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Its been a while. Just checking it on the clipping issues I reported. Still the only issue holding us back from using the otherwise great product.

Very nice to see this. Still waiting on the clip/mask issue being fixed before move our development to AD however. Hope this gets addressed soon.

Bumping this to see if anyone on the team actually looked at the example SVG I provided as requested.

1. Link to a test SVG make with Inkscape 0.91. Using your web browser save the the SVG to your local machine. I use Chrome and it saved off just fine. http://www.bytebybytesolutions.com/SVG/ClipProblem.svg Again this is a show stopper for us as we have 5 years of SVG files that use clipping/masking techniques. Simply put we don't have the time to fix a file every time we update one for an app update. I have played more with the trial version and I can find nothing to fix this. I tried fully ungrouping the object and pulling the clipped object out to see how AD was identifying it. In Inkscape you can unclip an object at anytime and it indicated as a containing two objects if you inspect the object while it is clipped. In AD it is just a single object that is the original unclipped base object. 2. I think you misunderstand. I am talking about using the eye dropper from the color panel. To set the eye dropper color I have to click on it, hold and drag the selection circle out to the colour I want to select. then to set the objects color I have to select the object and click the color right of the eye dropper. This is very cumbersome and not like any other tool I use that has an eye dropper. Example of how I use the Inkscape version in typical work flow. At the start of a project we settle on a color palette for the project. We create that palette and save the bitmap off in a common spot. Then every SVG we create we drag that palette in and use it to set colors. So I can draw several objects and then select all objects I want the same color, select eye dropper tool (hot key actually) and then click the color I want on the palette and I am done. very fast and very efficient as there is a hot key for activating the eye dropper tool and then I can hot key back to the selection tool and do the next set of objects. This really is preference and the fact that AD is very different from the tool I use in regards to how the eye dropper works. 3. Thanks for the video link. Will watch it and see what I was doing wrong as I could never get the points to drag out. 4. The image still has an alpha channel that has to be removed. There is a difference between no transparent pixels and no alpha channel and iTunesConnect will not accept certain images if the Alpha channel is present. Also the new tools for Images stack require that there be no Alpha channel. To verify what I mean export the PNG as you suggested and then use "Get Info" in Finder and the field "Alpha: Yes" will be present in the image info section. This is probably the #2 reason I am looking for a replacement for Inkscape is that I have to use another tool on the image after exporting to remove the alpha channel. 5. I will take that under advisement. If I do switch to AD then I will try to write up a good request and how it could be accomplished. I know I referenced Inkscape quite a bit but it is the tool we have used for 5 years. If the development had not stalled and they actually achieved a native OSX version I probably would not be looking for a replacement. But being that it needs an X11 environment to run and it handles our large SVG files so badly (low FPS - as in single digits while zooming in/out) I feel it is time to explore out options and AD is at the top of the list for being that replacement. I really do think AD is excellent product and its performance is incredible. If we can figure out the clipped object issue I can make a feature request for a Alpha check box in the export section of PNG files. See OSX Preview export dialog for example of Alpha checkbox. That is the exact tool I use to remove Alpha and is what Apple recommends developers use to remove Alpha from PNG files. Thank you for your time. Matt

Hello, I have downloaded the trial version and have to say it is very nice. I loaded my current tvOS projects character SVG which has about 110 frames of character animations. Each frame comprised of about 30 elements. So a good test to compare to Inkscape 0.91 for performance. System is fairly maxed out 2011 iMac. Pros: Wow it is fast and scrolls in and out so smoothly Using the same keyboard shortcuts as the rest of OSX is nice as well Near perfect import of the test SVG (see cons for issues) Easy to use so far Awesome export options Cons: Clipped & Masked items in the test SVG did not import clipped or masked. This is actually quite a mess to have to clean up by hand. Color picker eye dropper was not nearly as intuitive to use as pretty much any other apps I have used. The click & hold then move selection area to color felt very awkward. Much prefer the select tool then move to area and click on color desired style eye dropper tools. Not so happy with the path node tools either. Enjoy having control arms on all three types of control nodes in Inkscape. Questions: 1. Is there something I am missing to fix the problem with Clipped elements on SVG import? I use this technique often in Inkscape so getting this right on import is important. Just to much work to fix it all by hand on every image and if I can't bring in all my old art it negates the value of moving to AD from Inkscape. 2. Is there a way to get a color picker that works more in line with the select object, select tool, select color (like inkscape) with out the need for the click/hold/drag AD uses? Being new I bet I missing something here. 3. Path node control arms for all nodes types would be nice, so am I missing the obvious on how to get them to appear? 4. I know they keep this tool up to date so I will ask about PNG export without transparency (Alpha). Anyone that is developing for Apple knows that they have moved several items to no Alpha channel and that they prefer PNG format files. The latest is Image Stacks for tvOS apps require the back most layer to not have any Alpha. So could that becomes a PNG export option? I ask about PNG because it is easier to keep all images in the same format vice a mix of PNG and JPG files. Also right now Apples tool chain for image stacks is young and mixing PNG/JPG in the stack has resulted in fun and for me it being easier to use Preview to fix the alpha channel as required and stay all PNG files. 5. Speaking of tvOS will there be an Export option to create the Parallax Images (.lsr files) added at some point? I have an idea on this might be done. Special template with 1 to 5 layers (range that Apple's LSR format allows. The export option would export each layer into the LSR file (layer 1 being back most) and then counting up from there. It would sure be awesome to have something like this for AD given that Apple released a plugging for PhotoShop to do just this. Again great product. Loving the trial version. Besides the clipped and masked objects not importing correctly I am thinking this is a clear move from Inkscape for me. Look forward to hearing back. Matt