Merge pull request #7580 from dotCooCoo/fix/create-outlines-gradient-layout-bounds

Type: Create Outlines keeps a run's gradient across the whole text

docs/target-app-parity.md

@@ -685,6 +685,7 @@ since 2026-10-01.
 - **COLR colour fonts:** v0 and v1 glyphs draw as vector layers (solid colours, linear and radial gradients, including ones that repeat or reflect, clips, blend modes, the foreground colour from the run's fill) on the canvas, as paths in SVG, EPS, legacy `.ai` and PDF with outlined text, as Type 3 text in PDF, and as editable groups with Create Outlines; sweep gradients, Porter-Duff compositing and radial gradients that repeat or reflect and start at a circle draw the glyph as an image. Measured by `tests_colr`, `render::tests_colrglyphs`, `pdf::tests::colr_glyphs_export_as_vector_art`, `svg/tests/it/colour_glyphs.rs`, `eps` `colr_glyphs_*`, `tests_pathops::create_outlines_turns_colr_glyphs_into_layer_groups`. Scores unchanged (estimated).
 - **OpenType SVG colour fonts:** each glyph's SVG document is read by the SVG importer (registered by the engine) into vector art in the run's colours, then drawn, exported and outlined as COLR glyphs are; PDF real text writes them as text that draws nothing and draws their art where they sit. Measured by `tests_svg_glyphs`, `svg/tests/it/svg_glyphs.rs`, `tests_colourfonts::create_outlines_turns_svg_glyphs_into_groups`, `tests_colourfonts::pdf_real_text_draws_svg_glyphs_as_art_and_keeps_their_characters`. Scores unchanged (estimated).
 - **Create Outlines keeps the type object's own appearance:** Type › Create Outlines and Object › Expand put the type object's own fills and strokes (the Appearance panel's items around its Characters row) on paths of the whole outline, below or above the glyph paths as that row places them, with one gradient across every glyph, so the outlines draw what the type drew; `object.expand.info` reports those strokes, pattern fills and gradient fills. Outlined characters keep their stroke and fill (the help page, <https://help.adobe.com/archive/en_US/illustrator/cs5/illustrator_cs5_help.pdf#page=337>); a type object's appearance is separate from its characters' (the help page, <https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/appearance-attributes.html>); where the object's items go is VectorCraft's own rule. Measured by `tests::pathops::create_outlines_keeps_the_objects_own_fills_and_strokes`, `tests::objexpand::create_outlines_draws_the_type_objects_own_paint`, `tests::objexpand::type_objects_own_stroke_pattern_and_gradient_are_reported`, `tests::objexpand::type_without_an_outline_reports_no_own_stroke_or_fill`, `tests::objexpand::a_stroke_under_an_unpainted_stroke_is_reported_and_outlined` and `tests::objexpand::expand_keeps_the_type_objects_own_paint`. Scores unchanged (estimated).
+- **Create Outlines keeps the characters' gradients across the type:** Type › Create Outlines and Object › Expand give every glyph, ruby glyph and underline or strikethrough bar the gradient its characters drew with: a gradient with no vector of its own stays fitted to the whole layout rather than to each glyph, and one with a vector keeps its place, both moved, scaled and rotated with the type; the characters' stroke keeps the weight it was drawn at on scaled type. `object.expand.info` measures gradient fills on the same paths. Outlined characters keep their stroke and fill (the help page, <https://help.adobe.com/archive/en_US/illustrator/cs5/illustrator_cs5_help.pdf#page=337>); the gradient fitted across the whole layout is VectorCraft's own rule. Measured by `tests::objexpand::create_outlines_keeps_a_character_gradient_across_the_type` and `tests::objexpand::expand_keeps_a_character_gradient_across_the_type`. Scores unchanged (estimated).
 - **Composite fonts that two documents define differently:** when two open documents each define a composite font (Type › Composite Fonts…) by the same name with different parts, each document draws and exports its type in its own definition: in a tiled or floating window drawn while the front document draws, when it is placed in a document that defines the name differently, and in an export made while another document is in front. Evidence: `tests::composite::nested_loans_of_one_name_use_each_documents_definition` and `threads_lending_one_name_at_once_use_their_own_definitions` (`crates/text`), `tests::fontchange::a_placed_document_draws_its_own_definition_of_a_name_the_page_defines` (`crates/render`). Scores unchanged (estimated).
 - **Composite fonts only another document defines:** a document draws, measures and exports its type only in the composite fonts it defines itself. Type naming a composite font that only another open document, or the document a placed document sits in, defines is set as in a missing font, also when the document defines no composite font: in a window, a thumbnail or an export of a document in the back, in a file being opened and in a placed document. A temporary document drawn while a document draws keeps that document's composite fonts. Evidence: `tests::composite::a_lent_document_does_not_use_another_documents_composite_font` and `a_document_without_composite_fonts_uses_none_and_a_preview_is_unchanged` (`crates/text`), `tests::fontchange::a_placed_document_draws_its_own_definition_of_a_name_the_page_defines` and `a_document_draws_type_in_another_documents_composite_font_as_missing` (`crates/render`), `a_document_replaced_in_the_back_measures_a_font_it_lacks_as_missing` (`crates/engine`). Scores unchanged (estimated).
 - **Character-style Auto leading:** capture and explicit style attributes retain Auto as a reset, distinct from omitted leading. Redefine and later numeric updates preserve local leading overrides; the Character Styles marker recognizes Auto correctly. Regression assertions cover partial definitions, Undo/Redo and native save/load serialization. Public references: [Character and paragraph styles](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/character-paragraph-styles.html) and [Leading](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/line-character-spacing.html).