{"id":52,"date":"2014-12-31T16:53:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T00:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glyphrstudio.com\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2024-01-26T21:36:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T21:36:39","slug":"ring-in-the-new-year-with-beta-5-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glyphrstudio.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/31\/ring-in-the-new-year-with-beta-5-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ring in the new year with Beta 5.1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glyphrstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/more-pen-tool-horizontal-e1420065490118.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/www.glyphrstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/more-pen-tool-horizontal-e1420065490118.jpg\" alt=\"more pen tool\" class=\"wp-image-53\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately, this reference is 15 years old, which makes me feel old. &nbsp;Fortunately, we had tons of great feedback on Beta 5. &nbsp;So we turned around and addressed some of the bugs that people helped us find. <strong>Thank You!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And, since we couldn&#8217;t help ourselves, we added some shiny new stuff, too. &nbsp;We made some performance enhancements that should make using the canvas more buttery-smooth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But more noticeably, we revamped the canvas editing experience with some new custom cursors, and a new &#8220;Add Path Point&#8221; pen tool. &nbsp;This allows you to add a new point anywhere along a path without changing the shape of the curve. &nbsp;Bezier math was learned, a good time was had by all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometime in the new year we&#8217;ll start on Beta 6 in earnest&#8230; we were thinkin&#8217; Direct Export to OTF, Better Test Drive Experience, and maybe some Multi-Select? \u00a0Haven&#8217;t decided for sure yet, but you can email us (mail@glyphrstudio.com) if you have an input.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Until then, head over to the main <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glyphrstudio.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Glyphr Studio<\/a> site to start using Beta 5.1 today! &nbsp;Happy New Year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had tons of feedback on Beta 5! For Beta 5.1 we revamped the canvas editing experience with some new custom cursors, and a new &#8220;Add Path Point&#8221; pen tool. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-release","category-version-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glyphrstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glyphrstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glyphrstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glyphrstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glyphrstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.glyphrstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/www.glyphrstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glyphrstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glyphrstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glyphrstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}