@VectorStyler That would be great thank you!

@VectorStyler Well... VS is already a DTP, not much difference between it and DTPs out there. The only issue is that people is not using it as DTP so it need some polish on it. But it looks with powerfull possibilities.

@Boldline In the Colors tab there are the Dimming Color and Opacity options

@Boldline said in Could locking a layer free up VS to only render and focus on active layers?: it will essentially tell VS to see that selection as an image and not try to render and re-render the nodes each time I work on other parts of the file? Yes. Is there a time I should leave it off or turn it off at a given point? It can be too slow if there are only a few vectors in the layer. It works better for large number of (unchanged) vectors, gradients or image effects Should I be adjusting anything with the "rendering thread"? Let that unchecked, so it will use the current number of CPU cores on the system

@EricP Thank you, because that's what gave me the idea to try it. Although I thought you'd know it and point it out. As I already wrote, it's quite misleading that the gradient object initially receives a solid color fill and then you have to create the gradient again with the new colors. As I wrote in my thread "Houston, I have a problem...", it's quite often the case that a feature one need is already build in. I always wonder how @vectorstyler knew before hand what I would need. But my suggestions about creating a gradient are still valid.

@Honor @vectorstyler This will definitely be a power option to speed up the workflow.

@Subpath Thank you!

@Honor I will add this to the backlog for 1.4, some clarifications might be needed later

@VectorStyler Thank you ! I figure it out also myself a bit, via the Manual. Was a bit irritating to find the Object Export Panel under Menu > Editing. But i can live with that. If i have further Questions, i may come back. Anyway its really nice and handy to have this feature. Thanks again.

@VectorStyler Select the 'measure' tool from the toolbox. Click on the first control point. Click on the second. Bring up the translate dialog-it'll have the measurement between these two points loaded and ready to go. You can have another object selected and it'll translate that object when you hit 'ok'.

@861475_VctSt said in Connect Tool: When lines intersect, the detour method is crucial. That can make it more complicated.

@VectorStyler yes only for expansion. thank you!

No reason not to build directly on the current VS "regime" that is comparable to the interface in Illustrator: [image: 1770683932446-26b64e2d-ecfe-4d2c-8bc5-69a9942e641f-image.png] Here, Illustrator wins on visual simplicty, though. I can only imagine the VS icons can be simplyfied a bit too. A plus sign in a single square icon is all we need. Sublayer? I dunno, just as gymspiration: [image: 1770684790138-5771e636-20d5-4f4e-aa7f-3a1d123b3800-image.png] [image: 1770685047298-30c9259d-a7f3-4998-a7af-99f19d585a66-image.png] [image: 1770685170190-6678b144-4202-4eee-a19f-d737131f871c-image.png] BTW icon tooltip says new sublayer, right click menu create layer inside.

@Boldline This is a pixel based effect. It could be added later to image effects (no plans for now). Maybe a similar effect can be found in the SVG effects of Inkscape, and those can be imported to VS

Yes, i see this from the view of someone that work with books, i guess that is not the focus of most of VS users. You have already 4 buttons for page navigation, "Go to fist page", "Go to previous page" "Go to next page" and "Go to last page". Usually, i use the "Go to next page" to advance in the document. When i press it, and i am in the last page, usually is because i need to add a page, so, "Go to next page" become "add page" dialog only in the case you are positioned in the last page of your document. It will not interfere with navigation.

@VectorStyler thank you

@William-Kansepa I added this to the backlog

@monsterfox said in Detail Optimizations for Version 1.3: This is about the Halftone image effect: 1. The color of halftone graphics cannot be changed. I will try to add this if possible (later) 2. As can be seen from the effect in the image, the background cannot be made transparent, with a visible white background. This cannot be done with the image effect, but the vector halftone effect should be able to do it.

@Ingolf I checked this in other apps (AI, AD), and the "Close" command is the same as the Close View in VectorStyler, it closes a single view of a multiple view document