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Topic History of: Import new template shapes
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diablo	Yes. Comic Life is lots of fun, but I have already found myself wanting to be able to design a panel AND a page template in Illustrator and import them into CL. Here is why... I designed a page comprised of five panels aligned horizontally. Each panel is half the width of the one next to it until the last panel is a sliver. To properly balance the design, I wanted to have the ability to control the distance between each panel and distribute them evenly across the page. Both of these tasks are trivial in Illustrator, but currently impossible in CL. Man CL is fun! Thanks... Diablo
Kramy	Hi Eric, First off - I presume when you say "cadre" this is referring to "panels"? #1: Comic Life does have different shaped panels, although at this stage, it is a little bit tricky to find. Insert the standard panel, then up the top on the Right hand side there is a Details tab. Click that. In there you can change the frame style type (from an Oval to a Scroll). Plus there is also heaps of other options to play with in here, not just for panels but for other picture styles and lettering. #2: You will be about to rotate panels in version 1.3 of Comic Life Not too sure on release date of 1.3 though. Hope this helps. /send kramy
eric	Comic Life is wonderful as it is. A circle as a template form and the possibility to tilt or turn a cadre would make a comic strip even more dynamic. Hope the developers will continue working on making Comic Life even more grand!
Earl Talken	Yes! Bezier curves would be nice for the page templates. Could do frames like in Walt Kelly's Pogo. Or how about the ability to draw comics in those frames like in Photoshop. But then who is willing to pay 600 or 700 dollars for the software? Frankly, I don't know how Plasq sells Comic Life for the price of one comic font. What I would like to see is the ability to originate the tail of the word balloon on the right side of the balloon and curve the point to the left. And vice versa.
Jonathan Machen	I agree heartily - bezier curves are the next step to making truly customizable template shapes. I vote for that, as an already happy user of comic life.
Chris	It's useful that you can edit existing shapes but it would be even better if you could use things such as Bezier curves e.g. the two half heart shapes in the concept templates give only a very rough heart outline and there are not enough edit points to be able to smooth out the curves.

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