Aescripts Penpal v2.0.1 Free Download
Penpal brings bezier power and precision into AE, so that your workflow is free from excessive planning and difficult round-trips to Illustrator.
DESIGN IN MOTION
Here’s just a few of the capabilities Penpal brings to AE:
- Flip paths horizontally or vertically
- Break a path into two separate paths
- Distribute and align points within a shape
- Snap selected points to pixels
- Simplify paths with too many points
- Reverse the direction of points along a path
- Mirror points around an axis to create perfectly symmetrical shapes
- Join two separate paths into one
- Quickly make a broken tangent smooth again
EDIT SHAPES AS THEY REALLY ARE
Switch between Penpal’s Spaces, and you can work on paths that are transformed by groups, rotation and parenting as if they were still in their original state – with all of Penpal’s functions working in the right-way-up orientation.
You can treat shape layers as if they were precomps, but keep all the Path properties right there in your timeline.
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THE UI PANEL POWER-UP
Version 2 of Penpal brings a huge boost in interactivity with a live, responsive UI panel: Drag elements around in the canvas. Option-drag to smooth or break tangents. Hold Shift to constrain to axes. Enable various levels of snapping.
This UI is based on the one you already know from Ae and other Adobe apps, so it feels familiar from the moment you fire it up. Users of v1 can now work in Penpal more intuitively, more of the time.
And Penpal still goes beyond Adobe standards by letting you select tangents as if they were points. That allows you to drag two or more tangents at the same time, and do things like copy one tangent and paste it to another.
