Development blog
Here you can find recent development updates. You can also get an overview of the development and plans forward in the development roadmap. Along with development updates there will also be occasional Documentation posts describing specific features.
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Full 1.0 version released
After a long period of development and testing it’s finally time for the full 1.0 release of Paragraphic and end the early access period of pre-release testing. Thank you As you can hopefully see above, it has come a long way from the humble beginnings of the project, largely thanks to the many testers and
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Version 0.9.7 released
Another update has been released. This time without any big new flashy features and more focused on fixing bugs and smaller improvements. While there might still be some additional smaller improvements I think this version is more or less feature complete with regards to the 1.0 release. So going forward focus will be exclusively to
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Version 0.9.6 released
This update adds a couple of new features and improvements. The first is the ability to use multiple paths to repeat along in the Path repeater. Just use a group layer with multiple paths as the connected Repetition path. This also helps with repeating along paths from imported SVGs that tend to be nested in
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The hidden node graph
For some of you the concept node as it is used in Paragraphic might be unfamiliar. Or, if you’re familiar with node graphs and node-based design tools Paragraphic might not be immediately recognizable as one. This post will attempt to shed some light on this and explain how the node system works in Paragraphic. If
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Version 0.9.5 released
This update adds some new functionality and improvements to working with free form paths, with new tools for opening and closing free form paths, and fixes/improvements to using the pen tool to add new points to existing paths. The update also adds a couple of UI changes allowing you to collapse various panels and sections
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Using expressions for value inputs
To make the most of the parametric control features of Paragraphic you will often need to use custom mathematical expressions to establish relationships between different values or automatically calculate values based on something that you control. You can do this by using the Expression input node, which you can add by right-clicking any value parameter
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Version 0.9.4 released
This update introduces some new functionality to replace and reorder elements in groups with the new Group Replace and Group Arrange nodes, as well as a new powerful mode in instance layers that lets the layer instance a selected element from a group instead of the entire group. Like the example video above shows this
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Version 0.9.2 and 0.9.3 released
This primarily introduces some new UI and settings to deal with length units. Internally Paragraphic uses an arbitrary length unit with can be exported as pixels or mm for physical size formats interchangeably. This is still true, however, now you can choose to instead see and edit values in other units, like points, inches or
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Version 0.9.1 released
This update brings some big improvements when it comes to working with seamless patterns, in the form of the new tiling repetition preview and the new seamless repeater node. The tiling preview option allows you to see a tiled preview of the artboard, so you can see what a pattern looks like repeated. And the
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Version 0.9.0 released
This update is a slightly larger update with a bunch of new features and improvements, as well as the usual batch of fixes and smaller improvements. Most notably perhaps it improves text layers to allow multi-line texts and adds a very convenient secondary change to the Apply Function node that lets you apply to different