ianrobertdouglas

Good sleuthing, R C-R. The error happened to me last night, really for no reason and while following standard procedures that didn't trigger it earlier. The inconsistency is what's a pain. Interesting you mention the time interval (10 mins). I get a sense that it happens more if I'm outside AD for a good while and then try to open a document I closed before moving to another app, or whatever else I was doing. What I don't understand is why the bug cannot be traced. The final error message was written by the developers for a purpose, to follow a particular set of outcomes from feeding code through a gate. So why not check those conditions and what could trigger them and see if all is well or not in the relevant code?

I've been seeing this issue quite a lot, but sadly, reproducing R C-R's instructions doesn't reproduce it for me. This is just off the top of my head, but is there a time interval for AD to save changes? It's as if when a document is closed, AD is not seeing it as closed and making one more save after the fact. The other thing I was thinking about was whether the MAS version (1.4.2) was interfering in any way. If I go to Finder Info on any new file created in AD Beta, Finder still has the file format linked to the MAS version. For me, this doesn't matter so much as I rarely double-click to open files. I'll usually drag to the app. When this error has been triggered, for me, is when I try to reopen a recently closed file with the Open menu item, or Open Recent menu. Does having the MAS version open have any bearing on anything? I've been having it open as it's linked for me to a script that activates a custom font set. But at least as I try to test it now, having it open or not doesn't make any difference, and right now I can't trigger the error, though I'm sure it will come back, because it's been there for me since Beta 7 I think.

I still have an issue when trying to reopen a file I've closed. It's the same whether I drag to app, go "Open Recent" or just Open and navigate to the file. I get this: And then I get something like this, no matter which option above I choose: The only way forward from there is to quit the Beta and reopen it. Can someone please weigh in on this? It's been like this for the last three betas.

I get this often (always, actually) if I open AD Beta, work with a file, close it, and try to open it again. 100%, I think, if I try to open via the File menu. Sometimes dragging into AD from the Finder reopens the file. After this warning box, I get another, no matter which option I choose, that says the file is in use by another application. Only quitting the Beta and reopening it resets this.

Had a couple of nasty crashes when working with symbols. Specifically, trying to undo an action. crashreport.txt

Nice tip! Thank you! In that case, let the notification disappear: one less click to make!

Tiny issue: I'd love that the notification that fonts are missing in a document stay on the screen and not disappear automatically. It used to stay until dismissed. Right now, it disappears faster than I can take a screenshot or note which ones are missing.

I keep getting stuff like this: Is this a known issue? Usually quitting and restarting the app is enough to clear it, but not as I write. I hope a machine reboot clears it. EDIT: A restart didn't clear it, and I'm not sure if the problem originated in AD. It might have been a system problem on my machine. I ran disk permissions verify and repair from the command line and then rebooted in Safe mode, and then booted normally. It seems to have cleared the issue. Could be unrelated to AD.

Guys, I accidentally deleted the standard Greys palette. I tried exporting that palette from the MAS version, but the beta doesn't accept it. Can anyone export it and upload it here? It would save me reseting the app and losing my current customisations.

Can we get a new beta with Boolean functions working properly?

Saw two crashes when changing colors using the color wheel. Crash report attached. The crashes were not immediate, but rather if I was lingering with the trackpad pressed, considering different colors. crash_colors.txt

Many thanks. I reset the Studio and User Defaults in the app preferences and quit and restarted the beta and it's okay now. Thank heaven!

I don't know if there's a setting somewhere I can change on this, but I'm really struggling with the layers pane in the beta. In a file with numerous layers, the scroll bar covers the checkboxes that control visibility. It's viewable here, though my screenshot app removes the cursor: In contrast, MAS 1.4.2 does not have this problem: I've tried expanding the pane, but the scroll bar continues to cover the checkboxes. This is a critical problem for me in normal use.

I've also been having problems duplicating and moving artboards. It's hard to describe exactly, but on some complex artboards with many layers, if I duplicate and move things have gone out of alignment and even "jumped" to places far left or right of the artboard or even the original artboard. I've had similar problems copying and pasting content from one artboard to another.

I'll have to tell you the next time I do it, but this was also subtracting and dividing, but I think @MEB is right: the most "leftover" nodes come from expanding strokes, which I was also doing in that graphic. I think (just an impression) that AD has much improved in v1.5, by the way.

Many thanks. I haven't explored option/alt. I should do that. Yes, I think many or most of the extra nodes come from expanding strokes.

Yes, I often do the same. But at other times its more complex. Recently I constructed a bird out of many overlapping ovals. It all worked out, but the end result included scores of nodes I had to remove by hand. Another possibility was just to create a new shape with the pen tool over the original. Sometimes I do that too. But I would love to take advantage of a tool for the purpose of reducing nodes. I really like the end result to have as few nodes as possible. I take it as part and parcel of producing a professional result. I use artboards for versioning, so I'm not so worried about destructive operations. I also always need the output to be solely vector, so in general I don't touch the Pixel persona much at all.

I think this post is a little unkind. Personally, I can barely imagine how complex and difficult it must be to develop an amazing app like AD. But anyway, I would love to see some way come in to AD of intelligently reducing nodes. Right now, I do it manually. I'm sure a machine or algorithm with human guidance and correction could do it better. I'd be interested to hear how others do this. Sometimes complex addition operations leaves scores of unneeded nodes that it's best to remove.

thanks Matt. While I have you here, I really, really hope that a vector erase tool comes soon. I manage by using any shape above the layer I want to amend and subtracting. But clearly this is a little ... well, crazy. But I still love you guys, and AD!

I have something odd going on with the geometry tools. In the MAS version (1.4.2) if I have a simple shape I can divide its elements: But in the Beta, this option is greyed out and not available: In this example I even copy pasted the curve from Beta to MAS. So it works in MAS but not in Beta at all.

I keep getting this message when I try to reopen a file I was working on and then closed: If I press either option I get the following: I have to quit AD and reopen it to get around this.

This might be dreaming, but I wondered if it's possible to embed .psd files and have the default behaviour on double clicking them to open them in Photoshop? I often have to use mockups, and embedding is not a feature I've used before. AD can open the .psd file, but it doesn't work with smart objects, it seems. What I'm trying to do, finally, is put together a series of templates (often I need to show things in similar ways) and be able to just double click in AD and go to that embedded file in Photoshop, where I can edit the smart layer and save. Any way to do this? Until now I just select mockups manually, create my image, and put them direct in AD files.

Okay. This is what I'm not sure how to do: "you have to break its end nodes to turn it into a single line - don't change its position". For example, on a curved shape.

Not sure the correct terminology, but if I have a shape in curve form, is there a way to trace a link through the centre of it, aside from manually (and imprecisely) with the pen tool? Though it refers to Illustrator, this thread on Adobe's forum basically was asking in Ai how to do the same thing. In my case, I have a squirly pattern, with arcs and straight lines. I want to be able to expand it outwards. If I had a line running through it I could add a stroke.

1+ for the original request here. Back on an earlier version (I don't remember which), if you were looking (auditioning is a good word) for a font you could go through your list one by one. Having seen one on your design, when you clicked on the font menu it would take you back to that font and you could key down to the next. Now (since a couple of versions), in my view, it doesn't work anywhere near as well. You get "recent fonts", which may be useful in other circumstances but not in font picking. In addition (and this is the worst thing, in my opinion), if you type a font name, it will take you to that font in the recent fonts section, instead of that font in your full font list. In my opinion, the earlier way of font selection was much better.