VectorStyler beta 194 release notes

• Improved: dynamic mode to the pencil tool (context panel), erase path sections between intersections while holding the Shift key.
• Improved: when holding the Shift key in the erase tool, parts of paths between intersections can be erased.
• Improved: added non linear slider scale for numeric fields.
• Improved: added a Break Apart button to the context panel when the eraser, knife and pencil tool are active.
• Improved: also open AI files are presets also from the Panels -> Presets -> Open Preset File command.
• Improved: faster opening and handling of AI files as presets.
• Improved: show only brush presets when opening an AI file as a brush preset file.
• Improved: allow preset group hiding in imported presets also.
• Improved: added a Close button to each panel leaf, visible only when hovering.
• Improved: added a rotate handle mode option for the transform tool (Preferences -> Adjustments -> Selection Box).
• Improved: recover artboard sizes when opening multi page PDF files.
• Improved: merge the various pointer selection tools into one tool, with options in the context panel.
• Improved: merge the pressure sensitive pencil and brush tools into the pencil and brush tool.
• Improved: added undo/redo detail option, while editing shape (and image) effects (Preferences -> Changing Options -> Merge Shape / Image Effect Undo).
• Improved: zoom to artboard where the last selection was made.
• Improved: open modal transform view when pressing the return key in scale, skew and rotate tools.
• Improved: change all text flow font when selecting font on a whole text frame.
• Improved: merge two open paths into a single open path, when common intersecting locations are close (instead of creating a closed path).
• Fixed: use the current content selection of Appearance panel when editing and creating shape effects interactively.
• Fixed: do not clear the current content selection when deactivating the Appearance panel.
• Fixed: possible crash when importing scatter brush presets from AI files.
• Fixed: show open file view to select preset when the first button in the panel bottom is pressed.
• Fixed: printing to PDF placed the markers at the wrong positions.
• Fixed: problem with whitespace size in some variable fonts.
• Fixed: switching to node editor with Command key did not work properly.
• Fixed: text linking tool should not create a solid line frame.
• Fixed: clicking on highlighted font name did not always select the font.
• Fixed: holding the Shift key should constrain movement direction in the node tool also.
• Fixed: copy pasting inside multiple object did not retain position.
• Fixed: blend objects were not reset correctly on certain changes.
• Fixed: docking panels on the window margin did not always reset their position correctly.

Bug fixes in recent releases

• Improved: context panel should contain all object properties, even with no selected, when the brush tool is active.
• Improved: create closed shapes with the sketch tool, when sketch is self intersecting.
• Improved: importing AI brush styles and exporting as presets.
• Improved: disable large preview in Layers panel options.
• Improved: added a destructive Offset Path command to create offsets from selected shapes.
• Changed: use the Tab key in the path sketch tool to swap between line and freehand modes (Space is for panning).
• Fixed: bug in Symbols panel, did not list created symbols, only objects with symbol role.
• Fixed: multiple outline offsetting and stroke stripe issues.
• Fixed: inner or outer stroke alignment issues with some shapes.
• Fixed: gradient on stroke regressions.
• Fixed: changing stroke, brush width and font size values in preferences.
• Fixed: crash with when accessing OpenType features in some fonts.
• Fixed: crash when trying to blend shapes with small number of segments.
• Fixed: do not smooth nodes when switching to node editor with the Command+ key.
• Fixed: image content rotation angle should be selectable from the drop down list.
• Fixed: moving artboards with partial group overlapping.
• Fixed: possible crash caused by hovering selection.
• Fixed: do not store current brush in workspace, complex brush may slow down startup and exit.
• Fixed: combining multiple shapes with groups.
• Improved: performance of divide operation on complex shape collections.
• Improved: added a shape sketching tool, to automatically cut and merge shapes while drawing.
• Improved: added a self avoiding outline option in the stroke settings.
• Improved: added a shape effect to create self avoiding paths.
• Improved: offset path can create multiple offsets.
• Improved: handling of missing fill or outline in the contour effect.
• Improved: handling of self intersecting shapes in the shape builder tool.
• Improved: do not quit VectorStyler when closing main window.
• Improved: fewer buttons in context panel, to accommodate smaller screens.
• Improved: show adjustment effect name in appearance panel.
• Improved: handling of inside and outside stroke alignment.
• Improved: stroke profile on lines and sharp corners did should close properly.
• Improved: handling of round corners in stroke profiles.
• Improved: smoother slider dragging.
• Improved: polygonal spiral context panel was missing.
• Improved: character and paragraph view layouts.
• Changed: use Option+ modifier in the corner rounding brush tool to reduce corner sizes.
• Changed: thinner default UI font, and allow UI font customization.
• Fixed: creating stroke profiles on quadratic curve segments.
• Fixed: separate composite shapes resulting from divide operation.
• Fixed: undo and redo for eraser (and expander) tools.
• Fixed: do not unlink image after cutting to the clipboard (image will be needed).
• Fixed: shadows and highlights filter popover view was too large.
• Fixed: changing paragraph alignment when a text frame is selected.
• Fixed: outline width inside a group was not taken into account when refreshing.
• Fixed: font size in undo popup and report views.
• Fixed: do not group objects when deleting effect.
• Fixed: new layer name should be created based on sibling layer names.
• Fixed: handling of self intersecting paths with stripes.
• Fixed: stroke expansion issues with some shapes, when the stroke is aligned outside or inside.
• Fixed: stroke alignment issues on some shapes.
• Fixed: expanding overlapping stroke with dashes should merge overlaps.
• Fixed: variable with profile should work globally when using both stripes and dashes.
• Fixed: expanding stroke inside groups.
• Fixed: performance of expanding stroke containing combinations of variable widths, stripes and dashes.
• Fixed: do not activate mesh too if mesh creation is canceled.
• Fixed: possible crash when clicking on an image effect icon in the appearance panel.
• Fixed: improved stability of some operations in the user interface.
• Fixed: contour tool should not adjust the contour when clicking for selection.
• Fixed: plain text variables did not always update when changed.
• Fixed: showing outlined text at large zooms.
• Fixed: improvements for UI layouts on Big Sur.
• Improved: better coverage handling in eraser and expander tools.
• Improved: show images as transparent grays in wireframe.
• Improved: new layout for preference view.
• Fixed: divide shapes and shape maker tool handling of complex winding fills.
• Fixed: pasting images from AI.
• Fixed: better accessibility support, work with Magnet window manager.
• Fixed: Control+ click in zoom tool should not start zoom in animation.
• Fixed: line tool with Shift+ should be abkle to create new lines if nothing is selected.
• Fixed: ungroup all did not expanded all groups in some cases.
• Fixed: fixed noise position in noise gradient.
• Fixed: do not create too small pattern tiles in pattern editors.
• Fixed: should copy pattern content when saving it to presets.
• Fixed: crash in artboard options view when selecting the grid units.
• Fixed: creating and using custom preset groups.
• Fixed: possible freeze while rendering with metal.
• Fixed: moving with tab key in color panel fields.
• Fixed: crash when selecting Separate Maps in Displacement image effect.
• Fixed: pasting text shapes from clipboard may resize other objects temporarily, requiring a reset.
• Fixed: copy paste multiple objects should keep object center.
• Improved: allow clicking in zoom tool to zoom in.
• Improved: zoom out with Option+click in zoom tool.
• Improved: box zooming mode in zoom tool with Option key.
• Improved: additional UI style improvements.
• Improved: handling of open shapes in contour effect.
• Improved: allow editing of original object shape with some outline shape effects.
• Fixed: improved internationalization of shortcut handling.
• Fixed: closing shapes with the line tool creating wrong starting control point.
• Fixed: adjusting artistic brush on closed shapes.
• Fixed: better layout in stroke editing modal view.
• Fixed: installing over previous versions did not reset the workspace properly.
• Fixed: allow grouped shapes in destructive shape combinations.
• Fixed: indicate center point in variable width brush cursor.
• Fixed: order of tools in two row horizontal toolbox layout.
• Fixed: regression in automatically sized views.
• Fixed: expander brush tool handles multiple objects.
• Improved: reduced object role menu length, using a More Roles… option and a modal view to show all object roles.
• Improved: general stability improvements, fixes for submitted crashes.
• Improved: added context and property panel content for the artboard tool.
• Improved: importing text on path objects from AI files.
• Improved: importing artistic brush stretch values from AI files.
• Improved: added a gap to the top of the context panel in full screen mode.
• Fixed: shift selection modifier in box selection was not working.
• Fixed: do not select objects with no fill if the box marque did not intersect the outline.
• Fixed: keep cusp control point when using option+click in pen tool.
• Fixed: edit envelope effect inside transformed groups.
• Fixed: tear-off horizontal toolbox layout.
• Fixed: docking toolboxes at the margin regardless of direction.
• Fixed: tear-off toolboxes from group of toolboxes.
• Fixed: docked horizontal panel position persistence (after restart).
• Fixed: union (and intersection) of overlapping shapes.
• Fixed: keep smooth corners when expanding stroke.
• Fixed: allow stroke expand when in the node editor.
• Fixed: pixel preview of CMYK documents.
• Fixed: uniform close button size in document, panel and toolbox.
• Fixed: horizontal and vertical panel corner rounding.
• Fixed: same toolbox title for docked and tear-off toolboxes.
• Fixed: allow docking horizontal panels into vertical panel groups, with automatic layout change.
• Fixed: disable modal view opening animation.
• Fixed: smaller default node sizes in node (and other) editor.
• Fixed: use regular font for artboard labels.
• Fixed: remove semicolons from generated color names.
• Fixed: activating pen tool using shortcut should also activate the icon in the toolbox.
• Fixed: opening shape or image effect editors with multiple effects in the list.
• Fixed: selecting the color of a gradient knob from the color panel.
• Fixed: opening color popup in (modal) gradient editor view.
• Fixed: size of fields for some shapes in context panel must be larger.
• Fixed: expand stroke with gradient on stroke.
• Fixed: setting a solid fill on a mesh object should recover the shape and keep the object while removing the mesh.
• Fixed: preset panel title when importing presets from other files.
• Fixed: artboard tool should not revert to default artboard size, when custom size was set in document setup.
• Fixed: display refreshing issues.
• Fixed: general stability improvements.