@Subpath I opened a bug on this. The checkbox sizes sometimes are extended to leave room for translations. This can be fixed of course.

@VectorStyler The key point is that sometimes when operating a graphic at a certain level in a group, after completion, due to too many layers, I can't remember how many layers there are. I don't think anyone pays attention to this. Originally, I need to select the final parent level of this group, so I keep pressing shortcut keys until I select the group. But now the problem is that all layers will be selected, which is always uncomfortable in operation. It requires the operator to be careful, but operational errors cannot be completely avoided. So I still hope to solve this problem. Thank you.

@EricP said in How to crop a vector design ?: is it a ratio between height and width of the shape ? Yes, something like this. I often end up ungrouping them for the sake of the selection but there may be a better way. I'v Double click the group and that will isolate for selection.

@Li-Xiao 这个操作真的很新奇，好像管理员都没有想到。这个功能我是基本用不上了。工作中没有太适合的场景。现在依然觉得论坛里你玩VS最溜。

@VectorStyler said in Find/Replace Question: Why not replace just the shape. Draw the new tile shape in one object, copy the shape to the clipboard and paste on multiple other objects. This will keep all local skew, rotation, scale of those other objects. And then do this for the color / style of that changes. I just tried with a single shape - Paste Shape didn’t preserve rotation, etc.? Anyway, neither roof tiles, leaves, bricks, nor windows I make are single shapes - they’re objects with embedded details, essentially groups of objects. There’s quite a bit of work behind the details in them. All the things that make the illustrations feel organic and less like clipart. But as mentioned, probably not a typical use case.

@VectorStyler Thank you, everything is working!! thank you

@EricP said in Setting a fixed rotation angle for multiple shapes: I see that I can just remove the transform effect from the shape effect list for the selected objects Yes, the Shape Effects panel can be used to manage shape effects of an object.

@VectorStyler yes

@VectorStyler thank you. That's exactly what I was looking for. So many hidden capabilities to discover. what's the purpose of the repeater icon 'check to apply shape effects to the repeater content' ?

yes I observed the same and found it excessive too. I think the scaling randomization picks a random value between 0 and 100.5%, which yields to extreme variation. Offset and rotation being in absolute values - not percent, the effect is easier to adjust precisely With only one cursor for scaling, maybe the variation in that case should be +/- 0.5% (99.5% to 100.5%) to remain more subtle.

FreeHand 9 apparently copies to the clipboard in the following formats: WMF, EMF, PICT (Mac only, DIB/Bitmap, FreeHand internal format You can reportedly copy in these formats via Copy Special: EPS, Adobe Illustrator 7/8, Bitmap, Text It seems the clipboard isn't well suited for use with Freehand and VectorStyler plus other modern tools, unfortunately.

Smart! Of course! Thanks!

@VectorStyler Thanks. I'll look into it later.

@VectorStyler That makes sense. Thank you for checking into that for me. I'll have to remember to always click on the top menu bar area to detach from the color palette before copying and pasting

@monsterfox said in New Artboard moves touched locked Object: @VectorStyler Actually, I feel that the drawing boards shouldn't be overlapped. It doesn't seem to make much sense. In most cases yes. But it can also be used to cut for export or print different parts of an artwork, with some overlap or rotation.

@VectorStyler That's still good news.

@VectorStyler I know, but it would be helpful for new and occasional users, that the icon changed accordingly, temporarily, whilst pressing "Option".

@William-Kansepa I will need a recording (Shape Effects panel included), and then send me the vstyler file also.

@Subpath It is a customizable shortcut. But I will find a solution.

@VectorStyler said in Scatter Brush with random colors while painting ?: @Subpath said in Scatter Brush with random colors while painting ?: Like this pic of mine made with another vector graphics tool What tool was that? I don't remember the name, but it was an Adobe Flash Air tool. Thanks to the Flash script/programming language, it has some for very unusual but nice painting Tools. . . A somewhat similar Program is "Alchemy" (PC/Mac) which still work with Win 10. This is offers also unusual vector graphics painting tools. My favorite tool are Pull Shapes. With Pull Shapes you could put vector graphics shapes from a PDF file randomly on the canvas. You are able to use your own shapes, just save them in a PDF file and place this file in Alchemys Pull Shapes folder. Here a Link to the latest Beta https://al.chemy.org/download/ . . Here a Video Picture made with Alchemys Pull Shapes [image: 1747372382438-pull-shapes.png]