@ZATOPEK Hi, Maybe this could be useful. I made a short video showing a simple way to create a metaball-like effect in VectorStyler. The method uses a combined path with two live offsets: first a positive offset, then a negative offset. This creates a smooth connection between the shapes while keeping the result editable. Here is the video: https://imgur.com/a/r0xsB1S

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@ZATOPEK For making the nodes smooth (or symmetric) there is (shown in the tooltip of the action from the context panel). But for just brining out the handles and moving outwards, no shortcut (and no such feature)

merci beaucoup

@macos There an option in Settings -> Other Options: "Paste with Artboard Position" If enabled, it should keep the Artboard relative position

@DreamS I got the files, I will try to find out what can cause these issues

@VectorStyler frame text.vstyler

Coreldraw allows to select consecutive nodes on a path by holding shift and then selecting both the node for the start of the section and beginning, it will select all that exist inbetween... vs Ctrl which selects individually

@VectorStyler Good. Yet I couldn't replicate your solution without selecting Separate Path also ... [image: 1778231945240-5eea44f3-a761-469d-a376-1f5f6da41e9e-image.png]

@VectorStyler Ah, great. Got it. Update with a note: One have to check for conflicting shortkeys already set for other operations. Else it won't work. [image: 1778230120509-ee388d5e-42b9-4386-bcc5-a7e4371723f9-image.png]

@debraspicher The only problem is that it should change the selected node position, not the opposite one. Il will fix this.

@VectorStyler On the hill, but it is just a random font, no matter which one I'm using.

@VectorStyler Please see the image.![image: 1778159080437-001-resized.png]

@Raaskot I think the small paths and large width causes this. It looks like a bug (should not behave like this). I will try to fix this.

@debraspicher I will try to replicate and fix this.

I haven't restarted VS as yet and the panels keep on expanding... These are the results: [image: 1778071646134-stretched-panels-02.jpg]

@vectorstyler FWIW, this plugin is open source so would be easy enough to check out what exactly it looks for: https://github.com/yanone/speedpunk/

@Boldline This is a great idea about collecting tips and tricks on this topic. And I really do hope that you are able to make some videos on these tools specifically. If I recall you have been central to bringing about things like the Bezigon tool. I remember really liking it in Freehand but so far it doesn't click for me in VS. Maybe it's that after creating the curves they are normal Bezier handles instead of staying the type of automatic curving that the Freehand version created.

@VectorStyler Can confirm the symbol expansion issue is fixed now. Yay!

@Boldline There is an "Ignore While" option in the trace panel menu. If enabled it turns these white regions into transparent. In this case it should be disabled. Also: the backdrop in the image is not a clear white tone, it has a noise with a small intensity