Acorn 8.5 Is Out

I‘ve just release Acorn 8.5, which has some new features, nice SVG improvements, and some good bug fixes. Here are my favorites: There’s a new “Bendable” type of Arrow shape which lets you add a nice adjustable curve to your arrow. You can also have arrow heads on either end (or both) of the shape. This has been a feature request for many years, so I’m glad to finally add it. SVG importing has been much improved. Drop shadows, text on a path, poly lines, transforms, reading css colors, and more are all now supported. If you find a SVG that Acorn won’t open - let me know! The multi-stop gradient filters now have an option to use the Oklab color space for blending interpolation. What that means is the blending between colors is a whole lot nicer (aka, “perceptual”): The Oklab interpolation isn’t available with gradients on vector shapes yet, but it’s something I’m working on. Also new: pressing the option-tab keys will hide all palettes and toolbars. It’s a little thing, but I really…