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  What is different about adding a spot color via the artboard tool compared to manually using the plus sign icon in the palette panel?
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  @b77 said in What is different about adding a spot color via the artboard tool compared to manually using the plus sign icon in the palette panel?: Expanded to RGB or CMYK color mode, depending on the document color mode? Expanded to the color mode of the original spot color.
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  How do I view the 'Shape Editing Indicator'?
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  @VectorStyler These two at least could display the tool name in parentheses, like this: Shape Erasing Style (Trim and Join tool) Shape Editing Indicator (Grid, Super Ellipse, Super Shape tools) Btw, the last one is a slider, so a better description could be: Shape Editing Slider (Grid, Super Ellipse, Super Shape tools)
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  Is There a Hotkey/ Command to Hide All Panels or Maximize the View?
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  @gotanidea Will be in version 1.2
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  How to Stick Two Rectangles using Alignment Tools?
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  @gotanidea said in How to Stick Two Rectangles using Alignment Tools?: Could you please make it as simple as that? I will try.
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  Appearance Panel and Batch modifications
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  @Ayo It is in the backlog
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  Missing initial tangent line indicator
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  @VectorStyler said in Missing initial tangent line indicator: Is the first step a click (with release) or just a mouse press (without release) ? Press without release
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  When resetting stroke with stroke width adjustments, should it retain other attributes?
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  @Subpath Got it.
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  Temporarily switch to the Transform Tool shortcut not global for drawing tools?
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  @Ayo If you want to move the rectangle (or any shape) mid drawing, press the Space bar and drag the object around. Works great with snapping.
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  How to control Hover Selection Outline
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  Nice! A lot is coming your way. Respect!
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  Can't find the node
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  @Ayo said in Can't find the node: The Collider Node I assume is the node appearing at the collision point between two shapes. In Indicator Shapes I can change the Collider Node all I want but it has no effect. Remains a Tiny Circle. This is now not in use anymore, as it is handled by a snapping indicator, will be removed. Which selection from Editing Options 1 should give the color and line settings for this node? This will be the "Collision Snapping Indicator"
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  Clipping Group Content Nodes or Points in Outline Preview Mode
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  @gotanidea No such option in VS for now, but it is easy to add. Will be fixed ASAP.
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  Difficult to Select Object Behind Transparent Clipping Group
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  I was testing out the double click options in preferences. I made the simple double click be "select inside" and it does not seem to work. If I double click on something visible that is inside another shape, it will not seem to do anything. I also made the option-double click also "select inside" and that works just fine. So it seems the double click by itself option is not functioning as it should in this setup. I will check some others and see how the perform
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  How to Froce Device CMYK in EPS Export
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  @VectorByName Added this to the backlog, and will get back with a solution soon.
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  Is there an easy way to determine the angle of an existing edge of a shape or path?
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  @Boldline If it is a path, then select the node at the end of a line and the Path panel will show the angle.
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  Text Horrors
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  @Igull It would help some to take screenshots and do some screen recording and including those with your questions so others can see what you are dealing with
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  Select from within overall selection?
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  @Boldline You can isolate some of the objects by hiding the others, then Select by Style works only on those that are visible: select some objects on multiple layers; invert the selection; hide these (Object menu > Hidden); select an object with the attributes you need (say, pink rectangle) and… use Select > Select by Style > Fill Content.
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  Are there any plans to create a searchable PDF of the Documentation?
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  Hi @kevphil There is a searchable pdf linked in the tutorials section of the chat forum. Here is the direct link to it.
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  3D Help
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  @fde101 said in 3D Help: @Igull not sure about the demo version, but I have a paid license of Art Text 4, and I can just drag a PDF exported from VS into the Art Text window and it loads it as a 2D shape. I can then right-click and convert to 3D after which an option to set the extrusion depth becomes available in the properties area on the right. Mmm, tried a number of PDFs all of which dragged across, but didn't show on the artboard (or only showed the bounding box - and you couldn't right click to create 3d)- seems extremely slow and very unstable (tried it on an M2 this afternoon - a bit faster, but same results) - may be something to do with the demo version. But all it has is a TRIAL watermark, everything else is supposed to work according to the info. It's probably fine for doing text and minimal 3D objects I think - might be too much heavy lifting to move all my bits around. Thanks for the info, I'll keep the trial, might find other uses for it ! Neil
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  New from Clipboard Fail ?
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  @Igull yes, your right its somewhere below the artboard
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  Spot Colours Not Retained After Saving and Reopening VS File or Exporting EPS File
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  Many thanks, hopefully, a relatively easy fix...