Merge main into feat/character-anti-aliasing-method

docs/file-format-parity.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # File format parity
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-30 · **Change:** minor (`.ai` import: pages cropped to the art in `UserUnit` units, and their copies' type) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-31 · **Change:** minor (PDF import: knockout and isolated groups keep their flags after a group drawn straight onto its parent) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
 
 Every format Illustrator opens, places, saves or exports, against VectorCraft's format table (`FORMATS`,
 `OPEN_EXTS`, `PLACE_EXTS` in `crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/formats.rs`). Illustrator's list comes from its public
@@ -132,11 +132,24 @@ the app's own editing copy of a file (an EPS after its `%%EOF`, a `.ai`'s `AIPri
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-31 | minor | PDF import (and a `.ai`'s PDF part): a transparency group's knockout and isolate flags (`/K`, `/I`; ISO 32000-1, 11.4.6.3) come from the interpreter as it pushes the group. They were read from the file in order and matched to the groups pushed, but a group that adds nothing (full opacity, Normal, no mask, neither flag) is drawn straight onto its parent without being pushed, so every group after one lost its own flags and took another's; and a page drawing form groups more than 10,000 times failed to import (the list of their flags was capped), which it no longer does. A blend's steps written as a knockout group of falling opacity drew as solid dark shapes: a user's `.ai` with 143 such bubbles now draws them as light rings, as poppler does (its bubble area 4.9% → 1.2% of pixels off from poppler's render); 16 other users' PDFs with transparency groups (44 pages) draw the same. Test `tests::import_fidelity::knockout_groups_after_a_group_drawn_straight_keep_their_flag`; scores unchanged |
+| 2026-10-30 | minor | `.ai`/EPS editing data: a blend takes the transparency (opacity, blend mode, knockout; blends are written with knockout on) in the state block after its record, as a group takes the one after its end; it was left for the next object, so a blend's steps of falling opacity drew over each other instead of knocking each other out, and every such blend came in too dark (a user's file has 143, its bubbles came in as dark rings). Both a live blend and drawn steps kept as a group take it. Test `import::ai::tests::a_blends_transparency_follows_its_record`; checked locally against that file: it comes 1.3% → 0.6% nearer its page, though a mesh seen through a mesh-shaped opacity mask still keeps it just over the limit. When a blend is the layer's last object and the layer's own state block (`7 () XW`, then `LB`) follows, the state is the layer's and the blend keeps its own, as for meshes (#4748); scores unchanged |
+| 2026-10-31 | minor | PDF (and `.ai`) with Illustrator editing data saved with only some of its artboards: its pages are those artboards, while the editing data keeps them all, and the layers were compared with the first page on the first artboard, so a page of the second artboard came in as the PDF part, without its layers. With fewer pages than artboards, the first page is now taken to be the artboard of its size whose art draws most like it (up to 16 weighed), and the pages' type goes to that artboard and the ones after it. All artboards come in, as before. Test `import::tests_native::a_pdf_of_its_second_artboard_is_compared_on_that_artboard`; scores unchanged |
+| 2026-10-30 | minor | `.ai`/EPS editing data: a blend takes the transparency (opacity, blend mode, knockout; blends are written with knockout on) in the state block after its record, as a group takes the one after its end; it was left for the next object, so a blend's steps of falling opacity drew over each other instead of knocking each other out, and every such blend came in too dark (a user's file has 143, its bubbles came in as dark rings). Both a live blend and drawn steps kept as a group take it. Test `import::ai::tests::a_blends_transparency_follows_its_record`; checked locally against that file: it comes 1.3% → 0.6% nearer its page, though a mesh seen through a mesh-shaped opacity mask still keeps it just over the limit; scores unchanged |
+| 2026-10-30 | minor | `.ai`/EPS editing data: a gradient mesh with an opacity mask takes the transparency (`Xy`) written after the mask's dictionary, as one without a mask takes the one right after its `/End X!`; the operators of the mask's art (on `%_` lines) hid it, so the state was read as the next object's and each masked mesh in a run drew with the blend mode of the one before it (a Multiply shading drawn Normal, an Overlay tint drawn Multiply over the art below). Test `import::ai::tests::a_masked_gradient_mesh_takes_the_transparency_written_after_its_mask`; checked locally against a user's files: one opens from its layers 0.1% from its page (it was 0.6%, just inside the limit), another comes 1.6% → 1.3% nearer; scores unchanged |
+| 2026-10-30 | minor | `.ai`/EPS editing data: a layer's own state block (`Xy`, `Xd`, `7 () XW` before `LB`) can have the stroke style (`J`, `j`, `w`, `M`, `d`, `XR`) between its `Xy` and `Xd`; read as the art moving on, it lost the layer's opacity, so a layer at 17% drew opaque over the art under it and the file came in as its page. When the layer's last object is a gradient mesh, the mesh keeps its own state through the stroke style too (#4748). An object's own state block (`6 () XW`) still isn't the layer's. Of 408 users' files whose editing data was checked, 3 have such a block: an EPS that now opens from its layers 0.5% from its page (it was 18.8%), one whose layer now draws at 85% as its page does, and one whose layers are all at 100%; the others draw as before. Test `import::ai::tests::a_layers_state_keeps_through_the_stroke_style_written_in_it`; scores unchanged |
+| 2026-10-30 | minor | EPS and `.ai` import: editing data whose type is in the legacy format (`To` … `TO`, as an EPS saved for Illustrator 10 keeps it, with no `/AI11Text` for the page's type to go in) is read through its layers when the page has text: its text objects are the layers' own, and the comparison with the page says whether the layers draw it. Before, such a file came in as its page ("its layers have no text objects to put it in"). Type the editing data keeps only as outlines (what the legacy format can't hold) stays outlines, with a note counting the page's text objects that are; a file whose layers have no text object at all still comes in as its page. Test `import::tests_native::type_in_the_legacy_format_is_the_layers_own_and_the_page_has_text`; checked locally against a user's files (of 6 such EPS that came in as their page, 3 now come in through their layers, within the comparison's limits; 1 is still refused by the comparison for art that isn't type, and 2 have their type only as outlines; no change in the other 284 EPS with editing data and 117 `.ai` files checked); scores unchanged |
+| 2026-10-30 | minor | `.ai`/EPS editing data: an `Xy` right after a gradient mesh's `/End X!` is the mesh's only when its own `6 () XW` follows; when the layer's `LB` follows (directly or after the layer's `Xd` and `7 () XW`) it is the layer's, as before #4744, and the mesh keeps the state it had. Test `import::ai::tests::a_layer_keeps_its_own_transparency`; scores unchanged |
+| 2026-10-30 | minor | `.ai`/EPS editing data: type on a path is spaced round curves as the file's own layout spaces it, closer round the outside and further apart round the inside, though its frame keeps no spacing: the Type on a Path Options › Spacing that does that is fitted from the layout's glyph positions, where it came in at the font's advances and ran on past where the page ends it. In 8 files of a user's set with type round curves (19 stories), the fitted spacing is a fifth of the line's ascent outside a curve (17 stories) and half of it inside (2), and the 4 files whose pages were measured space their glyphs as their layouts do. Own-fixture tests in `import::tests_native` and `import::ate`; scores unchanged |
+| 2026-10-30 | minor | `.ai` import: a placed (linked) file whose data gives two placements is put at the corner of its box when that draws closer to the page and the layers still match it, not only when the first placement fails the comparison: a small logo in the wrong place differed too little to fail, and stayed there. Test `import::tests_native::a_small_placed_file_goes_where_it_draws_closer_to_the_page`; scores unchanged |
+| 2026-10-30 | minor | `.ai` import: a file whose layers hold placed (linked) PDFs and no text object comes in from its layers when all of its page's type lies inside the placed files (at either of their placements): the PDF part draws each placed file, type and all, where the layers show its preview, so that type needs no text object. Such a file came in as its PDF part, saying its layers had no text objects for its page's text; type outside the placed files still needs one. Own-fixture test in `import::tests_native`; scores unchanged |
+| 2026-10-30 | minor | `.ai`/EPS editing data: a gradient mesh takes the transparency (`Xy`) written right after its `/End X!`, before its `Xd` and `XW`, as a group takes the one after its `U`; it was read as the next object's, so a Multiply shadow mesh painted opaque white over the art under it, where the file's page shows the shadow. A user's file now draws such a mesh as its page does. Own-fixture test in `import::ai::tests`; scores unchanged |
+| 2026-10-30 | minor | `.ai`/EPS editing data: a gradient mesh corner whose handle weights are 0 (one or both; the others are 1) is read like one whose weights are 1, so a mesh with such corners no longer leaves the whole file coming in as its page or PDF part; other weights still leave the mesh unread. Checked against the pages of two users' files: one opens from its layers 0.6% from its page, the other with 728 live meshes instead of its PDF part's 65,558 patches. Test `import::ai::mesh::tests::corners_with_handle_weights_of_zero_are_read`; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | `.ai` import: a PDF part whose pages are cropped to the art is recognised in a `UserUnit` page's units too (the art's box in those units, the artboard not the page in points), and its type is read from the first page only, since every such page holds all the art again: the copies on later pages were moved as the first page's and could be put into the layers' text objects. A page cropped to the art is taken only when every page is that box. Tests `import::tests_native::a_user_unit_page_cropped_to_the_art_is_read_in_its_units`, `type_on_the_copies_of_a_page_cropped_to_the_art_is_read_once`; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | `.ai` import: when the layers are compared with the page again with placed files at the corner of their box, the text objects the page doesn't draw are weighed with the images there, from the layers as read: before, the text an image covered at its first placement had already been left out, so a file whose image covered type only there came in without that type or as its PDF part. Test `import::tests_native::text_a_placed_file_covers_only_at_its_first_placement_is_kept`; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | `.ai` import: type read from the editing data's text document keeps its case setting (character attribute 12: 1 Small Caps, at Document Setup's default size, 2 All Caps); it came in as typed, so a heading set in All Caps showed in lower or mixed case where the page draws capitals. Test `import::tests_native::type_from_the_text_document_keeps_its_case_setting`; checked locally against a user's files; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | PDF import: a patch or triangle mesh shading of up to 16,384 patches comes in as gradient meshes (it was 4,096; Illustrator writes up to 14,355 in files users sent), and a stroke painted with one (how Illustrator writes a freeform gradient on a stroke) is the meshes clipped to the area the stroke paints, with its width, caps, joins and dashes; both came in as a flat grey. In two files of a user's set, the formerly grey area now matches a reference rendering in 99% of its pixels. Own-fixture tests in `tests::import_fidelity`; scores unchanged |
-| 2026-10-30 | minor | `.ai`/EPS editing data: gradient meshes the reader marked unread, which made the whole file come in as its page or PDF part, are read: a mesh starts grey and its `/CS` is written only where it changes, before the corner it applies to (within a patch too), so each corner takes the space last set before it; named colours (`[c m y k /DeviceCMYK (name) /Process]` or `/Spot`) paint at the corner's tint and `/NChannel` inks overprint at theirs; meshes up to 128 patches a side and 16,384 patches are read (files users sent had up to 97 × 72). Ten of eleven such files from a user's set now open from their layers; meshes with handle weights other than 1 still don't. Own-fixture tests in `import::ai::mesh`; scores unchanged |
+| 2026-10-30 | minor | `.ai`/EPS editing data: gradient meshes the reader marked unread, which made the whole file come in as its page or PDF part, are read: a mesh starts grey and its `/CS` is written only where it changes, before the corner it applies to (within a patch too), so each corner takes the space last set before it; named colours (`[c m y k /DeviceCMYK (name) /Process]` or `/Spot`) paint at the corner's tint and `/NChannel` inks overprint at theirs; meshes up to 128 patches a side and 16,384 patches are read (files users sent had up to 97 × 72). Ten of eleven such files from a user's set now open from their layers; meshes with handle weights other than 0 or 1 still don't. Own-fixture tests in `import::ai::mesh`; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | `.ai` import: a placed (linked) file is put where its matrix takes the canvas point of art space's origin, and, when the layers then don't draw as the page, at the corner of the box it is written with, which many files use; six files of a user's set whose photos landed off their artboards now open from their layers. Own-fixture test in `import::tests_native`; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | SVG export: axis-aligned rectangles are written as `<rect>`, circles and ellipses drawn with four standard arcs as `<circle>`/`<ellipse>`, straight lines as `<line>` and other straight-segment paths as `<polygon>`/`<polyline>`, at the written precision; a rectangle or ellipse with a dashed stroke, turned ellipses, curves and compound paths stay `<path>` (#4652); scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | `.ai` import: a placed (linked) file written as an object's copy on `%_` lines is read: its `%AI5_BeginPlace` and `%AI5_EndPlace` markers there were dropped, so the `~` that ends it was an unknown operator and the whole file came in as its PDF part; its preview's header, on a `%_` line too, is read. Own-fixture test in `import::ai::tests`; scores unchanged |

docs/gaps.md

@@ -152,6 +152,8 @@ from G14 and the budget run of G15: **~170–270 h** one agent, ~50–80 h wall
 
 ## G9 Illustrator `.ai` and EPS files from real users
 
+- **Done (2026-10-30):** from an audit of a user's `.ai`/EPS files: All Caps and Small Caps; placed files at their box's corner; pages cropped to the art; gradient mesh corners with handle weights of 0 and the transparency written after a mesh, a masked mesh and a blend; a layer's state block with the stroke style; type on a path spaced as the file lays it out; EPS10 legacy-format type; a PDF of some artboards compared on the artboard its page shows. Comparison limits remain unchanged. This narrows G9; scores and estimates unchanged.
+
 - **Save-back update (2026-10-26):** ordinary EPS Save retains page margins and the whole editable document; source-loss confirmation remains. Import fidelity gaps and estimates below are unchanged.
 
 - **Done (2026-10-16):** EPS legacy mesh corners and vector opacity masks retained; winding-declared compound member groups keep shared paint. Raster print-page minification no longer causes a false editing-data fallback; comparison limits remain unchanged. Synthetic regressions cover damage and missing artwork. This narrows G9; scores and estimates unchanged.
@@ -657,6 +659,7 @@ trap, and the defaults (0.25 pt, 100%, 40%) are VectorCraft's own, the pages giv
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-30 | minor | G9: `.ai`/EPS editing data: a blend takes the transparency (opacity, blend mode, knockout) in its state block after its record, so its steps knock each other out as the page draws them; a user's file comes in 0.6% from its page instead of 1.3%. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | G1: Object › Path › Average & Join… (`path.averageJoin`, Cmd+Alt+Shift+J) moves two open path ends to their midpoint and joins them there, the joined anchor a corner or a smooth point as its dialog's Points choice asks, in one undo step; the "Average and Join in one step" entry is done. Estimate unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | G12: Preferences audit (#394): 5 options are stored but not acted on (Open Documents As Tabs, Units › East Asian Type, Hyphenation › Default Language, Scratch Disks, Legacy vector clipboard), each waiting on a subsystem; Highlight Alternate Glyphs, Real-time Drawing and the Devices options act. Estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-29 | minor | G10: the Linux Flatpak on GNOME copies and pastes text through the core Wayland protocol; pictures and `image/svg+xml` there listed as missing. Estimate unchanged. |

docs/image-trace-adjustments.md

@@ -46,12 +46,10 @@ most `colors` of its colors are used. A missing group and a group with no solid
 mode, palette or library in the panel clears the group. A group the active document does not have shows as All
 and traces as All.
 
-**Document Library linked colors.** With Library › Document Swatches, with or without a color group,
-a traced fill or stroke whose color comes from a global or spot swatch is linked to that swatch, and
-one whose color comes from a tint swatch is linked to its base at the tint. Editing the swatch
-recolors the trace. Colors from process swatches and from swatch libraries are not linked. When
-several swatches show the same color, the first of them in the list that is a global, spot or tint
-swatch gives the link.
+**Document Library colors.** With Library › Document Swatches, with or without a color group,
+traced fills and strokes take the library color without a link to its swatch. This includes global,
+spot and tint swatches. Tints trace at the color shown by the tint swatch. Editing a swatch later
+does not recolor the trace. Colors from other swatch libraries are also unlinked.
 
 **Document Library** traces with the library's colors as they are. Each pixel takes the library
 color nearest to it in lightness and hue, with a difference in hue or chroma counted three times

docs/mcp.md

@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ objects' fills or strokes differ (`fillMixed` / `strokeMixed`, drawn as a "?" pr
 | `inspect_document` | `{depth?, childLimit?, ids?, kind?, limit?, offset?}` | Artboards (with `color`, `#rrggbb`, for one with a background color), layer tree (ids, kinds, bounds, paint), selection, history, tool. A type node's `fill`, `stroke` and `strokeWidth` are the paint its characters show (its first run's); fills and strokes of the type object itself come as `objectFill`, `objectStroke` and `objectStrokeWidth`. Paint comes as a label (`"#ff0000"`, `"None"`, `"G1 40% (#ff9999)"` for a swatch at a tint); `paint.proxies` gives it as an object. |
 | `inspect_ui` | `{}` | UI state. Remote mode only. |
 | `select_tool` | `{tool}` | `selection`, `directSelection`, `pen`, `rectangle`, `ellipse`, `polygon`, `star`, `lineSegment`, … |
-| `pointer_gesture` | `{events:[{kind,x,y,mods?}], tool?, mods?}` | `kind` is one of `down`, `drag`, `up`, `move`, `doubleclick`. Events go through the same path as the mouse. Headless, a `move` replies after the tool's highlight under the pointer is ready, including the Shape Builder's and the Live Paint Bucket's regions of a large selection, which the desktop app finds off the UI thread and highlights after the reply. |
+| `pointer_gesture` | `{events:[{kind,x,y,mods?,backquote?}], tool?, mods?, backquote?}` | `kind` is one of `down`, `drag`, `up`, `move`, `doubleclick`. `backquote` is the held state for each event; the top-level value supplies its default. Events go through the same path as the mouse. Headless, a `move` replies after the tool's highlight under the pointer is ready, including the Shape Builder's and the Live Paint Bucket's regions of a large selection, which the desktop app finds off the UI thread and highlights after the reply. |
 | `draw_path` | `{points \| d, closed?, fill?, stroke?, strokeWidth?, dash?, cap?, join?, opacity?, name?, effects?}` | `points` is `[[x,y],…]` or `[{x,y,in?,out?,smooth?},…]`. `d` is SVG path data. The options are below. |
 | `draw_shape` | `{shape, …geometry, fill?, stroke?, strokeWidth?, dash?, cap?, join?, opacity?, name?, effects?}` | `rectangle`/`ellipse`: `x,y,width,height` (plus `radius` for corners). `polygon`: `cx,cy,radius,sides`. `star`: `cx,cy,radius1,radius2,points`. `line`: `x1,y1,x2,y2`. |
 | `set_paint` | `{fill?, stroke?, strokeWidth?, ids?}` | Applies to the selection (or `ids`) and becomes the default for new art. Returns `{applied, objects}`: `objects` is the number of objects painted, as the `objects` of the `paint.setFill`, `paint.setStroke` and `stroke.set` replies (the largest of them): a selected group counts the objects inside it. When it is 0, a `note` says that only the paint for new art changed. |
@@ -1398,6 +1398,14 @@ selected. While Lock Guides is on, the guide paths count as selected and stay as
 hide it records no undo step. In isolation mode the menu item is disabled, and the command returns the error "exit
 isolation mode first" and changes nothing.
 
+`object.lock.unselected` (Cmd+Alt+Shift+2; shortcut and command, with no Object › Lock menu item) locks unselected
+artwork in one undo step and returns `{count}`. In a partly selected group, clipping group, or compound path, it locks
+the unselected members and leaves the container and selected members unlocked. It includes unselected guides even
+while Lock Guides is on. Hidden art and art on locked layers stay individually unlocked; a selected layer's artwork
+counts as selected. In ordinary isolation mode it locks only unselected art inside the isolated object. The selection
+stays as it is. `object.unlockAll` unlocks and selects all locked artwork in the document, including art locked before
+this command. With nothing to lock it records no undo step.
+
 These Select menu commands select only the objects that `select.all` selects and the objects inside them: every
 `select.same.*` and `select.object.*` command except `select.object.slices`, `select.nextAbove`, `select.nextBelow`
 and `select.recall`. They leave out hidden and locked objects with the objects inside them, the objects on hidden,
@@ -2237,7 +2245,13 @@ reads as Add.
 The Eyedropper: `appearance.copyFrom {source}` copies what the Eyedropper Options pick up and apply from `source` to the
 selection (`ids`); `reverse: true` copies the selection's attributes onto `source` (Alt-click), or with nothing selected
 what the last copy without `reverse` picked up (a copy made then, kept for the session), and `append: true` adds
-the source's fills and strokes on top of each target's stack (Shift+Alt-click). The options live in the preferences:
+the source's fills and strokes on top of each target's stack (Shift+Alt-click). `defaultsOnly: true` copies the enabled
+fill, stroke and weight into paint defaults without changing selected art; it cannot be combined with `ids`, `reverse`
+or `append`. The Live Paint Bucket uses this for Alt-click sampling on vector art. On an image, it uses
+`paint.sampleColor {color, stroke: false, ids: [], clearStroke: true}` to set a solid fill default from the sampled
+pixel and clear the stroke default. `clearStroke: true` requires `stroke: false`, `ids: []` and no `stop`.
+Alt+Shift-click samples only the color at the pointer into the active paint default through
+`paint.sampleColor {color, ids: []}`. The options live in the preferences:
 `eyedropper.setOptions {sampleSize?, pickUp?, apply?}` (or `prefs.get`/`prefs.set` with key `eyedropper`) reads and
 sets them; a tree names flags under `appearance` (`transparency`, `fill` `{color, transparency, overprint}`, `stroke`
 `{color, transparency, overprint, weight, cap, join, miter, dash}`), `character` and `paragraph`, and a bool for a
@@ -3173,8 +3187,10 @@ Pen's second anchor at (150, 431), in line with the square's centre.
   Cmd+Shift+,) step the size. `type.size.increaseByFive` (Cmd+Alt+Shift+., `press_key {key: ".", mods: {cmd: true,
   alt: true, shift: true}}`) and `type.size.decreaseByFive` (Cmd+Alt+Shift+,) step it by five times `typeSizeIncrement`.
   The Type tool's Alt+arrows (`press_key {key: "Right", mods: {alt: true}}`) step kerning at
-  a caret or tracking of the selection (←/→), leading (↑/↓) and baseline shift (Shift+↑/↓), five steps with Cmd/Ctrl
-  too. `type.resetTracking` (Cmd+Alt+Q, `press_key {key: "Q", mods: {cmd: true, alt: true}}`) sets tracking to 0 and
+  a caret or tracking of the selection (←/→ in horizontal type, ↓/↑ with or without Shift in vertical type),
+  leading (↑/↓ in horizontal type, ←/→ in vertical type), and baseline shift (Shift+↑/↓ in horizontal type,
+  Shift+→/← in vertical type). Mixed selected text objects use the horizontal mapping; Cmd/Ctrl makes five steps.
+  `type.resetTracking` (Cmd+Alt+Q, `press_key {key: "Q", mods: {cmd: true, alt: true}}`) sets tracking to 0 and
   kerning to Auto in the type objects in `ids`, the Type tool's selected text or the selected type objects; at a caret
   it resets only the kerning of the character before it. `type.resetHorizontalScale` (Cmd+Shift+X,
   `press_key {key: "X", mods: {cmd: true, shift: true}}`) sets the horizontal scale to 100%, as the Character panel
@@ -5761,14 +5777,58 @@ topmost piece.
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"addon.cleanup.simplify","params":{"tolerance":40,"protectCorners":true}}}
 ```
 
+### Text tools
+
+The add-on's text tools act on the selected type (or `ids`), each as one undo step, and refuse with an error when there
+is nothing for them to do. The pieces they make are point type that keeps its characters' styles, each placed so the
+glyph of its first character lands where it was drawn.
+
+- `addon.cleanup.breakText {by?, ids?}` turns each horizontal point or area type object into point type objects, one
+  per line (`by: "lines"`, the default), paragraph (`"paragraphs"`), word (`"words"`) or glyph (`"glyphs"`; a ligature
+  stays one piece). Spaces between the pieces go. A paragraph keeps its lines: where the layout wrapped one, the piece
+  has a forced line break. Justified lines close up, and a paragraph broken out whole keeps its bullet (not its
+  number; the other pieces have no list markers). Type on a path, vertical type, threaded type and area type whose text doesn't fit stay as they are and are
+  listed in `skipped`.
+- `addon.cleanup.combineText {ids?}` merges one-line horizontal point type into as few objects as it can, every glyph
+  staying where it was (within 0.01 pt). Pieces turned and sheared alike whose baselines lie within 0.4 em of each
+  other join left to right (a baseline a little off becomes baseline shift); a space goes between pieces at least half
+  a space apart, and tracking on the character before each piece keeps its place. A gap wider than 10 em, an overlap of
+  more than 1 em, another look (paint, opacity, effects) or a piece that can't keep its place once joined (a ligature
+  forming across the join) starts another object. Each object made takes the place and paint of its leftmost piece. The
+  main use is type from a PDF that arrives one glyph per object.
+- `addon.cleanup.removeBreaks {kind, ids?}` removes the forced line breaks (`kind: "line"`) or paragraph returns
+  (`"paragraph"`) in the characters selected with a Type tool, else in all the text of the selected type. A break
+  between two words becomes a space; merged paragraphs take the first one's paragraph style.
+- `addon.cleanup.splitText {}` works while a Type tool edits horizontal point or area type: the text before the
+  selected characters, those characters and the text after them become point type objects (at a bare cursor, the text
+  before and after it). Spaces at the ends of each piece go; a piece that starts inside a left-aligned line takes a
+  first-line indent, so its later lines stay where they were. Editing ends with the pieces selected.
+- `addon.cleanup.alignInPlace {align, ids?}` aligns every paragraph of each horizontal point type object `left`,
+  `center` or `right` and moves the object so its longest line stays where it is: a single line doesn't move at all.
+- `addon.cleanup.resetTextTransform {scale?, ids?}` takes the rotation, shear and reflection off point type, keeping its
+  size and the centre of its text. With `scale: true` the horizontal scale goes too, the object's and each character's.
+- `addon.cleanup.replaceFonts {font?}` sets every character of the document's type whose font family isn't available
+  in `font` (by default the default type font, Source Sans 3), in that family's style closest to the one it had.
+
+In the panel, the Text row (which the panel can hide) runs them: Shift-click Lines to break into paragraphs, and
+Alt-click Reset Transform to reset the horizontal scale too. Recovering live text from outlines, combining vertical
+type and evening out horizontal scales are not there yet.
+
+```json
+{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"addon.cleanup.breakText","params":{"by":"words"}}}
+{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"addon.cleanup.combineText","params":{}}}
+{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"addon.cleanup.removeBreaks","params":{"kind":"paragraph"}}}
+```
+
 ## Path Precision Tools add-on
 
 Path Precision Tools is a built-in add-on for exact anchor and path work: its commands are `addon.pathtools.*`, and in
 the desktop app it lives in Object › Plug-ins › Path Precision Tools, in its Anchor Inspector panel
 (`window.panel {panel: "anchorInspector"}`), in its Parametric Shape panel (`window.panel {panel: "parametricShape"}`)
-and in four tools that the toolbars don't show until they are added from the All Tools drawer (or chosen with
-`tool.select`): `anchorEraserBrush`, `extendPath`, `measureInspect` and `parametricShape`. None has a shortcut. Each edit
-is one undo step, and an edit that changes nothing makes no step.
+and in seven tools that the toolbars don't show until they are added from the All Tools drawer (or chosen with
+`tool.select`): `anchorEraserBrush`, `extendPath`, `measureInspect`, `parametricShape`, `cornerTool`, `slideAnchor` and
+`sharedEdge`.
+None has a shortcut. Each edit is one undo step, and an edit that changes nothing makes no step.
 
 Tools:
 
@@ -5791,6 +5851,29 @@ Tools:
   gear's tooth height, an arrow's head, a cross's bar, a heart's notch, a bubble's tail tip); each drag runs
   `addon.pathtools.shape.set`. A double-click on the canvas places a shape with the last settings. Options
   (`tool.setOption`, or the panel with no shape selected) are the next shape's numbers, as the commands take them.
+- **Corner Tool** (`cornerTool`, or the UI command `addon.pathtools.cornerTool`, which also shows the Anchor Inspector
+  panel with its Corners section): edits the app's Live Corners on any path, selected or not. Over an anchor where two
+  sides meet at an angle the anchor shows; a click runs `addon.pathtools.cornerSet` with the tool's `radius` (pt, 10)
+  and `kind` (`round`, `invertedRound` or `chamfer`), and a drag from it sizes the corner (Shift: whole values of the
+  ruler's unit; no larger than fits). A cut corner shows a marker at the centre of its cut: a click selects the corner
+  and loads its radius and kind into the tool, a drag resizes it (to 0 it goes), a double-click removes it. An Alt-drag
+  cuts corners on every anchor in the marquee, replacing those there; a plain marquee selects the corners inside (Shift
+  toggles), and a click away deselects. The panel section sets `radius` and `kind`, counts the selected corners and has
+  Apply to Selected Anchors.
+- **Slide Anchor Along Path** (`slideAnchor`): a drag on an anchor runs `addon.pathtools.slideAnchor`, previewed while
+  dragging: the anchor runs along the curve it sits on, as far as just short of its neighbours, and the two segments
+  beside it are refitted. Shift snaps to where the path's tangent is at a multiple of 45° from the Constrain Angle. Ends
+  of open paths don't slide.
+- **Shared Edge Merge Tool** (`sharedEdge`, or the UI command `addon.pathtools.sharedEdgeTool`, which also shows the
+  Anchor Inspector panel with its Shared Edges section): works on any two unlocked paths under its round brush, selected
+  or not. Where they touch at two coincident anchors, hovering shows the two stretches between those anchors dashed and
+  the edge replacing them solid (green when they are one edge already); a click runs `addon.pathtools.mergeEdge`, half
+  way between the two. Shift keeps the upper path's outline, Alt the lower's. Where the anchors aren't there yet a click
+  makes an end: two near anchors meet half way (or, with Shift or Alt, on the path kept), and an anchor only one path has
+  there gets a match on the other. Shift+Alt makes an end even inside a stretch that could merge. Stretches over 10%
+  different in length, or at over 120° at an end, are left alone. Options (`tool.setOption`, or the panel, kept with the
+  preferences): `diameter` (0.25 to 200 pt, 20), `tolerance` (how near two anchors count as coincident, 0 to 3 pt,
+  0.002) and `together` (Keep Shared Points Together).
 
 Commands:
 
@@ -5823,6 +5906,31 @@ Commands:
 - `addon.pathtools.crossings {cut?, selfCrossings?, ids?}` adds anchors where the selected paths cross one another (and
   where each crosses itself, with `selfCrossings`), or with `cut` also cuts them there: a path of one subpath becomes a
   path per piece. Paths that meet at a shared anchor don't cross there; at most 10,000 segments at once.
+- `addon.pathtools.cornerSet {ids?, anchors?, items?, radius, kind?}` cuts live corners, the ones Direct Selection's
+  corner widgets and the Corners dialog edit, as one undo step. `ids` (default: the selection) are the paths and
+  `anchors` the anchor indices of each path's outline with no corners cut; without `anchors`, a path's direct-selected
+  anchors, or all of them. `items: [{id, anchors?}…]` gives each path its own instead. Only anchors where two sides meet
+  at an angle take a corner: smooth anchors and open ends are skipped, and it is an error if none is left. `radius` is
+  0 to 1,000,000 pt, drawn no larger than fits; `kind` is `round`, `invertedRound` or `chamfer` (default: each corner's
+  own). → `{ids, corners}`.
+- `addon.pathtools.cornerRemove {ids?, anchors?, items?}` makes those corners sharp again, as one undo step; a plain path
+  with none left is plain again. → `{ids, corners}`.
+- `addon.pathtools.slideAnchor {id, subpath?, anchor, t}` moves an anchor along its path, the segments beside it refitted
+  so the outline stays (the anchor count and index stay). `t`, -0.98 to 0.98, says where: positive, a curve parameter on
+  the segment after the anchor; negative, back from the end of the one before. An anchor at a sharp corner loses it, as
+  the corner isn't on the way. → `{id, strayed}`, how far the outline moved in points.
+- `addon.pathtools.mergeEdge {a, b, at, diameter?, tolerance?, follow?, ends?}` looks within `diameter` (0.25 to 200 pt,
+  default 20) of `at` ([x, y]) on paths `a` and `b`, two editable paths: where they touch at two anchors coincident within
+  `tolerance` (0 to 3 pt, default 0.002), one each way along them, it replaces the stretches between with one edge;
+  otherwise it makes an end there, and `ends: true` asks for that first. `follow` says which outline stays: `average`
+  (default; half way between), `a` or `b`. Each path stays closed or open, and anchors either stretch has inside are on
+  the merged edge. One undo step. → `{a, b, made}`, with `made` `edge`, `end`, or `nothing` when they are merged already
+  (no undo step); it is an error if there is nothing to merge there.
+- `addon.pathtools.movePointsTogether {enabled?}` sets Keep Shared Points Together (without `enabled`, turns it the other
+  way). While it is on, anchors of any editable path coincident, within the Shared Edge Merge Tool's `tolerance`, with
+  one that `addon.pathtools.slideAnchor`, `extend` or `setAnchor` moves go with it, in the same undo step; an Extend Path
+  that adds an anchor leaves the old end, and what shares it, where they are. Nothing else in the app changes. It is the
+  `together` option of tool `sharedEdge`, off by default. → `{enabled}`.
 - `addon.pathtools.shape.create {center, kind?, width?, height?, rotation?, count?, a?, b?, radius?}` draws a parametric
   shape with the current paint, selected. `kind`: `rectangle`, `ellipse`, `polygon` (default), `star`, `ring`, `arrow`,
   `cross`, `heart`, `gear` or `bubble` (a speech bubble). `width` and `height` are 0.01 to 16,384 pt (100);
@@ -5854,6 +5962,37 @@ plain path from then on.
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"addon.pathtools.shape.set","params":{"id":14,"kind":"gear","count":16,"radius":2}}}
 ```
 
+### Path Effects (live)
+
+Effect › Path Effects holds the add-on's live geometry effects, applied with `effect.apply {effect, params}` like any
+other effect, with no shortcuts. Each draws, measures, exports and stacks as the other geometry effects do; the object's
+own path stays as it is until Expand Appearance (`effect.expandAppearance`) writes the result. `effect.list` documents
+every parameter. Out-of-range values are clamped, and an effect whose result would pass the geometry effects' budget
+(2 million anchors) leaves the path as it is.
+
+| Id | Menu item | Parameters |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| `addon.path.dashes` | Dashes to Geometry… | `dash1`…`dash5`, `gap1`…`gap5` (pt 0 to 10000; 12 and 6, then 0), `offset` (pt), `alignCorners` (bool, false) |
+| `addon.path.addAnchors` | Add Anchors… | `target` (`all`, `curved`, `straight`), `spacing` (`count`, `distance`), `count` (1 to 1000, 1), `distance` (pt, 20), `maxCount` (1 to 1000, 100) |
+| `addon.path.extend` | Extend Path… | `startLength`, `endLength` (pt, 10; negative shortens), `startPercent`, `endPercent` (% of the path's length, 0), `startShape`, `endShape` (`straight`, `arc`) |
+| `addon.path.close` | Close Path… | `mode` (`straight`, `smooth`) |
+| `addon.path.smooth` | Smooth Anchors… | `ratio` (0.01 to 0.5, 0.3905) |
+| `addon.path.retract` | Retract Handles… | `handles` (`all`, `shorter`), `length` (pt, 5) |
+| `addon.path.reverse` | Reverse Direction | none |
+| `addon.path.simplify` | Simplify Anchors… | `tolerance` (0 to 200, 10; each step lets the outline drift 0.02 pt), `protectCorners` (bool, true) |
+| `addon.path.split` | Split at Anchors… | `anchors` (`corner`, `smooth`, `both`) |
+
+Dashes to Geometry turns the path into open subpaths, one per dash; with `alignCorners`, every run between corners and
+ends holds whole periods with a dash centred on each corner and end, and the offset doesn't apply. A dash of 0 becomes a
+point that a round or projecting cap paints. Extend Path adds an end's length and percent together; closed subpaths stay
+as they are, and so does an end that would be shortened to nothing. An arc follows the end's curvature for at most half
+a circle. Split at Anchors tells smooth anchors by their handles standing in line. Simplify Anchors leaves a path of more
+than 50000 anchors as it is.
+
+```json
+{"id": 1, "method": "engine.execute", "params": {"command": "effect.apply", "params": {"effect": "addon.path.dashes", "params": {"dash1": 8, "gap1": 4, "dash2": 2, "gap2": 4, "alignCorners": true}}}}
+```
+
 ## Smart Pen add-on
 
 Smart Pen is a built-in add-on: one tool that draws paths and edits their points, handles and segments without

docs/roadmap.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Roadmap: milestones and what's next
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-29 · **Change:** minor (M6: Pathfinder: live compound shapes (#4522): the panel menu's Make, Release and Expand Compound Shape, Alt-clicking a Shape Mode, a selected member's Shape Mode and the Expand button act; scores unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-30 · **Change:** minor (M5: supersampled exports avoid redundant opaque knockout layers; File formats: `.ai`/EPS import fidelity from a user's file audit; scores unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
 
 ## Feature submission evidence
 
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ Artboard Options forwards the active Artboard tool's Scale Artwork with Artboard
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-30 | minor | M4: G9: `.ai`/EPS editing data: a blend takes the transparency (opacity, blend mode, knockout) in its state block after its record, so its steps knock each other out as the page draws them; a user's file comes in 0.6% from its page instead of 1.3%. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-30 | minor | M4: File formats: `.ai`/EPS editing-data fidelity from an audit of a user's files: All Caps and Small Caps (#4708); placed files at their box's corner, kept where they draw closer to the page (#4664, #4723, #4742); pages cropped to the art, with `UserUnit` (#4658, #4727); gradient mesh corners with handle weights of 0 and the state written after a mesh (#4738, #4744, #4748); type on a path spaced as the file lays it out (#4743); synthetic regressions in `crates/eps`; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | Raster effects: bounded length fields in effect dialogs clamp on commit and reject invalid inputs visibly (#4638); estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-22 | minor | Reconcile upstream documentation after review F-3; preserve every dated revision and the original scaleArt runtime evidence without repeating completed jobs. |
 | 2026-10-22 | minor | Reconcile upstream documentation after review F-2; preserve every dated revision and the original scaleArt runtime evidence without repeating completed jobs. |
@@ -88,7 +90,7 @@ Checked 2026-10-10 from the code, tests and open issues; no workflow fails, so V
 | 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 and mixed spot/process gradients export as stops or process colours to SVG/PDF; confirm the Scale Strokes & Effects default | 4–8 |
-| M5 | Performance | 🟡 background render + caches + MT done; `vectorcraft-cli bench` and `vectorcraft-cli perf` (budget suite); 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 |
+| 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, 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, 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 |
@@ -139,6 +141,9 @@ separate. Scores and hours unchanged. [Behavior and command details](development
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-30 | patch | M5: opaque solid-fill knockout paths avoid redundant erase/add layers in hard-edge frames and supersampled raster export; exact-pixel regression coverage retains analytical-AA rounding and translucent knockout behavior; scores and estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-10-30 | minor | M4: G9: `.ai`/EPS editing data: a blend takes the transparency (opacity, blend mode, knockout) in its state block after its record, so its steps knock each other out as the page draws them; a user's file comes in 0.6% from its page instead of 1.3%. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-30 | minor | M4: File formats: `.ai`/EPS editing-data fidelity from an audit of a user's files: All Caps and Small Caps (#4708); placed files at their box's corner, kept where they draw closer to the page (#4664, #4723, #4742); pages cropped to the art, with `UserUnit` (#4658, #4727); gradient mesh corners with handle weights of 0 and the state written after a mesh (#4738, #4744, #4748); type on a path spaced as the file lays it out (#4743); synthetic regressions in `crates/eps`; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-29 | minor | M6: Pathfinder: live compound shapes (#4522): the panel menu's Make, Release and Expand Compound Shape, Alt-clicking a Shape Mode, a selected member's Shape Mode and the Expand button act; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-26 | minor | M4/G9: EPS Save and Save As: an opened EPS saves back to its own path as EPS, keeping the chosen artboard's page frame and transparent margins and the complete editable VectorCraft document; Save's TIFF preview is capped at 1024 px (Export keeps 2048); partly read, preview-only or damaged-editing-data sources still need confirmation before they are overwritten; it does not write Illustrator's own editing data (#868), and G9's real-file import fidelity is unchanged; scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | M10/G1: a selected Grid Repeat shows handles: the one below the grid adds or removes rows, the one right of it columns, the one past its bottom-right corner both, and the sliders between the first two columns and rows set the horizontal and vertical spacing; each drag is one undo step and Escape cancels it (#2691); estimates unchanged |

docs/target-app-parity.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Parity with Adobe Illustrator
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-30 · **Change:** minor (Color Effects add-on: Duotone and Print Ink Fixes; scores unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; public release notes through 30.7, August 2026)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-31 · **Change:** minor (Path Precision Tools add-on: Shared Edge Merge Tool; scores unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; public release notes through 30.7, August 2026)
 
 ## Feature submission evidence
 
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ Artboard Options forwards the active Artboard tool's Scale Artwork with Artboard
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-30 | minor | File formats: `.ai`/EPS editing data: a blend takes the transparency (opacity, blend mode, knockout) in its state block after its record, so its steps knock each other out as the page draws them; a user's file comes in 0.6% from its page instead of 1.3%. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-30 | minor | File formats: `.ai`/EPS editing-data fidelity from an audit of a user's files: All Caps and Small Caps (#4708); placed files at their box's corner, kept where they draw closer to the page (#4664, #4723, #4742); pages cropped to the art, with `UserUnit` (#4658, #4727); gradient mesh corners with handle weights of 0 and the state written after a mesh (#4738, #4744, #4748); type on a path spaced as the file lays it out (#4743); synthetic regressions in `crates/eps`; evidence added; scores unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | Effects: bounded length inputs clamp on commit and reject invalid text visibly (#4638); scores unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-29 | minor | File formats: attached Affinity Recolor Adjustment (RcRA) layers import as color overlays (#4420); scores unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-29 | minor | Type core: copied text runs retain character attributes across document switches and canvas pastes (#4459); scores unchanged. |
@@ -133,7 +135,7 @@ 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`; large images trace with a warning; Auto Color keeps rare distinct colours) | 5–8 | estimated (raised from 72%); quick presets reveal adjustment controls, Properties reopens them |
 | Layers, artboards, document setup | 5 | 78% | Selected-artboard deletion is consistent across panel actions (all-selected retains artboard 1); history prunes removed indices while preserving valid multiselection; remaining:  30.0's artboard locking and colours and managing artboards from the canvas, Layers panel row context menus and Collect for Export (click-to-fit objects is done, #1227) | 5–8 | estimated (lowered from 82%: target moved); Artboard deletion keys keep artwork and the first of an all-selected set; Artboard Options' Show Center Mark and Show Cross Hairs draw on the canvas only (exports and print leave them out), regression-tested; Artboard Options' Show Video Safe Areas and Video Ruler Pixel Aspect Ratio (per artboard, native format) are done ([video display options](#evidence-what-ships-today-by-area)), score unchanged |
 | View & navigation | 3 | 70% | multiple windows and Arrange | 9–14 | estimated; document-tab artwork hover/copy and lossless transfer tested (2026-10-22; score/hours unchanged); cached canvas reprojection preserves scale during resize, rotation and DPI changes (regression and contributor original-file evidence below; scores/hours unchanged); cached canvas dimensions match the renderer limit before cache-key creation, view construction and worker submission (regression evidence below) |
-| File formats | 6 | 75% | `.ai` files open with a flattened or wrong layer structure in real cases (#951), guides lost (#779), no writing of Illustrator's editing data (#868), FreeHand/CorelDRAW/DWG/HEIC/JPEG 2000 import, 3D export; see [file-format-parity.md](file-format-parity.md); EPS legacy mesh/opacity-mask and raster comparison follow-up verified | 10–20 | estimated (lowered from 85%: open issues); DXF control-point SPLINE import closure regression-tested (#1299 follow-up after #1320); PDF writer metadata, reader streaming and immutable backend checks in `crates/pdf/src/tests.rs`, `crates/pdf/src/tests/reader_streaming.rs` and `xtask/src/pdf_deps.rs`; PDF Place and clipboard paste retain live text (synthetic regressions); EPS ordinary Save retains the page frame and editable document (2026-10-26); scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| File formats | 6 | 75% | `.ai` files open with a flattened or wrong layer structure in real cases (#951), guides lost (#779), no writing of Illustrator's editing data (#868), FreeHand/CorelDRAW/DWG/HEIC/JPEG 2000 import, 3D export; see [file-format-parity.md](file-format-parity.md); EPS legacy mesh/opacity-mask and raster comparison follow-up verified | 10–20 | estimated (lowered from 85%: open issues); DXF control-point SPLINE import closure regression-tested (#1299 follow-up after #1320); PDF writer metadata, reader streaming and immutable backend checks in `crates/pdf/src/tests.rs`, `crates/pdf/src/tests/reader_streaming.rs` and `xtask/src/pdf_deps.rs`; PDF Place and clipboard paste retain live text (synthetic regressions); EPS ordinary Save retains the page frame and editable document (2026-10-26); `.ai`/EPS editing data checked against a user's files (2026-10-30): case setting (`ate::tests`, `tests_native::type_from_the_text_document_keeps_its_case_setting`), placed-file placements (`tests_native::a_small_placed_file_goes_where_it_draws_closer_to_the_page`), pages cropped to the art (`tests_native::type_on_the_copies_of_a_page_cropped_to_the_art_is_read_once`), mesh corner weights and state (`ai::mesh::tests::corners_with_handle_weights_of_zero_are_read`, `ai::tests::a_gradient_mesh_takes_the_transparency_written_after_it`), type on a path spacing (`tests_native::type_round_a_circle_is_spaced_as_the_file_lays_it_out`), blend state (`ai::tests::a_blends_transparency_follows_its_record`); scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | View & navigation | 3 | 70% | multiple windows and Arrange | 9–14 | estimated; document-tab artwork hover/copy and lossless transfer tested (2026-10-22; score/hours unchanged); cached canvas reprojection preserves scale during resize, rotation and DPI changes (regression and contributor original-file evidence below; scores/hours unchanged) |
 | View & navigation | 3 | 70% | multiple windows and Arrange | 9–14 | estimated |
 | Guides, grids, smart guides, snapping, rulers | 3 | 80% | 30.0's tangent snapping to curves and perpendicular snapping to straight segments for lines drawn with the Pen, Curvature and Line Segment tools (Preferences › Smart Guides › Geometric Guides and Control bar › Snapping, #2530; other tool and drag cases remain), "intersect" smart guides for a moved selection's anchors (drawn points and dragged anchors snap to intersections, #1658), distance readouts while drawing | 4–7 | estimated (lowered from 85%: target moved); new ruler-guide Alt orientation implemented; video rulers (View › Rulers › Show Video Rulers, #2849) done, score unchanged |
@@ -470,6 +472,7 @@ since 2026-10-01.
 
 - **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`.
+- **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`.
 - **TIFF in screen and asset export:** both format menus expose the existing TIFF encoder and Format Settings. Headless UI regressions choose TIFF and check scaled dimensions, artboard selection, filenames, encoding options, saved settings and collected-asset output. Public reference: [Export for Screens](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/save-and-export/export-files-to-different-formats/export-for-screens.html), updated 2026-09-28, lists TIFF for both artboards and assets. Adobe staff [confirmed support in 30.2.1](https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/49081034-add-tiff-format-into-export-for-screens-assets-d) on 2026-02-19; the older 2025 Collect assets guide omits TIFF.
@@ -611,6 +614,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
   - Tab shows and hides the panels (in the Type tool it types a tab) without moving the keyboard focus onto a field, so the next shortcut or letter still works; in dialogs and panel fields it moves between fields.
   - 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).
   - 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.
   - 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).
@@ -666,7 +670,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
     With the Blob Brush, Shift held during a drag keeps the stroke on the horizontal or vertical line through the press point, whichever is nearer to the pointer (90° steps from the Constrain Angle preference), and the points dragged since Shift went down move to the other line when the pointer crosses to it; the points dragged while Shift is up follow the pointer.
     With the Blob Brush, Alt held before the press, or pressed before the drag has moved, switches to the Smooth tool, as 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: the cursor shows the Smooth tool, the drag shows a thin line without the length label, Shift does not constrain it, and the release smooths the selected paths under the drag (`path.smoothRegion`) instead of painting; with nothing selected the release changes no path. A stroke that has moved keeps painting when Alt goes down.
     Curvature point markers are circular, with no direction handles. While drawing, its own point feedback replaces generic selection markers; existing paths use the selection overlay, including partial selections and Hide Edges. Anchor Size applies, and Direct Selection and Pen retain their handles. The real egui-frame regressions in `crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs` verify marker positions, counts and unchanged documents (#1236, in part); the existing-path interpolation request remains open. The curve through the points (`curvature_spline` in `crates/tools/src/draw2.rs`) makes each stretch of three points follow the circle through them: a smooth point's handles lie along that circle's tangent, each `chord / (3 cos²(α/2))` long (α between handle and chord, capped at 90°), and the ends of an open path mirror their neighbour's tangent in their chord, so a J or a U curves evenly, a turn tighter than 30° comes to a point, and uneven spacing doesn't loop; the rubber band, a dragged or inserted point and `path.convertAnchor` to smooth use the same rule, while the Pencil's fitting keeps its own; `tests/draw2.rs` checks that the rubber band is the path the click makes (#1236, in part). The Smooth tool smooths only the stretch of path under the drag (#1547, fixes #1512).
-    While Alt is held, the Paintbrush (before a press and while drawing) shows a closing cursor (a crosshair with a ring), and so does the Pencil with Alt key toggles to Smooth Tool off when Alt is pressed after the drag starts; releasing the mouse button with Alt still held closes the path. A Pencil drag started with Shift or Alt held draws a straight line instead, which stays open.
+    While Alt is held during a Paintbrush stroke or before a press with no path selected that the Smooth tool can act on, the Paintbrush shows a closing cursor (a crosshair with a ring), and so does the Pencil with Alt key toggles to Smooth Tool off when Alt is pressed after the drag starts; releasing the mouse button with Alt still held closes the path. Before a Paintbrush press with such a path selected, Alt shows the Smooth cursor, and holding Alt at the press smooths that path with the Smooth tool's radius and Smooth Tool Options' Fidelity. A Pencil drag started with Shift or Alt held draws a straight line instead, which stays open.
     With Shift held at the press, the Pencil draws a straight line from the press point to the pointer at 45° steps from the Constrain Angle, as [Draw straight lines with the Pencil tool](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/draw-shapes-and-paths/draw-shapes/draw-straight-lines-with-the-pencil-tool.html) describes; pressed on an end of a selected open path, the line continues the path from that end (part of #3799). With Option/Alt held at the press and Alt key toggles to Smooth Tool off, the Pencil draws a straight line at any angle, whose ends snap to Smart Guides, and it stays open when Alt is still held at the release; Shift and Alt together keep the 45° steps (#3799). While Shift or Alt is held before the press, the Pencil shows a straight-line cursor (a crosshair with a short line), and over an end of a selected open path, where the line continues the path, a path-continuation cursor (the same line leaving a small square), as the page describes.
   - **Shapes:** all shape tools (including Flare) and the line, arc, spiral and grid tools. Space held while dragging out a shape, line, arc, spiral or grid moves it at its current size. While a grid is dragged out, Up/Down change its rows (concentric dividers) and Left/Right its columns (radial dividers). A click with a grid tool asks for the size, the divider counts and the grid options (#1377, in part): a skew for each set of dividers, Use Outside Rectangle As Frame or Create Compound Path From Ellipses, and Fill Grid; they are parameters of `shape.rectangularGrid` and `shape.polarGrid`, stay as the tool's options and apply to drags too. The curve a skew percentage follows and the direction of the radial skew are our own (the public documentation gives neither), and the dialogs have no reference point locator. An ellipse's Pie Start and End Angle and Invert Pie (Transform and Properties panels' Ellipse Properties, `object.setLiveShape {pieStart, pieEnd, invertPie}`) cut it as a pie (#812). With the bounding box showing, the Selection tool shows a selected ellipse's two pie widgets just outside it; dragging one sets its angle in one undo step and double-clicking one makes the ellipse whole again. A live polygon's Polygon Properties there: side count, angle, corner type and radius, radius, side length and Make Sides Equal once an uneven scale has made its sides differ (`object.setLiveShape {sides, polygonAngle, polygonRadius, sideLength, makeSidesEqual}`, part of #812); a star is a plain path, as in Illustrator. The Flare Tool Options last as the tool's options: the next flare dragged out uses them, a click's dialog shows them and double-clicking the tool opens them (part of #812).
   - **Shapes:** all shape tools (including Flare) and the line, arc, spiral and grid tools. Space held while dragging out a shape, line, arc, spiral or grid moves it at its current size. The Flare tool's center drag turns the rays by 0.1 radian at each drag update in which the pointer's document y grows, and back by as much at each one in which it falls, Shift held keeps their turn, and Space held during either of its drags moves the flare. While a grid is dragged out, Up/Down change its rows (concentric dividers) and Left/Right its columns (radial dividers). A click with a grid tool asks for the size, the divider counts and the grid options (#1377, in part): a skew for each set of dividers, Use Outside Rectangle As Frame or Create Compound Path From Ellipses, and Fill Grid; they are parameters of `shape.rectangularGrid` and `shape.polarGrid`, stay as the tool's options and apply to drags too. The curve a skew percentage follows and the direction of the radial skew are our own (the public documentation gives neither), and the dialogs have no reference point locator. An ellipse's Pie Start and End Angle and Invert Pie (Transform and Properties panels' Ellipse Properties, `object.setLiveShape {pieStart, pieEnd, invertPie}`) cut it as a pie (#812). With the bounding box showing, the Selection tool shows a selected ellipse's two pie widgets just outside it; dragging one sets its angle in one undo step and double-clicking one makes the ellipse whole again. A live polygon's Polygon Properties there: side count, angle, corner type and radius, radius, side length and Make Sides Equal once an uneven scale has made its sides differ (`object.setLiveShape {sides, polygonAngle, polygonRadius, sideLength, makeSidesEqual}`, part of #812); a star is a plain path, as in Illustrator. The Flare Tool Options last as the tool's options: the next flare dragged out uses them, a click's dialog shows them and double-clicking the tool opens them (part of #812).
@@ -759,6 +763,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
 - **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. 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.
+  An unmodified Escape in either Full Screen Mode exits to Normal Screen Mode after any open popup, focused field, tool gesture, ruler-origin drag, floating Tools panel move, edit mode, drawer, flyout or view rotation has taken its Escape; a later Escape exits when that action is finished. This is a VectorCraft choice for both full screen variants, based on the public [shortcut list](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html); the list does not specify that priority or the return mode.
   Presentation Mode shows the active artboard fitted to the screen (fitted again as the window goes full screen) and hides the selection, guides, grids, slices and the artboards' edges and names, as [presentation mode](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/get-started/learn-the-basics/view-artwork-in-presentation-mode.html) describes.
   In Presentation Mode no key press other than ←, → and Escape runs a command or reaches the tool (tool keys, Delete, Enter, Tab, F, Shift+F and every command shortcut, the macOS menu bar's key equivalents included), a right click or a long touch opens no context menu, a tap of two or three fingers undoes or redoes nothing, and the pointer over the canvas is the default one instead of the tool's cursor.
   Align to Artboard uses the active artboard, the one the Artboards panel highlights (`object.align {artboard}`). A press with a selection tool inside an artboard makes that artboard active; with the Selection tool, a Shift-click on an empty spot inside an artboard makes it active and keeps the selection. One selected object is aligned to the active artboard too, whatever Align To says (a lone object is never the key object). When an action plays, its Align to Artboard, All on Active Artboard, Paste in Place, Paste in Front and Paste in Back steps that name no artboard use the artboard that is active then.
@@ -814,6 +819,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
     With anchors or segments of a path selected with Direct Selection, Simplify acts on just that part of the path, as the [Manually simplify paths](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/draw-shapes-and-paths/modify-paths/manually-simplify-paths.html) page puts it: the slider, Auto-Simplify and the dialog refit only each run of selected segments, between its end anchors, which keep their place and their handles on the side away from the run. The anchors and segments outside the runs stay exactly as they were, a closed path's run may cross its start point, separate runs on one path are refitted independently in one undo step, and the runs stay selected. A path with only lone anchors selected is still simplified whole, and `object.path.simplify {wholePaths: true}` simplifies partly selected paths whole. Tests: `crates/engine/src/tests/simplify_part.rs` and `simplify_slider_and_dialog_simplify_only_the_direct_selected_part_of_a_path`.
     Object › Path › Smooth… (#4115) opens a slider under the selection from Minimum to Maximum smoothing with an Auto-Smooth button, as the [Smooth slider](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/draw-shapes-and-paths/modify-paths/refine-path-segments-with-the-smooth-slider.html) page describes; the canvas previews it and Enter or a click outside keeps it as one undo step (`object.path.smooth {level, auto, ids}`). The page names only the ends, so the rest is VectorCraft's own rule: each selected path, compound path members included, is refitted with curves within 0.1% (level 0) to 2.5% (level 100) of its longer side, corners kept only where it turns back and never with more anchors (a rectangle stays as it is); Auto-Smooth is level 50. Closed paths stay closed and open ones keep their end points. Tests: `crates/engine/src/tests/smooth_path.rs` and `smooth_slider_previews_auto_smooth_and_keeps_the_result`.
 - **Devanagari shaping:** with an OpenType Devanagari font, Ka, virama and Ssa (क्ष) form one conjunct glyph, Ra and virama before a consonant (र्क) become a reph drawn after it, the i matra (कि) is drawn before its consonant, and Ka with a nukta is drawn like the precomposed क़ (U+0958), as [Microsoft's Devanagari shaping specification](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/script-development/devanagari) describes. Each syllable is one cluster of its source bytes, and the arrow keys stop at its ends. A click inside a syllable drawn with several glyphs puts the caret at the syllable's nearer end, in point, area and path type. Tests: `crates/text/src/tests/devanagari.rs`; they print SKIPPED when no such font is installed.
+- **Vertical type spacing shortcuts:** The [Default keyboard shortcuts](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) page gives Alt+Down/Up for kerning at a caret or tracking of selected text, Alt+Left/Right for leading, and Alt+Shift+Right/Left for baseline shift. Alt+Shift+Down/Up also steps kerning or tracking. Down increases kerning or tracking, Left increases leading, and Shift+Right increases baseline shift; the opposite arrows decrease them. Cmd/Ctrl makes five steps. Horizontal type keeps its existing mapping; mixed horizontal and vertical text-object selections take the horizontal mapping for both objects in one undo step. Selected vertical point, area and path type use the same directions. Tests: `spacing_arrows_follow_each_text_objects_orientation`, `alt_arrows_rotate_for_selected_vertical_type`, `mixed_type_objects_take_horizontal_spacing_chords_in_both_orders`, and `selected_vertical_area_and_path_type_use_vertical_spacing_chords`.
 - **Vertical punctuation:** fullwidth `！` (U+FF01) and `？` (U+FF1F) use their nominal glyph upright when no vertical alternate is present, following the Tu fallback in [Unicode UAX #50 §3.1](https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr50/#vo). Code-built test fonts cover point and area type with and without `vert` alternates, retain the rotated fallback for a bracket and long vowel mark, and leave horizontal type unchanged. Tests: `crates/text/src/tests/vertical.rs`.
   - 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).
 - **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`.
@@ -850,6 +856,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
   In vertical type, the Tabs panel names its alignment buttons Top-Justified Tab, Center-Justified Tab, Bottom-Justified Tab and Decimal-Justified Tab, in their tool tips and for screen readers, and labels the position field Y. In horizontal type the buttons keep the names Left-Justified Tab and Right-Justified Tab, and the field keeps the label X.
   The Tabs panel's ruler is numbered in the General unit with the canvas rulers' label steps and a tick every tenth of a step. With the panel menu's Snap to Unit on, or Shift held, a tab stop placed by a click on the ruler or dragged on it lands on the nearest tick (`text.tabs.set`).
   With Snap to Unit off and Shift not held, a tab stop placed by a click on the Tabs panel's ruler or dragged on it lands on the nearest whole point. A position typed in the X or Y field keeps its hundredths of a point.
+  The Tabs ruler's upper first-line marker and lower left-indent marker show absolute positions and set paragraph indents (`text.setFormat`). Dragging the lower marker keeps the upper position, while Ctrl-dragging it (Command on macOS) moves both; marker drags snap like tab stops, and each release is one undo step. With differing left indents, only the upper marker is shown and its absolute target applies to every touched paragraph.
   When a drag on the Tabs panel's ruler or a value typed in its X field moves a tab stop past another stop, the moved stop stays selected.
   The Tabs panel menu's Clear All Tabs (`text.tabs.clear`), Delete Tab and Repeat Tab (`text.tabs.set`) can be chosen while the panel's ruler shows tab stops. Delete Tab removes the stop selected on the ruler. Repeat Tab replaces the stops after the selected stop with up to 20 copies of it. The copies are spaced by the selected stop's distance from the stop before it, or from the paragraph's left indent when it is the first stop, and no copy is placed at 2,000 pt or beyond. Clear All Tabs removes every stop, so the default stops every ½ inch apply again.
 - **Interface languages, vertical type:** Preferences ▸ User Interface (or VectorCraft ▸ Language on macOS) picks Automatic (the system locale) or a registered language, persisted as `interfaceLanguage`. Translations come from per-language catalogs (`i18n/*.tsv`): Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Japanese, German (every `de-*` locale), Spanish (neutral international Spanish, for every `es-*` locale), French (every `fr-*` locale), Italian (every `it-*` locale), Russian (every `ru-*` locale) and Ukrainian (every `uk-*` locale), Catalan (every `ca-*` locale) and Polish (every `pl-*` locale; AI-drafted, native review pending) cover the whole interface, Czech every menu label; Czech, German, Greek, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Swedish, Ukrainian and Finnish also translate status-bar and error messages as they are shown (`@msg` templates, every message literal tested; the messages themselves stay English for agents); untranslated text stays English. Japanese and Chinese glyphs come from the craft-fonts build input (release builds) or the installed fonts, Czech, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian and Ukrainian ones from the bundled UI fonts. The web app follows the browser's languages (or `?lang=`). The Basic toolbar's Type button holds Vertical Type in its flyout. Vertical Type, Vertical Area Type and Vertical Type on a Path create vertical text (columns right to left, upright CJK glyphs and marks with `vert` alternates, Latin and longer numbers on their side, two- and three-digit numbers set as tate-chu-yoko in one em of the column (kept whole when justified), upright glyphs centred on the column (tracked or justified too), point type's anchor on the first column's centre line); kinsoku applies to horizontal and vertical Japanese (Paragraph panel › Kinsoku Set, `text.setFormat {kinsoku}`: Hard, the default, keeps closing marks, iteration marks, the prolonged sound mark and small kana off the line start and opening brackets off its end; Soft lets 々, ー and small kana start a line as JLREQ's level 3 rules do; None turns it off), and justified Japanese lines spread their room between characters (not inside Latin words); Paragraph panel › Mojikumi Set (shown with Preferences › Type › Show East Asian Options, `text.setFormat {mojikumi}`): None or Line-end Punctuation Half Width (new type's default, as in Illustrator; older documents and imported text keep None) shares one half-em space between consecutive punctuation, sets a closing mark ending a line half width and an opening bracket starting a line flush with its start (a paragraph's first line at its first-line indent, JIS X 4051's principle in JLREQ 3.1.5), and puts a quarter em between Japanese and Latin letters or digits; Paragraph panel menu › Top-to-Top / Bottom-to-Bottom Leading measures leading from em box top to top (area type's first line touches the frame) or from baseline to baseline (new type in a Japanese interface starts top to top, with em box centre character alignment, #432); Paragraph panel menu › Burasagari None / Regular / Force (`text.setFormat {burasagari: "none"|"standard"|"forced"}`) hangs an East Asian comma or full stop (、。，．､｡) ending an area type line outside it, Regular (new type's default) when it doesn't fit and Force always (the rest of the line then fills the measure; closing brackets and Latin punctuation don't hang); Character panel menu › Character Alignment (with the East Asian options; `text.setFormat` or `text.setRangeStyle {charAlign}`) lines characters smaller than the largest on their line up on the Roman baseline, the em box top/right, centre or bottom/left, or the ICF (ideographic character face) top/right or bottom/left, from the font's BASE table or, without one, the average ink box of some ideographs and kana; Proportional Metrics (the same menu; `{proportionalMetrics}`) sets full-width glyphs on the font's proportional widths (OpenType `palt`) in horizontal type and upright glyphs on its proportional heights (`vpal`, shaped top to bottom; fonts without vertical metrics keep their cells) in vertical type, and Line-end Punctuation Half Width takes nothing more off the punctuation they re-spaced; Type ▸ Type Orientation switches existing text; caret, selection, hit testing and arrow keys follow the writing direction. Vertical text exports to PDF as real text and to SVG as outlines. The interface is available in Polish (`pl`): menus, panels, dialogs and messages, with one/few/many plurals; AI-drafted, native review pending (#1498).
@@ -859,7 +866,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
   Disable, Enable, Unlink and Link Opacity Mask and Opacity Mask Options (`transparency.setOpacityMask`) record no undo step when every mask they act on already has the flags they set.
 - **Image Trace, thin closed outlines:** generated `fit::snap_area_tests` verify nonzero interiors after straightening, opposite closed-boundary winding and Noise controls; see [quality notes](image-trace-quality.md#thin-closed-outlines-with-snap-curves-to-lines). Scores and hours unchanged; open-piece fitting is unchanged.
 - **Image Trace, Document Library color groups:** with Document Swatches, the panel's Colors menu and `"colorGroup"` trace with one color group's colors instead of every swatch, as the public panel documentation describes Document Library; code-drawn tests in `crates/engine` and the panel.
-- **Image Trace, Document Library linked colors:** with Document Swatches, traced fills and strokes from global and spot swatches (and tints of them) are linked to their swatches, so editing a swatch recolors the trace; process colors and swatch-library colors stay unlinked; a code-drawn test in `crates/engine`.
+- **Image Trace, Document Library colors:** with Document Swatches, traced fills and strokes use the displayed colors of process, global, spot and tint swatches without links, so editing a swatch leaves the trace unchanged; swatch-library colors are also unlinked; code-drawn tests in `crates/engine`.
 - **Image Trace, flattened slivers:** in a Color, Grayscale or Black and White trace with Fills, a traced region whose outline straightens onto one line (a single pixel, or a one-pixel row along an edge, its pieces shared with the regions beside it) is left out instead of becoming a selectable path with no area, which paints nothing. Snap Curves To Lines straightens more outlines, so it leaves out more of these. Without Fills, the region's 1 px stroke draws it, and it is kept. Code-drawn tests in `crates/trace`.
 - **Image Trace, Auto Color rare colours:** the Automatic palette keeps colours too rare for its area count when they are distinct (Oklab) and drawn as coherent regions, at most six, protected from mixed-colour merging and Noise; code-drawn stem, highlight, low-contrast and scattered-noise tests (see [quality notes](image-trace-quality.md#auto-color-keeps-rare-colours)).
 - **Image Trace, Document Library keeps neutral tones neutral:** each pixel takes the library color nearest in Oklab with differences in hue and chroma counted three times, so a gray or a muted brown traces as a neutral library color instead of a saturated one of similar lightness; a code-drawn test of gray and brown patches with a black, light and blue library in `crates/trace`.
@@ -891,6 +898,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
 
   - 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`.
   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"}`).
@@ -908,6 +916,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
   - **Missing library files:** a persistent swatch or graphic style library panel whose file is gone at startup reopens and stays in the preferences, showing the file's path with Locate Library… (`ui.libraryPanel.locate`), which reads the file from where it is now into the same panel.
   - **Swatch library and Recolor Artwork parameters:** the `swatch.library.*` commands, `swatch.resetDefaults`, the graphic style library save, load and add, the `recolor.*` commands and `color.harmony`'s `limitTo` refuse parameters of the wrong form, such as `names: "Grays"`, `limitTo: 5` or `includeImages: "false"`. Errors name the parameter, except that a `limitTo` that is not a string, such as `5`, gets an unknown-library error. A `null` counts as left out except for `recolor.apply`'s `model`, which must be a string when given.
   - **Colour:** a Color Picker (colour field, H/S/B/R/G/B channel slider, HSB/RGB/Lab/CMYK fields, hex, web-only snapping, out-of-gamut correction); the Color panel shows a selected colour in its own model and, with nothing selected, the new-art defaults in the mode picked last, which it keeps between sessions; Alt-click paints the other proxy; proxies look through groups and show "?" for mixed paint; Invert, Complement, Apply Last Color (`,`) and Apply Last Gradient (`.`) keep the colour model; every paint command feeds the recent colours. The Color Guide has 21 harmony rules, Steps and Variation options and Limit to Library. Adjust Color Balance (its Global mode shifts tints) and Saturate preview live; Edit Colors and Recolor also reach meshes, images and patterns. Recolor Artwork has colour reduction, five recolour methods, presets, Limit to Library, a colour-wheel Edit tab and Edit Color Group; a local Color Themes panel saves five-colour themes. Fill/Stroke chips open swatch and mixer popovers (the Properties panel has the Control bar's Fill and Stroke chips, Stroke link and weight spinner, with nothing selected too), panels have Illustrator's Window menu keys (Align Shift+F7, Transform Shift+F8, Pathfinder Cmd+Shift+F9, Layers F7, Character Cmd+T…; every panel can be given one in Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts), and Eyedropper Options pick up and apply chosen attributes (Alt and Shift+Alt, image pixels). An ICC CMYK profile converts straight into the RGB working space (not through sRGB, so a wider space such as Wide Gamut RGB keeps colours sRGB can't hold) with the colour settings' black-point compensation, on the canvas and in RGB exports alike (the built-in Generic CMYK compensates both ways, so RGB black separated to a rich black displays as black again). Fills and strokes can overprint (Attributes panel, Overprint Black options), and CMYK documents blend in inks on screen, in PDF and when flattening. Document Color Mode converts the art, symbols, pattern tiles and swatches through the colour settings: Gray stays Gray, RGB greys separate into four-colour greys and a rich black as Illustrator does, or go on the black plate only with `grays: "black"` (also for `document.open {colorMode}`).
+    Plain Comma and Period, and also Shift+Comma and Shift+Period, apply the last solid color and the last gradient to the active Fill or Stroke proxy in VectorCraft ([Default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html), "Select color fill mode" and "Select gradient fill mode").
     A Cmd/Ctrl-click on the Color panel's spectrum applies Complement and a Cmd/Ctrl+Shift-click applies Invert to the active Fill or Stroke (`paint.complement`, `paint.invert`); with Alt also held, the click recolors the inactive one, as the reference app's [Default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) list them.
     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.
   - **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.
@@ -959,7 +968,8 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
   The Libraries panel holds gradients and patterns: its + button adds the selection's fill or stroke gradient or pattern, a gradient or pattern swatch dragged from the Swatches panel is added, and a click paints the selection through the active Fill/Stroke proxy, a pattern bringing its definition and swatch into the document.
   Object › Lock › All Artwork Above and Object › Hide › All Artwork Above deselect the selected objects they lock or hide, the key object included.
   Object › Hide › Unselected Artwork (Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+Shift+3, `object.hide.unselected`) hides, in one undo step, every object Select All takes that is not selected and holds no selected object; the members of a group that holds a selected object are hidden one by one, and Object › Show All shows them again. It is disabled in isolation mode. Public references: [Default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html), "Hide unselected artwork"; [How to lock, hide, and delete objects in Illustrator](https://web.archive.org/web/20220303070637/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/locking-hiding-deleting-objects.html), which says the Show All and Hide menus are unavailable in isolation mode.
-  In isolation mode, the items of Object › Lock and Object › Hide, Unlock All and Show All are greyed out ([lock, hide, and delete objects](https://web.archive.org/web/20220303070637/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/locking-hiding-deleting-objects.html)); the Contextual Task Bar's Lock button is greyed out too, the Properties panel's Quick Actions have no Lock, and the commands return an error. Pattern editing mode and opacity mask editing do not count as isolation mode for them.
+  Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+Shift+2 (`object.lock.unselected`) locks unselected artwork in one undo step and has no Object › Lock menu item. It locks unselected members of partly selected groups, clipping groups and compound paths, and unselected guides while Lock Guides is on. In ordinary isolation mode it locks only unselected art inside the isolated object. Object › Unlock All unlocks all locked art in the document. The [public shortcut page](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) calls the action "Lock all deselected artwork".
+  In isolation mode, the visible items of Object › Lock and Object › Hide, Unlock All and Show All are greyed out ([lock, hide, and delete objects](https://web.archive.org/web/20220303070637/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/locking-hiding-deleting-objects.html)); the shortcut-only `object.lock.unselected` command remains enabled with a selection. The Contextual Task Bar's Lock button is greyed out too, the Properties panel's Quick Actions have no Lock, and the other Lock and Hide commands return an error. Pattern editing mode and opacity mask editing do not count as isolation mode for them.
   Liquify (its brush Width, Height and Angle, Intensity, Detail, Simplify, Twirl Rate, Complexity, Horizontal and Vertical), Puppet Warp (its Expand and each pin's angle), Transform in Perspective (its depth), Nudge in Perspective (its direction) and Move Plane (its location or distance) refuse a value other than a number or null, such as "40", Draw in Perspective refuses a click point that is not two numbers, and Width Profile refuses a point that is not three numbers; each leaves the document and its undo history as they were.
   Object › Lock › All Artwork Above and Object › Hide › All Artwork Above go through each top-level layer once, checking each object that is not selected against the selected objects below it: with 100 tiles selected under 25,000 rectangles, Lock took 6.4 s and now takes under 0.1 s, and with all of 5,001 objects selected it took 8.8 s and now takes under 0.1 s.
   Object › Unlock All and Object › Show All clicked in the in-window menu bar with Shift+Alt (Shift+Option) held unlock or show only the objects inside the groups that hold the selected objects ([lock, hide, and delete objects](https://web.archive.org/web/20230623025912/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/locking-hiding-deleting-objects.html)); `object.unlockAll` and `object.showAll` take `scope: "group"` for it.
@@ -1076,6 +1086,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
   actual OS display and Caps Lock remain unverified. Behaviour reference: [public tool-pointer documentation](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/tools.html#change_tool_pointers). Tool cursors are painted into the window on Wayland (#1652; not run on Linux, #1645 stays open until confirmed). A Precise Cursors command toggles the preference and can take a shortcut (#1663). On macOS the tool cursor is painted only while the window has the focus. Over a window behind another app, or under the File › Open… sheet, the system pointer shows alone instead of next to the painted cursor (#2020).
   In a rotated view the resize and rotate cursors turn with the view, to the nearest 45°.
 - **Performance:** 20k shapes + 1k texts render in 27 ms per full-retina frame (7.8 ms zoomed), 7× faster than the first version. The UI thread never blocks. The web build is 7.1 MB gzipped. Print-size images (more than 512 MB decoded, up to 2 GB) draw in the canvas and in raster exports and can be trimmed with Crop Image; an image with a side past 65,535 px is shrunk to fit, a raster export says when an image could not be decoded, and Crop Image's trim leaves CMYK images alone (#1517). On Windows `vectorcraft-cli perf` reports the cores busy and, with `--deep`, its working set, and warns on a busy machine as it does on macOS and Linux (#1502).
+  Hard-edge rendering, including the internal hard-edge frame of Art Optimized supersampled raster exports, draws a knockout element with one opaque solid fill once instead of erasing and adding it through separate layers. Analytical antialiasing keeps the existing compositor and rounding. Synthetic path/compound-hole tests compare exact pixels against the general knockout path across precision, supersampling, translucent parent groups and backdrop blending; translucent fills retain their knockout behavior.
   An image whose pixels can't be decoded, such as a PNG cut short or an image over the 2 GB decoding allowance as RGBA that can't be drawn at reduced size, is tried once: the renderer notes it and does not try to decode it again on later frames. An image refused only because the images being drawn leave no room for it is tried again on the next render. On the canvas such an image draws as a light gray box crossed from corner to corner, and the status bar says once for each image that it couldn't be decoded; exports leave it out and report it as before.
   A PNG, JPEG, GIF or WebP image that takes more than 2 GiB as RGBA (512 MiB in the web app) draws in the canvas and in raster exports at the largest size within that allowance, instead of as that crossed box on the canvas and not at all in exports. Each pixel of the result is the mean of the image's pixels it covers, and the document keeps the whole file. A PNG that isn't interlaced is read a row at a time, and other images are read whole when their decoded samples fit in the allowance. A 16-bit PNG that isn't interlaced, whose decoded samples take more than the allowance and whose RGBA fits in it, draws at its own size, read a row at a time. An image of more pixels than the allowance has bytes (on the desktop, 46,341 × 46,341 is more) still draws as the crossed box, and so does one whose decoded samples take more than the allowance, other than a PNG that isn't interlaced. Open, Place and the Links panel say "an image of W × H pixels is shown at reduced size", and say "too large to draw" of an image that is not drawn at reduced size.
   With `--deep`, each memory row of `vectorcraft-cli perf` also gives the peak so far: the peak working set on Windows and the peak resident memory (`VmHWM`) on Linux. A new last row gives the memory after the SVG export and the save → open → save at the end of the run.
@@ -1223,6 +1234,14 @@ Show, Fix Selected and Fix All (each one undo step), Deep Ungroup and Rejoin Pat
 alone; Fix All as one step; scopes; rejoin within the gap only) and `addons::cleanup::tests` in `vectorcraft-ui-egui`
 (the submenu opens the panel; Check lists what it finds). Commands: `docs/mcp.md` › Artwork Cleanup add-on.
 
+The add-on's text tools (2026-10-31) work on the shared text layout: Break Text into lines, paragraphs, words or glyphs
+and Split Text at Cursor make point type pieces placed by the glyph of their first character, Combine Point Text merges
+one-line point type back with every glyph where it was (tracking and spaces, checked against the layout), and Remove
+Line / Paragraph Breaks, Set Alignment, Keep Position, Reset Text Transform and Replace Missing Fonts. Tests:
+`cmd::addons::cleanup::text::tests` in `vectorcraft-engine` (glyphs kept in place, styles kept, one undo step,
+refusals), `addons::cleanup::tests` in `vectorcraft-ui-egui` (the submenu and the panel's Text row run them) and
+`cleanup_text_tools_with_junk_editing_ranges` in the command sweep.
+
 ## Path Precision Tools add-on (2026-10-30)
 
 A VectorCraft addition, not an Illustrator feature, so no area score moves. Object › Plug-ins › Path Precision Tools,
@@ -1236,6 +1255,16 @@ Kernels in `vectorcraft_pathops::addons::pathtools`. Tests: `addons::pathtools`
 undo step, bad params refused, the brush's stroke one step) and `edit_toolbar::tests::addon_tools_are_in_the_drawer_not_the_toolbars`.
 Commands: `docs/mcp.md` › Path Precision Tools add-on.
 
+The add-on's live Path Effects (2026-10-31, Effect › Path Effects, `addon.path.*`) are geometry effects, so they draw,
+measure, export and expand as the others do: Dashes to Geometry (up to five dash and gap pairs, offset, fitted to corners
+and ends), Add Anchors (all, curved or straight segments, by count or distance, capped per segment), Extend Path (each
+end by length and percent, shortening when negative, straight or arc), Close Path (straight or smooth), Smooth Anchors,
+Retract Handles (all or the short ones), Reverse Direction, Simplify Anchors and Split at Anchors. Code in
+`vectorcraft_effects::addons::path` on the kernels above. Tests: `addons::path::tests` in `vectorcraft-effects` (geometry,
+caps, junk params and paths), `cmd::addons::pathtools::effect_tests` in `vectorcraft-engine` (drawn live, Expand
+Appearance matches the outline and the pixels, saves keep it, a file's junk params), `addons::pathtools::tests` in
+`vectorcraft-pathops` and `vectorcraft-ui-egui`, and the command sweep's junk rows.
+
 The add-on's Parametric Shape Tool (2026-10-30) draws ten kinds of shape that stay editable as numbers (rectangle,
 ellipse, polygon and star with 3 to 1,000 sides or points, ring, arrow, cross, heart, gear, speech bubble; corner radius
 limited to the middle of a side): a drag from the centre sizes and turns one, the arrow keys change its count and values
@@ -1249,6 +1278,33 @@ stored data), `cmd::addons::pathtools::tests` in `vectorcraft-engine` (each comm
 anchor edits and transforms, the SVG export filter, the tool's gestures), `addons::pathtools::tests` in
 `vectorcraft-ui-egui` (submenu and panel) and `command_sweep`.
 
+The add-on's Corner Tool (2026-10-31) edits the Live Corners every path already keeps (no second corner store): hover
+shows an anchor that can take a corner, a click cuts one with the tool's radius and kind (round, inverted, chamfer), a
+drag sizes it (Shift: whole values), a cut corner's marker selects it and loads its values, resizes it, and removes it
+at 0 or on a double-click, a corner never grows past what fits, and an Alt-marquee cuts every eligible anchor inside. A
+Corners section in the Anchor Inspector sets the radius and kind, counts the selected corners and applies to them.
+Slide Anchor Along Path drags an anchor along its curve, the two segments beside it refitted by the keep-shape kernel
+(Shift: where the tangent is a multiple of 45°). Commands `addon.pathtools.cornerSet`, `cornerRemove` and `slideAnchor`,
+each one undo step; `vectorcraft_pathops::addons::pathtools::slide_anchor`. Tests: `addons::pathtools` in
+`vectorcraft-pathops` (the outline stays within 0.05 pt on a circle, straight runs, ends, stops), `addons::corner_tool`
+and `addons::slide_anchor` in `vectorcraft-tools`, `cmd::addons::pathtools::tests` in `vectorcraft-engine` (each command
+one undo step, bad params refused, the tools' gestures), `addons::pathtools::tests` in `vectorcraft-ui-egui` (submenu,
+panel section), `edit_toolbar::tests` and `command_sweep`.
+
+The add-on's Shared Edge Merge Tool (2026-10-31) works on any two editable paths under its round brush. Where they touch
+at two coincident anchors (tolerance 0 to 3 pt), hovering shows both stretches and the merged edge, and a click replaces
+both with it, half way between them, or following the upper (Shift) or lower (Alt) path; anchors either stretch has inside
+are matched on the other, both paths stay closed or open, and it is one undo step. Near anchors meet on a click and an
+anchor one path lacks is added to match. Keep Shared Points Together, an option in the Anchor Inspector, makes Slide Anchor
+Along Path, Extend Path and Set Anchor take coincident anchors along; nothing else in the app changes. Commands
+`addon.pathtools.mergeEdge` and `movePointsTogether`; `vectorcraft_pathops::addons::pathtools::apply_merge`. Not yet:
+growing to adjacent stretches, preview preferences, cycling three candidates, pairs at crossings without anchors, the
+tool's Alt-click cut and delete, and shared segments reshaping together. Tests: `addons::pathtools::shared_edge` in
+`vectorcraft-pathops` (the merged edge lies half way, topology, unequal anchors, stretches over a closed path's start,
+ends), `addons::shared_edge` in `vectorcraft-tools`, `cmd::addons::pathtools::shared_edge::tests` in `vectorcraft-engine`
+(one undo step, bad params refused, the tool's click, the option), `addons::pathtools::tests` in `vectorcraft-ui-egui`
+(submenu, panel section), `edit_toolbar::tests` and `command_sweep`.
+
 ## Smart Pen add-on (2026-10-30)
 
 A VectorCraft addition, not an Illustrator feature, so no area score moves. Object › Plug-ins › Smart Pen selects the
@@ -1297,6 +1353,13 @@ add-on.
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-30 | minor | File formats: `.ai`/EPS editing data: a blend takes the transparency (opacity, blend mode, knockout) in its state block after its record, so its steps knock each other out as the page draws them; a user's file comes in 0.6% from its page instead of 1.3%. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-31 | minor | Path Precision Tools add-on: the Shared Edge Merge Tool and Keep Shared Points Together; evidence added; scores unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-31 | minor | Path Precision Tools add-on: the Corner Tool and Slide Anchor Along Path; evidence added; scores unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-30 | patch | Performance: opaque solid-fill knockout paths avoid redundant erase/add compositing in hard-edge frames, including supersampled raster export; analytical antialiasing keeps its existing rounding; scores and estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-10-30 | minor | File formats: `.ai`/EPS editing-data fidelity from an audit of a user's files: All Caps and Small Caps (#4708); placed files at their box's corner, kept where they draw closer to the page (#4664, #4723, #4742); pages cropped to the art, with `UserUnit` (#4658, #4727); gradient mesh corners with handle weights of 0 and the state written after a mesh (#4738, #4744, #4748); type on a path spaced as the file lays it out (#4743); synthetic regressions in `crates/eps`; evidence added; scores unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-31 | minor | Path Precision Tools add-on (a VectorCraft addition): live Path Effects; evidence added; scores unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-31 | minor | Artwork Cleanup add-on (a VectorCraft addition): text tools; evidence added; scores unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | Color Effects add-on: live Duotone (one to four inks, spot tones kept) and Print Ink Fixes; scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | 3D Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate apply to type, which stays editable (#4715); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | Color Effects add-on: live Vector Halftone; scores and estimates unchanged |

docs/type-parity.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Type parity
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-30 · **Change:** minor (Character panel menu › Show Snap to Glyph Options shows the Snap to Glyph section (Baseline, x-height, Glyph Bounds, Proximity Guides, Angular Guides, Anchor Point; `view.snapToGlyph.options`) (#4232); scores unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-30 · **Change:** minor (Highlight Alternate Glyphs leaves the required lam-alef ligature unhighlighted also in older Arabic fonts (such as legacy Arial) that put it in `liga` rather than `rlig` (#394); scores 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
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ 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; stylistic sets ss01–ss20, stylistic and titling alternates, proportional and lining figures, superscript and subscript are character-style features (`text.setStyle {features}`, #1607) |
+| 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); stylistic sets ss01–ss20, stylistic and titling alternates, proportional and lining figures, superscript and subscript are character-style features (`text.setStyle {features}`, #1607) |
 | 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 |
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ Character Styles menu New/Redefine and footer New capture the first selected cha
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-30 | minor | Highlight Alternate Glyphs leaves the required lam-alef ligature unhighlighted also in older Arabic fonts (such as legacy Arial) that put it in `liga` rather than `rlig` (#394); scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | Character panel menu › Show Snap to Glyph Options shows the Snap to Glyph section (Baseline, x-height, Glyph Bounds, Proximity Guides, Angular Guides, Anchor Point; `view.snapToGlyph.options`) (#4232); scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-29 | minor | Font fallback keeps a letter and its combining marks in one face; Vietnamese stacked diacritics (Ể, Ứ, Ự) attach in precomposed, decomposed and keyboard forms (#4491); scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | Threading ports: a double-click on a threaded port with the Selection tool breaks the thread there (`text.thread.break`); the story flows into the frames before the break; scores unchanged |

docs/ui-parity.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # UI and interaction parity
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-30 · **Change:** minor (Color Effects add-on: Duotone and Print Ink Fixes; scores unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-31 · **Change:** minor (Path Precision Tools add-on: Shared Edge Merge Tool; scores unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
 
 ## Feature submission evidence
 
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ selected objects, as the Appearance panel's Add New Fill and Add New Stroke butt
 
 ~110 distinct modified shortcuts on menu commands plus single-key tool shortcuts for the default toolbar
 (`crates/tools/src/catalog.rs`), a shortcut editor with chords, and saved sets. Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+L (`ui.newLayer`) opens Layer Options for a new layer, as an Alt-click on the Layers panel's New Layer button does, and Cmd/Ctrl+L still adds a layer without the dialog. F8 (`ui.symbolOptions`) opens Symbol Options for a new symbol made from the selection, as the Symbols panel's New Symbol button does. Not yet diffed item by item
-against Illustrator's published default shortcut list; estimated ~70% of it. Remaining: the panel shortcuts,
+against Illustrator's published default shortcut list; estimated ~70% of it. Remaining: other panel shortcuts,
 the type shortcuts (tracking/kerning/leading/baseline steps with Alt/Shift), and selection shortcuts in the
 Layers panel. The shortcut editor also lists the commands that are in no menu but run without parameters (Edit › Duplicate,
 panel-menu commands such as Break Link to Symbol), so they can be given shortcuts (#1539). It lists each button of the
@@ -326,10 +326,14 @@ next unit in the order a right-click on a ruler lists them, from Feet back to Po
 | Tabs panel: a stop drags from where the press landed, a stop just added included | done | #1458 |
 | Outline view keeps template layers in Preview, dimmed | done | #1486; a picture placed to be traced stays visible under the outlines |
 | 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 an Illustrator feature, 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 an Illustrator feature, so it is not scored |
+| Path Precision Tools add-on (VectorCraft addition): Effect › Path Effects lists its live effects (Dashes to Geometry, Add Anchors, Extend Path, Close Path, Smooth Anchors, Retract Handles, Reverse Direction, Simplify Anchors, Split at Anchors), each with the effect dialog's live Preview except Reverse Direction, which has no options, and listed in the Appearance panel like any effect | done | `addon.path.*`, `crates/effects/src/addons/path.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/pathtools.rs` and their tests; not an Illustrator feature, so it is not scored |
 | Path Precision Tools add-on (VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Path Precision Tools selects its four tools (Anchor Eraser Brush, Extend Path, Measure & Inspect, Parametric Shape), 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; 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/shape.rs` and their tests; not an Illustrator feature, so it is not scored |
+| Path Precision Tools add-on (VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Path Precision Tools selects its six tools (Anchor Eraser Brush, Extend Path, Measure & Inspect, Parametric Shape, Corner Tool, Slide Anchor Along Path), 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°; 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 an Illustrator feature, 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); an Alt-drag away from paths selects the points inside a marquee | done | `addon.pen.*`, `crates/tools/src/addons/smart_pen.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/pen.rs` and their tests; not an Illustrator feature, so it is not scored |
 | Path Precision Tools add-on (VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Path Precision Tools selects its three tools (Anchor Eraser Brush, Extend Path, Measure & Inspect), 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 runs Add Points at / Split at Crossings; 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` and their tests; not an Illustrator feature, so it is not scored |
 | Artwork Cleanup add-on (VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Artwork Cleanup opens its panel, which checks the selection or the document for 16 kinds of issue, lists them with counts, and shows or fixes the picked rows or all of them, each fix one undo step; Simplify Anchors (Keep Shape), Rejoin Path Pieces and Deep Ungroup open their options first | done | `addon.cleanup.*`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/cleanup.rs` and its tests; not an Illustrator feature, so it is not scored |
+| 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 an Illustrator feature, so it is not scored |
 
 ## Look and feel
@@ -371,6 +375,10 @@ separate. Scores and hours unchanged. [Behavior and command details](development
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-31 | minor | Path Precision Tools add-on: the Shared Edge Merge Tool and Keep Shared Points Together; scores and estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-10-31 | minor | Path Precision Tools add-on: live Path Effects in Effect › Path Effects; scores and estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-10-31 | minor | Path Precision Tools add-on: the Corner Tool (editable corners, panel section) and Slide Anchor Along Path; scores and estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-10-31 | minor | Artwork Cleanup add-on (a VectorCraft addition): its text tools in the panel and Object › Plug-ins › Artwork Cleanup; scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | Color Effects add-on: live Duotone (one to four inks, spot tones kept) and Print Ink Fixes; scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | Color Effects add-on: live Vector Halftone; scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | Path Precision Tools add-on: the Parametric Shape Tool (ten re-editable shape kinds), its panel and Convert to Parametric Shape; scores and estimates unchanged |