Technical Updates

September 2020 ton of updates - 28 Sep 2020

AstuteBuddy v1.1.3
  • New feature: The panel can now be set to automatically show when an Astute Graphics tool is in use (and, optionally, to automatically hide again afterwards). See the Astute Buddy Preferences window for control.
  • Improvement: The "About" and "Window" menu commands have been consolidated under a single "Astute Graphics" menu item.
  • Bug fix: Fixed problem with panels potentially showing an incorrect UI scaling value on startup.
Autosaviour v2.3.2
  • Improvement: The "About" and "Window" menu commands have been consolidated under a single "Astute Graphics" menu item.
  • Bug fix: Fixed problem with panels potentially showing an incorrect UI scaling value on startup.
ColliderScribe v3.3.1
  • Improvement: The "About" and "Window" menu commands have been consolidated under a single "Astute Graphics" menu item.
  • Bug fix: Fixed problem with panels potentially showing an incorrect UI scaling value on startup.
  • Bug fix: When using UI scaling above 1.0, the cursor annotation oval is now correctly displayed.
DirectPrefs v1.2.2
  • Improvement: The "About" and "Window" menu commands have been consolidated under a single "Astute Graphics" menu item.
  • Bug fix: Fixed problem with panels potentially showing an incorrect UI scaling value on startup.
DynamicSketch v3.2.1
  • Improvement: The "About" and "Window" menu commands have been consolidated under a single "Astute Graphics" menu item.
  • Bug fix: Fixed problem with panels potentially showing an incorrect UI scaling value on startup.
  • Bug fix: When using the dark theme with the "Use Dark Graph Backgrounds" pref disabled, the graph line is now visible.
  • Bug fix: Fixed potential trimming problem when a straight line intersects certain curved bezier segments.
FindReplace v1.2.1
  • Improvement: The "About" and "Window" menu commands have been consolidated under a single "Astute Graphics" menu item.
  • Bug fix: Fixed problem with panels potentially showing an incorrect UI scaling value on startup.
InkFlow v1.3.0
  • Improvement: Existing paths can now be extended, closed, reshaped and joined with associated proximity tolerance options added to the Preferences window.
  • Improvement: The "About" and "Window" menu commands have been consolidated under a single "Astute Graphics" menu item.
  • Bug fix: Fixed problem with panels potentially showing an incorrect UI scaling value on startup.
InkQuest v2.2.1
  • Improvement: The "About" and "Window" menu commands have been consolidated under a single "Astute Graphics" menu item.
  • Bug fix: Fixed problem with panels potentially showing an incorrect UI scaling value on startup.
InkScribe v2.2.1
  • Improvement: The "About" and "Window" menu commands have been consolidated under a single "Astute Graphics" menu item.
  • Bug fix: Fixed problem with panels potentially showing an incorrect UI scaling value on startup.
MirrorMe v3.0.2
  • Improvement: The "About" and "Window" menu commands have been consolidated under a single "Astute Graphics" menu item.
  • Bug fix: Fixed problem with panels potentially showing an incorrect UI scaling value on startup.
Phantasm v5.2.1
  • Improvement: The "About" and "Window" menu commands have been consolidated under a single "Astute Graphics" menu item.
  • Bug fix: Fixed problem with panels potentially showing an incorrect UI scaling value on startup.
  • Bug fix: When using the dark theme with the "Use Dark Graph Backgrounds" pref disabled, the graph line is now visible.
Rasterino v2.3.1
  • Improvement: The "About" and "Window" menu commands have been consolidated under a single "Astute Graphics" menu item.
  • Bug fix: Fixed problem with panels potentially showing an incorrect UI scaling value on startup.
Stipplism v2.2.1
  • Improvement: The "About" and "Window" menu commands have been consolidated under a single "Astute Graphics" menu item.
  • Bug fix: When using the dark theme with the "Use Dark Graph Backgrounds" pref disabled, the graph line is now visible.
Stylism v2.6.1
  • Improvement: The "About" and "Window" menu commands have been consolidated under a single "Astute Graphics" menu item.
  • Bug fix: Fixed problem with panels potentially showing an incorrect UI scaling value on startup.
  • Bug fix: The Stylism Tool's displayed bounds of Transform effect copies is now correct when the transformed object has inside- or outside-aligned strokes (or variable width strokes), or when other live effects are present.
  • Bug fix: Clipping a shadowed object no longer creates the shadow from the clipped object's bounds.
  • Bug fix: AG Offsets on certain bezier segments with parallel handles are now correct.
SubScribe v3.2.1
  • Improvement: The "About" and "Window" menu commands have been consolidated under a single "Astute Graphics" menu item.
Texturino v2.2.1
  • Improvement: The "About" and "Window" menu commands have been consolidated under a single "Astute Graphics" menu item.
  • Bug fix: Fixed problem with panels potentially showing an incorrect UI scaling value on startup.
VectorFirstAid v3.3.1
  • Improvement: The "About" and "Window" menu commands have been consolidated under a single "Astute Graphics" menu item.
  • Improvement: When Completely Ungrouping art which contains groups with effects, you can now skip the groups that have effects which still ungrouping the other groups.
  • Improvement: After Completely Ungrouping, if groups with effects were ungrouped and effects lost, the panel message now indicates this.
  • Improvement: You can now Option/Alt-click on the "Show Next" button to show the previous issue instead.
  • Bug fix: Fixed problem with panels potentially showing an incorrect UI scaling value on startup.
  • Bug fix: Completely Ungrouping a group with an opacity mask now preserves the mask.
  • Bug fix: Doing a checkup while in isolation mode no longer might create duplicates of text objects not in the isolated art.
VectorScribe v4.3.1
  • New feature: A new PathScribe panel flyout menu command "Connect Paths" joins the selected endpoints of two open paths in a smooth curve (as if you had manually joined them using SubScribe's Connect Tool).
  • Improvement: The "About" and "Window" menu commands have been consolidated under a single "Astute Graphics" menu item.
  • Improvement: When converting non-dynamic corners to Dynamic Corners, the default tolerance is now looser and will convert corners which failed to convert previously. The previous behavior is preserved in a separate "Convert to Dynamic Corners (Strict)" menu command.
  • Improvement: The notification shown after converting (or failing to convert) one or more native paths into Dynamic Shapes or one or more corners into Dynamic Corners is no longer a modal dialog (which forced you to click "OK" or press 'Enter' to dismiss), but now shows as a temporary annotation message.
  • Improvement: The Extend Path Tool preferences dialog now features the dynamic "InfoText" system.
  • Improvement: The Dynamic Corners Tool preferences dialog now features the dynamic "InfoText" system.
  • Bug fix: Fixed problem with panels potentially showing an incorrect UI scaling value on startup.
  • Bug fix: With a selection present, Shift-marquee-selecting a single-point path with the PathScribe Tool now correctly updates the PathScribe panel.
WidthScribe v3.2.1
  • Improvement: The "About" and "Window" menu commands have been consolidated under a single "Astute Graphics" menu item.
  • Bug fix: Fixed problem with panels potentially showing an incorrect UI scaling value on startup.
  • Bug fix: When using the dark theme with the "Use Dark Graph Backgrounds" pref disabled, the graph line is now visible.

Astute Manager v2 release - 02 Sep 2020

ColliderScribe v3.3.0
  • Astute Manager v2 compatibility.
DynamicSketch v3.2.0
FindReplace v1.2.0
  • Astute Manager v2 compatibility.
  • InkFlow Live Effect is now supported in art searches.
InkFlow v1.2.2
  • Astute Manager v2 compatibility.
InkQuest v2.2.0
  • Astute Manager v2 compatibility.
InkScribe v2.2.0
  • Astute Manager v2 compatibility.
Phantasm v5.2.0
  • Astute Manager v2 compatibility.
Rasterino v2.3.0
  • Astute Manager v2 compatibility.
Stipplism v2.2.0
  • Astute Manager v2 compatibility.
Stylism v2.6.0
  • Astute Manager v2 compatibility.
SubScribe v3.2.0
  • Astute Manager v2 compatibility.
Texturino v2.2.0
  • Astute Manager v2 compatibility.
VectorFirstAid v3.3.0
  • Astute Manager v2 compatibility.
VectorScribe v4.3.0
  • Astute Manager v2 compatibility.
  • Bug fix: Fixed potential crash in Windows when adjusting a parameter in the "Create Spur Gear" dialog with "Preview" enabled.
WidthScribe v3.2.0
  • Astute Manager v2 compatibility.