New in June
Released: Jun 29, 2023
What's new
With this release, you can check the following:
- New featured templates for you to start your design as soon as possible
- New ability to directly import Figma local files for further editing
- New ability to export projects as PDF files
- New color overrides allow you to edit the colors of instances
- New shortcuts to help you design much faster
- New demo project helps you get started with DT in minutes
Feature updates
- New ability to manually enter the desired zoom ratio in the editing mode.
- New feature to import Figma local files in just a few clicks.
- New ability to export projects as PDF files.
- New color overrides allow you to edit the colors of instances.
- New demo project allows you to get started with DT in just minutes.
- New shortcut keys "home/end" to switch between artboards on the canvas and quickly select the desired one based on their positions.
- New shortcut keys "Ctrl+shift+O" to quickly offset paths.
- New shortcut keys to set the text styles (You may click "F1" to view all shortcut keys).
- New color overrides allow you to edit the colors of instances.
- New menu option to expand or collapse all nodes.
- Added a new view option called "Multiplayer cursors" to show the name label of users working on the same design page.
- New shortcut keys "Ctrl+Alt+Click" to expand or collapse page groups when selecting artboards or page groups on the Layer Tree panel.
- New shortcuts "Spacebar/Shift +Left/Mouse wheel/Right click" to zoom or move artboards quickly.
- New ability to keep the size changes when external or shared libraries are updated.
- New ability to enter some special signals when using default fonts.
Improvements
- Improved the display of overrides on the right panel, much more clearly and precisely.
- Improved the recognition of Figma files. Your file details are restored more accurately.
- Improved gradient color settings by adding horizontal/vertical snapping effects to the gradient handles, making it easier to achieve precise and aligned gradients.
- Improved the performance of frame selecting a large number of layers.
- Improved searching. Now, you can search for desired one from all pages and layers of the current project at your fingertips.
- Improved the feature to copy and paste styles, allowing you to copy the corner settings of the selected layers.
- Improved mask settings, enabling you to add a mask even when you've selected only one layer.
- Improved the page rendering and zooming performance of large artboards.
- Improved the detail restoration of SVG and PDF files.
- Improved the image loading of the offline HTML prototype.
- Improved the selection of locked layers. You can now select locked layers on the canvas.
- Improved the way of uploading image overrides. You can now simply upload a new image override with double clicks.
Fixes
- Fix: Fixed the issue of frequent zooming and capturing screenshots causing browser memory crashes and black screens, providing a more stable and reliable browsing experience.
- Fix: The artboards of the exported offline HTML prototype may be incorrectly ordered.
- Fix: You may not find the linked external libraries when importing Sketch files.
- Fix: When cutting partial text of an element, the text styles may not be correctly captured.
- Fix: When rotating layers by holding "Shift", it may jitter all the time.
- Fix: Your page may get stuck when trying to change the dash border of an element.
- Fix: When trying to resize layer groups, the layer may jitter.
- Fix: When trying to clone some artboards and layers isometrically by using the shortcut "Alt", some layers may get lost.
- Fix: When exporting an asset in .svg format, you may get an empty file.
- Fix: When publishing DT files to Mockplus Cloud, the exported assets may be changed.
- Fix: When tidying up layers, they may be incorrectly positioned.
- Fix: Your color settings may not work.
- Fix: When moving layers across artboards, the hierarchy of your layers may be changed.
- Fix: You may get errors when converting multiple component assets into artboards.
- Fix: You don't get any response when scaling layers on the canvas by using the shortcut "Ctrl+K".
- Fix other problems.
New in Feb
Released: Feb 14, 2023
What's new
This release brings the following new features and improvements:
- Three golden ratio overlays - Golden Spiral, Golden Grid, and Golden Rectangle - to help you aesthetically layout your interface at a perfect ratio
- Improved the performance and stability
- Added support for previewing your DT projects on our mobile app
Feature updates
- New ability to show name labels that enable you to see who else are also working on the same interface and what changes they are making at the same time.
- New feature to quickly select layers behind the overlaying artboards.
- Added support for automatically generating default thumbnails for projects
- Added a new button to expand or collapse the pages.
- New ability to directly copy and paste a local image to fill a vector shape.
- Added a new loading bar to improve the user experience when creating or refreshing pages.
- Added a feature to set a page as a cover through right-click menus.
- Added a feature to add borders to new layers using shortcut "B".
- Added a new property to adjust the corner radius of shape components like Polygon and Star.
Improvements
- Improved the project moving. You can now directly drag a project into a project folder listed in the left-upper corner.
- Improved the loading performance of large projects.
- Improved the performance of page zooming.
- Improved the performance of cloning, frame selecting, dragging and dropping, and deleting layers.
- Improved the layers' selection style on the workspace.
- Improved the page renaming. You can now add several blank spaces to your page name.
- Improved the selection area of layers under a smaller view.
Fixes
- Fix: When copying and pasting external text into a text layer, your operations may not work.
- Fix: When updating a Text Style, the width of the instances may be changed.
- Fix: When a Color Variable has been applied to a layer, the color panel does not change correspondingly.
- Fix: The blurred background of your imported Sketch file may be incorrectly restored.
- Fix: The background color of your imported Figma file may be incorrectly restored.
- Fix: Your imported image may have black borders.
- Fix: The "Back" button may not work when publishing a project to Mockplus Cloud.
- Fix: You may get incorrect corner radius after publishing projects to Mockplus Cloud.
- Fix: When you select a layer in the workspace, the same layer may not be highlighted on the left Layer tree.
- Fix: When multiple selecting texts and changing colors, the font and font size may be changed.
- Fix: When adding an icon by copying and pasting SVG code, you may get the wrong icon size.
- Fix: The Smart layout of your imported Sketch file may not work.
- Fix: After you've deleted a page, the Home page is always automatically selected then.
- Fix: Fixed the page crash issue that occurs when you're using the "Tidy" button to quickly align layers.