What's new in Gravit for Chrome 3.5.33
Jan 23, 2020
- Fixed that logging in via Facebook or Google doesn’t require account activation anymore.
- Solved a problem with the Advanced Export dialog.
New in Gravit for Chrome 3.5.32 (Jan 14, 2020)
- Improvements:
- To give more visibility to the presets on the Welcome screen, the list of available options is now shown immediately shown after clicking on a category. Please see this video.
- Improved the performance of the Gravit Cloud (File → Open from Cloud…), for example when working with large amounts of files.
- Improved account activation and made it more reliable.
- Bugfixes:
- Showing the Layers and Inspector panels (from View in the menu bar) works correctly again.
- Various fixes for PDF export and import.
- Wrong border width and text colors in imported PDFs.
- Images not correctly exported to PDF.
- PDFs exported from Gravit Designer can now be opened properly in CorelDRAW.
- Applying a Color Adjust effect to an image doesn’t hide or screw its settings anymore.
- Re-sending the account activation email works correctly now.
- Fixed the Version History (from the File menu), which was entirely broken.
- Elements from files saved in older versions of Gravit Designer don’t show up as all black anymore.
- Multiple fixes for applying coupon codes and showing the validity of subscriptions in the account settings.
- Fixed that scrolling down the list of elements in the Libraries fails to load more results.
New in Gravit for Chrome 3.4.9 (Oct 16, 2018)
New in Gravit for Chrome 3.4.2 (Aug 27, 2018)
- Improvements:
- Submenus in the menu bar now stay open when being tapped on a touch device, also when being clicked.
- Improved text cursor on dark backgrounds.
- Improved appearance of the selection box on backgrounds with a similar color.
- Unified ordering and naming of Compound Shapes (formerly “Merge”).
- Added a note when entering fullscreen mode with instructions how to close it.
- Removed “Invert selection mode” option in Settings for more focus. Note: Can be done at any time by holding Alt.
- We couldn’t make it yet to support Sketch files created in v50+, so we added a note when trying to open such files.
- - “Infinite Canvas” is now properly intended in the page presets list in the Inspector.
- Created proper emails for activation and password reset.
- Bugfixes:
- Various fixes for SVG export.
- Various fixes for the HEX input field in color dialog.
- Fixed that the text preview in the fonts list doesn’t match the font.
- Exporting from “Make exportable” doesn’t add “_1” anymore to the filename.
- Input field for the border size doesn’t loose focus anymore when smaller than “0”.
New in Gravit for Chrome 3.4.0 (Jul 11, 2018)
- Improvements:
- Improvements to SVG export:
- All layers names are exported as IDs now. This can be switched off in the export dialog (“Retain attributes and add IDs”).
- The CLASS and TYPE of imported SVGs are now retained when exporting as an SVG. Can also be switched off from the same option as above.
- Added a new option “Preserve editing capabilities for SVG files” in the Export dialog. When switched on, it ensures that SVGs can be properly re-imported into Gravit Designer.
- Ellipses and circles are now created with the appropriate ellipse and circle tags when exported as an SVG.
- Showing a warning message when trying to export an SVG with unsupported effects/features.
- Enhanced the importing of SVGs considerably, including shadows, gradients and borders. This also includes improvements to the exporting capabilities.
- The extended area caused by certain effects (blur for example) is now considered when exporting.
- Improvements to PDF export:
- Massively improved exporting of PDFs at high resolutions (150 and 300 dpi). The exporting process can now be canceled at any time and in case a file can’t be exported at all (if the dimensions are too large), a message is shown.
- Drop shadows and inner shadows are now exported with the best possible quality in PDFs.
- Optimized duplicate and copy/paste behavior.
- Replaced clone tool with duplicate (Ctrl/Cmd + D) and enabled smart duplicate, also for Alt-drag and groups.
- Improved Paste in Place, in that it pastes content at the top-left of the currently selected element (shortcut Shift + Ctrl/Cmd + V).
- Improved Paste inside Selection, which still clips content to the selected shape, but also pastes it at the top-left corner (new shortcut Shift + Ctrl/Cmd + Alt + V).
- Added a new “Paste” sub menu in Edit in the menu bar.
- Added a new right-click Paste Here option, that pastes content exactly add the position of the mouse cursor.
- Added a new right-click Paste Style option, to make it more discoverable. As a reminder, the styling of an element can be copied with Ctrl/Cmd + C.
- Content pasted onto an infinite canvas is always placed at the center of the viewport.
- Alt-dragging now also works in the Layers panel.
- Massive improvements to the workings of compound shapes (Merge), including shapes with holes, compound operations involving shapes that touch each other at the edges, and compound paths intersecting multiple times in one place. Also optimized speed and performance.
- Renamed Shading tool to Freehand shaping for more clarity and improved it, especially when holes are involved. Also, drawing a counter-clockwise shape now removes it from the original shape, drawing a clockwise non-intersecting shape adds it. Please see this video: https://cl.ly/2F2r361T3G2o. Tip: Be sure that the shape has a border applied for the Freehand shaping tool to work correctly.
- Improved saving, to prevent loss of progress when saving fails. Also, it’s now ensured that files have finished saving when closing the application.
- Opening a panel in the Inspector (color picker for example) now dims the background for more visibility. This also simplifies closing panels. Please see https://cl.ly/472j3U1o343Y.
- The background color can now be set for pages with an infinite canvas.
- All file formats allow to set the background color now in the Export dialog (File → Export → Export...)
- Improved Light and Dark themes with additional icons in the toolbar, to make these functions more discoverable. Furthermore, you can now change between the new left-aligned icons and the former grouped appearance of the icons in the Settings.
- Brought entire signup/login workflow as well as the user settings to Gravit Designer. No popups or external pages anymore.
- New elements are now added on the correct position of the hierarchy in the Layers Panel, for example when adding a rectangle shape.
- Removed all inappropriate graphics from the Libraries, to make them suitable to a wider audience.
- Improved display of images clipped to text layers.
- Optimized “pinch to zoom” on Mac trackpads.
- Paths now also have proper handles to resize and rotate.
- Improved importing of EPS files with text layers.
- The Knife tool now also works on compound paths.
- Renamed Split selection to Ungroup selection for more clarity.
- EPS files can now be imported from File → Import → Place image...
- Notable bug fixes:
- Character spacing isn’t added at the end of text layers anymore.
- Fixed that slices are smaller when being exported.
- Vertical and horizontal paths (or lines) can now be rotated and flipped properly.
- Ensured that SVGs are opened with the correct dimensions.
- Solved multiple problems with the grid: Switching between grid types doesn’t reset the size anymore; the isometric grid isn’t synced with the normal grid anymore; properly remembering the formerly set grid settings; switching to another document unit doesn’t affect snapping anymore; fixed some rendering artifacts; limited the grid to minimal values.
- Fixed rounding off anchor points with the right mouse button for shapes converted to a path.
- Switching between different types of anchor points now works correctly.
- Pressing Ctrl +/- (to zoom into the canvas) when an input field is focused doesn’t zoom the browser window anymore.
- Fixed that exporting JPEGs from File → Export → JPEG from an infinite canvas used a wrong background color (black).
- Switched off “Autoscale Borders” for newly created elements when adopting the styling from another element.
- Template previews aren’t distorted anymore in the welcome dialog.
- Fixed that aligning anchor points and undoing changes the appearance of the element.
- Switching from Auto to Fixed width/height text can be properly undone now.
- Make Exportable now exports multiple file formats properly.
- Various bug fixes in Firefox:
- Wrong display of certain effects.
- Arrows of drop down menus.
- Preview images of effects.
New in Gravit for Chrome 3.3.2 (Apr 19, 2018)
- Making a double-click on a path doesn’t select the entire path anymore.
- Fixed a problem with effects, that caused unexpected lines to appear on the canvas.
- Improved PDF support for certain situations with complicated paths.
- Added a warning message when attempting to open files from cloud services such as OneDrive. Due to a bug in Electron (caused by node.js) files need to be copied to the local hard-drive to load properly for now.
- Fixed loading files in corrupted installations.
- When using the Transform tool, the last element doesn’t keep selected after the transformation anymore.
- Fixed a bug that prevented certain fonts from being imported.
New in Gravit for Chrome 3.3.1 (Mar 28, 2018)
- Symbols fixes: Deleting and adding a symbol creates it correctly as a master again; resetting an instance with an image works again.
- Fixed that the Recolor effect shows correct values in input fields.
- All icons can be dragged out correctly from the Libraries again.
- Fixed EPS import in desktop apps.
- General improvements to EPS import.
- Increased compatibility of old files with symbols.
- Changing from English to Portuguese version works correctly again.
- Enlarged the login window to make all options visible.
- “Place image” works again for PDF files.
- When “Autoscale Clipped Shapes” is off, shapes in clipped groups are now anchored to the top-left to make resizing more predictable.
New in Gravit for Chrome 3.3.0 (Mar 20, 2018)
- The top new features:
- EPS import.
- Improvements to the welcome screen.
- Enhanced Windows installer and Portable version.
- Portuguese translation.
- Beta version at https://designer-beta.gravit.io.
- Ability to change your user data.
- New “Edit” option (and Enter to go into Edit mode).
- Improved precision.
- Better vector-point-snapping.
- Temporary switch from the Pen to the Subselect tool (and other tools).
- Unified resizing behavior of borders, corners, and clipped shapes.
- Improvements to line endings.
- Performance, performance, performance!
- Other notable improvements:
- Panning on the Canvas with the middle-mouse-button.
- Horizontal scrolling with Shift and the mouse-wheel.
- Delete layers with both the the Del and Backspace key.
- The show state of the Layers panel and Inspector is remembered.
- Guidelines are enabled the moment the rulers are shown to prevent confusion.
- When importing files, the real file name is shown instead of “Untitled.”
- Both the Swatches colors and “Make Exportable” are scrollable.
- Changed the default theme to “Dark.”
- Extended the “Help” menu so that it‘s even easier to contact us and get support.
- Multiple elements can be flipped at once.
- The threshold to resize the Layers panel has been increased.
- Holding Alt while clicking on a Swatch color selects all elements with a similar color and makes them blink for a while.
- Optimized the selection box in the Transform tool when altering elements and enabled the rotation point to be included into “smart duplicate.”
- Updated the included Web Fonts so that they are in sync with Google Fonts again.
- And a ton of bugfixes.