> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-09 · **Change:** minor (G5: dynamic symbol part on-canvas takes opacity, blend, gradient and pattern; docs Overlap/auto-corners sync; estimate 12–22 h; previously minor: interim macOS cursor delivery, #2292; native validation pending; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: G5 docs: Art brush Overlap, Pattern brush auto corners and Global Edit Shift-click leave-out moved from Missing to Done (code already shipped); previously minor: 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; G9: EPS gradients drawn as abutting strips import as one gradient, without seams; Tools stays beside the canvas with left-side panels; new gradients follow document color mode; 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; 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:** 2026-11-09 · **Change:** minor (G5: built-in UI Frames symbol library with default 9-slice; estimate 11–21 h; previously minor: G5: dynamic symbol part on-canvas takes opacity, blend, gradient and pattern; docs Overlap/auto-corners sync; estimate 12–22 h; previously minor: interim macOS cursor delivery, #2292; native validation pending; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: G5 docs: Art brush Overlap, Pattern brush auto corners and Global Edit Shift-click leave-out moved from Missing to Done (code already shipped); previously minor: 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; G9: EPS gradients drawn as abutting strips import as one gradient, without seams; Tools stays beside the canvas with left-side panels; new gradients follow document color mode; 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; 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)
| 11 | [G5 Brushes, symbols and libraries](#g5-brushes-symbols-and-libraries) | 12–22 | no | [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md) |
| 11 | [G5 Brushes, symbols and libraries](#g5-brushes-symbols-and-libraries) | 11–21 | no | [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md) |
| 12 | [G3 3D and Materials](#g3-3d-and-materials) | 25–45 | no | [effects-parity.md](effects-parity.md) |
| 13 | [G7 Views and windows](#g7-views-and-windows) | 15–25 | no | [ui-parity.md](ui-parity.md) |
| 14 | [G6 Automation and scripting](#g6-automation-and-scripting) | 4–8 | no | [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md) |
@@ -624,8 +624,9 @@ macOS cursor delivery (#2292) is narrowed to a native host adapter using the exi
symbol static drops them; stored in the native format.
Color eyedropper for scatter, art and pattern brushes (Hue Shift colorization; samples canvas art);
symbol libraries ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/create-or-import-symbol-libraries.html)): Window › Symbol Libraries and the Symbols panel's Symbol
Libraries Menu open each library in a library panel of its own (one original library generated in code,
Basic Shapes; User Defined; Other Library… reads the symbols of any document VectorCraft opens); a click
Libraries Menu open each library in a library panel of its own (two original libraries generated in code,
Basic Shapes and UI Frames with default 9-slice guides on Panel, Button and Bar; User Defined; Other
Library… reads the symbols of any document VectorCraft opens); a click
adds a symbol to the document's Symbols with its Symbol Options and the resources it uses, as one undo
step, and dragging one onto the canvas also places it; Save Symbols / Save Symbol Library writes the
document's symbols as a `.vectorcraft` library into the user library folder (listed under User Defined) or
@@ -647,11 +648,11 @@ macOS cursor delivery (#2292) is narrowed to a native host adapter using the exi
Direct Selection of a path, compound path or type inside a dynamic instance also takes opacity and blend
(`transparency.set`) and a gradient or pattern fill or stroke (`paint.setFill` / `paint.setStroke`,
Eyedropper), for that instance only.
- **Missing:** more built-in brush, symbol and graphic-style libraries (original, generated in code, never
Adobe's); dynamic symbols' `.ai` read and write; Global Edit of groups holding type or images, rotated copies
as matches and highlighting matches before the start; 9-slice guides outside the symbol's art (a dragged guide
stops at the art's edge).
- **Estimate:** 12–22 h.
- **Missing:** more built-in brush and graphic-style libraries (and further symbol libraries beyond Basic
Shapes and UI Frames; original, generated in code, never Adobe's); dynamic symbols' `.ai` read and write;
Global Edit of groups holding type or images, rotated copies as matches and highlighting matches before the
start; 9-slice guides outside the symbol's art (a dragged guide stops at the art's edge).
- **Estimate:** 11–21 h.
## G3 3D and Materials
@@ -848,6 +849,7 @@ trap, and the defaults (0.25 pt, 100%, 40%) are VectorCraft's own, the pages giv
| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-09 | minor | G5: built-in UI Frames symbol library (Panel, Button, Bar with default 9-slice); Missing trimmed; estimate 12–22 → 11–21 h. |
| 2026-11-09 | minor | G5: Direct Selection of a dynamic instance part takes opacity, blend, gradient and pattern fill/stroke; Art brush Overlap and Pattern auto corners documented Done; estimate 15–25 → 12–22 h. |
| 2026-11-09 | minor | G5: Art brush Overlap, Pattern brush auto corners and Global Edit Shift-click leave-out documented as Done (already in code); Missing trimmed; estimate unchanged. |
| 2026-11-09 | minor | Interim macOS canvas cursor delivery (#2292): existing artwork in aligned 1×/2× AppKit representations, visible system fallback and host-owned restoration. Headless routing, bitmap and ownership coverage; native timing, menus, focus/handback, mixed displays, Spotlight and full-screen Spaces remain unverified. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-09 · **Change:** minor (G5: dynamic symbol part on-canvas opacity/blend/gradient/pattern; strokes remaining no longer lists Overlap/auto corners; symbols ~88%; previously minor: interim macOS cursor delivery, #2292; native validation pending; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: harakat paint fallback clarified; previously minor: current Guides feature-area rows consolidated using existing ruler evidence; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: G5 docs: Art brush Overlap and Pattern brush auto corners removed from strokes remaining; symbols remaining lists dynamic on-canvas beyond solid and guides outside the art; previously minor: 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; `.ai`/EPS type keeps its tab stops, and right-aligned lines with tabs lay out as the file's page, #6147; `.ai`/EPS type from the text document lays its lines out closer to the file's page, within limits, #6137; `.ai` and EPS import: older Art brush objects read; numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking keyboard focus, and a panel wheel turn cannot seed a canvas zoom glide, #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; Tools stays beside the canvas with left-side panels; new gradients follow document color mode; 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; 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; Units › East Asian Type acts, with Q and Ha units; scores unchanged)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-09 · **Change:** minor (G5: UI Frames built-in symbol library with default 9-slice; bundled content ~32%; previously minor: G5: dynamic symbol part on-canvas opacity/blend/gradient/pattern; strokes remaining no longer lists Overlap/auto corners; symbols ~88%; previously minor: interim macOS cursor delivery, #2292; native validation pending; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: harakat paint fallback clarified; previously minor: current Guides feature-area rows consolidated using existing ruler evidence; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: G5 docs: Art brush Overlap and Pattern brush auto corners removed from strokes remaining; symbols remaining lists dynamic on-canvas beyond solid and guides outside the art; previously minor: 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; `.ai`/EPS type keeps its tab stops, and right-aligned lines with tabs lay out as the file's page, #6147; `.ai`/EPS type from the text document lays its lines out closer to the file's page, within limits, #6137; `.ai` and EPS import: older Art brush objects read; numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking keyboard focus, and a panel wheel turn cannot seed a canvas zoom glide, #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; Tools stays beside the canvas with left-side panels; new gradients follow document color mode; 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; 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; Units › East Asian Type acts, with Q and Ha units; scores unchanged)
## Feature submission evidence
@@ -213,16 +213,16 @@ dominate; 3D, graphs and automation are specialist). They sum to 105. Feature de
| 3D and Materials (and Turntable) | 4 | ~25% | live Revolve with automatic smooth vector shading and default-on continuous circular caps, Extrude & Bevel (twist, taper, caps, five bevel shapes), Inflate and Rotate with Position presets (colored Inflate uses smooth membrane lighting; white-light Inflate retains its existing shading; Extrude & Bevel and Rotate retain planar shading; one to ten colored lights, shared neutral ambient, painter visibility); materials, light presets, shadows, ray tracing, the rest of 3D Classic (Revolve, Rotate, Map Art), Turntable views, textures, map art and shading in 3D export | 30–55 | estimated (Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate added 2026-10-12) |
| Type core | 9 | 80% | Auto-leading style resets are implemented; Hyphenation… and Justification… options are done (#2310, #2755), and a paragraph's Auto Leading also sets the Character panel's Leading, the Alt+↑/↓ leading nudge and Fill with Placeholder Text; remaining: Optical Margin Alignment, Middle Eastern features beyond bidi layout, optional group font-size preservation; transformed character controls fixed (#1034), see [type-parity.md](type-parity.md) | 14–19 | estimated; eleven-language pattern hyphenation in both composers, with grapheme and shaping-cluster protection (#4947, `hyphen::tests` and `layout::wrapping_tests`); Sanskrit patterns pending an allowlisted source; recent-font groups in font pickers (#3515); full-name font matches regression-tested (#1258); mixed paragraph alignment indication implemented; headless regressions, full integration CI and visual review pass; localized legacy family-name fallback with loaded/catalog regressions (#2208); Fractional Widths per type object regression-tested; color emoji fonts with bitmap glyphs (`sbix`, `CBDT`) draw and export; threading ports: every selected area type and type on a path shows its in and out ports (empty, arrow, red "+"), and the Selection tool threads from either, the in port into a frame before it, and a double-click on a threaded port breaks the thread there (`threads::tests::break_splits_the_thread_and_the_story_flows_into_the_first_part`, `select::tests::a_double_click_on_a_threaded_port_breaks_the_thread`, `canvas::tests::a_double_click_on_a_threaded_out_port_breaks_the_thread`) (#2572; `select::tests::a_click_on_the_in_port_threads_into_a_frame_before_it`, `text::tests::selected_type_shows_its_ports_in_each_state`, `threads::tests::add_before_threads_the_story_from_the_new_frame_into_the_clicked_one`, live screenshot); the Glyphs panel highlights and scrolls to the character selected with the Type tool (#4908, `panels::glyphs` tests); the OpenType panel lists only `ss01`–`ss20` sets present in the selected font and uses its custom names when supplied; Type-range desktop Copy publishes styled art and keeps font family, size and color on canvas Paste after editing (#5636); paint-only Arabic harakat keep joining with conditional GDEF-mark ownership and Insert Kashidas base-letter paint (`tests::harakat`) |
| Type advanced (CJK, spelling, Touch Type, Retype) | 4 | 50% | CJK vertical composition (ruby, mojikumi), variable font axes, tab leaders, spell check (engine and custom dictionary done, #4936; the dialogs and Auto Spell Check remain), Touch Type, Retype | 20–28 | estimated; upright fallback for fullwidth `！` / `？` regression-tested; score and hours unchanged |
| Symbols, blends, envelopes, Repeat, perspective | 5 | 88% | remaining: dynamic symbols' `.ai` round trip, more built-in symbol libraries, envelope Anti-Alias/Preserve Shape, 9-slice guides outside the art; Symbol Options › Registration, Export Type (Graphic / Movie Clip) and 9-slice guides (drawn and draggable during symbol editing, #5280) and Symbol Type (dynamic on-canvas fill/stroke including gradient/pattern, opacity and blend, #4938) are done | 4–7 | estimated; 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; interactive selected mirror axis implemented; bounding-box handles take priority over the axis line (focused regression and native checks passed; full CI blocked by an unrelated text test); #2544 spine Anchor Point conversion and picking regression-tested |
| Symbols, blends, envelopes, Repeat, perspective | 5 | 88% | remaining: dynamic symbols' `.ai` round trip, further built-in symbol libraries (Basic Shapes and UI Frames with default 9-slice are done), envelope Anti-Alias/Preserve Shape, 9-slice guides outside the art; Symbol Options › Registration, Export Type (Graphic / Movie Clip) and 9-slice guides (drawn and draggable during symbol editing, #5280) and Symbol Type (dynamic on-canvas fill/stroke including gradient/pattern, opacity and blend, #4938) are done | 4–7 | estimated; 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; interactive selected mirror axis implemented; bounding-box handles take priority over the axis line (focused regression and native checks passed; full CI blocked by an unrelated text test); #2544 spine Anchor Point conversion and picking regression-tested |
| Type advanced (CJK, spelling, Touch Type, Retype) | 4 | 50% | CJK vertical composition (ruby, mojikumi), tab leaders, spell check (engine and custom dictionary done, #4936; the dialogs and Auto Spell Check remain), Touch Type, Retype | 20–28 | estimated; upright fallback for fullwidth `！` / `？` regression-tested; score and hours unchanged |
| Symbols, blends, envelopes, Repeat, perspective | 5 | 88% | remaining: dynamic symbols' `.ai` round trip, more built-in symbol libraries, envelope Anti-Alias/Preserve Shape, 9-slice guides outside the art; Symbol Options › Registration, Export Type (Graphic / Movie Clip) and 9-slice guides (drawn and draggable during symbol editing, #5280) and Symbol Type (dynamic on-canvas fill/stroke including gradient/pattern, opacity and blend, #4938) are done | 4–7 | estimated; 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; interactive selected mirror axis implemented; bounding-box handles take priority over the axis line (focused regression and native checks passed; full CI blocked by an unrelated text test); #2544 spine Anchor Point conversion and picking regression-tested |
| Symbols, blends, envelopes, Repeat, perspective | 5 | 88% | remaining: dynamic symbols' `.ai` round trip, further built-in symbol libraries (Basic Shapes and UI Frames with default 9-slice are done), envelope Anti-Alias/Preserve Shape, 9-slice guides outside the art; Symbol Options › Registration, Export Type (Graphic / Movie Clip) and 9-slice guides (drawn and draggable during symbol editing, #5280) and Symbol Type (dynamic on-canvas fill/stroke including gradient/pattern, opacity and blend, #4938) are done | 4–7 | estimated; 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; interactive selected mirror axis implemented; bounding-box handles take priority over the axis line (focused regression and native checks passed; full CI blocked by an unrelated text test); #2544 spine Anchor Point conversion and picking regression-tested |
| Image Trace, graphs, image tools | 3 | 75% | graph Column designs, Image Trace Create Strokes depth (Create Object Mosaic is done; junction-returning piece survival has source-generated regressions in `image-trace-quality.md`; simpler contour walk, 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, so Paths is monotone on the code-drawn sweep) | 5–8 | estimated (raised from 72%); quick presets reveal adjustment controls, Properties reopens them; Live trace result bounds and selection highlights exclude the retained bitmap except in source-image views (scores/hours unchanged) |
| Live vector effects | 5 | 85% | Outline Object, SVG Filters | 4–8 | measured count 49/50 (Pathfinder 13/13 with Trap), depth estimated; Warp Options controls verified by focused checks and original-image review |
| 3D and Materials (and Turntable) | 4 | ~25% | live Revolve with automatic smooth vector shading and default-on continuous circular caps, Extrude & Bevel (twist, taper, caps, five bevel shapes), Inflate and Rotate with Position presets (colored Inflate uses smooth membrane lighting; white-light Inflate retains its existing shading; Extrude & Bevel and Rotate retain planar shading; one to ten colored lights, shared neutral ambient, original lighting presets, painter visibility); materials, shadows, ray tracing, the rest of 3D Classic (Revolve, Rotate, Map Art), Turntable views, textures, map art and shading in 3D export | 30–55 | estimated (Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate added 2026-10-12) |
| Type advanced (CJK, spelling, Touch Type, Retype) | 4 | 50% | CJK vertical composition (mojikumi), variable font axes, tab leaders, spell check (engine and custom dictionary done, #4936; the dialogs and Auto Spell Check remain), Touch Type, Retype | 20–28 | estimated; No Break keeps marked characters on one line; upright fallback for fullwidth `！` / `？` regression-tested; score and hours unchanged |
| Type advanced (CJK, spelling, Touch Type, Retype) | 4 | 50% | CJK vertical composition (mojikumi), tab leaders, spell check (engine and custom dictionary done, #4936; the dialogs and Auto Spell Check remain), Touch Type, Retype | 20–28 | estimated; No Break keeps marked characters on one line; upright fallback for fullwidth `！` / `？` regression-tested; score and hours unchanged |
| Raster effects (Effect Gallery) | 4 | 52% | the Effect Gallery's filter thumbnails and in-dialog preview area ([Filter Gallery overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/desktop/effects-filters/get-started-with-filters/filter-gallery.html)) | 1–2 | estimated (raised from 49%: the Effect Gallery shipped, #2883, six categories, per-filter settings, ordered stack, live canvas preview, one undo step, `dialogs::effect_gallery::tests::stack_ok_is_one_undo_step`, `stack_preview_is_one_interaction`); measured count 57/57 (Artistic complete with Colored Pencil, Fresco, Paint Daubs, Palette Knife, Rough Pastels and Underpainting; Sketch complete with Torn Edges and Conté Crayon, `pixel::tests_sketch::conte_crayon_*`); texture redraw distances optimized (#1257), pixels verified; depth estimated |
| Symbols, blends, envelopes, Repeat, perspective | 5 | 88% | remaining: dynamic symbols' `.ai` round trip, more built-in symbol libraries, envelope Anti-Alias/Preserve Shape, 9-slice guides outside the art; Symbol Options › Registration, Export Type and Symbol Type (dynamic on-canvas fill/stroke including gradient/pattern, opacity and blend, #4938) and on-canvas 9-slice guides (#5280) are done | 4–7 | estimated |
| Symbols, blends, envelopes, Repeat, perspective | 5 | 88% | remaining: dynamic symbols' `.ai` round trip, further built-in symbol libraries (Basic Shapes and UI Frames with default 9-slice are done), envelope Anti-Alias/Preserve Shape, 9-slice guides outside the art; Symbol Options › Registration, Export Type and Symbol Type (dynamic on-canvas fill/stroke including gradient/pattern, opacity and blend, #4938) and on-canvas 9-slice guides (#5280) are done | 4–7 | estimated |
| Image Trace, graphs, image tools | 3 | 75% | graph Column designs, Image Trace Create Strokes depth (Create Object Mosaic is done; junction-returning piece survival has source-generated regressions in `image-trace-quality.md`; large images trace with a warning; Auto Color keeps rare distinct colours) | 5–8 | estimated (raised from 72%); quick presets reveal adjustment controls, Properties reopens them |
| Layers, artboards, document setup | 5 | 78% | Selected-artboard deletion is consistent across panel actions (all-selected retains artboard 1); history prunes removed indices while preserving valid multiselection; remaining: 30.0's artboard locking and colours and managing artboards from the canvas, Layers panel row context menus and Collect for Export (click-to-fit objects is done, #1227) | 5–8 | estimated (lowered from 82%: target moved); Artboard deletion keys keep artwork and the first of an all-selected set; Artboard Options' Show Center Mark and Show Cross Hairs draw on the canvas only (exports and print leave them out), regression-tested; Artboard Options' Show Video Safe Areas and Video Ruler Pixel Aspect Ratio (per artboard, native format) are done ([video display options](#evidence-what-ships-today-by-area)), score unchanged |
| View & navigation | 3 | 70% | multiple windows and the rest of Arrange (Cascade, Float in Window, Float All in Windows) | 9–14 | estimated; Window › Arrange › Tile and Consolidate All Windows done (score/hours unchanged); document-tab artwork hover/copy and lossless transfer tested (2026-10-22; score/hours unchanged); cached canvas reprojection preserves scale during resize, rotation and DPI changes (regression and contributor original-file evidence below; scores/hours unchanged); cached canvas dimensions match the renderer limit before cache-key creation, view construction and worker submission (regression evidence below) |
@@ -486,7 +486,7 @@ about 1–1.5 agent-hours each, so the other rows (estimated on the older scale)
| 3D and Materials | 4 | ~25% | Initial Revolve, Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate, with simple lighting and four original lighting presets; materials, shadows, ray tracing, Revolve (Classic), Rotate (Classic), Map Art and more complete visibility remain | 25–45 |
| Type advanced | 4 | 50% | CJK composition for vertical type (mojikumi beyond Line-end Punctuation Half Width — the other sets (and their paragraph-start bracket and indent rules), custom kinsoku sets (beyond Hard, Soft and None) and the Mojikumi Settings dialog —, manual tate-chu-yoko is done, its up/down settings remain; No Break is done), tab leaders, spell check (its engine and custom dictionary commands are done, #4936: the Check Spelling and Edit Custom Dictionary dialogs and Auto Spell Check remain), Touch Type, Retype; vertical point/area/path type and Type Orientation have initial support (beyond parity, not scored: inline symbols in text) | 20–28 |
| Type core | 9 | 80% | Middle Eastern features beyond bidi layout, Paragraph Direction, digit types and Kashidas (the Middle Eastern composers, editable bidirectional SVG text, a split caret where directions meet); paint-only harakat keep joining with conditional GDEF-mark colour ownership, but fonts without GDEF mark classes and some AAT/`morx` ligatures can still leave marks painted as their letters; Every-line Composer fidelity for justified and ragged text (available per object; mixed type sizes in a paragraph still break single-line in non-rectangular area type and with text wrap), Optical Margin Alignment, paragraph spacing limit for vertically justified area type, hidden characters, paragraph attributes in the Type tool's copy and paste (the characters keep their styles, the paragraphs take the destination's), mixed-value display in the Paragraph panel for a selection across differing paragraphs, partial selection of type-area anchors by marquee, optional font-size preservation during group scaling (scaled character controls fixed in #1034). Hyphenation and Justification options, Fractional Widths, System Layout, styled Type-range canvas Paste (#5636), and pattern hyphenation for eleven Indian languages with grapheme/cluster protection (#4947) are done; Sanskrit automatic patterns remain pending an allowlisted source | 14–19 |
| Symbols, blends, envelopes, Repeat, perspective | 5 | 90% | more built-in symbol libraries (original), dynamic symbols' `.ai` round trip, envelope Anti-Alias/Preserve Shape output and warp point editing, brush interpolation in blends (M8 fidelity pass done); Symbol Options › Registration and Export Type and on-canvas dynamic part paint (gradient/pattern, opacity, blend) are done; symbol editing shows draggable 9-slice guides (#5280), while guides outside the artwork remain unsupported | 4–7 |
| Symbols, blends, envelopes, Repeat, perspective | 5 | 90% | further built-in symbol libraries (Basic Shapes and UI Frames with default 9-slice are done), dynamic symbols' `.ai` round trip, envelope Anti-Alias/Preserve Shape output and warp point editing, brush interpolation in blends (M8 fidelity pass done); Symbol Options › Registration and Export Type and on-canvas dynamic part paint (gradient/pattern, opacity, blend) are done; symbol editing shows draggable 9-slice guides (#5280), while guides outside the artwork remain unsupported | 4–7 |
| Image Trace, graphs, image tools | 3 | 72% | graph Column designs (Graph Design, Marker designs and series colours set with Group Selection are done), Create Object Mosaic, per-feature stroke/fill choice and varying widths in Image Trace's Create Strokes (Vector Halftone and the Image Trace View modes, Palette and Create Strokes are done) | 6–10 |
| Layers, artboards, document setup | 5 | 82% | Layers panel: a confirmation before deleting layers that hold art, Collect for Export, row context menus, the Layer Options dialog for several rows with mixed values, Paste Remembers Layers for sublayers, drag-scrolling a long panel while dragging rows; artboard preset polish (artboard escape routing and document setup modal handoff done; Move Artwork for artboard X/Y edits, Rearrange All Artboards, Document Setup, New Document and the rest of the Layers panel are done) | 4–7 |
| View & navigation | 3 | 70% | New View/Edit Views, multiple windows/arrange, Snap to Pixel/Glyph (print tiling is done) | 9–14 |
@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ since 2026-10-01.
| **Interaction fidelity:** modifiers, cursors, small behaviours | ~30–40% | The dedicated pass hasn't started, and there has been no side-by-side session with Illustrator yet. A power user notices this first |
| **Look & feel** | ~75–80% | Measured against Illustrator 2026 screenshots (2026-10-02); the panels added since haven't been re-measured |
| **File interop** | ~85% | SVG/SVGZ, PDF and PDF-compatible `.ai` (and legacy version 7 `.ai` out, keeping layers, groups and type as text), EPS, DXF, EMF/WMF, raster formats, PSD export and PSD/PSB placement (merged image), Place and Links, Package, Print, clipboard flavours. Affinity documents (Affinity 1–3) open natively as editable art, checked against 51 pinned public files (33 current `.af`), with selected saved-thumbnail comparisons and every-board native/SVG/PDF/PSD checks for current files; Affinity export is missing and effects, adjustments and brushes don't import. Affinity isn't an Illustrator feature, so this doesn't raise the parity score. The editing copy inside an Illustrator EPS or `.ai` is read for its structure: layers, groups, names, hidden objects and type, colours, gradients, transparency, images and every artboard (see Out of scope for what it doesn't read yet); DWG has no open spec |
| **Bundled content:** brush, symbol, style and swatch libraries | ~30% | Ours are original and generated in code, and far fewer than Illustrator ships; symbol libraries have one (Basic Shapes) and brush libraries four (Art Ribbons, Calligraphic Nibs, Pattern Borders, Scatter Shapes) beside User Defined and Other Library… |
| **Bundled content:** brush, symbol, style and swatch libraries | ~32% | Ours are original and generated in code, and far fewer than Illustrator ships; symbol libraries have two (Basic Shapes, UI Frames with default 9-slice) and brush libraries four (Art Ribbons, Calligraphic Nibs, Pattern Borders, Scatter Shapes) beside User Defined and Other Library… |
| **Performance** | unverified | Multithreaded, off-thread rendering and caches are in place. The last budget run (2026-10-01, loaded machine) measured 290 ms for a 50k-path fit against a 16 ms budget. Re-run `vectorcraft-cli perf` on an idle machine |
| **Robustness** | good, new | ~2,840 tests, property tests, no panics in shipped code (lints, the `guard` safety net, import fuzzing), Data Recovery. Missing: a corpus of real-world files, Windows/Linux/browser QA |
| **Platforms and 1.0 polish** | ~60% | The macOS app and the web build work, and Finder opens every readable format with the macOS app (#295, #354); on macOS the menus are in the system menu bar, laid out as a Mac app's, with the in-window menus as a fallback (`--in-window-menus`; verified on Windows and by cross-compilation, not yet by hand on a Mac); hybrid-graphics laptops render on the power-saving GPU by default on Windows and macOS (#306), and Windows starts on Direct3D 12, falling back to OpenGL, and loads no Vulkan driver unless `WGPU_BACKEND` asks for it (#545: Vulkan flickered black on an Intel GPU, DX12 and OpenGL didn't; #806: a faulty Vulkan driver crashed the app before its window appeared; verified by unit tests and the reporter's runs with `WGPU_BACKEND`), and Linux on the GPU the desktop runs on, since a Wayland compositor may refuse frames from the other one; a window that fails on its GPU while starting up starts again on the next one instead of crashing (#502; the dual-GPU Wayland case is verified by unit tests and cross-compilation, not on such hardware); web drops land in the document they were dropped on (#359); desktop drops carry no pointer position (winit 0.30), so a dropped document opens as a tab of its own and a picture or text is placed in the middle of the view, while the web places anything dropped on the canvas and opens what is dropped off it, as Illustrator does (#472); a web page that loses its WebGPU device or WebGL context restarts its graphics with the same documents (#369); on Linux/Wayland the clipboard reads the compositor's own (data-control) and copied image files paste, but files can't be dropped on the window under native Wayland until eframe moves to winit 0.31 (#398; the Wayland side is verified by compilation only), so Preferences › Performance › Linux Display Server › X11 (XWayland) opens the window through XWayland, where drops work (#1151; verified by unit tests and cross-compilation, not on a Wayland desktop); on Linux the Paste menu checks the system clipboard on a background thread, so a clipboard owner that never answers no longer freezes the window, while Windows and macOS keep their quick in-line check (#510; the X11 hang verified by the contributor, here by headless tests); on KDE Plasma 6.3+ under Wayland, pens and pen displays reach the app only under XWayland (`WAYLAND_DISPLAY=`) or with KWin's `KWIN_WAYLAND_EMULATE_TABLET=1`, since winit 0.30 has no Wayland tablet input (#491, not verified on hardware); Windows/Linux packaging and accessibility are pending |
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- The macOS menu bar is built from the in-window menus (one model, `native_menu`) and laid out as a Mac app's: the VectorCraft menu holds About, Settings ▸ (each Preferences page, General… ⌘K), Language ▸, Appearance ▸ (UI brightness), Services, Hide VectorCraft ⌃⌘H (⌘H stays Hide Edges), Hide Others, Show All and Quit; Window gains Minimize ⌃⌘M, Zoom and Bring All to Front, and Help the system's search field. Its key equivalents go back to egui as key presses, so user shortcuts, focused text fields and the Type tool's input method behave as in the window, and nothing fires twice; enabled, check marks and labels update in place. `--in-window-menus` or `VECTORCRAFT_IN_WINDOW_MENUS=1` keeps the menus in the window; `ui.inspect` reports `nativeMenuBar`.
- macOS: Finder opens every format File › Open reads with VectorCraft (double-click, Open With, a drop on the Dock icon, `open -a`), at launch or while it runs; the release and `cargo xtask bundle` apps share one `Info.plist` that declares those document types, owning only VectorCraft's own formats. The DMG opens on a designed Finder window, VectorCraft.app beside the `Applications` link over a background with the app icon (#493).
- Swatch and graphic style libraries, Libraries panel files, presets and plug-ins open wherever they are dropped on the window, as File › Open opens them.
- **Symbol libraries** ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/create-or-import-symbol-libraries.html)): Window › Symbol Libraries and the Symbols panel's Symbol Libraries Menu open each library in a library panel of its own, as swatch and graphic style libraries do. The built-in library, Basic Shapes, is original art generated in code (`crates/engine/src/cmd/symbollib.rs`). A click on a symbol adds it to the document's Symbols as one undo step, with its Symbol Options (size, registration, export type, 9-slice guides) and every resource it uses (the symbols it nests, patterns, swatches, brushes, graphic styles, images), and makes it the current symbol; a symbol the document already has is not added again and another symbol of the same name keeps its name, the library's comes in numbered. Thumbnails, in the library panels and the Symbols panel, draw a symbol with the symbols it nests and the patterns and images it uses. Dragging a library symbol onto the canvas also places an instance there, in the same step ([placing from a library](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/create-and-place-symbols.html)). Save Symbols (the library menu) and Save Symbol Library… (the Symbols panel menu) write the document's symbols as a `.vectorcraft` document holding only them, into the user library folder (listed under User Defined) or a file; Other Library… reads the symbols of any document VectorCraft opens; a file it can't read is an error and opens no panel. Tests: `crates/engine/src/tests/symbollib.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/panels/tests_symbol_libraries.rs`, `panels::symbols::tests::thumbnails_show_the_symbols_a_symbol_nests`, `canvas::tests::a_library_symbol_dropped_on_the_canvas_is_added_and_placed_there_in_one_step`.
- **Symbol libraries** ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/create-or-import-symbol-libraries.html)): Window › Symbol Libraries and the Symbols panel's Symbol Libraries Menu open each library in a library panel of its own, as swatch and graphic style libraries do. The built-in libraries, Basic Shapes and UI Frames (Panel, Button and Bar with default 9-slice guides), are original art generated in code (`crates/engine/src/cmd/symbollib.rs`). A click on a symbol adds it to the document's Symbols as one undo step, with its Symbol Options (size, registration, export type, 9-slice guides) and every resource it uses (the symbols it nests, patterns, swatches, brushes, graphic styles, images), and makes it the current symbol; a symbol the document already has is not added again and another symbol of the same name keeps its name, the library's comes in numbered. Thumbnails, in the library panels and the Symbols panel, draw a symbol with the symbols it nests and the patterns and images it uses. Dragging a library symbol onto the canvas also places an instance there, in the same step ([placing from a library](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/create-and-place-symbols.html)). Save Symbols (the library menu) and Save Symbol Library… (the Symbols panel menu) write the document's symbols as a `.vectorcraft` document holding only them, into the user library folder (listed under User Defined) or a file; Other Library… reads the symbols of any document VectorCraft opens; a file it can't read is an error and opens no panel. Tests: `crates/engine/src/tests/symbollib.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/panels/tests_symbol_libraries.rs`, `panels::symbols::tests::thumbnails_show_the_symbols_a_symbol_nests`, `canvas::tests::a_library_symbol_dropped_on_the_canvas_is_added_and_placed_there_in_one_step`.
- **9-slice scaling** ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/maintain-proportions-while-scaling-symbols.html)): a scaled instance of a symbol with Enable Guides for 9-Slice Scaling on stays an instance and keeps the parts of its art outside the guides at their size. New guides sit a quarter of the symbol's width and height in from each edge ([reference](https://help.adobe.com/archive/en/illustrator/cs6/illustrator_reference.pdf), Use 9-slice scaling section); saved guides keep their values. The rest is VectorCraft's own rule: the corners keep both sizes, the top and bottom edges stretch in width, the left and right edges in height and the center in both; an instance smaller than its two outer cells on an axis shrinks them in proportion and leaves the center empty; the cells are sized along the symbol's axes before the instance's rotation, shear or reflection. A path with solid paint that crosses a guide is cut there and stays one path, its stroke at its weight with Scale Strokes & Effects on or off; type, images, live objects and gradient or pattern paint that cross a guide are drawn in each cell they reach, clipped to it, except those that draw symbol art (a nested instance, type with an inline graphic, a placed document, a brushed stroke, or a pattern whose tile draws one of these), which are placed by the cell their center is in; an object in one cell is placed by that cell and stays as it is. The canvas, bounds, the Eyedropper, Break Link to Symbol and the PDF, EPS, DXF, EMF/WMF and SVG exports place the art the same way; SVG writes such an instance as its placed art instead of a `<use>`, and DXF and WMF, which do not clip, cut every path that crosses a guide and place other such objects by the cell their center is in. Tests: `symbol_nine_slice::tests` in `crates/doc`, `crates/engine/src/tests/symbol_nine_slice.rs`, `a_scaled_nine_slice_instance_keeps_its_corners` (PDF), `a_scaled_nine_slice_instance_is_written_as_the_canvas_draws_it` (SVG), `a_scaled_nine_slice_instance_is_sampled_as_it_is_drawn` (Eyedropper).
- **Symbol editing mode** ([Edit symbols](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/edit-symbols.html), [Symbols panel options](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/symbols-panel-options.html)): a double-click on a symbol instance, the Control bar's Edit Symbol button, a double-click on a symbol in the Symbols panel and the panel menu's Edit Symbol (`symbol.edit`) open the symbol's art on a temporary isolated layer, where the instance shows it (from the panel: centered on the active artboard, or in the view in a document without artboards), with the rest of the document dimmed. Each edit there changes every instance at once; the instances keep their own transforms and stay linked (Break Link to Symbol still expands one), and a dynamic symbol's instances keep their appearance changes to the objects the art still has. Escape, the isolation bar's back button, the Control bar's Exit Symbol Editing Mode and a double-click outside the art leave the mode (`symbol.exitEditing`); leaving without an edit adds no undo step. Saving leaves the editing layer out. Tests: `crates/engine/src/tests/symboledit.rs`, `select::tests::a_double_click_on_a_symbol_instance_edits_its_symbol`, `panels::symbols::tests::edit_symbol_from_the_panel_centers_the_art_on_the_active_artboard_or_the_view`.
- **Dynamic symbol appearance follows what an object draws** (VectorCraft's own rule): `symbol.instance.setAppearance` refuses a fill or stroke for an object of the art that does not draw it (a guide, blend, envelope, Repeat, Intertwine group, gradient mesh or placed document; a nested symbol instance's stroke, and its fill unless a solid color or none, which stains its art; an image's fill or stroke without a Convert to Shape or Outline Object effect) with an error that names the key and the object, and the call changes nothing. Opacity, blend and `null`, which takes a stored change back, are taken for every object. Tests: `crates/engine/src/tests/dynamic_symbols.rs`.
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| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-09 | minor | Bundled content: built-in UI Frames symbol library (Panel, Button, Bar with default 9-slice); symbol libraries evidence updated; ~30% → ~32%; more built-in symbol libraries remain. |
| 2026-11-09 | minor | Symbols: on-canvas dynamic part appearance takes gradient/pattern fill and stroke and opacity/blend; evidence updated; area ~87% → ~88%; strokes remaining no longer lists Overlap/auto corners. |
| 2026-11-09 | minor | Strokes/brushes: Art brush Overlap and Pattern brush auto corners removed from remaining (evidence already covered them); symbols remaining clarified for dynamic on-canvas beyond solid fill/stroke; scores and hours unchanged. |
| 2026-11-09 | minor | Interim macOS canvas cursor delivery (#2292): existing artwork in aligned 1×/2× AppKit representations, visible system fallback and host-owned restoration. Headless routing, bitmap and ownership coverage; native timing, menus, focus/handback, mixed displays, Spotlight and full-screen Spaces remain unverified. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
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