lowellvectoreditor

Devlog 2026.02.14

Damon Floyd

15 Feb 2026

Happy Valentine's Day!

Lowell Vector Editor:

Most of this is just cleanup stuff after Layers, and some tweaks that have been a long time coming. -Monk.

Had a bug where if you loaded a Font, then changed modes, then went Font -> New, it would still have the previous font loaded. Fixed it.
Switching Modes was not resetting the Preview or Grid, leading to stuff like: doing some detail work WAY zoomed in on a thing, switching modes, not noticing the Preview was zoomed WAY in, draw a thing, and think the Preview isn't working because what you just drew is off camera. Fixed.
Added Zoom To Fit Button to Grid because it really felt like it needed it.

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