What’s new in Markwork

A big day: new Illustrator-style tools, phone and tablet support, account emails, and a round of fixes to exports and security.

Clipping masks. Select artwork with a shape on top and press Ctrl/⌘ 7 (or Arrange → Clipping mask). The top shape clips everything below it. Alt+Ctrl/⌘ 7 releases it. Masks work in the editor, thumbnails, and PNG, SVG and PDF exports.
More Pathfinder options. Divide, Trim, Crop and Minus back join Unite, Subtract, Intersect and Exclude.
Offset path. Draws a new outline around a shape, or inside it with a negative number, with sharp, round or bevel corners.
Outline stroke. Turns a stroke into a filled shape you can edit.
Create outlines (Shift+Ctrl/⌘ O). Turns text into letter shapes, so a logo looks right without the font. Kerning, letter spacing, rotation and accented letters are kept.
Copy and paste with other apps.
- Copy puts your selection on the clipboard as SVG, for Figma, Illustrator or code.
- Paste accepts screenshots and images, SVG from other apps, and shapes copied from another Markwork tab or file, with nothing lost.

On phones, the tools run along the bottom of the screen, the properties panel opens as a sheet from the bottom, and less-used header buttons move into a More (⋯) menu.
Press and hold a shape to open the menu that right-click opens on a computer.
Bigger buttons, fields and selection handles on touch screens. Fields no longer make iPhones zoom in when tapped.

Confirm your email. New accounts get a confirmation link. The account page shows whether the email is confirmed and can resend the link.
Forgot password. The sign-in screen can now email a reset link, replacing "contact support". Reset links work once, for an hour.
Security emails when a password or account email changes.
Emails can be sent through your own mail server (SMTP), Resend or Postmark.

Properties panel sections fold up, and the app remembers which ones you folded. Rarely used sections start folded.
The top of the properties panel shows what's selected: a thumbnail, the name and the kind of shape.
Selection handles are white with a purple outline, so they're easy to see on any artwork.
Pathfinder buttons explain themselves on hover.
New credits page at /credits, listing the people behind Markwork and the open-source projects it uses. The "Made by · Sponsored by" line moved from the home page to this page.
"Demo" labels no longer appear on the real (server) version of Markwork.
New app icons, so Markwork can be added to a phone's home screen.

Clearer page title and description for search engines, plus a feature overview on the home page.
Link previews with an image when Markwork is shared, including richer Discord previews with buttons.
robots.txt and sitemap.xml, and real "page not found" responses for unknown addresses.
The home page shows up faster: fonts no longer hold up the first paint.

PDF export:
- Rotated and flipped shapes now keep their rotation and flip.
- Artboards anywhere on the canvas export correctly; before, some came out shifted or blank.
- Files with images are valid PDFs again.
- Gradients, multi-line text, accented characters, artboard backgrounds and transparent images all come through.
- PDFs are also smaller.
PNG export now matches the editor for shapes with holes.
Hovering over the active tool no longer hides its icon.
Ungrouping a clipped group now releases the mask too, instead of leaving a hidden shape behind.

Opening a project file, or pasting from the clipboard, could run code hidden in a crafted file. Everything loaded from files, the cloud or the clipboard is now checked first, and unsafe values are dropped.
"Forgot password" gives the same answer whether or not an account exists.