Roadmap
All new features below to extend the Astui service, include the core public API.
Q3 and Q4 2019
- Added API functions:
- Path Fitting (for Pencil Tool-like sketch to vector conversions)
- Variable Stroke Widths
- Path Reshape
- "Cookie Cutter"
- Calligraphic Brush > Looseness setting (for adjust level of organic results)
- Scaled Long Shadow option (to simulate vanishing point)
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Optimise vector paths in PDFs
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Vector brush library
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Updated plugins providing access to new Astui functions (Brushes, Path Cleanup) and direct
availability in alternative vector design packages
May 2019
- Added API functions:
- Updated Adobe XD and Illustrator plugins to provide multiple Offset Path and Long Shadow
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Illustrator Astui plugin adds interactive Drop Shadow and Offset Path (including multiple
offsets) Tools with associated panels for the new tools
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Recipe for API calls (multiple API operations in one process)
April 2019
- Added API functions:
- Rounded corner addition
- Rounded corner detection based on geometry and removal (with path recreation)
- Calligraphic Brushes
- Boolean (shape join, divide, etc.), including Regularise
- Update Adobe XD and Illustrator plugins to provide Rounded Corners (add and remove) and
Calligraphic Brush
Q1 2019
- Add Dropbox integration for instant automation
- Technology APIs to add:
- Outline stroke
- Path Offset (open and closed paths)
- Vector Brushes, including arrow heads etc.
- Update Adobe XD, Illustrator and Sketch plugins to provide Path Offset and Outline Stroke
- Recreate Illustrator extension as a full plugin to improve speed, control and options
(original extension to remain open-source for reference)
Q4 2018
- Smart Point Removal
- Move Points to Tangencies
- Open-source plugins/extensions:
- Astui for Adobe XD (mid-October 2018 release)
- Astui for Adobe Illustrator CC (2017+)
- Astui for Sketch (v50+)
- Astui for SVG
- Public Astui API for developers
All the future vector manipulation functions
already exist in the underlying Astui Vector SDK.