The smooth tool is notorious for destroying curves and erratically removing nodes. It works for very simple scenarios. Perhaps the simplest of them such as the one the lady showed. Of course no designer worth their salt would choose to smooth a curve in the way she showed initially. However, what VS needs is a Vector Curve Optimisation function. Both Xara and PL have unique approaches. I love Xara's non-destructive approach but I love PL's live preview. So a combo of both would be amazing.

@VectorStyler The Actions panel does not yet support file export operations.

@VectorStyler thank you. Yes, I meant use the new Effect Editor tools, not the Node tool

@Comet The same happens to me

@gotanidea I will try to improve this, the previous bug report was not closed, just did not (yet) find a good solution.

@gotanidea I will try to find a solution for this

@VectorStyler ok, my mistake. It seemed at a glance that that was the lite version. I think it just looked smaller on the site compared to the pdf. thanks!

@VectorStyler said in Snapping affecting the original position of moved objects: What is the active tool? Pen tool

@Boldline said in Modifier for eyedropper for more precise selections: @VectorStyler Something that could be added to VS eventually? I added it to the backlog, but it will take some time.

@VectorStyler The case in this error is a straight line.

@Daniel said in XLS for features and ideas - Megathread: Edge Gradient: http://www.vectorqueue.com/imaxes/scurve.MP4... a.k.a Diffusion Curves

Aha, seems Illustrator 2025 can do it as well. Use the Transparency panel. Select the group and in Transparency panel click Mask. Then Alt+click the mask icon (white field) in the panel and create black shape there (you can create many shapes, hide, move them, in the Layer mask panel that opens). No need to invert or clip. Illustrator zooming is so sluggish… it is painful. So far Affinity and Inkscape are best regarding zooming with the mouse scroll wheel. Now, regarding export to pdf, svg and eps. Illustrator failed to export to svg. (as VectorStyler exports a null svg) Illustrator exported to pdf successfully. Illustrator exported successfully to eps (VectorStyler did but lost the mask) and I could open that eps in Affinity and VS and with some combining shapes and groups the result was usable! Inkscape 1.4 could not open the eps at all. Interesting indeed! Seems pdf format is the winner although the actual mask object could not be selected\moved\edited in a pdf editor! Illustrator recognized the mask layer form VS as imported pdf (pdf created in VS). Affinity totally rasterized the mask = fail!

@Fertuffo there is an option to disable snap overlays in the snapping option panel

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