TECH – eDesign New Features Release

Announcing these new features and enhancements to eDesign!

Double Clicks in Page Edit: previously, clicking the canvas with the text tool or shape tools caused a dialog box to appear for manual entry of shape settings. While this is similar to InDesign, most of you found it confusing, so this has been changed to a double click. Double click any empty part of the canvas with either the shape or text tool to get the manual settings dialog.

New Cropping Button: There is also a new cropping button in Page Edit. Select an image and the button will show in the control panel. This button allows the user to move the photo and frame handles independently. This is also a shortcut for this feature: hold Control/Cmd and double click any image. The usual “keep the frame where I put it” picture manipulation mode is still available, as well.

New Editor Permissions: Discussions with the IT Advisory Council and customers have led us to grant additional permissions to the Editor role. Now the editor can update portrait names in the library, flow portraits, move spreads, and run the index. Check the eDesign Help for a complete list of the permissions for each user type.

Library Save-As: Users are able to save candid images back out of eDesign by right clicking on the image in the library..