VectorStyler 1.2.004 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.