What's new in Version 3
Ink 3 - A plugin for Adobe XD — A set of tools to speed up your design process and maximize your creativity.
New toolkit Empowering XD.
Plugin for Adobe XD
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Find & Replace
Find & replace any words/sentence throughout your entire project.
Real-time auto detection
New in v.3
As a considerable upgrade in Ink version 3, as you type your search term, you get the number of matches in real-life before clicking on the search button. Showing the real-time results gives you a sense of speed and convenience to do your "find & replace" seamlessly.
Exact word
You can search for an exact word and replace it with a new word, this allow maximum control over the replace procedure, for example, you can replace all the instances of strand-alone, small-letter i with capital-letter I, without being worried about replacing the character i that are part of a word.
Case sensitive
Allows searching for the words with the exact character structure. E.x., "Dog" does not match when searching for "Do", if case-sensitive is checked.
Under the hood
Technologies in the Ink plugin
Real-time scanning
It is efficiently scanning the document for changes and providing real-time results on all the tools in INK3.
Group ready
The plugin reaches out deep into groups and masked-groups to apply the changes to the text elements within.
Auto push
The plugin pushes the overlapped texts down, so you don't need to be worried about overlapping elements.
Artboard select
Changes will automatically applie to the text elements in the selected artboard/s.
Uniform auto-resizing
Change the font-size & the line-spacing, on all the elements.
Auto line-height adjustment
New in v.3
As a considerable upgrade in Ink version 3, as you type your search term, you get the number of matches in real-life before clicking on the search button. Showing the real-time results gives you a sense of speed and convenience to do your "find & replace" seamlessly.
Unique on each element (Hierarchy control)
While you all the items are being resized, the new font-size and line-spacing are changing uniquely on each element based on their original values, so you always keep the original hierarchy on your design.
Max & Min controls
By controlling the maximum and minimum font-size, you can easily reshape the entire hierarchy of the entire project, and still, change the font-size values on all items in a second.
Smart push
By controlling the maximum and minimum font-size, you can easily reshape the entire hierarchy of the entire project, and still, change the font-size values on all items in a second.
What's new
In version 3
Group select
Want to group elements only for selection purposes? Want to group elements but not having them stick together while editing? You have it!
Easy Select
Have you ever wanted to select all "yellow rectangles" or all the texts with "10px font-size", or all the "green lines" in your entire project? You can now!
Easy select
New in v.3
Find and select any element/s with specific characteristics
Selective criteria
Select which character you want to keep as search criteria, so you do not need to stick to all the reference characteristics. For example, if you're reference is a text with 16px font-size and black text color, then you can choose only to use the font-size (as the searching criteria) to select similar items.
Referencing
It allows you to select an element as the reference, and then it automatically selects all the items/elements on the projects with the same characteristics.
Select groups
New in v.3
Group elements for selection purposes — Don't let them get in your way, though.
XD groups vs Select Groups
Select-groups allow more flexibility while working on elements that are not entirely related to each other and are only required to be selected together on occasions.
For example — If you need to select all the title texts on all the artboards in a project, but you do not want to attach them as a regular XD grouping does, you can select-group them. This way, you do not have to double-click on each one when editing them separately, and if you need to change them at the same time, you can select them at once by clicking on the select group.
For example — If you need to select all the title texts on all the artboards in a project, but you do not want to attach them as a regular XD grouping does, you can select-group them. This way, you do not have to double-click on each one when editing them separately, and if you need to change them at the same time, you can select them at once by clicking on the select group.
Add to multiple groups
Unlike the regular groups in XD, in which you can add an element in only one group, you can add elements, from multiple regular groups, in select-groups. This can come in handy if the element/s is part of various groups of elements you want to select on several occasions during the design process.
