Version 1.4 (30 July 2010)

Now fully compatible with Illustrator CS5 on both platforms

New feature: Smart Remove points will attempt to keep the shape of the curve as close as possible to the original after removing one or more points from the path

New feature: You can now add automatically add points to the currently selected path(s) at their horizontal and vertical tangencies

New feature: Connector points (points between straight segments and curved segments) can be recognized and their handles automatically kept in alignment

New feature: You can now automatically close all selected open paths, optionally honoring any existing endpoint handles

Improvement: With Smart Guides off, the snap radius for anchor points and handles now matches the value set in Illustrator Preferences > Selection & Anchor Display > Selection > Tolerance

Improvement: After entering a new value in one of the single point fields on the palette, the tab key will automatically highlight the next field

Improvement: When hovering over a path with the snapping ring enabled, a small arrow shows you the path's direction

Improvement: The annotation text next to the red snapping ring now ghosts the background for better visibility

Improvement: You can now use smaller, boxed-style annotation text

Improvement: You can Command/Ctrl-click on the "Set Length" button (in Multi-Handle Mode) to remove the handles (make them length zero)

Improvement: In CS3 and higher, the right bracket key is a shortcut for Smart Remove points (when anchor points are selected) or retracting handles (in Multi-Handle Mode)

Improvement: A selection change with the BetterHandles tool no longer counts as an Undo

Improvement: When dragging a point, both handles on adjacent points are shown instead of just the handles nearest the point

Improvement: When mousing down on an unselected point or path, or adding a point to any path, the surrounding handles immediately become visible

Improvement: A button now lets you select the first point of a path when none, or more than one, of its points are selected

Improvement: When adding a point to a path, you can highlight and snap to the path's horizontal, vertical or diagonal tangencies

Improvement: When docked and collapsed, the BetterHandles palette now displays a custom icon

Improvement: When reporting selected path types, single-point paths are now listed separately from open and closed paths

Improvement: The native Info palette now displays the cursor position when the BetterHandles tool is selected

Improvement: When moving a single handle or anchor point, the handles on adjacent points (if any) are now shown

Improvement: When a smooth point is selected, a "link" icon now appears in the BetterHandles palette between the "in handle" and "out handle" icons

Improvement: Illustrator CS3 and higher's anchor point and direction handle size preferences are now respected when using the BetterHandles tool

Improvement: When moving a handle and constraining its angle with the Option/Alt key or Shift key, the point can now be moved freely (instead of in a constrained manner) with the space bar

Improvement: When "Allow anchor point dragging" is enabled, and Option/Alt-dragging a point has extended new handles, you can now release Option/Alt and continue to freely drag the handles

Improvement: When shift-dragging points or handles, Illustrator's constrain angle is now honored

Improvement: You can now select the handles on up to 4000 points simultaneously

Improvement: Option/Alt-dragging over a path segment (when no points are selected) selects all of a path's segments

Improvement: When extending a new handle from a point that has no handles, or from a corner point that has only one handle, the new handle will be initially constrained to the tangent direction of the path at that point rather than horizontally

Improvement: The redundant point indicator is now bolder for better visibility

Improvement: With Smart Guides on, dragged handles and anchor points now snap to automatically generated guidelines

Bug fix: The redundant point indicator now shows up properly all the time (Windows versions)

Bug fix: Shift-clicking on an anchor point (with the "Equalize handles" preference off) no longer selects/unselects points that lie directly under it

Version 1.31 (3 June 2009)

- Improvement: Document-specific units setting is now honored, as well as Application-wide setting (CS3 and higher)

- Bug fix: Pasting a single handle now properly changes the anchor point type to corner

- Bug fix: Changing units now properly updates the Info Palette

Version 1.3 (10 February 2009)

- Now compatible with Illustrator CS4 on both platforms

- New feature: Ability to copy and paste handles

- New feature: Alt/Option-clicking on a path can optionally add a point to the path instead of showing the path's handles

- Improvement: An indicator lights if there are redundant points on any selected paths

- Bug fix: Handles will Shift-snap to 45-degree increments using Smart Guides even when Illustrator's Transform Tools preference is off

- Bug fix: Deleting points from type paths now removes the correct number of points (version CS and up)