Technical Updates

March 2025 updates - 20 Mar 2025

v1.9.8
  • Added new keypress for Smart Remove Brush tool.
v2.9.4
  • Bug fix: New document settings which specify backups but not autosaving/reminding are now correctly applied to new documents.
v3.9.6
  • Bug fix: Trim and Join caused a crash in very specific circumstances.
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.
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
v4.8.4
  • New feature: A new menu item "Object > Pixels to Vector" converts each pixel of the selected raster art into vector shapes.
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.
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

v1.9.7
  • New Shift keypress added for SubScribe's Lock Unlock tool.
  • New space keypress added for VectorScribe's PathScribe tool when marqueeing.
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.
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.
v2.9.6
  • Bug fix: Drag-resizing the Texture Brush or Opacity Brush tools now works consistently when the canvas is rotated.
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.