@William-Kansepa Tools can be customized. I think the Move tool is too specialized to be grouped with the transform (primary) tool. And grouping could also interfere with tools selection, causing the toolbox to popup multiple tools. One thing that could be done in the future is to have the selection box hidden (or just a basic box) in transform mode.

@VectorStyler Thank you I think the use of an invisible frame is a passable workaround so far. Even though I would have liked to have this option in the panel from time to time, with a live preview. . . ...If there is a good ideas / UI for controlling the mask frame, let me know.... Well, my UI creating skills are equal to zero. But I'll think about it.

@tudor @VectorStyler Part of this request has been made before in the forum (the tangent lines) and I agree this would be an amazing feature to add to VS. One of the hardest things to get perfect are the lines between circles like that. There are so many great uses for that.

@VectorStyler said in Change Zoom Increments: @Igull No such option currently. OK, worth a try It does have a bit too fine zoom step size though. Neil

@VectorStyler said in Use of Shift as Constraint: @Igull Yes this is by design. The Shift is used for rotation (or move / scale) constrain only after the mouse is pressed. No need to drag it (to change the rotation) but the mouse must be pressed first and then the shift pressed. The reason is that Shift+Click and Shift+Drag are used for modifying the selection. When the cursor is close to a corner of the bounding box and changes to a rotation indicator, it means the app detected and "switched" to rotation mode. So I don't see why it cannot be more forgiving and accept Shift before you click-and-drag to rotate, since it's in "rotation mode" already. I don't see how it would conflict with Shift-drag. (Btw, what is Shift-click supposed to do when in Select/Transform mode?)

@VectorStyler said in Collision Snap to Guidelines: I add this to the backlog as a feature. Great, thanks for adding this as a feature, it will be of great use in rotating unruly and badly scanned images ! The collider tool has been one of the best features of VS for me, I seem to use it for countless jobs where I would previously have used the AI rotate tool. Having said that, the AI rotate tool does work better than the VS version AFAICS - especially when the rotate fulcrum can be snapped to a node and the remaining rotation point then snapped to whatever is required to be rotated to (but the collision tool is still way better LOL ) Neil

@Igull said in Transform/Shape Editor Tools: I wonder if this kind of issue isn't related to the fact that there is some underlying conflict in the default keyboard setups when switching between certain tools ? Yes, this could be the case. I thing better defaults might help.

@Igull said in Strange Keyboard Shortcut Issues: action.action.transformtool Yes, I found the issue. this will be fixed in the next build

@VectorStyler said in Option-Dragging Query.: This can be configured into a different modifier, or turned of in the Preferences -> Modifier Keys -> "Select Inside Groups" item. Thanks for that, issue solved - had to do a "show all" inside the modifier keys to find it - bitten again by the default prefs Neil

FYI, resetting the app on launch appears to have fixed this issue. Hopefully for good!

@b77 Selecting with a mouse and full-size keyboard. There are no jpegs in the problem document. That was an earlier issue I'd reported. Some were grayscale, some were CMYK, some were RGB. None worked. I could only import eps files prior to the reset. Now it seems jpegs work as they ought, so I might be able to re-do the current problem file with a jpeg and see if that makes it small enough to email. Maybe some other issues are fixed as well. I'll keep an eye out. At any rate, the reset did not fix the selection issue, or the layer display issue, but using the "text on Path Anchor" option has made all those issues disappear. No idea why but good riddance! Everyone's been extremely helpful and I appreciate it.

Ah, seems to help with a nap before thinking these days. The curvature tool in Illustrator must be Adobes equivalent to the spiro path in Inkscape - that we discussed here: Inspiration: Inkscape vs Affinity Designer review

@Igull Now working fine

@Igull said in Mac/Win File Swapping: If I open a file created in the Mac version (in the VS Win version) and then use the same printer settings, I get an error from the printer driver I was trying to replicate this error, but could not. What was the printer used on Windows? If there is a file that results in this error when printing on Windows, please send it to me by email. It might help in replicating the error.

@VectorStyler I realized the post from earlier in this thread is lacking the video. Here is that video where I had the same palette open in two locations and at one point adding colors from the vertical color bar kept adding new spot colors to the main palette panel. Jump to the 55 second mark. UPDATE: I did as you suggested and think I am understanding the issue. I set both the main color palette panel and the vertical color bar to the same palette and they acted like they were different palettes - hence the video link I shared above in this post. But I had to call them both the "palette" so that each was linked. This gets confusing because now both palettes when hovering over them refer to themselves as "palette" which I understand represents whatever palette was saved in the document settings - but it's not showing the palette's actual name. Why is it not good enough to just load the same palette into both locations? VS needs a special setting to link the two in order for it to treat them as the same?

@VectorStyler said in Annoying Panel Resizing: OK on Recordit. As for the docking part: not that it is good reason, but AI does the same. The Layers panel will try to take up as much space as it can. Perhaps, but you can still adjust the panel heights to suit afterwards - and it will remember - you can't in VS, once it's docked, you're stuck with it. Neil

@jfraze It is a bug! when editing the stroke / fill on a text selection.

@b77 said in Document Scale: @Igull In 'Customize Toolboxes' you have an 'Edit Icon' button that allows you to change the icons. LOL, back to RTFM I literally find something new that I like in VS every day I can see myself wasting hours on this, thanks. Neil

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@Boldline said in How do I update live fonts if I activate them after file is open already?: opening the replace text panel Is this the Replace Font view? If so, this does not sound normal. One the missing fonts are replaced, opening the Replace Fonts view again should have an empty list for the Missing mode.