Release notes.

Document overview

• The overview starts right with your documents. The header is light and on one line, with search, «New document …» and «From file …». The typeface is IBM Plex Sans, the accent magenta, and the margin is the same at the top, left and right.
• On a large screen you see about four times as many documents without scrolling. Time groups such as «Today» now appear only in the list view.
• Folders: the counts line up, «New folder …» sits below the tree. On a phone the folders sit in one row, and «+» and «…» are always visible for touch.
• Without documents the overview offers «New document …» and «From file …». A note shows while loading, and a connection error offers «Try again».

Examples and templates

• All examples and templates have a new design: IBM Plex Sans, clear section labels, accent colours as CMYK swatches. The prepress test document keeps the same test cases.
• «Features in detail» has a page on the new features of 3 November and now has 32 pages.

Interface

• The «New Features» menu lists the preflight profile, instructions, image folder and «Use fonts on this computer».
• With four tabs open in a panel, the tabs scroll sideways. The selected tab stays fully readable.
• «Link margins» shows an open chain when switched off. Switching it off restores the previous values.
• Preflight lists notes in the overview, quieter than warnings and in grey.
• The built-in PDF presets carry translated names in English, French and Spanish, also in the output log.
• Stroke weight in «Character, more» shows 0 when the stroke is set to none.

Print output

• Output log: every PDF export and every package writes an entry with person, target, preflight profile, findings and a SHA-256 checksum of the delivered file. Pages changed since the last output carry a mark in the page list. The log appears in the versions window and in the package report.
• Placed PDFs are checked as soon as you place them: fonts not embedded, RGB, ink coverage, overprinted white and registration colour appear in preflight at the frame.

Brand

• Preflight profiles know allowed colours and allowed fonts. Other colours and fonts appear in preflight with page and frame, and on request text that deviates from its style. An exception needs a reason.

Fonts and images

• Font › Fonts › Use fonts on this computer: in Chrome and Edge you set type with installed fonts without uploading them. The PDF embeds them; everyone else sees a substitute font and a note.
• File › Links › Connect image folder: Medusa spots changed images in the folder and swaps them in at a click, also when you come back from another app. Crop and scaling stay.

Templates

• File › Instructions: a template carries instructions with purpose, what is allowed and a contact person. They appear when you create a document from the template and never go into the PDF.

Interface

• Panels, menus, toolbar and dialogs are more compact: all five styles use the same sizes, fields are 24 px high. Dialogs have a header and a footer with a dividing line. On touch devices the controls stay large.
• Dialogs without an input field put the focus on «Close». Enter no longer triggers a secondary action.
• Icons such as scale, corners and link are drawn instead of text characters, sharp and large enough on Retina screens.
• The Mac style follows macOS 27: tighter window corners, one continuous toolbar, semibold selection in the sidebar.
• The program is now called Medusa.

Approval

• Several reviewers: if someone changes a page after an approval, that approval lapses. The person approves the new state again.

Language versions

• Changed index terms count as outdated and are included when you export the changed paragraphs.
• Grouped text frames also get a translated copy in the language version.
• Text whose language comes from the character style switches to the target language in the version.

Word

• Linked Word files carry the formatting of paragraph and character styles, such as bold, small caps and language.

Fixed

• Document search field: typed text is readable again in light mode.

Fixed

• Several security issues and bugs fixed.

Teams and editorial

• Teams: admins create teams and decide who edits and who only views. All members see and edit the documents in a team folder; whoever leaves the team loses access at once. The start page shows «All», «Mine» and each team.
• Editorial links per person: a link of your own for a section or individual pages; changes carry the link's name.
• Approval with several reviewers: each person approves individually through their own link, pages lock only when everyone has approved. Plus «Load PDF» for reviewers and deadlines in the flatplan.
• Image credits: creator and rights come from the image files and can be set as a field and as a collected list.
• Output per version: one run produces a file per language version or condition.

Language versions

• Each language sits on its own layer in the same document, switchable under View › Language version; each person chooses their own. Text frames follow the position and size of the source; running heads, indexes and hyphenation follow the language.
• Changed source texts mark a version as «outdated»; only the changed paragraphs go out as XLIFF.
• PDF per language version, or one PDF with all languages as switchable layers.

Text around the shape

• Text flows around the real shape of an object (paths, ellipses, images in shapes, groups and the alpha channel of cut-out images), with offset, side choice and a contour that can be edited point by point.

View

• Spreads can be rotated by 90°, 180° or 270° for editing (View › Rotate spread); output and document stay unchanged.

Translation and contributions

• Texts can be exported as XLIFF for translation agencies; the translated file comes back with all character styles as a language layer or as a copy of the document.
• Contribution inbox: the editorial team sends a link, members submit text (also as a Word file) and up to five images with caption and credit without an account. Contributions appear in a list and can be placed in the document as a manuscript with one click.
• Texts go to Word with paragraph styles, bold, italic, superscript and subscript, links and lists, and come back the same when importing and refreshing. Shared Google documents can be linked as text and refreshed.

Long documents and tables

• Several indexes per document, for example for people and places, each with its own title and paragraph styles; page ranges of three or more pages are combined, sorting follows the document language.
• Long table rows may break at the end of a frame and continue in the next; rows taller than the frame always break.

Tools

• Strokes can be placed inside, centred or outside.
• «Redefine» takes the selection's overrides into the style; styles can be arranged in groups.
• Find and replace can be saved as a sequence; «Tidy typography» fixes double spaces, ellipses and dashes in one step.
• Smart text reflow: typing past the end of the last frame adds pages and frames.
• Clipping paths from PSD and TIFF become the shape of the image frame.
• New special character «Indent to here»: following lines start at its position.
• New barcodes: Pharmacode and Braille for packaging.
• Large files are uploaded in parts; images up to 1 GB can now be uploaded.

Usability

• Hold Option to add a master page; «Main master page» is named consistently, the Layout › Master pages menu is flatter and the page menu shorter.
• The margin alignment rules are visible in the text frame panel. Your own text patterns have a visible place in the preflight profile and their own tab in preflight.

Faster

• The spell checker loads its dictionary program as a separate, cached file.
• Input in the margin alignment rules dialog only resets text that uses margin alignment; moving in large documents and preflight after opening are smoother.

Fixed

• Several security issues and bugs fixed.

Command sequences and shortcuts

• Command sequences: record recurring steps once and replay them on any selection as a single undo step. They appear in the command search and can be shared as a file or in the document for the team.
• Keyboard shortcuts can be customised: record your own shortcut per command and tool, take over conflicts deliberately, reset everything, save to and load from a file. Shortcuts apply per person.
• Workspaces can be saved to a file and loaded by others; your own workspaces travel with the brand kit.

Pages and tables

• Several master pages per page: add further ones to the main master page, such as folio, section header and ad grid, in any order.
• Text in table cells can be rotated by 90°, 180° and 270°, for narrow table headers in price lists; the row grows with it.

Typesetting

• Optical margin alignment with your own rules: set per character how far it hangs over the left and right margin, as a rule set for story, paragraph or paragraph style.
• New text variables show the character and word count of the story and update as you type.

PDF, EPUB and data

• Layers in PDF: the document's layers can be written into the PDF as switchable layers, for language versions, die line, varnish or proof notes.
• EPUB and HTML can embed the fonts used, provided the font file allows it; a note after export names what it forbids.
• JSON as a data source: a JSON file or address loads like a table; nested fields become columns.

Preflight

• Your own text patterns in the preflight profile, such as «TODO» or double spaces; every match jumps into the text.
• Characters the font lacks can be marked on screen; preflight lists them per story and jumps there.

Faster

• Pressing Enter or Backspace across a paragraph boundary now sends only the change instead of the whole text flow: 0.3 KB instead of 1.8 MB at 300 pages. Collaborators no longer wait.
• Large images no longer stutter when zooming and paging; export still uses the original.
• Thousands of objects on one page can be grabbed and dragged without stalling; spacing marks appear only in the visible area.
• The release notes load only the language shown.

Usability

• An object lying above a selected table can be clicked and dragged directly.
• The empty comments area shows its hint in full. When comparing versions, the versions stay readable in narrow windows.

Fixed

• Several security issues and bugs fixed.

Faster

• PDF export needs far less memory for large documents; images are compressed in chunks and the PDF/X check runs in the background, so the interface stays responsive.
• Moving many objects at once stays smooth even in documents with thousands of objects. In catalogues with thousands of text frames, preflight settles instead of computing endlessly; it also waits while you point, scroll or type. Pages with very many text frames draw faster.

Typesetting

• Saving lines no longer splits a word without a hyphen.

Usability

• Find objects: the stroke weight shows its unit «pt». In the node diagram a note explains why a connector does not switch to another node. When comparing versions, notices no longer cover the bar.

Fixed

• Several security issues and bugs fixed.

Tables that calculate

• Typing “=” in a table cell starts a formula as in Excel: SUM, AVERAGE, MIN, MAX, COUNT, ROUND, IF, AND, OR, SUMIF and more, with cell references and ranges; errors show as in Excel (#DIV/0!, #REF!).
• Excel tables bring their formulas along and keep calculating; what Medusa cannot calculate stays as a value and is listed in the report.
• Cells can be selected as in Excel: ↩ moves one row down in formulas and on selected cells, while typing it stays a paragraph. Table › Calculate › Insert sum puts the sum below the selected range.
• Drag rows and columns: click the bar at the table edge to select whole rows or columns, then drag them. Formatting, height and width move along, and formulas keep using the same values. From the keyboard: Alt+arrow or Table › Move.

Versions side by side

• Version history › Compare shows two versions side by side, linked when paging and zooming; changes are marked and can be stepped through.

On the phone

• On a phone Medusa shows a slim view: page through and zoom, read and write comments (long press), tap a text to change it, approve, without panels and tools.

Approval per page

• Clients approve single pages or everything. Approved pages are locked for everyone until the document’s owner lifts the approval; the rest stays editable. Approving creates a version and sends an email.

Search

• Select similar objects (same fill, stroke, style, kind or layer), find and replace objects, and “Where used?” on a swatch.

Templates

• Ready-made templates for people coming from Microsoft Publisher, on the overview: club flyer A5, invitation as a folded A6 card and a 16-page A5 club magazine, with club colours, paragraph styles, image frames to fill and text that flows from page to page.
• New designed templates for social media, flyer, poster and business card: concert poster A3, business card with front and back, Instagram post, Instagram story, LinkedIn post and newsletter. Print templates in CMYK, web templates in RGB, all using only the bundled fonts. One click creates the document, no dialog.
• The overview has three sections: templates to fill in with a preview, blank formats, and examples with test documents.

IDML

• Opening no longer loses words, including those in links, cross-references and text variables. Layers, image crops, images in shapes, anchored objects and tabs come along; a report lists what could not be taken over.
• Your own IDML package with images and fonts opens again; gradients, line styles and super- and subscript come along. New: right-indent tab (Shift+Tab) for tables of contents.
• Opening an IDML file now also brings justification spacing and hyphenation, all hyphenation languages, paragraph shading and borders, text variables, object, table and cell styles, alternating fills and hidden master items. Whatever can only be taken over in simplified form (cross-references, text wrap around shapes, objects beside the page) is listed in the import report.

QR-bill

• If the columns of the address list are named differently from the template’s fields, Medusa asks how to map them instead of printing placeholders. Errors show visibly in the dialog; invalid records can be skipped.

Diagrams

• In node diagrams, drag a connector’s end along the edge: it snaps to quarters, thirds, the middle and field centres (hold Alt to move freely). Deleting no longer leaves orphaned points behind.
• Node diagrams get “+” too; a box’s shape can be changed; moving a box takes its subordinates along (hold Alt to leave them).
• Node diagrams: connection points round or square and adjustable in size; they stay round when scaling and sit firmly on the edge. Diamond and oval grow with the text.

Typesetting

• Language-specific letterforms: Romanian, Serbian, Bulgarian and other languages use the forms the font provides for them (such as ș with a comma). Accents typed as a letter plus a combining mark look like the finished letter; if a font lacks an accented letter, Medusa builds it from the base letter and the accent instead of showing a question mark.
• Optical kerning no longer moves accents and leaves Arabic and Indic scripts untouched. Optical margin alignment also applies before a forced line break, and the PDF hyphenates like the screen even right after opening.

Prepress

• Accessibility: text-to-background contrast per WCAG, View › Simulate color vision deficiency, readability (LIX) in the panel; in tagged PDF, form fields are labelled and formulas are tagged.
• Print PDF: hyphenated and letter-spaced words and thin spaces copy correctly; “JPEG” in the preset now also applies to CMYK images; a spot colour in a gradient with RGB keeps its plate; variable fonts are embedded as fonts in the PDF instead of outlines.

Handling

• Right-click a style: edit, redefine, duplicate, delete. Undo names the step. On a tablet, an undo button and larger buttons. “Show” on a mention jumps to the spot. Placing fills up pages to suit the binding.

Faster

• Typing in very long texts is smooth: 34 ms per keystroke in a 1000-page text flow instead of five seconds.
• On your own web space every change saves much faster, even with many people at once.

Fixed

• Several security issues and bugs fixed.

QR-bill

• Object › Place › QR-bill … places the payment part and receipt at the foot of the page following the Swiss guidelines, with account, amount, addresses, reference and message fixed or from the address list. With data merge, every member gets their own bill.
• The reference is built from a member number or checked as a finished reference; long addresses are shortened by the rules. Prepress warns when the bill was moved, distorted or recoloured. IBAN, reference and names are searchable in the PDF.

Labels and envelopes

• New templates for A4 label sheets (Zweckform, HERMA): design one label, data merge fills sheet after sheet.
• Envelopes C5, C5/6, DL and C6 with the address field at the window position and the post’s coding zone kept clear.

Diagrams

• Boxes in flowcharts and org charts can be picked up and moved with mouse and arrow keys; connectors follow, the structure stays. “Re-layout” brings back the automatic layout.
• “+” on a box and on a connector adds a new item below, beside or in between, also with Tab and Enter.
• Select all connectors or all boxes of a diagram at once and set line style, weight, colour, dash, arrows and fill.

Pages and documents

• Pages can be named and hidden; hidden pages are left out of the output. New: top binding, e.g. for calendars.
• Hand a document over to someone else, also when deleting an account, so that it is not deleted with it.
• Open Word files on the start page; headings become paragraph styles. People coming from Microsoft Publisher find their own way in.

Prepress

• New checks: page count matching the binding, number of spot colours per your own profile, leftover placeholder text, objects too close to the trim, dead links inside the document.
• 100 % black now overprints everywhere, including underlines, paragraph rules, table lines, text on a path and formulas, in the PDF and in the separations view.
• The PDF/X check is more precise and no longer warns without reason.

Handling

• Enter in the version history saves the version; a print order can’t be sent twice by accident; a new swatch has its name selected; offline, the start page shows an understandable message.

Faster

• When many people work at the same time, the connection stays smoother: requests are bundled and program parts stay cached.
• Large documents can be used right after opening; prepress checks the rest when the browser is idle and shows “checking …” meanwhile.
• After a PDF export the browser frees the memory again.

Print PDF

• Long texts in variable fonts can be exported as PDF again.
• The PDF/X check detects forbidden content from placed third-party PDFs (PostScript, OPI, LZW) and then withholds the seal.

Fixed

• Several security issues and bugs fixed.

Images in any shape, components, scale with content

• An image can now sit in an ellipse, a star or a path you drew: select the shape and use «Place …», drag an image onto the shape, or select image and shape and choose Object › Resize › Place into shape. Fitting, cropping by double-click and «Remove content» work as in an image frame; the shape’s stroke and corners stay on top of the image. In PDF and SVG the shape itself clips the image, sharp at any resolution.
• Components: Object › Library and source object › Create component turns the selection into a main component; place it from the Library palette or the same menu, on as many pages as you like. Change the main component and all instances follow in the same undo step, also for everyone working in the document at the same time. Text and image may differ per instance and stay when the component updates; «Reset» brings them back from the main component, «Detach» turns an instance into a normal object.
• Scale with content: dragging a handle with ⌘ (Ctrl) scales type, leading, stroke, corners, inset, column gutter, effects, footnotes and the image crop too; with ⌘⇧ proportionally. The same with the ⇲ field in the control bar and under Position › More, also for groups. Afterwards everything is back at 100 %, one step in the history.

Remove background

• AI › Remove background (also by right-clicking the image) cuts out a placed image. The browser computes it with a free model from your own server; the image goes nowhere and it costs nothing. The first time, the browser loads about 18 MB and keeps them.
• The original stays: the mask sits on the image, “Restore original” shows it in full again, one undo step. In the print PDF the mask is a soft mask on the image; a CMYK image keeps its colour values.

Order print

• File › Order print … makes the print PDF from a preset (preselected: PDF/X-4), checks it and puts it on your own server as a link. The print shop (name, email and notes are kept in the document) gets an email with the link and the details on quantity, format, paper and deadline; replies go straight to you, and so does a copy.
• With preflight errors, the order only goes through if you knowingly ignore them. The link is valid for 14 days (adjustable) and can be withdrawn; the orders are listed in the same dialog.

Menus, names and keyboard shortcuts

• New “Data” menu: data merge, load data source, distribute records, list in text flow, update data, data changes, client form and create merged document, plus linked tables, images from sources and document values, all in one place.
• New “AI” menu: suggest text, shorten text, translate document, suggest alt texts, remove background and the AI settings.
• Clearer menus: Object with submenus for Transform, Appearance, Paths, Insert and Library and source object; Table with submenus for Sizes and Breaks; rarely used panels under Window › Text and Window › Animation. Every menu fits on a 1280 × 720 pixel screen without scrolling.
• “New” is now called “New Features” and shows at most twelve new functions; the release notes are under Help › Release Notes.
• Object › Transform › Flip horizontally and Flip vertically. Layout › Parent pages › Duplicate, rename and delete parent page; the same three are on the entry in the Pages panel, also by right-click. The flatplan is under Layout.
• Consistent names: Insert page, Create outlines, Convert shape to path, Inspection view, Track changes. Every dialog is named after the command that opens it; “…” appears only where a dialog follows.
• New keyboard shortcuts for commands the browser used to catch: ⌥⇧⌘H hidden characters, ⌥⇧⌘R fit frame to content, ⌥⇧⌘E fit content proportionally, ⌥⇧⌘U step and repeat, ⌥⇧⌘L unlock all, ⌥⇧⌘W text wrap, ⌥⇧⌘] and ⌥⇧⌘[ bring to front and send to back, ⌥⇧⌘S insert page, ⌥⇧⌘G go to page, ⌥⇧⌘O create outlines; Esc deselects. The old shortcuts keep working for now and name the new one once. “Plan output …” no longer has a shortcut.
• Below 1440 pixels wide the header shows the prepress and saving status more compactly.

Properties and panels

• The Properties panel (formerly Design) shows what matters first: with a frame selected, only what concerns the object (position, its own settings, fill, stroke, appearance, text wrap). Rarely used sections (effects, adjustment rule, form field, anchoring, caption, Pathfinder) sit collapsed with “+” below and stay open once they hold a setting.
• Every section shows what you need first; rarer settings sit under “More” in the section header, closed until you open it and remembered; a dot on the button shows that something below is set. Text frame and text now take about a quarter of their former height.
• New Paragraph & Character panel (Type › Character, Paragraph, Tabs): every character and paragraph setting in one place, switchable between character and paragraph, with OpenType and preview, variable axes, tabs, drop caps, paragraph rules, breaks, nested styles and GREP styles. It replaces the OpenType panel; in Properties one line tells which OpenType features apply.
• Language appears only once for text, in the paragraph; the language of single characters is under Text › More.
• With a chart selected, Properties shows its type and data right there, and the Chart panel waits as a tab alongside (“All settings”).
• The control bar no longer runs off to the right: whatever does not fit sits under “…” at the right edge. The tooltip of the align buttons names the reference.
• A text frame with overset text shows the number of overset lines even without a text cursor; text count comes last and shows the overset in its header. Tabs that do not fit shorten instead of disappearing.
• “Format text →” at the top shows text, paragraph and text count for the whole text of the frame; “← Frame” goes back, and you type after a double-click as always. For groups and charts, “Format text of selection →” formats all texts at once, for a table all cells.
• Align sits in the panel as soon as two objects are selected, for one object in the control bar and under Object › Align; all three use the same reference (selection, page, margins).
• Collapsed sections stay collapsed on another page, in another cell and after switching language.
• New layout: on the right Properties, Styles, Swatches, below them Comments, Approval, Changes; on the left Pages and Layers. Every other panel opens via Window into its group; if the tabs don’t fit, “»” lists the rest. Applies to new workspaces and after Window › Arrangement › Reset panels.
• Styles now shows styles only; the fonts are listed in the Links panel.

Inks

• Placed CMYK images keep their colour space: a TIFF or PSD with its own CMYK profile goes into the PDF with that profile. If it is the profile of the output condition, the values stay as they are.
• Spot channels from greyscale and CMYK PSD files print as their own plate. Placing creates a swatch named after the channel; separation preview and overprint preview show the plate.
• New: “Inks …” under View › Separations preview: all plates with their use. A spot colour can be mapped to another one or converted to process, for output only; the swatches stay. Similar names such as “Pantone 300 C” and “PANTONE 300 U” are pointed out.
• Prepress reports similar plate names, images with a CMYK profile other than the output condition, and ink coverage above the limit after conversion to process, also where a converted colour overprints. With print presets, the export dialog shows which plates the PDF gets.
• A spot colour aliased to a colour that is converted to process prints that colour’s CMYK values, the same in the PDF, in the separations and overprint previews and in the ink coverage of the preflight.
• When exporting with “Convert spot colours to process”, an aliased colour also prints its target’s CMYK values; the warning and the plate list in the export dialog calculate the same way. If several swatches with the target’s name have different values, the Inks dialog points this out.

Cutting and suggesting with AI

• «Suggest cuts» shows live, while you tick, whether the text fits and how many lines are still missing or left free. Every cut can be undone on its own; paragraphs with character styles are cut too and keep their formatting. Cut evenly or from the end, without overset to a freely chosen number of characters, with «Scope: Selection» only the selected paragraphs. With «Track changes» every cut shows up on its own.
• «Suggest text»: refine the chosen variant by hand before applying it, with a character count; title and subtitle as a pair.
• Alt texts: «Suggest for all missing …» in one pass, one suggestion per image file, each can be deselected, one step.

Text count

• Standard lines of 55 and standard pages of 1,800 characters including spaces, overset summed over the whole document, lines in table cells. In text mode a click on «Overset» marks the text that no longer fits.

Footnotes

• Footnotes take formatting like any other text: italics for a title, small caps for a name, superscript and subscript, links, cross-references, variables, character and paragraph styles.
• You type into the note area at the foot of the frame, with the same text input as in the body: after “Insert footnote” the cursor is already in the note, a click in the note area opens it, Esc jumps back behind the reference. The dialog remains for notes that are not set.
• Note text is set with hyphenation, language and optical margin alignment like the body; a split note leaves no single line behind.
• PDF, EPUB, the endnote section, find and change and an IDML round trip keep the formatting. Existing notes open unchanged.

Text variables

• New variables: file name, creation date, modification date, output date and chapter number. Month names follow the language at that point, with a non-breaking space between day and month.
• Type › Text variables › Text variables …: create, rename, delete and insert your own variables, as text or as a date with its own pattern, plus the chapter number with its format. Change the value and every occurrence follows, undone in one step. A deleted variable stays as text.
• Jump lines: “Continued on page …” and “Continued from page …” in a small frame touching a threaded frame show the page of the next or previous frame in the thread, also in a group. Insert pages and the number follows.

Tables via IDML

• Tables in the text flow arrive with their width, alignment, space before and after and cell strokes; the columns are written at their set width.
• A narrow table is no longer stretched to the frame width on opening; cell strokes without a colour stay invisible.
• “Place copied table into the text flow” removes the original from the page in the same step; ⌘Z brings it back.

Typesetting

• French: the word space before the colon stretches in justified text, IDML carries the punctuation spacing, a multi-digit page number keeps its space, EPUB uses the language of the story.
• A ligature across a colour change is broken up, each character keeps its colour. Tracked text sets without ligatures and keeps the kerning to its neighbour. An accent in another colour stays on its letter with tracking; the cursor sits right in ligatures and synthetic small caps.
• Text wrap «Both» sets text left and right of the object; «Largest» keeps using only the largest free area as before. Documents with text wrap may therefore reflow.
• Catalogue as a list: a group heading keeps as many lines together as its paragraph style asks for.

Menus, dialogs and tooltips

• Long menus and submenus stay inside the window and scroll, on tablets too; a submenu near the bottom edge moves up.
• Menus by keyboard: the first item has focus, ↑↓ selects, → opens a submenu, ← closes it (in the menu bar: the next menu), a letter jumps, Esc returns the focus.
• Tab stays inside an open dialog. The preflight profile uses three columns and fits the window without scrolling; labels on the left sit on the baseline of their field.
• After choosing a paragraph or character style, typing goes back into the text.
• The PDF/X check lists the prepress errors (such as overset) and then reports «not ready to print» instead of «passed».
• New documents take the interface language as document language. Prepress also reports hidden objects inside groups and non-printing objects.
• «Reset all links» asks in its own dialog.

Samples

• New sample “Features in detail”: 30 pages in 15 chapters with a clickable table of contents, running heads and an index. Every feature is a real object (charts in every variant, all barcodes and QR codes, footnotes, cross-references, a table across two pages, org chart and node diagram), with the way to it at the bottom of each page.
• Samples tidied up: headings, tables, captions and boxes use paragraph, character, table and object styles instead of local overrides; what belongs together sits in one text frame, the folio on the master page. Layers and objects have meaningful names, every sample has its document language, images have alt text.
• Print sample: a real table of contents on the cover, baseline grid, drop cap and lists, HKS 43 K as a real spot colour, an ink alias HKS 43 N → HKS 43 K and a spot-colour gradient in the bleed; the notes name the preset “Print and accessible (PDF/X-4 + PDF/UA)”.
• Business cards sample: the contact as a QR code with a logo in the middle on the front, the website as DataMatrix on the back.
• Prepress test document: new page 16 with the production points of the PDF/X check: ink coverage, small type, hairline, resolution. Intended findings are named “On purpose …”.
• New features sample: the boxes grow with their text, the flat plan is a table, heads and subheads sit in the frame of their text.
• Ad and WebGL: usage notes are comments on the object instead of text on the canvas; the ad’s button is one object.
• Menu paths in the samples are checked against the menu bar, so they stay right after a rework.
• Fixed: a character that was only missing from a fallback font while loading was reported as missing in preflight.

Signing in and accounts

• After a typo when signing in or creating a profile, your entries stay in place; only the password needs typing again.
• The username is optional when creating a profile; the email address is enough.
• Without a chosen language, the sign-in pages also follow the browser language.
• Administration is clearer: one header, clear buttons, messages where you are looking.
• Setting up on your own web space also speaks the browser language.

Fixed

• Opening a copy editing link now shows the «Copy editing» badge and a note that you can edit texts, comment and approve, instead of «View only».
• The approval bar for clients sometimes showed the word «null».

Security

• Several security issues and bugs fixed.

Data in tables

• Chart, org chart and node diagram now take their data in a table instead of a text field: Tab and Enter as in a spreadsheet, a new row appears at the end by itself, rows and columns can be inserted, deleted and moved (buttons or ⌥ shortcuts).
• Pasting from Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets fills from the active cell; a selected range can be copied. Numbers are right-aligned in the document's number format, an invalid number is marked red. ⌘Z undoes entries in the table, “Apply” is one step.
• Org chart with the columns Name, Job title and Reports to. Node diagram with a table of connections (From, Output, To, Input, Label, Style) and one of nodes (header, shape: node, rectangle, diamond or oval; named inputs and outputs; color from the swatches), so flowcharts with “yes”/“no” on the arrow are possible too. “Edit node diagram …” loads both tables, nodes moved by hand stay where they are.
• “As text” shows the same data as text as before. Linked chart data is read-only and can be unlinked.

Calculating tables and figures

• Inserting or deleting columns updates formulas, also in other tables, calculated fields and document values. New: Table › Calculate › Name table …; the new name follows into every reference.
• Table › Calculate › Fill formula down: references without “$” move along row by row, one undo step. Calculating cells carry a small blue corner on screen that does not print.
• Number format with percent (×100 with %), whole amounts as “12.–” and alignment on the decimal separator, on the point or the comma; the widest decimal part closes flush right. The decimal tab aligns “120” and “12 %” correctly.
• If a column contains a five-digit number, four-digit numbers are grouped too. New documents group numbers from the start; existing ones stay as they are.
• Tables in running text grow when a referenced cell in another table gets longer. IDML and selected cells copied as text carry the result instead of the formula. Two simultaneous edits to different document values are both kept.
• If a font lacks the minus sign, an en dash stands in, as wide as a figure. “‑12.50” from Word is read as a negative number.

Charts

• Resizing recalculates the chart in the new area: type, lines and markers stay as they are, in one undo step. Labels that no longer fit are reported.
• New types: stacked bars, 100% columns and 100% bars. Pie, doughnut and 100% charts show values as value, percentage or both; the percentages add up to 100, equal values show equal shares.
• Names at the segment or at the line end instead of a legend; labels of small neighbouring segments move apart and get a fine leader line. Lines with point markers; a single value between two gaps always gets one. The legend shows a line piece for lines.
• Colours follow the series name: if the source is re-sorted, each series keeps its colour, new series get a free swatch. A note says when the swatches run out.
• Numbers on the value axis no longer touch; the axis then uses fewer steps. A pie or doughnut with a single category is a full circle without a seam. A step giving more than 100 tick marks is reported.
• Pictograms from an image column get the right size as soon as the images are supplied. Dragging a number field in the palette is one undo step, even with a pause.

Flowcharts and org charts

• Reconnect a connector end: with the connector tool, drag an end of a selected connector onto another shape; while dragging, the preview shows the connector style.
• The connector style belongs to the document, no longer to the device. A connector label grows with its text, also when it is edited directly in the label.
• Copied connectors without their label have no gap; when a shape is deleted, the line closes the gap and the label stays as text. When both shapes move to another page, the connector goes along.
• Node diagram: ports belong to their connector; deleting it removes them, a newly drawn one gets its own. A connection to itself is reported, a node without connections stays, names with “->” survive the text view.
• Org chart: boxes moved by hand stay put on “Edit Org Chart”; fill, tint and stroke of the boxes in the dialog; a short name tells equal names apart.
• Text in shapes, headers and labels is optically centred: between cap height and baseline.
• Data tables: select a range by dragging, ⌘D fills down, ⌘↩ fills the range with the value, “Redo” button. Shape, style and colour as a pop-up list, colour with tint.

Dialogs

• All dialogs follow one order: Cancel to the left of the main action, the main action on the far right and highlighted, secondary actions such as “Defaults” or “Delete guides” set apart on the left; the same in all five interface styles.
• The cursor starts in the first field. Enter confirms, also from a number field; Esc cancels.
• Labels, fields and checkboxes line up; groups have a small heading instead of a frame; long labels wrap instead of being cut off.
• Export in two columns: preset and pages on the left, options on the right; the dialog hardly scrolls any more. Preflight profile in two and three columns, Document Setup as wide as Settings, footnote options with tabs at the top.
• Output automation shows its outputs as fields again instead of text.

PDF/X check

• The check looks deeper: the output intent profile (output class, matching channels, version), ICC and Lab colour spaces, the kind of embedded font program, transfer functions and custom halftones in the graphics state, the layer directory and hidden layers.
• With the preflight profile it also measures image resolution after scaling, ink coverage, small and multi-ink type and hairlines, on the page and inside embedded forms. Thresholds and levels come from the preflight profile; such findings are prepress and do not decide “passed”.
• ICC RGB, CalRGB and Lab on fills and gradients are no longer an error but a note: the RIP converts them.
• All messages also in English, French and Spanish.

Track changes

• New switch “Proofing and Approval › Track changes” per document. When it is on, inserted text carries the person’s name and time and is underlined in their colour; deleted text stays in place as a marker. The line breaks always show the final version. This applies to everyone who writes, also via an editorial link.
• “Track changes” panel: all open changes with person, time, page and excerpt; ‹ and › jump from one to the next. Accept or reject one at a time, all by one person or all; each is a single undo step. Rejecting a deletion brings the text back with its formatting.
• Your own typos disappear right away instead of filling the list. Two people can write in the same paragraph, their changes get along.
• PDF, print, images, EPUB, HTML and IDML set the text as if all open changes were accepted; the markers only appear on screen. “With changes” or “Final version” chooses the view. Preflight warns about open changes.

Copy editing and versions

• Review links can replace the image in released image frames: double-click the frame or use “Replace image …” in the approval bar. Frame, position and size stay as the designer set them. Image frames are released for copy editing or locked under “Image”, like text frames.
• Version history: “Compare” shows what has changed since a saved version (texts word by word, objects new, removed, moved, resized, with a new image or colour, pages new or removed, changed styles). A click jumps to the spot and selects the object; the version can be restored from the comparison.

Images and colour palettes

• Multi-page PDFs and AI files with several artboards: a dialog with thumbnails asks which page to place; “Place all pages” puts one frame per page below each other, and the file is uploaded only once.
• Photoshop layers are now recomposited with layer masks, blend modes, fill opacity and 16 bits per channel, plus Levels, Curves, Drop Shadow and Color Overlay. Whatever may differ carries the mark “computed, not as Photoshop would”; whatever is not computed is still reported.
• TIFF with several subimages: the subimages can be chosen like pages, or all at once. TIFF with Photoshop layers shows its layers like a PSD.
• Spot channels in a PSD no longer disappear silently: placing says which are missing, and preflight finds them again.
• Load and save colour palettes: Adobe Swatch Exchange (.ase), Adobe Color (.aco) and GIMP palette (.gpl), with a selection and a choice for identical names, in the Swatches panel.

Menus and command search

• Edit › Proofing and Approval gathers track changes, the comments, review and approval and reading comments from a PDF.
• New in the menus: Layout › Parent pages with “Master objects on this page”, “Apply to all pages”, “Apply to selected pages” and “Based on parent page”; Object › Hide, Show all and Do not print; Table › Convert rows to header, body or footer.
• Layout › First page and Last page (⇧⌘⇞ and ⇧⌘⇟ on the Mac), Document Setup ⌥⌘P, Package ⌥⇧⌘P.
• Command search (⌘↩) finds every menu item, including panels, table commands and align, understands trade words such as “preflight”, “bleed” or “package”, and applies object styles too.

Find and change

• Find and change by paragraph style, character style and font, also without search text; the text stays as it is.
• A scope sets where to search: selection, story, document or document with parent pages. Matches on parent pages are shown alongside even when they are not counted.
• A font can also be replaced in the paragraph and character styles if you wish; the count names the styles and places beforehand. One undo takes back the whole run.

Grammar

• Edit › Spelling › Check grammar: LanguageTool checks grammar and style of the selection, the story or the whole document, paragraph by paragraph in its language; Swiss German without ß.
• Findings are underlined in blue next to the red spelling marks. Suggestions by right-click or in the bar from finding to finding; “Apply” is a single undo step.
• “Ignore rule” applies to the whole document and to everyone; the list of excluded rules is shown in the bar and can be undone.
• Settings › Grammar: your own LanguageTool access (user name and key, stored in the browser only), your own server or the free public interface, with a notice before any text leaves. Can be turned off.

Catalogues from data

• Price list in the text flow: paragraphs with placeholders are repeated for each record and flow through threaded frames; missing pages are added. A group heading never stands alone at the end of a frame, and each group can start on a new page; an entry is never split, and empty fields drop their paragraph.
• Table from a placeholder row: the row is repeated for each record, header and footer rows stay, and the table breaks across frames and pages.
• Item index: item numbers with their page as a separate index next to the keyword index, in numeric order; it flows over several pages and follows along when the list is set again.
• Setting the list again replaces it instead of appending, removes empty pages and warns about passages that were edited by hand.

Next edition

• “Update data”: match the new version of a price list against what is set, via the key. Tiles, lists in the text flow and table rows take over changed values, new records go to their place in group and sort order (tiles at the end), dropped ones stay and are marked. Preview with counts; a wrong key or a renamed column is reported before anything happens; one undo step.
• Text edited by hand is not overwritten but reported as a conflict: “Take the list” or “Keep manual edit”. Columns not used in the layout, and “12.5” instead of “12.50”, set no mark.
• Change marks on screen (not printed), a list of changes with jump and as CSV, a correction PDF with only the changed pages and one note per change at its row, also on the screen preset; “Remove dropped” after review.
• Distributing the tiles a second time replaces the previous ones instead of appending duplicates, and says beforehand how many there are.
• Change list of a linked table: columns by name, deleted rows and duplicate keys are reported.

Data and sources

• Values with currency, unit or sign are read (“CHF 12”, “+5”, “12.50-”, “–12.50”, “25 %”); the decimal separator is inferred per column from the values. Currency field format optionally rounded to 5 centimes and with “–.80” for zero francs.
• Excel workbooks: date cells arrive as dates in the document language, percentage cells suggest the “Per cent” format.
• Data palette: sample value per field, record search, paging with the arrow keys, “Next with a problem”; dragging a field onto a text frame inserts it where it lands; with a group selected, the image frame takes the field; placeholders across a formatting change are reported and repaired in one click; overset text also in table cells and on master pages.
• <<wenn:>> and placeholders on master pages work per record, also in the PDF with all records; “0”, “no” and “FALSE” count as empty. Undoing a correction hits the right record, even after reloading.
• Tiles: alignment left, distributed or on the columns of the type area, heading on following pages, the template no longer prints afterwards, leaner barcodes; a new document no longer takes comments and guides along.
• Linked tables: range per table (e.g. A2:D40), a report on refresh (rows, columns, renamed columns), “outdated” for addresses, formula cells are kept on refresh and charts read their result; “Refresh on open” runs only once.

Bilingual catalogues and photos in the customer form

• Output language for data merge, tiles and lists: <<Name>> takes the column “Name_fr”, numbers and amounts follow the language (DE 1’234.50, FR 1 234,50), conditions named “de” or “fr” switch fixed texts along, sorting uses the language column; an empty translation is reported. One catalogue per language: duplicate the document and change the language.
• Customer form: people upload their own photo (JPEG or PNG up to 10 MB) and see right away whether the resolution is good enough for print; a new photo replaces the old one, and after approval the field is locked.

Opening PDFs

• Superscript figures, footnote markers, fake small caps and drop caps stay in their line; letter-spaced text becomes one word with tracking. First-line indents, hanging indents, paragraph spacing and leader dots in tables of contents arrive as paragraph settings.
• Tagged PDFs deliver their tables reliably, two-column ones included. A table across two pages becomes one table with a break, double and dotted rules become one edge, number columns align on the decimal separator, and tables get table and cell styles.
• The message names the pages of the detected tables. Tables whose text needs more room than in the original grow with it and are reported.
• Invisible text (the text recognition layer over a scan) becomes neither a table nor a text frame; clipped and dashed lines are read correctly.
• Several PDFs can be opened into one document with shared styles; pages of another size keep their size. Notes about reading also appear when opening a single file.

PDF output

• Comments as annotations sit in the reading order next to the commented content in accessible PDFs. An exported PDF with comments can be read back in after editing in Acrobat without duplicating comments; replies attach to their comment.
• Convert to outlines: selected characters in the text become a path in their place in the line, descenders included. After ungrouping, converted text still reads in accessible PDFs; after editing the path, the old text no longer applies. Page numbers on parent pages stay text.
• Accessible PDF: word spaces are real spaces in the file; copied text keeps its word boundaries, even with wide tracking. Text on parent pages such as an imprint is read aloud; running heads and page numbers stay header and footer. Anchored images sit in the reading order at their place in the paragraph, lists state how they are numbered, and a placed PDF no longer disturbs the structure.
• New preset “Print and accessible (PDF/X-4 + PDF/UA)”: one file with output profile and structure tree, without links and forms. Both identifiers are only written when the finished file passes both built-in checks.
• Comments as notes no longer print from the PDF, only in the proof, where you want them on paper.
• SVG export now draws anchored images and objects.

Proof

• Every sheet carries a line in the margin with document name, page, sheet, date and “Proof, not a print file”; a reduced sheet also states its scale. The file title starts with “Proof”.
• “Fit to paper” leaves the margin an office printer needs all round and shows the page edge as a fine line. At “100 %” the dialog says when the printer will cut off the edges.
• If the browser does not print the proof itself, a message offers it for download.

Flipbook

• Videos sit in their place in the catalog and start on click, in the ZIP as well as online.
• Sharp when zoomed: each page brings a larger image that the reader only loads when zooming in. Optionally smaller files with image quality “medium”.
• The preview in the program only renders the pages currently in view; long documents open right away. The PDF to download is available there too.
• “Create new link”: the previous link then shows nothing. An interrupted upload resumes where it stopped the next time you publish.

Mentions

• Collected mentions go out by email on their own after ten minutes, not only with the next mention.
• Emails for mentions can be turned off and on again in the account menu.

Format variants and pages with their own size

• Master objects on pages with their own size now follow their resize rule completely: a header bar stretches, a running head reflows in the new width and keeps its type, and on pages set to “Scale” everything scales evenly; the same on screen, in PDF and in SVG. “Detach master object” takes over exactly this position.
• Format variant with “Scale type” now also scales stroke, corners, inset and column gutter, the frame’s baseline grid, paragraph rules, shading and footnote spacing. Leading and grid are rounded the same way, so text stays on the grid.
• “Convert the whole document” can scale margins and the baseline grid too. Rotated objects are detected at the margin by their rotated outline. Threaded frames follow the type rule of the first frame.
• The message afterwards lists overset text to click and reports strokes below 0.25 pt. The dialog explains why variants should always be derived from the original.

Flatplan

• If a page marked done is changed afterwards (also through its master page or because text flows on), a warning sign shows it in the Pages panel and the flatplan; setting “Done” again acknowledges it.
• Status by right-click in the Pages panel, for all selected pages. A count per status that also filters; × clears a field on all selected pages; arrow keys select the neighbouring page, Shift extends.
• “Reset flatplan” for the next issue: status and notes cleared, section and assignee stay, in one step. Thumbnails in the open flatplan update right away.

Gap tool

• Now moves the whole column: all frames sharing the edge at the gap adjust; with Shift only the two nearest.
• The type area is a gap boundary like the page edge, depending on where the pointer is. While dragging, the edges snap to guides, the type area and objects.

Manuscript and book

• Chapter openings without running head and folio, blank pages empty, or a master page of their own for each, chosen in the “Compile manuscript” dialog. A motto or dedication before the chapter no longer becomes the heading.
• From Word, image crops come along, endnotes land in a “Notes” section after the last chapter, and superscript and subscript are kept; the report names images that are too coarse, with their resolution. Markdown footnotes may span several lines and paragraphs.
• The table of contents grows beyond two pages, in pairs on facing pages so the first chapter stays on the right. With chapters as book parts it goes into the book as a part of its own at the front.
• Book parts take the images and fonts of their master pages along. Undoing “Compile manuscript” also removes the book parts it created.

Word styles

• Linked character styles (“Heading 1 Char”) are listed under the name of their paragraph style; built-in styles show their German names in the German interface. A file that only brings Normal and List Paragraph no longer asks.
• “Create new” for several styles is one undo step. If a linked Word file brings new styles when refreshed, a message says so.

Contact sheet

• Captions can come from the image metadata (XMP description or title, IPTC caption), otherwise from the file name.

Calendar

• Moon phases now include first and last quarter ◐ ◑, calculated like new and full moon. The signs are set in Noto Sans Symbols 2, included as a small subset.
• “Set as following year” in the “Edit calendar” dialog: the same calendar a year later on new pages, with position, styles, settings and holiday files, in one step.

Barcodes and QR codes

• New codes: DataMatrix, GS1 DataMatrix and GS1-128, as vectors, in any colour from the swatches. GS1 content is entered with application identifiers in brackets, such as (01)…(17)…(10)…; the check digit is added or verified.
• The human-readable text under EAN, UPC, Code 128 and GS1-128 is set in OCR-B, as GS1 recommends, with the standard clearance from the bars.
• QR codes: a free area for a logo in the centre (error correction H), inverted light on dark and in a gradient, with a warning when one end is too light or not every reader will cope.
• Data merge: frames named <<DataMatrix:Field>>, <<GS1:Field>> and <<GS1 DataMatrix:Field>> carry their code for each record; logo and inverted also apply to <<QR>>.
• PDF417: the stacked code for plenty of text in little height, as vectors, in any colour from the swatches, with error correction from level 0 to 8 (chosen from the amount of data unless set) and an adjustable aspect ratio; accented letters and special characters are kept. In data merge as <<PDF417:Field>>.

Fixed

• Tiny objects can be grabbed in the middle and moved; they scale from the outer half of the handles. Hairlines and small objects can be hit at low zoom too.
• Right-clicking an unselected object selects it first; “Delete” in the context menu used to hit the previously selected one.
• Pages list: dropped on the right half of a page, a page lands after it, which also reaches the end. Several selected pages move together, and a parent page can be dragged onto a page.
• Locked objects and objects on locked or hidden layers stay put on arrow keys, delete and cut.
• After choosing from a dropdown (such as blending mode) keyboard shortcuts work again; M used to set “Multiply” instead of the rectangle tool.
• Menus work with the arrow keys, Enter runs the entry. With a menu open the arrows no longer move the selected object.
• Arrow keys nudge in round steps in points and inches (2 pt, 0.05 in). Measurements while dragging use the chosen unit.
• Tablet: number fields (dragging the label), panel width, panel size and tabs can be dragged with a finger.
• Emoji with skin tones or made of several characters are deleted and skipped as a whole with ⌫, Delete and the arrow keys; a click or double-click no longer lands inside them.
• Double-click selects words in Devanagari, Thai and Arabic including their vowel signs.
• End and Home on a hyphenated line stay on that line, as does a click to its right.
• A selection can be dragged beyond the edge of the text frame, up to the last line or the start of a line.
• When the cursor moves into a threaded frame, Esc selects that frame.
• After clicking a style in the panel you can keep typing straight away.
• ⇧⌘V pastes text without formatting, in the format at the cursor.
• In tables the arrow keys move from the edge of a cell into the neighbouring cell, also out of merged cells.
• In a table inside the text flow, a click in the same cell places the cursor there.
• Parent page letters are no longer translated; new parent pages are numbered.
• Spelling squiggles no longer appear over an image that covers the text.
• English: singular and plural agree (“1 error”), comment times and missing messages are translated.
• New document: the title is selected and can be typed over; the format list no longer repeats sizes.
• Small things: Share starts at “Copy”, comments show “⌘↩ to send”, the Styles tab no longer repeats the swatches.

Security

• Several security issues and bugs fixed.

Handling

• The interface starts in the browser's language (German, English, French, Spanish); a chosen language is kept. The language menu names each language in its own.
• On tablets the toolbar sits in the free work area and wraps to a second row if needed; no tool is hidden under the page list or chat button.
• Many palette tabs: arrows at the edges, the mouse wheel scrolls sideways, the active tab stays visible.
• Tab only hides the palettes when the canvas has focus; keyboard users get through menus and fields.
• While typing, the cursor stays in the text, even after clicking a tab or a style.
• New text frames use the default paragraph style. A style only becomes the default when chosen with nothing selected.
• Image frames: a handle crops at the dragged edge and the image stays put; with ⌘ it scales along as before.
• New charts and shapes go to a free spot instead of on top of existing objects. The data grid shows twelve rows without scrolling.
• Formulas without their own number format show as many decimals as the numbers they refer to: 9.70 instead of 9.7.
• Context menus: in text Cut, Copy, Paste and Hyperlink; for objects what fits the kind (text frame options, Fitting, Edit in group, Table), both rotation directions.
• On Windows Ctrl+Y is Redo; AltGr characters such as “@” and “\” no longer trigger commands while typing.
• Deleting pages, layers and parent pages and saving a workspace ask in the program's own dialogs.
• The command search also finds “overset”, “assign parent page”, “language” and “fit image”, including several words.

Product tiles

• Data merge › Product tiles: a group with placeholders becomes a product template. “Distribute records …” places one filled tile per record in the type area, row by row, and adds pages, as a new document or after the existing pages, undoable in one step.
• Order follows the sorting of the panel; optionally only filtered or approved records.
• Group by a field: a header tile per group from the “Group header” template, each group on a new page if you like; groups follow the order of the list. The running header reads the group name through the paragraph style of the header.
• Template per field value, e.g. “Type = Set”: its own tile, also across several cells; otherwise the standard template applies.
• Images, QR codes, barcodes and “Only show if …” work per tile. Missing images, overset text and values that are not numbers are reported per record, with a jump to the tile.

Number format

• Document Setup › Typography: thousands separator (apostrophe, narrow space, period, comma or none), decimal separator and “group from 4 or 5 digits” once for the whole document. Calculated cells, charts, field formats of data merge and “Group numbers” follow the setting; charts are reset right away.
• Years stay ungrouped: running text is grouped from five digits only, table cells have the number format “no digit grouping”. Franc amounts keep the decimal point.
• “Group numbers” no longer mistakes “1,500 kg” for 1500 kg.
• Existing documents look the same until someone turns the setting on.

Punctuation by language

• Document setup › Typography: "Punctuation spacing by language". In French paragraphs, composition puts a narrow no-break space before ; ! ? and a no-break word space before : and inside « »; the text stays as typed, so search and copy still find "Quoi?". French (Switzerland) uses the narrow space throughout, French (Canada) none before ; ! ?; German, English, Italian and Spanish use none.
• Spaces typed before the mark are replaced, not doubled, and the line no longer breaks there. Changing the language takes effect at once; screen, PDF and SVG match, EPUB and HTML get real characters.
• The spacing per language can be changed in the document. New documents have the setting on; existing ones look the same until someone turns it on.

Data merge

• With the editorial link, fields can be inserted into text from the panel; loading a source and assigning frames remain with the designers.
• When a new list arrives while records exist, Medusa asks: merge (new ones added, changed ones updated, corrections and approvals kept) or replace, with the number of new, changed and dropped records.

Resize rules

• "Resize rule" panel: set per object how it reacts to a different page size, horizontally left, right, left and right (stretches), center or scale, vertically the same; plus keep proportions, scale the image content or keep the crop, and scale the type. The anchor graphic is clickable; without a rule the automatic edge detection applies as before.
• A basic rule per page or parent page: off, re-center, scale or object-based. It applies to the format variant, the page size, the document size and to parent page objects on pages with their own size; guides follow along.
• New page tool (⇧P): drag the edge of a page, and a preview shows where the objects end up while you drag. Shift keeps the proportions; one step to undo.

Calculating tables

• If the text of a table cell starts with “=”, the cell calculates: sum, average, minimum, maximum, count, round (also to 0.05 with ROUND(x;0.05)), if, the basic operations, percent and brackets, ranges such as B2:B9. You type the formula in the cell; the layout and the PDF show the result.
• References to other tables by name (Prices!C4) and document values such as “VAT = 8.1 %” under Table › Calculate › Document values … When a value changes, every table recalculates, for everyone working in the document at the time.
• Numbers follow the document language (1’234.50 in Switzerland, 1,234.50 in English). Table › Calculate › Number format … sets decimal places and a unit, such as “CHF” before or “.–” after.
• Type › Text variables › Calculated field … places a cell or a document value in running text, so “Total CHF 12’480.–” always matches the table.
• Table › Sort by column … orders the rows as text, number or date, ascending or descending. Header and footer rows stay in place, and a single undo restores everything.
• Faulty formulas and circular references show #FEHLER or #ZIRKEL and are listed in preflight.

Assemble manuscript

• File › Assemble › Assemble manuscript …: several Word, Markdown or text files as chapters one after another in a single text flow that adds pages and frames by itself. Reorder by dragging, one chapter title per file.
• The Word styles of all files are mapped once; the dialog asks about identical styles only once. Each chapter starts continuing, on a new page or on a right-hand page; footnotes restart in each chapter.
• Unreadable files are listed in the final report, the rest is set anyway. Everything is one undo step; afterwards a table of contents can be added in front.
• Optionally every chapter becomes a document of its own and part of the book.
• Word footnotes and embedded images now come along with normal placing too, as do footnotes in Markdown ([^1]).

Open PDF with styles

• An opened PDF now comes with paragraph styles with meaningful names: the most frequent text becomes “Body 9.5 pt”, larger text “Heading 1 24 pt”, “Heading 2 14 pt” and so on, smaller text “Small text”. Every paragraph carries its style without local overrides; bold or italic that recurs becomes a character style.
• Can be switched off in the “Open PDF” dialog. The document stays a visual approximation: fonts are substituted, lines rebroken.

Tables from the PDF

• Opening a PDF now turns tables into real tables: from ruled grids, header and row rules, or from columns whose edges line up over several rows. Rows and columns, cell content with styles (“Table header”, “Table text”), rules as cell strokes, fills as cell colour, alignment per column (right-aligned figures stay right-aligned), a header row from bold type or a fill, and merged cells where they can be told reliably.
• Where it is uncertain, it stays text: body text in two or three columns does not become a table. Can be switched off in the “Open PDF” dialog under “Detect tables”; after opening, a message says how many tables were detected.

Calendar with holidays

• Layout › Calendar … reads holidays and vacations from .ics or CSV files (date;name, ranges too), several at once, such as regional holidays, company vacations and school holidays. Holidays carry the cell and paragraph style “Kalender Feiertag” with a red number, vacations and other ranges only the quiet tint “Kalender Ferien”; optionally the name appears in the day cell.
• “One month per page” sets the day number large at the top left (“Kalender Tag gross”). New and full moon can be shown as symbols.
• Layout › Edit Calendar … shows the stored files again: add, remove, moon on or off. Whatever was typed into the day cells stays.

Import several files at once

• “From file …” on the overview takes several IDML, PDF and package files at once; they can also be dragged onto the overview. Each becomes its own document, progress shows in the notice, errors are collected per file.
• Afterwards the new documents can be exported together through batch output with one click.

Faster

• Faster: the program starts with almost a megabyte less code, and a font that arrives later only resets the texts that use it; the stutter after opening large documents is gone.

Dialogs

• Dialogs grow with their content up to the edge of the window and adapt when the window gets smaller or larger. The content scrolls only when there is not enough room; title and buttons stay in place. No more horizontal scroll bars.
• Drag the bottom right corner to make any dialog larger or smaller; the size is remembered per dialog.

Flipbook

• Export › Flipbook: the document as a catalogue to leaf through in the browser; spreads with page turning, table of contents and thumbnails in the sidebar, clickable links, zoom and full screen, swiping on phones. The ZIP runs on any web space and straight from the disk.
• Every page has its own address (#s12), so links can point to a specific page. The text of each page is available to screen readers.
• File › More formats › View as flipbook shows the same view in the app; Esc closes it.

Flipbook online

• One click on “Publish online” (in the export, in the preview or under File › More formats › Flipbook online) puts the flipbook on the server. It gets its own link that anyone can open in the browser without an account; the document itself stays protected.
• The link comes with Copy, Open, a QR code and an embed code for your own website. “Update” replaces the pages with the current state and keeps the link; “Withdraw” takes the flipbook offline.
• The link also appears under “Share”, next to the links for editing and viewing.
• Inside the flipbook the text can be searched; the results are listed with their page numbers. The “Share” button passes the link on, and chats show the first page as a preview.
• “Offer PDF for download” (in the export and when publishing, on by default): the flipbook gets a clearly visible “Download PDF” button with the file size, and the dialog shows the direct PDF link to copy. The PDF preset can be chosen; links and the table of contents stay clickable in the PDF.
• Search highlights the results on the page, and Next and Previous jump from result to result, on phones too. It finds “Grüsse” as “GRÜSSE” or “Grüße” as well, and words hyphenated at the end of a line. ⌘F or Ctrl+F or “/” opens it.

Tooltips

• Every button, tool and field has a tooltip in the style of the chosen interface, including the keyboard shortcut where there is one. It also appears when moving with the Tab key and in dialogs; moving on shows the next one at once.
• Settings › General: turn tooltips on or off and choose the delay from 0 to 2000 ms.

Data merge panel

• Window › Data merge: load a data source (CSV, Excel or a linked table) and see every field with the number of times it is used in the layout. A click inserts the field at the text cursor, keeping the formatting there, or assigns it to the selected frame: image frames get the image per record, rectangles become a QR code or barcode (EAN, ISBN, Code 128). Fields can also be dragged onto a frame.
• The assignment list jumps to the object, removes assignments and warns about placeholders without a field in the source and about unused fields.
• "Preview" shows the pages with the chosen record on the canvas, with paging and the problems of that record. The document stays unchanged.
• If the image for a record is missing, the frame stays empty and is reported instead of printing the template image. Image names with a path or without an extension are found, and CSV files from Excel on Windows arrive with correct accented letters.

Price lists from data

• Data merge: a format per field (number, currency or percent) with decimal places, unit, thousands separator (including the Swiss apostrophe), decimal mark, a true minus sign and “12.–” for whole amounts. “19.899999999999999” from Excel becomes “CHF 19.90” in the preview, the output and the PDF. Values that are not numbers or are ambiguous (“1.234”) stay as they are and are reported.
• The panel shows all records as a table: sort by column (applies to the whole team and the output), filter with several conditions, correct a value in place and jump to the preview of a record with one click.
• Show or hide objects per record: click or drag a field onto an object and choose “Show only if the field has a value”, for instance for a sale badge.
• Excel workbooks with several sheets: choose the sheet when loading, for data merge, linked tables and charts. The sheet is remembered.
• Linked tables keep the formatting of every cell when refreshed; new rows take that of the last row.
• Instead of a new workbook, Excel and CSV now offer the “List of changes”: what differs between document and source, as a CSV with key, field, old and new, to enter in the original. “Two-way” remains for Word only and is now called “Keep copy in sync”.

Outline view

• View › Outline (⌘Y) shows every object as a thin outline only: no fill, stroke weight, transparency, effects or images. Image frames show a cross, tables their cell grid, text appears in plain black.
• In outline view you select an object by its outline, even when others cover it. The view applies to the screen only; PDF, PNG and print stay as they are. Redo is on ⇧⌘Z.

“New features” example

• New example “New features” on the overview: sixteen A4 pages showing the new features as real objects to try out: charts, org chart and flowchart, calendar, Hebrew and Arabic, conditional text, strokes and rotated images, comments and flat plan, AI helpers, customer form, plus a calculating quote with a calculated field in the text, a pictogram chart, a price list with field formats, a logo with a resize rule and a December with holidays and moon phases. A box on every page says where to find the feature.

Flowcharts and org charts

• Object › Insert › Shape with Text … places a rectangle, diamond or oval with text in the chosen paragraph style, vertically centred and inset far enough that the text never touches the outline.
• Object › Connect draws a right-angled line with an arrow between two selected objects, docked to the side midpoints. Moving, scaling or rotating a shape brings the line along, in the same undo step. Duplicating and pasting keep the connection.
• Object › Insert › Org Chart … builds an org chart from an indented list (“Name – Role”) or from a selected table with Name, Role and Manager: boxes of equal size, name and role each in its own paragraph style, real lines. “Edit Org Chart …” rebuilds it and keeps corrections made directly in the boxes. If it does not fit the width, it says by how much.
• Connectors come in four styles: straight, right-angled, rounded (corner radius in mm, automatically smaller on short segments) and curved. Switch them in the Stroke section of the panel or under Object › Connector Style; new connectors use the last style.
• The connector tool (C) drags a connector from shape to shape. Hovering shows a shape’s docking points; releasing on a side midpoint docks there for good.
• Object › Label Connector … puts “yes”, “no” or any other text in the middle of the line, in the chosen paragraph style. The line leaves a gap for the label and takes it along when shapes move.
• New diamond arrowhead; all arrowheads grow with the stroke weight.
• Object › Insert › Node Diagram … builds boxes with a header, inputs on the left and outputs on the right from a list “A → B” or a table with From and To, joined by curves, level by level from left to right.

Text amount and story mode

• The Design panel counts characters with and without spaces, words, lines and paragraphs, for the selection, the story or the whole document.
• When text is overset, it shows how much no longer fits: characters, words and lines. Preflight names the amount too.
• View › Story mode (⌥⌘Y) shows the story as continuous text, without layout, for writing and editing. Changes appear in the layout at once, also for everyone else in the document; Escape takes you back.

Shortening with AI

• When text is overset, “Suggest cuts …” in the Design panel proposes a shorter version that fits. The dialog shows word by word what goes for each paragraph; you tick what is applied.
• Applying is a single step that one undo takes back; afterwards you see whether the text fits or how much is still overset. Paragraph styles stay, paragraphs with character formatting are left alone.
• Needs Gemini, Claude or OpenAI with your own key (Settings › AI); the first time, a notice asks whether the text may be sent. Editor links can shorten too, except for locked texts.

Titles and text with AI

• Type › Suggest text … (also in the context menu) lets the AI write a new title or text: from the paragraph with the text cursor or the whole text of a selected frame. You choose title or text, tone and length and can give the AI a note; an empty frame needs that note.
• Three variants are shown word by word against the current text. You apply one with a click, in a single step that one undo takes back; paragraph styles stay, character formatting in the replaced paragraph is lost.
• Needs Gemini, Claude or OpenAI with your own key (Settings › AI). Paragraphs with fields are left alone; editor links can use it too, except for locked texts.

Smart guides and gap tool

• When moving, an object snaps to the same spacing its neighbours have between them, or to the middle between two neighbours; pink markers show every equal gap with its size in mm. When resizing, width or height snaps to that of another object.
• While dragging, the distance to the nearest neighbour is shown discreetly. Only objects on the same spread that overlap in the other direction count as neighbours. ⌘ or Ctrl suspends snapping while dragging; turn it off entirely under View › Grids and guides › Smart guides.
• New gap tool (U): shows the space between two objects or to the page edge. Dragging moves the gap and resizes both neighbours; with ⌘ or Ctrl the width of the gap changes. One undo step per drag.

Mentions with @

• Typing “@” in a comment suggests names: authors, people from the chat and whoever is in the document right now. That way a comment reaches the right person.
• The Comments panel has a “For me” filter and shows how many open comments mention you. When you open the document, a notice tells you if someone mentioned you since your last visit.
• With an account and an email address you get an email with a link to the spot; at most one per document every ten minutes, further mentions collected in the next one.

Corrections from the PDF

• File › Proofing and Approval › Import Comments from PDF … (also in the Comments panel) brings in the annotations from a marked-up proof: notes, highlights, underlines, strikeouts, carets, free text and ink become comments at the same spot, with author, date and the marked text.
• Replies stay replies. Importing the same PDF twice creates no duplicates; at the end you see how many were imported and what was skipped.
• Works with a comment link too. The text itself is not changed; the correction is in the comment.

Type to outlines

• Converting no longer changes the print colours: black overprints and spot colours stay as they were for the text. In an accessible PDF, screen readers still read the outlines as text.

Better line breaks, also in long paragraphs

• The paragraph composer now weighs the breaks in every paragraph: also in very long ones, in paragraphs with tabs or a drop cap, and when a word is wider than the column. "Balance ragged lines" uses the same composer.
• Hyphenation also works with decomposed accents, after an apostrophe ("l’information") and for languages with a region such as French (Switzerland); a paragraph style with an explicitly chosen language also applies in text of another language.
• Ligatures and kerning survive a colour change inside a word; tracking no longer pulls accents and emoji sequences apart; a forced break no longer splits a character.
• A word wider than the column is hyphenated at its syllables and only split without a hyphen as a last resort; a word set to "No break" moves to the next line as a whole.
• Existing documents may therefore rebreak in places.

Map Word styles

• When a Word file brings its own styles, placing it asks what each one becomes: one row per paragraph and character style, with the number of paragraphs and a choice of the document's styles. A style with the same name is suggested, otherwise title, heading or body text.
• «Create new» turns a Word style into an empty style of the same name based on body text; the design comes from the document, not from Word. Bold and italic stay as before.
• The document remembers the choice: the next import suggests it, and updating a linked Word file keeps the paragraphs right. Files without their own styles are placed without asking.

Comments in the PDF

• PDF export can include comments as notes (open ones or all), each in its place with author, time and replies; resolved ones carry the status «Completed». They can be read and answered in Acrobat and Preview.
• The proof print preselects open comments when pages print at original size. PDF/X-4 allows no annotations, so the choice is locked there. In the accessible PDF every note sits in the structure tree.

Charts

• Labels are measured rather than estimated and never cut off: if the values do not fit, they are left out and the dialog says so. Numbers with a true minus sign, units that never break, decimal separator automatic from the language or fixed to comma or point. A deleted swatch leaves no empty chart colours; in an accessible PDF a chart with alternative text is a figure.
• Charts stay connected to their data: in the chart dialog, “Data from file …” (Excel or CSV) or “Data from address …” (Google Sheets or CSV). Refreshing in the Links panel (one at a time, all, or when opening) redraws the chart in the same place with its type, colours and number format, as a single undo step. A chart made from a linked table follows along when the table is refreshed. If the source is missing or a cell no longer holds a number, the chart stays as it is and a message says where.
• New Chart panel (Window › Chart) with every setting of the selected chart: type (now also stacked columns, area and donut), title, colour per series from the swatches, opacity and stroke; axis with manual minimum, maximum and step, gridlines, tick marks and rotated labels; one paragraph style each for values, axes, legend and title; column spacing, inset and legend at the bottom, top or right. Every change rebuilds the chart in place right away, as one undoable step.
• Images on charts: one image per category above the bar, at its base, in the axis labels or as a pictogram of stacked symbols with the last one cropped. Images are attached to the category name and follow when values, order, type or source change. An “Image” column in the data links images by file name; in the PDF they are images with the correct crop.

Fixed

• The baseline grid now shows in new documents too, and when guides are hidden (View › Show baseline grid, ⌥⌘Ü).
• Text in Indic scripts appears again: Devanagari, Bengali, Tamil and the other Indic scripts in OpenType fonts are set with conjuncts, reph and the pre-base i-matra, on screen and in the PDF, where it stays searchable.
• The buttons in the Links panel no longer overlap, and “File …” keeps the new version for the next refresh too.
• The table of contents is clickable in the PDF: each entry jumps to its page across the whole line. A print PDF (PDF/X) may not contain links; the export dialog now says so and suggests “Screen”; bookmarks stay. When the page number comes before the entry, the text stays on the same line.
• Multi-column text frames: click, double-click, drag and Shift-click now hit the text in the second and every further column; before, the cursor jumped to the first column.
• Styles are easier to pick: a search field at the top of the Styles panel (Enter applies the first match), character styles sit below paragraph styles, and the command search (⌘↩) finds and applies paragraph and character styles, with recently used ones on top.
• Several bugs fixed.
• Dialogs can now be dragged wider than their default width at the corner.

Format variant

• Layout › Format variant … converts pages once into another format, for instance an A4 poster into an A5 card or a square: the current page as a new page behind the original, all pages as a separate run at the end (threaded frames stay threaded), or the whole document including master pages.
• What sits at an edge or in the bleed stays there; what runs across the full width is stretched; everything else keeps its relative place in the type area. Images and graphics scale without distortion, text frames per direction.
• Keep the type size or scale it along (with leading, spacing and indents); when shrinking noticeably, scaling is preselected. A note then reports overset text and objects off the page. One undo step.

Flatplan

• Window › Flatplan … shows the whole issue at a glance: spreads as tiles in issue order, with folio, section, who is working on it and the status for each page (Open, In progress, Proofing, Done), shown with colour and symbol.
• Select several pages (⇧, ⌘, click the edge of a spread for the whole spread) and set them together in one step; every page remembers who changed it and when. Name suggestions come from the document and the people present.
• Filter by «My pages» and by status, a count «12 of 48 pages done», and a note when the page count is not divisible by 4. The status also appears on the thumbnail in the Pages panel. Only people who may edit can change it; everyone can read it.

Type to outlines

• Type › Create outlines (⇧⌘O) turns a text frame into vector paths: one path per line and colour, grouped in the same place. Colour, stroke, underline, opacity and effects are kept; afterwards the lettering can be edited like any shape, and the PDF no longer needs a font for it.
• In a thread only the selected frame is converted, the rest stays text. Frames with overset text, tables or anchored objects are not converted; a message says why.
• As outlines, type loses its optimisation for small sizes on screen and in laser printing; meant for logos and large headlines.

Fonts and accents in PDF

• Embedded fonts show every glyph correctly in the PDF; with EB Garamond some letters appeared as boxes.
• Decomposed accents (from copied file names, for example) sit in the PDF just as on screen; typed, pasted and imported text is brought into the composed form right away.
• Text copied from the PDF no longer loses punctuation.
• No line sticks out of the column any more: ragged text is never condensed, justified text condenses the last line too when needed. In tight frames the line breaks may change as a result.

Print PDF

• Placed PDFs keep their transparency group and no longer bring along clutter from the source file.
• Only pages that really contain transparency carry a transparency group.
• RGB images keep their own colour profile when colours are not converted.
• The alternate value of a spot colour in gradients comes from the same Lab definition as on its own.
• Identical shadows and feathered edges are stored only once in the file; documents with master pages get much smaller.
• Every export gets its own file identifier, the info line of the marks shows the time of the export, and opacities close to each other stay distinct.
• Page images show even very small text as type instead of a grey bar.

Arabic and Hebrew

• Right-to-left text is set correctly: Arabic and Hebrew run from the right, numbers and Latin words inside them from left to right, brackets are mirrored.
• Arabic letters join, even across a colour change in the middle of a word; lam-alif and Hebrew vowel points sit as the font intends. Arabic-Indic digits are no longer reversed.
• New paragraph property "Paragraph direction" (automatic, left to right, right to left): in a right-to-left paragraph, alignment, indents, tabs and list markers are mirrored too.
• Cursor, click and selection find the right place in mixed lines.
• In the PDF the text looks as on screen; copying and searching return it in reading order.

Calendar

• Layout › Calendar … sets monthly and yearly calendars: year, starting month, up to 24 months, one month per new page or in a grid from the current page; if it does not fit, the grid continues on new pages instead of the numbers overflowing.
• Weeks start on Monday or Sunday, ISO 8601 week numbers if wanted; month and day names come from the document language.
• Each month is an ordinary table with its own styles («Kalender Monat», «Kalender Wochentag», «Kalender Tag», cell style «Kalender Wochenende»). Changing them restyles every calendar in the document.

Menus

• The menus follow the order known from professional layout programs: Type comes before Object; spelling, clean text and translate sit under Edit, tables of contents and indexes under Layout.
• The Type menu is reorganised: footnotes and endnotes, hyperlinks and cross-references and text variables each have a submenu; special characters, white space and break characters are separate, with the forced line break among the breaks.
• Object is grouped into position, appearance, fitting, text and paths. «Rotate» is now «Transform», and the alignment reference sits in the Align submenu.
• Window lists the panels alphabetically; «Second view» is under Window › Arrangement.
• «Show hidden characters» now lives under Type.
• «Check PDF/X …» and «Package …» sit directly in File, next to the prepress steps; «Duplicate document», «Settings …» and «Keyboard shortcuts …» have a place in the menu bar.

Help search

• The Help menu has a search field: type a feature and Medusa shows where it lives. The menu opens down to the line and marks it, a panel comes to the front, a section of the Design panel opens and briefly lights up.
• The command search (⌘↩) has «Show» on every line (⌥↩): the search closes and the menu opens with the line marked.
• Type › Character …, Paragraph … and Tabs … jump to the matching section of the Design panel; so does Text wrap ….
• New «New» menu before Help: the features of the latest releases at a glance to try out; each one also stays in its usual place.

Charts

• Object › Place › Chart …: columns, bars, lines or pie from a small table, typed, pasted from a spreadsheet or taken from the selected table in the document.
• The chart is made of real rectangles, paths and text frames: colours from the swatches (spot colours included), labels in the chosen paragraph style, vector in the PDF.
• Axis from zero with round tick marks, value labels with unit and decimal places, legend and gridlines as you like; numbers formatted in the language of the paragraph style. Empty cells stay gaps, negative values hang below the zero line.
• Object › Place › Edit Chart …: change data and settings, and the chart is rebuilt in the same place.

Barcodes

• Object › Insert › Barcode or QR code …: EAN-13, ISBN, ISMN and ISSN, EAN-8, UPC-A and Code 128, optionally with an add-on (2 or 5 digits, such as the price on a book cover). A 10-digit ISBN is converted, a missing check digit is added, a wrong one is reported.
• Vector in pure black, overprinting, human-readable digits as outlines and, for books, the «ISBN …» line above. Size from 80 to 200 %, plus bar width reduction as specified by the printer. Double-click opens the code again.
• In data merge, a rectangle named <<EAN>>, <<ISBN>> or <<Code128>> becomes a barcode from the column of the same name; invalid, too small or truncated codes are listed in the report.
• QR codes on their own too, without data merge: in the same dialog as type «QR code», for a link, a text or a phone number, as a vector in pure black.
• Design QR codes: modules as square, rounded, dot or diamond, the three eyes as square, rounded or circle, plus a colour from the swatches. Timing and alignment patterns stay solid so the code stays readable; if the colour is too light for scanners, the dialog says so. Also for <<QR>> in data merge.
• Object › Insert › QR code …: two tabs, Content and Colour. The content can be a web link, a text, a text message, an email or a business card, each with its own fields.
• «Code» section in the Design panel: type, content, size, colour and, for QR codes, module shape and eyes; every change applies at once.
• QR code: more content types: phone, WhatsApp, Wi-Fi (the phone connects directly), location (map link) and event (calendar entry).
• Edit a QR code's content in the «Code» section of the Design panel: pick the type, its fields appear below.

Writing together

• Writing at the same time is more reliable: after a lost connection no text appears twice, and when two people select and overwrite the same spot, everyone ends up with the same text, emoji in the paragraph included.

Overview

• The start page is tidier: your documents first, then “New document” with the blank formats and, separately, the examples to try out. The long catalogues “All formats” and “HTML5 ads” start collapsed, and the Offline area shows only its button when it is empty.
• A tile's details may take two lines instead of being cut off.

Images

• “Frame follows the image” in the Image section of the design palette: when you shrink or enlarge the image in its frame, via the scale field or at a corner in crop mode, the frame takes the image size at once. Without the option the frame stays as before; “Fit frame to content” (⌥⌘C) is still there.
• Get alternative text suggested: next to the “Alternative text” field there is “Suggest”. The AI describes the image in one or two sentences in the document language; the suggestion lands in the field and is only accepted with Enter or when you leave the field. The image goes to the provider scaled down, and the first time Medusa asks whether it may be sent. Works with Google Gemini, Anthropic and OpenAI (Settings › AI).
• “Place …” (⌘D) takes several files at once. Images, PDF and PSD then wait at the pointer with a preview and a counter: each click places the next one with its top left corner at the click point (or into an empty image frame if it hits one); dragging keeps the image's proportions (free with Shift). Multi-page PDFs queue every page, and you are asked only once. Arrow keys cycle, Esc discards the rest.
• Several files dropped onto the canvas land in rows side by side instead of on top of each other.
• File › Contact sheet …: choose images, set columns, gap, cell shape and fitting, and optionally the file name (with or without extension) as a caption in the chosen paragraph style. The images fill the type area of the current page; if it is not enough, pages are added. One undo takes it all back.

Customer form

• Data merge › Customer form: one link per person from the list. Whoever opens the link sees only their own card, fills in their fields, sees the card live and approves it, without an account. Fields such as company or address can be fixed, links expire after 30 days (adjustable) and can be revoked individually.
• After approval the card is locked; the dialog shows each person's status with “Reopen”. The filter “Only approved” collects exactly these cards as a print PDF.
• Reload a corrected list without losing anything: matched by a key column (such as email or name), each person keeps their link, status and entries. New people are added, missing ones stay and are listed; approved cards stay as they were approved.
• Correction record: whatever a person changed compared with the list is marked in the table. “Save data as CSV” exports all records with status and “changed: old → new”.
• Your own introduction and contact text at the top of the form; the tab reads “Card for …”. Each link shows its expiry date, “Copy” puts it on the clipboard.
• “Reopen” also reaches a form page that is already open, without reloading.

Keyboard shortcuts

• ⌘D places, ⌥⇧⌘D duplicates.
• ⌘B opens the text frame options, also while typing; bold is ⇧⌘B, italic ⇧⌘I, underline ⇧⌘U.
• ⇧⌘L, ⇧⌘C, ⇧⌘R, ⇧⌘J and ⇧⌘F align the paragraph left, centred, right, justified and justified on all lines.
• The command search is on ⌘↩, also while typing. Esc leaves the text.

Business cards

• New «Business cards» example on the overview: front and back with placeholders and five sample people, ready for data merge.
• QR code per person: a rectangle named <<QR>> becomes a QR code during data merge, as a contact (vCard) from the chosen columns or as a link with placeholders. Vector in pure black; if a code is too small for print, the report says so.
• Data merge: «Empty fields: remove paragraph». When a value is missing, the line goes together with its label; «T <<Phone>> M <<Mobile>>» becomes «T 044 …» without a mobile number. On by default for new data sources.

Page numbers

• Page numbers count per record: a two-page form letter shows «Page 1 of 2» and «Page 2 of 2» on every letter, in the PDF page labels too.
• The page count counts within the section: when a section starts its own numbering, the count gives that section's pages instead of the whole document's. This also applies to existing documents with sections.

PDF/X check

• The PDF/X check is stricter and says what it is: it reports “Plausibility check passed” instead of “Passed as PDF/X-4”. The print shop’s preflight remains what counts.
• Now also counted as errors: a PDF version above 1.6, missing trapping information or file identifier, an output intent without identifier, incomplete XMP information, JavaScript anywhere (including on opening, on pages and on links) and images with an RGB colour palette.
• If some content is too large to be searched in full, the report says so; the check is then “incomplete” rather than “passed”.

Strokes, images, tables

• Strokes with dash patterns (dashed, wide dashes, dotted, dash-dot), line ends (butt, round, square) and corners (miter, round, bevel); arrowheads at the start and end of lines and open paths (triangle, arrow, circle, bar). Screen, PDF and SVG show them the same way, and IDML carries them.
• Rotate image content inside its frame (in 90° steps or freely) and flip it horizontally or vertically. The frame stays put.
• Table › Convert text to table: each selected paragraph becomes a row, and tab, comma or semicolon separates the columns. The table then sits in the text flow; “Convert table to text” turns it back into paragraphs.

Spelling

• Edit › Spelling › Spelling in the document: go from error to error through all texts, with Replace, Ignore and “Add to dictionary”.
• The dictionary now lives in the document and applies to everyone working on it, including “add to dictionary” in the context menu.

Small things

• Other people’s mouse pointers stay on their page, even when someone changes the size of an earlier page.
• Google Fonts: variable fonts come with all their axes (width, optical size, custom axes), not just weight.
• If a font fails to load, a message names it instead of silently showing a substitute font.
• Book › Align styles also takes over the active preflight profile, and the book report names it.

Fixed

• When moving between menus with the mouse, previously opened menu titles stayed highlighted.

Colour

• Proof colours shows RGB colours, CMYK colours and images the same way, through the CMYK values that also end up in the PDF. RGB black now looks as dark as the four-colour black it becomes in print, and “Simulate paper” reliably switches every colour on and off.
• Images in a wide colour space (Display P3, Adobe RGB) enter the print profile with their own values in the proof instead of being clipped to sRGB first; in Safari the PDF export does the same (up to the Display P3 gamut there).
• New prepress check “RGB black turns into four-colour black”, for text, strokes and barcodes or QR codes in an RGB black that prints as 78/68/58/94. The code dialog says so as soon as you pick the colour.
• RGB swatches are always sRGB; the document's RGB working space now only applies to images without their own profile. With Adobe RGB as working space, RGB swatches get slightly different CMYK values in the PDF.
• The CMYK fallback of spot colours defined in Lab (such as Pantone) is computed more precisely.

Security

• Several security issues and bugs fixed.

Tables flow with the text

• A table can be inserted at the cursor. It takes the column width, moves along with the text before it and pushes the text below further down.
• If it grows longer than the column, it breaks row by row into the next linked frame, with header and footer rows, repeated in every column, every frame or on every page.
• Rows grow with their content; if you need fixed heights, choose «Row height exactly».
• Merged cells are never split across a break; content used to be lost there.
• Cursor and tab key lead into the cells and out again; Escape steps back one level at a time.
• Tables from an IDML now arrive as tables inside the text, even with text before and after them; until now they became tab-separated lines. They go back out the same way.
• Space above and below the table, width as a percentage of the column, and alignment left, centred or right.
• A free-standing table can be placed into the text flow and released from it again.
• When a free-standing table breaks across pages of different sizes, each part now uses the height of its own page.

Small things

• «Paste in place» (⌥⇧⌘V) puts a copied object on the new page exactly where it sat on the old one. Plus «Paste on all pages».
• Preflight now reports when a font is missing a character, with font, character and Unicode number. The composition shows a question mark instead of empty nothing.
• New under View: «Show text threads» draws dashed arrows showing the order in which the text frames are linked.
• «Copy link to this spot» gives a link that jumps to the page when opened, shows the selected object or opens a comment, ready to put in an email.

Printing

• ⌘P prints a proof on the office printer: page range, paper size, landscape, «fit to the paper» or 100 %, one or several pages per sheet, spreads if you want them.
• The proof goes through the same route as the export and is RGB; it is not a print file, and the dialog says so.
• If the pages do not fit side by side on the chosen paper, the program says so and builds a larger sheet instead of refusing the proof.
• ⌘E stays for the export. Until now ⌘P opened the export dialog as well.

Photoshop files: see and hide layers

• A placed PSD shows its layers by name in the design palette. Individual layers can be hidden and shown again; the image in the frame is recomputed without loading the file again.
• Untouched, the image Photoshop itself flattened is still what you see. Switch a layer and you get the mark «computed, not as Photoshop would».
• If the file contains layer masks, adjustment layers, layer styles, blend modes other than Normal or groups, the program says so and keeps showing the flattened image, rather than quietly computing something wrong.
• Files over 58 MB behave as before: the flattened image is placed, with a note that the layers do not come along.

The preview shows what comes out

• When a font lacks a space character (the punctuation space, say), the gap stays a gap. A question mark used to appear there.
• An object or layer set to «do not print» is no longer shown in the preview (W). While working, both stay visible as before.

Switch artboards without importing again

• A placed PDF with several pages (an AI file with several artboards counts the same) can be switched in the design palette. The file stays where it is; only the preview is recomputed.
• If the frame still has the original size of the old artboard, it takes the size of the new one; if you resized it by hand, it keeps your size.

Large images stay small, and the file's resolution counts

• An AVIF is no longer rewritten to PNG when placed. That used to inflate it many times over; a 1 MB image ended up as 61 MB on the server and failed the size limit. It is now stored as AVIF, at its own size.
• An image at 300 ppi arrives on the page at its true size, whether it is RGB, greyscale or CMYK. The same pixels used to give 50.8 mm in one case and 120 mm in another.
• Replacing a file from the links palette now carries the new file's resolution along.

Placed images keep their colour space

• A TIFF or PSD with an embedded colour profile now keeps it: the profile is read and carried into the rewritten file. Screen and PDF then do the same calculation; an Adobe RGB image looks like an Adobe RGB image, not like sRGB.
• The panel now shows whether a placed image brings its own profile.
• Greyscale images deliberately keep the previous assumption: there the export takes the grey value directly as the black component, and a profile would only take effect on screen.
• AVIF and HEIC are opened through a Display P3 canvas so that wide colours are not lost on opening.

Release a master page object on a single page

• An object from the master page can be released on a single page and changed there, for example by moving the running head or enlarging the logo. Until now a master object could only be hidden entirely.
• «Back to the master page» restores the original state. Each direction is one undo step.
• The layer list marks with an «M» that an object came from a master page. A change on the master page does not follow the released copy; the tooltip says so.

Several pages at once

• Several pages can be selected in the page list: shift-click for a range, Cmd- or Ctrl-click one by one, Escape clears it.
• The context menu acts on the whole selection: master page, page size, colour label, duplicate, delete. One undo takes it all back.
• New «Insert pages …» in the Layout menu: number, position and master page in one dialog, instead of appending page by page.

Deleting with «Replace with …»

• Deleting a swatch that is in use now asks what takes its place. The dialog states how often it is used; «No colour» is a choice, not a silent side effect.
• The replacement happens everywhere in one go: fill, stroke, effects, text, paragraph and character styles, gradient stops. One undo brings it all back.
• The same when deleting a paragraph or character style: the paragraphs then carry the style you chose, not the first one in the list.
• A swatch that appears nowhere still goes without asking. And preflight now reports an area with neither fill nor stroke.

IDML: breaks arrive as breaks

• A column, frame or page break in the text now goes into the IDML file as a real break, instead of a special character that would show up as an empty box in the other program.
• Where Medusa knows a placed image's natural size, it is written into the file; otherwise the 72 ppi assumption still applies, and the displayed size is correct either way.

Search for commands instead of hunting

• ⌘⇧L opens a search across every command. You type the name; the menu path and shortcut are shown; the arrow keys select and Enter runs it.
• Unavailable commands say why: «Nothing selected» instead of a grey line without explanation.
• Recently used commands are at the top the next time you open it.
• Anyone who may only comment or view sees a menu built from what they are allowed to do. Layers and reading order stay, otherwise a hidden object would be unreachable.

Several documents at once

• Documents can be selected in the overview. As soon as something is selected, a row «n selected» appears with «Batch output …», «Move to folder …» and «Delete».
• «Batch output …» is no longer hidden in the overflow menu next to the view switches: what you do with documents is a different question from how you look at them.

The menus are legible again

• File now counts 16 entries instead of 26, Text 17 instead of 34. File is grouped by the question you have: where do I start, what comes in, is it right, what goes out, batch work, who sees it.
• Text has the submenus «Insert», «Indexes and contents», «Edit notes», «Characters and breaks» and «Fonts and styles».
• View is separated into aids, working mode and print preview; Window has an «Arrangement» submenu.
• Clearer names: «Brand sets», «Plan output …», «Step and repeat …», «Second view», «Review and approval …».

Accessible PDF with structure

• New output target «Accessible» in the export dialog and in the presets. The PDF gets a structure hierarchy: headings, paragraphs, tables with header row and header column, images with alternative text, decoration as artifacts.
• The tree follows the reading order from the new palette, not the stacking order.
• Accessible and PDF/X-4 are two targets, not one: the one forbids links, the other requires them tagged.
• An image without an alternative text aborts the export instead of quietly delivering a wrong PDF. Preflight names those images beforehand.
• When a font lacks a character, the composition now shows a question mark instead of empty nothing, visible on screen, not only in the PDF.
• **The accessible PDF is checked against ISO 14289-1 (PDF/UA-1); the test documents pass veraPDF without deviation.** Verified on documents with a link, a list, a table with merged cells, a footnote, a semi-transparent frame, a spread, and frames with a background colour, a stroke, a column rule and a shadow.
• The identification is only applied to a file that passes the check. If it is withheld, the program says why on export.
• A text frame with a background colour, stroke, column rule or shadow used to produce a file that called itself accessible and was not. That painting is now declared as decoration.
• A jump in the heading sequence withholds the identification instead of merely showing a hint.
• Links appear in the structure tree and carry a description. A link across a line break stays one link, with several fields instead of two references.
• The program's bulleted and numbered lists arrive as a list with items, not as loose paragraphs, without anyone setting the role by hand.
• A semi-transparent frame used to tear the tree apart for everything inside it; now it hangs in the tree correctly too.
• Merged table cells now state how many columns and rows they span.
• The hyphen at the end of a line is written as a soft hyphen, so a screen reader can tell it from a real hyphen.
• Tagging no longer changes the typesetting: tagged and untagged produce the same file, character for character.
• Running heads from the master page count as pagination furniture, not as content; captions as captions; a vector graphic with alternative text now appears in the tree as well.
• On spreads the left-hand page now comes before the right-hand one.
• **A page exported on its own now carries only its own text.** The entire text of the facing page used to travel along invisibly, clipped away but readable for anyone extracting text from the PDF. Anything crossing the gutter is still there.
• A jump in the heading sequence (level 1 to level 3) is reported on export.

The document knows what its parts mean

• Every paragraph style carries a role: heading 1 to 6, body text, caption, quote and more. Without any action it comes from the table-of-contents level; set by hand it wins, and it can be overridden on a single paragraph.
• Images get an alternative text: on the image itself for every placement, overridable on the object. Marking an image «decorative» says something different from leaving the field empty.
• Tables now know header columns on the left as well as header rows.
• New palette «Reading order»: the order in which a page is read is its own setting, no longer the stacking order. Pre-filled with the text chains first.
• New under File › Document setup: the tab «Accessible» with the language of the document.
• Preflight has a new category «Accessibility» with six checks, plus the built-in profile «Accessible», in which they are errors instead of warnings.

Footnotes from tables and under several columns

• A footnote can now be set inside a table cell as well. The note text appears at the foot of the column, in cell order, and the number continues the count of the running text.
• When the table breaks, the note follows its row to the new page.
• New per frame: «Notes across the full frame width». The note block then sits below all columns, and every column is shortened by the same amount.
• Notes in the running text and notes in a table now count in one sequence. Two counters used to run over the same numbers, so the same number appeared twice.
• A note in a table's header or footer row is now typeset once, not with every repetition of the row. Only the number used to show, the text nowhere.
• A note in a cell no longer costs the cell a line.
• A long note block across the full frame width no longer overprints the text. If it does not fit, it is visible overset.
• Merging cells now takes the note text along with the paragraph. The number used to stay behind, pointing at nothing.

The colour proof no longer shows the paper unasked

• The colour proof now simulates only the gamut of the print condition: white stays white. To see how paper white and printing black look, tick the new «Paper» box.

Small things

• SVG export failed on dashed strokes. The dash pattern now comes out the way it looks on screen.
• A freshly ticked box in the control bar now updates the fields that depend on it right away.

Documents survive a crash

• Every change goes to disk immediately, the full state follows in batches. If the server stops mid-work, everything that was acknowledged is there after the restart; the last seconds used to be missing.

Backup and restore

• One command puts documents, files, versions and accounts into an archive, a second one restores them.
• On the server, administrators download the backup with a single button.
• A report lists files that no document and no version points to any more, with age and size. Nothing is deleted.

The document overview is tidied up

• The list is grouped into Today, This week, This month and Older, so you can see at a glance what is fresh instead of facing a wall of identical tiles.
• In list view, name, pages, format and modified date sit in aligned columns, and the header row sorts them. On narrow windows the trailing columns drop away.
• Above the list there are only the things you need often; rarities such as «New folder …» and «Batch output …» live in the «…» menu. On a phone the row now takes one line instead of three.
• Search tells you how many documents are left, and an empty result offers a way back.

Offline and without an account, images and fonts stay put

• If you try things out without signing in, or work offline, your uploaded images and fonts are still there after a reload; until now the frames were empty and the fonts gone.
• Those same files are now available for PDF export, packaging, preflight and the library as well; offline this used to fail silently.
• Browser storage can be inspected and tidied up, and the app says when the browser is allowed to clear it on its own.
• When an offline document later goes to the server, missing files are handed over afterwards, and an interrupted attempt can be repeated without creating a copy.

Working together reacts faster

• In the version without WebSockets, other people's changes now appear instantly instead of after up to a second. The request stays open until there is something new; when too many people are in the same document, the previous rhythm still applies.

Numbered lists continue across stories and book parts

• A named list can continue across all stories in a document and across the parts of a book, so figure and table numbers run through the whole work instead of restarting at one in every chapter.

Path operations keep their curves

• Add, subtract, intersect and exclude overlap now work on Bézier curves instead of sampled polygons. A circle minus a square becomes a path with a handful of points, crisp at any zoom and in print.

Animations are written out frame by frame

• Video export now runs as fast as your computer can calculate instead of recording in real time; four seconds of animation take less than a second. Quality stays even, the bit rate is yours to choose, and there is progress and a cancel button.
• If a browser cannot do this, the app says so and records in real time as before.

Typing in the same paragraph at the same time

• What two people type into the same paragraph at once no longer gets lost: the keystrokes are shifted against each other instead of the last one winning. Undo only takes back your own steps and leaves other people's changes standing.
• What is still written as a whole, and can therefore displace simultaneous keystrokes: splitting or joining a paragraph, styles, find and replace, fields and footnotes.

Imposition: perfect binding, several pages per sheet, repeats

• Besides saddle stitching there is now perfect binding in signatures, several pages per sheet and multiple repeats, with a sheet preview, crop and fold marks, calculated creep and a milling allowance at the spine.
• The sheet keeps the output intent and the PDF/X marking of the document.

Output as EPUB and HTML

• The typeset text flows into chapters, paragraph and character styles become CSS, and images, lists, tables, footnotes and cross-references come along. Fonts are not embedded and shapes are not carried over; the dialog says so beforehand.

Data merge for large runs

• Mail merges with thousands of records go through in a single pass: 500 records take three seconds instead of seventy, and the font sits in the file once instead of five hundred times.
• With progress and a cancel button, optionally split into blocks of several files. Records with overset text or a missing image are listed in a report.

More image formats can be placed

• New: AVIF, TIFF with JPEG or ZIP compression and in tiles, 16-bit TIFF and PSD, and PSB.
• Greyscale images now go into the print PDF as pure black instead of a four-colour build; this saves ink and avoids excessive coverage.
• HEIC says that the file has to be converted first, instead of quietly doing nothing.

Preflight profiles: a level per check, and they apply everywhere

• Every single check can be set to error, warning, note or off. The safety distance to the trim edge is its own value, text checks now run inside tables, and ink coverage is measured on the object including its tint.
• The selected profile applies in the report, in the pre-export check, in the inspector and in the book. If checks are switched off, the result no longer says “passed as PDF/X-4” but names the gap.
• The profile travels with brand kits and with “Load formats …”.

Tablets work now

• Two fingers zoom and pan the view, handles and menu items are finger-sized, the menu bar folds into a button on narrow screens, and detached panels sit as a sheet along the bottom edge.
• The text cursor and selection can be dragged by two handles.

Menus tidied up

• “Place …” still takes everything; the duplicate entries for video and Lottie are gone.
• “Import” now sits next to “New document” and says so; it creates a new document instead of replacing the open one.
• All link commands live in one File submenu.
• New menu entries for bullets and numbering, text wrap, image fitting and “Go to page …” (⌘J), plus paging with Shift and Page up/down.

Large documents feel smoother

• After paging through every spread, text keeps composing instantly instead of stalling for a tenth of a second; typing takes half the processing time.

Books: deviations and tables of contents

• The book report shows where a linked object deliberately differs, and says where to reset it individually.
• Book-wide contents and index name the part when it numbers its own pages.

Print data follows the standard more closely

• PDFs with opacity or blending modes can now be reused without errors: imposed, placed or merged.
• Jump targets are stored in the order readers search them in.
• The built-in PDF/X check looks more closely and no longer reports errors that are not there.

Smaller improvements

• Cross references to a paragraph number show the paragraph text when the target has no number, instead of a question mark, and they follow along when the numbering changes.
• Lists imported from Word keep their identity in the document: two lists from the same file keep counting separately, even after you have touched them in the list dialog.

English interface: mixed-up terms corrected

• Some German terms appeared twice in the dictionaries with different translations, and the second one quietly won. That is why «Fehler» read «Bug» instead of «Error» in the preflight report, «Sperren» on an object read «Block» instead of «Lock», and releasing a link read «Release» instead of «Unlink». All 26 mix-ups are cleaned up, and a check prevents new ones.
• Where the same German word really means two things, it is now unambiguous: «Programmfehler» in the report form, «Konto sperren» and «Konto freigeben» in account management.

IDML import: margins, frame options and text wrap

• Page margins now come from the page instead of the file's presets. Anyone who changed them afterwards in the source program used to get the old values; the same goes for column count and gutter.
• The inset spacing arrives: it is stored as a list, not a single value, and was therefore skipped, with four edges, each on its own.
• Text wrap brings all four edge offsets, not only the top one, plus «left only» and «right only».

Lists from Word and Markdown stay lists

• A Word file now brings its bullets and numbering across as real lists: level, kind and number format come from the file, and each number sequence becomes a list of its own. Until now a bullet character and a tab sat in the paragraph as plain text and could not be changed.
• Markdown likewise: indentation gives the level, and numbering that does not start at one starts where it says.

Cross-references to the paragraph number

• A cross-reference can now show the number of the target paragraph: «paragraph number», «paragraph number and text» or «paragraph number on page N», so «see 3.2.1» stands in the text and follows along when updated.

Shared links carry their address

• The preview of a shared link now also carries the document's address, without the key, which does not belong in other services' caches.

Bullets and numbering as in professional layout software

• The position can now be set the way layout programs do it: left indent, first-line indent (negative gives the hanging indent) and the tab position where the text starts. The character aligns left, centered or right in the field before it. Leave it alone and everything stays where it was, with the same line breaks.
• Bullet characters come from a grid: nine built in, plus your own, which you add and delete. They live in the document and travel with the house style. «Text after» decides what follows the character; with ^t the text jumps to the tab position, without it the text follows immediately.
• In the numbering pattern ^t now works as well; the default is ^#.^t.
• You can now set when a level starts over at one: after any higher level, only after a particular one, or never.
• Named lists: several number sequences in the same text count independently, for instance chapters and figures.
• A large bullet character now makes the first line taller instead of overprinting the line above. If the character runs past the tab position, the text moves on to the paragraph's next tab; the same rule as for any other tab. Next to a picture with text wrap and in very narrow columns, character and text stay together.

Table of contents: numbered paragraphs and forced line breaks

• For numbered headings you can now choose what the entry shows: number and text, the number only, or the text only.
• A forced line break inside a heading still becomes a space in the entry; this can now be switched off, so the entry breaks at the same place.

After an import: add the missing images and fonts

• An IDML carries only the names of images and fonts, not the files. When opening, a dialog now asks whether to upload them; it says how many images and which fonts are missing and leads to the file picker. Choosing «Later» leaves both in the menu under «Upload linked images …» and «Upload missing fonts …».
• Fonts added afterwards replace the substitute: every paragraph and style that originally asked for that font gets it back, matched by family name, so line breaks and composition are right again.

One master page for every part of a book

• The book palette now offers «Master page to all parts …»: one part supplies the master page, all others receive a copy plus a reference to that part. The next «Update book» pulls in changes automatically, and the report says which part picked up how many master pages.

Preflight profiles now also hold which checks run

• A preflight profile used to hold only the thresholds. It can now also switch off what gets checked, by subject: text, images, vectors, fonts, colors, transparency, position and bleed. The selection travels with the profile and with the profile file.

«What's new» only appears when the notes are new

• The release notes window remembered the program version and therefore reappeared after every release. It now remembers the state of the notes and speaks up only when there is something new to read.

Sign-in page: «Stay signed in» sits right again

• The checkbox is a box again and its label sits next to it instead of at the right edge, in all four languages.

Link previews when you share a document

• Paste a document link into a chat or a social network and it now shows the document name and its first page instead of a bare address. The link alone is enough; the document itself stays as protected as before, and opening it still asks for a sign-in.

Forgot your password? Reset it by email

• The sign-in page now has «Forgot your password?». You enter your username or email address and receive a link that lets you set a new password within two hours. The link works once; resetting signs out all previous sessions.

Sign in with your email address too

• When signing in you can now enter either your username or the email address on your account; the field is now called «Username or email». Upper- and lower-case do not matter for the email.

IDML files: fonts are kept, missing ones reported

• When opening an IDML file, Medusa now keeps the fonts it knows and reports the missing ones instead of quietly substituting them. After the import it lists which fonts are missing; their original name is preserved so line breaks and copy fit come out right once you upload them.

East Asian and Thai line breaking

• Japanese, Chinese and Thai text now breaks correctly even without spaces between words. The main composition rules apply: a closing character, a comma or an ellipsis never starts a line, and there is no break after an opening bracket.

Calmer ragged edge

• The paragraph composer now weighs the whole paragraph for left-aligned, right-aligned and centred text too, not only for justified text. It hyphenates more sparingly and distributes the lines more evenly; the ragged edge becomes calmer without making the paragraph longer.

Text wrap with four gaps and side choice

• When wrapping text around an object you can now set the top, bottom, left and right gap separately, and choose whether the text flows only on the left, only on the right, or on the wider side.

Find and change on master pages and in notes

• Find and Change now also searches master pages and foot- and endnotes. Change All no longer skips this text.

Observer mode for admins

• Under View, admins can switch on an observer mode: they follow an active project live without changing anything. The others in the document see a clear «watching» hint with an eye instead of the mouse pointer; it is expressly not silent monitoring.

Graphics from SVG with their layers

• An SVG can now be inserted as an editable graphic instead of only as an image: groups, paths, fills, text and embedded images become individual objects, and the SVG's layer tree is kept. When placing, a dialog asks whether to insert it editable or as a whole image.
• Copying a graphic from a drawing program and pasting it with ⌘V (Ctrl+V) breaks it up as well, as long as it is on the clipboard as SVG. Colours, line widths, opacity, gradients and rounded corners come along; whatever Medusa does not yet take over (such as clipping masks or filters) is listed in the message afterwards.

A new interface style, «Windows»

• Alongside Figma, Spectrum, Studio and Mac there is now «Windows»: the interface in the style of an application on Windows 11, with system font, square corners, 32 pixel controls, the blue line under the field you are typing in, and the selection marker beside the chosen row.
• The colours and measurements come from the open design files of Windows itself. Turning transparency effects off gives you solid menus.

Zoom with the space bar

• ⌘ (Ctrl) together with the space bar turns the pointer into the zoom tool: drag to zoom to the rectangle, click to magnify, hold Alt to shrink. The space bar alone still pans the view, and ⌘⇧ keeps working as before.
• On the Mac press the space bar first and add ⌘ afterwards, otherwise Spotlight swallows the combination. If the window loses focus, the hand tool no longer gets stuck.

A new interface style, «Mac»

• Window › Interface now offers «Mac» alongside Figma, Spectrum and Studio: Medusa then looks like a native application on macOS 27, with system font, system colours, capsule-shaped buttons, translucent bars and panels, and an opaque canvas.
• The colours and measurements come from the system itself, not from an imitation. If you ask for reduced transparency in Accessibility, the glass turns into solid surfaces.

An honest note about PDF/X-4

• Medusa is a proof of concept: PDFs are built to the PDF/X-4 structure and checked by the program itself, but there is no independent certification. The note now appears in the export dialog next to the PDF/X-4 standard, in the result of the PDF/X check, in the book report and under Help › Licences and third-party works, in all four languages.

Licences in the Help menu

• Help › «Licences and third-party works …» shows the licence of the program, every third-party work shipped with it together with its rights holders, and the full licence texts to read.

The book as one PDF

• The combined book PDF carries the book's own title and identifier instead of the first part's. Page numbers, bookmarks and jump targets of every part are in it, including links that point from one part into another.
• It is only labelled PDF/X-4 when the finished file passes the check; otherwise the book report names the reasons. Fonts get their own subset prefix per part.
• Parts with different print profiles can no longer be combined into one PDF, in batch output as well as in a book.

Folders with subfolders

• The document overview shows folders as a tree beside the list: «All documents», «No folder» and your own folders, indented, each with a count that includes its subfolders.
• Create a subfolder with the «+» on a row, up to four levels deep. Drag documents onto a folder row, drag folders into each other, and drop either on «No folder» to take it out again. The expanded state is remembered.
• Deleting a folder never deletes documents: they and any subfolders move up one level. The document menu in the editor shows the same tree.

Writing your own extensions

• New under Help › «Writing extensions …»: a page showing how to add your own commands and panels to Medusa with a little JavaScript, with the complete interface and three examples to copy.

Folders from inside a document

• The menu at the file name assigns the open document to a folder, creates a new one for it or takes it out again. The entry shows where it currently sits, and the overview files it right away.

Composition and output fixed

• Line styles: lines mixing very different character sizes stay within the column again, and words no longer overlap. Measured, they used to run up to 36 mm out of the column, with word spacing squeezed into the negative.
• Footnotes longer than the column are split and continue in the next column instead of spilling out of the frame.
• Footnote and endnote numbers run consecutively even when conditional text is hidden; «keep with next» and «space between paragraphs of the same style» work across hidden paragraphs.
• In the separation preview, placed CMYK TIFF and PSD images show their own printing channels instead of a recalculated separation; screen and print PDF match. The plate used to be off by up to 46 percentage points.
• Prepress checks the resolution of placed CMYK TIFF and PSD images; the note about placed PDFs also appears in the composite view.
• A spot colour named like a process colour lands on the same plate on screen as in the PDF; two spot colours with the same name make one plate.

Styles from another document

• Loading styles brings every reference along: character styles used in nested styles, GREP styles, line styles and bullets, colours in paragraph rules, shading and borders, and the references inside object, table and cell styles. Table of contents styles, conditions, preflight profiles and the settings for footnotes, endnotes and the baseline grid travel too.
• The dialogue shows what would change («size: 34 → 40») and can add a style under its own name instead of replacing the one with the same name.
• Parent pages based on another parent page survive export and import in both directions, together with the objects they inherit.

Import and prepress

• Notes from an import are shown once when the document opens and can be dismissed.
• Preflight reports line-art images still stored in the old form, which cover instead of knocking out in print.
• Text in table cells now follows the «overprint black» rule on screen as well.
• The messages of the PDF/X check now appear in every language.

Linked objects

• You can choose who may read a document's published objects: anyone who has the document id (the default), or only people with access to the document. With «only with access» a book run updates the copies only for people who can open the source; every other part is named in the book report instead of being skipped in silence.
• An object can be published as a source object in its own document and then placed in any other: it arrives as a full copy with its text, images, fonts, colours and styles, and stays connected to the original. When the original changes, every copy follows, at the press of a button or with every book run. Position, size, rotation and layer belong to the document the object sits in.
• A copy is locked. Anyone who wants to deviate on purpose declares the deviation for a text: it stays as it is when updating, the panel counts the deviations, and one click discards them again.

Hiding single master objects

• The context menu of a page hides any single object of the master page on that page (the logo on a chapter opener, the folio on a title). The master page stays assigned, even when it comes from another document.

Book: align styles and indexes across all parts

• «Align styles …» compares swatches, paragraph, character, object, table and cell styles, hyphenation exceptions and PDF presets between the book and its parts. Line by line it shows beforehand what would change: old and new, each one tickable. Where a process colour would become a spot colour, the line is unticked and flagged. Each part saves a version first and takes everything over in one step.
• One switch in the book panel, and the table of contents and the index gather the entries of every part with their book page numbers. The jump marks lead into the other part where needed.

Images from other systems

• Images from a folder on the web (WebDAV or HTTP) or from Adobe Experience Manager Assets can be placed into the layout. The file is loaded into the document and remembers where it came from; «Update link» fetches the current version later. Addresses and accounts stay in your browser.

Extensions

• Your own menu commands and panels, described in a small file. The code runs sealed off and may only do what the interface allows; every change is a single step in the history.

Parent pages from other documents

• A parent page can be taken over from another of your documents: Layout › «Link parent page from another document …» copies it with everything on it: objects, text, images, fonts, swatches and styles.
• The Links panel shows whether the source has moved on and refreshes at the push of a button; one undo reverts it. The copy stays in the document even if the source is deleted, and the document never stores an access key.

Parent pages built on parent pages

• A parent page can be based on another one, up to four levels deep. What it inherits sits beneath its own objects and comes along on screen and in the PDF. Set it in the pages panel or in the properties.

Line styles as a list

• Instead of a single character style for the opening lines you can set several in a row: first line in small caps, second italic, third in colour. With «Repeat» the list starts over after its last entry.

Load styles from another document

• The new command in the Text menu lists your own documents and shows, before you apply anything, what is new, what differs and what stays the same. Only the ticked lines are taken over, in one step, with one undo.

Overrides now marked on character styles too

• When selected text departs from its character style, a «+» follows the style name: in the control bar, in the properties and now in the styles list as well.

Your own preflight profiles

• The thresholds for image resolution, hairlines, small type, ink coverage and fold clearance live in a named profile. «Vorgabe» is built in with the previous values; your own profiles can be saved, passed on and loaded from a file, just like the PDF presets.

Folders for your documents

• On the start page you can create, rename and delete your own folders. Drag a document onto a folder, or send it there with a right-click and «Move to …».
• Above the list sit «All documents», «No folder» and your folders with a count; one click filters, search and sorting still work alongside. Deleting a folder deletes no documents; they move back to «No folder». Folders belong to each person individually.

Book files

• Several documents can be run as a book: File › Create book, then the «Book» panel collects the parts. «Update book» numbers the pages continuously across all parts; if you want, every part starts on an odd page, and when a blank page is missing for that, the report says so and only appends it at the push of a button.
• «Output book» gives one PDF for the whole book or a ZIP with one PDF per part; «Check book» compares page size, bleed, print profile, spot colours and page count across all parts.
• The book only records which documents belong to it, never an access key.

Conditional text

• Passages can be given conditions and then shown or hidden: hidden text is neither composed nor exported, and the type reflows at once. Condition sets switch several conditions in one step.
• On screen a wavy line or a colour highlight marks conditional text; it never appears in the PDF. Find, spell check and the tables of contents and index skip hidden text.

Preview

• Separation and overprint preview now read the print data itself: CMYK images keep their channel values, RGB images go through their embedded profile, grayscale images stay on the black plate. Measured, the on-screen plate now differs from the print PDF by at most 1 %, where it used to be up to 51 %.
• For placed PDFs the preview says that it cannot show their plates exactly, instead of guessing them.

Table and cell styles

• Tables and cells can be saved as named styles and reused: one click in the Styles palette carries over rules, fills, alternating colours and insets; «Redefine from selection» updates every table using that style in a single step.
• Object styles gain a base style and a next style, and mark with «+» when an object differs from its style.

Table of contents

• Tables of contents follow named TOC styles: title with its paragraph style and, per included paragraph style, the level, the entry style, where the page number goes (after, before or not at all), the separator (tab, leader character or characters of your own) and a character style each for page number and separator.
• Entries on a level can be sorted alphabetically or run in; options include text on hidden layers, paragraph numbers and PDF bookmarks. The bookmarks follow the same structure.

Footnotes and endnotes

• Footnotes have document-wide options: numbering style (1, i, I, a, A or the sequence *, †, ‡, §), start number, restart on every page, in every section or in every story, prefix and suffix, paragraph style of the note, character style of the reference and spacing. Individual frames may still override them.
• The divider rule above the footnotes can be switched off and set in weight, colour, tint, length, offset and style, on screen and in the PDF. If you prefer, footnotes sit at the end of the story.
• Endnotes are new, with their own area and «Update endnotes».

Layers and objects

• In the layers list, groups can be expanded and collapsed, objects inside groups can be dragged and hidden individually.
• Layers get a colour of your choice and can be set to «do not print».
• Objects can overprint as a whole (fill and stroke) and be set to «do not print»: visible on screen, but not in PDF, PNG or SVG.

Prepress test document

• A new example on the start page: 15 pages, one check per page with a caption: spot colours in CMYK, Lab and RGB, gradients, overprint, opacity and blend modes, knockout and isolated groups, 1-bit line art at 1200 ppi, 16-bit images, Adobe RGB, sRGB with alpha, CMYK JPEG, placed PDFs, spot-colour shadows and feathered edges, fonts, bleed, marks and mixed page sizes. Open it, export it and measure the result in output preview or on press.

Language

• Language per text frame: a text's language is detected from the text itself (16 languages, plus Cyrillic and Greek) and drives hyphenation and spell checking. It can be fixed in the frame palette, and single paragraphs may differ. Hyphenation patterns now cover 25 languages, dictionaries German, English, French, Italian and Spanish.

Typography

• Styles as in professional typesetting: character styles build on a based-on style and know every character attribute; paragraph styles have a next style (after Enter a heading continues as body text, say) and a line style (the first line in small caps, for instance); nested styles also count sentences, know «up to, exclusive» and repeat to the end of the paragraph.
• New character attributes under «Character, more»: horizontal and vertical scale, skew, stroke with colour and weight, character background, underline and strikethrough with weight, offset, colour and type (solid, dashed, dotted, double), «No break» and language per character. Plus buttons for small caps, superscript and subscript; small caps come from the font where it has them, otherwise they are carefully simulated.
• Change case: UPPERCASE, lowercase, Title Case, Sentence case.
• «Clean up text» follows official Swiss, Duden and French typographic rules: narrow non-breaking spaces in «z. B.», before units, percent and currency, in «p. 12», «§ 5», «1 January»; single quotes; apostrophes also in «Rock ’n’ Roll» and «l’été»; en dash only between numbers (phone numbers and dates stay); «20.–»; Swiss time «14.30»; numbers from five digits grouped; in French narrow non-breaking spaces before ; ! ? and inside « ». Each paragraph by its own language.
• Typographer's quotes while typing, matching the paragraph's language (Text › Typographer's quotes).
• No line starts with a dash or an ellipsis any more, and «10–20» never breaks.
• New defaults: at least two lines at the start and end of a paragraph (no orphans and widows), headings stay with the following text, at least three letters after a hyphenation, outer margin wider than the inner one.
• Special characters menu with all spaces, non-breaking hyphen, em dash, minus, multiplication sign, discretionary line break and «Break ligature here»; if the font lacks a character, an equivalent one steps in.
• Kerning across format changes: if only the colour or another character attribute changes between two letters, the font's kerning pair still applies. Before, «To» with a coloured «T» set as if unkerned.
• Manual kerning between two characters: Alt+←/→ at the cursor (20/1000 em, with Cmd 100); with a selection it changes tracking; plus the «KP» field in the character palette. Cmd+←/→ jumps by word. The value goes into the PDF and the IDML.
• Spaces as in professional typesetting: em, en, third, quarter, sixth, thin and hair spaces, figure and punctuation space, non-breaking and narrow non-breaking space. Each has the right width even if the font lacks it; no more boxes. Non-breaking ones never break, fixed ones stay fixed in justified text, the non-breaking space stretches like a normal one.

Pages and spreads

• Fold-outs, gatefolds and roll folds: pages can be attached to the previous spread (right-click in the page list › Attach to previous spread), left of the spine too. In facing-page documents attached pages do not count; odd pages stay on the right, and the fold-out is numbered e.g. “3a”.
• Pages with their own size (right-click › Page size …), with buttons for fold-in pages 2 or 3 mm narrower. On left pages objects keep their distance to the spine; master items stick to the nearest page edge.
• Pages that differ from the document size are marked: a label with their size above the page and “≠” in the page list.
• In the PDF every page gets its own page boxes. New: “Spreads with fold-outs as spreads, other pages single”, the way printers want cover and inner pages. Fold lines at every inner edge of a spread, and IDML carries sizes and fold-outs.

Folded products

• Fold types as presets in Page size: roll fold (2 mm narrower per fold-in step), zigzag fold (equal widths) and paperback with flaps create outside and inside as spreads. The widths are starting values; every panel can be changed afterwards. Plus a spine width calculator from page count, paper weight and bulk.
• Fold preview: move the pointer over a folded spread in the page list and its panels fold in.
• Prepress warns about text in a fold or less than 4 mm from it, and when the widths do not match the fold type.
• PDF: dashed fold marks outside the bleed, crop and fold marks in registration colour (on every plate, spot colours included), page labels with the document's page numbers. The PDF/X check makes sure trim, bleed and media boxes nest.
• “No page number” per page (right-click in the page list): the master page's page number is left out, counting continues.

Variable fonts

• Variable fonts on the text (Text › Variable font on text, or «Handles on text» in the panel): a box around the selected text carries handles: the corner square drags the width, the stem below the weight, the circle on the arc the slant, the bookmark the optical size. Custom axes such as contrast or roundness take free handles, all others sit below as drag tabs. Shift drags finely, a double-click resets, and one drag is one undo step.
• Save settings: store the current axes under a name and apply them again with one click, on the text or in the named-instances menu. Settings belong to the document.
• New «Variable fonts» example on the start page: Roboto Flex with 13 axes and Source Serif 4 with automatic optical size.

Typesetting

• Break characters (Text › Break characters): column, frame and page break, plus break to the next odd or even page. A paragraph can also start on the next odd or even page by itself.
• New paragraph options: keep with previous, equal spacing between paragraphs of the same style, last line of justified text left, centred or right, hyphenation across columns can be turned off.
• Hyphenation exceptions (Text › Hyphenation exceptions …): set your own break points per language or exclude words from hyphenation entirely; the list is part of the document.
• The discretionary line break now breaks without a hyphen and without width.
• More OpenType: numerators and denominators, scientific inferiors, titling alternates, capital spacing, unicase, historical forms and ligatures, initial, medial and final forms and up to 20 character variants; only what the font supports is shown.

Speed

• Large documents respond much faster: in a 500-page test a keystroke takes about 220 instead of 750 ms to the next frame, zoomed out a frame draws in 17 instead of 700 ms, and memory drops from over 500 to about 150 MB. Typing now sends only the changed paragraph instead of the whole story.
• Typing in long threaded stories: only the edited paragraph is broken into lines again, all others keep their lines and just move to their new place, with exactly the same typesetting as before. In a 500-page test a keystroke now takes about 35 instead of about 190 ms to the next frame; setting a whole story for the first time is faster too, and large documents no longer have to reset everything at once after many changes.
• Changing the size and position of superscript, subscript and small caps in the document settings takes effect immediately, as does a moved type area with the baseline grid.

Interface

• The start page is now an overview like in an app: a slim bar at the top with search, “New document” and “Import”, your documents below, as dense tiles or as a list, newest first or by name. Each card shows page count, format, when it was last worked on and whether the link is shared for commenting or viewing only. Templates and formats follow below, smaller.
• Keyboard: “/” jumps to search, Enter opens the first match, the arrow keys move through the documents.
• New icons: calm, thin lines in one consistent set, from the tools down to the table borders. Indents, spacing and drop caps in the control bar now have proper icons instead of arrow characters.
• Settings now hold only what applies to you in this browser: two tabs, General and Translation. What applies to everyone in the document is under File › Document setup.
• The document name and «Page 1 of 5» sit at the top of the left column above the pages; the header is free for the menus.
• Tidier menus: fonts only under Text, «Translate document» under Text, «Toolbar on the left» under Window, no duplicate entries in the logo menu.
• Shortcuts: ⌘, opens the settings, ⌥⌘2 the split window, ⌘P export; ⌘[, ⌘] and ⌘D no longer take you out of the document; ⌥⌘L and ⌥⌘Ü work on the Mac too.
• New «Layout» menu: add, duplicate and delete pages, numbering and section, page size, apply parent page, guides; until now only in the page list's context menu. File is sorted into clear blocks: setup, place, check and package, export, versions and sharing.
• Menu at the document name: the arrow next to the name shows what concerns the document as a whole: rename, document setup, colour settings, share, approval, versions, export, preflight, package.
• The list of keyboard shortcuts is built from the menus and is always complete; ⇧⌘[ and ⇧⌘] work again.
• «Document setup» has tabs: Page, Grid (baseline grid and guide colours), Colour (output profile, RGB working space) and Interactive. «Colour settings …» opens the Colour tab directly. Medusa applies only what you changed in the window; what others change at the same time stays.
• Duplicate and delete a document from the menu at its name: the copy takes all images along, but no versions or comments; anyone with an account can make their own copy, even with a view-only link. The person who created the document and admins can delete it.
• Layout › New parent page and Edit parent page; File follows the prepress order (tidy up, check, export, hand over) and leads back to the overview. Baseline grid and guide colours now live only in Document setup › Grid.
• On first launch Medusa asks which interface (Figma, Spectrum, Studio) and which appearance (system, light, dark) you want; the choice applies at once.
• The overview has a dark header with the medallion again, half as tall as before.
• The document name sits in bold at the top of the left column, pages and layers below it; rename by clicking the name.
• More room in the control bar, larger buttons on floating panels.
• Layers: drag the whole row, rename with a double-click, eye and lock always visible. Drag objects in the list in front of or behind others or into another layer, and hide or show each object with its eye; hidden, it appears neither on screen nor in the PDF.
• Attach pages by dragging: drag a page in the page list onto another and hold for a moment, and it joins that spread.
• Admins can sort the document list by person, with a heading for each person.
• New «Swatches» panel: pick fill or stroke at the top, apply colour to the frame or the text, tint, swap fill and stroke, [None], [Paper], [Black] and all your own swatches; double-click to edit.
• Corner options (Object › Corner options …): size and shape per corner (rounded, bevel, inset, inverse rounded), on screen, in PDF, SVG and IDML.
• More compact dialogs: «New document» and «Document setup» with labels on the left, groups for page, margins, columns and bleed, portrait and landscape buttons, linked margins and a small page preview.

Account

• You can delete your own account: in the menu under your name › Delete account. A dialog first shows which documents go with it; deletion needs your password and your typed username. The last admin cannot delete themselves.
• Changing your password signs out every other session of that account.
• Feedback without an account: at /ideen anyone can send ideas, wishes and bugs, optionally with an email address for follow-up questions.

PDF

• «PDF/X-4» is only written into the PDF when the file meets the conditions: colours converted to CMYK, no links, form fields or films, print profile embedded. Otherwise the PDF is made without the label, and the export says why.
• Proof colours and the separations view on screen no longer affect the export.
• Drop shadows and feathered edges keep their colour in the print PDF: 100 % black stays pure black, a spot colour stays its own plate. Only the shape of the shadow and the fade of the edge are rasterised (300 ppi), the object itself stays vector. Shadows multiply, on screen as in the PDF, and no longer knock out the colours beneath.
• Opacity and blend modes apply to the object as a whole: fill and stroke at 50 % no longer cover each other twice, on screen as in the PDF.
• Overprint only applies to fill or stroke, not to text and images in the same frame; white never overprints.
• RGB images are converted to the document's print profile with their own colour profile, images without a profile in the document's RGB working space. CMYK JPEGs stay unchanged.
• Placed PDF: preview without comments and with a transparent background, pages with JPEG 2000 images and Asian scripts appear in full; the print PDF uses the visible crop and the page rotation. «PDF/X-4» is only written when the finished file passes the check without errors.
• Proof colours with paper white and print black, now for CMYK colours too.
• 100 % black overprints by its colour value, in your own swatches too; spot colour names with accents arrive intact.
• The PDF/X check is stricter: RGB in images, fills, gradients and transparency groups is an error, and overprinted white and embedded files are found. Uploaded profiles such as PSO Coated v3 are matched to their printing condition.

Export

• New export dialog: the preset and the standard at the top (none or PDF/X-4, which locks what it does not allow), below it the tabs General, Marks and bleed, Output, and a summary with warnings before the download.
• Presets now belong to the document: whoever saves one makes it available to the whole team, with undo. They can be saved to and loaded from a file, travel with the brand kit and can be chosen in the output automation.
• Marks with crop marks, registration marks, page information and fold marks, weight 0.125 to 0.5 pt and offset in millimetres; bleed as in the document or with your own values for top, bottom, inside and outside; mirrored on left pages.
• Output to sRGB for screens (no CMYK in the PDF), spot colours optionally as process colours, each page as its own PDF in a ZIP with a naming pattern, opening view and full screen, hyperlinks, bookmarks and forms and media each switchable. Title and language are always in the PDF.
• The PDF is created in the background: the dialog closes at once, you keep working, and the file arrives when it is ready.

Prepress refinements

• Gradients between spot and process colours blend in the composite as on screen.
• 100 % black does not overprint inside transparent groups; the separation preview follows the same rule.
• Line art (1 bit) prints only its black, white stays transparent; grayscale images show on the black plate only in the separation preview.
• Spot colours named like «Cyan» or «All» become process colours on import.
• The PDF/X check finds more: registration colour inside the trim box, faulty multi-channel colours, overprinted white in spot colours too.
• Lab spot colours show at full saturation on P3 displays.

Placed PDFs

• Placed PDFs preview overprinting spot colours and varnish plates correctly instead of hiding the colours underneath.
• Faulty, protected or empty pages show a message and a placeholder instead of failing silently.

Spot colours

• Gradients with spot colours stay on their own printing plate in the PDF, including blends between spot and process colours.
• Spot colours can be defined in Lab or RGB and go into the PDF with their Lab value. When the output profile changes, their CMYK alternate is recalculated.
• Reserved names such as «Cyan» are blocked; the PDF/X check flags spot colours that share a name but have different alternates.

Print PDF

• «Overprint black» now also applies to fills and strokes in 100 % black, not only to text. Paper white still knocks out, and transparent objects stay unchanged.
• Line art (1-bit PNG, black-and-white palette PNG, 1-bit TIFF) goes into the PDF at full resolution, sharp and on the black plate only.
• 16-bit TIFF can be placed and is reduced to 8 bits; for 16-bit PNG the export reports the reduction.

Screen colours

• On wide-gamut displays (Display P3) the canvas shows CMYK colours, the colour proof and the overprint preview at full saturation instead of clipping them to sRGB.

Print profiles

• Medusa now ships the standard ECI profiles: ISO Coated v2 300 % (FOGRA39) and PSO Uncoated ISO12647 (FOGRA47), plus ISO Newspaper 26 (IFRA26) for newspaper printing. Images and RGB colours are separated the same way as in common applications using the same profiles.

Working on the page

• Dragging with the Alt key held creates a duplicate and leaves the original in place, even if Alt is pressed only while dragging. One undo removes both.
• Text frame options are compact: small groups in two columns; settings that depend on a checkbox appear only when it is ticked.
• The Swatches panel again shows for each swatch whether it is spot, CMYK, RGB or a gradient.

Links and file formats

• The Links panel lists every placed image and PDF with its page and status; from there you can jump to it, download the original or replace the file in all frames at once.
• TIFF, PSD and AI files can now be placed; CMYK images stay CMYK all the way into the print PDF.

Fonts in PDF

• Fonts are embedded as subsets, making PDFs much smaller. OpenType fonts with PostScript outlines (OTF) are now embedded correctly as CFF.
• Fonts whose license restricts embedding are embedded as well; the license is your responsibility.

More effects

• Inner shadow, feathering per side and global light for shadows. Groups can isolate blending and act as knockout groups.
• New «Effects» window with preview for object, stroke, fill and text.
• Very large effects are output at a lower resolution instead of being dropped. Prepress warns about effects on spot colours and non-separable blend modes.

Colour picker

• The colour picker shows what fits the colour: the four channels with ink coverage for CMYK, only the tint for spot colours, and a colour field with hue slider and numbers (RGB, hex, HSB) for RGB, OKLCH and P3.
• Tint and opacity are separate; opacity applies to fill, stroke or shadow.
• Changing values changes only the selected objects: a colour of their own is created and the named swatch stays as it is. «Convert to CMYK» uses the print profile.
• «On this page» and «Colours in selection» list the colours in use with their tint; a change there applies to the selection only. Plus an eyedropper for colour and tint.

Export dialog

• Page range with the document's page numbers, including «iv», «B-1», «7-» (to the end) and «+3» (third page from the start); if a number occurs in several sections the dialog says so instead of silently taking the last one.
• The dialog opens with the preset last used in the document; after a change it shows which preset you started from («… (changed)»). Overwriting your own preset asks first, built-in ones stay untouched.
• The note about the background export names the time of the exported state.

Guides and approval

• Guides as in professional layout: dragged onto a page they belong to that page only and stop at its edge; dragged onto the pasteboard beside the page they run across the whole spread.
• Review and approval: besides single text frames a whole page can be released (right-click in the pages list); every text on it can then be edited by the reviewers.

Inspect

• Hovering over empty paper shows the size of the page, with bleed and for facing pages also that of the whole spread; the panel lists single page and spread.

Images in the PDF

• Images are recalculated per placement on export: only the visible crop, and above a threshold down to the target resolution (print: above 450 to 300 ppi, screen: above 225 to 150 ppi). A 6000 × 4000 pixel photo at 100 mm width takes 0.2 instead of about 40 MB in the print PDF.
• New Images tab in the export dialog with threshold, target and compression (lossless, or JPEG in three qualities for RGB output); «Small for the web» is back.
• Rotated phone photos (EXIF) appear in the PDF as on screen, greyscale images stay greyscale.

Effects

• Fill, stroke and content (text or image) each have their own opacity and blend mode, in the Effects panel, on screen, in PDF and in IDML.

Groups

• Groups carry opacity, blend mode, drop shadow and feathering as a whole: overlaps inside a semi-transparent group no longer cover twice, and the shadow falls once for the whole group, on screen, in PDF, SVG and IDML. Selecting a single object inside the group directly still sets that object's own values.

Colour on screen

• The overprint preview now mixes plate by plate like the print PDF: overprint, opacity and spot colours look the way they print. It runs on the graphics card and is about ten times faster; an unchanged view comes from the cache.
• Spot colours mix like ink on paper instead of adding up; midtones no longer turn too dark.
• On wide-gamut screens Chrome and Safari show the preview in Display P3: saturated cyan and green are no longer clipped.

Colour and exchange

• IDML: spot colours stay spot colours with their own plate. Pantone colours (Lab) get their alternate through the document's print profile and go back out as Lab on export; tints keep their value.
• Objects copied into another document bring their swatches along, gradient stops too.
• Placed PDFs appear at their original size; «Scale» 100 % means 1:1.
• A tab opened before an update exports again instead of failing with a loading error.

Security

• Several security issues and bugs fixed.

Fonts

• Variable fonts in styles: paragraph and character styles now show sliders for every axis of a variable font; ticked axes belong to the style, the others come from the font style. «New style from selection» carries set axes along.

Optical margin

• Optical margin alignment for the whole story, in the frame palette with a reference size: quotation marks, full stops, commas, dashes and slanted or round letters hang over the edge as far as the set size asks; the same in headings and body text. Single paragraphs can be left out; more characters hang than before, and after a quotation mark the next letter hangs a little too.

Line breaks

• Auto leading: button «A» next to the leading, the percentage of the type size sits under Spacing and hyphenation (default 120 %). In a line with mixed sizes the largest counts.
• Balance ragged lines: headings and short ragged paragraphs get lines of similar length instead of one long and one short, with the same number of lines.
• Ignore optical margin: single paragraphs can be left out of the text's optical margin alignment.

Interface

• More reliable settings and document setup: unit, spell check and the control bar survive a reload, the reference point takes effect at once, «Lock guides» now applies only to you, two people can change different document settings at the same time without overwriting each other, and the History panel is now labelled correctly in every language.

Interface

• A third interface style, «Studio»: dense and calm, neutral grey, fine lines, groups with their title in the border, colour only for focus and selection; light and dark, switchable under Menu › Interface and in the settings.

Text frames

• New dialog Object › Text Frame Options (Cmd/Ctrl+B, also as a button in the palette) for all selected text frames: columns fixed, with fixed or flexible width; inset for each side separately; vertical alignment top, centre, bottom or justified with a paragraph spacing limit; first baseline by ascent, cap height, x height, leading or fixed, with a minimum; a custom baseline grid per frame; «Ignore text wrap»; footnote spacing per frame; rules between columns, on screen and in the PDF.
• Vertical alignment now applies in every frame of a thread and in every column, not only in the last single-column frame.
• Auto-size: frames follow the text in height, width or both. A reference point decides which corner or edge stays put; minimum width and height set a lower bound.

Lists and columns

• Bullets and numbering as a dialog of their own (button «…» next to the list buttons): any character, numbers as 1, 01, a, A, i or I, patterns such as «(^#)» or «^1.^2» for nested lists, five levels with their own counter and indent, restart at any number, continue across text in between, numbers right-aligned before the text and a character style for the marker.
• Span columns: a paragraph can now span 2, 3 or 4 columns instead of only all of them, starting from the column it is in; only the spanned columns continue below it. New as well: «Split column» spreads the paragraph evenly over 2 to 4 sub-columns, with inside and outside gutters (Paragraph palette › Composition).

IDML

• IDML export under File › Export as IDML: pages, master pages, layers, threaded text frames with their options, paragraph and character styles, process and spot colours, gradients, shapes, paths, groups, tables and footnotes are written to the IDML file. Images are linked from a «Links» folder next to the .idml; both come together in a zip.
• More complete IDML import: groups stay groups, nested ones too; a table standing alone in a frame becomes a real table with merged cells and header rows; footnotes arrive as footnotes; plus text wrap, opacity, blend mode, drop shadow, feather, all text frame options, lists, keep and column options and the language.

PDF

• Open and edit PDF: File › Import now accepts PDF and turns it into a document with real objects: shapes and curves, text in frames (fonts are substituted), images. CMYK stays CMYK, spot colours arrive as swatches with name and CMYK equivalent, tints stay tints.
• Placing a PDF offers three ways: place (as vectors into the print PDF), place linked (a new version of the same file goes into every frame via Object › Update link) or insert editable (as a group of separate objects). The PDF's spot colours appear in the swatches in every case.

Colour

• View › Overprint Preview (Alt+Shift+Cmd+Y): every printing plate is computed separately and combined through the print profile. Overprinting yellow on cyan appears green, knocked-out areas stay clean, spot colours mix with what lies beneath, 100 % black text overprints, as is usual in prepress. The same rule now applies in the separations preview.

Signing in

• Sign in with «Stay signed in»: ticked (the default) keeps you signed in for a month, even across a browser restart; unticked, the session ends when the browser closes or after twelve hours without activity; meant for other people's computers.

Offline

• The installable version now carries the app icon: 192 and 512 points plus a maskable version with a margin so round masks cut nothing off.
• Installable version: the program now ships a manifest, icons and a service worker. Once opened, it can be installed as an app and started without a network: program files, fonts, colour profiles and the colour management sit in the browser's cache.
• Offline documents: the start page has an «Offline» section with its own button. These documents live in IndexedDB, that is in this browser only, and can be created, edited, exported and checked without a server, images and fonts included. The header says «Offline · this device only».
• What does not work offline is stated where you look for it: on the start page, in the header and in the share window. Working together, comments, video chat and links need the server. «Share › Put on the server» moves an offline document there, images and all, and from then on it can be shared.

Interface

• Landing page: the six specialities have become nine: new are PDF/X-4 with a check, working offline and PDF forms.
• Program and landing page are delivered separately.
• PDF/X check: the export now identifies the PDF as PDF/X-4 (XMP with GTS_PDFXVersion, trapped entry, file identifier, version 1.6) and can check the finished file: output intent with its embedded ICC profile, embedded fonts, RGB in fills, text and images, page boxes, annotations inside the trim box, encryption, JavaScript, attachments and transparency. File › Check PDF/X builds the delivery PDF in the background and checks it right away; from the report you can also check somebody else's PDF. There is also a new checkbox to leave out links and form fields; without it no PDF/X delivery passes.
• Prepress with many images: each image file is now read once instead of once per frame. A document with 500 image frames on eight files took over a quarter of an hour; now it takes five seconds.
• Drawing: text lines outside the visible area are skipped. Panning a 500-page document drops about a fifth of the time per frame; exports are unchanged, there the visible area is the whole page.
• Fixed: in the Figma style the large headings on the start and sub pages were lighter than on the landing page. Only the headings inside the editor stay sober now.
• New «Stress test» tile on the start page: builds 500 pages with about 2.5 million characters, threaded columns, an image on every page, 50 tables and vectors; it shows how the program holds up with large documents.
• Page thumbnails in the left column are only drawn when they are actually visible in the list. With 500 pages a full pass used to take minutes; now the document opens in seconds.
• Switchable unit: millimetres, centimetres, inches, points or picas, under View › Unit or in the settings. Panels, rulers, measurements and inspect follow; the document itself stays in millimetres, and a suffix typed into a field («30mm» in an inch field) still wins over the display unit.
• The toolbar can be moved to the left edge under View › Toolbar on the left; upright instead of across, remembered in the browser.
• «Figma» is now the default style; «Spectrum» stays available under Help › Interface.
• The same information used to appear three times on screen. Now the document name is only in the header, «Page 2 of 8» next to it, and format and extent appear once each in the control bar and the pages panel.
• A second interface style: under Help › Interface (or in the settings) you switch between «Spectrum» and «Figma». Figma is more sober and compact: smaller type, flat radii, fields as grey boxes without borders, blue accent, narrower panels. Both come in light and dark, and the choice is remembered in the browser.
• Swatches now carry a small mark for their kind: CMYK as four quadrants, RGB as three stripes, spot as a ring, gradient as a ramp. You see at a glance what gets its own printing plate and what does not, in the panel and in every colour picker.
• The «Sync» button in the split window is gone. The second view always stays independent.
• Landing page: the feature list is now called «What is inside» instead of «Everything in the first release». In the lightbox every image sits in the same-sized box; before, the picture jumped as soon as a title wrapped.
• Landing page: screenshots and share images now come in all four languages: the French page shows the French interface, the Spanish one the Spanish. The «three specialities» have become six (new: chat and video chat, Google Fonts, approval without an account), and the feature list is re-sorted into twelve groups and brought up to date.
• Fixed: in French and Spanish, «What's new» showed the German release notes instead of the English ones.
• Video chat: as soon as somebody else is on the same document, a camera icon appears next to the speech bubble. One click and you see and hear each other; picture and sound go straight from browser to browser, only the negotiation passes through the server. Microphone and camera can be muted separately. Up to about six people; beyond that it would need a media server.
• The video chat finds the other side even behind a router; strict company networks may still get in its way.
• Camera and microphone are only released on the editor page; on every other page they stay blocked.
• Show hidden characters (View, Alt+Cmd+I): pilcrow, a dot for a space, a ring for a non-breaking space, an arrow across the whole tab. They stay away in preview and at small sizes.
• The interface now speaks **French and Spanish** as well as German and English: around 2000 strings per language, patterns with inserted numbers and names included. Pick it under Help › Language or in the settings; the dictionary is loaded on its own, so only the language in use reaches the browser.
• The server-rendered pages (sign-in, profile, email confirmation) and the landing page speak all four languages too. For French and Spanish the release notes, sample documents and screenshots show the English version.
• Delete all guides is now in the View menu.
• Fixed: on the landing page the big logo was solid black; the two-tone paths had not been given their colour. This also affected the share image for chat and social networks.
• Chat: as soon as somebody else is on the same document, a speech bubble appears in the bottom right. The messages belong to the document, so they stay when everyone has left, and they never show up in the undo history. A small counter marks what is unread. Comment and view links can speak too; questions usually come from the people who are not allowed to change anything.
• The baseline grid has its own panel: start, increment, colour and visibility in one place instead of scattered through «Document setup». The same fields are now in the guides dialog too.
• A paragraph can now put **only its first line** on the baseline grid; the following lines keep their own leading. In the paragraph panel and in the control bar as «1st only».
• Guides can be clicked. The selected guide is drawn boldly and appears in the panel with its position to a tenth of a millimetre, so you can type instead of aiming. Plus delete (backspace works too) and a lock for all guides in the document (View › Lock guides).
• «Duplicate and offset» can work with the **gap** instead of the offset: a 5 mm gap between 20 mm wide objects means a 25 mm offset, and the program now works that out.
• Align: next to even distribution there is a field for a fixed gap. Two objects are enough for that; even distribution still needs three.
• Google Fonts: Fonts › magnifier (or File › Google Fonts …) lets you search, preview and install around 1800 families into the document. The preview draws the real outlines, not a stand-in typeface. Variable families arrive as one file covering the whole weight axis, static families style by style. The TTF version is always fetched; it is the only one that can be embedded in a PDF.
• Guides can go to the back: View › Guides in back puts them underneath the objects. Handy as soon as large areas are involved and the lines only get in the way.
• As soon as something in the document moves, prepress disappears from the menu and the header. An animation is not a printed product, and the messages about bleed and resolution were noise there.
• Share image for link previews: sharing id42.xyz in chat, Slack or a social network now shows a card with the big logo, the title and the address, in all four languages (1200 × 630, produced by scripts/og-bild.mjs). The tool itself carries the same card.
• The emails have a design now: a light header band with the wordmark, a title, a button and a small footer, plain and image-free so they look the same in every inbox. Plus a preview line for the inbox list.
• Every email arrives in the recipient's language: whoever signs up in English also gets the approval email in English, no matter which language the admin happens to be using.
• The «Ideas and bugs» page is now Feedback & feature requests and has a header of its own: light band, title, lead and the big logo, like the start page but light.
• Reporting happens in a dialog instead of a form in the page, with up to four images. The images hang on the entry and open at full size.
• A thumbs up instead of an arrow: a quiet tile with a counter, coloured only once you have voted.
• A small header on the «Accounts» and «Ideas and bugs» subpages: a light band with the logo and the name, and the way back to the overview.
• The ideas page and user management are now fully translated, including the date format and the line under each name.
• Fixed: fields for email, address (clickTag) and phone looked like the browser's own; input types are no longer listed one by one, they are all styled alike.

View and examples

• Fixed: in content mode (double-click an image) the corner handles could not be dragged. They now scale the image inside the frame; the opposite corner stays put and the frame keeps its size.
• Separation preview: when exactly one plate stays visible in the separations panel it is shown in greyscale, the way a press shows it. A cyan-coloured cyan plate tells you nothing about coverage. Several plates stay in colour as a composite.
• The sample brochure now comes in German and in English; it is created in the language of the interface.

Accounts with email confirmation

• Anyone creating a profile gets an email with a confirmation link (HTML and text). User management then shows "Email confirmed" instead of "Email unconfirmed"; you can approve either way, so a silent mail failure never locks anyone out.
• On approval a second email goes out: "your profile is open", with the username and a link to sign in.
• The confirmation link works once and for 30 days; "Send email again" in user management issues a fresh one.
• Emails go through your own mail server or the hosting's.

Security and multi-user operation

• Several security improvements.
• Blocked accounts are signed out immediately, not only at the next sign-in.
• Even with many people working at once, no change gets lost.

Tidying up and micro typography

• "Clean text": language-aware micro typography (de-CH, de-DE, English, French, Italian) with 18 rules: quotation marks, dashes, protected spaces, measurements, percent signs, ellipses, double spaces and more. With presets, for the selection or the whole document, and colour highlighting of every change that can be removed again.
• Tidy-up assistant ("Tidy up document"): paragraphs with identical overrides become a paragraph or character style, duplicate styles and swatches are merged, redundant overrides are resolved and unused things are removed. A preview comes first, a single undo is enough afterwards.
• GREP in find and replace: its own mode with eight templates (double spaces, dates, phone numbers, email, numbers with units …) and back references $1 to $9 in the replacement.
• Paragraph shading and borders: colour, tint, insets, corners and a line per side, per column and across frame boundaries, in the PDF as well.
• Saved export presets with an automatic file name suffix; seven presets are built in (low-end PDF, print PDF, web PDF, image for social …).

Accounts and feedback

• A page of its own for user management: self sign-up with an email address, approval by the admins, blocking and unblocking, setting a password, creating an account, with filters by state and a search across name, email and note.
• New "Ideas and bugs" page: report suggestions, bugs and feature wishes, filter by kind and state, sort, with a thumbs up and a counter, replies and a state set by the admins.
• Report a bug in the tool under Help, with environment details; without an account the report goes to the clipboard.

Formula setting

• Formulas as their own object: LaTeX-style input with fractions, roots, sums, integrals, superscript and subscript as well as Greek letters.
• Preview while typing, examples at the press of a button, double-click reopens the formula; the frame adapts to the setting.
• In the PDF formulas are vector outlines, variables italic and figures upright as usual in mathematical setting.

PDF forms

• Any object can become a form field: text field (also multiline), check box, radio button with groups, dropdown, list box, signature and button.
• Required, read-only, help text and font size per field; the export produces a fillable AcroForm.

Interactive PDF

• Buttons with actions: open an address, go to a page, show or hide a field, print, reset the form, full screen.
• Place videos (MP4, WebM): a still image in the layout, embedded with a play action in the interactive PDF, optionally starting when the page opens.
• Page transitions for full-screen presentation under “Document setup”.

Data and languages

• Linked sources are two-way now: changes in the document can be written back to Excel, CSV and Word files, downloaded, or updated automatically.
• Data merge with Excel as a source, a filter by field content and the new output “New document to keep working on”.
• Translation of whole documents with AI (free services without a key, Google Gemini, Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepL), as a language layer in the document or as a duplicate. The key stays in the browser.

Working comfortably

• Horizontal menu bar like on macOS; only settings, language, appearance and account remain under the logo.
• Settings window with everything that is stored: name, language, appearance, AI provider and key, workspace, reference point, unit.
• Split window: a second view of the same document with its own zoom and section, a draggable divider, side by side or one above the other, optionally moving in sync.
• Control bar for text split into character and paragraph values (A / ¶); nothing needs scrolling any more.
• Create guides: columns and rows with gutters, relative to the page or the type area, plus your own colours for margins, columns, guides and grid.
• Arithmetic in every number field, dialogs included: 10+5, 210/3, 2cm, 12pt.
• Duplicate a page or a spread, with objects and guides.
• Layers can be reordered by dragging.
• Variable fonts are marked as “variable” in the font list.
• Timeline: animation presets applied to a whole selection with a stagger, copy an animation to other objects, duplicate a clip.
• Document name, paper format and page count at the top of the left column.

Output

• SVG per page: shapes, lines and text as vectors (letters as outlines), gradients, effects and motion surfaces as an embedded image.

Sample documents

• Three new templates on the start page, each in German and English: print showcase (typesetting, table, formulas, spot colour, form), Google Ads ad 300 × 250 with animation, and a WebGL example with its own shader.

Linked content

• Place Excel (.xlsx), CSV and Google Sheets as a table: the content stays connected to its source and refreshes with one click.
• Word files stay linked after placing and can be read in again.
• “Links” panel with source, time, refresh, another file and unlink; on request the document refreshes everything when it opens.
• Import (IDML, package, document file) is now available inside the document under File as well.

Colour

• Colour models OKLCH and Display P3 in the swatch: sRGB is stored, the values you entered are kept, hex is the fallback.
• RGB working space now also “Compatible with Display P3”.
• Separations can be shown and hidden one by one in inspect mode (composite of the chosen plates).

Workspaces

• Tab hides all panels and brings them back.
• A second column per dock from the menu; workspaces (typesetting, prepress, copy editing, animation, library) and your own.

Motion surfaces

• Your own WebGL shader: write GLSL code in the program, with preview, error message and examples; the code travels into the HTML and ad export.

Copy editing and approval

• A separate link “Copy editing and approval”: clients change text in the document, comment, approve or request changes, without an account if “Open without account” is set.
• Scope can be chosen: all texts except locked ones, or only specially released text frames.
• Released frames are labelled green on the canvas and listed in the panel.
• Approval panel with status, word-by-word comparison since sending and a full history.
• Layout, images and locked texts stay sealed; checked on the client and on the server.

Libraries and brand kits

• Several named libraries; entries can be moved, exported and imported per library.
• Objects, swatches, paragraph and character styles are recorded.
• Brand kits keep house colours, styles, fonts and logos; applying them overwrites colours and styles of the same name and adds missing ones.
• A brand kit for new documents can be chosen on the start page.

Animation and ads

• Keyframe animation: your own values for offset, size, rotation and opacity, diamonds on the track, a table with all values.
• “Ad” panel for Google Ads: standard sizes, Google Ads or clickTag profile, click target, live checks and export.

Motion surfaces

• WebGL surfaces in four kinds (gradient, waves, noise, rings) with speed, scale and three colours; they run live on the timeline.
• Place Lottie animations: drop the JSON in and the object takes the animation's aspect ratio.
• In HTML5 ads both run live: WebGL as canvas, Lottie with player and data as permitted .js files in the ZIP.
• In the HTML export both keep running: WebGL as real WebGL, Lottie with an embedded player; in the PDF the state at the playhead is rasterized.

Typesetting and output

• Kerning metric, optical or none. Optical samples the outlines and matches the closest distance to the reference distance of two straight stems.
• PDF: slug line at the crop marks with document name, page, date and colour profile.
• Format catalogue with 49 formats for print, social media, web and video; screen formats with exact pixel sizes at 96 ppi.

Interface

• English is the new default; German is one click away in the language menu.
• A more compact start page: a flatter stage, format tiles scaled to fit instead of spilling over the card.
• Panel docks can be dragged wider, a second column per side, tabs can be sorted freely.
• Sections in the panels collapse and can be sorted by dragging.
• The program is now called Project Medusa.

Landing page and release notes

• Landing page for id42.xyz in German and English, with a two-column gallery, lightbox, all features and these release notes.
• “What's new” in the app under Help, and by itself the first time a new version starts; linked from the overview.

Easter egg

• Alt-click on the logo brings out the friendly Medusa, a pixel sprite in the style of the 90s adventures that sways, blinks and cracks jokes.
• On request she petrifies on delete: her gaze hits the object, it turns to stone and crumbles, and then it is gone.

Accounts

• “Create profile” on the sign-in page: anyone can create a profile; it becomes active once an admin approves it.
• Waiting profiles are listed at the top of user management with name, user name, note and date, with “Approve” and “Reject”.
• Self sign-up can be switched off.

• Inspect mode: a locked review view with findings, object values and distances on the canvas.
• HTML5 ads for Google Ads: templates on the start page, export as a conforming ZIP with clickTag variant, checklist and backup image.
• Prepress: a detailed report with images, vectors, fonts, colours, transparency and bleed.
• Spot colours as separations, overprint for objects and black text, separation preview.
• Index with markers, overview, letters and subterms.
• Glyph panel with search, groups and recently used characters.
• Text frames: auto-size, paragraph spanning all columns, balanced columns.
• Interactive PDF with hyperlinks, linked cross-references, table of contents and bookmarks.
• Overview with a stage and preview images.

• Output automation: workflows, page splitting, variables in file names, preflight, merging PDFs, batch output across documents.
• Timeline for animation with video and HTML export, social formats.
• Package as a ZIP with report, import of packages and IDML.
• Data merge with CSV.
• Place Markdown, plain text and Word with autoflow, PDF as vector.
• Export: PDF presets, JPEG, spreads, booklet imposition.
• Eyedropper for pixel colours, text formatting and paragraph styles.

• Justification settings in detail: word and letter spacing, glyph scaling, hyphenation with preview.
• OpenType panel with preview, variable fonts with axes and named instances.
• Footnotes, text variables, running headers, cross-references, table of contents, sections.
• Margin notes, anchored frames and images, captions that follow their image.
• Spell checking with Hunspell, Swiss ss.
• Tabs with ruler and leaders, drop caps, paragraph rules, keep options, baseline grid, optical margin alignment, nested and GREP styles.
• Interface in English, language choice in the app.

• Editor, composition engine, real-time sync and vector PDF.
• Text wrap, lists, find and replace, prepress, versions.
• Colour management with ICC profiles, blend modes, tables.
• Vector tools: pen, direct selection, polygon and star, pathfinder, gradients, drop shadow and feather, text on a path.
• Also runs on ordinary web hosting, with user accounts.