4. beta 1.2.003 update

beta 1.2.003 update

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    VectorStyler 1.2.003 release notes

    • Improved Extend Path tool, including snapping support.
    • Add presets to path brush and eraser options.
    • Opened panels from iconified buttons should not cause main view to hide in the background.
    • Create guidelines for every selected object.
    • Create guidelines from lines of a selected path.
    • Add scrollbar to settings section list.
    • Changed the Pen tool cursor design.
    • Added shortcut to the Node tool to clear selection on pressing the Esc key.
    • Preview artboard options changes (including guidelines).
    • Option to apply artboard options to all artboards.
    • Fixed the reveal settings folder feature on Windows.
    • Added a button to the Corner panel to create corner shape presets from the selected shape.
    • Added an action to the main menu to create object styles from the selected object.
    • Place the convert to curves action to the toolbar.
    • Group the transform tool options into a single popover opened with a context panel button.
    • Simplified toolbar content.
    • Added a new shape operator to extract Regions from the selected shapes.
    • Collapsing a panel group should keep other panels at their current size.
    • Improved handling of iconified panels.
    • Single blend object to create correct content.
    • Better defaults for the blend effect.
    • Changing brush size in the stroke width brush with Option + drag.
    • Simplified snapping panel.
    • Creating guidelines as a grid for an artboard to use correct spacing.
    • Option to show distance values when snapping objects (enabled by default).
    • Set default minimum and maximum values for number variables based on type.
    • Option to show transform handles in shape drawing mode to work in 1.2 also.
    • Show an outline indicator while drawing.
    • Restored the gray theme and added a new light gray theme.
    • Add New Nodes to work on the selected part of the path only.
    • Preview in add new nodes.
    • Allow resizing of docked and iconified panels.
    • Appearance panel button to set the object style to defaults.
    • Improved draw place icons.
    • General stability improvements.
    • Fixed knife tool regression with composite shapes.
    • Better brush width indicator for eraser and path brush tools.
    • Reversing the path while in the Pen tool: create correct extension control points.
    • Delete nodes in the stroke profile view with backspace.
    • Allow layer selection when releasing groups to layers.
    • Fixed bug when creating selection presets from expanded repeater objects.
    • Improved Guidelines panel and under / redo handling of guideline changes.
    • Artboard label alignment to correctly position labels.
    • Nudging with larger or smaller amounts to use correct units.
    • Fixed a bug that caused the Pen tool to get blocked.
    • Converting shape text aligned on a path, with a symbol inside should position the symbol correctly.
    • Alignment on shape tool to position objects with offset correctly.
    • Allow longer path for shape text baseline to avoid overlow.
    • Improved find / replace for objects.
    • Contour effect to work with no fill or hidden source object.
    • Do not show indicators for invisible objects.
    • Unpluging a second monitor on Windows should reposition panels.
    • Improved bend effect for crossing bend shape.
    • Changed the default font for shape text.
    • Node selection in transform mode to show the bounding box of nodes only.
    • Aligning blend objects should not change the relative position of the blend.
    • Allow inversion of smooth corners.
    • Fixed a regression breaking the text frame when changing a font or other character attributes over the whole frame.
    • Drag and drop preview option of the Layers panel to activate after changing.
    • Text tool to start the selection of text correctly in unselected text also.
    • Add extrema points to the shape when using it as an envelope shape.
    • Image scaling to correctly handle margin pixels.
    • Remove document name from window title when closing.
    • Undo / redo to work after changing the blend mode of the fill style.
    • Undoing the artboard rotation to keep the artboard selected.
    • Changed the meter shorthand to mt.
    • Paste Shape to be grayed out when no object is selected.
    • Better contrast for the Layers panel drag and drop indicator.
    • Expanding stroke of cloned objects to be handled correctly.
    • Allow zero sized repeater items (as invisible objects).
    • Correct preview of text frame settings when changing both column and inset values.
    • Select all in the node tool should work the same way as using the box selection.
    • Path closing change to work on objects inside groups also.
    • Deselecting nodes in the Node tool should deselect objects also if no nodes are selected.
    • Fixed color deletion bug in list mode of the color palette.
    • Select all Members in the Layers panel should not open the groups.
    • Ungroup to keep layers and ungroup layer content only.
    • Appending actions in the Action panel should also work if no actions are defined.
    • Reset tool tips when shortcuts are changed.
    • Improved sensitivity of docking panels at at the bottom of right-docked panels.
    • Convert Text menu to show correct name based on selection.
    • Refresh document when object styles are updated.
    • Clicking into an empty line inside a text frame should position the cursor correctly.
    • Improved shape paint tool, to handle global fill selection.
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    @VectorStyler

    Reading this impressive list feels like looking at a big,
    tall mountain. Astonishing đź‘Ť

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  • @VectorStyler
    Amazing and promising! I'm going to check it out!
    Thanks

    Regarding the topic of leading. Tough subject if you delve deeper into it. Partly due to the strong tradition of manual typesetting, via photo to digital. I'm working hard to figure things out and hope to come up with a comprehensive summary/proposal that might be useful. Takes some time.

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    @Ayo said in beta 1.2.003 update:

    Regarding the topic of leading. Tough subject if you delve deeper into it. Partly due to the strong tradition of manual typesetting, via photo to digital. I'm working hard to figure things out and hope to come up with a comprehensive summary/proposal that might be useful. Takes some time.

    Things will improve, as bugs are fixed.

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  • @VectorStyler Really impressive list of fixes and improvements! Thank you. I can't wait to test it out

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    @VectorStyler said in beta 1.2.003 update:

    Delete nodes in the stroke profile view with backspace.

    Thank you for your constant improvements, but this seems like it still doesn't work.

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    @Harry @VectorStyler https://recordit.co/yNNDFYtDV3
    In my case, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

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    @Harry said in beta 1.2.003 update:

    Thank you for your constant improvements, but this seems like it still doesn't work.

    Is this in the profile editor view (opened from the stroke panel), or the width profile tool?

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    @VectorStyler said in beta 1.2.003 update:

    In the profile editor view, it doesn't work at all.
    With the width profile tool, it works sometimes—most often only with the first few deletions.

    I wrote about it in this thread link text

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    @Harry said in beta 1.2.003 update:

    In the profile editor view, it doesn't work at all.

    Replicated on Windows. I will fix this ASAP.
    As a workaround, drag the node out of the profile area to the left or right to delete.

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