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@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ the two can still win that race.
 | `ui.render` | `{path?, scale?, artboard?, data?, traceViews?}` | render an artboard headlessly (PNG with the pixels of `app.export {format: "png", background: "white"}` at the same scale; `artboard`: its 0-based index, default the first; `traceViews: true`: Image Trace objects draw in their View, as on the canvas, instead of their tracing result): written to `path`, else (or with `data: true` as well) sent back as `pngBase64` |
 | `ui.render` | `{path?, scale?, artboard?, data?}` | render an artboard headlessly (PNG with the pixels of `app.export {format: "png", background: "white"}` at the same scale; `artboard`: its 0-based index, default the first): written to `path`, else (or with `data: true` as well) sent back as `pngBase64` |
 | `ui.resize` / `ui.focus` | | |
-| `app.open` / `app.save` / `app.export` / `app.quit` | `{path}` / `{path?}` / `{path?, format?, artboard?, range?, scale?, …}` | `app.open` reads every format `document.open` reads (see `document.formats`) and returns its result (`{index, title, format, warnings, …}`; `warnings` say what didn't come in as it was, such as an EPS shown as its preview image and why its PostScript couldn't be read), or null when a dialog asks first or a library loads. `app.export` encodes through the engine's `document.export` (same options; the document keeps its path) and writes `path` through the host; without `path` it returns `{dataBase64, format, bytes}`, as headless mode does. `app.quit`, `file.close` and `file.closeAll` first open a `saveChanges` dialog for each modified document (they return `{"pending": "saveChanges"}`): `ui.dialog.confirm` saves, `ui.dialog.set {field: "discard", value: true}` then confirm discards, `ui.dialog.cancel` cancels the whole close or quit |
+| `app.open` / `app.save` / `app.export` / `app.quit` | `{path}` / `{path?}` / `{path?, format?, artboard?, range?, scale?, …}` | `app.open` reads every format `document.open` reads (see `document.formats`) and returns its result (`{index, title, format, warnings, …}`; `warnings` say what didn't come in as it was, such as an EPS shown as its preview image and why its PostScript couldn't be read), or null when a dialog asks first or a library loads. `app.export` encodes through the engine's `document.export` (same options; the document keeps its path) and writes `path` through the host; without `path` it returns `{dataBase64, format, bytes}`, as headless mode does. It refuses a key that no format takes, and an unknown key inside a PDF or EPS option object, before it writes anything (`docs/mcp.md`, Parameter keys). `app.quit`, `file.close` and `file.closeAll` first open a `saveChanges` dialog for each modified document (they return `{"pending": "saveChanges"}`): `ui.dialog.confirm` saves, `ui.dialog.set {field: "discard", value: true}` then confirm discards, `ui.dialog.cancel` cancels the whole close or quit |
 | `app.export` with `useArtboards` | `{path, useArtboards: true, range? \| artboards?, …}` | Export As: PNG, JPEG and WebP write one file per chosen artboard (default all; SVG does so for a `range`), `<path stem>-<artboard>.<ext>`, and return `{path, files: [path…]}`; a PDF keeps them as pages of `path`. `useArtboards: false` covers the bounds of the visible art. The menu's Export As… is `file.exportAs`: the `exportAs` dialog (`format`, `useArtboards`, `all`, `range`), then a save dialog and the format's options: `pngOptions` / `jpgOptions` / `webpOptions`, `svgOptions`, or `savePdf` for a PDF with Use Artboards |
 | `ui.dialog.*` on `gradientStop` | `{field: "color" \| "opacity" \| "location", value}` | double-clicking a stop on the Gradient tool's annotator opens its popover (fields `index`, `x`, `y`, `tab`); set `color` (hex), `opacity` or `location` (percentages) and `ui.dialog.confirm` to apply them to the selected stop. `gradient.selectStop {index}` picks the stop the annotator, the panels and Delete/←/→ (`ui.key`) act on |
 | `engine.execute` `ui.savePdfDialog` | `{path?, preset?, range?, …document.exportPdf options}` | opens the Save PDF dialog (`file.export.pdf` with no params opens it too). Its fields are the `document.exportPdf` options: set `compatibility` with `ui.dialog.set {field: "compatibility", value: "1.5"}`, a whole section with `{field: "compression", value: {…}}`, the artboards with `__allArtboards: false` and `range`, the visible section with `__section` (General, Compression, Marks and Bleeds, Output, Advanced, Security, Summary). `ui.dialog.confirm` writes `path` (else asks for one), returns `{path, bytes, warnings}` and opens the file when `viewAfterSaving` is set |
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Gaps

-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-07 · **Change:** minor (Tools stays beside the canvas with left-side panels; new gradients follow document color mode; Selection QoL: marquee modes and visible feedback, #5313; Indian-language hyphenation review and license allowlist, #4947; opening a slow file shows a progress window, part of #5930; Hindi catalog and contributor loanword preferences; agent wording pass complete; wider native proofreading welcome; an image zoomed in on is separated, colorized or proofed only where it shows (#4155); scores and estimates unchanged; a document's first frame renders on the render worker, so opening a heavy file no longer freezes the window; scores and estimates unchanged; large images in CMYK documents are shrunk before they are separated into ink planes (#4155); scores and estimates unchanged; `.ai` paths with a Calligraphic brush open brushed, with the 6D Art Pen's channels, and Windows reads the pen's tilt and barrel rotation, #372; scores and estimates unchanged; Compound Shapes add-on, beyond Illustrator; scores and estimates unchanged; Contour add-on, beyond Illustrator; scores and estimates unchanged; a slow first frame is waited for instead of restarting without the graphics adapter, and the menu bar no longer waits for the installed fonts' scan; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-07 · **Change:** minor (G9: EPS gradients drawn as abutting strips import as one gradient, without seams; Tools stays beside the canvas with left-side panels; new gradients follow document color mode; Selection QoL: marquee modes and visible feedback, #5313; Indian-language hyphenation review and license allowlist, #4947; opening a slow file shows a progress window, part of #5930; Hindi catalog and contributor loanword preferences; agent wording pass complete; wider native proofreading welcome; an image zoomed in on is separated, colorized or proofed only where it shows (#4155); scores and estimates unchanged; a document's first frame renders on the render worker, so opening a heavy file no longer freezes the window; scores and estimates unchanged; large images in CMYK documents are shrunk before they are separated into ink planes (#4155); scores and estimates unchanged; `.ai` paths with a Calligraphic brush open brushed, with the 6D Art Pen's channels, and Windows reads the pen's tilt and barrel rotation, #372; scores and estimates unchanged; Compound Shapes add-on, beyond Illustrator; scores and estimates unchanged; Contour add-on, beyond Illustrator; scores and estimates unchanged; a slow first frame is waited for instead of restarting without the graphics adapter, and the menu bar no longer waits for the installed fonts' scan; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)

 ## Feature submission evidence

@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ Group Selection keeps an already selected component selected during a drag; a co

 Creating a gradient from solid or empty paint uses the document's color model for its default stops, including drawing its vector with the Gradient tool. Explicit `keepModel: true` retains RGB defaults, and existing gradients keep their own colors. Scores and estimates are unchanged.

+Window → Help Bar toggles the bottom tool-help strip independently of the status bar. Its visibility is saved with workspaces and UI preferences; Presentation Mode hides both bars. Scores and estimates are unchanged.
+
 The closed font-family fields in Character, Properties and Control now accept the
 mouse wheel for selected text (#5253). Each effective notch applies one family and
 adds one undo step; the list follows saved font filters, ignores search text, and
@@ -38,6 +40,7 @@ Artboard Options forwards the active Artboard tool's Scale Artwork with Artboard

 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-06 | minor | G9: EPS import reads gradients a page paints as abutting strips as one linear gradient each (no seams); an Illustrator EPS whose page drew them that way keeps its layers. Estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | Docked Tools stays between left-side panels and the canvas; redocking accepts canvas and window edges. Requested layout choice; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-02 | minor | Selection QoL: saved marquee modes, screen drag direction with a 3 px dead zone, and translated mode/E feedback (#5313); VectorCraft addition, scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-07 | minor | Indian-language hyphenation (#4947): eleven MIT-licensed pattern sets, with grapheme and shaping-cluster protection in both composers and existing paragraph limits. Assamese and Sanskrit are selectable; Sanskrit automatic patterns remain pending an allowlisted source. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
@@ -52,6 +55,7 @@ Artboard Options forwards the active Artboard tool's Scale Artwork with Artboard
 | 2026-11-05 | minor | G12: Hyphenation › Default Language sets the language of new type unless Document Setup chose one, stored as a tag; each run hyphenates in its own language, English only so far, so 2 Preferences options stay unused (#394) |
 | 2026-11-05 | minor | Compound Shapes add-on (beyond Illustrator): Object › Plug-ins › Compound Shapes lists Make, Release and Expand Compound Shape, and holds a setting, off by default, that makes the Pathfinder panel's Shape Mode buttons make a compound shape on a click and give the permanent result on Alt-click (the default is the reverse). Selected members of a compound shape always take the clicked mode. The setting is `window.pathfinder.compoundShapes`; no existing behavior changes while it is off. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | New gradients use CMYK default stops in CMYK documents, including Gradient tool creation. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-03 | minor | Help Bar has its own Window menu toggle and workspace visibility setting. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-02 | minor | Font-family fields step selected text with the mouse wheel (#5253); no scored gap or estimate reassessed. |
 | 2026-10-24 | minor | G12: General › Corner Radius is the Rounded Rectangle tool's radius, a change while the tool is active reaches it, and the radius ↑/↓ set while drawing (or a Tool Options value) becomes the preference, within 0–1296 pt (#394, `crates/engine/src/tests/constrain_tools.rs`); no entry closed, estimate 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. |
@@ -187,6 +191,7 @@ 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 (2026-11-06):** an EPS page that paints its gradients as rows of abutting one-colour strips imports them as linear gradients, so the seams between strips no longer show and an Illustrator EPS drawn that way keeps its layers instead of opening as its page. This narrows G9; scores and estimates unchanged.
 - **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 (the distance from the path under Align to Path is measured from the top of each character's em box, half the height of the top of its H or the bottom of its font's bounding box, and the fit under Gravity does not reproduce the file's layout); 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.
@@ -32,6 +32,20 @@ white beside a cream), at most six; scattered specks of a colour add none. Adobe
 its own palettes are chosen; this is VectorCraft's own method (see
 [image-trace-quality.md](image-trace-quality.md#auto-color-keeps-rare-colours)).

+**Keep Colors.** `"keepColors": ["#rrggbb", …]` in the params of `imageTrace.make` or
+`imageTrace.makeAndExpand` traces only the palette colors within about 30 levels of a listed color,
+the distance Ignore Color matches by, and leaves the other colors out. With Method Abutting, the paths
+of the kept colors are the same as in a trace of every color. With Method Overlapping, a kept color's
+paths reach under the kept colors above it in the stack and not under the colors left out, as with
+Ignore Color. An empty list traces every color, and a value that is not a six-digit hex color is
+refused. With Ignore Color as well, a kept color that Ignore Color matches is still left out. Flat
+Logo does not use `keepColors`: it traces the colors named in `logoColors`, or the colors it finds.
+The reply's `warnings` name each listed color that matches none of the colors the trace found. When
+nothing is traced because no listed color matches, because Ignore Color leaves out every area of the
+ones that match, or because the ones that match produce no paths, the first warning says so, and the
+status bar shows it. In Flat Logo mode the
+warning says that `keepColors` is not used.
+
 **Document Library color groups.** With Palette › Document Library and Library › Document Swatches,
 the panel's **Colors** menu traces with every document swatch (**All**) or with the colors of one
 color group from the Swatches panel, as the public
@@ -539,7 +539,8 @@ While a spiral is being dragged out with the Spiral tool, a `drag` event with `m
 spiral's inner end at the distance from the center it had on the first modified `drag` event, and the outer end follows
 the pointer. With `mods.alt` alone, dragging outward adds whole winds of four segments and dragging inward removes
 them. The fitted segment count rounds to the nearest whole wind from the count on the first Alt-only `drag`, within 2…1000.
-With `mods.cmd`, decay changes to fit within 5…99.99 %; it takes precedence when both modifiers are held. Switching
+Decay is the percentage retained after each full wind of four segments. With `mods.cmd`, decay changes to fit within
+5…99.99 %; it takes precedence when both modifiers are held. Switching
 back to Alt uses the current count as its new base while keeping the held inner end. The spiral drawn on release uses
 the new values, and they stay as the Spiral tool's `segments` and `decay` options for the next spiral:

@@ -570,16 +571,23 @@ stroke instead of the whole object: `run_command effect.apply {"effect": "path.o
 On a path directly inside a graph series, `appearance.setItem`, `appearance.addFill`, `appearance.addStroke`,
 `appearance.removeItem`, `appearance.moveItem`, `appearance.duplicateItem`, `appearance.clear`,
 `appearance.reduceToBasic`, `appearance.showAllHidden`, `appearance.transfer`, `appearance.copyFrom`, `paint.default`,
-`graphicStyle.apply` and `graphicStyle.redefine` (on the marks still linked to the style) store the paint, weight and
-opacity of the topmost visible fill and stroke on the graph. `graphicStyle.apply` with `add` stores only the kinds of row
-that are visible in the style. `paint.swap` stores the swapped paints and the stroke weight, keeps the stored opacity,
-and does not store a hidden topmost row that it swaps. The graph does not store the rest of a graphic style's look (more
-fill and stroke rows, effects, the object's opacity and blend mode, and the link to the style), and a mark loses it when
-the graph is drawn again. When the graph is drawn again, columns, bars, wedges, areas, markers and legend swatches take
-the stored fill and stroke. A thin line takes the stored stroke and has no fill. A Filled Lines band takes the stored
-fill, or the stored stroke when no fill is stored and that stroke has paint, and has a 0.25 pt black outline, so these
-commands do not store a stroke paint or weight for a series that draws a band. Except for `paint.swap`, they still store
-a stroke opacity set on a band, and the band's outline takes it. Graph designs keep their own paint. A row that had no
+`graphicStyle.apply` and `graphicStyle.redefine` (on the marks still linked to the style) store the paint, weight,
+opacity and blend mode of the topmost visible fill and stroke on the graph. `graphicStyle.apply` with `add` stores only
+the kinds of row that are visible in the style. `paint.swap` stores the swapped paints and the stroke weight, keeps the
+stored opacity and blend mode, and does not store a hidden topmost row that it swaps. `transparency.set` and
+`object.setProps` with an opacity or blend mode for the object, `appearance.clear`, `appearance.transfer`,
+`appearance.copyFrom` with Transparency picked up, `graphicStyle.apply` without `add` and `graphicStyle.redefine` store
+the object's opacity and blend mode on the graph, and the other commands above store them when they change them on a
+mark. The graph stores an opacity and blend mode as a pair, taken from the mark the command edited: a command that sets
+only the opacity of one mark's object or row also stores that mark's blend mode in place of the one another mark
+stored. Every path directly in the series takes the stored values when the graph is drawn again. The graph does not
+store the rest of a graphic style's look (more fill and stroke rows, effects, and the link to the style), and a mark
+loses it when the graph is drawn again. When the graph is drawn again, columns, bars, wedges, areas, markers and legend
+swatches take the stored fill and stroke. A thin line takes the stored stroke and has no fill. A Filled Lines band takes
+the stored fill, or the stored stroke when no fill is stored and that stroke has paint, and has a 0.25 pt black
+outline, so these commands do not store a stroke paint or weight for a series that draws a band. Except for
+`paint.swap`, they still store a stroke opacity and blend mode set on a band, and the band's outline takes them. Graph
+designs keep their own paint. A row that had no
 paint before the command and has none after it does not change what the graph stores. `paint.setFill`,
 `paint.setStroke`, `paint.none` and the commands that apply one paint kind to the other store the topmost row of the kind
 even when it is hidden, and store a stroke set on a band. `stroke.set`, `paint.editGradient` and the recolor commands do
@@ -1155,8 +1163,8 @@ refused before the command runs:
 → invalid parameters for `file.new`: unknown parameter `widht`; did you mean `width`?
 ```

-Only the top level is checked: the keys of an object inside a value (`artboardLayout: {…}`) are the command's to
-read. The one exception is an effect's `params`: `effect.apply` (and `appearance.addEffect`) and `effect.setParams`
+Only the top level is checked, except for the export commands below: the keys of an object inside a value
+(`artboardLayout: {…}`) are the command's to read. Another exception is an effect's `params`: `effect.apply` (and `appearance.addEffect`) and `effect.setParams`
 check them against the effect's own entry in `effect.list`, its `defaults` and the keys its `params` text names. A key
 the effect doesn't take, or a value of another type than its default (a string for a number, a number for a switch),
 is refused the same way:
@@ -1194,7 +1202,7 @@ A number outside the range the effect documents is still stored as given and cla
 plug-in effect's parameters are resolved against its manifest instead. `effect.setParams` as a step of
 `command.batch` is checked when the step runs, against the effects the steps before it added, and the batch then
 fails with no change. A description with a `…` entry takes more keys than it lists: those of the command it names
-(`…settings as file.new`), or any key when it names none, as `document.export` and `document.save` do for the options
+(`…settings as file.new`), or, except for the export commands below, any key when it names none, as `document.save` does for the options
 of the format they write (one object can carry several formats' options). A command that takes its own reply back
 (`document.setup`, `text.areaOptions`) says so the same way.

@@ -1203,6 +1211,21 @@ key, the Batch dialog or `ui.action.play`), a key a command no longer reads, rec
 and the action still plays. `Session::replay` plays a journal the same way. The command still refuses an effect
 `color` or `channel` it can't read.

+The export commands limit those keys. `document.export`, `document.exportSelection`, `document.serialize`, `app.export`
+and `file.export` refuse a key that no format takes, and ignore a key that only another format takes
+(`{"format": "pdf", "quality": 80}` writes the PDF). `document.exportPdf`, `document.pdfSettings` and `pdf.preset.save`
+refuse a key that PDF doesn't take, `document.exportEps` one that EPS doesn't take and `document.exportDxf` one that DXF
+doesn't take. Each of them refuses an unknown key inside an option object it takes (`marks`, `bleed`, `compression`,
+`output`, `advanced`, `security`, `flattener`), naming its path:
+
+```json
+{"id": "document.export", "params": {"format": "pdf", "marks": {"useDocumentBleed": true}}}
+→ invalid parameters for `document.export`: unknown parameter `marks.useDocumentBleed`; `marks` takes: …
+```
+
+A saved PDF preset that holds a key that is no longer read keeps loading. `document.save`, `file.saveAs`, `file.saveCopy`
+and `document.exportForScreens` don't apply this check.
+
 An unknown command id is matched the same way as an unknown parameter key: the error names the nearest command id when
 one is near, ignoring case. A step of `command.batch` or `action.batch` gets the same suggestion in its step error:

@@ -1969,7 +1992,20 @@ already walks Image Trace. Short agent entry points:
  Export end the file name of a step with `format` in that `format`, in lower case and without a leading dot, when it
  is one of the format's extensions (`.svg` and `SVG` give `.svg`, `.JPEG` gives `.jpeg`), and otherwise in the
  format's first extension (`png8` gives `.png`, `template` gives `.vctemplate`). A step without `format` keeps the
-  source file's extension (`.vectorcraft` over data sets).
+  source file's extension (`.vectorcraft` over data sets). Override Export gives a `document.exportForScreens` or
+  `assets.export` step the `folder` `destinationFolder/<stem>`, in place of the step's own folder or an export
+  preset's: one folder for each source file, named after the file without its extension, or for each data set,
+  named as its files are (`datasetFileNaming`). Both names drop trailing periods and spaces (`a..svg` gives `a`). The export names
+  the files in it as it does outside Batch. When two source files have the same name without the extension
+  (`a.svg` and `sub/a.svg`, `a.svg` and `a.ai`, or `a.svg` and `a..svg`), the folder destination and the overrides
+  add `-2`, `-3`… to the name for each later file (compared without case), as for data sets. They also add it when a
+  later file's folder or file would have the name of a file or folder an earlier one wrote: with the folder
+  destination, `a.svg` is saved as `a.svg`, so the Export for Screens folder of `a.svg.svg` is `a.svg-2`. When
+  `destinationFolder` holds source files, only a file's own output takes its name, and no export folder takes the
+  name of a subfolder that holds source files: with `a..svg` and `a.svg` saved in place, `a..svg` is saved as
+  `a-2.svg` and `a.svg` over itself. A file's artboard files count as its files, as for data sets: with
+  `a.vectorcraft` and `a-Artboard-1.vectorcraft` saved in place with `separateArtboards`, `a.vectorcraft` is saved
+  as `a-2`.
 - Action set files: `ui.actionSet.save {set?: index, id?, path?}` writes the Actions panel's set at `set` (0 is the
  top set; by default the current set) with its actions to an action set file at `path`, else a picked file named
  after the set (the web downloads it), and returns `{path}`. `id` holds the panel's own set id, which the panel menu
@@ -2092,6 +2128,8 @@ already walks Image Trace. Short agent entry points:
  black ring around a white disc around a black dot, black gets two groups. `layer.releaseToLayers` on the expanded group then
  gives each group a sublayer. A trace made with `autoGrouping` is refused. Expanding by color also refuses a trace
  with a live Pathfinder effect.
+  With `keepColors` in `params`, the reply's `warnings` name each listed color that no traced color matches, and say
+  when nothing was traced.
  `imageTrace.presets.save {name?, newName?, preset?, enhanced?, params?}` saves tracing settings as a preset kept with
  the preferences: `params` over `preset`'s (default: the saved preset `name`, else Default), checked as `imageTrace.make`
  checks them; without `name` it is a new "Tracing Preset N", and `newName` renames a saved preset (the reply's
@@ -2437,7 +2475,10 @@ counts as a value left out except for `recolor.apply`'s `model` and a `map` row'

 Groups and layers carry fills, strokes and effects of their own, as in the reference app: their fills and strokes
 paint every member's geometry, and their effects apply to the members as one piece (one combined drop shadow; a
-Transform or Warp moves or bends the whole group). Their Contents row (type: Characters) is a slot in the stack:
+Transform or Warp moves or bends the whole group). Under a group's Warp, each placed gradient moves and scales from
+bounds before the warp to bounds after it: a path's or compound path's gradients use its own bounds, a nested group's
+own fills and strokes use the nested group's bounds, and the group's own fills and strokes use the group's bounds; a
+stroke uses those bounds inflated by the stroke. Their Contents row (type: Characters) is a slot in the stack:
 fills and strokes above it paint over the members (characters), those below under them; new items go above it
 (on an image, below it).
 `appearance.moveItem {"from": "contents", "to": n}` puts the row above the bottom `n` items, and an item move takes
@@ -2566,7 +2607,9 @@ what dragging a symbol out of the library panel onto the canvas does.
 `symbol.saveLibrary {path?, names?, name?, user?}` writes the document's symbols as a symbol library: a `.vectorcraft`
 document holding only them and what they use; without `path` it returns `{dataBase64}`, and `user: true` saves into
 the user library folder (category `user`, User Defined). `symbol.loadLibrary {path? | data? | dataBase64?, name?}`
-loads the symbols of any document VectorCraft opens as a library to add from; a file it can't read is an error.
+loads the symbols of any document VectorCraft opens as a library to add from (a `.ai` or EPS whose editing data holds
+symbols and no layers gives the symbols it defines, in the order of its symbol list); a file it can't read is an
+error.

 ## Brush libraries

@@ -4400,6 +4443,13 @@ When a call to `artboard.duplicate`, `artboard.copy`, `artboard.cut`, `artboard.
 names no artboard, its journal entry records the artboards it acted on as `selectedArtboards`. A replay of the journal
 acts on those artboards, and a recorded action leaves the value out and acts on the selection when it plays.

+`edit.copy` and `edit.cut` with the Artboard tool chosen record the same `selectedArtboards`, and `art` beside it.
+`edit.copy {selectedArtboards: [n…], art?}` and `edit.cut {selectedArtboards: [n…], art?}` run `artboard.copy` and
+`artboard.cut` on those artboards whichever tool is chosen and whatever is selected, so a replay of the journal in a new
+session takes the same artboards. A value of `selectedArtboards` that names no artboard fails as `indices` does, and `art`
+that is not true or false fails. A recorded action leaves both values out: when it plays, `edit.copy` and `edit.cut` take
+artboards when the Artboard tool is chosen then, and the selection otherwise.
+
 `artboard.selectAll {}` chooses the Artboard tool when another tool is in use and selects every artboard. The active
 artboard stays active, the art's selection stays as it is, and no undo step is recorded → `{selected: [index…]}`, the
 active artboard first.
@@ -6125,6 +6175,38 @@ Setting superscript on subscript characters replaces the subscript, and setting
 replaces the superscript. When `document.setup {superscript, subscript, smallCapsSize}` changes the proportions, the
 characters take the new ones. One undo step.
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"text.setFormat","params":{"position":"superscript","smallCaps":false}}}
+
+## Anti-aliasing method
+
+`text.setFormat {antiAlias: "none"|"sharp"|"crisp"|"strong"}` (the selected type, or `ids`) sets the Character panel's
+Anti-aliasing Method, which decides how the edges of the characters are drawn as pixels: on the canvas, in raster exports
+(Export As PNG, JPEG and the other raster formats, Export for Screens, Save for Web) and when Object › Rasterize or
+Effect › Rasterize draws the type. The method belongs to the whole type object, and each frame of a thread keeps its
+own method: a `start`/`end` range sets the whole frame, and threading frames or opening a file keeps each frame's
+method. VectorCraft defines what each method does, on the pixels of the picture being drawn (the canvas at its zoom,
+an export at its resolution):
+
+- `sharp`, the default, draws each edge pixel with the share of it the type covers, as before.
+- `none` draws hard edges: a pixel takes the type's color where the type covers at least half of it, and nothing
+  elsewhere.
+- `crisp` draws a pixel the type covers by a share c at `2c - 0.5`, kept between 0 and 1, so the edges are about half as
+  wide.
+- `strong` draws a pixel the type covers by a share c at `2c`, at most 1, so the type looks heavier.
+
+The opacity of the type's paints stays as it is inside the characters. Type is drawn as Sharp draws it when it holds
+inline graphics or color glyphs (bitmap or COLR), when its own fills or strokes in the Appearance panel include a brush
+stroke or a blend mode other than Normal, when it overprints while Overprint Preview is on, and on the canvas while it
+shows a substitution highlight.
+With Preferences › General › Anti-aliased Artwork off, the canvas draws all its art with hard edges, type included, and
+so does an export whose own Anti-aliasing option is None. SVG, PDF and EPS export draw the type unchanged. The native
+document such a file carries (an EPS VectorCraft wrote, or an SVG or PDF saved with Preserve Editing) keeps each frame's
+method, and opening the file restores it.
+Reset Panel sets Sharp. Saved as `antiAlias` only when not `sharp`. One undo step.
+
+```json
+{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"text.setFormat","params":{"antiAlias":"crisp"}}}
+```
+
 ## Character Alignment

 `text.setFormat {charAlign}` (the selected type, or `ids`) and `text.setRangeStyle {id, start, end, charAlign}` (a range)
@@ -6495,7 +6577,8 @@ under its id. One that lists `settings` or `cache` keeps settings or a cache of
 (VectorCraft's own caps: 256 settings and 1 MiB, 512 MiB of cache): `plugin.list` and `plugin.info` give the cache's
 size as `cacheBytes`, `plugin.clearCache {id?}` empties the cache of one plug-in or of all of them and returns
 `{cleared: [id], bytesFreed}`, replacing a plug-in keeps both, and `plugin.remove` deletes both (also for an id that
-isn't installed but still has them). A module with other bytes than the plug-in installed with its id, or, with none
+isn't installed but still has them). Files it can't delete stay in the plug-in's folder renamed with `.removed`, where
+no plug-in reaches them, until a plug-in with that id is removed again ([plugins.md](plugins.md#settings-and-cache)). A module with other bytes than the plug-in installed with its id, or, with none
 installed, one whose id has settings or a cache in the
 `Plug-ins` folder (`needsReplace: true` in its `plugin.inspect` entry), installs only with `replace: true`: ask the
 user first, since it takes that plug-in's place and gets its settings and cache. Without it, `plugin.install` returns
@@ -6507,6 +6590,13 @@ anything else, or imports one of these without `api` 2 and the import's permissi
 permission names, and a `hash` that is not the module's SHA-256. `prefs.set` returns an error and
 changes nothing when a new `pluginsFolder` is missing, is not a folder or can't be listed. It does not check an empty
 value or the folder the preference already holds, and the web build does not check folders.
+A filter or live effect may declare commands of its own ([plugins.md](plugins.md#commands)): each is the command
+`plugin.<id>.<command>` while the plug-in is installed, listed by `command_list` and in its `plugin.list` entry
+(`commands: [{id, command, label, params, paramsSchema}]`). Run it with `{ids?, params?}` (its parameters may also
+be top-level keys): the parameters are checked before the plug-in runs, a run is one undo step named after the
+command, and a run that traps or runs out of its instruction budget returns an error that starts with the plug-in's
+name and the command's label and leaves the document and the undo history as they were. For `plugin.run` and plug-in
+commands, `ids` left out or null means the selection, and an `ids` that is not a list of object ids is an error.

 Safe Mode starts VectorCraft without plug-ins: `vectorcraft --safe-mode`, `vectorcraft-cli --safe-mode <subcommand>`, or
 the choice the desktop app offers when the last launch stopped while a plug-in was loading (Disable and Continue, Start
@@ -6543,6 +6633,7 @@ Disable and Continue can't save the plug-in it turns off, this launch skips it a
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"plugin.install","params":{"path":"/plugins/desaturate.wasm"}}}
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"plugin.run","params":{"id":"org.vectorcraft.example.desaturate","params":{"amount":60}}}}
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"effect.apply","params":{"effect":"plugin.org.example.wobble","params":{"size":4}}}}
+{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"plugin.org.example.tidy.grow","params":{"by":3}}}
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"plugin.install","params":{"path":"/plugins/tiles-2.wasm","replace":true}}}
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"plugin.clearCache","params":{"id":"org.example.tiles"}}}
 ```
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ This page is the contract for plug-in authors and the reference for the host (`c

 | Command | Params | What it does |
 |---|---|---|
-| `plugin.list` | `{}` | `{"plugins": [{id, name, version, kind, author, description, params, paramsSchema, effect?, format?, extensions?, budget?, size, source, api, permissions, hash, cacheBytes}], "folder": report}` (`api` is the manifest's [plug-in API level](#permissions); `budget: "heavy"` for a [heavy filter](#heavy-filters); `permissions` lists what it [may do](#permissions), `hash` is the module's SHA-256; `cacheBytes` is the size of its [cache](#settings-and-cache)) |
+| `plugin.list` | `{}` | `{"plugins": [{id, name, version, kind, author, description, params, paramsSchema, effect?, format?, extensions?, budget?, commands?, size, source, api, permissions, hash, cacheBytes}], "folder": report}` (`api` is the manifest's [plug-in API level](#permissions); `budget: "heavy"` for a [heavy filter](#heavy-filters); `commands` lists its [commands](#commands); `permissions` lists what it [may do](#permissions), `hash` is the module's SHA-256; `cacheBytes` is the size of its [cache](#settings-and-cache)) |
 | `plugin.info` | `{"id"}` | One plug-in: the `plugin.list` entry plus `manifest`, `defaults` and `lastError` (a live effect's last failure). |
-| `plugin.run` | `{"id", "params"?: {…}, "ids"?: [...]}` (plug-in params may also be top-level keys) | Runs an object filter on the selection (or `ids`). One undo step; the result is selected, except the objects it locked or made guides. |
+| `plugin.run` | `{"id", "params"?: {…}, "ids"?: [...]}` (plug-in params may also be top-level keys) | Runs an object filter on the selection (or `ids`; an `ids` that is not a list of object ids is an error). One undo step; the result is selected, except the objects it locked or made guides. |
 | `plugin.install` | `{"path": "/x/y.wasm"}` (desktop) or `{"dataBase64": "…", "name"?}`, `"replace"?: bool`, `"allowHeavy": bool = false`, `"grant"?: [permission]`, `"hash"?: "sha256 hex"` | Validates and installs a module; returns its `plugin.list` entry. The desktop app and `vectorcraft-cli` keep it in the `Plug-ins` folder next to the preferences, so it is installed again after a restart (#2541). A module with other bytes than the plug-in installed with its id, or, with none installed, one whose id has [settings and a cache](#settings-and-cache) in the `Plug-ins` folder, installs only with `replace: true`, once the user agreed; it takes that plug-in's place and gets its settings and cache. The same module installs again without `replace`, and `replace: false` refuses a module whose id is installed. A [heavy filter](#heavy-filters) installs only with `allowHeavy: true`, once the user agreed. A plug-in whose manifest lists [permissions](#permissions) installs only when `grant` lists every one of them, once the user agreed. With `hash`, a module whose SHA-256 differs is refused. |
 | `plugin.inspect` | as `plugin.install`: `{"path"}` or `{"dataBase64", "name"?}` | Validates a module without installing it; returns the `plugin.list` entry it would have, plus `needsApproval` (true when `plugin.install` needs `grant`) and `needsReplace` (true when `plugin.install` needs `replace: true`). |
 | `plugin.remove` | `{"id"}` | Uninstalls, and deletes it from the `Plug-ins` folder with its [settings and cache](#settings-and-cache). |
@@ -53,6 +53,31 @@ a plug-in too (on the web this is how plug-ins get in). A heavy filter asks befo
 background ([below](#heavy-filters)). A plug-in that lists permissions asks for them before it is installed
 ([below](#permissions)).

+### Commands
+
+A filter or a live effect may declare commands of its own in its manifest (`commands`, [below](#manifest)). Each
+becomes the command `plugin.<id>.<command>` while the plug-in is installed, and is gone once the plug-in is removed or
+replaced by a module without it.
+
+- **Menus.** A plug-in with commands is a submenu of **Object › Plug-ins** (a live effect: **Effect › Plug-ins**)
+  named after the plug-in. The submenu holds the plug-in's own item, then its commands. A command with parameters has
+  an ellipsis and opens a dialog for them, with a live preview, as a filter's own item does. A manifest cannot put a
+  command in another menu: a `menu` key in a command is ignored.
+- **Keyboard Shortcuts.** Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts lists each command under its submenu, and the user can give it a
+  shortcut. A manifest cannot give a command a shortcut.
+- **Actions and agents.** A command run is recorded in an action like any other command and plays back with its
+  parameters. `run`, MCP and `command.batch` call it as `plugin.<id>.<command>` with `{"ids"?: [...], "params"?: {…}}`
+  (its parameters may also be top-level keys). MCP's `command_list` and `list_commands` list it, and `plugin.list`
+  lists a plug-in's commands as `commands: [{id, command, label, params, paramsSchema}]`.
+- **Runs.** The parameters are checked against the command's declarations before the plug-in runs. The plug-in runs
+  through `vc_run` on the selection (or `ids`) as a filter run does, with `_context.mode` `"command"` and
+  `_context.command` set to the command's id ([Parameters](#parameters)), under the plug-in's
+  [permissions](#permissions): a live effect with commands may also hold `doc.write` and `state`, which only its
+  commands use. `ids` left out or null means the selection; an `ids` that is not a list of object ids is an error. One run
+  is one undo step named after the command. A run that traps, runs out of its instruction budget or fails leaves the
+  document and the undo history as they were, and the error starts with the plug-in's name and the command's label
+  (`“Cmd Test” › Grow: …`).
+
 **Preference folder.** Edit › Preferences › Plug-ins & Scratch Disks › *Additional Plug-ins Folder*: when set, every
 `*.wasm` in that folder (not recursive) is installed at startup and whenever the preference changes (desktop builds;
 the web build installs from bytes). On the desktop, Choose… beside the field picks the folder; the dialog refuses a
@@ -114,8 +139,8 @@ capability model proposed for PhotoCraft plug-ins
 | Permission | Kinds | What it allows |
 |---|---|---|
 | `doc.read` | all | Read the objects it is given. |
-| `doc.write` | filter | Change, add and delete objects in the document. |
-| `state` | filter | Keep data of its own with the document (`documentData`). |
+| `doc.write` | filter, effect with `commands` | Change, add and delete objects in the document. |
+| `state` | filter, effect with `commands` | Keep data of its own with the document (`documentData`). |
 | `effect.render` | effect | Change how the objects its effect is applied to are drawn. |
 | `export.write` | exporter | Write the document as a file in its own format. |
 | `progress` | all | Show its progress, see Cancel and write log lines through the [host imports](#host-imports-api-level-2). Needs `api` 2. |
@@ -123,10 +148,12 @@ capability model proposed for PhotoCraft plug-ins
 | `cache` | all | Keep a cache of its own, which the user can clear ([settings and cache](#settings-and-cache)). Needs `api` 2. |

 - A manifest without `permissions` gets the ones its kind implies, as plug-ins did before the key existed: a filter
-  `doc.read`, `doc.write` and `state`; an effect `doc.read` and `effect.render`; an exporter `doc.read` and
-  `export.write`. Such a plug-in installs without a prompt. This rule is VectorCraft's own. A filter whose list is
-  empty may do none of these, and also installs without a prompt.
- An effect or an exporter that lists permissions lists both of its implied ones. A filter may list any of its three.
+  `doc.read`, `doc.write` and `state`; an effect `doc.read` and `effect.render`, and also `doc.write` and `state`
+  when it declares [commands](#commands); an exporter `doc.read` and `export.write`. Such a plug-in installs without
+  a prompt. This rule is VectorCraft's own. A filter whose list is empty may do none of these, and also installs
+  without a prompt.
+- An effect or an exporter that lists permissions lists `doc.read` and its own (`effect.render`, `export.write`). An
+  effect with commands may add `doc.write` and `state`, which only its commands use. A filter may list any of its three.
  Any kind may add `progress`, `settings` and `cache`, which no kind implies. An unknown name, a name listed twice, a
  name that doesn't apply to the kind, more than 16 names, `progress`, `settings` or `cache` with an `api` below 2, or
  one of the names kept for a later plug-in API
@@ -155,7 +182,7 @@ capability model proposed for PhotoCraft plug-ins
  in it count for `plugin.install`, `plugin.inspect`, `plugin.reload` and the Additional Plug-ins Folder. At startup,
  a stored plug-in whose permissions are not granted to that module is skipped. The Additional Plug-ins Folder and `plugin.reload`
  install only plug-ins whose permissions were granted, and report the others.
- The host enforces the grant on a filter run: without `doc.read` the filter is given no objects; without `state` its
+- The host enforces the grant on a filter run and a command run: without `doc.read` the filter is given no objects; without `state` its
  `documentData` is `null` and an output that sets it is refused; without `doc.write` an output that changes the
  document is refused. A refused output leaves the document as it was.
 - `api` is the plug-in API level the manifest is written for: `1` (the default) or `2`, which adds the [host
@@ -303,6 +330,11 @@ pass the 1 GiB returns `-7` before it reads or writes anything.
 - `extensions` (exporters only, and required): 1–8 file extensions, lower-case letters and digits without the dot
  (`["plt"]`); the first is the one Export As gives the file. A built-in format keeps an extension both list (`svg`):
  `document.export` then writes the exporter's format only when asked for by its format id.
+- `commands` (filters and live effects; not heavy filters): up to 32 commands of the plug-in's own
+  ([Commands](#commands)), each `{"id": "grow", "label": "Grow", "params"?: {…}}`. An `id` is 1–32 characters from
+  `a-z 0-9 _` that starts with a letter, and appears once. A `label` is 1–64 printable characters; menus show it with
+  control and bidirectional characters escaped. `params` are declared as the plug-in's own `params` are. A malformed
+  entry is refused when the module is installed, and the error names the command by its id (or its place, `[0]`).
 - `params`: in dialog order. Names are `[A-Za-z0-9_]`, not starting with `_`, and not `id`, `ids`, `params` or
  `preview`. The host validates the user's values before calling: missing values take the default, numbers are
  clamped to `min..max` (ints rounded), a wrong type or an unknown choice is an error. Numeric defaults
@@ -395,7 +427,8 @@ type and `blob` but without their data, which follows the JSON in a saved file;
 "_context": {"mode": "filter", "bounds": [10, 0, 75, 60], "artboard": [0, 0, 612, 792], "documentData": {"pens": 4}}}
 ```

-`mode` is `"filter"`, `"effect"` or `"export"`; `bounds` the selection's geometric bounds (a live effect: the reference
+`mode` is `"filter"`, `"effect"`, `"export"` or `"command"` (a [command](#commands) run, whose `command` is the
+command's id); `bounds` the selection's geometric bounds (a live effect: the reference
 box of the effect, the object's bounds or those of the previous effect's result); `artboard` (filters) the artboard
 under the selection's centre, else the first; `documentData` (filters) what the plug-in last kept with the document
 (`null` until it keeps something; see Output). A live effect's `item` says where it sits: `"object"` (one of the
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 # Roadmap: milestones and what's next

-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-08 · **Change:** minor (Character Styles panel: a double-click on a style's row opens its Character Style Options; the dialog keeps a fixed width and scrolls its sections, so its buttons stay on screen) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-09 · **Change:** minor (numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking keyboard focus, #5949) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)

 ## Feature submission evidence

+Numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking keyboard focus (#5949). Arrow keys still require focus; modifiers, units, limits, mixed values and existing rounding stay in the shared stepping path. Headless regressions in `tests/numfields.rs` cover hovered unfocused fields, focused fields, trackpad accumulation and panel scroll exclusion. Scores and estimates unchanged.
+
 Raster rendering fits and preflattens curved stroke outlines more tightly only below four times the raster tolerance, retaining thin-band coverage without changing stroke weight or vector export geometry. Current cached character/object outlines, cropped long strokes, gradient clips and effect rasters share the helper; cropped-region reuse and guarded flattening remain. The unchanged `fractional_curved_strokes_retain_coverage_between_notches` regression covers fractional weights, rotation, phase, opacity and f32-rounded endpoints. This is a quality/cost tradeoff, not a speed claim. Scores and estimates unchanged.

 **PR #3273 revision — 2026-11-04:** Thin curved stroke coverage ported to the current raster-only cache, cropped-long-stroke and effect paths with guarded flattening; vector export geometry unchanged. Scores and estimates unchanged.
@@ -14,6 +16,8 @@ Group Selection keeps an already selected component selected during a drag; a co

 Creating a gradient from solid or empty paint uses the document's color model for its default stops, including drawing its vector with the Gradient tool. Explicit `keepModel: true` retains RGB defaults, and existing gradients keep their own colors. Scores and estimates are unchanged.

+Window → Help Bar toggles the bottom tool-help strip independently of the status bar. Its visibility is saved with workspaces and UI preferences; Presentation Mode hides both bars. Scores and estimates are unchanged.
+
 **Feature evidence last updated:** 2026-11-03.

 M1 selection: Enclosing Lasso selects whole objects enclosed by a freehand loop. It is an add-on
@@ -51,6 +55,7 @@ M7 type: Touch Type moves a right-to-left character along its line and up from i
 | 2026-11-04 | minor | New Document: the units chosen in Preset Details belong to the chosen preset; Recent and Saved cards keep the units their document or preset was made in, and the built-in tabs still follow the chosen units (#2078). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | M1: Enclosing Lasso provides whole-object enclosure selection as an add-on with no default shortcut or Basic toolbar slot; estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | New gradients use CMYK default stops in CMYK documents, including Gradient tool creation. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-03 | minor | Help Bar has its own Window menu toggle and workspace visibility setting. 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. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | M7: Find Font replacement sources Document, Recent and System are shipped (#5217); estimates unchanged. |
@@ -146,7 +151,7 @@ native wording review, layout checks and a web Devanagari font remain. [Notes](l
 | M12 | Advanced color & art (CMYK/ICC, separations, Gradient Mesh, Live Paint, Image Trace, Graphs) | 🟡 Gradient Mesh, Live Paint, Image Trace (junction-returning pieces retain their positioned boundaries; a simpler contour walk with identical output; an edge's sub-pixel shift is the same from either side; notches read only their own piece; collapsed loops keep few segments; large images trace with a warning; Auto Color keeps rare distinct colours; quick presets trace at once and the Image Trace button opens the adjustment controls; Properties reopens them; tiny fitted contours retain islands and holes; Create Strokes: exact crop EDT, Guo–Hall thinning and maximal-disc graph simplification; 15 presets, the 14 documented ones each with an enhanced version; Ignore Color, Shapes, Auto Grouping and Gradients options; measured in `image-trace-quality.md`; closed outlines retain their interior after straightening; the Flat Logo mode places edges to a fraction of a pixel, restores sharp corners, snaps lines and circles, and refuses gradients; live trace result bounds and selection highlights exclude the retained bitmap except in source-image views), Recolor Artwork, colour management (ICC, soft proofing, separations preview), Graphs (all 9 tools, Graph Data/Type, group-selected series colours persist through regenerate/save/open) done; Graph Design and Marker designs, Transpose and Switch x/y, `\|` label line breaks, the pie options, drop shadows, the legend across the top, overlapping widths, First Row/Column in Front, filled lines, kept label formatting and the Graph Data worksheet done; graph Column designs pending | 6–10 |
 | M13 | Automation (Actions ✅ record/playback, persisted; variables, scripting, batch) | 🟡 MCP `add_text` exposes existing vertical point, area and path type; broader scripting and batch work remains | 18–27 |
 | M13 | Automation (Actions ✅ record/playback, persisted; variables, scripting, batch) | 🟡 | 18–27 |
-| M14 | 1.0 polish (preferences, shortcut editor, workspaces, accessibility, packaging for all OSes) (status messages and readouts use stable responsive allocations sized for localized labels and ordinary coordinates; sample widths cached by language/unit/DPI; regression-tested and contributor-confirmed 2026-10-19; estimates unchanged) | 🟡 Dock groups collapse to their tabs by a double-click on a tab (UI.8); Preferences › General › Constrain Angle acts for the arrow keys, Shift drags and new objects (#394, 2026-10-21); numeric-field pointer selection and focus regression-tested (#1326, in part; short movements still select all); RPM runtime capabilities and glibc floor checked (#1275; real-distro install/start-up pending), Eyedropper cursor with precise-setting checks (#1269), Preferences, shortcut editor (chords with Shift and a punctuation key fire as typed; other apps' text shortcut sets imported), workspaces (each keeps its layout changes until Reset <name>, UI.7), panels docked by dragging into any dock group (as tabs or a top/bottom split) or into the icon column, and closed from a dock tab's context menu (UI.6), a custom title bar on Windows/Linux with a Home button, content-sized dialogs, menus that scroll when longer than the window and macOS native menu dismissal done (M14.8), and native macOS save sheets with a Format menu (#866); titled PDF exports set `DisplayDocTitle` for viewers and accessibility checkers (#3646); accessibility and broader Windows/Linux packaging/QA pending | 18–28 |
+| M14 | 1.0 polish (preferences, shortcut editor, workspaces, accessibility, packaging for all OSes) (status messages and readouts use stable responsive allocations sized for localized labels and ordinary coordinates; sample widths cached by language/unit/DPI; regression-tested and contributor-confirmed 2026-10-19; estimates unchanged) | 🟡 Dock groups collapse to their tabs by a double-click on a tab (UI.8); Preferences › General › Constrain Angle acts for the arrow keys, Shift drags and new objects (#394, 2026-10-21); numeric-field pointer selection and focus regression-tested (#1326, in part; short movements still select all); RPM runtime capabilities and glibc floor checked (#1275; real-distro install/start-up pending), Eyedropper cursor with precise-setting checks (#1269), Preferences, shortcut editor (chords with Shift and a punctuation key fire as typed; other apps' text shortcut sets imported), workspaces (each keeps its layout changes until Reset <name>, UI.7), Window › Help Bar shown or hidden apart from the status bar and kept in saved workspaces, panels docked by dragging into any dock group (as tabs or a top/bottom split) or into the icon column, and closed from a dock tab's context menu (UI.6), a custom title bar on Windows/Linux with a Home button, content-sized dialogs, menus that scroll when longer than the window and macOS native menu dismissal done (M14.8), and native macOS save sheets with a Format menu (#866); titled PDF exports set `DisplayDocTitle` for viewers and accessibility checkers (#3646); accessibility and broader Windows/Linux packaging/QA pending | 18–28 |
 | — | Interaction fidelity pass (every tool's modifiers, Properties panel per context, isolation, nuance; width-point creation and adjoining adjustment regression-tested; dialog layout reviewed) | ⬜ (new ruler-guide Alt orientation implemented; existing-guide Escape cancellation regression-tested; broader pass remains) | 60–90 |
 | — | Hardening at scale (big-file corpus, fuzzing, cross-platform + browser QA) | 🟡 PngSuite integrity and bounded fetching verified (#1729); real-world corpus/manual QA remain | 50–80 |
 | M14 follow-up | Color Picker layout (#2008) | ✅ Compact controls, centered header, stacked actions, aligned fields and screen sampling; narrow windows scroll vertically | Included above |
@@ -183,6 +188,7 @@ separate. Scores and hours unchanged. [Behavior and command details](development

 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-09 | minor | Numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking focus; keyboard focus and existing rounding rules remain (#5949). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-07 | minor | M2: with the Pen or Curvature tool, Edit › Copy and Cut take the anchors and segments a Cmd/Ctrl-lent Direct Selection picked, not the whole path (#6123); estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | M2: a shape just drawn moves by its centre point (Show Center) and turns from the rotate zone just outside a bounding-box corner with its tool still active, as the Selection tool's gestures do (#5477); estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Hindi (`hi`): 7,877-row machine-assisted catalog, zero/one singular plurals, desktop font fallback and optional Devanagari craft-fonts fallback; all 55 translation tests pass; native review and a web font remain; scores and estimates unchanged |
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 # Parity with Adobe Illustrator

-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-08 · **Change:** minor (`.ai` and EPS import: older Art brush objects read; Character Styles panel: a double-click on a style's row opens its Character Style Options; the dialog keeps a fixed width and scrolls its sections, so its buttons stay on screen) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; public release notes through 30.7, August 2026)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-09 · **Change:** minor (`.ai` and EPS import: older Art brush objects read; numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking keyboard focus, and a panel wheel turn cannot seed a canvas zoom glide, #5949) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; public release notes through 30.7, August 2026)

 ## Feature submission evidence

+Numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking keyboard focus (#5949). Arrow keys still require focus; modifiers, units, limits, mixed values and existing rounding stay in the shared stepping path. Headless regressions in `tests/numfields.rs` cover hovered unfocused fields, focused fields, trackpad accumulation and panel scroll exclusion. A canvas-first/panel-second regression also checks that a field turn cannot start a canvas zoom glide when the pointer enters the canvas on the next frame. Scores and estimates unchanged.
+
 Raster rendering fits and preflattens curved stroke outlines more tightly only below four times the raster tolerance, retaining thin-band coverage without changing stroke weight or vector export geometry. Current cached character/object outlines, cropped long strokes, gradient clips and effect rasters share the helper; cropped-region reuse and guarded flattening remain. The unchanged `fractional_curved_strokes_retain_coverage_between_notches` regression covers fractional weights, rotation, phase, opacity and f32-rounded endpoints. This is a quality/cost tradeoff, not a speed claim. Scores and estimates unchanged.

 **PR #3273 revision — 2026-11-04:** Thin curved stroke coverage ported to the current raster-only cache, cropped-long-stroke and effect paths with guarded flattening; vector export geometry unchanged. Scores and estimates unchanged.
@@ -14,10 +16,14 @@ Group Selection keeps an already selected component selected during a drag; a co

 Ligature caret stops use a font's GDEF contour-point positions in horizontal and vertical text. They use unhinted outlines at the default variation location; invalid point indices use the existing evenly divided fallback. Scores and estimates are unchanged.

+Spiral decay now applies after each full wind of four segments. A newly drawn spiral at 80% decay keeps 80% of its radius after one wind. Existing saved paths retain their geometry; newly drawn paths with the same settings differ from earlier VectorCraft builds. Scores and estimates are unchanged.
+
 Creating a gradient from solid or empty paint uses the document's color model for its default stops, including drawing its vector with the Gradient tool. Explicit `keepModel: true` retains RGB defaults, and existing gradients keep their own colors. Scores and estimates are unchanged.

 **Feature evidence last updated:** 2026-11-05.

+Window → Help Bar toggles the bottom tool-help strip independently of the status bar. Its visibility is saved with workspaces and UI preferences; Presentation Mode hides both bars. Scores and estimates are unchanged.
+
 The shared assessment status line and revision history are current upstream; this dated section records the submission's feature evidence and revisions without rescoring upstream or claiming a new combined build or runtime measurement.

 - Current-main conflict reconciliation retains upstream and feature behavior; scores and estimates unchanged
@@ -78,9 +84,11 @@ Artboard Options forwards the active Artboard tool's Scale Artwork with Artboard
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | Correct the Type core missing list: Hyphenation and Justification options are complete; the remaining Every-line Composer fidelity limits stay listed. Record the Kashidas paragraph lengths and per-character switch in the feature history (#5404). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | Ligature caret stops use GDEF contour-point positions in horizontal and vertical type at the font's default variation location; invalid point indices keep the evenly divided fallback. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-04 | minor | Record Find Font's replacement rows: family and style together, a search over them, and a scroll state of their own (#4972); scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-03 | minor | Spiral decay applies once per full wind of four segments; newly drawn spirals with the same settings wind more broadly than earlier builds. Existing paths are unchanged. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | New gradients use CMYK default stops in CMYK documents, including Gradient tool creation. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | Type Tools add-on: Text Tweaker (a VectorCraft addition, #4924): evidence added; scores unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | Transform previews valid typed values while numeric fields remain focused. Effect dialogs use the object, group, or layer targeted in Appearance. |
+| 2026-11-03 | minor | Help Bar has its own Window menu toggle and workspace visibility setting. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-02 | minor | Legacy `.ai` saves (version 7) write type with rotated characters as outlines that keep each character's rotation, with a warning unless `outlineText` is on (#5186); scores unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | Record shipped Find Font replacement sources: Document, Recent and System (#5217); scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | Object › Path › Smooth smooths a path along its length before refitting it, so Auto-Smooth takes a shaky line to one smooth curve instead of leaving its jags, and with anchor points direct-selected it smooths only that section; scores unchanged. |
@@ -548,6 +556,7 @@ since 2026-10-01.
 - **Selected Mirror Repeat handles:** a headless canvas regression creates the default mirror repeat and drags its Top bounding-box handle where the axis crosses it; the repeat grows vertically while its width stays fixed. Existing mirror-axis checks cover center movement and end-handle hit priority. The focused UI mirror tests pass. Scores and hours unchanged.
 - **Transform effect options (#885):** Effect › Distort & Transform › Transform… has visible Transform Objects, Transform Patterns and Scale Strokes & Effects checkboxes (`distort.transform` params `objects`, `patterns`, `strokes`; files without them draw as before). With Transform Objects off the geometry stays and makes no copies; Scale Strokes & Effects scales stroke weights, dashes and the fills' and strokes' effect distances by the mean scale, and Transform Patterns moves pattern tiles, each copy `k` by the transformation `k` times. Such objects draw, export and expand through the same per-copy art, so the canvas and Expand Appearance agree (engine `tests_transformfx`, effects `tests_transformfx`, the dialog test). A Transform effect in a fill's or stroke's own effects applies the same options to that fill or stroke: its weight and dashes, the distances of its later effects and its pattern follow the transformation, and with copies each copy is an object of its own; the canvas, export, Expand Appearance and Use Preview Bounds use the same art (effects `tests_transformfx`). Not yet: object effects after a Transform effect keep their distances. Public reference: [Scale objects](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/reshape-transform-objects/scale-objects.html), [How to apply effects](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/effects.html), [Distort and transform effects](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/reshape-transform-objects/distort-and-transform-effects-in-illustrator.html). Scores and hours unchanged.
 - **Warp Options (#1760):** Effect > Warp and existing Appearance effect links share the fifteen existing styles, original schematic previews, orientation choices and percent Bend/Distortion controls. Focused tests passed for real numeric entry and slider input, Preview/Cancel, immediate Enter/OK, mixed-style edits, target/slot/visibility preservation and Undo/Redo. Each applied style stays unchanged until an explicit Style choice. Original style-menu and live-preview captures were reviewed; their numeric values were supplied programmatically. Public references: [Reshaping with effects](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/reshaping-objects-effects.html) and [Using effects](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/effects.html). Warp geometry, optional Properties integration and remembered defaults are unchanged; no broader parity claim.
+- **Placed gradients follow the Warp effects:** under each of the fifteen Warp styles with a bend or a distortion, a gradient placed with the Gradient tool moves and scales from the object's bounds before the warp to its bounds after it, as under Free Distort; a stroke's gradient uses those bounds inflated by the stroke. This holds for an object's own Warp and for a fill's or stroke's own, on the canvas and in Object › Expand of the fill. In a group with a Warp effect, each path's and compound path's gradients follow its own bounds, a nested group's own fills and strokes follow the nested group's bounds, and the group's own fills and strokes follow the group's bounds. In the art Pathfinder and compound shapes take, a symbol instance's Warp moves the gradients of its symbol's art by the art's bounds, and a compound shape's Warp moves its gradients by the bounds of its area. A gradient fitted to the object still fits the warped outline, and a warp with no bend and no distortion leaves the gradient exactly in place. Existing documents with a Warp effect on art with a placed gradient draw differently: before, the gradient stayed where it was while the outline changed. How gradients follow the warp is VectorCraft's own rule; what the Warp effects do to the object is described in [Reshaping with effects](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/reshaping-objects-effects.html) (effects `tests::warp_bends_when_the_warp_moves_the_outline`, `bake::tests::baked_warps_move_placed_gradients_from_the_bounds_to_the_warped_bounds`, `bake::tests::a_warp_with_no_bend_leaves_a_placed_gradient_exactly_in_place`, `bake::tests::a_fills_and_a_strokes_own_warp_move_its_placed_gradient_with_the_bounds`, `group::tests::a_groups_warp_moves_the_gradients_placed_on_its_paths_by_each_paths_bounds`, `group::tests::a_groups_warp_moves_its_own_a_nested_groups_and_a_compound_paths_gradients_by_their_bounds`, `group::tests::shape_art_moves_the_gradients_of_a_symbol_instances_art_and_a_compound_shape_with_a_warp`; render `objectfx::a_paths_gradient_moves_and_scales_with_its_warped_bounds`; engine `objexpand::a_placed_gradient_moved_by_a_warp_expands_as_the_canvas_draws_it`). Scores and hours unchanged.
 - **Distort Appearance with Transform effect options:** with Envelope Options › Distort Appearance on, a path whose Transform effect has Scale Strokes & Effects or Transform Patterns on, or copies it with a gradient, is bent as the same per-copy art it draws and expands as outside the envelope: each copy's own stroke weight, dashes, pattern placement and gradient (effects `bake::tests`). Scores and hours unchanged.
 - **Placed gradients follow Transform and Free Distort effects:** a gradient placed with the Gradient tool moves, turns and scales with the object when the object's Transform effect moves its outline, and each copy of the Transform effect takes it as many times as it takes the transform. Under Free Distort it moves and scales from the path's bounds before the effect to its bounds after it. This holds on the canvas, in export, in Expand Appearance, in Pathfinder and compound shapes, and in Object › Expand of the fill, for an object's own effects, a group's (the own fills of the group, of the groups inside it, of a symbol's art, and of the images and symbol instances it moves, included) and a fill's or stroke's own. A gradient on a path inside a group with a Transform effect now moves with the path (#2214 moved only the gradients of type), and so does a gradient on an image's or symbol instance's own fill. When a path keeps its shape because the effect would pass the geometry budget, the group's own gradients stay in place; a hidden path in a layer, which the layer's bounds leave out, does not hold them. A freeform gradient whose points were edited moves its points in the same way. How gradients follow each effect is VectorCraft's own rule; what each effect does to the object is described in [Distort and transform effects](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/reshape-transform-objects/distort-and-transform-effects-in-illustrator.html) (effects `bake::tests::a_baked_transform_moves_a_placed_gradient_with_the_path`, `bake::tests::a_strokes_own_transform_and_free_distort_move_its_placed_gradient`, `bake::tests::a_fills_gradient_follows_the_effects_around_its_transform_with_options`, `bake::tests::baked_free_distort_moves_placed_gradients_from_the_bounds_to_the_distorted_bounds`, `group::tests::a_groups_transform_and_free_distort_move_the_gradients_placed_on_its_paths`, `group::tests::a_groups_transform_moves_the_gradient_of_its_own_fill`, `group::tests::a_nested_groups_own_gradient_follows_the_outer_groups_transform_and_free_distort`, `group::tests::a_groups_transform_moves_the_gradients_placed_on_an_images_own_fills`, `group::tests::shape_art_moves_gradients_with_a_transform_effect`, `group::tests::shape_art_moves_the_gradient_of_a_symbol_instances_art_with_its_transform`, `tests::art_past_the_budget_keeps_its_own_gradients_in_place`, `tests::a_hidden_path_past_the_budget_leaves_a_layers_gradients_free_to_move`, `tests::edited_freeform_points_follow_a_transform_effect_and_free_distort`; render `objectfx::a_paths_gradient_moves_with_its_transform_and_free_distort`; engine `objexpand::a_placed_gradient_moved_by_a_transform_or_free_distort_expands_as_the_canvas_draws_it`). Scores and hours unchanged.
 - **Constrain Angle (#394):** General › Constrain Angle turns the arrow keys' axes (guides stay on the page's), holds Shift drags of the Selection, Direct Selection, Free Transform, Slice Selection, Reshape and Measure tools and the Pen's handles to the turned axes, and new rectangles, rounded rectangles, ellipses, grids, point and area type, Shift-drawn polygons and stars and the shape size dialogs are drawn along it with their bounding box turned; 0° and whole turns are exactly as before, quarter turns exact (<https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/arrange-objects/rotate-objects-by-specific-angles.html>). Tests: `tests_constrain_tools`, `tests_constrain_new` (engine), `geom` `constrain_axes` / `rotate_deg`, the shape, grid and type tool tests.
@@ -647,6 +656,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
  - Variables: when no object is bound to a variable that the data set has a value for, for example after Import Data Sets… defines new variables without binding them, choosing the data set in the Variables panel or stepping to it with the panel's arrows shows a status message, and `dataset.select`, `dataset.next` and `dataset.prev` add the message to the reply as `warning`.
  - Variables: Lock Variables (`variable.lock`, in the Variables panel's bottom bar and menu) stops variables from being defined, deleted or renamed until they are unlocked, while objects can still be bound and unbound and data sets still change and apply; the lock is saved with the document.
  - Batch…: Override Save and Override Export name each file with the extension of the format the step writes, however the step spells the format (`.svg` and `SVG` give `.svg`, `png8` gives `.png`), in `action.batch`.
+  - Batch…: Override Export writes the files of an Export for Screens or Export Assets step into a folder for each source file or data set inside the destination folder, under the names the export gives them (`action.batch`). The folder and file names drop trailing periods and spaces (`a..svg` gives `a`). When two source files would get the same name that way (compared without case), or a later file's folder or file would take the name of an output an earlier file wrote, of a source file in the destination folder or, for data sets, of a file already there, Batch adds `-2`, `-3`… to the later one's name.
  - Actions panel menu: Save Actions… writes the current action set with all its actions to a file, and Load Actions… adds the set from such a file to the panel ([Manage a set of actions](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/manage-a-set-of-actions.html); `ui.actionSet.save`, `ui.actionSet.load`). The file is VectorCraft's own action set file (`.vcactions`); a loaded set named like one in the panel gets the next free number.
  - Actions panel menu: Load Actions… also reads action sets saved as `.aia` files ([Actions panel overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/actions-panel-overview.html); `actionSet.read`, `ui.actionSet.load`). VectorCraft's own rules: the set comes in with all its actions. A step with a label and no recorded values comes in as the one menu command with the step's label, when that command is directly in a top menu, is what its menu bar item runs with no values and opens no dialog. A step that is off in the file stays excluded from playback. The other steps, recorded menu items included, are left out, and the status bar says how many.
  - Actions panel: the panel menu's Action Options… renames the selected action and keeps its steps ([Actions panel overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/actions-panel-overview.html): the menu item opens a dialog that renames the action or gives it a function key and color; `ui.action.options`). It also sets the action's function key and color.
@@ -683,6 +693,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
  - File › Scripts › Check Script… reads a script written for Illustrator (`.jsx`, `.jsxinc` or a compiled `.jsxbin`) without running any of it and reports what it needs (the document model, files, dialogs, menu commands, features only Illustrator has), what it would do outside the document, the menu commands and document-model members it uses, its directives and included files, and the problems that would stop it loading (`script.check`, which also reads `.js` files); File › Open and drag-and-drop show the report for `.jsx`, `.jsxinc` and `.jsxbin` files.
  - `vectorcraft-js` parses JavaScript as ECMAScript 5.1 defines it, with the legacy octal forms, block functions and lenient regular expressions of Annex B, into a syntax tree with source spans; it reads the `#target`, `#include` and other preprocessor lines as directives without running them, and a script that breaks the grammar or an early-error rule gives a `SyntaxError` with its line and column. Nesting past the parser's depth limit (`Options::max_depth`, 200 by default) gives a `SyntaxError` instead of exhausting the stack. `cargo xtask test262` fetches the conformance suite at a pinned commit and parses its ES5 tests: 5,411 of 5,418 runs pass (the 7 others use `let` and `const`). This entry covers parsing; the next entry covers running scripts. Tests: `crates/js/src/tests.rs`, `crates/engine/tests/it/js_lexer_vs_scriptcheck.rs`.
  - `vectorcraft-js`'s `Realm` runs ECMAScript 5.1 scripts: the parsed script compiles to verified bytecode that a non-recursive interpreter runs, with closures, `this`, `arguments`, `with`, direct and indirect `eval`, `new Function`, `try`/`catch`/`finally`, labeled `break` and `continue`, and `for`-`in` in insertion order, over a mark-and-sweep heap. Built-ins are limited to `Object`, `Function` with `call` and `apply`, `eval` and the error types. Every run is bounded by fuel, heap bytes, frames, nested host calls and an interrupt flag (smaller defaults in the wasm build), and a run that reaches a limit stops with a limit error that `try` cannot catch. `cargo xtask test262` also runs the suite's ES5 language tests that need only these built-ins: 3,074 of 3,078 runs pass (the 4 others expect the completion values of later editions). The app does not call it yet. Tests: `crates/js/src/interp_tests.rs`, `crates/js/tests/test262.rs`.
+  - `vectorcraft-js` has `String`, `Number`, `RegExp` and `Date` as ECMAScript 5.1 defines them (sections 15.5, 15.7, 15.9 and 15.10, https://262.ecma-international.org/5.1/), with Annex B's `substr`, `getYear`, `setYear` and `toGMTString`. `toFixed`, `toExponential` and `toPrecision` format a number from its exact decimal value, and `toString(radix)` writes any base from 2 to 36. Regular expressions (flags `g`, `i` and `m`) run on a backtracking matcher whose choice points and capture state count against the heap limit and which takes fuel for every step, so a catastrophic pattern stops at the fuel limit and 50,000 nested groups give a `SyntaxError` at the default depth limit. A string method that would build a string past the heap limit stops before it allocates. `Date` reads the clock and time zone the host sets (`Realm::set_clock`, `Realm::set_time_zone`; local time is UTC by default). `cargo xtask test262` runs the suite's `built-ins` tests for the four (https://github.com/tc39/test262): of the runs of the ES5 tests that need only the built-ins present, 1,113 of 1,169 pass for `String`, 262 of 262 for `Number`, 878 of 908 for `RegExp` and 6 of 6 for `Date`. The others need `Array` and `Boolean` methods, or expect later editions' rules (built-in functions whose `length` can be deleted, flags given with a RegExp object, a negative `lastIndex`, `RegExp.prototype` as a plain object, and `RegExp.prototype`'s `global`, `ignoreCase` and `multiline` properties that can be deleted). The ES5 language tests that can now run give 3,742 of 3,746 passing runs. Tests: `crates/js/src/text_tests.rs`, `crates/js/tests/test262.rs`.
 - **UI:** Illustrator 2026 layout restyled to measured values:
  - Medium Dark theme, categorized and Advanced toolbars (a tool group's flyout opens on a right press, a long press or a press on its corner triangle), 35 pt document tabs, 33 pt panel tabs.
  - Hint bar, contextual task bar, 19 dock panels with ≡ menus.
@@ -712,6 +723,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
  - Window › Toolbars › Manage Toolbars… and Manage Toolbars… in the All Tools drawer's menu open a dialog that lists the toolbars made with New Toolbar: a new name typed for the selected toolbar renames it, + copies it with its tools (with none selected, + makes a blank toolbar), and the trash can deletes it. Each change shows under Window › Toolbars and stays in the workspace (<https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/tools.html>; `window.toolbar.manage`, `window.toolbar.rename`, `window.toolbar.duplicate`, `window.toolbar.delete`; `manage_toolbars_renames_duplicates_and_deletes`).
  - Window › Toolbars › Keep Tools Beside the Canvas, a VectorCraft layout option that is off by default, docks the Tools panel between left-side panels and the canvas instead of at the window's left edge; the canvas's left edge then also docks a floating Tools panel, and workspaces keep the setting. Scores are unchanged (`window.toolsBesideCanvas`; `docked_tools_keep_the_window_edge_unless_kept_beside_the_canvas`, `tools_redock_at_the_targets_of_the_chosen_placement`).
  - Hindi (2026-11-06): Hindi (`hi`): 7,877-row machine-assisted catalog, zero/one singular plurals, desktop font fallback and optional Devanagari craft-fonts fallback; all 55 translation tests pass; native review and a web font remain; scores and estimates unchanged. [Terminology and limitations](localization-hi.md).
+  - Window › Help Bar shows or hides the tool-help strip at the bottom of the window apart from the status bar (`window.helpBar`). Each setting is kept with the UI preferences and in saved workspaces, and Presentation Mode hides both bars. Layouts saved before the setting existed show the Help Bar where they show the status bar (`help_bar_toggle_is_independent_and_saved_in_workspaces`, `help_bar_and_status_bar_render_independently`, `legacy_help_bar_visibility_follows_each_layouts_status_bar`, `a_help_bar_setting_the_file_lacks_is_saved`).
  - Czech render-site labels: desktop/web file filters, diagnostics, suggested preset names and contributor tooltips/plurals now use catalog lookups; gradients have Czech adjective agreement and printer marks have a separate context (PDF/Print and Summary). Search, Home, toolbar/panel tooltips and Preferences already look up their labels. Every complete catalog has rows for these labels and for the Roman and Japanese printer mark styles. Evidence: `i18n::tests::czech_render_site_follow_up`, `i18n::tests::complete_catalogs_translate_render_site_labels`, `dialogs::tests_modal::printer_mark_labels_are_distinct_from_language_names`; see [localization-parity.md](localization-parity.md).
  - The History panel, Edit › Undo and Edit › Redo translate the names of the steps that apply or redefine a character or paragraph style and of the step that redefines a graphic style: each such step keeps its template (`Apply {name}`, `Redefine {name}`, `Redefine Graphic Style “{name}”`) and the style's name, every complete catalog has a row for each template, and the panel and the menu show the style's name as the document holds it, except the Normal styles' names, which they show in the interface language (`steps_named_after_a_style_list_the_template_around_the_name`, `undo_and_redo_name_a_style_step_around_the_style_name`).
  - Localised UI: menus (in-window and native), panels, dialogs, toolbar and Preferences read from per-language catalogs (`crates/ui-egui/src/i18n`, see `docs/development.md`); Traditional Chinese (Taiwan), Simplified Chinese (mainland), Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, Georgian and Catalan ship complete, and Czech covers every menu label (and more), with system-locale detection on macOS, Windows, Linux and the web (the browser's languages, or `?lang=`), a Language preference and, on macOS, a VectorCraft ▸ Language menu. Names are never translated (fonts and their styles, layers, artboards, saved presets, user libraries, custom workspaces, recent files, plug-ins).
@@ -729,6 +741,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
  - Native macOS menu bar, vector tool cursors, a ⌘K command palette, middle-button panning with any tool. Native menus explicitly end tracking on command selection, outside window presses and Escape; menu updates wait until tracking ends, and a dismissing press never starts a canvas gesture (M14.8).
  - The errors of the blend spine commands (Move Spine Point, Reshape Spine Segment, Add Spine Point and Delete Spine Point) show in the status bar in the interface language: each has a row in every catalog that translates all status and error messages and in Bulgarian (`blend_spine_param_errors_are_translated`).
  - The errors of the parameter checks that many commands share show in the status bar in the interface language: a value that is not a number where a number goes (`object.move` with `"dx": "60 mm"`, and `object.rotate`, `object.setBounds` and the other commands that call `check_numbers`), a missing number or index, `ids` that are not a list of object ids, an object id that is not a non-negative integer or names no object, and a date that is not Unix seconds. Each has a row in every catalog that translates all status and error messages, and in Bulgarian, Danish, Indonesian and Dutch (`shared_param_check_errors_are_translated`).
+  - Export commands run through MCP, the control channel or the CLI refuse a key that no format takes, and a command that writes one format (`document.exportPdf`, `document.exportEps`, `document.exportDxf`) or takes one format's options (`document.pdfSettings`, `pdf.preset.save`) refuses a key that format doesn't take. An unknown key inside `marks`, `bleed`, `compression`, `output`, `advanced`, `security` or `flattener` is refused by its path.
  - Commands that read their `ids` (or `slices`) list themselves refuse a list with an entry that is not a non-negative integer, and a value that is not a list, and change nothing; they no longer drop the entry and act on the rest (Copy Appearance From, the Edit Colors commands and Overprint Black, Find and Replace, `layer.highlight`, `layer.move`, `library.add`, the Links panel commands, `object.transform`, Make Pattern, the Repeat commands, the slice commands, Join, Average and Join, `plugin.run`, `symbol.edit`, Make Opacity Mask; `tests::ids_without_selection::an_ids_entry_that_is_not_an_id_is_refused_and_changes_nothing`). The error for an entry of an object id list names the key, the entry and its value ("`ids` entry 1 is true, not a non-negative integer object id"), with a row in every catalog that has the other object id errors.
  - The errors of Enter Isolation Mode (`object.isolate`) for a type object, for hidden or locked art and for a call with no `id` while nothing is selected ("missing id", which other commands that take an `id` also give), and the error of the Layers panel's target circle (`layer.target`) for an object outside the isolated group, show in the status bar in the interface language: each has a row in every catalog that translates all status and error messages, and in Bulgarian, Danish, Indonesian and Dutch.
  - An EPS or PostScript file that stops on a PostScript error gives the error's name as PostScript spells it (`typecheck`, `rangecheck` and the other names the reader raises, except `undefined`, whose message names the unknown name) followed by what it means, in the warning after opening and in the error when the file can't be opened. The status bar and the open-error dialog show the meaning in the interface language: each meaning has a row in every catalog (`postscript_error_meanings_are_translated`).
@@ -767,7 +780,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
  - With Real-time Drawing and Editing off, a dragged selection whose outline points and evaluated objects come to more than 100,000 shows its moved bounds instead, as the selection at rest does (#525, #2460; `real_time_drawing_off_draws_the_bounds_of_a_selection_too_big_to_outline`, `real_time_drawing_off_draws_the_bounds_of_a_group_too_big_to_outline`, `real_time_drawing_off_draws_the_bounds_of_a_repeat_with_too_many_objects`).
  - With Real-time Drawing and Editing off, a move or handle drag of a group, blend, envelope, repeat or intertwine draws the outline of each of its objects instead of one union of them, as VectorCraft's own rule (`real_time_drawing_off_outlines_a_dragged_group_member_by_member`, `real_time_drawing_off_outlines_a_resized_group_member_by_member`, `real_time_drawing_off_outlines_a_dragged_blend_step_by_step`, `real_time_drawing_off_outlines_a_dragged_envelope_object_by_object`). A group with a Pathfinder effect draws the area the effect makes, a gradient mesh draws its mesh lines, and a symbol instance draws its bounds (`real_time_drawing_off_outlines_a_dragged_pathfinder_group_by_its_area`, `real_time_drawing_off_outlines_each_mesh_of_a_dragged_repeat_once`, `real_time_drawing_off_outlines_a_dragged_symbol_instance_by_its_bounds`).
  - Dialogs move by dragging their heading (the band down from the top edge, as a title bar), stay on screen and keep where they were moved for the session; the form dialogs' choices are dropdowns (Offset Path's Joins, Average's and Shear's and Reflect's axis), and Offset Path lists Offset, Joins, Miter Limit and previews (#423).
-  - Dialogs open with their first field focused and its value selected: type a value and press Enter (Move, Rotate, Scale…). A dialog opened from a menu takes the keyboard focus every time it opens, not only the first (#1367), and one whose first field starts greyed out (Blend Options on Smooth Color, Layers Panel Options) gives the focus to that field once it is enabled (#1395). Number fields in panels, the Control bar and dialogs (preferences too) step with Up/Down, or with the mouse wheel over the focused field (#485: a notch a step; the panel under it then stays put, and an unfocused field leaves the wheel to scrolling) (Shift: ten, Ctrl/Cmd: a tenth of their unit), applied at once.
+  - Dialogs open with their first field focused and its value selected: type a value and press Enter (Move, Rotate, Scale…). A dialog opened from a menu takes the keyboard focus every time it opens, not only the first (#1367), and one whose first field starts greyed out (Blend Options on Smooth Color, Layers Panel Options) gives the focus to that field once it is enabled (#1395). Number fields in panels, the Control bar and dialogs (preferences too) step with Up/Down, or with the mouse wheel over the hovered field without requiring focus (#485, #5949: a notch a step; the panel under it then stays put, and a disabled field leaves the wheel to scrolling) (Shift: ten, Ctrl/Cmd: a tenth of their unit), applied at once.
  - While Alt (Option on macOS) is held, the Flare Tool Options' Cancel button reads Reset, which puts every option back to the Flare tool's default and leaves the dialog open (`ui.dialogReset`).
  - A plain step of a number field (Up/Down or a wheel notch) goes to the next whole unit in its direction and a Ctrl/Cmd step goes to the next tenth, so 5.1 mm steps up to 6 mm and down to 5 mm (#2881). A Shift step adds or takes ten and keeps the fraction.
  - In the number, text and color fields of the panels and the Control bar, Shift+Enter (Shift+Return) applies the value and keeps the field active with its value selected; a text box of several lines takes it as a line break. In a dialog, Shift+Enter applies the value and confirms the dialog, as Enter does.
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    Select by Artboards (Object › Plug-ins › Selection Tools, a VectorCraft addition: #5525, #5548, #5549) selects the objects overlapping, fully inside or fully outside one or more chosen artboards (`addon.select.byArtboards {artboards, relation}`). Overlapping is All on Active Artboard's test, shared as `select::on_artboard`; Fully inside means within one artboard, edges included; Fully outside means on none. It looks at what Select All takes, so hidden, locked and locked-artboard art stays out. Its dialog lists each artboard's number, name and size in the document's units, filters by name, chooses rows with click, Shift-click and Cmd/Ctrl-click, and fits a row's artboard in the window on double-click (`view.goToArtboard`). Tests: `crates/engine/src/cmd/addons/select/tests.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/select/tests.rs`, `crates/engine/tests/command_sweep.rs`.
    Select by Link Status (Object › Plug-ins › Selection Tools and the Links panel menu, a VectorCraft addition: #5526) selects the image objects and placed documents whose link is linked (its file found unchanged), embedded, missing or modified, as `links.list` reports it (`addon.select.byLinkStatus {status, ids?, add?, zoom?}`); Select Linked, Embedded, Missing and Modified are off when no image has that status and add to the selection with Shift. Objects that are hidden or locked, inside a hidden or locked object or layer, on a template layer, on a locked artboard, or outside the isolated group are left out (the `select::is_selectable` test) and returned with the reason, and the status bar says how many, in plural forms of every catalog. Select by Link Status… lists each image and placed document with its name, status and format, searches by name, filters by status, picks rows with checkboxes and All / None, and zooms to the selection with the existing Zoom to Selection (`addon.arrange.zoomSelection`). Missing-link markers on the canvas are #5547. Tests: `crates/engine/src/cmd/addons/select/tests.rs` (`by_link_status`), `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/select/link_status/tests.rs`, `crates/engine/tests/command_sweep.rs`.
    A marquee selects a clip group, or an object on a layer with a clipping mask, only when it reaches the area inside the clipping path, and it measures the art only within that path's bounds. Within the bounds of a mask that is not a rectangle, it can still select art that the mask hides. Direct Selection's marquee still selects the hidden anchor points inside it (#2345).
+    When a clip group, a layer with a clipping mask or a single object in one is isolated, the Selection, Direct Selection and Group Selection tools also select the art that the mask hides, by a click or a marquee, and a drag from that art moves it (#3748). In isolation mode the canvas Unlock submenu also lists that art when it is locked. Outside isolation mode a click selects clipped art only inside the mask.
    A marquee selects a Shaper Group only when it reaches the art the group shows, not the original shapes kept under it, and Direct Selection's clicks and marquee do not select those shapes' anchor points. In Construction mode a marquee selects the original shapes, and Direct Selection selects their anchor points.
    While an opacity mask or a pattern is edited, a Shaper double-click on a Shaper Group in the mask or pattern art selects the original shape under the pointer without entering Construction mode, the Shaper Group's mode widget does not show, and a Shaper scribble, Release and Expand keep the editing layer isolated.
    A marquee selects an Intertwine group only when it reaches one of the group's members, as for a plain group, and it selects a repeat only when it reaches one of the copies the repeat draws. Direct and Group Selection's marquees select the anchor points of an Intertwine group's members, not the group, and Group Selection's E marquee selects the members inside it.
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  - **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 with the pointer, Shift keeps them in their original orientation, 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).
    While a grid is dragged out, F lowers `rowSkew` (rectangular) or `radialSkew` (polar) by 10 percentage points and V raises it by 10; X lowers `columnSkew` (rectangular) or `concentricSkew` (polar) by 10 and C raises it by 10. Plain and Shift presses work; with Alt, Ctrl or Cmd held they do not, as for the other letters a tool takes while dragging. Each press changes the skew once and updates the preview; values stay within ±500% and remain in the tool options after release. The [default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) (archived copy) list the four drag keys and a 10% change. The signs (positive values follow VectorCraft's existing skew convention, so F and X lower the stored value) and one change per press with key repeat ignored are our own rules.
    While an arc is dragged out, C switches it between open and closed, F switches its base between the X and Y axes in the same box, and Up/Down raise and lower its slope by 10 within −100…100; each press switches once, and the values stay as the Arc tool's options. The [default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) (archived copy) list C, F and Up/Down for an arc being dragged out. F as the base switch, the arrows changing the slope, the step of 10 and one switch per press are our own rules.
-    While a spiral is dragged out, Alt adds or removes whole winds of four segments and Ctrl/Cmd changes the decay. The spiral's inner end keeps the distance from the center it had on the first modified drag event, while the outer end follows the pointer. The [default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) (archived copy) list Alt-drag to add or subtract winds and Ctrl-drag to change the decay rate; [Draw spirals](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/draw-shapes-and-paths/draw-shapes/draw-spirals.html) defines four segments per full wind. Rounding the fitted count to whole winds from the count on the first Alt-only drag event, the held inner radius, the ranges (2…1000 segments, 5…99.99 % decay), Ctrl/Cmd taking precedence when both are held, and the new values staying as Spiral tool options are our own rules. Switching back to Alt uses the current count as its new base while keeping the held inner end.
+    While a spiral is dragged out, Alt adds or removes whole winds of four segments and Ctrl/Cmd changes the decay. The spiral's inner end keeps the distance from the center it had on the first modified drag event, while the outer end follows the pointer. The [default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) (archived copy) list Alt-drag to add or subtract winds and Ctrl-drag to change the decay rate; [Draw spirals](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/draw-shapes-and-paths/draw-shapes/draw-spirals.html) defines four segments per full wind and Decay as the amount each wind decreases. An 80% spiral has 80% of its outer radius after four segments; newly drawn spirals with the same settings wind more broadly than in earlier VectorCraft builds. Rounding the fitted count to whole winds from the count on the first Alt-only drag event, the held inner radius, the ranges (2…1000 segments, 5…99.99 % decay), Ctrl/Cmd taking precedence when both are held, and the new values staying as Spiral tool options are our own rules. Switching back to Alt uses the current count as its new base while keeping the held inner end.
    Escape while an arc, spiral or grid is dragged out cancels it and puts back the options its keys, Alt and Ctrl/Cmd changed (slope, open or closed, base axis, segments, decay, dividers and skews), so the next drag and the tool's options start from the values before the canceled drag; a drag that is let go keeps them, and an option set with `tool.setOption` during the drag stays. This is VectorCraft's own rule.
  - **Cutting:** Eraser, Scissors, Knife, Mirror & Cut, Line Cut and Rectangle Cut (real geometry, compound paths keep their holes).
    While Alt is held, the Scissors tool works as the Add Anchor Point tool ([Default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html)): a click on a segment adds an anchor point without cutting (`path.insertAnchor`), and the pointer shows the Add Anchor Point cursor. When Alt is let go, a click cuts again.
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    View › Hide Edges hides the Live Corners widgets, the bounding box and the type widget, and the selection tools then do not answer a press on them or change the cursor over them.
  - **Blend spine Anchor Point tool (#2544):** on a selected blend, dragging a spine corner makes symmetric Smooth handles; the tool displays and picks existing spine handles when switched to, drags one independently or retracts it on click, and clicking a point with handles retracts both. The spine is edited live without moving its key objects. Windows native canvas checks and screenshots reviewed: symmetric and independent handles, corner/retraction, Shift constraints and perpendicular reshaping, tool switching, key preservation, Undo/Redo, save/reopen, hidden handles and overlapping Path/Blend priority (PR #2643). Behaviour reference: [public path-editing documentation](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/adjust-path-segments.html).
  - **Path editing (#494):** the handles shown are the handles that drag: Direct Selection drags those of a path selected as a whole (as the Pen leaves it), the Anchor Point tool and Pen+Alt no longer grab handles that Show handles when multiple anchors are selected hides, a handle shorter than the tolerance leaves its anchor to be picked, and the anchor tools pick within Selection & Anchor Display › Tolerance. A dragged segment keeps a smooth anchor at either end smooth. With Direct Selection, the Pen, the Curvature and the anchor tools, a path selected as a whole shows all its anchors selected, and the Control bar and the Properties panel offer Convert (corner, smooth) for them too; Remove and Cut wait for anchors direct-selected (#504). A handle drag gathers its snap targets once per drag (it took 21 ms per pointer move on a 20,000-path document, now 1 ms; `vectorcraft-cli perf` measures handle and segment drags on a 5,000-anchor path). Join merges the selected anchor points that lie on one another, as after Average, into one anchor (#1582, fixes #1533); Object › Path › Average & Join… (`path.averageJoin`, Cmd+Alt+Shift+J, the "Create corner or smooth join" shortcut of [Default keyboard shortcuts](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html)) moves two open path ends to their midpoint and joins them there, a corner or smooth point as its dialog's Points choice asks, in one undo step.
-  - **Graphs:** Column, Stacked Column, Bar, Stacked Bar, Line, Area, Scatter, Pie and Radar graph tools with Graph Data and Graph Type. A series starts in greyscale; Group Selection's fill and stroke, and the paint, weight and opacity of a mark's top visible fill or stroke row after an Appearance command, the Eyedropper, a graphic style, Default Fill and Stroke or Swap Fill and Stroke, are kept separately on the graph and reapplied when its data, type or size changes, and through save, open and undo. Graph Type's Override Calculated Values (both `axisMin` and `axisMax`) uses exactly that value-axis range, split into the tick count (5 when automatic). Line graphs take Edge-to-Edge Lines (off by default: the points sit at the centres of their categories; graphs saved before the option keep their edge-to-edge lines), and radar graphs follow Mark Data Points and Connect Data Points. Blank cells (an empty CSV cell or `null`) are values left out, not zeros: columns, bars and stacked segments skip them, lines and scatter lines break around them and the value axis ignores them, while area, pie and radar draw them as 0; a number in straight quotes is a label, and the data window writes it back quoted. Graph types combine: Graph Type on series picked with Group Selection (or `series` indexes) draws them as their own type, with column, stacked column, line and area mixing on the vertical value axis and bar and stacked bar on the horizontal one; stacked columns take one slot of the cluster, lines draw in front of columns and areas behind. The value axis goes on the left, the right or both sides (column, stacked column, line, area and scatter graphs; bar graphs keep theirs along the bottom), and Separate Scales gives the series assigned to the right axis a scale of their own with its own tick values. Each value axis takes tick marks of no, short or full (across the plot) length and a count per division, and a prefix and suffix for its numbers; the category axis takes tick marks too (none by default), at or between its labels. Graph designs: Object › Graph › Design lists the designs with a preview of the selected one, and New Design (the selected art), Rename, Delete Design, Paste Design (a copy back to edit) and Select Unused, and Marker draws the data points and legend swatches of line, scatter and radar series with a design, scaled so its backmost object fills the default marker's square. Graph Data transposes rows and columns and switches a scatter graph's x and y, and a `|` in a category or series label starts a new line. Pie graphs take Legends in Wedges, Position (Even, Ratio sized by area, Stacked on one centre) and Sort (None, All, First). Graph Type takes column and cluster widths up to 1000% (overlapping past 100%) with First Row and First Column in Front (First Row orders each series' categories; across series the series order decides, so series stay one group each for Group Selection), draws filled lines, adds drop shadows behind columns, bars, lines and wedges, and puts the legend in rows across the top. Text formatted with the Character or Appearance controls, on the whole graph or on labels picked with Group Selection, is kept per kind of label (value axis numbers, category labels, legend labels) through the graph being drawn again. Object › Graph › Data opens a worksheet: cells picked with a click and edited above the sheet (Tab moves right, Enter down, the arrows between cells), Import Data from a tab-separated text file, Transpose, Switch x/y, Cell Style (decimals shown, column width), Revert and Apply. `graph.setData` returns and takes the data as CSV with each value written exactly, not rounded to two decimals, so applying the returned CSV changes nothing (#1485).
+  - **Graphs:** Column, Stacked Column, Bar, Stacked Bar, Line, Area, Scatter, Pie and Radar graph tools with Graph Data and Graph Type. A series starts in greyscale; Group Selection's fill and stroke, the paint, weight, opacity and blend mode of a mark's top visible fill or stroke row after an Appearance command, the Eyedropper, a graphic style, Default Fill and Stroke or Swap Fill and Stroke, and a mark's object opacity and blend mode, are kept separately on the graph and reapplied when its data, type or size changes, and through save, open and undo. Graph Type's Override Calculated Values (both `axisMin` and `axisMax`) uses exactly that value-axis range, split into the tick count (5 when automatic). Line graphs take Edge-to-Edge Lines (off by default: the points sit at the centres of their categories; graphs saved before the option keep their edge-to-edge lines), and radar graphs follow Mark Data Points and Connect Data Points. Blank cells (an empty CSV cell or `null`) are values left out, not zeros: columns, bars and stacked segments skip them, lines and scatter lines break around them and the value axis ignores them, while area, pie and radar draw them as 0; a number in straight quotes is a label, and the data window writes it back quoted. Graph types combine: Graph Type on series picked with Group Selection (or `series` indexes) draws them as their own type, with column, stacked column, line and area mixing on the vertical value axis and bar and stacked bar on the horizontal one; stacked columns take one slot of the cluster, lines draw in front of columns and areas behind. The value axis goes on the left, the right or both sides (column, stacked column, line, area and scatter graphs; bar graphs keep theirs along the bottom), and Separate Scales gives the series assigned to the right axis a scale of their own with its own tick values. Each value axis takes tick marks of no, short or full (across the plot) length and a count per division, and a prefix and suffix for its numbers; the category axis takes tick marks too (none by default), at or between its labels. Graph designs: Object › Graph › Design lists the designs with a preview of the selected one, and New Design (the selected art), Rename, Delete Design, Paste Design (a copy back to edit) and Select Unused, and Marker draws the data points and legend swatches of line, scatter and radar series with a design, scaled so its backmost object fills the default marker's square. Graph Data transposes rows and columns and switches a scatter graph's x and y, and a `|` in a category or series label starts a new line. Pie graphs take Legends in Wedges, Position (Even, Ratio sized by area, Stacked on one centre) and Sort (None, All, First). Graph Type takes column and cluster widths up to 1000% (overlapping past 100%) with First Row and First Column in Front (First Row orders each series' categories; across series the series order decides, so series stay one group each for Group Selection), draws filled lines, adds drop shadows behind columns, bars, lines and wedges, and puts the legend in rows across the top. Text formatted with the Character or Appearance controls, on the whole graph or on labels picked with Group Selection, is kept per kind of label (value axis numbers, category labels, legend labels) through the graph being drawn again. Object › Graph › Data opens a worksheet: cells picked with a click and edited above the sheet (Tab moves right, Enter down, the arrows between cells), Import Data from a tab-separated text file, Transpose, Switch x/y, Cell Style (decimals shown, column width), Revert and Apply. `graph.setData` returns and takes the data as CSV with each value written exactly, not rounded to two decimals, so applying the returned CSV changes nothing (#1485).
  - **Graph column designs:** Object › Graph › Column (`graph.column`) draws the columns, bars or stacked segments and the legend swatch of the series picked with Group Selection with a graph design: Vertically Scaled stretches it to each column's length, Uniformly Scaled scales it both ways and centers it, Repeating stacks a copy for each Each Design Represents value and chops or scales the last one (For Fractions), and Sliding keeps the part above the design's guide line in proportion and stretches the part below. The dialog lists the designs with a preview; the choice is saved with the graph and follows the design's rename and delete.
    Type in a column design that holds a `%` followed by two digits shows each column's value in place of the `%` and the digits: the first digit is the least number of places before the decimal point (zeros are added in front; 0 gives as many as the value needs), and the second digit sets the places after it, rounded. Unless it is inside a group that clips or has its own opacity or appearance, or inside a blend, compound shape, envelope, repeat or intertwined objects, the type keeps its size and is drawn once per column in a repeating design. The legend swatch leaves it out.
  - **Other:** Eyedropper, Gradient annotator, Artboard (Alt-drag duplicates an artboard, and its art with Move/Copy Artwork with Artboard on; Copy, Cut and Paste take the artboard with its art, Paste right of the last artboard, Paste in Place where it was, into this or another document, #446; Object › Artboards › Rearrange All Artboards lays them out in a grid by row or by column, in one row or one column, left to right or right to left, from the menu, the Artboards panel or Properties' Rearrange All, #681; Scale Artwork with Artboard, in the Control bar and Properties beside Move Artwork with Artboard, resizes the artboard proportionally with the art fully inside it and its guides, strokes and corners per the Scale preferences, #602), Measure, Type, Hand, Zoom, Rotate View.
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  Object › Artboards › Fit to Selected Art resizes the active artboard (`artboard.fitToSelection {index}`). It used to resize artboard 1 whichever artboard was active. When an action plays, its Fit to Artwork Bounds and Fit to Selected Art steps that name no artboard resize the artboard that is active then.
  Object › Artboards › Fit to Artwork Bounds and the Artboards panel menu's Fit to Artwork Bounds fit each selected artboard (those the Artboard tool has selected, else the active one) to the art on it, as the public [Use the artboard context menu](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/create-manage-artboards/organize-manage-artboards/use-artboard-context-menu.html) page describes (`artboard.fitToArt {indices}`). An object partly on an artboard counts for each artboard it overlaps, and an artboard with no art on it keeps its size and place. They used to fit the active artboard to all the art in the document.
  The Artboards panel menu's Duplicate Artboards copies each selected artboard (those the Artboard tool has selected, else the active one) with its art, in one undo step, and the copies are then selected, as the public [Use the artboard context menu](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/create-manage-artboards/organize-manage-artboards/use-artboard-context-menu.html) page describes. With the Artboard tool, Copy and Cut take every selected artboard with its art, as the public [Cut, copy, and paste artboards](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/create-manage-artboards/organize-manage-artboards/cut-copy-and-paste-artboards.html) page describes, and Paste brings them all back in one undo step (`artboard.duplicate`, `artboard.copy` and `artboard.cut` with `indices`). The copies keep their places relative to each other, together right of the last artboard. All three used to act on the active artboard only.
+  A replay of the journal repeats a Cut or Copy made with the Artboard tool on the artboards it took (`edit.cut` and `edit.copy` record `selectedArtboards` and `art`), whichever tool is chosen in the new session and whatever is selected there. A recorded action follows the tool chosen when it plays. The replay used to act on the objects selected then, or stop with nothing selected. This rule is VectorCraft's own.
  With the Artboard tool, the canvas context menu lists the entries of the public [Use the artboard context menu](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/create-manage-artboards/organize-manage-artboards/use-artboard-context-menu.html) page in its order: Cut, Copy, Paste at the pointer, Undo, Redo, New Artboard, Duplicate Artboards, Rename (`artboard.rename`), Delete Artboards, Delete Empty Artboards, Select All Artboards (`artboard.selectAll`), Lock Artboards and Unlock Artboards, Rearrange, Fit to Artwork Bounds, Switch Orientation (`artboard.switchOrientation`), Artboard Options and Export. A right-click on an artboard that is not selected selects it first.
  The Artboards panel menu's New Artboard adds the artboard in one undo step and makes it the active one, as the panel's button, the Control bar and Properties do; with the Artboard tool it is then the only one selected. This is VectorCraft's own rule. The menu item used to leave the active artboard where it was.
  With the Artboard tool, Paste and Paste in Place make the first pasted artboard the active one (the navigator's and the Artboards panel's), and Cut makes the artboard before the first cut one active (the new first artboard when artboard 1 was cut). A command that chooses another document (`document.activate`) starts the tool on that document's active artboard, as choosing its tab does, and File › Revert keeps the active artboard and starts the tool on it. Paste used to leave the active artboard where it was while the tool had the pasted artboard active, and Cut left the active artboard on the artboard after the cut one while the tool had the one before it.
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 - **Geometry and effects:**
  - **Open-path anchor Delete:** Delete/Backspace removes selected anchors and their adjoining segments, leaving drawable runs as separate open subpaths of the original object. Surviving curves and appearance stay intact; one Undo restores the document and selection, and a second Delete removes the selected remainder. Explicit Remove Anchor Points still reconnects/refits. Four core regressions, one full-frame Delete/Backspace regression and three existing removal/segment controls pass, covering these distinctions, multiple deletions, transformed geometry and mixed whole-object selection. Behaviour references: the legacy public [Illustrator reference guide, Add or delete an anchor point](https://helpx.adobe.com/content/dam/help/en/pdf/illustrator_reference.pdf) distinguishes keyboard deletion from dedicated removal; the current [Add or remove anchor points](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/draw-shapes-and-paths/modify-paths/add-or-remove-anchor-points.html) describes the dedicated tools. Other G11 gaps and scores/hours remain unchanged.
  - Pathfinder (10 exact curve booleans; single-result shape operations retain source names and SVG IDs, #1293), Offset, Outline Stroke, Simplify, Clean Up, Split Into Grid, Divide Objects Below. With one group selected alone, the Pathfinder panel's buttons work on its members (among other selected objects a group still acts as one shape), and a greyed-out button says what it needs (#1450; behaviour reference: [combine objects using Pathfinder effects](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/reshape-transform-objects/combine-objects-using-pathfinder-effects.html); one plain path selected alone stays disabled, which the documentation doesn't settle). Split Into Grid takes the number, height or width, gutter and total of the rows and of the columns, Add Guides and Preview, and several selected paths become one grid painted as the topmost one (#1462, `object.path.splitIntoGrid`; behaviour reference: [divide or split objects](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/edit-objects/divide-or-split-objects.html); a typed height or width keeps the gutter and changes the total, our choice). Object › Path › Remove Anchor Points (`path.removeAnchors`) removes the direct-selected anchors without opening their paths (the Delete key still deletes them with their segments): the neighbours keep their handle directions and their facing handles are refitted so one cubic follows the two old segments, and straight sides stay straight. The Delete Anchor Point tool uses the same refit. The Control bar, the contextual task bar, the Properties quick actions and the canvas context menu offer it when anchors are selected. With anchors selected, the Control bar and the Properties panel also convert them to corner or smooth (`path.convertAnchors`), connect end points (Join) and cut the path at them (`path.cutAtAnchors`, also on the task bar and the context menu): a closed path opens there and an open one becomes one path per piece, each cut leaving one of its two coincident anchors selected so a drag pulls the path apart. In the Pathfinder panel a group selected alone counts its nested shapes, so an expanded stroked object keeps the Shape Modes enabled (#1642, #1635).
+    Outline Stroke, Expand's Stroke option and Flatten Transparency's Convert All Strokes to Outlines apply the object's visible geometry effects (Offset Path, Zig Zag and the others) to the path, and then apply each stroke's own geometry effects before outlining that stroke, as the canvas draws it. The filled outline of a stroke without a brush keeps the stroke's other effects, such as a drop shadow.
    Outline Stroke and Unite remove the overlaps of a long, low path with the sweep turned along it: when the estimated number of segments the sweep holds at once is under two thirds as large for the path turned a quarter turn (paths of 2,048 segments or more), the overlaps are removed on the turned path and the result is turned back, which moves no point by rounding. The lookups of the input curve that a piece of the result lies on, and of the input anchors that are kept, can search along y instead of x: once lookups with more than 64 candidates along x have counted 16 for each input curve or anchor, a lookup searches along y when it finds fewer candidates there (under a quarter as many for curves), and where that has rarely happened it measures along y in only one lookup of 32. On one open path of 200,000 anchors in rows of 1,000, Outline Stroke takes 17.3 s of processor time instead of 31.3 s and Unite 2.9 s instead of 6.5 s in a release build. A turned result has as many subpaths as the result without the turn, and the area where the two differ is no larger than the refit precision times the outline's length (`crates/pathops/src/sweep_axis.rs` tests).
  - Divide uses open lines, bent paths and curves as cutting edges (#1307), preserving the frontmost filled face's appearance and holes. Engine tests cover implicit closure of filled open contours and unrelated objects; native automation confirms independent piece movement, one Undo/Redo, canvas/window captures and an exact saved-document read by a separate CLI process. The shared planar map keeps a segment cap (65,536 since #937, was 4,096) and its filled-area fallback; other Pathfinder operations are unchanged.
  - Type that Transform effects only move and copy (no scale, rotation, reflection or Random) exports as type in each place, and PDF export writes every copy as selectable, searchable text, when its characters are in solid colors without underline or strikethrough, the type object has no fills or strokes of its own, no inline graphics and no perspective, its transform does not scale or shear stroked characters, and the copies do not overlap. When the effect is on the type itself, the type can also have transparency, an opacity mask and raster effects. When the effect is on the group or layer holding the type, the type has no transparency or effects of its own and is not in a clipping path, the group or layer has no fill, stroke or Pathfinder effect of its own, and no group between them has a fill, stroke, Pathfinder or geometry effect. Type still exports as outlines when the effect stops its copies early, or when the copies would number more than 10,000 or take more than 20,000,000 bytes of document data, and so does other type under a geometry effect.
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  The Character panel menu's Show Font Height Options shows a Set Font Height Reference dropdown under Font Size (`text.setFormat` or `text.setRangeStyle` `{fontHeightReference}`). With Em Box, the default, the font size is the size of the em square; with Cap Height, x-Height or ICF Box, the characters are set at the em size at which the font's OS/2 cap height, its x height or the height of its ideographic character face equals the font size. With a font that has no such value, or one outside 0.1 to 2 em, the size measures the em box. SVG, PDF and legacy `.ai` export and the CSS Properties rules write the em size the characters are drawn at, and DXF export writes 0.7 times that em size as each TEXT entity's height (group 40, the height of its capitals). Behavior reference: [Vary font height](https://web.archive.org/web/20251118174722/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/edit-format-text/vary-font-height.html).
  The Every-line Composer composes a paragraph whose characters differ in line metrics (type size, font, leading or vertical scale, or an inline graphic taller than the text) in rectangular area type, rows and columns included. In area type of another shape, or with text wrap, such a paragraph is broken with the Single-line Composer.
  The Character panel's Small Caps, Superscript and Subscript buttons and the panel menu's items of the same names turn small caps and the superscript or subscript position on and off for the selected type, or for the text the Type tool has selected (`text.setFormat` or `text.setRangeStyle` `{smallCaps, position}`), in Document Setup's proportions. Turning Superscript on turns Subscript off, and turning Subscript on turns Superscript off. A button or item shows as on when the first selected character (at a caret, the character before it) has its attribute.
+  The Character panel's Anti-aliasing Method dropdown, under Character Rotation, sets how the edges of the selected type objects are drawn as pixels (`text.setFormat {antiAlias}`), for the whole object, with each frame of a thread keeping its own method, on the canvas, in raster exports and when the type is rasterized. VectorCraft defines the methods: Sharp, the default, draws edges as before; None paints a pixel only where the type covers at least half of it; Crisp shows a pixel covered by a share c at `2c - 0.5`, and Strong shows it at `2c`, each kept between 0 and 1. SVG, PDF and EPS export are unchanged. Scores and hours unchanged.
  The OpenType panel's Stylistic Alternates and Titling Alternates checkboxes turn `salt` and `titl` on and off for the selected type, and its Figure menu lists Default Figure, Tabular Lining, Proportional Lining, Proportional Oldstyle and Tabular Oldstyle; Proportional Lining sets `pnum` and `lnum` and turns `tnum` and `onum` off, Tabular Lining turns `pnum` off and keeps `lnum`, Proportional Oldstyle turns `lnum` off and keeps `pnum`, and Default Figure and Tabular Oldstyle turn `pnum` and `lnum` off. Behavior reference: [Format text with OpenType features](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/special-characters-glyphs/format-text-with-opentype-features.html) and [Use swashes, titling alternates, or stylistic alternates](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/special-characters-glyphs/use-swashes-titling-alternates-or-stylistic-alternates.html) (public documentation). Tests: `panels::opentype::tests`.
  The OpenType panel's Position menu lists Default Position, Superscript, Subscript, Numerator and Denominator, as [Format text with OpenType features](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/special-characters-glyphs/format-text-with-opentype-features.html) describes; Superscript, Subscript, Numerator and Denominator set `sups`, `subs`, `numr` and `dnom` for the selected type and turn the other three off, and Default Position turns all four off. The menu shows Mixed when the characters it acts on differ, and an entry chosen then applies to all of them. These two rules are VectorCraft's own, as is setting the feature on type whose font lacks the glyphs, which then draws unchanged. The panel's menus and checkboxes change only their own features on each selected character, so characters keep their other OpenType features (`text.setStyle` and `text.setRangeStyle` `{featureChanges}`). Tests: `panels::opentype::tests`, `features::tests::numerators_and_denominators_are_kept_and_shaped`.
  The Glyphs panel's Show menu and panel menu have Alternates for Current Selection, as [Replace characters with alternate glyphs](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/special-characters-glyphs/replace-characters-with-alternate-glyphs.html) describes: the grid lists the alternate glyphs of the character selected with the Type tool, and a double-click draws that character with the glyph as one undo step (`text.glyphAlternates`, `text.setGlyphAlternate`). The alternates come from the font's `GSUB` single and alternate substitutions of `aalt`, then `salt`, `ss01` to `ss20`, `swsh`, `cv01` to `cv99` and a few other alternate features, each glyph once. The text keeps the character, native files keep the choice with the face it was made in, and type set in another font or version draws the default glyph. The list uses the font of the character's text even when the panel browses another font, and the panel shows a note when the character has no alternates, its font is missing or no character is selected; these rules are VectorCraft's own. Tests: `panels::glyphs::tests`, `tests::alternates`, `tests::textedit::a_glyph_alternate_replaces_one_character_through_undo_and_reopen`.
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 - **Several mesh points at once (#4207, #4208, #4170):** the Mesh tool and Direct Selection pick several points of a gradient mesh or mesh envelope: Shift-click adds a point or takes a picked one away, Direct Selection's marquee picks the points inside it (Shift toggles them) and selects their meshes, and its click on a mesh line picks the line's two ends and one inside a patch the four points around it. The picked points show filled; dragging one moves them all as one undo step and the arrow keys nudge them (`object.mesh.movePoints {id, points, dx, dy}` or `{items, dx, dy}`), and a click on one of several picked points picks it alone. A solid fill colour (`paint.setFill`: Color panel, Swatches, Eyedropper) recolours every picked point, and the Transparency panel's Opacity fades them instead of the object, the panel showing their opacity (blank when it differs); `object.mesh.setPointColor` takes `points` or `items`. Public reference: [Edit mesh objects](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/create-and-edit-meshes/edit-mesh-objects.html) (Shift selects multiple mesh points; a fill colour colours the selected point), [Macworld, gradient mesh](https://www.macworld.com/article/202693/gmesh2.html) (Direct Selection: a mesh line selects the points at both ends, a patch the points around it, Shift-click adds or removes points), [Peachpit](https://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1638270) (each mesh point can have its own colour or transparency). Tests: `shift_clicks_pick_mesh_points_that_drag_and_nudge_together` and `direct_selection_picks_mesh_points_by_marquee_line_and_patch` in `crates/tools/src/meshedit.rs`, `picked_mesh_points_take_the_fill_opacity_and_drag_together` in `crates/engine/src/tests/editcolors.rs`, `mesh_points_move_and_colour_together` in `crates/engine/src/tests/live.rs`. Scores and hours unchanged.
 - **Image Trace Flat Logo mode:** a fourth mode beside Black and White, Grayscale and Color, for flat-colour logos. Each pixel is read as a blend of the logo's colours (found automatically or named), the blend is interpolated smoothly and every outline is placed where two colours are equally present, so edges are accurate to a fraction of a pixel. Outlines are then cleaned: corners the blur rounded are put back, near-straight runs and near-circular arcs become exact lines and arcs, the rest is fitted with as few Béziers as the tolerance allows, touching colours overlap by a hair so no gap opens, and an outline that strays from the raw contour is fitted plainly instead. Gradients and photos are refused with advice to use Color. Line art whose only solid area is white paper (strokes a pixel or two wide) takes its colours from the strokes' cores, with the lighter shades along a stroke's anti-aliased edge folded into its ink; a page whose ink (a channel at least 48 below white) covers under 1% of it traces to nothing, as blank paper does. *Measured* (a local experiment, not run in CI): a flat-colour logo's vector original was rendered down to a soft 199 × 100 px transparent PNG, traced, and the result compared with the original at 1600 px wide. The built-in colour presets (6 Colors, 16 Colors, High Fidelity Photo, Low Fidelity Photo) had a mean edge error of 2.5 to 3.4 px and region overlap of 0.88 to 0.91; Flat Logo had 0.78 px and 0.966 (0.48 px and 0.975 from a crisp source), in about 0.1 s. Limits: flat-colour art only; needle-thin sharp tips are shortened by about 1.7 source pixels because the blur erases them; it works at no more than 1024 px on the long side (larger images are averaged down first); only one logo family has been scored against a vector original.
 - **Image Trace, Flat Logo named colors only:** with `logoColors` named, `"logoWhite": false` traces those colors only, so white areas take the nearest of them and no white is added; a named white is kept, and enclosed transparent areas stay holes; code-drawn tests in `crates/trace` and `crates/engine`.
+- **Image Trace, Keep Colors:** `"keepColors": ["#rrggbb", …]` traces only the palette colors near a listed color (Abutting: each with the paths the trace of every color gives it; Overlapping: not reaching under the colors left out), in Black and White, Grayscale and Color; code-drawn tests in `crates/trace` and `crates/engine`.
 - **Advanced art:** live Blends (steps/distance/smooth colour, editable spine, anchor-targeted Blend tool, faithful interpolation, knockout), Envelope Distort (warp/mesh/top object, Reset, full Envelope Options, mesh handles, Edit Contents; type, images, symbols, gradients, patterns and appearance distorted everywhere), Liquify tools with options and pen pressure, Puppet Warp with rotating pins, Perspective Grid with presets, movable planes and projected type (choosing a perspective tool shows the grid; Hide Grid hides it with the tool still chosen), Gradient Mesh, Shape Builder (stroke-only open paths and lines cut the regions they cross and enclose regions of their own, and regions they bound merge without seams where the lines cross at rounded coordinates (#893); filled open paths count as closed; erase mode while Alt/Option is held: a minus pointer, red highlights of what will go, a click or drag deletes the regions touched, the pieces of open lines and the edges (outline pieces between the points where paths meet, opening their paths there) it passes over, one undo step, `shapeBuilder.merge {erase}` and `shapeBuilder.regions` edges over MCP), Live Paint (every path an edge, open lines included), Image Trace (12 presets, colour layers traced in parallel; a trace past two million anchor points is refused with advice rather than running out of memory, an image over 64 megapixels is traced scaled down to that size (aspect kept, paths at the image's own size) and one over 192 megapixels is refused, and a selection too large to outline shows its bounds (#525); Object › Image Trace › Make and Make and Expand trace at once with the Default preset, #543; with an image selected the Control bar and the Properties panel show Image Trace, whose arrow traces with any preset, Mask (`object.maskImage`: a clipping path on the image's outline, selected so its handles crop), Crop Image (a crop box on the image, starting on its part over the artboard, dragged by its handles or inside it, the outside dimmed, with X/Y/W/H, Apply and Cancel in the Control bar, Enter and Escape, #734; `object.cropImage {rect}` for agents, `{trim: true}` cuts an image to its pixels that aren't fully transparent, pixel for pixel) and Embed or Unembed in place of Fill and Stroke; with an Image Trace object selected, its Preset (choosing another traces again), View, the Image Trace panel and Expand, plus Release in Properties; the five View modes (Tracing Result, with Outlines, Outlines, Outlines with Source Image, Source Image) redraw a trace on screen without tracing again, are saved with it and `imageTrace.setView` sets them, while exports and Expand keep the result; the panel's Advanced section is a header that stays open or closed as it was left (part of #641); Color mode's Palette: Limited, Full Tone (as many colours as the tones need, Less … More), Automatic (flat art with its own colours, else Full Tone; a heuristic) and Document Library (the most used colours of the document's swatches or a swatch library, filled with the swatch colours as they are), part of #641; Advanced › Create: Fills and/or Strokes, where lines up to the Stroke width trace as stroked centre lines (distance transform, thinning, a skeleton graph with spurs pruned, curve fitting; one width per line; without Fills, wider areas become stroked outlines), part of #641), pattern swatches with pattern editing mode, live Repeat (radial/grid/mirror). A single selected mirror repeat shows a prominent axis with a center move handle and two rotation handles. Drag the line or center to change spacing, or an end to change angle; Shift snaps rotation to 45°. The original artwork stays in place, the reflected copy previews live, Escape cancels and each drag takes one undo step through `object.repeat.options`. Controls follow zoom/view rotation and hide with edges or the bounding box. Engine and headless canvas regressions passed for gestures, history and visibility; native move, rotation and Escape screenshots were reviewed. [Public mirror-repeat reference](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/create-and-edit-patterns/set-mirror-repeat-options.html). A single selected grid repeat shows a handle below the grid for rows, one right of it for columns and one past its bottom-right corner for both, and sliders between its first two columns and rows for the horizontal and vertical spacing; the source keeps its size, each drag is one undo step and Escape cancels it ([public grid-repeat reference](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/create-and-edit-patterns/set-grid-repeat-options.html), #2691). Object › Expand turns radial, grid and mirror repeats into groups of their instances (#1765, #1756).
  Choosing the Blend tool again while it is active (its toolbar button, W or `tool.select`) finishes the blend: the object clicked first is dropped and the next click no longer adds to the blend just made, so the click after it starts a new blend ([Blending objects](https://web.archive.org/web/20241217212108/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/blending-objects.html)).
  Window › Blend exposes easing Type, Ramp and independent color Shift through `object.blend.options`.
@@ -1305,6 +1323,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
    In a `.ai` or EPS opened from its editing data, type has its text object's opacity, blend mode and knockout shape flag, whether it is made from the file's text document or taken from the page, and type made from the text document takes its text object's lock. Where such type has transparency and comes in with other art (the rest of its look, or page type and strokes that go with it), a group of them has it. Where the page draws its type, or the strokes around it, with transparency that is neither its text object's nor its text object's combined with that of the objects around it, the page's type and strokes keep their own instead (`crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs`). Where the page draws type of no text object over text objects made from the text document, with their words in any case, that type is theirs as the page draws it and is left out; the page's other type of no text object goes only to text objects whose type the text document can't make, or else is left out with a warning.
    `.ai` editing-data import restores the document's listed graphic styles in panel order and links objects that use a listed style; unsupported appearances keep their drawn look (`crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs`).
    A `.ai` or EPS graphic style library, whose editing data holds the styles and their list but no layers, opens with those styles in list order. Other Library… loads another document's graphic styles ([Apply graphic styles](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/special-effects-styles/apply-graphic-styles/apply-graphic-styles.html)) and lists such a library's styles in a library panel. A `.ai` or EPS read as its PDF part or page because its layers can't be used also gets the styles of its list in place of the default ones (`crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs`, `cmd::fileio::tests_aiimport::a_graphic_style_library_in_a_ai_file_without_layers_loads_its_styles`).
+    A `.ai` or EPS symbol library, whose editing data holds symbol definitions and their list but no layers, opens with those symbols in list order, each with its registration point. Other Library… in the Symbols panel's Symbol Libraries Menu imports the symbols of the file you pick ([Create or import symbol libraries](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/create-or-import-symbol-libraries.html)) and lists such a library's symbols in a library panel. A `.ai` or EPS read as its PDF part or page because its layers can't be used also gets the symbols defined before its layers (`crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs`, `crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs`, `cmd::fileio::tests_aiimport::a_symbol_library_in_a_ai_file_without_layers_loads_its_symbols`).
    A `.ai` or EPS opened from its editing data whose text document makes the type of every text object that shows takes all its type from the text document: each text object stays in its own group, frame and layer, the page's type isn't matched with them, a file of more than 5,000 text objects still opens with its layers, and type the page draws differently (in another font) keeps the layers, with a warning. A line break inside a paragraph stays a line break in it (`crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs`, `crates/eps/src/import/ate.rs`).
    In SVG export without Fewer `<tspan>` Elements, each character of live type that justification or Mojikumi moves (the letter gaps of a Justify All line without word spaces, the gaps between the characters of a justified Japanese line, closed-up punctuation, the space between Japanese and Latin letters) starts its own positioned `<tspan>`, and type scaled horizontally on a justified line is stretched to its own width (`crates/svg/tests/it/text_layout.rs`).
    To find those characters, SVG export lays a type object out a second time only when the second layout can differ from the first: point type with Line-end Punctuation Half Width and no Japanese punctuation or letters, the setting new type gets, is laid out once. Exporting 5,000 such objects takes a median of 109.4 ms instead of 171.5 ms on Windows 11, with the same SVG (`crates/svg/src/export/text/tests.rs`).
@@ -1431,6 +1450,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
  The Pathfinder panel, Offset Path, Clean Up, Divide Objects Below, Make and Release Blend, Envelope Distort's Make and Release, Repeat (Radial, Grid, Mirror and Release), Vector Halftone, New and Redefine Symbol, Delete Symbol, erasing with the Symbol Sprayer, Rasterize, Convert to Artboards, Flatten Transparency, Clear Guides, Shape Builder, Live Paint, Release Image Trace, Make and Release Opacity Mask, Delete with direct-selected anchor points, Remove Anchor Points, Cut Path, and the Shaper, Knife, Eraser, Path Eraser, Line Cut, Rectangle Cut, Mirror & Cut and Blob Brush tools add and remove objects in one pass over each layer or group they change, and Outline Stroke and Expand write each new object in the place of the object it replaces (#1429).
  Offset Path looks up the segments near each candidate hole or island in a tree of the source path's segment bounds when it decides whether to drop that contour, instead of testing the bounds of every segment. The output paths are the same. On compound and open paths of 25,000 to 40,000 anchors with 6,400 to 11,976 candidate contours, that check takes 11 to 13 ms instead of 140 to 649 ms (medians of five interleaved runs). The limit on overlapping segment pairs is the same, so a path that stops with "Offset Path: the path is too complex to offset" still stops there.
  Finding the distinct regions of an arrangement lists the shapes that cover each region instead of keeping a flag for every shape, so that step's time follows how many shapes cover each region rather than how many shapes there are. Divide, Hard Mix, Soft Mix, Shape Builder, Flatten Transparency, trapping, Intertwine and the Pathfinder effects are among the commands that use that step. The regions, their order and the output are the same. Divide on 3,000 overlapping rectangles takes 0.84 to 1.13 billion CPU cycles on its thread instead of 1.25 to 1.46 billion (dev build, six runs of each, alternating, while other builds were running).
+  The contour passes of the two-path boolean operations, Offset Path, compound shapes and Intertwine test the list of shapes that cover each face instead of a flag for every shape, so each test's time follows how many shapes cover the face rather than how many shapes there are. The contours, their order and the output are the same. The many-shape boolean that compound shapes use takes 0.75 to 0.83 billion CPU cycles on its thread instead of 1.28 to 1.33 billion to unite 10,000 squares that do not touch, and 2.27 to 2.30 billion instead of 2.43 to 2.47 billion for 1,500 members of two squares each over 3,000 overlapping squares (dev build, six runs of each, alternating, while other builds were running).
  With more than 10,000 type on a path objects selected, the Selection and Direct Selection tools neither draw nor hit-test the objects' brackets.
  The renderer outlines the stroke of a path object with more than 1,024 path elements, without dashes or a width profile, only in and around the view, with a margin of the view's size on each side, and outlines it again when the view moves past that margin. The pixels are the same. At 1600 × 1200, the frame after one anchor of an open path of 200,000 anchors moves takes 28 to 30 ms instead of 103 ms, and with a closed path of 50,000 anchors 10 ms instead of 30 ms (`cargo run --release -p vectorcraft-engine --example anchor_bench`).
  The renderer outlines a dashed stroke of such a path the same way, without a width profile, and draws its dashes and dots in the same places as when the whole path is dashed, so the pixels are the same. A pattern too fine to draw is drawn solid, as before, and its stroke is outlined near the view too. At 1600 × 1200, the frame after one anchor moves takes 14 ms instead of 102 ms with a filled closed path of 50,000 anchors and a stroke of 6 pt dashes and 4 pt gaps (`cargo run --release -p vectorcraft-engine --example anchor_bench`, which now includes that document).
@@ -1542,8 +1562,9 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
 - **Safe Mode for plug-ins (G17):** `vectorcraft --safe-mode` and `vectorcraft-cli --safe-mode <subcommand>` start without plug-ins. When a launch stopped while a plug-in was loading or drawing its first live effect, the next launch names that plug-in, without saying it caused the stop, and offers Disable and Continue, Start Normally or Start in Safe Mode. Help › Safe Mode lists the disabled plug-ins with Enable on Re-launch, which takes effect at the next launch, and the app bar and the window title show Safe Mode. The help page (https://web.archive.org/web/20210601162814/https://helpx.adobe.com/pdf/illustrator_reference.pdf, pages 65 to 69) describes the same choice between diagnosing and starting normally, a Safe Mode with the problem item off and the rest of the app working, and turning the item back on at the next launch. In Safe Mode no plug-in loads or runs, and a live-effect plug-in draws its object's geometry unchanged while the object keeps the effect, which the Appearance panel marks "(Safe Mode)" with the plug-in's id in its tooltip and `effect.list` marks `skipped`; Expand Appearance refuses such an object. The web build keeps no plug-ins between page loads and has no marker. Each desktop launch with preferences keeps a marker in the `Launch` folder next to them; `vectorcraft-cli` and a desktop launch without preferences keep none, so a stop there leads to no choice at the next launch. Disabled plug-ins are listed in `Plug-ins/disabled.json`. `plugin.safeMode` reports Safe Mode and the disabled plug-ins, and `plugin.setEnabled` changes the list. Regressions: `crates/plugins/src/safe_mode.rs`, `crates/plugins/tests/safe_mode.rs`, `crates/engine/tests/plugin_safe_mode.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/tests/safe_mode.rs`. Scores and hours unchanged.
 - **Plug-in instruction budget at a bulk memory instruction:** a run that pauses where one slice of its instruction budget ends keeps the instructions the slice still held. A `memory.fill` or `memory.copy` that the slice can't pay for in full runs on the next slice, so a run whose budget covers its work finishes; a run ends with `Limit("instruction budget")` only when the instructions it has left can't pay for the next instruction. Regressions: `crates/plugins/tests/abi.rs`. Scores and hours unchanged.
 - **Plug-in permissions (G17):** a manifest may list `permissions` (`doc.read`, `doc.write`, `state`, `effect.render`, `export.write`; the first three follow storytold/photocraft#662) and an `api` level; without the list a plug-in gets what its kind implies and installs as before. Install Plug-in… and File › Open show the name, id, version, file SHA-256 and each permission in plain words, with control and bidirectional characters escaped, and install nothing on Cancel; `plugin.install` needs `grant`, and folders install only granted plug-ins. The grant is kept with the module's hash, a module asking for more asks again, and a filter run refuses output its permissions don't allow. Regressions: `crates/plugins/src/permissions.rs`, `crates/plugins/src/manifest.rs`, `crates/engine/src/tests/plugins.rs`, `crates/engine/tests/plugin_fuzz.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/tests/plugins.rs`. Scores and hours unchanged.
+- **Plug-in commands (G17):** a filter or live effect may declare up to 32 `commands` (`{id, label, params?}`); each is the command `plugin.<id>.<command>` while the plug-in is installed, in a submenu named after the plug-in under Object › Plug-ins (Effect › Plug-ins for a live effect) whatever menu the manifest names, with its label escaped. Commands are recorded in actions, listed in Keyboard Shortcuts for the user to give a shortcut, and run through `run` and MCP with their parameters checked first (a command with parameters opens a dialog from its menu item or shortcut). A run uses the plug-in's permissions (a live effect with commands may also hold `doc.write` and `state`, and gets them without a `permissions` list), is one undo step named after the command, and on failure (a trap or an exhausted instruction budget) leaves the document and the undo history as they were with an error naming the plug-in and the command. For a command and for `plugin.run`, an `ids` that is not a list of object ids is an error rather than the selection. A malformed entry is refused by name when the module is installed. Regressions: `crates/plugins/src/manifest.rs`, `crates/plugins/src/permissions.rs`, `crates/engine/src/tests/plugins.rs`, `crates/engine/tests/plugin_fuzz.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/tests/plugins.rs`. Scores and hours unchanged.
 - **Plug-in progress, Cancel and log lines (G17):** at plug-in API level 2 a plug-in with the `progress` permission imports `env.vc_progress`, `env.vc_cancelled` and `env.vc_log`. A heavy filter's and an export's progress windows show its progress as a percentage bar, their Cancel reaches it through `vc_cancelled`, and its log lines go to the app's log with its id, capped per line and per run. Installing checks every import and names the one it refuses. Regressions: `crates/plugins/src/host.rs`, `crates/plugins/tests/abi.rs`, `crates/engine/src/tests/plugins.rs`, `crates/engine/tests/plugin_fuzz.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/tests/plugin_runs.rs`. Scores and hours unchanged.
- **Plug-in settings and cache (G17, #2191):** at plug-in API level 2 a plug-in with the `settings` permission keeps settings of its own (`env.vc_settings_get`, `_set`, `_delete`) and one with `cache` a cache the user can clear (`env.vc_cache_read`, `_write`, `_clear`), under its id in the `Plug-ins` folder. Keys are plain names, never paths; VectorCraft's own caps refuse a write past 256 settings, 1 MiB of settings or 512 MiB of cache; a damaged settings file is moved aside and the settings start empty. `plugin.clearCache` empties a cache, `plugin.list` and `plugin.info` give `cacheBytes`, replacing a plug-in keeps its storage and `plugin.remove` deletes it. Another module under an id that is installed or has storage installs only with `replace: true`, which the app asks the user for; each storage call counts the whole settings file or cache entry it reads and writes toward the run's 1 GiB. Regressions: `crates/plugins/src/storage.rs`, `crates/plugins/tests/abi.rs`, `crates/engine/src/tests/plugins.rs`, `crates/engine/tests/plugin_fuzz.rs`. Scores and hours unchanged.
+- **Plug-in settings and cache (G17, #2191):** at plug-in API level 2 a plug-in with the `settings` permission keeps settings of its own (`env.vc_settings_get`, `_set`, `_delete`) and one with `cache` a cache the user can clear (`env.vc_cache_read`, `_write`, `_clear`), under its id in the `Plug-ins` folder. Keys are plain names, never paths; VectorCraft's own caps refuse a write past 256 settings, 1 MiB of settings or 512 MiB of cache; a damaged settings file is moved aside and the settings start empty. `plugin.clearCache` empties a cache, `plugin.list` and `plugin.info` give `cacheBytes`, replacing a plug-in keeps its storage and `plugin.remove` deletes it. Another module under an id that is installed or has storage installs only with `replace: true`, which the app asks the user for; each storage call counts the whole settings file or cache entry it reads and writes toward the run's 1 GiB. Regressions: `crates/plugins/src/storage.rs`, `crates/plugins/tests/abi.rs`, `crates/engine/src/tests/plugins.rs`, `crates/engine/tests/plugin_clear_cache.rs`, `crates/engine/tests/plugin_fuzz.rs`. Scores and hours unchanged.

 - **Plug-in effects after a plug-in changes:** when a plug-in is installed for the first time, installed again or removed (`plugin.install`, `plugin.reload`, `plugin.remove`, File › Open of a `.wasm` file, the Additional Plug-ins Folder preference), the next frame the canvas draws uses the plug-ins then installed for objects with a plug-in effect and their raster effects, for the blends, envelopes and repeats that show such objects, and for pattern tiles and symbol instances whose art holds one.

@@ -1846,6 +1867,8 @@ Edit › Copy and Cut put the selected ruler guides on the clipboard, with the s
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | `.ai` and EPS import: Art brushes in the older form of their objects come into the Brushes panel; evidence updated; scores unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-08 | minor | Panel numeric wheel turns do not seed canvas zoom glides; corrected the disabled-field scroll description (#5949). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-07 | minor | Numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking focus; keyboard focus and existing rounding rules remain (#5949). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Direct Selection: with Snap to Grid, a dragged straight segment lands its anchors on the grid (#3835); evidence added; scores unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Snap to Glyph › Glyph Bounds: the corners of each glyph's box are points a drawn point lands on, also on a curved side (`B`), and the box turns with rotated type, its edges then Angular Guides (#5112; [Snap to Glyph options](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/special-characters-glyphs/snap-to-glyph-options.html)); scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Drop Shadow: a swatch beside Color opens the Color Picker over the dialog, as the other effect colour fields do (#5364); correction: the #5365 entry listed Drop Shadow, whose Color is drawn outside the shared grid and had no swatch; scores unchanged. |
@@ -21,10 +21,7 @@ against Illustrator's public documentation; **estimated** unless noted.
 | Mouse wheel over the closed font-family field | done | #5253: Character, Properties and Control step selected text through the family list using saved font filters (excluding search text), one undo step per notch; the style is matched and the list stops at either end. Escape and leaving the field keep the change. Order, bounds and Undo grouping are VectorCraft's choices; scores unchanged. |
 | Soft return (forced line break, Shift+Enter) | done | Shift+Enter inserts a soft return (U+2028), breaking the line without starting a new paragraph; paragraph spacing (space before/after) and first-line indents apply only at paragraph ends; continuation lines in lists do not repeat the marker; soft return lines in justified text do not spread (#2754) |
 | Native font-family labels | partial | With Show Font Names in English off, localized legacy names are used when typographic names contain no native label (#2208); loaded-font and catalog-only regressions. Choosing among multiple native languages is unchanged. |
-| Point, area and type-on-a-path type; vertical variants | done / partial | vertical point, area and path type have initial support; fullwidth `！` / `？` keep the nominal glyph upright when no vertical alternate exists (Unicode Tu); in a non-rectangular area a word too wide for the top lines moves down to the first line that holds it (#1615); Escape while typing ends the edit, keeps the type selected and switches back to the tool that was active before type editing began (kept while clicks move editing to other text), or to the Selection tool when there was none (#1802), and Cmd+Enter (Ctrl+Enter on Windows and Linux) does the same unless a command is bound to it; `text.create` and `text.createInPath` take `justify` (#1752); MCP `add_text` forwards `vertical` to both commands; the Type and Vertical Type tools make area type when a closed path's outline is clicked and type on a path when an open one is, with pointers that say which, as the public help describes ([Create text](https://web.archive.org/web/20220127090642/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/creating-text.html), [Create type on a path](https://web.archive.org/web/20220127090635/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/creating-type-path.html)) |
-| Point, area and type-on-a-path type; vertical variants | done / partial | vertical point, area and path type have initial support; fullwidth `！` / `？` keep the nominal glyph upright when no vertical alternate exists (Unicode Tu); in a non-rectangular area a word too wide for the top lines moves down to the first line that holds it (#1615); Escape while typing ends the edit, keeps the type selected and switches back to the tool that double-clicked into the type, or to the Selection tool (#1802), and Cmd+Enter (Ctrl+Enter on Windows and Linux) does the same unless a command is bound to it; `text.create` and `text.createInPath` take `justify` (#1752); MCP `add_text` forwards `vertical` to both commands; the Type and Vertical Type tools make area type when a closed path's outline is clicked and type on a path when an open one is, with pointers that say which, as the public help describes ([Create text](https://web.archive.org/web/20220127090642/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/creating-text.html), [Create type on a path](https://web.archive.org/web/20220127090635/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/creating-type-path.html)) |
-| Point, area and type-on-a-path type; vertical variants | done / partial | vertical point, area and path type have initial support; fullwidth `！` / `？` keep the nominal glyph upright when no vertical alternate exists (Unicode Tu); in a non-rectangular area a word too wide for the top lines moves down to the first line that holds it (#1615); Escape while typing ends the edit, keeps the type selected and switches to the Selection tool (#1802); `text.create` and `text.createInPath` take `justify` (#1752); MCP `add_text` forwards `vertical` to both commands; Type › Type Orientation sets every frame of a thread, and a thread's frames share one writing direction |
-| Point, area and type-on-a-path type; vertical variants | done / partial | vertical point, area and path type have initial support; fullwidth `！` / `？` keep the nominal glyph upright when no vertical alternate exists (Unicode Tu); in a non-rectangular area a word too wide for the top lines moves down to the first line that holds it (#1615); Escape while typing ends the edit, keeps the type selected and switches to the Selection tool (#1802), and Cmd+Enter (Ctrl+Enter on Windows and Linux) does the same unless a command is bound to it; `text.create` and `text.createInPath` take `justify` (#1752); MCP `add_text` forwards `vertical` to both commands; the Type and Vertical Type tools make area type when a closed path's outline is clicked and type on a path when an open one is, with pointers that say which, as the public help describes ([Create text](https://web.archive.org/web/20220127090642/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/creating-text.html), [Create type on a path](https://web.archive.org/web/20220127090635/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/creating-type-path.html)) |
+| Point, area and type-on-a-path type; vertical variants | done / partial | vertical point, area and path type have initial support; fullwidth `！` / `？` keep the nominal glyph upright when no vertical alternate exists (Unicode Tu); in a non-rectangular area a word too wide for the top lines moves down to the first line that holds it (#1615); Escape while typing ends the edit, keeps the type selected and switches back to the tool whose double-click on type chose the Type tool (kept until another tool is chosen or another document or window becomes active, so later edits with the Type tool return there too), or to the Selection tool when there is no such tool, as when the Type tool was chosen from the toolbar or after such a switch (#1802), and Cmd+Enter (Ctrl+Enter on Windows and Linux) does the same unless a command is bound to it; `text.create` and `text.createInPath` take `justify` (#1752); MCP `add_text` forwards `vertical` to both commands; Type › Type Orientation sets every frame of a thread, and a thread's frames share one writing direction; the Type and Vertical Type tools make area type when a closed path's outline is clicked and type on a path when an open one is, with pointers that say which, as the public help describes ([Create text](https://web.archive.org/web/20220127090642/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/creating-text.html), [Create type on a path](https://web.archive.org/web/20220127090635/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/creating-type-path.html)) |
 | Area Type Options (rows, columns, inset, first baseline, Text Flow by rows or by columns, Auto Size, Shrink Text to Fit) | done | Text Flow fills the cells down each column first (By Columns, the default, as files from before it open) or across each row first (By Rows), in the dialog and `text.areaOptions {flow}` (#4978); the commands that make or restyle type say when it does not fit its frame; MCP `add_text` takes Auto Size and Shrink Text to Fit (#1471) |
 | Threaded text, Fit Headline, Text Wrap | done | Fit Headline sees wrapping in a frame one line tall (#1444); a thread holds area type and type on a path in any mix, as Illustrator links type in an area or along a path ([help](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/manage-text-area.html)) |
 | Threading from the ports: selected area type and type on a path show an in port and an out port, empty, with an arrow on a side where the frame is threaded, or with a red "+" in the out port when the text doesn't fit; a click on either port loads the text; a click on a closed path, area type or type on a path threads into it, a click on empty canvas makes a frame of the same kind, shape and size there, a drag draws a rectangular frame; the frame placed comes after the clicked one from its out port and before it from its in port (the story then starts there); Escape or another tool cancels; a double-click on a threaded port breaks the thread there | partial | #2572: the Selection tool, `text.thread.add {from, to?, rect?, at?, before?}`, as the reference app's help describes ports and threading ([archived help, Threading text between objects](https://web.archive.org/web/20210119051048/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/creating-text.html), [create text threads](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/add-manage-text/create-text-threads-between-objects.html)); area type's in port sits on the left side below the top-left corner, type on a path's just before its start bracket; Show Text Threads draws its lines between the same ports; with more than 1,000 such objects selected no ports are drawn. a double-click on a port where the frame is threaded breaks the thread there, the story flowing into the frames before the break and the frames after it left empty, still threaded with each other when two or more (`text.thread.break`, [archived help](https://web.archive.org/web/20220127090642/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/creating-text.html)). Remaining: the ports only take clicks with the Selection tool, and the loaded cursor borrows the I-beam until it's drawn |
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 # UI and interaction parity

-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-08 · **Change:** minor (Character Styles panel: a double-click on a style's row opens its Character Style Options; the dialog keeps a fixed width and scrolls its sections, so its buttons stay on screen) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; Units › East Asian Type acts, with Q and Ha units; scores unchanged)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-09 · **Change:** minor (numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking keyboard focus, #5949) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; Units › East Asian Type acts, with Q and Ha units; scores unchanged)

 ## Feature submission evidence

+Numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking keyboard focus (#5949). Arrow keys still require focus; modifiers, units, limits, mixed values and existing rounding stay in the shared stepping path. Headless regressions in `tests/numfields.rs` cover hovered unfocused fields, focused fields, trackpad accumulation and panel scroll exclusion. Scores and estimates unchanged.
+
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Opening a file that takes longer than 0.4 s shows a progress window: the file name, a moving bar (reading reports no steps), how many more files wait, Cancel (Esc; the file doesn't open) and Continue in Background (`file.cancelOpen`, `file.openInBackground`); it never opens over another dialog or progress window (part of #5930); scores and estimates unchanged |
 Raster rendering fits and preflattens curved stroke outlines more tightly only below four times the raster tolerance, retaining thin-band coverage without changing stroke weight or vector export geometry. Current cached character/object outlines, cropped long strokes, gradient clips and effect rasters share the helper; cropped-region reuse and guarded flattening remain. The unchanged `fractional_curved_strokes_retain_coverage_between_notches` regression covers fractional weights, rotation, phase, opacity and f32-rounded endpoints. This is a quality/cost tradeoff, not a speed claim. Scores and estimates unchanged.

@@ -15,6 +17,8 @@ Group Selection keeps an already selected component selected during a drag; a co

 Creating a gradient from solid or empty paint uses the document's color model for its default stops, including drawing its vector with the Gradient tool. Explicit `keepModel: true` retains RGB defaults, and existing gradients keep their own colors. Scores and estimates are unchanged.

+Window → Help Bar toggles the bottom tool-help strip independently of the status bar. Its visibility is saved with workspaces and UI preferences; Presentation Mode hides both bars. Scores and estimates are unchanged.
+
 **Feature evidence last updated:** 2026-11-03.

 Enclosing Lasso is an add-on under Object › Plug-ins with its own heading in All Tools. It has
@@ -73,6 +77,7 @@ Artboard Options forwards the active Artboard tool's Scale Artwork with Artboard
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | Enclosing Lasso provides whole-object enclosure selection as an add-on with no default shortcut or Basic toolbar slot. Scores and estimates remain unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | Transform previews valid typed values while numeric fields remain focused. Effect dialogs use the object, group, or layer targeted in Appearance. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | New gradients use CMYK default stops in CMYK documents, including Gradient tool creation. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-03 | minor | Help Bar has its own Window menu toggle and workspace visibility setting. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-26 | minor | Pencil Fidelity goes down to 0.01 pt (dialog, tool and engine; Smooth keeps 0.05) on a logarithmic slider across the Tool Options row, with hundredths in the field and key steps that fit the range (#3328); scores and estimates unchanged (estimated) |
 | 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. |
@@ -259,7 +264,7 @@ tools, never checked side by side) isn't captured row by row.
 | Wheel over a closed font-family field in Character, Properties or Control | done | #5253: applies the next or previous family to selected text, one undo step per notch; uses saved font filters, ignores search text and stops at the list's ends. Escape and pointer departure keep the change. Other font-picking menus and modifier-wheel input keep their existing behavior. |
 | Arrow keys nudge by Keyboard Increment (0.001–1296 pt); Shift ×10; Alt copies | done | |
 | Fields commit what was typed on a click away or a move to another field, as Enter does; Escape discards it | done | #1787 |
-| Number fields: Up/Down step, Shift ×10, Cmd/Ctrl ÷10, wheel over a focused field; steps, the wheel and label scrubs stop at the field's bounds (a stroke weight at 0, a miter limit at 1) | done | Shift+arrow in the Stroke weight field doesn't step by 10 (#991); bounds #3370 |
+| Number fields: Up/Down step, Shift ×10, Cmd/Ctrl ÷10, wheel over a hovered field without a click; steps, the wheel and label scrubs stop at the field's bounds (a stroke weight at 0, a miter limit at 1) | done | Shift+arrow in the Stroke weight field doesn't step by 10 (#991); bounds #3370 |
 | Arithmetic in fields (`+ - * /`, and `%` of the value before it: `3cm*50%`, `50pt+25%`) and unit suffixes (`3 mm`, `1in`, `2p6`) | done | `Unit::parse`; mixed units in one expression not verified |
 | Numeric fields: focus click selects the whole value; dragging selects from the pressed character | partial | #1326; select-all waits for click release; px/pt/plain/optional fields, both directions and replacement text tested; native API input, 17 px partial replacement, Undo/Redo, saved-file round trip and screenshots verified; Tab, double-click, arrows and wheel preserved; short movements still classified as clicks can select all and remain open |
 | Units: pt, pc, in, mm, cm, px, ft-in, m, yd, ft; General/Stroke/Type units | done | units preference reverting to points on SVG output reported (#864) |
@@ -268,7 +273,7 @@ tools, never checked side by side) isn't captured row by row.
 | Scrubby labels (beyond Illustrator) | done | #400; the labels that are links (the Control bar's Stroke: and Opacity:, the Properties panel's Stroke) scrub too, and a click on them still opens their panel (#4088) |
 | 3D Lighting Color picker, preview, reset dot and Reset all | initial | One to ten opaque RGB lights for Revolve, Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate; select, add or delete a light and edit its settings or gizmo; Standard, Diffuse, Top Left and Right select original rigs, with Custom for manual changes; Cancel restores all lights |
 | Dialogs open with the first field focused and selected; Enter confirms | done | on every open, not only the first (#1367); a first field that starts greyed out takes the focus once enabled (#1395) |
-| Value fields: selected text readable in every brightness; a focused field follows its value when a slider or preview changes it | partial | #1490 (part of #1465: the wheel over a hovered, unfocused field still scrolls the panel), #1457 |
+| Value fields: selected text readable in every brightness; a focused field follows its value when a slider or preview changes it | partial | #1490, #1457; hover wheel stepping #5949 |
 | Sliders in dialogs and popups (Save for Web, raster export options, Preferences, the opacity popup) show their rail, filled up to the handle | done | #1483 |
 | Rectangular Grid and Polar Grid click dialogs: size, divider counts with a skew slider each, Use Outside Rectangle As Frame / Create Compound Path From Ellipses, Fill Grid; kept as the tool's options, used by drags too | done | #1377. The options are the documented ones; how far a skew percentage moves the dividers and which way the radial skew turns are our own choice (the public documentation gives neither). The reference point locator is in the dialog, and a double-click on the tool opens it as the tool's Tool Options (next row) |
 | Double-click the Line Segment, Arc, Rectangular Grid or Polar Grid tool: its Tool Options ([Rectangular Grid tool](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/tool-techniques/rectangular-grid-tool.html) and [Arc tool](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/tool-techniques/arc-tool.html) step 3, [Tools](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/tools.html)) | done | #2691. The tool's click dialog without a place to draw: Line Segment's Length, Angle and Fill Line; Arc's lengths, Reference Point, Type, Base Along, Slope and Fill Arc; the grids' Reference Point, Default Size, dividers, skews and switches. OK draws nothing and sets what the next drag draws with (Fill Line, the arc's type, base, slope and fill, the grids' dividers, skews and switches) and what a click's dialog opens at (with the Length, Angle and Default Size); Cancel changes nothing (`double_clicking_the_line_arc_and_grid_tools_opens_their_tool_options`) |
@@ -289,7 +294,7 @@ tools, never checked side by side) isn't captured row by row.
 | Artboard tool: the canvas right-click menu has Lock Artboards (Lock Selected, Lock All Except Selected, Lock All) and Unlock Artboards (Unlock Selected, Unlock All) | done | #2531; `artboard.setProps` with `locked` for each artboard named; the lock itself is #2592 |
 | Document Setup → Edit Artboards applies valid settings, closes the dialog and activates the Artboard tool | done | Pointer-click tests cover successful handoff, invalid settings, OK, Cancel and Undo in `dialogs/document_setup.rs`. |
 | Escape leaves Artboard editing for Selection; during a drag it first cancels the gesture | done | Headless egui key events cover idle Escape, active-drag cancellation and a subsequent Escape in `tests/distortkeys.rs`. |
-| Escape while typing ends the edit, keeps the type selected and switches back to the tool that was active before type editing began (kept while clicks move editing to other text), or to the Selection tool when there was none | done | #1802 (#1686, #1656) |
+| Escape while typing ends the edit, keeps the type selected and switches back to the tool whose double-click on type chose the Type tool (kept until another tool is chosen or another document or window becomes active, so later edits with the Type tool return there too), or to the Selection tool when there is no such tool, as when the Type tool was chosen from the toolbar or after such a switch | done | #1802 (#1686, #1656) |
 | Selection tool: selected area type and type on a path show an in port and an out port (empty, an arrow where threaded, the red "+" of overflow); a click on either loads the text cursor; a click on a closed path, on empty canvas or a drag threads the text there, after the clicked frame from its out port, before it from its in port; Escape or another tool drops it; a double-click on a threaded port breaks the thread there | partial | #2572 (`text.thread.add`, `before` for the in port); the out port sits on the frame's right side above the bottom-right corner handle and the in port on its left side below the top-left one, so the handles can still be grabbed; a double-click on a threaded port breaks the thread (`text.thread.break`, [archived help](https://web.archive.org/web/20220127090642/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/creating-text.html)); the loaded cursor borrows the I-beam |
 | Shift-click selects several artboards (Artboard tool, Artboards panel); they move, Alt-copy and delete together | done | `artboard.move`/`artboard.delete` `indices` (#1139); in the panel, Shift- and Ctrl/Cmd-click work with any tool by switching to the Artboard tool (#5698); panel menu, trash and Properties share selected-set deletion; all-selected retains artboard 1 and a single board cannot be deleted, with pointer-event and Undo/Redo coverage |
 | Artboards panel: drag a row above or below another to reorder the artboards (as Move Up / Move Down do) | done | #4687; a line shows where the row lands, `artboard.reorder` in one undo step, the moved artboard becomes active; public forum answers describe the drag |
@@ -405,6 +410,7 @@ next unit in the order a right-click on a ruler lists them, from Feet back to Po
 | SVG Interactivity, Retype, Comments, Version History panels | missing | the last two are cloud features (out of scope) |
 | Workspaces (save, reset, switch); each remembers the layout changes made in it across switches and restarts until Reset <name> | done | `UiState::workspace_changes` |
 | Opening a file: after 0.4 s a progress window with the file name, a moving bar (reading counts no steps), how many more files wait, Cancel (Esc: the file doesn't open) and Continue in Background; never over another dialog or progress window | done | #5930; `opening::show`, `file.cancelOpen`, `file.openInBackground`. Save, Place and Close still show only the status bar's spinner (Place and Save run off the UI thread; Close is immediate) |
+| Window › Help Bar shows or hides the tool-help strip apart from the status bar; kept with the preferences and in saved workspaces; Presentation Mode hides both bars | done | `window.helpBar`; `help_bar_toggle_is_independent_and_saved_in_workspaces`, `help_bar_and_status_bar_render_independently`, `legacy_help_bar_visibility_follows_each_layouts_status_bar` |
 | Background Export: a progress dialog with the file name, the artboard count and a bar (busy for one artboard and for formats made in one go), Cancel (Esc) and Continue in Background; it opens after 0.4 s and never over another dialog. A cancelled export writes no file | done | #2564; on the shared `vectorcraft_doc::cancel` token (#2546), so a cancelled render keeps no half-drawn pattern tile or effect raster. The bar moves between artboards, not within one. Save As, Export for Screens and Export Selection don't show it yet |
 | Swatch, graphic style and symbol library panels: each library opens in a panel of its own, several at once, that floats, groups, docks and closes like any panel; opening an open library brings its panel forward; Previous / Next Library change the library in place; the panel menu's Persistent reopens the panel at startup with its view and find field (a library loaded from a file is read again; when its file is missing the panel reopens showing the file's path with Locate Library…, and the status bar names the file) | done | #2603; panel ids `library:<kind>:<id>`, `ui.libraryPanel {panel, library?, view?, showFind?, persistent?}`, `ui.libraryPanel.locate {panel, path?}`; the library panels have no sort option, as before |
 | DXF export/import preserves intended curve closure | done | #1299; R13–2018 closed SPLINE bit set/read; an open curve ending at its start stays open; knots and control points unchanged; native CIRCLE/ARC export and CNC preset remain pending |
@@ -482,6 +488,7 @@ separate. Scores and hours unchanged. [Behavior and command details](development

 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-09 | minor | Numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking focus; keyboard focus and existing rounding rules remain (#5949). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-07 | minor | Pen and Curvature tool with Cmd/Ctrl held: Edit › Copy and Cut take the anchors and segments the lent Direct Selection picked, as with Direct Selection chosen, not the whole path; with the Pen's own last anchor selected Copy still takes the whole path (#6123); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-07 | minor | Live Corners: with Direct Selection, while every corner of a path is selected, a Shift-click on a corner widget picks that corner alone instead of deselecting it (#5188); adding a hidden corner's widget by Shift-click stays open (#1232); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Keyboard shortcuts: Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+. and Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+, (Stroke Weight Up and Down) step each selected stroke's weight, or the next object drawn's (#5797); scores and estimates unchanged |