XLS for features and ideas - Megathread
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@Subpath: Thank you. That's not just mine. It's a lot of other people who worked on it. People who are more experienced and talented than me.
Oh trust me when I say this, Corel (now Alludo) are just as evil, evil as they come. They tried to kill Xara in the crib by buying the marketing rights and refusing to promote it. Charles Moir had enough wits about him to keep the source code to himself so he managed to get out of the contract eventually. That's why Xara never took off.
Now, they're doing to Gravit what Adobe did to FreeHand. Slowly degrading it. I assure you it will be gone within this decade. Gravit is a very good online app. German. Straightfoward. No frills. Robust. That's Corel bought it. They sensed a threat. -
I know that Corel owned Xara for a while and integrated its
features into CorelDRAW. I know Corel well enough not to expect
anything good from them.When I decided to go with CorelDRAW, they offered me a
reasonable package with CorelDRAW, PhotoPaint, and a good
Font Manager.Thanks to my good knowledge of CorelDRAW and vector
graphics, I got a fairly well-paying job in digital printing. I was in
screen printing before that. So, it paid off, so to speak. -
@Subpath: Corel does shine in priting industry. But they have the ethics of hyenas: Craven, bottom-feeding scavengers who feast on the leftovers of better breeds of software.
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I think that's part of so called predatory capitalism.
As I wrote before, I never really expected much from Corel.
The company that hired me had already decided on CorelDraw
and because of my knowledge of it, I got the job.(edited: deleted american)
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@Subpath: True, but Corel is Canadian. Your larger point still stands.
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Soft Groups: The ability to group objects without bringing them to the same layer. This is useful because it lets you group multiple different elements such as texts objects, objects with FX, gradients and so on. And yet, retain them each in their own categorical layers.
For instance, I can group a text object with an image, and yet, for the sake of simplicity, I can keep all the images in the image layer. Soft grouping lets me maintain layer order yet have groups outside this order.
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Export File Attributes:
This collects all the information on colour and their hex codes, stroke widths, dash patterns, corner radii, text properties, FX information, broken down per objects. It's a essentially a meta data file. In .text format. Useful to give to client's design teams. As a part of handover.
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@Daniel said in XLS for features and ideas - Mega Thread:
It's a essentially a meta data file.
One thing to note: in VS you can save the ".vstyler" file in JSON or XML format. This is not an export feature, but it is the native VS file.
The format can be selected in Document Setup -> File
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xn4HuDQEPwM&pp=ygUOQ2FwcyBsb2NrIGJvb2s%3D
If anyone is interested in how Design has been ruined by vulturous, predatory capitalism, have a listen to this. It's called Caps Lock by Ruben Pater. Book of same name too.
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that's an interesting topic, but I think the "General Dicussion" section of the forum
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@VectorStyler: Icons for showing screen colours, print colours, cyan, magenta, yellow and key. There should be 5 icons. One of it should be a toggle switch between print and screen colours. And there should be three 4 icons showing Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key separately.
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@VectorStyler: Interactive highlight for nodes, handles and curves. This is not a feature but a question of interactive feedback. As already noted, having a highlight to show which exact segment of the curve is being manipulated upon hover is useful. Likewise, the nodes and handles must enlarge slightly (AND/OR change colour?) on hover. This is again quality-of-life improvement. See Lunacy for a version of what I mean.
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Lock node coordinate position: Select nodes, and lock them to their coordinate positions. Just like you'd do to any object.
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@Daniel said in XLS for features and ideas - Mega Thread:
Lock node coordinate position: Select nodes, and lock them to their coordinate positions. Just like you'd like any object.
This I assume would be used in the Node tool, so it cannot move those nodes.
But when moving the whole objects, these should be movable, right?
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@VectorStyler: Yes, that is correct. The node position should locked relative to the rest of the nodes. Not the absolute position on canvas. That would mean that the object itself is locked. Since the object cannot be moved.
Think of it like stakes in the ground when you're putting up a tent. The stake position once hammered in remains unchanged, while you can adjust the rest of the tent flaps and cover.
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@Daniel Can you collect these also into the XLS file, for better organization.
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@VectorStyler will do shortly
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@VectorStyler, @Boldline: Graphite.Rs has a very useful 45-degree snapping guide when using pen-tool. This is very useful for creating smooth curves with just the normal pen tool. It might be worth adding this before Bezigon Tool if you think Bezigon will take time. See below for what I mean.
But if you think Bezigon can be implemented quickly, then it is worth shipping this guideline feature along with it. Because they compliment each other. Will collect into XLS when I do housekeeping on this thread.
P.S: Checked this out further. Holding down shift actually calls up an additional dashed line guide, which I can't screenshot as I have to let go off Shift. This guide can snap at 15-degree incremental points. Super useful. Super intuitive.
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@VectorStyler: All features and ideas are up to date on XLS. And added one new idea: Group nodes.
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Embed External Image File: Don't know what your plans are for developing a dedicated image editor (PictureStyler?). If you have no such plans (I'd actually prefer this as you can focus exclusively on vector editing) , then here's an idea: Allow users to embed an image file within VS (like Placeholder objects in PL, and Smart Objects in PS, and linked files in Affinity). Then, allow users to click through to a dedicated image editing app (I recommend PL), make their edits and come back.
The reason I recommend PL is because PL already supports external applications. Exactly as I've described here. You can open any object in an external application just as long as that external application saves in the same location, over the same file, as you were working on when you were inside PL. The support formats are TIFF, JPEG and PDF. That is broad enough for most use cases.
This might not be an easy task to accomplish. Might want to slot in for the long term roadmap.
That is my official 100th post on the forum!
