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Confirmations: deleting swatches from the Swatches panel opens a `confirm` dialog (fields `message`, `detail`);
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`ui.dialog.confirm` runs the command it asks about (here `swatch.delete`) and `ui.dialog.cancel` drops it.
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Deleting Layers panel rows that include a layer or sublayer with art (`engine.execute` of `ui.layerDelete`, which the
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panel's trash, its menu's Delete Selection and Delete or Backspace run) opens a `confirm` dialog too; its OK deletes
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those rows with `layer.delete` in the document the question was asked in. `layer.delete` itself deletes at once.
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New swatches and colour groups: `ui.newSwatch {spot?, global?, group?}` opens the `newSwatch` dialog prefilled from the active
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fill or stroke (fields as in `swatchOptions` plus `group`; a gradient or pattern only takes `name`) and
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@@ -762,8 +765,8 @@ the `PATH` elsewhere), and any other file, or a raster image without PhotoCraft
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Package: File → Package… (`ui.packageDialog`) opens the `package` dialog for a saved document (a document never saved
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gets a `confirm` dialog whose OK runs `file.saveAs`). Fields: `folder` (the location), `name` (the package folder),
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`copyLinks`, `linksFolder`, `relink`, `copyFonts`, `report`. `ui.dialog.confirm` saves unsaved changes, runs
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`file.package` and then opens a `confirm` dialog whose OK runs `file.showPackage {folder}`; the web downloads the zip
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`copyLinks`, `linksFolder`, `relink`, `copyFonts`, `report`. `ui.dialog.confirm` saves unsaved changes (when that save
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fails, no package is written, also with Background Save and Background Export on), runs `file.package` and then opens a `confirm` dialog whose OK runs `file.showPackage {folder}`; the web downloads the zip
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instead. Document Info's flyout picks a category and Save… runs `docInfo.save {path?, selectionOnly?, category?}` with the
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category the panel shows (none for All Categories, which writes every category).
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- **Done:** a paragraph's Auto Leading also sets the Leading the Character panel shows for Auto type, the leading the
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Alt+↑/↓ nudge steps from and the lines Fill with Placeholder Text counts; estimate unchanged.
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- **Missing:** CJK vertical
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composition (ruby, mojikumi sets and dialog, kinsoku settings #633, manual tate-chu-yoko), Middle Eastern
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composition (ruby, custom mojikumi sets and the Mojikumi Settings dialog, kinsoku settings #633, manual tate-chu-yoko), Middle Eastern
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- **Done:** Ruby (ふりがな) for live text (`type.ruby`): a reading over a byte range, above or below (right of the
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column in vertical type), aligned, sized, overhanging or squeezed; saved natively, laid out with line growth, drawn
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on the canvas and in SVG/PDF (outlines where ruby is present), EPS, EMF/WMF and legacy `.ai` (outlines where ruby is
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export, where the type's outlines used to leave them out; bitmap glyphs (emoji) too, as images that hold their
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own pixels until a document takes them in; estimate unchanged.
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- **Missing:** CJK vertical
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composition (mojikumi sets and dialog, kinsoku settings #633, manual tate-chu-yoko), Middle Eastern
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composition (custom mojikumi sets and the Mojikumi Settings dialog, kinsoku settings #633, manual tate-chu-yoko), Middle Eastern
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features beyond bidi, digit types, Character Direction and Kashidas (Middle Eastern composers, a split caret), spell check (its engine is done, #4936: `text.spelling.check` and
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`text.spelling.suggest` on craft-proof; the custom dictionary and Ignore All commands; Auto Spell Check, `edit.autoSpellCheck`, with a right-click on an underlined word offering its suggestions, Ignore All and Add to Dictionary, and Spelling › Auto Spell Check in the context menu of type; the Edit Custom Dictionary dialog; the Check Spelling dialog remains),
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Touch Type, Retype, Snap to Glyph; optional preservation of font sizes during group scaling (#1034 enhancement).
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`graphicStyle.addFromLibrary`).
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- **Missing:** more built-in brush libraries beyond the eight shipped (and further graphic-style libraries beyond the ten shipped, and further symbol libraries beyond Basic
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Shapes, UI Frames, Map Markers, Inventory Icons and Skill Icons; original, generated in code, never Adobe's); dynamic symbols' `.ai` read and write;
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Global Edit of groups holding type or images, and rotated copies as matches; 9-slice guides outside the symbol's art (a dragged guide stops at the art's edge).
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Global Edit of groups holding type or images, and rotated copies as matches.
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- **Estimate:** 5–15 h.
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## G3 3D and Materials
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| Pen pressure | yes (Wacom, Windows Ink, macOS tablet events) | yes, read from AppKit's tablet events before the window gets them (winit reports none), each move of a stroke with its own pressure, mouse event coalescing off (#852; not yet tried on a Mac) | yes (pointer force via `WM_POINTER`) | under X11 and XWayland (Preferences › Performance › Linux Display Server, #1151, #2028; Automatic uses XWayland when a pen is attached on a Wayland session, #4967), read from XInput2 raw events (#764); **no** on native Wayland, where winit reports none and the pen may not reach the window (#491) | browser pointer events, with coalesced events; Apple Pencil on iPad (hover, palm rejection: fingers navigate after a pen contact until reload) | partial: 2–4 h for Wayland (winit 0.31), plus a check on a Mac |
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| Pen tilt, bearing, barrel rotation (6D Art Pen) | yes, drives brushes | read from AppKit's tablet events (tilt, and the barrel rotation of a pen that reports one); Calligraphic and Scatter brushes vary with them (#764; not yet tried on a Mac) | with Windows Ink, read from the pen's `POINTER_PEN_INFO` (tilt and barrel rotation where its pen mask says the pen reports them); Calligraphic and Scatter brushes vary with them (#372; not yet tried with a pen) | under X11 and XWayland, read from XInput2 raw events; Calligraphic and Scatter brushes vary with them (#764); **no** on native Wayland | no | partial: native Wayland and the web read none, and Pattern and Bristle brushes do not use them (an Art brush's Width follows them); 3–6 h (#372) |
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| Pen eraser end | yes | the eraser end (AppKit's tablet proximity events) selects the Eraser tool and the tip brings back the tool used before, as on Linux (#852; not yet tried on a Mac) | with Windows Ink, an inverted pen or its eraser button (`PEN_FLAG_INVERTED`, `PEN_FLAG_ERASER` in the pen's pointer messages) selects the Eraser tool and the tip brings back the tool used before, as on Linux (not yet tried with a pen) | under X11 and XWayland, the eraser end selects the Eraser tool and the tip brings back the tool used before (#764); **no** on native Wayland | a press of the eraser end (Pointer Events eraser button, `button` 5) selects the Eraser tool, and that press erases; a press of the tip brings back the tool used before; Pointer Events report no end while the pen hovers | partial |
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| Touch gestures (pinch zoom, two-finger pan, rotate view, Touch workspace) | yes (Windows touch, Surface) | trackpad pinch, scroll and rotate | pinch, pan (a second finger cancels the first finger's tool press, #4198); two-finger tap undo, three-finger redo (#585) | same where winit reports touch | eframe until the first pen contact, then Pointer Events (pen and fingers told apart); long press opens the context menu | partial: touch workspace and touch-screen rotation missing, 3–5 h |
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| Touch gestures (pinch zoom, two-finger pan, rotate view, Touch workspace) | yes (Windows touch, Surface) | trackpad pinch, scroll and rotate | pinch, pan (a second finger cancels the first finger's tool press, #4198); two-finger tap undo, three-finger redo (#585); in the Touch workspace a two-finger tap switches between the Selection tool and the last drawing tool | same where winit reports touch | eframe until the first pen contact, then Pointer Events (pen and fingers told apart); long press opens the context menu | partial: touch workspace and touch-screen rotation missing, 3–5 h |
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| Trackpad (smooth scroll, pinch) | yes | yes | precision touchpads | yes | yes | done |
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| HiDPI / Retina, per-monitor scale | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | done; a window dragged between monitors of different scale can still grow on Windows (#1459, open); the custom title bar's window on Windows stays truly borderless so the pointer lines up with what is drawn (#1791, #1758; awaiting the reporter's confirmation) ; macOS cursors use aligned 1×/2× native image representations (#2292), covered by headless construction tests; mixed-display transitions and physical cursor sizing remain unverified, no additional hardware validated |
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| Multiple monitors: panels and document windows on another screen | yes | no (one OS window) | no | no | — | missing: 6–10 h (with multiple windows, gap G7) |
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`paint.setFill` without `item` on a grayscale or 1-bit image sets the color the image is drawn in: each pixel takes
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the color as far as the pixel is dark, and white pixels are transparent. `none` removes the color. An image with an
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alpha channel takes only a spot color, black or white; a process color is refused.
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A colorized image whose link is missing shows the placeholder, and a color set on it replaces its colorize color. A
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process color is refused there when the image is colorized with a spot color, black or white.
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For `draw_shape` and `draw_path`, omitted paint fields inherit the current [new-art appearance](#new-art).
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For a filled shape or path without an outline, pass an explicit `fill` and `stroke: "none"`.
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Lines start with no fill and a visible stroke.
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| `invoke_menu` | `{command, params?}` | Invokes a menu item by command id. UI commands such as `view.*` and `window.*` are in `command_list` with `ui: true`; running them needs the desktop app (`--connect`). |
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| `open_panel` | `{panel}` | Remote only. `panel` is a panel id (`layers`, `swatches`, `colorGuide`, …, as `window.panel` takes) or its display label (`"Color Guide"`), in any case. |
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| `screenshot` | `{path?, scale?, artboard?, window?, max_side?, traceViews?}` | Returns MCP image content (`image/png`, base64) plus a text block. Renders the artboard with the pixels of a PNG `export` with `background: "white"` at the same scale; `traceViews:true` draws Image Trace objects in the view set with `imageTrace.setView`, as in the app's window; `window:true` captures the app window (remote only), as `ui_screenshot` does, and `max_side` (1–4096, window captures only) scales the returned image down as described for `ui_screenshot`. With `path` the backend (the headless session or the app) writes the PNG there too; a window capture written there keeps its full size with `max_side`. |
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| `open_file` | `{path, importer?, params?}` | Opens any readable file as a new active document: `.vectorcraft`/`.drawcraft`, `.vctemplate`, `.svg`/`.svgz`, `.pdf`/`.ai`, `.ait`, `.eps`/`.epsf`, `.ps`, `.dxf`, `.emf`, `.wmf`, HP-GL (`.plt`/`.hpgl`/`.hgl`/`.hpg`, and a file of an extension no other format reads that starts with plotter instructions), PNG (`.png`/`.pns`), JPEG, GIF, WebP, TIFF, BMP (`.bmp`/`.dib`/`.rle`), Targa (`.tga`/`.vda`/`.icb`/`.vst`), PCX, Pixar (`.pxr`), JPEG 2000 (`.jpf`/`.jpx`/`.jp2`/`.j2k`/`.j2c`/`.jpc`), HEIC/HEIF (`.heic`/`.heif`), JPEG XL (`.jxl`), PSD (`.psd`/`.pdd`)/PSB (an image opens as a document of its pixel size; a PSD or PSB file with its layers as layers, or as its merged image through `run_command document.open` with `layers: false`; a JPEG XL file as its first frame). Templates (`.vctemplate`, `.ait`) open as a new untitled document. PDF, `.ai` and SVG files saved with Preserve Editing reopen as the document they carry. The reply is `document.open`'s: its `warnings` say what didn't come in as it was (an EPS whose PostScript can't be read opens as its preview, and the warning names the PostScript error, the operator and the procedure). A file of an extension only an installed importer plug-in lists opens with that importer ([Plug-ins](#plug-ins)); `importer: "plugin.<id>"` opens the file with the importer it names, which must list the file's extension, also one a built-in format reads (in the app, as File › Open With does), and `params` gives that importer's parameters (their defaults when omitted). `run_command document.formats` lists the formats. |
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| `open_file` | `{path, importer?, params?}` | Opens any readable file as a new active document: `.vectorcraft`/`.drawcraft`, `.vctemplate`, `.svg`/`.svgz`, `.pdf`/`.ai`, `.ait`, `.eps`/`.epsf`, `.ps`, `.dxf`, `.emf`, `.wmf`, PICT (`.pct`/`.pic`/`.pict`, and a version 2 picture of any extension), HP-GL (`.plt`/`.hpgl`/`.hgl`/`.hpg`, and a file of an extension no other format reads that starts with plotter instructions), PNG (`.png`/`.pns`), JPEG, GIF, WebP, TIFF, BMP (`.bmp`/`.dib`/`.rle`), Targa (`.tga`/`.vda`/`.icb`/`.vst`), PCX, Pixar (`.pxr`), JPEG 2000 (`.jpf`/`.jpx`/`.jp2`/`.j2k`/`.j2c`/`.jpc`), HEIC/HEIF (`.heic`/`.heif`), JPEG XL (`.jxl`), PSD (`.psd`/`.pdd`)/PSB (an image opens as a document of its pixel size; a PSD or PSB file with its layers as layers, or as its merged image through `run_command document.open` with `layers: false`; a JPEG XL file as its first frame). Templates (`.vctemplate`, `.ait`) open as a new untitled document. PDF, `.ai` and SVG files saved with Preserve Editing reopen as the document they carry. The reply is `document.open`'s: its `warnings` say what didn't come in as it was (an EPS whose PostScript can't be read opens as its preview, and the warning names the PostScript error, the operator and the procedure). A file of an extension only an installed importer plug-in lists opens with that importer ([Plug-ins](#plug-ins)); `importer: "plugin.<id>"` opens the file with the importer it names, which must list the file's extension, also one a built-in format reads (in the app, as File › Open With does), and `params` gives that importer's parameters (their defaults when omitted). `run_command document.formats` lists the formats. |
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| `save_file` | `{path?, compress?, version?, preview?, precision?, options?}` | Runs `document.save`: the document's own file in its own format (native `.vectorcraft` unless it was opened from or saved as SVG, PDF or a restorable `.ai`; then `warnings` say what that format loses). A path's extension picks the format (`.vectorcraft`, `.vctemplate`, `.pdf`, `.svg`, `.svgz`, `.ai`: a PDF carrying the native document, which reopens editable; `.eps`: by default one file whose bounding box fits the visible art, the first artboard when no art shows; `options.useArtboards: true` makes the chosen artboard the page and, with two or more chosen, the file at the path is the central file of the visible art and each artboard is also written to `<name>_<artboard>.eps` beside it, listed in the reply's `files`). For a native file, `compress: true` gzips it (default: the `useCompression` preference, Preferences › File Handling › Use Compression), `version` (1 to 4) writes it for an older VectorCraft (1 and 2 are never compressed, and `version: 2` with `compress: true` is an error), `preview: true` embeds a PNG of the first artboard, and `precision` (0 to 9) rounds path anchors and handles to that many decimal places for that save only (colors, transforms and type stay exact). `options` passes the format's save options as `run_command document.formats` lists them. When `compress`, `version`, `preview` or `precision` is given both at the top level and in `options` with different values, the call is an error (`` `compress: true` and `options.compress: false` disagree: give the option once ``) and nothing is written. A key in `options` that no save format takes is an error, and nothing is written (see Parameter keys). The save drops each option the written format doesn't read. The reply's `warnings` then name each such option given (for example `` `compress` was not used: SVG files don't read it `` for an `.svg` path, and `` `options.preview` was not used: … `` for a key in `options`; a `.ai` file reads `compress` but not `version`, `preview` or `precision`). For a `.ai` file, these warnings name the kind of `.ai` written: a legacy .ai (version 7) for `aiVersion: "7"`, a non-PDF-compatible .ai for `pdfCompatible: false`, and a PDF-compatible .ai otherwise, including a save that reuses the options the document was last saved with. `run_command document.save` and the other save commands refuse any option given beside the path and in `options` with different values, and give the same warnings for a top-level `compress`, `version`, `preview` or `precision` and for each key in `options` that the format doesn't read. The headless session and the app receive the same `app.save` params, and the app is also sent `wait: true`: the call returns once the file is written, or with the error (such as a path outside the write root), even with Background Save on. When the save asks first (the question before replacing a file that opened with losses, or on macOS and Linux the file dialog for an untitled document without `path`), the reply is `{pending}` or `"cancelled"` as before, and the save that runs after the answer uses the Background Save preference. Location refusals return `READ_ONLY_LOCATION: <reason>` without a fallback panel for automation; see [Save location errors](#save-location-errors). |
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| `export` | `{path?, format?, scale?, artboard?, range?, selection?, outlineText?, options?}` | `svg`, `svgz`, `pdf`, `ai` (the PDF-compatible `.ai` that Save writes, which carries the document when every artboard is written in order), `eps`, `dxf`, `emf`, `wmf`, `hpgl` (a `.plt` plot file for plotters and cutters), `png`, `jpg`, `webp`, `gif`, `png8` (an indexed `.png`), `tiff`, `bmp`, `tga`, `psd` (layered), `txt` (the document's text), `vectorcraft` or `template` (a native template). The tool's `format` enum and `document.formats` list them, generated from the engine's format table. When `format` is omitted, it comes from the path's extension. PDF and `.ai` write one page per artboard: all of them, or `artboard` (0-based) / `range` (`"1-3, 5"`, 1-based). SVG and SVGZ write one file per chosen artboard. EPS writes one file of the visible art; with `artboard`, `range`, `options.artboards` or `options: {"useArtboards": true}` it writes one file per chosen artboard, after a central file of the visible art when there are two or more, and `useArtboards: false` keeps the one file. Rasters, DXF, EMF, WMF and HP-GL write one artboard, or one file per chosen artboard with `options: {"useArtboards": true}`. Rasters also take `options: {"rect": [x, y, width, height]}` (page points, y down): that area of the page at the given `ppi`/`scale`, without an artboard and without changing the document; it is refused with `artboard`, `artboards`, `range` or `useArtboards`, with a non-positive or non-finite size, and for non-raster formats. `options` carries more format options (e.g. `{"quality": 80}` for JPEG). `selection: true` exports the selected objects cropped to their bounds (the reply adds their `bounds`, and reports `format` and the encoder's `warnings` as a whole-document export does); `outlineText: true` writes SVG text as paths. Template layers are left out, live effects are kept, and exporting `vectorcraft` never changes the document's path. Without `path` the bytes come back as `dataBase64`. Both backends run the same `document.export` call. |
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| `add_text` | `{text, x?, y?, width?, height?, fit?, fitMinPercent?, path?, mode?, pathEffect?, size?, font?, color?, justify?, vertical?}` | Point type at (x, y) (`justify`: `left`, `center` or `right` starts, centres or ends each line on x); area type with `width`/`height` (`fit`: `none`, `autoHeight`, `shrinkText`, as `text.areaOptions`); or `path` + `mode` (`area`/`onPath`) to flow text in or along a path, with `pathEffect` (`rainbow`, `skew`, `3dRibbon`, `stairStep`, `gravity`; SVG export writes type on a path with any effect other than `rainbow` as outlines, with a warning); `justify` (also `auto`, `justifyAll`) aligns the paragraphs of every kind, as `text.setStyle` does later. `vertical: true` uses the existing vertical writing mode for every kind (default `false`, horizontal). Returns `{id}`, with `overflow: true` when the text doesn't fit its frame or path. |
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`effect.apply {"effect": "path.outlineObject"}` (Effect › Path › Outline Object) takes no parameters. Type that carries
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it is drawn, exported and expanded as its glyph outlines and stays editable type, and the effects after it reshape
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those outlines. On paths, compound paths and images it does not change what is drawn.
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those outlines. On paths, compound paths and images it does not change what is drawn. On an image's own fill or stroke
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it gives the outline of the image's opaque area, or the image's frame, as described under images' fills and strokes
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below.
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Errors (unknown tool, bad arguments, a disabled or failing command) come back as a normal result with
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`isError: true` and a message. The model can read the message and retry.
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Only the top level is checked, except for the export and save commands below: the keys of an object inside a value
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(`artboardLayout: {…}`) are the command's to read. Another exception is an effect's `params`: `effect.apply` (and `appearance.addEffect`) and `effect.setParams`
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check them against the effect's own entry in `effect.list`, its `defaults` and the keys its `params` text names. A key
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the effect doesn't take, or a value of another type than its default (a string for a number, a number for a switch),
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is refused the same way:
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the effect doesn't take, or a value of another type than the effect reads (a string for a number, a number for a
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switch), is refused the same way:
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```json
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→ invalid parameters for `effect.apply`: unknown parameter `blurr`; the command takes: radius, linear
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```
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A key the effect has a default for takes a value of its default's type. A key only the `params` text names takes the
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type the effect reads: the earlier 3D `perspective`, `lightAzimuth` and `lightElevation` and Scribble's `variation` are
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numbers, an Outline Stroke's `width` is a number and a Gaussian Blur's `linear` is true or false. A number written as
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text (`"10 pt"`), `true` for a number, `1` for a switch and `null` for either are refused; a key left out keeps its
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default. The `style` of Crop Marks must be `roman` or `japanese`. An installed plug-in effect's parameters take the
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types its manifest gives them. A step of `command.batch` gets the same error, and the document and its undo history
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```json
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```
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A replayed journal or action still plays such a value, as it plays a key the effect no longer takes.
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3D effect. Its own `visible` must be true or false (`null` leaves the visibility as it is); any other value is refused,
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The `color` of Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow and Shift to Color must be one the effect can read: a hex color
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(`#rrggbb`, `#rgb` or `#rrggbbaa`, with or without the `#`), `black`, `white`, `red`, `green` or `blue`, `[r, g, b]`
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(three numbers, each read on a 0 to 1 scale), or a color object (`{"model": "rgb", "r": 1, "g": 0, "b": 0}`).
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value. A schema that is wrong in itself, such as one that nests past 16 levels or puts a list of ids or a point
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inside 16 lists, is an internal error in the command, and the command does not run.
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The command API returns these errors in English. The desktop app's status bar shows them in the interface language,
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the requirement after "must be" included (a number and its range and unit, an integer, a list of names, an object id,
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a color, a point, an object or a list); the parameter's path, the refused value, the bounds, the unit and the names stay
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as the English gives them.
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An omitted value with a `default` takes it (`rotation` 0 in `view.saved.new`); the journal keeps the params as they
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were given. Saved steps played from a journal or an action keep a key the schema does not name, unless its value nests
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more than 16 levels deep, and the values of the parameters it names are checked as in a new call. The schemas of built-in commands belong to API level 3
|
||||
@@ -2751,8 +2779,9 @@ already walks Image Trace. Short agent entry points:
|
||||
`static`|`dynamic`),
|
||||
`symbol.new {name?, registration?, exportType?, nineSlice?, nineSliceGuides?, type?, ids?}`,
|
||||
`symbol.options {name?, newName?, registration?, exportType?, nineSlice?, nineSliceGuides?, type?}` (`nineSlice` bool turns
|
||||
9-slice guides on or off; `nineSliceGuides` is `[left, top, right, bottom]`, fractions 0..1 of the symbol size, a
|
||||
quarter each when none are given; rows of `symbol.list` carry `nineSlice`: the guides or `null`; a scaled instance of
|
||||
9-slice guides on or off; `nineSliceGuides` is `[left, top, right, bottom]`, fractions of the symbol size in from
|
||||
each edge, each -16..16 with `left + right < 1` and `top + bottom < 1`, a quarter each when none are given; below 0
|
||||
or above 1 puts a guide outside the art, and the art then scales by the cells it falls in; rows of `symbol.list` carry `nineSlice`: the guides or `null`; a scaled instance of
|
||||
a symbol with guides keeps its corners at their size, and `symbol.breakLink` gives its art as it draws; dragging a
|
||||
guide on the canvas in symbol editing mode sends `nineSliceGuides` in one undo step; `type` is
|
||||
Symbol Type, `static` by default for the command and `dynamic` by default in the Symbol Options dialog),
|
||||
@@ -2987,14 +3016,15 @@ already walks Image Trace. Short agent entry points:
|
||||
the file at `path`, else a picked one, or the file's text `data`, adds its set after the other sets and returns
|
||||
`{set, name, actions}`. A set named like one already in the panel gets the next free number (`Print 2`), and the
|
||||
other sets and the current set stay as they are. An action set file (`.vcactions`) is JSON:
|
||||
`{"format": "vcactions", "version": 1 to 4, "name", "actions": [{"name", "steps": [{"command", "params", "excluded"?}]}]}`, each step
|
||||
`{"format": "vcactions", "version": 1 to 5, "name", "actions": [{"name", "steps": [{"command", "params", "excluded"?}]}]}`, each step
|
||||
a command id and its params as `command.batch` takes them, or a stop: the command `action.stop` with
|
||||
`{message, allowContinue}`. A Select Object step is the command `select.byNote` with `{note, caseSensitive,
|
||||
wholeWord}`. `excluded: true` preserves a step but omits it from playback;
|
||||
an absent or false flag includes the step. Files with Select Object steps use version 4, files with stops and no
|
||||
Select Object step use version 3, and files with excluded steps and neither use version 2, so older builds refuse them
|
||||
instead of playing the excluded steps or failing at a stop or a Select Object step; other files use version 1. A file with another `format` or a `version` other than
|
||||
1 to 4, a stop whose message is not text or whose `allowContinue` is not true or false, a Select Object step whose params `ui.action.insertSelectObject` would refuse, a file larger than 8 MiB, one with more than 1,000 actions and one with an action of more than 10,000 steps are
|
||||
wholeWord}`, and a Select Path step is the command `select.storedPath` with `{id, fingerprint}`. `excluded: true` preserves a step but omits it from playback;
|
||||
an absent or false flag includes the step. Files with Select Path steps use version 5, files with Select Object steps
|
||||
and no Select Path step use version 4, files with stops and neither use version 3, and files with excluded steps and
|
||||
none of these use version 2, so older builds refuse them instead of playing the excluded steps or failing at a stop, a
|
||||
Select Object step or a Select Path step; other files use version 1, and version 1 to 4 files still load. A file with another `format` or a `version` other than
|
||||
1 to 5, a stop whose message is not text or whose `allowContinue` is not true or false, a Select Object step whose params `ui.action.insertSelectObject` would refuse, a file larger than 8 MiB, one with more than 1,000 actions and one with an action of more than 10,000 steps are
|
||||
refused, and no set is added. So is a file whose set `ui.actionSet.save` would write larger than 8 MiB (a file with
|
||||
less white space, a set name that gets a number, or an `.aia` set), with the error `the action set would be larger
|
||||
than 8 MiB`. The Actions panel menu's Save Actions… and Load Actions… run these; Load Actions… is
|
||||
@@ -3087,6 +3117,26 @@ already walks Image Trace. Short agent entry points:
|
||||
`actionInsertMenuItem` dialog (`find`, `command`, `params`, `set`, `action`, `step`): typing in Find and pressing
|
||||
Find picks the one item whose menu path, shown name or command id holds every word typed, or lists the matches, and
|
||||
OK runs this.
|
||||
- Actions: `ui.action.insertSelectPath {set?, action?, step?}` inserts a Select Path step for the path selected in the
|
||||
active document, without changing the selection or the art. The step is `select.storedPath {id, fingerprint}`: the
|
||||
path's id and a fingerprint of its kind, fill rule and anchors (`v1:` and 16 lowercase hex digits, FNV-1a over them).
|
||||
The selection must be one whole path or compound path that can be selected. Anchors or segments of a path alone,
|
||||
several objects, a path with selected ruler guides, a group, type or any other object, a guide, a member of a compound
|
||||
path, and a hidden or locked object are refused. A path inside a group can be stored on its own. The place, the selected step and the result are
|
||||
as for `ui.action.insertStop`. No document, a selection that is not such a path, params that are not an object, an
|
||||
index past the last set, action or step, no action and no recording, or a step past the 10,000-step and 8 MiB limits
|
||||
is an error, and then nothing changes. The panel menu's Insert Select Path runs this for the selected step or action,
|
||||
or the recording in progress, and is off while the selection is not such a path. The step's row in the panel reads
|
||||
Select Path. An action set file holding the step is version 5, and Load Actions… refuses a step whose params are not
|
||||
an id and such a fingerprint.
|
||||
- Actions: `select.storedPath {id, fingerprint}` selects only the path `id` while its fingerprint is still
|
||||
`fingerprint` and it can be selected: not hidden or locked, nor in a hidden or locked layer or group, a template
|
||||
layer or on a locked artboard, and inside the isolated object in isolation mode. A missing object, another kind of
|
||||
object, a path whose kind, fill rule or anchors changed (moving it changes its anchors), or one that cannot be selected
|
||||
is an error, and the selection stays as it was. So a Select Path step finds its path in the document it was stored
|
||||
from, and in another document only an object with the same id and the same fingerprint. A selection change alone adds
|
||||
no undo step. In an Accelerated playback the error undoes the steps before it, and at Step by Step and Pause For it
|
||||
ends the playback after them. Returns `{count, ids}`. These rules are VectorCraft's own.
|
||||
- Actions: `ui.action.insertSelectObject {set?, action?, step?, note, caseSensitive?, wholeWord?}` inserts a Select
|
||||
Object step without running it. The step is `select.byNote {note, caseSensitive, wholeWord}`: during playback it
|
||||
selects the objects whose Attributes note matches `note`, and the steps after it act on them. `note` loses its
|
||||
@@ -3755,12 +3805,24 @@ the fill or stroke paints, and SVG, PDF, EPS and the other vector exports write
|
||||
holds inline graphics, those effects are drawn and exported only when the type has a geometry effect or perspective
|
||||
of its own.
|
||||
An image's own fills and strokes draw only when they carry a visible Convert to Shape or Outline Object effect: Convert
|
||||
to Shape sizes its shape from the image's box, Outline Object gives the image's frame, the effects after it reshape
|
||||
that shape, and the effects before it are left out. Its Contents row stands for the image; `appearance.addFill` and
|
||||
to Shape sizes its shape from the image's box, Outline Object gives the outline of the image's opaque area, the
|
||||
effects after it reshape that shape, and the effects before it are left out. The opaque area is the pixels whose alpha
|
||||
is at least 50%. Its outline is traced as Image Trace's Black and White mode traces at threshold 128 (Paths and
|
||||
Corners at their defaults, no area left out as noise): the edge follows anti-aliased edges to a fraction of a pixel
|
||||
and is fitted with curves. Outline Object gives the image's frame when the image has no transparency (a format
|
||||
without alpha, or every pixel at least half opaque), when its pixels can't be read, when the outline would take more
|
||||
than 100,000 anchor points, and when the image has more than 64 megapixels or its decoded pixels take more than 256 MB
|
||||
(a 16-bit RGBA image of more than 32 megapixels). An image with no pixel at least half opaque gives nothing to paint.
|
||||
An image of more than 4 megapixels is traced with its alpha averaged down to 4 megapixels; an averaged pixel that
|
||||
covers a pixel at least half opaque counts as at least half opaque, so opaque lines thinner than the reduction stay in
|
||||
the outline. The outline is traced the first time it is needed and kept for as long as the image's pixels are loaded.
|
||||
After the pixels are gone, it is dropped when another outline is traced or within the next 256 outline lookups. When
|
||||
the image's pixels change (`links.update` reading the linked file), the canvas draws the outline of the new pixels.
|
||||
These are VectorCraft's own rules. The image's Contents row stands for the image; `appearance.addFill` and
|
||||
`appearance.addStroke` put a new item right below that row, so it paints under the image. SVG, PDF, EPS and the other
|
||||
vector exports write those items as paths, and `effect.expandAppearance` turns them into objects in a group with the
|
||||
image.
|
||||
Use Preview Bounds measures an image by its frame.
|
||||
Use Preview Bounds measures an image by its frame and the shapes its own fills and strokes paint.
|
||||
A Warp effect (`warp.arc` … `warp.twist`) on an image, or on a group that holds one, bends the image's pixels with its
|
||||
frame: after the last effect in the list, the image is cut into 10 × 10 cells of two triangles, each a clipped piece of
|
||||
the image under its own affine map. The cell count is VectorCraft's own. Effects after the Warp reshape only the frame,
|
||||
@@ -4122,6 +4184,17 @@ the old name. A rename gives the new name to the pattern's swatches that had the
|
||||
old name keeps it. A blank name gives "New Pattern N" in `object.pattern.make` and "`<pattern>` copy" in
|
||||
`object.pattern.saveCopy`, and `pattern.options` keeps the name.
|
||||
|
||||
`object.pattern.cancel {}` leaves pattern editing mode and discards the changes. For a pattern that `object.pattern.make`
|
||||
made for the edit, it removes the pattern and every swatch of it, a color group's included. Every other paint of the
|
||||
pattern becomes no paint: on art outside the editing layer, in opacity mask art, type runs, symbol definitions, graph
|
||||
designs, the series and label paints a graph keeps for its next redraw, other patterns' tiles, graphic and character
|
||||
styles and brush art, and in the fill, stroke and appearance new art takes. A pattern that `object.pattern.saveCopy` saved during the edit stays, with those paints cleared in its tile.
|
||||
For an existing pattern, Cancel puts the definition back as it was when editing started; when `pattern.options` renamed
|
||||
it during the edit, the old name comes back with its swatches and paints, unless another pattern, swatch or color group
|
||||
has taken that name. `pattern.delete {name}` clears the paints of the pattern in the same places and returns
|
||||
`{unpainted}`, the number of document paints it cleared. A `pattern.options` rename renames the paints in the same
|
||||
places. Undo and Redo restore the fill, stroke and appearance new art takes with the document.
|
||||
|
||||
The pattern commands (`object.pattern.make`, `object.pattern.edit`, `object.pattern.saveCopy`, `pattern.options`,
|
||||
`pattern.delete`) and the Repeat commands (`object.repeat.radial`, `object.repeat.grid`, `object.repeat.mirror`,
|
||||
`object.repeat.options`) reject a param of the wrong type, such as `"instances": "8"`, `"edit": "false"` or
|
||||
@@ -4236,7 +4309,12 @@ and `layerRows`, the rows highlighted in the panel.
|
||||
`layer.newSublayer {parent?, bottom?, name?, …options}` (on top of the parent's contents; `bottom`, under them but
|
||||
above a clipping layer's clipping path, with Ctrl/Cmd+Alt; both refused while an opacity mask is edited),
|
||||
`layer.delete {ids?}` (rows with what they hold; the
|
||||
last layer stays), `layer.locate {id?}` (highlights the selected object's row; the panel opens the rows around it)
|
||||
last layer stays; it does not ask), `ui.layerDelete {ids?|id?}` (the panel's trash, rows dropped on it, Delete
|
||||
Selection, and Delete or Backspace on highlighted rows: when a layer or sublayer among the rows holds art, hidden,
|
||||
locked or nested art included, dialog `confirm` asks "Delete this layer and its artwork?" for one layer, else "Delete
|
||||
the selected items and their artwork?"; OK deletes the rows it asked about in that document, one undo step, and
|
||||
Cancel keeps them; an empty layer, a layer with only guides, and groups or objects alone are deleted at once),
|
||||
`layer.locate {id?}` (highlights the selected object's row; the panel opens the rows around it)
|
||||
and `layer.clippingMask.toggle`.
|
||||
- **Panel menu**: `layer.duplicate {ids?}`, `layer.merge {ids?}` (into the layer highlighted last, keeping the
|
||||
stacking order), `layer.flatten {id?}` (every other visible layer's art into one layer; hidden layers are deleted,
|
||||
@@ -4941,6 +5019,18 @@ used, as a transform's does.
|
||||
{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"object.transformEach","params":{"scaleH":50,"scaleV":50,"strokes":false}}}
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
## Free Distort on a turned bounding box
|
||||
|
||||
`object.distort` maps the corners of `from` (TL, TR, BR, BL) onto `corners`, which are page coordinates. With
|
||||
`angle` (counter-clockwise degrees), `from` is a box in the frame turned by that angle, as a rotated object's bounding
|
||||
box is; without `from`, that box is the selection's bounds measured in the turned frame. An `angle` that is not a
|
||||
number is an error. Without `angle`, `from` is a box on the page, as before. The Free Transform tool's Perspective Distort and Free Distort send the selection's turned box
|
||||
this way, so after a rotation they start from the corners the canvas shows.
|
||||
|
||||
```json
|
||||
{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"object.distort","params":{"from":[-100,0,0,100],"angle":90,"corners":[[0,100],[0,0],[120,-20],[100,100]]}}}
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
## Transform Each: Relative and Absolute
|
||||
|
||||
`object.transformEach` scales by percentages of each object's size (the dialog's Relative, the default), or with
|
||||
@@ -5390,7 +5480,8 @@ The Selection & Anchor Display and General preferences apply to `pointer_gesture
|
||||
scales it too; off (the default) it stays where it is. `artboard.duplicate`, `artboard.copy` and `artboard.cut` copy or
|
||||
cut locked and hidden art only with it on. A `lockedAndHidden` param on any of these commands takes its place.
|
||||
- `penRubberBand`, `curvatureRubberBand` (on by default): off, the Pen and Curvature tools draw no preview segment to
|
||||
the pointer.
|
||||
the pointer. With either off, the Pen, the Smart Pen (`penRubberBand`) and the Curvature tool (`curvatureRubberBand`)
|
||||
still show the D / Angle / dX / dY readout at the pointer while `measurementLabels` is on.
|
||||
- `showHandlesMultipleAnchors` (on by default): off, Direct Selection (and the Anchor Point tool, and the Pen with Alt)
|
||||
shows and drags direction handles only while a single anchor is selected. On, the handles of the direct-selected
|
||||
anchors, or of every anchor of a path selected as a whole, show and drag. `handleStyle` (`solid`, `hollow`, `large`) draws their ends (desktop app).
|
||||
@@ -5459,6 +5550,15 @@ point deltas from an unnamed source in the desktop app, or line deltas that are
|
||||
trackpad gesture holds Alt, it zooms until it ends, also after Alt is let go. The control channel's
|
||||
`ui.wheel` with `cmd: true` turns the wheel with Cmd/Ctrl held.
|
||||
|
||||
With Preferences › Devices › Enable Touch Gestures on, a two-finger tap on the canvas undoes and a three-finger tap
|
||||
redoes. In the Touch workspace a two-finger tap runs `tool.toggleTouchMode` (Switch Selection and Drawing Modes, `{}`,
|
||||
desktop app) instead and undoes nothing ([the help page](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/get-started/learn-the-basics/touch-workspace-in-illustrator.html)).
|
||||
From the Selection, Direct Selection, Group Selection, Magic Wand, Lasso or Perspective Selection tool it chooses the
|
||||
drawing tool chosen last in the window, or the Pencil tool when none has been chosen yet; from any other tool it
|
||||
chooses the Selection tool, and the tool left becomes the drawing tool unless it is the Hand, Rotate View, Zoom or Print
|
||||
Tiling tool. It returns `{tool}` and adds no undo step. Pencil as the first drawing tool and the list of selection tools
|
||||
are VectorCraft's own rules. A tap in Presentation Mode runs nothing.
|
||||
|
||||
`gridlineEvery` (72 pt by default) and `gridSubdivisions` (8 by default) set the document grid that View › Show Grid
|
||||
draws, and View › Snap to Grid snaps to its subdivisions. Changing either sets the grid of every open document.
|
||||
`file.new` gives a new document that grid, and `document.open`, `file.newFromTemplate` and `file.revert` give it to
|
||||
@@ -5607,6 +5707,13 @@ Pen's second anchor at (150, 431), in line with the square's centre.
|
||||
Type → Font menus label a family by its native-language name when the font has one. `text.fontList` and
|
||||
`text.setStyle {font}` always use the English (canonical) family name; a document may still name a font by any of
|
||||
its aliases (`ヒラギノ角ゴシック` resolves to Hiragino Sans).
|
||||
- `fontSamplesOnWhite` (off by default): Preferences › Type › Show samples on white. On, every font menu (the
|
||||
Character panel, Control bar, Properties panel, Glyphs panel, the Composite Fonts and Dimension Tool Options dialogs, and Type → Font
|
||||
in the in-window menu bar) draws each family's sample in dark type on a white area in every interface brightness. In
|
||||
a menu row the white area leaves 2 pt above and below it, where a highlighted row's color shows; the names and the
|
||||
rest of the menu keep the interface's colors. It has an effect only while `fontPreview` is on, and Preferences dims
|
||||
its checkbox while previews are off. It is VectorCraft's own option. `prefs.set` refuses a value that is not a
|
||||
boolean.
|
||||
- `hyphenationExceptions` (empty by default): Preferences › Hyphenation › Exceptions. A comma-separated list of words,
|
||||
matched without regard to case: a word with no hyphens is never hyphenated (`typography`), and a word with hyphens
|
||||
breaks only where they are (`hap-pen`). `prefs.set` pushes the list into the hyphenator and reflows open documents.
|
||||
@@ -5965,14 +6072,15 @@ while such an image that the art shows has a plate of its name; deleting the swa
|
||||
file's composite is drawn through clips the image (a clipping group, its path under the nonzero fill rule, an even-odd
|
||||
clipping path kept as the same area), and `file.place` answers the image's id as
|
||||
`image`, since the Links commands take the image and not the group. `links.update` and `links.relink` clip the image
|
||||
by the file's clipping path again (in a new clipping group when none holds it, and inside a clipping mask made in the
|
||||
by the file's clipping path again (a plain group holding just the image becomes its clipping group, a new clipping group holds it when no group does, and it goes inside a clipping mask made in the
|
||||
document, whose path is kept), unless Placement Options clip the image, the same way for the images in symbols, graph designs, patterns and opacity masks; when the new file has no
|
||||
clipping path, a clipping group holding just the image whose path is the old file's clipping path loses that path and
|
||||
stays as a plain group of the image, with its id, name, visibility and transparency (one whose path was given the
|
||||
even-odd fill rule stays as it is). The link shows as modified when a plate file of its own changes
|
||||
or is gone, as it does when the DCS file changes, and the app's link watch acts on a changed plate file as on a
|
||||
changed DCS file. `links.relink {copy: true}` fails for a DCS file that reads plate files of its own, and copies
|
||||
nothing. These rules are VectorCraft's own: the screen, composite print and exports show the image as its plates
|
||||
nothing. Opening a document reads a DCS file and its plates again even with the `lowResProxyEps` preference, which
|
||||
keeps the saved preview of other linked EPS files. These rules are VectorCraft's own: the screen, composite print and exports show the image as its plates
|
||||
mixed into CMYK (each ink amount times the ink's CMYK values, plates combined as `1 − (1 − a)(1 − b)`); Separations
|
||||
Preview and `file.print` separations show each plate on its own ink, and a spot plate prints as the document's swatch
|
||||
of its ink (else its CMYK values) with `spotsToProcess`. Separations Preview shows a reduced image's plates as the
|
||||
@@ -6031,7 +6139,11 @@ recorded action leaves both out. Art copied from no artboard keeps its place on
|
||||
offset to that one on the others. An index the document does not have, a repeated index, a value that is not an index
|
||||
or an empty list fails, and nothing is pasted. Copied artboards come back once, where they were, whichever artboards
|
||||
are named. `layer.pasteRemembersLayers {on?}` (a document option, `document.inspect` → `pasteRemembersLayers`)
|
||||
pastes objects back into the layers they came from, by name, making missing ones. Drawing modes (`view.drawMode`) apply
|
||||
pastes objects back into the layers and sublayers they came from: in the same document while those are still there,
|
||||
else by the names of the layer and the layers around it (the topmost chain that matches the most names, a shown and
|
||||
unlocked one first). A missing sublayer is made inside its layer, and a missing top-level layer on top, in the paste's
|
||||
undo step. When a matched layer, or a layer around it, is hidden or locked, the paste fails and nothing is pasted.
|
||||
Drawing modes (`view.drawMode`) apply
|
||||
too: in Draw Inside, `edit.paste`, `edit.pasteInPlace` and `edit.pasteOnAllArtboards` put the objects inside the
|
||||
object drawn into (its clip group, made on the first paste), whatever Paste Remembers Layers says; in Draw Behind,
|
||||
`edit.pasteInPlace` and `edit.pasteOnAllArtboards` put them just below the selection. `edit.pasteInFront` and
|
||||
@@ -6654,8 +6766,8 @@ no linked file, and `warnings` carries "an image couldn't be decoded and is miss
|
||||
images.
|
||||
|
||||
DWG can't be written (no openly licensed writer exists): `document.formats` lists it under `unsupported` with that
|
||||
hint, and exporting to it answers with the hint to export DXF. PICT files are not supported either and say so when
|
||||
opened.
|
||||
hint, and exporting to it answers with the hint to export DXF. PICT files open and place (see PICT import) but can't
|
||||
be written.
|
||||
|
||||
```json
|
||||
{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"document.exportDxf","params":{"path":"/tmp/plan.dxf","version":"2013","unit":"mm","scale":10,"preserve":"editability"}}}
|
||||
@@ -6705,7 +6817,8 @@ DCS Transparency Interactions, off by default) adds `dcsTransparency: true` to t
|
||||
and the panel shows a warning mark on them. VectorCraft's rule for it: the image, or a group or layer holding it, has
|
||||
an opacity below 100%, a blend mode other than Normal, an opacity mask or an effect, or its bounds overlap the
|
||||
bounds of another visible object that has one of those or a gradient with a transparent stop (in a fill, a stroke or
|
||||
a character's fill or stroke); a DCS image with transparency of its own counts as such an object. The check looks at
|
||||
a character's fill or stroke); a DCS image with transparency of its own counts as such an object. Bounds are cut to the
|
||||
bounds of the clipping paths of the clip groups and clipping layers holding an object. The check looks at
|
||||
every object in the layers each time the list is read. A `dcsTransparency` that is not true or false is an error.
|
||||
`links.goTo {id}` selects an image; `links.embed {ids?}` keeps linked files' pixels in the document (an image whose
|
||||
file is missing stays linked: relink it first); `links.unembed {id, path}` writes an embedded image to a file
|
||||
@@ -7069,6 +7182,36 @@ clipboard service offers it (the Windows desktop service doesn't read metafiles
|
||||
{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"file.place","params":{"path":"/tmp/chart.emf","at":[300,200]}}}
|
||||
```
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## PICT import
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`document.open` and `file.place` read QuickDraw pictures, versions 1 and 2 (`.pct`, `.pic`, and `.pict`, which is
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VectorCraft's own name for them), into one artboard, the picture's frame in points, and one layer. A file holds 512 bytes
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of application data before the picture; a picture without them reads too. A version 2 picture also opens by its content
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under any name. Opcodes and their data lengths follow Apple's
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[Opcodes in Pictures](https://dev.os9.ca/techpubs/mac/QuickDraw/QuickDraw-461.html) and
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[Version and Header Opcodes](https://dev.os9.ca/techpubs/mac/QuickDraw/QuickDraw-459.html):
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- Lines, rectangles, rounded rectangles, ovals, arcs and wedges, polygons and regions become paths, in the order the
|
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picture draws them. A framed shape is stroked inside its outline at the pen's size; a line is stroked below and to
|
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the right of its points. Painted, filled and erased shapes are filled with the pen, fill or background pattern, and a
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two-color pattern with the average of its colors.
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- Text becomes point type in the font the picture names, at its size and style, read as Mac Roman.
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- Bitmaps and pixel maps (1 to 8 bits with their color table, 16 and 32 bits, packed or not) become images, clipped to
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their mask region. In the OR transfer mode, a bitmap's clear bits are left transparent. A QuickTime JPEG image
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(opcode `0x8200`) becomes an image placed by its matrix.
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- The clip region clips what follows it.
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`file.place` places the picture as one group clipped to its frame. What isn't read comes back in `warnings`, once each:
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inverted shapes, transfer modes other than a copy (drawn as a copy), QuickTime images in formats other than JPEG, and
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regions or images past the reader's limits. A picture cut short keeps what came before it with a warning, and one that
|
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draws nothing VectorCraft reads opens empty with a warning. A file that holds no picture is refused with
|
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"not a PICT file". PICT can't be written: `document.export` to it is refused with "PICT files can be opened but not
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written".
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```json
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{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"file.place","params":{"path":"/tmp/logo.pct","at":[300,200]}}}
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```
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## HP-GL import
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`document.open` and `file.place` read HP-GL/2 plot files (`.plt`, `.hpgl`, `.hgl`, `.hpg`) into one layer, with the
|
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@@ -7927,6 +8070,42 @@ styles carry it, and Reset Panel sets it back to none. The change is one undo st
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```json
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{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"text.setFormat","params":{"kashida":"medium"}}}
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```
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## Mojikumi Set
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`text.setFormat {mojikumi: "none"|"yakumonoHankaku"|"gyomatsuYakumonoHankaku"|"gyomatsuYakumonoZenkaku"|"yakumonoZenkaku"|"lineEndHalf"}`
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sets the Paragraph panel's Mojikumi Set (shown with the East Asian options) of the paragraphs of the selected type (or
|
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`ids`, or the paragraphs a `start` / `end` range touches): how full-width Japanese punctuation is spaced. The menu lists
|
||||
the five predefined sets the help page names, then Line-end Punctuation Half Width
|
||||
(https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/edit-format-text/use-mojikumi-for-japanese-text-composition.html).
|
||||
The spacing of each set below is VectorCraft's own rule. An opening bracket's empty half em is before it; a closing
|
||||
bracket's, a comma's and a full stop's is after it; a middle dot (・) has a quarter em on each side.
|
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|
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- **None** sets every character at its full advance.
|
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- **YakumonoHankaku** sets every opening and closing bracket, comma and full stop half width, takes a quarter em off
|
||||
each side of a middle dot, and puts a quarter em between Japanese and Latin letters or digits.
|
||||
- **GyomatsuYakumonoHankaku** keeps punctuation full width inside the line. An opening bracket starting a line is set
|
||||
flush with the line's start, a closing bracket, comma or full stop ending a line is set half width, and a middle dot
|
||||
ending a line loses the quarter em after it. A quarter em separates Japanese and Latin letters or digits.
|
||||
- **GyomatsuYakumonoZenkaku** keeps punctuation full width everywhere, at a line's end too, with a quarter em between
|
||||
Japanese and Latin letters or digits.
|
||||
- **YakumonoZenkaku** keeps punctuation full width everywhere, with no added space between Japanese and Latin text; it
|
||||
sets characters as None does.
|
||||
- **Line-end Punctuation Half Width** (new type made with the Type tools and `text.create`) lets consecutive
|
||||
punctuation share one half-em space, sets an opening bracket starting a line flush with its start and a closing
|
||||
bracket, comma or full stop ending a line half width, and puts a quarter em between Japanese and Latin letters or
|
||||
digits.
|
||||
|
||||
The space a set adds between Japanese and Latin text is not kept at a line's end. Both composers measure each line as it
|
||||
is set, and vertical type follows the same rules down the column. Punctuation that Proportional Metrics re-spaced, and
|
||||
tate-chu-yoko, keep their width. Documents from before the setting and imported text keep `none`, which isn't saved;
|
||||
paragraph styles carry the set, and Reset Panel sets Line-end Punctuation Half Width. Any other value is refused and
|
||||
the type is left as it was. One undo step. `.ai` editing data does not hold the set: a save reports a paragraph with
|
||||
any set other than None or Line-end Punctuation Half Width as left out, and the paragraph reads back without it.
|
||||
|
||||
```json
|
||||
{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"text.setFormat","params":{"mojikumi":"yakumonoHankaku"}}}
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
## Kinsoku Set
|
||||
|
||||
`text.setFormat {kinsoku: "hard"|"soft"|"none"}` sets the Paragraph panel's Kinsoku Set of the selected type (or `ids`):
|
||||
@@ -9116,7 +9295,8 @@ font's variation axes (`tag`, `name`, `min`, `default`, `max`, `hidden`, and `va
|
||||
first style), empty for a static font. `text.rescanFonts`
|
||||
(Character panel menu › Refresh Font List) scans the font folders again, for fonts installed or removed since the app
|
||||
started: type set in a font that became available redraws in it, and type set in a family that was removed redraws in
|
||||
the fallback font and is listed as missing, without editing the document. The app does so by
|
||||
the fallback font and is listed as missing, without editing the document. The type in opacity masks and in the art of
|
||||
symbols and pattern swatches is laid out again too, and inline graphics take the new size of their symbols' art. The app does so by
|
||||
itself when its window comes to the front and a font folder changed meanwhile.
|
||||
|
||||
```json
|
||||
@@ -9749,7 +9929,22 @@ adds a row and a column where it clicks inside. `object.mesh.addLine`, and `obje
|
||||
the mesh's outline (within a millionth of a point) on any side without `tolerance`; a point outside needs `tolerance`. `object.mesh.addLine` at a point that is already a mesh
|
||||
point adds no line and records no undo step unless its `color` changes a gradient mesh's point (a mesh envelope's points
|
||||
have no color). `press_key` Escape during a drag of a point or handle of a mesh
|
||||
envelope or a gradient mesh cancels it: the point goes back and no undo step is added. The Control bar shows Edit Envelope / Edit Contents, the warp's
|
||||
envelope or a gradient mesh cancels it: the point goes back and no undo step is added.
|
||||
|
||||
A warp envelope's points can be edited the same way, with the same commands. Its points are those of its surface
|
||||
sampled on 4×4 patches, with handles along it; where 4×4 patches draw more than 0.1% of the warp's diagonal away from
|
||||
the warp, on 8×8 or 16×16 patches (these sizes and the 0.1% are VectorCraft's own values). The canvas shows those
|
||||
points on a selected warp. The first point or handle moved, or the first line added or deleted, makes the warp a mesh
|
||||
envelope on that grid and applies the edit, as one undo step: Undo, or Escape during the drag, gives back the warp
|
||||
with its style and bend. From then on the Control bar shows the mesh's rows and columns, Reset with Mesh with Maintain
|
||||
Shape keeps the edited shape, and Reset with Warp replaces it with the chosen warp style. Release gives back the
|
||||
edited mesh as the envelope's shape, and Expand keeps the edited distortion. A warp that no grid of up to 16×16
|
||||
patches follows that closely (some warps saved before the Bézier warp net existed, `version: 0`) shows no points, and
|
||||
editing it fails with "this warp's points can't be edited: use Reset with Mesh first" and changes nothing. The help
|
||||
page on reshaping envelopes:
|
||||
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/reshape-transform-objects/distort-objects-with-envelopes.html
|
||||
|
||||
The Control bar shows Edit Envelope / Edit Contents, the warp's
|
||||
style, orientation, bend and distortions (or the mesh's rows and columns), Reset (an unbent warp, a flat mesh) and
|
||||
Envelope Options.
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -9775,7 +9970,8 @@ Color panel, Swatches or the Eyedropper) recolours just the picked points, and w
|
||||
`object.mesh.movePoints {id, points: [index…], dx, dy}` (or `{items: [{id, points}…], dx, dy}` over several meshes)
|
||||
moves points by (dx, dy), their handles with them; `object.mesh.setPointColor` takes `points` or `items` the same
|
||||
way to colour or fade several points at once. An index out of range, an index that is not a whole number ≥ 0, or a
|
||||
move past the coordinate range fails and changes nothing.
|
||||
move past the coordinate range fails and changes nothing. A call that changes no point (no points named, a move by
|
||||
(0, 0), the colour a point already has) changes nothing and records no undo step.
|
||||
|
||||
```json
|
||||
{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"object.mesh.movePoints","params":{"id":12,"points":[0,4],"dx":10,"dy":-5}}}
|
||||
|
||||
+6
-3
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
|
||||
# Roadmap: milestones and what's next
|
||||
|
||||
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-13 · **Change:** minor (Swatches list fills a taller panel, #1638; scores and estimates unchanged; previously: icon-strip flyouts also resize from the top edge and the canvas-side top corner, keeping the moved top in workspaces (storytold/craft-libs#1094); scores and estimates unchanged; previously: #6865: explicitly requested oversized editing artboard; Live Paint Bucket fills faces crossed in one drag (#6373); previously: #6404: transform-aware Eyedropper character copying; scores and estimates unchanged; previously: M10/G5: Energy Beams brush library; MCP docs list Energy Beams; previously minor: M10/G5: Skill Icons symbol library; MCP docs list Skill Icons; previously minor: M10/G5: Status Effects graphic style library; MCP docs catch-up for symbol libraries; previously minor: M10/G5: Inventory Icons built-in symbol library; previously minor: Edit › Edit Custom Dictionary…: its dialog adds, deletes and changes the custom dictionary's words, #4936; previously minor: M10/G5: Game HUD graphic style library; previously minor: resizable icon-strip flyouts and bottom-aligned panel footers, #5713; previously minor: M10/G5: Map Markers built-in symbol library; previously minor: right-click on type: Spelling › Auto Spell Check, with its check mark, #4936; previously minor: right-click on a word Auto Spell Check underlined: its suggestions, Ignore All and Add to Dictionary, #4936; previously minor: G2: Effect Gallery thumbnails and in-dialog preview are in; Auto Spell Check: `edit.autoSpellCheck` underlines the unknown words, #4936; previously minor: PDF editable import preserves authored ActualText once, including empty/nested spans and authored ordering (#6165); cross-line/style layout remains approximate; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF marked-text export (#6309): compatible glyphs stay on one layout line with per-glyph offsets; scores and estimates unchanged; interim macOS cursor delivery, #2292; native validation pending; scores and estimates unchanged; Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged; custom dictionary and Ignore All: `text.spelling.addWord`, `removeWord`, `changeWord`, `dictionary` and `ignoreAll`, #4936; previously minor: EPS import: embedded fonts (composite, Type 42, CID-keyed, Type 1, CFF FontSet) draw their glyphs; spell check engine: `text.spelling.check` and `text.spelling.suggest` on craft-proof, #4936; previously minor: floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it, #5925 in part; M4/M7: `.ai`/EPS type keeps its tab stops, and right-aligned lines with tabs lay out as the file's page, #6147; M4/M7: `.ai`/EPS type from the text document lays its lines out closer to the file's page, within limits, #6137; numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking keyboard focus, #5949; Character Styles panel: a double-click on a style's row opens its Character Style Options; the dialog keeps a fixed width and scrolls its sections, so its buttons stay on screen; Selection QoL: marquee modes and visible feedback, #5313; SVG CSS classes survive export and repeated import in all four styling modes (#2480); current-main integration retains event attributes and scripts; #3380 deletion-only review follow-up: independent survivors keep gradient placement, owned subpaths avoid discarded copies, and contracts/status/evidence are clarified; endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged; Indian-language hyphenation review and license allowlist, #4947; Hindi catalog and contributor loanword preferences; full wording review in progress; Effect dialogs: a colour swatch beside a hex colour opens the Color Picker, #5365; shape tools move the selection from its centre point and turn it from the zone outside a box corner, #5477; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
|
||||
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-13 · **Change:** minor (Graphic Styles list fills a taller panel, #2992; scores and estimates unchanged; previously: PDF import: glyphs in a span with an empty ActualText come in as outlines, #6971; scores and estimates unchanged; previously: library panels' lists fill a taller panel, #2992; scores and estimates unchanged; previously: Swatches list fills a taller panel, #1638; scores and estimates unchanged; previously: icon-strip flyouts also resize from the top edge and the canvas-side top corner, keeping the moved top in workspaces (storytold/craft-libs#1094); scores and estimates unchanged; previously: #6865: explicitly requested oversized editing artboard; Live Paint Bucket fills faces crossed in one drag (#6373); previously: #6404: transform-aware Eyedropper character copying; scores and estimates unchanged; previously: M10/G5: Energy Beams brush library; MCP docs list Energy Beams; previously minor: M10/G5: Skill Icons symbol library; MCP docs list Skill Icons; previously minor: M10/G5: Status Effects graphic style library; MCP docs catch-up for symbol libraries; previously minor: M10/G5: Inventory Icons built-in symbol library; previously minor: Edit › Edit Custom Dictionary…: its dialog adds, deletes and changes the custom dictionary's words, #4936; previously minor: M10/G5: Game HUD graphic style library; previously minor: resizable icon-strip flyouts and bottom-aligned panel footers, #5713; previously minor: M10/G5: Map Markers built-in symbol library; previously minor: right-click on type: Spelling › Auto Spell Check, with its check mark, #4936; previously minor: right-click on a word Auto Spell Check underlined: its suggestions, Ignore All and Add to Dictionary, #4936; previously minor: G2: Effect Gallery thumbnails and in-dialog preview are in; Auto Spell Check: `edit.autoSpellCheck` underlines the unknown words, #4936; previously minor: PDF editable import preserves authored ActualText once, including empty/nested spans and authored ordering (#6165); cross-line/style layout remains approximate; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF marked-text export (#6309): compatible glyphs stay on one layout line with per-glyph offsets; scores and estimates unchanged; interim macOS cursor delivery, #2292; native validation pending; scores and estimates unchanged; Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged; custom dictionary and Ignore All: `text.spelling.addWord`, `removeWord`, `changeWord`, `dictionary` and `ignoreAll`, #4936; previously minor: EPS import: embedded fonts (composite, Type 42, CID-keyed, Type 1, CFF FontSet) draw their glyphs; spell check engine: `text.spelling.check` and `text.spelling.suggest` on craft-proof, #4936; previously minor: floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it, #5925 in part; M4/M7: `.ai`/EPS type keeps its tab stops, and right-aligned lines with tabs lay out as the file's page, #6147; M4/M7: `.ai`/EPS type from the text document lays its lines out closer to the file's page, within limits, #6137; numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking keyboard focus, #5949; Character Styles panel: a double-click on a style's row opens its Character Style Options; the dialog keeps a fixed width and scrolls its sections, so its buttons stay on screen; Selection QoL: marquee modes and visible feedback, #5313; SVG CSS classes survive export and repeated import in all four styling modes (#2480); current-main integration retains event attributes and scripts; #3380 deletion-only review follow-up: independent survivors keep gradient placement, owned subpaths avoid discarded copies, and contracts/status/evidence are clarified; endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged; Indian-language hyphenation review and license allowlist, #4947; Hindi catalog and contributor loanword preferences; full wording review in progress; Effect dialogs: a colour swatch beside a hex colour opens the Color Picker, #5365; shape tools move the selection from its centre point and turn it from the zone outside a box corner, #5477; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
|
||||
>
|
||||
> Oversized artboard import update (2026-11-12): Explicit editing-data import retains a single artboard beyond a capped 14,400 pt PDF page (#6865).
|
||||
>
|
||||
@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ M7 type: Touch Type moves a right-to-left character along its line and up from i
|
||||
|
||||
| Date | Change | Summary |
|
||||
|---|---|---|
|
||||
| 2026-11-13 | minor | Graphic Styles: in a panel made taller the list fills the space above the footer instead of stopping at 220 pt (#2992; `the_list_fills_a_tall_panel_above_its_footer` in `crates/ui-egui/src/panels/graphic_styles.rs`). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
|
||||
| 2026-11-13 | minor | PDF import: glyphs inside a marked-content span with an empty `ActualText` come in as outlines in their fill and stroke instead of being left out, adding no text (#6971; `empty_actual_text_keeps_the_glyphs_art` in `crates/pdf/src/tests/actual_text.rs`). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
|
||||
| 2026-11-13 | minor | Library panels (swatch, Color Book, brush, symbol and graphic style libraries): in a panel made taller the list fills the space above the footer instead of scrolling inside 220 or 280 pt (#2992; `the_list_fills_a_tall_panel_above_its_footer` in `crates/ui-egui/src/panels/library_panel/tests.rs`). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
|
||||
| 2026-11-13 | minor | Swatches: in a panel made taller the swatch list fills the space above the footer instead of scrolling inside 150 or 200 pt (#1638; `the_list_fills_a_tall_panel_above_its_footer` in `crates/ui-egui/src/panels/swatches/tests.rs`). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
|
||||
| 2026-11-10 | minor | M13 / G6: MCP catalogue (#6460): headless lists UI commands, eight prompts, 33 tools, effect vs command ids; scores and estimates unchanged. |
|
||||
| 2026-11-08 | minor | Character Styles panel: a double-click on a user style's row opens its Character Style Options (`ui.charStyleOptions`); the dialog keeps a fixed width and scrolls its sections in a shorter window, so OK and Cancel stay on screen. Tests `panels::text_styles::tests::double_clicking_a_character_style_row_opens_its_options` and `dialogs::char_style_options::tests::the_sections_scroll_in_a_window_shorter_than_the_general_list`. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
|
||||
@@ -148,8 +151,8 @@ native wording review, layout checks and a web Devanagari font remain. [Notes](l
|
||||
| M0 | Skeleton + vertical slice | ✅ done | — |
|
||||
| M1 | Selection, transform, layers, MCP (common command tools, strict keys, session resources and version-aware result hints) | ✅ mostly done (document-tab artwork drag with lossless resource transfer and one target Undo; malformed MCP app replies discard the connection without replay, #1761; bounded control socket waits and connection-slot recovery, #1726; bounded synthetic control input, #1709; no-op anchor Align keeps Undo, Redo and saved state (#1180 follow-up); transform reference point snaps to anchors/centres; rotated objects keep a rotated bounding box and their angle; Free Transform, Scale and Reflect along a rotated box pending; the Transform fields take one Tab each, the W/H link after them) | 4–6 |
|
||||
| M2 | Drawing tools + smart guides | ✅ mostly done (#3380 deletion creates independent selected path pieces and keeps bounds-fitted gradients in place; endpoint highlighting remains open; Polygon/Star exact-size count persistence, with repeated-drag, tool-switch and Cancel regression coverage; Curvature point markers without direction handles (#1236, in part); Direct Selection segment click/Delete preserves neighboring edges, #1278; Flare, Reshape, Live Corners widget dragging and per-corner radii and kinds landed, on any path's corners; Shaper rough-shape recognition and orientation steps, the remaining Pen modifier nuances; Shaper Groups with editable sources and separate fill/stroke edits landed; custom ruler origin with drag preview, active-artboard reset, relative X/Y fields and native round-trip (#1212); construction widget/refinements pending); a shape just drawn moves by its centre point and turns from the zone outside a corner with its tool still active (#5477); Tangent and straight-segment perpendicular snapping use saved Smart Guides Geometric Guides preferences and Control bar quick access (#2537), including the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); no View submenu; Copy and Cut with the Pen or Curvature tool take the anchors a Cmd/Ctrl-lent Direct Selection picked (#6123) | 12–18 |
|
||||
| M3 | Paint & appearance (swatches, color, gradient, stroke, appearance, transparency, styles) | ✅ done (M3.7–M3.98): swatches, groups, libraries, tints, Lab spots and Registration; Eyedropper copies transformed character dimensions (#6404) and styles highlighted text only (atomic transparency rejection); Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); Color Picker, Color panel, Color Guide, Color Themes, Edit Colors and Recolor Artwork (screen-bounded Edit chip list, #3416); gradients that follow every transform, the annotator, linked stops, freeform gradients, focal points, gradients on strokes and Expand; visible strokes when paint is added to inherited None/zero-width art (#1253); stroke geometry, arrowheads, dashes fitted to corners, stroke on type, width profiles and the Width tool (Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment in Width Point Edit; finite-arithmetic follow-up regressions and full CI passed ([Validation evidence](target-app-parity.md#evidence-what-ships-today-by-area))), Scale Strokes and preview bounds; Appearance targeting, container appearance, target circles, Expand Appearance; knockout, isolation, blend accuracy, CMYK blending, overprint, Attributes, masks and clipping, Flatten Transparency; graphic styles, links and libraries; CSS library export preserves fractional linear and radial gradient stop positions. Left: freeform gradients in SVG/PDF, mixed spot/process gradients in SVG and PDF gradients mixing a spot color with RGB or Lab stops export as stops or process colors; PDF export writes dithered gradient fills with spot stops, and Perceptual spot gradients with RGB or Lab stops other than white or more than 4,096 stops on their curve, as images in process colors; confirm the Scale Strokes & Effects default; Recolor model selection is available through the engine and MCP only (#2520); the dialog retains its existing controls | Swatches list fills a taller panel above its footer (#1638; `the_list_fills_a_tall_panel_above_its_footer`; scores and estimates unchanged); 4–8 |
|
||||
| M4 | Files (native, SVG, PDF, raster, Export for Screens, clipboard interop) | Explicit editing-data import keeps oversized capped-page artboards (#6865; estimates unchanged); Save refusal continuation (#6146): ordinary Save offers Save As; unchanged format keeps options, changed format opens its Save options; cancellation/automation isolation; focused UI regressions passed, native acceptance pending; PDF authored ActualText preserved once in editable import (#6165; first-glyph line/style, bounded input; estimates unchanged); PDF export keeps harakat and zero-advance Noto Arabic dot glyphs in one compatible batch per layout line, with per-glyph vertical offsets (#6309). `crates/pdf/src/tests/realtext.rs` (`mark_text_*`) checks decoded cluster mappings, mixed Arabic/Latin/digits, contour placement against outline export, vertical columns, differing path rotations and PDF/X-1a/3/4. Editable-text import preserves authored ActualText separately (#6165), with cross-line/style layout limits; separately styled or differently rotated clusters and external viewer search/copy remain outside this export-only evidence. `.ai`/EPS type from the text document keeps its paragraphs' tab stops (#6147); `.ai`/EPS type from the text document keeps auto leading per line, its hyphenation options, and may show more of the last lines the file sets in an area frame of its own, when growing the frame by its lines' deepest descent plus 0.05 pt shows them (#6137); ✅ done (M4.14–M4.98 on 2026-10-05): Save As/Save a Copy/Revert/templates, Data Recovery and background save, SVG import and export fidelity (units, text, symbols, filters, SVGZ, Preserve Editing, SVG Options), shared guarded PDF writer and windowed reader ([pdf-backend.md](pdf-backend.md)), PDF import (colours, layers, masks, editable text, security) and export (presets, marks, bleed, ICC and output intent, raster effects, subset fonts, PDF/X-1a, X-3 and X-4, PDF layers, overprint, page thumbnails, fast web view, PDF 1.3), Place and Links, Package, EPS and DXF in and out (EPS legacy mesh corners, vector opacity masks and raster page comparison verified; closed SPLINE flags round-trip and circular paths export as native CIRCLE/ARC, #1299), EMF/WMF, TIFF/BMP/Targa/PSD/GIF/PNG-8 export, Print and print presets, slices, Save for Web, TIFF in Export for Screens and Asset Export, clipboard flavours, File Info; AF.1–AF.4 add Affinity import (native layers, artboards, vectors, text and images from Affinity 1–3 files; the embedded preview only as a warned fallback; AF.4 expands current `.af` fixtures and every-board round-trip validation); EPS Save and Save As keep an opened EPS as EPS with its page frame and complete editable VectorCraft document (2026-10-26; G9 import fidelity unchanged). Left: DWG (use DXF), PSD placement as layers, overprint read back from PDF, Affinity export, polish; SVG CSS classes survive export and repeated import in all four styling modes (#2480); current-main integration retains event attributes and scripts; SVG CSS classes survive export and repeated import in all four styling modes (#2480); current-main integration retains event attributes and scripts | 3–6 (existing scope; Affinity export unestimated) |
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| M3 | Paint & appearance (swatches, color, gradient, stroke, appearance, transparency, styles) | ✅ done (M3.7–M3.98): swatches, groups, libraries, tints, Lab spots and Registration; Eyedropper copies transformed character dimensions (#6404) and styles highlighted text only (atomic transparency rejection); Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); Color Picker, Color panel, Color Guide, Color Themes, Edit Colors and Recolor Artwork (screen-bounded Edit chip list, #3416); gradients that follow every transform, the annotator, linked stops, freeform gradients, focal points, gradients on strokes and Expand; visible strokes when paint is added to inherited None/zero-width art (#1253); stroke geometry, arrowheads, dashes fitted to corners, stroke on type, width profiles and the Width tool (Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment in Width Point Edit; finite-arithmetic follow-up regressions and full CI passed ([Validation evidence](target-app-parity.md#evidence-what-ships-today-by-area))), Scale Strokes and preview bounds; Appearance targeting, container appearance, target circles, Expand Appearance; knockout, isolation, blend accuracy, CMYK blending, overprint, Attributes, masks and clipping, Flatten Transparency; graphic styles, links and libraries; CSS library export preserves fractional linear and radial gradient stop positions. Left: freeform gradients in SVG/PDF, mixed spot/process gradients in SVG and PDF gradients mixing a spot color with RGB or Lab stops export as stops or process colors; PDF export writes dithered gradient fills with spot stops, and Perceptual spot gradients with RGB or Lab stops other than white or more than 4,096 stops on their curve, as images in process colors; confirm the Scale Strokes & Effects default; Recolor model selection is available through the engine and MCP only (#2520); the dialog retains its existing controls; Library panels' lists (swatch, Color Book, brush, symbol and graphic style libraries) fill a taller panel above its footer (#2992; scores and estimates unchanged); Graphic Styles list fills a taller panel above its footer (#2992; scores and estimates unchanged); Swatches list fills a taller panel above its footer (#1638; `the_list_fills_a_tall_panel_above_its_footer`; scores and estimates unchanged); | 4–8 |
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| M4 | Files (native, SVG, PDF, raster, Export for Screens, clipboard interop) | Explicit editing-data import keeps oversized capped-page artboards (#6865; estimates unchanged); Save refusal continuation (#6146): ordinary Save offers Save As; unchanged format keeps options, changed format opens its Save options; cancellation/automation isolation; focused UI regressions passed, native acceptance pending; PDF authored ActualText preserved once in editable import (#6165; first-glyph line/style, bounded input; estimates unchanged); PDF export keeps harakat and zero-advance Noto Arabic dot glyphs in one compatible batch per layout line, with per-glyph vertical offsets (#6309). `crates/pdf/src/tests/realtext.rs` (`mark_text_*`) checks decoded cluster mappings, mixed Arabic/Latin/digits, contour placement against outline export, vertical columns, differing path rotations and PDF/X-1a/3/4. Editable-text import preserves authored ActualText separately (#6165), with cross-line/style layout limits; separately styled or differently rotated clusters and external viewer search/copy remain outside this export-only evidence. `.ai`/EPS type from the text document keeps its paragraphs' tab stops (#6147); `.ai`/EPS type from the text document keeps auto leading per line, its hyphenation options, and may show more of the last lines the file sets in an area frame of its own, when growing the frame by its lines' deepest descent plus 0.05 pt shows them (#6137); ✅ done (M4.14–M4.98 on 2026-10-05): Save As/Save a Copy/Revert/templates, Data Recovery and background save, SVG import and export fidelity (units, text, symbols, filters, SVGZ, Preserve Editing, SVG Options), shared guarded PDF writer and windowed reader ([pdf-backend.md](pdf-backend.md)), PDF import (colours, layers, masks, editable text, security) and export (presets, marks, bleed, ICC and output intent, raster effects, subset fonts, PDF/X-1a, X-3 and X-4, PDF layers, overprint, page thumbnails, fast web view, PDF 1.3), Place and Links, Package, EPS and DXF in and out (EPS legacy mesh corners, vector opacity masks and raster page comparison verified; closed SPLINE flags round-trip and circular paths export as native CIRCLE/ARC, #1299), EMF/WMF, TIFF/BMP/Targa/PSD/GIF/PNG-8 export, Print and print presets, slices, Save for Web, TIFF in Export for Screens and Asset Export, clipboard flavours, File Info; AF.1–AF.4 add Affinity import (native layers, artboards, vectors, text and images from Affinity 1–3 files; the embedded preview only as a warned fallback; AF.4 expands current `.af` fixtures and every-board round-trip validation); EPS Save and Save As keep an opened EPS as EPS with its page frame and complete editable VectorCraft document (2026-10-26; G9 import fidelity unchanged). Left: DWG (use DXF), PSD placement as layers, overprint read back from PDF, Affinity export, polish; SVG CSS classes survive export and repeated import in all four styling modes (#2480); current-main integration retains event attributes and scripts; SVG CSS classes survive export and repeated import in all four styling modes (#2480); current-main integration retains event attributes and scripts; PDF import: glyphs inside a marked-content span with an empty `ActualText` come in as outlines in their fill and stroke, adding no text (#6971; scores and estimates unchanged); | 3–6 (existing scope; Affinity export unestimated) |
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| M5 | Performance | 🟡 background render + caches + MT done; `vectorcraft-cli bench` and `vectorcraft-cli perf` (budget suite); opaque solid-fill knockout paths draw once in hard-edge/supersampled raster export, with analytical-AA compositing unchanged; file format v2 opens 3× faster (50k paths: 722 → 244 ms); raster effects (glows, shadows, blur, feather) no longer force the whole frame single-threaded (filtered offscreen per effect, verified equal to the single-threaded reference); Craquelure/Mosaic Tiles/Stained Glass distance searches optimized with pixel-invariance checks and the `texture_drag_perf` probe (#1257); effect-heavy demos need a clean-machine benchmark; dirty-region rendering, GPU backend spike pending | 15–25 |
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| M6 | Path operations (Pathfinder, Shape Builder, offset…) | ✅ mostly done (live compound shapes: Make, Alt-click a Shape Mode, member modes, Release, Expand (#4522); single-result Pathfinder names and SVG IDs retained (#1293); Divide open-cutting-path geometry, appearance and history verified (#1307; existing segment cap remains); Simplify preview/counts and rewritten-path component selection verified (#1272; the slider opens at the Auto-Simplify level; a Direct Selection part of a path simplifies on its own); Compound appearance and member fill-rule edits verified (#1197); Boolean precision on almost-horizontal edges fixed and the property tests made deterministic; Shape Builder gap detection, large-offset bug open); Shape Builder Gap Detection shares Live Paint’s spatial gap finder and temporary merge bridges (#2526); Custom is capped at 72 pt in the existing options dialog | 3–6 |
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| M7 | Type (point/area/path, editing, styles, OpenType, threading, glyphs) | Spell check engine: `text.spelling.check` and `text.spelling.suggest` on craft-proof and the custom dictionary and Ignore All commands and Auto Spell Check with its right-click suggestions, Ignore All and Add to Dictionary, and Spelling › Auto Spell Check in the context menu of type, and the Edit Custom Dictionary dialog (#4936; the Check Spelling dialog remains); Right-aligned area type sets the text after a line's last tab against the right edge, the text before it at its stops (#6147); A line a soft return ends is justified as a wrapped line is (#6137); Indian-language pattern hyphenation preserves syllables in both composers (#4947); 🟡 Hanging punctuation keeps its published amounts under Glyph Scaling, and Standard burasagari counts a hung line start as room; Fullwidth `！` / `？` keep an upright fallback in vertical type; Hyphenation… and Justification… per paragraph (#2310, #2755), Auto Leading also driving the Character panel's Leading, the Alt+↑/↓ leading nudge and Fill with Placeholder Text; Document-point character controls after object/group scaling (#1034; optional font-size preservation remains separate), Character/Paragraph Styles (explicit Auto-leading resets and local leading overrides), per-paragraph paragraph attributes, mixed paragraph alignment indication (headless regressions, full integration CI and visual review pass), Area Type Options (with Width/Height, Auto Size and Shrink Text to Fit; overflow reported to agents and vertical Align), type areas resized by their handles and reshaped with Direct Selection, threaded text, Fit Headline, Glyphs (feature-valued alternates and unencoded glyphs applied in one Undo step while keeping Arabic joining, #5514), OpenType panel (including font-defined Stylistic Sets), Find Font (Document, Recent and System replacement sources, #5217), installed system fonts in every font menu (fonts registered with Windows outside its font folders, the XDG and Flatpak host font folders on Linux, and fonts installed while the app runs, listed when it comes back to the front; searchable; the Character and Properties menus show each family's sample of the selected text, preview it live under the pointer or ↑/↓, show recently applied families first (#3515), filter by script and kind, list a family's styles, and star favourites; the Glyphs panel and Find Font's Replace With use the same menu without the live preview) and found by name on open/import (full-name aliases and Missing Fonts searches verified, #1258; Windows font-service QA pending), variable fonts' named instances as styles, CJK names in the UI, input methods (marked text in place, candidate window at the caret; Japanese IME), Text Wrap (offset, invert, both sides of an object; follows edits), Type on a Path effects and Options with draggable start/centre/end brackets (slide, flip), tab stops + Tabs panel (Above Text floats it over the selected text, its ruler at the canvas zoom so stops line up with the columns, #729), inline symbols in text (beyond parity), Hebrew/Arabic bidirectional text, Paragraph Direction, Every-line/Single-line Composer per object (ragged text too) done; paint-only Arabic harakat keep joining with GDEF-mark ownership and Insert Kashidas tatweels on the base letter's paint (`tests::harakat`); tab leaders, spell check, vertical type pending | 45–60 |
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- A stroke whose outline takes more than 65,536 points, or whose solid takes more than 163,840 faces, is left out,
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and the fill's solid still draws.
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- The solids of one Extrude & Bevel or Inflate effect keep up to 163,840 faces together: the fill's and every
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stroke's, and on a group or layer every member's (VectorCraft's own limit). The solids are built in order, and
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once their faces pass it no later solid is built: the object draws its source art, and applying or editing the
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effect, Export 3D Object and **Expand as Wireframes** report that the 3D surface is too complex. A stroke left
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## Groups
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| Preserve font sizes while scaling a group | missing | Separate enhancement; scaling still scales text with the other artwork. |
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| OpenType panel, Glyphs panel, alternates | done | Highlight Alternate Glyphs preference (#394, off by default) paints pink behind OpenType substitutions on screen when on (required shaping such as Arabic joining forms and the lam-alef ligature, including a lam-alef older fonts file under `liga`, is not highlighted; an optional feature that changes the ligature is); stylistic sets ss01–ss20, stylistic and titling alternates, proportional and lining figures, superscript and subscript are character-style features (`text.setStyle {features}`, #1607); the OpenType panel's Position menu sets superscript, subscript, numerator or denominator glyphs (`sups`, `subs`, `numr`, `dnom`). The OpenType panel's Stylistic Sets menu lists the selected font's `ss01`–`ss20` features, using a font-supplied name where available and `Set N` otherwise; several sets can be active, and selecting an active one removes it. For a mixed-font selection it uses the first selected character's font, a VectorCraft design choice ([public help](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/special-characters-glyphs/add-stylistic-sets-to-selected-text.html), [OpenType feature specification](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/features_pt)). The Glyphs panel highlights the character selected with the Type tool (a range's first character, else the one before the caret) and scrolls it into view as the selection moves (#4908; `panels::glyphs` tests); its Show menu lists Unicode ranges and Alternates for Current Selection, the selected character's alternate glyphs from the font's `GSUB` table. A double-click applies the OpenType feature that draws a variant to that character alone, or uses a glyph choice when no supported feature draws it; see the Glyphs panel row below for Entire Font and the joining limits. The glyph-cell pop-up of alternates is not there yet |
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| Glyphs panel: alternates as OpenType feature values, unencoded glyphs | done | #5514, as [Replace characters with alternate glyphs](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/special-characters-glyphs/replace-characters-with-alternate-glyphs.html) describes (Show › Alternates For Current Selection; replace the selected character by double-clicking the glyph). A character-style feature takes a value (`"salt=2"`, the font's alternate number; `ss01`–`ss20`, `swsh`, `titl` and `aalt` too) in `features` and `featureChanges`, in SVG `font-feature-settings` (`"salt" 2`) and in native files as the plain string. Show › Entire Font applies an unencoded glyph the same way when it is an alternate of the selected character in its word, applies one no feature reaches (`A.salt` in a font with no `salt`) to the selected character as a glyph choice (it may not join), and dims the others with the reason in the tooltip (e.g. `yehfarsi.fina.alt2 belongs to ی (U+06CC) at the end of a word; your selection is ي (U+064A)`); an Arabic presentation form picked there inserts its letter so the word joins. Runs that differ only in their features shape as one piece of text, each run's features over its own characters, so a variant on one letter of an Arabic word keeps its neighbours' initial, medial and final forms and the letters still touch. The panel lists the alternates of the glyph the shaper makes for the selected character in its word (a medial letter shows medial variants), and a double-click applies the OpenType feature that draws the variant (`salt=N` or `ssNN`) to that character alone, in one undo step (`text.setRangeStyle`); a variant no feature reaches falls back to a replacement glyph (`text.setGlyphAlternate`), which its tooltip says may not join. Show › Entire Font also lists the glyphs no character maps, with their name or `gid N` and the feature that gives them. The text crate reads each face's `GSUB` once (alternate sets, single substitutions, the feature that reaches a glyph). Not done: alternates reached through contextual or ligature lookups, and features of the font that the style has no tag for (`cv01`–`cv99`, `hist`). Evidence: `tests::glyph_alternates` in the text crate (a fixture font with a medial teh at `salt=1` to `3`, the neighbours' forms, no gap; Kufi Murabba PIIIX when it is installed), `features::tests::feature_values_are_parsed_validated_and_shaped`, `tests::textedit::feature_values_are_set_replaced_and_saved`, the `panels::glyphs` tests. |
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| Font menu: samples, live preview, filters, favourites, recent families; font matching by any name; Find Font | done | #3515: recently applied families appear first, once each; missing families are omitted and the existing Number of Recent Fonts setting applies; #339; script filter: Japanese, Latin, Thai; the font scan on Linux also reads the folders fontconfig's configuration lists, such as TeX fonts under `/usr/share/texmf/fonts` (#1548, fixes #1529; not verified on Linux); Select Text by Font takes a scope: the document, chosen artboards or chosen layers; Find Font's Find In offers Document, Artboard (the active one) and Layers (the selected ones, else the current one) (#5529, a VectorCraft addition); Replace With Font lists family and style rows, one click setting both, with a search over them; its list scrolls on its own, apart from the document's font list (#4972); wherever the font menu opens, its filters keep the same four rows, and it opens at least wide enough for them and for a family name up to 220 points wide with its sample (up to 60% of the window), each sample filling its row's height (a VectorCraft layout). |
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| Font menu: samples, live preview, filters, favourites, recent families; font matching by any name; Find Font | done | #3515: recently applied families appear first, once each; missing families are omitted and the existing Number of Recent Fonts setting applies; #339; script filter: Japanese, Latin, Thai; the font scan on Linux also reads the folders fontconfig's configuration lists, such as TeX fonts under `/usr/share/texmf/fonts` (#1548, fixes #1529; not verified on Linux); Select Text by Font takes a scope: the document, chosen artboards or chosen layers; Find Font's Find In offers Document, Artboard (the active one) and Layers (the selected ones, else the current one) (#5529, a VectorCraft addition); Replace With Font lists family and style rows, one click setting both, with a search over them; its list scrolls on its own, apart from the document's font list (#4972); wherever the font menu opens, its filters keep the same four rows, and it opens at least wide enough for them and for a family name up to 220 points wide with its sample (up to 60% of the window), each sample filling its row's height (a VectorCraft layout); a filter chosen in the font menu of the Character panel, the Control bar or the Properties panel is on in the others, and the filters are cleared when the app quits ([Font browser overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/fonts-and-scripts/font-options-overview.html)); the font menus of the Glyphs panel and of the dialogs that pick a font share the same filters (a VectorCraft choice). |
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| Missing glyphs set in an installed font made for their script (Thai, Lao, Khmer, Myanmar first; then any font that has them) | done | Thai: Leelawadee UI, Tahoma, Thonburi, Sukhumvit Set, Noto Sans Thai, TLWG |
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| Full font-name matching (OpenType name ID 4) | done | #1258: loaded/cataloged faces and Missing Fonts searches; localized names and variable default faces; Windows font-service QA pending |
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| Variable fonts | done | named instances as styles; Character panel › Variable Font sets each axis (`fontAxes`); the font menu's Font Technology › Variable lists only variable font families, with the script, kind and ★ filters ([Find, apply, and adjust variable fonts](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/fonts-and-scripts/find-apply-and-adjust-variable-fonts.html)); a family with a variable file beside static ones counts as variable. Evidence: `font_menu::tests::the_variable_filter_lists_only_variable_families`, `tests_axes::a_family_with_variation_axes_is_variable`, `tests_sysfonts::a_family_with_a_variable_file_beside_static_ones_is_variable` |
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| Middle Eastern: Kashidas | done | Paragraph Insert Kashidas sets the length for justified Arabic area type; Character-menu Kashidas allows or excludes selected characters, on by default. A kashida is inserted only between two allowed joined characters. The character switch is retained in character styles and the native file; the length is retained in paragraph styles and the native file. Paint-only harakat (coloured or hidden marks) stay in one shaping cluster so letters keep joining; when the character-level pass matches, a glyph may take a later in-cluster character's run only if GDEF names it a mark (class 3) and that character is a harakat—otherwise the cluster start (a mark may miss its colour; a base never takes a mark's). Inserted tatweels take the base letter's paint—not a trailing mark's. Fonts without GDEF and some AAT/`morx` ligatures (e.g. Geeza Pro Allah) can leave a mark painted as its letter. No Character-panel harakat colour command yet. Evidence: `tests::harakat`. [Public help](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/fonts-and-scripts/justify-text-using-kashida-and-hyphenation.html). |
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| Middle Eastern: Middle Eastern composers, split caret | missing | Character Direction is done; editable bidirectional SVG text remains incomplete. |
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| CJK: input methods (marked text, candidate window) | done | |
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| CJK: kinsoku (Hard, Soft, None), Line-end Punctuation Half Width, tate-chu-yoko (auto) | done / partial | custom kinsoku sets, the Mojikumi Settings dialog and the other mojikumi sets missing |
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| CJK: kinsoku (Hard, Soft, None), the predefined mojikumi sets (None, YakumonoHankaku, GyomatsuYakumonoHankaku, GyomatsuYakumonoZenkaku, YakumonoZenkaku, with VectorCraft's own spacing for each) and Line-end Punctuation Half Width, tate-chu-yoko (auto) | done / partial | custom kinsoku sets, custom mojikumi sets and the Mojikumi Settings dialog missing |
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| CJK: Kinsoku Shori Type (Push In First, Push Out First, Push Out Only) | done | Paragraph panel menu › Kinsoku Shori Type (`text.setFormat {kinsokuType}`), with the East Asian options ([Formatting Asian characters](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/formatting-asian-characters.html)); Push Out Only is the default, and a push-in closes the line's gaps next to CJK characters by at most a tenth of an em each (VectorCraft's own limit). Evidence: `layout::wrapping_tests::kinsoku_shori_type_pushes_a_closing_bracket_in_or_out`, `tests::vertical::kinsoku_shori_type_pushes_a_closing_bracket_in_or_out`, `typecmd::area_tests::kinsoku_shori_type_is_set_per_paragraph_and_saved_only_when_not_push_out_only` |
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| CJK: Proportional Metrics (`palt` in horizontal type, `vpal` in vertical type) | done | #966 |
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| CJK: East Asian Type units (Q, Ha) | done | Preferences › Units › East Asian Type (`unitsAsianType`, Points by default) offers every unit and Q and Ha, a quarter of a millimetre each ([Scripting Guide](https://ai-scripting.docsforadobe.dev/scripting/measurementUnits/): 0.709 pt per Q; [InDesign's unit notation](https://helpx.adobe.com/in/indesign/desktop/layout-and-grid-tools/rulers-and-measure-tools/change-ruler-measurement-units.html): `q`, `h`). The public pages do not say which fields follow it, so no field uses it yet and that waits for a source. Evidence: `q_and_ha_are_a_quarter_millimetre`, `east_asian_type_unit_*` |
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# UI and interaction parity
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> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-13 · **Change:** minor (Swatches list fills a taller panel, #1638; scores and estimates unchanged; previously: icon-strip flyouts also resize from the top edge and the canvas-side top corner, keeping the moved top in workspaces (storytold/craft-libs#1094); scores and estimates unchanged; previously: macOS: the canvas cursor stays after the pointer moves, #6362; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: Remove Background in the Contextual Task Bar, Properties › Quick Actions and the Control bar; previously minor: Ruler origin: the corner drag snaps as a drawn point does; previously minor: Live Paint Bucket fills faces crossed in one drag (#6373); previously: #6404: transform-aware Eyedropper character copying; scores and estimates unchanged; previously: Outline view: images and gradient meshes are picked on what Outline draws, so a click inside them reaches the path behind, #6437; previously minor: a middle-click on a document tab closes it, #6506; previously minor: Blob Brush: a round tip's preview is the outline of the area it adds, round at both ends, as the stroke it commits (#4343); scores and estimates unchanged; previously:; ruler double-click adds a guide at the pointer, #5239; G5: Inventory Icons built-in symbol library (four built-ins); previously minor: files that record no units open in Preferences › Units › General, #5820; previously minor: interim macOS cursor delivery, #2292; native validation pending; scores and estimates unchanged; Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged; floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it, #5925 in part; numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking keyboard focus, #5949; Character Styles panel: a double-click on a style's row opens its Character Style Options; the dialog keeps a fixed width and scrolls its sections, so its buttons stay on screen; Selection QoL: marquee modes and visible feedback, #5313; #3380 deletion-only review follow-up: independent survivors keep gradient placement, owned subpaths avoid discarded copies, and contracts/status/evidence are clarified; endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged; Drop Shadow and glow dialogs: spinner arrows, #5367, #5368; Stroke Weight Up and Down shortcuts, #5797; Layers: Rename (`ui.rename`) opens the name field of the selected layer, group or object, #5324; Properties in Edit Artboards: Transform section above the Artboards section, #5219; scrubby labels: the Control bar's Stroke: and Opacity: links and the Properties panel's Stroke link scrub their fields, #4088; Properties: Quick Actions has Repeat Options for one selected repeat, #5181; Direct Selection: Shift-click picks several blend spine points, which drag together, #5285; Direct Selection: Cmd/Ctrl held lends the Selection tool and shows its bounding box, #3901; Join tool trims two crossing open paths and joins them at the crossing, #5844; Control bar: Paragraph: link and Align left/center/right while type is selected, #5372; shape tools: a press on the selection's centre point moves it and one in the rotate zone outside a box corner turns it, #5477; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; Units › East Asian Type acts, with Q and Ha units; scores unchanged)
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> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-13 · **Change:** minor (Graphic Styles list fills a taller panel, #2992; scores and estimates unchanged; previously: library panels' lists fill a taller panel, #2992; scores and estimates unchanged; previously: Swatches list fills a taller panel, #1638; scores and estimates unchanged; previously: icon-strip flyouts also resize from the top edge and the canvas-side top corner, keeping the moved top in workspaces (storytold/craft-libs#1094); scores and estimates unchanged; previously: macOS: the canvas cursor stays after the pointer moves, #6362; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: Remove Background in the Contextual Task Bar, Properties › Quick Actions and the Control bar; previously minor: Ruler origin: the corner drag snaps as a drawn point does; previously minor: Live Paint Bucket fills faces crossed in one drag (#6373); previously: #6404: transform-aware Eyedropper character copying; scores and estimates unchanged; previously: Outline view: images and gradient meshes are picked on what Outline draws, so a click inside them reaches the path behind, #6437; previously minor: a middle-click on a document tab closes it, #6506; previously minor: Blob Brush: a round tip's preview is the outline of the area it adds, round at both ends, as the stroke it commits (#4343); scores and estimates unchanged; previously:; ruler double-click adds a guide at the pointer, #5239; G5: Inventory Icons built-in symbol library (four built-ins); previously minor: files that record no units open in Preferences › Units › General, #5820; previously minor: interim macOS cursor delivery, #2292; native validation pending; scores and estimates unchanged; Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged; floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it, #5925 in part; numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking keyboard focus, #5949; Character Styles panel: a double-click on a style's row opens its Character Style Options; the dialog keeps a fixed width and scrolls its sections, so its buttons stay on screen; Selection QoL: marquee modes and visible feedback, #5313; #3380 deletion-only review follow-up: independent survivors keep gradient placement, owned subpaths avoid discarded copies, and contracts/status/evidence are clarified; endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged; Drop Shadow and glow dialogs: spinner arrows, #5367, #5368; Stroke Weight Up and Down shortcuts, #5797; Layers: Rename (`ui.rename`) opens the name field of the selected layer, group or object, #5324; Properties in Edit Artboards: Transform section above the Artboards section, #5219; scrubby labels: the Control bar's Stroke: and Opacity: links and the Properties panel's Stroke link scrub their fields, #4088; Properties: Quick Actions has Repeat Options for one selected repeat, #5181; Direct Selection: Shift-click picks several blend spine points, which drag together, #5285; Direct Selection: Cmd/Ctrl held lends the Selection tool and shows its bounding box, #3901; Join tool trims two crossing open paths and joins them at the crossing, #5844; Control bar: Paragraph: link and Align left/center/right while type is selected, #5372; shape tools: a press on the selection's centre point moves it and one in the rotate zone outside a box corner turns it, #5477; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; Units › East Asian Type acts, with Q and Ha units; scores unchanged)
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> Vector Halftone preview update (2026-11-10): temporary dot selection marks are hidden, and the bounding box stays available (#6369).
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| 2026-11-13 | minor | Graphic Styles: in a panel made taller the list fills the space above the footer instead of stopping at 220 pt (#2992; `the_list_fills_a_tall_panel_above_its_footer` in `crates/ui-egui/src/panels/graphic_styles.rs`). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
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| 2026-11-13 | minor | Library panels (swatch, Color Book, brush, symbol and graphic style libraries): in a panel made taller the list fills the space above the footer instead of scrolling inside 220 or 280 pt (#2992; `the_list_fills_a_tall_panel_above_its_footer` in `crates/ui-egui/src/panels/library_panel/tests.rs`). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
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| 2026-11-13 | minor | Swatches: in a panel made taller the swatch list fills the space above the footer instead of scrolling inside 150 or 200 pt (#1638). Scores unchanged. |
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| 2026-11-08 | minor | Style panels: a double-click on a user character style's row opens its Character Style Options (`ui.charStyleOptions`), and on a paragraph style's row its Paragraph Style Options (rename); the Character Style Options dialog keeps a fixed width and scrolls its sections in a shorter window, so OK and Cancel stay on screen. Tests `panels::text_styles::tests::double_clicking_a_character_style_row_opens_its_options` and `dialogs::char_style_options::tests::the_sections_scroll_in_a_window_shorter_than_the_general_list`. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
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| 2026-11-08 | minor | #3380, deletion only: preserve gradient placement and exact surviving geometry; consume owned subpaths with a shared original-node snapshot; consolidate status/evidence and document command/helper contracts. Compound behavior and the existing M2 status entry are retained. Endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged. |
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| Curvature tool: click/drag points, double-click or Alt-click for a corner, temporary Direct Selection, point conversion | partial | circular point markers without direction handles or duplicate markers, Anchor Size and Hide Edges regression-tested (#1236, in part); curve geometry: each stretch of three points follows the circle through them (handles along its tangent, chord/(3·cos²(α/2)) long, shorter in a turn tighter than 30°), open ends curving in, the same rule for the rubber band, dragged, inserted and converted points (#1236, in part); neighbours of a point dragged on an existing path keep their tangents, and modifiers requested in #975 remain |
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| Icon-strip flyout resizing (#5713) | done | Canvas-side edge and bottom; user size persists after reopening and workspace restore; Glyphs and Artboards pointer/cursor regression |
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| Icon-strip flyout resizing from the top (storytold/craft-libs#1094) | done | Top edge (a 4 pt band over the tab strip) and the canvas-side top corner; the bottom and the icon-column edge stay; the moved top persists after reopening and workspace restore; `an_icon_flyout_grows_upward_from_its_top_edge_and_free_corner` |
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| Graphic Styles list fills a taller panel (#2992) | done | Docked, floating or in a resized flyout, the list takes the height above the panel's footer, as the Artboards list does; outside a sized panel it stays 220 pt; `the_list_fills_a_tall_panel_above_its_footer` |
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| Library panels' lists fill a taller panel (#2992) | done | Swatch (Color Books among them), brush, symbol and graphic style library panels: docked, floating or in a resized flyout, the list takes the height above the panel's footer; outside a sized panel it stays 220 pt (280 pt for large thumbnails); `the_list_fills_a_tall_panel_above_its_footer` in `panels/library_panel/tests.rs` |
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| Swatches list fills a taller panel (#1638) | done | Docked, floating or in a resized flyout, the swatch list takes the height above the panel's footer, as the Artboards list does; outside a sized panel it stays 150 pt (200 pt for large thumbnails); `the_list_fills_a_tall_panel_above_its_footer` in `panels/swatches/tests.rs` |
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| Layers panel lists a blend's spine (#4820) | done | an open blend shows a `<Path>` row below its key objects, where Release leaves the spine; a click selects the blend (Shift/Cmd toggles it) so Direct Selection edits the spine; a locked blend's row selects nothing; no row while searching or filtering (`a_blends_spine_is_a_row_below_its_keys_that_selects_the_blend`) |
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| Layers panel: a layer whose Layer Options › Print is off shows its name italic (#5739) | done | the panel row and its drag ghost; a printing layer stays upright, and Print on again restores it; `panels::layers` test `a_layer_that_does_not_print_has_its_name_italic` |
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| Blend spine Anchor Point conversion and handle editing (#2544) | implemented | symmetric handles, independent drag/retraction, visible-handle policy and selection/stacking covered by tool and engine regressions; Windows native canvas checks and screenshots reviewed in PR #2643 |
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| Several blend spine points picked and dragged together (#5285) | done | with Direct Selection, Shift-click picks more points of a selected blend's spine or takes one away, as on a path; dragging any picked point moves them all, and the key objects on them, in one undo step (`object.blend.spine.moveAnchor {with}`); a marquee doesn't pick spine points yet |
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| Add/Delete/Anchor Point tools; Anchor Point tool drags segments to reshape | done | #2267: a click on a handle end retracts that handle and leaves the anchor a corner with the other one; Shift held at the press on an anchor moves it, handles and all (Shift kept down: at 45° steps) instead of pulling out handles |
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| Pencil: Fidelity, Keep selected, Alt to Smooth, edit selected paths, close by proximity | done | Fidelity goes down to 0.01 pt in the dialog, the tool and `path.freehand` (the Smooth tool keeps 0.05); its slider runs across the Tool Options row on a logarithmic rail from 0.01 to 20 pt, the field shows hundredths, and the slider's and the field's arrow keys step hundredths up to 0.1 pt, tenths up to 1 pt and whole points above (Shift ×10) (#3328); Alt key toggles to Smooth Tool (#2001); Shift held at the press draws a straight line at 45° steps from the Constrain Angle, and Alt held at the press (with Alt key toggles to Smooth Tool off) a straight line at any angle (#3799), with a straight-line cursor while Shift or Alt is held before the press, and a path-continuation cursor over an end of a selected open path, where the line continues the path; Edit Selected Paths continues a selected path from an end and, from a stroke that starts and ends on a selected path, redraws the section between (the shorter way round a closed path, #2850); with Keep selected (Pencil and Paintbrush, on by default) on, a stroke selects the path it draws or continues and replaces the earlier selection, and off a new stroke leaves nothing selected, the earlier selection included, while a continued or redrawn path is deselected and the rest of the selection stays; a filled Pencil path keeps a stroke of None (#1804, part of #1679); while a freehand stroke is drawn back to within Close Paths When Ends Are Within of its start, the Pencil and the Paintbrush show the closing cursor, and a release there closes the path |
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| Pencil: Fidelity, Keep selected, Alt to Smooth, edit selected paths, close by proximity | done | Alt key toggles to Smooth Tool (#2001); Shift held at the press draws a straight line at 45° steps from the Constrain Angle, and Alt held at the press (with Alt key toggles to Smooth Tool off) a straight line at any angle (#3799), with a straight-line cursor while Shift or Alt is held before the press, and a path-continuation cursor over an end of a selected open path, where the line continues the path; Edit Selected Paths continues a selected path from an end and, from a stroke that starts and ends on a selected path, redraws the section between (the shorter way round a closed path, #2850); with Keep selected (Pencil and Paintbrush, on by default) on, a stroke selects the path it draws or continues and replaces the earlier selection, and off a new stroke leaves nothing selected, the earlier selection included, while a continued or redrawn path is deselected and the rest of the selection stays; a filled Pencil path keeps a stroke of None (#1804, part of #1679); while a freehand stroke is drawn back to within Close Paths When Ends Are Within of its start, the Pencil and the Paintbrush show the closing cursor, and a release there closes the path; a Pencil stroke from an end of one selected open path to an end of another connects the two into one path |
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| Pencil: Fidelity, Keep selected, Alt to Smooth, edit selected paths, close by proximity | done | Fidelity is in screen pixels, the same at any zoom, and goes down to 0.01 px in the dialog and the tool, which sends `path.freehand` the value in points at the current zoom (#5729; the Smooth tool keeps 0.05 pt); its slider runs across the Tool Options row on a logarithmic rail from 0.01 to 20 px, the field shows hundredths, and the slider's and the field's arrow keys step hundredths up to 0.1 px, tenths up to 1 px and whole pixels above (Shift ×10) (#3328); Alt key toggles to Smooth Tool (#2001); Shift held at the press draws a straight line at 45° steps from the Constrain Angle, and Alt held at the press (with Alt key toggles to Smooth Tool off) a straight line at any angle (#3799), with a straight-line cursor while Shift or Alt is held before the press, and a path-continuation cursor over an end of a selected open path, where the line continues the path; Edit Selected Paths continues a selected path from an end and, from a stroke that starts and ends on a selected path, redraws the section between (the shorter way round a closed path, #2850); with Keep selected (Pencil and Paintbrush, on by default) on, a stroke selects the path it draws or continues and replaces the earlier selection, and off a new stroke leaves nothing selected, the earlier selection included, while a continued or redrawn path is deselected and the rest of the selection stays; a filled Pencil path keeps a stroke of None (#1804, part of #1679); while a freehand stroke is drawn back to within Close Paths When Ends Are Within of its start, the Pencil and the Paintbrush show the closing cursor, and a release there closes the path; a Pencil stroke from an end of one selected open path to an end of another connects the two into one path |
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| Drop Shadow, Outer Glow and Inner Glow: Opacity, the offsets, Blur and Darkness have spinner arrows that step by one (a unit for distances), repeat when held and stop at the fields' ends (#5367, #5368) | done | dialogs::effect test drop_shadow_and_outer_glow_fields_have_spinner_arrows; other effect dialogs' number fields still have none |
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| Effect dialogs' colour fields: a swatch beside the hex follows typed values, and a double-click opens the Color Picker over the dialog, whose OK fills it and Cancel comes back unchanged (#5365) | done | dialogs::effect tests outer_glow_colour_swatch_opens_the_color_picker and drop_shadow_colour_swatch_opens_the_color_picker (Drop Shadow's Color, #5364); the picker previews nothing itself, the effect dialog previews the returned colour |
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| Join tool scrubbing, Average, Join | done | Join merges the direct-selected anchors lying on one another along a path, as after Average, into one (#1533); the Join tool trims two crossing open paths whose overhanging ends it scrubs over and joins them at the crossing, instead of drawing a segment between their ends (#5844) |
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| "intersect" label and snapping to path intersections | partial | #1658 (part of #1602): a point drawn with the Pen, the shape tools or the other drawing tools and an anchor dragged with Direct Selection snap to where paths and ruler guides cross; a moved selection's own anchors and the Width tool don't |
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| Construction guides at preference angles while drawing | done | #506 |
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| Line extension: the dragged end of a straight segment snaps to the segment's own direction at any angle, past its other end or short of it, with the guide along it | done | #2120; Direct Selection and Curvature, one anchor dragged (with several, the move has no single direction); nearer the horizontal or vertical through the other end, the point lines up with it ("align"), so a nearly level segment can still be straightened |
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| Measurement labels while drawing, moving and resizing | done | sizes and offsets; the segment being drawn is labeled with its distance, angle and offsets by the Line Segment tool, and by the Pen, Curvature and Smart Pen tools with Enable Rubber Band on (#2983) |
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| Measurement labels while drawing, moving and resizing | done | sizes and offsets; the segment being drawn is labeled with its distance, angle and offsets by the Line Segment tool, and by the Pen, Curvature and Smart Pen tools with Enable Rubber Band on or off (#2983) |
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| Spacing guides (equal distances) | partial | for moves and bounding-box resizes (#394); not while drawing |
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| Distance Guides: Alt/Option over another object, or an empty part of an artboard, shows the selection's distances to it (Smart Guides › Invoke Distance Guides) | done | Selection tool hover with Smart Guides on: the gap between facing edges, else the offsets of matching edges, to another object; the left, right, top and bottom distances to the artboard; labelled in the General unit. The selection is measured as a whole. Nothing while moving or nudging, which the public pages don't describe. [Use Distance Guides](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/measure-and-align/grids-and-guides/use-distance-guides-for-accurate-placement.html), [Smart Guides options](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/measure-and-align/grids-and-guides/smart-guides-options.html) |
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| Snapping tolerance preference | done | |
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