VectorCat

Yep, that was it. Thank you, VIPStephan!! Huge help...I guess I'd adjusted the background color not zoomed out enough to see all of the rammifications.

I don't mean "artboards" the way Illustrator has them. I mean the area delineating the live document area from the surrounding area..it provides a visual boundary of the "page" being worked on.

Seems I've butted up against this before. I have live text in a text box and it takes a huge amount of fiddling around to get an I-bar in there so I can edit the text. Can someone please outline the steps for doing this? thank you!

I can't see the bounds of my art board unless I drag an item too far (then it disappears) my document is one white area, aside from the artwork I have on it...I'm looking for a setting that governs artboard visibility but not seeing anything.. any clues? Thank you!

Yes, thank you for this!

Could have sworn this was working..I have a pile of files either created in or saved out as AD files, but all I see in the finder are the generic dog-eared icons, and no quickview when I press the space bar with one of them selected. Anyone know what up? Thanks!

O M G I am fairly blown away! That is *NICE* I think with that tool alone, you have fairly spanked the daylights out of the rest of the vector app world.

AD has better tools for this than any other vector app I've used so far..all the usual suspects including the venerable Inkscape. Is it too far out there to enable adjusting corner radius on *any* shape, and not just ones that are created by shape tools in the program? So, let's say I make a shape by dropping points on the canvas and I decide that rather than pointy corners, I want all corners to have say a 6px radius? Where this could deliver mind-bending time saving would be in the case of a very complex shape with many corners, the alternative being the old-school insertion of more points for each, adjust their curves, rinse and repeat for x-number of corners. Wow. Is this too much of an ask?

"too soon?"

Here is what I mean..you're going to export something 500 px square...that is your final size. You have elements which, in your art, go "outside" of that 500 x 500 area. you might move them around, getting the art the way you like, but in any case, must those elements be masked so that when you export slice, you just get 500x500, and not the dimensions with the elements that go outside taken into account? hope this isn't too confusing..thanks! Edit: upon fiddling with this, I realized the that crop tool will work on not just placed images, but any object or group, which pretty well solves my issue. Actually, it doesn't! Visually it crops, but AD still adds the total pixels covered by all the pieces, so..I guess my original question still applies! OK..seems the Slice tool, while in Export Persona, is the tool I needed. I thought I'd never need the Slice tool, but...here I am.. ;-)

I think these are on the road map but until they arrive, anyone work out a way to get this look? I'm re-creating a bit of artwork I created in another software..and lost the original file (rats!) but came pretty close in AD. The fills are not exactly the same..wondering if anyone has wrangled this same type of issue, and whether successful, how you did it? Thank you vcat

Why would this be? If I make a tile set: tile.jpg, tile@2x.jpg, tile@3x.jpg, then change the source and re-export the tiles to the same location, why am I not prompted/asked whether I want to save over the existing files?

..as before? Now that 1.2 is out, and the betas reflect the latest fixes and improvements, we should be using them?

Well...no. I am "in" the Text tool. I get to the point where I'm done with the Text tool. IOW, I no longer need it, and want a different tool. I press "V" for the "Move" tool. Once. And what actually happens is that the Text tool remains active. What ought happen is that the Move tool becomes active. Think about it as if you were using actual physical tools. You're done with the hammer. You put it down. You pick up the screwdriver, yet you see it's still the hammer that's in your hand.

dunno if this is a bug, but I'm doing a lot of placing. I used to get guides when my Place cursor was near the center of my document/artboard. now? nothin! how come? those guides are very helpful. thanks for any clues.

Word. 20+ years of muscle memory is a huge asset, and it really works well for the text tool, because you're already there, typing, or finishing up typing. The "V" Key is 1/2 cm from your left index finger's "Home" position (over "F") and who wants to give up that muscle memory. I don't want to take anyone else's functionality away, but I don't believe this would: key commands to invoke tools are part of the AD feature set and in terms of graphics applications, are as old as the hill as the go-to method of changing tools.

It's basically when one has concluded using the Text tool and needs to use another tool, such as Arrow ( V ) the Text Tool continues to insinuate itself into the action. Of course, one can always make a trip to the tool palette, but...why?

yah..cool...that does work. thank you!!

Is this a dumb idea? I was working on something the other day, I had it in Layers, but couldn't see it in my drawing.. would there be a worthy purpose to be able to select an item's layer, and then have "Show in Drawing?"

Having trouble with this again...repeated pressingts of CMD-D, escape, etc... then when I press the V key, I again get the text box tool. anyone else? v1.2

I'm working with some icons, all of which are grouped of smaller shapes. One of them, I appear to select from it's group, but when I move it, only one of the sub-shapes moves. The other icon, once selected, moves as a group. Anyone have similar experience and a solution/workaround? thanks!

Perhaps not type controls right in that CM, but leading to them? Seems to make sense, after clicking several text items, to save the User from a trip to the menu if type panel could be called right there. Thank you.

I like the dark interface of AD and other apps very much, but I'm running into contrast issues. Meaning, not enough contrast between, say, the chrome, and some icons and/or text labels. I've played with the adjusters provided in the prefs, but I'm still not arriving at a contrast I'd like. Is it possible to provide greater contrast controls to the user? Overall, the AD interface is yummy and comforting; I just need to boost readability. Thank you

Interesting points about Esc vs Cancel..I hadn't thought about those.. I myself have begun using Esc quite a lot in the past year or so and never knew that it could be used to get out of so many dialogues or forms, or pop ups. my thought on "Enter" as a way to be done with a box is more about ergo than anything else...you're in there, typing values, hands on the keyboard, to me it feels natural to hit Enter when you're done, rather than taking hands from keyboard, finding the mouse, aiming the cursor over the button that looks like it might offer a way out..

OK..I may have discovered an answer..first select the objects (provided they're already converted to curves) was hoping for something a bit easier..is there?