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Topics

Detailed descriptions and explanations for selected features and functionality of the application.

Design High-Fidelity and Low Fidelity GUI Mockups

• Create and edit multiple pages and multiple documents.
  You can create GUI designs in one or more pages and save them in a document. You can also open and edit multiple documents.
• Copy GUI Mockups into another Program.
  You can cut copy and paste your designs to another application such as Microsoft Paint or Word.
• Drag and drop Support
  You can create GUI design by drag and drop controls from Shapes Explorer Window.
• Support for Rich UI controls.
  Tables, Trees, Floor Tabbed Pane, Outlookbar Tabbed Panes, FlowList, Ribbon Tab, Ribbon Panels and more controls are supported.
• Annotation Support
  You can take notes to developers or some info while sitting in JAD sessions.
• Wireframing Support
  DesignerVista wireframing support is easy to use and add links to any control to any page.
• UI Spec Support
  Add UI Spec to DesignerVista GUI Mockups or Screenshots from other Mockup Applications.
• Support for both High Fidelity and Low Fidelity Mockup Designs
  DesignerVista supports High-Fidelity mockups with Native Look and Feel and Low Fidelity mockups with custom look and feel.
• Support for Desktop, Web, Mobile and Sketch GUI UI mockups
  DesignerVista supports Desktop, Ribbon, Website, Web Applications, Mobile and Rich Client UI mockup designs.
• Native look and feel and Custom Look and Feel.
  DesignerVista supports Native Look and Feel of Windows 7/Vista/XP and Custom Look and Feel.
• Export to HTML files for easy distribution.
  You can export all the GUI designs as HTML Files embedded with GUI Designs image for easy distribution.

Document Templates, Page Templates and Themes

• Document Templates.
  You can create document template for reusable GUI designs. DesignerVista also comes with predefined templates.
• Page Templates.
  You can link one page from another page. Changes made in the source page will be displayed in all the referred pages.
• Theme Support.
  DesignerVista supports many themes: Vista, Plain, Sketch etc. User can customize existing themes or create new themes.
• Office Ribbon Style GUI Designs
  DesignerVista supports Microsoft Office Ribbon style GUI mockup Designs.
• Sketch Mockup - Low-Fidelity Design
  DesignerVista supports Low-Fidelity GUI Mockup designs (Independent of Look and Feel themes).

Editing

• Undo/Redo. You can undo or redo edit actions.
• Arbitrary zoom support.
  You can zoom-in to get closer view or zoom out to get better overview of GUI design in a page.
• Page customization.
  Customize page properties such as background color, marquee color, grids etc.

Customize GUI controls

• Gradient, Texture, Preset and Pattern Backgrounds support.
  You can change background of a control using solid colors, gradient, texture patterns.
• Pattern Lines.
  Customize line properties such as style, thickness and patterns.
• Borders, Shadow, Glossy Background, Image
  Supports different types of borders, shadow, glossy background and lots of images and icons.

Image and Text

• Inline Text editing.
  Inline text editing for single-line edit control is supported.
• Random Text Support.
  You can insert random text (Lorem Ipsum) instead of typing or copying from other sources. You can insert paragraphs, sentences, words and lists on a single click.
• Support Icons, Images and Pictures.
  DesignerVista comes with lots of toolbar icons and images to prepare GUI design.
• Image Resize.
  You can resize an image or keep the original image size or fit to control size.
• Copy GUI Mockup as Image.
  You can save GUI design as image file. PNG, JPEG, GIF image formats are supported.
• Text alignment and Rotation.
  You can left, center and right align a text. You can also flip vertically or horizontally or rotate to an angle.

Table

• Import Excel data
  You can import Table data from Excel.
• Support for Checkbox, Radiobutton columns.
  You can insert checkbox, radiobutton, command button, images etc. in each cell.
• Support for Random text and Sequence Numbers.
  You can insert random text (lorem ipsum) and Sequence Numbers in the table cells.
• Link from a cell to a GUI Design
  You can attach a link to a GUI Design from a cell.
• Table Styles
  DesignerVista comes with a set of predefined Table Styles ready to use.

Tree

• Import XML data
  You can import XML file contents into a tree control.
• Import File and folder names
  You can import file and folder names from local File System into tree nodes.
• Support for Checkbox, Radiobutton nodes.
  You can insert checkbox, radiobutton, command button, images etc. in each node.
• Link from a node to a GUI Design
  You can attach a link to a GUI Design from a node.

List

• Horizontal and Vertical Flow List
  DesignerVista supports both horizontal and vertical flow list. Checkbox, Radiobutton, Buttons, Label, Image and Shapes can be inserted in the list.
• Link from a list item to a GUI Design
  You can attach a link to a GUI Design from any item.

Ribbon Controls

• Support for Ribbon controls.
  DesginerVista supports Ribbon Bar, Quick Toolbar, Context Tab, Menu, Ribbon Panels, Buttons, Scrollable Panel, Windows etc.

Layout

• Group and Ungroup Support.
  You can group two or more controls and ungroup them.
• Controls Z-Order Position.
  You can bring overlapped controls to front or send them to back.
• Controls Position and Alignment support.
  You can align GUI controls vertically and horizontally.
• Simple Dialog Layout Management.
  You can create simple dialog layout by a click on toolbar button.

Print and Preview Designs

• Scalable Printing and Print Preview.
  You can print the design either 1:1 scale or scale up/down. You can preview all the pages before printing.
• Customizable Print Options, Page Header and Footer.
  Customize page header and footer options.