Sketch 3.6 Mac OS X
Sketch 3.6 | MacOSX | 23.7 MB
Sketch: graphic design for a digital world. Powerful tools and an elegant interface, in a single award-winning package. Because making beautiful things should be a joy, not a burden. Sketch supports multiple fills, borders and shadows per layer; has powerful non-destructive boolean operations; smart pixel alignment; and makes exporting a breeze with automatic slicing and multiple resolution export.
Vector tools and basic shapes are the foundation; whether you are designing icons, websites, interfaces or anything else. Combine these into complex shapes with non-destructive boolean operations, leaving you free to edit them in the future, then apply advanced layer style options like multiple shadows, fills, gradients, noise, blending, background blurring, and more.
Sketch doesn't just do shapes, of course. Imported images can be rotated, scaled, cropped and masked. The best-in-class text tool lets you add beautiful typography to your designs, using native font rendering, so you can be sure that text always looks 100% accurate!
Brand new to Sketch 3, Symbols allow you to reuse entire groups of content in multiple places in your design. Think of interface elements such as buttons, headers and footers. Change them once, and they update everywhere in your document.
Built for the Mac, Sketch supports OS X’s Versions and Auto Save, letting you focus on your work instead of hitting CMD+S. Keep your work safely in sync across multiple Mac computers with iCloud. And take Sketch full screen to maximise the size of your canvas. All this power is deliciously baked into Sketch’s single-window interface. Everything is there, tucked away until you need it. A simple interface with powerful tools.
NEW IN VERSION 3:
- Symbols, for reusing elements in your design
- Text Styles and Layer Styles, redesigned and unified for a better experience
- Redesigned inspector, giving you quicker access to everything
- Automatic Slices, export layers directly, without needing to set up manual slices
- Export multiple resolutions from a single slice, at any scale
- Improved PDF, EPS and SVG importing and exporting
- Speed, bug fixes and polish all around
- Presentation Mode, go full screen and hide all controls, perfect for showing off designs
- Improved bitmap editing with Magic Wand, Crop, Invert and Vectorize tools
FEATURES:
- Simple but powerful interface, built from the ground up for OS X
- Optimized for Retina and non-Retina displays
- Powerful styling: multiple shadows, multiple fills, gradients, blending, blur, noise and more…
- Flexible boolean operations to combine simple shapes into complex shapes
- Artboards and Slices for exporting multiple images out of a single document
- Automatic export for multiple resolutions at the same time
- Unique Color (with RGB and HSB modes) and Font pickers
- Beautiful native text rendering and text styles
- Vector and pixel zoom; zoom in with infinite vector precision or see individual pixels
- Multi-stop and radial gradients editing right in the canvas. Powerful WYSIWYG rendering
- Shared Layer Styles that automatically update all associated layers
- Shared Text Styles for sharing font and paragraph info between text layers
- Powerful, easy-to-use Vector Tool
- A growing community of designers with fantastic resources available on the web
TEXT IMPROVEMENTS
▪ Sketch now maintains consistent baseline spacing for paragraphs with a fixed line height
▪ When changing the typeface or font size for a text layer, the layer is repositioned to maintain the first baseline position
▪ Baseline snapping for multi-line text now uses the first baseline rather than the last
▪ Text layer character spacing can now be set to “auto”, allowing the font’s native kerning to be applied
▪ New text layers use “auto” line height rather than inheriting what was previously used
▪ Text layer “auto” line height is now distinct from fixed line height of the same value, and the Inspector now shows the “auto” value as its placeholder
▪ Text in the font weight menu is now vertically centred
▪ Glyphs for fonts that use swashes such as Zapfino are no longer clipped when editing
▪ The Type › Underline menu item now works as expected for selected text layers as well as selections when editing
▪ Fixes a bug where the insertion point was missing when editing right-aligned text
▪ Fixes a bug where text would not always be properly italicised when using the shortcuts from the menu
▪ Text rendering is no longer sub-pixel anti-aliased for performance reasons, and improved consistency with mobile platforms
SVG SUPPORT IMPROVEMENTS
▪ SVG export now exports much more compact SVG files by doing away with unnecessary prefixes
▪ SVG importing and exporting now supports blend modes
▪ SVG export is improved by now also including shadows on groups in the export
▪ Fixes a bug where font weight information was lost when exporting to SVG
▪ Fixes a bug where rounded corners in polygons are not exported properly to SVG
PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS
▪ Improves performance when using Sketch on an external display
▪ Improves general drawing performance and reduces power consumption
▪ Improves performance when hovering layers for selecting them in complex documents
▪ Improves scrolling and zooming performance in the Canvas
▪ Improves zooming performance in complex documents
▪ Improves application performance using improved caching
▪ Improves performance when opening large documents
ENHANCEMENTS
▪ Improves the masking toolbar item and makes the contextual ‘Use Mask’ menu item smarter too
▪ Improved pasting behaviour by now pasting on above any selected layers
▪ Improves importing of retina or high-DPI images into Sketch by automatically scaling them down to their logical size
▪ Added an item to the menu to make a layer exportable
▪ Convert to Outlines and Vectorize Stroke have been merged into a single action to avoid confusion
▪ Names for the Pixel Fitting, and Round to Pixel actions are now consistent
▪ Shapes combined using Boolean Operations now have predictable names
▪ The file format now includes metadata to indicate whether it has been autosaved or not
▪ The Pencil tool has a new cursor to distinguish it better from the Pen tool
▪ Updated icons in the Layer List slightly for better consistency
BUG FIXES
▪ Fixes a crash where Sketch could crash when displaying the Open panel on external displays
▪ Fixes a rare crash where documents wouldn’t open if they contained incorrect text style objects
▪ Fixes a regression which prevented legacy plugins being installed by double-clicking
▪ Fixes a bug where older documents may not have opened correctly
▪ Fixes a bug where opening multiple complex documents could halt Sketch
▪ Fixes a bug where the Export panel would not warn users when they were about to export two layers with the same name
▪ Fixes a bug where inserting the same preset Artboard multiple times would give them the same name
▪ Fixes a bug where flattening an Artboard to a bitmap would not include its background
▪ Fixes a bug where dragging images into the Canvas could have them end up in unexpected places
▪ Fixes a bug where Sketch could crash when loading documents with certain color profiles
▪ Fixes a bug where scaling a layer could have unexpected results if a text field in the Inspector still had focus
▪ Fixes a bug where Sketch could crash unexpectedly when in trial-mode
▪ Fixes a bug where Artboards with truncated titles would still be selectable in their truncated area
▪ Fixes a bug where Artboards in the Layer List would be automatically collapsed when they didn’t contain selected layers
▪ Fixes a bug where the color popover would prevent zoom gestures in the Canvas
▪ Fixes a bug where rendering would not update when the color popover is open
▪ Fixes a bug where moving layers would be very slow in Sketch when the font panel was open
▪ Fixes a bug where converting text in multiple Artboards to outlines would cause layers to jump between Artboards
▪ Fixes a bug where importing PDF files or copying data from Adobe Illustrator with certain color profiles could crash Sketch
▪ Fixes a bug where outlining a path would lose the name of the layer
▪ Fixes a bug where ungrouping rotated groups could result in some layers appearing flipped
▪ Fixes a bug where image layers could change in size after editing
▪ Fixes a bug where back-tabbing through vector points in the shape editor could skip some points
▪ When changing a text layer, the line height or spacing now operates on the paragraph enclosing the selection
▪ Renaming a layer is now disabled when the Layer List is hidden
▪ Fixes for various other crashes
RENDERING
▪ Fixes a refresh issue when toggling masks on or off
▪ Fixes a bug where Slices wouldn’t export the background color of an Artboard
▪ Fixes a bug which prevented the Canvas redrawing correctly when dragging some text layers
▪ Noise patterns are now more accurate when zoomed in
▪ Sketch now maintains consistent baseline spacing for paragraphs with a fixed line height
▪ When changing the typeface or font size for a text layer, the layer is repositioned to maintain the first baseline position
▪ Baseline snapping for multi-line text now uses the first baseline rather than the last
▪ Text layer character spacing can now be set to “auto”, allowing the font’s native kerning to be applied
▪ New text layers use “auto” line height rather than inheriting what was previously used
▪ Text layer “auto” line height is now distinct from fixed line height of the same value, and the Inspector now shows the “auto” value as its placeholder
▪ Text in the font weight menu is now vertically centred
▪ Glyphs for fonts that use swashes such as Zapfino are no longer clipped when editing
▪ The Type › Underline menu item now works as expected for selected text layers as well as selections when editing
▪ Fixes a bug where the insertion point was missing when editing right-aligned text
▪ Fixes a bug where text would not always be properly italicised when using the shortcuts from the menu
▪ Text rendering is no longer sub-pixel anti-aliased for performance reasons, and improved consistency with mobile platforms
SVG SUPPORT IMPROVEMENTS
▪ SVG export now exports much more compact SVG files by doing away with unnecessary prefixes
▪ SVG importing and exporting now supports blend modes
▪ SVG export is improved by now also including shadows on groups in the export
▪ Fixes a bug where font weight information was lost when exporting to SVG
▪ Fixes a bug where rounded corners in polygons are not exported properly to SVG
PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS
▪ Improves performance when using Sketch on an external display
▪ Improves general drawing performance and reduces power consumption
▪ Improves performance when hovering layers for selecting them in complex documents
▪ Improves scrolling and zooming performance in the Canvas
▪ Improves zooming performance in complex documents
▪ Improves application performance using improved caching
▪ Improves performance when opening large documents
ENHANCEMENTS
▪ Improves the masking toolbar item and makes the contextual ‘Use Mask’ menu item smarter too
▪ Improved pasting behaviour by now pasting on above any selected layers
▪ Improves importing of retina or high-DPI images into Sketch by automatically scaling them down to their logical size
▪ Added an item to the menu to make a layer exportable
▪ Convert to Outlines and Vectorize Stroke have been merged into a single action to avoid confusion
▪ Names for the Pixel Fitting, and Round to Pixel actions are now consistent
▪ Shapes combined using Boolean Operations now have predictable names
▪ The file format now includes metadata to indicate whether it has been autosaved or not
▪ The Pencil tool has a new cursor to distinguish it better from the Pen tool
▪ Updated icons in the Layer List slightly for better consistency
BUG FIXES
▪ Fixes a crash where Sketch could crash when displaying the Open panel on external displays
▪ Fixes a rare crash where documents wouldn’t open if they contained incorrect text style objects
▪ Fixes a regression which prevented legacy plugins being installed by double-clicking
▪ Fixes a bug where older documents may not have opened correctly
▪ Fixes a bug where opening multiple complex documents could halt Sketch
▪ Fixes a bug where the Export panel would not warn users when they were about to export two layers with the same name
▪ Fixes a bug where inserting the same preset Artboard multiple times would give them the same name
▪ Fixes a bug where flattening an Artboard to a bitmap would not include its background
▪ Fixes a bug where dragging images into the Canvas could have them end up in unexpected places
▪ Fixes a bug where Sketch could crash when loading documents with certain color profiles
▪ Fixes a bug where scaling a layer could have unexpected results if a text field in the Inspector still had focus
▪ Fixes a bug where Sketch could crash unexpectedly when in trial-mode
▪ Fixes a bug where Artboards with truncated titles would still be selectable in their truncated area
▪ Fixes a bug where Artboards in the Layer List would be automatically collapsed when they didn’t contain selected layers
▪ Fixes a bug where the color popover would prevent zoom gestures in the Canvas
▪ Fixes a bug where rendering would not update when the color popover is open
▪ Fixes a bug where moving layers would be very slow in Sketch when the font panel was open
▪ Fixes a bug where converting text in multiple Artboards to outlines would cause layers to jump between Artboards
▪ Fixes a bug where importing PDF files or copying data from Adobe Illustrator with certain color profiles could crash Sketch
▪ Fixes a bug where outlining a path would lose the name of the layer
▪ Fixes a bug where ungrouping rotated groups could result in some layers appearing flipped
▪ Fixes a bug where image layers could change in size after editing
▪ Fixes a bug where back-tabbing through vector points in the shape editor could skip some points
▪ When changing a text layer, the line height or spacing now operates on the paragraph enclosing the selection
▪ Renaming a layer is now disabled when the Layer List is hidden
▪ Fixes for various other crashes
RENDERING
▪ Fixes a refresh issue when toggling masks on or off
▪ Fixes a bug where Slices wouldn’t export the background color of an Artboard
▪ Fixes a bug which prevented the Canvas redrawing correctly when dragging some text layers
▪ Noise patterns are now more accurate when zoomed in
System requirements: OS X 10.10 or later, 64-bit processor
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