Ateljé Habetzeder - "What Would You Like to See in the Next Versions of Blend and Design?"

Tuesday, May 06, 2008 5:41 AM by Christian Habetzeder

re: What Would You Like to See in the Next Versions of Blend and Design?

First of all I have to say that I like Design a lot. Like most graphic designers my work is also being used in different media, both digital and print. In order to be the primary design tool, and not just a middle man, a lot of features are missing. And remember, to a graphic designer code is pretty scary! In Design I would like to:

have full support for import and export of eps, wmf, emf, xaml, ai.

see thumbnails of ai, psd and a lot of other formats when importing.

be able to Copy/Paste in between Illustrator and Design without i.e. gradients being converted to pixel based graphics.

have support for color management and ICC profiles.

be able to change color system of all objects in a document to rgb or cmyk.

to have access to PMS color libraries.

to have warnings when saving/exporting files with mixed color mode.

be able to limit the number of decimals when exporting to xaml.

be able to choose registration point of objects permanently, i.e. top left corner.

be able to edit resource dictionaries from VS projects without access to code.

to have interoperability with TFS.

have a graphic representation of a resource dictionary in Blend, like the cast view in Adobe Director. And be able to use Design as an external editor for individual resources in that dictionary from both Blend and VS.

be able to make text follow a line or other object.

have better support for creating icon-files. Make changes for different sizes and see a complete preview of them.

be able to create symbol libraries used within the document, as a resource to the installation or as a resource within a group of graphic designers.

be able to create a star formed shape with inner and outer radius measure.

be able to choose a graphic form and by putting the cursor to one point get a dialogue to enter exact values for the object.

be able to create different kind of graphs with the support of input tables.

be able to set more than one set of crop marks.

be able to adjust printing, i.e. icc-profile used, color separations, resolution, how pixel based pictures are treated etc.

I really look forward to the next release!