If you really want to get to the bottom of this, then send me your XD file and the fonts you want to use, or where you're getting those fonts from. ... View more

I'm sorry, but diagnosing something without getting my hands on the culprit, is always difficult. You claim to work with a technology (Variable Fonts) which Adobe XD simply doesn't support. https://v-fonts.com/support So this is where it gets messy... You're either getting and/or sending wrong information, or you're just lucky and partially benefitting from something whch works (maybe) halfbaked, but is not fully ready to being used – hence, bugs... ... View more

Dear Obieblu, thanks for sharing your insights on our global writing systems.  I'm very well aware of this phenomena and I try to teach everyone to take note of the many (if not all) of its aspects, when choosing typefaces or setting type in general. This ranges from warning designers not to settle on font families which don't support a decent range of glyphs to at least spell someone's name correctly, to learning how to use Adobe's World-Ready features in software like InDesign for more intricate typesetting in any language.   So your assumption that I'm clueless about this, is wrong. The verdict that Adobe XD is not yet World-Ready, is true.   As I have replied numerous times: it seems that Adobe is more concerned about implementing a robust and full-featured type engine (like Adobe moderators have indicated before), leapfrogging over the momentary lack of a justification option. That's probably their policy for prioritizing development – don't blame me. I'm missing many many more typographical features in the Text section, even some which are perfectly fit for the web, both esthetically and technically – don't get me started... Let's stay tuned for a promising new version, or move to another tool ?   A tip: you could use Creative Cloud Libraries to easily exchange and update texts from Illustrator. However, you need to outline the text before dragging into the library, because XD obviously doesn't accept a plain text frame with a justified setting. In case such vector-based parts are getting too complex and too large in file size, use the Assets panel to quickly save and update them as transparant PNGs, that might yield a better visual result than a GIF. I know, it's a lousy detour, but I hope this helps a bit. ... View more

Is this to plea for implentation, because it's technically available ? Or a plea not to implement, because of all associated shortcomings ?     Justification often forces spaces to stretch intensively. Especially in languages with many compound words. And hyphenation algorhytmhs and vocabulairies for the web can't be trusted to elegantly and correctly lessen or solve this problem. So I'm not surprised nor disappointed that Adobe hasn't made any progress in this area, yet... ... View more

I really wonder how you've been able to set text to be justified, because there's no native feature to do that in Adobe XD. Did you copy/paste text from a different application ? ... View more

I think I'm getting what you're trying to do. You're on screen A, open the Overlay by tapping on icon, and then navigate to screen B. On screen B you tap the icon again, and are suprised to see just the Overlay. Correct ?   I created a simple setup to test it, but I get it to work quite easily. See the screen below. And you can test the interactions here. Does this setup resemble your wired protoype ?     ... View more

Must be a glitch in your version of the software – not an intentional UX flaw. (Not that there are no UX flaws in XD... 😉   The panel should normally be looking like below, so I guess your triangles have disappeared or are not showing up for some strange reason. Do they show up correctly in other places, like in the Design and Protype panels ?   ... View more

Okay, but did you also notice the XD development forum: https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/c/adobe-xd/61 You might get beter answers over there. This is just a typical user-to-user forum. ... View more

Does the file still have an artboard ? (Maybe for some strange reason they've vanished.) Do other Export options still work ? Does it occur in one file or any (new) files as well ? Would you mind sharing your file with me, to test whether the issue is document based ? ... View more

Check the height of the Viewport. It's probably set to the whole screen height, while it should be just a portion.     ... View more

I think it might be better to take a look overe here: https://adobexdplatform.com/plugin-docs/ ... View more

Judging by the light blue thicker border along the button, you probably grouped the text and the button, or accidentally pasted or created the text while being in Group mode. You can easily verify it by checking the hierarchy in the Layers panel. Select both elements by shift-clicking once again on the button border to add the button to the selection, and the Alignment will be fine 🙂   ... View more

I'd like to take a look into the file itself, to see what's so difficult for AI to export and XD to import. But maybe this can be helpful: try saving the file as an SVG (uncompressed, 1.1) and open it back in Illustrator. Does it look okay ? Then import that SVG into XD. If not, then I'm curious to know which part looks different from the original... ... View more

Are you sure you're using the same font as they do ? Because the Acumin Variable Concept is a so-called variable font, which uses various parameters in stead of a family of specific variations. And as far as I know, Adobe XD can't handle such variable fonts yet (Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop do). So check which font the others are actually using – it's probably a 'plain' Acumin (like Pro or something) but not the variable one. ... View more

There are some online services offering to render your screens automatically onto selected devices, in various positions. Some even have a plug-in for Adobe, like https://angle.sh. It does work a bit awkward though, so follow the instructions closely. And they do try to let you buy more and better mock-ups. But maybe it works for you.    If you're familiar with Photoshop and Layers, then it might be easier to just do it yourself. Try finding some sample mockups (there are many for free) by Googling e.g. "adobe xd mockup photoshop devices screens". ... View more

Please check if your Illustrator Preferences are set accordingly. (The screenshot is in Dutch, but you'll get the message, I guess...) It's the File Handling section, the part about Clipboard support:     ... View more

I think I know what might be happening here, causing some (or perhaps a lot) confusion.   Like @platypusman correctly stated (once again), the viewport setting is of course crucial in defining the initial view in the Preview. If the width of the artboard and/or the height of the viewport isn't larger than your monitor's (perceived) resolution, then the preview will be okay, unscaled, matching your 100% design. This is what's happening normally. Some users might be wishing for other initial behaviors or an option to change the behavior while viewing, which is not too crazy or wouldn't be too difficult to develop. But with only 58 users voting for this UserVoice request in 5 years, I think the current incarnation of the Preview isn't that bad.   But one of the UserVoice comments (Rishi's) made me go "ahhh..." as I read his tip, back in 2019:  2. Add Vertical Scrolling to your artboard. That's it ! For all preset artboards the default Scrolling setting is Vertical. (Custom artboards don't.) As I switch it to None, the Preview immediately and correctly shows the whole artboard in the (live) Preview. There's your "Fit" Preview option or even preference, in a make-shift way though. But as I switch Scrolling back to Vertical again, I notice that the Viewport height is left at the momentary height of the artboard. It doesn't change back to any previous or preset setting. So if the artboard has ended up just a bit too high for your screen, the design keeps scaling to fit the Preview window, with black borders and all...   So I guess that might be a behavior which is causing some unexpected and conflicting results. Fortunately, it's easy to tackle. Just set the Viewport height back to an obvious or feasable height.   The only use cases in which scaling options in the Preview would be useful, is when you're designing with exact pixel precision in mind for double or Retina resolutions (like one of the voters does), or when you want to accommodate your screen to –how appropriate– a Zoom session (like another voter does). But then again, I could come up with a dozen more challenging circumstances (and solutions) for Adobe XD to anticipate. ... View more

Oh yeah, thank you again Eshu ! That was exactly what was happening: adding insult to injury, InDesign also crashes when you try to export the whole thing ! So I created a separate batch of html consisting of all text articles including (incomplete) endnote references, plus one empty final article (with its intended name), to let the proper manifest for the ePub be created. Next, I created a separate ePub of just the unlinked endnotes article, to replace the (empty) placeholder of the full ePub. And then we completed and corrected all links to and from the endnotes.    Some knowledge of html and a tool like Sigil has become neccessary to get an ePub out of InDesign... 😞   Next time, I'll definitely try to notice if overset text is a culprit in combination with footnotes/endnotes, crashing InDesign upon exporting, and I'll also try see if hyperlinks in endnotes create an extra problem (incomplete links). It's a shame we have to do the testing and diagnosing. ... View more

Sounds like the problem which was occurring in my document. Most of the endnotes contained indeed web URLs (turned into hyperlinks). We quickly used Find/Replace in Sigil to correct all references to the endnote with the full file name part, and the references back to the text were done manually – a lousy job, but with some music and a mug of strong black tea, it went quite quickly after all...   This long-standing bug is "under investigation" by the Adobe developers team, but this might take a few more days or years to get prioritised and solved. ... View more

What a coincidence !! A few weeks ago I helped processing a book into an interactive PDF and reflowable ePub. The PDF was easy (all table of content and endnotes links, back and forth) worked immediately. The ePub was a terrible feat ! The table of content worked (both the visual one and the structurally generated one), but the endnotes didn't. Well, not always, but as the work progressed, the file went corrupt.   We didn't have the time to investigate it thoroughly, but we did find out that from a certain point in the document or moment in time working on it, InDesign didn't create properly formatted hyperlinks anymore. The links to go to and return from an endnote didn't include the file name (it was just a numbered anchor). We eventually and manually corrected them in the HTML (there were only around 80 of them), and didn't bother figuring out the exact reason or pattern for InDesign to behave that way.   Your findings might be helpful to discover the real bug behind it ! I'll try to reproduce your procedure and see what happens, soon.   Thank you for reporting back on this 🙂 ... View more

Is it ? I think it's more like getting a sachet of Koolaid in the desert, with the instruction "add water". Sorry, being sarcastic here – it's almost the end of a turbulent and crazy year... 😉 ... View more

It's not about corporate gaslighting, it's just a terrible mess... If you don't believe what I've been telling a year ago, read this guide:  https://learnui.design/blog/ultimate-guide-font-sizes-ui-design.html Yeah, I know, it's about Sketch. But they have the same problem. ... View more

No, it's not. Font size issues are a delicate matter. Sketch is also having difficulties explaining it to users. https://twitter.com/sketch/status/897049898977157120 Quote: "We are looking into providing a more detailed explanation of this as it can be quite a complex matter!" ... View more

The rationale of Justification being a convenience feature for the designer doesn't work for me. When I Google "web design justification text" the whole first page of results is filled with blogs, articles, and examples advising against the use of justified text. I know, Google often tries to offer results that fit a person's confimation bias, but I can't believe they've included this preference in my profile... 😉   So I think it's fair of the development team to prioritize other features and leave this request unfulfilled, in stead of spending a vast amount of resources on hyphenation algorithms and standard and custom vocabularies in 60+ languages, with the notion that it won't work properly in many browsers and websites. ... View more

Your problem is not the same, because importing or pasting elements with linear or radial gradients into XD work fine !! So there must be something strange with your sample...  When copying/pasting doesn't seem to work, then check this setting in the Preferences (it's in Dutch, but I hope tou can find and verify it). It defines what is brought over by the clipboard: ... View more

Wait folks. I guess I was a bit too harsh in my verdict about that List plugin. The challenge of "overhauling the text engine" (as Harshika and Elaine stated) shouldn't be underestimated ! And comparing it with (or demanding) the typographical capabilities of our cherished heavy-weight InDesign application, just isn't fair.   The problem with web type (or app type) in general is that it isn't up to par with all the fancy options we've been using in word processing and layout software for decades (and in non-digital processes for centuries). Web type features are still maturing, even growing into unexpected new directions (like Variable Fonts). And all the legal fuss behind using and distributing type is another area which still needs further development.   An application like XD and a company like Adobe needs to behave responsibly. So probably that's why they just implemented a very rudimentary text engine for now, while trying to catch up with what's happening in this digital domain, and hopefully leapfrog into a leading position. Which takes time !   In the meantime, any sign of a more proficient feature in typography in XD, obviously and immediately spurs a lot of rightful complaints and new feature requests. Even a bare bones approach of lists (which were already available in the first proposal for HTML in 1993, and in Adobe PageMill in 1995) will open the proverbial can of worms...   So maybe that's why the List plugin deploys a very flawed and un-typographical approach. We'll just have to sit back and wait. ... View more

The Adobe XD team has developed a plugin to create numbered and bulleted lists. It's aptly called "Lists" and can be found and installed through the Plugin panel in XD.   However – it's flawed by design (the way to invoke and use it is really very strange), lacks a lot of settings (even very obvious ones), and the flexibility afterwards is just terrible. I don't know if it's the weak textual and typographical underpinnings of the XD application itself is causing all these issues. But this plugin is hardly helping to ease the pain. It's actually adding insult to injury !     ... View more

First off: why bring COVID into the equation ? Working remotely has become super important, so certain features like virtual collaboration are useful (and are being implemented, even before COVID was happening). But I don't see how COVID might have any other strong impact on the desired features of Adobe XD.   For the rest, I think you're stretching the purpose of Adobe XD too far. The discussion was about adding links to external sources, like another web page, or a YouTube video. Not addressing users who want to slap some stuff together for "very simple and short virtual and interactive presentations that are used on a very temporary basis". Should Adobe XD become the digital Swiss Army knife ? I already have my doubts about that Whiteboard plugin, piggy-backing in Adobe XD. (I truly hope it becomes an app on itself...)   Granted – the feature is #4 on the list of top feature requests. But like I said before: most voters are rooting for a technically working hookup to other platforms. I think a feature as described by Fraitz in his reply is much more viable and useful to the proper user base of Adobe XD. But that's also a different issue and discussion. ... View more