Over the past few days, I combined the features I suggested in separate posts into a short GIF. https://imgur.com/a/YKifKbA

@Clippy-notes Thanks a lot. These tutorials are great, even for experienced users. I had tried playing with pattern brushes earlier but could not get them to work easily. I will try again with your tutorial. also, quick tip, you can choose stroke color from palette by alt-clicking the palette (simple click will change the fill color)

@Clippy-notes Here another Pattern Brush made via a Blend. One could use the Intertwine Feature on it [image: 1773776885491-pattern-brush-blend.png]

@Kumr There is an image effect for Inner Shadow for now.

@Clippy-notes I will try to fix this

@Kumr I will try to find a solution for these. There are some large modal views with similar issues

@VectorStyler Adjusting numbers by slider can be tricky, particularly for those working on touch pads (13 inch laptops). It’s definitely a nice option to have but not practical for corner radius, stroke, font size adjustments, etc. Illustrator enables sliders only for percentages if I remember correctly.

@VectorStyler Well... VS is already a DTP, not much difference between it and DTPs out there. The only issue is that people is not using it as DTP so it need some polish on it. But it looks with powerfull possibilities.

@marce said in Margins only in points?: Even if i check "All Artboards on Canvas" i need to setup each margin individually Are these artboards all on the same canvas? I tried to replicate this, but here all artboards on the current canvas are changed.

@marce I will try to replicate and fix the crash. The result from creating canvases will be shown in the Canvas & Artboards panel, these are similar to spreads in DTP apps.

@LoginError It is a bug, can be replicated here also, it happens on Windows only (works on Mac). Will be fixed as soon as possible

@VectorStyler Ah thank you very much! Yes that works.

@richbyte How about giving this a try? https:// www.vectorstyler.com/forum/topic/5288/can-t-save

@Boldline In the Colors tab there are the Dimming Color and Opacity options

@Boldline said in Could locking a layer free up VS to only render and focus on active layers?: it will essentially tell VS to see that selection as an image and not try to render and re-render the nodes each time I work on other parts of the file? Yes. Is there a time I should leave it off or turn it off at a given point? It can be too slow if there are only a few vectors in the layer. It works better for large number of (unchanged) vectors, gradients or image effects Should I be adjusting anything with the "rendering thread"? Let that unchecked, so it will use the current number of CPU cores on the system