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Bouncing comps

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 05:01:31 GMT

I need a better way of bouncing png/jpg comps from reflow projects. I need to be able to export high quality images to use for marketing material, to send via email quickly and to show how the software looks on various devices and browsers and bounce that as an image. I end up previewing the design in chrome or the iphone emulator (c/p the link from chrome preview) and then taking screenshots but the resulting quality isn't very good.

I think there's a simple way to solve this that could also prove to be a key advantage in getting people to convert from Illustrator, Sketch and Photoshop to Reflow. Most design tools have an export function so you building something similar in the file menu. Not only do you allow the user to choose file type and page - you also let them choose all the screen sizes they want those pages bounced at (iPhone, S4, iPad, some desktop viewports etc).

This takes advantage of the fact that in reflow you're designing a multi-device representation of your software vs. punching pixels into a grid and I think will really help people start to understand the speed advantage that you get from using a tool like this.

Stephen

Form field issues / bugs

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 21:36:33 GMT

Not sure if this is the best place to report bugs but I wanted to call out a few issues I'm having with the new form field functionality:

1. For multi-line text inputs the text seems to inexplicably center itself vertically. This won't happen when you first create the field but if you duplicate the element or save and re-open it happens - despite none of the relevant attributes (padding, text-alignment) changing.

2. You can't format dropdowns appropriately; no ability to change the font of the text in a pulldown.

3. In the chrome preview, the focus state of fields has that annoying standard blue outline. Pretty common issue you encounter when developing and I could probably get around it by editing the CSS manually but it would be great if the HTML/CSS that's generated accounted for this automatically.

4. The grouping for radio buttons is counter-intuitive. There's some ordering principle at work - e.g. if I create a bunch of radio buttons in one place on the canvas, they'll be part of the same group but this isn't explicitly detailed with layers.

Thanks in advance for all the great - been enjoying the tool and appreciate the constant patches and improvements to the product. If there are existing workaround for these issues, would love to hear them. Cheers.

Black header bar in Chrome and Safari previews

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 23:24:06 GMT

I'd like to suggest that the preview bar with the page pulldown be removed from the Chrome and Safari Previews - or at least let their be an "X" to close it out. It's really hard otherwise to get a true sense of the color balance on the page and how it relates to the chrome of the web browser.