Sketch versions

Vector drawing app.
3.8
May 19, 2016
Review
3.7
Apr 13, 2016
Review
2.2
Dec 20, 2012
Review
2.1
Aug 18, 2012
Review
2.0
Feb 26, 2011
Editorial review
rating
1.0
Sep 16, 2010
Review

What's new

v2.2 [Dec 20, 2012]
- Retina Export can now export the ‘@1x’ version too
- A new ‘Welcome to Sketch’ panel with a newsletter, tutorials, links and more.
- Double-clicking a text layer now selects the word being clicked on
- Shape Tool adds X & Y Fields in the toolbar for the selected point
- Sketch now respects the alpha mask on images when adding a gradient
- Improves overall reliability of text editing
- Various improvements to SVG exporting
- Dropping images or adding shapes now inserts them above the selected layer
- Text and Bitmap layers can now have multiple shadows
- Fixes a bug that accidentally disabled shadow spread for shapes too
- Fixes a bug where a fill could leak from behind an inner stroke
- Fixes a bug in Image transformations
- Fixes a bug where an image with a blur or color adjust would disappear when a color fill was enabled
- Grid lines in the color picker can now be hidden temporarily using the Option key
- Fixes a bug where a 0px border would produce blurry edges on a shape
- Fixes a bug where double-clicking a layer in the layer list could have it jump randomly
- Fixes a bug where scaling an edited rectangle could destroy the edits
- Greatly improves the speed of resizing layers and groups
- Fixes a color crasher when picking non-standard colors
- Copy-pasting objects between Artboards should be more predictable now
- When copy-pasting bitmaps with rectangular marquee, colours no longer change
- Fixes a bug where resizing a group after moving its contents could have it jump back to its original position
- Fixes a bug where the layer list wouldn't update after dragging in an image from the desktop if you were in the slice tool
- Fixes a bug where duplicating pages in the Pages sheet would not refresh the canvas properly
- Fixes a bug where some text layers could appear cut off or appear to move slightly on export
- Layer selection is now preserved when switching back and forth between pages
- When 'Zoom on Selection' is turned on, it now also zooms in/out on bitmap's selections properly
- Pressing CMD+D inside the bitmap tool now duplicates the selected area instead of the entire layer
- Right-click 'delete' on a slice in the layer list now works as it should
- When Vectorizing a stroke with a gradient, we now also transfer the gradient over
- Duplicating or Copy-pasting now has Sketch make sure that the slice name isn't in use already
- Undoing a layer insert will no longer put a thick grey band on the screen
- Better slice and artboard snapping at different zoom levels
- Flattened layers no longer appear at the top of the layer list
- "Center Selection" is now disabled when there's no layer selected
- Fixes pasting via layer list and in canvas; layers no longer appear in semi-random places
- Changing the Artboard name will now change its slice name too - and vice versa
- Better trimming of Quicklook Previews
- Restores the behaviour where pressing Escape will exit the current group
- Fixes a bug where blended layers in artboards wouldn't show up correctly
- When selecting objects, Sketch now properly shows their combined width/height in the toolbar again
- Resizing a group after transforming its contents no longer makes the layers jump unexpectedly
- Zooming out no longer centers on the artboard. This was particularly annoying with larger artboards
- Fixes an incompatibility in opening Sketch documents from version 1
- Other bug fixes and performance improvements
CSS Export improvements:
- Text layers now export proper color values
- Box shadows are now exported as comma-separated values
- Shadows now also appends 'px' to the spread attribute
- Non-prefixed CSS gradients are now exported at the corect angle
Scripting improvements:
- You can now use -addLayerOfType: to add new layers do documents. Available choices: "rectangle", "text" or "group"
- 'textColor' and 'setTextColor:' are now available as scriptable properties on Text Layers
- New APIs has been added for adding/duplicating/removing pages and layer guides

v2.1 [Aug 18, 2012]
- Fixes a bug where shadows would get displaced after zooming in
- Improves the rendering accuracy of rounded rectangle corners
- Adds a "Rotation" field in the inspector
- There’s now a setting to disable shadows on high zoom levels
- Fixes an issue where a fill with a shadow could leak from behind its inner stroke
- Fixes a bug that might have caused text editing to slow down greatly
- Layers dropped into the canvas now always get dropped at the location of the mouse
- Fixes a bug where selecting multiple items in the layer list wouldn’t get reflected in the canvas
- Fixes an bug where the current zoom would show up incorrectly

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