VivaDesigner has been made considerably faster in many functional areas. The opening of documents has been accelerated threefold, and text entry by ten to a hundredfold.
Faster than ever
Clipping (Visualize)
You have often asked yourself why an image is not transparent or why an incorrect crop is displayed? To find the answer you must normally open the image in an image editing program. VivaDesigner visualises optionally the clipping path and the Alpha channel.
Fast Image Scaling & Fitting
With the new selection point, picture objects can be scaled without using any additional shortcuts. With a simple click on the Fit symbol, image objects are proportionally filled automatically so that no white space appears.
Multilingual Placeholder Text
You can fill text objects with language specific placeholder text to obtain a complete impression of the layout. You can edit the placeholder text yourself for all 30 languages.
Visualize Missing Fonts
Until now, missing fonts were displayed on opening the document, in the Font Usage and in the Module palette. In Version 8, missing fonts are now displayed visually in the layout with a pink background.
Image Embedding
As default, VivaDesigner only saves a preview of the images used in the document. With the option “Embed all Used Images”, the high-res data of all the images used is also saved in the document.
Alternative (Web) Interface
The new neutral interface design was developed for editing documents in the Web , but can also be used on the desktop. Its basis is that users don’t want to see any design of a desktop program in the browser. With the new platform neutral design, a seamless integration of VivaDesigner in a Web application is even optically possible.
Smart Guides
Smart Guides were originally developed for CAD programs and enable fast alignment of objects to objects on the same page or facing page. In many cases you save yourself the necessity of creating guide lines or guide objects by using Smart Guides.
Exchange with InDesign®
With the Import and Export module for Adobe® IDML, you can open your Adobe® InDesign® documents in VivaDesigner and also if required save them in Adobe® IDML format.
Solutions for Adobe® InDesign® Users
Help for Import & Export of Adobe InDesign Files
With the Import and Export module for Adobe® IDML, you can open your Adobe® InDesign® documents in VivaDesigner and also if required save them in the Adobe® IDML format.
At present VivaDesigner doesn’t open native InDesign documents in the INDD format, but only in the IDML format. Therefore it is (still) necessary to save the documents in InDesign in the IDML format.
VivaDesigner has at least 95% of all functions that InDesign also possesses, plus some functions that InDesign doesn’t have (font embedding, access rights, etc.). Therefore the import of IDML documents into VivaDesigner is in most cases works almost perfectly, that is, almost all the elements contained in the InDesign document are taken over. In some cases, the quality of the Import filter could still be improved, and therefore we are constantly working hard to improve the filter.
Free InDesign Conversion
We would be grateful for your support, especially if you are not satisfied with the quality of the import. In this case we offer you a free of charge conversion and analysis of your data.
Please send us the documents listed below as a ZIP package. Please give the ZIP file a meaningful name, such as your name and the date.
Example:
Name-2017-03-31.zip. We need:
– The IDML
– The original *.indd document
– All fonts used (ideally OpenType *.otf or TrueType*.ttf)
– All images used
– An original PDF of the document for checking purposes.
– And most important: Please include a text file with your contact data including mail address and name.
Click here to upload your InDesign documents with all requested files to the VivaCloud
Further Information for Adobe® InDesign® users: Solutions for Adobe® InDesign® Users