Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/main' into fix/3260-halftone-radius-pixels

# Conflicts:
#	crates/doc/src/limits.rs
#	crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_pdfedit.rs
#	crates/format/src/lib.rs
#	docs/target-app-parity.md

docs/control-protocol.md

@@ -320,6 +320,7 @@ The User Defined libraries are `window.userBrushLibrary1`…`10` in Window → B
 Tile Edge Color: Object → Pattern → Tile Edge Color… (`ui.tileEdgeColor`) opens the `tileEdgeColor` dialog (field
 `color`: `#rrggbb` or a preset name such as "Light Blue"); `ui.dialog.confirm` sets the preference
 `patternTileEdgeColor` (`prefs.set`), the colour pattern editing mode draws the tile edge and the swatch bounds in.
+A `color` with an alpha part (`#rrggbbaa` or `#rgba`) is an error, and the preference does not change.
 
 Window title bar: on Windows and Linux the window has no OS decorations and the app bar is the title bar. Its
 caption buttons (Minimize, Maximize/Restore, Close) sit at the bar's right end, 46 pt each; they are window chrome,
@@ -382,6 +383,16 @@ two-column flag, top-left corner, the groups torn off it). They are kept with th
 switching workspaces shows that workspace's toolbars, Reset Workspace keeps them, and New Workspace starts the new
 workspace with a copy of them.
 
+Manage Toolbars: Window › Toolbars › Manage Toolbars… (or Manage Toolbars… in the drawer's ☰ menu,
+`window.toolbar.manage`) lists these toolbars. A new name typed for the selected toolbar renames it at Enter, when
+the text box loses focus, or at OK (`window.toolbar.rename {name, to}`; the name must not be empty, longer than 200
+characters or another toolbar's, whatever the case). The + button copies the selected toolbar with its tools as
+"`name` Copy", shown a little below it and below earlier copies (`window.toolbar.duplicate {name}`), and with none
+selected it makes a blank toolbar called "Toolbar N" (`window.toolbar.duplicate {}`). The trash can deletes the
+selected toolbar and the groups torn off it (`window.toolbar.delete {name}`). Renaming or deleting a toolbar closes
+the drawer and a group's flyout open on it; a new name that changes only the case leaves them open. Each change is
+kept with the current workspace.
+
 The Contextual Task Bar: its handle (the grip at its left end) drags it anywhere on the canvas, which always holds
 it whole, also when the window shrinks. Unpinned, the bar keeps that offset as it follows the selection, until
 another document becomes active. Its More Options (…) menu has Hide Bar (`window.taskBar`); Pin Bar Position
@@ -445,7 +456,9 @@ changed since); its preview greys the art and paints the highlighted objects or
 
 Expand: Object → Expand… (`ui.expandDialog`, or `object.expand` without params from the menus, palette and shortcuts)
 opens the `expand` dialog for the selection. Fields: `object`, `fill`, `stroke` (all on; `__object`, `__fill`,
-`__stroke` say which the selection has something for, as `object.expand.info` does, and the others are disabled),
+`__stroke` say which the selection has something for, as `object.expand.info` does, and the others are disabled;
+`__fill_symbol`, `__stroke_symbol` and `__gradient_symbol` say that only the art of symbol instances holds it, and
+those options are enabled only while `object` is on),
 `gradient` (`objects` or `mesh`) and `steps` (1–1000, default 255), which are enabled when `fill` is on and
 `__gradient` says the selection has a gradient fill (`object.expand.info`'s `gradient`). `ui.dialog.confirm` runs `object.expand` with them as
 one undo step. While the selection has an appearance Expand Appearance expands (effects, several fills or strokes, a

docs/effects-parity.md

@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ angular cut caps, exact visibility, 3D Classic, Turntable, 3D export) is 25–45
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
-| 2026-10-30 | minor | Pixelate › Color Halftone: Max Radius is in pixels of the Document Raster Effects resolution, 4–127 px, as the [filter effects reference](https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/filter-effects-reference.html) gives it, instead of points (#3260): fine screens are possible at print resolutions (4 px at 300 ppi ≈ 0.96 pt). The dialog and the Appearance panel show it in px whatever the document units; documents saved before (document version 1) open with each radius converted, so their dots stay the same size, and a file saved for an older app version (native versions before today's) holds them in points again. Scores unchanged. Tests: `vectorcraft_effects` `color_halftone_sizes_its_dots_in_pixels_of_the_raster_effects_resolution` and `color_halftones_radius_is_in_raster_pixels_not_a_distance`, `vectorcraft_doc` `halftone_radii::tests`, `vectorcraft_format` `halftone_radii_of_older_documents_open_in_pixels`, `vectorcraft_engine` `a_preserve_editing_pdf_opens_with_its_halftone_radius_in_pixels`, `dialogs::tests::color_halftones_max_radius_stays_in_pixels_whatever_the_units`. |
+| 2026-10-30 | minor | Pixelate › Color Halftone: Max Radius is in pixels of the Document Raster Effects resolution, 4–127 px, as the [filter effects reference](https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/filter-effects-reference.html) gives it, instead of points (#3260): fine screens are possible at print resolutions (4 px at 300 ppi ≈ 0.96 pt). The dialog and the Appearance panel show it in px whatever the document units; documents saved before (document versions 1 and 2) open with each radius converted, so their dots stay the same size, and a file saved for an older app version (native versions before today's) holds them in points again. Scores unchanged. Tests: `vectorcraft_effects` `color_halftone_sizes_its_dots_in_pixels_of_the_raster_effects_resolution` and `color_halftones_radius_is_in_raster_pixels_not_a_distance`, `vectorcraft_doc` `halftone_radii::tests`, `vectorcraft_format` `halftone_radii_of_older_documents_open_in_pixels`, `vectorcraft_engine` `a_preserve_editing_pdf_opens_with_its_halftone_radius_in_pixels`, `dialogs::tests::color_halftones_max_radius_stays_in_pixels_whatever_the_units`. |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | Effect dialogs: bounded length fields (Color Halftone Max Radius) clamp on commit and visibly reject invalid input (#4638); scores unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | Pathfinder › Trap ([trapping](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/trapping.html)): the Pathfinder panel's Trap… (`object.pathfinder.trap`, one undo step, the traps grouped above the topmost selected object and selected) and Effect › Pathfinder › Trap… (`pathfinder.trap`, live on groups) add an overprinting strip of the lighter colour inside the darker one where two solid colours meet (Reverse Traps: the darker into the lighter, but not a rich black), with Thickness, Height/Width, Tint Reduction and Traps with Process Color; the effect also has Precision and Remove Redundant Points. Recounted: Hard Mix (#3061) and Soft Mix had shipped, so Pathfinder 11/13 → 13/13 and Illustrator effects 46/50 → 49/50 (SVG Filters remains); remaining 6–10 → 4–8 h. Tests: `vectorcraft_pathops` `trap::tests`, `vectorcraft_effects` `trap::tests` and `group::tests::trap_effect_adds_an_overprinting_strip_above_the_members`, `vectorcraft_engine` `tests_trap`, `panels::pathfinder::tests::trap_opens_its_options_and_ok_traps_the_selection`. |
 | 2026-10-22 | minor | The Transform effect has Transform Objects, Transform Patterns and Scale Strokes & Effects, with visible checkboxes (#885); on a fill's or stroke's own Transform effect the last two are still missing. Counts unchanged. |

docs/gaps.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Gaps
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-03 · **Change:** minor (new gradients follow document color mode; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-04 · **Change:** minor (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
 
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ from G14 and the budget run of G15: **~170–270 h** one agent, ~50–80 h wall
 
 - **Done:** Distance Guides ([public page](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/measure-and-align/grids-and-guides/use-distance-guides-for-accurate-placement.html)): with Smart Guides on and something selected, the Selection tool with Alt/Option held over another object shows the horizontal and vertical distances between them, and over an empty part of an artboard the selection's distances from its four edges, labelled in the General unit; Preferences › Smart Guides › Invoke Distance Guides turns them off. Hover only, as documented: not while moving or nudging. No entry closed; estimates unchanged.
 
-- **Done (part of #4028):** Recolor Artwork › Assign: double-clicking a row's new color opens the Color Picker, as the [public page](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-colors/modify-colors/assign-new-colors-to-selected-artwork.html) describes ("double-click it and select a color in the Color Picker"). OK sets the row's new color in the model it was picked in, so a CMYK mix is no longer a hex value converted back; Cancel leaves the row. A Lab new color is kept, but can't be typed yet: the picker's Lab fields work in RGB, as for fill and stroke. **Missing:** Lab entry in the picker, swatch libraries in the picker and the row's right-click menu (Pick from Swatches, Limit to Library).
+- **Done (part of #4028):** Recolor Artwork › Assign: double-clicking a row's new color opens the Color Picker, as the [public page](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-colors/modify-colors/assign-new-colors-to-selected-artwork.html) describes. OK sets the row's new color in the model it was picked in, so a CMYK mix is no longer a hex value converted back; Cancel leaves the row. A Lab new color is kept, but can't be typed yet: the picker's Lab fields work in RGB, as for fill and stroke. **Missing:** Lab entry in the picker, swatch libraries in the picker and the row's right-click menu (Pick from Swatches, Limit to Library).
 
 - **Done (#3416):** Recolor Artwork Edit chips scroll to the last color while the heading, color wheel and actions stay visible. Screen resize and UI scaling, Preview, Confirm, Cancel, Undo and #1733 wheel drags are covered in `tests/recolor.rs`. No gap entry closed; estimates unchanged.
 
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ from G14 and the budget run of G15: **~170–270 h** one agent, ~50–80 h wall
 - **Done (#1251):** Eyedropper source reads are independent of locks and isolation, including Shift/Shift+Alt and gradient stops. Source and selection preservation, unchanged Alt reverse/selection restrictions, hidden art and Undo/Redo have regression coverage. This addresses the reported behavior, with no new full-parity measurement.
 - **Done (#1253):** adding paint to an unpainted zero-width stroke restores the existing 1 pt default, including new-art defaults and Swap Fill/Stroke. The real Eyedropper inheritance sequence, targeted appearance items, preserved widths and Undo/Redo have regression coverage.
 - **Done:** a busy cursor while a file opens off the UI thread or a labelled background save or export runs (`Cursor::Busy` in `crates/tools/src/cursors.toml`). Heavy synchronous effect previews remain open.
-- **Done:** Average and Join in one step, with a corner or smooth choice for the joined anchor: Object › Path › Average & Join… (`path.averageJoin {to: "corner"|"smooth"}`, Cmd+Alt+Shift+J, Ctrl+Alt+Shift+J on Windows) moves the two direct-selected open path ends, or the nearest ends of two selected open paths (both ends of one, closing it), to their midpoint and joins them there in one undo step. The public [Default keyboard shortcuts](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) page lists the shortcut as "Create corner or smooth join" ("Select the paths" on Windows, "Select the anchor point" on macOS). The dialog (Points: Corner / Smooth) opens on Corner and then on the choice confirmed last in the session: VectorCraft's reading, as the page doesn't say. Inside the estimate below.
+- **Done:** Average and Join in one step, with a corner or smooth choice for the joined anchor: Object › Path › Average & Join… (`path.averageJoin {to: "corner"|"smooth"}`, Cmd+Alt+Shift+J, Ctrl+Alt+Shift+J on Windows) moves the two direct-selected open path ends, or the nearest ends of two selected open paths (both ends of one, closing it), to their midpoint and joins them there in one undo step. The public [Default keyboard shortcuts](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) page lists the shortcut as "Create corner or smooth join", with the paths selected on Windows and the anchor point selected on macOS. The dialog (Points: Corner / Smooth) opens on Corner and then on the choice confirmed last in the session: VectorCraft's reading, as the page doesn't say. Inside the estimate below.
 - **Implemented (#1760):** Effect › Warp has a shared style selector with original previews, orientation buttons and percent sliders. Existing effects retain their stack slot and target. Focused checks passed and original captures were reviewed; optional Properties integration and remembered defaults remain outside this change.
 - **Done (#2120):** Smart Guides line extension: dragging the end of a straight segment with Direct Selection or Curvature, the point snaps to the segment's own direction at any angle and the guide runs along it from the other end. Inside the estimate below.
 - **Done (#1692):** Tab in the Color Picker moves through one color model's fields before the next. Completed upstream before the layout change (#2008).
@@ -191,6 +191,8 @@ from G14 and the budget run of G15: **~170–270 h** one agent, ~50–80 h wall
 
 - **Unconfirmed (2026-10-14):** Tool cursors are painted into the window on Wayland (#1652; not run on Linux, #1645 stays open until confirmed). On Windows the custom title bar's window stays truly borderless, so the pointer lines up with what is drawn on systems where the hidden caption offset it (#1791, #1758; awaiting the reporter's confirmation).
 - **Done:** RPM required dependencies use 64-bit library capabilities and declare glibc 2.35, libm and libgcc_s (#1275); generated metadata and isolated synthetic-provider checks cover x86_64/aarch64. Real-distribution install/start-up QA is still missing.
+- **Done (2026-11-04):** a first frame the app is slow to build no longer costs the window its graphics adapter (#5160). The first-frame watchdog gave the frame 20 s from the app's start and then started again without the adapter, so a slow machine (antivirus reading every file, a large font library) ended with no adapter left and no window. A frame counts once its UI pass ends, before it is painted, so the 20 s now run from there; a frame still being built is waited for, with a note in the log (`a_first_frame_that_never_reaches_the_screen_hangs_its_adapter`; checked on Linux with the first frame held 35 s: the window opened with no restart). Estimate unchanged.
+- **Done (2026-11-04):** a large font library no longer keeps the window from opening (#5483). The menu bar's Type › Font, drawn in the first frame, waited for the scan of every installed font; when that took longer than the 20 s first-frame watchdog (thousands of fonts on a slow disk, or with each file checked by antivirus) the app took the graphics adapter for hung and started again without it until none was left. The menu now lists the fonts already loaded until the scan ends, then all of them (`the_menu_family_list_now_does_not_wait_for_the_scan`; checked on Linux with 3,923 extra font files, each open delayed 8 ms: the window opened in 1.5 s, where it never did before). Estimate unchanged.
 - **Done (2026-10-29):** the Linux Flatpak on GNOME no longer reconnects to the compositor and logs a warning every 250 ms when arboard has neither data-control nor X11 (267k warnings in 18 h filled the 16 MB log in 3 h): a clipboard that can't be opened is retried with a wait growing to a minute and logged once. Copy and Paste of text with other apps work there through the core Wayland protocol.
 - **Missing:** pictures (`image/png`) and SVG as `image/svg+xml` on the clipboard of the Flatpak on GNOME, where only text travels (smithay-clipboard 0.7 carries text only); the app not starting or staying in the background on some Windows 11 machines (#858, #964 fixed
   2026-10-10, #620, #818), slow pointer on a Linux AppImage (#575), macOS paste from other apps (#954), a
@@ -601,14 +603,15 @@ from G14 and the budget run of G15: **~170–270 h** one agent, ~50–80 h wall
 - **Done:** View › Rulers › Change to Global / Artboard Rulers (`view.globalRulers`, Cmd+Alt+R): artboard rulers, a new document's, count from the active artboard, each artboard with its own zero point; rulers, X/Y fields and guide readouts follow the mode, which is saved with the document. Estimate unchanged.
 - **Done (#2849):** View › Rulers › Show Video Rulers (`view.videoRulers`): the rulers show and count the active artboard in video pixels from its top-left corner, a pixel as many points wide as the artboard's Video Ruler Pixel Aspect Ratio and one point tall ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/create-manage-artboards/organize-manage-artboards/set-video-display-options-for-artboards.html)); Hide Video Rulers returns them to the General unit and the ruler origin. Shift-snapping a new guide to ruler ticks still uses the General unit's ticks. Estimate unchanged.
 - **Partial:** custom toolbars (#1759): Window › Toolbars › New Toolbar makes them, kept with the workspace they
-  were made in; Manage Toolbars (rename, copy, delete) is missing. Inside the estimate below.
+  were made in, and Window › Toolbars › Manage Toolbars renames, copies and deletes them; docking them is missing.
+  Inside the estimate below.
 - **Done (#1753):** a saved workspace keeps the width of the dock column.
 - **Done (#4135):** floating panels open in OS windows of their own on the desktop, so they can sit on another monitor; on the web and on Wayland they float inside the window.
 - **Done:** View › New View… and Edit Views… ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/viewing-artwork.html)): a document keeps up to 25 named views (zoom, centre and rotation), saved with the file; every one is listed by name at the bottom of the View menu (`view.goto1`–`view.goto25`), and choosing one changes the current window to it. Edit Views… lists them to rename or delete, applied together on OK as one undo step (`view.saved.edit {edits}`); a file's views are checked when it opens. Estimate unchanged.
 - **Done:** Window › Arrange › Tile (`window.arrange.tile`) shows every open document in its own pane, edge to edge in the document area, and Consolidate All Windows (`window.arrange.consolidateAllWindows`) goes back to one document under its tab, on the desktop and the web. Estimate unchanged.
 - **Done:** Window › Arrange › Float in Window (`window.arrange.floatInWindow`), Float All in Windows (`window.arrange.floatAllInWindows`) and Cascade (`window.arrange.cascade`) move documents out of the tab strip into floating windows of their own, OS windows on the desktop and windows inside the app's window on the web and on Wayland; Cascade stacks them from the upper left to the lower right. Consolidate All Windows brings them back under the tabs. Estimate unchanged.
 - **Done:** a document tab dragged off the tab strip floats its document in a window under the pointer, and a document window dragged by its title bar (an OS window by the tab at its top) onto the tab strip goes back under the tabs. Estimate unchanged.
-- **Missing:** several windows of one document (Window › New Window).
+- **Done (#4116):** Window › New Window (`window.newWindow`) opens another view of the current document, with its own zoom, center, rotation, artboard and Outline or Preview, as a tab titled with the view's number ("Name:2"); Tile, Cascade, Float in Window, Float All in Windows and Consolidate All Windows arrange each view as they arrange a document. Closing a view leaves the document open until its last view closes. Estimate unchanged.
 - **Estimate:** 15–25 h.
 
 ## G6 Automation and scripting

docs/mcp.md

@@ -385,6 +385,10 @@ leaves it out when `ids` list it together with a group that holds it.
 
 Paint values (`fill`, `stroke`) accept `"#rrggbb"`, `"none"`, `[r,g,b]` (0..1), `{"c","m","y","k"}`, `{"gray"}`,
 or a full `paint.setFill` params object (`{"gradient": …}`, `{"swatch": "name"}`).
+A color read this way (a fill or stroke color, a swatch's, an artboard's or new type's color, and the other colors
+commands read in these forms) that is given as a hex color with an alpha part (`#rrggbbaa` or `#rgba`, with or without
+the `#`) is an error and changes nothing, as VectorCraft's own rule. The `color` of Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow
+and Shift to Color is read differently and takes `#rrggbbaa`, as described below.
 For `draw_shape` and `draw_path`, omitted paint fields inherit the current [new-art appearance](#new-art). Both
 also style the new object in the same call: `dash` (lengths, or null for solid), `cap`
 (butt|round|square) and `join` (miter|round|bevel) go to `stroke.set` with `strokeWidth`; `opacity` (0–100 %)
@@ -410,6 +414,11 @@ paint command (and the eyedropper) feeds.
 `paint.proxies` returns what the proxies show: the fill and stroke, which one is active, and whether the selected
 objects' fills or strokes differ (`fillMixed` / `strokeMixed`, drawn as a "?" proxy).
 
+In the app's Color panel and Color Picker, RGB, HSB, hex and Web Safe RGB values describe the active working RGB
+space. RGB edits preserve the other native channels; HSB uses those same working RGB components. Colors outside
+display sRGB retain their native numeric values. `ui.colorPanel` selects the panel mode and `ui.colorPicker`
+opens the picker through `run_command` with the remote backend.
+
 | Tool | Arguments | Notes |
 |---|---|---|
 | `list_commands` | `{filter?, query?, menu?, enabledOnly?, brief?}` | The command catalogue: id, label, menu, shortcut, params doc (left out with `brief`), enablement. |
@@ -445,8 +454,9 @@ For example, create editable Japanese area type with the engine's vertical writi
 ```
 
 `vertical` also applies to point type and to `path` + `mode` (`area` or `onPath`). Omit it or pass `false`
-for horizontal writing. This is the same option as `text.create` / `text.createInPath`; it does not change
-the engine's existing glyph orientation or CJK composition.
+for horizontal writing. This is the same option as `text.create` / `text.createInPath`. Vertical text turns
+on the OpenType `vert` feature, so a font's vertical glyph alternates are used; it does not change the engine's
+CJK composition.
 
 For SVG/SVGZ, `export`'s top-level `outlineText: true` writes text as paths; DXF takes it too (its type is outlined anyway unless `preserve: editability`).
 PDF instead uses `options: {"advanced": {"outlineText": true}}`; its default is false (live text).
@@ -619,9 +629,13 @@ remembers its options, so the next save reuses them; a document not yet saved as
 VectorCraft Options the last native Save or Save As used (not its artboards, nor Use Compression). A PDF opened with `pages`, `cropTo` or `password` is only part
 of the file, so Save asks for a new name instead of writing it back.
 `file.documentColorMode {mode, convert?, intent?, grays?}` switches the document color mode, converting the colors of
-the art (opacity masks included), symbols, graph designs, pattern tiles (with the tile that pattern editing's Cancel
-puts back), graphic styles, brushes (their art and a Hue Shift key color) and swatches through the color settings, in
-one undo step (`object.convertDocumentColorMode` is an alias kept for older scripts). Gray colors stay Gray and print
+the art (opacity masks, effect colors and the series paints and label styles that graphs keep included), symbols,
+graph designs, pattern tiles (with the tile that pattern editing's Cancel puts back), graphic styles (their effect
+colors included), brushes (their art and a Hue Shift key color) and swatches through the color settings, in one undo
+step (`object.convertDocumentColorMode` is an alias kept for older scripts). It also converts the fill, stroke and
+effect colors that new art takes; Undo restores their original values and Redo reapplies the conversion. The light
+colors of 3D effects stay RGB.
+Gray colors stay Gray and print
 on the black plate only. RGB grays are colors like any
 other: to CMYK they separate through the profile into four-colour greys and a rich black, as Illustrator converts
 them. `grays: "black"` puts RGB greys with R = G = B on the black plate instead, K = their grey value (the inks Edit Colors ›
@@ -691,7 +705,7 @@ its effects paint, the effects of groups, type and images included. `artboard.fi
 way.
 
 Raster exports take more options in `options`: `ppi` (72, 150, 300…; stored in the file, except in GIF, WebP and
-Targa), `background` (`transparent`, `white`, `black` or `"#rrggbb"`), `antiAlias` (`none`, `art`, `type`: text
+Targa), `background` (`transparent`, `white`, `black` or `"#rrggbb"`; `#rrggbbaa` and `#rgba` are refused), `antiAlias` (`none`, `art`, `type`: text
 snapped to pixels) and, for PNG, `interlaced`. `width` or `height` sets the size of each file in pixels: each artboard
 (with `useArtboards`, each file), `rect` or art bounds gets the scale that makes it that wide or high, within 0.01–64
 pixels per point, and the file stores the resolution that results, as with `ppi`. `width` wins over `height`, and
@@ -759,14 +773,21 @@ strokes, effects or a brush comes in as its drawn look (a group named after it).
 document, whole and editable: point type, area type (a story in several frames as threaded type) and type on a path,
 with its fonts, size, leading, tracking, scaling, baseline shift, fill and stroke (grey, RGB or CMYK), opacity, blend mode, alignment,
 indents and paragraph spacing. Where the text document can't say, type that shows is the page's, in its text object's
-place. A text object on a layer that shows and doesn't print keeps the type the text document makes for it, on that
+place. Where a layer's or group's drawn look draws a copy of art with type, the import puts the page's type that
+lies over that copy's other art into the copy's group, unless the file is past the import's text-object limits.
+A text object on a layer that shows and doesn't print keeps the type the text document makes for it, on that
 layer, even where the page doesn't draw it. A file whose editing data can't be decompressed or has symbols,
 pattern fills, placed files or anything else the reader doesn't read on a layer that shows, or whose layers look
 different from its page, opens as before: an EPS as its printed page, a `.ai` file from its PDF content (where plain
 groups open ungrouped), with a warning saying why. Layers look different when they draw an object the page doesn't (or
-miss one it draws), and, for an EPS whose page is the box of its art, when they print art outside it. A file whose
-editing data is for a page of another size opens the same way, and its warning gives both sizes in points, with the
-scale of the editing data's page to the file's page (1:10 for a tenth of its size) when their sides are in proportion.
+miss one it draws), and, for an EPS whose page is the box of its art, when they print art outside it. When the PDF
+content of a `.ai` has a page for each artboard, the layers are compared with each page on its artboard, until the
+pages compared take 8,388,608 pixels at the comparison's scale (about 67 letter-size pages, or 4 when the PDF content
+is only images) or number 128; when it has pages for some of the artboards, or its pages are cropped to the art, they
+are compared with the first page only. An artboard, or the page of an EPS's editing data, whose sides are within half
+a point of its page's is compared on an area of the page's size. A file whose editing data is for a page of another
+size opens the same way, and its warning gives both sizes in points, with the scale of the editing data's page to the
+file's page (1:10 for a tenth of its size) when their sides are in proportion.
 With `textAs: "outlines"` a `.ai` file whose type shows opens from its PDF content, which has the type's outlines. A PDF
 saved with Illustrator's editing data holds it in `AIPDFPrivateData` streams and opens from it as a `.ai` file does.
 
@@ -901,8 +922,12 @@ SVG and PDF exports write such a fill as an image at the Document Raster Effects
 ```
 
 Method (the Gradient panel's menu): `classic` (the default) mixes the colours between stops in display RGB,
-`perceptual` mixes a linear or radial gradient's colours in OKLab so the steps look even. SVG and PDF exports write a
+`perceptual` mixes a linear or radial gradient's colours in OKLab so the steps look even. SVG exports write a
 Perceptual gradient as an image at the Document Raster Effects resolution (a dithered Perceptual fill with its noise).
+PDF exports write it the same way, except for a linear or radial gradient with spot color stops whose other stops
+are all paper white, CMYK or gray, that is not a dithered fill and whose curve does not have too many stops. PDF
+writes tints of one spot ink as a Separation shading in that ink, and spot inks mixed with other spot, CMYK or gray
+inks as a DeviceN shading.
 `paint.setFill`/`paint.setStroke` take it in `gradient` too:
 
 ```json
@@ -1166,7 +1191,7 @@ These commands refuse a string, a number or another value that is not true or fa
 `clockwise` in `shape.spiral`; `closed` in `shape.arc` and `path.create`; `vertical` and `placeholder` in `text.create`
 and `text.createInPath`; `underline`, `strikethrough`, `allCaps`, `proportionalMetrics`, `tateChuYoko`, `standardVerticalRoman` and `noBreak`
 in `text.setRangeStyle` and `text.setFormat`, which also checks `hyphenate`, `hyphenateCapitalized` and
-`romanHangingPunctuation`; `effective` in `text.getRange`; `on` in `type.opticalMarginAlignment`, `type.systemLayout`
+`romanHangingPunctuation`; `effective` and `story` in `text.getRange`; `story` in `text.setRangeStyle`; `on` in `type.opticalMarginAlignment`, `type.systemLayout`
 and `type.fractionalWidths`; `remove` and `overhang` in `type.ruby`; `expandInstances` in `symbol.delete`; `alt` in
 `symbol.spray` and `symbol.adjust`; `spot` and `global` in `swatch.new` and `swatch.edit`; `unlink` in
 `swatch.delete`; `fromArtwork`, `toGlobal` and `includeTints` in `swatch.newGroup`; `global` and `selection` in
@@ -1184,7 +1209,8 @@ in `shape.flare`; `decay` and `segments` in `shape.spiral`; `rows` and `columns`
 and `radial` in `shape.polarGrid`; `size` and the `width`, `height` and `fitMinPercent` of `area` in `text.create`;
 `size` and `fitMinPercent` in `text.createInPath`; `start`, `end`, `size`, `tracking`,
 `baselineShift`, `hScale`, `vScale`, `rotation` and `strokeWidth` in `text.setRangeStyle`; `start` and `end` in
-`text.editRange` and `text.getRange`; `at` in `text.startList`; `start`, `hScale`, `vScale` and `rotation` in `text.touchType`; `by`, `start` and
+`text.editRange` and `text.getRange`; `at` in `text.startList`; `start`, `hScale`, `vScale` and `rotation` in `text.touchType`; `start` in
+`text.glyphAlternates` and `text.setGlyphAlternate`; `by`, `start` and
 `end` in `type.step`; `by` in `type.size.increase` and `type.size.decrease`; `size` in `type.ruby`; `width`, `height`
 and `fitMinPercent` in `text.areaOptions`; `x` and `y` in `symbol.place`; `radius`, `density` and `scale` in
 `symbol.spray`; `radius` and `intensity` in `symbol.adjust`; `to` in `swatch.move`; `weight` and `opacity` in
@@ -1194,6 +1220,11 @@ and `amount` in `color.harmony`; `angle` in `paint.editGradient` and in the `gra
 `width` and `tolerance` in `livePaint.strokeEdge`. A null is read as a key left out. A gradient stop that names a
 swatch refuses a `tint` that is not a number with `` stop 0: `tint` must be a number ``.
 
+A byte offset must be a whole number of at least 0. `at` in `text.startList`, and `start` and `end` in
+`text.editRange`, `text.getRange` and `text.setRangeStyle`, and in `type.step` and `addon.type.textTweaker` given an `id`,
+refuse a negative or fractional number with
+`` `at` must be a whole number ``, naming the key, and change nothing. `2.0` is read as `2`, and a null as the key left out.
+
 A step can use an earlier step's result, in `run` as in the `command_batch` tool. A parameter string that is exactly
 `$N` or `$N.path` takes that value from the result of step `N` (counting from 0, in the order they ran; `run --in`'s
 open isn't a step), and `$last…` from the step before. A path goes into objects by key and arrays by index:
@@ -1445,6 +1476,26 @@ several runs, one run has to match both: type with the fill in one run and the s
 and stroke of other objects are not compared. Without type among the selected objects it returns the error "select a
 text object", and it records no undo step.
 
+The font and text color commands (`select.same.fontFamily`, `fontFamilyStyle`, `fontFamilyStyleSize`, `fontSize`,
+`textFillColor`, `textStrokeColor` and `textFillAndStrokeColor`) take the first character of the first type among the
+selected objects and the objects inside them, in selection order, as the one to match. Type that is hidden or locked,
+inside a hidden or locked group or layer, on a template layer, or outside the isolated group is passed over. When the
+selection holds no other type, they return the error "select a text object".
+
+`select.same.fillColor`, `strokeColor`, `fillAndStroke`, `strokeWeight`, `opacity`, `blendingMode`, `appearance`,
+`shapeType`, `graphicStyle`, `appearanceAttribute` and `symbolInstance` compare the other objects with the first
+selected object, in selection order, that can be selected. That object can be of any kind: a group, a member of a
+group selected on its own, or, for `symbolInstance`, an object that is not a symbol instance, which matches nothing and
+leaves the selection empty. A selected object that is hidden or locked, inside a hidden or locked group or layer, on a
+template layer, on a locked artboard while nothing is isolated, or outside the isolated group is passed over. New art,
+such as a symbol instance just placed, is not passed over for being on a locked artboard while it stays selected. When
+the selection holds no other object, they return the error "nothing selected".
+
+`select.object.allOnSameLayers` selects the objects on the layers and sublayers of the selected objects that can be
+selected. A selected object that is hidden or locked, inside a hidden or locked group or layer, on a template layer, on
+a locked artboard while nothing is isolated, or outside the isolated group adds no layer. When the selection holds no
+other object, the command clears the selection.
+
 ## Shaper Groups
 
 `shaper.releaseSource {source, group?}` takes the original shape `source` out of its Shaper Group: the shape becomes a
@@ -1537,6 +1588,21 @@ enabled while the document has a saved view. In the desktop app the views are li
 checked when it opens: past 25, blank or repeated names, and views without a finite centre and a positive zoom are
 dropped.
 
+## Navigator panel options
+
+The Navigator panel menu's Panel Options… opens the `navigatorPanelOptions` dialog (fields `color`, `solidDashes`),
+and `ui.navigatorPanelOptions {color?, solidDashes?}` sets the options without it → `{color, solidDashes}`; with
+neither key it opens the dialog. `color` is the color the panel's view box is drawn in: `#rrggbb` or a preset name.
+The presets are VectorCraft's own list: Light Red (`#ff3030`, the default), then the layer colors ("Light Blue",
+"Red", "Green" and the rest). `solidDashes` (Draw Dashed Lines as Solid Lines, off by default) makes the panel's
+thumbnail draw dashed strokes without their dashes; the canvas, printing and exports keep the dashes. Both are kept
+with the UI state. A `color` that is not a color, or a `solidDashes` that is not true or false, is an error and
+changes neither option. Behavior reference: [View artwork](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/viewing-artwork.html).
+
+```json
+{"name":"invoke_menu","arguments":{"command":"ui.navigatorPanelOptions","params":{"color":"Light Blue","solidDashes":true}}}
+```
+
 ## Ruler guides
 
 Ruler guides are numbered in the order they were made. `guide.add {vertical, pos, artboard?}` makes one (the x of a
@@ -1595,7 +1661,7 @@ already walks Image Trace. Short agent entry points:
   a symbol with guides keeps its corners at their size, and `symbol.breakLink` gives its art as it draws; dragging a
   guide on the canvas in symbol editing mode sends `nineSliceGuides` in one undo step; `type` is
   Symbol Type, `static` by default for the command and `dynamic` by default in the Symbol Options dialog),
-  `symbol.place {name?, x?, y?}`, `symbol.breakLink {ids?}`, `symbol.replace`,
+  `symbol.place {name?, x?, y?}`, `symbol.breakLink {ids?}` (the art keeps the instance's opacity mask), `symbol.replace`,
   `symbol.edit {id?, ids?, name?, x?, y?, artboard?, viewCenter?}` (symbol editing mode: the symbol's art on a temporary
   isolated layer, where the instance `id` shows it or centered on (x, y), by default on the center of artboard
   `artboard`, the active one the app passes, or in a document without artboards on `viewCenter`, the view's center the
@@ -1679,17 +1745,19 @@ already walks Image Trace. Short agent entry points:
   `variable.bind`, `variable.unbind` and the `dataset.*` commands still run (except a `dataset.import` whose header
   would define a variable, below), and `variable.list` reports `locked`. A variable that an opened `.ai` declares
   without a kind VectorCraft reads is listed with `kind: "unknown"`: it takes no values, and `variable.bind`
-  refuses it.
+  refuses it. When an opened `.ai`'s layers are read, the objects it binds to its text, visibility and image
+  variables come in bound when they are of the variable's kind, locked and hidden objects included, and
+  `variable.list` counts them in `bindings`.
 - Data sets: `dataset.list`, `dataset.new {name, values?}`, `dataset.set {name, newName?, values?}` (`newName` also
   renames the row, in the same undo step; Edit Data Set's Name field sends it), `dataset.rename`,
   `dataset.delete`, `dataset.capture`, `dataset.update`, `dataset.select {name}`, `dataset.next` /
   `dataset.prev` (each `dataset.select` / next / prev is one undo step over every bound object), `dataset.import {path|data|dataBase64|csv}` /
   `dataset.export {path?}` (CSV: one column per variable, and no column of data set names). `dataset.import` also
-  reads tab-separated files. Every header cell is a variable, whatever its case (`name` and `Name` included), as the
+  reads tab-separated files. Every header cell is a variable, whatever its case (`name` and `Name` included). The
+  first row holds the field names, as the
   [set-up page](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/set-up-data-source-files.html)
-  describes the first row: "Specify your data field name in the first row of your spreadsheet." The rows replace every
-  data set of the document and are named `Data Set 1`, `Data Set 2` and so on, in file order; the document's variables
-  and their bindings stay, and the reply's `deletedDataSets` lists the data sets that were replaced. An import error
+  describes. The rows replace every data set of the document and are named `Data Set 1`, `Data Set 2` and so on, in file order;
+  the document's variables and their bindings stay, and the reply's `deletedDataSets` lists the data sets that were replaced. An import error
   about a row's values gives the file line the row starts on. A header cell that names no variable defines one, unbound, in the same undo step as the
   rows. `#Shown` defines a visibility variable `Shown`, `@Photo` defines an image variable `Photo`, and a cell without
   a prefix defines a text variable. `dataset.export` writes a visibility variable's header as `#Shown` and an image
@@ -1751,14 +1819,20 @@ already walks Image Trace. Short agent entry points:
   the file at `path`, else a picked one, or the file's text `data`, adds its set after the other sets and returns
   `{set, name, actions}`. A set named like one already in the panel gets the next free number (`Print 2`), and the
   other sets and the current set stay as they are. An action set file (`.vcactions`) is JSON:
-  `{"format": "vcactions", "version": 1, "name", "actions": [{"name", "steps": [{"command", "params"}]}]}`, each step
-  a command id and its params as `command.batch` takes them. A file with another `format` or a `version` other than
-  1, a file larger than 8 MiB, one with more than 1,000 actions and one with an action of more than 10,000 steps are
+  `{"format": "vcactions", "version": 1 or 2, "name", "actions": [{"name", "steps": [{"command", "params", "excluded"?}]}]}`, each step
+  a command id and its params as `command.batch` takes them. `excluded: true` preserves a step but omits it from playback;
+  an absent or false flag includes the step. Files with excluded steps use version 2, so older builds refuse them
+  instead of playing the excluded steps; files without exclusions use version 1. A file with another `format` or a `version` other than
+  1 or 2, a file larger than 8 MiB, one with more than 1,000 actions and one with an action of more than 10,000 steps are
   refused, and no set is added. The Actions panel menu's Save Actions… and Load Actions… run these; Load Actions… is
   disabled where there is no open dialog (the web).
 - Actions: `ui.action.rename {set, action, name}` renames the Actions panel's action at `action` in set `set` (0 is
   the top set) to `name` with spaces trimmed from both ends, keeps its steps, function key and color, and returns
   `{name}`. An index past the last set or action, or an empty name, is an error, and then nothing is renamed.
+- Actions: `ui.action.stepsIncluded {set, action?, step?, included, others?}` includes or excludes all steps of a set,
+  one action, or one step. With `step` and `others: true`, it leaves that step as it was and applies `included` to the
+  other steps of its action (the panel's Alt/Option-click). An invalid set, action or step changes nothing. The panel's
+  checkmarks run this command; normal playback and Batch… skip excluded steps.
 - Actions: `ui.action.new {set, name, key?, cmd?, shift?, color?}` adds an action named `name` (spaces
   trimmed) after the last action of set `set` (0 is the top set), starts recording into it and returns
   `{set, action}`; Stop Playing/Recording (`ui.action.stop`) ends the recording. `key` 1 to 15 is the function key F1 to F15 that plays the
@@ -1768,6 +1842,10 @@ already walks Image Trace. Short agent entry points:
   cannot be used. While an action is recording, and for an index past the last set,
   an empty name, or a key or color that is not one of these, it is an error and nothing is added. The panel's Create
   New Action button and menu's New Action… open the `actionNew` dialog, whose Record runs this.
+- Actions: `ui.action.record {set?}` starts recording a new action in the chosen set, or the current set when `set`
+  is left out, and returns `{set, name}`. With no sets, it creates Set 1. The action gets the next available
+  `Action N` name in that set. The Actions panel's Begin Recording button runs this command. An invalid set or an
+  existing recording is an error and leaves the sets and recording unchanged.
 - Actions: `ui.action.options {set, action, name?, key?, cmd?, shift?, color?}` changes the action at
   `action` in set `set` and keeps its steps: `name` renames it, `key` with `cmd` and `shift` sets its function key,
   and `color` its Button Mode color, as `ui.action.new` takes them; a param left out keeps what the action has, and
@@ -1777,12 +1855,29 @@ already walks Image Trace. Short agent entry points:
   a text field has the keyboard, or while a tool is busy. Editing command shortcuts (`shortcuts.set`, Keyboard Shortcuts), loading preferences and
   `ui.actionSet.load` preserve action function keys. When several actions have the same key, the first in panel order
   plays. A stored key reserved on the current platform does not play an action.
-- Actions: `ui.action.play {action, set?}` plays the action named `action` as one undoable batch; `set` names the set
-  to look in (default: every set), and a `set` that is not a string is an error. A name that no action has, or that
-  more than one action in the sets looked in has, is an error, and then nothing plays.
+- Actions: `ui.action.play {action, set?}` plays the action named `action` at the speed `ui.action.playbackOptions`
+  sets; `set` names the set to look in (default: every set), and a `set` that is not a string is an error. At
+  Accelerated it plays the action as one undoable batch and returns what `command.batch` returns. At Step by Step and
+  Pause For it plays the first step at once and returns `{results: [the first step's result], pending}`, where
+  `pending` counts the steps still to play; the app plays them one at a time, each as its own undo step. When the next
+  step is due and the active document is not the one that was active after the step before (another document was
+  made active, or that document was closed), the playback ends with a status and the rest do not play; a step that
+  makes another document active itself does not end it. A name that no
+  action has, or that more than one action in the sets looked in has, or whose every step is excluded, is an error, and
+  then nothing plays. So is an action played while another is still playing at Step by Step or Pause For. A
+  `command.batch` step, which an action played or a panel operation run as one batch records, plays as its own steps,
+  here and in Batch….
+- Actions: `ui.action.playbackOptions {speed?, seconds?}` sets how the Actions panel plays actions and returns
+  `{speed, seconds}`. `speed` is `accelerated` (the default: every step at once), `step` (one step at a time, with the
+  window drawn after each step before the next runs) or `pause` (a pause of `seconds` between steps). `seconds` is a
+  whole number from 1 to 60, VectorCraft's own range, and stays set while another speed is chosen. A param left out
+  keeps its value. Any other `speed` or `seconds` is an error, and then nothing changes. The setting is kept with the UI
+  preferences. The panel menu's Playback Options… opens the `actionPlayback` dialog (`speed`, `seconds`), whose OK runs
+  this. Batch… (`action.batch`) plays every step at once whatever the setting.
 - Actions: `ui.action.stop {}` ends the recording in progress and keeps its steps, in the action `ui.action.new` made
-  for it, else in a new action after the last action of its set, and returns `{stopped}`. With nothing recording it
-  changes nothing. The panel's Stop Playing/Recording button runs this.
+  for it, else in a new action after the last action of its set, and returns `{stopped}`. It also ends an action
+  playing at Step by Step or Pause For: the steps already played stay, and the rest do not play. With nothing
+  recording or playing it changes nothing. The panel's Stop Playing/Recording button runs this.
 - Action sets: `ui.actionSet.delete {sets?: [index], ids?: [id]}` deletes the Actions panel's sets at these indexes
   (0 is the top set) with their actions, by default the current set, and returns `{deleted}`. An index past the last
   set is an error, and then no set is deleted. `ids` holds the panel's own set ids, which its question passes: the
@@ -1793,8 +1888,8 @@ already walks Image Trace. Short agent entry points:
   not restore a deleted set.
   `ui.actionSet.duplicate {set?: index, action?: index}` copies the action at `action` in set `set` to right after it
   in the same set, and returns `{set, action}`; without `action` it copies the set with all its actions to right after
-  it, by default the current set, and returns `{set}`. The copy is named after the original with " copy" added, a
-  copied set gets an id of its own, and the copy is selected. An index past the last set or action is an error. The
+  it, and returns `{set}`. In both cases `set` defaults to the current set. The copy is named after the original with
+  " copy" added, a copied set gets an id of its own, and the copy is selected. An index past the last set or action is an error. The
   panel menu's Duplicate runs this for the selected action, else the current set.
 - Image Trace: `imageTrace.presets`, `imageTrace.make {id?, preset?, params?, view?}` (or `imageTrace.makeAndExpand`),
   `imageTrace.setView`, `imageTrace.expand`, `imageTrace.release`. A key inside `params` that is not one of the trace
@@ -1811,19 +1906,28 @@ already walks Image Trace. Short agent entry points:
   `ui.imageTracePresetDialog {params?, rename?}` opens the Image Trace panel's Save as New Preset… or Rename… dialog.
 - Live Paint: `livePaint.make`, `livePaint.merge`, `livePaint.fill {group?, point}`, `livePaint.strokeEdge`,
   `livePaint.info {group}`, `livePaint.release`, `livePaint.expand`, and `livePaint.gapOptions {ids?, detect?, size?,
-  color?, closeGaps?}` (Object › Live Paint › Gap Options). With `detect: true`, paint stops at the gaps that run
+  color?, closeGaps?}` (Object › Live Paint › Gap Options). Make gives each covered face the fill of its front-most
+  covering source, including compound paths with shared curved boundaries. Expand keeps those face fills.
+  With `detect: true`, paint stops at the gaps that run
   from a loose end of a path to the nearest path, up to `size` wide (`small` 3 pt, `medium` 6 pt, `large` 12 pt, or a
-  number of points up to 72); `closeGaps: true` adds an unpainted path across each of them. The options are saved with the group, and the reply
+  number of points up to 72); `closeGaps: true` adds an unpainted path across each of them. `color` (the Gap Preview
+  Color) is `#rrggbb` or a layer color's name; a hex color with an alpha part, `#rrggbbaa` or `#rgba`, is an error and
+  changes nothing. The options are saved with the group, and the reply
   and `livePaint.info` list the gaps up to `size` wide that no path closes, as `[x0, y0, x1, y1]`. `livePaint.merge`
   keeps the bottom group's options when its Gap Detection is on, and otherwise turns Gap Detection on with `small`
   when another merged group has it on. When Gap Detection is off in every merged group, it stays off.
+  The Gap Options dialog (`ui.livePaintGapOptions`) takes `color` as `#rrggbb` or a layer color's name; its OK gives
+  an error for a `color` with an alpha part (`#rrggbbaa` or `#rgba`) and changes nothing. With Preview on, a
+  `#rrggbbaa` color is not previewed: the groups keep their own color, and the previewed gaps draw in black.
   `view.livePaintGaps` (View › Show Live Paint Gaps, or Hide Live Paint Gaps while it is on) turns the drawing of
   those gaps on or off. While it is on and edges show, the canvas draws the gaps of each selected Live Paint group in
   that group's Gap Preview Color. The reply is the new state (`true` when on).
   The Live Paint Selection tool's options (`tool.setOption {tool: "livePaintSelection", values}`; double-clicking the
   tool opens them, dialog `livePaintSelectionOptions`) are `selectFills` and `selectStrokes` (both on), `color` (the
   highlight color, `#rrggbb` or a layer color's name; `#ff2a2a`) and `width` (the highlight's width, 1 to 20 screen
-  pixels; 4). With `selectStrokes` off, Alt-click selects the face under the pointer as a click does; with
+  pixels; 4). The dialog's OK gives an error for a `color` with an alpha part (`#rrggbbaa` or `#rgba`) and changes
+  nothing.
+  With `selectStrokes` off, Alt-click selects the face under the pointer as a click does; with
   `selectFills` off, a click selects the edge nearest the pointer as Alt-click does; with both off, a click selects
   no face or edge. A drag of 3 screen pixels or more draws a marquee, and the release runs `select.set {ids}` with
   the faces and edges it touches (a face or edge partly inside counts, and so does a face that holds the whole
@@ -1836,7 +1940,8 @@ already walks Image Trace. Short agent entry points:
   The Live Paint Bucket's options (`tool.setOption {tool: "livePaintBucket", values}`; double-clicking the tool opens
   them, dialog `livePaintBucketOptions`) are `paintFills` (on), `paintStrokes` (off), `highlight` (on), `color` (the
   highlight color, `#rrggbb` or a layer color's name; `#ff2a2a`) and `width` (the face highlight's width, 1 to 20 screen
-  pixels; 4; an edge's highlight is half as wide). With `paintFills` alone on, a click runs `livePaint.fill` and Shift-click runs `livePaint.strokeEdge`.
+  pixels; 4; an edge's highlight is half as wide). The dialog's OK gives an error for a `color` with an alpha part
+  (`#rrggbbaa` or `#rgba`) and changes nothing. With `paintFills` alone on, a click runs `livePaint.fill` and Shift-click runs `livePaint.strokeEdge`.
   With `paintStrokes` alone on, a click runs `livePaint.strokeEdge` on the edge within 4 screen pixels of the pointer,
   or nothing when none is in reach, and Shift-click runs `livePaint.fill`. With both on, a click runs
   `livePaint.strokeEdge` when an edge is within 4 screen pixels of the pointer and `livePaint.fill` otherwise, and
@@ -2392,6 +2497,8 @@ dash?, dashOffset?, alignDashes?}}`. `text.setStyle {ids?, stroke?, strokeWidth?
 and weight of the characters of each object given (without `start` and `end`: all of its text), with its other keys in
 one undo step; `strokeWidth` is in document points, as `stroke.set` gives the weight of scaled type. A `stroke` color
 without `strokeWidth` gives characters that have no stroke weight 1 pt, as `paint.setStroke` does.
+`text.setRangeStyle` does the same for its range, and its `strokeWidth` and `strokeOptions` lengths are in document
+points too. The 1 pt default of both commands is in the type's own units, so on type scaled to 200% it draws 2 pt wide.
 `align: "inside"|"outside"` keeps the characters' stroke on that side of the
 glyph outlines, drawn at twice the weight and clipped, while the type stays editable (beyond Illustrator); SVG export
 writes the text live and that stroke as glyph outlines over it. `inspect_document` reports each object's stroke as `strokeOptions` (type: its first
@@ -2541,7 +2648,8 @@ and `layerRows`, the rows highlighted in the panel.
 - **Eye and lock**: `layer.setProps {ids?, visible?, locked?, name?}` for any rows, plus Layer Options for layers:
   `template` (also locks the layer and dims its images to 50% unless given), `printable`, `preview` (off: the layer
   draws and is clicked in outline, Ctrl/Cmd-click its eye), `dimImages` (0–100, or false) and `color` (an index 0–26,
-  `#rrggbb` or a preset name). Several rows change in one undo step (a drag down the eye or lock column).
+  `#rrggbb` or a preset name; a hex color with an alpha part, `#rrggbbaa` or `#rgba`, is an error, and so it is in
+  `layer.new` and `layer.newSublayer`). Several rows change in one undo step (a drag down the eye or lock column).
 - **Dragging rows**: `layer.move {ids, target, place?: above|below|inside, copy?}` moves rows beside a row or into a
   layer or group (on top of its contents), keeping their stacking order; `copy` (Alt-drag) moves copies. Layers go
   only in layers or at the top level and objects in layers and groups (an object placed beside a top-level layer goes
@@ -2568,7 +2676,9 @@ and `layerRows`, the rows highlighted in the panel.
   while a symbol is edited only the editing layer or art on it) / `object.exitIsolation`.
 - **Dialogs and panel state** (control channel and the app's MCP): `ui.layerOptions {ids?}` and `ui.newLayer
   {sublayer?}` open Layer Options (dialog `layerOptions`: name, color, template, locked, visible, printable, preview,
-  dimImages, dimPercent; OK is one undo step; Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+L runs `ui.newLayer` for a new layer), `ui.layersPanelOptions` opens Panel Options (`layersPanelOptions`:
+  dimImages, dimPercent; OK is one undo step; `ui.dialog.set` of `template` also sets `locked` and `dimImages`, as the
+  checkbox does, except a Dim Images set before it; for several `ids` the dialog shows the first row's settings, and OK sends only the fields set with a
+  control or `ui.dialog.set`; Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+L runs `ui.newLayer` for a new layer), `ui.layersPanelOptions` opens Panel Options (`layersPanelOptions`:
   layersOnly, locateSelected, rowSize small|medium|large|other, otherSize, thumbLayers, thumbGroups, thumbObjects), and
   `ui.layersExpand {ids?, open?}` opens or closes rows as their triangles do (Alt-click: everything inside).
   With `locateSelected` on (Locate Selected Objects, off by default), when the last selected object changes on the canvas
@@ -2674,9 +2784,11 @@ Applying a gradient swatch (`paint.setFill {swatch}`) records it as the gradient
 highlights it; new stops drop the link). A gradient stop can link to a global or spot swatch like a solid colour:
 give it `swatch` (and `tint` %, default 100 or a tint swatch's own) instead of `color` in `paint.editGradient
 {stops}` or a `gradient` paint's stops. Editing or deleting the swatch then recolours or unlinks the stop, in art and
-in gradient swatches. A spot stop separates on its plate; a gradient whose stops are all tints of one spot ink (or
-paper white, 0 %) exports to PDF as a Separation shading (the writer has no DeviceN, so a gradient mixing a spot
-ink with other colours is written in process colours, with a warning).
+in gradient swatches. A spot stop separates on its plate. A linear or radial gradient whose stops are all tints of one spot ink (or
+paper white, 0 %) exports to PDF as a Separation shading, and one that mixes spot inks with other spot, CMYK or gray
+inks exports as a DeviceN shading. A gradient that mixes a spot ink with RGB or Lab colors is written in process
+colors, with a warning. Freeform gradients and dithered fills export to PDF as images in process colors, and Method
+above covers Perceptual gradients.
 
 ```json
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"paint.editGradient","params":{"stops":[{"offset":0,"swatch":"Ink"},{"offset":1,"swatch":"Ink","tint":20}]}}}
@@ -2761,7 +2873,9 @@ an instance when the effects in the symbol's art, or the instance's own, paint o
 ## Expand
 
 `object.expand {object?, fill?, stroke?, gradient?, steps?}` (Object → Expand…) turns the selection into plain art in
-one undo step. `object` (on by default) outlines type, turns live shapes into paths and bakes effects; `stroke` (on)
+one undo step. `object` (on by default) turns the symbol instances in the selection without effects (on the instance
+or on its fills and strokes) and not in perspective, those in a placed document's art included, into their art as `symbol.breakLink` places it (the instances
+that art holds stay instances; a hidden or locked instance's art stays hidden or locked), outlines type, turns live shapes into paths and bakes effects; `stroke` (on)
 outlines strokes into filled paths, the stroked paths that baking effects leaves included (a group's own stroke among
 them, #3089); `fill` (on) expands gradient fills: with `gradient: "objects"` (the default) into
 `steps` (1–1000, default 255) solid objects (rectangles across a linear gradient, each from its band to the far end so
@@ -2789,9 +2903,11 @@ or a geometry effect on a group or type, which the canvas draws turned or scaled
 and those of the object shape the outline of the clip group, the gradient fits that outline and the tiles reach its
 box, as the canvas paints the fill; the expanded art does not keep them. With `fill: false` gradient and pattern fills
 stay live. `object.expand.info` answers which options have something to expand in the selection
-(`{object, fill, stroke, gradient, appearance}`; `gradient` says whether Fill has a gradient fill, which Expand
+(`{object, fill, stroke, gradient, appearance, symbolArt?}`; `gradient` says whether Fill has a gradient fill, which Expand
 Gradient To applies to; `appearance` whether the selection has appearance attributes Expand Appearance expands first,
-for which Object → Expand… is dimmed in the menus), and `object.mesh.create` on a gradient-filled object colours the
+for which Object → Expand… is dimmed in the menus; `symbolArt: {fill, stroke, gradient}`, present when the selection
+holds symbol instances that `object` expands, whether only their art holds it, which Fill and Stroke reach only with
+`object` on), and `object.mesh.create` on a gradient-filled object colours the
 mesh points as the gradient paints them, with the colors Object › Expand gives them.
 
 ```json
@@ -3208,7 +3324,9 @@ for `edit.pasteInPlace`, `edit.pasteInFront` and `edit.pasteInBack`, and to each
 none, when the step runs. When the document a step runs in has no artboard at that index (for example, after an
 earlier step deleted the active artboard when it was the last one), the step gets that document's last artboard. In
 remote mode, MCP's `run_command` calls and each step of the `command_batch` tool get the active artboard too. The
-Actions panel plays an action as a `command.batch`. The Actions panel menu's Batch… runs
+Actions panel plays an action as a `command.batch`, omitting steps whose playback checkmarks are
+cleared. An action set saved as `.vcactions` keeps each excluded step with `excluded: true`; loading
+an earlier version 1 set without that flag includes every step. The Actions panel menu's Batch… runs
 `action.batch`: the same steps on every readable file in a folder (or every data set of the open document), with
 destination `none` | `saveAndClose` | `folder` and Override Open / Save / Export. For a Data Sets source,
 `datasetFileNaming?: fileNumber | fileDataSetName | dataSetName` chooses File + Number (`source001`),
@@ -3692,6 +3810,17 @@ it returns `{tiled, floating}`. An `index` that names no open document fails wit
 is not saved. `ui.inspect` reports `tiled`, `panes` (each pane's `document` index, `rect` and
 whether it is `active`) and `floating`; canvas coordinates map to the current document's pane or window
 (`canvasRect`), in that window's coordinates while it floats.
+`window.newWindow` (Window › New Window) opens another view of the current document, with its own zoom, center,
+rotation, artboard and Outline or Preview, makes it the current window and returns `{index, view}`, the view's number.
+Each view has a tab of its own; while a document has more than one view, its tabs and windows show the view's number
+after the name ("Name:2"). It opens in a floating window when the view it came from is in one. With no document open
+it fails with "no document open". The Arrange commands treat each view as a window: `floatInWindow` and
+`consolidateAllWindows` take `view` beside `index` (the document's current view without it), and Tile and Cascade
+count views. `file.close` without an `index` closes the current view, and the document's last view closes the document;
+with an `index` it closes the document and all its views. `window.nextDocument` and `window.previousDocument` step
+through the views in tab order and add `view` to their reply for a document with more than one view. `ui.inspect`
+reports `windows` (every window as `[document index, view number]`, in tab order), `currentWindow` and each pane's
+`view`. Views are not saved.
 
 ```json
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"file.new","params":{"preset":"A4","orientation":"landscape","artboards":4,"artboardLayout":{"columns":2},"bleed":9}}}
@@ -3853,7 +3982,7 @@ still rename it). A Shift-click or Shift-drag on a locked artboard selects or dr
 document summary (`document.inspect`) adds `locked: true` to a locked artboard.
 
 An artboard's background color (Properties › Artboards › Fill, Artboard Options' Background Color): `artboard.setProps
-{index, color}` sets it, with a color as the paint commands take it (`"#rrggbb"`, `{c, m, y, k}`, …), and
+{index, color}` sets it, with a color as the paint commands take it (`"#rrggbb"`, `{c, m, y, k}`, …; `#rrggbbaa` and `#rgba` are refused), and
 `artboard.setProps {index, color: null}` removes it, each in one undo step; `artboard.new {color}` makes an artboard
 with one. The canvas draws that artboard's paper in
 the color. With Simulate Colored Paper on, it multiplies the color with the paper color, each sRGB channel as
@@ -4297,7 +4426,7 @@ selects, and the selected objects that are object slices. `slice.list` reports b
 `object.slice.fromGuides` (the grid the ruler guides cut the artboards into), `object.slice.fromSelection`,
 `object.slice.duplicate {dx?, dy?}`, `object.slice.combine`, `object.slice.divide {rows? | rowHeight?, columns? |
 columnWidth?}`, `object.slice.deleteAll`, `object.slice.options {kind?: image|noImage|htmlText, name?, url?, target?,
-message?, alt?, text?, background?: ""|matte|#rrggbb, hAlign?, vAlign?}` and `object.slice.clipToArtboard {on?}` are
+message?, alt?, text?, background?: ""|matte|#rrggbb (#rrggbbaa and #rgba refused), hAlign?, vAlign?}` and `object.slice.clipToArtboard {on?}` are
 each one undo step. `view.slices.hide {hidden?}` and `view.slices.lock {locked?}` are session view state; the canvas
 draws the slices in the `sliceLineColor` preference, numbered while `showSliceNumbers` is on. Locking or hiding
 deselects the slices in every open document; unlocking or showing them again leaves them deselected and does not
@@ -4827,7 +4956,13 @@ While the Type tool edits text (a click into type, `pointer_gesture` with `"tool
 `press_key {key: "A", mods: {cmd: true}}`) selects all of that text instead of the art, as in the reference app, and
 returns `{editing, start, end}` (the text's id and the selected byte range, which `text.getRange` and
 `text.setRangeStyle` take); the art selection stays as it is. Without text being edited it selects every object and
-returns `{count}`. Text in threaded frames is selected one frame at a time.
+returns `{count}`. In a frame of threaded text, `select.all` selects the whole story: the Type tool then edits the
+thread's first frame that holds text (which is selected when it was not) with the text of every frame selected, and the reply adds
+`story`, the frames in thread order. `text.getRange {id, story: true}` returns the story's text and runs, which Copy
+and Cut take. Typing, Delete and Cut replace the whole story as one undo step (`text.editRange` with `clear`, the other
+frames whose text goes), and a fill, stroke, `type.step` or Character or Paragraph panel change applies to the text of
+every frame (the Character panel sends `text.setRangeStyle {id, story: true}`, which styles every frame's text in one
+undo step). A caret move or a click ends the story selection.
 
 ```json
 {"name":"press_key","arguments":{"key":"A","mods":{"cmd":true}}}
@@ -4916,6 +5051,11 @@ command also accepts that object form. The query (and every reply) of `text.area
 `document.inspect` (and `document.node {summary: true}`) reports `overflow` for area type and type on a path (text past
 the end of the path), and `fit` and `fitScale` for area type.
 
+Given for several area types (`ids`, or a selection of several), `text.areaOptions` changes only the options given on
+each one: each frame keeps its other options (it used to take the first frame's), and `fitMinPercent` alone changes only
+the frames that already shrink text to fit. Options that change nothing (the vertical alignment already set, say) add
+no undo step and keep redo.
+
 Text that doesn't fit is drawn up to the last line that does, so a one-line headline in a frame lower than its line
 draws nothing. The commands that make type or change what it holds say so in their own reply: `text.create`,
 `text.createInPath`, `text.setText` and `text.setStyle` add `overflow: [id…]` (the area type and type on a path among
@@ -5124,7 +5264,9 @@ Neither value turns `tateChuYoko` on. Both are 0 by default and saved only when
 them. A value that is not a number is refused with `` `tcyUpDown` must be a number ``, and one outside the range with
 `` `tcyUpDown` must be from -1296 to 1296 ``, naming the key. One undo step. `ui.tateChuYokoSettings` opens the
 Tate-chu-yoko Settings dialog (the menu item shows with Show East Asian Options) on the values the selected characters
-share, a blank field where they differ; OK sends the values that changed.
+share, a blank field where they differ; OK sends the values that changed and leaves a blank field's value alone. OK
+with a field that is not a length returns `Up/Down must be a number` or `Left/Right must be a number` and keeps the
+dialog open.
 
 ```json
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"text.setRangeStyle","params":{"id":12,"start":0,"end":4,"tateChuYoko":true,"tcyUpDown":2,"tcyLeftRight":-1}}}
@@ -5460,6 +5602,31 @@ it, as with any style change to one character (`text.setRangeStyle`). The type s
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"text.touchType","params":{"id":7,"start":1,"dx":10,"dy":4}}}
 ```
 
+## Alternate glyphs
+
+The Glyphs panel's Show › Alternates for Current Selection lists the alternate glyphs of the character selected with
+the Type tool (a range's first character, else the one before the caret), with the default glyph first when the font
+does not list it, and a double-click on one draws that character with it. `text.glyphAlternates {id, start}` lists them for the character at byte `start`: `{char, font, style, default,
+chosen, alternates: [{gid, feature}]}`, where `default` is the glyph the font's character map gives, `chosen` the glyph
+drawn now, and `alternates` the glyphs the font's `GSUB` single and alternate substitutions put in place of the default
+glyph: `aalt` first, then `salt`, `ss01` to `ss20`, `swsh`, `cv01` to `cv99`, `hist`, `jalt`, `nalt`, `ornm` and
+`titl`, in lookup order within each, each glyph once. The default glyph is listed only when `aalt` lists it. Ligatures
+and contextual substitutions are not listed. `text.setGlyphAlternate {id, start, gid}` draws the character with glyph
+`gid`, one of those alternates or the default glyph, as one undo step; `gid: null` takes the choice away, and the
+character is drawn as its style draws it (a feature such as `salt` can draw another glyph than the default). The text
+keeps the character and its other attributes, and characters typed next to it take their default glyphs. The choice is
+saved with the character's style as `glyphAlternate: {ch, gid, font, version}`, the face's PostScript name and version
+string: set in another font or version, or with the font missing, the character takes its default glyph. Both commands
+refuse a character whose font is not available, and `text.setGlyphAlternate` refuses a glyph that is not one of the
+character's alternates and a glyph that the character's style does not draw (All Caps, Small Caps or another numeral
+system). Choosing the glyph a character already draws is not an edit. Character styles do not take `glyphAlternate`:
+`charStyle.new`, `charStyle.edit` and `charStyle.setAttrs` refuse it.
+
+```json
+{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"text.glyphAlternates","params":{"id":7,"start":2}}}
+{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"text.setGlyphAlternate","params":{"id":7,"start":2,"gid":1043}}}
+```
+
 ## New type in a Japanese interface
 
 While the interface is in Japanese (Preferences › User Interface › Language, or `auto` on a Japanese system), new type starts with em
@@ -5501,7 +5668,8 @@ spaceBefore, spaceAfter, hyphenate, mojikumi, burasagari, direction, leadingMode
 `start` / `end` byte offsets of the plain text (as `text.setRangeStyle` does): they change the paragraphs the range
 touches (a caret, `start == end`, touches its paragraph). Without a range they change every paragraph of the
 targeted objects, as before. With a range, the character attributes of `text.setStyle` and `text.setFormat` style
-that range of characters. `text.tabs.get {start?}` and `paraStyle.new` / `paraStyle.redefine {id, start?}` read the
+that range of characters. When every paragraph that `text.tabs.set` or `text.tabs.clear` targets already has those
+stops, the command changes nothing and records no undo step. `text.tabs.get {start?}` and `paraStyle.new` / `paraStyle.redefine {id, start?}` read the
 paragraph at `start`; `paraStyle.list` counts paragraphs as uses, and `charStyle.list` counts runs; both count the type in
 the layers, opacity masks, symbols, graph designs, pattern tiles and the art of brushes. `charStyle.unused` and
 `paraStyle.unused` (Select All Unused in the Character Styles and Paragraph Styles panel menus) list the styles with no
@@ -5528,8 +5696,8 @@ dialog exposes `name`, `font_family`, `font_style`, `size`, `leading`, `kerning`
 `ot_figure`, `ot_position`, `ot_liga`, `ot_calt`, `ot_dlig`, `ot_swsh`, `ot_salt`, `ot_titl`, `ot_ordn`, `ot_frac`,
 `ot_sets`, `section` (`general`, `basic`, `advanced`, `color` or `opentype`), and `preview`. An empty field leaves its
 attribute unset. `leading` and `kerning` also accept `Auto` to store an explicit automatic value.
-Advanced Character Formats holds `h_scale` and `v_scale` (percent, above 0 and at most 4000000),
-`baseline_shift` (points, -4000000 to 4000000), `rotation` (degrees, stored from -180 to 180) and `language` (a name or tag from Document
+Advanced Character Formats holds `h_scale` and `v_scale` (percent, 1 to 10000),
+`baseline_shift` (points, -1296 to 1296), `rotation` (degrees, stored from -180 to 180) and `language` (a name or tag from Document
 Setup's languages; English: USA stores the explicit default `null`, and a tag not in the list that the style
 already has is kept). Language sets the language the characters are shaped in; it does not change hyphenation
 or spelling.
@@ -5550,6 +5718,9 @@ its features turned off, distinct from unset.
 `charStyle.new`, `charStyle.setAttrs` and `charStyle.edit` reject a tint outside 0 to 1, a link to a swatch that is
 not a global swatch of the document, a stroke weight outside 0 to 4000000, more than 256 feature tags and an
 OpenType feature tag the shaper does not know, unless the style or the text it is made from already has that value.
+They also reject a size outside 0.1 to 1296, explicit leading outside 0.1 to 5000, horizontal or vertical scale
+outside 1 to 10000, and baseline shift or Tate-chu-yoko offsets outside -1296 to 1296. `leading: null` keeps
+Auto leading. An invalid value leaves the style, its text, and Undo history unchanged.
 The New Character Style dialog accepts the same character fields and starts with the selected text's
 captured attributes. Without selected text, it starts with the character defaults for the interface language
 (including `charAlign: "emBoxCenter"` in Japanese); changing a Basic field keeps other seeded attributes.
@@ -5785,7 +5956,8 @@ pointer show the current fill and the swatches before and after it), `selection`
 `straightLine`: a drag touches what the line from its first point to the pointer crosses), `highlightFill` (on by
 default; when it is off, merge mode shades no regions), `gapDetection` (off) with `gapLength` (pt, 0 to 72; 3), `clickStrokeSplitsPath` (In Merge Mode,
 Clicking Stroke Splits the Path; off), `highlightStroke` (Highlight Stroke When Editable; on) and `highlightColor`
-(`#rrggbb` or a layer color's name; `#ff4f4f`, the layer color Red). With `clickStrokeSplitsPath` on, in merge mode,
+(`#rrggbb` or a layer color's name; `#ff4f4f`, the layer color Red). The dialog's OK gives an error for a
+`highlightColor` with an alpha part (`#rrggbbaa` or `#rgba`) and changes nothing. With `clickStrokeSplitsPath` on, in merge mode,
 the pointer shows scissors within 4 screen pixels of a stroke, `highlightStroke` draws the run of stroke under it in
 `highlightColor`, and a click splits that run off its path: the run goes from the anchor or crossing point before the
 pointer to the one after it, the path keeps the rest of it, and a copy of the path with the run, in the path's
@@ -6623,6 +6795,29 @@ on the object or on one of its fills or strokes; a group carrying one is selecte
 `grayImages` (images whose pixels are RGB, CMYK, or grayscale or 1-bit, read from the image's header). It returns the
 `count` selected.
 
+### Selection Tools
+
+Selection Tools is a built-in add-on: its commands are `addon.select.*`, and in the desktop app it lives in Object ›
+Plug-ins › Selection Tools.
+
+`addon.select.byArtboards {artboards, relation?}` (Select by Artboards…, #5525) selects objects by where they sit
+relative to one or more artboards. `artboards` lists 0-based artboard indices (at least one; one listed twice counts
+once). `relation` is `overlap` (the default: on at least one of them, as `select.allOnArtboard` takes it, the bounds
+overlapping the artboard or the centre on it), `inside` (the bounds wholly within one of them, edges included; an object
+straddling two touching artboards is inside neither) or `outside` (on none of them). It looks at the objects Select All
+takes, or the isolated container's in isolation mode, so hidden and locked objects, objects on hidden, locked or template
+layers and art held by a locked artboard are left out. Bounds are geometric, a symbol instance's measured by its art. It
+returns the `count` selected. An empty list, an index with no artboard, a value that isn't an index, or another
+relation is an error, and the selection is left as it was.
+
+```json
+{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"addon.select.byArtboards","params":{"artboards":[2,6,11],"relation":"inside"}}}
+```
+
+The dialog lists every artboard with its number, name and size in the document's units. Search filters the list by
+name; a click chooses one artboard, Shift-click adds a range and Cmd/Ctrl-click toggles one, and Select All / None act
+on the rows shown (rows hidden by the search stay chosen). It opens with the active artboard chosen and Overlapping.
+
 ### Vector Halftone (live)
 
 `addon.color.halftone` (Effect › Color Effects › Vector Halftone…, also in Object › Plug-ins › Color Effects) draws its
@@ -6794,6 +6989,19 @@ Documents as PDF and as SVG ask for the folder. → `{files: [{title, path, warn
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"addon.document.exportAllOpen","params":{"folder":"/Users/me/Out","format":"svg"}}}
 ```
 
+`addon.document.batchTraceFolder {folder, destinationFolder, preset?, expand?, format?, includeSubdirs?}` opens each
+image in `folder` (PNG, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, GIF, WebP, PSD; with `includeSubdirs`, in its subfolders too), traces it with
+`preset` (an `imageTrace.presets` name; Default by default; with `expand`, as Make and Expand), saves it into
+`destinationFolder` as `<name>.<ext>` in `format` (`vectorcraft` by default; `svg`, `pdf`, `ai`, `eps`), with `-2`,
+`-3`… added when the name is taken so no file is replaced, and closes it again whether it traced or not; the active
+document stays active. Images that can't be traced are listed in `failed` and the others are still traced. Up to 500
+images and 8 folder levels (a folder with more than 1,000 entries is refused); not on the web. The desktop app's Batch
+Trace Folder asks for both folders (#4921). → `{traced: [{path, output}], failed: [{path, error}], format}`
+
+```json
+{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"addon.document.batchTraceFolder","params":{"folder":"/Users/me/Scans","destinationFolder":"/Users/me/Traced","preset":"Black and White Logo","format":"svg"}}}
+```
+
 `addon.document.symbolsFromLayers {layers?, replace?}` makes one symbol of each top-level layer's art, as `symbol.new`
 makes one (registration in the centre), named after the layer with a number added when a symbol has that name, as
 one undo step. `layers` lists layer ids (top-level layers only; anything else is refused); by default it takes the
@@ -6811,10 +7019,12 @@ there is no step. → `{symbols: [name…], ids: [instance id…], skipped: [{la
 Type Tools is a built-in add-on for type: its command is `addon.type.textTweaker`, and in the desktop app it lives in
 Object › Plug-ins › Type Tools (#4924). Text Tweaker gives one character attribute to the characters letter by letter,
 from a start value to an end value along a shape, as one undo step; the text stays live and editable. Each value is set
-as `text.setRangeStyle` sets it (the Character panel), in its units and ranges, so on scaled type it is the size shown.
+as `text.setRangeStyle` sets it (the Character panel), in its units and ranges ([formatting type](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/formatting-type.html)), so on scaled
+type it is the size shown.
 It changes the range of `id` (`start`/`end` bytes), else all the text of the type objects in `ids`, else the text the
 Type tool has selected (at a caret: all of that object's text), else all the text of every selected type object; each
 object gets its own ramp, and at most 100000 characters change in one run. A run that changes nothing makes no step.
+A `start` or `end` byte inside a character rounds down to that character's start.
 
 | Parameter | Values (default) |
 |---|---|

docs/pdf-backend.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # PDF backend
 
 PDF writing uses `craft-pdf` from `storytold/craft-libs`, pinned to
-`f8f8829cc7be65d466d687dae381d1ca60e31242`. Its `write` feature supplies Krilla configuration,
+`9be9a63782298ab59cd9b7a42ee9cba4f42a5ccb`. Its `write` feature supplies Krilla configuration,
 metadata construction, fallible font preparation and serialization, and native unwind guards.
 The dependency disables default features and enables `write` and `interpret`.
 The production writer retains Krilla’s raster-image support without its optional text shaper.
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Desktop printer submission remains in `craft-print`.
 
 The shared writer vendors Krilla 0.8.2 with an unwind-safe cleanup and poisoning patch.
 The root `[patch.crates-io]` selects that copy from craft-libs revision
-`f8f8829cc7be65d466d687dae381d1ca60e31242`, which includes craft-libs#417 (CMYK, gray and spot
+`9be9a63782298ab59cd9b7a42ee9cba4f42a5ccb`, which includes craft-libs#417 (CMYK, gray and spot
 colors keep their exact inks): Cargo does not inherit a dependency workspace's patches. A failed page or surface cleanup poisons the
 backend document, so serialization cannot return an incomplete PDF after unwinding.
 The shared crate's compile-time backend marker and `cargo xtask pdf-deps` (included in CI)

docs/plugins.md

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ This page is the contract for plug-in authors and the reference for the host (`c
 |---|---|---|
 | `plugin.list` | `{}` | `{"plugins": [{id, name, version, kind, author, description, params, paramsSchema, effect?, format?, extensions?, budget?, size, source}], "folder": report}` (`budget: "heavy"` for a [heavy filter](#heavy-filters)) |
 | `plugin.info` | `{"id"}` | One plug-in: the `plugin.list` entry plus `manifest`, `defaults` and `lastError` (a live effect's last failure). |
-| `plugin.run` | `{"id", "params"?: {…}, "ids"?: [...]}` (plug-in params may also be top-level keys) | Runs an object filter on the selection (or `ids`). One undo step; the result is selected. |
+| `plugin.run` | `{"id", "params"?: {…}, "ids"?: [...]}` (plug-in params may also be top-level keys) | Runs an object filter on the selection (or `ids`). One undo step; the result is selected, except the objects it locked or made guides. |
 | `plugin.install` | `{"path": "/x/y.wasm"}` (desktop) or `{"dataBase64": "…", "name"?}`, `"replace": bool = true`, `"allowHeavy": bool = false` | Validates and installs a module; returns its `plugin.list` entry. The desktop app and `vectorcraft-cli` keep it in the `Plug-ins` folder next to the preferences, so it is installed again after a restart (#2541). A [heavy filter](#heavy-filters) installs only with `allowHeavy: true`, once the user agreed. |
 | `plugin.inspect` | as `plugin.install`: `{"path"}` or `{"dataBase64", "name"?}` | Validates a module without installing it; returns the `plugin.list` entry it would have. |
 | `plugin.remove` | `{"id"}` | Uninstalls, and deletes it from the `Plug-ins` folder. |
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ its extensions that no built-in format has; `selectedOnly` hands it the selectio
 
 In the app, installed filters appear under **Object › Plug-ins**, next to **Install Plug-in…** and **Reload
 Plug-ins**; live effects under **Effect › Plug-ins** and in the Appearance panel's effect menu. A plug-in with
-parameters gets a dialog generated from its schema (numbers, whole numbers, checkboxes, dropdowns, text and lists
-of numbers, labelled, explained and sorted into sections as its manifest says) with a live preview; without
+parameters gets a dialog generated from its schema (numbers, whole numbers, checkboxes, dropdowns, text, lists
+of numbers and colors, labelled, explained and sorted into sections as its manifest says) with a live preview; without
 parameters it runs at once. Parameters too many for the window's height scroll inside the dialog, which keeps its
 heading and buttons in view. Exporters are formats of **File › Export › Export As**, where Use
 Artboards is greyed out (the plug-in writes the whole document); one with parameters asks for them in a dialog of the
@@ -168,8 +168,12 @@ pointers are offsets into the module's memory.
   `int`, `bool` and `choice` there are `string` (`{"type": "string", "default": "", "maxLength": 256}`: a text field;
   longer text is cut to `maxLength`, at most 4,096 characters) and `numberList` (`{"type": "numberList", "min": 0,
   "max": 360, "default": [45, 135], "minItems": 1, "maxItems": 16}`: numbers typed separated by commas or spaces,
-  each clamped to `min..max`; a list of too few or too many is an error, and `maxItems` is at most 256). A plug-in
-  declares up to 256 parameters, at most 64 of them outside groups.
+  each clamped to `min..max`; a list of too few or too many is an error, and `maxItems` is at most 256) and `color`
+  (`{"type": "color", "default": "#3a7bd5"}`: a color button that opens a color picker; the default, black when left
+  out, and a value given to `plugin.run` may be a color object as paints hold one or a hex string, and the plug-in
+  always gets a color object, its components clamped, such as `{"model": "rgb", "r": 0.23, "g": 0.48, "b": 0.84}`; the
+  picker gives RGB). Hosts from before `color` refuse a manifest that uses it. A plug-in declares up to 256
+  parameters, at most 64 of them outside groups.
 
 Each parameter may also say how dialogs show it. Hosts from before these keys ignore them, so a plug-in that
 declares them still installs there:
@@ -278,6 +282,9 @@ For an **object filter**, the output is the new state of the input objects:
   strokes, full opacity.
 - Input objects missing from the output are deleted. The order of the input objects themselves doesn't change.
 - `type` turns a path into a compound path (one member per subpath) or back; `name: ""` clears the name.
+- `guide: true` makes the object a guide, as View › Guides › Make Guides does (a compound path's members become
+  guide paths), and `guide: false` a plain path again; `locked: true` locks it and `locked: false` unlocks it. Objects
+  the run locked or made guides are left out of the selection that follows. Hosts from before these keys ignore them.
 - A `path` returned as it was keeps a live shape live (a rectangle keeps its corner widgets); a changed one makes it a
   plain path.
 

docs/roadmap.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Roadmap: milestones and what's next
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-03 · **Change:** minor (new gradients follow document color mode; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-04 · **Change:** minor (Select by Artboards add-on selects by overlap, inside or outside several artboards; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
 
 ## Feature submission evidence
 
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ M7 type: Touch Type moves a right-to-left character along its line and up from i
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-04 | minor | Selection Tools add-on: Select by Artboards selects the objects overlapping, fully inside or fully outside several chosen artboards, from a dialog that lists, searches and multi-selects the artboards and fits one in the window on double-click (#5525, #5548, #5549, a VectorCraft addition); 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 the units their document or preset was made in, and the built-in tabs still follow the chosen units (#2078). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | M1: Enclosing Lasso provides whole-object enclosure selection as an add-on with no default shortcut or Basic toolbar slot; estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | New gradients use CMYK default stops in CMYK documents, including Gradient tool creation. Scores and 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. |
@@ -99,13 +101,13 @@ Checked 2026-10-10 from the code, tests and open issues; no workflow fails, so V
 | M0 | Skeleton + vertical slice | ✅ done | — |
 | M1 | Selection, transform, layers, MCP (common command tools, strict keys, session resources and version-aware result hints) | ✅ mostly done (document-tab artwork drag with lossless resource transfer and one target Undo; malformed MCP app replies discard the connection without replay, #1761; bounded control socket waits and connection-slot recovery, #1726; bounded synthetic control input, #1709; no-op anchor Align keeps Undo, Redo and saved state (#1180 follow-up); transform reference point snaps to anchors/centres; rotated objects keep a rotated bounding box and their angle; Free Transform, Scale and Reflect along a rotated box pending) | 4–6 |
 | M2 | Drawing tools + smart guides | ✅ mostly done (Polygon/Star exact-size count persistence, with repeated-drag, tool-switch and Cancel regression coverage; Curvature point markers without direction handles (#1236, in part); Direct Selection segment click/Delete preserves neighboring edges, #1278; Flare, Reshape, Live Corners widget dragging and per-corner radii and kinds landed, on any path's corners; Shaper rough-shape recognition and orientation steps, the remaining Pen modifier nuances; Shaper Groups with editable sources and separate fill/stroke edits landed; custom ruler origin with drag preview, active-artboard reset, relative X/Y fields and native round-trip (#1212); construction widget/refinements pending); Tangent and straight-segment perpendicular snapping use saved Smart Guides Geometric Guides preferences and Control bar quick access (#2537); no View submenu | 12–18 |
-| M3 | Paint & appearance (swatches, color, gradient, stroke, appearance, transparency, styles) | ✅ done (M3.7–M3.98): swatches, groups, libraries, tints, Lab spots and Registration; Eyedropper styles highlighted text only (atomic transparency rejection); Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); Color Picker, Color panel, Color Guide, Color Themes, Edit Colors and Recolor Artwork (screen-bounded Edit chip list, #3416); gradients that follow every transform, the annotator, linked stops, freeform gradients, focal points, gradients on strokes and Expand; visible strokes when paint is added to inherited None/zero-width art (#1253); stroke geometry, arrowheads, dashes fitted to corners, stroke on type, width profiles and the Width tool (Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment in Width Point Edit; finite-arithmetic follow-up regressions and full CI passed ([Validation evidence](target-app-parity.md#evidence-what-ships-today-by-area))), Scale Strokes and preview bounds; Appearance targeting, container appearance, target circles, Expand Appearance; knockout, isolation, blend accuracy, CMYK blending, overprint, Attributes, masks and clipping, Flatten Transparency; graphic styles, links and libraries; CSS library export preserves fractional linear and radial gradient stop positions. Left: freeform gradients in SVG/PDF, mixed spot/process gradients in SVG and PDF gradients mixing a spot color with RGB or Lab stops export as stops or process colors; confirm the Scale Strokes & Effects default; Recolor model selection is available through the engine and MCP only (#2520); the dialog retains its existing controls | 4–8 |
+| M3 | Paint & appearance (swatches, color, gradient, stroke, appearance, transparency, styles) | ✅ done (M3.7–M3.98): swatches, groups, libraries, tints, Lab spots and Registration; Eyedropper styles highlighted text only (atomic transparency rejection); Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); Color Picker, Color panel, Color Guide, Color Themes, Edit Colors and Recolor Artwork (screen-bounded Edit chip list, #3416); gradients that follow every transform, the annotator, linked stops, freeform gradients, focal points, gradients on strokes and Expand; visible strokes when paint is added to inherited None/zero-width art (#1253); stroke geometry, arrowheads, dashes fitted to corners, stroke on type, width profiles and the Width tool (Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment in Width Point Edit; finite-arithmetic follow-up regressions and full CI passed ([Validation evidence](target-app-parity.md#evidence-what-ships-today-by-area))), Scale Strokes and preview bounds; Appearance targeting, container appearance, target circles, Expand Appearance; knockout, isolation, blend accuracy, CMYK blending, overprint, Attributes, masks and clipping, Flatten Transparency; graphic styles, links and libraries; CSS library export preserves fractional linear and radial gradient stop positions. Left: freeform gradients in SVG/PDF, mixed spot/process gradients in SVG and PDF gradients mixing a spot color with RGB or Lab stops export as stops or process colors; PDF export writes dithered gradient fills with spot stops, and Perceptual spot gradients with RGB or Lab stops other than white or more than 4,096 stops on their curve, as images in process colors; confirm the Scale Strokes & Effects default; Recolor model selection is available through the engine and MCP only (#2520); the dialog retains its existing controls | 4–8 |
 | M2 | Drawing tools + smart guides | ✅ mostly done (Curvature point markers without direction handles (#1236, in part); Direct Selection segment click/Delete preserves neighboring edges, #1278; Flare, Reshape, Live Corners widget dragging and per-corner radii and kinds landed, on any path's corners; Shaper rough-shape recognition and orientation steps, the remaining Pen modifier nuances; Shaper Groups with editable sources and separate fill/stroke edits landed; custom ruler origin with drag preview, active-artboard reset, relative X/Y fields and native round-trip (#1212); construction widget/refinements pending) | 12–18 |
 | M4 | Files (native, SVG, PDF, raster, Export for Screens, clipboard interop) | ✅ done (M4.14–M4.98 on 2026-10-05): Save As/Save a Copy/Revert/templates, Data Recovery and background save, SVG import and export fidelity (units, text, symbols, filters, SVGZ, Preserve Editing, SVG Options), shared guarded PDF writer and windowed reader ([pdf-backend.md](pdf-backend.md)), PDF import (colours, layers, masks, editable text, security) and export (presets, marks, bleed, ICC and output intent, raster effects, subset fonts, PDF/X-1a, X-3 and X-4, PDF layers, overprint, page thumbnails, fast web view, PDF 1.3), Place and Links, Package, EPS and DXF in and out (EPS legacy mesh corners, vector opacity masks and raster page comparison verified; closed SPLINE flags round-trip and circular paths export as native CIRCLE/ARC, #1299), EMF/WMF, TIFF/BMP/Targa/PSD/GIF/PNG-8 export, Print and print presets, slices, Save for Web, TIFF in Export for Screens and Asset Export, clipboard flavours, File Info; AF.1–AF.4 add Affinity import (native layers, artboards, vectors, text and images from Affinity 1–3 files; the embedded preview only as a warned fallback; AF.4 expands current `.af` fixtures and every-board round-trip validation); EPS Save and Save As keep an opened EPS as EPS with its page frame and complete editable VectorCraft document (2026-10-26; G9 import fidelity unchanged). Left: DWG (use DXF), PSD placement as layers, overprint read back from PDF, Affinity export, polish | 3–6 (existing scope; Affinity export unestimated) |
-| M3 | Paint & appearance (swatches, color, gradient, stroke, appearance, transparency, styles) | ✅ done (M3.7–M3.98): swatches, groups, libraries, tints, Lab spots and Registration; Eyedropper styles highlighted text only (atomic transparency rejection); Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); Color Picker, Color panel, Color Guide, Color Themes, Edit Colors and Recolor Artwork (screen-bounded Edit chip list, #3416); gradients that follow every transform, the annotator, linked stops, freeform gradients, focal points, gradients on strokes and Expand; visible strokes when paint is added to inherited None/zero-width art (#1253); stroke geometry, arrowheads, dashes fitted to corners, stroke on type, width profiles and the Width tool (Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment in Width Point Edit), Scale Strokes and preview bounds; Appearance targeting, container appearance, target circles, Expand Appearance; knockout, isolation, blend accuracy, CMYK blending, overprint, Attributes, masks and clipping, Flatten Transparency; graphic styles, links and libraries; CSS library export preserves fractional linear and radial gradient stop positions. Left: freeform gradients in SVG/PDF, mixed spot/process gradients in SVG and PDF gradients mixing a spot color with RGB or Lab stops export as stops or process colors; confirm the Scale Strokes & Effects default | 4–8 |
+| M3 | Paint & appearance (swatches, color, gradient, stroke, appearance, transparency, styles) | ✅ done (M3.7–M3.98): swatches, groups, libraries, tints, Lab spots and Registration; Eyedropper styles highlighted text only (atomic transparency rejection); Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); Color Picker, Color panel, Color Guide, Color Themes, Edit Colors and Recolor Artwork (screen-bounded Edit chip list, #3416); gradients that follow every transform, the annotator, linked stops, freeform gradients, focal points, gradients on strokes and Expand; visible strokes when paint is added to inherited None/zero-width art (#1253); stroke geometry, arrowheads, dashes fitted to corners, stroke on type, width profiles and the Width tool (Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment in Width Point Edit), Scale Strokes and preview bounds; Appearance targeting, container appearance, target circles, Expand Appearance; knockout, isolation, blend accuracy, CMYK blending, overprint, Attributes, masks and clipping, Flatten Transparency; graphic styles, links and libraries; CSS library export preserves fractional linear and radial gradient stop positions. Left: freeform gradients in SVG/PDF, mixed spot/process gradients in SVG and PDF gradients mixing a spot color with RGB or Lab stops export as stops or process colors; PDF export writes dithered gradient fills with spot stops, and Perceptual spot gradients with RGB or Lab stops other than white or more than 4,096 stops on their curve, as images in process colors; confirm the Scale Strokes & Effects default | 4–8 |
 | M5 | Performance | 🟡 background render + caches + MT done; `vectorcraft-cli bench` and `vectorcraft-cli perf` (budget suite); opaque solid-fill knockout paths draw once in hard-edge/supersampled raster export, with analytical-AA compositing unchanged; file format v2 opens 3× faster (50k paths: 722 → 244 ms); raster effects (glows, shadows, blur, feather) no longer force the whole frame single-threaded (filtered offscreen per effect, verified equal to the single-threaded reference); Craquelure/Mosaic Tiles/Stained Glass distance searches optimized with pixel-invariance checks and the `texture_drag_perf` probe (#1257); effect-heavy demos need a clean-machine benchmark; dirty-region rendering, GPU backend spike pending | 15–25 |
 | M6 | Path operations (Pathfinder, Shape Builder, offset…) | ✅ mostly done (live compound shapes: Make, Alt-click a Shape Mode, member modes, Release, Expand (#4522); single-result Pathfinder names and SVG IDs retained (#1293); Divide open-cutting-path geometry, appearance and history verified (#1307; existing segment cap remains); Simplify preview/counts and rewritten-path component selection verified (#1272; the slider opens at the Auto-Simplify level; a Direct Selection part of a path simplifies on its own); Compound appearance and member fill-rule edits verified (#1197); Boolean precision on almost-horizontal edges fixed and the property tests made deterministic; Shape Builder gap detection, large-offset bug open); Shape Builder Gap Detection shares Live Paint’s spatial gap finder and temporary merge bridges (#2526); Custom is capped at 72 pt in the existing options dialog | 3–6 |
-| M7 | Type (point/area/path, editing, styles, OpenType, threading, glyphs) | 🟡 Hanging punctuation keeps its published amounts under Glyph Scaling, and Standard burasagari counts a hung line start as room; Fullwidth `！` / `？` keep an upright fallback in vertical type; Document-point character controls after object/group scaling (#1034; optional font-size preservation remains separate), Character/Paragraph Styles (explicit Auto-leading resets and local leading overrides), per-paragraph paragraph attributes, mixed paragraph alignment indication (headless regressions, full integration CI and visual review pass), Area Type Options (with Width/Height, Auto Size and Shrink Text to Fit; overflow reported to agents and vertical Align), type areas resized by their handles and reshaped with Direct Selection, threaded text, Fit Headline, Glyphs, OpenType panel, Find Font (Document, Recent and System replacement sources, #5217), installed system fonts in every font menu (fonts registered with Windows outside its font folders, the XDG and Flatpak host font folders on Linux, and fonts installed while the app runs, listed when it comes back to the front; searchable; the Character and Properties menus show each family's sample of the selected text, preview it live under the pointer or ↑/↓, show recently applied families first (#3515), filter by script and kind, list a family's styles, and star favourites; the Glyphs panel and Find Font's Replace With use the same menu without the live preview) and found by name on open/import (full-name aliases and Missing Fonts searches verified, #1258; Windows font-service QA pending), variable fonts' named instances as styles, CJK names in the UI, input methods (marked text in place, candidate window at the caret; Japanese IME), Text Wrap (offset, invert, both sides of an object; follows edits), Type on a Path effects and Options with draggable start/centre/end brackets (slide, flip), tab stops + Tabs panel (Above Text floats it over the selected text, its ruler at the canvas zoom so stops line up with the columns, #729), inline symbols in text (beyond parity), Hebrew/Arabic bidirectional text, Paragraph Direction, Every-line/Single-line Composer per object (ragged text too) done; tab leaders, spell check, vertical type pending | 45–60 |
+| M7 | Type (point/area/path, editing, styles, OpenType, threading, glyphs) | 🟡 Hanging punctuation keeps its published amounts under Glyph Scaling, and Standard burasagari counts a hung line start as room; Fullwidth `！` / `？` keep an upright fallback in vertical type; Document-point character controls after object/group scaling (#1034; optional font-size preservation remains separate), Character/Paragraph Styles (explicit Auto-leading resets and local leading overrides), per-paragraph paragraph attributes, mixed paragraph alignment indication (headless regressions, full integration CI and visual review pass), Area Type Options (with Width/Height, Auto Size and Shrink Text to Fit; overflow reported to agents and vertical Align), type areas resized by their handles and reshaped with Direct Selection, threaded text, Fit Headline, Glyphs, OpenType panel (including font-defined Stylistic Sets), Find Font (Document, Recent and System replacement sources, #5217), installed system fonts in every font menu (fonts registered with Windows outside its font folders, the XDG and Flatpak host font folders on Linux, and fonts installed while the app runs, listed when it comes back to the front; searchable; the Character and Properties menus show each family's sample of the selected text, preview it live under the pointer or ↑/↓, show recently applied families first (#3515), filter by script and kind, list a family's styles, and star favourites; the Glyphs panel and Find Font's Replace With use the same menu without the live preview) and found by name on open/import (full-name aliases and Missing Fonts searches verified, #1258; Windows font-service QA pending), variable fonts' named instances as styles, CJK names in the UI, input methods (marked text in place, candidate window at the caret; Japanese IME), Text Wrap (offset, invert, both sides of an object; follows edits), Type on a Path effects and Options with draggable start/centre/end brackets (slide, flip), tab stops + Tabs panel (Above Text floats it over the selected text, its ruler at the canvas zoom so stops line up with the columns, #729), inline symbols in text (beyond parity), Hebrew/Arabic bidirectional text, Paragraph Direction, Every-line/Single-line Composer per object (ragged text too) done; tab leaders, spell check, vertical type pending | 45–60 |
 | M7 | Type (point/area/path, editing, styles, OpenType, threading, glyphs) | 🟡 Fullwidth `！` / `？` keep an upright fallback in vertical type; Hyphenation… and Justification… per paragraph (#2310, #2755), Auto Leading also driving the Character panel's Leading, the Alt+↑/↓ leading nudge and Fill with Placeholder Text; Document-point character controls after object/group scaling (#1034; optional font-size preservation remains separate), Character/Paragraph Styles (explicit Auto-leading resets and local leading overrides), per-paragraph paragraph attributes, mixed paragraph alignment indication (headless regressions, full integration CI and visual review pass), Area Type Options (with Width/Height, Auto Size and Shrink Text to Fit; overflow reported to agents and vertical Align), type areas resized by their handles and reshaped with Direct Selection, threaded text, Fit Headline, Glyphs, OpenType panel, Find Font (Document, Recent and System replacement sources, #5217), installed system fonts in every font menu (fonts registered with Windows outside its font folders, the XDG and Flatpak host font folders on Linux, and fonts installed while the app runs, listed when it comes back to the front; searchable; the Character and Properties menus show each family's sample of the selected text, preview it live under the pointer or ↑/↓, filter by script and kind, list a family's styles, and star favourites; the Glyphs panel and Find Font's Replace With use the same menu without the live preview) and found by name on open/import (full-name aliases and Missing Fonts searches verified, #1258; Windows font-service QA pending), variable fonts' named instances as styles, CJK names in the UI, input methods (marked text in place, candidate window at the caret; Japanese IME), Text Wrap (offset, invert, both sides of an object; follows edits), Type on a Path effects and Options with draggable start/centre/end brackets (slide, flip), tab stops + Tabs panel (Above Text floats it over the selected text, its ruler at the canvas zoom so stops line up with the columns, #729), inline symbols in text (beyond parity), Hebrew/Arabic bidirectional text, Paragraph Direction, Every-line/Single-line Composer per object (ragged text too) done; tab leaders, spell check, vertical type pending | 45–60 |
 | M7 | Type (point/area/path, editing, styles, OpenType, threading, glyphs) | 🟡 Fullwidth `！` / `？` keep an upright fallback in vertical type; Document-point character controls after object/group scaling (#1034; optional font-size preservation remains separate), Character/Paragraph Styles (explicit Auto-leading resets and local leading overrides), per-paragraph paragraph attributes, mixed paragraph alignment indication (headless regressions, full integration CI and visual review pass), Area Type Options (with Width/Height, Auto Size and Shrink Text to Fit; overflow reported to agents and vertical Align), type areas resized by their handles and reshaped with Direct Selection, threaded text, Fit Headline, Glyphs, OpenType panel, Find Font (Document, Recent and System replacement sources, #5217), installed system fonts in every font menu (fonts registered with Windows outside its font folders, the XDG and Flatpak host font folders on Linux, and fonts installed while the app runs, listed when it comes back to the front; searchable; the Character and Properties menus show each family's sample of the selected text, preview it live under the pointer or ↑/↓, show recently applied families first (#3515), filter by script and kind, list a family's styles, and star favourites; the Glyphs panel and Find Font's Replace With use the same menu without the live preview) and found by name on open/import (full-name aliases and Missing Fonts searches verified, #1258; Windows font-service QA pending), variable fonts' named instances as styles, CJK names in the UI, input methods (marked text in place, candidate window at the caret; Japanese IME), Text Wrap (offset, invert, both sides of an object; follows edits), Type on a Path effects and Options with draggable start/centre/end brackets (slide, flip), tab stops + Tabs panel (Above Text floats it over the selected text, its ruler at the canvas zoom so stops line up with the columns, #729), inline symbols in text (beyond parity), Hebrew/Arabic bidirectional text, Paragraph Direction, Every-line/Single-line Composer per object (ragged text too) done; tab leaders, spell check, vertical type pending | 45–60 |
 | M8 | Transform & distort (Puppet Warp, Liquify tools, Envelopes, Blends, Perspective Grid) | ✅ done (M8.1–M8.20 on 2026-10-06, fidelity pass): Liquify Tool Options with one shared brush, pen pressure, hold-to-apply, a safe scope and incremental strokes; tool options that last; Puppet Warp rotation, multi-select, Control bar and a rest-shape session that follows Undo; Width tool on compound paths; Envelope dialogs with preview, Reset with Warp/Mesh, full Envelope Options, type/images/symbols/appearance/gradients/patterns distorted on canvas and in every export, warps that keep their frame, Edit Contents, mesh handles and Control bar; Blend Options, anchor-targeted Blend tool, editable spine, keys picked on the canvas, faithful interpolation and knockout; Anchor Point spine conversion/handle editing and selection priority (#2544), with #2425 Shift reshape preserved; Perspective Grid with Define Grid, presets, lock/snap/rulers, widgets, the 1–4 plane switch, movable planes, Perspective Selection scale/copy/perpendicular/Transform Again, and type and symbols truly projected with Edit Text. Left: Anti-Alias and Preserve Shape output, warp-envelope point editing, brush interpolation in blends, Free Transform/Scale/Reflect along a rotated box | 2–4 |
@@ -158,6 +160,8 @@ separate. Scores and hours unchanged. [Behavior and command details](development
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 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. |
+| 2026-11-03 | minor | M7: the OpenType panel offers the selected font's available Stylistic Sets with custom or numbered names; estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | M1: Enclosing Lasso adds freehand whole-object selection under Object › Plug-ins; estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-02 | minor | Font-family fields in Character, Properties and Control step selected text with the wheel (#5253), with one undo step per notch; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | M7 records Find Font's shipped replacement-source chooser (#5217); estimates unchanged. |

docs/target-app-parity.md

@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 # Parity with Adobe Illustrator
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-03 · **Change:** minor (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) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; public release notes through 30.7, August 2026)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-04 · **Change:** minor (Select by Artboards add-on selects by overlap, inside or outside several artboards; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; public release notes through 30.7, August 2026)
 
 ## Feature submission evidence
 
+Ligature caret stops use a font's GDEF contour-point positions in horizontal and vertical text. They use unhinted outlines at the default variation location; invalid point indices use the existing evenly divided fallback. Scores and estimates are unchanged.
+
 Creating a gradient from solid or empty paint uses the document's color model for its default stops, including drawing its vector with the Gradient tool. Explicit `keepModel: true` retains RGB defaults, and existing gradients keep their own colors. Scores and estimates are unchanged.
 
 **Feature evidence last updated:** 2026-11-03.
@@ -21,6 +23,15 @@ Artboard Options forwards the active Artboard tool's Scale Artwork with Artboard
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-04 | minor | Selection Tools add-on: Select by Artboards selects the objects overlapping, fully inside or fully outside several chosen artboards, from a dialog that lists, searches and multi-selects the artboards and fits one in the window on double-click (#5525, #5548, #5549, a VectorCraft addition); scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-04 | minor | New Document: the units chosen in Preset Details belong to the chosen preset, as the public page lists the pane's options for the selected preset; the chosen card shows them, every other Recent and Saved card keeps the units its document or preset was made in, and the built-in tabs still follow the chosen units (#2078). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-04 | minor | Document Tools add-on (a VectorCraft addition): Batch Trace Folder under Object › Plug-ins (`addon.document.batchTraceFolder`, #4921); evidence added; scores unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-04 | minor | Object › Expand turns selected symbol instances into their art as Break Link places it, one level deep, with the Expand dialog's Fill and Stroke reaching that art. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-03 | minor | The OpenType panel offers the selected font's stylistic sets by custom or numbered name, and allows several to be active. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-03 | minor | Actions panel: an expanded action's steps can be excluded from playback and Batch… by clearing their checkmarks; action and set checkmarks include or exclude all their steps, and exclusions survive restart, duplication and `.vcactions` save/load. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-03 | minor | Correct the Type core missing list and remove duplicate target and Type core entries: Hyphenation and Justification options are complete; the remaining Every-line Composer fidelity limits stay listed. Record the Kashidas paragraph lengths and per-character switch in the feature history (#5404). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-03 | minor | Correct the Type core missing list: Hyphenation and Justification options are complete; the remaining Every-line Composer fidelity limits stay listed. Record the Kashidas paragraph lengths and per-character switch in the feature history (#5404). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-03 | minor | Ligature caret stops use GDEF contour-point positions in horizontal and vertical type at the font's default variation location; invalid point indices keep the evenly divided fallback. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | New gradients use CMYK default stops in CMYK documents, including Gradient tool creation. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | Type Tools add-on: Text Tweaker (a VectorCraft addition, #4924): evidence added; scores unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | Transform previews valid typed values while numeric fields remain focused. Effect dialogs use the object, group, or layer targeted in Appearance. |
@@ -133,11 +144,11 @@ dominate; 3D, graphs and automation are specialist). They sum to 105. Feature de
 | Selection, transform & align tools | 6 | 85% | Direct Selection segment click/Delete corrected (#1278); open-path anchor Delete keeps gaps; Select › Start Global Edit finds the paths, compound paths and symbol instances of the selected object's shape (Appearance, Size and artboard options) and gives an edit of one to all of them in proportion, as one undo step (#3521), and on a group the groups like it, an edit inside one reaching the same object in the others (#4939), and a Shift-click on a highlighted match leaves it out; the Align panel menu's Align to Glyph Bounds › Point Text and Area Text measure type by its glyphs' ink for Align and Distribute (#4231); remaining: Free Transform/Scale/Reflect along a rotated box, Global Edit of rotated copies, transform nuances (no-op anchor Align history regression-tested, #1180 follow-up) | 4–6 | estimated; Global Edit regression-tested (`crates/engine/src/tests/globaledit.rs`; Quick Action, menu label and Escape in `panels::properties::tests::start_global_edit_quick_action_and_escape`) |
 | Drawing tools (Pen, Curvature, Pencil, shapes, Shaper) | 7 | 85% | Shaper construction widget, Pencil/Pen nuances, Blob Brush options, Touch Type, Dimension tool; see [ui-parity.md](ui-parity.md) | 8–13 | estimated; Curvature point display regression-tested (#1236, in part); Polygon/Star exact-size count persistence regression-covered; Live Corners' Relative rounding done (#3091), score unchanged |
 | Path operations, Pathfinder, Shape Builder, Live Paint | 5 | 80% | Shape Builder on the reporter's file (#937: art past 4,096 segments is cut by lines again; unconfirmed on the file itself); gap detection shares Live Paint’s finder, with a 72 pt custom cap and the existing options; Live Paint Gap Options | 4–8 | estimated; 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 (lowered from 86%: open issues); compound attributes regression-tested (#1197); single-result source names survive SVG export/import (#1293), with [SVG ID semantics](https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG2/struct.html#IDAttribute) and original-shape tests; Simplify component selection and preview regression-tested (#1272); Simplify of a Direct Selection part of a path regression-tested (`tests/simplify_part.rs`); Divide open-cutting-path geometry and appearance regression-tested (#1307); the Shape Builder's edge-source grid is bounded in memory and files a segment once per cell (`planar.rs` test `rect_index_holds_a_bounded_number_of_references`); live compound shapes (Make, Alt-click, member Shape Modes, Release, Expand, saved and exported) regression-tested (#4522) |
-| Colour, swatches, gradients, patterns, mesh, recolor | 7 | 92% | 30.0's gradient additions are done (dither, perceptual blending, presets); freeform gradients in SVG/PDF, mixed spot/process gradients in SVG, and PDF gradients mixing a spot color with RGB or Lab stops | 4–7 | estimated; Recolor model selection is available through the engine and MCP (#2520), and the dialog's color sliders (HSB, RGB, CMYK, Lab, Tint for a spot color) edit the selected row's new color in its mode, and the Edit tab's Global Adjust sliders (Saturation, Brightness, Temperature, Luminosity, -100% to 100%) change every recolored color at once (lowered from 96%: target moved); unpainted zero-width stroke restoration fixed (#1253), score and hours unchanged; Eyedropper source reads regression-tested (#1251); screen-bounded Recolor Edit chip list (#3416), score and hours unchanged |
+| Colour, swatches, gradients, patterns, mesh, recolor | 7 | 92% | 30.0's gradient additions are done (dither, perceptual blending, presets); freeform gradients in SVG/PDF, mixed spot/process gradients in SVG, PDF gradients mixing a spot color with RGB or Lab stops, and dithered spot gradient fills and Perceptual spot gradients with RGB or Lab stops other than white or more than 4,096 stops on their curve, which PDF export writes as images in process colors | 4–7 | estimated; Recolor model selection is available through the engine and MCP (#2520), and the dialog's color sliders (HSB, RGB, CMYK, Lab, Tint for a spot color) edit the selected row's new color in its mode, and the Edit tab's Global Adjust sliders (Saturation, Brightness, Temperature, Luminosity, -100% to 100%) change every recolored color at once (lowered from 96%: target moved); unpainted zero-width stroke restoration fixed (#1253), score and hours unchanged; Eyedropper source reads regression-tested (#1251); screen-bounded Recolor Edit chip list (#3416), score and hours unchanged |
 | Strokes, brushes, width profiles | 5 | 88% | Shift-double-click adjoining adjustment is implemented; brush libraries are done (four generated libraries, User Defined, Other Library…, Save Brushes); remaining:  Art brush Overlap, Pattern brush auto corners, pen pressure on macOS, tilt/bearing/rotation | 8–15 | estimated; width-point creation and adjoining adjustment regression-tested; dialog layout reviewed; evidence below; finite-arithmetic follow-up regressions and full CI passed (evidence below) |
 | Appearance, transparency, graphic styles, masks | 5 | 97% | raster effect reach in preview bounds | 1–2 | estimated; Transform typing, sliders, preview, and undo are covered in `crates/ui-egui/src/panels/tests_appearance.rs` |
 | 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, 3D Classic, Turntable views, 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; 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); the Glyphs panel highlights and scrolls to the character selected with the Type tool (#4908, `panels::glyphs` tests) |
+| 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; 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 advanced (CJK, spelling, Touch Type, Retype) | 4 | 50% | CJK vertical composition (ruby, mojikumi), variable font axes, tab leaders, spell check, Touch Type, Retype | 20–28 | estimated; upright fallback for fullwidth `！` / `？` regression-tested; score and hours unchanged |
 | Symbols, blends, envelopes, Repeat, perspective | 5 | 87% | 30.7's Blend panel with ease in/out, on-canvas Direct Selection of parts inside dynamic symbol instances and their `.ai` round trip, more built-in symbol libraries, envelope Anti-Alias/Preserve Shape; Symbol Options › Registration, Export Type (Graphic / Movie Clip) and 9-slice guides (drawn and draggable during symbol editing, #5280) and Symbol Type (dynamic symbols keep per-instance appearance linked, #4938) are done | 4–8 | 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; scores and hours unchanged |
 | Type advanced (CJK, spelling, Touch Type, Retype) | 4 | 50% | CJK vertical composition (ruby, mojikumi), tab leaders, spell check, Touch Type, Retype | 20–28 | estimated; upright fallback for fullwidth `！` / `？` regression-tested; score and hours unchanged |
@@ -145,9 +156,7 @@ dominate; 3D, graphs and automation are specialist). They sum to 105. Feature de
 | 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, 3D Classic, Turntable views, 3D export | 30–55 | estimated (Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate added 2026-10-12) |
-| Type core | 9 | 80% | Auto-leading style resets are implemented; remaining:  hyphenation and justification options, 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; 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; colour 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); scores and hours unchanged |
 | Type advanced (CJK, spelling, Touch Type, Retype) | 4 | 50% | CJK vertical composition (mojikumi), variable font axes, tab leaders, spell check, 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 core | 9 | 80% | Auto-leading style resets are implemented; remaining:  hyphenation and justification options, 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; 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; colour emoji fonts with bitmap glyphs (`sbix`, `CBDT`) draw and export; scores and hours unchanged |
 | Type advanced (CJK, spelling, Touch Type, Retype) | 4 | 50% | CJK vertical composition (mojikumi), tab leaders, spell check, 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 | 87% | 30.7's Blend panel with ease in/out, on-canvas Direct Selection of parts inside dynamic symbol instances and their `.ai` round trip, more built-in symbol libraries, envelope Anti-Alias/Preserve Shape; Symbol Options › Registration and Export Type (Graphic / Movie Clip) and Symbol Type (dynamic symbols keep per-instance appearance linked, #4938) are done | 4–8 | estimated |
@@ -403,17 +412,16 @@ about 1–1.5 agent-hours each, so the other rows (estimated on the older scale)
 | Selection, transform & align tools | 6 | 85% | Direct Selection segment click/Delete corrected (#1278); remaining: Free Transform/Scale/Reflect along a rotated box, Global Edit of similar groups, transform nuances (the rotated persistent bounding box is done) | 4–6 |
 | Drawing tools | 7 | 86% | rough-square Shaper recognition and orientation steps corrected; editable Shaper Groups landed; Pencil: Alt key toggles to Smooth Tool (#2001); remaining: Shaper construction widget/gesture refinements, pencil and the remaining pen modifier nuances, Blob Brush Merge Only with Selection, Touch Type, Live Corners' Relative rounding | 7–12 |
 | Path operations, Pathfinder, Shape Builder, Live Paint | 5 | 86% | Live Paint gap options, Shape Builder gap detection, options (Tool Options dialog, clicking a stroke in merge mode) and Shift-drag marquee | 3–6 |
-| Colour, swatches, gradients, patterns, mesh, recolor | 7 | 96% | freeform gradients in SVG/PDF and mixed spot/process gradients in SVG (exported as stops; PDF export keeps the spot inks in a DeviceN shading, except next to RGB or Lab stops), pattern fills in Expand | 2–4; Eyedropper source reads regression-tested (#1251) |
+| Colour, swatches, gradients, patterns, mesh, recolor | 7 | 96% | freeform gradients in SVG/PDF and mixed spot/process gradients in SVG (exported as stops; PDF export keeps the spot inks in a DeviceN shading, except next to RGB or Lab stops; dithered fills and Perceptual gradients with RGB or Lab stops other than white or more than 4,096 stops on their curve are written as images in process colors), pattern fills in Expand | 2–4; Eyedropper source reads regression-tested (#1251) |
 | Strokes, brushes, width profiles | 5 | 90% | the Art brush's Overlap, auto-generated Pattern brush corners and new tile art in Pattern Brush Options (Brush Options for every brush type done), more built-in brush libraries (four generated in code are done), pen pressure on macOS (the windowing layer reports none there), brushes driven by pen tilt, bearing and barrel rotation (6D art pens) | 8–15 |
 | Appearance, transparency, graphic styles, masks | 5 | 98% | raster effect reach in preview bounds (flattener presets apply in PDF, EPS and print) | 1–2 |
 | Live vector effects | 5 | 85% | Outline Object, Pathfinder Hard/Soft Mix and Trap (since done: #3061, #3063, #3785), SVG Filters, Transform Patterns and Scale Strokes & Effects on a fill's or stroke's own Transform effect | 6–10 |
 | 3D and Materials | 4 | ~25% | Initial Revolve, Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate, with simple lighting; materials, light presets, shadows, ray tracing, 3D Classic and more complete visibility remain | 25–45 |
-| Type core | 9 | 80% | Middle Eastern features beyond bidi layout and Paragraph Direction (the Middle Eastern composers, editable bidirectional SVG text, a split caret where directions meet); the Every-line Composer (justified and ragged text, per object) is tuned by eye and mixed type sizes in a paragraph still break single-line (Hyphenation… and Justification… options are done, #2310, #2755), 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) | 14–19 |
 | Type advanced | 4 | 50% | CJK composition for vertical type (ruby, 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), tab leaders, spell check (open dictionary), Touch Type, Retype; vertical point/area/path type and Type Orientation have initial support (beyond parity, not scored: inline symbols in text) | 20–28 |
 | Raster effects (Effect Gallery, Document Raster Effects Settings) | 4 | 35% | ~36 Photoshop-style filters (Artistic, Brush Strokes, Sketch, Stylize) and Texturizer's Load Texture (since done, see the area table above, as is the Effect Gallery, #2883); Document Raster Effects Settings, raster effects in PDF, the pixel-filter pipeline, Radial Blur, Smart Blur (Normal, Edge Only and Overlay Edge), Unsharp Mask, Glowing Edges, Distort (Diffuse Glow, Glass, Ocean Ripple), Pixelate (Color Halftone, Crystallize, Mezzotint, Pointillize), Texture (Craquelure, Grain, Mosaic Tiles, Patchwork, Stained Glass, Texturizer) and Video (De-Interlace, NTSC Colors) are done | 8–14 |
 | 3D and Materials | 4 | ~25% | Initial Revolve, Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate, with simple lighting and four original lighting presets; materials, shadows, ray tracing, 3D Classic 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 (open dictionary), 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 and Paragraph Direction (the Middle Eastern composers, editable bidirectional SVG text, a split caret where directions meet); Hyphenation… and Justification… options (Every-line Composer for justified and ragged text, per object, is done; it is tuned by eye, not yet compared side by side with Illustrator; 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). Fractional Widths and System Layout are done | 14–19 |
+| Type core | 9 | 80% | Middle Eastern features beyond bidi layout and Paragraph Direction (the Middle Eastern composers, editable bidirectional SVG text, a split caret where directions meet); 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 and System Layout are done | 14–19 |
 | Symbols, blends, envelopes, Repeat, perspective | 5 | 90% | more built-in symbol libraries (original), dynamic symbols, envelope Anti-Alias/Preserve Shape output and warp point editing, brush interpolation in blends (M8 fidelity pass done); Symbol Options › Registration and Export Type 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 |
@@ -491,8 +499,10 @@ since 2026-10-01.
 - **Constrain Angle (#394):** General › Constrain Angle turns the arrow keys' axes (guides stay on the page's), holds Shift drags of the Selection, Direct Selection, Free Transform, Slice Selection, Reshape and Measure tools and the Pen's handles to the turned axes, and new rectangles, rounded rectangles, ellipses, grids, point and area type, Shift-drawn polygons and stars and the shape size dialogs are drawn along it with their bounding box turned; 0° and whole turns are exactly as before, quarter turns exact (<https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/arrange-objects/rotate-objects-by-specific-angles.html>). Tests: `tests_constrain_tools`, `tests_constrain_new` (engine), `geom` `constrain_axes` / `rotate_deg`, the shape, grid and type tool tests.
 
 - **Clipping paths on their outline (G1):** the selection tools (Selection, Direct Selection, Group Selection), Object Highlighting and a right-click take a clipping path on its outline before the art it clips; Select Behind lists the same; the eyedropper, the tools that act on what is drawn and the selection tools' double-clicks, loaded text and guide release take the art. Doc and tool regression tests; score unchanged.
-- **Escape in Selection tool drags:** Escape during a Selection tool move or Alt-drag copy, a bounding-box scale or rotation, a marquee, or a corner widget, pie widget or bracket drag cancels it: the art returns to its state at the press, no copy is left, no undo step is added, the release does nothing, and the tool stays chosen. Regression tests: `escape_cancels_*` in `select/tests.rs` and `pie.rs`, and `escape_cancels_a_selection_tool_move_copy_scale_or_rotation` in `tests/selectescape.rs`.
+- **Escape in Selection tool drags:** Escape during a Selection tool move or Alt-drag copy, a bounding-box scale or rotation, a marquee, or a corner widget, pie widget or bracket drag cancels it: the art returns to its state at the press, no copy is left, no undo step is added, the release does nothing, and the tool stays chosen. This is VectorCraft's own behavior. Regression tests: `escape_cancels_*` in `select/tests.rs` and `pie.rs`, and `escape_cancels_a_selection_tool_move_copy_scale_or_rotation` in `tests/selectescape.rs`.
 - **Global Edit: Shift-click leaves a match out:** while Global Edit is on, a Shift-click with the Selection tool on a highlighted match, or on an object inside a matched group, leaves that match out (`select.globalEditExclude`): it is no longer highlighted and later edits leave it as it is; the object the edit started from stays, and Global Edit ends when fewer than two matches are left ([Update assets quickly with Global Edit](https://helpx.adobe.com/ph_fil/illustrator/how-to/global-editing-sensei.html)). Regression tests: `a_shift_click_*`, `an_object_left_out_*`, `a_group_left_out_*` and `leaving_out_all_but_one_*` in `crates/engine/src/tests/globaledit.rs`.
+- **Global Edit Options in the Control bar:** while Select › Start Global Edit can run, the Control bar shows a Global Edit Options dropdown that opens the same options as the Properties panel's (Match: Appearance, Size; On Artboards; Include Objects On Canvas; Result(s)); both set the same options. The dropdown is off while Global Edit is on; it sits after Recolor Artwork, ahead of the X/Y/W/H fields ([Edit similar objects globally](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/edit-objects/edit-similar-objects.html)). Regression test: `the_control_bar_shows_the_global_edit_options` in `crates/ui-egui/src/chrome/tests.rs`.
+- **Control bar's inline X, Y, W and H fields fit the bar:** the Control bar shows the inline X, Y, W and H fields only when all four, their labels as drawn in the current language and the W/H link fit inside the bar's margin; otherwise it shows the Transform link alone. This is VectorCraft's own layout rule. Regression test: `the_control_bar_shows_the_inline_transform_fields_only_when_they_fit` in `crates/ui-egui/src/chrome/tests.rs`.
 - **Pattern-only backquote drags:** With Selection move, bounding-box scale or rotate, or the Rotate, Reflect, Scale or Shear tool, backquote held at mouse release applies the drag matrix to selected pattern paint while object geometry stays in place. The key may be pressed after mouse press; if released before the mouse button, the drag commits as an ordinary transform. Objects without pattern paint stay still; stroke-only patterns and patterned objects in mixed selections take the same matrix. Regression tests: `backquote_move_uses_release_state_and_one_commit` and `backquote_box_scale_and_rotate_use_pattern_matrix_at_release` in `select/tests.rs`, `backquote_drag_previews_and_commits_pattern_only_for_each_transform_tool` in `xform/transform.rs`, `selection_backquote_drag_changes_pattern_fill_and_stroke_without_moving_mixed_art` and `selection_backquote_drag_changes_stroke_only_pattern` in `tests/pattern.rs`, `egui_backtick_drag_uses_key_state_at_release` in `canvas/tests.rs`, and `synthetic_pointer_backquote_keeps_solid_object_in_place` in `control/tests.rs`. Scores and hours unchanged.
 - **Existing-guide Escape cancellation (G1):** Escape clears a pending guide press or drag through Selection and Direct/Group Selection, cancelling a begun preview. Eight app-input regressions cover both axes, move/copy, temporary selection-tool borrowing from idle Pen, preselected-guide document/interaction-start selection and Undo/Redo/saved-state preservation, later on-canvas motion/release, Shift-press cancellation, and ordinary-release/Enter/idle controls. Historical focused checks on `8ab574b7` recorded five expected RED failures with three passing controls, then all eight GREEN tests and the Direct Selection Escape control passed. All nine also passed in current full CI. A full CI retry on the five-unit combined source at `a0671777` passed all seven stages with 6,613 test outcomes on 2026-10-14. An earlier full-CI run on the identical source panicked in the randomized `ai_mutated_save_never_panics` test; the cause remains unresolved. This five-fix batch does not claim to repair that failure. The original 1280×960 headless app capture from `b076025a` was reviewed for one vertical Selection guide after Escape; source review found its scene unchanged on `a0671777`. Scores and hours unchanged.
 - **Escape in more tool drags:** Escape during an Anchor Point drag, a Mesh tool drag, a Direct Selection drag of a mesh point, a corner widget or the brackets of type on a path, or a Shape Builder drag cancels it: the art goes back to how the press found it, no undo step is added, the release does nothing, and the tool stays chosen. Escape during a Measure tool drag brings back the measurement before it. Regression tests: `escape_cancels_*` in `draw2/anchor/tests.rs`, `meshedit.rs`, `direct/tests.rs`, `builder/tests.rs` and `xform/measure.rs`, and `escape_cancels_an_anchor_point_mesh_shape_builder_or_measure_drag` in `tests/toolescape.rs`.
@@ -512,16 +522,17 @@ since 2026-10-01.
 - **COLR colour fonts:** v0 and v1 glyphs draw as vector layers (solid colours, linear and radial gradients, 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 and Porter-Duff compositing 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).
 - **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).
+- **Character-style numeric bounds:** `charStyle.new`, `charStyle.edit`, and `charStyle.setAttrs` accept size from 0.1 to 1296 pt, explicit leading from 0.1 to 5000 pt, horizontal and vertical scale from 1% to 10,000%, and baseline shift and Tate-chu-yoko offsets from -1296 to 1296 pt. Out-of-range input leaves the style and Undo history unchanged; Auto leading remains available. These limits match the Character panel controls.
 - **Character Style Options, General and Basic Character Formats:** the dialog edits a style's name and stored character formats together. Empty fields remain unset, checkboxes show an indeterminate unset state, Basic's Reset Panel clears its explicit settings, and Preview can be canceled without changing history. OK saves one undo step; New Character Style offers the same fields from captured text or the interface language's defaults without a selection. Public reference: [Character and paragraph styles](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/character-paragraph-styles.html).
-- **Character Style Options, Advanced Character Formats:** Character Style Options and New Character Style set a style's Horizontal Scale and Vertical Scale (above 0% and at most 4,000,000%), Baseline Shift (-4,000,000 pt to 4,000,000 pt), Character Rotation (stored from -180° to 180°) and Language; text that uses the style takes them and keeps its local overrides. Empty fields remain unset, an explicit 100%, 0° or English: USA stays distinct from unset, and the section's Reset Panel clears only these five. Language sets the language the characters are shaped in, not hyphenation or spelling. Public reference: [Character and paragraph styles](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/character-paragraph-styles.html).
+- **Character Style Options, Advanced Character Formats:** Character Style Options and New Character Style set a style's Horizontal Scale and Vertical Scale (1% to 10,000%), Baseline Shift (-1296 pt to 1296 pt), Character Rotation (stored from -180° to 180°) and Language; text that uses the style takes them and keeps its local overrides. Empty fields remain unset, an explicit 100%, 0° or English: USA stays distinct from unset, and the section's Reset Panel clears only these five. Language sets the language the characters are shaped in, not hyphenation or spelling. Public reference: [Character and paragraph styles](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/character-paragraph-styles.html).
 - **Character Style Options, Character Color and OpenType Features:** Character Style Options and New Character Style set a style's fill and stroke (None or a document swatch; a global swatch stays linked, with a Tint from 0% to 100%), stroke Weight, Overprint Fill and Overprint Stroke, and its Figure, Position, Standard and Discretionary Ligatures, Contextual, Stylistic and Titling Alternates, Swash, Ordinals, Fractions and Stylistic Sets 1 to 20; text that uses the style takes them and keeps its local overrides, and editing a global swatch later updates the style and its text. Empty controls remain unset, an explicit None, off, Default Figure or Default Position stays distinct from unset, each stylistic set is on, off or unset, a gradient or pattern paint stays until another paint is chosen, a changed OpenType control keeps the style's other feature tags, and each section's Reset Panel clears only its own attributes. Public references: [Character and paragraph styles](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/character-paragraph-styles.html) and [Format text with OpenType features](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/special-characters-glyphs/format-text-with-opentype-features.html).
 - **Text styles redefined to the defaults:** New and Redefine Character Style and Paragraph Style capture every attribute of the selected text, including those at their defaults (Auto kerning, Roman baseline alignment, the default Hyphenation options, the Every-line Composer, no tab stops), and `charStyle.setAttrs` and `paraStyle.setAttrs` keep an attribute set to its default value. After a redefinition, text whose value still equals the old definition's takes the new value, a default included; local overrides stay, and text that still has the old value of an attribute the new definition leaves out goes back to the Normal style's value. The style panels show "+" only where the text differs from its style, including type with Auto alignment. Public reference: [Character and paragraph styles](https://web.archive.org/web/20260825113735/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/character-paragraph-styles.html).
 - **Text styles dragged onto the panel's buttons:** a style dragged from the Character Styles or Paragraph Styles panel onto Create New Style is copied (`charStyle.duplicate`, `paraStyle.duplicate`, which name the copy `<name> copy`) and the copy is highlighted; dragged onto Delete it is deleted (`charStyle.delete`, `paraStyle.delete`); the Normal style is not deleted. Each drop is one undo step. Public reference: [Character and paragraph styles](https://web.archive.org/web/20261015081534/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/character-paragraph-styles.html).
 - **Auto Leading outside the layout:** a paragraph's Justification… › Auto Leading (<https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/edit-format-text/adjust-word-and-letterspacing-in-justified-text.html>) also sets the Leading the Character panel shows for Auto type (blank where the selected paragraphs differ), the leading the Alt+↑/↓ nudge (`type.step`) steps from, each paragraph's own, and the lines Fill with Placeholder Text counts in area type. Evidence: `ParaStyle::effective_leading` (`crates/doc/src/text.rs` test `paragraph_effective_leading_follows_auto_leading`), `tests_prefs::auto_leading_steps_and_fills_from_the_paragraph_auto_leading`, `panels::character` test `leading_field_shows_the_paragraph_auto_leading`.
 - **The text style panel menus' Duplicate and Delete:** in the Character Styles and Paragraph Styles panel menus, Duplicate highlights the copy, as Create New Style highlights the new style, and Delete leaves no style highlighted, as the Delete button does, so Duplicate, Clear Overrides, Redefine and Style Options are disabled until another style is clicked. A highlighted style that is renamed in Style Options or deleted by a command is no longer highlighted either. The tests `panels::text_styles::tests::panel_menu_duplicate_and_delete_update_the_highlighted_style` and `a_highlighted_style_that_is_no_longer_listed_is_not_highlighted` cover this. Public reference: [Character and paragraph styles](https://web.archive.org/web/20261015081534/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/character-paragraph-styles.html).
 - **Names of new styles and symbols:** `charStyle.new` and `paraStyle.new` trim the white space around the name they are given, as `charStyle.rename` and `paraStyle.rename` do, and refuse a name that is then empty; Duplicate names its copy from the trimmed name. `symbol.new` and `symbol.duplicate` trim the name as Symbol Options does, and `library.use` adds a library's text style under its trimmed name. Public reference: [Character and paragraph styles](https://web.archive.org/web/20260825113735/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/character-paragraph-styles.html).
-- **Naming a new text style first:** Alt-click on New in the Character Styles or Paragraph Styles panel opens New Character Style or New Paragraph Style (`ui.newCharStyle`, `ui.newParaStyle`) with the name a plain click's style gets; OK makes the style from the text selected when the dialog opened, and Cancel adds none. Tests `panels::text_styles::tests::alt_clicking_new_character_style_asks_for_its_name` and `alt_clicking_new_paragraph_style_asks_for_its_name`. Public reference: [Default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html), "Set options (except for Actions, Brushes, Swatches, and Symbols panels)".
-- **Moving all tab stops:** in the Tabs panel, a stop dragged on the ruler with Ctrl held (Command on macOS) moves every stop by the same distance, in one `text.tabs.set` and one undo step; the stops keep their order, alignment and leaders, the ruler shows them moving during the drag, and a drag that would take the leftmost stop below 0 leaves it at 0, or the rightmost past 100,000 pt leaves it at 100,000 pt, with the other stops at their spacing from it. Ctrl must be held when the drag starts. Tests `panels::tabs::tests::command_drag_moves_all_the_stops_together`, `command_drag_stops_at_zero_and_keeps_the_spacing` and `command_drag_stops_at_the_largest_position_and_keeps_the_spacing`. Public reference: [Manage tab stops](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/measure-and-align/grids-and-guides/manage-tab-stops.html), which says that a Ctrl-drag (Windows) or Command-drag (macOS) of a tab moves all the tab stops at the same time.
+- **Naming a new text style first:** Alt-click on New in the Character Styles or Paragraph Styles panel opens New Character Style or New Paragraph Style (`ui.newCharStyle`, `ui.newParaStyle`) with the name a plain click's style gets; OK makes the style from the text selected when the dialog opened, and Cancel adds none. Tests `panels::text_styles::tests::alt_clicking_new_character_style_asks_for_its_name` and `alt_clicking_new_paragraph_style_asks_for_its_name`. Public reference: [Default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html), which lists Alt-click for opening panel options and names Actions, Brushes, Swatches and Symbols as exceptions.
+- **Moving all tab stops:** in the Tabs panel, a stop dragged on the ruler with Ctrl held (Command on macOS) moves every stop by the same distance, in one `text.tabs.set` and one undo step; the stops keep their order, alignment and leaders, the ruler shows them moving during the drag, and a drag that would take the leftmost stop below 0 leaves it at 0, or the rightmost past 100,000 pt leaves it at 100,000 pt, with the other stops at their spacing from it. A drag that leaves every stop where it was records no undo step. Ctrl must be held when the drag starts. Tests `panels::tabs::tests::command_drag_moves_all_the_stops_together`, `command_drag_stops_at_zero_and_keeps_the_spacing`, `command_drag_stops_at_the_largest_position_and_keeps_the_spacing` and `a_drag_that_moves_no_stop_records_no_undo_step`. Public reference: [Manage tab stops](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/measure-and-align/grids-and-guides/manage-tab-stops.html), which says that a Ctrl-drag (Windows) or Command-drag (macOS) of a tab moves all the tab stops at the same time.
 - **Width Point Edit:** Shift-double-click enables Adjust Adjoining Width Points; plain double-click and direct opening retain the default. Tool dispatch and headless dialog tests cover neighboring widths, Undo/Redo and Cancel. Public reference: [Variable-width strokes](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/stroke-object.html).
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@@ -536,10 +547,11 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
 - **Video display options (#2849):** Artboard Options' Show Video Safe Areas and Video Ruler Pixel Aspect Ratio, and View › Rulers › Show Video Rulers ([Set video display options for artboards](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/create-manage-artboards/organize-manage-artboards/set-video-display-options-for-artboards.html)). Each artboard has its own (`artboard.setProps`/`artboard.new` `showVideoSafeAreas`, `videoRulerPixelAspectRatio` 0.1–10, default 1), set in one undo step and written to the native format only when on or not 1, so other documents save byte for byte as before. The help page names the safe areas without numbers; our choice is [EBU R 95](https://tech.ebu.ch/docs/r/r095.pdf)'s (note 5): the canvas outlines the action-safe area 3.5% and the title-safe (graphics-safe) area 5% in from each edge, 1 point wide and turned with the view; exports and print leave them out. Show Video Rulers (`view.videoRulers`) shows the rulers counting the active artboard in pixels from its top-left corner, whatever the ruler origin: a pixel is as many points wide as the ratio and one point tall, so a 720 × 480 pt artboard at 0.9 reads 800 × 480. Hide Video Rulers returns them to the General unit; Shift ruler-tick snapping of new guides keeps the General unit. Regression tests: `tests/panelcmds.rs` (`artboard_video_display_options_*`, `artboard_display_marks_stay_out_of_exports`), `tests/docsetup.rs` (`an_artboard_shows_its_video_safe_areas`), `canvas.rs` (`video_rulers_count_the_artboard_in_pixels_of_its_aspect_ratio`), `tests/ruler_origin.rs` (`show_video_rulers_counts_the_active_artboard_in_pixels`), `dialogs/tests.rs` (`artboard_options_show_video_display_options`).
 - **Saved views (G7):** View › New View… and Edit Views… ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/viewing-artwork.html): up to 25 views per document, saved with it, renamed or deleted in Edit Views, chosen from the bottom of the View menu). Each view keeps the zoom, centre and rotation; the View menu lists all 25 (`view.goto1`–`view.goto25`), and Edit Views… lists them to rename or delete, applied together as one undo step. A file's views are checked when it opens (at most 25, unique names up to 255 characters, a finite centre and a positive zoom). Tests: `saved_views_round_trip_and_from_a_file_are_tidied` (`crates/format/tests/prop_format.rs`), `crates/engine/src/cmd/views.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/edit_views.rs` and `every_saved_view_is_listed_at_the_bottom_of_the_view_menu` (`crates/ui-egui/src/menus.rs`).
 - **Window › Arrange › Tile (G7):** Tile (`window.arrange.tile`) shows every open document at once, edge to edge in the document area ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/viewing-artwork.html)), one pane each in a grid of as many columns as the square root of the number of documents, rounded up, each fitted to its pane. The current document's pane is the canvas; the other panes draw their documents with their artboards, guides and selected objects, and a press in one makes its document the current one. Consolidate All Windows (`window.arrange.consolidateAllWindows`) shows one document under its tab again. The grid and when the two items are enabled (Tile with two documents or more, Consolidate All Windows while they are tiled) are VectorCraft's own. Tests: `crates/ui-egui/src/canvas/panes/tests.rs`.
-- **Window › Arrange › Tile (G7):** Tile (`window.arrange.tile`) shows every open document at once, edge to edge in the document area ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/viewing-artwork.html): "Tile displays windows edge to edge"), one pane each in a grid of as many columns as the square root of the number of documents, rounded up, each fitted to its pane. The current document's pane is the canvas; the other panes draw their documents with their artboards, guides and selected objects, and a press in one makes its document the current one. Consolidate All Windows (`window.arrange.consolidateAllWindows`) shows one document under its tab again. The grid and when the two items are enabled (Tile with two documents or more, Consolidate All Windows while they are tiled) are VectorCraft's own. Tests: `crates/ui-egui/src/canvas/panes/tests.rs`.
-- **Window › Arrange › Float in Window, Float All in Windows and Cascade (G7):** documents float in windows of their own, out of the tab strip ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/customizing-workspace.html): "drag the window's tab out of the group"). Float in Window (`window.arrange.floatInWindow`) floats the current document, Float All in Windows (`window.arrange.floatAllInWindows`) every tabbed one, and Cascade (`window.arrange.cascade`) floats every document and stacks the windows from the upper left to the lower right ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/viewing-artwork.html): "Cascade displays windows stacked and descending from the upper-left to the lower-right of the screen"). On the desktop each window is an OS window; on the web and on Wayland it is a window inside the app's window. The window of the current document holds the canvas; the others draw their documents as Tile's panes do, and a press in one makes its document the current one. Closing a window closes its document, asking to save unsaved changes. Consolidate All Windows brings every document back under the tabs, and Tile brings them back into its grid. The cascade's 30 pt step, the windows' size and when the items are enabled (Cascade with two documents or more, Float in Window for a tabbed current document, Float All in Windows while a document is tabbed, Consolidate All Windows while documents are tiled or floating) are VectorCraft's own. Tests: `crates/ui-egui/src/doc_windows/tests.rs`.
-- **Dragging a document tab out and a document window back (G7):** a document tab dragged more than 24 pt above or below the tab strip floats its document in a window under the pointer, and a document window dragged onto the tab strip goes back under the tabs ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/customizing-workspace.html): "To undock (float or untab) a Document window from a group of windows, drag the window’s tab out of the group. To dock a Document window to a separate group of Document windows, drag the window into the group."). A window inside the app's window is dragged by its title bar; an OS window by the document's tab at its top, and the window follows the pointer. The 24 pt distance and the tab at the top of an OS window are VectorCraft's own. Tests: `crates/ui-egui/src/doc_windows/tests.rs`.
-- **Preferences › User Interface › Open Documents As Tabs (G7, #394):** checked by default, documents open under tabs in one document window ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/get-started/learn-the-basics/workspace-overview.html): "When you create or open documents, they are arranged in tabs in a single document window"). With the box cleared, each document opened or created afterwards opens in a floating window of its own, at the next cascade place, as Float in Window floats it; documents already open stay where they are, and checking the box again leaves floating documents in their windows. Tests: `crates/ui-egui/src/doc_windows/tests.rs`.
+- **Window › Arrange › Tile (G7):** Tile (`window.arrange.tile`) shows every open document at once, edge to edge in the document area ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/viewing-artwork.html)), one pane each in a grid of as many columns as the square root of the number of documents, rounded up, each fitted to its pane. The current document's pane is the canvas; the other panes draw their documents with their artboards, guides and selected objects, and a press in one makes its document the current one. Consolidate All Windows (`window.arrange.consolidateAllWindows`) shows one document under its tab again. The grid and when the two items are enabled (Tile with two documents or more, Consolidate All Windows while they are tiled) are VectorCraft's own. Tests: `crates/ui-egui/src/canvas/panes/tests.rs`.
+- **Window › Arrange › Float in Window, Float All in Windows and Cascade (G7):** documents float in windows of their own, out of the tab strip ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/customizing-workspace.html)). Float in Window (`window.arrange.floatInWindow`) floats the current document, Float All in Windows (`window.arrange.floatAllInWindows`) every tabbed one, and Cascade (`window.arrange.cascade`) floats every document and stacks the windows from the upper left to the lower right ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/viewing-artwork.html)). On the desktop each window is an OS window; on the web and on Wayland it is a window inside the app's window. The window of the current document holds the canvas; the others draw their documents as Tile's panes do, and a press in one makes its document the current one. Closing a window closes its document, asking to save unsaved changes. Consolidate All Windows brings every document back under the tabs, and Tile brings them back into its grid. The cascade's 30 pt step, the windows' size and when the items are enabled (Cascade with two documents or more, Float in Window for a tabbed current document, Float All in Windows while a document is tabbed, Consolidate All Windows while documents are tiled or floating) are VectorCraft's own. Tests: `crates/ui-egui/src/doc_windows/tests.rs`.
+- **Dragging a document tab out and a document window back (G7):** a document tab dragged more than 24 pt above or below the tab strip floats its document in a window under the pointer, and a document window dragged onto the tab strip goes back under the tabs ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/customizing-workspace.html)). A window inside the app's window is dragged by its title bar; an OS window by the document's tab at its top, and the window follows the pointer. The 24 pt distance and the tab at the top of an OS window are VectorCraft's own. Tests: `crates/ui-egui/src/doc_windows/tests.rs`.
+- **Preferences › User Interface › Open Documents As Tabs (G7, #394):** checked by default, documents open under tabs in one document window ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/get-started/learn-the-basics/workspace-overview.html)). With the box cleared, each document opened or created afterwards opens in a floating window of its own, at the next cascade place, as Float in Window floats it; documents already open stay where they are, and checking the box again leaves floating documents in their windows. Tests: `crates/ui-egui/src/doc_windows/tests.rs`.
+- **Window › New Window (G7, #4116):** New Window (`window.newWindow`) opens another view of the current document ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/viewing-artwork.html) describes showing one document in several windows at once), with its own zoom, center, rotation, artboard and Outline or Preview, as a tab of its own; an edit in one view shows in every view. Tile, Cascade, Float in Window, Float All in Windows and Consolidate All Windows arrange each view as they arrange a document, and Next and Previous Document step through the views. Closing a view leaves the document open; closing its last view closes the document, asking to save it first. The view's number after the name in its tab ("Name:2", while the document has more than one view) is VectorCraft's own. Tests: `crates/ui-egui/src/doc_windows/tests.rs`.
 
 - **Document Setup modal handoff:** Document Setup → Edit Artboards applies valid settings, closes the dialog and activates the Artboard tool. Pointer-click tests cover successful handoff, invalid settings, OK, Cancel and Undo in `dialogs/document_setup.rs`.
 - **Control bar with the Artboard tool:** while the Artboard tool is in use, the Control bar shows the active artboard's controls in place of the object controls: Preset, Portrait and Landscape, New Artboard, Delete Artboard, the Name field, Artboard Options, Rearrange All Artboards, the Transform link, Move and Scale Artwork with Artboard and, while the bar has room, the reference point with X and Y, and W and H with the Constrain Width and Height Proportions link. Each runs the command its Properties or Transform panel counterpart runs (`artboard.setProps`, `artboard.new`, `artboard.delete`, `tool.options {tool: "artboard"}`), and the reference point is the one the Transform panel uses. In an 800-point window the controls up to the Transform link fit, Move and Scale Artwork with Artboard show as their boxes alone with their names in tooltips, and the link opens the Transform panel with the artboard's position and size. Pointer and key tests in `panels/artboards.rs` cover the controls, W about the reference point, the orientation and the name. Public reference: [Using multiple artboards](https://web.archive.org/web/20210925094818/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/using-multiple-artboards.html) (archived copy).
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   - Variables: when no object is bound to a variable that the data set has a value for, for example after Import Data Sets… defines new variables without binding them, choosing the data set in the Variables panel or stepping to it with the panel's arrows shows a status message, and `dataset.select`, `dataset.next` and `dataset.prev` add the message to the reply as `warning`.
   - Variables: Lock Variables (`variable.lock`, in the Variables panel's bottom bar and menu) stops variables from being defined, deleted or renamed until they are unlocked, while objects can still be bound and unbound and data sets still change and apply; the lock is saved with the document.
   - Batch…: Override Save and Override Export name each file with the extension of the format the step writes, however the step spells the format (`.svg` and `SVG` give `.svg`, `png8` gives `.png`), in `action.batch`.
-  - Actions panel menu: Save Actions… writes the current action set with all its actions to a file, and Load Actions… adds the set from such a file to the panel ([Manage a set of actions](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/manage-a-set-of-actions.html): "Select Save Actions from the Actions panel menu", "You can save only the entire contents of a set", "Select Load Actions from the Actions panel menu"; `ui.actionSet.save`, `ui.actionSet.load`). The file is VectorCraft's own action set file (`.vcactions`); a loaded set named like one in the panel gets the next free number.
+  - Actions panel menu: Save Actions… writes the current action set with all its actions to a file, and Load Actions… adds the set from such a file to the panel ([Manage a set of actions](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/manage-a-set-of-actions.html); `ui.actionSet.save`, `ui.actionSet.load`). The file is VectorCraft's own action set file (`.vcactions`); a loaded set named like one in the panel gets the next free number.
   - Actions panel: the panel menu's Action Options… renames the selected action and keeps its steps ([Actions panel overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/actions-panel-overview.html): the menu item opens a dialog that renames the action or gives it a function key and color; `ui.action.options`). It also sets the action's function key and color.
   - Actions panel: Create New Action (bottom bar) and the panel menu's New Action… ask for the new action's name, set, function key and color, and Record adds the action and starts recording into it ([Create new actions](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/record-actions.html): the New Action dialog takes the action's name and the set it goes in; `ui.action.new`, `ui.action.play`). The function key (F1 to F15, with Ctrl or Command and Shift) plays the action. An action's function key plays the action even when a command has the same shortcut, and the command keeps it. VectorCraft's own rules, which the page does not cover: when several actions have the same key the first in panel order plays; a copied action has no key; New Action does not open while an action is recording. The color is kept with the action for Button Mode, which VectorCraft does not have yet.
   - Actions panel (record/playback, persisted), generic parameter dialogs for every "…" command.
   - Actions panel: the current set is kept with the UI preferences, so after a restart a recording goes into the set that was current, not into the first set. With no set current, Begin Recording records into the first set and makes it current.
-  - Actions panel: Delete Selection deletes the selected action set with its actions and keeps the other sets ([Actions panel overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/actions-panel-overview.html): "Removes the selected action, command, or action set from the panel"; `ui.actionSet.delete`). VectorCraft's own rules, which the overview does not cover: deleting a set asks first, Shift-click on a set's name selects a range of sets to delete together, the panel menu's Delete does the same, and Default Actions and the last set can be deleted. Undo does not bring a deleted set back.
-  - Actions panel: the panel menu's Duplicate copies the selected action, else the current action set with all its actions ([Actions panel overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/actions-panel-overview.html): "Makes a copy of the selected action or set."; `ui.actionSet.duplicate`). VectorCraft's own rules, which the overview does not cover: the copy goes right after the original, is named after it with " copy" added and is selected.
+  - Actions panel: expand an action to show its recorded steps, then clear a step's checkmark to keep it in the action but skip it during playback. The action and set checkmarks include or exclude all their steps; a mixed checkmark includes all. Alt/Option-clicking a step checkmark keeps that step as it was and applies the opposite inclusion state to the other steps in its action. This follows the public [Exclude commands from an action](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/exclude-commands-from-actions.html) guide; the scope of the mixed-state and Alt-click behavior is VectorCraft's design. The exclusion survives UI restart, action duplication, and `.vcactions` save/load. Existing version 1 action set files load with every step included.
+  - Actions panel: the panel menu's Playback Options… sets how actions play: Accelerated (the default) plays every step at once, Step by Step plays one step at a time with the canvas drawn after each, and Pause For waits the given number of seconds between steps ([Specify playback speed](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/specify-playback-speed.html); `ui.action.playbackOptions`). VectorCraft's own rules, which the page does not cover: the pause is a whole number of seconds from 1 to 60, the setting is kept with the UI preferences, a paced playback ends at Stop Playing/Recording or when a step comes due while another document is active, each step of a paced playback is its own undo step, and Batch… plays at full speed.
+  - Actions panel: Delete Selection deletes the selected action set with its actions and keeps the other sets ([Actions panel overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/actions-panel-overview.html); `ui.actionSet.delete`). VectorCraft's own rules, which the overview does not cover: deleting a set asks first, Shift-click on a set's name selects a range of sets to delete together, the panel menu's Delete does the same, and Default Actions and the last set can be deleted. Undo does not bring a deleted set back.
+  - Actions panel: the panel menu's Duplicate copies the selected action, else the current action set with all its actions ([Actions panel overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/actions-panel-overview.html); `ui.actionSet.duplicate`). VectorCraft's own rules, which the overview does not cover: the copy goes right after the original, is named after it with " copy" added and is selected.
   - Batch… over data sets names each file after the document and the data set (`action.batch`). It writes `/`, `\`, `:`, `<`, `>`, `"`, `|`, `?`, `*` and control characters in the data set's name as `-`, and adds `-2`, `-3`… to a name an earlier data set used.
   - Batch… offers File + Number, File + Data Set Name, and Data Set Name for a Data Sets source. The dialog defaults to File + Number; `action.batch` without `datasetFileNaming` keeps File + Data Set Name. An output already in a destination folder the batch may read and write gets the next free `-2`, `-3` suffix. [Batch options](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/batch-options.html).
   - Export for Screens: the dialog's Example line shows the path of the file the export writes first, sub-folder included, named as the export names it, for the first chosen artboard, asset, layer or object (`document.exportForScreens`).
@@ -603,7 +617,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
   - A click on another object moves the contextual task bar under it without hiding it for the press; it gives way only to a drag (#4681).
   - With one image selected, the contextual task bar offers Image Trace, which traces the image at once with the Default preset (the Image Trace panel is left as it was), and Crop Image; with an Image Trace object it offers Expand, which keeps only the traced paths. This follows Illustrator's bar: for a selected image it includes Image Trace, Retype and Crop Image, and traced artwork can be expanded from it ([Contextual Task Bar announcement](https://community.adobe.com/announcements-651/contextual-task-bar-in-illustrator-2025-quick-actions-when-you-need-them-1546580)). Offset Path and Simplify, which don't apply to an image, aren't offered for one. Not done: Retype, which the app doesn't have.
   - With the Artboard tool, the contextual task bar sits under the selected artboards and offers Resize (Artboard Options for the active artboard), Duplicate (each selected artboard, in one undo step, the copies then selected), Rearrange All (with two or more artboards) and Export (Export for Screens with the selected artboards checked). This follows Illustrator's bar: while the Artboard tool is in use, it has options for resizing, duplicating and exporting artboards (the [Contextual Task Bar announcement](https://community.adobe.com/questions-652/contextual-task-bar-in-illustrator-2025-quick-actions-when-you-need-them-1546580); Rearrange and Export on the bar: [Managing Artboards in Illustrator](https://creativepro.com/managing-artboards-in-illustrator/)).
-  - The contextual task bar offers more next steps by selection (<https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/get-started/learn-the-basics/contextual-task-bar-overview.html>): an open path Join and Edit Path (the Direct Selection tool), a closed path Edit Path, a compound path Edit Path and Release Compound Path, a clipping group Edit Clipping Path and Release Clipping Mask instead of Ungroup and Isolate, an image selected with vector art Make Clipping Mask instead of Unite, and point or area type Convert To Area Type or Convert To Point Type beside Create Outlines. Evidence: `crates/ui-egui/src/tests/taskbar.rs`.
+  - The contextual task bar offers more next steps by selection (<https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/get-started/learn-the-basics/contextual-task-bar-overview.html>): an open path Join and Edit Path (the Direct Selection tool), a closed path Edit Path, a compound path Edit Path and Release Compound Path, a clipping group Edit Clipping Path and Release Clipping Mask instead of Ungroup and Isolate, an image selected with vector art Make Clipping Mask instead of Unite, point or area type Convert To Area Type or Convert To Point Type beside Create Outlines, and type on a path, for which the overview names an item to add an effect and rearrange the text, Type on a Path Options (`type.pathOptions`; its options: <https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/creating-type-path.html>) beside Create Outlines. Evidence: `crates/ui-egui/src/tests/taskbar.rs`.
   - With a live rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse or polygon selected with the Selection tool, the contextual task bar shows a Shape Properties button in place of Lock. It opens a popup with the shape's rows from the Transform panel (corner radius, pie angles, or sides, angle, corner and radius), which edit it through `object.setLiveShape`. The overview describes this: when a shape drawn with a shape tool (Rectangle, Star) is selected, the bar offers to change its properties where Lock Object would be ([Contextual Task Bar overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/get-started/learn-the-basics/contextual-task-bar-overview.html)). Object › Lock and ⌘2 still lock the shape. Not done: stars, which the app draws as plain paths. Evidence: `a_basic_shape_shows_its_properties_in_place_of_lock`, `the_shape_properties_popup_edits_the_shape` and `other_selections_keep_lock` in `crates/ui-egui/src/tests/taskbar.rs`.
   - The contextual task bar has a Stroke chip beside the Fill chip, drawn with the paint the Stroke proxy shows (a "?" when the selected objects' strokes differ, as on the Fill chip); a click brings the Stroke proxy forward and shows the Swatches panel wherever it is docked, floating or closed, as a click on the Fill chip does for the Fill proxy. The reference app's bar has Fill and Stroke controls for changing an object's colors ([Contextual Task Bar overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/get-started/learn-the-basics/contextual-task-bar-overview.html)). Evidence: `the_task_bar_shows_a_stroke_chip_beside_fill` and `the_task_bar_chips_follow_the_proxies_and_show_swatches_anywhere` in `crates/ui-egui/src/canvas/tests.rs`.
   - With anchor points selected with Direct Selection, the contextual task bar offers Remove Anchor Points, Connect (`path.join`), Cut Path, Corner and Smooth (`path.convertAnchors` with `to` set to `corner` or `smooth`), the commands of the Control bar's anchor buttons. As in Illustrator, whose bar has items that delete the selected anchors, join selected end points, split the path at the selected anchors, and make the selected anchors corner or smooth points ([Contextual Task Bar overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/get-started/learn-the-basics/contextual-task-bar-overview.html)). Not done: Simplify, which the bar offers only while no anchors are selected, and the bar's Smooth item that adjusts a path's curvature, a command the app doesn't have (Object › Path › Smooth).
@@ -614,7 +628,8 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
   - Screen readers get the value of the color and channel sliders that panels and dialogs draw (the Color panel, the Color Picker, Swatch Options, the Navigator's Zoom, the Character panel's variable font axes, the Perspective Grid and flattener options, and the sliders of the effect, tool option and transform dialogs): the number and text of the field beside each one, such as 128 for G or 50% for an opacity, with the slider's range, which extends to include a number past the slider's end. The harmony wheel's Brightness slider, which has no field, reports its brightness in percent.
   - Panels undock (#495): a dock tab, a panel icon or a popped-out panel's title dragged out of the dock floats that panel (in an OS window of its own on the desktop, #4135), and the strip right of the dock's tabs floats the whole tabbed group. A floating group moves by its title bar, a tab dragged out of it floats on its own, and dropped on another group's title bar or tabs it stacks with that group; dropped on a dock group's tabs, which light up under the pointer, its panels join that group, and on the group's upper or lower half they make a new group above or below it (`window.panel.dock {anchor, zone}`); dropped on the icon column they become icons there, the tabbed group's panels too (`window.panel.dock {icon: true}`); dropped anywhere else on the dock, which lights up, they go back where they live (the tabbed group or the icon column), as its × and the panel menus' Float Panel / Dock Panel do (`window.panel.float`, `window.panel.dock`). The Tools panel floats by its title bar and docks again on the window's left edge. Floating groups stack into sets: dropped on the upper or lower half of another group (a line shows where), a group joins it right above or below it, and the set's groups stack top to bottom, each showing one panel, moving together by the top group's title bar, whose × docks them all; a group dragged by its tab strip leaves the set (`window.panel.float {below, above}`). A double-click on a tab collapses a floating group to its tabs (`collapsed`), and a dock group too, a group below it moving up into the room; a second double-click, or a click on another of its tabs, expands it (`window.panel.collapse`, kept with the preferences and in saved workspaces). Sets dropped on the left edge of the icon column or of another dock column dock as dock columns (a multi-column dock, `window.panel.dock {column}`), whose groups stack, tab and tear out as a floating set's do, and whose top strip floats the column again. Floating panels, their sets and the Tools panel's position are kept with the preferences and in user workspaces, and clamped into a smaller window. Not done: panels in separate OS windows, reordering tabs by dragging, collapsing a set or dock column to icons, dock columns right of the default dock, resizing floating panels and the groups of a set.
   - The dock's double arrow collapses Properties, Layers and Libraries to icons at the top of the icon column, popping out like the other icon panels, and expands them again (`window.collapseDock`, kept with the preferences and in saved workspaces). The icon column's own arrow (expanding the icon panels into a full column) is not done.
-  - Window › Toolbars › New Toolbar… and New Toolbar… in the All Tools drawer's menu ask for a name and make a blank toolbar that floats on its own, moved by its title bar and listed under Window › Toolbars, whose item shows or hides it. The title bar's × hides it, and its double arrow shows its tools in one column or two. Its ••• button opens the All Tools drawer beside it, and tools dragged from the drawer fill it. The toolbars are kept with the workspace they were made in: switching workspaces shows that workspace's toolbars, Reset Workspace keeps them, and New Workspace starts the new workspace with a copy of them (<https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/tools.html>; `window.toolbar.new`, `window.toolbar.custom`, the `toolbar` param of `window.editToolbar` and `toolbar.addTool`/`removeTool`/`reset`; `tools_added_to_a_new_toolbar_survive_a_workspace_reload`). Manage Toolbars is not done.
+  - Window › Toolbars › New Toolbar… and New Toolbar… in the All Tools drawer's menu ask for a name and make a blank toolbar that floats on its own, moved by its title bar and listed under Window › Toolbars, whose item shows or hides it. The title bar's × hides it, and its double arrow shows its tools in one column or two. Its ••• button opens the All Tools drawer beside it, and tools dragged from the drawer fill it. The toolbars are kept with the workspace they were made in: switching workspaces shows that workspace's toolbars, Reset Workspace keeps them, and New Workspace starts the new workspace with a copy of them (<https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/tools.html>; `window.toolbar.new`, `window.toolbar.custom`, the `toolbar` param of `window.editToolbar` and `toolbar.addTool`/`removeTool`/`reset`; `tools_added_to_a_new_toolbar_survive_a_workspace_reload`).
+  - Window › Toolbars › Manage Toolbars… and Manage Toolbars… in the All Tools drawer's menu open a dialog that lists the toolbars made with New Toolbar: a new name typed for the selected toolbar renames it, + copies it with its tools (with none selected, + makes a blank toolbar), and the trash can deletes it. Each change shows under Window › Toolbars and stays in the workspace (<https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/tools.html>; `window.toolbar.manage`, `window.toolbar.rename`, `window.toolbar.duplicate`, `window.toolbar.delete`; `manage_toolbars_renames_duplicates_and_deletes`).
   - Czech render-site labels: desktop/web file filters, diagnostics, suggested preset names and contributor tooltips/plurals now use catalog lookups; gradients have Czech adjective agreement and printer marks have a separate context (PDF/Print and Summary). Search, Home, toolbar/panel tooltips and Preferences already look up their labels. Every complete catalog has rows for these labels and for the Roman and Japanese printer mark styles. Evidence: `i18n::tests::czech_render_site_follow_up`, `i18n::tests::complete_catalogs_translate_render_site_labels`, `dialogs::tests_modal::printer_mark_labels_are_distinct_from_language_names`; see [localization-parity.md](localization-parity.md).
   - The History panel, Edit › Undo and Edit › Redo translate the names of the steps that apply or redefine a character or paragraph style and of the step that redefines a graphic style: each such step keeps its template (`Apply {name}`, `Redefine {name}`, `Redefine Graphic Style “{name}”`) and the style's name, every complete catalog has a row for each template, and the panel and the menu show the style's name as the document holds it, except the Normal styles' names, which they show in the interface language (`steps_named_after_a_style_list_the_template_around_the_name`, `undo_and_redo_name_a_style_step_around_the_style_name`).
   - Localised UI: menus (in-window and native), panels, dialogs, toolbar and Preferences read from per-language catalogs (`crates/ui-egui/src/i18n`, see `docs/development.md`); Traditional Chinese (Taiwan), Simplified Chinese (mainland), Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, Georgian and Catalan ship complete, and Czech covers every menu label (and more), with system-locale detection on macOS, Windows, Linux and the web (the browser's languages, or `?lang=`), a Language preference and, on macOS, a VectorCraft ▸ Language menu. Names are never translated (fonts and their styles, layers, artboards, saved presets, user libraries, custom workspaces, recent files, plug-ins).
@@ -635,12 +650,13 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
   - 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`.
-  - **9-slice scaling** ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/maintain-proportions-while-scaling-symbols.html): "When you scale the symbol, the parts of the symbol that don't lie within the guides are not scaled."): 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": "guides are placed at 25% (or 1/4)"); 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).
+  - **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`.
   - Symbol editing mode keeps every instance in step: instances of a dynamic symbol inside other symbols' art, pattern tiles, graph designs, stored brushes and opacity masks keep their appearance changes on the objects an edit reorders and drop the changes to objects it deletes. The view does not draw the instance the edit was entered from. Area type in the symbol's art takes the text wrap that moving a wrap object gives it. Editing another symbol at a place that fails keeps the current edit open, and only the editing layer or art on it can be isolated. Tests: `crates/engine/src/tests/symboledit.rs`, `isolation::symbol_editing_does_not_draw_the_instance_it_was_entered_from`, `panels::symbols::tests::double_clicking_a_symbol_in_the_panel_edits_it_in_either_view`, `the_panel_menus_edit_symbol_edits_the_instances_symbol_or_the_panels`, `the_control_bars_edit_symbol_edits_the_selected_instances_symbol`, `chrome::tests::the_control_bar_exits_symbol_editing_mode`.
   - **9-slice guides on the canvas** ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/maintain-proportions-while-scaling-symbols.html)): while a symbol with Enable Guides for 9-Slice Scaling on is edited in symbol editing mode, the canvas draws its two horizontal and two vertical guides as dotted lines across its art, with any tool and with ruler guides hidden. With the Selection tool the pointer near a guide shows the Move cursor, and dragging the guide moves it (`symbol.options`'s `nineSliceGuides`) as one undo step; Escape during the drag puts it back. VectorCraft's own rules: a guide within 4 screen pixels takes the press before the art and the bounding box; it stays within the art's box (guides outside the art are not supported yet) and stops short of the opposite guide; the drag does not snap. Tests: `nineslice::tests`, `symbol_nine_slice::tests::the_edited_symbols_guides_cross_its_art_where_the_editing_layer_shows_it`, `a_moved_guide_stays_in_the_art_and_short_of_the_opposite_guide`, `canvas::tests::the_edited_symbols_nine_slice_guides_are_drawn_and_dragged_on_the_canvas`.
   - **Delete Symbol asks first** ([Symbols panel](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/symbols-panel-options.html), [symbol libraries](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/create-or-import-symbol-libraries.html), [Alt-click Delete](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html)): the Symbols panel's Delete Symbol button and menu item ask "Delete the selected symbol?" with Yes and No for a symbol no instance uses. For a symbol with placed instances they ask with Expand Instances (the instances become ordinary art), Delete Instances and Cancel; either Instances button deletes the symbol in one undo step. Alt-click on the button deletes an unused symbol without asking and still asks about one with instances. A question left open while another document became active deletes nothing. `symbol.delete` itself does not ask. Tests: `panels::symbols::tests::delete_symbol_asks_first_and_alt_click_deletes_an_unused_symbol_at_once`, `the_in_use_question_expands_or_deletes_the_instances`, `a_stale_delete_symbol_question_deletes_nothing`, `the_delete_symbol_questions_show_their_buttons`.
   - **Symbols › Select All Unused** ([Symbols panel](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/symbols-panel-options.html), #4918): the Symbols panel menu's Select All Unused shows the symbols nothing places selected (`symbol.unused`): instances in the art (opacity masks included), graph designs, pattern tiles and brush art count, and so do instances in a used symbol's art. Delete Symbol, the button or the menu item, then asks "Delete the selected symbols?" once and deletes those still unused in one undo step (`symbol.delete {names}`); Alt-click on the button deletes them without asking, and a click on a symbol picks just it again. Tests: `tests::brushsym::symbol_unused_lists_the_symbols_nothing_places_and_delete_takes_several`, `panels::symbols::tests::select_all_unused_picks_the_unused_symbols_and_delete_deletes_them`, `dialogs::symbol_delete::tests::several_symbols_get_the_plural_question`.
+  - **Expand of symbol instances:** Object › Expand turns selected symbol instances (without effects, not in perspective, in groups or placed documents too) into their art as Break Link to Symbol places it, one level deep, as one undo step; the Expand dialog's Fill and Stroke reach that art (`object.expand`, `crates/engine/src/tests/expand_symbols.rs`; estimated, score unchanged).
   - **Brush libraries** ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/apply-and-edit-strokes/create-new-brush-libraries.html), [import](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/apply-and-edit-strokes/import-brushes-from-brush-libraries-or-other-files.html), [Brushes panel](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/apply-and-edit-strokes/brushes-panel-overview.html)): Window › Brush Libraries, the Brushes panel's Brush Libraries Menu and its menu's Open Brush Library open each library in a library panel of its own, as swatch, graphic style and symbol libraries do. The built-in libraries (Art Ribbons, Calligraphic Nibs, Pattern Borders, Scatter Shapes) are original brushes generated in code (`crates/engine/src/cmd/brushlib.rs`); Striped Ribbon's art is filled with the library's own pattern and Sparkles scatters the library's own symbol. A click on a brush adds it to the document's Brushes as one undo step with every resource its art uses (patterns, symbols, swatches, graphic styles, images), makes it the current brush and, with paths selected, applies it to them in the same step; a brush the document already has is not added again and a different brush of the same name comes in numbered ("Wave 2"). Shift/Cmd-clicks select brushes for Add to Brushes; a brush dragged onto a path is added and applied to it, and one dragged onto the Brushes panel is added. Save Brushes… / the Brushes panel's Save Brush Library… write the document's brushes (or the selected ones) as a `.vectorcraft` library into the `Brushes` folder next to the preferences, listed under User Defined, or to a file; Other Library… reads the brushes of any document VectorCraft opens. Thumbnails, in the library panels, the Brushes panel and Brush Options, render brush art with the patterns and symbols it uses. Copying brushed art now carries the patterns and symbols its brush's art uses too. Tests: `crates/engine/src/tests/brushlib.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/panels/tests_brush_libraries.rs`, `panels::brushes::tests::library_brush_previews_show_the_patterns_their_art_uses`, `canvas::tests::a_library_brush_dropped_on_a_path_is_added_and_applied_in_one_step`.
   - A canvas context menu: right-click selects the object under the pointer and lists what applies to the selection (Undo/Redo, clipboard, group, isolation, join, Remove Anchor Points when anchors are selected, masks, compound paths, guides, Transform, Arrange, Select, Export Selection), or the view commands on empty canvas.
   - A right-click over locked objects adds an Unlock submenu to the canvas context menu. The submenu lists up to 20 locked objects under the pointer, topmost first, by the name the Layers panel shows, and choosing one unlocks it (`layer.setProps`). A locked group is listed as one item. Objects on hidden, locked or template layers are not listed.
@@ -673,7 +689,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
   - Shift+Tab (`window.panels`) shows and hides the dock and the floating panels and leaves the toolbar and the Control bar as they are; hiding the panels with Tab or Shift+Tab also closes a panel popped out of the icon column.
   - The second Tab (`window.dock`) shows again only the bars the first Tab hid, after a restart too: a Control bar that was off stays off, a toolbar hidden with Window › Tools stays hidden, and panels shown with Shift+Tab in between stay shown.
   - The function key shortcuts for Brushes, Color, Layers, Info, Gradient, Stroke, Attributes, Graphic Styles, Appearance, Align, Transform, Pathfinder, Transparency, and Symbols activate a background tab on the first press, hide its expanded dock or floating group when that tab is in front, and restore the group with all its tabs together on the next press; in an icon column they open and close the flyout while keeping the icons. A reassigned chord keeps that behavior, and Window > a hidden sibling restores the group.
-  - Cmd/Ctrl+A follows the keyboard: in a panel, dialog or search field it selects the field's text, while the Type tool edits it selects all of that text (also `select.all` over MCP), and only otherwise every object. On macOS the menu bar's Select All, Cut, Copy and Paste (keys or clicks) act on a focused field too, and elsewhere the in-window menus' do: the field that had the keyboard when the menu opened gets them, with its selection, and the keyboard back (#516). Not yet: Select All across threaded frames (one frame's text is selected).
+  - Cmd/Ctrl+A follows the keyboard: in a panel, dialog or search field it selects the field's text, while the Type tool edits it selects all of that text (also `select.all` over MCP), and only otherwise every object. On macOS the menu bar's Select All, Cut, Copy and Paste (keys or clicks) act on a focused field too, and elsewhere the in-window menus' do: the field that had the keyboard when the menu opened gets them, with its selection, and the keyboard back (#516). In a frame of threaded text, Select All selects the whole story, highlighted in every frame: Copy and Cut take all of it, typing or Delete replaces it as one undo step, and a fill, a size step or a Character or Paragraph panel change applies to every frame's text (VectorCraft's own behavior; `textedit::select_all_in_a_threaded_frame_selects_the_whole_story`, `textedit::typing_over_the_whole_story_replaces_every_frames_text_in_one_step`).
   - While the Type tool edits text, a character typed with AltGr is typed and runs no command. Firefox on Windows reports AltGr as Ctrl and Alt held, so in the web build AltGr+L (ł on a Polish layout) does not also open Layer Options for a new layer, and AltGr+Q (@ on a German layout) does not also run Reset Tracking and Kerning. A Ctrl+Alt chord that types no character runs its command.
   - On a layout without Latin letters, a one-key shortcut goes by the position of the key that typed the character, in the web build too, where the character arrives before its key press: on a Russian layout the P key (`з`) chooses the Pen, and two keys pressed in one frame each run their own shortcut.
   - With the Artboard tool, Cmd/Ctrl+A after a click on a row of the Artboards panel selects every artboard, as the macOS menu bar's Select All does then; the active artboard stays active, and the art's selection does not change. After a press outside the panel's list, Cmd/Ctrl+A selects every object again. It used to select every object after a click in the panel too. Public reference: [Select artboards](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/create-manage-artboards/add-edit-artboards/select-artboards.html).
@@ -685,7 +701,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
   - F8 (`ui.symbolOptions`) opens Symbol Options for a new symbol made from the selection, as the Symbols panel's New Symbol button does, on the key the reference app's [Default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) page lists for making a new symbol. OK makes the symbol and puts an instance of it in place of the art, and Cancel makes none. With nothing selected, F8 opens no dialog, and the status bar says that nothing is selected. Shift+F8 and Cmd/Ctrl+F8 still show the Transform and Info panels.
   - Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+X (`type.resetHorizontalScale`) sets the horizontal scale of the selected type, or of the text the Type tool has selected, to 100% as the Character panel shows it (the object's own stretch included), in one undo step; at a caret it leaves the text as it is.
   - Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+U (`type.underline`) underlines the selected type, or the text the Type tool has selected, and removes the underline again, as the Character panel's Underline button does. Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+Shift+C (`type.lineComposer`) switches the paragraphs between the Single-line and the Every-line Composer, and Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+Shift+H (`type.hyphenate`) turns their hyphenation on and off, as the Hyphenate checkbox does. These are the keys the reference app's [Default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) page lists for underlining and for toggling auto-hyphenation, and on Windows for toggling the line composer. The page's macOS key for the line composer ends after Command, and VectorCraft uses C there as well.
-  - Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+N (`file.newWithoutDialog`) makes a document without opening the New Document dialog, on the key the reference app's [Default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) page lists for making a new document with no New Document dialog box. The page does not say which settings the document gets. VectorCraft gives it the settings the dialog opens on (the first Recent entry, or the Print category's Letter while Recent is empty) and the next untitled name.
+  - Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+N (`file.newWithoutDialog`) makes a document without opening the New Document dialog, on the key the reference app's [Default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) page assigns to creating a document directly. The page does not say which settings the document gets. VectorCraft gives it the settings the dialog opens on (the first Recent entry, or the Print category's Letter while Recent is empty) and the next untitled name.
   - Cmd/Ctrl+F6 (`window.nextDocument`) and Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+F6 (`window.previousDocument`) make the next and the previous open document the current one, in tab order and as a click on its tab does, on the keys the reference app's [Default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) page lists for navigating to the next and the previous document. After the last document comes the first, and before the first document comes the last. From the Home screen the keys go to the first and the last document. Keyboard Shortcuts lists both under Window.
   - Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+Shift+U (`document.switchUnits`) switches the document to the next unit of measurement, in one undo step, on the key the reference app's [Default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) page lists for switching units of measurement. The page does not give an order. VectorCraft steps through the units in the order a right-click on a ruler lists them (Points, Picas, Inches, Millimeters, Centimeters, Pixels, Feet & Inches, Meters, Yards, Feet) and goes from Feet back to Points.
   - Shortcut sets other apps save as text (`.kys`) open in Import Shortcut Set from File › Open, from Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts › Import… in the desktop app, or from a drop on the window. It matches each entry to a tool, command or panel by name and decodes the file's key and modifier codes where VectorCraft's default shortcuts agree on them; the user answers the rest, and Apply fills the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog's working set. The answers are kept with the preferences for the next import (`shortcutSet.read`, `importMatches.*`).
@@ -698,10 +714,13 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
   - **Shaper:** uneven squares and rectangles become live rectangles even when drawing begins mid-edge. Recognition uses uniformly spaced samples and closed-loop corners, fits rectangle edges/angles rather than requiring a nearly perfect bounding-box fill, and includes the pointer-release position. Rectangles/squares and ellipses snap to 45° steps, hexagons to 90°, and triangles point up or down; lines keep their free angle even with Shift. Shaper Groups retain the live originals, merge regions with the gesture-origin fill, punch fills independently from strokes, remove boundaries on exiting scribbles and trim protruding stroke pieces. Source moves/resizes re-evaluate the result in the same undo step; double-click enters construction editing, and with the Shaper or Selection tool a click on the arrow widget beside a Shaper Group's original shapes switches the group between Face Selection and Construction mode. Native save/reopen, face recoloring, Release and Expand are covered. Finer gesture heuristics remain.
     In Construction mode, a Selection-tool drag that drops an original shape wholly outside the bounds of the group's original shapes takes it out of the group in the move's undo step (Remove from Shaper Group, `shaper.releaseSource`): the shape becomes a path above the group and stays selected, and a group left with no shapes is removed. Engine tests drag a shape out of a two-shape group and back across the bounds, take the last shape out, undo, and save the result.
   - **Selection:** Selection, Direct/Group Selection, Magic Wand, Lasso. A Shift-drag marquee toggles what it reaches: objects with the Selection tool, anchors with Direct and Group Selection (#483); the Lasso adds with Shift and subtracts with Alt. Dragging a path segment with Direct Selection bends it when it's curved (its anchors stay) and moves its two anchors when it's straight, one undo step; the fill, Shift or Alt still pick the whole path (Alt-drag copies it).
+    The search for the segment of a path nearest a point, which Direct Selection runs to pick the cursor over a segment, skips each segment whose anchors and handles lie in a box farther from the point than a segment already measured, starting with a segment at the anchor nearest the point. The segment found is the same as before. Over a segment of an open path of 200,000 anchors, the cursor takes 51 ms instead of 59 ms in a release build (`cargo run --release -p vectorcraft-engine --example anchor_bench`).
     A Direct Selection marquee over part of a segment, with neither of its anchors inside, selects that segment as a click on it does (Shift toggles it), as [Selecting objects](http://web.archive.org/web/20211230015528/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/selecting-objects.html) describes (#4654).
+    To find those segments, the marquee skips each segment whose anchors and handles all lie past one side of it and tests only the rest exactly, without building a path for each segment. It selects the same segments as before, and a marquee over a path of many anchors finishes sooner.
     With the Selection or Group Selection tool, pressing E while dragging a marquee makes the marquee select only the objects that lie entirely inside it. Pressing E again switches the marquee back to its default selection.
     The Lasso picks anchor points only on art a click can pick, and the Add Anchor Point, Delete Anchor Point, Anchor Point and Scissors tools pick anchor points and segments only on the selected paths and on art a click can pick: not on a Shaper Group's original shapes outside Construction mode, and in isolation mode only inside the isolated group or object. Smart Guides and Snap to Point do not snap to a Shaper Group's original shapes, and the reference point of the transform tools snaps to one only when it is selected, or under the pointer in Construction mode.
     Enclosing Lasso provides whole-object enclosure selection under Object › Plug-ins and its own heading in All Tools. It has no default shortcut or Basic toolbar slot. It follows path curves and keeps partially enclosed objects out, including objects crossing a concave part of the loop. Ordinary group members can be selected individually; compound paths remain whole. This is a VectorCraft addition; scores and estimates are unchanged.
+    Select by Artboards (Object › Plug-ins › Selection Tools, a VectorCraft addition: #5525, #5548, #5549) selects the objects overlapping, fully inside or fully outside one or more chosen artboards (`addon.select.byArtboards {artboards, relation}`). Overlapping is All on Active Artboard's test, shared as `select::on_artboard`; Fully inside means within one artboard, edges included; Fully outside means on none. It looks at what Select All takes, so hidden, locked and locked-artboard art stays out. Its dialog lists each artboard's number, name and size in the document's units, filters by name, chooses rows with click, Shift-click and Cmd/Ctrl-click, and fits a row's artboard in the window on double-click (`view.goToArtboard`). Tests: `crates/engine/src/cmd/addons/select/tests.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/select/tests.rs`, `crates/engine/tests/command_sweep.rs`.
     A marquee selects a clip group, or an object on a layer with a clipping mask, only when it reaches the area inside the clipping path, and it measures the art only within that path's bounds. Within the bounds of a mask that is not a rectangle, it can still select art that the mask hides. Direct Selection's marquee still selects the hidden anchor points inside it (#2345).
     A marquee selects a Shaper Group only when it reaches the art the group shows, not the original shapes kept under it, and Direct Selection's clicks and marquee do not select those shapes' anchor points. In Construction mode a marquee selects the original shapes, and Direct Selection selects their anchor points.
     While an opacity mask or a pattern is edited, a Shaper double-click on a Shaper Group in the mask or pattern art selects the original shape under the pointer without entering Construction mode, the Shaper Group's mode widget does not show, and a Shaper scribble, Release and Expand keep the editing layer isolated.
@@ -768,14 +787,14 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
     View › Hide Edges hides the Live Corners widgets, the bounding box and the type widget, and the selection tools then do not answer a press on them or change the cursor over them.
   - **Blend spine Anchor Point tool (#2544):** on a selected blend, dragging a spine corner makes symmetric Smooth handles; the tool displays and picks existing spine handles when switched to, drags one independently or retracts it on click, and clicking a point with handles retracts both. The spine is edited live without moving its key objects. Windows native canvas checks and screenshots reviewed: symmetric and independent handles, corner/retraction, Shift constraints and perpendicular reshaping, tool switching, key preservation, Undo/Redo, save/reopen, hidden handles and overlapping Path/Blend priority (PR #2643). Behaviour reference: [public path-editing documentation](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/adjust-path-segments.html).
   - **Path editing (#494):** the handles shown are the handles that drag: Direct Selection drags those of a path selected as a whole (as the Pen leaves it), the Anchor Point tool and Pen+Alt no longer grab handles that Show handles when multiple anchors are selected hides, a handle shorter than the tolerance leaves its anchor to be picked, and the anchor tools pick within Selection & Anchor Display › Tolerance. A dragged segment keeps a smooth anchor at either end smooth. With Direct Selection, the Pen, the Curvature and the anchor tools, a path selected as a whole shows all its anchors selected, and the Control bar and the Properties panel offer Convert (corner, smooth) for them too; Remove and Cut wait for anchors direct-selected (#504). A handle drag gathers its snap targets once per drag (it took 21 ms per pointer move on a 20,000-path document, now 1 ms; `vectorcraft-cli perf` measures handle and segment drags on a 5,000-anchor path). Join merges the selected anchor points that lie on one another, as after Average, into one anchor (#1582, fixes #1533); Object › Path › Average & Join… (`path.averageJoin`, Cmd+Alt+Shift+J, the "Create corner or smooth join" shortcut of [Default keyboard shortcuts](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html)) moves two open path ends to their midpoint and joins them there, a corner or smooth point as its dialog's Points choice asks, in one undo step.
-  - **Graphs:** Column, Stacked Column, Bar, Stacked Bar, Line, Area, Scatter, Pie and Radar graph tools with Graph Data and Graph Type. A series starts in greyscale; Group Selection's fill and stroke are kept separately on the graph and reapplied when its data, type or size changes, and through save, open and undo. Graph Type's Override Calculated Values (both `axisMin` and `axisMax`) uses exactly that value-axis range, split into the tick count (5 when automatic). Line graphs take Edge-to-Edge Lines (off by default: the points sit at the centres of their categories; graphs saved before the option keep their edge-to-edge lines), and radar graphs follow Mark Data Points and Connect Data Points. Blank cells (an empty CSV cell or `null`) are values left out, not zeros: columns, bars and stacked segments skip them, lines and scatter lines break around them and the value axis ignores them, while area, pie and radar draw them as 0; a number in straight quotes is a label, and the data window writes it back quoted. Graph types combine: Graph Type on series picked with Group Selection (or `series` indexes) draws them as their own type, with column, stacked column, line and area mixing on the vertical value axis and bar and stacked bar on the horizontal one; stacked columns take one slot of the cluster, lines draw in front of columns and areas behind. The value axis goes on the left, the right or both sides (column, stacked column, line, area and scatter graphs; bar graphs keep theirs along the bottom), and Separate Scales gives the series assigned to the right axis a scale of their own with its own tick values. Each value axis takes tick marks of no, short or full (across the plot) length and a count per division, and a prefix and suffix for its numbers; the category axis takes tick marks too (none by default), at or between its labels. Graph designs: Object › Graph › Design lists the designs with a preview of the selected one, and New Design (the selected art), Rename, Delete Design, Paste Design (a copy back to edit) and Select Unused, and Marker draws the data points and legend swatches of line, scatter and radar series with a design, scaled so its backmost object fills the default marker's square. Graph Data transposes rows and columns and switches a scatter graph's x and y, and a `|` in a category or series label starts a new line. Pie graphs take Legends in Wedges, Position (Even, Ratio sized by area, Stacked on one centre) and Sort (None, All, First). Graph Type takes column and cluster widths up to 1000% (overlapping past 100%) with First Row and First Column in Front (First Row orders each series' categories; across series the series order decides, so series stay one group each for Group Selection), draws filled lines, adds drop shadows behind columns, bars, lines and wedges, and puts the legend in rows across the top. Text formatted with the Character or Appearance controls, on the whole graph or on labels picked with Group Selection, is kept per kind of label (value axis numbers, category labels, legend labels) through the graph being drawn again. Object › Graph › Data opens a worksheet: cells picked with a click and edited above the sheet (Tab moves right, Enter down, the arrows between cells), Import Data from a tab-separated text file, Transpose, Switch x/y, Cell Style (decimals shown, column width), Revert and Apply. `graph.setData` returns and takes the data as CSV with each value written exactly, not rounded to two decimals, so applying the returned CSV changes nothing (#1485).
+  - **Graphs:** Column, Stacked Column, Bar, Stacked Bar, Line, Area, Scatter, Pie and Radar graph tools with Graph Data and Graph Type. A series starts in greyscale; Group Selection's fill and stroke, and the opacity set on a mark's top fill or stroke row, are kept separately on the graph and reapplied when its data, type or size changes, and through save, open and undo. Graph Type's Override Calculated Values (both `axisMin` and `axisMax`) uses exactly that value-axis range, split into the tick count (5 when automatic). Line graphs take Edge-to-Edge Lines (off by default: the points sit at the centres of their categories; graphs saved before the option keep their edge-to-edge lines), and radar graphs follow Mark Data Points and Connect Data Points. Blank cells (an empty CSV cell or `null`) are values left out, not zeros: columns, bars and stacked segments skip them, lines and scatter lines break around them and the value axis ignores them, while area, pie and radar draw them as 0; a number in straight quotes is a label, and the data window writes it back quoted. Graph types combine: Graph Type on series picked with Group Selection (or `series` indexes) draws them as their own type, with column, stacked column, line and area mixing on the vertical value axis and bar and stacked bar on the horizontal one; stacked columns take one slot of the cluster, lines draw in front of columns and areas behind. The value axis goes on the left, the right or both sides (column, stacked column, line, area and scatter graphs; bar graphs keep theirs along the bottom), and Separate Scales gives the series assigned to the right axis a scale of their own with its own tick values. Each value axis takes tick marks of no, short or full (across the plot) length and a count per division, and a prefix and suffix for its numbers; the category axis takes tick marks too (none by default), at or between its labels. Graph designs: Object › Graph › Design lists the designs with a preview of the selected one, and New Design (the selected art), Rename, Delete Design, Paste Design (a copy back to edit) and Select Unused, and Marker draws the data points and legend swatches of line, scatter and radar series with a design, scaled so its backmost object fills the default marker's square. Graph Data transposes rows and columns and switches a scatter graph's x and y, and a `|` in a category or series label starts a new line. Pie graphs take Legends in Wedges, Position (Even, Ratio sized by area, Stacked on one centre) and Sort (None, All, First). Graph Type takes column and cluster widths up to 1000% (overlapping past 100%) with First Row and First Column in Front (First Row orders each series' categories; across series the series order decides, so series stay one group each for Group Selection), draws filled lines, adds drop shadows behind columns, bars, lines and wedges, and puts the legend in rows across the top. Text formatted with the Character or Appearance controls, on the whole graph or on labels picked with Group Selection, is kept per kind of label (value axis numbers, category labels, legend labels) through the graph being drawn again. Object › Graph › Data opens a worksheet: cells picked with a click and edited above the sheet (Tab moves right, Enter down, the arrows between cells), Import Data from a tab-separated text file, Transpose, Switch x/y, Cell Style (decimals shown, column width), Revert and Apply. `graph.setData` returns and takes the data as CSV with each value written exactly, not rounded to two decimals, so applying the returned CSV changes nothing (#1485).
   - **Graph column designs:** Object › Graph › Column (`graph.column`) draws the columns, bars or stacked segments and the legend swatch of the series picked with Group Selection with a graph design: Vertically Scaled stretches it to each column's length, Uniformly Scaled scales it both ways and centers it, Repeating stacks a copy for each Each Design Represents value and chops or scales the last one (For Fractions), and Sliding keeps the part above the design's guide line in proportion and stretches the part below. The dialog lists the designs with a preview; the choice is saved with the graph and follows the design's rename and delete.
     Type in a column design that holds a `%` followed by two digits shows each column's value in place of the `%` and the digits: the first digit is the least number of places before the decimal point (zeros are added in front; 0 gives as many as the value needs), and the second digit sets the places after it, rounded. Unless it is inside a group that clips or has its own opacity or appearance, or inside a blend, compound shape, envelope, repeat or intertwined objects, the type keeps its size and is drawn once per column in a repeating design. The legend swatch leaves it out.
   - **Other:** Eyedropper, Gradient annotator, Artboard (Alt-drag duplicates an artboard, and its art with Move/Copy Artwork with Artboard on; Copy, Cut and Paste take the artboard with its art, Paste right of the last artboard, Paste in Place where it was, into this or another document, #446; Object › Artboards › Rearrange All Artboards lays them out in a grid by row or by column, in one row or one column, left to right or right to left, from the menu, the Artboards panel or Properties' Rearrange All, #681; Scale Artwork with Artboard, in the Control bar and Properties beside Move Artwork with Artboard, resizes the artboard proportionally with the art fully inside it and its guides, strokes and corners per the Scale preferences, #602), Measure, Type, Hand, Zoom, Rotate View.
     While a drag rotates the view, a dial at the center of the canvas shows the angle.
   - **Editing type:** double-clicking type with a selection tool (Selection or Direct Selection) switches to the Type tool with the caret where it was clicked; pressing Escape finishes editing and switches back to the selection tool used before double-clicking it (when in isolation mode, the first Escape exits text editing while preserving isolation mode, and a second Escape exits isolation).
     While a Type tool edits type, a click that lands on no type ends the editing without making new type, and that tool stays active; the next click makes new type (#2871, #2854).
-    Inside a ligature (one glyph for several characters, such as fi), the Type tool's caret, clicks, arrow keys and selection stop between its characters, at the font's ligature carets ([OpenType GDEF ligature caret list](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/gdef)) or, when the font does not list one valid caret for each stop, at the glyph's width divided equally.
+    Inside a ligature (one glyph for several characters, such as fi), the Type tool's caret, clicks, arrow keys and selection stop between its characters, at the font's ligature carets ([OpenType GDEF ligature caret list](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/gdef)) or, when the font does not list one valid caret for each stop, at the glyph's width divided equally. Contour-point carets use the font's unhinted outline at its default variation location; pixel-size device adjustments are not applied.
     Duplicate Artboards, the Artboard tool's Alt-drag and Paste give the new artboard an id that no other artboard has, also when an artboard's id is the largest possible value (#1718). Deleting the copy or the original then leaves the other's guides.
   - **Touch Type:** a click with the Touch Type tool (Shift+T) selects one character and shows a box around it. Dragging the box or its lower-left handle moves the character. The upper-left handle scales it vertically, the lower-right handle scales it horizontally, the upper-right handle scales it proportionally, and the upper-middle handle rotates it. Each drag is one undo step that sets the character's kerning, baseline shift, scales or rotation, and the type stays editable (`text.touchType`; behavior reference: [Touch Type tool](https://web.archive.org/web/20261007185617/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/tool-techniques/touch-type-tool.html), [Add text with the Type, Area Type, and Touch Type tools](https://web.archive.org/web/20260926095922/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/add-manage-text/add-text-illustrator-text-tools.html)).
     Composition's leading-space reduction stays along the line when a character rotates. An opening bracket trimmed by Line-end Punctuation Half Width Mojikumi keeps that placement under Character Rotation; its turning point follows the composition adjustment, and removing the rotation keeps the trim. Scores and estimates are unchanged.
@@ -792,7 +811,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
     In the Swatches panel, Alt-dragging a swatch onto another swatch of its kind (not a tint swatch) replaces that swatch's color, gradient or pattern, and the swatch keeps its name and place.
   - **Tool double-clicks:** double-clicking a tool's button opens its options: Hand fits the artboard in the window, Zoom shows 100 %, Rotate, Scale, Reflect and Shear open their Object › Transform dialogs, the Selection, Direct Selection and Group Selection tools the Move dialog (Enter opens these seven tools' dialogs too; Move opens on the offset of the last drag or Move and with the checkboxes it was last confirmed with, so Enter, Enter repeats a move or a copy at the same spacing, as [an Adobe Community thread](https://community.adobe.com/questions-652/move-tool-771221) describes), Gradient, Eyedropper, Blend and the Liquify tools their panels or options, the Pencil, Paintbrush, Smooth, Blob Brush and Eraser tools their Tool Options (Fidelity, fill, Keep selected, the tolerances, the brush size), and (#812) the Flare tool its Flare Tool Options, the Artboard tool the active artboard's Artboard Options, the graph tools Graph Type for the selected graph, the Symbolism tools the Symbolism Tools Options (Diameter, Intensity, Symbol Set Density) and the Magic Wand tool its panel.
     Double-clicking the Line Segment, Arc, Rectangular Grid or Polar Grid tool opens its Tool Options, as step 3 of the [Rectangular Grid tool](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/tool-techniques/rectangular-grid-tool.html) and [Arc tool](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/tool-techniques/arc-tool.html) pages and the [Tools](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/tools.html) page describe (#2691): the dialog a click with the tool opens, without a place to draw. Line Segment Tool Options has Length, Angle and Fill Line (a new line takes the current fill, `shape.line` `fill`); Arc Segment Tool Options its lengths, Reference Point, Type, Base Along, Slope and Fill Arc; the grids' Tool Options the Reference Point, Default Size, dividers, skews and switches. OK draws nothing: the next drag draws with the options and a click's dialog opens at them, the Length, Angle and Default Size included; Cancel changes nothing. Tests: `toolbar::tests::double_clicking_the_line_arc_and_grid_tools_opens_their_tool_options`, `line_segment_options_and_fill_line`, `grid_default_size_is_an_option_the_drag_leaves_out`, `fill_line_gives_a_new_line_the_current_fill`.
-    A closed arc from Arc Segment Tool Options or `shape.arc` with `lengthX` and `lengthY` closes through the corner of its box across from the one a convex arc bulges toward, with either Base Along, so a closed arc at Slope 100 is a quarter-ellipse sector and the Y Axis arc is the X Axis arc mirrored top to bottom. The [Draw arcs](https://web.archive.org/web/20251025042220/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/drawing-simple-lines-shapes.html) section's Type option makes "an open path or a closed path"; the corner it closes through is VectorCraft's own rule. Tests: `shapes::tests::a_y_base_arc_is_the_x_base_arc_mirrored_top_to_bottom`, `a_closed_convex_arc_is_a_quarter_ellipse_sector_with_either_base`, `tests::draw2::shape_arc_closed_along_y_closes_through_the_top_left_corner`.
+    A closed arc from Arc Segment Tool Options or `shape.arc` with `lengthX` and `lengthY` closes through the corner of its box across from the one a convex arc bulges toward, with either Base Along, so a closed arc at Slope 100 is a quarter-ellipse sector and the Y Axis arc is the X Axis arc mirrored top to bottom. The [Draw arcs](https://web.archive.org/web/20251025042220/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/drawing-simple-lines-shapes.html) section's Type option chooses whether the arc is open or closed; the corner it closes through is VectorCraft's own rule. Tests: `shapes::tests::a_y_base_arc_is_the_x_base_arc_mirrored_top_to_bottom`, `a_closed_convex_arc_is_a_quarter_ellipse_sector_with_either_base`, `tests::draw2::shape_arc_closed_along_y_closes_through_the_top_left_corner`.
     Live curve fitting in the Pencil Tool Options is on by default; while it is off, the path shown while a stroke is drawn joins the stroke's points with straight segments, and the release fits the curve, as [Pencil Tool Options](https://web.archive.org/web/20261002104400/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/draw-shapes-and-paths/draw-shapes/pencil-tool-options.html) describes (`path.freehand` `fit`).
     In the Pencil and Paintbrush Tool Options, Edit selected paths within 0 px turns editing off, so a stroke that starts exactly on an end of a selected open path draws a new path; Close paths when ends are within 0 px turns closing off, so a stroke that ends exactly where it started stays open.
     Before a press that draws a new path, the Pencil cursor shows a small star, as [Draw freeform paths with the Pencil tool](https://web.archive.org/web/20260926095638/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/draw-shapes-and-paths/draw-shapes/draw-freeform-paths-with-the-pencil-tool.html) describes; over a selected path within Edit selected paths' distance, which the press continues from an end or redraws, the star is not shown ([Reshape paths with the Pencil tool](https://web.archive.org/web/20260106004407/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/draw-shapes-and-paths/draw-shapes/reshape-paths-with-the-pencil-tool.html)).
@@ -800,6 +819,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
     With two open paths selected, a Pencil stroke from an end of one that ends within Edit selected paths' distance of an end of the other connects them into one path with the first path's appearance, in one undo step, as [Connect two paths with the Pencil tool](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/draw-shapes-and-paths/draw-shapes/connect-two-paths-with-the-pencil-tool.html) describes (`path.freehand` `connect`).
     Double-clicking the Shape Builder tool opens Shape Builder Tool Options ([Shape Builder tool options](https://web.archive.org/web/20260105172244/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/building-new-shapes-using-shape.html)): with Consider Open Filled Paths as Closed off, a filled open path cuts regions as an unfilled one does; Pick Color From Color Swatches fills merged shapes with the current fill, the Left and Right arrow keys step it through the document's color swatches, and Cursor Swatch Preview shows the current fill and the swatches before and after it above the pointer; Selection Straight Line merges what the line from a drag's first point to its last crosses ([Setting Illustrator's Shape Builder Options](https://web.archive.org/web/20260615204453/https://creativepro.com/setting-illustrators-shape-builder-options/)); with Highlight Fill off, merge mode shades no regions (`shapeBuilder.merge` `openFilledAsClosed` and `pickColorFrom`).
     With In Merge Mode, Clicking Stroke Splits the Path on in the same dialog, a click on a stroke in merge mode splits its path into the run of stroke under the pointer and the rest of the path, as the [Shape Builder tool options](https://web.archive.org/web/20260105172244/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/building-new-shapes-using-shape.html) page describes; the run goes from the anchor or crossing point before the pointer to the one after it, and the pointer shows scissors over it. Highlight Stroke When Editable draws that run in the color chosen in its Color list (Red by default), and with Pick Color From Color Swatches the run takes the current fill as its stroke (`shapeBuilder.merge` `splitStroke`).
+    As VectorCraft's own rule, OK in Shape Builder Tool Options gives an error for a highlight Color with an alpha part (`#rrggbbaa` or `#rgba`) and changes nothing. Regression test: `dialogs::shape_builder_options::tests::a_highlight_color_with_an_alpha_part_is_refused`.
     With Pick Color From Artwork, a merged shape takes the appearance, opacity and blending mode of the object where the drag starts, else of the object where it ends, else of the front-most selected object, as the [Shape Builder combine page](https://web.archive.org/web/20251006211643/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/draw-shapes-and-paths/draw-shapes/combine-shapes-with-shape-builder-tool.html) describes. A click in an area that no selected object covers, such as a hole other shapes enclose, takes the front-most selected object's look (`shapeBuilder.merge` `points`: the first point is where the drag starts, and the last point is where it ends).
     A Shift-drag with the Shape Builder tool draws a rectangular marquee for merging many paths at once, as [Combine shapes with the Shape Builder tool](https://web.archive.org/web/20251006211643/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/draw-shapes-and-paths/draw-shapes/combine-shapes-with-shape-builder-tool.html) describes: the regions it reaches are shaded while it is drawn and merge into one shape on release, or with Alt they are deleted. The marquee reaches each region whose outline crosses it or has an anchor inside it, and the region that holds the whole marquee; this rule is VectorCraft's own. For Pick Color From Artwork, the marquee's starting corner is where the drag starts and the opposite corner is where it ends (`shapeBuilder.merge` `rect`).
     Shape Builder pieces on dense hatches (lines at exact 0.25 or 0.5 pt steps across another line) come back one per stretch between crossings, with no speck where the sweep cut a line's two passes a rounding error apart: the planar map contracts the stub between such cuts into one vertex, bounded by each cluster's extent so a run of tiny level segments keeps its length (`crates/pathops/src/planar.rs` tests `a_dense_hatch_at_exact_binary_steps_cuts_each_line_once_per_crossing`, `a_run_of_tiny_level_segments_is_not_contracted_as_stubs`, `a_line_crossed_where_its_two_passes_part_is_cut_once`).
@@ -807,7 +827,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
     The Blob Brush Tool Options have Keep selected and Merge only with selection, both off by default: while Keep selected is off, the blob a stroke draws or merges into is not selected afterwards, and while Merge only with selection is on, a stroke merges only with selected blobs of its color that it touches (`path.blob` `keepSelected` and `mergeOnlySelection`).
     The Blob Brush Tool Options also have Angle and Roundness, as the reference app's [Blob Brush options](https://web.archive.org/web/20261012042029/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/learn-painting-basics/blob-brush-options-and-best-practices.html) list them: Angle from −180° to 180° (0° by default) and Roundness from 0% to 100% (100%, a round tip, by default). The elliptical tip keeps its angle on the page along a stroke, a 0% tip is drawn 0.1% as wide as it is long, and the dialog shows the tip and three dabs of it. The values are kept with the tool's options (`path.blob` `angle` and `roundness`). Not done: the Random and pen-driven variations of Angle and Roundness.
     The Blob Brush Tool Options' tip preview is the Angle slider for screen readers, with the Angle in degrees as its value: a click or a drag in it points the Angle at the pointer and gives it the keyboard focus, Tab reaches it after the Roundness field, and the arrow keys step the Angle by 1° (10° with Shift, Home and End to −180° and 180°).
-    The Blob Brush Tool Options also have Fidelity, as the reference app's [Blob Brush options](https://web.archive.org/web/20261012042029/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/learn-painting-basics/blob-brush-options-and-best-practices.html) list it: the Pencil's logarithmic slider from Accurate (0.01 pt) to Smooth (20 pt) and its field (up to 100 pt), 1.5 pt by default and kept with the tool's options. The brush follows the stroke fitted at the Fidelity, as a Pencil stroke is fitted: a low value follows the drag closely, jitter included, and a higher one gives smoother curves (`path.blob` `fidelity`).
+    The Blob Brush Tool Options also have Fidelity, which the reference app's [Blob Brush options](https://web.archive.org/web/20261012042029/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/learn-painting-basics/blob-brush-options-and-best-practices.html) list as setting how far the pointer moves before the path gets a new anchor point. The range and default are VectorCraft's own values: the Pencil's logarithmic slider from Accurate (0.01 pt) to Smooth (20 pt) and its field (up to 100 pt), 1.5 pt by default and kept with the tool's options. The brush follows the stroke fitted at the Fidelity, as a Pencil stroke is fitted: a low value follows the drag closely, jitter included, and a higher one gives smoother curves (`path.blob` `fidelity`).
     A Blob Brush stroke merges with the topmost path of its fill color and no stroke that it touches, and with the other such paths it touches in the same group or layer that are next to that path in stacking order with no other kind of object between them; matching paths in other groups or layers are left alone, as the Blob Brush tool guidelines in [Paint with fills and strokes](https://web.archive.org/web/20241219085603/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/painting-fills-strokes.html) describe (`path.blob`).
 - **Ruler guides as layer objects:** a guide goes on the current layer, shows, hides, locks and is deleted with it, is listed in the Layers panel (its row selects it) and moves to another layer (`guide.setLayer`, or its row dragged onto that layer's rows); guides on a hidden or locked layer can't be selected, moved or deleted, Duplicate copies a layer's guides and Merge Selected and Flatten Artwork keep them on the merged layer; guides from files saved before guides had layers go on the top visible, unlocked layer when the document opens. Not done: guides stacked among the art of their layer (they are listed above it), a guide row's own eye and lock. Lock Guides also locks the objects made into guides: they can't be selected, moved or deleted (#1543); they are drawn in the guide colour and style of Preferences, and a dragged selection snaps to ruler guides with Smart Guides on (#1583, fixes #1534). The Transform panel shows a selected ruler guide's X or Y, and typing a value moves it (#1659, part of #1597). This is not established by the documentation we could find: the public help pages on guides, rulers and the Transform, Control and Properties panels (read again on 2026-10-14) describe selecting and dragging unlocked guides and the panels' X and Y for a selection, not a guide's position in a panel, and the one public statement of it is a user's [community answer](https://community.adobe.com/questions-652/adding-a-new-custom-guide-785586), which is not documentation. It is kept as a convenience pending the owner's decision, with no parity claim and nothing counted towards a score.
 - **Releasing ruler guides:** View › Guides › Release Guides turns the selected ruler guides into paths with no fill or stroke. An artboard guide becomes a line across its artboard, and a canvas guide becomes a line across the artboards (`view.guides.release {index?, ids?}`). A Cmd/Ctrl+Shift double-click with the Selection, Direct Selection or Group Selection tool releases the ruler guide or guide path under the pointer.
@@ -820,6 +840,8 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
   Alt-clicking a layer's or sublayer's name makes it the current layer, as a click does, and selects its visible, unlocked art, as its selection square does (`layer.selectAll`, then `layer.setCurrent`); on a hidden or locked layer it clears the selection. The reference app's [Default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) page lists Alt-click on the layer name for selecting all objects on the layer.
   Object › Arrange › Send to Current Layer returns the error "the target layer is locked or hidden" and leaves the selected objects where they are when the current layer is hidden or locked, or is inside a hidden or locked layer.
   Selected objects are deselected, the key object included, when a row drag moves them into a hidden layer or group, when `node.move` moves them into a hidden or locked layer or group, when Merge Selected moves them into a hidden or locked layer, when Collect in New Layer moves them into a new layer inside a hidden or locked layer, when Flatten Artwork moves them into a locked layer, and when applying a data set hides them.
+  Layer Options for several highlighted rows shows the first row's settings, and OK changes only the settings set in the dialog: each row keeps its own color, Template, Lock, Show, Print, Preview and Dim Images otherwise (`crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/layer_options.rs` tests).
+  As VectorCraft's own rule, a layer color (`layer.setProps`, `layer.new`, `layer.newSublayer`) or a Live Paint Gap Preview Color (`livePaint.gapOptions`) given as a hex color with an alpha part (`#rrggbbaa` or `#rgba`) is an error and changes nothing, instead of being set without its alpha. Regression tests: `a_layer_color_with_an_alpha_part_is_refused` in `crates/engine/src/tests/layers.rs` and `a_gap_color_with_an_alpha_part_is_refused` in `crates/engine/src/tests/build.rs`.
   Panel Options › Locate Selected Objects (beyond Illustrator, off by default): when the last selected object changes on the canvas or by a command, the panel opens the layers and groups around it and scrolls to its row, as Locate Object does, without highlighting the row; when Show Layers Only, a search or the filter leaves the object without a row, the panel opens no rows for it and scrolls as with the option off.
 - **Drawing aids:** Smart Guides and snapping (moving, with the Selection, Group Selection or Direct Selection tool, and resizing by the bounding-box handles with the Selection or Free Transform tool, Shift and Alt too: the dragged corner or side lands on the other objects' anchors and centres ("anchor", "center") or lines up with their edges and centres (a line and "align"); with Smart Guides › Spacing Guides, a moved selection that lines up with nothing along an axis lands as far from its neighbour as two other objects of its row or column are apart, or halfway between its two neighbours, the equal gaps marked; with View › Snap to Grid on, a moved selection lands on the grid instead, by whichever of its edges is nearest a gridline on each axis (the center does not snap), #740, #1816; the Rotate, Scale, Shear and Reflect tools drag from the anchor they grab and snap the pointer the same way, so a corner dragged onto another object's anchor scales exactly onto it, #482; anchors dragged with Direct Selection: the one pressed on lands on other anchors, its own path's that stay put among them, on path segments or in line with them, the others following, Shift keeps 45° steps, and with Smart Guides off Snap to Point pulls it onto anchors; the Artboard tool snaps artboards, and their bleed, to other artboards, bleeds and art, the grid or whole pixels while moving, copying and resizing them, and the Transform panel shows and edits the active artboard's X/Y/W/H; drawn points, #506: hovering shows where the press goes, the point lands on the other objects' anchors, centres and paths ("anchor", "center", "path") or lines up with their anchors, edges and centres ("align"), the Pen's on the path being drawn too, near a construction guide through the anchor before it on that guide (Preferences › Smart Guides › Construction Guides and Angles), and with Shift kept to its 45° step or a square's diagonal it slides along that way into line; the targets are gathered once per document state, from the art in the window, and the anchors, centres and lines near the pointer are found by bisection, so hovering never rescans the document), guides dragged out of the rulers (#451: they snap as moved guides do, Shift to the ruler's ticks; with the Artboard tool they are artboard guides, which run across their artboard only and move, copy and delete with it, `guide.add {artboard}`) that the Selection, Direct Selection and Group Selection tools then pick and drag (#414: the selected guides highlight and move together, Alt copies them, Shift snaps the dragged one to the ticks, otherwise it snaps to pixels, the grid or the edges, centres (so the sides' midpoints) and anchors of the art and the artboards, or with Smart Guides off Snap to Point pulls it onto anchors; Shift-clicked they join the selected art, and Shift-added art keeps them, so guides and art are selected together in either order, Delete then deleting both in one step; the arrow keys nudge them, Delete deletes them, dragging one back onto its ruler deletes it, Lock Guides and Hide Guides leave them alone; `guide.list`, `guide.select`, `guide.move` and `guide.remove` reach agents), a right-click on either ruler or the origin box to pick the document's units (the current one checked; `document.setUnits`, one undo step, #528), and Draw Normal / Behind / Inside modes. Smart Guides: a point drawn with the Pen or a shape tool, and an anchor dragged with Direct Selection, snaps to where paths and ruler guides cross, labelled "intersect" (#1658, part of #1602; a moved selection's own anchors don't).
   A move that Shift keeps level, upright or diagonal stays on that line when it snaps, with the Selection, Group Selection or Direct Selection tool. It slides along the line until the selection lands on the grid or on whole pixels, lines up with the other objects or is spaced evenly with them, or until the line passes an anchor or crosses a ruler guide near the point the selection was grabbed by. A level or upright move snaps along its own axis only.
@@ -831,6 +853,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
   Snap to Glyph options (#4232, [Snap to Glyph options](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/special-characters-glyphs/snap-to-glyph-options.html)): the Character panel menu's Show Snap to Glyph Options (Hide Snap to Glyph Options) shows a Snap to Glyph section in the panel, with or without type selected, with a checkbox for each kind of guide: Baseline, x-height, Glyph Bounds, Proximity Guides (the edges of each character's width), Angular Guides and Anchor Point. Each off takes its guides away and leaves the others (`view.snapToGlyph.options`, the `glyphSnap` preference group, all on by default). Angular Guides covers a glyph's slanted strokes and every guide of rotated type, which runs at its angle; the boxes are dimmed while View › Snap to Glyph is off (VectorCraft choices; the page settles neither). Tested in `crates/tools/src/guides/tests.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/panels/character/tests.rs` and `crates/engine/src/tests/prefs.rs`.
 - **Artboard click-to-fit (#1227):** a plain click fits the topmost editable object or group to a new artboard, including its stroke like Fit to Selected Art, and makes the new artboard active. Art and its selection stay unchanged; creation is one undo step. Handles, modified clicks, drags, Escape and tool changes retain their meaning. Tested inside an artboard and on the pasteboard (`crates/engine/tests/it/artboard_click.rs`); the public [CS6 Printing Guide](https://helpx.adobe.com/content/dam/help/en/indesign/pdf/CS6_PrintGuide.pdf) documents the object-click gesture. This legacy gesture adds evidence without regrading the 2026 canvas controls.
 - **Rotated views:** with the view rotated, Fit Artboard in Window, Fit All in Window and the status bar's artboard navigator fit the artboard or the art as the view turns it, and a Zoom tool marquee (Animated Zoom or GPU Performance off) zooms to the area dragged across. Ruler guides on no artboard turn with the view. The canvas draws the selection marquee where the tools select, Show Hidden Characters draws the marks of type partly inside the canvas, the Contextual Task Bar stays under the selection, and the Navigator's red box outlines what the window shows.
+- **Navigator panel options:** the Navigator panel menu's Panel Options… sets the color the view box is drawn in, from a preset list (VectorCraft's own: Light Red, the default, then the layer colors) or a custom color, and Draw Dashed Lines as Solid Lines, off by default, which draws dashed strokes without their dashes in the panel's thumbnail only (`ui.navigatorPanelOptions`; kept with the UI state; behavior reference: [View artwork](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/viewing-artwork.html)).
 - **Views:** the status bar's artboard navigator (first, previous, next, last; `view.goToArtboard`) goes to an artboard, fits it and synchronizes the Artboard tool selection when that tool is active; ordinary object selection is preserved. Its four buttons are also commands of their own (`view.firstArtboard`, `view.previousArtboard`, `view.nextArtboard`, `view.lastArtboard`), listed in Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts without a default key, so a user can give them keys such as Page Up and Page Down (#5218). Actual Next-button regressions cover keyboard/Properties deletion and Undo in `chrome.rs`. Fit Artboard in Window and Actual Size show the navigator's artboard. The Artboards panel highlights that active artboard: clicking a row makes it active (the Artboard tool's too, while it is chosen) as does clicking an artboard with the Artboard tool, double-clicking its number also fits it in the window and double-clicking its name renames it. Duplicate Artboards, or a row dragged onto New Artboard, copies the artboard with its art (#446). Escape leaves Presentation Mode, `view.screenMode` from it goes back to Normal Screen Mode, and the screen mode isn't saved with the preferences: the app always starts in Normal Screen Mode with its menus and panels (#472). View › Pixel Preview shows the art as the document pixels it rasterizes to, one per point and hard-edged when magnified, turning with a rotated view (it used to draw the smooth vectors, with only the pixel grid over them). In Outline view a template layer keeps drawing in Preview, dimmed, so a picture placed to be traced stays visible under the outlines (#1505, fixes #1486).
   In Presentation Mode, → and ← go to the next and the previous artboard, and a click anywhere goes to the next one, as the status bar navigator's Next and Previous do (`view.goToArtboard`): on the last artboard → and a click leave the view as it is, and so does ← on the first. The arrow keys do not move the selection there, and the tool does not receive a click, so a click selects and draws nothing (behavior reference: [View artwork](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/viewing-artwork.html)).
   Full Screen Mode and Presentation Mode put the window full screen, covering the taskbar and the window's frame, and Normal Screen Mode or Full Screen Mode with Menu Bar puts it back (#4365); a window the user made full screen stays so.
@@ -896,7 +919,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
   - Free Distort's dialog (Effect › Distort & Transform › Free Distort…) shows a box in the proportions of the first selected object's bounds with a handle on each corner. Dragging a handle moves that corner. A handle focused by a click or Tab moves 1% of the box with each arrow key, and 10% with Shift. Reset puts the four corners back on the box. The preview and OK run `effect.apply`, or `effect.setParams` when the dialog edits an applied effect, and the Appearance panel's inline editor opens the dialog with Edit…. Behavior reference: Illustrator CC Help (2014, [PDF](https://help.adobe.com/archive/en/illustrator/cc/2014/illustrator_reference.pdf)), page 285 (PDF page 291).
 - **Optical kerning:** Character and Properties offer Optical beside Auto for automatic pair spacing. The side-profile spacing method is VectorCraft's own. Optical keeps its mode across cosmetic style runs. Choosing Optical clears manual pair values, as Auto does, and leaves additive tracking intact; a manual value typed afterwards replaces that pair's correction ([Adjust kerning and tracking](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/edit-format-text/adjust-kerning-and-tracking.html)). Native documents retain the mode and pair overrides; old documents use Auto. Behavior reference: [Line and character spacing](https://web.archive.org/web/20260916050333/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/line-character-spacing.html) (public documentation). Tests: `crates/text/src/tests/typo.rs`, `crates/engine/src/tests/textedit.rs`.
 - **Kerning across style runs:** characters that differ only in fill, stroke, underline, strikethrough, overprint, character style name, leading, baseline shift, rotation, Character Alignment, kerning, or tracking that keeps or drops ligatures alike are shaped together, so restyling one character keeps the font's kerning pairs with its neighbors. A character with manual kerning that follows one with automatic kerning keeps the font's kerning with it (unless All Caps or Small Caps sets it as two letters, as ß becomes SS), and its value replaces the font's kerning after it. A ligature does not form across a change of style, and a change of font, size or OpenType features still shapes the characters apart. Behavior reference: [Line and character spacing](https://web.archive.org/web/20260916050333/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/line-character-spacing.html) (public documentation). Tests: `crates/text/src/tests/typo.rs`, `crates/text/src/tests/bidi.rs`.
-- **Manual kerning in right-to-left text:** a manual kerning value on a Hebrew or Arabic character changes the space between it and the next character in reading order, the one drawn to its left, under Auto and Optical kerning. The character before it keeps its place, and the caret between the pair stays beside the next character. The side the space goes on is VectorCraft's own rule. Behavior reference: [Line and character spacing](https://web.archive.org/web/20260916050333/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/line-character-spacing.html) ("Kerning is the process of adding or subtracting space between specific pairs of characters."). Test: `rtl_manual_kerning_spaces_the_character_from_the_next_in_reading_order`.
+- **Manual kerning in right-to-left text:** a manual kerning value on a Hebrew or Arabic character changes the space between it and the next character in reading order, the one drawn to its left, under Auto and Optical kerning. The character before it keeps its place, and the caret between the pair stays beside the next character. The side the space goes on is VectorCraft's own rule. Behavior reference: [Line and character spacing](https://web.archive.org/web/20260916050333/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/line-character-spacing.html). Test: `rtl_manual_kerning_spaces_the_character_from_the_next_in_reading_order`.
 - **Manual kerning on inline graphics:** a manual kerning value on an inline graphic's character spaces it from the next character in reading order by the same distance as on a letter of its run's size, in left-to-right, right-to-left and vertical type; Auto and Optical kerning still apply no font pairs to it. This is VectorCraft's own rule. Test: `manual_kerning_on_an_inline_graphic_spaces_it_like_a_letter`.
 - **Recent font pickers (#3515):** The shared Character, Properties, Glyphs and Find Font family picker lists recently applied families first, once each, in most-recent order and limited by Preferences › Type › Number of Recent Fonts. Search and filters apply to both sections; unavailable families are omitted. Section headings cannot be selected or previewed. Confirmed character-range font edits update the same saved history; previews and failed edits do not. Requirement: [issue #3515](https://github.com/storytold/vectorcraft/issues/3515).
 - **Find Font: Replace With Font From:** a dropdown under Replace With Font chooses the list the replacement font comes from: Document lists the families the document uses, once each; Recent lists the recently applied families that are installed (fonts applied with Find Font's Change and Change All included), newest first, as many as Preferences › Type › Number of Recent Fonts allows; System, the default, lists the installed families available in the font menu. The dialog opens on System with Source Sans 3 chosen, or the font menu's first family when Source Sans 3 is not installed. Choosing a list keeps the chosen font when the list has it and it is installed; otherwise Document and Recent choose the list's first installed font, and System chooses Source Sans 3 or the font menu's first family. Change and Change All are unavailable when the list has no installed font (Recent before any font was applied) and when the chosen family is not installed or is not in the shown list. Behavior reference: [Find and replace fonts](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/fonts-and-scripts/find-and-replace-fonts.html) (public documentation). Tests: `crates/ui-egui/src/find_font.rs`.
@@ -907,6 +930,8 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
   The Character panel's Small Caps, Superscript and Subscript buttons and the panel menu's items of the same names turn small caps and the superscript or subscript position on and off for the selected type, or for the text the Type tool has selected (`text.setFormat` or `text.setRangeStyle` `{smallCaps, position}`), in Document Setup's proportions. Turning Superscript on turns Subscript off, and turning Subscript on turns Superscript off. A button or item shows as on when the first selected character (at a caret, the character before it) has its attribute.
   The OpenType panel's Stylistic Alternates and Titling Alternates checkboxes turn `salt` and `titl` on and off for the selected type, and its Figure menu lists Default Figure, Tabular Lining, Proportional Lining, Proportional Oldstyle and Tabular Oldstyle; Proportional Lining sets `pnum` and `lnum` and turns `tnum` and `onum` off, Tabular Lining turns `pnum` off and keeps `lnum`, Proportional Oldstyle turns `lnum` off and keeps `pnum`, and Default Figure and Tabular Oldstyle turn `pnum` and `lnum` off. Behavior reference: [Format text with OpenType features](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/special-characters-glyphs/format-text-with-opentype-features.html) and [Use swashes, titling alternates, or stylistic alternates](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/special-characters-glyphs/use-swashes-titling-alternates-or-stylistic-alternates.html) (public documentation). Tests: `panels::opentype::tests`.
   The OpenType panel's Position menu lists Default Position, Superscript, Subscript, Numerator and Denominator, as [Format text with OpenType features](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/special-characters-glyphs/format-text-with-opentype-features.html) describes; Superscript, Subscript, Numerator and Denominator set `sups`, `subs`, `numr` and `dnom` for the selected type and turn the other three off, and Default Position turns all four off. The menu shows Mixed when the characters it acts on differ, and an entry chosen then applies to all of them. These two rules are VectorCraft's own, as is setting the feature on type whose font lacks the glyphs, which then draws unchanged. The panel's menus and checkboxes change only their own features on each selected character, so characters keep their other OpenType features (`text.setStyle` and `text.setRangeStyle` `{featureChanges}`). Tests: `panels::opentype::tests`, `features::tests::numerators_and_denominators_are_kept_and_shaped`.
+  The Glyphs panel's Show menu and panel menu have Alternates for Current Selection, as [Replace characters with alternate glyphs](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/special-characters-glyphs/replace-characters-with-alternate-glyphs.html) describes: the grid lists the alternate glyphs of the character selected with the Type tool, and a double-click draws that character with the glyph as one undo step (`text.glyphAlternates`, `text.setGlyphAlternate`). The alternates come from the font's `GSUB` single and alternate substitutions of `aalt`, then `salt`, `ss01` to `ss20`, `swsh`, `cv01` to `cv99` and a few other alternate features, each glyph once. The text keeps the character, native files keep the choice with the face it was made in, and type set in another font or version draws the default glyph. The list uses the font of the character's text even when the panel browses another font, and the panel shows a note when the character has no alternates, its font is missing or no character is selected; these rules are VectorCraft's own. Tests: `panels::glyphs::tests`, `tests::alternates`, `tests::textedit::a_glyph_alternate_replaces_one_character_through_undo_and_reopen`.
+  The OpenType panel's Stylistic Sets menu offers `ss01`–`ss20` sets present in the selected text's font, using the font's custom labels when available and numbered labels otherwise. Sets can be combined and deselected individually. With mixed fonts, the menu shows the first selected character's font's sets and applies the feature tag to all selected text; a font without that set draws unchanged. The mixed-font rule is a VectorCraft design choice. Behavior reference: [Add stylistic sets to selected text](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/special-characters-glyphs/add-stylistic-sets-to-selected-text.html) and the [OpenType specification](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/features_pt).
   `text.setStyle {stroke, strokeWidth}` sets the character stroke's color and weight of the selected type or of a range of its characters (the weight in document points, as `stroke.set` sets it), in the same undo step as the command's other changes. Tests: `tests::textedit::set_style_sets_the_character_stroke`.
 - **Paragraph alignment:** the shared Paragraph/Properties alignment row leaves every button unselected when the paragraphs it acts on differ. Auto resolves per paragraph; choosing an alignment uses the existing command. Headless paragraph_mixed_alignment_* regressions exercise mixed → Center → Undo, caret/uniform states, Unicode range boundaries, Auto/direction, split runs and grouped text. These regressions and full integration CI pass. Original captures confirm mixed → Center → Undo in the existing alignment-button layout. The [public Paragraph panel guide](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/edit-format-text/paragraph-panel-overview.html) lists the seven controls, but does not specify mixed-state rendering. Other paragraph fields remain outside this change; scores and hours unchanged.
   For Auto Size area type in columns, the bisection for the frame's height runs on the lines of the one-column layout, and its result is checked with at most two layouts of the columns. When the text wraps around objects or does not fit the one-column layout, or when the check fails, the columns are laid out at every step of the bisection, as before. Typing at the start of a story of 50,000 characters in 2 columns took 1,670 ms a keystroke and now takes 292 ms (release build, `auto_height_in_columns_typing_timing`).
@@ -918,6 +943,9 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
   Type › Create Outlines, Object › Expand and Object › Expand Appearance on a frame of threaded text take it out of the thread with the text it shows, which the outlines draw, and the other frames keep the text they hold. When the last frame is outlined, the text it has no room for goes after the text of the last frame that stays. When Expand Appearance keeps the frame as type in a group with its shadow, outer glow or Crop Marks, the type stays in the thread. The public help on threads ([Create text threads between objects](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/add-manage-text/create-text-threads-between-objects.html), [Remove or break text threads between objects](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/add-manage-text/remove-or-break-text-threads-between-objects.html)) does not describe outlining a threaded frame; this handling is VectorCraft's own behavior.
   Select › Same › Link Block Series selects every frame of the threads of the selected type; type in no thread selects itself (`select.same.linkBlockSeries`). The menu entry is listed in [Select objects by characteristics](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/select-objects/select-objects-by-characteristics.html); selecting several threads at once and type in no thread selecting itself are VectorCraft's own behavior.
   Select › Same › Text Fill & Stroke Color selects the type whose characters match both the fill and the stroke of the selected type (`select.same.textFillAndStrokeColor`). The menu entry is listed in [Select objects by characteristics](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/select-objects/select-objects-by-characteristics.html); requiring one run of characters to match both is VectorCraft's own behavior.
+  The Select › Same font and text color commands take the type to match from the selected type that can be selected: type that is hidden or locked, on a template layer, or outside the isolated group is passed over. This is VectorCraft's own behavior.
+  Select › Same › Fill Color, Stroke Color, Fill & Stroke, Stroke Weight, Opacity, Blending Mode, Appearance, Shape, Graphic Style, Appearance Attribute and Symbol Instance compare the other objects with the first selected object that can be selected, of any kind: an object that is hidden or locked, on a template layer, on a locked artboard while nothing is isolated (except new art while it stays selected), or outside the isolated group is passed over. This is VectorCraft's own behavior.
+  Select › Object › All on Same Layers takes the layers only of the selected objects that can be selected: an object that is hidden or locked, on a template layer, on a locked artboard while nothing is isolated, or outside the isolated group adds no layer. This is VectorCraft's own behavior.
   Object › Flatten Transparency takes a frame of threaded text out of the thread in the same way when Convert All Text to Outlines outlines it or when the frame becomes flat regions or an image, and the other frames keep the text they hold.
   New Symbol and Redefine Symbol on a frame of threaded text take it out of the thread with the text it shows, which the symbol's art holds, and the other frames keep the text they hold. When the last frame goes into the symbol, the text it has no room for goes after the text of the last frame that stays. When every frame of a thread goes into the symbol, the copy of the last frame keeps all its text.
   With Optical Margin Alignment on, or Roman Hanging Punctuation on in the first paragraph, the glyphs at the ends of left-to-right type on a path hang outside its brackets, measured along the path. The type hangs at the start bracket when its line is placed there, hangs at the end bracket when the line is placed there, and hangs at both when it is centered. Glyphs that hang past the end bracket do not make the type overflow, and a hang stops at an open path's end. SVG export writes such type as outlines.
@@ -982,14 +1010,17 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
   Envelope Options › Anti-Alias off draws an envelope's distorted images without smoothing, and Preserve Shape Using › Transparency gives each piece of a distorted image an opacity mask in its shape instead of a clipping mask ([Envelope panel options](http://web.archive.org/web/20260513013456/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/reshape-transform-objects/envelope-panel-options.html)).
   The four polynomial distributions are original approximations of the public description, not measured
   numeric parity. See [Blend panel overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-colors/apply-transparency-and-blending/blend-panel-overview.html).
+  A blend in a `.ai` or EPS opened from its editing data keeps a Specified Distance spacing with its distance ([Blend Options](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-colors/apply-transparency-and-blending/blend-options-overview.html)) where VectorCraft lays out as many steps between each pair of keys as the file draws, in the same places and colors. A Smooth Color blend opens live only where VectorCraft's own Smooth Color step count equals the drawn steps, and VectorCraft often counts a different number. A blend that VectorCraft doesn't lay out as drawn keeps its drawn steps with a note (`import::ai::tests::a_blend_keeps_its_spacing`, `a_blend_of_three_keys_keeps_its_distance_between_each_pair`, `a_blend_whose_spacing_doesnt_lay_out_its_steps_keeps_them`).
 
   - Create Strokes uses exact squared Euclidean distances and Guo–Hall thinning in bounded per-blob crops. Maximal-disc pruning, split-crossing merges and degree-two joins simplify its skeleton graph. The whole-blob width rule and ink fitting remain; 46 code-drawn inputs measure ends and junctions in [`image-trace-quality.md`](image-trace-quality.md#centre-lines). Junction degrees measure 44/45 correct in each input variant; remaining spurs are recorded. This is a measured skeleton improvement; the Image Trace score, missing per-feature selection and width controls, and estimates remain unchanged.
   Object › Live Paint › Merge adds the other selected paths and Live Paint groups to the bottom selected Live Paint group ([Live Paint groups](https://web.archive.org/web/20241230205225/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/live-paint-groups.html)), which keeps its id, the paint of its faces and edges, and its name, lock, visibility, transparency, appearance, opacity mask and graphic style link. Object › Live Paint › Make with a Live Paint group selected, and a Live Paint Bucket click on a selected path beside a selected Live Paint group, add the paths to that group the same way. Make, Merge and the Live Paint Bucket take paths, compound paths and groups of them; with type, an image or another object among the selection they report that it has to be converted to paths first and change nothing, as type and raster images can't go into a Live Paint group directly ([Create Live Paint groups](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/learn-painting-basics/create-live-paint-groups.html)); before, such an object went among the group's hidden sources and vanished from the canvas. Evidence: `tests_build::live_paint_refuses_type_and_images_and_changes_nothing`.
   With the Live Paint Bucket selected, Alt-click on vector art samples its fill, stroke and stroke weight into the paint defaults ([Paint with the Live Paint Bucket tool](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/learn-painting-basics/paint-with-the-live-paint-bucket-tool.html)). On a placed image it samples the image pixel as a solid fill with no stroke. Alt+Shift-click samples only the color under the pointer, including an intermediate gradient color or image pixels, into the active fill or stroke ([Default keyboard shortcuts](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html)). Neither click paints or changes the selection or selected art, and the next Bucket click paints with the sampled paint. Evidence: `tests_build::live_paint_bucket_alt_sample_paints_next_face_without_changing_selection`.
   Double-clicking the Live Paint Bucket opens Live Paint Bucket Options ([Paint with the Live Paint Bucket tool](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/learn-painting-basics/paint-with-the-live-paint-bucket-tool.html)): Paint Fills (on) and Paint Strokes (off) set whether a click paints faces, edges or both, Highlight turns the outline of the face or edge under the pointer on or off, and Color and Width set it (red and 4 px by default). Faces are outlined at the Width and edges at half of it, as the page says faces are highlighted with a thick line and edges with a thin line. With both on, a click paints the edge within 4 px of the pointer, else the face, and Shift switches to Paint Fills only; with one on, Shift switches to the other. The options last across tool switches and are saved with the preferences (`tool.setOption {tool: "livePaintBucket"}`). Evidence: `builder::tests::{bucket_options_choose_what_a_click_paints, bucket_options_set_the_highlight, bucket_highlights_an_edge_thinner_than_a_face}`, `dialogs::live_paint_bucket::tests::double_clicking_the_tool_opens_its_options_and_ok_sets_them`.
+  Live Paint Make preserves the front-most covering source's fill when compound paths share a curved boundary, and Expand keeps the face fills. Regression evidence: `planar::tests::coincident_curves_keep_their_source_faces` checks source order, winding, fill rules and nearby boundaries; `tests::build::live_paint_make_and_expand_keep_abutting_compound_colors` checks native compound paths, Make, Expand and Undo/Redo. This preserves VectorCraft's source-fill rule without changing arrangement precision.
   Live Paint Gap Options (Object › Live Paint › Gap Options…, `livePaint.gapOptions`): with Gap Detection on, paint stops at the gaps that run from a loose end of a path to the nearest path, up to Small (3 pt), Medium (6 pt), Large (12 pt) or a custom size; Close Gaps With Paths adds an unpainted path across each gap; Preview applies the options live and draws the gaps in the Gap Preview Color. The options are saved, copied and undone with the group, and Merge keeps the bottom group's options when its Gap Detection is on, or else turns Gap Detection on with Small when another merged group has it on. When Gap Detection is off in every merged group, it stays off.
   View › Show Live Paint Gaps (`view.livePaintGaps`) draws the gaps of the selected Live Paint groups up to their Paint Stops At size, each in its group's Gap Preview Color, until Hide Live Paint Gaps or Hide Edges hides them ([Live Paint gaps](https://web.archive.org/web/20260105111201/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/learn-painting-basics/find-and-close-gaps-in-live-paint-groups.html)).
   Double-clicking the Live Paint Selection tool opens its Tool Options ([Live Paint Selection tool options](https://web.archive.org/web/20250904012025/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/selecting-objects.html)): with Select Fills off, a click selects an edge instead of a face; with Select Strokes off, Alt-click selects a face instead of an edge; Color and Width set the color and width of the highlight on the face or edge under the pointer (red and 4 px by default). The options last across tool switches and are saved with the preferences (`tool.setOption {tool: "livePaintSelection"}`).
+  As VectorCraft's own rule, OK in Live Paint Selection Tool Options, Live Paint Bucket Options, Gap Options and Tile Edge Color gives an error for a color with an alpha part (`#rrggbbaa` or `#rgba`) and changes nothing.
   A drag of 3 screen pixels or more with the Live Paint Selection tool draws a marquee and selects the faces and edges it touches, partly enclosed ones included, and a Shift-drag adds them to the selection or removes them from it ([Modify Live Paint groups](https://web.archive.org/web/20261006115247/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/learn-painting-basics/modify-live-paint-groups.html)). A click and a marquee change the selection on release, and Escape before the release leaves the selection as it was. Locked Live Paint groups, those on a locked layer or artboard, and in isolation mode those outside the isolated art are not highlighted or selected.
   A drag with the Live Paint Selection tool draws a marquee and selects the faces and edges it touches, partly enclosed ones included, and a Shift-drag adds them to the selection or removes them from it ([Modify Live Paint groups](https://web.archive.org/web/20261006115247/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/learn-painting-basics/modify-live-paint-groups.html)). A click and a marquee change the selection on release, and Escape before the release leaves the selection as it was. Locked Live Paint groups, those on a locked layer or artboard, and in isolation mode those outside the isolated art are not highlighted or selected.
   When the object the Blend tool picked first is deleted or undone away before the second click, the next click on an object picks that object first instead of doing nothing. Regression tests: `blend_tool_picks_again_when_its_first_pick_is_gone` in `meshblend.rs` and `the_blend_tool_picks_again_when_its_first_pick_is_deleted` in `tests/blendopts.rs`.
@@ -1013,9 +1044,11 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
     View › Proof Setup › Color blindness – Tritanopia-type turns Proof Colors on and proofs the canvas with the tritanopia simulation of Brettel, Viénot and Mollon (1997). The Separations Preview panel's Proof Setup list offers the same target (`view.proofSetup {target: "tritanopia"}`). Grays keep their value.
     The Separations Preview panel's Gamut Check button reports one color outside the CMYK gamut in the singular and more in the plural, in English and in each language's plural forms (`gamut_check_status_takes_the_plural_form` in `crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/tests.rs`).
   - **Document Color Mode outside the layers:** File › Document Color Mode (in one undo step) and `document.open {colorMode}` also convert the colors of graph designs, graphic styles, opacity-mask art, the tile that pattern editing's Cancel puts back and the art of brushes (with a Hue Shift brush's key color); a tint of a global swatch there becomes the converted swatch's color at its tint, as in the art.
+  - **Document Color Mode for effects and graphs:** File › Document Color Mode and `document.open {colorMode}` convert the colors of effects (Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow and the other effects with a color, on objects, their fills and strokes and in graphic styles) and the series paints and label styles that a graph keeps, so a graph drawn again from new data keeps the converted colors; File › Document Color Mode also converts the fill and stroke that new art takes. Undo restores the original new-art fill and stroke and Redo applies the conversion again.
   - **Recolor Artwork layout (#3416):** the Edit chip list uses the modal scroll helper and its actual remaining height; the tab's minimum-height space scrolls with the chips. `tests_recolor` covers 5/20/200/400 colors, window resizing, 100/125/150/200% UI scaling, scrolling to and editing the final chip, Preview, Cancel, Confirm and Undo, alongside the existing #1733 drag regressions. Scores and estimates unchanged.
   - **Recolor Artwork Edit displays:** buttons beside the Edit tab's wheel show the colors on a smooth color wheel, a segmented color wheel or as color bars ([Edit colors using Recolor Artwork](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-colors/modify-colors/edit-colors-using-edit-colors-dialog.html)). The segmented wheel draws 24 hues by 5 saturations as solid patches, and its markers move freely as on the smooth wheel. The bars show one solid bar per recolored color in row order: a click selects a bar for the color sliders, and a drag moves its row without changing a color ([Advanced recolor options overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-colors/learn-color-basics/edit-colors-dialog-overview.html)). The dialog opens on the smooth wheel; `display` (`smooth`, `segmented`, `bars`) is the dialog field. `tests_recolor` covers switching, the dialog height, segmented dragging and Brightness, and bar selection, editing, reordering, scrolling, Preview, Cancel and OK. Scores and estimates unchanged.
   - **Edit Colors parameters:** `edit.colors.saturate` needs a number `intensity`, the value from -100% to 100% that Saturate takes ([Adjusting colors](https://web.archive.org/web/20230128232631/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/adjusting-colors.html)), and answers "missing number `intensity`" without one; a number outside the range counts as its nearest end. `edit.colors.adjustBalance` refuses a channel and `color.harmony` refuses `steps` or `amount` that is not a number; both read `null` as a value left out. `tests::editcolors` and `tests::colorguide` cover them.
+  - **Working RGB numeric controls:** the Color panel and Color Picker read RGB, HSB, hex and Web Safe RGB values in the active working RGB space. Editing one RGB channel preserves the other native channels, including colors outside display sRGB. Regressions cover sRGB, Display P3, Wide Gamut RGB and ProPhoto RGB, picker initialization, native numeric round trips, and a slider click with one Undo step. Scores and estimates unchanged.
   - **Color Picker layout (#2008):** a centered draggable header, equal-width actions above aligned HSB/RGB/Hex and Lab/CMYK fields, compact field and slider, and warnings below the preview. No horizontal scrolling; narrow windows stack the sections with vertical scrolling. Tests in `dialogs/color_picker.rs` cover actual pointer/key input, typed values before OK/Enter, Cancel/Escape rollback, one Undo step, mode-size stability, warnings and layout at two UI scales. The screen sampler sits above the field and the upstream two-grid Tab order is retained. AccessKit regressions check the action names and each channel slider's displayed value, units and range. German and enlarged English UI renders were reviewed locally; no reference images are shipped. This is a layout improvement, with no change to scores or remaining-hour estimates.
   - **Eyedropper sources (#1251):** ordinary and Shift clicks, Shift+Alt appearance append, raster pixels and gradient-stop sampling can read visible locked/template art and sources outside isolation. Sampling leaves the source and selection intact; Alt reverse still uses editable hits, and hidden art stays excluded. Engine/tool/hit regressions cover the editing boundary, color models and one-step Undo/Redo. The general object/image workflow is described in [public HelpX](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/tool-techniques/eyedropper-tool.html); the lock/isolation expectations come from the user report and these regressions, without a new full-parity measurement.
   - **Eyedropper colors in a CMYK document (#2276):** a CMYK image (a four-component JPEG, or an 8- or 16-bit chunky CMYK TIFF) gives its ink amounts as they are, and an RGB image's pixel or an RGB color given to `paint.setFill`, `paint.setStroke`, `paint.sampleColor` or `swatch.new {color}` (hex input and gradient stops included) is separated through the color settings' CMYK working space and intent, as Document Color Mode converts it. With the default Generic CMYK, RGB 83/170/223 separates to C59 M12 Y3 K0, where the profile-free formula gave C63 M24 Y0 K13.
@@ -1038,10 +1071,10 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
     Hue Shift set by `brush.new` or `brush.options` without a key color takes the color the art's fills and strokes use most, as Brush Options already offers it, following the Brushes page, where the key color defaults to the color that stands out most in the art (<https://web.archive.org/web/20241230205225/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/brushes.html>). The page does not state how prominence is measured. Counting the fills and strokes that use each solid color, with the first one found winning a tie and black for art with no solid color, is VectorCraft's own rule. A `brush.options` edit that gives only the method keeps the brush's key color, and one that gives only an art brush's start guide keeps its end guide. Evidence: `tests_brushsym::hue_shift_without_a_key_takes_the_most_used_art_color`, `tests_brushsym::art_brush_options_keep_the_scale_fields_an_edit_leaves_out`.
     Bristle Brush Options and `brush.new` take a bristle brush name of at most 31 characters, as the Brushes page states for the Bristle Brush Options. The Name field stops taking characters at 31, and `brush.new` and `brush.options` refuse a longer new name with an error that names the limit. The page does not say how the limit counts characters or what happens to longer names already saved; counting characters and the number added to a taken name, keeping longer saved names, and leaving `brush.duplicate` unlimited are VectorCraft's own rules. A bristle brush that a document or a saved file already holds under a longer name keeps it, and the other brush types take a name of any length. Test: `bristle_brush_names_have_at_most_31_characters` in `tests/brushsym.rs`. Public reference: [Brushes](https://web.archive.org/web/20241230205225/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/brushes.html) (archived copy).
     In the Brushes panel, Shift-click selects a range of brushes and Ctrl/Cmd-click adds or removes one. Delete Brush and Duplicate Brush then act on all of them (`brush.delete {names}`, `brush.duplicate {names}`).
-    The Brushes panel's Delete Brush button and panel menu item ask "Delete the selected brushes?" with Yes and No when none of the brushes is in use. Alt-click (Option-click on macOS) on the button deletes them without asking, as the [Default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) page (archived copy) lists ("Delete without confirmation (except for Layers panel)"). When a stroke uses one of the brushes, the button, Alt-click and the menu item all ask with Remove Strokes and Cancel; Remove Strokes deletes the brushes and the strokes that used them become plain strokes. Tests: `panels::brushes::tests`, `dialogs::brush_delete::tests`.
+    The Brushes panel's Delete Brush button and panel menu item ask "Delete the selected brushes?" with Yes and No when none of the brushes is in use. Alt-click (Option-click on macOS) on the button deletes them without asking, as the [Default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) page lists for panel deletion outside the Layers panel (archived copy). When a stroke uses one of the brushes, the button, Alt-click and the menu item all ask with Remove Strokes and Cancel; Remove Strokes deletes the brushes and the strokes that used them become plain strokes. Tests: `panels::brushes::tests`, `dialogs::brush_delete::tests`.
     Document Info has a Brushes category after Graphic Styles. It lists the Brushes panel's brushes, or with Selection Only it lists the brushes that the selected objects' strokes use. The Document Info report and Package's report list them too (`document.info {category: "brushes"}`, `brushNames`).
     Document Info has a Repeat Objects category after Embedded Images. It lists each radial, grid and mirror Repeat object by name with its kind and the number of instances it makes. For a grid it gives the rows and columns instead, followed by the number of instances it draws when that is fewer. With Selection Only it lists the Repeat objects in the selection. The Document Info report and Package's report list them too (`document.info {category: "repeats"}`, `repeatObjects`).
-    Document Info's Save… writes the category the panel shows, with Selection Only applied, as the [Document Info panel](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/get-started/learn-the-basics/document-info-panel.html) page describes ("Exports the selected category's visible information to a text file"). With All Categories shown it writes every category, which is VectorCraft's own rule (`docInfo.save {category}`). Test: `panels::doc_info::tests::save_writes_the_category_the_panel_shows`.
+    Document Info's Save… writes the category the panel shows, with Selection Only applied, as the [Document Info panel](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/get-started/learn-the-basics/document-info-panel.html) page describes. With All Categories shown it writes every category, which is VectorCraft's own rule (`docInfo.save {category}`). Test: `panels::doc_info::tests::save_writes_the_category_the_panel_shows`.
     The Brushes panel menu's Select All Unused selects the brushes that are not used in the document, as the [Brushes](https://web.archive.org/web/20241230205225/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/brushes.html) page (archived copy) describes. A brush counts as used when a stroke paints with it in the art (opacity masks included), in symbols, graph designs, pattern tiles or graphic styles, or in the art of a used brush (`brush.unused`).
     A rename in Brush Options and Delete Brush change every stroke that paints with the brush: in the layers and opacity masks, symbols, graph designs, pattern tiles, graphic styles and the art of other brushes. A rename gives those strokes the new name, and Delete Brush makes them plain strokes, in one undo step.
     In Pattern Brush Options, a menu below the Outer Corner Tile and the Inner Corner Tile sets each to the brush's own corner art (Original), None, or a tile made from the side tile: Auto-Centered stretches one side tile around the corner, Auto-Between bends a side tile on each side into the corner's diagonal, Auto-Sliced cuts a side tile on each side along the diagonal, and Auto-Overlap runs a side tile on each side past the corner. Auto-Sliced masks the tiles at the diagonal, so their outlines stay as drawn. Brushes saved without these choices draw their corners as before (`brush.options` `outer_source`, `inner_source`). Evidence: `tests::pattern_auto_corners_fill_each_corner_of_a_square`, `tests::pattern_corner_source_none_leaves_that_kind_of_corner_empty` (vectorcraft-brush), `dialogs::brush_options::tests::pattern_options_set_each_corner_tile_to_original_none_or_an_automatic_tile` (vectorcraft-ui-egui).
@@ -1076,7 +1109,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
   Move in Perspective (its copy, perpendicular and Snap to Grid choices), Transform in Perspective (its copy), Nudge in Perspective (its ×10 and copy), Draw in Perspective (Snap to Grid), Define Perspective Grid (its reproject choice), Show Perspective Grid, Width Point (Adjust Adjoining Width Points), Liquify (its pen pressure, Simplify and Affect choices) and Puppet Warp (its pins' rest shape) refuse a value other than true, false or null, such as "true", and leave the document and its undo history as they were.
   Moves and transforms in perspective and Define Perspective Grid with reproject return an error, and leave the document and its undo history as they were, when the projection they would give type or a symbol instance in perspective has a number too large to store. Object › Perspective › Edit Text returns an error, and does not enter isolation mode, when the type cannot be shown flat where it is drawn: when part of it crosses the horizon, or when that view's projection has a number too large to store. Regressions: `a_product_that_overflows_is_none` in `crates/geom/src/projective.rs`, and `moving_type_whose_projection_would_overflow_is_refused` and `edit_text_whose_flat_view_would_overflow_is_refused` in `crates/engine/src/tests/persp_text.rs`.
   A stored projection with numbers so large that its determinant overflows is judged on a copy divided by a power of two: an invertible one is read back when the document opens as the same map at a smaller scale (divided by the largest absolute value in its bottom row), so points that overflowed at the stored scale draw, and one that cannot be inverted, such as one whose bottom row is 0 at that scale, is not. Regression: `a_determinant_that_overflows_is_taken_at_a_smaller_scale` in `crates/geom/src/projective.rs`.
-  A projection gives the same answers when every one of its numbers is multiplied by the same factor. A point is on or past its horizon when its w is at most 1e-9 times the largest absolute value in the bottom row, so a point with a negative w is past it. The projection is invertible when the absolute value of its determinant is more than 1e-15 times the largest absolute value among the six products the determinant sums, so a negative determinant counts the same as a positive one. A stored projection with very small numbers draws and inverts, and one that cannot be inverted is refused at every scale. Regression: `the_checks_do_not_depend_on_the_scale_of_the_map` in `crates/geom/src/projective.rs`.
+  A projection gives the same answers when every one of its numbers is multiplied by the same factor. A point is on or past its horizon when its w is at most 1e-9 times the largest absolute value in the bottom row, so a point with a negative w is past it. The projection is invertible when the absolute value of its determinant, or of its adjugate's determinant, is more than 1e-15 times the largest absolute value among the six products that determinant sums, so a negative determinant counts the same as a positive one, and the inverse of a projection that inverts also inverts and is stored and read back. A stored projection with very small numbers draws and inverts, and one that cannot be inverted is refused at every scale. Moving or transforming in perspective sees the projection through the move's affine map, and that map counts as invertible on the same test of its determinant, so a move scaled by 1e-8 or 1e8 is applied and one that flattens the art to a line is refused. Regressions: `the_checks_do_not_depend_on_the_scale_of_the_map`, `the_inverse_of_an_invertible_map_is_invertible` and `conjugating_does_not_depend_on_the_scale_of_the_affine` in `crates/geom/src/projective.rs`.
   Create Object Mosaic (its columns and rows), Transform Each (its reference point and Random seed) and Rearrange All Artboards (its columns) refuse a fraction, a negative number or a string, such as 2.5, -1 or "4"; 4.0 counts as 4.
   Move, Rotate, Scale, Reflect, Shear, Transform Again, Nudge and the Transform panel's values (their copy, Scale Strokes & Effects, Scale Corners, Transform Patterns, Transform Objects and area type options), Align, Distribute and Distribute Spacing (Transform Patterns), Object Properties (visible, locked, Isolate Blending and Opacity & Mask Define Knockout Shape) and Live Shape Properties (Invert Pie, Make Sides Equal and relative rounding) refuse a value other than true, false or null, such as "false", and leave the document as it was.
   Object Properties (its opacity), Live Shape Properties (corner radius and polygon sides), the Transform panel's reference point and Align, Distribute and Distribute Spacing to an artboard (the artboard's number) refuse a value other than a number or null, such as "50", and leave the document as it was.
@@ -1097,7 +1130,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
   - PDF export and print composition use the optional shared guarded writer ([pdf-backend.md](pdf-backend.md)); app drawing and output policy and desktop printer submission remain in their existing layers. The shared reader keeps the app-owned import adapter; synthetic tests cover layer and overprint state across windows, long operands, inline images, failed decoding, document limits and incomplete tails. Empty and populated metadata key presence is regression-tested, and CI checks the immutable backend source.
     Invisible text in a PDF (rendering mode 3, which carries a scanned page's recognized text over the scan) opens as type with no fill or stroke, a run of its own beside visible text on the same line; text that can't come in as type (opened as outlines, Type 3 fonts) is left out with a warning. PDF export, and printing, write characters with no fill or stroke as real text in rendering mode 3, so they draw nothing but stay selectable and searchable, also in PDF/X-1a and PDF/A-2b (#2675, `pdf/src/tests/import_fidelity.rs`, `pdf/src/tests/realtext.rs`).
     A PDF, or a `.ai` read through its PDF part, whose spot inks have the same values but different names opens with a spot swatch for each ink. The solid fills and strokes of paths and type, and the stops of gradients on paths, link to the swatch of the ink they are painted in, the points of a gradient mesh in one of these inks keep the ink's color, and PDF export writes each of these inks as its own separation (`pdf/src/tests/import_color.rs`). Paint in these inks inside pattern cells, soft masks and type 3 glyphs, and gradients on type in these inks, still import as RGB. Type in one of these inks can also import as RGB when type in another Separation or DeviceN ink is shown with no path drawn between them.
-    PDF export writes a linear or radial gradient that mixes a spot color with process colors, or two spot colors, as a DeviceN shading of the spot inks and the process inks its stops use, so each spot ink prints on its own plate; an off-center midpoint is written as a stop with the inks halfway between its two stops. A gradient that mixes a spot color with RGB or Lab colors is still written without the spot ink, with a warning, and a gradient with the Perceptual method is written as an image, without the spot ink. A Lab spot color in such a shading is named by the same Separation space, with the Lab alternate, as its flat fills (`engine/src/tests/linked_stops.rs`, `engine/src/tests/labspots.rs`).
+    PDF export writes a linear or radial gradient that mixes a spot color with process colors, or two spot colors, as a DeviceN shading of the spot inks and the process inks its stops use, so each spot ink prints on its own plate; an off-center midpoint is written as a stop with the inks halfway between its two stops. A gradient that mixes a spot color with RGB or Lab colors is still written without the spot ink, with a warning. A Perceptual gradient of spot inks is written as a Separation or DeviceN shading of the stops on its curve; a dithered gradient fill, and a Perceptual gradient with RGB or Lab stops other than white or more than 4,096 stops on its curve, are written as images in process colors, with a warning. A Lab spot color in such a shading is named by the same Separation space, with the Lab alternate, as its flat fills (`engine/src/tests/linked_stops.rs`, `engine/src/tests/labspots.rs`).
     PDF export writes a spot color named All or None (in a Separation space, the names of every plate and of no plate: [ISO 32000-1:2008](https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/pdfstandards/PDF32000_2008.pdf), 8.6.6.4) as the ink All Spot or None Spot (All Spot 2 and on when a spot swatch already has that name) in its fills, strokes, gradients, colorized images and Lab alternates; Registration still prints on every plate (`pdf/src/tests/output.rs`).
   - `.vectorcraft` (lossless JSON, compressed, atomic saves, save down to v1), Save As with a format chooser, Save a Copy, Revert, templates, Data Recovery after a crash (browser tabs hold their copies with Web Locks too, so a background tab's copies are never taken for a crash's, and a tab repairs copies another removed when it resumes: #367), background save and export. The desktop app writes its warnings and errors (graphics adapter, a lost graphics device, panics the guard recovered from) to standard error and to `logs/vectorcraft.log` next to the preferences, the two previous runs kept and each file capped at 16 MiB, so a launch without a terminal still leaves something to attach to a bug report (#465). Native documents with a lot of path data (traced or generated art, in layers, symbols or patterns) are saved as compact JSON, about a fifth of the size; small documents stay pretty-printed (#1492). Saving to a network drive on macOS falls back to a plain fsync when the share refuses a full flush (#1625, part of #1620; not confirmed on a real share), and a save still succeeds when a folder refuses the temporary file, the rename over the document or copying permissions: the content is written elsewhere first and copied in, and a failed copy keeps the temporary file and names it (#1649, part of #1620). A document opened by a relative path finds its relatively linked images, and `vectorcraft-cli convert` lists what reading the input left out as `importWarnings` (#1606, fixes #1604).
     A name typed in the desktop save panel without the file type's extension gets it, and when a file of that name exists, which the panel did not ask about, Save, Save As, Save a Copy, Save as Template, the exports and every other write through a save panel ask before replacing it (dialog `replaceFile`; Cancel writes nothing).
@@ -1127,13 +1160,16 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
     Legacy `.ai` saves (version 7) write type with rotated characters (Character Rotation, Touch Type turns) as its outlines, with a warning that it is no longer editable text (unless `outlineText` already asks for every type object as outlines): a version 7 text object has no character rotation ([Adobe Illustrator File Format Specification 7.0](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/fmt/423), §15), and the outlines keep each character's rotation, baseline shift and scale (`legacy_ai::tests::type_with_rotated_characters_is_outlines_that_keep_the_rotation`).
     A PDF saved with Illustrator's editing data opens through it as a PDF-compatible `.ai` does, with its layers and groups and with art reaching past its page unclipped; such a PDF holds the data in `AIPDFPrivateData` streams (part of #868). A shape a PDF or `.ai` paints with a gradient (a clip path round a shading) opens as one path filled with the gradient, not a clip group round a rectangle, so Shape Builder, Live Paint and Pathfinder work on its outline (#1304).
     In a `.ai` opened from its editing data, a text object on a layer that shows and doesn't print stays on that layer, made from the file's text document, even where the page doesn't draw it (`crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs`). Such a `.ai` opens without the PDF part's warnings that text was kept as outlines when no outlined glyphs come in, and a warning counts the text objects that hold the page's type next to glyphs the page has only as outlines, which don't come in (`crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_aiimport.rs`). Where the art of a `.ai` or EPS opened from its editing data differs a little from the file's page, the warning gives the share of the page that differs away from type. When that share is 0.2% or less, the warning names the type and gives the share of the page that differs where the type is; when all the type is made from the text document, the type's share has a warning of its own beside the art's (`crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs`).
+    In a `.ai` or EPS opened from its editing data, where a layer's or group's drawn look (an effect can be attached to a group or a layer, [Vector and raster effects](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/special-effects-styles/apply-filter-effects/vector-and-raster-effects.html)) draws a copy of art with type, the import puts the page's type that lies over the copy's other art into the copy's group, instead of giving it to other text objects by painting order. Type beside the copy's art, and every copy's type in a file past the import's text-object limits, still goes by painting order. Without a page, such a copy has no type, and no warning counts it as left out. How the page's type is matched with a copy is VectorCraft's own rule (`crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs`).
     A `.ai` opened from its editing data keeps Effect › Pathfinder on a group with no fills or strokes of its own as a live effect, with the group's members editable: Add, shown or hidden, in its order among the group's effects. The other operations, Pathfinder Options values other than the ones the reader accepts, and the effect on a path, on type, or on a fill or stroke open as the drawn look (`crates/eps/src/import/ai/style.rs`, `pathfinder_effect`).
     PDF text opens with every glyph where the file draws it (#722): the font's kerning or none, whichever the file followed, word and character spacing, `TJ` adjustments and horizontal scaling kept per character as tracking, text rise as baseline shift within its line, vertical glyphs narrower than an em centred on their column (`/W2`, `/W`, `/DW`), justified text boxes with word spacing back as justified area type (`tests_text_placement`, fixtures written from ISO 32000-1 §9).
-    A `.ai` or PDF whose editing data holds a readable variable library opens with its variable definitions, data-set rows, text, visibility and linked-file values, active row and lock in the Variables panel, whether its layers are read or it comes in as its PDF part; graph values and malformed entries are skipped with a note, and objects aren't bound yet (`crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs`, `crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_aiimport.rs`).
+    A `.ai` or PDF whose editing data holds a readable variable library opens with its variable definitions, data-set rows, text, visibility and linked-file values, active row and lock in the Variables panel, whether its layers are read or it comes in as its PDF part; graph values and malformed entries are skipped with a note. With its layers read, the objects its text, visibility and image variables are bound to (type for a text variable, any object for a visibility variable, a linked image for an image variable, found by their XML ids) come in bound, so selecting a data set changes them; locked and hidden objects, objects in a locked or hidden layer or group and objects on a locked artboard keep their bindings, and a data set leaves the locked ones as they are. Bindings whose object didn't come in or is of another kind are skipped with a note, as are graph bindings and every binding of a file that comes in as its PDF part (`crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs`, `crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs`, `crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_aiimport.rs`).
     A `.ai` or EPS opened from its editing data keeps each artboard's center mark, cross hairs, video safe areas and video ruler pixel aspect ratio, and the file's Document Raster Effects Settings; the author comes from the header's `%%For` (the editing data's, else an EPS's own) when the file's File Info gives none, the header's custom colors that no swatch has come in as spot swatches, a named color the file defines takes the place of a default swatch of that name when the file has no palette, and an older file's `%%TemplateBox` places its artboard. A value of another type or out of range keeps its default (`crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs`, `crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs`, `crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_aiimport.rs`).
     A `.ai` opened from its editing data opens its Objects on Path groups live, with their path, their objects in order along it, Pivot and Rotate, and their art where the file draws it; a group whose spacing has been dragged, or with options an Objects on Path group doesn't hold, opens as a plain group (`crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs`).
+    A `.ai` or EPS whose editing data has brushes opens with the file's Calligraphic, Scatter, Art and Bristle brushes in the Brushes panel in place of the default ones, in the file's order: the Calligraphic size, roundness and angle with their variation, the Scatter size, spacing, scatter and rotation, the Bristle settings, and the Scatter and Art brushes' art. A brush library `.ai` (brushes and no layers) opens from its PDF part with its brushes, so Other Library lists them. Pattern brushes and brushes that can't be read are left out with a note; brushed paths still come in as their drawn look (part of #372 and #637; `crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs`, `crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs`).
     In a `.ai` opened from its editing data, a path or type object with Offset Path, Outline Object or Outline Stroke on the whole object opens as itself with those effects live, in their order and shown or hidden; on a fill or stroke of type they stay on that fill or stroke. Offset Path keeps its Offset, Joins and Miter Limit, and Outline Stroke takes its width from the stroke. An Offset Path with a setting missing, out of range or not read keeps the drawn art, as does a path with a Path effect on one fill or stroke (`crates/eps/src/import/ai/style/tests.rs`, `crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs`, `crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs`).
     A PDF page whose `UserUnit` (PDF 1.6) is above 1 opens at its size in points, its numbers times the `UserUnit` (one above 75,000 counts as 75,000), and `document.pdfInfo` gives its size and boxes in points too. A `.ai` whose editing data has its artboards in the units of such a page opens from that data at the page's size, with its layers, and when the layers can't be read its pages still take the artboard layout of the data, scaled the same way (part of #1482).
+    When the PDF content of a `.ai` has a page for each artboard, the layers are compared with every page on its artboard (until the pages compared take 8,388,608 pixels at the comparison's scale, about 67 letter-size pages, or number 128): art that only the layers or only a later page draws is handled as art that differs on the first page is, and a text object that a later page doesn't draw is left out unless its layer doesn't print (`crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs`).
     When the editing data of a `.ai` or EPS is for a page of another size than the file's, the warning that its layers weren't read gives both sizes in points, and the scale of the editing data's page to the file's page (1:10 for a tenth of its size) when their sides are in proportion (#2034; `crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs`).
     A `.ai`, or a PDF saved with Illustrator's editing data, whose editing data can't be decompressed opens from its PDF part with a warning that its layers weren't read and why, and an export or Save As to its own path asks first (`acknowledgeLoss`), as for a file whose layers the reader can't read (`crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs`, `crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_aiimport.rs`).
     A `.ai` or EPS opened from its editing data with one object on a shown layer that the reader can't read (an unknown operator inside a group, a pattern fill whose pattern it doesn't have, a symbol instance, a placed file without a usable preview) keeps its layers and groups: in that object's place, its layer gets a group of the page's objects inside the object's box, named after it, with a warning that lists what came in as the page's art and an export or Save As to its own path asking first (`acknowledgeLoss`). The file still opens from its page or PDF part when no box can be found, when live art or another unread object shares the page art inside it, when the object spans two artboards or lies on an artboard that has no page, when no page art lies inside its box, when that page art is inside a page group with a clip, mask, transparency or appearance, when the object holds a frame of threaded type, when the page art uses a pattern, image or swatch that the page lacks or that differs from the editing data's, or when the page art doesn't carry the object's transparency (#4806; `crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs`, `crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_aiimport.rs`).
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   - EPS and PostScript import reads image data through `CCITTFaxDecode`: Group 4 (ITU-T T.6) and Group 3 one-dimensional and mixed (ITU-T T.4) data, with the filter's `K`, `Columns`, `Rows`, `EndOfBlock`, `EndOfLine`, `EncodedByteAlign` and `BlackIs1` parameters, decodes to 1-bit rows for `image` and `imagemask`. Damaged data keeps the rows decoded before it (damage in the first row is a PostScript `ioerror`), and parameters out of range or past the 256 MiB limit on decoded data are refused (`crates/eps/src/import/tests_images.rs`). Reading such a file stopped at an error naming the filter, and the file opened from a fallback, such as its preview or the art drawn before the image, or did not open.
   - EPS and PostScript `.ai` import undoes the TIFF predictor (`/Predictor 2`) of `FlateDecode` and `LZWDecode` data at 1, 2, 4 and 16 bits a component as well as 8: each component adds the same component of the pixel to its left within its bit width, 16-bit components add as big-endian numbers, and each row starts again (ISO 32000-1 §7.4.4.4; `crates/eps/src/import/tests_images.rs`, `crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_epsimport.rs`). At those depths the image drew the stored differences instead of its samples.
   - DXF control-point SPLINE import honors its closed flag (#1299 follow-up after #1320 fixed export), including rational curves; open curves whose endpoints meet stay open. Own-fixture regressions cover controls/knots, fit-point fallback and all export versions (`crates/cad/src/import/tests.rs`, `crates/cad/src/tests.rs`); native save/read checked. Circular cubic paths export as native CIRCLE/ARC where stroke semantics permit; R12 weighted strokes remain POLYLINE, and a non-circular ellipse keeps the existing fallback (`crates/cad/src/tests.rs`); an open path of one straight segment exports as a LINE (R12 to R14 strokes with a weight stay polylines, which carry the width) and reads back as the same segment (`crates/cad/src/tests.rs`, `crates/cad/src/import/tests.rs`); CNC preset and VCarve QA remain pending.
+  - DXF export writes a path of straight segments and circular arcs (a slot, a D shape, a rounded rectangle, a pie) as one polyline whose vertices carry a bulge (group 42) for each arc: an LWPOLYLINE in R14 and later, a POLYLINE with VERTEX entities in R12 and R13, closed when the path is closed, and it reads back as the same outline (#1299, `crates/cad/src/tests.rs`). Such a path was written as one SPLINE (a flattened polyline in R12); a path with any other curve still is. A shallow curve becomes an ARC or a bulge only when it lies on the circle within 5e-4 of its own extent as well as of the radius, and the drawing extents (`$EXTMIN`, `$EXTMAX`) reach the furthest points of every ARC and bulge.
   - Affinity documents in (AF.1–AF.4): `.af` (Affinity 3) and `.afdesign`/`.afphoto`/`.afpub` (Affinity 1 and 2, container versions 8–12) open and place as editable art: layers and sublayers, groups (pass-through or isolated), artboards (with their names and backgrounds) and Publisher pages side by side, curves with live corners, parametric shapes (rectangles with corner radii, ellipses, polygons, stars, pies, triangles, trapezoids), compound shapes, solid/linear/elliptical gradient fills and strokes (weight, dashes, alignment, scale-with-object), clipping by nesting, vector and pixel masks, artistic and frame text with fonts, sizes, tracking, leading and alignment, placed images (their original JPEG/PNG) and pixel layers (8/16-bit RGB, CMYK), opacity, visibility, locking and blend modes, at the document's resolution in points. Effects, adjustments, brushes and pressure profiles, transparency gradients, master pages, symbol instances (imported as their cached picture), special shapes (cloud, heart, cog…, imported as ellipses) and Affinity-only blend modes are named in the import warning. A file whose native data can't be read opens as its embedded preview with the reason, and that preview can't be placed. Save never writes back over the Affinity file and there is no Affinity export. AF.5 (from DesignCraft's import, storytold/designcraft#291) adds master pages (on a locked layer behind the pages that show them), tables (area type per cell and a line per edge), each paragraph's alignment, indents, spacing and leading, horizontal text scale, outlined text, frame text sized by its text scale, drop shadows and outer glows as live effects (inner shadows as inner glows), outline effects as strokes, colour and gradient overlays baked into the paint, embedded Affinity documents as editable content (their artboards don't become artboards), pixel layers over 64 MP at a reduced resolution and HEIC photos from their stored pixels; automatic leading (size plus the font's line gap) fitted on thumbnails; underlines and strikethrough; strokes whose style is None (every shape stores one) left out, which also brings 6 public files closer to their thumbnails; line breaks inside a paragraph; table cell text centred as Affinity centres it, also where it is taller than its cell; CMYK pixel layers converted through the document's embedded CMYK profile (relative colorimetric with black-point compensation, as each layer's colour settings name), or kept as CMYK images when there is none; outline effects on stroked shapes around their stroke; artistic text whose paragraphs align differently aligned within its longest line, a frame's first baseline at cap height, and frames whose last lines' descenders hang out made tall enough to show them (all measured on a local document's own PDF export: baselines match to 0.1 pt); a local 56-artboard document's mean thumbnail difference went from 16.2 to 11.4, and its pages' mean difference from the owner's PDF export from 12.9 to 9.3. AF.4 adds Affinity 3 artboard recognition and actual-outline clipping, source-backed JPEG/PNG raster tiles, Unicode text-run recovery, stored fallback/exact installed fonts, OpenType feature flags and compound-geometry limits. 51 public CC0/MIT/Apache-2.0 files (33 current `.af`), pinned and sha256-verified (`cargo xtask corpus --affinity`), test native retention and every-board native/SVG/PDF/PSD output for current files; selected files compare their saved thumbnails. No Affinity reopen or independent paired PSD oracle was available; [source audit and complex-font gaps](affinity-validation.md); [scope, provenance and limits](../crates/affinity/README.md).
   - Placed documents: File › Place of a `.vectorcraft` file links to it by default (`file.place`'s `link`): one locked object showing an artboard of the document (or its art's bounds), read the way placing it without Link reads it, its symbols, patterns and images kept apart from the document's; without Link (or from bytes, not a file) it is an editable copy as before. It stays vectors in every output (SVG, PDF, EPS, EMF, DXF), and so do placed documents inside it, read from their own files up to 8 levels deep (documents that place each other stop there). On screen they draw from bitmaps cached per file and zoom step, shared by every copy and made in the background (a placeholder until ready), so a sheet of them redraws in about a millisecond; exports and prints draw them exactly. Like linked images, a save keeps only a preview of each (JPEG when opaque) unless Include Linked Files; output, and zooming past the preview, read the file again, falling back to the preview with a warning when it is gone or changed. Saves for older versions write them as plain art. Links check, update, relink, Update Links on open, Link Info (the artboard's size), Placement Options, Break Link (also Embed, Object › Expand: the editable copy placing without Link gives, its resources joining the document), Edit Original (the document in a new tab) and the Links panel cover them; saving a document updates the open documents that place it. The native format (v4) keeps data of 8 KB or more after the JSON instead of base64 in it.
   - Placed documents' bitmaps on screen: when a bitmap made in the background is ready, the desktop app renders the canvas again only where the objects that show its file are, when the frame shown was rendered on the UI thread and that part is at most half the canvas. Bitmaps drawn or made since a frame began are kept for that frame past the 512 MiB budget, up to 2 GiB, so a view showing more than the budget does not make them again in every frame. A bitmap that would take them past 2 GiB is not kept, and its file draws exactly at that zoom. A bitmap that can't be made (the file can't be read and there is no preview) shows the light placeholder and is not asked for again. Each ready bitmap used to render the whole canvas again, and bitmaps past the budget and bitmaps that could not be made were asked for again in every frame (`crates/render/src/tests/placed_document.rs`).
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   With Overprint Preview or Separations Preview on, the renderer keeps the art it prepared for the preview from one frame to the next. It prepares again the objects that changed, and all of the art when Discard White Overprint changes or, with Separations Preview, when the plates shown, the proof setup, the swatches, the Spot Colors option or the color settings change or a profile is loaded. It draws the other objects from the art, geometry and stroke outlines it kept for them.
   The Pathfinder panel, Offset Path, Clean Up, Divide Objects Below, Make and Release Blend, Envelope Distort's Make and Release, Repeat (Radial, Grid, Mirror and Release), Vector Halftone, New and Redefine Symbol, Delete Symbol, erasing with the Symbol Sprayer, Rasterize, Convert to Artboards, Flatten Transparency, Clear Guides, Shape Builder, Live Paint, Release Image Trace, Make and Release Opacity Mask, Delete with direct-selected anchor points, Remove Anchor Points, Cut Path, and the Shaper, Knife, Eraser, Path Eraser, Line Cut, Rectangle Cut, Mirror & Cut and Blob Brush tools add and remove objects in one pass over each layer or group they change, and Outline Stroke and Expand write each new object in the place of the object it replaces (#1429).
   With more than 10,000 type on a path objects selected, the Selection and Direct Selection tools neither draw nor hit-test the objects' brackets.
+  The renderer outlines the stroke of a path object with more than 1,024 path elements, without dashes or a width profile, only in and around the view, with a margin of the view's size on each side, and outlines it again when the view moves past that margin. The pixels are the same. At 1600 × 1200, the frame after one anchor of an open path of 200,000 anchors moves takes 28 to 30 ms instead of 103 ms, and with a closed path of 50,000 anchors 10 ms instead of 30 ms (`cargo run --release -p vectorcraft-engine --example anchor_bench`).
   Type › Show Hidden Characters keeps the marks it places on each text object from one frame to the next. The canvas lays a text object out again when an edit changes it or its threaded story, or when the last frame that showed the marks did not draw it, and it lays out all type in view again when the fonts or the hyphenation exceptions change. With 1,000 two-line labels in view, drawing the marks takes 0.8 ms per frame in a release build instead of 19.7 ms.
   A selection with more than 100,000 points to outline shows its bounds instead of each object's outline and anchors. Paths count their anchors. Area type and type on a path count the anchors of their frame or path, and point type counts six: its box's corners and the ends of its baseline marker. Images, symbol instances, placed documents, and area type or type on a path in perspective count the four corners of their box, and gradient meshes and envelopes count their points and the ends of their mesh lines. The hover highlight leaves out an object past that count, and such an object shows its bounds as the key object. With 32,768 type objects, images, symbol instances, gradient meshes or envelopes selected, the selection's outlines and anchors add fewer than 100 vertices to the canvas's mesh (#2460).
   Delete, Cut, Group, Ungroup, Make and Release Compound Path, Make Clipping Mask, Send to Current Layer, Duplicate, Copy in the Move, Rotate, Scale, Reflect and Shear dialogs, Transform Each with Copy and each move of an Alt-drag take time in proportion to the size of the document (#1429).
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 - **Control transport:** idle sockets expire after 5 minutes, partial lines after an absolute 30 seconds from their first byte, and reply writes after 60 seconds (#1726). Real TCP regressions cover stalled peers and slot recovery; command execution has its separate existing timeout. MCP limits: 16 MiB lines, 64-message batches, 256-step `command_batch` with 8 MiB of kept results and 256 MiB control replies (#1764, fixes #1727). MCP requires the JSON-RPC 2.0 envelope and matches control replies by id, and an app refusal without an id reports the app's reason (#1768, fixes #1728). The MCP server reconnects to the app before a call when the connection was closed or holds stray bytes, after an app restart or an idle expiry (#1739).
 - **MCP vertical type:** `add_text {vertical: true}` forwards to `text.create` or `text.createInPath`. Regression coverage checks point type, rectangular area type, type in a path and type on a path with true, false and omitted direction. This exposes an existing engine option; it does not change glyph orientation, CJK composition or the type/automation scores.
 - **Malformed MCP replies:** invalid JSON from the app drops the connection, reports that the operation may have completed and leaves the next call to reconnect; it never replays the edit (#1761). TCP regressions cover malformed and uncorrelated replies, connection closure and a subsequent inspection. Envelope regressions also verify zero backend calls and unchanged initialization state for invalid versions.
+- **Command colors with an alpha part:** as VectorCraft's own rule, a command's color given as a hex color with an alpha part (`#rrggbbaa` or `#rgba`) is an error and changes nothing: fill and stroke colors, artboard, swatch, color group, new type, mesh point and Symbol Stainer colors, and the colors of `recolor.apply`, `select.color`, `color.gamutCheck`, `object.slice.options` (`background`), `object.rasterize` (`background`), `document.export` (`background`, `matte`) and `document.exportForWeb` (`matte`, `colorTable`) among them. Before, a `#rrggbbaa` color was set without its alpha, and a few commands used a default or skipped a color they could not read. The effects' `color` keeps taking `#rrggbbaa`. Tests: `a_color_with_an_alpha_part_is_refused` in `crates/engine/src/tests/panelcmds.rs`, `a_mesh_point_color_with_an_alpha_part_is_refused` and `a_stain_color_with_an_alpha_part_is_refused`.
 - **Tests and robustness:** ~2,840 automated tests: model-based property tests, a junk-parameter sweep over every command, import fuzzing (SVG, PDF, libraries), golden renders, and MCP end-to-end tests over stdio. Shipped code never panics (workspace lints and a rollback safety net; see `docs/development.md`). Scatter graph data near the largest number is refused with a message instead of hanging the app (#1780). One very long Liquify stroke segment can no longer create an unbounded number of dabs (#1779). A drag whose last preview failed is no longer recorded as a committed command in the journal that actions and scripts read (#1775). Tests: text import fuzzing no longer searches installed fonts (#1785). Tests: render tests that add fonts no longer race the frame cache tests (#1795).
 - **Raster-effect resolution in PDF:** when the 64 million pixel cap on an effect image renders an object's raster effects below the document's raster effects resolution, PDF export warns once per object with the requested and the lowest achieved ppi (`crates/engine/src/tests/pdfraster.rs`).
 - **Rasterize effect:** Effect › Rasterize… (`rasterize`) draws an object as an image of square pixels at its own resolution or the document's raster effects resolution, with Object › Rasterize's color model, background, anti-aliasing, clipping mask and room around the object, while its paths stay editable. Expand Appearance and PDF and SVG export of an object whose only raster effect is Rasterize give the image Object › Rasterize gives (`crates/engine/src/tests/rastersettings.rs`, `crates/render/src/tests/rasterize.rs`). Behavior reference: [How to save artwork in Illustrator](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/saving-artwork.html), [Work with effects](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/effects.html).
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 - **Dragging objects with raster effects when zoomed in (#2558):** during a drag with a tool on the canvas, the renderer draws filtered content (Gaussian Blur, Feather and the Photoshop-style filters) within 1,000,000 pixels, at a lower resolution where it would need more, unless it can draw the content from an earlier frame's raster. In the desktop app it does the same for drop shadows, outer glows and inner glows. No raster made that way is kept. The frame after the drag renders them as a still frame does, and a dialog's preview, exports and printing render as before. `zoomed_drag_perf` times a drag's frames at 100% to 6400%.
 - **Dragging other art over a wide blur (#2558):** an effect raster too large to keep whole (a wide blur, a shadow or glow, or any blur zoomed in) is cropped to what can show in the view, or made at a lower resolution and resampled to the view's pixels, and kept while the view stays the same, so dragging other art over the object draws its effects from the still frame instead of re-rendering them at the drag's lower resolution. A drag stays on the render worker once the worker drew the frame shown, since only that renderer holds the rasters. `tests_viewraster` covers each effect, and `a_drag_over_a_wide_blur_draws_the_blur_from_the_still_frame` the canvas on and off the worker. Not yet: a worker frame shows one display frame after the overlays, and the first frame of an interaction can land on the renderer that has not made the rasters yet (follow-up: render every canvas frame on the worker, waiting briefly for fast ones).
-- **Panning over a cropped effect raster:** when a pan makes a shadow, glow or filtered content raster cropped to the view again at the same zoom and rotation, the renderer makes it over a margin around the view too (up to half the view's longer side, within 8.4 million pixels), and later pans that keep the view inside that margin draw the raster instead of making it again. Zooming and the first frame at a zoom make the raster without the margin. The canvas pans by whole device pixels: the wheel, a trackpad, a touch screen and the scroll bars add the part of a pixel left over to the next scroll of the same view, and Hand tool and scroll bar thumb drags round the distance dragged. A shadow or glow raster holds the shadows of group members outside the view, so a pan that shows a member draws its shadow. `pans_within_a_cropped_rasters_margin_draw_it_kept` covers Drop Shadow, Gaussian Blur and Feather on a large image at 100%. `a_groups_shadow_raster_holds_the_members_outside_the_view` covers a group's members, `fractional_scrolls_moved_in_whole_pixels_draw_a_cropped_raster_kept` covers scrolls by fractions of a pixel, and `scrolls_and_pans_move_the_view_by_whole_device_pixels` covers the canvas.
+- **Panning over a cropped effect raster:** when a pan makes a shadow, glow or filtered content raster cropped to the view again at the same zoom and rotation, the renderer makes it over a margin around the view too (up to half the view's longer side, within 8.4 million pixels), and later pans that keep the view inside that margin draw the raster instead of making it again. Zooming and the first frame at a zoom make the raster without the margin. The canvas pans by whole device pixels: the wheel, a trackpad, a touch screen and the scroll bars add the part of a pixel left over to the next scroll of the same view, and Hand tool and scroll bar thumb drags round the distance dragged. A Drop Shadow or Outer Glow raster holds the shadow or glow of group members outside the view, so a pan that shows a member draws its shadow or glow from the raster. `pans_within_a_cropped_rasters_margin_draw_it_kept` covers Drop Shadow, Gaussian Blur and Feather on a large image at 100%. `a_groups_shadow_raster_holds_the_members_outside_the_view` covers a group's members, `fractional_scrolls_moved_in_whole_pixels_draw_a_cropped_raster_kept` covers scrolls by fractions of a pixel, and `scrolls_and_pans_move_the_view_by_whole_device_pixels` covers the canvas.
 
 - **Moving objects with raster effects (#1257):** during a drag or a dialog's preview, an object whose content only moved draws its cached drop shadows, outer glows and filtered content (Gaussian Blur, Feather and the Photoshop-style filters) from the rasters of an earlier frame at the nearest whole pixel, without running the effects again. The renderer first draws the moved content where the old content lies in its raster and compares the pixels. De-Interlace runs again. The frame after the drag runs the effects again and draws what a fresh renderer draws; on the desktop, the canvas renders that frame on the render worker. `texture_drag_perf` times a drag's frames and the frame after it.
 
 - **Glass's Load Texture:** Effect › Distort › Glass… has a Load Texture… button that reads a PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP, TIFF, BMP, Targa, PSD, PSB, PCX, Pixar or JPEG 2000 file and adds Loaded Texture to the Texture menu (`textureImage`: `{path}` or `{name?, dataBase64}`, stored in the effect and saved with the document as a grayscale PNG in base64). The texture lies one image pixel per point at Scaling 100%, centered on the object and repeated; each pixel's luma is the surface's height, from 0 for black to 1 pt for white, and a transparent pixel counts as middle gray. Scaling and Invert act on it as on the built-in textures. A Glass saved without `textureImage` draws and saves as before.
 
 - **Bounded effect length inputs (#4638):** Effect dialog fields with defined length ranges (such as Crystallize Cell Size 3..300 pt) clamp immediately on commit and reject invalid inputs visibly with an accent highlight without reverting to sub-minimum values.
-- **Color Halftone in raster pixels (#3260):** Max Radius is 4–127 px of the Document Raster Effects resolution, as public documentation gives it, shown in px whatever the document units; documents from before open with their radii in points converted (document version 2), and a file saved for an older app version holds them in points again.
+- **Color Halftone in raster pixels (#3260):** Max Radius is 4–127 px of the Document Raster Effects resolution, as public documentation gives it, shown in px whatever the document units; documents from before open with their radii in points converted (document version 3), and a file saved for an older app version holds them in points again.
 - **Raster effects after document and view changes:** a cached drop shadow, outer glow or filtered content is made again when something its content reads from outside the object changes: a pattern's art or tiling, a symbol shown inside another symbol, a brush definition, an image's pixels, the raster resolution (De-Interlace, Color Halftone), Page Knockout Group, the substitution highlights (Highlight Substituted Fonts and Highlight Alternate Glyphs in Preferences › Type, Highlight Substituted Glyphs in Document Setup), a layer's Dim Images, the color settings, the fonts, Pixel Preview, Anti-aliased Artwork, Overprint Preview and isolation mode. A thumbnail under Color Halftone or Mezzotint is made again when the document's color mode changes. Raster effects (blur, shadow, glow, grain) drawn after a pattern, radial or freeform gradient fill export at their place and size (#1541, fixes #1536).
 
 - **Drop Shadow's Darkness:** Effect › Stylize › Drop Shadow… has Color and Darkness as radio buttons, each with its field, and the Appearance panel's inline editor has the two radio buttons in its Shade row (`shade`: `color` or `darkness`; `darkness`: 0 to 100%, 100 by default). Color is the default, and a shadow saved without these keys draws as before. With Darkness, the stored source-color model determines the adjustment before document/profile conversion and blur: subtract Darkness/100 from each RGB channel, clamped at zero, or add it to CMYK black K and Gray black, clamped at one, preserving CMYK C/M/Y. At the near-100% endpoint the shadow source becomes gray black before conversion. Shadow opacity stays separate. Original gradient stops follow the same application rule before interpolation; exact resource-level gradient parity remains open. Application SVG export keeps a live filter for simple uniform sRGB sources and uses rendered shadow images for other working RGB profiles, source models and gradients. Low-level SVG filter output warns when this preparation is needed; proportional intermediate SVG filters are not misread as additive Darkness. Exact spot/custom-color and composite-source parity remain open, and resulting CMYK ink values follow the application color pipeline. CSS export leaves the shadow out and marks the object unsupported. When a `.ai`, EPS or PDF opens from its editing data, a Drop Shadow with Darkness in an object's art style is read as one with Color is, with the shadow's Darkness percentage (100% when the style gives none). Behavior reference: Illustrator CC Help (2014, [PDF](https://help.adobe.com/archive/en/illustrator/cc/2014/illustrator_reference.pdf)), page 428 (PDF page 434).
@@ -1355,7 +1394,7 @@ applies to fills). Tests: `color::gradient::tests` (perceptual midpoint, expansi
 `pdf::tests::dithered_perceptual_gradients_export_as_images_with_noise_on_the_fill` and the Gradient panel's
 `the_method_menu_makes_the_gradient_perceptual`. Scores and hours unchanged.
 
-PDF export writes a Perceptual linear or radial gradient whose stops are tints of one spot color (and paper white) as a Separation shading in that ink instead of an image, so the ink keeps its plate ([swatches](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/using-creating-swatches.html): "Gradient colors can be assigned as CMYK process colors, RGB colors, or a Spot color."; [separations](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/printing-color-separations.html): "a separate plate is created for each spot color"). Its tints follow the curve's stops, each the tint with the OKLab lightness of the color there (VectorCraft's own rule). A Perceptual gradient that mixes spot colors with each other or with CMYK or gray stops is written as a DeviceN shading of its inks: at each stop on the curve, the inks of the two stops on either side are mixed at the weight where the two colors mixed in display RGB have the OKLab lightness of the color there (VectorCraft's own rule). Dithered fills, freeform gradients and Perceptual gradients that mix a spot color with RGB or Lab stops are still images, and the export warns that their spot colors are written in process colors. Tests: `color::gradient::tests::ink_tints_follow_the_perceptual_curve` and `ink_mixes_follow_the_perceptual_curve`, `engine::tests::linked_stops::perceptual_spot_gradients_export_as_separation_shadings`, `perceptual_spot_gradients_mixed_with_other_inks_export_as_device_n_shadings` and `spot_gradients_drawn_as_images_warn`.
+PDF export writes a Perceptual linear or radial gradient whose stops are tints of one spot color (and paper white) as a Separation shading in that ink instead of an image, so the ink keeps its plate ([swatches](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/using-creating-swatches.html); [separations](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/printing-color-separations.html)). Its tints follow the curve's stops, each the tint with the OKLab lightness of the color there (VectorCraft's own rule). A Perceptual gradient that mixes spot colors with each other or with CMYK or gray stops is written as a DeviceN shading of its inks: at each stop on the curve, the inks of the two stops on either side are mixed at the weight where the two colors mixed in display RGB have the OKLab lightness of the color there, or at the stop's mix position between the two colors when that mix's lightness turns back on the way from one color to the other, as from red to blue (VectorCraft's own rule). Dithered fills, freeform gradients, Perceptual gradients that mix a spot color with RGB or Lab stops, and Perceptual gradients whose curve has more than 4,096 stops once expanded (VectorCraft's own limit) are still images, and the export warns that their spot colors are written in process colors. Tests: `color::gradient::tests::ink_tints_follow_the_perceptual_curve`, `ink_mixes_follow_the_perceptual_curve` and `ink_mixes_use_the_mix_position_when_the_lightness_turns_back`, `engine::tests::linked_stops::perceptual_spot_gradients_export_as_separation_shadings`, `perceptual_spot_gradients_mixed_with_other_inks_export_as_device_n_shadings` and `spot_gradients_drawn_as_images_warn`.
 
 In these Separation and DeviceN shadings, a white stop linked to a swatch that is not a spot color (a global White swatch, for example) is paper white, 0% of the ink, as an unlinked white stop is, so a gradient of one spot ink and such a stop stays a Separation shading; a stop linked to a white spot color stays a stop of that ink (VectorCraft's own rule). Test: `engine::tests::linked_stops::white_stops_linked_to_process_swatches_are_paper_in_spot_gradients`.
 
@@ -1543,6 +1582,10 @@ Symbols area (#4938), from the public symbol documentation ([create and place sy
 
 A VectorCraft addition, not a feature of the reference app, so no area score moves. Object › Plug-ins › Document Tools › Export All Open Documents as PDF (or as SVG) asks for a folder and writes a copy of every open document there, each named after its document with `-2`, `-3`… added when a name is taken, so no file is replaced (`addon.document.exportAllOpen {folder, format?}`, #4920). Each copy is written as Save a Copy writes it: the documents keep their paths, titles and modified state, and the active one stays active. A document that can't be written is named in the status bar and the others are still written. Tests: `addons::document::tests::export_all_open_documents_writes_each_to_the_folder_picked` (ui-egui), `cmd::addons::document::tests::export_all_open_documents_writes_each_and_reports_failures` (engine).
 
+## Document Tools add-on: Batch Trace Folder (2026-11-04)
+
+A VectorCraft addition (it replaces a script some users ran), so no area score moves. Object › Plug-ins › Document Tools › Batch Trace Folder (`addon.document.batchTraceFolder`) asks for a folder of images and a destination folder, traces each image with a preset (optionally expanded) and saves it there under its own name as `.vectorcraft`, `.svg`, `.pdf`, `.ai` or `.eps`, without replacing files, closing each image's document again and reporting the images it couldn't trace (#4921). A folder with more than 1,000 entries is refused rather than traced in part. Tests: `cmd::addons::document::tests::batch_trace_folder_traces_and_saves_each_image` and `batch_trace_folder_refuses_a_folder_it_cannot_list_in_full` (engine), `addons::document::tests::batch_trace_folder_asks_for_both_folders` (ui-egui).
+
 ## Color Effects add-on: Find Nearest Swatch (2026-11-01)
 
 A VectorCraft addition, not a feature of the reference app, so no area score moves. Object › Plug-ins › Color Effects › Find Nearest Swatch… lists each colour of the selection (fills and strokes, as ticked; solid colours and gradient stops, inside groups and type) with the three swatches of the chosen library closest to it by CIEDE2000 difference, with that difference (`addon.color.nearestSwatch`, #4923). The library is the document's swatches, a built-in library, or a library or colour book the user saved or loaded (no colour book data ships with VectorCraft). Apply gives each colour its nearest swatch as one undo step (`addon.color.applyNearestSwatch`): global and spot swatches link, and a library's swatches the colours take are added to the document first, so a spot colour stays spot. Remaining: typing a colour to look up in the dialog (the command takes `color`), and applying a match other than the nearest. Tests: `cmd::addons::color::nearest::tests` (engine), `addons::color::nearest::tests::find_nearest_swatch_lists_the_matches_and_applies_the_nearest` (ui-egui).
@@ -1562,11 +1605,22 @@ While a corner widget is pressed or dragged with the Selection or Direct Selecti
 
 A double-click on a Repeat (Radial, Grid or Mirror) with the Selection tool enters isolation mode on it ([isolate objects](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/select-objects/isolate-objects.html): a double-click with the Selection tool isolates an object; [repeat patterns overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/create-and-edit-patterns/repeat-patterns-overview.html): every instance follows edits to the original object); there the source art is selected and edited as usual (a double-click on type in it switches to the Type tool on that text) and every copy follows, with the repeat's settings kept (#5054). Test: `tests::repeat_edit::a_double_click_on_a_repeat_isolates_it_to_edit_its_text`.
 
+## Area type: vertical alignment in the Properties and Control panels (2026-11-04)
+
+With area type selected, the Properties panel's Paragraph section and the Control panel show Align Top, Align Center, Align Bottom and Justify Vertically buttons, as the public documentation places them ([Align text](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/edit-format-text/align-text.html)). They set the type's vertical alignment in its frame (`text.areaOptions {verticalAlign}`, as Area Type Options does) on every selected frame in one undo step, each frame keeping its other options; the shared alignment shows selected, none when the frames differ (#3759). As that page limits vertical alignment to area type without rows, columns or threads, the buttons are turned off while a selected frame has rows or columns or is threaded; Area Type Options and `text.areaOptions` still align each row/column cell (a VectorCraft extension, unchanged here). Tests: `panels::properties::tests::vertical_alignment_buttons_align_the_selected_area_type`.
+
+## Copy and paste ruler guides (2026-11-01)
+
+Edit › Copy and Cut put the selected ruler guides on the clipboard, with the selected objects or on their own, so they paste into another artboard or document (#3226). Pasted guides go on the layer new art goes to and are selected; with objects they move as the objects do, and alone they keep their places, while Paste in Place, in Front and in Back put them on the active artboard as they lay on theirs and Paste on All Artboards on every artboard. Guides have no format other apps read, so a Copy of guides alone empties the system clipboard, and the next Paste takes the guides rather than what another app copied before. Tests: `tests::guide_clipboard`, `tests::sysclip_guides` (ui-egui).
+
 ## Revision history
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | Effects: Color Halftone's Max Radius is 4–127 px of the Document Raster Effects resolution, shown in px whatever the units; older documents open converted, and files saved for older app versions hold points (#3260); scores unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-01 | minor | Batch Trace Folder (`imageTrace.batchFolder`, #4921); evidence added; scores unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-01 | minor | Copy and paste ruler guides (#3226); evidence added; scores unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-04 | minor | Area type vertical alignment buttons in the Properties panel's Paragraph section and the Control panel, off for columns, rows and threaded frames (#3759); evidence added; scores unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | Enclosing Lasso is an add-on with no default shortcut or Basic toolbar slot. Scores and estimates remain unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-02 | minor | Wheel input over closed font-family fields changes selected text (#5253); public documentation and application choices distinguished; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | Find Font's replacement-source chooser offers Document, Recent and System (#5217); scores and estimates unchanged. |

docs/type-parity.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Type parity
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-03 · **Change:** minor (Touch Type moves right-to-left characters along their line; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-03 · **Change:** minor (OpenType panel lists font-defined stylistic sets; Glyphs panel shows and applies alternates for the current text selection; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
 
 Type is Illustrator's largest single area by use (weight 13 of 105 across "Type core" and "Type advanced" in
 [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md)). This checklist lists the features one by one. Status is from the
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ against Illustrator's public documentation; **estimated** unless noted.
 | Character and Paragraph panels, styles with overrides | done | Character-style Auto-leading resets, partial definitions, local leading overrides, override markers, Undo/Redo and native serialization have regression coverage; differing paragraph alignments leave the shared alignment buttons unselected (headless regressions, full integration CI and visual review pass); mixed-value display for other paragraph fields remains missing |
 | Character size and horizontal scale after object/group scaling | done | #1034: fields and setters compensate the stored affine; point size follows the transformed em-height axis, not the glyph ink bounds. Range edits, keyboard increments, leading and baseline shift use document points; rotation, reflection and shear remain editable. |
 | Preserve font sizes while scaling a group | missing | Separate enhancement; scaling still scales text with the other artwork. |
-| OpenType panel, Glyphs panel, alternates | done | Highlight Alternate Glyphs preference (#394, off by default) paints pink behind OpenType substitutions on screen when on (required shaping such as Arabic joining forms and the lam-alef ligature, including a lam-alef older fonts file under `liga`, is not highlighted; an optional feature that changes the ligature is); stylistic sets ss01–ss20, stylistic and titling alternates, proportional and lining figures, superscript and subscript are character-style features (`text.setStyle {features}`, #1607); the OpenType panel's Position menu sets superscript, subscript, numerator or denominator glyphs (`sups`, `subs`, `numr`, `dnom`). The Glyphs panel highlights the character selected with the Type tool (a range's first character, else the one before the caret) and scrolls it into view as the selection moves (#4908; `panels::glyphs` tests); its Show menu lists Unicode ranges, and Alternates for Current Selection is not there yet |
+| OpenType panel, Glyphs panel, alternates | done | Highlight Alternate Glyphs preference (#394, off by default) paints pink behind OpenType substitutions on screen when on (required shaping such as Arabic joining forms and the lam-alef ligature, including a lam-alef older fonts file under `liga`, is not highlighted; an optional feature that changes the ligature is); stylistic sets ss01–ss20, stylistic and titling alternates, proportional and lining figures, superscript and subscript are character-style features (`text.setStyle {features}`, #1607); the OpenType panel's Position menu sets superscript, subscript, numerator or denominator glyphs (`sups`, `subs`, `numr`, `dnom`). The OpenType panel's Stylistic Sets menu lists the selected font's `ss01`–`ss20` features, using a font-supplied name where available and `Set N` otherwise; several sets can be active, and selecting an active one removes it. For a mixed-font selection it uses the first selected character's font, a VectorCraft design choice ([public help](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/special-characters-glyphs/add-stylistic-sets-to-selected-text.html), [OpenType feature specification](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/features_pt)). The Glyphs panel highlights the character selected with the Type tool (a range's first character, else the one before the caret) and scrolls it into view as the selection moves (#4908; `panels::glyphs` tests); its Show menu lists Unicode ranges and Alternates for Current Selection, the selected character's alternate glyphs from the font's `GSUB` table, one of which a double-click draws for that character (`text.setGlyphAlternate`); the glyph-cell pop-up of alternates is not there yet |
 | Font menu: samples, live preview, filters, favourites, recent families; font matching by any name; Find Font | done | #3515: recently applied families appear first, once each; missing families are omitted and the existing Number of Recent Fonts setting applies; #339; script filter: Japanese, Latin, Thai; the font scan on Linux also reads the folders fontconfig's configuration lists, such as TeX fonts under `/usr/share/texmf/fonts` (#1548, fixes #1529; not verified on Linux) |
 | Missing glyphs set in an installed font made for their script (Thai, Lao, Khmer, Myanmar first; then any font that has them) | done | Thai: Leelawadee UI, Tahoma, Thonburi, Sukhumvit Set, Noto Sans Thai, TLWG |
 | Full font-name matching (OpenType name ID 4) | done | #1258: loaded/cataloged faces and Missing Fonts searches; localized names and variable default faces; Windows font-service QA pending |
@@ -60,14 +60,12 @@ against Illustrator's public documentation; **estimated** unless noted.
 | CJK: input methods (marked text, candidate window) | done | |
 | CJK: kinsoku (Hard, Soft, None), Line-end Punctuation Half Width, tate-chu-yoko (auto) | done / partial | custom kinsoku sets, the Mojikumi Settings dialog and the other mojikumi sets missing |
 | CJK: Proportional Metrics (`palt` in horizontal type, `vpal` in vertical type) | done | #966 |
-| CJK: manual tate-chu-yoko | done | Character panel menu › Tate-chu-yoko (`text.setFormat` / `text.setRangeStyle {tateChuYoko}`), with Show East Asian Options: marked characters stand side by side across one em of a vertical column, squeezed to the em when wider; two or three half-width digits still do so without the mark; horizontal type keeps the mark and does not move them. Up/Down and Left/Right settings remain. Evidence: `tests_vertical::manual_tate_chu_yoko_sets_marked_characters_across_one_em`, `typecmd::tate_chu_yoko_is_a_character_attribute_saved_only_when_on` |
 | CJK: East Asian Type units (Q, Ha) | done | Preferences › Units › East Asian Type (`unitsAsianType`, Points by default) offers every unit and Q and Ha, a quarter of a millimetre each ([Scripting Guide](https://ai-scripting.docsforadobe.dev/scripting/measurementUnits/): 0.709 pt per Q; [InDesign's unit notation](https://helpx.adobe.com/in/indesign/desktop/layout-and-grid-tools/rulers-and-measure-tools/change-ruler-measurement-units.html): `q`, `h`). The public pages do not say which fields follow it, so no field uses it yet and that waits for a source. Evidence: `q_and_ha_are_a_quarter_millimetre`, `east_asian_type_unit_*` |
 | CJK: manual tate-chu-yoko | done | Character panel menu › Tate-chu-yoko (`text.setFormat` / `text.setRangeStyle {tateChuYoko}`), with Show East Asian Options: marked characters stand side by side across one em of a vertical column, squeezed to the em when wider; two or three half-width digits still do so without the mark; horizontal type keeps the mark and does not move them. Tate-chu-yoko Settings… (`ui.tateChuYokoSettings`, `{tcyUpDown, tcyLeftRight}` in points) moves a marked block up or down and right or left as one piece. Evidence: `tests_vertical::manual_tate_chu_yoko_sets_marked_characters_across_one_em`, `tests_vertical::tate_chu_yoko_settings_move_a_marked_block_up_down_left_and_right`, `typecmd::tate_chu_yoko_is_a_character_attribute_saved_only_when_on`, `typecmd::tate_chu_yoko_settings_are_character_attributes_saved_only_when_set`, `dialogs::tate_chu_yoko::tests` |
 | CJK: Standard Vertical Roman Alignment | done | Character panel menu › Standard Vertical Roman Alignment (`text.setFormat` / `text.setRangeStyle {standardVerticalRoman}`), with Show East Asian Options, off by default: in vertical type the marked half-width characters (Latin letters, digits and other characters that would lie on their side) stand upright one below the other, each in its upright cell; spaces keep their width and tate-chu-yoko blocks stay across the column; horizontal type keeps the mark and does not change. Character Style Options has its own checkbox for it. Evidence: `tests_vertical::standard_vertical_roman_alignment_stands_half_width_characters_upright`, `typecmd::standard_vertical_roman_is_a_character_attribute_saved_only_when_on` |
-| CJK: ruby, manual tate-chu-yoko | partial | ruby (ふりがな) for live text (`type.ruby`): a reading over a byte range, above (right of the column in vertical type) or below, start/centre/end alignment, size, overhang or squeeze; saved natively, laid out with its line growing, drawn on the canvas, in SVG and PDF (as outlines where ruby is present), in EPS, EMF/WMF and legacy `.ai` (legacy `.ai` writes type with ruby as outlines), and kept by Create Outlines, Expand Appearance and flattening, each glyph where the layout puts it (`typecmd::ruby_tests::create_outlines_keeps_the_ruby_where_it_is_laid_out`); manual tate-chu-yoko missing | #633 |
+| CJK: ruby | partial | ruby (ふりがな) for live text (`type.ruby`): a reading over a byte range, above (right of the column in vertical type) or below, start/centre/end alignment, size, overhang or squeeze; saved natively, laid out with its line growing, drawn on the canvas, in SVG and PDF (as outlines where ruby is present), in EPS, EMF/WMF and legacy `.ai` (legacy `.ai` writes type with ruby as outlines), and kept by Create Outlines, Expand Appearance and flattening, each glyph where the layout puts it (`typecmd::ruby_tests::create_outlines_keeps_the_ruby_where_it_is_laid_out`) | #633 |
 | Language per character (Character panel › Language, character styles), text shaped in it | done | `text.setFormat` / `text.setRangeStyle {language}` by name or BCP 47 tag, one of Document Setup's languages (Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia and Urdu added, #4943; Serbian: Cyrillic, Serbian: Latin and Croatian); the shaper gets the tag, so the font's language forms apply (OpenType `locl`: Turkish keeps `fi` apart and the dot on its i, #4940); new type takes the document's language; saved as the tag only when set, carried by character styles (#4946). Not yet: hyphenation and spelling by it, `.ai`/PDF import of a text's language, paragraph styles. Evidence: `features::tests::language_picks_the_fonts_forms`, `features::tests::serbian_gets_the_fonts_serbian_forms`, `typecmd::area_tests::language_is_a_character_attribute_saved_only_when_set` |
 | No Break | done | Character panel menu (`text.setFormat` / `text.setRangeStyle {noBreak}`): the marked characters stay on one line, including across a space; a run that does not fit after earlier text moves together, and a run longer than the line stays together. Evidence: `layout::wrapping_tests::no_break_keeps_marked_characters_on_one_line`, `tests::no_break_keeps_marked_words_on_one_line`, `typecmd::no_break_is_a_character_attribute_saved_only_when_on` |
-| CJK: ruby | missing | #633 |
 | Inline symbols in text | beyond Illustrator | not scored |
 | Align Stroke (inside, outside) on live type's character stroke | beyond Illustrator | not scored; `stroke.set {align}` and `text.setRangeStyle {strokeOptions: {align}}`; saved natively, drawn around the glyphs on the canvas and in PDF, EPS and SVG (live text, stroke on the glyph outlines); visual bounds grow with it (#2294) |
 
@@ -77,6 +75,8 @@ Character Styles menu New/Redefine and footer New capture the first selected cha
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-03 | minor | Glyphs panel adds Alternates for Current Selection. A chosen alternate changes one character's drawn glyph while keeping its Unicode text; character-style capture does not copy that per-character choice. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-03 | minor | The OpenType panel lists the selected font's available Stylistic Sets with its custom names or numbered labels; sets can be combined and deselected. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | Character-menu Kashidas controls selected characters separately from the paragraph's Insert Kashidas length. Existing text allows Kashidas by default; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | Type on a Path Options has a Preview checkbox: the type follows the fields while it is on, Cancel restores it, OK is one undo step (#5360, as public tutorials of the dialog show); scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-02 | minor | The wheel over Character, Properties and Control font-family fields changes selected text, one undo step per notch (#5253); scores and estimates unchanged. |

docs/ui-parity.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # UI and interaction parity
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-03 · **Change:** minor (Type on a Path Options has a Preview checkbox, #5360; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; Units › East Asian Type acts, with Q and Ha units; scores unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-04 · **Change:** minor (Select by Artboards add-on selects by overlap, inside or outside several artboards; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; Units › East Asian Type acts, with Q and Ha units; scores unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
 
 ## Feature submission evidence
 
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ Artboard Options forwards the active Artboard tool's Scale Artwork with Artboard
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-04 | minor | Selection Tools add-on: Select by Artboards selects the objects overlapping, fully inside or fully outside several chosen artboards, from a dialog that lists, searches and multi-selects the artboards and fits one in the window on double-click (#5525, #5548, #5549, a VectorCraft addition); scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-04 | minor | File › Export › Export As PNG… exports the active artboard, or each artboard the Artboard tool has selected (one file each), instead of always the first (#5502); a choice the caller gives is kept; scores and estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-11-04 | minor | Document Tools add-on (a VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Document Tools › Batch Trace Folder asks for a folder of images and a destination folder and traces each image into it (#4921); scores and estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-11-03 | minor | The Action Options row cites the public Actions panel page and describes its controls. Scores and estimates remain unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | Enclosing Lasso provides whole-object enclosure selection as an add-on with no default shortcut or Basic toolbar slot. Scores and estimates remain unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | Transform previews valid typed values while numeric fields remain focused. Effect dialogs use the object, group, or layer targeted in Appearance. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | New gradients use CMYK default stops in CMYK documents, including Gradient tool creation. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
@@ -230,7 +234,7 @@ tools, never checked side by side) isn't captured row by row.
 
 | Behaviour | Status | Notes |
 |---|---|---|
-| Space: Hand; Cmd+Space / Cmd+Alt+Space: zoom in/out; middle button pans | done | |
+| Space: Hand; Cmd+Space / Cmd+Alt+Space: zoom in/out; middle button pans | done | Space pressed while a tool holds the press (Pencil, a brush, a shape, a selection drag) is ignored: the cursor keeps the tool's own, and Space pans only when it is down at the press — the state before the fix showed the hand while the drag panned nothing. `space_during_a_pencil_drag_keeps_the_pencil_cursor` |
 | Document window scroll bars along the right and bottom edges (Normal and Full Screen Mode with Menu Bar; none in Full Screen and Presentation Mode): a thumb as long as the view against the art and the artboards; dragging it scrolls, a click on the track pages, the wheel over a bar scrolls along it; in a rotated view they follow the screen's axes | partial | #2322. The span is the art and the artboards with half a window around them, not Illustrator's 227 in canvas: VectorCraft has no bounded drawing area (#2284). A track click pages rather than jumping to the click; the page size and the rotated-view behaviour are our own choice (the public documentation gives neither) |
 | Cmd/Ctrl: last-used selection tool; Cmd+Alt: Group Selection inside Direct Selection | done | Cmd+Alt lends Group Selection only while Direct Selection is active (Cmd borrow from the Pen keeps Direct Selection so Alt stays copy/subtract); engine pointer regressions |
 | Eyedropper styles highlighted characters only and preserves ranges across Type switches | done | Font/paint, Shift color-only, Unicode, Undo/Redo and stale-range regression tests; enabled non-neutral source or target object transparency is refused atomically; disable Transparency to sample supported attributes |
@@ -308,22 +312,24 @@ next unit in the order a right-click on a ruler lists them, from Feet back to Po
 | Panels dragged onto a dock group's tabs join it; onto its upper or lower half they make a new group above or below it (a top/bottom split, resizable); onto the icon column they become icons, the tabbed group's panels too; a dock tab's context menu closes it (Window menu reopens it) | done | `window.panel.dock {anchor, zone}`, `window.panel.dock {icon: true}`, `window.panel.close` |
 | A double-click on a dock group's tab collapses the group to its tabs (a group below it moves up into the room) and a second one expands it; a click on another of its tabs expands it showing that panel ([helpx: Workspace basics](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/workspace-basics.html), panel groups) | done | `window.panel.collapse {panel, collapsed?}`; in dock groups and floating windows; a group beside another (a left/right split) doesn't collapse |
 | Panels outside the app window (another monitor) | done | floating groups in OS windows of their own on the desktop (#4135) |
-| Edit Toolbar (•••): the All Tools drawer opens beside the toolbar by its button (Escape or a click outside closes it), dims the tools already in the toolbar; while it is open, tools drag from it onto the toolbar (between two tools, or onto one to join its group), from the toolbar into it, and within the toolbar; each toolbar keeps its edits | done | #1018; `window.editToolbar`, `toolbar.addTool`/`removeTool`/`reset`; the drawer's Reset (Illustrator has it in a drawer menu); dragging a toolbar button moves the tool it shows, not its whole group; Manage Toolbars missing; tool flyouts are as wide as their longest translated name and shortcut need (#1616) |
+| Edit Toolbar (•••): the All Tools drawer opens beside the toolbar by its button (Escape or a click outside closes it), dims the tools already in the toolbar; while it is open, tools drag from it onto the toolbar (between two tools, or onto one to join its group), from the toolbar into it, and within the toolbar; each toolbar keeps its edits | done | #1018; `window.editToolbar`, `toolbar.addTool`/`removeTool`/`reset`; the drawer's Reset (Illustrator has it in a drawer menu); dragging a toolbar button moves the tool it shows, not its whole group; tool flyouts are as wide as their longest translated name and shortcut need (#1616) |
 | Window › Toolbars › New Toolbar… (also in the All Tools drawer's menu): a name and OK make a blank floating toolbar, listed under Window › Toolbars (its item shows or hides it); its title bar moves it, its × hides it and its double arrow shows its tools in one column or two; its ••• button opens the All Tools drawer beside it to fill it; kept with the workspace it was made in | done | #1759 in part; `window.toolbar.new`, `window.toolbar.custom`, `window.toolbar.list`, the `toolbar` param of `window.toolbarColumns`, `window.editToolbar` and `toolbar.addTool`/`removeTool`/`reset` |
+| Window › Toolbars › Manage Toolbars… (also in the All Tools drawer's menu): the dialog lists the toolbars made with New Toolbar; a new name typed for the selected one renames it, + copies it (none selected: a blank toolbar) and the trash can deletes it; the changes stay in the workspace | done | #1759 in part; `window.toolbar.manage`, `window.toolbar.rename`, `window.toolbar.duplicate`, `window.toolbar.delete` |
 | Quick Image Trace presets trace at once and leave the panel as it was; the Image Trace button (Control bar, Properties) opens the editable controls | done | Per the public documentation, choosing a preset traces the image with it straight away, and the panel is opened with the Image Trace button in the Control panel or in Properties' Image Trace section (<https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/image-trace-results-optimization.html>). The controls show Threshold, Paths, Corners and Noise with Advanced open; `panels/image_trace.rs` headless tests (`a_quick_trace_leaves_the_panel_as_it_was`, `sketch_quick_trace_reveals_all_adjustments_and_keeps_the_source` for the button's route). No algorithm parity claim. |
 | Image Trace panel: holding the eye button next to View down shows the selected Image Trace objects' source image on the canvas | done | Per the public documentation, the control next to View is pressed and held to compare the trace result with the source image (<https://web.archive.org/web/20250831090623/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/image-trace.html>). On release the objects show their View again; the document, its View and the undo history are unchanged. `RenderOptions::trace_source`; `panels/image_trace.rs` headless test `holding_the_eye_button_shows_the_source_image_until_released`, render test `trace_source_draws_the_source_image_of_the_listed_objects`. The Control bar and Properties have no such button |
 | Live trace result bounds and selection highlights exclude the retained bitmap; source-image views retain it | done | All TraceView modes and rotated result bounds regression-covered; ordinary hidden group behavior retained |
 | Image Trace panel: the Preview checkbox before Trace chooses whether a setting change traces the selected Image Trace object again at once | done | Per the public documentation, Preview shows the result of the current settings and Trace traces with them (<https://web.archive.org/web/20250831090623/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/image-trace.html>). Preview is on by default and kept with the UI preferences; Reset to Default leaves it. Off, changes wait in the panel until Trace applies them as one undo step, or until Preview is turned on again. Changes stay with the object they were made for while another object is selected, and come back when it is selected again. `imageTrace.preview {on?}`, `ui.set {imageTracePreview}`; `panels/image_trace.rs` headless tests (`with_preview_off_a_slider_change_waits_for_trace`, `turning_preview_on_traces_the_changes_that_waited`, `preview_turned_on_with_nothing_selected_traces_when_the_object_is_selected_again`, `settings_that_wait_stay_with_their_object`, `settings_that_wait_come_back_when_their_object_is_selected_again`, `settings_that_wait_are_dropped_when_their_object_changed_since`, `preview_is_kept_with_the_preferences_and_reset_to_default_leaves_it`) |
 | Toolbar without group labels by default, one or two columns; All Tools drawer by flyout group with shortcuts, its menu (Reset, Basic, Advanced) and Show section | done | #1751; a preference brings the labels back; `toolbar.show` sets the Fill/Stroke, Coloring, Draw Mode and Screen Mode controls |
 | Actions panel: ≡ › Save Actions… saves the current set with all its actions to a file and ≡ › Load Actions… adds a saved set ([Manage a set of actions](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/manage-a-set-of-actions.html)) | partial | `ui.actionSet.save`, `ui.actionSet.load`; `panels/actions.rs` tests. The file is VectorCraft's own `.vcactions` JSON; the reference app's `.aia` files and Reset, Clear and Replace Actions remain |
-| Actions panel: ≡ › Action Options… renames the selected action and sets its function key and color ([Actions panel overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/actions-panel-overview.html): "Opens a dialog to rename or assign function keys/colors to the action") | partial | `ui.action.options`; `panels/actions.rs` tests (part of #1629). The color shows nowhere until Button Mode exists |
+| Actions panel: ≡ › Action Options… renames the selected action and sets its function key and color ([Actions panel overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/actions-panel-overview.html)) | partial | `ui.action.options`; `panels/actions.rs` tests (part of #1629). The color shows nowhere until Button Mode exists |
+| Actions panel: ≡ › Playback Options… plays actions Accelerated, Step by Step or with a pause between steps ([Specify playback speed](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/specify-playback-speed.html)) | done | `ui.action.playbackOptions`; `panels/actions.rs` tests. The pause is a whole number of seconds from 1 to 60 (VectorCraft's own range); Batch… plays at full speed |
 | Actions panel: a clicked action stays selected for Play Current Selection and Delete Selection | partial | #1853 (part of #1629); editing actions and action shortcuts remain |
 | Actions panel: Create New Set (bottom bar, ≡ › New Set…) names a new set and Set Options… renames the current one; a click on a set's name makes it current and a recording goes into the current set ([helpx: Automation with actions](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/automation-actions.html)); the current set is kept with the UI preferences, and with no set current a recording goes into the first set, which becomes current | partial | #3712; dragging actions between sets remains |
 | Actions panel: Create New Action (bottom bar, ≡ › New Action…) asks for the name, set, function key and color, and Record adds the action and records into it ([Create new actions](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/record-actions.html)) | partial | `ui.action.new`, `ui.action.play`; `panels/actions.rs` tests. A function key plays its action, even when a command has the same shortcut, and the command keeps it. Button Mode, which shows the color, remains |
-| Actions panel: Delete Selection (bottom bar) deletes the selected set with its actions and keeps the other sets ([Actions panel overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/actions-panel-overview.html): "Removes the selected action, command, or action set from the panel") | partial | `ui.actionSet.delete`; `panels/actions.rs` tests. VectorCraft's own rules, which the overview does not cover: deleting a set asks first (a selected action is still deleted at once), Shift-click on a set's name selects a range of sets, ≡ › Delete does the same as the button, and Default Actions and the last set can be deleted. Undo does not restore a deleted set, and recorded commands cannot be selected or deleted |
-| Actions panel: ≡ › Duplicate copies the selected action or set ([Actions panel overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/actions-panel-overview.html): "Makes a copy of the selected action or set.") | partial | `ui.actionSet.duplicate`; `panels/actions.rs` tests. VectorCraft's own rules, which the overview does not cover: the copy goes right after the original, is named after it with " copy" added and is selected, and a copied set holds copies of all its actions. Undo does not remove the copy, and recorded commands cannot be duplicated |
+| Actions panel: Delete Selection (bottom bar) deletes the selected set with its actions and keeps the other sets ([Actions panel overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/actions-panel-overview.html)) | partial | `ui.actionSet.delete`; `panels/actions.rs` tests. VectorCraft's own rules, which the overview does not cover: deleting a set asks first (a selected action is still deleted at once), Shift-click on a set's name selects a range of sets, ≡ › Delete does the same as the button, and Default Actions and the last set can be deleted. Undo does not restore a deleted set, and recorded commands cannot be selected or deleted |
+| Actions panel: ≡ › Duplicate copies the selected action or set ([Actions panel overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/actions-panel-overview.html)) | partial | `ui.actionSet.duplicate`; `panels/actions.rs` tests. VectorCraft's own rules, which the overview does not cover: the copy goes right after the original, is named after it with " copy" added and is selected, and a copied set holds copies of all its actions. Undo does not remove the copy, and recorded commands cannot be duplicated |
 | Properties panel per context (every selection type's Quick Actions) | partial | one clip group: Edit Clipping Path and Edit Contents, at the top of the panel rather than in Quick Actions (G1); the overview's additional controls ([Properties panel overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/get-started/learn-the-basics/properties-panel-overview.html)): Blend Options (one blend selected, with any tool, #4817) and Merge Live Paint (a Live Paint group with more) in Quick Actions, the Width Profile list (Width tool or a variable-width stroke) and an applied effect's Delete icon in Appearance, Corner and Corner Radius for corners selected with Direct Selection; Variable Font was already there |
-| Select › Start Global Edit / Stop Global Edit; Properties › Quick Actions with the Global Edit Options popover (Match: Appearance, Size; On Artboards: All Artboards or a range, Include Objects On Canvas; Result(s)); Escape stops it; the matched objects are highlighted in their layer colour while it runs; a Shift-click on a highlighted match leaves it out | partial | #3521, `select.globalEdit` / `select.globalEditOptions` / `select.globalEditExclude`, `crates/engine/src/tests/globaledit.rs`; paths, compound paths, symbol instances and groups of them (similar groups, #4939: edits inside one group reach the same object in the others; [public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/edit-objects/edit-groups-with-similar-objects.html)); Shift-click to leave a match out ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/ph_fil/illustrator/how-to/global-editing-sensei.html)); the Control panel's copy of the options, rotated copies and highlighting matches before the start remain ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/edit-objects/edit-similar-objects.html)) |
+| Select › Start Global Edit / Stop Global Edit; Properties › Quick Actions with the Global Edit Options popover (Match: Appearance, Size; On Artboards: All Artboards or a range, Include Objects On Canvas; Result(s)); Escape stops it; the matched objects are highlighted in their layer colour while it runs; a Shift-click on a highlighted match leaves it out | partial | #3521, `select.globalEdit` / `select.globalEditOptions` / `select.globalEditExclude`, `crates/engine/src/tests/globaledit.rs`; paths, compound paths, symbol instances and groups of them (similar groups, #4939: edits inside one group reach the same object in the others; [public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/edit-objects/edit-groups-with-similar-objects.html)); Shift-click to leave a match out ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/ph_fil/illustrator/how-to/global-editing-sensei.html)); the Control bar's Global Edit Options dropdown opens the same options; rotated copies and highlighting matches before the start remain ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/edit-objects/edit-similar-objects.html)) |
 | Contextual task bar | done | |
 | Control bar with Transform and Stroke popovers | done | |
 | Pathfinder shape results keep their source names and SVG IDs | done | #1293; Minus Front keeps the back name, Minus Back the front name; Unite/Intersect/Exclude use the backmost named input; compound output carries it once; geometry and paint unchanged |
@@ -362,6 +368,7 @@ next unit in the order a right-click on a ruler lists them, from Feet back to Po
 | Arrange Tools add-on (VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Arrange Tools › Sort Objects… sorts the selected objects by Sort By (width, height, area, X or Y position, opacity, stacking order) in an Order (Small to Large, Large to Small, Random) and gives them Apply To in that order, trading the values or with Distribute Evenly; Scale Strokes & Effects; Preview; one undo step | done | #4917; `addon.arrange.sort`, `crates/engine/src/cmd/addons/arrange.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/arrange.rs` and their tests; not a feature of the reference app, so it is not scored |
 | Document Tools add-on (VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Document Tools › Save a Timestamped Copy writes `<name>_YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM.<ext>` next to the document (a folder picked for one never saved), which keeps its path, title and modified state; off on the web | done | #4926; `addon.document.saveTimestampedCopy`, `crates/engine/src/cmd/addons/document.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/document.rs` and their tests; not a feature of the reference app, so it is not scored |
 | Document Tools add-on (VectorCraft addition): Export All Open Documents as PDF / as SVG (#4920) | done | asks for a folder, writes a copy of every open document named after it (taken names numbered, nothing replaced), documents and active tab unchanged; failures named in the status bar |
+| Document Tools add-on (VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Document Tools › Batch Trace Folder asks for a folder of images, then a destination folder, traces each image with a preset (optionally expanded) and saves it there as `.vectorcraft`, `.svg`, `.pdf`, `.ai` or `.eps` under its own name (taken names numbered, nothing replaced), closing each image again; the status bar counts the images traced and those that couldn't be; off on the web | done | #4921; `addon.document.batchTraceFolder`, `crates/engine/src/cmd/addons/document/batch_trace.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/document.rs` and their tests; not a feature of the reference app |
 | Document Tools add-on (VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Document Tools › New Symbols from Layers makes a symbol of each layer's art named after the layer (the highlighted layers when two or more are, else all); Convert Layers to Symbols also replaces each layer's art with an instance in place; empty layers skipped, one undo step | done | #4927; `addon.document.symbolsFromLayers`, `crates/engine/src/cmd/addons/document.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/document.rs` and their tests; not a feature of the reference app, so it is not scored |
 | Smart Pen add-on (VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Smart Pen selects the Smart Pen Tool, which the All Tools drawer lists under its own heading but neither toolbar shows as shipped (no shortcut), and opens the Smart Pen panel (next segment straight or curved; Remove Points Keep Shape, Make Smooth, Make Corner, Retract Handles, Close or Join). The tool draws (click: straight or curved segment, a curve after a straight one tangent; drag: smooth anchor, Alt breaks the handle, Shift 45°, Space moves it; Tab switches a segment; rubber band; close, join, continue) and edits without switching tools (click selects a point, drag moves it, Alt-click removes it keeping the shape, Shift+Alt-click deletes it, double-click toggles smooth/corner; handle drags with Shift and Alt; segment drags reshape, Alt-click adds a point) | done | `addon.pen.*`, `crates/tools/src/addons/smart_pen.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/pen.rs` and their tests; not a feature of the reference app, so it is not scored |
 | Path Precision Tools add-on (VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Path Precision Tools selects its seven tools (Anchor Eraser Brush, Extend Path, Measure & Inspect, Parametric Shape, Corner Tool, Slide Anchor Along Path, Shared Edge Merge Tool), which the All Tools drawer lists under their own heading but neither toolbar shows as shipped, opens the Anchor Inspector panel (the selected anchor's X/Y and handle lengths and angles as fields; Make Smooth, Make Corner, Equalize Handles, Remove Points Keep Shape, Add Points, the three ways to close) and the Parametric Shape panel (kind, count, W/H, rotation, the kind's own values and corner radius of the selected parametric shape, or of the tool's next one), and runs Add Points at / Split at Crossings and Convert to Parametric Shape; the Parametric Shape Tool draws ten re-editable kinds from the centre (↑/↓ and ←/→ change their numbers while dragging) and edits a selected one with handles; the Corner Tool cuts editable corners on any path (hover shows the anchor, a click uses its radius and kind, a drag sizes the corner, Shift whole values; a corner's marker selects it and loads its values, drags to resize, to 0 or double-clicked removes it; never past what fits; Alt-marquee cuts every anchor inside) with a Corners section in the Anchor Inspector (radius, kind, selected count, Apply to Selected Anchors); Slide Anchor Along Path drags an anchor along its curve with the segments beside it refitted, Shift snapping where the tangent is a multiple of 45°; the Shared Edge Merge Tool shows, over two paths touching at two coincident anchors, the two stretches and the edge merging them, a click merges them (half way; Shift the upper path, Alt the lower), and near anchors meet or an anchor one path lacks is added to match (Shift+Alt asks for this inside a stretch), with a Shared Edges section in the Anchor Inspector (brush diameter, coincidence 0 to 3 pt, Keep Shared Points Together, which takes coincident anchors along with the add-on's own anchor moves); a double-click on the brush or Extend Path tool opens its options | done | `addon.pathtools.*`, `crates/tools/src/addons/`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/pathtools.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/pathtools/` and their tests; not a feature of the reference app, so it is not scored |
@@ -376,6 +383,7 @@ next unit in the order a right-click on a ruler lists them, from Feet back to Po
 | Artwork Cleanup add-on text tools (VectorCraft addition): the panel's Text row, which the panel can hide, and Object › Plug-ins › Artwork Cleanup set the alignment of point type keeping its place, break type into lines (Shift-click: paragraphs), words or glyphs, split type at the cursor, reset a text transform (Alt-click: and its horizontal scale), combine point type, remove line or paragraph breaks and replace missing fonts, each one undo step | done | `addon.cleanup.*` text commands, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/cleanup.rs` and its tests; a VectorCraft addition, so it is not scored |
 | Color Effects add-on (VectorCraft addition): live Exposure, Desaturate and Invert Colors in Effect › Color Effects and Object › Plug-ins › Color Effects; its panel picks a colour adjustment and its values and adds it as a live effect or applies it as a filter, into the colours, as one undo step; Select by Color Kind selects the objects that use spot colours, carry colour effects, or are RGB, CMYK or grayscale images; Vector Halftone draws an object as halftone dots live (the dots Object › Vector Halftone makes), which Expand Appearance and the exporters write as paths; Duotone prints each colour's tone with one to four inks (a tint of a spot tone's swatch, or the CMYK mix of several), live or as a filter, its dialog a row per tone and the picked tone's curve; Print Ink Fixes (a CMYK document's ink limit, white overprint removed, black overprint set) opens its options from the submenu and the panel's Inks | done | `addon.color.*`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/color.rs` and its tests; not a feature of the reference app, so it is not scored |
 | Color Effects add-on (VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Color Effects › Find Nearest Swatch… picks a Library (Document Swatches, a built-in library, or a library or colour book the user saved or loaded) and Fill and Stroke, lists each colour of the selection with its three closest swatches (chip, name, ΔE 2000), and Apply gives each colour its nearest swatch (global and spot swatches linked; a library's swatches added to the document first), one undo step | done | #4923; `addon.color.nearestSwatch`, `addon.color.applyNearestSwatch`, `crates/engine/src/cmd/addons/color/nearest.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/color/nearest.rs` and their tests; not a feature of the reference app, so it is not scored |
+| Selection Tools add-on (VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Selection Tools › Select by Artboards… lists every artboard (number, name, width × height in the document's units), filters them by name, chooses several (click, Shift-click for a range, Cmd/Ctrl-click to toggle; Select All / None act on the rows shown; a count of those chosen), fits a row's artboard in the window on double-click and makes it active, and on OK selects the objects overlapping, fully inside or fully outside the chosen artboards (Overlapping is All on Active Artboard's test) | done | #5525, #5548, #5549; `addon.select.byArtboards`, `crates/engine/src/cmd/addons/select.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/select.rs` and their tests; not a feature of the reference app |
 
 ## Look and feel
 
@@ -418,6 +426,10 @@ separate. Scores and hours unchanged. [Behavior and command details](development
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-04 | minor | New Document: the units chosen in Preset Details belong to the chosen document, as the pane's options are listed "for the selected preset" ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/add-and-import-files/start-a-new-file/create-and-save-custom-document-presets.html)); the chosen card shows them, every other Recent and Saved card keeps the units its document or preset was made in, and the built-in tabs still follow the chosen units (#2078); scores and estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-11-01 | minor | Object › Image Trace › Batch Trace Folder asks for a source and a destination folder and traces each image into it (#4921); scores and estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-11-01 | minor | Edit › Copy and Cut take the selected ruler guides, with the objects or alone; pasting puts them on the layer new art goes to, moved as the objects are (alone: where they were), Paste in Place onto the active artboard and Paste on All Artboards onto each (#3226); scores and estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-11-04 | minor | Area type: Align Top / Center / Bottom / Justify Vertically buttons in the Properties panel (Paragraph section) and the Control panel set its vertical alignment in the frame, as Area Type Options does; turned off for frames with rows or columns and threaded frames (#3759); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | Enclosing Lasso selects fully enclosed objects with a freehand loop under Object › Plug-ins; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | Type on a Path Options has a Preview checkbox (#5360, as public tutorials of the dialog show); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-02 | minor | Font-family fields in Character, Properties and Control accept the wheel without opening the menu (#5253); scores and estimates unchanged. |
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 | 2026-11-01 | minor | Live Corners: while a corner widget is pressed or dragged with the Selection or Direct Selection tool, the Up and Down arrows step the corners' kind (round, inverted round, chamfer) with the radius, as one undo step (#2898); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | Keyboard Shortcuts: every Effect menu item (Distort & Transform › Transform…, Stylize › Drop Shadow…, …) is listed under its menu path and takes a shortcut of its own, which the menu shows and which opens that effect's dialog (or applies an effect without options) (#3296); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | 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; scores and estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-11-01 | minor | Edit › Copy and Cut take the selected ruler guides, with the objects or alone; pasting puts them on the layer new art goes to, moved as the objects are (alone: where they were), Paste in Place onto the active artboard and Paste on All Artboards onto each; a Copy of guides alone empties the system clipboard, so Paste takes the guides, not what another app copied before (#3226); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | Color Effects add-on (a VectorCraft addition): Find Nearest Swatch (#4923); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | Artboards panel: a row dragged above or below another reorders the artboards (#4687); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | Object › Plug-ins › Color Effects › Create Swatch Legend…: a dialog that draws labelled chips of the colour swatches (all, or the ones selected in the Swatches panel) as one group (#4919); scores and estimates unchanged |