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  Changing the default palette for new files
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  @vectoradmin I'm not a palette expert. I know most of what I do, I rely on a curated palette filled with spot colors (that match up to pantone colors) and I end up using them almost all the time for everything. Back when I used Illustrator all the time, I caused an issue with a shirt design film printout because I had mistakenly used a default palette color and not a spot color. After that mistake, I cleared a palette of all non-spot colors and either imported them from other palettes (pantone ones) or I made my own and set them as unique spot colors (like 0,0,0,100k) for a deep rich printing film opaque black to send to clients. If a job needed more than the basic spots I had in my new default palette, I could easily open another spot color palette and add on to my default for that particular job. Because all colors were spot colors only, I wasn't going to mistakenly miss something in printing film. I saved out that spot color customized palette and created a template file in Illustrator and made that my default palette whenever I opened that template. I assume I could just replace all the colors in the default palette and then save that file as a template correct? Each time I pull up that template, I'll get my own default palette each time? I want to be able to do a similar thing in VS - I don't expect everyone to have the same needs from their palette as me - I can see myself wanting to also make an RGB palette I could easily pull in and use as well - especially when it comes to florescent colors which cannot be mimicked in cmyk obviously I might be rambling here but I fully admit not being a palette expert and just wanted to express what i was needing and hoping to replicate in VS
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  Shape Paint causes most of design to disappear
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  @vectoradmin Just emailed it to you. Thanks!
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  Is there a way to set the negative gap space amount between text lines?
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  @Boldline After you enter the number in the Space field, do not press Enter. Just click on the top-right alignment icon. Confirming the Space with enter will apply the last alignment mode, or the default (left) alignment.
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  Fill and outline in toolbox?
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  @b77 said in Fill and outline in toolbox?: Don’t miss it either. Maybe as an option it won’t hurt. I'm working on a large monitor and I set my toolbar icons to be smaller than default, just based on my preferences. Even if the toolbar had more icons, it would not feel overpacked to me. I understand the need to be considerate of smaller screen sizes; if @vectoradmin were to add the fill/stroke chooser to the vertical as an option, I could see that being a beneficial solution.
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  How to show the cursor movement in ruler.
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  Thank you. You save me.
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  Window menu for some programs in Monterey
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  Hi @Boldline The official explanation of that menu is described here (in the "Window Menu" section): Apple macOS Human Interface Guidelines Affinity just included it as is (Serif are certainly not the great Apple adopters that they think they are) Amadine used it as recommended by Apple Adobe adopted the menu in a major way and offer access to all panels from that menu and much more Vectorstyler is very similar to Adobe - it is just labelled panel instead So it would be a question of adding the standard macOS window menu - or adapting the panel menu to reflects its purpose.
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  Multiple fill color selected should make fill color show a question mark
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  @vectoradmin great! I didn't know if the prior discussion had included fixing when live text was included. That will be a useful update.
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  Appearance panel sliders should favor smaller numbers
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  @Boldline Hi Apart from the fact that I also find that some sliders in VS need a better range of values and could be more precise. I read in a post, a while ago. Was also new to me. That it is possible to move the sliders in VS in more precise steps. if you use the Cursor Up-Key ( in 0,1 0,2 03 ... steps ) and Shift and the Cursor Up-Key ( in 1,0 2,0 3,0 ... steps ) Cursor Down-Key decreases the values.
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  Copying appearance panel options
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  @vectoradmin said in Copying appearance panel options: Maybe later a "single mode" could be added to have the appearance panel show a single object appearance that is applied to all selected? Yes this sounds like a good long term improvement. I will experiment more with copying styles between objects with drag&drop, and using copy / paste appearance.
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  Gradients copied and exported as images in PDF and SVG
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  @Ingolf said in Gradients copied and exported as images in PDF and SVG: Can't reproduce now that I switched to RGB from CMYK... so that was the root cause, CMYK? Could be. At least in the case of SVG, the color transition made in CMYK mode cannot be simulated in RGB mode.
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  Experience with the new macBook Pro 16 M1 chips ?
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  @Scampolo_123 I can only speak of the MacMini M1 (late 2020 model), and it is faster than an Intel iMac. Do you have a macBook Pro with M1 Max?
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  Mouse drag to highlight empty live text space
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  @Boldline This seems to be a bug.
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  Exit text mode.
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  @encart I will add the exit with Esc to the backlog.
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  Building a custom color palette in VS for spot color printing
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  @vectoradmin said in Building a custom color palette in VS for spot color printing: For a VS palette type use the Binary or Compact formats. For human readable VS palette use the XML or JSON formats I'm new to all of these considerations. I assume you are referring to the overall file type? In documentation, the available storage modes are briefly discussed; "This can be Compact, Binary, JSON or XML. The Compact storage mode offers the most compact file in terms of size and speed of saving and opening. The Binary storage mode is next in terms of speed and size, but allows a more future proof format. The XML and JSON storage modes allow access to the internal VectorStyler object hierarchy for 3rd parties and external scripts for processing." Could this be expanded upon in the documentation at some point? Is there a reliable source online I could go research? I did some googling but did not find or understand what I was reading. This was not something I was introduced to when I was using Illustrator for example.
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  General question : how to get a sharp end of a stroke object
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  @PatrickM I will add it there.
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  Panel shadow and border too dark, thick
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  @vectoradmin said in Panel shadow and border too dark, thick: @Ingolf It is a macOS thing, but I think it can be removed. But I'm not sure if it can be configured to be smaller. I add this to the backlog. Allright but my priority would be: Lowest Just an observation from a picky user.
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  Is it possible to control the dimming of the isolation mode?
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  And i set it only from 70% to 25% so i will also regonize if i am in Isolated Mode
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  Trimming Self-Intersecting Points with the node tool ??
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  @vectoradmin aah, yes, was my assumption too
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  Break Shape Shortcut issue
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  @Boldline @b77 I add this to the backlog, to check why "C" is not working for node insertion in the "global" shortcut context.
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  System fonts taking over lists
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  @b77 said in System fonts taking over lists: @vectoradmin Maybe create a limit for any font with the same first word in the name — if it's more than 10(?), display it in a folder. I add this to the backlog.