Auto Resize Documents

A brand new 'auto-fit' capability that enables you to create flexible documents that adapt to almost any size change you or your customer might want. It's a great time saver!

For example you can now easily change a design from A3 to A4, or A4 to US Letter. It's especially useful for social media, where you can adapt a design from (for example) Facebook into Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram by simply changing page types. 

The defualt position is for all items on a page to be automatically re-positioned when you change the page size, but Designer actually offers a great deal of flexibility if you want to control exactly how particular items in your design behave.

Other Text Handling Improvements

• You can now create Text Styles for bulleted and numbered lists, including all the list properties you might need  - from indents to bullet symbols and colors
• Extra controls over objects anchored to your text flow 
• Text in text panels can now be top aligned, center aligned or bottom aligned
• Improved support for multi-weight fonts
• Further list editing improvements
• Right click > Replace option for symbols inside groups
  
• New document language property for the spell checker

New Website Templates

View previews of a selection of the themes and other templates in the Online Content Catalog.

Photo Filter Pre-Sets

A wonderfully quick and easy way to apply popular effects to your photos.

You’ll find more than 100 ready-made effects in the Online Content Catalog (image resources > photo filter pre-sets).  Simply select your photo and hit Import!  What’s more you can continue to edit the effects using the Enhance tool or Brightness Levels dialog, and if you replace the photo the effects are retained. See some examples.

The effects also include Photo Filter Overlays, which can be applied on top of existing filter pre-sets, such as pattern, texture and transparency Overlays. Filters can now be applied & removed with a handy right click menu option.

Tables

Tables have topped the list of feature requests for some time, and in v15 we've taken the first important steps with our first Table SmartShapes.

V15 tables support basic table insertion and editing, including adding & removing columns, resizing rows & columns, various table formatting options and auto formatting of the table to fit contents. You'll find the new tables in the Online Content Catalog under Components > Print & Web Components > Tables.

Text Inside Shapes

You can now place text inside shapes so that it flows within the shape's outline - a great new feature that'll enable you to create some interesting and eye catching designs. 

The Online Content Catalog incudes some new text panels that make use of this new feature (See Components > Print & Web Components > Text Panels).

Import & Export

• Further PDF import improvements

New SmartShapes

SmartShapes are an amazingly quick and easy way to create and edit some of the most commonly required shapes. We've made some great new additions to the Online Content Catalog library of these ultra-editable ready-made shapes:

• 4 new Tables in Print & Web Components > Tables
• A selection of new Text Panels, also in Print & Web Components - 21 Smart Layouts (more complex and interesting Text Panel SmartShapes), 5 Text in Shapes, 1 Smart Object, 1 Text in SmartShapes