This is the same in Illustrator and it is needed as the current layer should always update from the layer of the last selected object. I can see that's how Illustrator works. I don't know the intrinsics of FreeHand but it seems like it keeps a Target Layer active, even when you select objects on other layers. Same in VS when Select Highlighted and Highlight Selected are UNchecked in Layer Panel Options. Using this command from the layers panel right-click menu will be impossible, since that menu applies commands on the selections made in the Layers panel, and this selection is updated on the right-click. Yes, it was obvious that Selections and Current Layer indication were messed up when right-clicking. I will add a current layer indicator in the Layers panel (this one is missing), and a new Layer panel specific command " Send into this Layer") Send into this Layer by right-clicking a Layer makes perfect sense UI-wise and will be a godsent ! Great - If you can come up with Current Layer indication a bit more clear than the shades of blue (in my case) , along with Visibility, Lock status, Color, Selection and Isolation! Illustrator uses the small corner indicator, FreeHand puts a pen icon in the layer row to show where new objects end up. Illustrator [image: 1784794976731-illu_layer_indic.png] FreeHand [image: 1784799570665-freehand_layer_indic.png] Off topic but Note btw. how FreeHand only marks up each selected object with a keyline of layer color but avoids the combined transform-bounding box, that tend to obscure things IMO. You can however double-click the selection to show transform handles for scale/rotate/skew interaction. Seen below.. [image: 1784803840792-freehand_transform.png] Thanks, Lars Herold

There are many professional developers and specialists who are moving to Linux due to a lot of recent shitty changes from Microsoft, and the number will continue to increase, in my opinion. Also, from what I know, Linux basically only has Inkscape, anything else requires using Proton/Wine. I bought VectorStyler recently. It would be great to see it on Linux, and please-don't bother with packaging. Those DEB/RPM packages will be compiled against specific distributions like Ubuntu or Fedora and won't work for others without patches. People will complain, you will begin to regret that you even did a port. Just ship a Flatpak on the official Flathub and optionally Snapcraft. Ditch X11 support, focus on modern Wayland. On 90% of modern Linux machines it will work flawlessly and you won't receive many support request since Flatpak (and optionally Snap) will be the only official distrubutions.

@VectorStyler Great, thank you for your attention to this - as well! Select Previous - of course, noted.. In Macromedia FreeHand - my usual reference ad nauseam - the Click Through action is done by holding Ctrl + Right-click to cycle through the stack. Hold Shift as well to add or remove Click Through candidates to/from current selection. Hold Alt as well, to Deep Select into groups, composites, clipping groups, to add or remove Click Through candidates to/from current selection. BR/ Lars Herold

@VectorStyler ok thanks I see it now. I kept looking in the "select by shape" section by mistake

@Ridgehammer I opened a bug on this and will try to fix it.

@VectorStyler it’s the same file I sent by email link in relation to the GPU view crashes yesterday. It’s a covered wagon from the American west circa 1800s. I can send again if needed. I also have the setting checked to separate with the tool already

@Li-Xiao I opened a bug on this and will try to find a solution

@VectorStyler Got it! Yes, the UI text shows normally now. Thank you!

@Boldline Press the shift key before the drawing starts

@Boldline I added this to the backlog

@Boldline For the Path Simplifier tool (not the command), there should be a Smoothness option in the context panel, and also you can double click the tool icon for additional options.

@Li-Xiao I will try to replicate and fix this.

@Li-Xiao I will try to fix that

@Li-Xiao I will open a new bug on this (probably a different issue)

@VectorStyler It's fixed in 1.3.021. Thank you!

@VectorStyler These two updates are more than enough. Thank you so much! [image: 1784548719473-overlay.png]

@VectorStyler Awesome! thanks for checking that. I'm guessing @li-xiao has a similar workspace setting that allows it to occur on his computer as well.

@VectorStyler This is the pdf I get from File->Export->pdf. Gray square shows up when I view it with Apple's Preview app. I can send it via email if you like. Same address as the crash dump I sent earlier? BTW: This isn't a fatal bug. I can still work by copy/paste. The drag and drop function is doing something odd. VS_doc.pdf