between UPPER CASE, lower case or Sentence case
The spell checker menu now allows you to set the language for your whole document
Improvements to the auto-kerning (now supports kerning between character classes, so many newer OpenType fonts now render with the correct kerning)
List editing improvements
And other minor enhancements
XARA ONLINE DESIGNER:
Significant improvements since last year include:
Dramatically improved editing features (add & delete objects, move & resize, add & delete pages)
Bitmap export & download
PDF export and download
Create New Document (yes, your document no longer needs to be created in Web Designer!)
Edit your Xara websites in a browser using any device
CONTENT:
All Business Themes Now Included:
Yes, we really are including ALL 166 business themes in Web Designer Premium. These were previously sold for $15 each!
Each theme is a complete website, with linked pages typically required for that business type, and with professional photography suited to the business. This makes it easier and quicker than ever to create a complete, professional looking website for almost any type of small business!
View previews of the Business Themes.
A New Online Content Catalog:
An enhanced Online Content Catalog will be included free for one year as part of our new Update Guarantee. Based on the v11 Content Catalog, this new and improved version will now offer:
Regular updates to the templates as part of the Update Guarantee
Full keyword search of the entire catalog
A new more logical structure to the content offering a better work flow
The Designs Gallery (now 'Local Designs Gallery') will now be used to display only your current assets (those downloaded from the Online Content Catalog or from the optional back-up CD) making it quicker to access the resources you are already using.
Finding the right content is now easy with the Search feature in the new Online
CONTENT CATALOG:
Photo Grids:
These are a cool new way to display your photos. We’ve added both fully editable Smart Photo Grids (Smartshapes) and simple photo grid templates.
The Smart Photo Grids let you display any collection of photos, even those with different shapes and aspect ratios, in a compact grid on your website. Drag and drop your photo onto the grid and it automatically updates to fit your photo in, no matter what shape it is!
Photo Grids offer a cool new way to display your photos
OTHER NEW TEMPLATES:
9 new General Website Themes all including mobile variants
A selection of new modern NavBar and standalone button designs
Social media templates such as Facebook, G+ and Twitter covers
A wider range of photo hovers and photo sliders, and extra photo clipart
A handy new page counter widget
View previews of a selection of the themes and other templates (select the NEW filter to see some of the new ones).
New templates include covers, profiles and more for all the most popular social sites
New SmartShapes:
SmartShapes are an amazingly quick and easy way to create and edit some of the most commonly required shapes. There are improvements to the way SmartShapes work (eg improved handles) plus some great new additions to the library of these ultra-editable ready-made shapes:
New Chart SmartShapes for percentage ring, bar chart and column chart
New Text Panels and Photo Panels
Other new SmartShapes include some simple shapes such as a rectangle where you can edit corners individually and custom lines
New variants of existing SmartShapes such as arrows and speech bubbles
We will soon be offering a public API for SmartShapes for anyone interested in developing their own (programmed in javascript). Contact Us.
New SmartShapes include bar charts, column charts, pie charts and percentage rings
OTHER:
Update Guarantee: Access New Features As They Are Developed
We know that many of you find it frustrating that you have to wait a whole year for our next update - knowing that we are working on (and likely finished) new cutting edge features and on-trend content. We have the answer! For the first time you’ll have access to new features and content as we develop them, at any time during the 365 days after you purchase. You’ll be able to download and use these new features, for no extra charge, in addition to the version that you buy today.
The Update Guarantee gives you 365 days access to:
Xara Online Designer, including any updates during that time
The new Online Content Catalog, including any new templates released during that time
M Website Hosting
Upgrades and patches to Web Designer released in the 365 days after you purchase and register. Note: these updates continue to work after 365 days in any installations at the date of expiry, but if you reinstall the software after the Update Guarantee expires (and you don't renew) then these updates will not be included (the software will revert to the version at your date of purchase or registration).
Import & Export:
Improved Word import and export
Improved PDF import
Improved RTF import and export
Other Enhancements:
A new and improved media player (by default it uses the HTML5 capabilities of the web browser to play the audio and video where the browser supports it, otherwise Flash)
The preview window has been updated to include MS Edge preview (Windows 10)
You can now give individual objects names in the Page & Layer Gallery, to help find objects and to organize your designs
Distribute operations have been added to the Align toolbar

PAGE DESIGN:
Responsive Web Design:
With the surge in popularity of browsing on mobiles and tablets it is becoming essential to create sites that are tailored to the needs of these visitors. Until now the solution has involved creating multiple sites and a good understanding of javascript. Web Designer offers a RWD solution that allows you to create a single file containing variants of your site at different widths, so that you website responds dynamically to the screen size of the viewer, presenting the design most appropriate to their device. And as you’d expect from Web Designer you won’t need to do any coding whatsoever!
Put simply you can create multiple variants - eg desktop, tablet, phone - with shared content (eg text, photos, graphics) but with the ability to freely customize the layout of the variants to suit the target device size. The layout of the variants is entirely in your control, ensuring a quality result for mobiles and tablets. Web Designer export s a single HTML file that can dynamically change from one layout to another depending on the screen size of the viewer.
Text Handling Improvements:
Auto-creation of links when you type a URL so for example typing www.xara.com will automatically create a link to the Xara site
A text background color option so you can easily highlight words
An easy way to replace one font with another throughout a document (especially useful for replacing missing fonts in imported PDFs)
Update style to match (useful for copying styles from another document or applying styles to unstyled documents, particularly imported PDFs)
More detailed information on font embedding permissions in Document Information
Accurate export of text with manual kerns
Update of the Font Awesome Symbols (a quick & easy way to insert symbols from the large and growing Font Awesome selection. The full set is displayed via the Insert menu)
Fonts will look correct in exported documents where fonts are missing if outlines are embedded (for example from imported PDFs, most of which include embedded character outlines).
New Mouseover Effects:
By default the mouseover now fades in, but if you want something more eye-catching you can now choose from 18 different effects including bounce, wobble and flash, and you can set the speed.
ONLINE EDITING:
Document Sync With Dropbox or GDrive:
Web Designer can now sync files via Dropbox and Google Drive. So if you have the same file open on multiple computers, and you make an edit and save the file on one computer, it will be updated in Web Designer on the other computers.
And there's another bonus: Dropbox and Google Drive maintain older versions of your files, and provide easy ways of viewing and reverting back to earlier versions (in Dropbox simply right click on a file and select 'View previous versions'). This is a safe, easy and storage-saving way of maintaining multiple versions of your website files.
Online Editing With cloud.xara (beta):
An ultra-simple way to view, edit and update the content of your Xara website using a web browser on any computer or tablet (yes even a Mac or Android tablet!), from anywhere in the world, and to re-publish the website.
For commercial designers:
Give controlled editing rights to your clients, namely allow them to edit text and replace images
Brainstorming a new design with your client over the phone? Now you can update the cloud version in real time so you client can see the changes as you talk
And for everyone:
Update the text (blogs, news, prices for example) or replace images and re-publish your own website from anywhere
Work with colleagues on the same website at the same time.
CONTENT:
New Slideshow Widget:
A powerful and flexible new Widget for creating slideshows from TaskPilot. You can see another example in this demo site (the photos of the different bikes in the New Models section). You'll find the Widget in the Designs Gallery under Page Elements & Widgets > Photo Slideshows & Galleries, nb free registration with TaskPilot is required).
New Templates:
6 new General Website Themes (normally sold in Web Packs for $10 each!) with up to 16 page layouts, all including new mobile variants, plus other designs have been updated to include mobile variants.
OTHER ENHANCEMENTS:
Secure FTP Publishing Options:
Web Designer 11 now offers support for publishing with SFTP and FTPS.
PDF Import Improvements:
Improved text editability (improved text reconstruction, margins, better text link import, better underline import)
Better support for import of PDFs with embedded font subsets, where fonts are not installed locally
Many other minor fixes and improvements.
Other Minor Enhancements:
Objects are automatically resized down to column width when you insert them into a text column
Web export options dialog now usable offline
Small improvements in the drop-down menus
You can now browse objects in the Page & Layer Gallery, not just pages and layers
Improvements to Word import
A new photo text panel SmartShape
InfoBar pulses on tool selection.

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