r/PixelmatorPro

I am using PMX to create an object (text converted to an object) with a stroke which I then export as an svg to import to tinkercad. When I did this with Adobe Illustrator worked fine but the PMX svgs will not include the fill of the object and only import the stroke. They open fine when I use safari to view it but Tinkercad doesnt like them. I just gave up Illustrator only to find out PMX cannot do this. Anyone have ideas besides going back to Adobe?

Hi, like veryone here I'm a passionate user of Pixelmator Pro. I bought the original several years ago but when Apple released their "upgraded" version (well, the icon got an upgrade) I decided to subscript.

But what we all fear is that Apple will stop adding new features to Pixelmator Pro, thinking that it's "done" and fine the way it is. I'd like to start a discussion of ways in which we still NEED new features and improvements.

My short list includes:

a) A way to "paste into selection" (creating a mask easily). This is child's play in Photoshop but there is no way to do it in Pixelmator Pro easily (I think).

https://preview.redd.it/lnsdur3fny7h1.jpg?width=1640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f7d880d9adc1b07f3bd8fe0a670ab19d0757c15f

b) The font management is far from what it needs to be. When I opened a file for a youtube video I was working on, I didn't have the proper font installed, but Pixelmator Pro didn't warn me and just re-rendered everything to be really ugly.

Also, does ANYONE like the way the font size selector works? Come on! I have to manually move a tiny slider pixel by pixel to get the size I need, and I can't type the size I want?

c) I find it quite frustrating that Pixelmator Pro is ready to save the sidecar images to iCloud, but can't get preferences another already set-up version of the app. Hence I need to take screenshots and take notes about how I set up my tools, and so on. It would be nice if there was a backup of preferences, and when setting up a new copy it could ask you, "Shall I load the saved preference file?"

d) On the tools front, we're still waiting (and waiting, and waiting) for the ability to customize keys for the tools. Some of us have workflows we want to carry over to a new program and it's not nice of devs to say, NO, the shortcut for tihs tool is this, get used to it.

Got any