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Future Developments

Here are some of the features we plan to add. The release order will be influenced by user requests. If your favorite "must-have" feature is missing, please contact Support and submit a feature request. We welcome receiving your requests, comments and suggestions, which help to steer our product development program.

Text Related Features
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Extract shapes from glyphs (text characters), to enable shape editing effects to be applied; line stroke, color/gradient fill, image, rotation angle, shape distortion.

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Spelling checker underlines errors as you type.

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Find and replace.

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Adjustable first line spacing from top of column.

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Modify text case: lower case, UPPER CASE, Sentence case, Title Case, and tOGGLE cASE.

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Bulleted and numbered Lists.

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Named character and paragraph styles. Style catalogues.

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Vertical text alignment (top, middle, or bottom of the shape).

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Vertical justification (to distribute text lines evenly within a shape).

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"Full tab solution" to supplement/replace existing "automatic left align tab stops".

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Set the default font on a per-document basis.

Shape Related Features
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Configurable shapes.

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Boolean operations on combinations of shapes.

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Node editing (adding/removing nodes, smoothing curves).

Image Related Features
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Image crop tool to augment existing "shaped cropping" of images.

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Image sizing option "scale with shape", for convenient scaling of cropped images.

Layout Related Features
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Guides.

Print and Export Related Features
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A range of image export options, including: whole page export, export area and export shape; to different image formats, including: png, gif, jpeg, tiff.

Application Related Features
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An integrated template browser.

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Localizations of GUI and help pages (Western languages initially).

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