Technical Updates

March 2025 updates - 20 Mar 2025

AstuteBuddy v1.9.8
  • Added new keypress for Smart Remove Brush tool.
Autosaviour v2.9.4
  • Bug fix: New document settings which specify backups but not autosaving/reminding are now correctly applied to new documents.
DynamicSketch v3.9.6
  • Bug fix: Trim and Join caused a crash in very specific circumstances.
Phantasm v5.8.6
  • Bug fix: Phantasm effects applied to multiple objects using the corresponding icon on the Phantasm panel no longer revert to their default parameters after clicking "OK" if Preview is turned off.
Randomino v1.4.3
  • New feature: Color Randomizer live effect.
  • New feature: Opacity Randomizer live effect.
  • Improvement: Randomino can now randomize the "seed" parameter of the following AG Utilities live effects: Add Points, Dashify, Extend Path, Make Shape, Path Removal, Point Removal, Segment Removal, and Stroke Attributes
SubScribe v4.8.4
  • New feature: A new menu item "Object > Pixels to Vector" converts each pixel of the selected raster art into vector shapes.
Texturino v2.9.7
  • Improvement: When textures are rewritten to disk when Illustrator is quit (for example, because their assigned categories have been changed), a progress bar now appears if the process is lengthy.
VectorScribe v5.6.6
  • New feature: When brushing with the Smart Remove Brush tool, the Command/Ctrl key may be held down to change the mode to "non-smart" removal.
  • Bug fix: When attempting to drag an anchor point, the PathScribe tool no longer adjusts the path segment of another path if that segment lies directly above the anchor point.
  • Bug fix: The AG Array parameter dialog help button is now positioned correctly when the UI Scaling is set to values higher than 100%.

New AG Array and AG Shear effects - 18 Feb 2025

AstuteBuddy v1.9.7
  • New Shift keypress added for SubScribe's Lock Unlock tool.
  • New space keypress added for VectorScribe's PathScribe tool when marqueeing.
DynamicSketch v3.9.5
  • New feature: The AG Trim and Join tool now has options for not splitting or welding width profiles when trimming and auto-joining paths that have variable width strokes.
SubScribe v4.8.2
  • New feature: When clicking to lock an object with the Lock Unlock tool, the Shift key can now be held down to lock the object's layer instead.
Texturino v2.9.6
  • Bug fix: Drag-resizing the Texture Brush or Opacity Brush tools now works consistently when the canvas is rotated.
VectorScribe v5.6.4
  • New feature: New AG Utilities live effect: AG Array
  • New feature: New AG Utilities live effect: AG Shear
  • New feature: In the Make Shape live effect, when using "Step" for either of the shape dimensions, the quantized value can be forced to the higher of two possible outside-range values by enabling the new "Round Up" parameter.
  • New feature: When marquee-selecting with the PathScribe tool, the space bar can now be used to reposition the marquee.
  • Bug fix: In the Make Shape live effect, "Step" values are now honored when the random variation is set to zero.
  • Bug fix: The Smart Remove brush cursor now redraws correctly when using CPU preview mode with a rotated canvas.
  • Bug fix: The Path Removal live effect no longer might result in compound paths with zero subpaths.