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  Unable to register Printing Style.
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  @861475_VctSt The Styles button in the is used to edit style overrides of the existing styles in the document. The title of the opened view should be Style Overrides (I will fix that). Style overrides are used to redefined some styles used in the document when printing.
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  Path Brush tool honors existing color on artboard over palette choice
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  @Boldline I added a path brush tool improvement task to the backlog.
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  Bitmap and layout apps?
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  @Petar_MK @Kyriakos Doesn't VS already have some bitmap halftone kind of function built in already? I agree with @vectoradmin that it's probably important to not stray too far from keeping the application a vector-based focus. That said, the ability to do a few things in raster is helpful - I need to play with it more, but the halftone bitmap abilities already inside VS are awesome
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  Unusable true type font ".ttm"
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  @vectoradmin I just sent it by e-mail.
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  A very naive question about document settings.
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  @861475_VctSt Yes, that will work fine.
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  Inking Process Help
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  @Boldline In this video https://recordit.co/6Y1mMMIlZF the following steps are used: starting with a vector brush. Expand Stroke the brush results in a group, that contains an object with the bend effect. ungroup reveals the object with the bend effect. convert to curve drops the bend effect and results in editable paths. The ungroup is not necessary, but it helps identifying where the bend effect is.
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  Astute Graphics
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  @designlove A quick mapping of some Astute features (please consider that these are not exactly the same): Collider (Astute) -> Collision Snapping (VectorStyler) : the collision snapping works my colliding any two shapes, and fixing if two locations are collided. It also works in combination with other snapping methods (like guidelines). There is also a collider tool, but for now it requires that the Snap to Shape is enabled. DynamicSketch (Astute) -> Pen tool (VectorStyler) with the Eraser option enabled, plus it has the Merging option for merging at intersection points. But a more powerful tool for this is the Path Sketch tool (just next to the Pen tool). FindReplace (Astute) -> Edit -> Find / Replace (VectorStyler) WidthScribe (Astute) -> the various stroke width tools and the Stroke Width panel (VectorStyler) VectorScribe (Astute) -> some (not all) available in VectorStyler as various tools. MirrorMe (Astute) -> this can be worked around in VS using references to a group. Offset Path (Astute) -> both destructive and non-destructive Offset Path in VectorStyler. The Offset Path shape effect can be edited interactively and distances adjusted locally. If there are some specific feature that you use, please let me know, maybe there is a way to do it in VS.
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  Global colors?
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  Thank you.
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  Large strokes glitches
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  @encart This is a known open issue. The problem occurs at the cleanup phase after offsetting. There are a number of stroke and offset bugs related to this. It will be fixed, but it is a challenging issue
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  VectorStyler and Wacom Cintiq 27QHD (Windows)
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  @Gremriel This looks like a bug.
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  Preferences: Outline New Objects (Windows)
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  @vectoradmin Ah, that's nice. I''ll patiently wait for that.
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  Convert vertical toolbox to one set
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  @b77 Thanks for your help and patience! I wasn't even thinking about the panels possibility for location of that. Got is set th way I want now.
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  Use the word Hairline rather than 0.0 pt in Stroke display field
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  @fde101 said in Use the word Hairline rather than 0.0 pt in Stroke display field: In the digital world, a "true" hairline is defined as the smallest width line capable of being produced on a given output device, this being exactly 1 pixel wide for the most part. It is not a fixed literal width but rather something that changes depending on what the image is being displayed or printed on, thus why various applications display it as "Hairline" - there is not an actual width to be displayed numerically. @fde101 Yep, you nailed it. It's the industry standard nomenclature, that's why I prefer/suggest it be used in VectorStyler.
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  Creating objects using snaping and merging them with Shape builder tool. Inaccuracies.
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  @encart Try using Snap To Points when drawing, this will align the points of the rectangles to the triangle corners. Also: shape builder has this known issue of not always handling well sides that are exactly touching. A little bit of overlap helps there,
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  How to hide nodes when text is selected?
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  @vectoradmin I don't think these should be visible when the shape is procedural(?) or the text is still editable. Once it's been converted to curves, yes, absolutely. But not when it's in its special editable form, I would say. Enabling this setting by default would be great if the above conditions would be met — it would serve as a subtle hint that the shape or text is converted to curves.
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  Impressions about CJK implementation (1.0.023)
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  @861475_VctSt The above post is It should have been uploaded to "CJK, Japanese observation (1.0.024 ~)". Next time, I will create a new topic. Please read as it is.
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  How to select several nodes from one object without damaging nearby objects nodes. Box selection
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  @b77 I agree with your solution. It is the most intuitive and simple. I proposed an additional key because I do not know how big a problem the redesign of this mechanism will be. Especially considering the amount of bindings that are under the hood.
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  How to change kerning?
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  @encart If I understand correctly, tracking works, but kerning does not? What is the font name used? kerning (Metric mode) requires that the font defines the kerning pair tables.
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  The way how 'Break apart' works with text
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  Character tool is great for modifying single characters - then you keep all text properties. Using Break apart, I would intuitively expect to get single curves that I could modify like shapes. Immediately after use, quickly and smoothly. Basically, the only difference with the current behavior is that you get split into separate paths right away. No need to use Break apart twice. As like as it is with objects created from a few paths. https://recordit.co/ney48Ij2hX
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  Overall Performance
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  @encart There are still places where performance can be improved. In this case, a still open issue is that path offsetting with large offsets can result in artifacts. To explain what is going on in this picture: a complex shape with multiple parts has a somewhat large stroke offset set to the outside. This means that at each redraw this offset is computed, cleaned up (which is not working well at large offset) and united with the various parts (each path from the text). This all happens on the CPU (compute engine will not help here, that is used for image effects). The only way to work around this for now is to have separate objects for each of those glyphs, if they are converted to curves. And maybe avoid using very large outer/inner offsets (centered stroke is somewhat faster). Also if there are complex shapes, sometimes it is better to expand the stroke, or use the Outline Path , or Offset Path shape effects, where all that offsetting / union is cached for rendering. But these will not get rid of the large offset artifacts.