Bouton's Features Wish List for version 9

[MarcT]

Great suggestions Peter, my favorites are 4 and 5.

One of you wishes is already granted, if you press ctrl+alt and click a couple of times it will cycle through the subgroups in the clipview.

Marc

[steve.ledger]

9 - move a group in a Clipview (now you can only move a single object)

You can move a group inside a clipview via double-click to 'edit inside' (since Designer Pro version 7)

[petervandriel]

thx that helps!

[Sheff]

Pressure sensitivity and stroke shape improvements. I'd like to be able to have pressure profiles applied to stroke shapes. Right now, it's either or. If I want a stroke shape that tapers at the beginning and end, I'm stuck at one line weight. If I want pressure sensitivity to control the thickness of the line, the end caps at the beginning tend to default in a blog and sometimes it tapers, but usually you have a blob at the other end.

What I'd like to see as an option is to be able to draw with the freehand tool and have it keep the stroke shape, but apply a varying thickness to the line. Or apply a varying thickness to the line based on the initial(or average) pressure of the pen.

[Gare]

Hear, hear, and I feel that the whole custom line feature needs a rethinking and retooling. You can't create your own custom stroke, which is what Creature House Expression encouraged you to do, and they are the engineers who Xara, Adobe, and Corel have tried to imitate.

Actually, I find perhaps 3 of the entire preset collection useful in my work.

Dear programmers: please let the genie out of the bottle and let us make our own strokes?

TIA,

Gary

[Sheff]

Hear, hear, and I feel that the whole custom line feature needs a rethinking and retooling. You can't create your own custom stroke, which is what Creature House Expression encouraged you to do, and they are the engineers who Xara, Adobe, and Corel have tried to imitate.

Actually, I find perhaps 3 of the entire preset collection useful in my work.

Dear programmers: please let the genie out of the bottle and let us make our own strokes?

TIA,

Gary

Agreed regarding Creature House Expression. I'd love to have something similar to Skeletal Strokes.

I have a workflow where I create the stroke in Xara, copy and paste it into Illustrator, then copy and paste it into Expression to make the stroke. Then I create the artwork, then I copy and paste that in to Illustrator and do it again to get it back into Xara.

Once the stroke is back in Xara, the only thing I can use to manipulate it and maintain its integrity is the mould tool.

Cutting and Pasting directly between Expression and Xara results in them passing bitmaps back and forth rather than vectors. Illustrator just functions as a 'translator' for Xara.

It's a huge pain in the ass.

I try to use Xara as much as I can, but I find that I have to cut and paste between other vector apps to use features where Xara comes up short.

I'd also like gradient line fills that move along a path. Having to turn a line into a shape or a clipping path to do this is also tedious.

Sheff