Merge pull request #5557 from dotCooCoo/fix/vertical-path-upright-glyphs

Type: upright glyphs on a vertical path face the path's start, so ligatures read in order

ROADMAP.md

@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 # VectorCraft Roadmap
 
-> **QoL update (2026-11-02):** Selection-tool marquees offer Touching (default), Fully Enclosed and Drag Direction in Preferences › Selection & Anchor Display. Drag Direction uses screen left/right, including rotated views, retaining its last rule within three horizontal screen pixels of the press. E reverses the rule for the current drag. A solid enclosed outline or dashed touching outline and a translated label show the active rule. The selection region remains aligned to the document axes. This is a VectorCraft addition; scores and estimates are unchanged.
-
 - Contour add-on (beyond Illustrator): drag a selected shape's edge outward or inward for a live, editable offset copy, with a floating bar for distance and Sharp, Round or Square corners; Bake turns it into paths. Scores and estimates unchanged.
 - Compound Shapes add-on (beyond Illustrator): a menu for Make, Release and Expand Compound Shape and a setting, off by default, that makes the Pathfinder panel's Shape Mode buttons create compound shapes on a click. Scores and estimates unchanged.
 
@@ -16,7 +14,7 @@
 
 **Stage: alpha** · next: beta, ~13 points (ready for real work ~62% → ~75%, and reliable `.ai` exchange) and ~170–270 h away
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-06 · **Change:** minor (Tools stays beside the canvas with left-side panels; new gradients follow document color mode; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-06 · **Change:** minor (Tools stays beside the canvas with left-side panels; Hindi catalog draft complete under the translation tests; contributor loanword terminology reviewed; wider proofreading welcome; Compound Shapes add-on, beyond Illustrator; scores and estimates unchanged; Contour add-on, beyond Illustrator; scores and estimates unchanged; new gradients follow document color mode; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
 
 VectorCraft is a clean-room, open-source, pure-Rust reimplementation of the Adobe Illustrator workflow. It runs
 on macOS, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and the web (WASM), and agents can drive all of it over MCP, the CLI and a JSON

crates/text/src/layout.rs

@@ -57,8 +57,9 @@ fn continues_cluster(prev: Option<&SGlyph>, g: Option<&SGlyph>) -> bool {
 /// The caret stops inside glyph `g` when it alone stands for several characters (grapheme clusters)
 /// of `text`, a ligature ([`PositionedGlyph::carets`]); `rtl` when its logical leading edge is its
 /// right edge; `upright` when it stands upright in vertical type, its carets then down its cell
-/// ([`upright_extent`]). Empty for a glyph of one character.
-fn ligature_carets(text: &str, g: &SGlyph, rtl: bool, upright: bool) -> Vec<(usize, f64)> {
+/// ([`upright_extent`]) as a share of `upright`, the length in font units its own width runs down.
+/// Empty for a glyph of one character.
+fn ligature_carets(text: &str, g: &SGlyph, rtl: bool, upright: Option<f64>) -> Vec<(usize, f64)> {
     use unicode_segmentation::UnicodeSegmentation;
     let Some(s) = text.get(g.byte..g.byte + g.len).filter(|_| g.len > 1) else { return Vec::new() };
     let starts: Vec<usize> = s.grapheme_indices(true).skip(1).map(|(i, _)| g.byte + i).collect();
@@ -66,12 +67,13 @@ fn ligature_carets(text: &str, g: &SGlyph, rtl: bool, upright: bool) -> Vec<(usi
         return Vec::new();
     }
     let parts = starts.len() + 1;
-    let from_font = if upright {
+    let from_font = if let Some(length) = upright {
         let (cell, top) = upright_extent(g);
         g.face
             .vertical_ligature_carets(g.gid, starts.len(), top, cell)
-            .filter(|c| c.len() == starts.len() && cell > 0.0)
-            .map(|c| c.into_iter().map(|d| d / cell).collect::<Vec<f64>>())
+            .filter(|c| c.len() == starts.len() && length > 0.0)
+            .map(|c| c.into_iter().map(|d| d / length).collect::<Vec<f64>>())
+            .filter(|c| c.iter().all(|f| *f > 0.0 && *f < 1.0))
     } else {
         let advance = g.face.advance(g.gid);
         g.face
@@ -332,9 +334,31 @@ impl Ctx<'_> {
             Affine::IDENTITY
         };
         let mut m = pre * local;
+        // Vertical type on a path: an upright glyph's cell in font units, as (its length with the
+        // Proportional Metrics change to it, the height of its top above the baseline).
+        let path_cell = (self.vertical && self.on_path && g.inline.is_none() && g.tcy.is_none() && takes_cell(g) && stands_upright(g) && g.sy != 0.0)
+            .then(|| {
+                let (cell, top) = upright_extent(g);
+                let proportional = g.vpal.filter(|_| g.face.vertical_glyph(g.gid).is_some()).map_or(0.0, |a| a.advance) / g.sy;
+                (cell + proportional, top)
+            });
         if self.vertical && self.on_path {
             // Vertical path type keeps the baseline path and turns each glyph across it.
             m = Affine::rotate_about(std::f64::consts::FRAC_PI_2, origin) * m;
+            if let Some((cell, top)) = path_cell {
+                // An upright glyph whose top then faces the path's end turns half a turn about the
+                // center of its cell (without its Character Rotation), so that its top faces the
+                // path's start and the characters of an upright ligature read along the path in
+                // order. The effects that keep the glyph's up direction fixed already turn it so on
+                // a path that runs to the left.
+                let turned = m * unturned;
+                let tangent = Vec2::new(angle.cos(), angle.sin());
+                let along = |y: f64| (turned * Point::new(0.0, y) - origin).dot(tangent);
+                if along(-top) > along(cell - top) {
+                    let centre = turned * Point::new(g.face.advance(g.gid) * 0.5, cell * 0.5 - top);
+                    m = Affine::translate(centre.to_vec2() * 2.0) * Affine::scale(-1.0) * m;
+                }
+            }
         } else if let (true, Some(t)) = (self.vertical, g.tcy) {
             // Tate-chu-yoko: the block set across the column, centred on its em of it, then moved up
             // by its Up/Down and right by its Left/Right (line x runs down the column and line y
@@ -408,20 +432,17 @@ impl Ctx<'_> {
         } else {
             0.0
         };
-        // On a path, an upright glyph turns about its pen: its cell runs along the path between
-        // where the glyph's transform sets the cell's foot and its top, moved by the shaper's
-        // placement and a baseline shift, and slanted by the path's effect.
-        let (width, width_start) = match (upright && self.on_path, g.sy) {
-            (true, sy) if sy != 0.0 => {
-                // In font units, with the Proportional Metrics change to its length.
-                let (cell, top) = upright_extent(g);
-                let proportional = g.vpal.filter(|_| g.face.vertical_glyph(g.gid).is_some()).map_or(0.0, |a| a.advance) / sy;
+        // On a path, an upright glyph's cell runs along the path from where the glyph's transform
+        // sets the cell's top to its foot, moved by the shaper's placement and a baseline shift, and
+        // slanted by the path's effect.
+        let (width, width_start) = match path_cell {
+            Some((cell, top)) => {
                 let tangent = Vec2::new(angle.cos(), angle.sin());
                 let along = |y: f64| (m * Point::new(0.0, y) - origin).dot(tangent);
-                let (start, end) = (along(cell + proportional - top), along(-top));
+                let (start, end) = (along(-top), along(cell - top));
                 if start.is_finite() && end > start { (end - start, start) } else { (width, width_start) }
             }
-            _ => (width, width_start),
+            None => (width, width_start),
         };
         if let Some(art) = g.inline.as_ref().and_then(|ib| ib.art) {
             self.out.inlines.push(InlineGlyph { run: g.run, byte: g.byte, glyph: self.out.glyphs.len(), xf: m, bounds: m.transform_rect_bbox(art) });
@@ -446,7 +467,14 @@ impl Ctx<'_> {
             bend: None,
             unturned,
             pivot,
-            carets: if g.inline.is_some() { Vec::new() } else { ligature_carets(self.text, g, g.level.is_rtl() && !self.vertical, upright) },
+            // On a path its carets divide the cell its width runs along, with the Proportional
+            // Metrics change to it.
+            carets: if g.inline.is_some() {
+                Vec::new()
+            } else {
+                let length = upright.then(|| path_cell.map_or_else(|| upright_extent(g).0, |(cell, _)| cell));
+                ligature_carets(self.text, g, g.level.is_rtl() && !self.vertical, length)
+            },
             width,
             width_start,
         });

crates/text/src/lib.rs

@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ pub struct PositionedGlyph {
     /// taken off, plus the manual kerning of right-to-left text, which moves the glyph right so that
     /// the space it adds lies on the glyph's left. 0 for a glyph standing upright or set across the
     /// column in vertical type, and for an inline graphic. An upright glyph in vertical type on a
-    /// path turns about its pen, and its cell starts one cell length before the cell's top: 0.12 em
+    /// path stands with its top toward the path's start, and its cell starts at its top: 0.12 em
     /// before the pen without the font's vertical metrics.
     pub width_start: f64,
 }

crates/text/src/test_fonts.rs

@@ -855,6 +855,44 @@ pub fn vertical_ligature_caret_font(caret: i16) -> Option<Vec<u8>> {
     Some(builder.build())
 }
 
+/// [`vertical_ligature_caret_font`] with its one caret at y = `caret` font units, f + i joined by
+/// `ccmp` (which shaping applies top to bottom too, unlike `liga`), and its `GPOS` replaced by a
+/// `vpal` single adjustment that changes the ligature glyph's advance down the column by
+/// `y_advance` font units. `None` when it can't be built.
+pub fn proportional_vertical_ligature_caret_font(caret: i16, y_advance: i16) -> Option<Vec<u8>> {
+    use write_fonts::tables::gpos::{Gpos, PositionLookup, PositionLookupList, SinglePos, ValueRecord};
+    use write_fonts::tables::gsub::{Gsub, Ligature, LigatureSet, LigatureSubstFormat1, SubstitutionLookup, SubstitutionLookupList};
+    use write_fonts::tables::layout::{CoverageFormat1, Feature, FeatureList, FeatureRecord, LangSys, Lookup, Script, ScriptList, ScriptRecord};
+    use write_fonts::types::GlyphId16;
+
+    let base = vertical_ligature_caret_font(caret)?;
+    let font = skrifa::FontRef::new(&base).ok()?;
+    let gid = |c| Some(GlyphId16::new(source_sans_gid(c)?));
+    let ligature = gid(LIGATURE_CARET_GLYPH)?;
+    let langsys = || Script::new(Some(LangSys::new(vec![0])), vec![]);
+    let scripts = || ScriptList::new(vec![ScriptRecord::new(Tag::new(b"DFLT"), langsys()), ScriptRecord::new(Tag::new(b"latn"), langsys())]);
+    let subst = LigatureSubstFormat1::new(
+        CoverageFormat1::new(vec![gid('f')?]).into(),
+        vec![LigatureSet::new(vec![Ligature::new(ligature, vec![gid('i')?])])],
+    );
+    let features = FeatureList::new(vec![FeatureRecord::new(Tag::new(b"ccmp"), Feature::new(None, vec![0]))]);
+    let lookups = SubstitutionLookupList::new(vec![SubstitutionLookup::Ligature(Lookup::new(Default::default(), vec![subst]))]);
+    let gsub = Gsub::new(scripts(), features, lookups);
+    let pos = SinglePos::format_1(CoverageFormat1::new(vec![ligature]).into(), ValueRecord::new().with_y_advance(y_advance));
+    let features = FeatureList::new(vec![FeatureRecord::new(Tag::new(b"vpal"), Feature::new(None, vec![0]))]);
+    let lookups = PositionLookupList::new(vec![PositionLookup::Single(Lookup::new(Default::default(), vec![pos]))]);
+    let mut builder = FontBuilder::new();
+    builder.add_table(&gsub).ok()?;
+    builder.add_table(&Gpos::new(scripts(), features, lookups)).ok()?;
+    for r in font.table_directory.table_records() {
+        let tag = Tag::new(&r.tag().to_be_bytes());
+        if !builder.contains(tag) {
+            builder.add_raw(tag, font.table_data(r.tag())?.as_bytes());
+        }
+    }
+    Some(builder.build())
+}
+
 /// The family of [`variable_ligature_caret_font`].
 pub const VARIABLE_LIGATURE_CARET_FAMILY: &str = "Varicaret Sans";
 

crates/text/src/tests/ligature_carets.rs

@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ use vectorcraft_geom::PathData;
 
 use crate::test_fonts::{
     LIGATURE_CARET_FAMILY, LIGATURE_CARET_GLYPH, VARIABLE_LIGATURE_CARET_FAMILY, VERTICAL_LIGATURE_CARET_FAMILY, lam_alef_family, lam_alef_font,
-    ligature_caret_font, placed_ligature_caret_font, source_sans_gid, variable_ligature_caret_font, vertical_ligature_caret_font,
+    ligature_caret_font, placed_ligature_caret_font, proportional_vertical_ligature_caret_font, source_sans_gid, variable_ligature_caret_font,
+    vertical_ligature_caret_font,
 };
 use crate::*;
 
@@ -628,9 +629,10 @@ fn an_upright_ligature_takes_its_caret_down_its_cell() {
     assert!((at(900) - 0.5).abs() < 1e-9, "{}", at(900));
 }
 
-/// On a path, an upright ligature in vertical type turns about its pen, so its cell runs from
-/// 0.12 em before the pen to 0.88 em after it, with or without the font's vertical metrics. The
-/// inner stop lies at the middle of that cell, and the first character's selection ends there.
+/// On a path, an upright ligature in vertical type stands with its top toward the path's start, and
+/// its cell runs from 0.12 em before the pen to 0.88 em after it, with or without the font's vertical
+/// metrics. The inner stop lies at the middle of that cell, and the first character's selection ends
+/// there.
 #[test]
 fn an_upright_ligature_on_a_path_takes_its_stop_in_its_turned_cell() {
     for (font, family) in [(ligature_caret_font(None), LIGATURE_CARET_FAMILY), (vertical_ligature_caret_font(900), VERTICAL_LIGATURE_CARET_FAMILY)] {
@@ -688,6 +690,100 @@ fn an_upright_ligature_on_a_path_takes_its_stop_in_its_turned_cell() {
     }
 }
 
+/// On a path, an upright ligature in vertical type reads along the path in order: the top of its
+/// cell comes first, and its font caret (600 units down the cell) is drawn where the caret, a click
+/// and the selection put the stop, on a path running either way with any path effect. A glyph lying
+/// on its side keeps its top toward the path's end.
+#[test]
+fn an_upright_ligature_on_a_path_reads_along_it_in_order() {
+    use vectorcraft_doc::PathEffect;
+    let db = db_with(vertical_ligature_caret_font(280));
+    let mut t = point("fi", VERTICAL_LIGATURE_CARET_FAMILY);
+    t.vertical = true;
+    t.runs[0].style.standard_vertical_roman = true;
+    for (to, effect) in [
+        (1000.0, PathEffect::Rainbow),
+        (-1000.0, PathEffect::Rainbow),
+        (-1000.0, PathEffect::Skew),
+        (-1000.0, PathEffect::Ribbon3d),
+        (-1000.0, PathEffect::StairStep),
+        (-1000.0, PathEffect::Gravity),
+    ] {
+        let mut line = BezPath::new();
+        line.move_to((0.0, 0.0));
+        line.line_to((to, 0.0));
+        t.kind = TextKind::OnPath { path: PathData::from_bezpath(&line), start: 0.0, end: None };
+        t.path_effect = effect;
+        let l = layout(&db, &t);
+        let Some(g) = l.glyphs.iter().find(|g| g.len == 2) else { panic!("f + i is one glyph: {:?}", l.glyphs) };
+        let &[(1, f)] = g.carets.as_slice() else { panic!("one inner stop: {:?}", g.carets) };
+        assert!((f - 0.6).abs() < 1e-9, "{f}");
+        let tangent = Vec2::new(g.angle.cos(), g.angle.sin());
+        let along = |p: Point| (p - g.origin).dot(tangent);
+        // Font units, y down: the cell's top is 880 units above the baseline and its foot 120 below.
+        let (top, foot) = (along(g.xf * Point::new(0.0, -880.0)), along(g.xf * Point::new(0.0, 120.0)));
+        assert!(top < foot, "{to} {effect:?}: the top comes first along the path: {top} {foot}");
+        let (start, width) = (g.width_start, g.width);
+        assert!((top - start).abs() < 1e-6 && (foot - top - width).abs() < 1e-6, "{to} {effect:?}: {top} {foot} {start} {width}");
+        let drawn = along(g.xf * Point::new(0.0, -280.0));
+        assert!((drawn - (top + (foot - top) * 0.6)).abs() < 1e-6, "{to} {effect:?}: {drawn} against {top} {foot}");
+        let (a, b) = caret_position(&l, 1);
+        let caret = along(a.midpoint(b));
+        assert!((caret - drawn).abs() < 1e-6, "{to} {effect:?}: the caret stands at the drawn stop: {caret} against {drawn}");
+        assert_eq!(hit_byte(&l, g.origin + tangent * (drawn + 0.3)), 1, "{to} {effect:?}");
+        assert_eq!(hit_byte(&l, g.origin + tangent * (drawn - 0.3)), 1, "{to} {effect:?}");
+        assert_eq!(hit_byte(&l, g.origin + tangent * 0.3), 0, "{to} {effect:?}");
+        let q = selection_quads(&l, 0, 1);
+        assert_eq!(q.len(), 1, "{q:?}");
+        let (q0, q1) = (along(q[0][0]), along(q[0][1]));
+        assert!((q0.min(q1) - drawn.min(0.0)).abs() < 1e-6 && (q0.max(q1) - drawn.max(0.0)).abs() < 1e-6, "{to} {effect:?}: {q:?} against {drawn}");
+    }
+    // Without Standard Vertical Roman Alignment the letter lies on its side: its top still faces
+    // the path's end and its advance runs across the path, to its right.
+    let mut line = BezPath::new();
+    line.move_to((0.0, 0.0));
+    line.line_to((1000.0, 0.0));
+    t.kind = TextKind::OnPath { path: PathData::from_bezpath(&line), start: 0.0, end: None };
+    t.path_effect = PathEffect::Rainbow;
+    t.runs[0].style.standard_vertical_roman = false;
+    let l = layout(&db, &t);
+    let Some(s) = l.glyphs.iter().find(|g| g.len == 2) else { panic!("f + i is one glyph: {:?}", l.glyphs) };
+    let tangent = Vec2::new(s.angle.cos(), s.angle.sin());
+    let right = Vec2::new(-tangent.y, tangent.x);
+    let (pen, up, ahead) = (s.xf * Point::ZERO, s.xf * Point::new(0.0, -500.0), s.xf * Point::new(500.0, 0.0));
+    assert!((up - pen).dot(tangent) > 1.0 && (ahead - pen).dot(right) > 1.0, "{pen:?} {up:?} {ahead:?}");
+}
+
+/// On a path, an upright ligature whose cell Proportional Metrics shortens (`vpal`, from 1000 units
+/// to 800) keeps its font caret (600 units down the cell) where it is drawn: the inner stop lies at
+/// 600 / 800 of its width, and the caret stands at the drawn stop.
+#[test]
+fn an_upright_ligature_on_a_path_keeps_its_font_caret_on_a_proportional_cell() {
+    use vectorcraft_doc::PathEffect;
+    let db = db_with(proportional_vertical_ligature_caret_font(280, -200));
+    let mut t = point("fi", VERTICAL_LIGATURE_CARET_FAMILY);
+    t.vertical = true;
+    t.runs[0].style.standard_vertical_roman = true;
+    t.runs[0].style.proportional_metrics = true;
+    let mut line = BezPath::new();
+    line.move_to((0.0, 0.0));
+    line.line_to((1000.0, 0.0));
+    t.kind = TextKind::OnPath { path: PathData::from_bezpath(&line), start: 0.0, end: None };
+    t.path_effect = PathEffect::Rainbow;
+    let l = layout(&db, &t);
+    let Some(g) = l.glyphs.iter().find(|g| g.len == 2) else { panic!("f + i is one glyph: {:?}", l.glyphs) };
+    assert!((g.width - 80.0).abs() < 1e-6, "the cell is 800 units at 100 pt: {}", g.width);
+    let &[(1, f)] = g.carets.as_slice() else { panic!("one inner stop: {:?}", g.carets) };
+    assert!((f - 0.75).abs() < 1e-9, "{f}");
+    let tangent = Vec2::new(g.angle.cos(), g.angle.sin());
+    let along = |p: Point| (p - g.origin).dot(tangent);
+    let (top, drawn) = (along(g.xf * Point::new(0.0, -880.0)), along(g.xf * Point::new(0.0, -280.0)));
+    assert!((top - g.width_start).abs() < 1e-6 && (drawn - top - 60.0).abs() < 1e-6, "{top} {drawn} {}", g.width_start);
+    let (a, b) = caret_position(&l, 1);
+    let caret = along(a.midpoint(b));
+    assert!((caret - drawn).abs() < 1e-6, "the caret stands at the drawn stop: {caret} against {drawn}");
+}
+
 /// Tracking that makes an upright ligature's advance negative leaves it upright: it keeps its
 /// caret down its cell, and its cell starts where it does without tracking, with or without the
 /// font's vertical metrics.

docs/gaps.md

@@ -1,12 +1,6 @@
 # Gaps
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-03 · **Change:** minor (Tools stays beside the canvas with left-side panels; new gradients follow document color mode; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
-
-Docked Tools stays beside the canvas, inside any left-side panels. Both the canvas edge and the window edge accept floating Tools. Existing saved workspace fields are reused. This is a requested layout choice; [toolbar documentation](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/tools.html) and [workspace documentation](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/customizing-workspace.html) describe movability and docking, without establishing this exact relative placement. Sidebar resizing (#5348) remains separate. Scores and estimates are unchanged.
-> **QoL update (2026-11-02):** Selection-tool marquees offer Touching (default), Fully Enclosed and Drag Direction in Preferences › Selection & Anchor Display. Drag Direction uses screen left/right, including rotated views, retaining its last rule within three horizontal screen pixels of the press. E reverses the rule for the current drag. A solid enclosed outline or dashed touching outline and a translated label show the active rule. The selection region remains aligned to the document axes. This is a VectorCraft addition; scores and estimates are unchanged.
-
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-02 · **Change:** minor (Selection QoL: marquee modes and visible feedback, #5313; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-07 · **Change:** minor (Indian-language hyphenation review and license allowlist, #4947; opening a slow file shows a progress window, part of #5930; Hindi catalog and contributor loanword preferences; agent wording pass complete; wider native proofreading welcome; an image zoomed in on is separated, colorized or proofed only where it shows (#4155); scores and estimates unchanged; a document's first frame renders on the render worker, so opening a heavy file no longer freezes the window; scores and estimates unchanged; large images in CMYK documents are shrunk before they are separated into ink planes (#4155); scores and estimates unchanged; `.ai` paths with a Calligraphic brush open brushed, with the 6D Art Pen's channels, and Windows reads the pen's tilt and barrel rotation, #372; scores and estimates unchanged; Compound Shapes add-on, beyond Illustrator; scores and estimates unchanged; Contour add-on, beyond Illustrator; scores and estimates unchanged; a slow first frame is waited for instead of restarting without the graphics adapter, and the menu bar no longer waits for the installed fonts' scan; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-07 · **Change:** minor (Tools stays beside the canvas with left-side panels; new gradients follow document color mode; Selection QoL: marquee modes and visible feedback, #5313; Indian-language hyphenation review and license allowlist, #4947; opening a slow file shows a progress window, part of #5930; Hindi catalog and contributor loanword preferences; agent wording pass complete; wider native proofreading welcome; an image zoomed in on is separated, colorized or proofed only where it shows (#4155); scores and estimates unchanged; a document's first frame renders on the render worker, so opening a heavy file no longer freezes the window; scores and estimates unchanged; large images in CMYK documents are shrunk before they are separated into ink planes (#4155); scores and estimates unchanged; `.ai` paths with a Calligraphic brush open brushed, with the 6D Art Pen's channels, and Windows reads the pen's tilt and barrel rotation, #372; scores and estimates unchanged; Compound Shapes add-on, beyond Illustrator; scores and estimates unchanged; Contour add-on, beyond Illustrator; scores and estimates unchanged; a slow first frame is waited for instead of restarting without the graphics adapter, and the menu bar no longer waits for the installed fonts' scan; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
 
 ## Feature submission evidence
 
@@ -827,7 +821,6 @@ trap, and the defaults (0.25 pt, 100%, 40%) are VectorCraft's own, the pages giv
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
-| 2026-11-02 | minor | Selection QoL: saved marquee modes, screen drag direction with a 3 px dead zone, and translated mode/E feedback (#5313); VectorCraft addition, scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Hindi (`hi`): 7,877-row machine-assisted catalog, zero/one singular plurals, desktop font fallback and optional Devanagari craft-fonts fallback; all 55 translation tests pass; native review and a web font remain; scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-05 | minor | G15: nearby hits on plain long strokes and outlines check their candidate segments directly; a 200,000-anchor middle hit took about 11–13 ms before and 1.0–1.4 ms after in paired runs. An inside-bounds miss fell from 18.7 ms to 1.6 ms. Estimate unchanged; idle budget run still open. |
 | 2026-11-05 | minor | G15: an image zoomed in on is separated, colorized or proofed only for the tiles in view (#4155); 100% zoom on that file 8.6 s → 0.05 s. Estimate unchanged. |
@@ -909,15 +902,6 @@ trap, and the defaults (0.25 pt, 100%, 40%) are VectorCraft's own, the pages giv
 | 2026-10-22 | minor | Affinity import: master pages, tables, paragraph formats, text scale, shadows, glows, outlines, overlays, underlines, strikethrough, CMYK pixel layers through the document's profile and editable embedded documents, text placed as Affinity places it (AF.5, from storytold/designcraft#291). No entry closed, estimates unchanged. Hostile files stay bounded: one budget for the whole read (layers, pixels, characters, table cells, embedded documents included), a work budget for overlays, capped master page copies, objects past `MAX_COORD` left out; the import fuzzer and limit tests cover tables, paragraphs, effects, overlays, master pages, CMYK pixels and embedded documents. |
 | 2026-10-22 | minor | Recolor Artwork Edit chips scroll within the available screen height (#3416); small palettes retain their tab height; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | G17: filter plug-ins keep data with the document (`documentData`), as its foreign data, so the native file needs no section of its own; engine and unit regressions. No entry closed, estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | Artboard Options honors Scale Artwork with Artboard for preset, orientation and typed-size changes; both Fits keep artwork stationary; scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | G8: stacked geometry effects make at most 2 million anchors of a path and about 8 million lines to draw: Roughen, Zig Zag, Free Distort, Twist, the warps and Transform build within it, and an effect that would still pass it is left out (#3578). No entry closed, estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | G13: gradient Method (30.0), Classic or Perceptual, in the Gradient panel, on the canvas, in raster exports and as images in SVG and PDF exports (with Dither, a Perceptual fill takes its noise); G13 estimate 14–24 h → 13–23 h. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | G8: SVG images in SVG images share the depth cap (any data URL type usvg reads as SVG) and SVGZ images one 512 MB unpacking cap; past either, an image is left out with a warning (#3562, #3563). No entry closed, estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | G2: the Effect Gallery shipped (#2883): Effect › Effect Gallery… browses the Artistic, Brush Strokes, Distort, Sketch, Stylize and Texture filters, edits each filter's settings, builds an ordered stack (add, reorder, hide, remove) with a live canvas preview, and OK applies it as separate appearance effects in one undo step; remaining: filter thumbnails and a preview area inside the dialog; G2 estimate 4–6 → 1–2 h; Raster effects 82% → 85% (power-user view 49% → 52%), estimated, a modest move because the named missing dialog landed without thumbnails or an in-dialog preview. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | G19: PDF export asks viewers to display the document title only when File Info has a Document Title or an explicit export title is supplied; untitled documents keep the PDF file name in the viewer title bar (#3646); scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | G4: colour emoji fonts with bitmap glyphs (`sbix`: Apple Color Emoji; `CBDT`: Noto Color Emoji) draw on the canvas and export: PDF Type 3 glyphs or images, SVG images with outlined text, EPS and legacy `.ai` images, Create Outlines images; COLR and OpenType SVG fonts remain; estimate unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | G13: gradient Dither (30.0) in the Gradient panel, on the canvas, in raster exports and as images in SVG and PDF exports; G13 estimate 15–25 h → 14–24 h. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | G2: Effect › Sketch › Conté Crayon (Foreground Level, Background Level, Texture, Scaling, Relief, Light Direction, Invert; a black crayon in the dark areas and a white one in the light areas on textured mid-grey paper; ranges and defaults unverified VectorCraft choices); measured Photoshop-style filters 57/57, the Effect Gallery remains (4–6 h). |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | Blend panel Type and Ramp control step easing with a separate color Shift (#2539); Blend Options retains spacing and orientation; polynomial curves are original approximations. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | M3: highlighted-text Eyedropper sampling preserves ranges and rejects unsupported source/target transparency atomically; regression-tested; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | 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. Scores and estimates unchanged. |

docs/image-trace-adjustments.md

@@ -32,15 +32,6 @@ white beside a cream), at most six; scattered specks of a colour add none. Adobe
 its own palettes are chosen; this is VectorCraft's own method (see
 [image-trace-quality.md](image-trace-quality.md#auto-color-keeps-rare-colours)).
 
-**Flat Logo colors.** Flat Logo traces white as a color of its own beside the colors named in
-`logoColors`, and takes a named color with every channel 245 or more as that white. Each pixel is read
-as a blend of the traced colors and goes to the color with the largest share, so a near-white area can
-go to a named light color instead of white. With `"logoWhite": false` in the params of `imageTrace.make` or
-`imageTrace.makeAndExpand`, it traces the named colors only: white areas take the nearest named color,
-a named white or near-white is used as named, and enclosed transparent areas stay holes instead of
-being painted white. When Flat Logo finds the colors itself, `logoWhite` has no effect, and with
-`ignoreWhite` white areas are left out whatever `logoWhite` says.
-
 **Document Library color groups.** With Palette › Document Library and Library › Document Swatches,
 the panel's **Colors** menu traces with every document swatch (**All**) or with the colors of one
 color group from the Swatches panel, as the public

docs/mcp.md

@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 # VectorCraft MCP server
 
-Selection-tool marquees: `prefs.set {key: "marqueeSelection", value: "touching" | "enclosed" | "directional"}` chooses touched objects (default), fully enclosed objects, or screen-right enclosed / screen-left touched objects. Direction follows the screen when the view is rotated; within three horizontal screen pixels of the press, the last rule remains (initially touching). Without a screen frame, direction uses document x at the current zoom. E reverses the rule for the current drag; Shift toggles the reached objects and Escape cancels. The outline and label show the effective rule. Ruler guides use that rule too; Direct Selection and the document-aligned selection region are unchanged.
-
 `vectorcraft-cli mcp` runs a [Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) server on stdio
 (newline-delimited JSON-RPC 2.0; see [Protocol](#protocol) for version negotiation). Agents use it to
 draw, inspect and look at VectorCraft documents.

docs/roadmap.md

@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 # Roadmap: milestones and what's next
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-07 · **Change:** minor (SVG CSS classes survive export and repeated import in all four styling modes (#2480); current-main integration retains event attributes and scripts; 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:** 2026-11-07 · **Change:** minor (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; 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)
 
 ## Feature submission evidence
 
-**Feature evidence last updated:** 2026-11-02.
 Raster rendering fits and preflattens curved stroke outlines more tightly only below four times the raster tolerance, retaining thin-band coverage without changing stroke weight or vector export geometry. Current cached character/object outlines, cropped long strokes, gradient clips and effect rasters share the helper; cropped-region reuse and guarded flattening remain. The unchanged `fractional_curved_strokes_retain_coverage_between_notches` regression covers fractional weights, rotation, phase, opacity and f32-rounded endpoints. This is a quality/cost tradeoff, not a speed claim. Scores and estimates unchanged.
 
 **PR #3273 revision — 2026-11-04:** Thin curved stroke coverage ported to the current raster-only cache, cropped-long-stroke and effect paths with guarded flattening; vector export geometry unchanged. Scores and estimates unchanged.
@@ -138,7 +137,6 @@ native wording review, layout checks and a web Devanagari font remain. [Notes](l
 | M11 | Artboards & views (selected-set deletion shared by Artboards menu, trash and Properties, retaining artboard 1 when all are selected; Artboard deletion keys keep the first of an all-selected set and protect artwork; history prunes invalid indices while preserving valid multiselection (history tests and full workspace CI pass); click-to-fit objects with the Artboard tool (#1227), artboard escape routing and document setup modal handoff done; artboard panel/tool with Move Artwork for X/Y fields and Artboard Options, Trim View, middle-button pan, print tiling and the status bar's artboard navigator with synchronized Artboard tool selection done; multiple windows, presentation polish) (cached canvas reprojection preserves scale during resize, rotation and DPI changes; regression-tested and contributor-confirmed 2026-10-19; estimates unchanged) (cached canvas dimensions match the renderer limit before cache-key creation, view construction and worker submission; regression-tested; estimates unchanged) | 🟡; Artboard Options shares existing presets and orientation controls and can fit artwork without moving it; artwork fitting includes all drawn document art across artboards and off-board; artwork bounds are cached by active document and revision, and selection uses the shared bounds cache across artboards | 15–25 |
 | M10 | Brushes, symbols, patterns, Repeat | 🟡 pattern swatches (5 tile types, Pattern Options, editing mode, SVG `<pattern>`/PDF export) and live Repeat (radial/grid/mirror) done; interactive selected mirror axis implemented (focused and native checks passed; full CI blocked by an unrelated text test); symbol and brush libraries done; symbol editing shows draggable 9-slice guides (#5280), with guides outside the artwork still unsupported; brushes/symbols in progress | 23–37 |
 | M11 | Artboards & views (selected-set deletion shared by Artboards menu, trash and Properties, retaining artboard 1 when all are selected; Artboard deletion keys keep the first of an all-selected set and protect artwork; history prunes invalid indices while preserving valid multiselection (history tests and full workspace CI pass); click-to-fit objects with the Artboard tool (#1227), artboard escape routing and document setup modal handoff done; artboard panel/tool with Move Artwork for X/Y fields and Artboard Options, Trim View, middle-button pan, print tiling and the status bar's artboard navigator with synchronized Artboard tool selection done; multiple windows, presentation polish) (cached canvas reprojection preserves scale during resize, rotation and DPI changes; regression-tested and contributor-confirmed 2026-10-19; estimates unchanged) (cached canvas dimensions match the renderer limit before cache-key creation, view construction and worker submission; regression-tested; estimates unchanged); status-bar pointer coordinates follow the active ruler origin and General units | 🟡; Artboard Options shares existing presets and orientation controls and can fit artwork without moving it; artwork fitting includes all drawn document art across artboards and off-board; artwork bounds are cached by active document and revision, and selection uses the shared bounds cache across artboards | 15–25 |
-| M12 | Advanced color & art (CMYK/ICC, separations, Gradient Mesh, Live Paint, Image Trace, Graphs) | 🟡 Gradient Mesh, Live Paint, Image Trace (junction-returning pieces retain their positioned boundaries; a simpler contour walk with identical output; an edge's sub-pixel shift is the same from either side; notches read only their own piece; collapsed loops keep few segments; large images trace with a warning; Auto Color keeps rare distinct colours; Flat Logo with named colors can leave out white with `logoWhite: false`; quick presets trace at once and the Image Trace button opens the adjustment controls; Properties reopens them; tiny fitted contours retain islands and holes; Create Strokes: exact crop EDT, Guo–Hall thinning and maximal-disc graph simplification; 15 presets, the 14 documented ones each with an enhanced version; Ignore Color, Shapes, Auto Grouping and Gradients options; measured in `image-trace-quality.md`; closed outlines retain their interior after straightening; the Flat Logo mode places edges to a fraction of a pixel, restores sharp corners, snaps lines and circles, and refuses gradients; live trace result bounds and selection highlights exclude the retained bitmap except in source-image views), Recolor Artwork, colour management (ICC, soft proofing, separations preview), Graphs (all 9 tools, Graph Data/Type, group-selected series colours persist through regenerate/save/open) done; Graph Design and Marker designs, Transpose and Switch x/y, `\|` label line breaks, the pie options, drop shadows, the legend across the top, overlapping widths, First Row/Column in Front, filled lines, kept label formatting and the Graph Data worksheet done; graph Column designs pending | 6–10 |
 | M10 | Brushes, symbols, patterns, Repeat | 🟡 pattern swatches (5 tile types, Pattern Options, editing mode, SVG `<pattern>`/PDF export) and live Repeat (radial/grid/mirror) done; interactive selected mirror axis implemented (focused and native checks passed; full CI blocked by an unrelated text test); symbol libraries done (Window › Symbol Libraries, a generated Basic Shapes library, User Defined, Other Library…, Save Symbols); brush libraries done (Window › Brush Libraries, four generated libraries, User Defined, Other Library…, Save Brushes); brushes/symbols in progress | 23–37 |
 | M11 | Artboards & views (selected-set deletion shared by Artboards menu, trash and Properties, retaining artboard 1 when all are selected; Artboard deletion keys keep the first of an all-selected set and protect artwork; history prunes invalid indices while preserving valid multiselection (history tests and full workspace CI pass); click-to-fit objects with the Artboard tool (#1227), artboard escape routing and document setup modal handoff done; artboard panel/tool with Move Artwork for X/Y fields and Artboard Options, Trim View, middle-button pan, print tiling and the status bar's artboard navigator with synchronized Artboard tool selection done; Window › Arrange › Tile and Consolidate All Windows done; multiple windows, presentation polish) (cached canvas reprojection preserves scale during resize, rotation and DPI changes; regression-tested and contributor-confirmed 2026-10-19; estimates unchanged) (cached canvas dimensions match the renderer limit before cache-key creation, view construction and worker submission; regression-tested; estimates unchanged) | 🟡; Artboard Options shares existing presets and orientation controls and can fit artwork without moving it; artwork fitting includes all drawn document art across artboards and off-board; artwork bounds are cached by active document and revision, and selection uses the shared bounds cache across artboards | 15–25 |
 | M10 | Brushes, symbols, patterns, Repeat | 🟡 pattern swatches (5 tile types, Pattern Options, editing mode, SVG `<pattern>`/PDF export) and live Repeat (radial/grid/mirror) done; interactive selected mirror axis implemented (focused and native checks passed; full CI blocked by an unrelated text test); symbol and brush libraries done; brushes/symbols in progress | 23–37 |
@@ -183,7 +181,6 @@ separate. Scores and hours unchanged. [Behavior and command details](development
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
-| 2026-11-02 | minor | Selection QoL: saved marquee modes, screen drag direction with a 3 px dead zone, and translated mode/E feedback (#5313); VectorCraft addition, scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | M2: a shape just drawn moves by its centre point (Show Center) and turns from the rotate zone just outside a bounding-box corner with its tool still active, as the Selection tool's gestures do (#5477); estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Hindi (`hi`): 7,877-row machine-assisted catalog, zero/one singular plurals, desktop font fallback and optional Devanagari craft-fonts fallback; all 55 translation tests pass; native review and a web font remain; scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-04 | minor | New Document: the units chosen in Preset Details belong to the chosen preset; Recent and Saved cards keep their own units; scores and estimates unchanged. |
@@ -195,8 +192,6 @@ separate. Scores and hours unchanged. [Behavior and command details](development
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | M7: Touch Type moves right-to-left characters along their line while keeping text editable; first-logical-character restriction retained. Estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-30 | patch | M5: opaque solid-fill knockout paths avoid redundant erase/add layers in hard-edge frames and supersampled raster export; exact-pixel regression coverage retains analytical-AA rounding and translucent knockout behavior; scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | M7: retain composition trimming in rotated character placement and rotation metadata; estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-30 | minor | M4: G9: `.ai`/EPS editing data: a blend takes the transparency (opacity, blend mode, knockout) in its state block after its record, so its steps knock each other out as the page draws them; a user's file comes in 0.6% from its page instead of 1.3%. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-30 | minor | M4: File formats: `.ai`/EPS editing-data fidelity from an audit of a user's files: All Caps and Small Caps (#4708); placed files at their box's corner, kept where they draw closer to the page (#4664, #4723, #4742); pages cropped to the art, with `UserUnit` (#4658, #4727); gradient mesh corners with handle weights of 0 and the state written after a mesh (#4738, #4744, #4748); type on a path spaced as the file lays it out (#4743); synthetic regressions in `crates/eps`; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-29 | minor | M6: Pathfinder: live compound shapes (#4522): the panel menu's Make, Release and Expand Compound Shape, Alt-clicking a Shape Mode, a selected member's Shape Mode and the Expand button act; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-26 | minor | M4/G9: EPS Save and Save As: an opened EPS saves back to its own path as EPS, keeping the chosen artboard's page frame and transparent margins and the complete editable VectorCraft document; Save's TIFF preview is capped at 1024 px (Export keeps 2048); partly read, preview-only or damaged-editing-data sources still need confirmation before they are overwritten; it does not write Illustrator's own editing data (#868), and G9's real-file import fidelity is unchanged; scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | M10/G1: a selected Grid Repeat shows handles: the one below the grid adds or removes rows, the one right of it columns, the one past its bottom-right corner both, and the sliders between the first two columns and rows set the horizontal and vertical spacing; each drag is one undo step and Escape cancels it (#2691); estimates unchanged |
@@ -215,9 +210,6 @@ separate. Scores and hours unchanged. [Behavior and command details](development
 | 2026-10-22 | minor | G2: the Effect Gallery shipped (#2883): Effect › Effect Gallery… browses the Artistic, Brush Strokes, Distort, Sketch, Stylize and Texture filters, edits each filter's settings, builds an ordered stack (add, reorder, hide, remove) with a live canvas preview, and OK applies it as separate appearance effects in one undo step; remaining: filter thumbnails and a preview area inside the dialog; G2 estimate 4–6 → 1–2 h; Raster effects 82% → 85% (power-user view 49% → 52%), estimated, a modest move because the named missing dialog landed without thumbnails or an in-dialog preview. |
 | 2026-10-22 | minor | G2: Effect › Sketch › Conté Crayon (Foreground Level, Background Level, Texture, Scaling, Relief, Light Direction, Invert; a black crayon in the dark areas and a white one in the light areas on textured mid-grey paper; ranges and defaults unverified VectorCraft choices); measured Photoshop-style filters 57/57, the Effect Gallery remains (4–6 h). |
 | 2026-10-22 | minor | Recolor Artwork Edit chips scroll within the available screen height (#3416); small palettes retain their tab height; scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | Artboard Options honors Scale Artwork with Artboard for preset, orientation and typed-size changes; both Fits keep artwork stationary; scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | G2: the Effect Gallery shipped (#2883): Effect › Effect Gallery… browses the Artistic, Brush Strokes, Distort, Sketch, Stylize and Texture filters, edits each filter's settings, builds an ordered stack (add, reorder, hide, remove) with a live canvas preview, and OK applies it as separate appearance effects in one undo step; remaining: filter thumbnails and a preview area inside the dialog; G2 estimate 4–6 → 1–2 h; Raster effects 82% → 85% (power-user view 49% → 52%), estimated, a modest move because the named missing dialog landed without thumbnails or an in-dialog preview. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | G2: Effect › Sketch › Conté Crayon (Foreground Level, Background Level, Texture, Scaling, Relief, Light Direction, Invert; a black crayon in the dark areas and a white one in the light areas on textured mid-grey paper; ranges and defaults unverified VectorCraft choices); measured Photoshop-style filters 57/57, the Effect Gallery remains (4–6 h). |
 | 2026-10-22 | minor | Font pickers list recently applied families first (#3515), using the existing recent-font limit; search, filters, previews and keyboard selection share the same rows. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | Blend panel Type and Ramp control step easing with a separate color Shift (#2539); Blend Options retains spacing and orientation; polynomial curves are original approximation. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | M14: workspaces keep the layout changes made in them across switches and restarts until Reset <name> (UI.7); estimates unchanged |

docs/target-app-parity.md

@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 # Parity with Adobe Illustrator
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-07 · **Change:** minor (SVG CSS classes survive export and repeated import in all four styling modes (#2480); current-main integration retains event attributes and scripts; the canvas keeps selection outlines and anchors between frames; Indian-language hyphenation review and license allowlist, #4947; Stroke gradients: an arrowhead aligned to the tip is painted to the corners of its base, #5964; Drop Shadow and glow dialogs: spinner arrows, #5367, #5368; Stroke Weight Up and Down shortcuts, #5797; Hindi catalog and contributor loanword preferences; full wording review in progress; Properties in Edit Artboards: a Transform section with the reference point above the Artboards section, #5219; the Control bar's Stroke: and Opacity: links scrub their fields, #4088; an image zoomed in on is separated, colorized or proofed only where it shows (#4155); a document's first frame renders on the render worker, so opening a heavy file no longer freezes the window, #4155; Control bar Paragraph section with type selected, #5372; translating unchanged type reuses its glyph and character-stroke outlines; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; public release notes through 30.7, August 2026)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-07 · **Change:** minor (Tools stays beside the canvas with left-side panels; new gradients follow document color mode; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; public release notes through 30.7, August 2026; Units › East Asian Type acts, with Q and Ha units; scores unchanged; 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; the canvas keeps selection outlines and anchors between frames; Indian-language hyphenation review and license allowlist, #4947; Stroke gradients: an arrowhead aligned to the tip is painted to the corners of its base, #5964; Drop Shadow and glow dialogs: spinner arrows, #5367, #5368; Stroke Weight Up and Down shortcuts, #5797; Hindi catalog and contributor loanword preferences; full wording review in progress; Properties in Edit Artboards: a Transform section with the reference point above the Artboards section, #5219; the Control bar's Stroke: and Opacity: links scrub their fields, #4088; an image zoomed in on is separated, colorized or proofed only where it shows (#4155); a document's first frame renders on the render worker, so opening a heavy file no longer freezes the window, #4155; Control bar Paragraph section with type selected, #5372; translating unchanged type reuses its glyph and character-stroke outlines; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; public release notes through 30.7, August 2026)
 
 ## Feature submission evidence
 
-**Feature evidence last updated:** 2026-11-02.
 Raster rendering fits and preflattens curved stroke outlines more tightly only below four times the raster tolerance, retaining thin-band coverage without changing stroke weight or vector export geometry. Current cached character/object outlines, cropped long strokes, gradient clips and effect rasters share the helper; cropped-region reuse and guarded flattening remain. The unchanged `fractional_curved_strokes_retain_coverage_between_notches` regression covers fractional weights, rotation, phase, opacity and f32-rounded endpoints. This is a quality/cost tradeoff, not a speed claim. Scores and estimates unchanged.
 
 **PR #3273 revision — 2026-11-04:** Thin curved stroke coverage ported to the current raster-only cache, cropped-long-stroke and effect paths with guarded flattening; vector export geometry unchanged. Scores and estimates unchanged.
@@ -1803,7 +1802,6 @@ Edit › Copy and Cut put the selected ruler guides on the clipboard, with the s
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
-| 2026-11-02 | minor | Selection QoL: saved marquee modes, screen drag direction with a 3 px dead zone, and translated mode/E feedback (#5313); VectorCraft addition, scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Direct Selection: with Snap to Grid, a dragged straight segment lands its anchors on the grid (#3835); evidence added; scores unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Snap to Glyph › Glyph Bounds: the corners of each glyph's box are points a drawn point lands on, also on a curved side (`B`), and the box turns with rotated type, its edges then Angular Guides (#5112; [Snap to Glyph options](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/special-characters-glyphs/snap-to-glyph-options.html)); scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Drop Shadow: a swatch beside Color opens the Color Picker over the dialog, as the other effect colour fields do (#5364); correction: the #5365 entry listed Drop Shadow, whose Color is drawn outside the shared grid and had no swatch; scores unchanged. |
@@ -1852,12 +1850,10 @@ Edit › Copy and Cut put the selected ruler guides on the clipboard, with the s
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | Selection tools: with Alt held at the press, a Direct Selection marquee selects every path it touches whole and keeps the Group Selection pointer (#4890); a press on a selected object's centre point selects the object whole and a drag from it moves it (#4891); regression tests in `direct/tests.rs`; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | Arrange Tools add-on (a VectorCraft addition): evidence added; scores unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | Guides and snapping: Snap to Perpendicular and Snap to Tangent apply to an existing line's end dragged with Direct Selection, as the public pages describe for editing existing lines (the end anchor of a straight segment, not mid-line anchors or curved segments); a regression test covers both snaps, both toggles and non-snapping controls (#2530); scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-30 | minor | File formats: `.ai`/EPS editing data: a blend takes the transparency (opacity, blend mode, knockout) in its state block after its record, so its steps knock each other out as the page draws them; a user's file comes in 0.6% from its page instead of 1.3%. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | Path Precision Tools add-on: the Shared Edge Merge Tool and Keep Shared Points Together; evidence added; scores unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | UI chrome: Units › East Asian Type acts (#394): Q and Ha (a quarter of a millimetre each) are units that preference offers; 4 Preferences options remain stored but unused; evidence added; score and hours unchanged (estimated). |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | Path Precision Tools add-on: the Corner Tool and Slide Anchor Along Path; evidence added; scores unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-30 | patch | Performance: opaque solid-fill knockout paths avoid redundant erase/add compositing in hard-edge frames, including supersampled raster export; analytical antialiasing keeps its existing rounding; scores and estimates unchanged |
-| 2026-10-30 | minor | File formats: `.ai`/EPS editing-data fidelity from an audit of a user's files: All Caps and Small Caps (#4708); placed files at their box's corner, kept where they draw closer to the page (#4664, #4723, #4742); pages cropped to the art, with `UserUnit` (#4658, #4727); gradient mesh corners with handle weights of 0 and the state written after a mesh (#4738, #4744, #4748); type on a path spaced as the file lays it out (#4743); synthetic regressions in `crates/eps`; evidence added; scores unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | Path Precision Tools add-on (a VectorCraft addition): live Path Effects; evidence added; scores unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | Artwork Cleanup add-on (a VectorCraft addition): text tools; evidence added; scores unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | Color Effects add-on: live Duotone (one to four inks, spot tones kept) and Print Ink Fixes; scores and estimates unchanged |
@@ -1948,14 +1944,6 @@ Edit › Copy and Cut put the selected ruler guides on the clipboard, with the s
 | 2026-10-22 | minor | G2: Effect › Sketch › Conté Crayon (Foreground Level, Background Level, Texture, Scaling, Relief, Light Direction, Invert; a black crayon in the dark areas and a white one in the light areas on textured mid-grey paper; ranges and defaults unverified VectorCraft choices); measured Photoshop-style filters 57/57, the Effect Gallery remains (4–6 h); area score unchanged (49%, estimated). |
 | 2026-10-22 | minor | File formats: Affinity import gains master pages, tables, paragraph formats, text scale, shadows, glows, outlines (also on stroked shapes), overlays, underlines, strikethrough and editable embedded documents, strokes styled None left out, CMYK pixel layers through the document's CMYK profile, text placed as Affinity places it (AF.5, from storytold/designcraft#291); synthetic, corpus and local-thumbnail tests; score and hours unchanged (estimated). Hostile files stay bounded: one budget for the whole read (layers, pixels, characters, table cells, embedded documents included), a work budget for overlays, capped master page copies, objects past `MAX_COORD` left out; the import fuzzer and limit tests cover tables, paragraphs, effects, overlays, master pages, CMYK pixels and embedded documents. |
 | 2026-10-22 | minor | Recolor Artwork Edit chips scroll within the available screen height (#3416); small palettes retain their tab height; scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | Artboard Options honors Scale Artwork with Artboard for preset, orientation and typed-size changes; both Fits keep artwork stationary; scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | Colour and gradients: Illustrator 30.0's gradient Method, Classic or Perceptual (Gradient panel menu, canvas and raster exports, SVG/PDF as images at the raster effects resolution, native file); score and hours unchanged (estimated). |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | G2: the Effect Gallery shipped (#2883): Effect › Effect Gallery… browses the Artistic, Brush Strokes, Distort, Sketch, Stylize and Texture filters, edits each filter's settings, builds an ordered stack (add, reorder, hide, remove) with a live canvas preview, and OK applies it as separate appearance effects in one undo step; remaining: filter thumbnails and a preview area inside the dialog; G2 estimate 4–6 → 1–2 h; Raster effects 82% → 85% (power-user view 49% → 52%), estimated, a modest move because the named missing dialog landed without thumbnails or an in-dialog preview. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | Dimension tool: in a CMYK document a dimension's lines, arrowheads and label are drawn in CMYK, black as K only (`0 0 0 1`) and other colours through the active colour settings, instead of an RGB black that printed as a four-ink rich black (#3233); RGB documents unchanged; `dimensions::dimension_colours_follow_the_document_colour_model`. Scores and hours unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | Colour and gradients: Illustrator 30.0's gradient Dither (Gradient panel box, canvas and raster exports, SVG/PDF as images at the raster effects resolution, native file); score and hours unchanged (estimated). |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | #3546: `--automation-read-root` and `--automation-write-root` may each be given more than once (`vectorcraft-cli mcp` and the desktop app); a path inside any root of its kind is allowed, every confinement check unchanged. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | #3147: `vectorcraft-cli run --commands FILE` (or `-`) reads the steps from a JSON file or standard input (an array or JSON Lines, at most 64 MiB and 100,000 steps), among `--cmd` and `--export` in order; errors name the step. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | G2: Effect › Sketch › Conté Crayon (Foreground Level, Background Level, Texture, Scaling, Relief, Light Direction, Invert; a black crayon in the dark areas and a white one in the light areas on textured mid-grey paper; ranges and defaults unverified VectorCraft choices); measured Photoshop-style filters 57/57, the Effect Gallery remains (4–6 h); area score unchanged (49%, estimated). |
 | 2026-10-22 | minor | Font pickers list recently applied families first (#3515), using the existing recent-font limit; search, filters, previews and keyboard selection share the same rows. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | Plug-ins: filters keep data with the document (`documentData`), as its foreign data, so the native file needs no section of its own (G17); engine and unit regressions. Scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | Print: PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3 flattening in a CMYK document rasterizes as ink amounts, so CMYK colours under an image with see-through pixels keep their numbers, K included, instead of going through RGB (#2160); own-fixture test; scores and hours unchanged (estimated) |

docs/ui-parity.md

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 # UI and interaction parity
 
-> **QoL update (2026-11-02):** Selection-tool marquees offer Touching (default), Fully Enclosed and Drag Direction in Preferences › Selection & Anchor Display. Drag Direction uses screen left/right, including rotated views, retaining its last rule within three horizontal screen pixels of the press. E reverses the rule for the current drag. A solid enclosed outline or dashed touching outline and a translated label show the active rule. The selection region remains aligned to the document axes. This is a VectorCraft addition; scores and estimates are unchanged.
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-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-02 · **Change:** minor (Selection QoL: marquee modes and visible feedback, #5313; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-06 · **Change:** minor (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)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-06 · **Change:** minor (Selection QoL: marquee modes and visible feedback, #5313; 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)
 
 ## Feature submission evidence
 
-**Feature evidence last updated:** 2026-11-02.
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Opening a file that takes longer than 0.4 s shows a progress window: the file name, a moving bar (reading reports no steps), how many more files wait, Cancel (Esc; the file doesn't open) and Continue in Background (`file.cancelOpen`, `file.openInBackground`); it never opens over another dialog or progress window (part of #5930); scores and estimates unchanged |
 Raster rendering fits and preflattens curved stroke outlines more tightly only below four times the raster tolerance, retaining thin-band coverage without changing stroke weight or vector export geometry. Current cached character/object outlines, cropped long strokes, gradient clips and effect rasters share the helper; cropped-region reuse and guarded flattening remain. The unchanged `fractional_curved_strokes_retain_coverage_between_notches` regression covers fractional weights, rotation, phase, opacity and f32-rounded endpoints. This is a quality/cost tradeoff, not a speed claim. Scores and estimates unchanged.
 
@@ -483,7 +479,6 @@ separate. Scores and hours unchanged. [Behavior and command details](development
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
-| 2026-11-02 | minor | Selection QoL: saved marquee modes, screen drag direction with a 3 px dead zone, and translated mode/E feedback (#5313); VectorCraft addition, scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Keyboard shortcuts: Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+. and Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+, (Stroke Weight Up and Down) step each selected stroke's weight, or the next object drawn's (#5797); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Properties: Quick Actions has Repeat Options for one selected radial, grid or mirror repeat, opening Object › Repeat › Options with its values (#5181); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Control bar: with type selected, a Paragraph: link (the Paragraph panel in a popover) and the Align left, Align center and Align right buttons follow the Character controls; the bar leaves them out from its right end when short of room, after X/Y/W/H and the Align buttons (#5372); scores and estimates unchanged |
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 | 2026-10-22 | minor | Gradient panel: the Method menu, Classic or Perceptual (Illustrator 30.0); scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-22 | minor | Gradient panel: the Dither box (Illustrator 30.0); scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-22 | minor | Recolor Artwork Edit chips scroll within the available screen height (#3416); small palettes retain their tab height; scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | Artboard Options honors Scale Artwork with Artboard for preset, orientation and typed-size changes; both Fits keep artwork stationary; scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | Gradient panel: the Method menu, Classic or Perceptual (Illustrator 30.0); scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | Gradient panel: the Dither box (Illustrator 30.0); scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | Blend panel Type and Ramp control step easing with a separate color Shift (#2539); Blend Options retains spacing and orientation; polynomial curves are original approximations. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | Workspaces keep the layout changes made in them when switching away and back, and across restarts; Reset <name> returns to the saved layout; score unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | Panels dragged by the mouse join a dock group as tabs, split it top/bottom or become icons in the icon column; dock tabs close from their context menu; score unchanged (estimated) |