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by foomarks 5711 days ago
I love where this is going. One thing that I would like to see included, which is absolutely essential for the way I design website is line-height: it is the core structure of my design and layout. (Read more about line-heights and vertical rhythms here: http://24ways.org/2006/compose-to-a-vertical-rhythm)

At this moment in time I feel trapped using Adobe products to produce my layouts. If jMockups solves the following problems in priority, I will make the switch!

1. Render fonts accurately 2. Render line-heights accurately 3. Better drawing path tools

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Thanks.

Can you elaborate on the font rendering? Does it not currently do it correctly?

Line-heights: Good idea. Will do.

Drawing path tools: give me an example of how you would use this.

Stay tuned.

Font rendering: I realize jMockups might only render "web-safe" fonts. But I would love to see an iteration that incorporates any typeface shared between a team of designers who have fonts locally stored. I have made attempts to switch to Inkscape, but it's inability to render different type formats is what is holding me back from using it.

Drawing path tools: This would be handy if I needed to create arrows and icons. I suppose I could draw them and import them as images; however, it would be really nice if I can draw them in directly!

There's some hacks for detecting which fonts are available on your computer, so I could, in theory, let you use any of them. And since the product is an image it wouldn't matter if the person you shared it with didn't have it. I'll see what I can do.
Seems like what you're talking about is a baseline grid.