August 5th, 2010· Now fully compatible with Illustrator CS5 on both platforms
· New feature: Smart Remove points will attempt to keep the shape of the curve as close as possible to the original after removing one or more points from the path
· New feature: You can now add automatically add points to the currently selected path(s) at their horizontal and vertical tangencies
· New feature: Connector points (points between straight segments and curved segments) can be recognized and their handles automatically kept in alignment
· New feature: You can now automatically close all selected open paths, optionally honoring any existing endpoint handles
· Improvement: With Smart Guides off, the snap radius for anchor points and handles now matches the value set in Illustrator Preferences > Selection & Anchor Display > Selection > Tolerance
· Improvement: After entering a new value in one of the single point fields on the palette, the tab key will automatically highlight the next field
· Improvement: When hovering over a path with the snapping ring enabled, a small arrow shows you the path's direction
· Improvement: The annotation text next to the red snapping ring now ghosts the background for better visibility
· Improvement: You can now use smaller, boxed-style annotation text
· Improvement: You can Command/Ctrl-click on the "Set Length" button (in Multi-Handle Mode) to remove the handles (make them length zero)
· Improvement: In CS3 and higher, the right bracket key is a shortcut for Smart Remove points (when anchor points are selected) or retracting handles (in Multi-Handle Mode)
· Improvement: A selection change with the BetterHandles tool no longer counts as an Undo
· Improvement: When dragging a point, both handles on adjacent points are shown instead of just the handles nearest the point
· Improvement: When mousing down on an unselected point or path, or adding a point to any path, the surrounding handles immediately become visible
· Improvement: A button now lets you select the first point of a path when none, or more than one, of its points are selected
· Improvement: When adding a point to a path, you can highlight and snap to the path's horizontal, vertical or diagonal tangencies
· Improvement: When docked and collapsed, the BetterHandles palette now displays a custom icon
· Improvement: When reporting selected path types, single-point paths are now listed separately from open and closed paths
· Improvement: The native Info palette now displays the cursor position when the BetterHandles tool is selected
· Improvement: When moving a single handle or anchor point, the handles on adjacent points (if any) are now shown
· Improvement: When a smooth point is selected, a "link" icon now appears in the BetterHandles palette between the "in handle" and "out handle" icons
· Improvement: Illustrator CS3 and higher's anchor point and direction handle size preferences are now respected when using the BetterHandles tool
· Improvement: When moving a handle and constraining its angle with the Option/Alt key or Shift key, the point can now be moved freely (instead of in a constrained manner) with the space bar
· Improvement: When "Allow anchor point dragging" is enabled, and Option/Alt-dragging a point has extended new handles, you can now release Option/Alt and continue to freely drag the handles
· Improvement: When shift-dragging points or handles, Illustrator's constrain angle is now honored
· Improvement: You can now select the handles on up to 4000 points simultaneously
· Improvement: Option/Alt-dragging over a path segment (when no points are selected) selects all of a path's segments
· Improvement: When extending a new handle from a point that has no handles, or from a corner point that has only one handle, the new handle will be initially constrained to the tangent direction of the path at that point rather than horizontally
· Improvement: The redundant point indicator is now bolder for better visibility
· Improvement: With Smart Guides on, dragged handles and anchor points now snap to automatically generated guidelines
· Bug fix: The redundant point indicator now shows up properly all the time (Windows versions)
· Bug fix: Shift-clicking on an anchor point (with the "Equalize handles" preference off) no longer selects/unselects points that lie directly under it
June 3rd, 2009· Improvement: Document-specific units setting is now honored, as well as Application-wide setting (CS3 and higher).
· Bug fix: Pasting a single handle now properly changes the anchor point type to corner.
· Bug fix: Changing units now properly updates the Info Palette.
February 10th, 2009· Now compatible with Illustrator CS4 on both platforms
· New feature: Ability to copy and paste handles
· New feature: Alt/Option-clicking on a path can optionally add a point to the path instead of showing the path's handles
· Improvement: An indicator lights if there are redundant points on any selected paths
· Bug fix: Handles will Shift-snap to 45-degree increments using Smart Guides even when Illustrator's Transform Tools preference is off
· Bug fix: Deleting points from type paths now removes the correct number of points (version CS and up)
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