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.