Stylish Word Clouds 1.2 ready for submission
After a 40 hours wait, WordCloud 1.1 is finally under review. That means that it should appear on the App Store in a couple of hours, if there are no surprises. I have used those nearly two days to further improve the app, making some small UI tweaks and fixing a couple of minor errors. However, based on the feedback of my friend Jorge Juan Gómez Basanta, I have added a new way to create masks, based on SF Symbols. This will give users instant access to a large library of useful masks.
However, implementing this feature was far from easy. Although the symbols are vector based, Apple provides no way to obtain that data and although I tried many tricks, I failed over and over. In the end I had to give up. The app now renders the image and traces it. That works well in 99% of the cases, but there are a few shapes that appear somewhat distorted. In my opinion, that is a small price to pay to unlock access to a large library of free masks. Therefore, this new feature will ship in an upcoming update.