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  "Hide Bleed" Option and exporting Bleeds through PNG, JPG, etc
  28 Feb 2025, 06:41 • debraspicher   15 Mar 2025, 06:39

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  @debraspicher said in "Hide Bleed" Option and exporting Bleeds through PNG, JPG, etc: The ability to add Crop, Registration marks, etc to an exported image would also very greatly appreciated. I have to add them back in by printing in another program (like Affinity) that supports them. I will try to add this for 1.3
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  New effect
  12 Mar 2025, 11:11 • monsterfox   12 Mar 2025, 12:52

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  Look-up Xara, which has had this for many years, and is highly useful. Inkscape/Corel took much of it's UI-UX from Xara. Xara was on the verge of going Open Source. At least for Linux. Until it reneged. Double-clicking the transform origin point converts circle to square, or rectangle to ellipse, and vice versa. Double-clicking the corner node (Xara has additional corner nodes within the bounding box for all objects) transforms the shape into hexagon. And you can use the dedicated polygon tool to change this in any way. It is highly efficient. I'm going to catalogue all the possible improvements over the next few months and post in the forum. Hopefully, @VectorStyler, you'll find some ideas you've not considered.
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  Little Lock or little right click Menu for Lock and Unlock a Bitmap
  12 Mar 2025, 08:09 • Subpath   12 Mar 2025, 09:41

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  @VectorStyler I know I can customize the right-click menu, but my post was about a standard solution, not a custom one.
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  Liquify Tool needs much better smoothing
  10 Mar 2025, 11:34 • Subpath   10 Mar 2025, 15:54

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  @Subpath I opened a bug on this. The default settings must produce better results.
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  DWG / DXF support for technical/architecture renderings
  2 Jul 2021, 08:14 • c64   1 Mar 2025, 19:27

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  @Pipouille said in DWG / DXF support for technical/architecture renderings: looking forward for this implementation It is in the backlog for 1.3, both DWG and DXF
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  Spiro Path Tool
  28 Feb 2025, 22:04 • Honor   1 Mar 2025, 12:53

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  @VectorStyler Thanks, that would definitely be great
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  A kind of "for each" for Shape Effects
  21 Feb 2025, 09:32 • Subpath   22 Feb 2025, 16:05

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  @VectorStyler a shape effect that tiles other shape effects. That might be feasible. 0_1740240086701_Circular Bump.vstyler
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  Global edit
  20 Feb 2025, 18:30 • Boldline   20 Feb 2025, 18:34

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  @Boldline Interesting, it is like repeating the same action on other objects, selected based on some criteria.
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  Snapping Panel via Context Panel — Fly out menu?
  17 Feb 2025, 05:31 • debraspicher   17 Feb 2025, 06:17

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  @debraspicher said in Snapping Panel via Context Panel — Fly out menu?: Moving the Snapping panel dismisses the preexisting one. (That's possibly a bug?) This is not a bug, as there is only one snapping panel, plus the fly-out, so when the fly-out is detached it will be one panel. I will try to find the issues with the panel position.
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  Returning user. Requesting portable version of the software.
  10 Feb 2025, 10:19 • A Former User   10 Feb 2025, 12:04

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  @VectorStyler: By portable, I mean, no-install use. Not just using across multiple platforms. At the moment, I create portable versions by installing within a sandbox, and copying the contents out. But this isn't viable, as I have to do this for every single update. Sandboxed version also does not function properly some times. I want a portable version of the software. Much like PhotoLine. Thanks for the updates on tablet support. I will get back to you once I have tested it out thoroughly. Regards!
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  Add a recently used option to Opening palettes
  31 Jan 2025, 20:32 • Boldline   1 Feb 2025, 05:35

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  @Boldline I added this to the backlog.
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  Miss the name too of the last selected palette in colorizer
  31 Jan 2025, 09:15 • Subpath   31 Jan 2025, 09:40

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  @Subpath I added this to the backlog.
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  VectorStyler with Apple Magic Mouse
  16 Jan 2025, 12:23 • JuurGroove   28 Jan 2025, 12:21

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  @VectorStyler Thanks for the latest update and addressing also the panel dragging/snapping issue, even though I'm not sure I can feel it's much better now. Have a look at this short demo that shows how the panels often fail to open or completely snap out of their proper places. Initially it seems to be working just fine when I switch between different panels, but then what you can see from 7-8 seconds onwards happens A LOT on my machine. This makes the app feel very unstable. https://youtu.be/71WNQL7gnD4
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  Some room for improvend with Colorize > Palette
  27 Jan 2025, 09:43 • Subpath   27 Jan 2025, 18:34

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  @Subpath I added this to the backlog.
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  Replace Colors > Colors from Palette vs Replace Colors
  24 Jan 2025, 06:38 • syllie   24 Jan 2025, 23:04

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  @VectorStyler Thank you for considering this.
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  Dashes Preset Names via Tooltip ?
  23 Jan 2025, 13:10 • Subpath   23 Jan 2025, 13:28

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  @Subpath Added this to the backlog
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  Seamless Pattern Editable Generator with Preview
  19 Jan 2025, 22:14 • Boldline   19 Jan 2025, 22:57

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  @Boldline Thank you for bringing this up (again). Like you mentioned, there have been earlier discussions and requests for such a feature. One that I bumped in yesterday was this : https://www.vectorstyler.com/forum/topic/2786/seamless-pattern-generator I have made things 'work' by creating 2 artboards, setting up a 'referenced' pattern on the small one (representing the completed tile) and displaying the seamless use on a large artboard. It is a bit cumbersome. I follows largely the technique I have been using for many years in Inkscape, and what @Subpath documented for VS. @VectorStyler Seamless pattern creation (for my purpose as surface pattern designer) opens up a huge industry with potentially a lot of users. The output required is a square (rectangle) tile, which includes the applied repeat as a whole (a square no matter if the pattern orignates from a hexagonal, half brick or whatever repeat). Then we need to export the design in several colourways (limited palette). The design I was working on yesterday was a recreation of a hand drawn pattern on a hex basis, which I had exported and now had a desire for to make it a vector. I hand drew this in Amaziograph (which is amazing for this purpose) and which always yields a repeatable pattern. You do select a grid and set the size to work on initially, which means the ratios for height/width are knowns. I traced it (in Inkscape, as I know my way around there better) and then made the repeat pattern there. Then I tried to do the same thing in VS, where I ran into some issues (which may have had to do with the transition of the svg from Inkscape to VS due to internal transformations but I was not able to figure out what was the cause). VS shines from this point forward for this particular user group as the replace colors / replace color from palette is THE single most wanted feature for surface pattern designers (for textiles). We often work in a limited palette (8-12 colours, can be less, can be more) and cycling through this palette to find the best styles is brilliant. Such functionality is only readily available in that big commercial brother that we try to avoid. Of course tracing a raster causes its own discrepancies so the seamless aspect at the edges was not perfect. So I rebuild the pattern manually to overcome that. With a solution as proposed by Boldline, this would all be done in a pinch. Although I dislike to refer to 'them', Adobe Capture (on mobile & tablets) allows for 'Pattern building' in a similar way, by dragging components from your library (svg or raster) onto a similar automatically patterned view. It also allows you to build patterns from adhoc images and is heaps of fun to play with. There is synergy between Fresco (now free) and Capture (also free) which makes this a viable part for experimentation. I utilize these types of patterns as starting point for further exploration and turn them into vectors for developing a more professional surface pattern with colourways. Big post, but I hope it shines some light on my workflow/use-case.
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  Basic Typographic Keyboard Shortcuts
  17 Jan 2025, 10:53 • JuurGroove   17 Jan 2025, 14:32

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  @JuurGroove I added this to the backlog.
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  Deactivate the red alignment circle from text or a shape when the "option" modifier key is in use?
  17 Jan 2025, 13:43 • Boldline   17 Jan 2025, 14:32

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  @Boldline This can be deactivated in general by using the tool options in the context panel:
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  Reprofile Tool
  13 Jan 2025, 13:09 • Boldline   13 Jan 2025, 18:31

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  @Subpath said in Reprofile Tool: is there any way to keep the original Path apart from copy it ? The original is shown only while editing. Once you exit the tool, the results are "flattened". And are multiple Offsets possible ? You mean "new offsets"? Yes, you close the tool and select it again, then you can add offset to another part of the path.