Thanks, I’ll install 6.
I do owe an apology. It looks like the text tool has been fixed, I didn’t see it mentioned in the release notes. I’ve been using a somewhat klunky workaround but now that I’ve tested it, it’s working the way it used to in 6. (I had previously posted a video here about the issue).
I’ll follow up in this thread with video captures of the other problems I’m having.
In general, I don’t mind things like stencils getting re-worked. I expect structural changes as a product evolves, I understand the app has many different userbases, I welcome the ‘facelifts’ to the overal environment. The part I take issue with are the changes at the interaction level to existing features. Users build up muscle memory and I think developers, with the best intentions in the world, underestimate the disruption caused when making changes at that level.
e.g. the creation of the point manipulation tool gives the user more control - great! However I had previously learned to do everything I need in terms of point manipulation with the selection tool. Now those actions are split across two features. And the features work differently across objects.
Specifically: the selection tool works as it always has with points on lines. Cursor changes affordance, I can manipulate beziers etc etc. All of this is turned off on a shape (which is nothing more than a line tbh). However, try using the point tool on a line. No cursor affordance… it ends up being harder to use the point tool on lines than the selection tool. Very bizarre and my point in a nutshell, with every release I feel like I’m having to relearn basic stuff without getting any added value from the arbitrary changes.
Thank you.
