Small but annoying issue :-)

Igull

When doing a save as from VS, can it be arranged that only the filename - but not including the extension is highlighted - that way, I can simply type in the new filename without having to (annoyingly ) re-type the vstyler extension. A really small thing, but just so helpful for lazy engineers like me

FWIW, the last time I opened AI was about three weeks ago (?) - can't believe that - just so I could open a dxf file someone sent me. Now, if VS could only open/save DXF, that would mean that I might not need to open AI at all

TIA
Neil

b77

@Igull This happens only on Catalina and some other macOS versions, but here on Monterey (and Big Sur, IIRC) only the file name is selected.

But I would ignore that and just type the name without adding the '.vstyler' extension, and the app adds it automatically.

b77

@Igull Btw, have you tried any of the DXF-to-SVG or DXF-to-PDF online converters like the one at https://cloudconvert.com/svg-to-dxf ?

Are these worse, same or better than the AI internal converter?

Boldline

Tagging on to this topic - the ability to paste text copied to the clipboard into the save-as dialog box would be terrific

Boldline

@b77 said in Small but annoying issue :

just type the name without adding the '.vstyler' extension, and the app adds it automatically.

I had not tried this, but it's good to know- thanks!

VectorStyler

@Igull I added this to the backlog: if not present, a ".vstyler" is appended automatically.

VectorStyler

@Boldline said in Small but annoying issue :

the ability to paste text copied to the clipboard into the save-as dialog box would be terrific

Yes, this is a problem that has been reported before.

On some MacOS version, pasting will not work in the save panel.

I have this issue open, and will try to fix it, but found no solution so far.

Igull

@b77 said in Small but annoying issue :

But I would ignore that and just type the name without adding the '.vstyler' extension, and the app adds it automatically.

LOL, now why wasn't that my first consideration
I just assumed that it wouldn't parse that, patently it does

Thanks for that.

Neil