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docs/control-protocol.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Control protocol
 
-> **Last updated:** 2026-10-31 · **Change:** Confining file access refuses a `:` in a name after the drive on Windows, an NTFS alternate data stream such as `x.svg:evil` (#3604); previously: Object → Expand… dimmed while the selection has an appearance Expand Appearance expands (`object.expand.info`'s `appearance`, #3089); previously: brush library panels (`window.brushLibrary`, `window.brushLibrary.other`, `ui.saveBrushLibrary`); previously: Transform Each opens on the values it was last confirmed with; its Copy button confirms with `copy: true` (#1732); previously: panel docking on craft-ui's layout: `ui.docking`, the parameters of `window.panel.float` and `window.panel.dock`; previously: `ui.screenshot`'s 64 MiB inline-PNG cap and its path-plus-data downgrade; symbol library panels (`window.symbolLibrary`, `window.symbolLibrary.other`, `ui.saveSymbolLibrary`); synthetic input budgets (#1709); bounded transport waits (#1726).
+> **Last updated:** 2026-11-07 · **Change:** text style commands take a feature with a value (`"features": ["salt=2"]`), the font's alternate number, and shape runs that differ only in features as one piece of text; previously: Confining file access refuses a `:` in a name after the drive on Windows, an NTFS alternate data stream such as `x.svg:evil` (#3604); previously: Object → Expand… dimmed while the selection has an appearance Expand Appearance expands (`object.expand.info`'s `appearance`, #3089); previously: brush library panels (`window.brushLibrary`, `window.brushLibrary.other`, `ui.saveBrushLibrary`); previously: Transform Each opens on the values it was last confirmed with; its Copy button confirms with `copy: true` (#1732); previously: panel docking on craft-ui's layout: `ui.docking`, the parameters of `window.panel.float` and `window.panel.dock`; previously: `ui.screenshot`'s 64 MiB inline-PNG cap and its path-plus-data downgrade; symbol library panels (`window.symbolLibrary`, `window.symbolLibrary.other`, `ui.saveSymbolLibrary`); synthetic input budgets (#1709); bounded transport waits (#1726).
 
 `vectorcraft --control <port>` listens on `127.0.0.1:<port>` (loopback only). The port must be a number
 from 1 to 65535 (`--control=<port>` works too), given once; otherwise the app prints an error and exits
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ the two can still win that race.
 | `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 |
-| `file.save` / `file.saveAs` / `file.saveCopy` / `file.saveAsTemplate` (via `engine.execute`) | `{path?, format?, options?, svg?}` | Save writes the document's own file in its own format (a document opened from or saved as SVG/PDF saves as that again; the result's `warnings` say what the format loses). With `path` the file is written at once (Save As or a Copy to an SVG path without SVG options first opens SVG Options, below). Without one (never saved, a converted older file, Save As, a Copy, a Template) the app shows a save panel with one file type per save format (`vectorcraft`, `template`, `pdf`, `svg`, `svgz`, `ai`; for a Template, `template` and `ait`), then the format's options: SVG opens the `svgOptions` dialog (below; returns `{"pending": "svgOptions", "path"}`), PDF the `savePdf` dialog (its `__save` field names the save command); `ui.dialog.confirm` finishes the save. A name typed in the panel without the file type's extension gets it, and a name the panel returns with the extension of a format the panel does not list has it replaced (in a native save, `card.png` and `card.ait` are saved as `card.vectorcraft`, and `notes.v2`, whose extension names no format, is saved as `notes.v2.vectorcraft`); when a file of that name exists, which the panel did not ask about, the save (and every export or other write through a save panel) answers `cancelled` and opens a `replaceFile` dialog (fields `message`, `detail`, `path`): `ui.dialog.confirm` writes that file, `ui.dialog.cancel` writes nothing. A save or export that writes other files beside that path (a file per artboard, linked images, image maps) checks them before it writes anything: when any of them exists, it writes nothing and opens a `replaceFiles` dialog (fields `message`, `detail` (each file's name when there are several), `files`, `__command`, `__params`; the reply is `{"pending": "replaceFiles"}`, or comes once a Background Save or Export ends): `ui.dialog.confirm` runs the save or export again and replaces them, `ui.dialog.cancel` writes nothing; a dialog open when a background job asks stays open, and the question follows it. A save does not ask about the files the document's last Save or Save As in this session wrote. On the web a `saveOptions` dialog (fields `path`, `format`) first names the file and picks the format. `file.formatOptions {format?}` reads the options a save would use. `file.revert` opens a `confirm` dialog (`{"pending": "confirm"}`); `ui.dialog.confirm` reloads the saved file in the same tab |
+| `file.save` / `file.saveAs` / `file.saveCopy` / `file.saveAsTemplate` (via `engine.execute`) | `{path?, format?, options?, svg?}` | Save writes the document's own file in its own format (a document opened from or saved as SVG/PDF saves as that again; the result's `warnings` say what the format loses). With `path` the file is written at once (Save As or a Copy to an SVG path without SVG options first opens SVG Options, below). Without one (never saved, a converted older file, Save As, a Copy, a Template) the app shows a save panel with one file type per save format (`vectorcraft`, `template`, `pdf`, `svg`, `svgz`, `ai`; for a Template, `template` and `ait`), then the format's options: SVG opens the `svgOptions` dialog (below; returns `{"pending": "svgOptions", "path"}`), PDF the `savePdf` dialog (its `__save` field names the save command); `ui.dialog.confirm` finishes the save. A name typed in the panel without the file type's extension gets it, and a name the panel returns with the extension of a format the panel does not list has it replaced (in a native save, `card.png` and `card.ait` are saved as `card.vectorcraft`, and `notes.v2`, whose extension names no format, is saved as `notes.v2.vectorcraft`); when a file of that name exists, which the panel did not ask about, the save (and every export or other write through a save panel) answers `cancelled` and opens a `replaceFile` dialog (fields `message`, `detail`, `path`): `ui.dialog.confirm` writes that file, `ui.dialog.cancel` writes nothing. A save or export that writes other files beside that path (a file per artboard, linked images, image maps) checks them before it writes anything: when any of them exists, it writes nothing and opens a `replaceFiles` dialog (fields `message`, `detail` (each file's name when there are several), `files`, `__command`, `__params`; the reply is `{"pending": "replaceFiles"}`, or comes once a Background Save or Export ends): `ui.dialog.confirm` runs the save or export again and replaces them, `ui.dialog.cancel` writes nothing; a dialog open when a background job asks stays open, and the question follows it. A save does not ask about the files the document's last Save or Save As in this session wrote. On the web a `saveOptions` dialog (fields `path`, `format`) first names the file and picks the format. `file.formatOptions {format?}` reads the options a save would use. `file.revert` opens a `confirm` dialog (`{"pending": "confirm"}`); `ui.dialog.confirm` reloads the saved file in the same tab. Location refusals return `READ_ONLY_LOCATION: <reason>` without a fallback panel for automation; see [Save location errors](#save-location-errors). |
 | SVG Options (`engine.execute` of `file.export.svg`, `file.saveAs`, `file.saveCopy`) | `{}` / `{path?, svg?: {…}}` | `file.export.svg` without params, and Save As or Save a Copy to an `.svg`/`.svgz` path without SVG options, open the `svgOptions` dialog (`ui.dialog.set` its fields: `styling`, `outlineText`, `images`, `objectIds`, `decimals`, `minify`, `responsive`, `fewerTspans`, `metadata`, `preserveEditing`, `useArtboards`, `allArtboards`, `range`, `showCode`, `profile` (`svg11`/`tiny12`), `encoding` (`utf8`/`utf16`/`latin1`), `embedFonts`; `ui.dialog.confirm` exports or saves and remembers the choices). With `svg: {…}` (the `document.formats` SVG options) they run directly. `app.save {path?, svg?}` takes the same options; a document saved as SVG saves as SVG again with the same options |
 | `engine.execute` `file.place` | `{paths?}` / `{path \| name+dataBase64, …file.place params}` | with no file, picks files and opens the `place` dialog; with `paths`, opens it for them (fields `files`, `link`, `template`, `replace`; `__replace` says whether Replace applies, `__info` describes each file). `ui.dialog.confirm` places one file centered in the view (or in place of the selected object) and loads the place cursor with several (`file.place.queue`). In the desktop app the dialog reads its files off the UI thread: `__info` is empty until they are read, `ui.dialog.confirm` returns `{background: true, status}`, `ui.inspect` lists the files still being read in `placing`, and the file is placed (or the cursor loaded) once it is read. With a file, it runs `file.place` centered in the view, at once. Files dropped on the window with no document open open. On the web, files dropped on the canvas are placed at the drop point (linked; Shift embeds) and files dropped off it (the tab bar) open, as in Illustrator; desktop drops carry no pointer position, so documents (native, SVG, PDF, `.ai`, EPS, DXF, EMF/WMF) open as tabs of their own and pictures and text are placed in the middle of the view. Swatch libraries and color books (`.vcswatches`, `.gpl`, `.ase`, `.acb`), graphic style libraries (`.vcstyles`), Libraries panel files (`.vclibrary`), presets (`.vcflattener`, `.vcpdfpresets`, `.vcprintpresets`, `.vcperspective`, `.vcexportpresets`), plug-ins (`.wasm`) and shortcut sets (`.kys`, in Import Shortcut Set) open wherever they are dropped, as File › Open opens them. With the cursor loaded (`ui.inspect` → `tool: "place"`, `toolOptions: {count, current, name, names}`), `ui.pointer` clicks and drags place files (in the desktop app each file is read off the UI thread and placed once it is read, and `ui.inspect` lists it in `placing` until then) and `ui.key` ←/→/↑/↓ and Escape cycle and discard them |
 | `app.export` raster options | `{path?, format: png \| jpg \| webp, ppi?, width?, height?, background?, antiAlias?, interlaced?, quality?}` | `ppi` sets the pixel size (72 = one pixel per point) and is stored in PNG and JPEG files (WebP files store no resolution); `width` or `height` sets the size of each file in pixels instead (`width` wins), and PNG and JPEG files store the resolution that results; `background` is `transparent`, `white`, `black` or `"#rrggbb"`; `antiAlias` is `none`, `art` or `type` (text snapped to pixels); `interlaced` writes an Adam7 PNG. The PNG Options dialog (`pngOptions`; `jpgOptions` / `webpOptions` for the other raster formats) has the same fields: fill them with `ui.dialog.set` and press OK with `ui.dialog.confirm` |
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ fill or stroke (fields as in `swatchOptions` plus `group`; a gradient or pattern
 
 The Color Picker is a dialog too: `engine.execute {command: "ui.colorPicker", params: {stroke?, color?}}` opens it for the fill (or stroke) proxy; `ui.dialog.set {field: "hex", value: "00FF00"}` (or `color`, `channel`, `webOnly`, `swatches`) then `ui.dialog.confirm` applies the colour through `paint.setFill` / `paint.setStroke`.
 
-Sample Color from Screen: `ui.sampleScreenColor {stroke?, picker?}` shows the system's color sampler (macOS, and browsers with an EyeDropper) and returns `null` at once. When the person at the computer clicks a color anywhere on the screen, it runs `paint.setFill` (or `paint.setStroke`) with that color as one undo step, or with `picker: true` sets the open Color Picker's `color`; Escape cancels it and the colors stay as they were. The sampled display sRGB color is converted into the working RGB space. `ui.inspect` reports `screenSampler: true` until the sampler answers. Without a sampler (Windows, Linux, other browsers) the call returns an error. To read a color from VectorCraft's own window without a person, call `ui.screenshot`.
+Sample Color from Screen: `ui.sampleScreenColor {stroke?, picker?}` shows the system's color sampler (macOS; Linux through the XDG desktop portal's [PickColor](https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/doc-org.freedesktop.portal.Screenshot.html); browsers with an EyeDropper) and returns `null` at once. When the person at the computer clicks a color anywhere on the screen, it runs `paint.setFill` (or `paint.setStroke`) with that color as one undo step, or with `picker: true` sets the open Color Picker's `color`; a cancel (Escape on macOS and in browsers) leaves the colors as they were. The sampled display sRGB color is converted into the working RGB space. `ui.inspect` reports `screenSampler: true` until the sampler answers. On Linux, a session without a portal that has PickColor, a portal that does not return from the call within 25 seconds (VectorCraft's own limit) or leaves the bus before it answers, and a portal that ends the request in another way each put a message in the status bar and end the wait, so the sampler can be shown again. A portal that returns from the call and then neither answers nor leaves the bus keeps the sampler open. Without a sampler (Windows, FreeBSD, DragonFly BSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, other browsers) the call returns an error. To read a color from VectorCraft's own window without a person, call `ui.screenshot`.
 
 Graphic styles: `ui.graphicStyleOptions {name}` opens the `graphicStyleOptions` dialog (field `name`) for a style and
 `ui.dialog.confirm` renames it with `graphicStyle.rename` (a name another style has returns an error and keeps the
@@ -987,6 +987,23 @@ handle); a Mesh tool click inside a mesh envelope adds a row and a column. While
 selected the Control bar shows its controls (Edit Envelope / Edit Contents, warp style, orientation, bend and
 distortions or mesh rows and columns, Reset, Envelope Options); each runs an `object.envelope.*` command.
 
+## OpenType feature values in text commands
+
+`text.setRangeStyle`, `text.setStyle` and the character style commands take OpenType features as a list of tags in
+`features` (the whole list) or `featureChanges` (changes on top of each character's own): `"dlig"` on, `"-liga"` off.
+A feature with alternates (`swsh`, `ss01`–`ss20`, `salt`, `titl`, `pnum`, `lnum`, `sups`, `subs`, `numr`, `dnom`,
+`aalt`) also takes `tag=N`, `N` from 0 to 65535, the font's alternate number: `"salt=2"` draws the second alternate of
+each glyph in the range that has one. It is the value the shaper gets (an OpenType alternate substitution picks the
+glyph at that position of its set), so `"salt"` is `"salt=1"`, and `"-salt"`, `"salt=0"` and a missing tag are off. A
+later value replaces an earlier one; `salt=x`, `salt=65536`, `-salt=2` and `liga=2` are refused. The style's
+`features` list and the saved file keep the string as typed (`["salt=2"]`), and SVG export writes CSS
+`font-feature-settings: "salt" 2`. Runs that differ only in `features` are shaped as one piece of text with each run's
+features over its own characters, so one letter of an Arabic word with `salt=2` keeps its neighbours' joining forms.
+
+```json
+{"id":1,"method":"engine.execute","params":{"command":"text.setRangeStyle","params":{"id":7,"start":4,"end":6,"features":["salt=2"]}}}
+```
+
 ## Shared panel docking
 
 The canvas and the panels form one craft-ui docking layout: the protected `canvas` panel beside a dock at the
@@ -1082,13 +1099,35 @@ hidden tab (whose frames the browser pauses) answers when it is shown again.
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-07 | minor | Documented OpenType feature values in text commands (`"salt=2"`, the font's alternate number) and that runs differing only in features shape as one piece of text. |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | Confining file access: on Windows a `:` in a name after the drive (an NTFS alternate data stream) is refused with the device names (#3604). |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | Panel docking on craft-ui's layout: `ui.docking`, the floating and dock parameters, native floating windows. |
-| 2026-10-24 | minor | Documented the brush library panel commands (`window.brushLibrary`, `.other`, `ui.saveBrushLibrary`, `window.userBrushLibrary1`…`10`). |
-| 2026-10-24 | minor | Documented `ui.screenshot`'s 64 MiB inline-PNG reply cap: with `path` the file is still written and `pngBase64` is omitted when over the cap; a path-less `data: true` request fails before encoding. |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | Documented that Object → Expand… is dimmed, and `ui.expandDialog` refuses, while the selection has an appearance Expand Appearance expands (`object.expand.info`'s `appearance`, #3089). |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | Documented that Transform Each opens on the values it was last confirmed with and that its Copy button confirms with `copy: true` (#1732). |
+| 2026-10-24 | minor | Documented the brush library panel commands (`window.brushLibrary`, `.other`, `ui.saveBrushLibrary`, `window.userBrushLibrary1`…`10`). |
+| 2026-10-24 | minor | Documented `ui.screenshot`'s 64 MiB inline-PNG reply cap: with `path` the file is still written and `pngBase64` is omitted when over the cap; a path-less `data: true` request fails before encoding. |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | Documented the symbol library panel commands (`window.symbolLibrary`, `.other`, `ui.saveSymbolLibrary`, `window.userSymbolLibrary1`…`10`). |
+| 2026-10-18 | minor | Documented `window.vectorcraft`, the web build's control channel. |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Documented count, pending-event and per-frame request budgets (#1709). |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Documented transport deadlines and connection-slot recovery (#1726). |
-| 2026-10-18 | minor | Documented `window.vectorcraft`, the web build's control channel. |
+
+## Save location errors
+
+A save refused by the filesystem with PermissionDenied or ReadOnlyFilesystem returns
+`READ_ONLY_LOCATION: <reason>`. The reason retains the path and system message. This is a
+stable prefix within the existing error string, not a new response field or JSON-RPC code.
+An automation-root denial, an encoding failure, and an error retaining recovery copies do
+not use this code. Choose a writable destination and explicitly save there; automation never
+opens the fallback Save As panel. Failed saves keep the original document path and modified
+state; multi-file saves may already have written other output files.
+
+`app.save` with `wait: true` returns the write failure in its reply (`save_file` already asks
+for this on the desktop). Without waiting, an accepted background save still replies before
+completion; any later failure opens no panel. MCP retains its usual tool-name prefix around
+the error text. The interactive fallback applies only to ordinary File > Save, not Close/Quit.
+
+## Revision history
+
+| Date | Change |
+|---|---|
+| 2026-11-11 | Document READ_ONLY_LOCATION for saves (#6146); no response-shape change. |

docs/development.md

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Development
 
-> **Last updated:** 2026-11-06 · **Change:** Hindi catalog and zero/one plural rule; desktop Devanagari fallback and optional craft-fonts UI face; native review pending.
+> **Last updated:** 2026-11-12 · **Change:** Tests canonicalize temporary roots and normalize Windows verbatim prefixes before comparing preset refusal paths or probing a case-variant script folder (#6860); production access checks unchanged.
+> **Last updated:** 2026-11-12 · **Change:** minor (clipboard failure helper follows its Linux/BSD and test callers; previously: Hindi catalog and zero/one plural rule; desktop Devanagari fallback and optional craft-fonts UI face; native review pending).
 > **Last updated:** 2026-11-01 · **Change:** Linux: Automatic Linux Display Server opens the window through XWayland when a pen is attached on a Wayland session, so the pen draws (#4967); `VECTORCRAFT_NATIVE_WAYLAND=1` keeps Wayland.
 > **Last updated:** 2026-10-31 · **Change:** files opened while the app runs open in its window on Windows and Linux (#4892); `--new-instance`.
 > **Last updated:** 2026-10-29 · **Change:** Linux clipboard: the Flatpak on GNOME copies and pastes text through the core Wayland protocol.
@@ -351,6 +352,10 @@ parameters. Shipped code therefore never panics. Anything that can fail returns
 
 ### Enforced by lints
 
+The clipboard timeout failure helper is compiled for Linux/BSD workers and unit tests; production
+macOS reads synchronously. Keep helper target gates aligned with their callers instead of disabling
+dead-code warnings across the workspace.
+
 `Cargo.toml` denies these clippy lints for the whole workspace, and `cargo xtask ci` runs clippy with
 `-D warnings`. The gate targets the current stable Rust (`rust-version` in `Cargo.toml` is only the
 minimum that builds the app, and no toolchain is pinned): when a new stable adds lints, they are fixed
@@ -508,6 +513,8 @@ Scores and hour estimates are unchanged.
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-12 | minor | Tests (#6860): compare preset refusal roots after canonicalization and Windows display normalization; canonicalize the script fixture base before constructing `MAIN`. This keeps macOS `/var` → `/private/var` aliases from masking the case-sensitivity checks; no production-code change. |
+| 2026-11-12 | minor | Compile the clipboard failure helper only for Linux/BSD worker callers and unit tests; keep production macOS free of the unused helper without suppressing workspace dead-code warnings. |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Localisation: Hindi catalog, zero/one plurals, desktop and web font requirements; AI/MT draft, native review pending. |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | Files opened while the app runs open in its window on Windows and Linux (#4892); `--new-instance` opts out. |
 | 2026-10-29 | minor | Linux clipboard: core Wayland protocol text fallback where arboard has neither data-control nor X11 (the Flatpak on GNOME).; its reads wait 2 s at most. |

docs/effects-parity.md

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Part of [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md); open work is in [gaps.md](
 | Rasterize | Rasterize… (as a live effect) | 1/1 | — |
 | Stylize | Drop Shadow, Feather, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Round Corners, Scribble | 6/6 | Scribble Options' Settings presets |
 | SVG Filters | Apply SVG Filter… and the filter list | 1/1 | The submenu lists the document's own filters: VectorCraft ships no default filters. A filter that is the object's last effect is written to SVG as a `<filter>` element; otherwise SVG export draws the object as an image. A filter on a turned or skewed object in an imported SVG is left out with a warning |
-| Warp | Arc, Arc Lower, Arc Upper, Arch, Bulge, Shell Lower, Shell Upper, Flag, Wave, Fish, Rise, Fisheye, Inflate, Squeeze, Twist | 15/15 | warp point editing in envelopes; Arc is a circular arc in the object's own proportions (#1578) |
+| Warp | Arc, Arc Lower, Arc Upper, Arch, Bulge, Shell Lower, Shell Upper, Flag, Wave, Fish, Rise, Fisheye, Inflate, Squeeze, Twist | 15/15 | warp point editing in envelopes; each style bends the bounds as one Bézier patch (`version` 1), so Arc's edges are cubic curves close to concentric arcs; warps saved without a version keep the earlier map, where Arc is a circular arc in the object's own proportions (#1578) |
 
 Document Raster Effects Settings exists. When the 64 million pixel cap on an effect image lowers
 its resolution, PDF export warns once per object with the requested and the lowest achieved ppi

docs/file-format-parity.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # File format parity
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-11 · **Change:** minor (`.ai` and EPS import, and what every export and `.ai` save draw: type's strokes in an envelope paint at their own weight along its bent outlines, Distort Appearance on or off, #6644; `.ai` and EPS import: centred and right-aligned lines of tracked type are aligned without the tracking after their last character, as the file's page aligns them, #6610; `.ai` and EPS import: an envelope saved in Edit Contents whose mesh lies away from its drawn art by a move opens live on that art, #6570; `.ai` save and open: layer colour presets Yellow, Magenta and Cyan keep their colour, as the `Lb` colour index now follows the file's numbering, #6502; `.ai` save: stroked type keeps its stroke's cap, join and miter limit in the text document, #6472; `.ai` and EPS import, PDF import: tracking and manual kerning in horizontally scaled type take the Horizontal Scale, as the file's page spaces such type; `.ai` and EPS import: stroked type in an envelope maps from its glyphs grown by half its stroke, #3179; `.ai` and EPS import: warps of type open as mesh envelopes on their saved grid, #3179; `.ai` and EPS import: stroked type keeps its stroke's cap, join and miter limit from the text document, #6472; `.ai` save: type in a variable font's named instance names its design-space setting, #6388; `.ai` and EPS import: envelopes of type open live where they draw as their drawn art and the layers with them draw as the page, #3179; `.ai` and EPS import: a note for type in an envelope, #3179; `.ai` and EPS import: the live envelope and warped type check sees white art; PDF import: DeviceN images of one ink or of process plates keep their inks, #6348; `.ai` import: images in a spot ink's Separation space keep their ink, #6350; PDF import: Separation images keep their ink, #6314; PDF editable import preserves authored ActualText once, including empty/nested spans and authored ordering (#6165); cross-line/style layout remains approximate; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF marked-text export (#6309): compatible glyphs stay on one layout line with per-glyph offsets; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF import: image masks open colorized by the color they are painted in, #6313; EPS and `.ai` editing data: a ligature the page names by a private-use glyph matches its text object; EPS import: CIDFonts only named, over a Unicode CMap, set as live type; EPS import: CMap mappings to base-font codes and glyph names; EPS import: CID-keyed fonts in FontSets (CFF) draw their glyphs; EPS import: `kshow` procedures kern live type; EPS import: embedded Type 1 fonts' glyphs and widths; EPS import: CID-keyed fonts draw their glyphs; EPS import: Type 42 fonts' characters and widths from the font they carry, show operators' spacing kept as tracking; EPS import: an image decoder's own buffers stop counting against the memory budget once it is decoded; EPS import: sampled functions interpolate between their samples; `.ai` and EPS type from the text document keeps its tab stops; it keeps auto leading and hyphenation options, and may show more of the file's last lines in an area frame; `.ai` and EPS import: Art brushes in the older form of their objects come into the Brushes panel; EPS import: gradients drawn as abutting strips come in as one gradient, without seams; EPS import: composite fonts draw their Type 42 glyphs; SVG import: filter and mask regions clip, #5876, #5875; SVG import: Gaussian blurs keep `color-interpolation-filters`, #5877; PDF and `.ai` export: objects' URLs as links, #5785; SVG import: `color-interpolation="linearRGB"` gradients, #5878; `.ai` import: paths with a Calligraphic brush open brushed, #372) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-12 · **Change:** minor (PDF import: Indic type keeps its marks on their line, and a line whose type would not draw as the file does keeps the file's glyphs as outlines, #5235; previously: newly imported SVG/SVGZ titles are filtered and bounded without changing restored titles, #3626; `.ai` and EPS import, and what every export and `.ai` save draw: type's strokes in an envelope paint at their own weight along its bent outlines, Distort Appearance on or off, #6644; `.ai` and EPS import: centred and right-aligned lines of tracked type are aligned without the tracking after their last character, as the file's page aligns them, #6610; `.ai` and EPS import: an envelope saved in Edit Contents whose mesh lies away from its drawn art by a move opens live on that art, #6570; `.ai` save and open: layer colour presets Yellow, Magenta and Cyan keep their colour, as the `Lb` colour index now follows the file's numbering, #6502; `.ai` save: stroked type keeps its stroke's cap, join and miter limit in the text document, #6472; `.ai` and EPS import, PDF import: tracking and manual kerning in horizontally scaled type take the Horizontal Scale, as the file's page spaces such type; `.ai` and EPS import: stroked type in an envelope maps from its glyphs grown by half its stroke, #3179; `.ai` and EPS import: warps of type open as mesh envelopes on their saved grid, #3179; `.ai` and EPS import: stroked type keeps its stroke's cap, join and miter limit from the text document, #6472; `.ai` save: type in a variable font's named instance names its design-space setting, #6388; `.ai` and EPS import: envelopes of type open live where they draw as their drawn art and the layers with them draw as the page, #3179; `.ai` and EPS import: a note for type in an envelope, #3179; `.ai` and EPS import: the live envelope and warped type check sees white art; PDF import: DeviceN images of one ink or of process plates keep their inks, #6348; `.ai` import: images in a spot ink's Separation space keep their ink, #6350; PDF import: Separation images keep their ink, #6314; PDF editable import preserves authored ActualText once, including empty/nested spans and authored ordering (#6165); cross-line/style layout remains approximate; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF marked-text export (#6309): compatible glyphs stay on one layout line with per-glyph offsets; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF import: image masks open colorized by the color they are painted in, #6313; EPS and `.ai` editing data: a ligature the page names by a private-use glyph matches its text object; EPS import: CIDFonts only named, over a Unicode CMap, set as live type; EPS import: CMap mappings to base-font codes and glyph names; EPS import: CID-keyed fonts in FontSets (CFF) draw their glyphs; EPS import: `kshow` procedures kern live type; EPS import: embedded Type 1 fonts' glyphs and widths; EPS import: CID-keyed fonts draw their glyphs; EPS import: Type 42 fonts' characters and widths from the font they carry, show operators' spacing kept as tracking; EPS import: an image decoder's own buffers stop counting against the memory budget once it is decoded; EPS import: sampled functions interpolate between their samples; `.ai` and EPS type from the text document keeps its tab stops; it keeps auto leading and hyphenation options, and may show more of the file's last lines in an area frame; `.ai` and EPS import: Art brushes in the older form of their objects come into the Brushes panel; EPS import: gradients drawn as abutting strips come in as one gradient, without seams; EPS import: composite fonts draw their Type 42 glyphs; SVG import: filter and mask regions clip, #5876, #5875; SVG import: Gaussian blurs keep `color-interpolation-filters`, #5877; PDF and `.ai` export: objects' URLs as links, #5785; SVG import: `color-interpolation="linearRGB"` gradients, #5878; `.ai` import: paths with a Calligraphic brush open brushed, #372) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
 
 Every format Illustrator opens, places, saves or exports, against VectorCraft's format table (`FORMATS`,
 `OPEN_EXTS`, `PLACE_EXTS` in `crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/formats.rs`). Illustrator's list comes from its public
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ from the public specifications, and users' own `.ai` files are used locally only
 
 ## Summary
 
+Ordinary File > Save offers Save As when its own location refuses writes with a terminal permission/read-only error (#6146). The picker suggests the original filename and format, keeps the original options when the format is unchanged, and opens the chosen format’s Save options when it changes. It starts in Documents (home or host default if unavailable). Cancel leaves the document modified at its original path. Explicit Save As/Copy/export, recovery failures and Close/Quit keep their existing error dialog. Non-UI saves return `READ_ONLY_LOCATION: <reason>` without opening a panel. Focused UI regressions passed; engine regression execution and native panel acceptance pending; format scores unchanged.
+
 | | Illustrator | VectorCraft | Notes |
 |---|---:|---:|---|
 | Formats opened or placed | ~30 | 30 | missing: FreeHand, CorelDRAW, DWG, PICT, PS |
@@ -108,7 +110,17 @@ private editing data. VectorCraft:
   Transform, Free Distort, Pucker & Bloat, Twist, Zig Zag and Gaussian Blur too). Styles with gradient or pattern fills,
   with fills, strokes or effects the reader doesn't read back, with a name another style has, with names over 1,024
   bytes and past 4,096 styles are left out with a warning. A panel with no style written opens with a new document's
-  styles, with a warning. No art style is written on a large canvas.
+  styles, with a warning. No art style is written on a large canvas. The Brushes panel's Calligraphic brushes, and its
+  Scatter and Art brushes with their art, are written in its order: Scatter and Art brushes in Tints or keeping their
+  art's colors, Art brushes that stretch their art along the path from left to right at 100% unflipped without
+  overlap, and art of paths and compound paths with points and groups with members, with one solid fill and one
+  plain stroke each. Other brushes,
+  Pattern and Bristle brushes among them, and brushes past the number or the art VectorCraft's reader reads are left
+  out with a warning; no brush is written on a large canvas. A path or compound path with a Calligraphic brush, or
+  with an Art brush in Tints whose art bends along the path, keeps the brush on its stroke; other brushed strokes are
+  written as their brush's art. A document that uses a new document's brushes writes none until a path keeps one on
+  its stroke; then the brushes are written, and the file opens without the new document's Pattern and Bristle brushes
+  and its Art brush with other options.
   Point type, area type (with its rows, columns,
   gutters and first baseline, threaded frames included) and type on a path are written as text: a text object for
   each, naming its story in the text document, with the characters, fonts, sizes, leading, tracking, baseline shift,
@@ -155,7 +167,8 @@ private editing data. VectorCraft:
   under them, clipped to where they show, along a smooth outline traced at the image's own resolution; that art stays) or omitted (Transparent Images,
   `transparentImages: "flatten"|"omit"`). Type is written as editable text objects (point type, area type and type
   on a path, with their fonts' PostScript names, sizes, colours, alignment, indents, leading, tracking and
-  scaling), which the reading app sets in those fonts; characters outside Windows-1252, vertical type, ruby, inline
+  scaling, and the Standard Vertical Roman Alignment and Tate-chu-yoko marks as `Tv` and `TY`), which the reading
+  app sets in those fonts; characters outside Windows-1252, vertical type, ruby, inline
   graphics and gradient or pattern fills make that type outlines, and so do rotated characters (Character Rotation,
   which a version 7 text object can't hold: the outlines keep the rotation, and the type is no longer editable text
   in the file), and Text: Outlines (`outlineText: true`) writes
@@ -287,7 +300,7 @@ Names in the editing data that aren't UTF-8 (layers, objects, artboards, colors,
 | Illustrator template `.ait` | open, save | yes | PDF-compatible only, from Save as Template (`.vctemplate` stays its default) | New from Template opens a saved `.ait` untitled with its layers and art (`tests_pdfedit.rs`) |
 | Illustrator `.ai` | open, save | yes (PDF-compatible + editing-data structure with template layers and ruler guides, File Info) | PDF-compatible, or legacy version 7 (layers and groups) | see above; no real-file corpus |
 | PDF | open, place, save | yes (authored ActualText in editable import, #6165; layers, masks, editable text, security, overprint, File Info from the XMP packet and the document information dictionary; Crop To › Trim takes the bleed box as the document's bleed) | yes (presets, PDF/X-1a/3/4, layers, marks and bleed, ICC, fast web view, 1.3+; objects' URLs as link annotations, not in PDF/X) | fuzzed import; shared guarded writer and windowed reader ([pdf-backend.md](pdf-backend.md)), metadata, incomplete-content and dependency-source regressions; PDF text opens where the file draws it, glyph by glyph (#722: kerning or none, spacing per character, text rise as baseline shift, vertical writing, justified text boxes); alpha soft masks drawn as images import with the mask (#1551); a clip only counts as covering the page when its shape does (#1542); a PDF another app copied pastes as editable vector art (#1499); letter-spaced type on a path keeps its length and its glyph-by-glyph stroke comes in as one text object (#1586, #1585); a crafted name tree with shared nodes no longer takes exponential time on open (#1781); fonts named with hyphens (`Noto-Sans-Bold`) or with a composite font's CMap (`Name-Identity-H`) find the installed family; invisible text (rendering mode 3: a scanned page's recognized text) opens as type with no fill or stroke and saves back as invisible, searchable text (#2675); PDF/X-1a and X-3 flattening in a CMYK document keeps CMYK inks where it rasterizes (#2160); an image mask (`/ImageMask true`) painted in a solid color opens as a grayscale image colorized by that color, a spot color keeping its swatch and tint, so Fill and Recolor Artwork reach it, and the same mask painted again in another color keeps that color (#6313); an image in a Separation space opens as a grayscale image of its tints colorized by its ink at 100 % (a spot swatch, a process plate or Registration), its soft mask as its opacity mask (#6314); a DeviceN image of one colorant opens the same way, and one of process plates only (the ink `None` may be among them) opens in CMYK with each colorant's tint in its plate (#6348)  PDF export keeps harakat and zero-advance Noto Arabic dot glyphs in one compatible batch per layout line, with per-glyph vertical offsets (#6309). `crates/pdf/src/tests/realtext.rs` (`mark_text_*`) checks decoded cluster mappings, mixed Arabic/Latin/digits, contour placement against outline export, vertical columns, differing path rotations and PDF/X-1a/3/4. Editable-text import preserves authored ActualText separately (#6165), with cross-line/style layout limits; separately styled or differently rotated clusters and external viewer search/copy remain outside this export-only evidence. |
-| EPS | open, place, save | yes (own PostScript L3 interpreter, Illustrator EPS editing data structure) | yes (L2/L3, TIFF previews) | CIDFonts the file doesn't carry not drawn, but for those over a predefined Unicode CMap (`UniJIS-UCS2-H`), set as type in the font of the CIDFont's name; name-keyed fonts in a FontSet set as type by name; #505; images encoded with `CCITTFaxDecode` (ITU-T T.4 Group 3 and T.6 Group 4, with `K`, `Columns`, `Rows`, `EndOfBlock`, `EndOfLine`, `EncodedByteAlign` and `BlackIs1`) draw, and damaged data keeps the rows decoded before its first damaged row; Type 42 (TrueType) fonts set type at its size (#1553); an embedded Type 1 font's encrypted part is read for its glyphs, which space its type, outline it and draw glyphs without a character, in plain and composite fonts; a Type 42 font that carries its TrueType font gives each code its character by its glyph name or, for names that say nothing (`/g12`), by the glyph's entry in the font's own character map, spaces its type by its own widths and draws glyphs that stand for no character from its outlines; the show operators' spacing along the baseline (`ashow`, `widthshow`, `xshow`, `yshow`, `xyshow`, and the moves of `kshow`'s procedure, run between each two characters) is kept on live type as tracking, so type in a font that isn't installed keeps the file's line lengths (spacing that moves characters off the baseline, as `yshow`, `xyshow` or a `kshow` procedure can, places each character as its own text object); composite (Type 0) fonts with the 8/8 mapping, as PDF-to-PostScript converters write two-byte fonts, draw a Type 42 descendant's glyphs from the TrueType outlines it carries and an embedded Type 1 descendant's from its charstrings, and set other descendants' characters as type at the composite font's size (other mappings are still set as type in the font of their name); CID-keyed fonts (`composefont`, `FMapType` 9 over a CMap built with the CIDInit operators or `Identity-H`/`Identity-V`; `bfchar` and `bfrange` mappings give a base-font descendant its codes or glyph names) draw the glyphs of the Type 0 CIDFonts (Type 1 charstrings in their `StartData` binary data or `GlyphDirectory`) and Type 2 CIDFonts (TrueType glyphs through `CIDMap`) they carry, and the CID-keyed fonts of a FontSet's Compact Font Format data (Type 2 charstrings); a clip only counts as covering the page when its shape does (#1542); an EPS another app copied pastes as editable vector art (`clipboard.importEps`, #1499); a stitched shading keeps its hard colour changes on import (#1654); sampled functions (type 0) interpolate between their samples, multilinearly or by cubics with `Order 3`, and a sampled axial or radial gradient has a stop at each sample; a gradient the page paints as a row of abutting one-colour strips (as Level 2 writers draw smooth shades) imports as one linear gradient, without the seams the strips leave when each is drawn alone; CMYK images, CMYK JPEGs included, keep their ink amounts on import, as from PDF, and the pixels a `MaskColor` or `ImageType 3` mask hides become a grayscale opacity mask; ruzstd 0.9.1 for compressed editing data (#1807, RUSTSEC-2026-0344) |
+| EPS | open, place, save | yes (own PostScript L3 interpreter, Illustrator EPS editing data structure) | yes (L2/L3, TIFF previews) | CIDFonts the file doesn't carry not drawn, but for those over a predefined CMap (`UniJIS-UCS2-H`, `90ms-RKSJ-H`, `GBK-EUC-H`, `KSCms-UHC-H`, `ETen-B5-H`), set as type in the font of the CIDFont's name, vertical over a `-V` CMap; a name that ends in the row-and-cell CMap `H` or `V` splits off the CMap only when the file defines the CIDFont of that name, or the name has a hyphen and an installed face that covers Japanese has it; name-keyed fonts in a FontSet set as type by name; #505; images encoded with `CCITTFaxDecode` (ITU-T T.4 Group 3 and T.6 Group 4, with `K`, `Columns`, `Rows`, `EndOfBlock`, `EndOfLine`, `EncodedByteAlign` and `BlackIs1`) draw, and damaged data keeps the rows decoded before its first damaged row; Type 42 (TrueType) fonts set type at its size (#1553); an embedded Type 1 font's encrypted part is read for its glyphs, which space its type, outline it and draw glyphs without a character, in plain and composite fonts; a Type 42 font that carries its TrueType font gives each code its character by its glyph name or, for names that say nothing (`/g12`), by the glyph's entry in the font's own character map, spaces its type by its own widths and draws glyphs that stand for no character from its outlines; the show operators' spacing along the baseline (`ashow`, `widthshow`, `xshow`, `yshow`, `xyshow`, and the moves of `kshow`'s procedure, run between each two characters) is kept on live type as tracking, so type in a font that isn't installed keeps the file's line lengths (spacing that moves characters off the baseline, as `yshow`, `xyshow` or a `kshow` procedure can, places each character as its own text object); composite (Type 0) fonts with the 8/8 mapping, as PDF-to-PostScript converters write two-byte fonts, draw a Type 42 descendant's glyphs from the TrueType outlines it carries and an embedded Type 1 descendant's from its charstrings, and set other descendants' characters as type at the composite font's size (other mappings are still set as type in the font of their name); CID-keyed fonts (`composefont`, `FMapType` 9 over a CMap built with the CIDInit operators or `Identity-H`/`Identity-V`; `bfchar` and `bfrange` mappings give a base-font descendant its codes or glyph names) draw the glyphs of the Type 0 CIDFonts (Type 1 charstrings in their `StartData` binary data or `GlyphDirectory`) and Type 2 CIDFonts (TrueType glyphs through `CIDMap`) they carry, and the CID-keyed fonts of a FontSet's Compact Font Format data (Type 2 charstrings); a clip only counts as covering the page when its shape does (#1542); an EPS another app copied pastes as editable vector art (`clipboard.importEps`, #1499); a stitched shading keeps its hard colour changes on import (#1654); sampled functions (type 0) interpolate between their samples, multilinearly or by cubics with `Order 3`, and a sampled axial or radial gradient has a stop at each sample; a gradient the page paints as a row of abutting one-colour strips (as Level 2 writers draw smooth shades) imports as one linear gradient, without the seams the strips leave when each is drawn alone; CMYK images, CMYK JPEGs included, keep their ink amounts on import, as from PDF, and the pixels a `MaskColor` or `ImageType 3` mask hides become a grayscale opacity mask; ruzstd 0.9.1 for compressed editing data (#1807, RUSTSEC-2026-0344) |
 | PostScript `.ps` | open, place | yes (the EPS reader reads its first page; `.epsf` files open and place as EPS) | via Print to PostScript | `tests_epsimport.rs` |
 | SVG / SVGZ | open, place, save | yes | yes (SVG Options, Preserve Editing, symbols, filters, rich text) | strongest format; tests in `crates/svg/tests`; text on a path follows basic shapes as their SVG 2 equivalent paths (#1527); CSS transforms and the `font` shorthand (#1565), percentage lengths in symbols (#1596), Inkscape flowed text as area type (#1568) and Inkscape pages as artboards (#1601) import; an unsupported filter is named in its warning (#1598); an artboard exported on its own (Export As with Use Artboards, Export for Screens, Asset Export) has the artboard's name as `<title>`, Save the document's (#3544); attributes in other applications' XML namespaces (`plotter:pen="2"`) kept on their objects from import to export, as `data-*` attributes are (`crates/svg/tests/it/foreign_attributes.rs`); simple shapes export as `<rect>`, `<circle>`, `<ellipse>`, `<line>`, `<polygon>` and `<polyline>` where they draw the same as the path (#4652, `crates/svg/tests/it/basic_shapes.rs`); the regions of exported masks and filters (opacity masks, inverted masks, knockout groups) cover the art they apply to, and over type keep a region that covers any artwork (#6401, `crates/svg/tests/it/blend_export.rs`) |
 | DXF | open, export | yes | yes (R12–2018) | R13–2018 closed SPLINE flags and control-point closure on import verified (#1299); circular cubic paths export as native CIRCLE/ARC where stroke semantics permit; R12 weighted strokes remain POLYLINE while non-circular curves keep the existing fallback (`crates/cad/src/tests.rs`); [Autodesk group 70](https://help.autodesk.com/cloudhelp/2024/ENU/AutoCAD-DXF/files/GUID-E1F884F8-AA90-4864-A215-3182D47A9C74.htm). DXF 2000–2018 LAYOUT objects write the paper image origin as 148/149 (was a stray 158), the shade plot codes (2004+) and the model type flag, and the plot style placeholder carries no subclass marker (#3085; structure test `r2000_and_later_files_have_the_structure_cad_apps_require`, checked with ezdxf's audit; not yet confirmed in Autodesk Fusion). DXF Options' Preset menu and `document.exportDxf`'s `dxfPreset: "cnc"` set the CNC / CAM options (#5500); VCarve QA remains open |
@@ -340,7 +353,13 @@ Stop opacity on translated artboards remains outside this regression coverage.
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-12 | minor | PDF import (#5235): a glyph with no advance in a font the file writes horizontally (a vowel sign or anusvara set over its letter) stays on its line instead of opening as vertical type of its own. A line of type in an Indic script (U+0900 to U+0DFF) is set again after it is read and compared with the glyphs the file drew: when it would draw other glyphs or put them elsewhere (a vowel sign the file draws before its consonant, a conjunct the file doesn't name), the line keeps the file's glyphs as outlines, with a note. Indic type in a font that isn't installed never draws as the file does, so it keeps the file's glyphs too; other type in such a font still shows in the fallback font (#4568). Tests: `crates/pdf/src/tests/reshaped.rs`. Scores unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-12 | minor | Save refusal follow-up (#6146): changed format opens its Save options; unchanged format retains original options. Focused UI regressions passed, including the format-change case that failed before the fix; native panel acceptance pending. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-11 | minor | Newly imported SVG/SVGZ titles use the imported-text rules: generated Untitled names and control-only titles give the filename fallback, other control characters are removed, and titles are limited to 65,536 characters. Native and Preserve Editing titles remain unchanged (#3626). |
+| 2026-11-11 | minor | Native and Preserve Editing restores keep an existing File Info title exactly, including repeated spaces; imported-text fallback titles alone are normalized (#3626). |
+| 2026-11-03 | minor | An imported document's own title goes into File Info only (#3626): an SVG's root `<title>`, a PDF's, `.ai`'s or `.ait`'s XMP `dc:title` else its Info `Title` is File Info's title (`metadata.title` in the native format, left out when unset so other documents save unchanged and older versions ignore it; written by exports); the document's name, which the tab, Save As and the default export names use, stays the file's name. |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | `.ai` and EPS import, and what the canvas, every export and `.ai` save draw: type's strokes in an envelope (its characters' and those on its own appearance) paint along the bent glyph outlines at their own weight, Distort Appearance on or off, as the drawn art of users' `.ai` files strokes them (used locally, never committed: there the drawn art keeps those strokes as stroked paths at the type's own weights, and its ring is as wide wherever the grid squeezes or stretches the type). With Distort Appearance, VectorCraft bent them with the art, as their filled outlines, so an envelope of stroked type in a squeezed or stretched grid didn't draw as its drawn art and kept it. The same holds in an envelope inside an envelope. Paths' strokes, geometry effects, opacity masks, linear gradients and pattern fills bend as before. On 224 of our own files: envelopes of type that open live go from 135 in 37 files to 154 in 45, and no file loses one; no file changes whether it opens from its layers or its PDF part; renders at 40 ppi change in 31 files, by at most 2.3% of their pixels, 19 closer to the file's own page and 12 further, 11 of those where an envelope of type now opens live in place of its drawn art (the page's own art) and one by 4 pixels. Tests `envelope_distort::type_strokes_paint_at_their_own_weight_in_a_squeezed_envelope`, `a_stroke_on_types_appearance_paints_at_its_own_weight_in_a_squeezed_envelope`, `a_paths_stroke_still_bends_in_a_squeezed_envelope`, `tests_native::an_envelope_of_stroked_type_whose_drawn_art_strokes_the_bent_outlines_at_the_weight_opens_live` (#6644) |
+| 2026-11-11 | minor | Ordinary Save to a location refusing writes offers Save As (#6146); cancellation preserves the original path and modified state; automation receives READ_ONLY_LOCATION. Scores and estimates unchanged. Validation pending. |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | `.ai` and EPS import, and what SVG export, PDF export and `.ai` save draw: centred and right-aligned lines of tracked type are aligned without the tracking after their last character, as a `.ai`'s own page aligns them (see type-parity.md, same date). In 224 users' files (used locally, never committed), 63 render differently: 54 closer to the page, 7 further, 1 alike and 1 that couldn't be compared; among them the median share of pixels that differ from the page went from 4.4% to 1.0%. Of the 7: one now opens from its layers instead of its PDF part (they differ from the page by less than the import's 5% limit now; type note 3.8%); one has a centred line whose spacing inside it differs from the page's, which now centres on the page's line while half of it no longer lies on the page's glyphs (type note 1.4% to 2.4%); five moved by less than 0.05 of a percentage point, in type the page draws in other glyphs. The type note shows a smaller share in 6 files; 2 more envelopes of type open live (129 to 131, none fewer in any file). SVG import: `text-anchor` aligns a line's advance, which ends after its last character's letter spacing, so a centred or right-aligned letter-spaced line moves back by half or all of it and stays where a reader draws it; SVG export, which anchors lines so, reads back unchanged (test `import_text::anchored_letter_spaced_lines_stay_where_a_reader_draws_them`). Affinity import: centred or right-aligned tracked artistic text moves by half or all of its last character's tracking, as layout now aligns it (unverified against Affinity, whose files we don't have), and differently aligned paragraphs line up by the widths layout aligns them by (`affinity_features::artistic_text_aligns_its_lines_within_the_longest`). Scores and estimates unchanged. (#6610) |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | `.ai` and EPS import: while an envelope's contents are edited, the editing data keeps its mesh (a mesh's, a top object's or a warp's grid) in its dictionary, and in some files that mesh lies away from the drawn art by a move, the contents with the drawn art, as if the mesh hadn't followed the envelope when it moved: the envelope drew its contents elsewhere and kept its drawn art. A mesh or top object saved in Edit Contents (or a warp of type tried on its saved grid) whose mesh draws the contents as large as the drawn art, within half a point over width and height together, but further from it than that, is now tried again, after every other way and with one more of the import's checks, with its mesh moved by as far as the drawn art's box lies from the box of what it draws; it opens live there where it then draws as the drawn art. In users' files, used locally and never committed, only envelopes saved in Edit Contents draw elsewhere than their drawn art, and nothing in their dictionaries says by how much they moved. Tests `ai::tests::an_envelope_in_edit_contents_whose_mesh_stayed_behind_opens_live_on_its_drawn_art`, `tests_native::a_warp_of_type_in_edit_contents_whose_grid_stayed_behind_opens_on_its_drawn_art` (#6570) |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | `.ai` save (PDF-compatible editing copy and legacy) and `.ai`/EPS open: a layer's `Lb` colour index follows the file's numbering, where Magenta, Cyan and Yellow are 4, 5 and 6 and `LAYER_COLORS` has Yellow, Magenta and Cyan; Yellow, Magenta and Cyan layers no longer come out as Magenta, Cyan and Yellow, and the other 24 presets are unchanged (#6502, from the index and RGB pairs in users' files). `LAYER_COLORS` keeps its order, so `.vectorcraft` files and the Layers panel don't change. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
@@ -367,14 +386,14 @@ Stop opacity on translated artboards remains outside this regression coverage.
 | 2026-11-07 | minor | EPS import: an embedded Type 1 font's encrypted part (`eexec`, [Adobe Type 1 Font Format](https://adobe-type-tools.github.io/font-tech-notes/pdfs/T1_SPEC.pdf), chapter 7) is no longer only skipped: its charstrings are read, and the font dictionary gets the `CharStrings` dictionary the part would have given it. Its type then takes its characters from its glyph names (the standard and ISO Latin-1 encodings by their codes' names, PLRM 3rd ed., Appendix E), its widths move the current point and space the live type as tracking (as Type 42 fonts do), `stringwidth` and `charpath` read its glyphs, glyphs whose names say no character are drawn from its outlines, and a composite font's Type 1 descendants draw their glyphs. A font found by name, re-encoded with glyph names at other codes (codes 1 to 12 for `T`, `r`, `a`… in pdftocairo's subsets), sets the characters its names say instead of its codes read as Latin-1 (such type was left out). |
 | 2026-11-07 | minor | EPS import: CID-keyed fonts (PLRM 3rd ed., §5.11; [Adobe Technical Note #5014](https://adobe-type-tools.github.io/font-tech-notes/pdfs/5014.CIDFont_Spec.pdf)) draw from the font data the file carries instead of stopping the program at `composefont` or the CIDInit operators: CMaps built with `begincmap` … `endcmap` (codespace ranges, CID and notdef mappings, `usefont`, `usecmap`; mappings to base-font codes are not read) and the predefined `Identity-H` and `Identity-V`; `composefont` and `FMapType` 9 fonts, whose codes take as many bytes as their codespace range says, an invalid or unmapped code falling back as §5.11.5 says; Type 0 CIDFonts' Type 1 charstrings, read by `StartData` (binary or hexadecimal) or from a `GlyphDirectory`, with their FDArray dictionaries' matrices and subroutines (`Subrs` or the binary data's subroutine table); Type 2 CIDFonts' TrueType glyphs through `CIDMap` (strings, a dictionary or an offset); `Metrics` widths; vertical writing mode set downwards. A CIDFont the file doesn't carry draws nothing, with a warning; FontSet (Compact Font Format) data is skipped. |
 | 2026-11-07 | minor | EPS import: a plain Type 42 font that carries its TrueType font ([Adobe Technical Note #5012](https://adobe-type-tools.github.io/font-tech-notes/pdfs/5012.Type42_Spec.pdf)) gives each code its character by its glyph name (single characters, `uniXXXX`, the standard encoding's and Windows-1252's names) or, when the name says nothing (`/g12`), by the glyph `CharStrings` gives it in the font's own character map or `post` names, instead of reading the code as Latin-1 (a Euro at code 128 was dropped); the font's own widths move the current point (`stringwidth`, `show`), `charpath` outlines its glyphs, and a string with a glyph that stands for no character is drawn from the font's outlines. Live type keeps the spacing the file gives it: where the show operator's numbers (`ashow`, `widthshow`, `xshow`, `yshow`, `xyshow`: PLRM 3rd ed., chapter 8) or the embedded font's widths differ from the installed or fallback font's advances, each character's tracking makes up the difference, as PDF import does, so justified type in a font that isn't installed no longer drifts (pdftocairo and pdftops EPS of a justified PDF page set in a missing font: 10.2% and 9.0% of the page differing from Ghostscript's render, now 6.2% and 5.8%). Type under `nulldevice` no longer shows. |
-| 2026-11-06 | minor | EPS import: the buffers an image decoder makes for itself (its sample planes, its copies of the strings a procedure data source hands back, and the split buffers of an interleaved masked image) stop counting against the PostScript reader's 1 GiB memory budget once the image is decoded, as they are freed then; the pixels kept, and anything the program's own procedures allocate, still count. A user's Illustrator 25.2 EPS with 71 CMYK images (used locally, not committed) used to stop with "the program uses too much memory" and come in as its screen preview; it now opens with its art. The budget itself is unchanged. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-07 | minor | EPS import: a sampled function (type 0) of two or more inputs took the nearest sample, so a function-based shading (type 1) over one came in as flat blocks; it is now interpolated between its samples (multilinearly), and with `Order 3` by cubics through them (Catmull-Rom, kept in the function's range), as the PostScript Language Reference (3rd ed., §3.10.1, type 0 functions) defines. An axial or radial shading whose function is a linearly interpolated sampled function of one input has a stop at each sample, not 33 evenly spaced ones. Tests `sampled_functions_interpolate_linearly_or_by_cubics`, `mesh_and_function_shadings_become_gradient_meshes`; a 2 × 2 function-based shading is 1.2% from Ghostscript's render (it was 45.9%); scores unchanged |
 | 2026-11-07 | minor | EPS and `.ai` type from the text document keeps its paragraphs' tab stops (positions and alignments; leaders aren't read), at most 1,024 a paragraph and 2^20 a story, past which the default stops apply with a warning. A user's `.ai` (used locally, not committed) whose price lists came in on the default stops now lays them out as its page has them (its type 0.8% from its page, from 1.5%; what differs is hyphenation in Hungarian and type in a font that isn't installed). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-07 | minor | EPS and `.ai` type from the text document: auto leading stays auto at the paragraph's share (it was the first two lines' distance for every line, so 10 pt lines under a 15 pt heading came in 18 pt apart), the paragraph's hyphenation options are read, and area type of one frame whose last lines the file sets in too short a frame for them here may get a frame taller by its lines' deepest descent plus 0.05 pt, when that shows more of them. A user's `.ai` (used locally, not committed) whose type differed from its page by 6.6%, so that it opened from its PDF part, now opens from its layers (4.9%; type with tab stops in right-aligned paragraphs still differs, a separate issue) (#6137). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-07 | minor | EPS and `.ai` editing data: opacity mask art that sets no paint of its own paints with the paint before the mask's dictionary, not the black a dictionary's state starts with. A logo of white letters masked by a rectangle with no colour no longer opens hidden: a user's `.ai` (used locally, not committed) shows its six logos. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-06 | minor | EPS import: the buffers an image decoder makes for itself (its sample planes, its copies of the strings a procedure data source hands back, and the split buffers of an interleaved masked image) stop counting against the PostScript reader's 1 GiB memory budget once the image is decoded, as they are freed then; the pixels kept, and anything the program's own procedures allocate, still count. A user's Illustrator 25.2 EPS with 71 CMYK images (used locally, not committed) used to stop with "the program uses too much memory" and come in as its screen preview; it now opens with its art. The budget itself is unchanged. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | EPS and `.ai` editing data: a path or compound path whose art style stacks several fills and strokes (solid colours and gradients, each with its own visibility, opacity and blend mode, under effects any object takes) comes in as itself with that appearance instead of its drawn look. Each gradient must be its own swatch, placed as the drawn look places it; a stack that repeats a swatch, or whose look doesn't paint its gradients, keeps the drawn look, as do fills and strokes with effects of their own. |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | `.ai` and EPS import: Art brushes whose objects are in the older form (first number 1, one field fewer and 8 numbers at the end) come into the Brushes panel with their art instead of being left out with a note. In a survey of 302 users' EPS files (used locally, not committed), 652 Art brushes in 188 of the 197 files with the note were left out this way; afterwards 55 files have the note, all for Pattern brushes. Test `an_older_art_brush_comes_in_with_its_art` (crate `vectorcraft-eps`); scores unchanged |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | EPS import: composite (Type 0) fonts with the 8/8 mapping (`FMapType` 2: PLRM 3rd ed., §5.10) draw a Type 42 descendant's glyphs from the TrueType outlines its `sfnts` carry (Adobe Technical Note #5012), spaced by their own widths or the show operator's numbers, and `charpath` and `stringwidth` read them; descendants found by name set their characters as type at the composite font's size instead of a thousand times it. EPS from `pdftops` of a PDF with embedded TrueType fonts showed nothing, or one black shape, where its type was. |
-| 2026-11-07 | minor | EPS and `.ai` editing data: opacity mask art that sets no paint of its own paints with the paint before the mask's dictionary, not the black a dictionary's state starts with. A logo of white letters masked by a rectangle with no colour no longer opens hidden: a user's `.ai` (used locally, not committed) shows its six logos. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | EPS and `.ai` editing data: an art style's stroke aligned inside or outside its path (Stroke panel › Align Stroke, written as its own `Adobe Stroke Offset` filter) comes in as a stroke with that alignment, so objects whose style has one keep the style live instead of coming in as their drawn look. Without its inside/outside switch the drawn look stays. |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | EPS and `.ai` editing data: `Q` restores the painting state but not the transparency (`Xy`), which the writer only sets when the next object's differs from the last one written. A Screen glow followed by a clipping group set back to Normal no longer leaves the type after the group in Screen: two users' Illustrator 26.5 and 30 EPS posters (used locally, not committed) now show their gold heading and crescent, and both open from their layers (2.5% and 2.7% from the page before, under the limit after). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | EPS and `.ai` editing data: a blend whose spine was never edited, written with its keys and no spine part, comes in as a live blend along the straight lines between its keys' centres (in its record's order) instead of as its drawn steps. Checked on six users' Illustrator EPS files (used locally, not committed): every blend in four of them now comes in live, their renders unchanged; two still have blends the reader can't match to their drawn steps. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
@@ -399,8 +418,8 @@ Stop opacity on translated artboards remains outside this regression coverage.
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | `.ai`/EPS editing data: type made from the file's text document took each character attribute its run doesn't set from the document's base attributes, not from the character style the run names (`[Normal Character Style]` or another of the file's, and the styles each is based on). Where they differ the type came in wrong: a user's file whose base fill is white and whose Normal Character Style is black came in with its text white, so most of its type was missing wherever the page's own type didn't stand in for it. A run now takes its own attributes, then its character style's, then the document's ([Character and paragraph styles](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/character-paragraph-styles.html)). Test `import::tests_native::type_from_the_text_document_takes_its_character_styles_attributes`; checked locally against 377 users' files: none newly opens from its PDF part, and with #4791 that file opens from its layers (6.3% → 1.1% from its page); scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | SVG export (and Object › Expand, EPS, DXF, EMF and the other outputs that cut a gradient mesh into flat pieces): each patch was cut into 8 × 8 quads whatever its colours, so a patch of one colour became 64 identical pieces. Neighbouring quads are now joined into square blocks wherever the colour changes by no more than about one 8-bit step across the block, so a flat patch is one piece and a patch that shades strongly keeps all 64; a block's outline runs through its quads' corners, and a patch that folds over itself is not joined. A synthetic page of 400 meshes (6 × 6 patches, half flat) exports 468,000 pieces instead of 921,600 (35 MB instead of 66 MB), and resvg draws the two files identically. Tests `mesh_export` (crate `vectorcraft-svg`), `tests::live::mesh_expand_to_flat_pieces`; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | PDF import (and a `.ai`'s PDF part): a transparency group's knockout and isolate flags (`/K`, `/I`; ISO 32000-1, 11.4.6.3) come from the interpreter as it pushes the group. They were read from the file in order and matched to the groups pushed, but a group that adds nothing (full opacity, Normal, no mask, neither flag) is drawn straight onto its parent without being pushed, so every group after one lost its own flags and took another's; and a page drawing form groups more than 10,000 times failed to import (the list of their flags was capped), which it no longer does. A blend's steps written as a knockout group of falling opacity drew as solid dark shapes: a user's `.ai` with 143 such bubbles now draws them as light rings, as poppler does (its bubble area 4.9% → 1.2% of pixels off from poppler's render); 16 other users' PDFs with transparency groups (44 pages) draw the same. Test `tests::import_fidelity::knockout_groups_after_a_group_drawn_straight_keep_their_flag`; scores unchanged |
-| 2026-10-30 | minor | `.ai`/EPS editing data: a blend takes the transparency (opacity, blend mode, knockout; blends are written with knockout on) in the state block after its record, as a group takes the one after its end; it was left for the next object, so a blend's steps of falling opacity drew over each other instead of knocking each other out, and every such blend came in too dark (a user's file has 143, its bubbles came in as dark rings). Both a live blend and drawn steps kept as a group take it. Test `import::ai::tests::a_blends_transparency_follows_its_record`; checked locally against that file: it comes 1.3% → 0.6% nearer its page, though a mesh seen through a mesh-shaped opacity mask still keeps it just over the limit. When a blend is the layer's last object and the layer's own state block (`7 () XW`, then `LB`) follows, the state is the layer's and the blend keeps its own, as for meshes (#4748); scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | PDF (and `.ai`) with Illustrator editing data saved with only some of its artboards: its pages are those artboards, while the editing data keeps them all, and the layers were compared with the first page on the first artboard, so a page of the second artboard came in as the PDF part, without its layers. With fewer pages than artboards, the first page is now taken to be the artboard of its size whose art draws most like it (up to 16 weighed), and the pages' type goes to that artboard and the ones after it. All artboards come in, as before. Test `import::tests_native::a_pdf_of_its_second_artboard_is_compared_on_that_artboard`; scores unchanged |
+| 2026-10-30 | minor | `.ai`/EPS editing data: a blend takes the transparency (opacity, blend mode, knockout; blends are written with knockout on) in the state block after its record, as a group takes the one after its end; it was left for the next object, so a blend's steps of falling opacity drew over each other instead of knocking each other out, and every such blend came in too dark (a user's file has 143, its bubbles came in as dark rings). Both a live blend and drawn steps kept as a group take it. Test `import::ai::tests::a_blends_transparency_follows_its_record`; checked locally against that file: it comes 1.3% → 0.6% nearer its page, though a mesh seen through a mesh-shaped opacity mask still keeps it just over the limit. When a blend is the layer's last object and the layer's own state block (`7 () XW`, then `LB`) follows, the state is the layer's and the blend keeps its own, as for meshes (#4748); scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | `.ai`/EPS editing data: a blend takes the transparency (opacity, blend mode, knockout; blends are written with knockout on) in the state block after its record, as a group takes the one after its end; it was left for the next object, so a blend's steps of falling opacity drew over each other instead of knocking each other out, and every such blend came in too dark (a user's file has 143, its bubbles came in as dark rings). Both a live blend and drawn steps kept as a group take it. Test `import::ai::tests::a_blends_transparency_follows_its_record`; checked locally against that file: it comes 1.3% → 0.6% nearer its page, though a mesh seen through a mesh-shaped opacity mask still keeps it just over the limit; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | `.ai`/EPS editing data: a gradient mesh with an opacity mask takes the transparency (`Xy`) written after the mask's dictionary, as one without a mask takes the one right after its `/End X!`; the operators of the mask's art (on `%_` lines) hid it, so the state was read as the next object's and each masked mesh in a run drew with the blend mode of the one before it (a Multiply shading drawn Normal, an Overlay tint drawn Multiply over the art below). Test `import::ai::tests::a_masked_gradient_mesh_takes_the_transparency_written_after_its_mask`; checked locally against a user's files: one opens from its layers 0.1% from its page (it was 0.6%, just inside the limit), another comes 1.6% → 1.3% nearer; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | `.ai`/EPS editing data: a layer's own state block (`Xy`, `Xd`, `7 () XW` before `LB`) can have the stroke style (`J`, `j`, `w`, `M`, `d`, `XR`) between its `Xy` and `Xd`; read as the art moving on, it lost the layer's opacity, so a layer at 17% drew opaque over the art under it and the file came in as its page. When the layer's last object is a gradient mesh, the mesh keeps its own state through the stroke style too (#4748). An object's own state block (`6 () XW`) still isn't the layer's. Of 408 users' files whose editing data was checked, 3 have such a block: an EPS that now opens from its layers 0.5% from its page (it was 18.8%), one whose layer now draws at 85% as its page does, and one whose layers are all at 100%; the others draw as before. Test `import::ai::tests::a_layers_state_keeps_through_the_stroke_style_written_in_it`; scores unchanged |
@@ -424,9 +443,9 @@ Stop opacity on translated artboards remains outside this regression coverage.
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | `.ai` import: a PDF part counts as an empty page only when nothing on it was skipped (an image that can't be decoded draws nothing too), so such a page keeps its notes and is checked against the editing data as before; with `textAs: "outlines"`, a file read from its editing data alone (an empty page, or the text-only placeholder of #1387) has its type outlined. Tests in `tests_aiimport.rs`; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | `.ai` import: a file whose PDF part is an empty page opens from its editing data where that reads, instead of opening blank; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | `.ai` import: a file whose PDF part's pages are cropped to its art rather than its artboards no longer comes in as that PDF part (each page a copy of all the art) but from its layers, with its artboards, where they draw as the page does; own-fixture test in `tests_aiimport`; scores unchanged |
+| 2026-10-30 | minor | EMF export: a pattern fill whose tiles stay apart (grid and brick tilings, art inside its tile) is written as one shape for each part of the tile, clipped once to what it fills, instead of every tile in a clip of its own; the picture is the same. A rotated two-colour stripe fill goes from 473 shapes and 246 clips to 2 shapes and 1 clip (122 KB to 61 KB; unrotated 99 KB to 33 KB). Tiles that overlap, hex tilings and tiles with strokes, images or nested clips are written as before (#3911). Tests in `crates/metafile/src/tests.rs` and `scene::merge_tests`; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-29 | minor | `.ai` and Illustrator EPS import: the editing data is read up to an eighth of installed memory, from 512 MiB to 2 GiB on 64-bit builds (it was 512 MiB on every machine), so a layered file whose embedded rasters unpack past 512 MiB keeps its layers, groups and text on a machine with 8 GiB or more instead of opening as its page or PDF part (#3510, #4628). Measured: 1.1 GB of editing data peaked 1.1 GB above the start; data past the limit is still refused (a 2 MB file unpacking to 2.2 GB stops in under a second). 32-bit and web builds keep 256 MiB. Own-fixture tests `import::ai::tests::editing_data_past_512_mib_is_read_where_memory_allows`, `the_editing_data_limit_follows_installed_memory`; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-29 | minor | Affinity import: attached Recolor Adjustment (RcRA) layers import as color overlays with HSL lightness (#4420); scores unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-30 | minor | EMF export: a pattern fill whose tiles stay apart (grid and brick tilings, art inside its tile) is written as one shape for each part of the tile, clipped once to what it fills, instead of every tile in a clip of its own; the picture is the same. A rotated two-colour stripe fill goes from 473 shapes and 246 clips to 2 shapes and 1 clip (122 KB to 61 KB; unrotated 99 KB to 33 KB). Tiles that overlap, hex tilings and tiles with strokes, images or nested clips are written as before (#3911). Tests in `crates/metafile/src/tests.rs` and `scene::merge_tests`; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-26 | minor | EPS Save and Save As: an opened EPS saves back to its own path as EPS, keeping the chosen artboard's page frame and transparent margins and the complete editable VectorCraft document; Save's TIFF preview is capped at 1024 px (Export keeps 2048); partly read, preview-only or damaged-editing-data sources still need confirmation before they are overwritten; Save As leaves out the export-only crop and selection options. Synthetic regressions in `tests::save` (engine and UI) and `dialogs::save_options::tests`, listed under [EPS Save and source protection](#eps-save-and-source-protection); it does not write Illustrator's own editing data (#868), and G9's real-file import fidelity is unchanged; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | `.ai` import: the editing data is read up to 512 MiB on 64-bit builds (the limit was 256 MiB), so a file whose embedded rasters unpack to 300 MiB or more keeps its layers, groups and text instead of opening as its PDF part (part of #3510); 32-bit and web builds keep 256 MiB. Own-fixture test `import::ai::tests::editing_data_past_256_mib_is_read`; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | `.ai` import: the `--` placeholder of a radial gradient's highlight (`-- -- angle length Bh`, a gradient without one) and the `XC` operator after a linked image's file name no longer send the whole file to its PDF part, so files with them keep their layers, groups and live text (#4176). A `--` anywhere else is still an operator the reader doesn't know. Own-fixture tests in `import::ai::tests`; scores and hours unchanged |
@@ -452,15 +471,15 @@ Stop opacity on translated artboards remains outside this regression coverage.
 | 2026-10-16 | minor | SVG: CSS classes on imported elements (`class="hero"`) are kept on the object and written back on export, beside the generated `cls-N` classes (#2414); scores unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | Legacy `.ai` of version 7 runs as a PostScript program: its prolog is a procedure set of VectorCraft's own that gives each operator the writer uses its meaning (paths, colours, compound paths, clipping groups, layers that don't print, images; gradients flat, type not set), and the page trailer's `annotatepage` (§3 of the specification) marks nothing; every file the writer's tests write is run through VectorCraft's PostScript reader and must draw what the document it was written from draws (#868) |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | SVG import: `:not()` selectors (#1799, #1557), stacked descendant selectors over deep nesting no longer stall (#1834, #1703), linked files within the automation roots again (#1870); DXF export writes the VPORT view direction once (#1789); nesting capped at 32 objects with self-using symbols and patterns opened without the offending instance (#1852); deep and self-referencing PDF and `.ai` data (#1871), decompression bombs (#1873), self-drawing brushes (#1872), hostile EPS, Affinity and native data (#1863) and huge ids (#1862) handled; a failed save is reported in a dialog and the old file is kept (#1865, #1685, #1693, #1694); type inside symbols gets its layout bounds back on opening a native file (#1833, #1738). Scores unchanged (estimated) |
-| 2026-10-13 | minor | Pinned PngSuite HTTPS files verified by SHA-256 before publication; bounded downloads replace archive extraction (#1729). Scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | EPS import: a stitched shading keeps its hard colour changes (#1654, #1653); WMF/EMF import refuses an oversized embedded PNG or JPEG from its header, before any pixels are decoded (#1776); PDF open no longer takes exponential time on a crafted name tree with shared nodes when it looks for the editing data (#1781); The size limits on a native file's embedded data also apply to files read from memory, not only streamed ones (#1783); Saving over a private file on Unix no longer leaves a readable temporary copy beside it while the file is written (#1778); An Export for Screens suffix can no longer place files outside the export folder (#1777); Package refuses a folder where it would overwrite the open document or one of its linked files (#1786); ruzstd 0.9.1 fixes a decompression bomb (RUSTSEC-2026-0344) reachable from EPS/`.ai` and Affinity import (#1807); File Info dates are stamped only after a save succeeds, so a failed save no longer changes them (#1774); Linked files that change during a drag are updated after the drag instead of being missed (#1773); scores unchanged |
+| 2026-10-13 | minor | Pinned PngSuite HTTPS files verified by SHA-256 before publication; bounded downloads replace archive extraction (#1729). Scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | SVGs that move objects with a CSS transform (`translate(100px, 0)`, `rotate(45deg)`) or style type with the `font` shorthand import as drawn (#1565); SVG symbols whose shapes use percentage lengths import at the size and place they are drawn, the percentages being of the symbol's `viewBox` (#1596); Inkscape's flowed text (`flowRoot`) opens as area type in its rectangle, a paragraph per `flowPara`, instead of being dropped, and a region that can't be read is left out with a warning (#1569, fixes #1568); The warning for an unsupported SVG filter names the filter, its primitives and the object, and says the object is drawn without it (#1599, fixes #1598); The pages of an Inkscape multi-page SVG become artboards, named by their labels (#1603, fixes #1601); SVG export with CSS classes or style entities stays fast in documents with many distinct styles (#1567); PDF and `.ai` import: evenly letter-spaced or tightened type on a path keeps its length along the path instead of closing up to the font's advances (#1586), and type on a path whose stroke is written glyph by glyph comes in as one text object with its stroke, not one object per glyph (#1585); The ICC profiles embedded in JPEG, TIFF and PSD exports have every tag on a 4-byte boundary (ICC.1 §7.1.2), so strict readers accept them (#1589, fixes #1584); GIF, PNG-8 and other indexed exports find each pixel's palette colour through an index instead of a scan, with identical output (#1576); Saving to a network drive on macOS falls back to a plain fsync when the share refuses a full flush (#1625, part of #1620; not confirmed on a real share), and a save still succeeds when a folder refuses the temporary file, the rename over the document or copying permissions: the content is written elsewhere first and copied in, and a failed copy keeps the temporary file and names it (#1649, part of #1620); A document opened by a relative path finds its relatively linked images, and `vectorcraft-cli convert` lists what reading the input left out as `importWarnings` (#1606, fixes #1604); A zero-length subpath draws its round cap as a dot and its projecting cap as a square, so dots in imported `.ai` and SVG files show (#1619, fixes #1613); scores unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | PDF.R1: editable PDF import uses the shared pinned reader; layer and overprint scans preserve state across content windows and reject known incomplete input. Synthetic streaming, decoder-limit and dependency-source regressions added; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | PDF.W1: PDF export and print composition use the shared guarded writer; drawing, colour policy and editable import stay app-owned. Metadata regression coverage and immutable dependency checks added; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Native documents with a lot of path data (traced or generated art, in layers, symbols or patterns) are saved as compact JSON, about a fifth of the size; small documents stay pretty-printed (#1492); Paste takes a PDF or EPS another app copied as editable vector art: from the macOS pasteboard (with SVG), EPS on Windows beside PDF, and `.eps` files copied in a file manager, with the new command `clipboard.importEps` (#1538, fixes #1499); Opening or placing a file with an image too large to decode says so, and the Links panel shows it on the row (#1540, part of #1479); a multi-artboard `.ai` with notes beside its artboards opens from its editing data, a page's art past its artboard no longer lying over the page before it (#1528); a `.ai` gradient whose stops are listed upwards keeps each midpoint on the stop that starts its part of the ramp (#1530); SVG text on a path follows basic shapes (circle, ellipse, rect, line, polyline, polygon) as their SVG 2 equivalent paths (#1531, fixes #1527); PDFs whose alpha soft masks are drawn as images import with the mask instead of empty art (#1551); EPS and PostScript type set in Type 42 (TrueType) fonts imports at its size instead of 1000 times too large (#1553); PDF and EPS import keep a clipping path whose bounding box covers the page but whose shape doesn't (#1544, fixes #1542) (the `.ai` row for #1528 was written by that PR); scores unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | `.ai` read as its PDF part: a page whose art reaches past its artboard to the left (notes beside a design) moves right in the row until that art clears the page before it, so it is no longer taken for that page's art; a multi-artboard `.ai` with such notes opened as its PDF part ("the art on them differs from the page's"), without the art outside its artboards, and now opens from its editing data |
-| 2026-10-12 | minor | Legacy `.ai` of version 7 (Save As › `ai` › Version: Legacy (version 7), #868): written from the published specification, keeping layers, groups, compound paths, clipping groups, gradients and images, one artboard per file chosen in an artboard picker; type as editable text objects (point, area and on a path, fonts by PostScript name, Windows-1252), or outlines (Text: Outlines); hidden objects, which the format can't hide, in a hidden layer of their own, omitted or made visible (Hidden Objects); images with see-through pixels flattened with the art under them or omitted (Transparent Images). The `.ai` reader reads legacy type (`To` … `TO`) and `Ar`. `vectorcraft-cli convert` takes `--ai-version 7`, `--hidden-objects` and `--transparent-images`; scores unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | TIFF: grayscale files with an alpha channel or other extra channels place, relink and open, read as CMYK files with alpha already were (8 and 16 bits, either polarity; #1489, part of #1466); the rows for #1434 (strokes kept apart from a faded or masked fill, a `.ai`'s RGB numbers) and #1435 (SVG knockout groups without masks, `--decimals`) were written by those PRs; scores unchanged (estimated) |
+| 2026-10-12 | minor | Legacy `.ai` of version 7 (Save As › `ai` › Version: Legacy (version 7), #868): written from the published specification, keeping layers, groups, compound paths, clipping groups, gradients and images, one artboard per file chosen in an artboard picker; type as editable text objects (point, area and on a path, fonts by PostScript name, Windows-1252), or outlines (Text: Outlines); hidden objects, which the format can't hide, in a hidden layer of their own, omitted or made visible (Hidden Objects); images with see-through pixels flattened with the art under them or omitted (Transparent Images). The `.ai` reader reads legacy type (`To` … `TO`) and `Ar`. `vectorcraft-cli convert` takes `--ai-version 7`, `--hidden-objects` and `--transparent-images`; scores unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | TIFF is available in Export for Screens and Asset Export with shared format settings; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | Affinity import: a text frame too short for its first line (a 64 pt title in a 54 pt frame) is made taller from its top, with a warning in the open result, instead of showing nothing (#1423), as `.ai` area type is (#1392); the spacing Affinity itself fits the line with isn't read; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | `.ai` editing data: a compound path takes the paint, opacity, blend mode and fill rule of its last path (the last painted one when that has none), so gradient-filled compound paths no longer come in black, and paths grouped inside a compound path stay its paths (#1426, fixes #1410); hand-written editing data test; scores unchanged |

docs/gaps.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Gaps
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-11 · **Change:** minor (#6404: transform-aware Eyedropper character copying; scores and estimates unchanged; previously: G5: built-in Energy Beams brush library; estimate 5–15 → 4–14 h; previously minor: G5: built-in Skill Icons symbol library; estimate 6–16 → 5–15 h; previously minor: ruler double-click adds a guide at the pointer, #5239; G5: built-in Status Effects graphic style library; estimate 7–17 → 6–16 h; MCP docs catch-up for UI Frames and Map Markers; previously minor: G5: built-in Inventory Icons symbol library; estimate 8–18 → 7–17 h; previously minor: G9: `.ai` save names a variable font instance's design-space setting, #6388; previously minor: G5: built-in Game Trails brush library; estimate 9–19 → 8–18 h; previously minor: Edit › Edit Custom Dictionary…: its dialog adds, deletes and changes the custom dictionary's words, #4936; previously minor: docs tidy-up, no content change: stray notes at the top moved into the revision table; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: G5: built-in Game HUD graphic style library; estimate 10–20 → 9–19 h; previously minor: G5: built-in Map Markers symbol library; estimate 11–21 → 10–20 h; previously minor: right-click on type: Spelling › Auto Spell Check, with its check mark, #4936; previously minor: right-click on a word Auto Spell Check underlined: its suggestions, Ignore All and Add to Dictionary, #4936; previously minor: G2: Effect Gallery thumbnails and in-dialog preview; estimate 1–2 h → 0; Auto Spell Check: `edit.autoSpellCheck` underlines the unknown words, #4936; previously minor: PDF editable import preserves authored ActualText once, including empty/nested spans and authored ordering (#6165); cross-line/style layout remains approximate; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF marked-text export (#6309): compatible glyphs stay on one layout line with per-glyph offsets; scores and estimates unchanged; G5: built-in UI Frames symbol library with default 9-slice; estimate 11–21 h; previously minor: G5: dynamic symbol part on-canvas takes opacity, blend, gradient and pattern; docs Overlap/auto-corners sync; estimate 12–22 h; previously minor: interim macOS cursor delivery, #2292; native validation pending; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: G5 docs: Art brush Overlap, Pattern brush auto corners and Global Edit Shift-click leave-out moved from Missing to Done (code already shipped); previously minor: custom dictionary and Ignore All: `text.spelling.addWord`, `removeWord`, `changeWord`, `dictionary` and `ignoreAll`, #4936; previously minor: EPS import: embedded fonts (composite, Type 42, CID-keyed, Type 1, CFF FontSet) draw their glyphs; spell check engine: `text.spelling.check` and `text.spelling.suggest` on craft-proof, #4936; previously minor: floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it, #5925 in part; G9: EPS gradients drawn as abutting strips import as one gradient, without seams; Tools stays beside the canvas with left-side panels; new gradients follow document color mode; Selection QoL: marquee modes and visible feedback, #5313; #3380 deletion-only review follow-up: independent survivors keep gradient placement, owned subpaths avoid discarded copies, and contracts/status/evidence are clarified; endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged; Indian-language hyphenation review and license allowlist, #4947; opening a slow file shows a progress window, part of #5930; Hindi catalog and contributor loanword preferences; agent wording pass complete; wider native proofreading welcome; an image zoomed in on is separated, colorized or proofed only where it shows (#4155); scores and estimates unchanged; a document's first frame renders on the render worker, so opening a heavy file no longer freezes the window; scores and estimates unchanged; large images in CMYK documents are shrunk before they are separated into ink planes (#4155); scores and estimates unchanged; `.ai` paths with a Calligraphic brush open brushed, with the 6D Art Pen's channels, and Windows reads the pen's tilt and barrel rotation, #372; scores and estimates unchanged; Compound Shapes add-on, beyond Illustrator; scores and estimates unchanged; Contour add-on, beyond Illustrator; scores and estimates unchanged; a slow first frame is waited for instead of restarting without the graphics adapter, and the menu bar no longer waits for the installed fonts' scan; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-11 · **Change:** minor (Glyphs panel: Alternates for Current Selection applies an OpenType feature value (`salt=2`) to the selected letter alone, so an Arabic word stays joined, and Entire Font lists the unencoded glyphs, #5514; #6404: transform-aware Eyedropper character copying; scores and estimates unchanged; previously: G5: built-in Energy Beams brush library; estimate 5–15 → 4–14 h; previously minor: G5: built-in Skill Icons symbol library; estimate 6–16 → 5–15 h; previously minor: ruler double-click adds a guide at the pointer, #5239; G5: built-in Status Effects graphic style library; estimate 7–17 → 6–16 h; MCP docs catch-up for UI Frames and Map Markers; previously minor: G5: built-in Inventory Icons symbol library; estimate 8–18 → 7–17 h; previously minor: G9: `.ai` save names a variable font instance's design-space setting, #6388; previously minor: G5: built-in Game Trails brush library; estimate 9–19 → 8–18 h; previously minor: Edit › Edit Custom Dictionary…: its dialog adds, deletes and changes the custom dictionary's words, #4936; previously minor: docs tidy-up, no content change: stray notes at the top moved into the revision table; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: G5: built-in Game HUD graphic style library; estimate 10–20 → 9–19 h; previously minor: G5: built-in Map Markers symbol library; estimate 11–21 → 10–20 h; previously minor: right-click on type: Spelling › Auto Spell Check, with its check mark, #4936; previously minor: right-click on a word Auto Spell Check underlined: its suggestions, Ignore All and Add to Dictionary, #4936; previously minor: G2: Effect Gallery thumbnails and in-dialog preview; estimate 1–2 h → 0; Auto Spell Check: `edit.autoSpellCheck` underlines the unknown words, #4936; previously minor: PDF editable import preserves authored ActualText once, including empty/nested spans and authored ordering (#6165); cross-line/style layout remains approximate; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF marked-text export (#6309): compatible glyphs stay on one layout line with per-glyph offsets; scores and estimates unchanged; G5: built-in UI Frames symbol library with default 9-slice; estimate 11–21 h; previously minor: G5: dynamic symbol part on-canvas takes opacity, blend, gradient and pattern; docs Overlap/auto-corners sync; estimate 12–22 h; previously minor: interim macOS cursor delivery, #2292; native validation pending; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: G5 docs: Art brush Overlap, Pattern brush auto corners and Global Edit Shift-click leave-out moved from Missing to Done (code already shipped); previously minor: custom dictionary and Ignore All: `text.spelling.addWord`, `removeWord`, `changeWord`, `dictionary` and `ignoreAll`, #4936; previously minor: EPS import: embedded fonts (composite, Type 42, CID-keyed, Type 1, CFF FontSet) draw their glyphs; spell check engine: `text.spelling.check` and `text.spelling.suggest` on craft-proof, #4936; previously minor: floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it, #5925 in part; G9: EPS gradients drawn as abutting strips import as one gradient, without seams; Tools stays beside the canvas with left-side panels; new gradients follow document color mode; Selection QoL: marquee modes and visible feedback, #5313; #3380 deletion-only review follow-up: independent survivors keep gradient placement, owned subpaths avoid discarded copies, and contracts/status/evidence are clarified; endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged; Indian-language hyphenation review and license allowlist, #4947; opening a slow file shows a progress window, part of #5930; Hindi catalog and contributor loanword preferences; agent wording pass complete; wider native proofreading welcome; an image zoomed in on is separated, colorized or proofed only where it shows (#4155); scores and estimates unchanged; a document's first frame renders on the render worker, so opening a heavy file no longer freezes the window; scores and estimates unchanged; large images in CMYK documents are shrunk before they are separated into ink planes (#4155); scores and estimates unchanged; `.ai` paths with a Calligraphic brush open brushed, with the 6D Art Pen's channels, and Windows reads the pen's tilt and barrel rotation, #372; scores and estimates unchanged; Compound Shapes add-on, beyond Illustrator; scores and estimates unchanged; Contour add-on, beyond Illustrator; scores and estimates unchanged; a slow first frame is waited for instead of restarting without the graphics adapter, and the menu bar no longer waits for the installed fonts' scan; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
 
 ## Feature submission evidence
 
@@ -34,29 +34,29 @@ Artboard Options forwards the active Artboard tool's Scale Artwork with Artboard
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
-| 2026-11-03 | minor | A double-click on a ruler adds a guide at the pointer (#5239): a vertical one on the top ruler, a horizontal one on the left ruler; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-08 | minor | #3380, deletion only: preserve gradient placement and exact surviving geometry; consume owned subpaths with a shared original-node snapshot; consolidate status/evidence and document command/helper contracts. Compound behavior and the existing M2 status entry are retained. Endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-07 | minor | #3380 (deletion only): independent surviving path objects; transformed appearance, stacking, selection, cubic handles and Undo/Redo covered by `delete_path_pieces`; compound semantics retained. Endpoint highlighting remains open; 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. |
 | 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. |
 | 2026-11-06 | 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 |
-| 2026-11-04 | minor | PR #3273: 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. |
-| 2026-11-04 | minor | PR #3272: Group Selection component drags defer ancestor selection until a completed click, using current Direct Selection release handling; original Outline Stroke fills and newer selection behavior retained. Scores and estimates 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. |
+| 2026-11-06 | minor | Icon-strip flyouts resize on their free edges and retain sizes with workspaces (#5713); saved heights beat auto-fit; panel footers stay at the bottom after enlargement. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-05 | minor | G15: long open strokes with an undashed width profile are outlined near the view while keeping profile positions on the full path; a 200,000-segment outline took 59.95 ms before and 8.44 ms after in local median runs. Closed and dashed profile strokes remain whole; estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-05 | minor | G15: Direct Selection reuses one document hit result when choosing the cursor over a path; a 200,000-anchor path's segment cursor took 58.15 ms before and 29.33 ms after in local median runs. Cursor behavior is unchanged; estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-05 | minor | G15: Selection skips building corner and pie widgets when the pointer is well outside a large selection; empty-canvas hover with 20,000 selected paths took 28.72 ms before and 16.41 ms after in local median runs. Other cursor targets remain active; estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-05 | minor | G15: Direct Selection reuses one document hit result when choosing the cursor over a path; after the path hit-test improvement, a 200,000-anchor path's segment cursor took 3.72 ms before and 2.66 ms after in local median runs. Cursor behavior is unchanged; estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-05 | minor | G15: large-selection transforms reuse object locations found during command validation; a 20,000-object nudge took 58.07 ms before and 51.26 ms after in paired median runs. Estimate unchanged. |
-| 2026-11-06 | minor | Icon-strip flyouts resize on their free edges and retain sizes with workspaces (#5713); saved heights beat auto-fit; panel footers stay at the bottom after enlargement. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-05 | minor | G9, G14: `.ai` paths with a Calligraphic brush open brushed (the brush on the stroke, at its weight) where the object's settings are the brush's own, and the brush's Tilt, Bearing and Rotation codes come in as those channels; Windows reads the pen's tilt and barrel rotation from Windows Ink (#372). Checked against a user's file of 6D Art Pen strokes, used locally; not tried with a pen. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-11-04 | minor | Contour add-on (beyond Illustrator): drag away from a selected shape's edge to grow a live copy of it, or toward the inside to shrink it; the copy carries a live Offset Path effect, so it stays editable until Bake (Expand Appearance), a second drag changes the same Contour instead of nesting one, and a floating bar sets the distance and the Sharp, Round or Square corners. `addon.contour.set` is the command behind it. It is a built-in add-on: Object › Plug-ins › Contour, and its own heading in All Tools, with no default shortcut or toolbar slot. A VectorCraft design built on Offset Path; no other application was inspected. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-11-04 | minor | Contour tool (beyond Illustrator): drag away from a selected shape's edge to grow a live copy of it, or toward the inside to shrink it; the copy carries a live Offset Path effect, so it stays editable until Bake (Expand Appearance), a second drag changes the same Contour instead of nesting one, and a floating bar sets the distance and the Sharp, Round or Square corners. `object.contour` is the command behind it. A VectorCraft design built on Offset Path; no other application was inspected. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 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. |
+| 2026-11-04 | minor | PR #3273: 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. |
+| 2026-11-04 | minor | PR #3272: Group Selection component drags defer ancestor selection until a completed click, using current Direct Selection release handling; original Outline Stroke fills and newer selection behavior retained. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-04 | minor | Contour add-on (beyond Illustrator): drag away from a selected shape's edge to grow a live copy of it, or toward the inside to shrink it; the copy carries a live Offset Path effect, so it stays editable until Bake (Expand Appearance), a second drag changes the same Contour instead of nesting one, and a floating bar sets the distance and the Sharp, Round or Square corners. `addon.contour.set` is the command behind it. It is a built-in add-on: Object › Plug-ins › Contour, and its own heading in All Tools, with no default shortcut or toolbar slot. A VectorCraft design built on Offset Path; no other application was inspected. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-04 | minor | Contour tool (beyond Illustrator): drag away from a selected shape's edge to grow a live copy of it, or toward the inside to shrink it; the copy carries a live Offset Path effect, so it stays editable until Bake (Expand Appearance), a second drag changes the same Contour instead of nesting one, and a floating bar sets the distance and the Sharp, Round or Square corners. `object.contour` is the command behind it. A VectorCraft design built on Offset Path; no other application was inspected. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-03 | minor | A double-click on a ruler adds a guide at the pointer (#5239): a vertical one on the top ruler, a horizontal one on the left ruler; scores and estimates 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. |
 | 2026-11-03 | 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 | 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. |
 | 2026-11-02 | 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 | Documentation reconciled with newer upstream progress docs in six passes (after reviews F-2 and F-3), including a corrected description of the scaleArt follow-up evidence; every dated revision and the original scaleArt runtime evidence kept; runtime, scores and estimates unchanged. |
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ macOS cursor delivery (#2292) is narrowed to a native host adapter using the exi
 
 - **Narrowed (#6165, 2026-11-09):** editable PDF import preserves explicit ActualText once, with empty/nested spans, authored order and glyph advances covered by `crates/pdf/src/tests/actual_text.rs`. One replacement uses the first placed glyph's line/style; exact redistribution across lines/styles and general mixed-direction layout remain. Input is bounded to depth 128 and 64 KiB encoded per accepted replacement. This does not close G9's broader `.ai`/EPS gaps or change its estimate.
 
-- **Done (2026-11-09):** the fonts an EPS carries draw their glyphs instead of being set as type in an installed font: composite (Type 0) fonts with the 8/8 mapping, plain Type 42 fonts (characters from their glyph names or character map, widths from the font), CID-keyed fonts over CMaps (Type 0 and Type 2 CIDFonts, CIDFonts in a FontSet's Compact Font Format data, base-font CMaps, named CIDFonts over predefined Unicode CMaps set as type) and embedded Type 1 fonts; the show operators' spacing along the baseline is kept as tracking, `kshow` included. Each step is charged to the interpreter's budgets. Hand-written test files only (no corpus file uses these fonts); scores and estimates unchanged. This narrows G9.
+- **Done (2026-11-09):** the fonts an EPS carries draw their glyphs instead of being set as type in an installed font: composite (Type 0) fonts with the 8/8 mapping, plain Type 42 fonts (characters from their glyph names or character map, widths from the font), CID-keyed fonts over CMaps (Type 0 and Type 2 CIDFonts, CIDFonts in a FontSet's Compact Font Format data, base-font CMaps, named CIDFonts over predefined CMaps (Unicode, Shift-JIS, EUC, GBK, Big Five, UHC) set as type, vertical over `-V` CMaps) and embedded Type 1 fonts; the show operators' spacing along the baseline is kept as tracking, `kshow` included. Each step is charged to the interpreter's budgets. Hand-written test files only (no corpus file uses these fonts); scores and estimates unchanged. This narrows G9.
 - **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.
 
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ macOS cursor delivery (#2292) is narrowed to a native host adapter using the exi
 
 - **Done:** Divide splits filled paths along open cutting lines and curves (#1307), preserving the frontmost filled appearance, implicit filled closure, holes, unrelated objects and one Undo/Redo; the existing bounded-map fallback remains.
 
-- **Done:** Numeric fields keep a text drag's start when the pointer gains focus and movement exceeds the click threshold (#1326, in part). A completed focus click selects the whole value; keyboard focus, double-click and numeric stepping remain regression-tested. Short movements still classified as clicks can select all; that case remains open.
+- **Done:** Numeric fields keep a text drag's start when the pointer gains focus, including short movements that egui still classifies as clicks (#1326). A release more than 1 pt from the press keeps the caret; a tap, including one with a pixel of pen or trackpad jitter, selects the whole value. Keyboard focus, double-click and numeric stepping remain regression-tested (`tests/numfields.rs`, `a_short_drag_released_as_a_click_keeps_its_caret` and `a_sub_threshold_movement_released_as_a_click_keeps_its_caret`).
 
 - **Done:** DXF reads control-point SPLINE closure (#1299 follow-up after #1320); open curves keep their open state. DXF export now recognizes circular cubic paths conservatively and writes native CIRCLE/ARC where stroke semantics permit; R12 weighted strokes remain POLYLINE. A closed four-cubic ellipse, or a circle scaled out of proportion, is written as a native ELLIPSE in R13 and later; R12 keeps the existing fallback. Alter Paths for Appearance outlines only the strokes a CAD line can't draw (aligned, profiled, offset dashes, wider than 2.11 mm, or in R13 and R14), so a 1 pt circle or arc stays a CIRCLE or ARC. DXF Options' Preset menu and `document.exportDxf`'s `dxfPreset: "cnc"` set the CNC / CAM options (#5500); VCarve QA remains open. Escape leaves Artboard editing for Selection; during a drag it first cancels the gesture. Headless egui key events cover idle Escape, active-drag cancellation and a subsequent Escape in `tests/distortkeys.rs`.
 
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ macOS cursor delivery (#2292) is narrowed to a native host adapter using the exi
   selected with Direct Selection (#1839, #1824); Snap to Grid wins over Snap to Pixel (#1840, #1816 unconfirmed); Redo
   during a drag keeps the drag (#1856, #1719); a template layer dims its images by Dim Images instead of fading the
   whole layer (#1864, #1683); a failed save or export is reported in a dialog that names the file and stays until
-  closed, the document left modified (#1865, #1685).
+  closed, the document left modified (#1865, #1685). Ordinary File > Save now offers Save As for terminal permission/read-only refusals (#6146), unless another picker is open; recovery errors retain the dialog. Regression execution pending; G11 estimate unchanged.
 - **Done:** the Shape Builder offers the empty areas closed shapes enclose as regions, such as the middle of four
   circles that touch, and merges them with the regions around them (#1691).
 - **Done (#2523):** Shape Builder Gap Detection shares Live Paint's spatially indexed gap finder,
@@ -384,6 +384,8 @@ macOS cursor delivery (#2292) is narrowed to a native host adapter using the exi
 
 ## G4 Advanced type
 
+- **Done (#5514):** the Glyphs panel's Alternates for Current Selection lists the alternates of the glyph the shaper makes for the selected character in its word, and a double-click applies the OpenType feature value that draws one (`salt=2`, `ss03`) to that character alone, in one undo step, so the text stays real Unicode and an Arabic word keeps its joining forms: runs that differ only in their features are shaped as one piece of text. A variant no feature draws there is still drawn as a replacement glyph, which may not join. Show › Entire Font lists the unencoded glyphs by id, with their name and the feature that gives them; a double-click on one applies it to the selected character when the font gives it as that character's alternate in its word (`yehfarsi.fina.alt2` on a final Persian yeh), and a glyph no feature reaches whose name does not belong to another letter (`A.salt`, `s.ss1` in a font with no such feature) is applied to the selected character as a glyph choice, which may not join; any other is drawn dimmed with a tooltip that says why (it belongs to another letter or place in a word, nothing is selected). An Arabic presentation form picked there inserts its letter, so the word still joins. Left: alternates reached through contextual or ligature lookups, and `cv01`–`cv99` and `hist`, which have no style tag; estimate unchanged.
+
 - **Fixed:** fullwidth `！` / `？` stay upright in vertical point and area type when a font has no vertical alternate. Existing `vert` substitutions and the rotated fallback for brackets and long vowel marks are preserved; the broader CJK gap and estimate are unchanged.
 
 - **Done:** character-style Auto-leading resets propagate to style users while retaining local leading overrides. Sparse definitions remain sparse, native serialization retains explicit Auto, and the Character Styles override marker stays consistent.
@@ -414,9 +416,9 @@ macOS cursor delivery (#2292) is narrowed to a native host adapter using the exi
 - **Done:** COLR colour fonts (v0 and v1): a glyph's layers are vector art (solid colours, linear and radial
   gradients, clips, blend modes, palette 0, the foreground colour from the run's fill), placed with the type, drawn on
   the canvas, written as paths in SVG, EPS, legacy `.ai` and PDF with outlined text, as text in PDF, and editable
-  paths with Create Outlines. Limits: glyphs using sweep gradients, Porter-Duff compositing, radial gradients from a
-  circle that isn't the centre, or repeating gradients are images of the glyph until documents have those paints;
-  estimate unchanged.
+  paths with Create Outlines. Limits: glyphs using sweep gradients, Porter-Duff compositing or radial gradients from a
+  circle that isn't the centre are images of the glyph until documents have those paints, and glyphs using repeating
+  or reflecting gradients are images until the color font reader maps them to a gradient's spread; estimate unchanged.
 - **Done:** OpenType SVG colour fonts: each glyph's SVG document is read by the SVG importer into vector art,
   in the run's colours where it uses `currentColor` (or the legacy `context-fill`/`context-stroke`), then drawn, exported and outlined as COLR
   glyphs are (PDF real text writes them as text that draws nothing, their art drawn where they sit). Images in glyph documents
@@ -592,7 +594,7 @@ macOS cursor delivery (#2292) is narrowed to a native host adapter using the exi
   On Windows with Windows Ink, the pen's tilt and barrel rotation where the pen reports them (#372; not yet
   tried with a pen).
 - **Missing:** pen pressure on native Wayland (#491, #764) — winit 0.30 reports none there; tilt, bearing and
-  barrel rotation on native Wayland and the web, and for Art, Pattern and Bristle brushes (6D Art Pen, #372);
+  barrel rotation on native Wayland and the web, and for Pattern and Bristle brushes (6D Art Pen, #372);
   the eraser end on native Wayland.
 - **Estimate:** 4–10 h, partly waiting on winit 0.31; needs pen hardware to verify.
 
@@ -610,6 +612,8 @@ macOS cursor delivery (#2292) is narrowed to a native host adapter using the exi
   them in proportion, as one undo step ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/edit-objects/edit-similar-objects.html));
   on a group (#4939), the groups like it (the same objects at the same places, moved or scaled) take an edit
   made to an object inside it at the object in the same place ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/edit-objects/edit-groups-with-similar-objects.html));
+  with one such object or group selected with the Selection tool, the objects Start Global Edit would take are
+  highlighted on the canvas before it starts (`selecting_one_object_highlights_the_similar_objects_before_global_edit_starts`);
   dynamic symbols (#4938): Symbol Options › Symbol Type (Dynamic Symbol / Static Symbol; `type` on
   `symbol.new` / `symbol.options` / `symbol.list`), an instance's own fill, stroke, opacity and blend for an
   object of a dynamic symbol's art (`symbol.instance.setAppearance`, by child-index path), drawn and exported
@@ -630,8 +634,8 @@ macOS cursor delivery (#2292) is narrowed to a native host adapter using the exi
   libraries ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/apply-and-edit-strokes/create-new-brush-libraries.html),
   [import](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/apply-and-edit-strokes/import-brushes-from-brush-libraries-or-other-files.html)):
   Window › Brush Libraries and the Brushes panel's Brush Libraries Menu open each library in a library panel of
-  its own (seven original libraries generated in code: Art Ribbons, Calligraphic Nibs, Bristle Brushes (one
-  bristle brush for each tip shape), Pattern Borders, Scatter Shapes, Game Trails and Energy Beams; User Defined; Other Library… reads the brushes of any document VectorCraft opens); a
+  its own (eight original libraries generated in code: Art Ribbons, Calligraphic Nibs, Bristle Brushes (one
+  bristle brush for each tip shape), Pattern Borders, Scatter Shapes, Game Trails, Energy Beams and Dry Media (grainy chalk, pencil, crayon and charcoal art brushes); User Defined; Other Library… reads the brushes of any document VectorCraft opens); a
   click adds a
   brush to the document's Brushes with the patterns, symbols and other resources its art uses, as one undo
   step (applied to the selected paths in the same step), dragging one onto a path adds and applies it and
@@ -652,10 +656,9 @@ macOS cursor delivery (#2292) is narrowed to a native host adapter using the exi
   Fine Grain, Canvas Weave, Burlap Sack, Cracked Glaze, Mosaic Floor, Quilted Squares, Leaded Glass and Damp Paper,
   painted with the texture effects; User Defined; Other Library…; `graphicStyle.libraries`,
   `graphicStyle.addFromLibrary`).
-- **Missing:** more built-in brush libraries beyond the seven shipped (and further graphic-style libraries beyond the ten shipped, and further symbol libraries beyond Basic
+- **Missing:** more built-in brush libraries beyond the eight shipped (and further graphic-style libraries beyond the ten shipped, and further symbol libraries beyond Basic
   Shapes, UI Frames, Map Markers, Inventory Icons and Skill Icons; original, generated in code, never Adobe's); dynamic symbols' `.ai` read and write;
-  Global Edit of groups holding type or images, rotated copies as matches and highlighting matches before the
-  start; 9-slice guides outside the symbol's art (a dragged guide stops at the art's edge).
+  Global Edit of groups holding type or images, and rotated copies as matches; 9-slice guides outside the symbol's art (a dragged guide stops at the art's edge).
 - **Estimate:** 5–15 h.
 
 ## G3 3D and Materials
@@ -858,12 +861,17 @@ trap, and the defaults (0.25 pt, 100%, 40%) are VectorCraft's own, the pages giv
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-09 | minor | G4 review (#6084): positional variants no supported feature draws can be applied as glyph choices in both Glyphs views; unlisted glyphs still respect name ownership. OpenType style options keep only a valid last on-value when enabling a set. Existing contextual/ligature lookup and unsupported-feature gaps remain; estimate unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-07 | minor | G4: the Glyphs panel's Alternates for Current Selection applies the OpenType feature that draws a variant to that letter alone (`salt=2`; the style commands take `tag=N`; runs that differ only in their features shape as one piece of text), so an Arabic word stays joined, and Show › Entire Font lists the unencoded glyphs (#5514). Estimate unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-12 | minor | G11: numeric fields keep the caret when a focus click is released more than 1 pt from its press; a tap within 1 pt still selects the whole value (#6659, follow-up to #1326); short-drag and jitter-tap regressions in `tests/numfields.rs`; estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-03 | minor | An imported document's own title (an SVG's root `<title>`, a PDF's XMP `dc:title` else its Info `Title`) goes into File Info only; the document's name stays the file's name (#3626); no scored gap or estimate reassessed. |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | Eyedropper copies effective character dimensions between transformed text objects (#6404); scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-11 | minor | Ordinary Save to a location refusing writes offers Save As (#6146); cancellation preserves the original path and modified state; automation receives READ_ONLY_LOCATION. Scores and estimates unchanged. Validation pending. |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | G5: built-in Energy Beams brush library (Laser Bolt, Plasma Arc, Charge Wave, Spark Trail); Missing trimmed; estimate 5–15 → 4–14 h; MCP Brush libraries list Energy Beams. |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | G5: built-in Skill Icons symbol library (Attack, Defend, Heal, Buff, Ult); Missing trimmed; estimate 6–16 → 5–15 h; MCP Symbol libraries list Skill Icons. |
-| 2026-11-10 | minor | G6: MCP catalogue (#6460): headless lists `UI_COMMANDS` (`ui: true`), eight prompts, effect vs command ids, 33 tools, commands/reference; estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | G5: built-in Status Effects graphic style library (Poison Tint, Freeze Edge, Burn Aura, Stun Pulse, Stealth Fade, Shield Buff); Missing trimmed; estimate 7–17 → 6–16 h; MCP docs list UI Frames and Map Markers under Symbol libraries. |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | G5: built-in Inventory Icons symbol library (Sword, Shield, Potion, Key, Gem; no default 9-slice); Missing trimmed; estimate 8–18 → 7–17 h. |
+| 2026-11-10 | minor | G6: MCP catalogue (#6460): headless lists `UI_COMMANDS` (`ui: true`), eight prompts, effect vs command ids, 33 tools, commands/reference; estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-10 | minor | G4 type: Edit › Edit Custom Dictionary… adds, deletes and changes the custom dictionary's words, #4936; the Check Spelling dialog remains; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-10 | minor | Tidy-up, no content change: in Feature submission evidence, a stray table row and two "PR #NNNN revision" notes move into Feature revisions, the three "Feature evidence last updated" lines become one, the duplicate Flyout update note goes (its row stays), and eight reconciliation rows become two. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-10 | minor | G5: built-in Game HUD graphic style library (Health Fill, Mana Glow, Damage Flash, Quest Outline, Coin Shine, Boss Alert); Missing trimmed; estimate 10–20 → 9–19 h. |
@@ -890,16 +898,17 @@ trap, and the defaults (0.25 pt, 100%, 40%) are VectorCraft's own, the pages giv
 | 2026-11-05 | minor | G15: a document's first frame renders on the render worker (#4155); the longest UI-thread stall opening that file went from 8.7 s to 64 ms. Estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-05 | minor | G15: a reduced image is shrunk before it is separated into ink planes (#4155); first frame 9.2 s → 1.6 s, sharp frame after a pan 3.9 s → 8 ms on that file. Estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-05 | minor | G7: document tabs are dragged along the tab strip to reorder them (`document.move`, #5663). Estimate unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-03 | minor | Symbol editing shows draggable 9-slice guides within the artwork (#5280). Guides outside the artwork remain unsupported. The G5 estimate remains 14–24 h. |
 | 2026-11-02 | minor | G15: the renderer keeps a compound path's assembled path between frames and drops unused geometry entries after a few frames however few there are. Estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-02 | minor | G15: hit testing culls paths and compound paths by their control points' box and tests a compound path's outline and fill against only its members near the click; the same objects are hit. Estimate unchanged. |
-| 2026-11-03 | minor | Symbol editing shows draggable 9-slice guides within the artwork (#5280). Guides outside the artwork remain unsupported. The G5 estimate remains 14–24 h. |
-| 2026-10-31 | minor | G12: Units › East Asian Type acts (#394): Q and Ha (a quarter of a millimetre each) are units that preference offers; 4 Preferences options remain stored but not acted on. Estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | G5: dynamic symbols (#4938): Symbol Options › Symbol Type, per-instance fill, stroke, opacity and blend for objects of a dynamic symbol's art that stay linked (redefining keeps them, Break Link bakes them, Reset and Static drop them; `symbol.instance.setAppearance`, `symbol.instance.reset`; `crates/engine/src/tests/dynamic_symbols.rs`); on-canvas Direct Selection of the parts and `.ai` round trip remain. Estimate 15–26 → 14–24 h. |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | G13: Artboard background colors in output (#4937): raster exports (a transparent background too), PDF, SVG and EPS pages, `.ai` files' PDF pages, Export for Screens and print (and its preview) draw each artboard's color behind its art, inside the artboard and in the color's own model; Export for Screens has Include Artboard Fill beside Include Bleed (on by default, remembered; `includeArtboardFill`, also on `document.export` and `file.print`); editing data keeps the color as the artboard's, and Export for Screens' document rows keep it too; estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | G5: Select › Start Global Edit on a group takes the groups like it (the same objects at the same places, moved or scaled; Appearance, Size and the artboard options apply) and gives an edit made to an object inside one to the object at its place in each of the others, in proportion, as one undo step (#4939); rotated copies and Shift-click exclusion remain. Estimate unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-31 | minor | G12: Units › East Asian Type acts (#394): Q and Ha (a quarter of a millimetre each) are units that preference offers; 4 Preferences options remain stored but not acted on. Estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | G4: PDF import finds an installed font whose PDF name holds hyphens (`Noto-Sans-Bold` is Noto Sans, Bold: the longest part before a hyphen that names an installed family) and a composite font by its CIDFont's name rather than its base name, which ends in the CMap's (`Name-Identity-H`, [ISO 32000-1 §9.7.6.1](https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/pdfstandards/PDF32000_2008.pdf)); a missing font is split only before a style part (`Helvetica-BoldOblique`), so it is reported as `MS PGothic`, not `MS`. Estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | G13: Direct Selection snaps the end of an existing straight line, dragged by its end anchor, square to straight paths and grazing curves (Smart Guides › Geometric Guides: Snap to Perpendicular and Snap to Tangent), the case the public Snap to Perpendicular and Snap to Tangent pages add to drawing with the Line Segment and Pen tools (#2530). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | G8: a gradient mesh read from a file is budgeted: at most about a million quads per tessellation, and a mesh with more patches than that is malformed (#3592); estimate unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-31 | minor | G1: Grid Repeat Options has a Preview checkbox (#2651); estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | G9: `.ai`/EPS editing data: a blend takes the transparency (opacity, blend mode, knockout) in its state block after its record, so its steps knock each other out as the page draws them; a user's file comes in 0.6% from its page instead of 1.3%. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | G1: Object › Path › Average & Join… (`path.averageJoin`, Cmd+Alt+Shift+J) moves two open path ends to their midpoint and joins them there, the joined anchor a corner or a smooth point as its dialog's Points choice asks, in one undo step; the "Average and Join in one step" entry is done. Estimate unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | G12: Preferences audit (#394): 5 options are stored but not acted on (Open Documents As Tabs, Units › East Asian Type, Hyphenation › Default Language, Scratch Disks, Legacy vector clipboard), each waiting on a subsystem; Highlight Alternate Glyphs, Real-time Drawing and the Devices options act. Estimate unchanged. |
@@ -907,16 +916,19 @@ trap, and the defaults (0.25 pt, 100%, 40%) are VectorCraft's own, the pages giv
 | 2026-10-29 | minor | G10: the Linux Flatpak on GNOME stops the clipboard retry storm (retried with a growing wait, logged once). Estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-29 | minor | G12: Pathfinder: live compound shapes (#4522): the panel menu's Make, Release and Expand Compound Shape, Alt-clicking a Shape Mode, a selected member's Shape Mode and the Expand button act. No entry closed, estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-29 | minor | G8: a blend makes at most 100,000 steps in all, the steps of blends nested in its keys and steps included; past it each pair of keys keeps the same share of its steps (#3579). No entry closed, estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-28 | minor | Flare ray rotation follows vertical travel at one degree per document point, independent of pointer event count. Shift freezes the current orientation; Space also freezes rotation on the first update. This is the chosen application interaction rate. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-28 | minor | Drop Shadow Darkness subtracts the normalized amount from RGB source channels or adds it to CMYK/Gray black before profile conversion and blur; near-100% becomes gray black, with shadow opacity separate. SVG keeps live filters for uniform sRGB sources and renders shadows for other RGB profiles, source models and gradients. Gradient-stop adjustment is an application rule; spot/custom colors and composite-source parity remain open. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-28 | minor | Blob Brush Shift locks after clear axial movement, keeps earlier samples fixed, and waits without an off-axis trail. Activation uses raw press displacement in logical screen pixels, with exact quarter-turn boundaries. Explicit application rule; scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-28 | minor | Flare Tool Options opened by a canvas click previews its settings at that click. Reset refreshes the enabled preview while keeping the dialog open. Cancel discards preview art and tentative options; OK accepts one flare in one Undo step. Editing existing flare artwork remains outside this dialog scope. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-26 | minor | G9: EPS save-back: an opened EPS saves back to its own path as EPS, keeping the chosen artboard's page frame and transparent margins and the complete editable VectorCraft document; Save's TIFF preview is capped at 1024 px (Export keeps 2048); partly read, preview-only or damaged-editing-data sources still need confirmation before they are overwritten. This narrows G9's save-back workflow only; its import-fidelity items (layer and group structure, guides, open speed, live objects) and estimate are unchanged, and writing Illustrator's own editing data stays out of scope (#868) |
 | 2026-10-26 | minor | G7: View › New View… / Edit Views… ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/viewing-artwork.html)): the View menu lists every one of a document's 25 saved views (it listed 10), Edit Views… lists them to rename or delete in one undo step (`view.saved.edit {edits}`), and a file's views are checked when it opens; New View/Edit Views leave G7's missing list; estimate unchanged |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | G4: a double-click on a threaded port with the Selection tool breaks the thread there (`text.thread.break {id, port}`): the story flows into the frames before the break, the frames after it are left empty and stay threaded with each other when two or more; a double-click on a port with no thread does nothing; estimate unchanged |
-| 2026-10-31 | minor | G1: Grid Repeat Options has a Preview checkbox (#2651); estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | G1: a selected Grid Repeat shows handles: the one below the grid adds or removes rows, the one right of it columns, the one past its bottom-right corner both, and the sliders between the first two columns and rows set the horizontal and vertical spacing; each drag is one undo step and Escape cancels it (#2691); bounding-box handles keep priority where they meet; Radial Repeat handles remain; estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | Floating panels open in OS windows of their own on the desktop (inside the window on the web and on Wayland); saved layouts from earlier versions convert to the shared docking layout (#4135); scores and estimates unchanged (estimated) |
-| 2026-10-24 | minor | Recolor Artwork › Assign: double-clicking a row's new color opens the Color Picker over the dialog; its OK sets the row's new color in the model it was picked in (a CMYK mix stays CMYK, RGB becomes CMYK in a CMYK document), Cancel leaves the row as it was. A Lab new color is kept, but a Lab color can't be typed yet: the picker's Lab fields work in RGB, as for fill and stroke (part of #4028; Lab entry, swatch libraries and the row menu remain). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | G12: Pathfinder panel › Pathfinder Options… (Precision, Remove Redundant Points, Divide and Outline Will Remove Unpainted Artwork), for #3426; no entry closed, estimate unchanged |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | G12: Artboards panel › Delete Empty Artboards (`artboard.deleteEmpty`); no entry closed, estimate unchanged |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | G12: the Transform panel menu's Transform Object Only / Pattern Only / Both (`transformPanelPatterns`) choose what the Transform panel and the Properties panel's Transform section transform (until a choice, General › Transform Pattern Tiles as before), and Use Registration Point for Symbol (`useRegistrationPointForSymbol`) measures and transforms one selected symbol instance from its registration point; estimate unchanged |
+| 2026-10-24 | minor | Recolor Artwork › Assign: double-clicking a row's new color opens the Color Picker over the dialog; its OK sets the row's new color in the model it was picked in (a CMYK mix stays CMYK, RGB becomes CMYK in a CMYK document), Cancel leaves the row as it was. A Lab new color is kept, but a Lab color can't be typed yet: the picker's Lab fields work in RGB, as for fill and stroke (part of #4028; Lab entry, swatch libraries and the row menu remain). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-24 | minor | G1: Live Paint Make, Merge and the Live Paint Bucket refuse type, images and other objects that aren't paths, changing nothing, instead of hiding them among the group's sources; Properties shows Merge Live Paint only for a selection it can take. No entry closed, estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-24 | minor | G1: Properties: Blend Options and Merge Live Paint in Quick Actions, the Width Profile list and an applied effect's Delete icon in Appearance, and the kind and radius of corners selected with Direct Selection, as the public Properties panel overview lists them. No entry closed, estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-24 | minor | Docs catch-up: G11's three Missing lines (left by merges, naming fixed bugs) become one: SVG units reverting to points (#864) and a Transform effect in a fill's or stroke's own effect list (#885) remain; Shape Builder regions (#937, closed), PDF text placement (#722), the bezier drag preview (#834) and interior anchor delete are done. G2's pre-#2883 "the Effect Gallery dialog" Missing and 4–6 h estimate lines and a duplicate Done line removed. Estimates unchanged. |
@@ -943,17 +955,15 @@ trap, and the defaults (0.25 pt, 100%, 40%) are VectorCraft's own, the pages giv
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | G4: OpenType SVG colour fonts draw and export as vector art; colour fonts are done but for images, scripts and text inside SVG glyph documents and palette variables; estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | G12: General › Constrain Angle acts for the arrow keys, Shift drags (selection tools, Free Transform, slices, Reshape, Measure, Pen handles) and new rectangles, ellipses, grids, type, polygons, stars and size-dialog shapes (#394); no entry closed, estimate unchanged |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | G4: Glyph Scaling leaves hung punctuation at its width and Standard burasagari counts a hung line start as room (`crates/text/src/tests/hang.rs`). No entry closed, estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-20 | minor | G4: a paragraph's Auto Leading also drives the Character panel's Leading, the leading nudge and Fill with Placeholder Text; estimate unchanged |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | G11: #834 done (a tool drag's preview could miss the position where the pointer came back into the window and the move in the release's frame, so the release committed a stale handle or anchor); estimate unchanged |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | G1: a path moved by a press on its stroke or beside its edge (Selection, Group Selection, Direct Selection), and a straight segment Direct Selection drags, snap by the nearest point of the path, so the path lands exactly on a ruler guide with "align" instead of the pressed spot landing there and the path a few pixels beside it (#3701). No entry closed, estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | G11: the Transform effect has Transform Objects, Transform Patterns and Scale Strokes & Effects, its checkboxes visible (#885); canvas, export and Expand Appearance agree. A Transform in a fill's or stroke's own effects ignores the two options. Estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | G4: COLR colour fonts (v0 and v1) draw and export as vector art; paints documents lack (sweep gradients, Porter-Duff compositing, radial gradients from a circle, repeating gradients) draw the glyph as an image; OpenType SVG fonts remain; estimate unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-18 | minor | G11: Shape Builder on art of thousands of segments (traced outlines, type outlines): lines cut it again past 4,096 segments, where the planar map used to give up and the tool offered whole shapes (#937's reproduced case; the planar map's edge-source and face lookups were quadratic in the segments, now indexed, and the cap is 65,536); estimate unchanged until confirmed on the reporter's file |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | Fix #3705 in part: drawing modes apply to pastes (Draw Inside puts Paste, Paste in Place and Paste on All Artboards inside the object drawn into; Draw Behind puts Paste in Place and Paste on All Artboards behind the selection), and Shift+D goes from Draw Behind back to Draw Normal when Draw Inside can't draw into the selection instead of stopping at Draw Behind; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | G7: Artboard Options' Show Video Safe Areas (action-safe 3.5% and title-safe 5% in from each edge, EBU R 95, canvas only) and Video Ruler Pixel Aspect Ratio (`artboard.setProps`/`artboard.new` `showVideoSafeAreas`, `videoRulerPixelAspectRatio`), and View › Rulers › Show Video Rulers (`view.videoRulers`), which counts the active artboard in those pixels (#2849); video rulers leave G7's missing list; estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | Artboard Options: Show Center Mark and Show Cross Hairs (`artboard.setProps`/`artboard.new` `showCenterMark`, `showCrossHairs`) draw a center cross and lines from the middle of each side through the center on the canvas only, in one undo step; video safe areas, video rulers and the pixel aspect ratio remain missing; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | G1: Simplify of part of a path: with anchors or segments of a path direct-selected, Object › Path › Simplify (slider, Auto-Simplify and dialog) refits only each run of selected segments between its end anchors and leaves the rest of the path exactly as it was; estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | G11: Simplify: Object › Path › Simplify opens its slider at the Auto-Simplify level for the selection, previewing that result, instead of at 1 pt; partial-path simplify remains missing; estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-10-22 | minor | G11: #834 done (a tool drag's preview could miss the position where the pointer came back into the window and the move in the release's frame, so the release committed a stale handle or anchor); estimate unchanged |
+| 2026-10-22 | minor | G11: the Transform effect has Transform Objects, Transform Patterns and Scale Strokes & Effects, its checkboxes visible (#885); canvas, export and Expand Appearance agree. A Transform in a fill's or stroke's own effects ignores the two options. Estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-22 | minor | G8: stacked geometry effects make at most 2 million anchors of a path and about 8 million lines to draw: Roughen, Zig Zag, Free Distort, Twist, the warps and Transform build within it, and an effect that would still pass it is left out (#3578). No entry closed, estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-22 | minor | G13: gradient Method (30.0), Classic or Perceptual, in the Gradient panel, on the canvas, in raster exports and as images in SVG and PDF exports (with Dither, a Perceptual fill takes its noise); G13 estimate 14–24 h → 13–23 h. |
 | 2026-10-22 | minor | G8: SVG images in SVG images share the depth cap (any data URL type usvg reads as SVG) and SVGZ images one 512 MB unpacking cap; past either, an image is left out with a warning (#3562, #3563). No entry closed, estimates unchanged. |
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 | 2026-10-21 | minor | Tangent and straight-segment perpendicular snapping use saved Smart Guides Geometric Guides preferences and Control bar quick access (#2537); no View submenu. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | 3D: original Standard, Diffuse, Top Left and Right lighting presets; command access, effective-setting recognition and preview/history; scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | G1: one selected clip group's Properties panel has Edit Clipping Path and Edit Contents at its top. No entry closed, estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-20 | minor | G4: a paragraph's Auto Leading also drives the Character panel's Leading, the leading nudge and Fill with Placeholder Text; estimate unchanged |
 | 2026-10-20 | minor | G1: for the selection tools, a press within the selection tolerance of a clipping path's outline (a clip group's, or a layer's clipping mask) hits the clipping path before the art it clips, so Direct Selection takes its segments and the Selection tool the clip group even where the art lies over the mask's edge; Select Behind lists the same; the eyedropper and the tools that act on what is drawn are unchanged. Doc and tool regression tests. No entry closed, estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-20 | minor | Polygon and Star exact-size placement remembers the chosen count for later drags and dialog openings; Cancel preserves the previous count; existing opening gestures retained; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-20 | minor | Live trace result bounds and selection highlights exclude the retained bitmap except in source-image views; scores and hours unchanged. |
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 | 2026-10-19 | minor | Cached canvas dimensions match the renderer limit before cache-key creation, view construction and worker submission. Regression coverage; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-19 | minor | Cached canvas reprojection preserves scale during resize, rotation and DPI changes. Contributor original-file acceptance confirmed; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-19 | minor | Color Picker layout (#2008): compact controls, centered header, stacked actions and aligned inputs; screen-reader channel values, current shared button names and styling, screen sampler and model-by-model Tab order retained. Narrow windows scroll vertically. Documentation correction: #1692 was completed upstream before #2008; the Direct Selection alignment gap remains open. Scores and hours unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-19 | minor | G13: blend easing (#1124): Ease In / Ease Out and separate Color Ease In / Out in Blend Options, saved with the blend; on-canvas handles and easing in the Blend panel remain. Estimate unchanged |
+| 2026-10-19 | minor | G13: tangent and perpendicular snapping for lines drawn from an anchor (Pen, Curvature, Line Segment, with Smart Guides on), View › Snapping with every snap option, and the `view.snapping` command (#2530); estimate unchanged |
+| 2026-10-18 | minor | G11: Shape Builder on art of thousands of segments (traced outlines, type outlines): lines cut it again past 4,096 segments, where the planar map used to give up and the tool offered whole shapes (#937's reproduced case; the planar map's edge-source and face lookups were quadratic in the segments, now indexed, and the cap is 65,536); estimate unchanged until confirmed on the reporter's file |
 | 2026-10-18 | minor | G11: Shape Builder Gap Detection (#2523): Shape Builder Tool Options with a Gap Length of Small, Medium, Large or Custom bridges small gaps between open paths for the regions they bound; the other Shape Builder options stay missing. The stale gap line on deleting an interior anchor of an open path is removed (the behaviour was already implemented). Estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-18 | minor | Mirror Repeat shows its axis when selected (#2877): drag the line or center handle to move it, drag an end handle to rotate it (Shift: 45°), Escape cancels and each drag is one undo step. Engine and headless canvas gesture regressions passed; native move, rotation and Escape screenshots reviewed. Formatting, Clippy, WASM and repository checks passed; the undo label reuses translated Repeat Options. (#2877) Scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-18 | minor | Bounding-box handles take priority where a selected Mirror Repeat axis crosses them; a Top-handle regression confirms scaling of the default repeat. Center and end handles retain their move and rotation behavior. G1 scope and estimate unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-19 | minor | G13: blend easing (#1124): Ease In / Ease Out and separate Color Ease In / Out in Blend Options, saved with the blend; on-canvas handles and easing in the Blend panel remain. Estimate unchanged |
-| 2026-10-19 | minor | G13: tangent and perpendicular snapping for lines drawn from an anchor (Pen, Curvature, Line Segment, with Smart Guides on), View › Snapping with every snap option, and the `view.snapping` command (#2530); estimate unchanged |
 | 2026-10-17 | minor | G11: #722 fixed (PDF text slid on open where the file spaced its glyphs other than the font's metrics: kerning, word and character spacing, `TJ` adjustments, text rise, narrow vertical glyphs; justified text boxes stayed lines); estimate unchanged |
 | 2026-10-17 | minor | Blend spine Anchor Point conversions, selection/stacking priority and Shift regression coverage (#2544); scores and hours unchanged. Windows native canvas checks and screenshots reviewed in PR #2643. |
 | 2026-10-17 | minor | G12: Background Export progress dialog with Cancel and Continue in Background (#2564); no entry closed, estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-10-17 | minor | Colored Inflate: shared membrane normals and smooth RGB vector ramps replace flat polygon bands; channel groups are batched per solid-fill surface. White-light Inflate retains its original polygons, paint composition and seam joins; the 0.05 seam minimum is restored. Scores and hour estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-16 | minor | Native documents restore transparency grid visibility (#1968); save/open regression covers on/off, old files and SVG; scores and hours unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-16 | minor | G6: MCP cancellation, progress notifications and a busy answer during long exports (#2165, #2171, #2172); no entry closed, estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-16 | minor | G11: PDF export of a CMYK document reports its RGB colours and non-CMYK images, with a count, in the export warnings (#2162); no entry closed, estimates unchanged |
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 | 2026-10-16 | minor | G2: Effect › Sketch › Bas Relief, Charcoal, Photocopy and Stamp (#2527); measured Photoshop filters 37/57 with Cutout, Neon Glow and Poster Edges, 20 remaining (18–30 h). |
 | 2026-10-16 | minor | G2: Effect › Sketch › Halftone Pattern (Size, Contrast, Pattern Type Circle, Dot or Line; black ink on white paper, Size in points at any Document Raster Effects resolution); measured Photoshop filters 30/57, 27 remaining (22–38 h). |
 | 2026-10-16 | minor | G1: Smart Guides line extension for a dragged end of a straight segment, at any angle (#2120); estimate unchanged |
-| 2026-10-15 | minor | G1: no busy cursor during long operations, listed; estimate unchanged |
-| 2026-10-17 | minor | Colored Inflate: shared membrane normals and smooth RGB vector ramps replace flat polygon bands; channel groups are batched per solid-fill surface. White-light Inflate retains its original polygons, paint composition and seam joins; the 0.05 seam minimum is restored. Scores and hour estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-16 | minor | 3D lighting: one to ten directional lights, a selectable light list, Add Light and Delete Light, independent settings and artboard gestures; ambient applied once and smooth RGB vector export; scores and hour estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-16 | minor | 3D lighting: opaque RGB Color for the shared directional light, with neutral ambient, preview/reset controls and smooth vector Revolve shading; scores and hour estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-10-16 | minor | G13: Object › Create Gradient Mesh on an embedded image (#1676); a linked image is refused. No entry closed, estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-10-15 | minor | G1: no busy cursor during long operations, listed; estimate unchanged |
+| 2026-10-15 | minor | G13: Object › Intertwine (#1763): Make, Edit, Release, the Intertwine tool (hover, click, drawn path) and `object.intertwine.arrange` (toggle, front, back). Bring Forward / Send Backward stay missing; adding objects through the Layers panel is untested. No entry closed, estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-10-15 | minor | G11: Transform Each Reflect X flips left-right and Reflect Y top-bottom (#1910). Estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-15 | minor | Artboard tool: closing a clean active tab restores the displayed board before Properties Delete. Nine targeted checks passed; three original close-route captures reviewed; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | G16: Brazilian Portuguese (`pt-br`) catalog complete under the tests (#1914); three key languages remain (Hindi, Arabic, Indonesian), 55–90 → 50–85 h |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | G6: dataset CSV import/export (`dataset.import` / `dataset.export`); remaining: scripting surface, Batch, graph variables; estimate 6–12 → 4–8 h |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | G6: image variables (`VariableKind::Image`, `variable.makeImageDynamic`, path values on `dataset.select` keeping bounds); remaining: scripting surface, Batch, graph variables, dataset import/export; estimate 8–14 → 6–12 h |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | Effect > Warp: style, orientation and percent controls; focused checks passed and original captures reviewed; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | G11: open-path anchor Delete removes adjoining segments without bridging the gap; explicit Remove Anchors keeps its reconnect/refit behavior. Scores and hours unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-16 | minor | G13: Object › Create Gradient Mesh on an embedded image (#1676); a linked image is refused. No entry closed, estimates unchanged |
-| 2026-10-15 | minor | G13: Object › Intertwine (#1763): Make, Edit, Release, the Intertwine tool (hover, click, drawn path) and `object.intertwine.arrange` (toggle, front, back). Bring Forward / Send Backward stay missing; adding objects through the Layers panel is untested. No entry closed, estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | MCP `add_text` exposes the existing `vertical` option for point, area and path type; horizontal remains the default; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | Vertical fullwidth question and exclamation marks keep their nominal glyph upright when the font has no vertical alternate; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | G1: Curvature curve geometry (the Curvature tool's curve: each stretch of three points follows the circle through them (handles along its tangent, chord/(3·cos²(α/2)) long, shorter in a turn tighter than 30°), and the ends of an open path curve in, so uneven spacing neither overshoots nor loops; #1236, in part); neighbour re-curving on existing paths remains open; estimates unchanged |
-| 2026-10-15 | minor | G11: Transform Each Reflect X flips left-right and Reflect Y top-bottom (#1910). Estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | Quick Image Trace presets reveal the adjustment panel with Advanced open; Properties reopens it. Sliders keep their preset row until release so the re-trace is committed. UI regressions added; scores and remaining estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | Revolve: automatic smooth vector shading, default-on Cap with continuous curved rims, and bounded seam joins; angular cut sides remain open. Scores and hour estimates unchanged at this rounding |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | No entry closed. G8 and G11 record the later merges of 2026-10-14 (#1852, #1862–#1865, #1871–#1873, #1839, #1840, #1856); #1683 (Dim Images) and #1685 (failed-save dialog) are done by #1864 and #1865. Gaps noted for reporters: G1 Effect › Warp through Warp Options (#1760), Color Picker Tab order (#1692), aligning to a key anchor (#1636; the public Align page does not say how the key anchor is chosen); G7 custom toolbars (#1759), workspace panel widths (#1753); G11 Shape Builder regions between closed shapes (#1691), deleting an interior anchor of an open path; G13 Intertwine (#1763), gradient mesh from an embedded image (#1676), Image Trace radial gradients (draft #1849). Average and Join with a corner or smooth choice was already listed (G1). G12: a line two merges had left twice is there once, without Appearance of Black for output, which acts since #1750. Estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | Existing-guide Escape cancellation: eight app-input regressions, the Direct Selection Escape control and current full CI passed; scores and hours unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-15 | minor | Artboard tool: closing a clean active tab restores the displayed board before Properties Delete. Nine targeted checks passed; three original close-route captures reviewed; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | Artboard tab changes align the tool with the displayed board; same-tab multiselection and Move/Scale Artwork options preserved. Three tab regressions and historical full CI on `a0671777` passed; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | Width-point finite-arithmetic follow-up: atomicity, history and native round-trip regressions and current full CI passed; scores and hours unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-14 | minor | No entry closed. G11: Align and Distribute act on the anchor points selected with Direct Selection: the points of one path align to each other, not to the artboard, and Distribute spaces them (#1641, fixes #1636; aligning to a key anchor is still missing); Delete removes every selected anchor of a closed path (it used to remove the wrong ones), removes objects selected whole along with the selected anchors of others, and keeps the remainder selected so a second Delete removes it (#1674); In isolation mode Direct Selection and Group Selection pick only inside the isolated object (#1666); Escape cancels a Direct Selection drag (#1803, #1743); Escape while typing ends the edit, keeps the type selected and switches to the Selection tool (#1802, #1686, #1656); A filled Pencil path keeps a stroke of None (#1804, part of #1679); In the Pathfinder panel a group selected alone counts its nested shapes, so an expanded stroked object keeps the Shape Modes enabled (#1642, #1635); Object › Expand turns radial, grid and mirror repeats into groups of their instances (#1765, #1756); Select › Same matches type on its characters' fill and stroke (#1746, #1737); Roughen with Smooth keeps turn-backs smooth instead of making cusps that draw as spikes (#1646, #1643); Scribble draws one zig-zag per region, with no lines across holes and notches; convex shapes are unchanged (#1651, #1648). G8: WMF/EMF import refuses an oversized embedded PNG or JPEG from its header, before any pixels are decoded (#1776); PDF open no longer takes exponential time on a crafted name tree with shared nodes when it looks for the editing data (#1781); The size limits on a native file's embedded data also apply to files read from memory, not only streamed ones (#1783); Saving over a private file on Unix no longer leaves a readable temporary copy beside it while the file is written (#1778); An Export for Screens suffix can no longer place files outside the export folder (#1777); Package refuses a folder where it would overwrite the open document or one of its linked files (#1786); ruzstd 0.9.1 fixes a decompression bomb (RUSTSEC-2026-0344) reachable from EPS/`.ai` and Affinity import (#1807); Scatter graph data near the largest number is refused with a message instead of hanging the app (#1780); One very long Liquify stroke segment can no longer create an unbounded number of dabs (#1779); MCP limits: 16 MiB lines, 64-message batches, 256-step `command_batch` with 8 MiB of kept results and 256 MiB control replies (#1764, fixes #1727); MCP requires the JSON-RPC 2.0 envelope and matches control replies by id, and an app refusal without an id reports the app's reason (#1768, fixes #1728). G10, unconfirmed: Tool cursors are painted into the window on Wayland (#1652; not run on Linux, #1645 stays open until confirmed); On Windows the custom title bar's window stays truly borderless, so the pointer lines up with what is drawn on systems where the hidden caption offset it (#1791, #1758; awaiting the reporter's confirmation). A clause repeated in two G11 bullets is there once. Estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Pinned PngSuite HTTPS files verified by SHA-256 before publication; bounded downloads replace archive extraction (#1729). Scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Bounded synthetic control input (#1709): counts and queued events validated before mutation; control-channel bursts yield between frames. Scores and hours unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-14 | minor | No entry closed. G11: Align and Distribute act on the anchor points selected with Direct Selection: the points of one path align to each other, not to the artboard, and Distribute spaces them (#1641, fixes #1636; aligning to a key anchor is still missing); Delete removes every selected anchor of a closed path (it used to remove the wrong ones), removes objects selected whole along with the selected anchors of others, and keeps the remainder selected so a second Delete removes it (#1674); In isolation mode Direct Selection and Group Selection pick only inside the isolated object (#1666); Escape cancels a Direct Selection drag (#1803, #1743); Escape while typing ends the edit, keeps the type selected and switches to the Selection tool (#1802, #1686, #1656); A filled Pencil path keeps a stroke of None (#1804, part of #1679); In the Pathfinder panel a group selected alone counts its nested shapes, so an expanded stroked object keeps the Shape Modes enabled (#1642, #1635); Object › Expand turns radial, grid and mirror repeats into groups of their instances (#1765, #1756); Select › Same matches type on its characters' fill and stroke (#1746, #1737); Roughen with Smooth keeps turn-backs smooth instead of making cusps that draw as spikes (#1646, #1643); Scribble draws one zig-zag per region, with no lines across holes and notches; convex shapes are unchanged (#1651, #1648). G8: WMF/EMF import refuses an oversized embedded PNG or JPEG from its header, before any pixels are decoded (#1776); PDF open no longer takes exponential time on a crafted name tree with shared nodes when it looks for the editing data (#1781); The size limits on a native file's embedded data also apply to files read from memory, not only streamed ones (#1783); Saving over a private file on Unix no longer leaves a readable temporary copy beside it while the file is written (#1778); An Export for Screens suffix can no longer place files outside the export folder (#1777); Package refuses a folder where it would overwrite the open document or one of its linked files (#1786); ruzstd 0.9.1 fixes a decompression bomb (RUSTSEC-2026-0344) reachable from EPS/`.ai` and Affinity import (#1807); Scatter graph data near the largest number is refused with a message instead of hanging the app (#1780); One very long Liquify stroke segment can no longer create an unbounded number of dabs (#1779); MCP limits: 16 MiB lines, 64-message batches, 256-step `command_batch` with 8 MiB of kept results and 256 MiB control replies (#1764, fixes #1727); MCP requires the JSON-RPC 2.0 envelope and matches control replies by id, and an app refusal without an id reports the app's reason (#1768, fixes #1728). G10, unconfirmed: Tool cursors are painted into the window on Wayland (#1652; not run on Linux, #1645 stays open until confirmed); On Windows the custom title bar's window stays truly borderless, so the pointer lines up with what is drawn on systems where the hidden caption offset it (#1791, #1758; awaiting the reporter's confirmation). A clause repeated in two G11 bullets is there once. Estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | No entry closed. Pathfinder's Trim, Merge and Crop remove the objects' strokes, and Merge joins same-fill objects whatever their strokes were, as the public Pathfinder page describes (#1572, fixes #1570); Warp › Arc (the effect and Envelope › Make with Warp) bends in the object's real proportions: a circular arc with concentric edges and no fold-over at 100%, so Arc on art that isn't square draws differently from before (#1581, fixes #1578); Offset Path with an inset larger than the shapes says the offset leaves nothing, instead of asking to select paths (#1591, fixes #1590); A zero-length subpath draws its round cap as a dot and its projecting cap as a square, so dots in imported `.ai` and SVG files show (#1619, fixes #1613); Area type in a non-rectangular shape moves a word too wide for the top lines down to the first line that holds it instead of breaking it (#1617, fixes #1615); Tool flyouts are as wide as their longest translated name and shortcut need, so names no longer run into shortcuts in Spanish and other languages (#1650, fixes #1616); Saving to a network drive on macOS falls back to a plain fsync when the share refuses a full flush (#1625, part of #1620; not confirmed on a real share), and a save still succeeds when a folder refuses the temporary file, the rename over the document or copying permissions: the content is written elsewhere first and copied in, and a failed copy keeps the temporary file and names it (#1649, part of #1620); Smart Guides: a point drawn with the Pen or a shape tool, and an anchor dragged with Direct Selection, snaps to where paths and ruler guides cross, labelled "intersect" (#1658, part of #1602; a moved selection's own anchors don't); estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | G1/M11: Artboard panel deletion, protected deletion keys and navigator/tool synchronization before and after deletion; history normalization preserves valid multiselection; history regressions and full workspace CI pass; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | G4: mixed paragraph alignment indication implemented; headless regressions, full integration CI and visual review pass; other mixed paragraph fields and estimates unchanged, no gap entry closed |
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 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Control transport deadlines (#1726): idle and partial clients and blocked replies release connection slots; parity scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | G1: Average and Join in one step with a corner or smooth choice is listed as missing (the ui-parity row said done; the command does not exist); Join merges the selected anchor points that lie on one another, as after Average, into one anchor (#1582, fixes #1533); Lock Guides also locks the objects made into guides: they can't be selected, moved or deleted (#1543); they are drawn in the guide colour and style of Preferences, and a dragged selection snaps to ruler guides with Smart Guides on (#1583, fixes #1534); Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts lists Edit › Duplicate and the other commands that are in no menu but run without parameters (panel-menu commands such as Break Link to Symbol), so they can be given shortcuts (#1549, #1580, fixes #1539). G11: Make Compound Path on a group (such as outlined type) keeps the paint of its backmost path instead of drawing nothing, and compound paths joined into one keep their holes (#1537); a round corner next to a curved side curves smoothly instead of sticking out of the shape and the Smooth tool smooths only the stretch of path under the drag (#1547, fixes #1512); Raster effects (blur, shadow, glow, grain) drawn after a pattern, radial or freeform gradient fill export at their place and size (#1541, fixes #1536). G9: a multi-artboard `.ai` with notes beside its artboards opens from its editing data, a page's art past its artboard no longer lying over the page before it (#1528); a `.ai` gradient whose stops are listed upwards keeps each midpoint on the stop that starts its part of the ramp (#1530); SVG text on a path follows basic shapes (circle, ellipse, rect, line, polyline, polygon) as their SVG 2 equivalent paths (#1531, fixes #1527); PDFs whose alpha soft masks are drawn as images import with the mask instead of empty art (#1551); EPS and PostScript type set in Type 42 (TrueType) fonts imports at its size instead of 1000 times too large (#1553); PDF and EPS import keep a clipping path whose bounding box covers the page but whose shape doesn't (#1544, fixes #1542); Paste takes a PDF or EPS another app copied as editable vector art: from the macOS pasteboard (with SVG), EPS on Windows beside PDF, and `.eps` files copied in a file manager, with the new command `clipboard.importEps` (#1538, fixes #1499); Opening or placing a file with an image too large to decode says so, and the Links panel shows it on the row (#1540, part of #1479). Native documents with a lot of path data (traced or generated art, in layers, symbols or patterns) are saved as compact JSON, about a fifth of the size; small documents stay pretty-printed (#1492); the font scan on Linux also reads the folders fontconfig's configuration lists, such as TeX fonts under `/usr/share/texmf/fonts` (#1548, fixes #1529; not verified on Linux); Polish catalog (#1498); estimates unchanged, no gap entry closed |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Interaction: Direct Selection takes the selected object's anchor where anchors of overlapping objects coincide (#1508), sliders in dialogs show their rail (#1483), a template layer stays in Preview in Outline view (#1486), a tab stop in the Tabs panel drags from where the press landed (#1458); type: commands and MCP `add_text` report area type that does not fit its frame (#1471); 3D and Materials on outlined type and other shapes of many small curves (#1481), Twist 0° to 360° (#1524), twisted walls keep their faces (#1525); print-size images draw, export and crop (#1517); `vectorcraft-cli perf` reports load and memory on Windows (#1502; the idle-machine run is still missing); French catalog complete again (#1511); `graph.setData`'s CSV keeps each value exactly (#1485); estimates unchanged, no gap entry closed |
+| 2026-10-13 | minor | G1: Split Into Grid has its documented options (#1462), Transform Objects in the Transform dialogs and Transform Each and Reflect across an angle (#1448, #1460), the Pathfinder panel works on a group selected alone (#1450; one plain path alone is not settled), a focused field follows its value (#1457), selected text in value fields is readable (#1465 in part); G9: grayscale TIFFs with an alpha channel or extra channels place (#1466 in part), strokes kept apart from a faded or masked fill on PDF and `.ai` import (#1434); G4: Fit Headline in a frame one line tall (#1444), frames beyond a billion points hold no text (#1451); G6: commands refuse a parameter key they don't take (#1442); G10: a window surface past 8192 px no longer closes the app (#1459 in part); G15: edits and Alt-drags of thousands of objects (#1429 in part); G16: 128 more Czech strings (#1461); estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | Width Point Edit: Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment; plain double-click keeps it off; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | G9: Save As `.ai` › Version: Legacy (version 7) writes the PostScript form from the published version 7 specification (#868): layers, groups, compound paths, clipping groups, type as text objects (or outlines), gradients and images, one artboard per file; hidden objects in a hidden layer, omitted or shown; transparent images flattened or omitted; legacy type read on open; it waits for users' testing, so the estimate is unchanged |
-| 2026-10-13 | minor | G1: Split Into Grid has its documented options (#1462), Transform Objects in the Transform dialogs and Transform Each and Reflect across an angle (#1448, #1460), the Pathfinder panel works on a group selected alone (#1450; one plain path alone is not settled), a focused field follows its value (#1457), selected text in value fields is readable (#1465 in part); G9: grayscale TIFFs with an alpha channel or extra channels place (#1466 in part), strokes kept apart from a faded or masked fill on PDF and `.ai` import (#1434); G4: Fit Headline in a frame one line tall (#1444), frames beyond a billion points hold no text (#1451); G6: commands refuse a parameter key they don't take (#1442); G10: a window surface past 8192 px no longer closes the app (#1459 in part); G15: edits and Alt-drags of thousands of objects (#1429 in part); G16: 128 more Czech strings (#1461); estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | TIFF is available in Export for Screens and Asset Export with shared format settings; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | Character styles retain explicit Auto leading, propagate resets and preserve local leading overrides; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | G3: Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate with Position presets ([three-d.md](three-d.md), #1407); materials, lights, shadows, Classic, Turntable and export remain, 45–75 → 25–45 h |
@@ -1055,7 +1067,6 @@ trap, and the defaults (0.25 pt, 100%, 40%) are VectorCraft's own, the pages giv
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | DXF reads control-point SPLINE closure (#1299 follow-up after #1320); open curves stay open and curves retained; rational/non-rational import and export versions regression-tested; scores/hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | G16: Vietnamese catalog added (complete under the tests); three key languages remain (Hindi, Arabic, Indonesian), 55–90 h |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | G16: Korean catalog added (complete under the tests); four key languages remain, 60–100 h |
-| 2026-10-11 | minor | Czech render-site follow-up: file-dialog filters, diagnostics, preset numbering, contributor tooltips/plurals, gradient grammar and contextual printer mark styles; estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | G11: clear stale component refs after Simplify/Add Anchor Points; preview and point counts give visible feedback (#1272); estimates unchanged |
@@ -1071,6 +1082,7 @@ trap, and the defaults (0.25 pt, 100%, 40%) are VectorCraft's own, the pages giv
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | G1: painted strokes regain the existing default after None/zero-width inheritance (#1253); estimate unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | G11: Divide uses open cutting paths without taking their paint (#1307); implicit filled closure, holes and history regression-tested; estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | G11: numeric fields keep the text-drag start instead of replacing it with select-all on press (#1326, in part); keyboard and click selection regression-tested; estimates unchanged; short movements below the click threshold remain open |
+| 2026-10-11 | minor | Czech render-site follow-up: file-dialog filters, diagnostics, preset numbering, contributor tooltips/plurals, gradient grammar and contextual printer mark styles; estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-11 | minor | G15: large-selection edits, cached live effects and faster Pathfinder (#1173); a 25k-path perf run meets every budget; estimate unchanged |
 | 2026-10-11 | minor | G4: Middle Eastern digit types done (Character panel menu › Digits); estimate unchanged |
 | 2026-10-11 | minor | G4: proportional vertical metrics (#966) done; estimate unchanged |
@@ -1082,10 +1094,6 @@ trap, and the defaults (0.25 pt, 100%, 40%) are VectorCraft's own, the pages giv
 | 2026-10-10 | minor | G9 evidence counted from the tracker (28 `.ai`/EPS issues, 20 fixed); impact narrowed to handing files back |
 | 2026-10-10 | minor | Alpha blockers checked against the core-workflow gate: none |
 | 2026-10-10 | major | Moved from the ROADMAP's "Where we're lacking"; kept ids G1–G8, added G9–G19 (file formats, stability, bugs, preferences, 30.x additions, pen hardware, performance, localization, ecosystem, AI, accessibility) and re-ranked |
-| 2026-10-28 | minor | Flare ray rotation follows vertical travel at one degree per document point, independent of pointer event count. Shift freezes the current orientation; Space also freezes rotation on the first update. This is the chosen application interaction rate. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-28 | minor | Drop Shadow Darkness subtracts the normalized amount from RGB source channels or adds it to CMYK/Gray black before profile conversion and blur; near-100% becomes gray black, with shadow opacity separate. SVG keeps live filters for uniform sRGB sources and renders shadows for other RGB profiles, source models and gradients. Gradient-stop adjustment is an application rule; spot/custom colors and composite-source parity remain open. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-28 | minor | Blob Brush Shift locks after clear axial movement, keeps earlier samples fixed, and waits without an off-axis trail. Activation uses raw press displacement in logical screen pixels, with exact quarter-turn boundaries. Explicit application rule; scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-28 | minor | Flare Tool Options opened by a canvas click previews its settings at that click. Reset refreshes the enabled preview while keeping the dialog open. Cancel discards preview art and tentative options; OK accepts one flare in one Undo step. Editing existing flare artwork remains outside this dialog scope. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 
 > **Tab-drag status (2026-10-22):** updated from upstream, including the Turkish catalog and all three tab-drag translations requested in #3479; Selection-tool reset regression-checked and clipboard evidence scoped to internal state; drag lifecycle, insertion and regression contracts documented; behavior, scores and estimates unchanged.
 

docs/hardware-parity.md

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ It reads the pen's tilt and barrel rotation on macOS and on Linux under X11 and
 | Hybrid-graphics GPU choice | automatic | power-saving GPU by default, Preferences › Graphics Processor | same; DX12 then OpenGL; no Vulkan unless asked (#545, #806) | the desktop's GPU | browser | done |
 | Restart on another GPU when the first fails to present | — | yes (#502, #964) | yes | yes | restart on lost device (#369) | done |
 | Pen pressure | yes (Wacom, Windows Ink, macOS tablet events) | yes, read from AppKit's tablet events before the window gets them (winit reports none), each move of a stroke with its own pressure, mouse event coalescing off (#852; not yet tried on a Mac) | yes (pointer force via `WM_POINTER`) | under X11 and XWayland (Preferences › Performance › Linux Display Server, #1151, #2028; Automatic uses XWayland when a pen is attached on a Wayland session, #4967), read from XInput2 raw events (#764); **no** on native Wayland, where winit reports none and the pen may not reach the window (#491) | browser pointer events, with coalesced events; Apple Pencil on iPad (hover, palm rejection: fingers navigate after a pen contact until reload) | partial: 2–4 h for Wayland (winit 0.31), plus a check on a Mac |
-| Pen tilt, bearing, barrel rotation (6D Art Pen) | yes, drives brushes | read from AppKit's tablet events (tilt, and the barrel rotation of a pen that reports one); Calligraphic and Scatter brushes vary with them (#764; not yet tried on a Mac) | with Windows Ink, read from the pen's `POINTER_PEN_INFO` (tilt and barrel rotation where its pen mask says the pen reports them); Calligraphic and Scatter brushes vary with them (#372; not yet tried with a pen) | under X11 and XWayland, read from XInput2 raw events; Calligraphic and Scatter brushes vary with them (#764); **no** on native Wayland | no | partial: native Wayland and the web read none, and Art, Pattern and Bristle brushes do not use them; 3–6 h (#372) |
+| Pen tilt, bearing, barrel rotation (6D Art Pen) | yes, drives brushes | read from AppKit's tablet events (tilt, and the barrel rotation of a pen that reports one); Calligraphic and Scatter brushes vary with them (#764; not yet tried on a Mac) | with Windows Ink, read from the pen's `POINTER_PEN_INFO` (tilt and barrel rotation where its pen mask says the pen reports them); Calligraphic and Scatter brushes vary with them (#372; not yet tried with a pen) | under X11 and XWayland, read from XInput2 raw events; Calligraphic and Scatter brushes vary with them (#764); **no** on native Wayland | no | partial: native Wayland and the web read none, and Pattern and Bristle brushes do not use them (an Art brush's Width follows them); 3–6 h (#372) |
 | Pen eraser end | yes | the eraser end (AppKit's tablet proximity events) selects the Eraser tool and the tip brings back the tool used before, as on Linux (#852; not yet tried on a Mac) | with Windows Ink, an inverted pen or its eraser button (`PEN_FLAG_INVERTED`, `PEN_FLAG_ERASER` in the pen's pointer messages) selects the Eraser tool and the tip brings back the tool used before, as on Linux (not yet tried with a pen) | under X11 and XWayland, the eraser end selects the Eraser tool and the tip brings back the tool used before (#764); **no** on native Wayland | a press of the eraser end (Pointer Events eraser button, `button` 5) selects the Eraser tool, and that press erases; a press of the tip brings back the tool used before; Pointer Events report no end while the pen hovers | partial |
 | Touch gestures (pinch zoom, two-finger pan, rotate view, Touch workspace) | yes (Windows touch, Surface) | trackpad pinch, scroll and rotate | pinch, pan (a second finger cancels the first finger's tool press, #4198); two-finger tap undo, three-finger redo (#585) | same where winit reports touch | eframe until the first pen contact, then Pointer Events (pen and fingers told apart); long press opens the context menu | partial: touch workspace and touch-screen rotation missing, 3–5 h |
 | Trackpad (smooth scroll, pinch) | yes | yes | precision touchpads | yes | yes | done |

docs/image-trace-quality.md

@@ -126,6 +126,36 @@ flipped crack's, and the image does have cracks the one-sided reading gets wrong
 48 px noisy ripple in Black and White at thresholds 140, 157, 170 and Paths 0, 50, 100, sampled on
 the 4 × 4 grid per pixel the shared-boundary check uses). With the one-sided reading 482–1,228
 sample points per trace were uncovered; now none are. The crate's other tests pass unchanged.
+## Band borders in smooth areas
+In a gradient or a shaded area, the palette colors on either side of a band border differ by more than
+the image changes across it. Pixel noise placed the border, and the fitter smoothed it over 0.5 px as it
+smooths an edge, so the border wobbled, kept stair steps and took many anchors. For each crack between
+two colors, `Layers::step` now reads the share of the step between the two colors that the image makes
+next to the crack and a few pixels further out, how far the image changes next to the crack along the
+line between the two colors and in any direction, and how much it changes within each side, as RGB
+distances (0 to 255 a channel). `subpixel::low_contrast` makes a piece of outline the contour of a smooth
+area when, over its cracks, the near share is under one half; the far share is at least 1.25 times the
+near one, the change along the line is under 12 (about 7 levels in each channel of a gray), or no crack
+has a far share; the sides change within themselves, by at least 1/32 of the change along the line; and the
+whole change is under twice the change along the line, or under 24. Black and White traces do not use
+the rule. A contour piece is smoothed over 4 px (a closed one over at most an eighth of its smaller width
+or height), keeps no corners, is fitted to at least 0.5 px and is checked against its smoothed points.
+Grayscale now reads each pixel as its gray for this rule and for every edge's sub-pixel shift
+(`Layers::shift`), which read the pixels' colors against gray palette entries before.
+Measured with the harness below, before and after the change: Color traces of the "flat colour art"
+inputs, and corners % in every row, do not change. Shades of Gray on those inputs: off mean 0.263 to 0.165 px,
+off max 1.47 to 1.04 px, anchors 196 to 122. Gradient and photo inputs: anchors 2,138 to 798 (16 Colors,
+gradient and photo), 1,372 to 200 (16 Colors, linear gradients), 10,063 to 6,766 (High Fidelity Photo,
+gradient and photo); ΔE and edge ΔE change by −0.25 to +0.02. Specks rise by up to 0.8 per image (16
+Colors on gradient and photo 0.0 to 0.8, Auto Color 0.0 to 0.5). Auto Color, enhanced (Shapes on) on
+gradient and photo leaves a gap of 0.3 px (was 0.0) and an overlap of 0.4 px (was 0.1). The tables below
+are the previous measurement, not a rerun.
+Tests on code-drawn images: `tests::the_borders_of_a_gradients_bands_follow_its_contours` (a 256 × 128
+gradient whose contours wave, with noise, and a dark square with crisp sides: the band borders stray
+under 0.9 px RMS from the gradient's contours, 1.13 px when smoothed as edges, and the square keeps its
+four corners); `layers::tests` (a ramp, flat colors in palette entries far apart, close flat colors, a
+thin flat stroke, colors off the line between their entries, and Grayscale's grays, each read from both
+sides of the crack) and `subpixel::tests` (the rule, and one decision for a whole piece from either side).
 ## A simpler contour walk
 `contour::trace_mask` follows each region's outline along the pixel cracks with the inside on the
 right. It used to build a table of outgoing directions for every pixel corner in a raster pass and

docs/mcp.md

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # VectorCraft MCP server
 
+> **Last updated:** 2026-11-11 · **Change:** Save location-refusal error (#6146); existing response shapes retained.
+
 `vectorcraft-cli mcp` runs a [Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) server on stdio
 (newline-delimited JSON-RPC 2.0; see [Protocol](#protocol) for version negotiation). Agents use it to
 draw, inspect and look at VectorCraft documents.
@@ -129,7 +131,9 @@ the suite) keep the agent to the folders you give it:
   written beside it by their file names. A save without a path known (`file.saveAs` and `file.saveCopy` without
   one, a document never saved) leaves out the suggested `folder`. `document.exportForScreens` into the `folder`
   of its `exportPreset` leaves out the ZIP's `path` and lists `files` relative to that folder, and an error
-  for that export names the folder by its name alone.
+  for that export names the folder by its name alone. With Background Export on, an export into the `folder` of
+  its `exportPreset` runs in the background as one into a `folder` the agent gives, and its replies, errors and
+  status bar text name that folder the same way.
   `document.exportSettings`, `document.exportPresets.list` and `document.exportPresets.export` (as data and as
   a file) leave out a kept `folder` outside the read roots. `file.package`
   names the document's file and the linked files outside the read roots by their file names in `warnings`, in
@@ -165,11 +169,30 @@ the suite) keep the agent to the folders you give it:
   and `modified` the document keeps of that file. Each row keeps its id, `name` (`fileName`), status and other
   fields. This applies to every document, also one the person or a client with wider roots opened. The paths a
   client gives `links.relink` and `links.unembed` stay in their replies, and the document's links are not changed.
+- `image.info` gives `link: null` for a linked file outside the read roots, as `links.info` leaves it out; its id,
+  name, `linked` and the other fields stay. `links.findFiles` and `text.findFontFiles` replies, including later
+  `{}` and `{stop: true}` calls on a search another client started, leave out the files found outside the read
+  roots (with their `size` and `match`), a sought link's `path` outside them, and `folder` when the folder searched
+  is outside them; `error` then gives the reason without the path (for example `the folder can't be read`). The
+  rows keep their `name`, `ids`, family, style and status, and the counts stay. `text.addFontFiles` gives
+  `folder: null` when VectorCraft's Fonts folder is outside the read roots, and only the file name in `copied` and
+  `kept` `to` and in `skipped` `file` for a path outside them; the fonts are still copied.
 - `prefs.get`, `prefs.list`, `prefs.set` and `prefs.reset` show a folder preference outside the read roots
   (`fontsFolder`, `pluginsFolder`, `scratchPrimary`, `scratchSecondary`, `recoveryFolder`, `templatesFolder`) as
   `null`; an empty folder and the scratch disk choices `Startup` and `None` stay. In `prefs.get {}` and
   `prefs.reset`, an export preset in `screenExportPresets` leaves out its `folder` when the folder is outside the
   read roots, and the preset stays. The preferences themselves are not changed.
+- `plugin.list`, `plugin.safeMode`, `file.recovery.*` and `ui_inspect`'s `scriptReport` leave out the paths
+  outside the read roots, also those the person or an earlier request put there. In `plugin.list`, the plug-in
+  folder last loaded is `null` in `folder.folder`, and a failed file in `folder.failed` and a plug-in's `source`
+  (also in `plugin.info`) are named by their file name, in the errors too. A plug-in turned off for the next
+  launch (`disabled`, and `pendingItem` in `plugin.safeMode`) has a file outside the read roots named by its file
+  name. `plugin.setEnabled {file}` takes that name, and a plug-in's `source` name, when no other listed file has
+  it. In `file.recovery.list` and `file.recovery.restore`, a
+  document's original file in `path` is `null`, and so is the recovery folder in `location` (`file.recovery.save`
+  too); the restored documents keep their files. In `scriptReport`, a file the run wrote (`written`) and the
+  included file a failed run stopped in (`file`, also in `message` and the run's error lines in `console`) are named
+  by their file name; what the script wrote itself (`log` and its output lines) stays as written.
 - Each flag may be given more than once (#3546): a path inside any of the read roots may be read, one inside any
   of the write roots written, so one session can read a project folder and a shared assets folder, or write to an
   output folder and a scratch folder, without widening a root to their common parent. A folder given twice
@@ -514,6 +537,19 @@ opens the picker through `run_command` with the remote backend. `ui.colorPanel {
 the panel menu's Show Recent Colors, which hides the Color panel's Recent Colors row, and `true` shows it again;
 applied colors still join the list while it is hidden.
 
+In remote desktop mode, `invoke_menu` with `{"command":"ui.sampleScreenColor","params":{}}` shows the system's
+screen color sampler and returns `null` before a color is picked: the system's sampler on macOS, the XDG desktop
+portal's [PickColor](https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/doc-org.freedesktop.portal.Screenshot.html)
+on Linux, and the EyeDropper API in browsers that have it. `inspect_ui` reports `screenSampler: true` while it
+waits. The picked sRGB color is converted into the working RGB space and becomes the fill or the stroke of the
+active proxy in one undo step; `stroke: true` picks the stroke, and `picker: true` sends the color to the open
+Color Picker. A cancel leaves the colors as they were. On Linux, a session without a portal that has PickColor
+shows "this system has no screen color sampler" in the status bar, a portal that does not return from the call
+within 25 seconds (VectorCraft's own limit) or leaves the bus before it answers shows "the screen color sampler
+did not answer", and a portal that ends the request in another way shows "the screen color sampler failed"; each
+ends the wait, so the sampler can be shown again. Windows, the BSDs and headless sessions have no screen color
+sampler.
+
 | Tool | Arguments | Notes |
 |---|---|---|
 | `list_commands` | `{filter?, query?, menu?, enabledOnly?, brief?}` | The command catalogue: id, label, menu, shortcut, params doc, enablement, and `schema` and `inputSchema` for a command with a parameter schema (the params doc and both schemas are left out with `brief`). |
@@ -533,7 +569,7 @@ applied colors still join the list while it is hidden.
 | `open_panel` | `{panel}` | Remote only. `panel` is a panel id (`layers`, `swatches`, `colorGuide`, …, as `window.panel` takes) or its display label (`"Color Guide"`), in any case. |
 | `screenshot` | `{path?, scale?, artboard?, window?, max_side?, traceViews?}` | Returns MCP image content (`image/png`, base64) plus a text block. Renders the artboard with the pixels of a PNG `export` with `background: "white"` at the same scale; `traceViews:true` draws Image Trace objects in the view set with `imageTrace.setView`, as in the app's window; `window:true` captures the app window (remote only), as `ui_screenshot` does, and `max_side` (1–4096, window captures only) scales the returned image down as described for `ui_screenshot`. With `path` the backend (the headless session or the app) writes the PNG there too; a window capture written there keeps its full size with `max_side`. |
 | `open_file` | `{path, importer?, params?}` | Opens any readable file as a new active document: `.vectorcraft`/`.drawcraft`, `.vctemplate`, `.svg`/`.svgz`, `.pdf`/`.ai`, `.ait`, `.eps`/`.epsf`, `.ps`, `.dxf`, `.emf`, `.wmf`, HP-GL (`.plt`/`.hpgl`/`.hgl`/`.hpg`, and a file of an extension no other format reads that starts with plotter instructions), PNG (`.png`/`.pns`), JPEG, GIF, WebP, TIFF, BMP (`.bmp`/`.dib`/`.rle`), Targa (`.tga`/`.vda`/`.icb`/`.vst`), PCX, Pixar (`.pxr`), JPEG 2000 (`.jpf`/`.jpx`/`.jp2`/`.j2k`/`.j2c`/`.jpc`), HEIC/HEIF (`.heic`/`.heif`), JPEG XL (`.jxl`), PSD (`.psd`/`.pdd`)/PSB (an image opens as a document of its pixel size; a PSD or PSB file with its layers as layers, or as its merged image through `run_command document.open` with `layers: false`; a JPEG XL file as its first frame). Templates (`.vctemplate`, `.ait`) open as a new untitled document. PDF, `.ai` and SVG files saved with Preserve Editing reopen as the document they carry. The reply is `document.open`'s: its `warnings` say what didn't come in as it was (an EPS whose PostScript can't be read opens as its preview, and the warning names the PostScript error, the operator and the procedure). A file of an extension only an installed importer plug-in lists opens with that importer ([Plug-ins](#plug-ins)); `importer: "plugin.<id>"` opens the file with the importer it names, which must list the file's extension, also one a built-in format reads (in the app, as File › Open With does), and `params` gives that importer's parameters (their defaults when omitted). `run_command document.formats` lists the formats. |
-| `save_file` | `{path?, compress?, version?, preview?, precision?, options?}` | Runs `document.save`: the document's own file in its own format (native `.vectorcraft` unless it was opened from or saved as SVG, PDF or a restorable `.ai`; then `warnings` say what that format loses). A path's extension picks the format (`.vectorcraft`, `.vctemplate`, `.pdf`, `.svg`, `.svgz`, `.ai`: a PDF carrying the native document, which reopens editable; `.eps`: by default one file whose bounding box fits the visible art, the first artboard when no art shows; `options.useArtboards: true` makes the chosen artboard the page and, with two or more chosen, the file at the path is the central file of the visible art and each artboard is also written to `<name>_<artboard>.eps` beside it, listed in the reply's `files`). For a native file, `compress: true` gzips it (default: the `useCompression` preference, Preferences › File Handling › Use Compression), `version` (1 to 4) writes it for an older VectorCraft (1 and 2 are never compressed, and `version: 2` with `compress: true` is an error), `preview: true` embeds a PNG of the first artboard, and `precision` (0 to 9) rounds path anchors and handles to that many decimal places for that save only (colors, transforms and type stay exact). `options` passes the format's save options as `run_command document.formats` lists them. When `compress`, `version`, `preview` or `precision` is given both at the top level and in `options` with different values, the call is an error (`` `compress: true` and `options.compress: false` disagree: give the option once ``) and nothing is written. A key in `options` that no save format takes is an error, and nothing is written (see Parameter keys). The save drops each option the written format doesn't read. The reply's `warnings` then name each such option given (for example `` `compress` was not used: SVG files don't read it `` for an `.svg` path, and `` `options.preview` was not used: … `` for a key in `options`; a `.ai` file reads `compress` but not `version`, `preview` or `precision`). For a `.ai` file, these warnings name the kind of `.ai` written: a legacy .ai (version 7) for `aiVersion: "7"`, a non-PDF-compatible .ai for `pdfCompatible: false`, and a PDF-compatible .ai otherwise, including a save that reuses the options the document was last saved with. `run_command document.save` and the other save commands refuse any option given beside the path and in `options` with different values, and give the same warnings for a top-level `compress`, `version`, `preview` or `precision` and for each key in `options` that the format doesn't read. The headless session and the app receive the same `app.save` params, and the app is also sent `wait: true`: the call returns once the file is written, or with the error (such as a path outside the write root), even with Background Save on. When the save asks first (the question before replacing a file that opened with losses, or on macOS and Linux the file dialog for an untitled document without `path`), the reply is `{pending}` or `"cancelled"` as before, and the save that runs after the answer uses the Background Save preference. |
+| `save_file` | `{path?, compress?, version?, preview?, precision?, options?}` | Runs `document.save`: the document's own file in its own format (native `.vectorcraft` unless it was opened from or saved as SVG, PDF or a restorable `.ai`; then `warnings` say what that format loses). A path's extension picks the format (`.vectorcraft`, `.vctemplate`, `.pdf`, `.svg`, `.svgz`, `.ai`: a PDF carrying the native document, which reopens editable; `.eps`: by default one file whose bounding box fits the visible art, the first artboard when no art shows; `options.useArtboards: true` makes the chosen artboard the page and, with two or more chosen, the file at the path is the central file of the visible art and each artboard is also written to `<name>_<artboard>.eps` beside it, listed in the reply's `files`). For a native file, `compress: true` gzips it (default: the `useCompression` preference, Preferences › File Handling › Use Compression), `version` (1 to 4) writes it for an older VectorCraft (1 and 2 are never compressed, and `version: 2` with `compress: true` is an error), `preview: true` embeds a PNG of the first artboard, and `precision` (0 to 9) rounds path anchors and handles to that many decimal places for that save only (colors, transforms and type stay exact). `options` passes the format's save options as `run_command document.formats` lists them. When `compress`, `version`, `preview` or `precision` is given both at the top level and in `options` with different values, the call is an error (`` `compress: true` and `options.compress: false` disagree: give the option once ``) and nothing is written. A key in `options` that no save format takes is an error, and nothing is written (see Parameter keys). The save drops each option the written format doesn't read. The reply's `warnings` then name each such option given (for example `` `compress` was not used: SVG files don't read it `` for an `.svg` path, and `` `options.preview` was not used: … `` for a key in `options`; a `.ai` file reads `compress` but not `version`, `preview` or `precision`). For a `.ai` file, these warnings name the kind of `.ai` written: a legacy .ai (version 7) for `aiVersion: "7"`, a non-PDF-compatible .ai for `pdfCompatible: false`, and a PDF-compatible .ai otherwise, including a save that reuses the options the document was last saved with. `run_command document.save` and the other save commands refuse any option given beside the path and in `options` with different values, and give the same warnings for a top-level `compress`, `version`, `preview` or `precision` and for each key in `options` that the format doesn't read. The headless session and the app receive the same `app.save` params, and the app is also sent `wait: true`: the call returns once the file is written, or with the error (such as a path outside the write root), even with Background Save on. When the save asks first (the question before replacing a file that opened with losses, or on macOS and Linux the file dialog for an untitled document without `path`), the reply is `{pending}` or `"cancelled"` as before, and the save that runs after the answer uses the Background Save preference. Location refusals return `READ_ONLY_LOCATION: <reason>` without a fallback panel for automation; see [Save location errors](#save-location-errors). |
 | `export` | `{path?, format?, scale?, artboard?, range?, selection?, outlineText?, options?}` | `svg`, `svgz`, `pdf`, `ai` (the PDF-compatible `.ai` that Save writes, which carries the document when every artboard is written in order), `eps`, `dxf`, `emf`, `wmf`, `hpgl` (a `.plt` plot file for plotters and cutters), `png`, `jpg`, `webp`, `gif`, `png8` (an indexed `.png`), `tiff`, `bmp`, `tga`, `psd` (layered), `txt` (the document's text), `vectorcraft` or `template` (a native template). The tool's `format` enum and `document.formats` list them, generated from the engine's format table. When `format` is omitted, it comes from the path's extension. PDF and `.ai` write one page per artboard: all of them, or `artboard` (0-based) / `range` (`"1-3, 5"`, 1-based). SVG and SVGZ write one file per chosen artboard. EPS writes one file of the visible art; with `artboard`, `range`, `options.artboards` or `options: {"useArtboards": true}` it writes one file per chosen artboard, after a central file of the visible art when there are two or more, and `useArtboards: false` keeps the one file. Rasters, DXF, EMF, WMF and HP-GL write one artboard, or one file per chosen artboard with `options: {"useArtboards": true}`. Rasters also take `options: {"rect": [x, y, width, height]}` (page points, y down): that area of the page at the given `ppi`/`scale`, without an artboard and without changing the document; it is refused with `artboard`, `artboards`, `range` or `useArtboards`, with a non-positive or non-finite size, and for non-raster formats. `options` carries more format options (e.g. `{"quality": 80}` for JPEG). `selection: true` exports the selected objects cropped to their bounds (the reply adds their `bounds`, and reports `format` and the encoder's `warnings` as a whole-document export does); `outlineText: true` writes SVG text as paths. Template layers are left out, live effects are kept, and exporting `vectorcraft` never changes the document's path. Without `path` the bytes come back as `dataBase64`. Both backends run the same `document.export` call. |
 | `add_text` | `{text, x?, y?, width?, height?, fit?, fitMinPercent?, path?, mode?, pathEffect?, size?, font?, color?, justify?, vertical?}` | Point type at (x, y) (`justify`: `left`, `center` or `right` starts, centres or ends each line on x); area type with `width`/`height` (`fit`: `none`, `autoHeight`, `shrinkText`, as `text.areaOptions`); or `path` + `mode` (`area`/`onPath`) to flow text in or along a path, with `pathEffect` (`rainbow`, `skew`, `3dRibbon`, `stairStep`, `gravity`; SVG export writes type on a path with any effect other than `rainbow` as outlines, with a warning); `justify` (also `auto`, `justifyAll`) aligns the paragraphs of every kind, as `text.setStyle` does later. `vertical: true` uses the existing vertical writing mode for every kind (default `false`, horizontal). Returns `{id}`, with `overflow: true` when the text doesn't fit its frame or path. |
 | `apply_effect` | `{effect?, params?, ids?}` | Appends a live effect. Without `effect`, returns the effect catalogue with parameters and defaults. |
@@ -794,7 +830,7 @@ symbol (named after its `data-name`, else its id) with an instance per `<use>`;
 symbol with strokes) stays art. `feGaussianBlur`, `feDropShadow` and the usual shadow chains (offset, blur, flood or
 colour matrix, composite, merge) become Gaussian Blur, Drop Shadow, Outer Glow, Inner Glow and Feather effects; other
 filters are listed in `warnings`. Undisplayed objects (`display:none`) come back hidden, nested clip paths intersect,
-and reflected or repeated gradients (`spreadMethod`) are expanded into stops. `<image>` files (relative links are
+and reflected or repeated gradients (`spreadMethod`) import as gradients that repeat or reflect (see Spread under Examples). `<image>` files (relative links are
 found in the SVG's folder; only files on this computer or the SVG's network share are read, and pasted SVG reads only
 absolute paths) stay linked images (see Linked images); SVG files and `data:` SVGs become art; a file that
 can't be read becomes a placeholder in its box, named in `warnings` and `missingLinks`.
@@ -1143,6 +1179,41 @@ another form gives a warning:
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"paint.setFill","params":{"gradient":{"kind":"diamond","start":[150,150],"end":[200,150],"aspect":60}}}}
 ```
 
+Spread (the Gradient panel's menu, beside a Repeats field) says what a linear, radial, conic or diamond gradient
+paints past the ends of its stops. `pad` (the default) carries the first and last colors on. `repeat` and `reflect`
+run the stops `repeats` times along the vector (1 to 100, VectorCraft's own limit; default 1) and keep going past
+both ends of it, `repeat` starting the stops again each time and `reflect` running every other run backwards. A
+radial or diamond gradient repeats in rings or squares out from its center (an off-center radial's rings grow about
+its focal point), and a conic one repeats around the turn. A freeform gradient has no ends, so a `spread` other
+than `pad` is an error for one, and so is a `repeats` that is not a whole number from 1 to 100. Both edit as one
+undo step, and an edit that changes nothing records none. A gradient set back to `pad` keeps its count for later,
+and it matches a preset or swatch of the same gradient whatever count it keeps. The Gradient tool marks each place
+along the bar where one run meets the next (on a conic, across its extent ellipse). A gradient along or across a
+stroke runs its stops `repeats` times along or across it, a blend between two gradients that repeat (or reflect)
+steps the count from one to the other, and a gradient swatch saved as CSS gets its stops repeated across the box. The
+Gradient tool's stop and midpoint markers lie along the whole bar, as on the Gradient panel's slider, and edit the
+stops of one run.
+
+SVG export writes `spreadMethod` with the gradient's vector shortened to one run
+(https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG2/pservers.html), and SVG import reads
+`spreadMethod` as the spread, with a count of 1. CSS writes `repeating-linear-gradient` and `repeating-radial-gradient` over one run, or
+one run and its mirror for `reflect` (https://www.w3.org/TR/css-images-3/#repeating-gradients), and a conic gradient
+with its stops repeated around the turn. PDF writes a conic gradient's sweep shading over one run, repeated or
+reflected past it. PDF, EPS and legacy `.ai` gradients pad past their ends, so a linear, radial or diamond gradient
+is written with its stops repeated as many times as the shape needs: at most 256 runs and 16,384 stops (256 stops in
+legacy `.ai`), and for a radial or diamond gradient no farther from its center than 65,536 runs, or than a million
+times the smallest gap between its stops (measured in runs) when that is less. Past those it pads, with a warning.
+The `.ai` editing data has no spread either: it holds the stops repeated across the shape, at most 256 of them, with
+a warning. PDF import finds a sharp step between two colors in an axial or radial shading, in any PDF, by halving
+the spans between its samples, so the step reads back where it is in the file (to 1/64 × 2^-14 of the axis, with at
+most 16,384 samples a shading) instead of blurred across the samples around it. Object › Expand expands the
+repeated stops, into the same whole number of `steps` objects for each run (at least one, so about `steps` in all),
+each run starting on an object's edge:
+
+```json
+{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"paint.editGradient","params":{"spread":"reflect","repeats":3}}}
+```
+
 Dither (the Gradient panel's box) draws a linear, radial, conic or diamond gradient fill with fine noise that hides
 banding; SVG and PDF exports write such a fill as an image at the Document Raster Effects resolution. It applies to
 fills (`stroke: true` is refused):
@@ -2307,9 +2378,12 @@ everything in it, and `select.all`, `select.allOnArtboard` and `select.inverse`
 `brush.list`), whatever the brush is named; a brush of another type with "Bristle" in its name does not count.
 `select.object.notAlignedToPixelGrid` (Select › Object › Not Aligned to Pixel Grid) selects the paths and compound
 paths whose pixel-aligned property (`object.setPixelAligned`) is off and returns `{count}`. It goes by the property,
-not by where the anchors are: a path on whole points with the property off is selected. Guide paths, type, images,
-groups and other objects are not, nor are the paths inside a compound path, which takes the property as one object.
-It looks into groups, replaces the selection, and with no such object clears it; it records no undo step.
+not by where the anchors are: a path on whole points with the property off is selected. Guide paths, type (point,
+area and on a path), images, symbol instances, gradient meshes, placed documents, groups and other objects are not,
+nor are the paths inside a compound path, which takes the property as one object. A path with effects is selected
+as the path it is. It looks into groups, clip groups, blends, envelopes, repeats and Intertwine groups and selects the
+paths they hold, not the objects that hold them. It replaces the selection, and with no such object clears it; it
+records no undo step.
 `select.nextAbove` and `select.nextBelow` select the nearest such object above or below the first selected object
 among the objects beside it in its group or layer, passing over hidden and locked objects and sublayers. When there
 is no such object, the selection stays as it is.
@@ -2392,7 +2466,9 @@ each of the others, whose hidden or locked objects are left as they are; when th
 other group takes its objects at that level, keeping its own ids in order. Whenever the document is put back (Undo,
 Redo, a cancelled drag or scrub), the matches it no longer has leave the Global Edit, which ends when fewer than two
 are left. An edit that would take any match past the canvas fails with the coordinates-out-of-range error and changes
-nothing. Nothing of it is saved.
+nothing. Nothing of it is saved. Before Global Edit starts, while one object that `select.globalEdit` accepts is
+selected with the Selection tool, the canvas highlights the other objects a start would take with the current Global
+Edit Options (none while a drag is in progress, or when there are none).
 
 `select.globalEditExclude {id}` leaves the match `id` out of the Global Edit, as a Shift-click on a highlighted match
 (or on an object inside it) with the Selection tool does: it is no longer highlighted, and later edits leave it as it
@@ -3450,6 +3526,16 @@ that shape, and the effects before it are left out. Its Contents row stands for
 vector exports write those items as paths, and `effect.expandAppearance` turns them into objects in a group with the
 image.
 Use Preview Bounds measures an image by its frame.
+A Warp effect (`warp.arc` … `warp.twist`) on an image, or on a group that holds one, bends the image's pixels with its
+frame: after the last effect in the list, the image is cut into 10 × 10 cells of two triangles, each a clipped piece of
+the image under its own affine map. The cell count is VectorCraft's own. Effects after the Warp reshape only the frame,
+a second Warp bends the same pieces, and a Transform effect moves them. A placed gradient on a group that holds the
+image follows the group's bounds as the pieces draw them. The pieces keep the
+image's fill color when it colorizes a grayscale image, and so do the pieces an envelope cuts. Under any geometry
+effect, an image keeps that color and is drawn with or without smoothing as the image is. SVG writes the image once and
+draws the pieces with `<use>`; PDF, EPS, `.ai` and PNG write the bent pieces. Removing the warp shows the image as it
+was. The images stay unbent when their pieces would make the art pass 2 million objects, and an image stays unbent when
+its clipping frame keeps its shape because the warp would pass the effects' anchor budget.
 
 ```json
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"appearance.addFill","params":{"ids":[7]}}}
@@ -3467,9 +3553,10 @@ in the `swatch.list` shape (`library` is an id or a name). `swatch.library.add {
 into the document as one undo step: a colour group's name brings the whole group, a swatch's name the swatch alone,
 no names the whole library; swatches the document already has (same name and paint) are reported under `existing`
 and not added again. `apply: "fill"|"stroke"` also applies the first one, in the same undo step (what clicking a
-swatch in the library panel does). The pattern libraries Geometric Patterns (`geometric-patterns`) and Grit Textures
-(`grit-textures`: seamless black grain, grit, sand, speckle, stipple, scratch and fleck tiles), category `patterns`,
-hold pattern swatches drawn in code; adding one also adds its pattern, as pasting art painted with it does
+swatch in the library panel does). The pattern libraries Geometric Patterns (`geometric-patterns`), Grit Textures
+(`grit-textures`: seamless black grain, grit, sand, speckle, stipple, scratch and fleck tiles) and Optical Effects
+(`optical-effects`: VectorCraft's own black wave, ring, warped-check, pinched-stripe, chevron and lens tiles),
+category `patterns`, hold pattern swatches drawn in code; adding one also adds its pattern, as pasting art painted with it does
 (the same pattern the document has is reused, and a name another pattern or swatch has gets a number).
 `swatch.resetDefaults {replace?}` brings back the missing default swatches.
 
@@ -3576,8 +3663,9 @@ error.
 
 ## Brush libraries
 
-Brush libraries are read-only sets of brushes: seven generated in code (Art Ribbons, Calligraphic Nibs, Bristle
-Brushes with one bristle brush for each tip shape, Pattern Borders, Scatter Shapes, Game Trails, Energy Beams), the `.vectorcraft` files in the user library folder of the desktop app (User
+Brush libraries are read-only sets of brushes: eight generated in code (Art Ribbons, Calligraphic Nibs, Bristle
+Brushes with one bristle brush for each tip shape, Pattern Borders, Scatter Shapes, Game Trails, Energy Beams, and Dry Media with the Chalk Grain, Graphite Pencil, Wax Crayon and
+Charcoal Dust art brushes, id `dry-media`), the `.vectorcraft` files in the user library folder of the desktop app (User
 Defined) and the brushes of any document loaded with `brush.loadLibrary` (a document without brushes of its own has
 the default ones). `brush.libraries` lists them (`id`, `name`, `category`: `builtIn`, `user` or `loaded`, `count`) and
 `brush.library {library}` returns one's brushes (`name`, `type`; `library` is an id or a name).
@@ -4785,6 +4873,30 @@ They list such a command while the user has changed its shortcut (`overridden: t
 shortcut for that command runs what a click on the item runs: Object › Path › Clean Up…, Print Ink Fixes… and Edit ›
 Find and Replace… open their dialogs.
 
+A command without a menu path of its own is listed when an item of the menu bar runs it with no params, or when every
+item that runs it gives it the same params. It is listed in the group named by the first part of its id. These
+commands are listed this way:
+
+- `addon.pathtools.cornerSet` (Object › Plug-ins › Path Precision Tools › Set Corners…, which opens its dialog),
+  under Addon;
+- `perspective.grid.lock`, `perspective.grid.lockStation`, `perspective.grid.rulers` and `perspective.grid.snap`
+  (View › Perspective Grid), and `perspective.attach`, `perspective.editText` and `perspective.plane.matchObject`
+  (Object › Perspective), under Perspective;
+- `text.spelling.dictionary` (Edit › Edit Custom Dictionary…), under Text;
+- the UI commands `ui.recolorDialog` (Edit › Edit Colors › Recolor Artwork…), `ui.flattenerPresetsDialog`,
+  `ui.printPresetsDialog`, `ui.pdfPresetsDialog`, `ui.perspectivePresetsDialog`, `ui.svgFilterDialog`,
+  `ui.saveSwatchLibrary`, `ui.saveBrushLibrary`, `ui.saveGraphicStyleLibrary` and `ui.saveSymbolLibrary`, under Ui;
+  `file.exportAs` and `file.exportSelection`, under File; `links.editOriginal`, under Links; `type.applyBullets` and
+  `type.applyNumbers`, under Type; and `window.toolbar.new`, `window.toolbarColumns`, `window.toolsBesideCanvas`,
+  `window.workspace.new`, `window.arrange.floatInWindow` and `window.arrange.consolidateAllWindows`, under Window.
+
+When such a command has the same group and label as an engine command that no item of the menu bar runs, the
+command the menu item runs keeps the name, and the engine command is listed in the group named by the first part of
+its id: File › Export Selection… runs `file.exportSelection`, as the menu item does, and `document.exportSelection`
+is listed as Document › Export Selection…. A shortcut already given to `document.exportSelection` keeps running it.
+When the other entry is anything else, the command is not listed: `window.learn` is left out, and Window › Learn is
+the Learn panel's entry.
+
 Each installed filter plug-in's Object › Plug-ins item is its own row, with id `plugin:<id>` (the plug-in's id), its
 menu label and no default shortcut, so two filters with the same name have two rows. `shortcuts.set {id:
 "plugin:<id>", shortcut}`, `shortcuts.list` and Import Shortcut Set use that id, `shortcuts.exportText` writes one line
@@ -5016,7 +5128,8 @@ control channel's `ui.drag` scrubs), `showHomeScreen` (on by default: the Home s
 off, an empty window, and the Home button or `app.home` still shows the screen), `autoCollapseIconPanels` (off by
 default: on, a click away from a panel popped out of the icon column puts it away), `displayPrintSize` (off by
 default: View › Actual Size / `view.actualSize` is one document point per screen point; on, one document inch fills
-96 screen points, an inch at the system's reference density whatever the display scaling). The tool shortcut
+96 screen points, an inch at the system's reference density whatever the display scaling). `uiScaling` scales the
+interface and not the art: a zoom shows the art at the same size at every UI Scaling. The tool shortcut
 preference `holdToolKeys` also needs the desktop app. It is on by default: a single-key tool shortcut held for 0.25 s
 or more, or held while its tool is used, chooses the tool until the key is let go and then returns to the tool active
 before, after any drag in progress; a quicker press chooses the tool for good. With it off, every press and every key
@@ -5385,7 +5498,11 @@ value outside that range is read as the nearer end), `previewMode` and `alignNew
 `file.newPresets {category?}` lists the categories and presets (Recent: the last sizes used; Saved: the user's presets,
 kept in the preferences by `file.newPresets.save` and removed by `file.newPresets.delete`). A listed preset can be
 passed straight back to `file.new`. Print presets and sizes without `units` start in `unitsGeneral`; screen presets
-(mobile, web, video, social) in Pixels. A saved or Recent preset whose size (up to 163,830 pt), `artboards` (1 to
+(mobile, web, video, social) in Pixels. `file.new` and `artboard.new` take the same artboard sizes: each side more than 0
+and at most 3,999,856 pt (the 4,000,000 pt the canvas reaches from the origin, less a 72 pt bleed on both sides). A side outside that range is
+refused with `width and height must be more than 0 and at most 3999856 pt`, followed by the limit in the document's
+units in parentheses when they are not points, such as `(1411.0603 m)`, and no document or artboard is made.
+A saved or Recent preset whose size (up to 3,999,856 pt), `artboards` (1 to
 1,000), spacing (0 to 100,000 pt) or bleed (0 to 72 pt a side) lies outside those ranges is read with the nearer end of
 each range, and a size of 0 or less is read as 1 pt.
 The desktop app's `file.newDialog` (Cmd/Ctrl+N) opens the New Document dialog on the first Recent entry, or on the
@@ -5774,13 +5891,23 @@ They also write the `copyrightNotice` as `dc:rights`, the `copyrightUrl` as `xmp
 `copyrightStatus` as `xmpRights:Marked` (`True` for copyrighted, `False` for public domain, none for unknown) to the
 XMP packet.
 A PDF, `.ai` or `.ait` opened from its pages or its editing copy (`document.open`,
-`file.newFromTemplate`, `file.revert`; not one restored from the document it carries) opens with the `author`,
-`description`, `keywords`, `copyrightStatus`, `copyrightNotice`, `copyrightUrl`, `created` and `modified` that its XMP
-packet (`dc:creator`, `dc:description`, `dc:subject` or `pdf:Keywords`, `xmpRights:Marked`, `dc:rights`,
-`xmpRights:WebStatement`, `xmp:CreateDate`, `xmp:ModifyDate`) and its document information dictionary (`Author`,
-`Subject`, `Keywords`, `CreationDate`, `ModDate`) give, the XMP packet's value where both give one. A value that
-`file.info` would refuse is left out, and the title is set as for any other open (the file name, or a new untitled
-name for a template).
+`file.newFromTemplate`, `file.revert`; not one restored from the document it carries) opens with the `title`,
+`author`, `description`, `keywords`, `copyrightStatus`, `copyrightNotice`, `copyrightUrl`, `created` and `modified`
+that its XMP packet (`dc:title`, `dc:creator`, `dc:description`, `dc:subject` or `pdf:Keywords`, `xmpRights:Marked`,
+`dc:rights`, `xmpRights:WebStatement`, `xmp:CreateDate`, `xmp:ModifyDate`) and its document information dictionary
+(`Title`, `Author`, `Subject`, `Keywords`, `CreationDate`, `ModDate`) give, the XMP packet's value where both give
+one (for `dc:title` and `dc:description`, the `x-default` language item first). An SVG opens with the `title` of its
+root `<title>` element (not a shape's or group's). A title is read with its white space made single spaces and
+without control characters, at most 65,536 characters, as `file.info` takes one. A value that `file.info` would
+refuse is left out. A file that gives no title, a blank one or the `Untitled-N` name New gives leaves File Info with
+the document's name as its title, and a template opens with a new untitled name.
+The title a file gave is File Info's alone: the document's name, which is what its tab shows until it has a file and
+what Save As and the default export names start from, stays the file's name with its extension (`box.svg`), or the
+title a native file holds. File Info's `title` is the one the file gave, else the document's name. It is saved with the
+document (a native file, and the editing data of an SVG, PDF, `.ai` or EPS that carries it), and the files an export
+writes carry it (PDF `Title` and XMP `dc:title`, SVG `<title>` and Dublin Core, PNG text, EPS and `.ai` `%%Title`),
+where the document has one. Changing the `title` with `file.info` sets the document's name, as it always did, and drops
+the title the file gave.
 `document.inspect` (`inspect_document`) and the `document.open` (`open_file`) reply report the File Info title as
 `fileInfoTitle`. Their `title` is the document's tab name, which comes from the file name once the document is saved
 to or opened from a file (with ` [Converted]` or ` [Recovered]` where that applies).
@@ -6189,7 +6316,13 @@ the patterns it uses, which the patterns category lists as Pattern Objects and `
 stroked with a gradient, by the same rules as `patternObjects`, with the gradients it uses: the name of the gradient
 swatch a gradient is linked to, else `Linear gradient`, `Radial gradient` or `Freeform gradient`; the gradients category
 lists them as Gradient Objects and `objects.gradients` counts them; gradient swatches no art uses are not listed; with
-`selectionOnly`, those in the selection), `gradientNames` (the gradients those objects use) and `pathLength` (pt: the total length of the paths, compound paths' pieces included and guides left
+`selectionOnly`, those in the selection), `gradientNames` (the gradients those objects use), `spotObjects`
+(`[{id, name, spotColors}]`: every object filled or stroked with a spot color swatch, as a solid color or in the
+stops of a gradient with a stop above opacity 0, at a tint above 0, and every grayscale image colorized with one, by
+the same rules as `patternObjects`, with the spot colors it uses; a process
+color, even one of the same color, and Registration are not spot colors; the spotColors category lists them as Spot
+Color Objects and `objects.spots` counts them; spot swatches no art uses are not listed; with `selectionOnly`, those
+in the selection), `spotColorNames` and `spotColors` (the spot colors those objects use) and `pathLength` (pt: the total length of the paths, compound paths' pieces included and guides left
 out, which objects lists as Path Length in the document's units, say for a cut line or an LED strip along the letters);
 `format: "text"` returns the plain-text report Document Info › Save… (`docInfo.save {path?, selectionOnly?, category?}`:
 only `category` when given, else every category) and the package report write.
@@ -6845,7 +6978,7 @@ dictionaries (the standard ones are values in `systemdict`; `dictstack`, `intern
 intervals share storage, resources (categories made from `Generic`, `resourceforall`), executable filters (`cvx exec`
 runs their data; `flushfile` skips it), axial and radial shadings and shading patterns (gradients), images and image
 masks (data in the file through ASCII85, hex, run-length, Flate, LZW or DCT filters, or from procedures), and type as
-point type in the font the file names (embedded Type 1 and Type 42 fonts' characters and widths come from the font program they carry, and the show operators' spacing along the baseline is kept as tracking, while spacing that moves characters off it (`yshow`, `xyshow`) makes a text object per character; CID-keyed fonts draw the glyphs of the Type 0 and Type 2 CIDFonts the file carries, CIDFonts in a FontSet's Compact Font Format data included). In a file in Illustrator's own format
+point type in the font the file names (embedded Type 1 and Type 42 fonts' characters and widths come from the font program they carry, and the show operators' spacing along the baseline is kept as tracking, while spacing that moves characters off it (`yshow`, `xyshow`) makes a text object per character; CID-keyed fonts draw the glyphs of the Type 0 and Type 2 CIDFonts the file carries, CIDFonts in a FontSet's Compact Font Format data included; a CID-keyed font whose CIDFont the file only names, over a predefined CMap such as `UniJIS-UCS2-H`, `90ms-RKSJ-H` or `GBK-EUC-H`, sets the characters its codes stand for as type in the font of the CIDFont's name, as vertical type over a `-V` CMap, and type in a predefined CMap that can't be read is left out with a warning). In a file in Illustrator's own format
 (Illustrator 3–8 `.ai` and their EPS, written with the prolog that defines its operators) the groups it writes (`u` …
 `U`) come in as groups, nested as they were; clips and groups nest at most 128 deep. The artboard is the `%%HiResBoundingBox`
 (else `%%BoundingBox`; a letter page without one). A program the interpreter can't run (an operator it doesn't know,
@@ -7091,8 +7224,8 @@ chosen artboards draw all of them. A PDF leaves out the layers that don't print
 ### Dynamic Text: Block
 
 `type.dynamicText {ids?|id?, on?: bool, wordGap?, lineGap?}` (Type › Dynamic Text, and the Contextual Task Bar for
-area type outside a thread) turns Block on or off for the
-selected area type, as it turns Dynamic Text on or off for type on a path ([Dynamic Text](#dynamic-text)). Area Type
+area type outside a thread and for point type) turns Block on or off for the
+selected area type, and turning it on makes point type area type with Block on (below), as it turns Dynamic Text on or off for type on a path ([Dynamic Text](#dynamic-text)). Area Type
 Options › Block is the same setting, and the Properties panel's Paragraph section has a Dynamic Text checkbox, which
 shows Word Gap and Line Gap while it is on. The [Dynamic Text overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/desktop/text-typography/work-with-dynamic-text/dynamic-text-overview.html)
 describes Block as text that scales to fill a rectangular box, with settings for the spacing between words and between
@@ -7106,7 +7239,7 @@ lines. The rest are VectorCraft's own rules:
 - The layout sets every paragraph with `wordGap` as its Desired word spacing (Justification…), and its Minimum or
   Maximum word spacing moves out to `wordGap` when `wordGap` lies outside it. The paragraphs keep their own
   Justification… values, which apply again when Block is off. Each character's leading is its size plus `lineGap`. A
-  gap given with no area type in the selection is an error.
+  gap given with no area type in the selection, and no point type that it turns into area type, is an error.
 - The sizes are written into the characters, so every export and the Character panel see them. After every edit to
   the text or the frame (typing, `text.editRange`, character and paragraph changes, `text.areaOptions {width}`, a
   frame resize) the lines are fitted again, in the edit's own undo step. The lines are then measured again, in at
@@ -7115,14 +7248,27 @@ lines. The rest are VectorCraft's own rules:
 - An empty line, or a line of spaces, keeps its size. At 1,296 pt a line can be narrower than the frame; at 0.1 pt it
   can still wrap. A frame with no room along its lines changes nothing. Right-to-left lines are fitted as left-to-right
   ones are.
-- Off keeps the sizes the text was drawn at. On replaces Auto Size and Shrink Text to Fit. Point type in the selection
-  is left as it is. Area type in a thread is refused with an error that names it (`text.areaOptions {fit: "block"}`
+- Off keeps the sizes the text was drawn at. On replaces Auto Size and Shrink Text to Fit. Area type in a thread is refused with an error that names it (`text.areaOptions {fit: "block"}`
   refuses it too); threading a frame turns Block off, keeping its sizes. Without `on`, it toggles from the first
   object's setting, or turns on when a gap is given. A value that is not a boolean, or a gap outside its range, is an
   error. When nothing changes, no undo step is recorded.
 - Saved and opened, the native file keeps Block on with its gaps and the sizes in the characters; with Block off it
   keeps the sizes.
 
+Turning it on also takes point type, in the same undo step (the Contextual Task Bar offers it beside Convert To Area
+Type). [Adjust formatting and resize text](https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/desktop/text-typography/work-with-dynamic-text/adjust-formatting-and-resize-text-with-dynamic-text.html)
+applies Dynamic Text, Block among its shapes, to existing text. VectorCraft's own rules for point type:
+
+- It becomes area type with Block on and the default Area Type Options, keeping only its gaps: options it kept from
+  an earlier frame (columns, inset, vertical alignment, first baseline) do not carry over. Along its lines, the frame
+  is as wide as the widest line as typed with its paragraph's indents, so that line keeps its size and stays where it
+  was across the page by its own alignment; the other lines are set to that width. When negative indents take more
+  than the widest line's width, the frame is as wide as that line, and Block makes it larger. The frame starts at the
+  top of the text and then grows down (to the left for vertical type) to hold every fitted line, around any Text Wrap
+  objects above it, so nothing overflows.
+- The gaps given apply to its frame. Point type with no line to fit (empty, or only spaces and breaks) is left as it
+  is, and so is point type when `on` is false. Without `on`, point type counts as off.
+
 The reply is `{on, ids, fitScale, wordGap, lineGap}` (`fitScale` as for type on a path, 1 when the first object is area
 type; the gaps are the first area type's).
 
@@ -7887,20 +8033,23 @@ it, as with any style change to one character (`text.setRangeStyle`). The type s
 ## Alternate glyphs
 
 The Glyphs panel's Show › Alternates for Current Selection lists the alternate glyphs of the character selected with
-the Type tool (a range's first character, else the one before the caret), with the default glyph first when the font
-does not list it, and a double-click on one draws that character with it. `text.glyphAlternates {id, start}` lists them for the character at byte `start`: `{char, font, style, default,
+the Type tool (a range's first character, else the one before the caret) as it stands in its word, with the glyph the
+shaper makes for it first, and a double-click on one applies the OpenType feature that draws it to that character alone
+(see [Alternates as OpenType feature values](#alternates-as-opentype-feature-values)); a glyph no feature draws there is
+drawn by `text.setGlyphAlternate`. `text.glyphAlternates {id, start}` lists them for the character at byte `start`: `{char, font, style, default,
 chosen, alternates: [{gid, feature}]}`, where `default` is the glyph the font's character map gives, `chosen` the glyph
 drawn now, and `alternates` the glyphs the font's `GSUB` single and alternate substitutions put in place of the default
 glyph: `aalt` first, then `salt`, `ss01` to `ss20`, `swsh`, `cv01` to `cv99`, `hist`, `jalt`, `nalt`, `ornm` and
 `titl`, in lookup order within each, each glyph once. The default glyph is listed only when `aalt` lists it. Ligatures
 and contextual substitutions are not listed. `text.setGlyphAlternate {id, start, gid}` draws the character with glyph
-`gid`, one of those alternates or the default glyph, as one undo step; `gid: null` takes the choice away, and the
+`gid`, one of those alternates, a glyph that no character maps and no feature reaches whose name is not another letter's
+(`a.salt` for `a`, in a font with no `salt`), or the default glyph, as one undo step; `gid: null` takes the choice away, and the
 character is drawn as its style draws it (a feature such as `salt` can draw another glyph than the default). The text
 keeps the character and its other attributes, and characters typed next to it take their default glyphs. The choice is
 saved with the character's style as `glyphAlternate: {ch, gid, font, version}`, the face's PostScript name and version
 string: set in another font or version, or with the font missing, the character takes its default glyph. Both commands
-refuse a character whose font is not available, and `text.setGlyphAlternate` refuses a glyph that is not one of the
-character's alternates and a glyph that the character's style does not draw (All Caps, Small Caps or another numeral
+refuse a character whose font is not available, and `text.setGlyphAlternate` refuses a glyph that is not one of those
+and a glyph that the character's style does not draw (All Caps, Small Caps or another numeral
 system). Choosing the glyph a character already draws is not an edit. Character styles do not take `glyphAlternate`:
 `charStyle.new`, `charStyle.edit` and `charStyle.setAttrs` refuse it.
 
@@ -7909,6 +8058,36 @@ system). Choosing the glyph a character already draws is not an edit. Character
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"text.setGlyphAlternate","params":{"id":7,"start":2,"gid":1043}}}
 ```
 
+### Alternates as OpenType feature values
+
+`text.setGlyphAlternate`'s choice swaps a glyph id into one character and shapes that character apart from its neighbours.
+A feature with a value keeps the text real and joined: `features`, `featureChanges` (`text.setRangeStyle`,
+`text.setStyle`, `charStyle.*`) take `tag=N` for `swsh`, `ss01` to `ss20`, `salt`, `titl`, `pnum`, `lnum`, `sups`,
+`subs`, `numr`, `dnom` and `aalt`, `N` from 0 to 65535, and the style's `features` list keeps the string:
+`"salt=2"` draws the font's second alternate of every glyph in the run that has one (the OpenType alternate
+substitution picks the glyph at that position of its set; a glyph without one, or with fewer alternates, keeps the
+glyph it has). A plain `"salt"` is `"salt=1"` and is written so; `"salt=0"`, `"-salt"` and leaving it out are off. The
+next value for a feature replaces the last one, in `features` and in `featureChanges`, and a tag the build does not know
+(`salt=x`, `salt=65536`, `-salt=2`, `liga=2`) is refused with the unknown-feature error. SVG export writes the value as
+CSS `font-feature-settings: "salt" 2`.
+
+Runs that differ only in their `features` are shaped together as one piece of text, each run's features over its own
+characters: styling the middle letter of an Arabic word with `salt=2` leaves every other letter its initial, medial or
+final form and the letters still join, as the same word typed with no style change. Runs that differ in font, size,
+scale, case, language, script or direction are still shaped apart.
+
+`text.glyphAlternates` lists a character's alternates by the glyph the font's character map gives it; the Glyphs panel
+instead lists those of the glyph the shaper makes for the character in its word (a medial letter's medial form), finds
+for each the feature value that draws it there, and on a double-click runs one `text.setRangeStyle` on exactly that
+character: `featureChanges` turns its other alternate features (`salt`, `aalt`, `swsh`, `ss01`–`ss20`) off and sets the
+value (`["-ss01", "salt=2"]`), and `glyphAlternate: null` takes away a glyph choice that would otherwise keep drawing
+its own glyph (`text.setRangeStyle` takes it; any other value is refused). It is one undo step.
+
+```json
+{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"text.setRangeStyle","params":{"id":7,"start":4,"end":6,"features":["salt=2"]}}}
+{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"text.setRangeStyle","params":{"id":7,"start":4,"end":6,"featureChanges":["-salt"]}}}
+```
+
 ## New type in a Japanese interface
 
 While the interface is in Japanese (Preferences › User Interface › Language, or `auto` on a Japanese system), new type starts with em
@@ -7945,6 +8124,26 @@ begins or ends, dragging the centre bracket slides the type along its path and,
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"type.pathOptions","params":{"start":0.25,"end":0.75,"flip":true}}}
 ```
 
+`type.pathCenter.top {ids?|id?}` and `type.pathCenter.bottom {ids?|id?}` (Type › Type on a Path › Center on Top and
+Center on Bottom, and the Contextual Task Bar for type on a closed path) slide the selected type on a closed path along
+it so that the middle of the span between its brackets lands on the path's topmost or bottommost point. This is
+VectorCraft's own behavior. The path is measured as the object is drawn, after its transform, so a rotated, scaled or
+skewed circle centers on its drawn top. On a level stretch, such as a rectangle's top edge, the middle of the stretch
+is used; with several separate topmost points, the middle of the shortest part of the path that holds them all is
+used. The span keeps its length, and type that runs once round stays once round. The first paragraph's alignment
+becomes Center unless it is Center or Justify Center, so the type is centered there. The type is not flipped: on the
+bottom of a circle, whose path runs clockwise, it reads upside down outside the circle until `type.pathOptions {flip:
+true}` turns it inside. Point type and area type in the selection are left as they are. Type on an open or compound
+path, type in a thread, and type on a path with no length or no height are refused with an error that names them,
+and nothing changes. The menu items are enabled, and the task bar shows them, only while every selected type on a
+path is on one closed path and none of it is in a thread. Several objects move in one undo step. When every object is
+already centered there, nothing changes and no undo step is recorded. Each replies `{ids, start, end}` with the first
+object's brackets.
+
+```json
+{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"type.pathCenter.top","params":{}}}
+```
+
 ## Dynamic Text
 
 `type.dynamicText {on?: bool, ids?}` (Type › Dynamic Text, and the Contextual Task Bar for type on a path) turns
@@ -7958,8 +8157,8 @@ and tate-chu-yoko offsets by one factor, so runs keep their proportions; Type on
 scaled. The first character's size, in document points, moves in steps of 0.1 pt within 0.1 to 1,296 pt; text that
 still runs past the end bracket at 0.1 pt overflows. Reshaping or scaling the path fits the text again. The stored
 sizes do not change: turning Dynamic Text off writes the sizes the text was drawn at into its characters, so it keeps
-its look, in one undo step. Point type in the selection is left as it is, and area type in it takes Block
-([Dynamic Text: Block](#dynamic-text-block)). Type on a path in a
+its look, in one undo step. Area type in the selection takes Block, and turning it on makes point type in the
+selection area type with Block on ([Dynamic Text: Block](#dynamic-text-block)). Type on a path in a
 thread is refused with an error that names it, and the menu item and the task bar item are not offered for it;
 `text.thread.create` and `text.thread.add` turn Dynamic Text off on the frames they thread, at their drawn sizes, and
 list them in `dynamicTextOff`; `addon.type.releasePath` turns it off at the drawn sizes on the point type it makes. When every object already has the setting asked for, nothing changes and no undo step
@@ -8621,6 +8820,20 @@ share of the content's width or height in proportion to the length of its contro
 its curve parameter, so content spreads evenly along a segment without handles. An envelope opened from an `.ai` file
 keeps the corners the file saves, and they stay on the same anchors when the envelope is moved, rotated or
 reflected. These are VectorCraft's own rules, and existing top-object envelopes redraw by them.
+A warp bends the content's bounds as one Bézier patch. The style sets the patch's control points from the bend and
+the size of the bounds (Arc's top and bottom edges, for example, are cubic curves close to arcs around one center), then
+the horizontal distortion scales each column of control points about its middle, and the vertical distortion scales
+each row. Content with no width or no height takes the middle of the patch along that side. New warp envelopes, and
+those opened from `.ai` files, carry `version` 1 for this map, and `object.envelope.info` reports it. Envelopes in
+`.vectorcraft` documents saved before the version existed read as `version` 0, the earlier map, and keep their look,
+and editing an envelope keeps its version. `version` (0 or 1) on `object.envelope.makeWithWarp`,
+`object.envelope.resetWithWarp` and `object.envelope.options` sets the map. The Warp effects (`warp.arc` …
+`warp.twist`) take the same map through the same `version` param: `effect.apply` gives a new Warp `version` 1 unless
+`params.version` is 0, the built-in graphic styles' Warps have 1, and Effect › Warp edits keep each Warp's own version.
+These commands refuse any other value with `` `version` must be 0 or 1 ``; `1.0` counts as 1. An `.ai` file holds a
+warp's settings and not its version, so a `version` 0 warp saved to `.ai` and opened again draws with `version` 1.
+These patches are VectorCraft's own rules; the styles and the ranges of Bend and the distortions are those of the Warp
+options (https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/reshape-transform-objects/distort-and-transform-effects-in-illustrator.html).
 `object.envelope.info` reads the selected envelope's settings (`type`, the warp's or mesh's values, `fidelity` and
 the options, `editing`), or with no envelope selected the options new envelopes get. With an envelope selected,
 `object.envelope.resetWithWarp` and `object.envelope.resetWithMesh` (`rows`, `cols`, `maintainShape`: true keeps
@@ -8930,6 +9143,30 @@ value the open path is too short for sets the distance, the drag also sets `spac
 objects stay that far apart. Shift and Alt do not change the drag. With measurement labels on, the first object's
 distance along the path shows next to the pointer in the document's units. Escape cancels the drag.
 
+The same tools show a Select/Move widget, a small ring, on each object's attachment point; the ring under the pointer
+is highlighted. A click on one chooses its object: it sends `object.objectsOnPath.selectMember {member}`, which
+selects the group alone with the object chosen, and the chosen object's ring is filled blue. Any other selection
+change clears the choice. A click on the object's art away from the ring selects the group as before. Dragging a ring
+along the path moves its
+object to the place of the object whose attachment point is nearest the pointer along the path, and previews
+`object.objectsOnPath.moveMember {group, member, target}`; the release keeps it as one undo step and chooses the
+object. A drag that ends on the object's own place, and Escape, keep nothing. On an open path a pointer beyond an end
+takes the place at that end; on a closed path the drag goes on round across the first anchor. Where two places are as
+near, the drag stays at the place it is at. A hidden or locked object has no widget, and a drag does not take or
+shift its place. Shift and Alt do not change the drag. The widgets for Rotate All, Space and
+Move All take a press before a Select/Move widget, and of Select/Move widgets on the same point a press takes the
+chosen one, else the first along the path.
+
+`object.objectsOnPath.moveMember {member, target, group?}` moves `member` to `target`'s place along the path: the
+objects between them each move one place toward where `member` was, except hidden and locked objects, which keep
+their places and are passed over. Both must be objects of the same Objects on Path
+group (not its path), and neither they nor the group may be hidden or locked; `group`, when given, must be that
+group. Only the
+order along the path changes: Space, the start, Pivot, Rotate and the children's order in the Layers panel stay. A
+`target` that is `member` changes nothing and records no undo step. It returns `{group, member, index}`, the object's
+new place along the path counted from 0. `object.objectsOnPath.selectMember {member}` takes the same kind of `member`
+and returns `{group, member}`.
+
 ```json
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"tool.setOption","params":{"tool":"objectsOnPath","values":{"pivot":7,"rotate":30}}}}
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"object.objectsOnPath.attach","params":{"path":30,"ids":[12,15,18]}}}
@@ -9459,8 +9696,9 @@ it ends up in front), baked with `effect.expandAppearance`, then `object.pathfin
 
 ## Cutting Tools add-on
 
-Cutting Tools is a built-in add-on that prepares art for cutting. Its command is `addon.cutting.bridges`; in the desktop
-app it is Object › Plug-ins › Cutting Tools › Stencil Bridges….
+Cutting Tools is a built-in add-on that prepares art for cutting. Its commands are `addon.cutting.bridges` and
+`addon.cutting.weed`; in the desktop app they are Object › Plug-ins › Cutting Tools › Stencil Bridges… and Weed Box and
+Lines….
 
 ### Stencil Bridges
 
@@ -9511,6 +9749,44 @@ Crossing) and Keep Original.
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"addon.cutting.bridges","params":{"width":3,"count":2,"direction":"shortest","keepOriginal":false}}}
 ```
 
+### Weed Box and Lines
+
+`addon.cutting.weed {margin?, box?, direction?, count?, spacing?, gap?, weight?, swatch?}` adds a weed box around the
+selected art and weeding lines across the box, so the waste vinyl around the art lifts off in pieces
+([what a weeding border is](https://help.arlon.com/what-is-a-weeding-border)). The ranges, defaults and rules below are
+VectorCraft's own. The weed box is a rectangle `margin` points (0 to 100000, default 9) outside the art's bounds;
+`box: false` leaves it out. The weeding lines run `"horizontal"`, `"vertical"` or `"both"` ways (default `"both"`) from
+one side of the box to the other and divide it evenly: `count` lines each way (a whole number from 0 to 1000, default 1),
+or with `spacing` instead, as few lines as keep them at most that far apart. A line is left out over the art's area and
+within `gap` points of its outlines (0 to 100000, default 0: the lines stop at the outlines), so it ends in several
+pieces, each a straight path. The lines and the box are stroked `weight` points wide (0.01 to 1000, default 0.3) in the
+color swatch `swatch` (default `"[Registration]"`), with no fill.
+
+The art is measured by the outlines a cutter cuts. Closed paths enclose their area by their fill rule, so the hole of a
+compound path filled even-odd gets lines too, and open paths are lines with no area. Type is measured by its glyph
+outlines, a clip group by what shows inside its clipping path (an open clipping path clips as if closed), an image by
+its frame, a placed file by the art it shows (by its box when the file can't be read), a symbol instance by its art (an
+instance of a symbol the document doesn't have adds nothing) and a live object such as a blend by the art it draws. An
+object selected inside a clip group is measured by what shows of it, and a clipping path selected on its own as its clip
+group. Strokes, effects, hidden objects and objects in a hidden group or layer are left out.
+
+The result is one group named "Weeding" (the box is its member "Weed Box"), added on top of the current layer and
+selected, as one undo step. While a clip group, or a group inside one, is edited in isolation, the group goes on top of
+the container that holds the outermost clip group around it. With nothing selected, or with a selection that has no
+outlines, the command fails. It also fails when the art's outlines, followed in straight segments, have more than
+200000 points; when groups, symbol instances and live objects are nested more than 128 levels deep; when measuring the
+clip groups' outlines against each other takes more than 40000000 tests of one segment or outline point against another,
+counted over every clip group in the selection together and including the outlines a nested clip group hides; when, for the
+lines one way, more than 10000000 pairs of a line and an outline segment within `gap` of it are found, or closed
+outline segments are checked for crossings with the lines more than 10000000 times; when the lines would be more than
+100000 pieces; and when no line fits outside the art while `box` is false. Result: `{id, box, lines}`: the group's id,
+the weed box's id (null without one) and the number of pieces of weeding line. Weed Box and Lines… opens the command
+dialog with Preview; a Spacing above 0 is used instead of the Count.
+
+```json
+{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"addon.cutting.weed","params":{"margin":"0.25 in","direction":"both","spacing":"2 in","gap":1}}}
+```
+
 ## Color Effects add-on
 
 Color Effects is a built-in add-on: its effects are colour adjustments in Effect › Color Effects, its command is
@@ -9905,3 +10181,24 @@ Path Options' Preview does (#5360).
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"addon.type.releasePath","params":{}}}
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"addon.type.releasePath","params":{"mode":"path","keepOriginal":true}}}
 ```
+
+## Save location errors
+
+A save refused by the filesystem with PermissionDenied or ReadOnlyFilesystem returns
+`READ_ONLY_LOCATION: <reason>`. The reason retains the path and system message. This is a
+stable prefix within the existing error string, not a new response field or JSON-RPC code.
+An automation-root denial, an encoding failure, and an error retaining recovery copies do
+not use this code. Choose a writable destination and explicitly save there; automation never
+opens the fallback Save As panel. Failed saves keep the original document path and modified
+state; multi-file saves may already have written other output files.
+
+`app.save` with `wait: true` returns the write failure in its reply (`save_file` already asks
+for this on the desktop). Without waiting, an accepted background save still replies before
+completion; any later failure opens no panel. MCP retains its usual tool-name prefix around
+the error text. The interactive fallback applies only to ordinary File > Save, not Close/Quit.
+
+## Revision history
+
+| Date | Change |
+|---|---|
+| 2026-11-11 | Document READ_ONLY_LOCATION for saves (#6146); no response-shape change. |

docs/plugins.md

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 # Plug-ins: the WebAssembly plug-in API (ABI v1)
 
 VectorCraft does not host native plug-ins built for other illustration apps: that needs unsafe FFI into
-arbitrary machine code and cannot work in the browser build. Instead, plug-ins are **WebAssembly modules**
-run in a sandbox. One `.wasm` file works on macOS, Windows, Linux and the web. The design follows PhotoCraft's
-plug-in API (same sandbox, same manifest and parameter schema), extended for vector documents.
+arbitrary machine code and cannot work in the browser build. Instead, plug-ins are **WebAssembly modules** run in a
+sandbox. One `.wasm` file works on macOS, Windows, Linux and the web. The design follows PhotoCraft's plug-in API (same
+sandbox, same manifest and parameter schema), extended for vector documents.
 
 There are four kinds of plug-in:
 
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ There are four kinds of plug-in:
   paths and compound paths. File › Open lists their files, File › Open With lists the importers by name, and the host
   hands them the file's bytes.
 
-This page is the contract for plug-in authors and the reference for the host (`crates/plugins`, the
-`plugin.*` commands in `crates/engine/src/cmd/plugin.rs`).
+This page is the contract for plug-in authors and the reference for the host (`crates/plugins`, the `plugin.*` commands
+in `crates/engine/src/cmd/plugin.rs`).
 
 ## Using plug-ins
 
@@ -44,14 +44,15 @@ An exporter adds a write-only format, `plugin.<id>`, which `document.formats` li
 its extensions that no built-in format has; `selectedOnly` hands it the selection, as for the built-in formats.
 
 An importer adds a read-only format, `plugin.<id>`, which `document.formats` lists with its `plugin` id. `openExtensions`
-holds the extensions File › Open opens with the importer (the lists below describe which are left out). `document.open {"path"}` (or `{"name", "dataBase64"}`) opens a file with it when no built-in format
-reads the file, by its content or by its extension, and the importer lists the file's extension; when several do, the
-one whose id sorts first opens it. `document.open {"importer": "plugin.<id>", "params"?: {…}}` names the importer,
-which must list the file's extension, also one a built-in format reads (an importer that lists `svg` opens an `.svg`
-only this way). A damaged file of a built-in format reports that format's error, and the file is not handed to an
-importer. The importer's objects become a new document whose artboard is their bounds (at least 1 pt wide and high,
-and within ±4,000,000 pt); the document keeps no path, so Save asks for a name. File › Place reads only the built-in formats, and a file only an importer reads opens as a new document when it is dropped on the canvas. These rules are
-VectorCraft's own.
+holds the extensions File › Open opens with the importer (the lists below describe which are left out). `document.open
+{"path"}` (or `{"name", "dataBase64"}`) opens a file with it when no built-in format reads the file, by its content or
+by its extension, and the importer lists the file's extension; when several do, the one whose id sorts first opens it.
+`document.open {"importer": "plugin.<id>", "params"?: {…}}` names the importer, which must list the file's extension,
+also one a built-in format reads (an importer that lists `svg` opens an `.svg` only this way). A damaged file of a
+built-in format reports that format's error, and the file is not handed to an importer. The importer's objects become a
+new document whose artboard is their bounds (at least 1 pt wide and high, and within ±4,000,000 pt); the document keeps
+no path, so Save asks for a name. File › Place reads only the built-in formats, and a file only an importer reads opens
+as a new document when it is dropped on the canvas. These rules are VectorCraft's own.
 
 In the app, installed filters appear under **Object › Plug-ins**, next to **Install Plug-in…** and **Reload
 Plug-ins**; live effects under **Effect › Plug-ins** and in the Appearance panel's effect menu. A plug-in with
@@ -60,25 +61,23 @@ of numbers and colors, labelled, explained and sorted into sections as its manif
 parameters it runs at once. Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts lists each installed filter under Object › Plug-ins, where
 it can be given a shortcut (`plugin:<id>`); the shortcut stays saved while the plug-in is removed and applies again
 when it is reinstalled. Parameters too many for the window's height scroll inside the dialog, which keeps its
-heading and buttons in view. Exporters are formats of **File › Export › Export As**, where Use
-Artboards is greyed out (the plug-in writes the whole document); one with parameters asks for them in a dialog of the
-same kind once the file is picked, and its Export button writes the file. Importers' files are listed under File ›
-Open's "All readable files" and under a filter of their own, named after the importer (other open dialogs, such as New
-from Template and Load Styles, list only the files the built-in formats read). These lists leave out an importer's
-extensions that a built-in format reads, and those File › Open installs, imports or loads as something else (`.wasm`,
-`.kys`, `.jsx`, presets, libraries and swatch or graphic style libraries such as `.ase`). File › Open does not give
-those files to the importer, and Open With does. **File › Open With** lists the
-installed importers by name (`file.openWith {"importer", "path"?, "params"?}`), and each opens a file picked among its
-extensions with that importer (on the web, File › Open's picker opens instead) and adds it to Open Recent. On the
-desktop the importer runs off the UI thread, and a run that takes a while shows a progress window with Cancel, which
-stops it. An importer
-with parameters, given no `params`, asks for them in a dialog of the same kind once the file is picked, and its Open
-button opens the file; File › Open runs an importer with its parameters' defaults. Open Recent opens a file the way
-File › Open does: it does not remember the importer or the parameters given to Open With. A built-in format reads the
-file if one can, and otherwise the first importer by id that lists its extension reads it with its parameters' defaults.
-**File › Open** of a `.wasm` file installs
-a plug-in too (on the web this is how plug-ins get in). A heavy filter asks before it is installed, and runs in the
-background ([below](#heavy-filters)). A plug-in that lists permissions asks for them before it is installed
+heading and buttons in view. Exporters are formats of **File › Export › Export As**, where Use Artboards is greyed out
+(the plug-in writes the whole document); one with parameters asks for them in a dialog of the same kind once the file is
+picked, and its Export button writes the file. Importers' files are listed under File › Open's "All readable files" and
+under a filter of their own, named after the importer (other open dialogs, such as New from Template and Load Styles,
+list only the files the built-in formats read). These lists leave out an importer's extensions that a built-in format
+reads, and those File › Open installs, imports or loads as something else (`.wasm`, `.kys`, `.jsx`, presets, libraries
+and swatch or graphic style libraries such as `.ase`). File › Open does not give those files to the importer, and Open
+With does. **File › Open With** lists the installed importers by name (`file.openWith {"importer", "path"?,
+"params"?}`), and each opens a file picked among its extensions with that importer (on the web, File › Open's picker
+opens instead) and adds it to Open Recent. On the desktop the importer runs off the UI thread, and a run that takes a
+while shows a progress window with Cancel, which stops it. An importer with parameters, given no `params`, asks for them
+in a dialog of the same kind once the file is picked, and its Open button opens the file; File › Open runs an importer
+with its parameters' defaults. Open Recent opens a file the way File › Open does: it does not remember the importer or
+the parameters given to Open With. A built-in format reads the file if one can, and otherwise the first importer by id
+that lists its extension reads it with its parameters' defaults. **File › Open** of a `.wasm` file installs a plug-in
+too (on the web this is how plug-ins get in). A heavy filter asks before it is installed, and runs in the background
+([below](#heavy-filters)). A plug-in that lists permissions asks for them before it is installed
 ([below](#permissions)).
 
 ### Commands
@@ -117,9 +116,9 @@ the object is drawn as if the effect weren't there, and the record is kept for w
 
 ## The sandbox
 
-The host is [`wasmi`](https://github.com/wasmi-labs/wasmi), a pure-Rust WebAssembly interpreter
-(MIT OR Apache-2.0). It builds for `wasm32-unknown-unknown` too, so plug-ins also run in the web build. Limits
-(`vectorcraft_plugins::Limits`, defaults):
+The host is [`wasmi`](https://github.com/wasmi-labs/wasmi), a pure-Rust WebAssembly interpreter (MIT OR Apache-2.0). It
+builds for `wasm32-unknown-unknown` too, so plug-ins also run in the web build. Limits (`vectorcraft_plugins::Limits`,
+defaults):
 
 | Limit | Default | On violation |
 |---|---|---|
@@ -155,15 +154,15 @@ measured with the page's `performance.now()`.
 Some filters do heavy but legitimate work, such as routing a plotter's pen, packing shapes onto a sheet or running a
 simulation, which a minute and 50 M instructions don't cover. Such a filter declares `"budget": "heavy"` in its
 manifest (only a filter may: a live effect runs whenever the document is drawn, an exporter has an export's budget and
-an importer an import's). Each of its runs gets 1 G instructions (20 times a light run's) plus the 4,000 per input byte, and 300 s
-(`vectorcraft_plugins::{HEAVY_FUEL, HEAVY_WALL_TIME_MS}`). Its output can't add to the budget: the host learns how
-much there is only once the run has ended.
+an importer an import's). Each of its runs gets 1 G instructions (20 times a light run's) plus the 4,000 per input byte,
+and 300 s (`vectorcraft_plugins::{HEAVY_FUEL, HEAVY_WALL_TIME_MS}`). Its output can't add to the budget: the host learns
+how much there is only once the run has ended.
 
 - **Installing asks first.** Install Plug-in… and File › Open show what the filter asks for, and install it once the
   user clicks OK (see [Permissions](#permissions) for who can). `plugin.install` refuses it without `allowHeavy: true`,
   and refuses `allowHeavy` from a request except in a session started with `vectorcraft-cli --allow-plugin-grants`
-  (`plugin.inspect` shows the budget beforehand). A filter kept in the `Plug-ins` folder was agreed to and is installed again
-  at startup. The Additional Plug-ins Folder skips heavy filters with a note in its report, since loading a folder
+  (`plugin.inspect` shows the budget beforehand). A filter kept in the `Plug-ins` folder was agreed to and is installed
+  again at startup. The Additional Plug-ins Folder skips heavy filters with a note in its report, since loading a folder
   asks nobody.
 - **It runs in the background.** Its dialog has no Preview. OK (or the menu item, without parameters) runs it on a
   thread of its own while editing goes on, shown in the status bar and, after a moment, in a progress window with
@@ -203,17 +202,15 @@ capability model proposed for PhotoCraft plug-ins
   `state`, which only its commands use. A filter may list any of its three, and `commands` with a `commandAllowlist`.
   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`, `cache` or `commands` with an `api`
-  below 2, or
-  one of the names kept for a later plug-in API
-  (`ui.panel`, `ui.tool`) is refused when the module is installed, and the error names it.
+  below 2, or one of the names kept for a later plug-in API (`ui.panel`, `ui.tool`) is refused when the module is
+  installed, and the error names it.
 - **Installing asks first.** Install Plug-in… and File › Open show the plug-in's name, id, version, the SHA-256 of
   the file and each permission in plain words, and install it once the user clicks OK, if the file still has the
-  SHA-256 shown; Cancel installs nothing. The
-  names shown have control and bidirectional characters escaped (`\u{202E}`) and are cut to 64 characters.
-  Only a person can press its OK: `ui.dialog.confirm`, MCP's `answer_dialog` and injected input (`ui.key`, `ui.click`)
-  are refused and the dialog stays open. Enter confirms it only when OK has the keyboard focus. `ui.dialog.set` can't
-  change what it installs. OK stays disabled until the question has been on screen in the focused window for half a
-  second (VectorCraft's own value, from the delay the security guidance at
+  SHA-256 shown; Cancel installs nothing. The names shown have control and bidirectional characters escaped (`\u{202E}`)
+  and are cut to 64 characters. Only a person can press its OK: `ui.dialog.confirm`, MCP's `answer_dialog` and injected
+  input (`ui.key`, `ui.click`) are refused and the dialog stays open. Enter confirms it only when OK has the keyboard
+  focus. `ui.dialog.set` can't change what it installs. OK stays disabled until the question has been on screen in the
+  focused window for half a second (VectorCraft's own value, from the delay the security guidance at
   https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/main/docs/security/security-considerations-for-browser-ui.md
   gives for dialog boxes), so a click, Enter or Space, or a press begun before then, installs nothing. The half second
   starts over for every new question, even one that reads the same, and when the window gets the focus back. Cancel
@@ -280,23 +277,22 @@ capability model proposed for PhotoCraft plug-ins
   does not count for any session in the same process that uses the same `Plug-ins` folder, by any path to it, until
   `grants.json` can be written for that plug-in, as when the plug-in is granted again. Another process on the same
   folder, for example `vectorcraft-cli` beside the app, still reads `grants.json` as it is written. A grant for the
-  same id kept in another `Plug-ins` folder counts. In Safe Mode, and for
-  a stored module that the user disabled,
+  same id kept in another `Plug-ins` folder counts. In Safe Mode, and for a stored module that the user disabled,
   VectorCraft does not read the module, and `grants.json` keeps the grant for its id. The Additional Plug-ins Folder
   and `plugin.reload` do not change the `Plug-ins` folder: when they leave a module that lists no permissions under an
   id, the process forgets its own grant for that id, and a grant kept in `grants.json` stays with the stored module it
   covers. An entry of `grants.json` that this version can't use (a permission it doesn't know, an invalid id) is
   skipped and stays in the file until its plug-in is granted again, replaced by a module that lists no permissions, or
   removed. When such an entry can't be removed from the file, `plugin.install` and `plugin.remove` treat it as a grant
-  that can't be removed. A `grants.json` that is not a JSON list is never overwritten, and the file is never written larger than
-  1 MiB, the most that is read. When a `Plug-ins` folder is in use, only the grants kept
-  in it count for `plugin.install`, `plugin.inspect`, `plugin.reload` and the Additional Plug-ins Folder. At startup,
-  a stored plug-in is skipped when no grant covers its bytes and the permissions it lists. The Additional Plug-ins
-  Folder and `plugin.reload` install only plug-ins that such a grant covers, and report the others. A module without a
+  that can't be removed. A `grants.json` that is not a JSON list is never overwritten, and the file is never written
+  larger than 1 MiB, the most that is read. When a `Plug-ins` folder is in use, only the grants kept in it count for
+  `plugin.install`, `plugin.inspect`, `plugin.reload` and the Additional Plug-ins Folder. At startup, a stored plug-in
+  is skipped when no grant covers its bytes and the permissions it lists. The Additional Plug-ins Folder and
+  `plugin.reload` install only plug-ins that such a grant covers, and report the others. A module without a
   `permissions` list, or with an empty one, needs no grant.
-- 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.
+- 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
   imports](#host-imports-api-level-2), a filter's `inputs` ([reading type, images and
   symbols](#reading-type-images-and-symbols)) and a live effect's [`paintOutput`](#painted-live-effects). A higher one
@@ -307,12 +303,11 @@ capability model proposed for PhotoCraft plug-ins
 - Parameter declarations are unchanged by permissions (`params`, below).
 
 Every run gets a **fresh instance**, so no state survives between calls except what a plug-in writes to its
-[settings and cache](#settings-and-cache). Traps, exhausted budgets, malformed
-modules, bad manifests, out-of-range pointers, negative return codes and invalid output all become errors, and the
-document is left untouched: a filter's output is checked completely before one edit applies it. A live effect that
-fails draws the object's geometry unchanged; `plugin.info` reports why (`lastError`). A run that succeeds clears the
-error of a failed run. A check that finds every swatch and pattern a painted result names clears only the error of a
-refused swatch or pattern.
+[settings and cache](#settings-and-cache). Traps, exhausted budgets, malformed modules, bad manifests, out-of-range
+pointers, negative return codes and invalid output all become errors, and the document is left untouched: a filter's
+output is checked completely before one edit applies it. A live effect that fails draws the object's geometry unchanged;
+`plugin.info` reports why (`lastError`). A run that succeeds clears the error of a failed run. A check that finds every
+swatch and pattern a painted result names clears only the error of a refused swatch or pattern.
 
 wasmi is built with its *portable* (loop) dispatcher: the default tail-call dispatcher relies on LLVM
 sibling-call optimisation, and when that doesn't happen a long-running module overflows the host stack, which aborts
@@ -365,12 +360,12 @@ still returns `1`. `vc_progress`, `vc_cancelled` and `vc_log` need `progress`; t
   filter that lists `progress` runs in the background as a heavy one does, under its light budget, when it runs at once
   from Object › Plug-ins or its shortcut, or when OK runs it with Preview off; with Preview on, its dialog keeps the
   previewed run. A filter that also lists a `commandAllowlist` runs where it is called, since its command calls need
-  the document. A plug-in that checks `vc_cancelled` can
-  stop early, and the host discards what it returns after the Cancel or after its time budget ran out; one that
-  ignores it is still stopped by the instruction and time budgets. With a known total, a report is passed on only when
-  it reaches another tenth of a percent; with an unknown total, each change of `done` is passed on. After 2,000 reports
-  in a run, one change in 1,000 is passed on, and so is the first report after the total becomes known or unknown. A
-  live effect's progress is not shown, since it is drawn as part of something else.
+  the document. A plug-in that checks `vc_cancelled` can stop early, and the host discards what it returns after the
+  Cancel or after its time budget ran out; one that ignores it is still stopped by the instruction and time budgets.
+  With a known total, a report is passed on only when it reaches another tenth of a percent; with an unknown total, each
+  change of `done` is passed on. After 2,000 reports in a run, one change in 1,000 is passed on, and so is the first
+  report after the total becomes known or unknown. A live effect's progress is not shown, since it is drawn as part of
+  something else.
 - Log lines go to the app's log (target `vectorcraft_plugins`) as `<plug-in id>: <text>`, with control and
   bidirectional characters escaped. The whole text must be UTF-8. A line shows its first 1,024 bytes, as at most 1,024
   characters with the escapes, and ends with `…` when it is cut. A run writes at most 200 lines and 32 KiB of shown
@@ -405,8 +400,7 @@ or modified time differs from the last read or write. A get answered from memory
 set to the value the key already has writes nothing, and neither does a delete of a key that has no value. A delete
 of the last setting removes the file and counts no written bytes. Every other successful set or delete writes the
 file before the call returns. A cache call reads or writes the whole entry in memory in one step, up to 64 MiB, and
-the run waits for it.
-A live effect runs while the art draws, so keep the entries it uses small.
+the run waits for it. A live effect runs while the art draws, so keep the entries it uses small.
 
 - A key is 1 to 64 characters from `A-Z`, `a-z`, `0-9`, `_` and `-`, and is not a Windows device name (`CON`, `PRN`,
   `AUX`, `NUL`, `COM0` to `COM9`, `LPT0` to `LPT9`, in any case). Keys differ in case: `tile` and `Tile` are two.
@@ -416,28 +410,27 @@ A live effect runs while the art draws, so keep the entries it uses small.
   also fails with `-4` when the `cache` folder holds more than 8,192 items; clearing the cache removes every file in
   it.
 - The desktop app and `vectorcraft-cli` keep them in a folder named from the id under `storage/` in the `Plug-ins`
-  folder (ids that differ only in case get two folders): `settings.json` and a
-  `cache` folder with one file per entry, named by the host. A settings file that is too large or doesn't parse is
-  moved to `settings.unreadable.json`, replacing an earlier one there, and the settings start empty. A link in that
-  folder is refused (`-5`). Writes go to a temporary file that then replaces the old one; a temporary file a failed
-  write leaves in the `cache` folder does not count toward the caps, and clearing the cache removes it.
+  folder (ids that differ only in case get two folders): `settings.json` and a `cache` folder with one file per entry,
+  named by the host. A settings file that is too large or doesn't parse is moved to `settings.unreadable.json`,
+  replacing an earlier one there, and the settings start empty. A link in that folder is refused (`-5`). Writes go to a
+  temporary file that then replaces the old one; a temporary file a failed write leaves in the `cache` folder does not
+  count toward the caps, and clearing the cache removes it.
 - A plug-in reaches only the storage of its own id. Replacing it with another module of the same id
-  (`plugin.install` with `replace: true`, after the user agreed) keeps the storage; `plugin.remove` deletes it, and a run of the plug-in still going gets `-5` from every storage call after that.
-  `plugin.remove` first renames the folder, adding `.removed` to its name (or `.removing` while a `.removed` folder
-  holds settings an earlier removal kept). When that fails, `plugin.remove` fails and the plug-in stays installed with
-  its storage as it was. Before VectorCraft deletes a renamed folder, it writes an empty file beside it with `.delete`
-  added to the folder's name, and removes that file once the folder is gone. When that file can't be written, the
-  folder is not deleted and is treated like any renamed folder without a `.delete` file (see below). Files that can't be deleted stay in the
-  renamed folder with the `.delete` file beside it, where no plug-in reaches them. A later `plugin.remove` tries again
-  to delete them when a plug-in with that id is installed or a storage folder for the id exists, and that deletion can
-  fail too. For an id that isn't installed and has only such a folder, `plugin.remove` does not delete it and fails as
-  not found. When `plugin.remove` can't remove the grant and can't rename the folder back either, its error names the
-  renamed folder. The next load, install or `plugin.remove` of the plug-in renames a renamed folder that has no
-  `.delete` file back while the plug-in has no folder of its own; when it has one, that folder is used and the renamed
-  folder stays until `plugin.remove` deletes both.
-  `plugin.remove` with the id of a plug-in that isn't installed deletes the storage kept for that id, when there is
-  any.
-  `plugin.clearCache` empties the cache and leaves the settings, and `plugin.list` and
+  (`plugin.install` with `replace: true`, after the user agreed) keeps the storage; `plugin.remove` deletes it, and a
+  run of the plug-in still going gets `-5` from every storage call after that. `plugin.remove` first renames the folder,
+  adding `.removed` to its name (or `.removing` while a `.removed` folder holds settings an earlier removal kept). When
+  that fails, `plugin.remove` fails and the plug-in stays installed with its storage as it was. Before VectorCraft
+  deletes a renamed folder, it writes an empty file beside it with `.delete` added to the folder's name, and removes
+  that file once the folder is gone. When that file can't be written, the folder is not deleted and is treated like any
+  renamed folder without a `.delete` file (see below). Files that can't be deleted stay in the renamed folder with the
+  `.delete` file beside it, where no plug-in reaches them. A later `plugin.remove` tries again to delete them when a
+  plug-in with that id is installed or a storage folder for the id exists, and that deletion can fail too. For an id
+  that isn't installed and has only such a folder, `plugin.remove` does not delete it and fails as not found. When
+  `plugin.remove` can't remove the grant and can't rename the folder back either, its error names the renamed folder.
+  The next load, install or `plugin.remove` of the plug-in renames a renamed folder that has no `.delete` file back
+  while the plug-in has no folder of its own; when it has one, that folder is used and the renamed folder stays until
+  `plugin.remove` deletes both. `plugin.remove` with the id of a plug-in that isn't installed deletes the storage kept
+  for that id, when there is any. `plugin.clearCache` empties the cache and leaves the settings, and `plugin.list` and
   `plugin.info` give the cache's size as `cacheBytes`.
 - Without a `Plug-ins` folder (the web build, and embedders that attach none) the storage calls return `-5`.
 
@@ -458,8 +451,9 @@ has the id, `-6` when a plug-in may not call the command, `-7` when the command
 `-8` when the command ran and failed, `-9` when a limit below is passed, and `-11` when nothing can be called (from
 the module's start function, in a run that isn't a filter's run on a document, or after a call in the run failed).
 
-- Every code also fails the run, whatever the plug-in does next, and the error names the call and why it failed. The run's calls and its output are one undo step, named after the plug-in or its command. A run that fails,
-  traps, runs out of budget or is canceled leaves every document, its selection and its history as they were.
+- Every code also fails the run, whatever the plug-in does next, and the error names the call and why it failed. The
+  run's calls and its output are one undo step, named after the plug-in or its command. A run that fails, traps, runs
+  out of budget or is canceled leaves every document, its selection and its history as they were.
 - Each call runs on the document the run is for, with its params checked as any request's are, and sees what the calls
   before it changed: a `select.all` followed by `object.move` moves everything. The filter's own input is the one it
   was given when the run started; an edit still in progress (typing, or a shape being drawn) is kept as its own undo
@@ -540,18 +534,17 @@ the module's start function, in a run that isn't a filter's run on a document, o
   no empty part between dots. A malformed list is refused when the module is installed, and the error names the id.
 - `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
-  are also clamped to their range, including the implicit zero default of an `int` parameter. Besides `number`,
-  `int`, `bool` and `choice` there are `string` (`{"type": "string", "default": "", "maxLength": 256}`: a text field;
-  longer text is cut to `maxLength`, at most 4,096 characters) and `numberList` (`{"type": "numberList", "min": 0,
-  "max": 360, "default": [45, 135], "minItems": 1, "maxItems": 16}`: numbers typed separated by commas or spaces,
-  each clamped to `min..max`; a list of too few or too many is an error, and `maxItems` is at most 256) and `color`
-  (`{"type": "color", "default": "#3a7bd5"}`: a color button that opens a color picker; the default, black when left
-  out, and a value given to `plugin.run` may be a color object as paints hold one or a hex string, and the plug-in
-  always gets a color object, its components clamped, such as `{"model": "rgb", "r": 0.23, "g": 0.48, "b": 0.84}`; a
-  hex string and the picker's choice are display colors, given as the working RGB color that shows as them, so in a
-  working RGB space other than sRGB the numbers differ from the hex). Hosts from before `color` refuse a manifest that
-  uses it. A plug-in declares up to 256
+  clamped to `min..max` (ints rounded), a wrong type or an unknown choice is an error. Numeric defaults are also clamped
+  to their range, including the implicit zero default of an `int` parameter. Besides `number`, `int`, `bool` and
+  `choice` there are `string` (`{"type": "string", "default": "", "maxLength": 256}`: a text field; longer text is cut
+  to `maxLength`, at most 4,096 characters) and `numberList` (`{"type": "numberList", "min": 0, "max": 360, "default":
+  [45, 135], "minItems": 1, "maxItems": 16}`: numbers typed separated by commas or spaces, each clamped to `min..max`; a
+  list of too few or too many is an error, and `maxItems` is at most 256) and `color` (`{"type": "color", "default":
+  "#3a7bd5"}`: a color button that opens a color picker; the default, black when left out, and a value given to
+  `plugin.run` may be a color object as paints hold one or a hex string, and the plug-in always gets a color object, its
+  components clamped, such as `{"model": "rgb", "r": 0.23, "g": 0.48, "b": 0.84}`; a hex string and the picker's choice
+  are display colors, given as the working RGB color that shows as them, so in a working RGB space other than sRGB the
+  numbers differ from the hex). Hosts from before `color` refuse a manifest that uses it. A plug-in declares up to 256
   parameters, at most 64 of them outside groups.
 
 Each parameter may also say how dialogs show it. Hosts from before these keys ignore them, so a plug-in that
@@ -576,17 +569,18 @@ parameters uses `label`, `unit`, `help` and `visibleWhen`, and lists the paramet
 order (bottom first): the selected ones and those inside selected groups and layers; hidden, locked, guide (compound
 guides too) and clipping paths are left out, and so are other kinds of object (type, images, symbols, live blends…),
 which a filter never touches unless its manifest lists them in `inputs` ([reading type, images and
-symbols](#reading-type-images-and-symbols)). With nothing selected the list is empty (a generator then adds its own objects). A live effect gets one
-object: its geometry (`type`, `path`, `fillRule`, `bounds`) and its `fills` and `strokes`, as a filter gets them (hosts
-from before these give geometry only). The paints are read only: an effect may draw as wide as a stroke or use a
-fill's colour to decide its shape, but it changes only the geometry, unless it declares `paintOutput` ([painted live
-effects](#painted-live-effects)).
+symbols](#reading-type-images-and-symbols)). With nothing selected the list is empty (a generator then adds its own
+objects). A live effect gets one object: its geometry (`type`, `path`, `fillRule`, `bounds`) and its `fills` and
+`strokes`, as a filter gets them (hosts from before these give geometry only). The paints are read only: an effect may
+draw as wide as a stroke or use a fill's colour to decide its shape, but it changes only the geometry, unless it
+declares `paintOutput` ([painted live effects](#painted-live-effects)).
 
 An **exporter** gets something else: the native `.vectorcraft` document JSON without indentation, optional preview/PDF
-renditions or save-preference metadata (the format is documented in [`crates/format/src/lib.rs`](../crates/format/src/lib.rs)). That is every layer, object,
-appearance and effect record, artboard, swatch and symbol, so an exporter reads whatever the document holds; it checks
-`version`, since a later host may write a newer one. Images of 8 KiB or more are listed in `images` with their MIME
-type and `blob` but without their data, which follows the JSON in a saved file; smaller ones keep their base64 `data`.
+renditions or save-preference metadata (the format is documented in
+[`crates/format/src/lib.rs`](../crates/format/src/lib.rs)). That is every layer, object, appearance and effect record,
+artboard, swatch and symbol, so an exporter reads whatever the document holds; it checks `version`, since a later host
+may write a newer one. Images of 8 KiB or more are listed in `images` with their MIME type and `blob` but without their
+data, which follows the JSON in a saved file; smaller ones keep their base64 `data`.
 
 An **importer** gets the bytes of the file being opened, as they are (not JSON), at most 128 MiB of them.
 
@@ -615,12 +609,11 @@ An **importer** gets the bytes of the file being opened, as they are (not JSON),
   (absent: no handle), `kind` `"Smooth"` when the handles stay collinear. Coordinates are points, y down.
 - `fills`, `strokes`: the object's fills and strokes in paint order (bottom first); `null` is no paint. A stroke has its
   `paint`, `width` in points, `join` (`"miter"`, `"round"` or `"bevel"`), `cap` (`"butt"`, `"round"` or `"square"`)
-  and `miterLimit`. Paints use the
-  native file format's form: `{"type": "solid", "color", "swatch"?, "tint"?}`, `{"type": "gradient", "gradient":
-  {"kind": "Linear"|"Radial"|"Freeform", "stops": [{offset, color, opacity, midpoint}], "dither"?, "method"?: "Perceptual"}, "geom"?, "angle",
-  "freeform"?}`, `{"type": "pattern", "pattern", "xf"?}`. Colours are `{"model": "rgb", r, g, b}`, `{"model": "cmyk",
-  c, m, y, k}`, `{"model": "gray", k}` (ink: 0 white, 1 black) or `{"model": "lab", l, a, b}`; components 0–1 except
-  Lab's.
+  and `miterLimit`. Paints use the native file format's form: `{"type": "solid", "color", "swatch"?, "tint"?}`,
+  `{"type": "gradient", "gradient": {"kind": "Linear"|"Radial"|"Freeform", "stops": [{offset, color, opacity,
+  midpoint}], "dither"?, "method"?: "Perceptual"}, "geom"?, "angle", "freeform"?}`, `{"type": "pattern", "pattern",
+  "xf"?}`. Colours are `{"model": "rgb", r, g, b}`, `{"model": "cmyk", c, m, y, k}`, `{"model": "gray", k}` (ink: 0
+  white, 1 black) or `{"model": "lab", l, a, b}`; components 0–1 except Lab's.
 - `effects` (filters): the object's own effects in order, as its effect records: `id` (as `effect.list` lists it, or
   `plugin.<id>` for a live-effect plug-in), `params` and `visible`. Its fills' and strokes' own effects aren't listed.
 - `bounds`: `[x0, y0, x1, y1]`, the geometric bounds (read only).
@@ -631,9 +624,9 @@ A filter whose manifest lists `inputs` also gets the selected objects of those k
 and under the same rules (hidden and locked ones, objects that clip a clip group, alone or inside a group that clips
 it, and anything inside a symbol, a placed document or a live object are left out). They are never turned into
 outlines, rectangles or the symbol's art. Each has `id`, `type`, `name` (when it has one), `bounds` (`null` until the
-object has been laid out or drawn) and
-`transform`, `[a, b, c, d, e, f]` mapping its own space (text space, pixel space, the symbol's art) into the document.
-In this example the character and paragraph styles are cut short; a filter gets every attribute:
+object has been laid out or drawn) and `transform`, `[a, b, c, d, e, f]` mapping its own space (text space, pixel space,
+the symbol's art) into the document. In this example the character and paragraph styles are cut short; a filter gets
+every attribute:
 
 ```json
 {"objects": [
@@ -662,13 +655,13 @@ In this example the character and paragraph styles are cut short; a filter gets
   `pixelsOmitted: false`. A CMYK image's pixels are its inks through the working CMYK profile, as sRGB. The pixels of
   all the images in one input take at most 16 MiB in base64, and an image the host starts to decode takes its size
   from those 16 MiB even when decoding fails. A larger image, one whose pixels don't fit what the images before
-  it in paint order left, and a linked image (`linked: true`) have
-  `pixelsOmitted: true` and no pixels; the host checks an image's size before it decodes the image. An image of any
-  size also has `pixelsOmitted: true` when its data is missing from the document, when its width or height is 0, when
-  its data cannot be decoded (including a non-CMYK image whose decoder enforces the host's 64 MiB memory limit and
-  needs more, and a TIFF the host rejects as too large), or when the dimensions in its data differ from `pixelSize`.
-  A plug-in checks `pixelsOmitted` before it reads `pixelsBase64`, which is present only when `pixelsOmitted` is `false`. The host never
-  reads a linked image's file for a filter and never gives its path.
+  it in paint order left, and a linked image (`linked: true`) have `pixelsOmitted: true` and no pixels; the host checks
+  an image's size before it decodes the image. An image of any size also has `pixelsOmitted: true` when its data is
+  missing from the document, when its width or height is 0, when its data cannot be decoded (including a non-CMYK image
+  whose decoder enforces the host's 64 MiB memory limit and needs more, and a TIFF the host rejects as too large), or
+  when the dimensions in its data differ from `pixelSize`. A plug-in checks `pixelsOmitted` before it reads
+  `pixelsBase64`, which is present only when `pixelsOmitted` is `false`. The host never reads a linked image's file for
+  a filter and never gives its path.
 - A symbol instance (`"symbolInstance"`): `symbolId` is the name of the symbol it shows, with `missing: true` when the
   document has no symbol of that name. `overrides` is `{}`.
 
@@ -699,16 +692,16 @@ toward the 64 MiB output cap.
 ```
 
 `mode` is `"filter"`, `"effect"`, `"export"`, `"import"` 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
-object's effects), or `{"fill": i}` / `{"stroke": i}` (in the own effects of the object's `i`th fill or stroke,
-counted from the bottom as in `fills` and `strokes`). An export's `_context` is `{"mode": "export", "extension": "plt",
-"name": "Poster"}` instead: the extension of the file being written (one the exporter lists) and its name without the
-extension (the document's name when the export is not given a path), which some formats keep in their header. An
-import's `_context` is `{"mode": "import", "extension": "plt", "name": "Poster"}`: the extension of the file being
-opened and its name without the extension.
+`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 object's effects), or
+`{"fill": i}` / `{"stroke": i}` (in the own effects of the object's `i`th fill or stroke, counted from the bottom as in
+`fills` and `strokes`). An export's `_context` is `{"mode": "export", "extension": "plt", "name": "Poster"}` instead:
+the extension of the file being written (one the exporter lists) and its name without the extension (the document's name
+when the export is not given a path), which some formats keep in their header. An import's `_context` is `{"mode":
+"import", "extension": "plt", "name": "Poster"}`: the extension of the file being opened and its name without the
+extension.
 
 ### Output
 
@@ -785,17 +778,17 @@ is a piece drawn by itself, in the order returned, with paints of its own:
   path or compound path is hit-tested on its source path and appearance. On an object with no geometry effect of its
   own, Pathfinder effects and compound shapes use the object's path for an effect on a fill or stroke, as they do for
   every other effect on a fill or stroke; on an object that has one, they also use the pieces of a painted effect on a
-  fill or stroke. A 3D effect later in the stack uses the
-  object's input path when the pieces name a swatch or pattern. Each piece counts against the budget of the
-  object's geometry effects as well as its anchors, so all the painted effects in a stack make at most 100,000 pieces
-  together; a run whose pieces would pass the budget draws its input as it was.
+  fill or stroke. A 3D effect later in the stack uses the object's input path when the pieces name a swatch or pattern.
+  Each piece counts against the budget of the object's geometry effects as well as its anchors, so all the painted
+  effects in a stack make at most 100,000 pieces together; a run whose pieces would pass the budget draws its input as
+  it was.
 - The result is checked whole before any of it is drawn: the limits of a filter's output (100,000 objects, 4,000,000
   anchors, 256 fills and 256 strokes per piece, 256 stops per gradient), finite numbers in range with nothing clamped
   (color components, tints, offsets, opacities, midpoints 0.13 to 0.87, stops in order of `offset`, stroke
-  widths 0 to 1,000 pt, miter limits 1 to 500), and every swatch a solid paint, gradient or stop links to and every pattern named in
-  the document. One fault refuses the whole result: that step of the stack draws its input as it was, the effect
-  record stays, and `plugin.info`'s `lastError` names the plug-in and the field, for example
-  `Test Tone: plug-in output: objects[1].strokes[0].width: …`.
+  widths 0 to 1,000 pt, miter limits 1 to 500), and every swatch a solid paint, gradient or stop links to and every
+  pattern named in the document. One fault refuses the whole result: that step of the stack draws its input as it was,
+  the effect record stays, and `plugin.info`'s `lastError` names the plug-in and the field, for example `Test Tone:
+  plug-in output: objects[1].strokes[0].width: …`.
 - The pieces are never written into the document while it is drawn, measured, previewed, saved or exported. PDF and SVG
   export draw them as the canvas does, from a copy of the document. Object › Expand Appearance writes each piece as an
   ordinary path or compound path with its fills and strokes, as one undo step. Object › Expand of gradient and pattern
@@ -823,12 +816,13 @@ crates/plugins/example/build.sh      # cargo build --release --target wasm32-unk
 
 The script also refreshes `crates/plugins/tests/fixtures/desaturate.wasm`, the test fixture built from that source.
 The crate is not a workspace member. Any language that targets core WebAssembly works (C, Zig, AssemblyScript,
-WAT…), as long as the module imports nothing but the host imports: in Rust, `std` on `wasm32-unknown-unknown` is fine as long as it never
-touches WASI. `vectorcraft_plugins::wat::module` is the skeleton of a plug-in in WebAssembly text, which the tests
-build their plug-ins from; `wat::echo_exporter` is an exporter whose file is its input or its parameters (with a
-base64 encoder written out in WebAssembly text), which the tests read back what the host hands a plug-in with, and
-`wat::when_given` a plug-in whose output depends on whether its input or parameters hold a given text, which shows in a
-live effect's geometry. `wat::reporting` and `wat::cooperating` build level 2 plug-ins that import the host functions.
+WAT…), as long as the module imports nothing but the host imports: in Rust, `std` on `wasm32-unknown-unknown` is fine as
+long as it never touches WASI. `vectorcraft_plugins::wat::module` is the skeleton of a plug-in in WebAssembly text,
+which the tests build their plug-ins from; `wat::echo_exporter` is an exporter whose file is its input or its parameters
+(with a base64 encoder written out in WebAssembly text), which the tests read back what the host hands a plug-in with,
+and `wat::when_given` a plug-in whose output depends on whether its input or parameters hold a given text, which shows
+in a live effect's geometry. `wat::reporting` and `wat::cooperating` build level 2 plug-ins that import the host
+functions.
 
 ## Performance
 

docs/type-parity.md

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 > **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-11 · **Change:** minor (kerning at the Type tool's caret at the start of a line sets the space before the character after it, #5111; previously minor: type's strokes in an envelope paint along its bent glyph outlines at their own weight, Distort Appearance on or off, as users' `.ai` files draw them, #6644; previously minor: a centred or right-aligned line of tracked type is aligned without the tracking after its last character, as the page of users' `.ai` files aligns it, #6610; previously minor: tracking and manual kerning in horizontally scaled type are thousandths of the em as the Horizontal Scale draws it, as the page of users' `.ai` files spaces such type; previously minor: Edit › Edit Custom Dictionary…: its dialog adds, deletes and changes the custom dictionary's words, #4936; previously minor: Direct Selection shows and drags the direction handles of type on a path's path, #3565; previously minor: right-click on type: Spelling › Auto Spell Check, with its check mark, #4936; previously minor: right-click on a word Auto Spell Check underlined: its suggestions, Ignore All and Add to Dictionary, #4936; previously minor: Auto Spell Check: `edit.autoSpellCheck` underlines the unknown words, #4936; previously minor: PDF marked-text export (#6309): compatible glyphs stay on one layout line with per-glyph offsets; scores and estimates unchanged; paint-only Arabic harakat keep joining with GDEF-mark ownership and Insert Kashidas base-letter paint; scores and estimates unchanged; custom dictionary and Ignore All: `text.spelling.addWord`, `removeWord`, `changeWord`, `dictionary` and `ignoreAll`, #4936; previously minor: spell check engine: `text.spelling.check` and `text.spelling.suggest` on craft-proof, #4936; previously minor: right-aligned area type sets the text after a line's last tab against the right edge; a soft return in justified type no longer keeps its line from being justified; 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)
 
+Glyphs review (#6084): a positional variant no supported feature draws is accepted as a glyph choice. Entire Font respects the selection's variable axes and font version; the default cell can reset an unlisted choice without GSUB alternates. Contextual choices use the supplying face, including fallback. Feature-only boundaries preserve ligature clusters and Arabic mark attachment. Encoded characters insert unchanged except Arabic presentation forms with a joining base letter; normalization reports success only after insertion succeeds. Latest follow-up regressions await runtime verification. Scores and estimates unchanged.
+
 Type is Illustrator's largest single area by use (weight 13 of 105 across "Type core" and "Type advanced" in
 [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md)). This checklist lists the features one by one. Status is from the
 code and tests (`crates/text`, `crates/engine/src/cmd/type*.rs`, `textstyles.rs`, `crates/tools/src/text.rs`)
@@ -30,7 +32,8 @@ against Illustrator's public documentation; **estimated** unless noted.
 | Copy or Cut selected characters, then paste as separate text art | done | A Type-range copy keeps the selected characters' font family, size and color when pasted on the canvas after leaving text editing, in the same document or another. On desktop the clipboard offers plain text to text consumers and rich art for canvas Paste; Paste Without Formatting while editing uses the destination text's style. `tests::clipboard::type_range_copy_stays_styled_when_pasted_as_art` (#5636) |
 | Character size and horizontal scale after object/group scaling | done | #1034: fields and setters compensate the stored affine; point size follows the transformed em-height axis, not the glyph ink bounds. Range edits, keyboard increments, leading and baseline shift use document points; rotation, reflection and shear remain editable. |
 | Preserve font sizes while scaling a group | missing | Separate enhancement; scaling still scales text with the other artwork. |
-| OpenType panel, Glyphs panel, alternates | done | Highlight Alternate Glyphs preference (#394, off by default) paints pink behind OpenType substitutions on screen when on (required shaping such as Arabic joining forms and the lam-alef ligature, including a lam-alef older fonts file under `liga`, is not highlighted; an optional feature that changes the ligature is); stylistic sets ss01–ss20, stylistic and titling alternates, proportional and lining figures, superscript and subscript are character-style features (`text.setStyle {features}`, #1607); the OpenType panel's Position menu sets superscript, subscript, numerator or denominator glyphs (`sups`, `subs`, `numr`, `dnom`). The OpenType panel's Stylistic Sets menu lists the selected font's `ss01`–`ss20` features, using a font-supplied name where available and `Set N` otherwise; several sets can be active, and selecting an active one removes it. For a mixed-font selection it uses the first selected character's font, a VectorCraft design choice ([public help](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/special-characters-glyphs/add-stylistic-sets-to-selected-text.html), [OpenType feature specification](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/features_pt)). The Glyphs panel highlights the character selected with the Type tool (a range's first character, else the one before the caret) and scrolls it into view as the selection moves (#4908; `panels::glyphs` tests); its Show menu lists Unicode ranges and Alternates for Current Selection, the selected character's alternate glyphs from the font's `GSUB` table, one of which a double-click draws for that character (`text.setGlyphAlternate`); the glyph-cell pop-up of alternates is not there yet |
+| OpenType panel, Glyphs panel, alternates | done | Highlight Alternate Glyphs preference (#394, off by default) paints pink behind OpenType substitutions on screen when on (required shaping such as Arabic joining forms and the lam-alef ligature, including a lam-alef older fonts file under `liga`, is not highlighted; an optional feature that changes the ligature is); stylistic sets ss01–ss20, stylistic and titling alternates, proportional and lining figures, superscript and subscript are character-style features (`text.setStyle {features}`, #1607); the OpenType panel's Position menu sets superscript, subscript, numerator or denominator glyphs (`sups`, `subs`, `numr`, `dnom`). The OpenType panel's Stylistic Sets menu lists the selected font's `ss01`–`ss20` features, using a font-supplied name where available and `Set N` otherwise; several sets can be active, and selecting an active one removes it. For a mixed-font selection it uses the first selected character's font, a VectorCraft design choice ([public help](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/special-characters-glyphs/add-stylistic-sets-to-selected-text.html), [OpenType feature specification](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/features_pt)). The Glyphs panel highlights the character selected with the Type tool (a range's first character, else the one before the caret) and scrolls it into view as the selection moves (#4908; `panels::glyphs` tests); its Show menu lists Unicode ranges and Alternates for Current Selection, the selected character's alternate glyphs from the font's `GSUB` table. A double-click applies the OpenType feature that draws a variant to that character alone, or uses a glyph choice when no supported feature draws it; see the Glyphs panel row below for Entire Font and the joining limits. The glyph-cell pop-up of alternates is not there yet |
+| Glyphs panel: alternates as OpenType feature values, unencoded glyphs | done | #5514, 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 (Show › Alternates For Current Selection; replace the selected character by double-clicking the glyph). A character-style feature takes a value (`"salt=2"`, the font's alternate number; `ss01`–`ss20`, `swsh`, `titl` and `aalt` too) in `features` and `featureChanges`, in SVG `font-feature-settings` (`"salt" 2`) and in native files as the plain string. Show › Entire Font applies an unencoded glyph the same way when it is an alternate of the selected character in its word, applies one no feature reaches (`A.salt` in a font with no `salt`) to the selected character as a glyph choice (it may not join), and dims the others with the reason in the tooltip (e.g. `yehfarsi.fina.alt2 belongs to ی (U+06CC) at the end of a word; your selection is ي (U+064A)`); an Arabic presentation form picked there inserts its letter so the word joins. Runs that differ only in their features shape as one piece of text, each run's features over its own characters, so a variant on one letter of an Arabic word keeps its neighbours' initial, medial and final forms and the letters still touch. The panel lists the alternates of the glyph the shaper makes for the selected character in its word (a medial letter shows medial variants), and a double-click applies the OpenType feature that draws the variant (`salt=N` or `ssNN`) to that character alone, in one undo step (`text.setRangeStyle`); a variant no feature reaches falls back to a replacement glyph (`text.setGlyphAlternate`), which its tooltip says may not join. Show › Entire Font also lists the glyphs no character maps, with their name or `gid N` and the feature that gives them. The text crate reads each face's `GSUB` once (alternate sets, single substitutions, the feature that reaches a glyph). Not done: alternates reached through contextual or ligature lookups, and features of the font that the style has no tag for (`cv01`–`cv99`, `hist`). Evidence: `tests::glyph_alternates` in the text crate (a fixture font with a medial teh at `salt=1` to `3`, the neighbours' forms, no gap; Kufi Murabba PIIIX when it is installed), `features::tests::feature_values_are_parsed_validated_and_shaped`, `tests::textedit::feature_values_are_set_replaced_and_saved`, the `panels::glyphs` tests. |
 | Font menu: samples, live preview, filters, favourites, recent families; font matching by any name; Find Font | done | #3515: recently applied families appear first, once each; missing families are omitted and the existing Number of Recent Fonts setting applies; #339; script filter: Japanese, Latin, Thai; the font scan on Linux also reads the folders fontconfig's configuration lists, such as TeX fonts under `/usr/share/texmf/fonts` (#1548, fixes #1529; not verified on Linux); Select Text by Font takes a scope: the document, chosen artboards or chosen layers; Find Font's Find In offers Document, Artboard (the active one) and Layers (the selected ones, else the current one) (#5529, a VectorCraft addition); Replace With Font lists family and style rows, one click setting both, with a search over them; its list scrolls on its own, apart from the document's font list (#4972). |
 | Missing glyphs set in an installed font made for their script (Thai, Lao, Khmer, Myanmar first; then any font that has them) | done | Thai: Leelawadee UI, Tahoma, Thonburi, Sukhumvit Set, Noto Sans Thai, TLWG |
 | Full font-name matching (OpenType name ID 4) | done | #1258: loaded/cataloged faces and Missing Fonts searches; localized names and variable default faces; Windows font-service QA pending |
@@ -81,6 +84,10 @@ Character Styles menu New/Redefine and footer New capture the first selected cha
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-12 | minor | Glyphs review (#6084): validate contextual glyph choices against their supplying face, including fallback and overflow; keep feature-only boundaries inside ligatures and Arabic mark clusters while retaining drawing-attribute splits; preserve insertion failures instead of reporting normalization success. Deterministic engine, shaping and panel regression sources added; ligature range assertions use the fixture's unencoded glyph identity. Runtime proof pending. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-12 | minor | Glyphs review (#6084): Entire Font resolves the selected font's version and variable axes; the default cell remains available to reset an unlisted choice with no listed alternates. Character insertion normalizes only Arabic presentation forms, preserving ordinary characters whose glyphs share Arabic substitution provenance. Add deterministic panel apply/reset/Undo regressions without OS-font dependencies. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-09 | minor | Glyphs review (#6084): the engine accepts a positional alternate as a glyph choice when no supported feature draws it, not only an isolated character's alternates; both panel views exercise apply and Undo. OpenType style options preserve only a valid last on-value when enabling a stylistic set. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-07 | minor | Glyphs panel (#5514): Alternates for Current Selection lists the alternates of the selected character's glyph in its word and a double-click applies the OpenType feature that draws one to that letter alone (`salt=2`; `features` and `featureChanges` take `tag=N`), so an Arabic word stays joined, and Entire Font lists the unencoded glyphs, applies the ones that are the selected letter's alternates, or that no feature reaches and the font's names do not give to another letter, and dims, with the reason, those that are not. Runs that differ only in their features shape as one piece of text. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | Kerning at the start of a line (#5111): at the Type tool's caret before the first character of the text, of a paragraph or after a forced line break, the Kerning field, Alt+arrows and Reset Tracking and Kerning set the space before the character after the caret (`CharStyle::kerning_before`, `kerningBefore` in `text.setRangeStyle`), which moves it and the rest of its line, in horizontal, right-to-left and vertical type and in SVG export. They did nothing at the text's start and kerned the invisible line break at a paragraph's. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | Type in envelopes: its strokes (its characters' and those on its own appearance) paint along the bent glyph outlines at their own weight, Distort Appearance on or off, as the drawn art of users' `.ai` files strokes them; with Distort Appearance they bent with the art as their filled outlines. The same holds in an envelope inside an envelope. Geometry effects on type's fills and strokes, and an opacity mask on type, still bend; Expand gives the bent outlines with the strokes on them. The visual bounds of envelopes, blends and repeats count type's character strokes as type's own visual bounds do. This changes how VectorCraft's own envelopes of stroked type draw (#6644). Score unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | Aligned lines of tracked type: a centred or right-aligned line is as wide as its characters without the tracking after its last one (`LineInfo::trailing`), so a centred line sits half that tracking right of where it did and a right-aligned line's last glyph ends on its anchor or frame edge, the tracking after it reaching past. The page of users' `.ai` files (used locally, never committed) aligns tracked lines so: matched glyph by glyph with the page, 176 centred lines of point type in 51 files sat half their last character's tracking left of it (median 0.500 of it; 143 within 0.05 pt), 58 right-aligned lines in 5 files the whole tracking (median 1.001), and 182 left-aligned lines where the page has them; in a line whose last character is tracked 150 and the others −34, the offset is half the last character's tracking (0.498 of it). All those lines end a paragraph. The last character is the last the line draws before a paragraph's end, a forced line break or the spaces a wrap leaves (they hang past the line). Spaces or a tab typed before a paragraph's end or a forced line break are the line's last characters, and the letter before them keeps its tracking: in the 2 such lines in the files, the page counts the space and the letter's tracking and leaves out only the space's own (VectorCraft still leaves trailing spaces out of the width). Forced line breaks and wrapped lines of tracked type aren't in the files: they take the rule unverified, so that Convert To Point Type and Artwork Cleanup's Break Text, which turn wraps into paragraphs and forced line breaks, keep the lines where they were. A hyphenated line, one whose last character hangs, justified, vertical and right-to-left lines and type on a path keep the tracking, and so do right, centre and decimal tab stops, which still align the text after them with its last character's tracking. Manual kerning on the last character, line breaking and justification are unchanged (none in the files). The tracking stays in the last glyph's advance (the caret after it and a selection of it take it in), and Fit Headline still counts it, as line breaking does. Right-aligned area type sets the text after its last tab the same way. Convert To Area Type makes the frame end where the lines are aligned, with room for that tracking, so tracked type converted either way stays where it is (it moved by the tracking on each round trip). Affinity import aligns artistic text by the same rule, so centred or right-aligned tracked artistic text moves by half or all of its last character's tracking (unverified against Affinity). Centred and right-aligned tracked type lays out differently than before in every document. Tests `tests::an_aligned_line_leaves_its_last_characters_tracking_out_of_its_width`, `tests::which_lines_leave_the_tracking_after_their_last_character_out`, `tests::an_aligned_line_leaves_out_its_last_tracking_as_glyph_scaling_sets_it`, `tests::the_text_after_the_last_tab_of_right_aligned_type_leaves_its_last_tracking_out`, and the engine's `converting_tracked_type_between_point_and_area_keeps_it_in_place` and `break_tracked_area_type_keeps_its_aligned_lines_in_place`. Scores and estimates unchanged. (#6610) |

docs/ui-parity.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # UI and interaction parity
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-12 · **Change:** minor (Remove Background in the Contextual Task Bar, Properties › Quick Actions and the Control bar; previously minor: Ruler origin: the corner drag snaps as a drawn point does; previously minor: Live Paint Bucket fills faces crossed in one drag (#6373); previously: #6404: transform-aware Eyedropper character copying; scores and estimates unchanged; previously: Outline view: images and gradient meshes are picked on what Outline draws, so a click inside them reaches the path behind, #6437; previously minor: a middle-click on a document tab closes it, #6506; previously minor: Blob Brush: a round tip's preview is the outline of the area it adds, round at both ends, as the stroke it commits (#4343); scores and estimates unchanged; previously:; ruler double-click adds a guide at the pointer, #5239; G5: Inventory Icons built-in symbol library (four built-ins); previously minor: files that record no units open in Preferences › Units › General, #5820; previously minor: interim macOS cursor delivery, #2292; native validation pending; scores and estimates unchanged; Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged; floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it, #5925 in part; numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking keyboard focus, #5949; Character Styles panel: a double-click on a style's row opens its Character Style Options; the dialog keeps a fixed width and scrolls its sections, so its buttons stay on screen; Selection QoL: marquee modes and visible feedback, #5313; #3380 deletion-only review follow-up: independent survivors keep gradient placement, owned subpaths avoid discarded copies, and contracts/status/evidence are clarified; endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged; Drop Shadow and glow dialogs: spinner arrows, #5367, #5368; Stroke Weight Up and Down shortcuts, #5797; Layers: Rename (`ui.rename`) opens the name field of the selected layer, group or object, #5324; Properties in Edit Artboards: Transform section above the Artboards section, #5219; scrubby labels: the Control bar's Stroke: and Opacity: links and the Properties panel's Stroke link scrub their fields, #4088; Properties: Quick Actions has Repeat Options for one selected repeat, #5181; Direct Selection: Shift-click picks several blend spine points, which drag together, #5285; Direct Selection: Cmd/Ctrl held lends the Selection tool and shows its bounding box, #3901; Join tool trims two crossing open paths and joins them at the crossing, #5844; Control bar: Paragraph: link and Align left/center/right while type is selected, #5372; shape tools: a press on the selection's centre point moves it and one in the rotate zone outside a box corner turns it, #5477; scores and estimates unchanged) · **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:** 2026-11-12 · **Change:** minor (macOS: the canvas cursor stays after the pointer moves, #6362; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: Remove Background in the Contextual Task Bar, Properties › Quick Actions and the Control bar; previously minor: Ruler origin: the corner drag snaps as a drawn point does; previously minor: Live Paint Bucket fills faces crossed in one drag (#6373); previously: #6404: transform-aware Eyedropper character copying; scores and estimates unchanged; previously: Outline view: images and gradient meshes are picked on what Outline draws, so a click inside them reaches the path behind, #6437; previously minor: a middle-click on a document tab closes it, #6506; previously minor: Blob Brush: a round tip's preview is the outline of the area it adds, round at both ends, as the stroke it commits (#4343); scores and estimates unchanged; previously:; ruler double-click adds a guide at the pointer, #5239; G5: Inventory Icons built-in symbol library (four built-ins); previously minor: files that record no units open in Preferences › Units › General, #5820; previously minor: interim macOS cursor delivery, #2292; native validation pending; scores and estimates unchanged; Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged; floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it, #5925 in part; numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking keyboard focus, #5949; Character Styles panel: a double-click on a style's row opens its Character Style Options; the dialog keeps a fixed width and scrolls its sections, so its buttons stay on screen; Selection QoL: marquee modes and visible feedback, #5313; #3380 deletion-only review follow-up: independent survivors keep gradient placement, owned subpaths avoid discarded copies, and contracts/status/evidence are clarified; endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged; Drop Shadow and glow dialogs: spinner arrows, #5367, #5368; Stroke Weight Up and Down shortcuts, #5797; Layers: Rename (`ui.rename`) opens the name field of the selected layer, group or object, #5324; Properties in Edit Artboards: Transform section above the Artboards section, #5219; scrubby labels: the Control bar's Stroke: and Opacity: links and the Properties panel's Stroke link scrub their fields, #4088; Properties: Quick Actions has Repeat Options for one selected repeat, #5181; Direct Selection: Shift-click picks several blend spine points, which drag together, #5285; Direct Selection: Cmd/Ctrl held lends the Selection tool and shows its bounding box, #3901; Join tool trims two crossing open paths and joins them at the crossing, #5844; Control bar: Paragraph: link and Align left/center/right while type is selected, #5372; shape tools: a press on the selection's centre point moves it and one in the rotate zone outside a box corner turns it, #5477; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; Units › East Asian Type acts, with Q and Ha units; scores unchanged)
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 > Vector Halftone preview update (2026-11-10): temporary dot selection marks are hidden, and the bounding box stays available (#6369).
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@@ -51,12 +51,9 @@ Artboard Options forwards the active Artboard tool's Scale Artwork with Artboard
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
-| 2026-11-03 | minor | A double-click on a ruler adds a guide at the pointer (#5239): a vertical one on the top ruler, a horizontal one on the left ruler; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-08 | minor | Style panels: a double-click on a user character style's row opens its Character Style Options (`ui.charStyleOptions`), and on a paragraph style's row its Paragraph Style Options (rename); the Character Style Options dialog keeps a fixed width and scrolls its sections in a shorter window, so OK and Cancel stay on screen. Tests `panels::text_styles::tests::double_clicking_a_character_style_row_opens_its_options` and `dialogs::char_style_options::tests::the_sections_scroll_in_a_window_shorter_than_the_general_list`. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-08 | minor | #3380, deletion only: preserve gradient placement and exact surviving geometry; consume owned subpaths with a shared original-node snapshot; consolidate status/evidence and document command/helper contracts. Compound behavior and the existing M2 status entry are retained. Endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-07 | minor | #3380 (deletion only): independent surviving path objects; transformed appearance, stacking, selection, cubic handles and Undo/Redo covered by `delete_path_pieces`; compound semantics retained. Endpoint highlighting remains open; 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. |
-| 2026-10-30 | minor | Home screen: welcome, New / Open and Community are centred and the large Discord button uses the theme accent, part of #4684; scores and estimates unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Snap to Grid: a straight segment dragged with Direct Selection lands its anchors on the grid, not the pressed point (#3835); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Drop Shadow: a swatch beside Color follows the hex and a double-click opens the Color Picker over the dialog, whose OK fills Color (#5364); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Drop Shadow, Outer Glow and Inner Glow: spinner arrows beside Opacity, the offsets, Blur and Darkness (#5367, #5368); scores and estimates unchanged |
@@ -85,11 +82,14 @@ Artboard Options forwards the active Artboard tool's Scale Artwork with Artboard
 | 2026-11-04 | minor | Selection Tools add-on: Select by Artboards selects the objects overlapping, fully inside or fully outside several chosen artboards, from a dialog that lists, searches and multi-selects the artboards and fits one in the window on double-click (#5525, #5548, #5549, a VectorCraft addition); scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-04 | minor | File › Export › Export As PNG… exports the active artboard, or each artboard the Artboard tool has selected (one file each), instead of always the first (#5502); a choice the caller gives is kept; scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-04 | minor | Document Tools add-on (a VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Document Tools › Batch Trace Folder asks for a folder of images and a destination folder and traces each image into it (#4921); scores and estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-11-03 | minor | A double-click on a ruler adds a guide at the pointer (#5239): a vertical one on the top ruler, a horizontal one on the left ruler; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | The Action Options row cites the public Actions panel page and describes its controls. Scores and estimates remain unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | Enclosing Lasso provides whole-object enclosure selection as an add-on with no default shortcut or Basic toolbar slot. Scores and estimates remain unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | Transform previews valid typed values while numeric fields remain focused. Effect dialogs use the object, group, or layer targeted in Appearance. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | New gradients use CMYK default stops in CMYK documents, including Gradient tool creation. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | Help Bar has its own Window menu toggle and workspace visibility setting. 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. |
+| 2026-10-30 | minor | Home screen: welcome, New / Open and Community are centred and the large Discord button uses the theme accent, part of #4684; scores and estimates unchanged (estimated) |
 | 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. |
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ tools, never checked side by side) isn't captured row by row.
 | 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. The field takes the wheel only when the pointer was moved onto it after the field last moved or was covered by a window or overlay, and the wheel stream began there; a stream that began elsewhere stays there until 0.5 s pass with no wheel input or the pointer is pressed on a field, so a panel scrolled under a still pointer keeps scrolling past the field. This rule and its 0.5 s are VectorCraft's choices. |
 | Numeric spinner arrows step once on a click and keep repeating while held with the mouse | done | #6307; headless test `a_held_spinner_arrow_repeats` holds past egui's click timeout and checks release. |
 | 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 |
+| 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; a release more than 1 pt from the press keeps the caret, a tap within 1 pt selects all (#6659) |
 | 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). A file that records no units (PDF, EPS or `.ai` without ruler units, raster images, metafiles, Affinity files) opens and reverts in General units; native, SVG and DXF files and a `.ai` or EPS with ruler units keep theirs, as a [Community Expert's answer](https://community.adobe.com/questions-652/change-units-from-points-to-inches-won-t-stick-765372) describes (#5820) |
 | Units › East Asian Type (Q and Ha) | done | #394: `unitsAsianType` offers every unit and Q and Ha, a quarter of a millimetre each ([Scripting Guide's Measurement Units](https://ai-scripting.docsforadobe.dev/scripting/measurementUnits/): 0.709 pt per Q; [InDesign's unit notation](https://helpx.adobe.com/in/indesign/desktop/layout-and-grid-tools/rulers-and-measure-tools/change-ruler-measurement-units.html): `q`, `h`); only it lists Q and Ha. The public pages do not say which fields use it, so no field uses it yet and that waits for a source. Tests `q_and_ha_are_a_quarter_millimetre`, `east_asian_type_unit_*` |
 | Field precision: 3 decimals for steps; values kept as f64 | done | |
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ tools, never checked side by side) isn't captured row by row.
 | Tool double-click opens its options | done | |
 | Per-platform mapping (Cmd ↔ Ctrl, Option ↔ Alt) | done | |
 | Eyedropper cursor; Use Precise Cursors | partial | original pipette at the sampling tip, distinct from the precise crosshair at five DPI scales (#1269); OS cursor display unverified; while Caps Lock is on, the tools that Use Precise Cursors changes show the crosshair, and the saved preference does not change (the desktop app reads the lock state on macOS, Windows and Linux X11, not on native Wayland; `view.capsLock` reads or sets it); a Use Precise Cursors command toggles the preference and can take a shortcut (#1663); cursors are painted into the window on Wayland (#1652, not run on Linux) |
-| macOS canvas cursor delivery (#2292) | partial | The UI prepares the existing glyphs as aligned 1×/2× RGBA requests; the desktop host builds AppKit cursors and owns cursor rectangles for the root document window. Detached document viewports and requests without a usable native bitmap retain the visible system fallback; precise-cursor and UI-scale preferences retained. Headless regressions cover routing, pixels/hotspots and lifecycle; native focus/menu/handback timing, mixed displays, Spotlight and full-screen Spaces remain unverified. Wayland still paints its glyphs. |
+| macOS canvas cursor delivery (#2292) | partial | The UI prepares the existing glyphs as aligned 1×/2× RGBA requests; the desktop host builds AppKit cursors and owns cursor rectangles for the root document window. While it owns the cursor, the host sets it again on every pass, so the tool's cursor stays when the pointer moves (#6362). Detached document viewports and requests without a usable native bitmap retain the visible system fallback; precise-cursor and UI-scale preferences retained. Headless regressions cover routing, pixels/hotspots and lifecycle; native focus/menu/handback timing, mixed displays, Spotlight and full-screen Spaces remain unverified. Wayland still paints its glyphs. |
 | Every tool's modifiers checked against the shortcut reference | missing | this is the fidelity pass |
 
 ## Keyboard shortcuts
@@ -365,6 +365,7 @@ next unit in the order a right-click on a ruler lists them, from Feet back to Po
 
 | Interaction | Status | Evidence |
 |---|---|---|
+| Ordinary Save refused by filesystem permissions/read-only storage offers Save As | focused UI regressions passed; native acceptance pending | #6146; `io::tests_read_only_save`; same name/format suggested; unchanged format keeps options, changed format opens its Save options; Documents folder, UID-bound continuation; cancellation and automation isolation |
 | Selection artwork drag hovers a visible document tab to activate it, then drops editable artwork on its canvas | done | `tests_document_drag`, `edit.dropSelection`, lossless resource and one-step Undo regressions; overflow and cross-window drag remain separate |
 | A document tab dragged along the tab strip moves its document; a line marks where it goes, the current document and every document's view stay as they were, and a drag off the strip still floats it | done | #5663, [public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/customizing-workspace.html); `document.move`; `tests::tab_reorder`, `chrome::tests` (drop index with floating and view tabs), `engine` `tests::document_move` |
 | A middle-click on a document tab or its × closes it as the × does; closing a modified document's last view asks to save first (VectorCraft addition, as in PhotoCraft) | done | #6506; `chrome::tests::a_middle_click_on_a_tab_closes_it_as_the_close_box_does`; not scored |
@@ -520,43 +521,48 @@ before release (#6373). [Paint faces and edges](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustra
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-12 | minor | Numeric fields: a focus click released more than 1 pt from its press keeps the caret; a tap within 1 pt still selects the whole value (#6659, follow-up to #1326). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-12 | minor | Remove Background for a selected image in the Contextual Task Bar, Properties › Quick Actions and the Control bar, which runs at once with its defaults. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-12 | minor | Live Paint Bucket fills faces crossed in one drag (#6373). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-12 | minor | Save refusal follow-up (#6146): changed format opens its Save options; unchanged format retains original options. Focused UI regressions passed, including the format-change case that failed before the fix; native panel acceptance pending. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | Ruler origin: the corner drag snaps as a drawn point does, onto the art's and the artboards' anchors, centres, edges and paths, and with Snap to Point along the ruler guides; scores and estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-11-11 | minor | macOS canvas cursor delivery (#2292): while the host owns the cursor it sets it again on every pass, so the tool's cursor stays after the pointer moves (#6362); `mac_cursor` ownership test updated; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | Eyedropper copies effective character dimensions between transformed text objects (#6404); scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-11 | minor | Ordinary Save to a location refusing writes offers Save As (#6146); cancellation preserves the original path and modified state; automation receives READ_ONLY_LOCATION. Scores and estimates unchanged. Validation pending. |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | Outline view: a click on a path's outline selects it through an image or a gradient mesh in front, which Outline draws as a frame or mesh lines (#6437). |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | A middle-click on a document tab (or its ×) closes it as the × does; closing a document's last view with unsaved changes asks to save first (#6506). VectorCraft addition; scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-11-03 | minor | A double-click on a ruler adds a guide at the pointer (#5239): a vertical one on the top ruler, a horizontal one on the left ruler; scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-11-10 | minor | Symbol libraries: Inventory Icons joins Basic Shapes, UI Frames and Map Markers as a fourth built-in library (Sword, Shield, Potion, Key, Gem; no default 9-slice). |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | Files that record no units (PDF, EPS or `.ai` without ruler units, raster images, metafiles, Affinity files, importer plug-ins) open and revert in Preferences › Units › General instead of points; native, SVG and DXF files and `.ai`/EPS ruler units are kept (#5820). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-11 | minor | Blob Brush: while painting, the preview of a round tip is the outline of the area the stroke adds, round at both ends, as the stroke it commits (#4343). Scores unchanged (estimated). |
+| 2026-11-10 | minor | Symbol libraries: Inventory Icons joins Basic Shapes, UI Frames and Map Markers as a fourth built-in library (Sword, Shield, Potion, Key, Gem; no default 9-slice). |
 | 2026-11-10 | minor | Held numeric spinner arrows keep stepping past the click timeout and stop on release (#6307). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-10 | minor | Vector Halftone Preview leaves the dots unobscured and keeps the selection box (#6369). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-09 | minor | Interim macOS canvas cursor delivery (#2292): existing artwork in aligned 1×/2× AppKit representations, visible system fallback and host-owned restoration. Headless routing, bitmap and ownership coverage; native timing, menus, focus/handback, mixed displays, Spotlight and full-screen Spaces remain unverified. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-11-08 | minor | Floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it (#5925, in part); tab groups remain intact. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 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. |
+| 2026-11-08 | minor | Floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it (#5925, in part); tab groups remain intact. 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 |
 | 2026-11-07 | minor | Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); 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 |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Properties: Quick Actions has Repeat Options for one selected radial, grid or mirror repeat, opening Object › Repeat › Options with its values (#5181); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Control bar: with type selected, a Paragraph: link (the Paragraph panel in a popover) and the Align left, Align center and Align right buttons follow the Character controls; the bar leaves them out from its right end when short of room, after X/Y/W/H and the Align buttons (#5372); scores and estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-11-05 | minor | Document tabs are reordered by dragging them along the tab strip (`document.move`, #5663). |
+| 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. |
 | 2026-11-04 | minor | Contour add-on (beyond Illustrator): drag away from a selected shape's edge to grow a live copy of it, or toward the inside to shrink it; the copy carries a live Offset Path effect, so it stays editable until Bake (Expand Appearance), a second drag changes the same Contour instead of nesting one, and a floating bar sets the distance and the Sharp, Round or Square corners. `addon.contour.set` is the command behind it. It is a built-in add-on: Object › Plug-ins › Contour, and its own heading in All Tools, with no default shortcut or toolbar slot. A VectorCraft design built on Offset Path; no other application was inspected. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-04 | minor | Contour tool (beyond Illustrator): drag away from a selected shape's edge to grow a live copy of it, or toward the inside to shrink it; the copy carries a live Offset Path effect, so it stays editable until Bake (Expand Appearance), a second drag changes the same Contour instead of nesting one, and a floating bar sets the distance and the Sharp, Round or Square corners. `object.contour` is the command behind it. A VectorCraft design built on Offset Path; no other application was inspected. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-11-05 | minor | Document tabs are reordered by dragging them along the tab strip (`document.move`, #5663). |
 | 2026-11-04 | minor | Path Precision Tools add-on (a VectorCraft addition): Set Corners… rounds only the corners in an angle range (#5545); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-04 | minor | Path Precision Tools add-on (a VectorCraft addition): Set Corners… rounds all, the odd-numbered or the even-numbered anchors (#5546); scores and estimates unchanged |
-| 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. |
 | 2026-11-04 | minor | New Document: the units chosen in Preset Details belong to the chosen document, as the pane's options are listed "for the selected preset" ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/add-and-import-files/start-a-new-file/create-and-save-custom-document-presets.html)); the chosen card shows them, every other Recent and Saved card keeps the units its document or preset was made in, and the built-in tabs still follow the chosen units (#2078); scores and estimates unchanged |
-| 2026-11-01 | minor | Object › Image Trace › Batch Trace Folder asks for a source and a destination folder and traces each image into it (#4921); scores and estimates unchanged |
-| 2026-11-01 | minor | Edit › Copy and Cut take the selected ruler guides, with the objects or alone; pasting puts them on the layer new art goes to, moved as the objects are (alone: where they were), Paste in Place onto the active artboard and Paste on All Artboards onto each (#3226); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-04 | minor | Area type: Align Top / Center / Bottom / Justify Vertically buttons in the Properties panel (Paragraph section) and the Control panel set its vertical alignment in the frame, as Area Type Options does; turned off for frames with rows or columns and threaded frames (#3759); scores and estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-11-03 | minor | A double-click on a ruler adds a guide at the pointer (#5239): a vertical one on the top ruler, a horizontal one on the left ruler; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | Enclosing Lasso selects fully enclosed objects with a freehand loop under Object › Plug-ins; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | Type on a Path Options has a Preview checkbox (#5360, as public tutorials of the dialog show); scores and estimates unchanged |
-| 2026-11-02 | minor | Font-family fields in Character, Properties and Control accept the wheel without opening the menu (#5253); scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | Symbol editing draws and drags 9-slice guides on the canvas (#5280). Guides outside the artwork remain unsupported. Scores and hours remain unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-02 | minor | Font-family fields in Character, Properties and Control accept the wheel without opening the menu (#5253); scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-01 | minor | Object › Image Trace › Batch Trace Folder asks for a source and a destination folder and traces each image into it (#4921); scores and estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-11-01 | minor | Edit › Copy and Cut take the selected ruler guides, with the objects or alone; pasting puts them on the layer new art goes to, moved as the objects are (alone: where they were), Paste in Place onto the active artboard and Paste on All Artboards onto each (#3226); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | A double-click on a Repeat with the Selection tool enters isolation mode on it, where its source art (type included: a double-click there edits the text) is edited and every copy follows (#5054); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | Live Corners: while a corner widget is pressed or dragged with the Selection or Direct Selection tool, the Up and Down arrows step the corners' kind (round, inverted round, chamfer) with the radius, as one undo step (#2898); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | Keyboard Shortcuts: every Effect menu item (Distort & Transform › Transform…, Stylize › Drop Shadow…, …) is listed under its menu path and takes a shortcut of its own, which the menu shows and which opens that effect's dialog (or applies an effect without options) (#3296); scores and estimates unchanged |
-| 2026-10-31 | minor | Units › East Asian Type acts (#394): Q and Ha (a quarter of a millimetre each) are units that preference offers; 4 Preferences options remain stored but unused; scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | Edit › Copy and Cut take the selected ruler guides, with the objects or alone; pasting puts them on the layer new art goes to, moved as the objects are (alone: where they were), Paste in Place onto the active artboard and Paste on All Artboards onto each; a Copy of guides alone empties the system clipboard, so Paste takes the guides, not what another app copied before (#3226); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | Color Effects add-on (a VectorCraft addition): Find Nearest Swatch (#4923); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | Artboards panel: a row dragged above or below another reorders the artboards (#4687); scores and estimates unchanged |
@@ -566,7 +572,6 @@ before release (#6373). [Paint faces and edges](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustra
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | Arrange Tools add-on (a VectorCraft addition): Randomize Opacity (#4925); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | Arrange Tools add-on (a VectorCraft addition): Sort Objects (#4917); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | Blob Brush and Eraser: the tip's outline (size, angle, roundness, at the zoom) follows the pointer before and while painting, around a small centre dot, updating at once with `[` / `]` and Tool Options; precise cursors (Caps Lock) show only the crosshair (#4977); scores and estimates unchanged (estimated) |
-| 2026-11-11 | minor | Blob Brush: while painting, the preview of a round tip is the outline of the area the stroke adds, round at both ends, as the stroke it commits (#4343). Scores unchanged (estimated). |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | Layers panel: an open blend lists its spine as a `<Path>` row below its key objects, and a click selects the blend so Direct Selection edits the spine (#4820); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | Pen with Cmd/Ctrl held: the lent Selection tool no longer scales the path being drawn by bounding-box handles the canvas hides while its end anchor is selected (a flat path did nothing under a resize pointer); a Cmd drag moves the path instead, and with Direct Selection moves anchors and segments, one undo step each (#4980); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | Dynamic symbols (#4938): Symbol Options › Symbol Type; per-instance appearance for objects of a dynamic symbol's art; Reset in the Properties panel and the Symbols panel menu; on-canvas Direct Selection of the parts remains |
@@ -578,6 +583,7 @@ before release (#6373). [Paint faces and edges](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustra
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | Arrange Tools add-on (a VectorCraft addition): Group Overlapping Objects (#4928); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | Character panel › Language: the selected characters' language, from Document Setup's list, which gains Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia and Urdu (#4946, #4943); the Digits menu's numeral names keep their own translations; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | VectorCraft Options' Version is a menu of the versions VectorCraft writes, each named by the releases that read it, and an uncompressible version turns Use Compression off (#4931); a save refused before writing shows the Can't save alert with the reason (#4933); About › Contributors' table keeps its header row above the scrolling rows (#4944); the Gradient panel's freeform point swatch opens the point's popover (#4953); scores unchanged |
+| 2026-10-31 | minor | Units › East Asian Type acts (#394): Q and Ha (a quarter of a millimetre each) are units that preference offers; 4 Preferences options remain stored but unused; scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | A file opened from the file manager while VectorCraft runs opens as a new tab in that window, which comes to the front, on Windows and Linux (#4892); `--new-instance` opts out; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | Object › Path › Smooth: Auto-Smooth takes a shaky line to one smooth curve, and direct-selected anchors smooth only their section; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | New Document: More Settings has Save Preset beside the name, as Preset Details does, and saves its settings (#4893); scores and estimates unchanged |
@@ -594,7 +600,6 @@ before release (#6373). [Paint faces and edges](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustra
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | Artwork Cleanup add-on (a VectorCraft addition): its text tools in the panel and Object › Plug-ins › Artwork Cleanup; scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | Color Effects add-on: live Duotone (one to four inks, spot tones kept) and Print Ink Fixes; scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | Color Effects add-on: live Vector Halftone; scores and estimates unchanged |
-| 2026-11-10 | minor | Vector Halftone Preview leaves the dots unobscured and keeps the selection box (#6369). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | Path Precision Tools add-on: the Parametric Shape Tool (ten re-editable shape kinds), its panel and Convert to Parametric Shape; scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | Smart Pen add-on: an Alt-drag away from paths selects points with a marquee; scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | Color Effects add-on: Select by Color Kind; scores and estimates unchanged |
@@ -620,17 +625,19 @@ before release (#6373). [Paint faces and edges](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustra
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | Gradient panel: Presets menu and Save/Delete Gradient Preset (30.0); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-29 | minor | Pathfinder: live compound shapes (#4522): the panel menu's Make, Release and Expand Compound Shape, Alt-clicking a Shape Mode, a selected member's Shape Mode and the Expand button act; scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-29 | minor | Object › Path › Smooth… with its slider and Auto-Smooth (#4115); scores and estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-10-28 | minor | Blob Brush Shift locks after clear axial movement, keeps earlier samples fixed, and waits without an off-axis trail. Activation uses raw press displacement in logical screen pixels, with exact quarter-turn boundaries. Explicit application rule; scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-28 | minor | Flare Tool Options opened by a canvas click previews its settings at that click. Reset refreshes the enabled preview while keeping the dialog open. Cancel discards preview art and tentative options; OK accepts one flare in one Undo step. Editing existing flare artwork remains outside this dialog scope. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | Selection tool: a double-click on a threaded port breaks the thread there (`text.thread.break`); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | A selected Grid Repeat shows handles: the one below the grid adds or removes rows, the one right of it columns, the one past its bottom-right corner both, and the sliders between the first two columns and rows set the horizontal and vertical spacing; each drag is one undo step and Escape cancels it (#2691); headless canvas and tool regressions; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | Floating panels open in OS windows of their own on the desktop (inside the window on the web and on Wayland); saved layouts from earlier versions convert to the shared docking layout (#4135); scores and estimates unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | Object › Expand… is dimmed for a selection with appearance attributes, with a tooltip to use Object › Expand Appearance first, so a stroked line with an effect expands to a stroked line before its stroke is outlined (#3089). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 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. |
-| 2026-10-24 | 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. |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | Transform Each opens on the values it was last confirmed with (Copy aside) and has a Copy button left of Cancel instead of a Copy checkbox (#1732). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-24 | minor | Recolor Artwork › Assign: double-clicking a row's new color opens the Color Picker over the dialog; its OK sets the row's new color in the model it was picked in (a CMYK mix stays CMYK, RGB becomes CMYK in a CMYK document), Cancel leaves the row as it was. A Lab new color is kept, but a Lab color can't be typed yet: the picker's Lab fields work in RGB, as for fill and stroke (part of #4028; Lab entry, swatch libraries and the row menu remain). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | Pathfinder panel › Pathfinder Options… opens a dialog with Precision, Remove Redundant Points and Divide and Outline Will Remove Unpainted Artwork, which the panel's operations use (#3426); scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | Artboards panel › Delete Empty Artboards deletes the artboards with no artwork in one undo step and makes one that is left active; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | Transform panel menu: Transform Object Only / Pattern Only / Both and Use Registration Point for Symbol act in the Transform panel and the Properties panel's Transform section; scores and estimates unchanged |
+| 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. |
+| 2026-10-24 | 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. |
+| 2026-10-24 | minor | Recolor Artwork › Assign: double-clicking a row's new color opens the Color Picker over the dialog; its OK sets the row's new color in the model it was picked in (a CMYK mix stays CMYK, RGB becomes CMYK in a CMYK document), Cancel leaves the row as it was. A Lab new color is kept, but a Lab color can't be typed yet: the picker's Lab fields work in RGB, as for fill and stroke (part of #4028; Lab entry, swatch libraries and the row menu remain). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-24 | minor | Properties: Merge Live Paint shows only when the selection holds nothing Live Paint refuses (type, images and other objects that aren't paths), which `livePaint.merge` and Make now refuse too. Scores unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-24 | minor | G1: Properties has the additional contextual controls of the public Properties panel overview: Blend Options and Merge Live Paint in Quick Actions, the Width Profile list and an applied effect's Delete icon in Appearance, and the kind and radius of corners selected with Direct Selection. Scores unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-24 | minor | Docs catch-up: Relative rounding (#3091) marked done; the stale "Video rulers: missing" duplicate row removed (done, #2849). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
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 | 2026-10-23 | minor | Pencil: Shift held at the press draws a straight line at 45° steps from the Constrain Angle (part of #3799). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | Fix #3705: in Draw Inside, art drawn or pasted inside the isolated object takes isolation mode into its clip group, so it can be clicked and isn't dimmed (it used to stay locked and dimmed beside the isolated path); undo or redo that removes the isolated object ends isolation mode; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | Preferences › General › Constrain Angle: arrow keys, Shift drags and new rectangles, ellipses, grids, type, polygons, stars and size-dialog shapes follow it (#394). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | Pen, Anchor Point and Direct Selection drags: the preview gets every pointer position, including where it re-enters the window and the move in the release's frame (#834); score unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | Guides: a path moved by a press on its stroke or beside its edge, and a straight segment Direct Selection drags, snap by the nearest point of the path, landing exactly on a ruler guide (#3701); scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | Fix #3705 in part: drawing modes apply to pastes (Draw Inside puts Paste, Paste in Place and Paste on All Artboards inside the object drawn into; Draw Behind puts Paste in Place and Paste on All Artboards behind the selection), and Shift+D goes from Draw Behind back to Draw Normal when Draw Inside can't draw into the selection instead of stopping at Draw Behind; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | Artboard Options: Show Video Safe Areas (action-safe 3.5% and title-safe 5% in from each edge, EBU R 95, canvas only) and Video Ruler Pixel Aspect Ratio, per artboard; View › Rulers › Show Video Rulers counts the active artboard in those pixels (#2849); two rows done; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | Artboard Options: Show Center Mark and Show Cross Hairs (`artboard.setProps`/`artboard.new` `showCenterMark`, `showCrossHairs`) draw a center cross and lines from the middle of each side through the center on the canvas only, in one undo step; video safe areas, video rulers and the pixel aspect ratio remain missing; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | Simplify: Object › Path › Simplify opens its slider at the Auto-Simplify level for the selection, previewing that result, instead of at 1 pt; partial-path simplify remains missing; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | Simplify of part of a path: with anchors or segments of a path direct-selected, Object › Path › Simplify (slider, Auto-Simplify and dialog) refits only each run of selected segments between its end anchors; the Simplify row is done (its stale duplicate removed); scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-22 | minor | Pen, Anchor Point and Direct Selection drags: the preview gets every pointer position, including where it re-enters the window and the move in the release's frame (#834); score unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-22 | minor | Gradient panel: the Method menu, Classic or Perceptual (Illustrator 30.0); scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-22 | minor | Gradient panel: the Dither box (Illustrator 30.0); scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-22 | minor | Recolor Artwork Edit chips scroll within the available screen height (#3416); small palettes retain their tab height; scores and estimates unchanged. |
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 | 2026-10-21 | minor | Workspaces keep the layout changes made in them when switching away and back, and across restarts; Reset <name> returns to the saved layout; score unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | Panels dragged by the mouse join a dock group as tabs, split it top/bottom or become icons in the icon column; dock tabs close from their context menu; score unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | A double-click on a dock tab collapses its group to its tabs, as floating groups already did, and expands it again; another of its tabs expands it (`window.panel.collapse`); scores unchanged (estimated) |
-| 2026-10-20 | minor | Workspaces keep the layout changes made in them when switching away and back, and across restarts; Reset <name> returns to the saved layout; score unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | M3: highlighted-text Eyedropper sampling preserves ranges and rejects unsupported source/target transparency atomically; regression-tested; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | Shape Builder Gap Detection shares Live Paint’s spatial gap finder and temporary merge bridges (#2526); Custom is capped at 72 pt in the existing options dialog. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | Tangent and straight-segment perpendicular snapping use saved Smart Guides Geometric Guides preferences and Control bar quick access (#2537); no View submenu. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | 3D: original Standard, Diffuse, Top Left and Right lighting presets; command access, effective-setting recognition and preview/history; scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | G1: one selected clip group's Properties panel has Edit Clipping Path and Edit Contents at its top (public doc cited in target-app-parity.md). Scores unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-19 | minor | Distribute Objects and Distribute Spacing space the selected ruler guides across the axis with the objects, as items with no size, and two or more guides selected alone (#1597 in part); with a key guide and a spacing, the guide stays put and the other items are spaced from it (key guide from #3165); the Distribute Spacing value is enabled for a key guide; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | Snap to Glyph marked done (#3124); scores unchanged |
+| 2026-10-20 | minor | Workspaces keep the layout changes made in them when switching away and back, and across restarts; Reset <name> returns to the saved layout; score unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-20 | minor | The selection tools (Selection, Direct Selection, Group Selection) take a clipping path on its outline, within the selection tolerance, before the art it clips, so its segments can be dragged where the art covers the mask's edge; Select Behind lists the same, and the eyedropper and the tools that act on what is drawn are unchanged. Doc and tool regression tests. Scores unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-20 | minor | Polygon and Star exact-size placement remembers the chosen count for later drags and dialog openings; Cancel preserves the previous count; existing opening gestures retained; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-20 | minor | Live trace result bounds and selection highlights exclude the retained bitmap except in source-image views; scores and hours unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-19 | minor | Distribute Objects and Distribute Spacing space the selected ruler guides across the axis with the objects, as items with no size, and two or more guides selected alone (#1597 in part); with a key guide and a spacing, the guide stays put and the other items are spaced from it (key guide from #3165); the Distribute Spacing value is enabled for a key guide; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-19 | minor | A ruler guide selected with objects can be the key object (#2143): the Selection tool's click on it, or Align to Key Object with one object; drawn thicker; Align lines the objects up on it and the guide stays put; the other way round, selected guides align to a key object, which one object selected with guides can be; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-19 | minor | Cache status-readout sample widths per UI, language, document unit and pixels per point; regressions check reuse across live frames and refresh after display-setting changes. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-19 | minor | Status messages and readouts use stable responsive allocations sized for localized labels and ordinary coordinates. Contributor original-file acceptance confirmed; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-19 | minor | Cached canvas dimensions match the renderer limit before cache-key creation, view construction and worker submission. Regression coverage; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-19 | minor | Cached canvas reprojection preserves scale during resize, rotation and DPI changes. Contributor original-file acceptance confirmed; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-19 | minor | Color Picker layout (#2008): compact controls, centered header, stacked actions and aligned inputs; screen-reader channel values, current shared button names and styling, screen sampler and model-by-model Tab order retained. Narrow windows scroll vertically; scores and hours unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-18 | minor | Mirror Repeat shows its axis when selected (#2877): drag the line or center handle to move it, drag an end handle to rotate it (Shift: 45°), Escape cancels and each drag is one undo step. Engine and headless canvas gesture regressions passed; native move, rotation and Escape screenshots reviewed. Formatting, Clippy, WASM and repository checks passed; the undo label reuses translated Repeat Options. (#2877) Scores and hours unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-18 | minor | Bounding-box handles take priority where a selected Mirror Repeat axis crosses them: the Top handle scales the repeat, while the center still moves it and the ends still rotate it. A headless canvas regression confirms height changes while width stays fixed; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-19 | minor | Blend Options: Ease In / Ease Out and Color Ease In / Out sliders with live preview (#1124); the Blend panel row stays partial (no easing in the panel, no on-canvas handles) |
 | 2026-10-19 | minor | Smart guides and snapping: tangent and perpendicular snapping for lines drawn from an anchor and View › Snapping (#2530), both partial; scores and hours unchanged |
+| 2026-10-18 | minor | Mirror Repeat shows its axis when selected (#2877): drag the line or center handle to move it, drag an end handle to rotate it (Shift: 45°), Escape cancels and each drag is one undo step. Engine and headless canvas gesture regressions passed; native move, rotation and Escape screenshots reviewed. Formatting, Clippy, WASM and repository checks passed; the undo label reuses translated Repeat Options. (#2877) Scores and hours unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-18 | minor | Bounding-box handles take priority where a selected Mirror Repeat axis crosses them: the Top handle scales the repeat, while the center still moves it and the ends still rotate it. A headless canvas regression confirms height changes while width stays fixed; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-18 | minor | Status-bar pointer X/Y follows the active global/artboard ruler origin and General units; three painted-text regressions cover origins, mode/artboard/reset/unit changes and read-only state; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-17 | minor | Blend spine Anchor Point conversions, selection/stacking priority and Shift regression coverage (#2544); scores and hours unchanged. Windows native canvas checks and screenshots reviewed in PR #2643. |
 | 2026-10-17 | minor | Artboard Options has X and Y beside a reference point locator, counted from the ruler origin as the Transform panel's are; a typed X or Y moves the artboard's reference point there and a new Width or Height keeps it in place (#1876); scores unchanged (estimated) |
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 | 2026-10-16 | minor | Batch exporting in Export for Screens (#1935): a file name pattern (document and item names, a counter, the date), folders per format, item or both, Layers and Selection tabs with thumbnails, EPS, AI and VectorCraft rows, a PDF row with printer's marks, and export presets (built-in Logo Package and Print-Ready PDF, saved ones); scores and hours unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-16 | minor | Anchor Point tool: a click on one handle end retracts that handle only; the anchor becomes a corner and keeps the other handle (#2267). Handle drags start past the same 2 px as anchor drags. Scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-16 | minor | Smart Guides: the dragged end of a straight segment snaps to the segment's extension at any angle, with the guide from its other end (#2120); scores and hours unchanged |
-| 2026-10-15 | minor | Cursors of their own for 36 more tool states: node-editing cursors as the public manual describes them, Anchor Point and Curvature, Free Transform's side-shear; the rest borrow a drawn cursor until they're drawn. Busy cursor listed as missing. Every cursor is listed in `crates/tools/src/cursors.toml` |
 | 2026-10-16 | minor | 3D lighting: one to ten directional lights, a selectable light list, Add Light and Delete Light, independent settings and artboard gestures; ambient applied once and smooth RGB vector export; scores and hour estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-16 | minor | 3D lighting: opaque RGB Color for the shared directional light, with neutral ambient, preview/reset controls and smooth vector Revolve shading; scores and hour estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-10-16 | minor | Document window scroll bars (#2322): thumb drag, track paging and the wheel over a bar; hidden in Full Screen and Presentation Mode; scores unchanged |
+| 2026-10-15 | minor | Cursors of their own for 36 more tool states: node-editing cursors as the public manual describes them, Anchor Point and Curvature, Free Transform's side-shear; the rest borrow a drawn cursor until they're drawn. Busy cursor listed as missing. Every cursor is listed in `crates/tools/src/cursors.toml` |
+| 2026-10-15 | minor | Artboard tool: closing a clean active tab restores the displayed board before Properties Delete. Nine targeted checks passed; three original close-route captures reviewed; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | Effect > Warp: style, orientation and percent controls; focused checks passed and original captures reviewed; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | G11: open-path anchor Delete leaves separate surviving runs; dedicated Remove Anchors remains connected. Keyboard and history regression coverage added; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | Curvature: the Curvature tool's curve: each stretch of three points follows the circle through them (handles along its tangent, chord/(3·cos²(α/2)) long, shorter in a turn tighter than 30°), and the ends of an open path curve in, so uneven spacing neither overshoots nor loops; the rubber band, dragged, inserted and converted points use the same rule; the Pencil's fitting unchanged (#1236, in part); scores unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | Quick Image Trace presets reveal the adjustment panel with Advanced open; Properties reopens it. Sliders keep their preset row until release so the re-trace is committed. UI regressions added; scores and remaining estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | The macOS save sheet's Format menu goes back to missing: #1855 withdrew it to restore saving (#866 reopened). Rows added for the X/Y/W/H of direct-selected anchors (#1839, fixes #1824), the toolbar and All Tools drawer (#1751) and the Actions panel selection (#1853, part of #1629); the snapping row notes Snap to Grid over Snap to Pixel (#1840). Scores unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | Existing-guide Escape cancellation: eight app-input regressions, the Direct Selection Escape control and current full CI passed; scores and hours unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-15 | minor | Artboard tool: closing a clean active tab restores the displayed board before Properties Delete. Nine targeted checks passed; three original close-route captures reviewed; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | Artboard tab changes align the tool with the displayed board; same-tab multiselection and Move/Scale Artwork options preserved. Three tab regressions and historical full CI on `a0671777` passed; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | Width-point finite-arithmetic follow-up: atomicity, history and native round-trip regressions and current full CI passed; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | Align and Distribute act on the anchor points selected with Direct Selection: the points of one path align to each other, not to the artboard, and Distribute spaces them (#1641, fixes #1636; aligning to a key anchor is still missing); Delete removes every selected anchor of a closed path (it used to remove the wrong ones), removes objects selected whole along with the selected anchors of others, and keeps the remainder selected so a second Delete removes it (#1674); In isolation mode Direct Selection and Group Selection pick only inside the isolated object (#1666); Escape cancels a Direct Selection drag (#1803, #1743); Escape while typing ends the edit, keeps the type selected and switches to the Selection tool (#1802, #1686, #1656); A filled Pencil path keeps a stroke of None (#1804, part of #1679); With the Pen, a press that moves under 3 screen pixels is a click (a corner without handles), and a Precise Cursors command toggles the existing preference and can take a shortcut (#1663); The [ and ] keys reach the Blob Brush, the Eraser and the Symbolism tools in the app (#1734, part of #1661); In the Pathfinder panel a group selected alone counts its nested shapes, so an expanded stroked object keeps the Shape Modes enabled (#1642, #1635); Object › Expand turns radial, grid and mirror repeats into groups of their instances (#1765, #1756); Select › Same matches type on its characters' fill and stroke (#1746, #1737); Fields commit what was typed when you click away or move to another field, as Enter does; Escape still discards it (#1787); Up and Down move through the command search results and Enter runs the highlighted one (#1798, #1757); Slider rails show on Medium Dark (#1808, #1662); On Windows the custom title bar's window stays truly borderless, so the pointer lines up with what is drawn on systems where the hidden caption offset it (#1791, #1758; awaiting the reporter's confirmation); Tool cursors are painted into the window on Wayland (#1652; not run on Linux, #1645 stays open until confirmed); the guide-position row (#1659) is now "not scored": the documentation found doesn't establish it, and it is kept as a convenience pending the owner's decision; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Pathfinder's Trim, Merge and Crop remove the objects' strokes, and Merge joins same-fill objects whatever their strokes were, as the public Pathfinder page describes (#1572, fixes #1570); Offset Path with an inset larger than the shapes says the offset leaves nothing, instead of asking to select paths (#1591, fixes #1590); The Symbols panel's New Symbol opens Symbol Options to name the symbol first, and Alt-click skips it (#1566, fixes #1560); Tool flyouts are as wide as their longest translated name and shortcut need, so names no longer run into shortcuts in Spanish and other languages (#1650, fixes #1616); Smart Guides: a point drawn with the Pen or a shape tool, and an anchor dragged with Direct Selection, snaps to where paths and ruler guides cross, labelled "intersect" (#1658, part of #1602; a moved selection's own anchors don't); The Transform panel shows a selected ruler guide's X or Y, and typing a value moves it (#1659, part of #1597). This is not established by the documentation we could find: the public help pages on guides, rulers and the Transform, Control and Properties panels (read again on 2026-10-14) describe selecting and dragging unlocked guides and the panels' X and Y for a selection, not a guide's position in a panel, and the one public statement of it is a user's [community answer](https://community.adobe.com/questions-652/adding-a-new-custom-guide-785586), which is not documentation. It is kept as a convenience pending the owner's decision, with no parity claim and nothing counted towards a score; Select Behind (Ctrl/Cmd-click) tests each object once, so a deep stack of overlapping objects no longer slows it; same objects in the same order (#1571); Commands that take `ids` run on the objects given with nothing selected, over MCP, the control channel and the CLI too (#1577, fixes #1575); scores unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | G1/M11: Artboard panel deletion, protected deletion keys and navigator/tool synchronization before and after deletion; history normalization preserves valid multiselection; history regressions and full workspace CI pass; scores and hours unchanged |
-| 2026-10-16 | minor | Document window scroll bars (#2322): thumb drag, track paging and the wheel over a bar; hidden in Full Screen and Presentation Mode; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Alt during a drag from either ruler swaps the new guide's orientation ([public shortcut reference](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html)); tool and egui event tests cover preview, snapping, release coordinates, cancellation and one-step Undo/Redo; scores unchanged (estimated). |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | G1: create width points through Width Point Edit with optional adjoining adjustment; command/pointer/history regressions and full CI passed; dialog layout reviewed; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Corner Radius: a link toggle behind the field in the Properties and Transform panels; off, a live rectangle shows a radius field for each corner (Top Left, Top Right, Bottom Right, Bottom Left), each setting its own corner (`singleCornerRadius` preference); split from #1594; score unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Join merges the selected anchor points that lie on one another, as after Average, into one anchor (#1582, fixes #1533); correction: "Join with corner/smooth choice" was listed as done, but `path.join` and `path.average` are separate commands and Join has no such choice, so Average and Join in one step with that choice is its own row, missing; the Smooth tool smooths only the stretch of path under the drag and a round corner next to a curved side curves smoothly instead of sticking out of the shape (#1547, fixes #1512); Lock Guides also locks the objects made into guides: they can't be selected, moved or deleted (#1543); they are drawn in the guide colour and style of Preferences, and a dragged selection snaps to ruler guides with Smart Guides on (#1583, fixes #1534); Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts lists Edit › Duplicate and the other commands that are in no menu but run without parameters (panel-menu commands such as Break Link to Symbol), so they can be given shortcuts (#1549, #1580, fixes #1539); Make Compound Path on a group (such as outlined type) keeps the paint of its backmost path instead of drawing nothing, and compound paths joined into one keep their holes (#1537); scores unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Sliders in Save for Web, the raster export options, Preferences and the opacity popup show their rail (#1506, fixes #1483); a template layer stays in Preview, dimmed, in Outline view (#1505, fixes #1486); Direct Selection takes the selected object's anchor where anchors of overlapping objects coincide (#1509, fixes #1508); a tab stop in the Tabs panel drags from where the press landed (#1487, fixes #1458); scores unchanged (estimated) |
-| 2026-10-12 | minor | Width Point Edit: Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment; plain double-click keeps it off; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Split Into Grid has its row and column sizes, gutters, totals, Add Guides and Preview (#1488, fixes #1462); Transform Objects in the Transform dialogs and Transform Each, and Reflect across an angle (#1494, fixes #1448 and #1460); the Pathfinder panel works on a group selected alone and its greyed-out buttons say what they need (#1493, for #1450); selected text in value fields is white or black on the highlight (#1490, part of #1465); a focused field follows its value when a slider or preview changes it (#1497, fixes #1457); an Alt-drag copies once per drag (#1464); scores unchanged (estimated) |
+| 2026-10-12 | minor | Width Point Edit: Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment; plain double-click keeps it off; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | Transform dialogs (Move, Rotate, Scale, Reflect, Shear) preview on the canvas and step their angles and percentages with the arrow keys (#1428, fixes #1412); the transform tools, dialogs and Move act on anchors selected with Direct Selection (#1427, fixes #1408); the bounding box hides during a corner drag with the Selection tool (#1402, fixes #1229); a picture pastes when blank text sits beside it on the clipboard (#1404); scores unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | Dialogs opened from a menu take the keyboard focus every time they open (#1367); a first field that starts greyed out takes it once enabled (#1395); art flush with an artboard within a rounding error moves, copies and scales with it (#1375, from #1295); scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | Rectangular Grid and Polar Grid tool options (skew, frame, compound path, Fill Grid; #1377, in part): a skew slider under each divider count, kept as tool options and used by drags; the skew curve is our own; score unchanged (estimated) |
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 | 2026-10-11 | minor | Edit Toolbar opens the All Tools drawer beside the toolbar instead of a centred dialog, dims the tools the toolbar holds, and edits the toolbar by drag and drop while it is open (#1018); score unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-11 | minor | Direct Selection: dragging a path selected whole by an anchor moves it whole; Alt-drag copies by an anchor too, toggles during the drag and snaps onto the original (#1104); score unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-10 | major | First checklist, built from the tool sources and tests against Illustrator 2026's public documentation |
-| 2026-10-28 | minor | Blob Brush Shift locks after clear axial movement, keeps earlier samples fixed, and waits without an off-axis trail. Activation uses raw press displacement in logical screen pixels, with exact quarter-turn boundaries. Explicit application rule; scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-28 | minor | Flare Tool Options opened by a canvas click previews its settings at that click. Reset refreshes the enabled preview while keeping the dialog open. Cancel discards preview art and tentative options; OK accepts one flare in one Undo step. Editing existing flare artwork remains outside this dialog scope. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 
 > **Tab-drag status (2026-10-22):** updated from upstream, including the Turkish catalog and all three tab-drag translations requested in #3479; Selection-tool reset regression-checked and clipboard evidence scoped to internal state; drag lifecycle, insertion and regression contracts documented; behavior, scores and estimates unchanged.