Michail

Apps: All
Platforms: Windows, macOS and iPad
While transforming any object with the move tool (whether resizing, rotating, skewing or moving) you can now hold space to temporarily toggle Lock Children on or off (to achieve the opposite behaviour of what you currently have set in the context toolbar).

Apps: All
Platforms: Windows, macOS and iPad
We have now added the ability to lock all insertion targets (Behind, On Top and Inside) in all apps. This is activated by holding Alt when pressing either of those buttons in the toolbar. This is particularly useful for those who like working from top to bottom in the layer stack, meaning you can now lock Insert Behind on so all new objects you create are inserted below the current selection.
The insertion target buttons are available in the top toolbar on Windows and macOS:

And can be found in the edit menu on iPad as shown below. On iPad you can lock these either by holding Alt when you tap on the appropriate option (from command controller or attached keyboard), or alternatively by long pressing on the button.

Apps: All
Platforms: macOS, Windows and iPad
When in move tool double clicking a vector object takes you into node tool. It has been suggested that a double click on an object while in node tool should do the reverse and take you back into move tool (you could previously double click on the canvas / not over an object to return to move tool but this both loses your selection as well as not being possible if you are zoomed in). This has now been implemented in 2.4.

Apps: All
Platforms: Windows, macOS and iPad
Within alignment options you will see three new options to make all items in your current selection adopt the same width, height or rotation. By default this will transform all objects to match the first item selected, or alternatively if a key object has been nominated (alt-click) it will use that as the source.
Additionally you can choose to maintain the aspect ratio of the objects being resized.
On desktop this is available via the alignment dropdown:

And on iPad via the alignment options panel which you can get to via the transform panel:

 

As far as I know, that is not possible.
Just out of curiosity: why do you want to hide the export preview?
Perhaps the export via the Export Persona is an alternative for you.

As far as I know, that is not possible.
Just out of curiosity: why do you want to hide the export preview?
Perhaps the export via the Export Persona is an alternative for you.

Thank you @dominik. I think I know now what's wrong here.
APub apparently only recognizes transparency if there is only one layer. You unconsciously make sure of that by exporting the image to PNG. In multi-layer images, transparencies are not recognized. This is bad!

Many still believe that if they put an Apple in their room, they will automatically be seen as creative by others.

Many still believe that if they put an Apple in their room, they will automatically be seen as creative by others.

Hi All,
A new beta build is rolling out now - version number 2.2.0.1971 - which will be available to you on auto update within the next hour.

As mentioned with the last build, we are now feature complete and in fact expect the build next week to be a release candidate. There are just 2 little things in terms of functionality we have changed in this build:
Move data entry has an increased duplicate limit of 999 We have decided to give Create Symbol a default shortcut of cmd+shift+K (macOS / iPad) or Ctrl+shift+K on Windows when in Designer persona. Of course there are also many bug fixes too which are listed here.

Thanks,
Ash

After resetting the shortcuts, the new default shortcuts are available. Thank you 

In the meantime, one could help oneself by means of a combination with the symbol functionality...

For now we are wanting to keep this new move feature consistent between all apps, and obviously Symbols only available in Designer / Designer Persona. We have now added "Create Symbol" to Layer menu in Designer, so easy enough to set up a shortcut for that (e.g. cmd-K) and then you could just hit cmd-K before doing the move / duplicate operation to achieve the same thing.

In the meantime, one could help oneself by means of a combination with the symbol functionality...

For this, it would have to be possible to cross-fade into other shapes. In addition, the number of duplicates should not be limited to 100.

For this, it would have to be possible to cross-fade into other shapes. In addition, the number of duplicates should not be limited to 100.

Apps: All
Platforms: macOS and Windows
When in the move tool, as well as other object creation tools such as shapes, picture frames and artboard tool, pressing Return or Enter will now show a new dialog, allowing you to specify a precise distance you want to move your current selection. e.g. below I am moving the apple 100px to the left and 200px down. As you can see that also shows what it means in terms of what angle and distance that relates to. You can alternatively choose to manually specify distance and angle. 

The original position of the object is indicated with a light grey box.

In addition you can chose to duplicate the object to the new position, and also specify how many copies of it you want to make. In the below example I've moved the item 200px at a 45 degree angle and checked the duplicate box, and 5 copies. This results in a total of 6 apples.

 
As you are adjusting any of the values you will get a live preview of your result. You can choose to cancel the operation with the Cancel button (or Esc) or commit with the OK Button (or Return / Enter) or simply by clicking off the dialog.
The dialog will optionally remember it's previous values the next time you bring it up when you have "Previous Settings" checked, meaning you can move multiple objects one by one by the same amount (for example in a case where items are on different spreads / artboards or in other cases where achieving a multiple selection of them to begin with is difficult). A Reset button is also available to quickly zero all the values in the dialogs to start from scratch.

As well as manually typing the values in, you can also change them by click-drag on any of the labels, or using mouse roller when hovering over any of the input boxes.

Rotation

As has been requested during the beta of this feature we have now added the additional option of Rotation. This again makes it easy to rotate an object by a specific amount. It also opens up some useful options when used in combination with duplicate.

e.g. in the example below I have created a ring of 25 evenly spaced squares, by moving the transform origin of the square and choosing a rotation of 14.4 degrees with 24 copies. TIP: you don't need to get your calculator out as all of these fields accept equations. So in this case you could just type "360/25" in the Rotation field to work out 14.4 degrees is the required value.

You can also try playing with a rotation and distance step on duplicates for various effects. e.g. below a couple examples with a line and a star where copies are being stepped by both a distance and rotation:


 

+1 for a rotate option and having the choice to have more than 100 duplicates.

@hisonor:
Welcome to the forums here 
A layer mask unfolds its effect through grey values - and not through colour values. It makes sense, therefore, if the greyscale palette is made available to you when you click on the mask thumbnail. If you set this back to the colour wheel, the brightness values of the colours are used - i.e. grey values again.

@hisonor:
Welcome to the forums here 
A layer mask unfolds its effect through grey values - and not through colour values. It makes sense, therefore, if the greyscale palette is made available to you when you click on the mask thumbnail. If you set this back to the colour wheel, the brightness values of the colours are used - i.e. grey values again.

Thank you, Dan! The explanation sounds logical: if there is no integrated mask (in contrast to V1), consequently none can be hidden.
So one would have to extend the shortcut functionality to the maskless adjustments and live filters. I am curious to see how you will solve it 

This works to some extent and without any other plug-ins or the like – thanks, I did not know that the Infer LUT would do this! I will tinker with it. 😃

Try the LUT adjustment (Infer LUT).

On Windows. The Alt key is reserved for the MainMenu.

I have also experienced that tables of contents lose their formatting after updating.
However, the new formatting is not the default formatting, but something different each time. I suspect it is formatting that I last used when working in the document.
I have found the following workaround for me:
Before I update the table of contents, I deselect everything and reset to the default values . Only then do I update the table of contents. However, I can't imagine that this is the way it's supposed to be.
Nevertheless, strange things happen all the time. For example, the fill characters between the entry and the page number disappear when I update. Only when I click on the corresponding text style do they reappear.
Or entries before the table of contents are integrated into the table of contents, although the corresponding option is not active.
So at the moment this is still a rather shaky affair.