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Clouds. Draw a bumpy cloud in one stroke and hold the Pencil still: it
snaps to a clean cloud the same size, with bumps all the way round, the
biggest on top.
Changed
A star drawn in one stroke becomes a star outline. Draw a star the
quick way, with its lines crossing, and hold: it snaps to the star shape,
without the lines inside. Hand-drawn stars also snap far more reliably:
before, only the neatest ones did.
Fixed
Short arrows snap. Drawing a line, going back a little way along it and
holding now makes an arrow on short lines too. Before, the way back had to
be at least 40 px, so short arrows stayed as ink, became a plain line, or
became a thin triangle.
Strokes no longer break apart when the Pencil's contact flickers. Now
and then the iPad reports a light Pencil as lifting and landing again
within a few milliseconds. Each flicker started a new stroke, so letters
got gaps and dots, and a line got a step in it. A pen that lands again that
quickly, where it lifted, now carries on the same stroke.
Writing in a notebook with a long PDF no longer slows down and skips.
With the page sidebar open, a PDF notebook kept redrawing its pages and
thumbnails over and over, even when nobody touched it, and the pen
stuttered. It now draws each PDF page once, at the size it is shown.
(#1)
No more stutter while you write in a big notebook. The notebook used to
be saved every two seconds while you were writing, and saving a big
notebook takes a moment. It now waits until the pen has been off the page
for a second, and each save is about twice as fast. Nothing goes unsaved:
closing the note, switching apps or 20 seconds of non-stop writing still
saves at once.
Smoother writing on iPads with iPadOS 17 or older. Before iPadOS 18.2,
the iPad reports the Pencil only once per screen refresh, and any moment
the app was busy turned into a straight line in the ink. Besides removing
those busy moments, FineNotes now fills in a smooth curve between the
Pencil's positions on these iPads. Newer iPads, which report every
position, draw exactly as before.