So someone at Corel had a good idea and is touting a Font Designer. So lets counter with ideas of our own, things that we would find really useful. After all we are the people that are using the suite to earn a living, so we ought to know right?
There are some things Draw just cant do, some very basic things that people ask about when they are a newbie and we have to tell them, 'well this is the workround' because it cant be done in a straight forward way. And what I am referring to are closed shapes (that can therefore be filled) that have one or more planes of symmetry. Think heart shapes, ovals (not ellipses, ovals), teardrops, stars (yes I know about the star shapes, but try editing one and keeping it symmetrical!).
These are really basic shapes that have hundreds of variants each that need a way to create, fill and keep them editable. It cannot be done. Period. We all find our own workrounds, I personally draw one half of the shape up against a guideline then clone it and flip the clone. Problem is you can'f fill it until you use Smart Fill, which doesn't work half the time, and is a one shot solution. Edit the master curve half and you have to do it again.
The solution can be approached two ways. We either keep existing curve tools as they are and make Smart Fill smarter rather than the dumb tool it is now. We make it tolerate gaps, take account of, outline widths, and make it dynamic so that it is associated with the bounding curves and updates as they move.
Or we introduce special nodes that can have a plane of symmetry applied to them, rather like ' Reflect Nodes' but 1000% better*. Reflect nodes needs to be part of this solution too since it needs to allow for nodes that are not on the axis of symmetry moving in concert to mantain the symmetry of the object. See attached heart image. We would also need a node with a defineable axis of symmtery, as shown in the second image
Either way a proper solution gets the core drawing tools improved so that objects such as the filled heartshape are simple to draw and edit.
* Reflect Nodes is another one of those 'good ideas' that never got finished. If you use it on a MAster & Clone it breaks the relationship. You cannot use reflect nodes on nodes of a single object, so a filled object such as the above, is an impossibility.