3.3 · Sketch

Improved Mirror

You can now connect to Sketch Mirror by typing an IP address directly.

Document Presets

Files now hold both global, and document-based color and gradient presets.

Live Scale Previews

Edit > Scale lets you preview changes before you confirm.

Improved Vectorize Stroke

Outlining a shape’s border has significantly better results.

Features (7)

Improves speed and reliability of Sketch Mirror
You can now connect to Sketch Mirror by entering an IP address (please update your version of Sketch Mirror to 1.3 to view the device’s IP)
Edit > Scale now gives you a live preview
Documents now hold their own gradient and color presets as well as the global presets
Layer dimensions can now be set as a relative value (i.e: you can set a layer’s width to 50% and it will resize to half the size of the artboard or group it is in)
You can now set independent opacity, blending options, and shadows for Symbols
Frequently used colors have moved to the Color Preview box and they will now also show you how often they’ve been used and where

Improvements (26)

Outlining Strokes has been improved significantly
‘Mask with Shape’ enhanced to detect when you probably want to use an Alpha mask
You can now define how layers will resize when using the inspector: for width, you can add a M (middle) / C (center) or R (right) suffix to indicate which edge of the layer should remain fixed. Similarly for the height you can use M (middle) / C (center) and B (for bottom)
Text alignment has been made recursive; you can select a group and align all text layers inside easily
Text layers now have locked proportions after converting to outlines
‘Make Grid’ now only optionally fills missing cells with duplicated layers
Copy-Pasting a style now also transfers a border’s arrow types across
When two objects snap to each other, the distance between them is now always shown
Resize handles no longer disappear when a shape is being rotated
Improved curve smoothing in the Pencil Tool
Shared Styles now also include the arrow on line ends
When changing a Symbol instance to a new Symbol type, Sketch is now smarter about preserving excluded text values between the two
PDF and EPS can once again be exported to multiple resolutions
When closing the popover in text edit mode, you can now immediately continue typing in the text layer
The Type menu and Font window now update to reflect the current selection better
Updates Artboard presets to include the latest iOS and Apple Watch screen sizes
The option key can now be used to move and resize layers in 0.1px increments, but still allows distance measurements
You can now customize the arrow nudge distance (used for moving and keyboard-resizing) by using two hidden default keys, nudgeDistanceSmall and nudgeDistanceBig
Introduces a new plugin file format
Improves the naming of new and duplicated layers, styles and shared objects
To make it easier to spot that you’re editing a Symbol, they now have a purple highlight in the canvas and layer list
Fill and Border options can now be accessed through the menu (Layer > Style)
Reorganises and simplifies the View menu to make it easier to find common items
You will now be notified when a device running Sketch Mirror appears for connection
Opening a bitmap image in Sketch no longer adds an automatic slice
The width and height measurements when drawing and resizing shapes are now shown besides the mouse cursor, to make them visible at all times

Fixes (33)

Inserting an image via drag and drop now places it at the correct location in the layer hierarchy
Fixes a bug where Sketch could crash when creating a Symbol from Shape Paths
Flattening bitmaps no longer flattens them to 2x resolution by default
Fixes a bug where shapes with subpaths wouldn’t recalculate their bounds when their boolean ops changed
Fixes a bug where the tab order in the color inspector was unexpected
Fixes a bug where flattening bitmaps on a retina screen might have them jump by a pixel
Layer Alignment has been improved to snap independently of axis
Fixes a bug where the Edit > Scale sheet would not recognise the most recent input
Fixes a bug where the line height field wouldn’t accept decimal numbers
Fixes a bug where a Star’s radius could go beyond 100%
The export preview is now properly centered in the inspector
Magic Wand now properly supports varying DPI images
Smart guides no longer pick up measures for locked layers
A Star’s radius now just increments by 1% instead of 10%
Fixes a bug where disabled borders on text layers would show the trash can in the wrong location
Fixes a bug where setting corner radius on individual points wouldn’t be restricted to integer values
Fixes a bug where drawing a closed path using the Pencil tool could have the path disappear
Fixes a bug where a layout grid’s values could be set to invalid values
Edit > Select All when layer interaction is disabled now selects all slices, also in subgroups
Fixes an Undo issue when setting Text Lists
Fixes confusing undo labels when editing text
Fixes a bug where images with blending and bitmap effects would not be rendered properly
Scissors tool now works correctly when multiple subpaths are involved
Fixes a bug where an outer path might leak a fill
Fixes a bug where duplicated Symbols would take the name from the group, instead of the previous Symbol
Smart Name suffixes are now also used for Duplicated Symbols and Styles
Fixes keyboard shortcuts on Dvorak, Colemak and non-Latin keyboards
Fixes a bug where the color preview box would not show a color with opacity when the real color had none
Fixes a bug where alt-dragging and then duplicating might not remember the offset
Improves snapping accuracy, especially for text layers
Fixes a bug where a color preview wouldn’t show the right opacity
Fixes a bug where dragging a rectangular area could leave artifacts
Fixes a bug where editing rotated images could leave artifacts

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