Show Hidden Characters
Hidden characters and paragraph options are essential to my design work and they save up a lot of time. I know this comes from the print design approach but I still feels it's valuable to have more control on paragraphs rather than putting everything into a different box of copy.
KAWORO
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Brandon Fox
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I have a perfect example of why this tool would be a great addition to the program.
I am working on a website and when I sent over the developer link to my front-end developer, he copied that text and pasted like normal. But when I viewed it on my computer, I get an errant box that is not in the design.
- Snapshot 0: This shows the errant box that is on a live site.
- Snapshot 1: Shows the developer link content panel for one of the design.
- Snapshot 2: Shows the developer link preview of the content panel but does not show the errant box.
- Snapshot 3: Shows the XD program design that shows a highlight (in blue) of two extra spaces.What I think is happening is that instead of doing hard returns on these copy, I did a soft return. Much like the logic when styling in InDesign, when you style a paragraph that has a hard return, the styling stops at the moment of the hard return. But when there is a soft return, it ignores that and continues the styling until there is a hard return.
So, by having a hidden character functionality, this would have saved me the headache of realizing why those errant boxes were showing up and knowing what I needed to do in order to prevent that from happening.
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alex
commented
That would be great! In fact, other enhancements to text formatting would be great too! For example bulleted lists!
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Anonymous
commented
Absolutely! Crazy that we can't have different space before/after within a flow of text depending on text style
