@Li-Xiao said in Frame Text rendering & shifting issues in Transform Group: The text disappears after applying the Transform Group. This is a bit problematic for how the transform groups work, currently it is not possible to have frame text inside transform groups. I will try to fix this in the future

@VectorStyler nah, it's mostly dead. All modern desktop environments are focused on first-class Wayland support. GNOME already dropped X11 support completely, KDE will drop it by the end of the year. Many new popular tiling managers like Hyprland or Sway are Wayland-native from the start. Older ones like Cinnamon and XFCE are actively working on Wayland support, but they are not as popular as they were in the past. Modern Ubuntu by default ships just its own flavor of GNOME, if you missed that part. Overall, a major part of Linux users still split mainly between GNOME and KDE. KDE recently has gained more popularity since SteamOS adopted it, and overall development has sped up. Also, there is a big surge in so-called atomic or immutable distributions: those have a fixed system image that is immutable; you cannot install or uninstall system packages, remove your DE accidentally, or mess up the dependencies. The only things you can change are config files and your /home directory. The main source of apps for those distros (e.g., Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite, Bazzite, SteamOS, etc.) is Flatpak and Docker/Podman containers. Basically it is similar to how modern smartphones function. So, again, with Flatpak you would cover both immutable and basic distros. By default, the Flatpak platform is not installed on Ubuntu, because Canonical has its own similar technology called Snap and its own store called Snap Store, but it can be easily installed using one command, though it usually makes sense to upload to both Snap Store and Flathub. If resources are limited, Flathub is preferred, since Snap support outside the Ubuntu ecosystem is questionable. From a developer's perspective, the key difference between Flatpak and Snap is how applications are distributed. Flatpak allows anyone to host their own repository, while Flathub serves as the default public repository. Snap, on the other hand, relies on Canonical's Snap Store, and developers cannot host their own independent repositories.

This is the same in Illustrator and it is needed as the current layer should always update from the layer of the last selected object. I can see that's how Illustrator works. I don't know the intrinsics of FreeHand but it seems like it keeps a Target Layer active, even when you select objects on other layers. Same in VS when Select Highlighted and Highlight Selected are UNchecked in Layer Panel Options. Using this command from the layers panel right-click menu will be impossible, since that menu applies commands on the selections made in the Layers panel, and this selection is updated on the right-click. Yes, it was obvious that Selections and Current Layer indication were messed up when right-clicking. I will add a current layer indicator in the Layers panel (this one is missing), and a new Layer panel specific command " Send into this Layer") Send into this Layer by right-clicking a Layer makes perfect sense UI-wise and will be a godsent ! Great - If you can come up with Current Layer indication a bit more clear than the shades of blue (in my case) , along with Visibility, Lock status, Color, Selection and Isolation! Illustrator uses the small corner indicator, FreeHand puts a pen icon in the layer row to show where new objects end up. Illustrator [image: 1784794976731-illu_layer_indic.png] FreeHand [image: 1784799570665-freehand_layer_indic.png] Off topic but Note btw. how FreeHand only marks up each selected object with a keyline of layer color but avoids the combined transform-bounding box, that tend to obscure things IMO. You can however double-click the selection to show transform handles for scale/rotate/skew interaction. Seen below.. [image: 1784803840792-freehand_transform.png] Thanks, Lars Herold

@VectorStyler Great, thank you for your attention to this - as well! Select Previous - of course, noted.. In Macromedia FreeHand - my usual reference ad nauseam - the Click Through action is done by holding Ctrl + Right-click to cycle through the stack. Hold Shift as well to add or remove Click Through candidates to/from current selection. Hold Alt as well, to Deep Select into groups, composites, clipping groups, to add or remove Click Through candidates to/from current selection. BR/ Lars Herold

@VectorStyler ok thanks I see it now. I kept looking in the "select by shape" section by mistake

@VectorStyler it’s the same file I sent by email link in relation to the GPU view crashes yesterday. It’s a covered wagon from the American west circa 1800s. I can send again if needed. I also have the setting checked to separate with the tool already

@VectorStyler Got it! Yes, the UI text shows normally now. Thank you!

@Boldline Press the shift key before the drawing starts

@Boldline I added this to the backlog

@Boldline For the Path Simplifier tool (not the command), there should be a Smoothness option in the context panel, and also you can double click the tool icon for additional options.

@VectorStyler It's fixed in 1.3.021. Thank you!

@VectorStyler These two updates are more than enough. Thank you so much! [image: 1784548719473-overlay.png]

@VectorStyler This is the pdf I get from File->Export->pdf. Gray square shows up when I view it with Apple's Preview app. I can send it via email if you like. Same address as the crash dump I sent earlier? BTW: This isn't a fatal bug. I can still work by copy/paste. The drag and drop function is doing something odd. VS_doc.pdf

@jpsimmons csraba at vectorstyler.com

@jpsimmons I opened a bug on this and will try to fixit.

@VectorStyler oh fantastic, dragging the stroke underneath the fill in the Appeareance panel is exactly what I was looking for, this is perfect. Thanks for your quick responses in helping me figure this out!

There is a workaround that requires using Shape Corner in the Effects panel. However, this only works if all four corners of the rectangle have the same radius. If the corner sizes are inconsistent, Shape Corner doesn't allow for individual corner adjustment, and you have to use the Corner panel instead, which makes this workaround unusable for that scenario. https://youtu.be/akNbqo8wqo8