Merge main into feat/learn-panel

docs/control-protocol.md

@@ -217,7 +217,9 @@ export's own parameters); `ui.dialog.confirm` writes the file. An importer plug-
 `pluginImport` dialog when `file.openWith` is given no `params`: one field per parameter, `__plugin`, and `__open`
 (`path` and `importer`); `ui.dialog.confirm` opens the file. `ui.installPlugin {path?}` installs a `.wasm` (without
 a path it asks for one); one that needs approval opens the `pluginInstall` dialog, which only a person can confirm
-(`ui.dialog.confirm` and injected input are refused); see [plugins.md](plugins.md).
+(`ui.dialog.confirm` and injected input are refused). When a control request opened it, directly or through a file
+dialog, the reply adds `approval: "personMustStartInstall"` and nobody can confirm it: the person chooses Object ›
+Plug-ins › Install Plug-in… to install the plug-in; see [plugins.md](plugins.md).
 
 Overprint Black: the Edit → Edit Colors → Overprint Black… menu item opens a `command` parameter dialog for
 `edit.colors.overprintBlack` (fields `remove`, `percentage`, `fill`, `stroke`, `includeCmyBlacks`,
@@ -574,8 +576,12 @@ Document Setup: File → Document Setup… (`file.documentSetup`, Cmd+Alt+P) ope
 are what `document.setup` reports (`units`, `bleed` [top, bottom, left, right] in pt, `outlineImages`,
 `highlightSubstitutedGlyphs`, `gridSize`, `gridColors`, `simulatePaper`, `flattenerPreset`,
 `discardWhiteOverprint`, `language`, `quotes`, `typographersQuotes`, `superscript`, `subscript`, `smallCapsSize`,
-`exportText`, `backgroundContents`) plus `tab` (`General`, `Transparency` or `Type`) and `bleedLinked`.
-`ui.dialog.confirm` runs `document.setup` with them as one undo step; a bad value answers with an error and the dialog
+`exportText`, `backgroundContents`) plus `tab` (`General`, `Transparency`, `Type` or `Color`) and `bleedLinked`, and
+the Color tab's `colorMode` (`rgb` or `cmyk`), `convertColors` (a mode change converts the colors; `false` keeps their
+numbers), `rgbProfile` and `cmykProfile` (a profile name, or null for the working space).
+`ui.dialog.confirm` runs `document.setup` with them as one undo step. When the Color tab's fields differ from the
+document, it runs `document.setup`, then `edit.assignProfile` with the changed profiles, then `file.documentColorMode`
+in one `command.batch`, and the document's changes are one undo step. A bad value answers with an error and the dialog
 stays open.
 
 New Document: File → New… (`file.newDialog`, Cmd+N) opens the `newDocument` dialog. Its fields are `file.new`'s params
@@ -707,8 +713,9 @@ with.
 DXF Options: Export As… with the DXF format (`file.exportAs {format: "dxf"}`, then the save dialog), or
 `ui.dxfOptionsDialog {path?, …document.exportDxf options}` for agents, opens the `dxfOptions` dialog. Its fields are
 `document.export` params: `dxfPreset` (`custom`, `cnc`), `version`, `unit` (a unit name such as `Millimeters`), `scale`,
-`scaleLineweights`, `colors` (`8`, `16`, `256`, `true`), `rasterFormat` (`png`, `jpeg`), `preserve` (`appearance`,
-`editability`), `selectedOnly`, `alterPaths`, `outlineText`, plus `path` and the artboard choice. Setting `dxfPreset` to
+`scaleLineweights`, `colors` (`8`, `16`, `256`, `true`), `rasterFormat` (`png`, `jpeg`), `includeImages` (Include
+Placed Images), `preserve` (`appearance`, `editability`), `selectedOnly`, `alterPaths`, `outlineText`, `includeHatches`
+(Include Fill Hatches), plus `path` and the artboard choice. Setting `dxfPreset` to
 `cnc` sets the fields it sets (see `document.exportDxf`), and `dxfPreset` reads `custom` again once one of them is
 changed; setting it to `custom` puts back the defaults. `ui.dialog.confirm` checks them (a bad value, or
 Export Selected Art Only with nothing selected, keeps the dialog open), remembers them for the next DXF Options and
@@ -790,7 +797,11 @@ artboards' files. A `.ai` file's `aiVersion` comes first: `"pdf"` (the default)
 Options"), which takes only `transparentImages` (`"flatten"` or `"omit"`), `hiddenObjects` (`"layer"`, `"omit"` or
 `"visible"`, the Hidden Objects menu), `outlineText` (the Text menu: false Editable, true Outlines) and, with several artboards, the artboard
 picker: `boards`, one bool per artboard (default: those last saved, else all), saved as `range`, one file per checked
-artboard. OK is disabled with none checked.
+artboard. OK is disabled with none checked. Save As to an EPS file opens the same dialog after the save panel (heading
+"EPS Options") with `useArtboards`, `all` and `range`, then the options Export's EPS Options shows. Preview
+(`previewFormat`), Overprints (`overprints`), Flattener preset (`flattenerPreset`) and PostScript (`level`) are menus:
+a pick writes the option's value (`"tiffColor"`, `"preserve"`, a built-in preset's id such as `"medium"` or a saved
+preset's name, the level as a number), and a value none of them names shows as it is.
 
 EMF and WMF: Export As… lists both formats (`file.exportAs {format: "emf"}` or `"wmf"`); they have no options
 dialog, so `ui.dialog.confirm` asks for the path and writes the file (one per artboard with Use Artboards). Open and
@@ -1055,7 +1066,7 @@ app:
 | `vectorcraft.docInspect(params)` / `vectorcraft.uiInspect(params)` | `document.inspect` / `ui.inspect` |
 | `vectorcraft.inspect()` | `ui.inspect` (the name before `uiInspect`) |
 | `vectorcraft.screenshot(params)` | `ui.screenshot` (no `path`: the PNG comes back inline, as `data` and as `pngBase64`) |
-| `vectorcraft.openFile(name, bytes)` | opens the bytes the way a dropped file opens (returns `true` once queued) |
+| `vectorcraft.openFile(name, bytes)` | opens the bytes the way a dropped file opens, as automation: a plug-in install it asks for has to be started by the person (returns `true` once queued) |
 | `vectorcraft.captureDownloads(on)` | while on, a save or export is kept in the page instead of downloaded |
 | `vectorcraft.files()` / `vectorcraft.readFile(name)` | the kept files (`{path, size}`) / one of them as a `Uint8Array` |
 

docs/development.md

@@ -89,6 +89,8 @@ The desktop app writes its `log` records to standard error and to `logs/vectorcr
 
 By default VectorCraft's own crates log at `info` and everything else at `warn`. `RUST_LOG` replaces that with env_logger-style directives, for example `RUST_LOG=debug`, `RUST_LOG=warn,vectorcraft_render=trace` or `RUST_LOG=info,wgpu_core=warn`; a directive ending in `*` covers every target starting with it (`vectorcraft*=debug`). The logger is `apps/vectorcraft/src/logging.rs`. `vectorcraft-cli mcp` has its own logger, which sends records to the MCP client (`docs/mcp.md`).
 
+When the interface thread stays in one part of a frame for 3 s (VectorCraft's own value), a watching thread writes a hang report to the log and to `logs/hang-report-<process id>.txt`, which the process keeps locked. The report gives the part of the frame (the input hook, the app's logic, the interface, or the renderer after a frame in which any window had input), a system clipboard read or write in progress, the last 8 different command ids (a command run again moves to the end of the list), the times of the last 16 frames, the platform, the window system (Wayland, X11, AppKit, Win32, other or unknown), `XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP`, `XDG_SESSION_TYPE`, whether the app runs in a Flatpak, the graphics adapter, the present mode and frame latency the app asks the window surface for, the session's running time and how many documents are open. It holds no document contents, file paths or command parameters, and no native stack. The time after a frame that minimizes or hides the main window, or starts moving or resizing it, is not timed, and neither is an in-line file dialog (Windows and Linux) or an open menu of the macOS menu bar. When the interface answers again, the log records after how long and the file is removed. A file that no process holds locked at a later launch was left by a session that was closed while it did not answer (a locked one belongs to another instance and is left alone): that launch writes the report to the log, moves the file to `logs/hang-report.1.txt` (older abandoned reports beyond the newest 16 are removed) and, unless another start-up message is showing, says so in the status bar. Help › Copy Troubleshooting Info (`help.copyTroubleshootingInfo`) copies the platform facts, the recent commands and frame times, and the hang reports of this session and the last one, for a bug report. The watch is `apps/vectorcraft/src/hang_watch.rs`; the marks it reads are `crates/ui-egui/src/hang_beacon.rs`.
+
 ## Environment variables (desktop app)
 
 | Variable | Effect |

docs/file-format-parity.md

@@ -290,7 +290,8 @@ Names in the editing data that aren't UTF-8 (layers, objects, artboards, colors,
 | 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) |
 | 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). CNC preset and VCarve QA remain open |
+| 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 |
+| HP-GL/2 `.plt`, `.hpgl`, `.hgl`, `.hpg` | — | yes (pen moves, pens and widths, line types and attributes, circles, arcs, wedges and Bézier curves, filled and edged rectangles, wedges and polygons, encoded polylines, scaling and rotation; labels, symbol mode, raster images and hatching aren't drawn) | no | recognized by its first instructions after any printer escapes, under its own extensions or one no other format reads; `crates/cad/src/hpgl/tests.rs`, `tests_hpgl.rs`, `import_fuzz.rs` |
 | DWG | open, export | no | no | no open spec; DXF instead |
 | EMF / WMF | open, export | yes | yes | an oversized embedded PNG or JPEG is refused from its header, before any pixels are decoded (#1776) |
 | PSD | open, place, export | yes (open: layers as layers, or the merged image with `layers: false`; place: merged image; every mode and depth; `.psd` and `.pdd`) | yes (layered, max editability) | placing as layers and a PSD import options dialog missing; the embedded ICC profile's tags are 4-byte aligned (#1584) |
@@ -487,25 +488,39 @@ Stop opacity on translated artboards remains outside this regression coverage.
 
 Feature evidence updated 2026-10-26; scores and estimates unchanged.
 
-EPS is offered by Save As, and an opened EPS keeps its own path for ordinary Save. Save writes
-one artboard (the first by default, or the named artboard), retaining its page bounds and transparent
-margins rather than cropping to the drawn artwork. The whole editable VectorCraft document remains
-embedded in EPS comments, including other artboards. Save bounds the optional TIFF preview to
+EPS is offered by Save As, and an opened EPS keeps its own path for ordinary Save. The EPS
+Options of Save As show Use Artboards with All or Range under it, for a separate file per artboard
+([saving in EPS](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/save-and-export/export-files-to-different-formats/save-artwork-in-eps-format.html)),
+unchecked by default (the scripting reference's EPS save options list `saveMultipleArtboards` with
+a default of false,
+[scripting reference](https://web.archive.org/web/20160803105056/https://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/illustrator/sdk/CC2015_3/Illustrator%20JavaScript%20Scripting%20Reference.pdf)).
+Unchecked, Save writes one file whose bounding box fits all the visible art, as Export does,
+without the artboards' background colors; an opened EPS saved back this way loses the margins its
+page had. With no visible art the page is the first artboard, in its color. Naming artboards with
+`artboard`, `artboards` or `range` turns Use Artboards on. Checked 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, holding that artboard. Checked with one chosen, VectorCraft
+writes that artboard as the page of the file at the path alone, retaining its bounds and
+transparent margins. The file the document becomes carries the whole editable VectorCraft document
+in EPS comments, including other artboards. Save bounds the optional TIFF preview to
 1024 pixels on its longest side (about 4 MiB of RGBA pixels), avoiding the roughly 16 MiB preview a
 large artboard otherwise produces. Export keeps its existing 2048-pixel preview cap. Preview
 format choices are unchanged; no public preview-resolution option exists. The EPS PostScript appearance still flattens
 transparency; its existing warnings remain. This does not promise native Illustrator editing-data fidelity.
 
-Cropped and selected-only EPS output remains available through Export. Save refuses those options.
+Selected-only EPS output remains available through Export. Save refuses `selectedOnly`.
 An EPS opened from a preview, a partially interpreted program or damaged native editing data keeps
 its source-loss warning: writing over that original requires explicit confirmation. File › Save uses
 the same engine path and write-failure handling as other document formats.
 
-Synthetic regressions: `tests::save::opened_eps_saves_to_its_own_file_with_editable_data_and_page_margins`,
-`eps_save_keeps_all_editing_artboards_while_printing_one_page`,
+Synthetic regressions: `tests::save::opened_eps_saves_to_its_own_file_around_its_art_or_on_its_page`,
+`eps_save_without_use_artboards_fits_the_box_to_art_past_the_artboard`,
+`eps_save_keeps_all_editing_artboards_in_the_file_of_one_page`,
+`eps_save_with_use_artboards_writes_the_central_file_and_one_per_artboard`,
+`cmd::fileio::tests_artboard_fill::eps_save_draws_the_color_on_an_artboard_page`,
 `eps_save_supports_an_empty_artboard_without_cropping_its_page`,
 `partially_read_eps_requires_confirmation_before_save_back`,
 `eps_with_damaged_editing_data_requires_confirmation_before_save_back`,
 `eps_save_bounds_large_page_preview_without_cropping_vector_or_editing_data`, and the UI regressions
 `file_save_writes_opened_eps_back_without_another_save_as_dialog` and
-`eps_save_as_keeps_page_options_and_writes_eps_without_export_only_switches`.
+`eps_save_as_shows_use_artboards_off_and_writes_the_art_or_the_artboard`.

docs/gaps.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Gaps
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-11 · **Change:** minor (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 (#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
 
@@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ macOS cursor delivery (#2292) is narrowed to a native host adapter using the exi
 - **Improved:** Eyedropper has an original pipette cursor at its sampling tip; Use Precise
   Cursors keeps the crosshair. Bitmap/DPI and preference checks cover the distinction (#1269).
   OS cursor display and Caps Lock remain unverified.
+- **Done (#6404):** Eyedropper character copying compensates for source and target text transforms, including highlighted ranges and reverse sampling; invalid dimensions reject the pick before document, default-paint or sample changes. G1 scores and estimates unchanged.
 - **Done (#1251):** Eyedropper source reads are independent of locks and isolation, including Shift/Shift+Alt and gradient stops. Source and selection preservation, unchanged Alt reverse/selection restrictions, hidden art and Undo/Redo have regression coverage. This addresses the reported behavior, with no new full-parity measurement.
 - **Done (#1253):** adding paint to an unpainted zero-width stroke restores the existing 1 pt default, including new-art defaults and Swap Fill/Stroke. The real Eyedropper inheritance sequence, targeted appearance items, preserved widths and Undo/Redo have regression coverage.
 - **Done:** a busy cursor while a file opens off the UI thread or a labelled background save or export runs (`Cursor::Busy` in `crates/tools/src/cursors.toml`). Heavy synchronous effect previews remain open.
@@ -198,7 +199,7 @@ macOS cursor delivery (#2292) is narrowed to a native host adapter using the exi
 - **Done (2026-11-06):** an EPS page that paints its gradients as rows of abutting one-colour strips imports them as linear gradients, so the seams between strips no longer show and an Illustrator EPS drawn that way keeps its layers instead of opening as its page. This narrows G9; scores and estimates unchanged.
 - **Done (2026-10-30):** from an audit of a user's `.ai`/EPS files: All Caps and Small Caps; placed files at their box's corner; pages cropped to the art; gradient mesh corners with handle weights of 0 and the transparency written after a mesh, a masked mesh and a blend; a layer's state block with the stroke style; type on a path spaced as the file lays it out (the distance from the path under Align to Path is measured from the top of each character's em box, half the height of the top of its H or the bottom of its font's bounding box, and the fit under Gravity does not reproduce the file's layout); EPS10 legacy-format type; a PDF of some artboards compared on the artboard its page shows. Comparison limits remain unchanged. This narrows G9; scores and estimates unchanged.
 
-- **Save-back update (2026-10-26):** ordinary EPS Save retains page margins and the whole editable document; source-loss confirmation remains. Import fidelity gaps and estimates below are unchanged.
+- **Save-back update (2026-10-26):** ordinary EPS Save retains page margins and the whole editable document; source-loss confirmation remains. Import fidelity gaps and estimates below are unchanged. Since 2026-11-12 Save keeps the page margins only with Use Artboards checked; unchecked, the default, the bounding box fits the visible art.
 
 - **Done (2026-10-16):** EPS legacy mesh corners and vector opacity masks retained; winding-declared compound member groups keep shared paint. Raster print-page minification no longer causes a false editing-data fallback; comparison limits remain unchanged. Synthetic regressions cover damage and missing artwork. This narrows G9; scores and estimates unchanged.
 
@@ -322,8 +323,7 @@ macOS cursor delivery (#2292) is narrowed to a native host adapter using the exi
 
 - **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:** 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, and a non-circular ellipse 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. CNC preset and VCarve QA remain 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`.
-- **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. CNC preset and VCarve QA remain 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`.
+- **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`.
 
 - **Done:** Simplify and Add Anchor Points clear stale component selections on rewritten paths; Simplify previews and reports original/new point counts (#1272).
 - **Done:** Object › Path › Simplify opens its slider at the Auto-Simplify level for the selection and previews that result, as the [manual-simplify page](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/draw-shapes-and-paths/modify-paths/manually-simplify-paths.html) describes; simplifying only a Direct Selection part of a path is done too (G1).
@@ -645,11 +645,12 @@ macOS cursor delivery (#2292) is narrowed to a native host adapter using the exi
   Direct Selection of a path, compound path or type inside a dynamic instance also takes opacity and blend
   (`transparency.set`) and a gradient or pattern fill or stroke (`paint.setFill` / `paint.setStroke`,
   Eyedropper), for that instance only;
-  graphic style libraries (Window › Graphic Style Libraries; eight original libraries generated in code, including
-  Game HUD with Health Fill, Mana Glow, Damage Flash, Quest Outline, Coin Shine and Boss Alert, and Status Effects
-  with Poison Tint, Freeze Edge, Burn Aura, Stun Pulse, Stealth Fade and Shield Buff; User Defined; Other
-  Library…; `graphicStyle.libraries`, `graphicStyle.addFromLibrary`).
-- **Missing:** more built-in brush libraries beyond the six shipped (and further graphic-style libraries beyond the eight shipped, and further symbol libraries beyond Basic
+  graphic style libraries (Window › Graphic Style Libraries; nine original libraries generated in code, including
+  Game HUD with Health Fill, Mana Glow, Damage Flash, Quest Outline, Coin Shine and Boss Alert, Status Effects
+  with Poison Tint, Freeze Edge, Burn Aura, Stun Pulse, Stealth Fade and Shield Buff, and Textures with 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 six shipped (and further graphic-style libraries beyond the nine 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).
@@ -855,6 +856,7 @@ trap, and the defaults (0.25 pt, 100%, 40%) are VectorCraft's own, the pages giv
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-11 | minor | Eyedropper copies effective character dimensions between transformed text objects (#6404); scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 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. |
@@ -1094,4 +1096,4 @@ trap, and the defaults (0.25 pt, 100%, 40%) are VectorCraft's own, the pages giv
 
 2026-10-28 behavior correction: 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.
 ## EPS Save evidence (2026-10-26)
-Ordinary Save and Save As keep EPS as EPS, with the chosen page frame, transparent margins and the complete editable VectorCraft document. Existing import-loss confirmation and transparency warnings remain; the Save TIFF preview is capped at 1024 pixels, while Export retains 2048. See [file-format-parity.md](file-format-parity.md#eps-save-and-source-protection) for limits and regression evidence. This narrows G9 save-back workflow coverage; native Illustrator editing-data fidelity, parity scores and hour estimates are unchanged.
+Ordinary Save and Save As keep EPS as EPS, with the chosen page frame, transparent margins and the complete editable VectorCraft document. Existing import-loss confirmation and transparency warnings remain; the Save TIFF preview is capped at 1024 pixels, while Export retains 2048. See [file-format-parity.md](file-format-parity.md#eps-save-and-source-protection) for limits and regression evidence. This narrows G9 save-back workflow coverage; native Illustrator editing-data fidelity, parity scores and hour estimates are unchanged. Since 2026-11-12 the EPS Options of Save As show Use Artboards, unchecked by default: unchecked, the bounding box fits the visible art; checked, Save keeps the chosen page frame and margins described here.

docs/mcp.md

@@ -147,6 +147,17 @@ the suite) keep the agent to the folders you give it:
   others that take `library`), whose replies show it too. `swatch.library.copyToUser` refuses a library whose file
   is outside the read roots without naming the file, and it and the library saves with `user: true` leave out
   `path` when the user library folder is outside the read roots.
+- `links.list`, `links.check`, `links.info` and the `missingLinks`, `modifiedLinks` and `updatedLinks` rows of
+  `document.open` leave out a linked file's path when the file is outside the read roots (a relative path is taken
+  from the document's folder): `path`, `found`, and in `links.info` also `link` and `location`, with the `fileSize`
+  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.
+- `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.
 - 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
@@ -462,7 +473,7 @@ so a bad one draws nothing. The object and its styling are one `command.batch`,
 it can't read, a swatch the document lacks) fails the call and leaves the document as it was. The reply adds `name`, `opacity` and `effects` (each `effect.apply` result)
 when given; `paint` lists the stroke options applied.
 A gradient given to several objects fits each one's own bounds; `paint.setFill` / `paint.setStroke` with
-`span: "selection"` place a linear, radial or conic gradient once on the union of the targets' bounds instead, so one
+`span: "selection"` place a linear, radial, conic or diamond gradient once on the union of the targets' bounds instead, so one
 ramp runs across them.
 `paint.setFill` without `item` on a grayscale or 1-bit image sets the color the image is drawn in: each pixel takes
 the color as far as the pixel is dark, and white pixels are transparent. `none` removes the color. An image with an
@@ -502,8 +513,8 @@ applied colors still join the list while it is hidden.
 | `invoke_menu` | `{command, params?}` | Invokes a menu item by command id. UI commands such as `view.*` and `window.*` are in `command_list` with `ui: true`; running them needs the desktop app (`--connect`). |
 | `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`, 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). 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. |
+| `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. |
 | `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`, `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 and WMF 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. |
@@ -886,14 +897,18 @@ export. PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3 files are PDF 1.3 files too.
 A page with a side longer than 14,400 pt is written with a `UserUnit` (PDF 1.6): its longer side divided by 14,400,
 rounded up to the next thousandth, with the page's sizes and coordinates in those units, so that no side is longer than
 14,400 units (ISO 32000-1, Annex C.2). A PDF 1.5 file with such a page is written as PDF 1.6, with a warning, and
-keeps PDF 1.5's encryption (128-bit RC4). PDF/X files and PDF 1.3 and 1.4 files write such a page in points, and apps
+keeps PDF 1.5's encryption (128-bit RC4). A PDF/A-2b file at PDF 1.4 with such a page is written as PDF 1.6 too, with a
+warning, whether or not `longPagesInPoints` is on, so that its page boundaries stay within PDF/A-2's limit of 14,400 units
+unless the page is too narrow for that (below)
+([veraPDF rule 6.1.13-11](https://github.com/veraPDF/veraPDF-validation-profiles/wiki/PDFA-Parts-2-and-3-rules#rule-6113-11);
+PDF/A-2 files may declare PDF 1.0 to 1.7, [rule 6.1.2-1](https://github.com/veraPDF/veraPDF-validation-profiles/wiki/PDFA-Parts-2-and-3-rules#rule-612-1)).
+PDF/X files and other PDF 1.3 and 1.4 files write such a page in points, and apps
 that keep to the limit cut it to 200 in. `longPagesInPoints: true` (off by default; "Write pages longer than 200 in at
 full size in points" in the Save PDF dialog's General section) writes such a page in points at every PDF version, without
 a `UserUnit`, and a PDF 1.5 file stays PDF 1.5; the warning then says the page is written in points. The option applies
-only to files without a standard: PDF/X files write such a page in points anyway, and PDF/A files at PDF 1.5 and later keep
-the `UserUnit`, which keeps their page boundaries within PDF/A-2's limit of 14,400 units (ISO 19005-2, 6.1.13). A PDF/A
-file at PDF 1.4 writes such a page in points, as other PDF 1.4 files do, so its page boundaries are longer than that
-limit. The dialog disables the
+only to files without a standard: PDF/X files write such a page in points anyway, and PDF/A files keep the `UserUnit`, which
+keeps their page boundaries within PDF/A-2's limit of 14,400 units (ISO 19005-2, 6.1.13), a PDF/A file at PDF 1.4
+included (written as PDF 1.6). The dialog disables the
 checkbox when a standard is chosen. In PDF 1.3 and 1.4 files, PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3 among them, a real number can
 be at most 32,767, and whole numbers are written as integers: a page longer than 32,767 pt whose sides aren't whole
 numbers of points fails the export with an error naming the page before the thumbnails are drawn and the transparency is
@@ -1085,20 +1100,44 @@ another form gives a warning:
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"paint.setFill","params":{"gradient":{"kind":"conic","start":[150,150],"end":[200,150],"aspect":-100}}}}
 ```
 
-Dither (the Gradient panel's box) draws a linear, radial or conic 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):
+A diamond gradient (`kind: "diamond"`) runs its stops from the center (the start) out to a square with a corner at
+the end of the vector, a diamond on the page while the vector is level; `aspect` stretches the square across the
+vector into a rhombus. Fitted to an object, it is centered on the object's box, and the edge of its square runs
+through the box's farthest corner; at an angle of 0 or 90 degrees the edges run through all four corners. Its
+annotator draws the square with the aspect dot and center ring of a radial gradient; a `focal` or a negative
+`aspect` given for a diamond gradient is an error. Dither and Method apply as they do to a linear gradient, and the
+canvas draws it as pixels, out to the miters, caps and arrowheads of a stroke. PDF, SVG, EPS and legacy `.ai` files
+have no diamond gradient: one of opaque stops is written as four linear gradients, one for each quarter of the
+square, clipped to the shape (PDF as axial shadings). In PDF and SVG, one with translucent stops, a dithered fill or
+a square with no area is an image, and so is a Perceptual one, except in PDF when its stops are spot colors that the
+Method paragraph below describes. SVG writes one on type characters as a radial gradient through the square's
+corners. PDF import reads a function-based shading (type 1) whose color is the same along each square about the
+origin of its space, with corners on its axes, as a diamond gradient. CSS writes a radial gradient through the
+square's corners. A swatch library saved as CSS gets four `linear-gradient` layers, one for each quarter of the box,
+which make a value for the `background` property but not for `background-image`; a swatch whose angle is not a
+multiple of 90 degrees gets a circular `radial-gradient` instead, and, as for a radial swatch, the aspect is not
+written. The `.ai` editing data holds a radial gradient through the corners with the same stops. Object › Expand
+turns it into nested squares (`steps`) or a mesh of rings around the center. A document export that writes it in
+another form gives a warning:
+
+```json
+{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"paint.setFill","params":{"gradient":{"kind":"diamond","start":[150,150],"end":[200,150],"aspect":60}}}}
+```
+
+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):
 
 ```json
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"paint.editGradient","params":{"dither":true}}}
 ```
 
 Method (the Gradient panel's menu): `classic` (the default) mixes the colours between stops in display RGB,
-`perceptual` mixes a linear, radial or conic gradient's colors in OKLab so the steps look even. SVG exports write a
-Perceptual gradient as an image at the Document Raster Effects resolution (a dithered Perceptual fill with its noise).
-PDF exports write it the same way, except for a linear, radial or conic gradient with spot color stops whose other stops
-are all paper white or written in CMYK or gray, that is not a dithered fill and whose curve does not have too many
-stops. An export that converts colors to a CMYK destination profile writes RGB and Lab stops in CMYK, and so does a
+`perceptual` mixes a linear, radial, conic or diamond gradient's colors in OKLab so the steps look even. SVG exports
+write a Perceptual gradient as an image at the Document Raster Effects resolution (a dithered Perceptual fill with
+its noise). PDF exports write it the same way, except for a linear, radial, conic or diamond gradient with spot color
+stops whose other stops are all paper white or written in CMYK or gray, that is not a dithered fill and whose curve
+does not have too many stops (a diamond as four such shadings). An export that converts colors to a CMYK destination profile writes RGB and Lab stops in CMYK, and so does a
 CMYK document unless the export converts colors to an RGB destination profile. PDF writes tints of one spot ink as a Separation shading in that ink, and spot inks mixed with other spot, CMYK
 or gray inks as a DeviceN shading.
 `paint.setFill`/`paint.setStroke` take it in `gradient` too:
@@ -1302,6 +1341,22 @@ fails with no change. A description with a `…` entry takes more keys than it l
 object can carry several formats' options). A command that takes its own reply back
 (`document.setup`, `text.areaOptions`) says so the same way.
 
+The app's own commands are not checked against their descriptions, but those listed here refuse a value of the wrong
+type and change nothing: `view.setZoom` (`zoom`, `center`), `view.screenMode` (`mode`), `window.panel` (`toggle`,
+`toggleGroup`), `file.revert` (`confirmed`), `file.close` (`index`), `ui.newSwatch` (`spot`, `global`),
+`ui.symbolOptions` (`edit`), `ui.batchDialog` (`set`, `action`) and `file.exportSelection` (`multiple`). So do the
+control channel's `ui.key`, `ui.move`, `ui.wheel`, `ui.click`, `ui.drag`, `ui.pointer`, `ui.resize`, `ui.screenshot`,
+`ui.render` and `ui.set` for their numbers, switches and `mods`, and the headless session's key, pointer and screenshot
+calls. Omitting a param or giving null keeps its default, with two exceptions: `ui.click`'s `count` and `ui.drag`'s
+`count` and `steps` refuse null, and a headless pointer event needs its `x` and `y`. A pointer event's `pressure`,
+`holdMs`, `tiltX`, `tiltY` and `rotation` must be numbers and its `space` must be `doc` or `screen`. A pointer packet
+with one malformed event sends none of its events:
+
+```json
+{"id": "view.setZoom", "params": {"zoom": "200"}}
+→ `zoom` must be a number
+```
+
 Saved actions aren't checked this way. When the Actions panel plays an action (Play at any speed, an action's function
 key, the Batch dialog or `ui.action.play`), a key a command no longer reads, recorded by an older version, is ignored
 and the action still plays. `Session::replay` plays a journal the same way. The command still refuses an effect
@@ -1446,7 +1501,7 @@ These commands refuse a string, a number or another value that is not true or fa
 and `text.createInPath`; `underline`, `strikethrough`, `allCaps`, `proportionalMetrics`, `tateChuYoko`, `standardVerticalRoman` and `noBreak`
 in `text.setRangeStyle` and `text.setFormat`, which also checks `hyphenate`, `hyphenateCapitalized` and
 `romanHangingPunctuation`; `effective` and `story` in `text.getRange`; `story` in `text.setRangeStyle`; `on` in `type.opticalMarginAlignment`, `type.dynamicText`, `type.systemLayout`
-and `type.fractionalWidths`; `remove` and `overhang` in `type.ruby`; `expandInstances` in `symbol.delete`; `alt` in
+and `type.fractionalWidths`; `flip` in `type.dynamicTextPreset`; `remove` and `overhang` in `type.ruby`; `expandInstances` in `symbol.delete`; `alt` in
 `symbol.spray` and `symbol.adjust`; `spot` and `global` in `swatch.new` and `swatch.edit`; `unlink` in
 `swatch.delete`; `fromArtwork`, `toGlobal` and `includeTints` in `swatch.newGroup`; `global` and `selection` in
 `swatch.addUsedColors`; `visible` in `appearance.setItem`; `copy` in `appearance.transfer`; `reverse` and `append` in
@@ -1742,7 +1797,7 @@ VectorCraft's own, and `vc.api.has("dollar")` is true where they are available:
 | `localize` | `false`; while `true`, `String(object)` of a localization object gives its text for `$.locale` |
 | `os` | `Windows`, `macOS`, `Linux`, `FreeBSD`, `Unix` or `Web`, without a version |
 | `screens` | an empty array |
-| `sleep(ms)` | waits from 0 to 1,000 milliseconds between two frames of the app, without stopping it from drawing; `script.stop` ends the wait; it does not wait on the web; called with more than 0 inside a getter, a conversion, a callback of a built-in function or a file `$.evalFile` runs, it throws an `Error` instead of waiting |
+| `sleep(ms)` | waits from 0 to 1,000 milliseconds between two frames of the app, without stopping it from drawing; `script.stop` ends the wait, and so does `notifications/cancelled` for a run its `tools/call` waits for, without waiting for the time to pass; it does not wait on the web; called with more than 0 inside a getter, a conversion, a callback of a built-in function or a file `$.evalFile` runs, it throws an `Error` instead of waiting |
 | `strict` | `false` |
 
 Members that are values (`build`, `level`, `os` and the like) cannot be changed. A wrong value for a member that can
@@ -1759,7 +1814,9 @@ as it is. A string as the first argument is used as the text.
 objects as the text of an expression that makes the same value, such as `({"a":[1, "x"]})`. A function, a getter, a
 date, a regular expression, an error, a host object such as `vc`, an array with properties besides its elements, an
 object whose prototype is not `Object.prototype`, a property that is not enumerable, or an object that contains
-itself throws a `TypeError`. A value deeper than 64 levels, with more than 1,048,576 entries or with text longer than 16,777,216
+itself throws a `TypeError`. So does a property that is not writable or not configurable, an object or array after
+`Object.preventExtensions`, `Object.seal` or `Object.freeze`, and an array whose `length` is read-only, since the text
+would make each of them writable, configurable and extensible again (VectorCraft's own rule). A value deeper than 64 levels, with more than 1,048,576 entries or with text longer than 16,777,216
 characters throws a `RangeError`.
 
 The run is one transaction. When the script ends, each document it changed gets one undo step named Run Script. A
@@ -1826,7 +1883,7 @@ VectorCraft sets these limits itself:
 | Included and evaluated files | 64 in all, 16 levels deep, 1,024 paths looked up |
 | Heap | 256 MiB (128 MiB on the web) |
 | Host calls | 2,000,000 |
-| `maxFuel`, instructions in all | 1 to 100,000,000,000; 1,000,000,000 by default |
+| `maxFuel`, instructions in all, plus one for each UTF-16 code unit of source that `eval`, `Function` or an evaluated file compiles during the run | 1 to 100,000,000,000; 1,000,000,000 by default |
 | Instructions without a pause | 200,000,000 |
 | Nesting depth | 64 levels |
 | A value crossing to or from a command | 16 MiB and 1,048,576 entries |
@@ -1922,6 +1979,8 @@ script reads files with them:
   objects for the same path are different objects.
 - `name`, `displayName`, `fsName`, `absoluteURI`, `fullName`, `relativeURI`, `path`, `parent` and `toString()` come
   from the path. `exists`, `length`, `created`, `modified`, `hidden`, `readonly` and `alias` read the file system.
+  `exists` is true for a `File` only when the path names something other than a folder, and for a `Folder` only
+  when it names a folder.
   `File.encode`, `File.decode` and `File.isEncodingAvailable` (and the same on `Folder`), `File.fs`, and the folders
   `Folder.temp`, `Folder.desktop`, `Folder.myDocuments`, `Folder.userData` and the others are there too.
 - `open('r')` opens a file to read, and `read([chars])`, `readln()`, `readch()`, `seek(pos[, mode])`, `tell()`, `eof`
@@ -3359,7 +3418,10 @@ as a value left out.
 ## Graphic style libraries
 
 Graphic style libraries are read-only sets of graphic styles generated in code (Shadows and Glows, Outlines and
-Rules, Hand-Drawn, Gradient Finishes, Shape Effects, Blends and Transparency, Game HUD, Status Effects). `graphicStyle.libraries` lists them
+Rules, Hand-Drawn, Textures, Gradient Finishes, Shape Effects, Blends and Transparency, Game HUD, Status Effects). Textures
+(`textures`) paints its fills and strokes with the texture effects: Fine Grain (`texture.grain`), Canvas Weave and Burlap
+Sack (`texture.texturizer`), Cracked Glaze (`texture.craquelure`), Mosaic Floor (`texture.mosaicTiles`), Quilted Squares
+(`texture.patchwork`), Leaded Glass (`texture.stainedGlass`) and Damp Paper (`sketch.waterPaper`). `graphicStyle.libraries` lists them
 (`id`, `name`, `category`: `builtIn`, `user` or `loaded`, `count`) and `graphicStyle.library {library}` returns one's
 styles in the `graphicStyle.list` shape (`library` is an id or a name). `graphicStyle.addFromLibrary {library, name? |
 names?}` copies styles into the document's Graphic Styles as one undo step (no names: the whole library); styles the
@@ -3586,8 +3648,13 @@ where the layout puts it.
 ## Flatten Transparency
 
 `object.flattenTransparency {ids?, preset?, …options}` turns transparent art into opaque art that looks the same, in
-one undo step. The targets split into groups of overlapping objects; groups without transparency stay as they are.
-Each other group becomes one group of atomic regions: paths filled with the flat colour the art showed there (over
+one undo step. The targets split into groups. A group holds each object with transparency and every object it
+overlaps, counting 1 pt around each object for antialiasing. It also holds each object without transparency that
+overlaps a member in the same way and lies above that member but below the group's topmost object, whose place the
+group takes.
+Objects without transparency that overlap only others without transparency stay as they are. Overlapping objects of
+which one is inside a clip group or clipping layer form one group, with transparency or without; groups without
+transparency stay as they are. Each other group becomes one group of atomic regions: paths filled with the flat colour the art showed there (over
 white, which blend modes do not read; over nothing, keeping alpha, with `preserveAlpha: true`), plus one image where gradients, patterns, images,
 opacity masks or raster effects reach (clipped to those regions with `clipComplexRegions`, a rectangle without).
 The image leaves out the part of such art that the clipping path of a clip group or clipping layer hides, so art under
@@ -4474,6 +4541,27 @@ files saved without it read back with it off.
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"object.setPixelAligned","params":{"ids":[12],"on":false}}}
 ```
 
+### Align New Objects to Pixel Grid
+
+`document.setup {alignNewObjectsToPixelGrid: true|false}` turns the document's Align New Objects to Pixel Grid on or
+off in one undo step, as the New Document dialog's Advanced Options checkbox and the Transform panel menu's checked item
+do (described on the help page,
+<https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/get-started/learn-the-basics/pixel-preview-mode-for-web-graphics.html>);
+`document.setup` with no params reports it. While it is on, every path and compound path drawn in the document (the
+shape, line, arc, spiral, Pen, Curvature, Pencil, Paintbrush, Blob Brush and `addon.shapes.*` commands, and the paths
+in a new rectangular grid, polar grid or flare) takes the pixel-aligned property and is snapped in the undo step that
+makes it. These rules are VectorCraft's own: type, images, groups and guides do not take it; art already in the document stays as it is when the setting changes; objects that Paste, Duplicate, Place and
+import bring in keep their own property; and `object.setPixelAligned` turns one object's property off without changing
+the document's setting. `file.new {alignNewObjectsToPixelGrid}` sets it for the new document. The Mobile and Web presets
+start with it on and the other built-in presets with it off; saved presets and Recent entries keep the value they were
+made with, and a saved preset from before the setting reads off. The setting is saved in the native file only when on,
+and files saved without it open with it off.
+
+```json
+{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"document.setup","params":{"alignNewObjectsToPixelGrid":true}}}
+{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"file.new","params":{"preset":"Letter","alignNewObjectsToPixelGrid":true}}}
+```
+
 ## Live Corners
 
 `object.setLiveShape {id?, ids?, radius?, kind?, corners?, items?}` sets the corners of any path (one undo step): a live
@@ -4649,7 +4737,12 @@ template, AI or AIT format counts artboard file names when the document has any
 counts them when the document has several artboards.
 Under Data Set Name, VectorCraft makes Windows device names safe (`CON` becomes `CON-`). This is
 VectorCraft's naming behavior. Caps: 500
-files or data sets, 8 folder levels, 256 steps. An action recorded in the Actions panel leaves the artboard out,
+files or data sets, 8 folder levels, 256 steps. `action.batch` refuses `includeSubdirs`, `overrideOpen`,
+`overrideSave`, `overrideExport` or `stopOnError` given as anything but true or false, such as `"false"`, with
+`` `stopOnError` must be true or false ``, and `source`, `folder`, `destination`, `destinationFolder`,
+`datasetFileNaming` or `label` given as anything but a string with `` `label` must be a string ``, naming the key.
+It checks them, and that `source` is `folder` or `datasets`, before it makes the destination folder or opens a file.
+A null is read as a key left out. An action recorded in the Actions panel leaves the artboard out,
 and its steps of these commands get the artboard that is active when the action plays. A press with the Selection,
 Direct Selection or Group Selection tool inside an artboard makes that artboard the active one; with the Selection
 tool, a Shift-click on an empty spot inside an artboard makes it active and keeps the selection. Choosing the Artboard
@@ -5162,10 +5255,14 @@ Exporting and importing preferences is an optional VectorCraft feature.
 as a red outline around each artboard), the transparency grid (size and two colours; the first is also the simulated
 paper colour), the flattener preset and Discard White Overprint (Overprint Preview keeps white overprints visible while
 it is on), the type options (language and its quotes, Use Typographer's Quotes for typed straight quotes and a typed `”` where a quote opens, superscript, subscript
-and small caps proportions, SVG text export) and the background contents (white: raster exports are white behind the
-art). Pass any of these keys to change them in one undo step; `document.setUnits` stays as an alias for `units`.
+and small caps proportions, SVG text export), the background contents (white: raster exports are white behind the
+art) and Align New Objects to Pixel Grid (see [Align New Objects to Pixel Grid](#align-new-objects-to-pixel-grid)).
+Pass any of these keys to change them in one undo step; `document.setUnits` stays as an alias for `units`.
 A file whose bleed (0 to 72 pt a side), superscript and subscript sizes (1 to 500%) and positions (-500 to 500%) or
 small caps size (1 to 200%) lies outside those ranges opens with the nearer end of each range.
+`document.setup` does not take the color mode or the assigned profiles. The Document Setup dialog's Color tab sets
+them with `edit.assignProfile` and `file.documentColorMode`: its OK runs `document.setup`, then `edit.assignProfile`,
+then `file.documentColorMode` in one `command.batch`, and the document's changes are one undo step.
 
 ```json
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"document.setup","params":{"gridColors":"Blue","gridSize":"large","language":"German","bleed":9}}}
@@ -5176,7 +5273,8 @@ small caps size (1 to 200%) lies outside those ranges opens with the nearer end
 `file.new` takes everything New Document sets: `preset` (a name from `file.newPresets`), `name`, `width`/`height`
 (points, or lengths such as `"210 mm"`), `units`, `orientation`, `artboards` with `artboardLayout {layout, columns,
 spacing, rightToLeft}`, `bleed`, `backgroundContents`, `colorMode`, `rasterEffectsPpi` (1 to 2,400; a saved preset's
-value outside that range is read as the nearer end) and `previewMode`.
+value outside that range is read as the nearer end), `previewMode` and `alignNewObjectsToPixelGrid` (see
+[Align New Objects to Pixel Grid](#align-new-objects-to-pixel-grid)).
 `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
@@ -5868,8 +5966,11 @@ DXF layer (hidden layers switched off, locked ones locked, non-printing ones not
 straight paths become polylines (an open path of one straight segment becomes a line, except for a stroke weight
 before 2000), curved ones cubic splines through every anchor, fills their outlines followed by
 solid hatches (laser and cutter software reads the outlines and skips hatches; R12 has no hatches: the outlines
-alone), strokes lines with their lineweight and a linetype per dash pattern, and placed images image entities linked
-to PNG or JPEG files (`rasterFormat`) written next to the drawing (`linked` in the result). Coordinates are y up
+alone; an open path's fill outline is closed, as the fill is), strokes lines with their lineweight and a linetype per dash pattern, and placed images image entities linked
+to PNG or JPEG files (`rasterFormat`) written next to the drawing (`linked` in the result). `includeImages: false`
+leaves placed images out, with no image entity, no linked file and no decoding of their pixels, and `includeHatches:
+false` writes each filled area as its outlines alone, without its solid hatch (both default to `true`; these two
+options are VectorCraft's own). Either one, when it leaves something out, adds one note to `warnings`. Coordinates are y up
 from the bottom-left corner of the first artboard (or `artboard`), in drawing units: `scale` units per `unit` (default
 1 mm = 1 unit, which sets `$INSUNITS`); `scaleLineweights` scales the lineweights with them. `colors` is `8`, `16` or
 `256` indexed colours, or `true` (default; true colour with the nearest index, DXF 2004 and later). `preserve:
@@ -5882,7 +5983,8 @@ selected objects in their layers (every export takes it), and `useArtboards: tru
 artboard holding the art over it. `dxfPreset: "cnc"` (CNC / CAM; default `"custom"`) sets the options for cutting
 software that the call does not give: version `2000` (the oldest version that has both lightweight polylines and lineweights), `unit:
 "mm"` and `scale: 1`, `colors: 256` (all version 2000 holds), `preserve: "editability"` with `alterPaths: false` (every
-stroke a center line), `outlineText: true` (type as paths), and `rasterFormat: "png"`. DXF Options has the same choice as its Preset menu,
+stroke a center line), `outlineText: true` (type as paths), `includeImages: false` and `includeHatches: false` (the
+cutting paths alone: fills as their outlines, no image files), and `rasterFormat: "png"`. DXF Options has the same choice as its Preset menu,
 which shows Custom again once a field it sets is changed. What DXF can't hold (gradients and patterns as one colour,
 blending, opacity masks, raster effects, clipping) comes back in `warnings`. In R13 and later, an image that can't be decoded is left out with
 no linked file, and `warnings` carries "an image couldn't be decoded and is missing from the picture" once for all such
@@ -5932,10 +6034,12 @@ reduced size"; the document keeps the whole file) or, when it can't be read that
 allowance has bytes, drawn as a crossed gray box on the canvas and left out of exports ("too large to draw"); `document.open` and `file.place` say the same in their `warnings`). `links.info {id?}` is the Link Info: `image.info`'s fields plus
 `status`, `format`, the file's `ppi` and the `effectivePpi`, `scale` (% of 100%), `rotation` (degrees,
 counter-clockwise), `placement` and, for a linked file, `fileName`, `location`, `fileSize`, `created`, `modified`.
+With automation read roots, a file outside them has no `path` or `found` in `links.list` and `links.check`, and no
+`link`, `path`, `location`, `fileSize` or `modified` in `links.info`; its row keeps the file's name.
 `links.goTo {id}` selects an image; `links.embed {ids?}` keeps linked files' pixels in the document (an image whose
 file is missing stays linked: relink it first); `links.unembed {id, path}` writes an embedded image to a file
 (another extension converts it) and links to it, and without `path` returns `{name, dataBase64}`.
-`links.placementOptions {ids?, preserve?: transforms|bounds|fileDimensions|fit|fill, align?: topLeft…bottomRight,
+`links.placementOptions {ids?, preserve?: transforms|bounds|fileDimensions|fit|fill, align?: topLeft…bottomRight,
 clip?}` decides how a relinked or updated file takes an image's place (default `bounds`: stretched into the old
 bounds; `clip` puts it in a clip group of the old bounds when it is larger). The UI commands `links.editOriginal` and
 `links.reveal` open the linked file in its app or show it in its folder (desktop). Edit Original runs only from the app's window,
@@ -6276,6 +6380,33 @@ clipboard service offers it (the Windows desktop service doesn't read metafiles
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"file.place","params":{"path":"/tmp/chart.emf","at":[300,200]}}}
 ```
 
+## HP-GL import
+
+`document.open` and `file.place` read HP-GL/2 plot files (`.plt`, `.hpgl`, `.hgl`, `.hpg`) into one layer, with the
+artboard round the art. A file whose extension no other format reads opens as HP-GL when it starts with plotter
+instructions. Older HP-GL files are read by the HP-GL/2 rules for the instructions the two share. The reader follows
+the [HP-GL/2 and HP RTL Reference Guide](https://support.hp.com/sg-en/document/c01121263).
+
+Plotter units (1016 to the inch, y up) become points through the scaling the file sets (`IP`, `IR`, `SC`) and its
+rotation (`RO`). Each line drawn with the pen down is one stroked path in the pen's color (`SP`, `PC`, `NP`, `CR`)
+and width (`PW`, `WU`; 0.35 mm by default), with the line type (`LT`, `UL`) as a dash pattern and the line attributes
+(`LA`) as caps and joins. Circles, arcs, wedges and Bézier curves (`CI`, `AA`, `AR`, `AT`, `RT`, `EW`, `WG`, `BZ`,
+`BR`) are drawn as curves. Filled rectangles, wedges and polygons (`RA`, `RR`, `WG`, `PM` with `FP`) become filled
+paths, and edged ones (`EA`, `ER`, `EW`, `EP`) become stroked paths. Encoded polylines (`PE`) are read, and printer
+escape sequences and PJL lines around the instructions are skipped.
+
+Two rules are VectorCraft's own: before the first `SP` the pen is pen 1, and the hard-clip limits are 11 × 8.5 in
+from the origin, so P2 lies there when the file sets no scaling points.
+`SP0` draws nothing. Labels, the symbols of symbol mode (`SM`) and raster images are not drawn, the input window
+(`IW`) does not clip the art, the art of later pages is drawn over the first page, and hatched and patterned fills are
+filled solid; `warnings` lists each of these. A file named as a plot file that doesn't start with plotter
+instructions is refused with "not an HP-GL file". VectorCraft does not write HP-GL.
+
+```json
+{"name":"open_file","arguments":{"path":"/tmp/part.plt"}}
+{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"file.place","params":{"path":"/tmp/part.plt","at":[300,200]}}}
+```
+
 ## TIFF, BMP and Targa export
 
 `document.export` (and `export`) writes them like the other raster formats: one artboard (or `useArtboards`, one
@@ -6906,7 +7037,9 @@ the middle of its bounding box's right side, hollow on point type and filled on
 Type and Convert To Point Type. Either keeps the text and its styles and is one undo step; `ids` picks the objects
 (default: the selection). A frame of threaded text that `type.convertToPointType` converts leaves its thread with the
 text it holds, and the story flows through the other frames without that text; a thread left with one frame is no
-longer a thread.
+longer a thread. Area type with Dynamic Text (Block) on becomes point type with Dynamic Text off, at the sizes Block
+set its lines to, as `type.dynamicText {on: false}` leaves them; converting it back to area type does not turn Block
+on again.
 
 ```json
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"type.convertToAreaType","params":{"ids":[42]}}}
@@ -7658,6 +7791,31 @@ so in a warning.
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"type.dynamicText","params":{"on":true}}}
 ```
 
+`type.dynamicTextPreset {preset: "circle"|"arch"|"bow", position?: "above"|"center"|"below", flip?: bool, ids?}`
+(Type › Dynamic Text Presets › Circle, Arch and Bow) puts the selected point type and type on a path on a new path
+of the preset's shape and turns Dynamic Text on, so the text is sized to fill it. Circle puts the text on a circular
+path, Arch on an upward-curving path and Bow on a downward-curving one; `position` sets where the text sits against
+the path (above, center or below) and `flip` turns its direction
+([Dynamic Text overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/desktop/text-typography/work-with-dynamic-text/dynamic-text-overview.html)).
+The shapes and the rest of this entry are VectorCraft's own rules. The circle is as wide as the text, and the text
+runs clockwise round all of it from its bottom. Arch and Bow are a 120° arc of a circle whose chord is as wide as the
+text, bulging up or down, and the text runs along it from left to right. The width is, for point type, the length on the
+page of the longer side of the text's bounds, and for type on a path the longer side of its path's bounds on the
+page, so the same preset again leaves it as it is; the new path is centered where they were, and
+the shape is upright on the page when the object is rotated or scaled. Empty point type gets a path four ems of its
+first character wide. `position` (omitted:
+above) sets Type on a Path Options › Align to Path: above is Descender, center is Center and below is Ascender.
+`flip: true` then turns the text to the other side of its path, running the other way, as Type on a Path Options ›
+Flip does. Type on a Path Options › effect and Spacing stay as they are, and Type on a Path Options, the brackets and
+Type › Dynamic Text change the result afterwards. Area type in the selection is left as it is; with no point type
+or type on a path selected the command refuses with `` select point type or type on a path ``, and type on a path in
+a thread is refused as `type.dynamicText` refuses it. A preset that would leave every object as it is records no
+undo step. It replies `{ids, fitScale}` (the first object's factor).
+
+```json
+{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"type.dynamicTextPreset","params":{"preset":"arch","position":"center"}}}
+```
+
 ## Paragraph attributes per paragraph
 
 Each paragraph (text split at `\n`) has its own alignment, indents, space before and after, hyphenation,
@@ -7704,13 +7862,14 @@ Character Style Options uses `charStyle.edit {name, to, attrs}` to replace the n
 attribute map in one undo step. `to` is trimmed and must be unique. The command updates text using the style
 while preserving local overrides; Undo/Redo restores the definition and its users. The `charStyleOptions`
 dialog exposes `name`, `font_family`, `font_style`, `size`, `leading`, `kerning`, `tracking`, `case`,
-`position`, `underline`, `strikethrough`, `charAlign`, `h_scale`, `v_scale`, `baseline_shift`, `rotation`,
-`language`, `fill`, `fill_tint`, `stroke`, `stroke_tint`, `stroke_width`, `overprint_fill`, `overprint_stroke`,
+`position`, `underline`, `strikethrough`, `charAlign`, `h_scale`, `v_scale`, `baseline_shift`, `tcyUpDown`,
+`tcyLeftRight`, `rotation`, `language`, `fill`, `fill_tint`, `stroke`, `stroke_tint`, `stroke_width`, `overprint_fill`, `overprint_stroke`,
 `ot_figure`, `ot_position`, `ot_liga`, `ot_calt`, `ot_dlig`, `ot_swsh`, `ot_salt`, `ot_titl`, `ot_ordn`, `ot_frac`,
 `ot_sets`, `section` (`general`, `basic`, `advanced`, `color` or `opentype`), and `preview`. An empty field leaves its
 attribute unset. `leading` and `kerning` also accept `Auto` to store an explicit automatic value.
 Advanced Character Formats holds `h_scale` and `v_scale` (percent, 1 to 10000),
-`baseline_shift` (points, -1296 to 1296), `rotation` (degrees, stored from -180 to 180) and `language` (a name or tag from Document
+`baseline_shift` (points, -1296 to 1296), the Tate-chu-yoko Settings `tcyUpDown` and `tcyLeftRight` (points,
+-1296 to 1296, as `text.setRangeStyle` takes them; an explicit 0 stays distinct from unset), `rotation` (degrees, stored from -180 to 180) and `language` (a name or tag from Document
 Setup's languages; English: USA stores the explicit default `null`, and a tag not in the list that the style
 already has is kept). Language sets the language the characters are shaped in; it does not change hyphenation
 or spelling.
@@ -7740,7 +7899,7 @@ captured attributes. Without selected text, it starts with the character default
 The New Paragraph Style dialog has the sections of Paragraph Style Options, filled in from the selected
 paragraph's attributes, or without selected text from the paragraph defaults for the interface language, and OK
 sends the attributes of its sections as `attrs`. Reset Panel in Basic Character
-Formats removes those fields from the definition, Reset Panel in Advanced Character Formats removes its five, Reset
+Formats removes those fields from the definition, Reset Panel in Advanced Character Formats removes its seven, Reset
 Panel in Character Color removes its five attributes and Reset Panel in OpenType Features removes `features`.
 `ui.charStyleOptions.resetPanel {}` performs that reset for the section selected in either character-style
 dialog; it is disabled on General.
@@ -7897,7 +8056,10 @@ needs a person's approval too, and `plugin.install` refuses `grant: [permission]
 app connected, `ui.installPlugin` opens the approval dialog and returns `{pending: "pluginInstall"}`; `answer_dialog`,
 `ui.dialog.confirm` and injected input can't confirm it. Its OK takes input only once the question has been on screen
 in the focused window for half a second, counted again for every new question and after the window gets the focus
-back. A `vectorcraft-cli mcp` started with `--allow-plugin-grants`
+back. A question that a request asked, directly or through a file dialog it opened, can't be approved by the person
+either: the reply adds `approval: "personMustStartInstall"`, OK stays disabled, and the person installs the plug-in
+with Object › Plug-ins › Install Plug-in… themselves. A request's `replace: true` doesn't skip the question about
+taking another module's place. A `vectorcraft-cli mcp` started with `--allow-plugin-grants`
 accepts `grant` and `allowHeavy` from any request, in that session only (headless; it can't be combined with
 `--connect`, `--automation-read-root` or `--automation-write-root`). A server confined to folders has no plug-in
 store, so it reads no `grants.json`, and a module that lists permissions or asks for a heavy budget does not install
@@ -7964,7 +8126,9 @@ pendingItem}`; a command does not turn Safe Mode on or off. `plugin.setEnabled {
 off for the next launch, as Help › Safe Mode's Enable on Re-launch does; it does not load, unload or uninstall anything
 now, and `plugin.install` of a disabled plug-in turns it on. Turning a plug-in on by `id` or by installing it also turns
 on the file it is stored in, which names it when it stopped a launch while loading; when the new version can't be saved
-over that file, the plug-in stays disabled. `plugin.list` reports `safeMode` and `disabled`, and
+over that file, the plug-in stays disabled. When the new version is saved but its grant can't be, and the file can't be
+returned to what it held before (the old module, or no file), the plug-in is turned on, and the next launch skips it
+until it is approved. `plugin.list` reports `safeMode` and `disabled`, and
 `plugin.reload` skips disabled plug-ins. A change to the disabled list is saved on top of the list the file holds at
 that moment, so a change another window saved to the same preferences meanwhile is kept. When the list file can't be
 read (it is too large) or holds another format or version, it is left as it is; a file that isn't JSON is replaced.
@@ -8439,7 +8603,8 @@ keys without bounds make 1 step. `starts` gives, per object, the anchor of its f
 from (as the Blend tool's clicks on anchor points do; an open path's last anchor runs it the other way). With the
 Blend tool, `press_key` Escape drops the object clicked first and stops the next click adding to the blend
 just made; the document and the selection stay as they are. A blend
-among the objects takes the others in as more key objects, keeping its options, name and transparency:
+among the objects takes the others in as more key objects, keeping its options, name, transparency and whether it
+has a spine:
 
 ```json
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"object.blend.make","params":{"ids":[12,15],"starts":[0,2],"steps":8}}}
@@ -8447,6 +8612,23 @@ among the objects takes the others in as more key objects, keeping its options,
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"object.blend.info","params":{}}}
 ```
 
+`object.blend.createSpine {mode?: "auto" | "always" | "never"}` is the Blend panel's Create Spine menu: whether new
+blends get a spine (the [help page](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-colors/apply-transparency-and-blending/blend-panel-overview.html)
+describes the three choices). Without `mode` it reads the setting; both return `{mode}`. Auto, the default, and Always
+give every new blend a straight spine between the key centers, as before, whatever its key objects are. Never makes blends without a spine: their steps sit where a straight spine puts them, and
+`object.blend.info` reports `hasSpine: false` and no `spine`. Such a blend has no easing (`easingType` and `ramp` are
+refused, and the Blend panel dims Type and Ramp), Reverse Spine and the `object.blend.spine.*` commands refuse it
+("the blend has no spine"), and Release gives back its keys with no spine path. Replace Spine gives it a spine. The
+setting is kept with the preferences, is not an undo step and does not change blends already made, and
+`object.blend.make {createSpine}` chooses for one new blend. Any other value is refused ("`mode` must be one of auto,
+always, never") and changes nothing. A blend saved without a spine keeps `noSpine` in the native file; `.ai` and
+EPS files hold its drawn steps, as they do for every blend:
+
+```json
+{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"object.blend.createSpine","params":{"mode":"never"}}}
+{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"object.blend.make","params":{"ids":[20,31],"createSpine":"always"}}}
+```
+
 With the Blend tool active, `tool.select {tool: "blend"}` finishes the blend, as a click on the tool's button or W
 does: it drops the object clicked first and stops the next click adding to the blend just made. The document and the
 selection stay as they are. Choosing any other tool that is already active leaves its work as it is.
@@ -8457,7 +8639,7 @@ the spine passes nearest, `object.blend.spine.moveAnchor {anchor, x, y}` moves a
 `handle: "in" | "out"` it places that handle), `object.blend.spine.convertAnchor {anchor, to: "smooth" | "corner", x?, y?}` converts a point's handles (a Smooth drag with `x, y` creates opposite handles; Corner retracts both), `object.blend.spine.reshapeSegment {segment, t, dx, dy, perpendicular?}` bends a segment
 so its point at `t` moves by (dx, dy), turning a straight spine into a curve (`perpendicular` works as in `path.reshapeSegment`), and `object.blend.spine.removeAnchor
 {anchor}` deletes a point no key sits on; the first edit turns the spine into a path. Moving a key moves its end of the spine. Release
-(`object.blend.release`) leaves the spine as a path that paints nothing (`spines` in the result):
+(`object.blend.release`) leaves the spine of a blend that has one as a path that paints nothing (`spines` in the result):
 
 ```json
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"object.blend.spine.addAnchor","params":{"id":40,"x":150,"y":100}}}
@@ -9357,6 +9539,54 @@ there is no step. → `{symbols: [name…], ids: [instance id…], skipped: [{la
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"addon.document.symbolsFromLayers","params":{"replace":true}}}
 ```
 
+## Image Tools add-on
+
+Image Tools is a built-in add-on for placed images: its command is `addon.image.removeBackground`, and in the desktop
+app it lives in Object › Plug-ins › Image Tools. It is a VectorCraft addition.
+
+### Remove Background
+
+`addon.image.removeBackground` makes the background of the selected images, or of the images in `ids`, transparent by
+lowering the alpha of their own pixels. The work runs in the app, and no service or model is used.
+
+- With `background: "edges"` (the default), the background is the most common color along the image's edges. When the
+  edges hold at least as many clear pixels as pixels of that color, as after an earlier run, nothing is cleared.
+- With `background: "corners"`, the background is the average color of the image's four corner pixels. A clear corner
+  is left out of the average, and when all four are clear, nothing is cleared.
+- With `background: "colors"`, the background is the colors in `colors`. `colors` lists 1 to 16 colors, as an array or
+  as one string split by commas or spaces. Each is written as other color params take a hex color (`#rrggbb` or `#rgb`,
+  with or without the `#`) or named black, white, red, green or blue.
+- With `contiguous: true` (the default), the background is cleared only where it reaches in from an edge, so the same
+  color inside the subject stays. With `contiguous: false`, it is cleared wherever it is.
+- `tolerance` (0 to 100, default 10) is how near a pixel's color must be to a background color to be cleared, as a
+  percentage. With `match: "distance"` (the default), it is a percentage of the RGB distance from black to white. With
+  `match: "channels"`, it is a percentage of 255 steps on the one of red, green and blue that differs most, so a
+  tolerance of `t / 255 × 100` clears the colors within `t` 8-bit steps on every channel. `softness` (0 to 100,
+  default 10) is the band past the tolerance over which pixels fade from cleared to kept. These ranges and defaults
+  are VectorCraft's own.
+- A value outside 0 to 100, a `background` other than `edges`, `corners` or `colors`, a `match` other than `distance`
+  or `channels`, a `contiguous` that is not true or false, or a `colors` that lists no color, more than 16, or one that
+  is not a color or has an alpha part is refused, and the document stays as it was.
+
+The result stays an image, embedded as a PNG with an alpha channel and the source's color profile and resolution. An
+image of 16-bit samples keeps 16 bits, a grayscale image stays gray, and a linked image is embedded. All the images
+change in one undo step, and an image that `ids` names twice changes once. An image whose pixels do not change is left
+as it is, and when none changes the command adds no undo step and returns `changed: 0`. `cleared` counts the pixels
+made fully clear in the images that changed. The command refuses, and changes nothing, when an image is CMYK, a linked
+image shows its preview (embed or relink it first), an image would need more than the decode allowance while it is
+worked on (2 GiB, or 512 MiB in the web app, counted from the file's header before it is decoded), or every pixel of an
+image would be cleared. Remove Background… opens the command's dialog with Preview off; with Preview on, the canvas
+shows the result for the values in the dialog, and Cancel puts the image back. While a dialog previews the command,
+the session keeps the decoded pixels of the images it changes (at most 128 MiB, or 32 MiB in the web app), so the next
+preview step does not decode them again; it releases them when the dialog closes with OK or Cancel. A run that is not
+a preview step does not keep them.
+→ `{changed, ids, cleared}`
+
+```json
+{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"addon.image.removeBackground","params":{"background":"colors","colors":["#ffffff","#f0f0f0"],"tolerance":5,"softness":15}}}
+{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"addon.image.removeBackground","params":{"background":"corners","contiguous":false,"match":"channels","tolerance":12.55,"softness":0}}}
+```
+
 ## Type Tools add-on
 
 Type Tools is a built-in add-on for type: its commands are `addon.type.textTweaker` and `addon.type.releasePath`, and

docs/plugins.md

@@ -217,7 +217,16 @@ capability model proposed for PhotoCraft plug-ins
   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
-  and Escape work at once.
+  and Escape work at once. A module that would take the place of the installed plug-in with its id asks in the same
+  dialog.
+- **An install that automation asked for is not approved in its dialog.** When a control request, MCP, injected input,
+  or a file dialog that one of them opened (even when the person picks the file there) leads to the approval dialog, its
+  OK stays disabled, a confirm is refused even after the half second, and the dialog says that automation asked for the
+  install. `ui.installPlugin` returns `{pending: "pluginInstall", approval: "personMustStartInstall"}`. Cancel still
+  closes it. To install the plug-in, the person chooses Object › Plug-ins › Install Plug-in… and picks the file, or
+  opens it with File › Open or drops it on the window: the module is inspected again and the new question waits its
+  half second. A request's `replace: true` does not skip asking about taking another module's place. A module that
+  needs no approval still installs at once from any request. This is VectorCraft's own rule.
 - `plugin.install` refuses the module, naming the permissions it needs, unless this module already has a recorded grant
   (`plugin.inspect`'s `needsApproval` tells it beforehand). A request's `grant` is refused too: `plugin.install` takes
   it only with the approval the dialog gives. A `vectorcraft-cli mcp` or `run` started with `--allow-plugin-grants`
@@ -231,6 +240,13 @@ capability model proposed for PhotoCraft plug-ins
   `VECTORCRAFT_NO_PREFS` set there is no store, and a `grant` accepted under the flag lasts for that session only.
   With `--allow-plugin-grants`, pass `hash` set to the `plugin.inspect` entry's `hash` so that the module installed is
   the one the user saw.
+- The approval protects against plug-ins and automation clients (MCP, scripts and CLI requests): none of them can
+  approve a module's permissions. VectorCraft's own code records a grant only after that approval and when it loads
+  `grants.json`, and installs a module that lists permissions only under a grant recorded for this very module,
+  also when it loads the Additional Plug-ins Folder. The approval does not protect against native code linked into
+  VectorCraft or against another program running as the same user, which can change the files in the `Plug-ins`
+  folder. `grants.json` is not signed, so such a program can add a grant to it. `--allow-plugin-grants` is a choice
+  the person starting a headless session makes.
 - **Replacing asks first.** When the file is another module than the plug-in installed with its id, or, with none
   installed, its id has settings and a cache in the `Plug-ins` folder, Install Plug-in… and File › Open show its id
   and SHA-256 and ask whether to install it in place of that plug-in, which gives it the settings and cache kept for
@@ -245,7 +261,9 @@ capability model proposed for PhotoCraft plug-ins
   records the new hash. When the new module or its grant can't be written to the `Plug-ins` folder, the folder keeps
   the old module and its grant, and the old module loads at the next start. If the write that puts the old module back
   fails as well, the folder holds the new module with the old grant, the grant does not cover that module, and the
-  plug-in is skipped at the next start until it is approved again. A grant whose hash is not 64 lower-case
+  plug-in is skipped at the next start until it is approved again. When the folder held no module for that id, that
+  write removes the new module; when the removal fails, the folder holds the new module and no grant covers it. In
+  both cases a disabled plug-in is turned on, as for any install the folder holds. A grant whose hash is not 64 lower-case
   hexadecimal digits covers nothing. `plugin.remove` forgets the grant, and so does a successful `plugin.install` of a
   module that lists no permissions under that id, so the earlier bytes need a new approval. When `plugin.remove` can't
   remove the grant from `grants.json`, it returns an error, the plug-in stays installed, and a second `plugin.remove`
@@ -253,14 +271,16 @@ capability model proposed for PhotoCraft plug-ins
   write the module to the `Plug-ins` folder, or can't remove the grant from `grants.json`, the folder keeps the module
   it held and `grants.json` keeps the grant. The new module runs until the session ends. When the grant can't be
   removed and the module already stored can't be read back or written back, the new module stays in the folder, and
-  the grant does not count for the rest of the session. The grant also does not count when the folder held no module
-  for that id. A
+  the grant stops counting. The grant also stops counting when the folder held no module for that id. A
   `grants.json` larger than 1 MiB, or one that is not a JSON list, grants nothing: the new module stays in the folder,
   and `plugin.remove` removes the plug-in. A `grants.json` that can't be opened or read counts as a grant that can't be
   removed. When VectorCraft loads the `Plug-ins` folder, it forgets any grant for an id whose stored module lists no
-  permissions. When it can't remove that grant from `grants.json`, or can't read the file, the grant does not count for
-  the rest of the session, or until the plug-in is granted again, including for the next load, which tries the removal
-  again. In Safe Mode, and for
+  permissions. When it can't remove that grant from `grants.json`, or can't read the file, the grant stops counting,
+  including for the next load, which tries the removal again. A grant that stops counting in either of these cases
+  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,
   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

docs/releasing.md

@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ to the target triple, so host build scripts aren't affected.
 AppStream metainfo, the MIME type for VectorCraft documents, the icons and the licence files.
 
 **Document types.** The desktop entry's `MimeType` lists every format File › Open reads but PSD,
-PSB, `.ps` PostScript, Targa, PCX, Pixar, JPEG 2000 and HEIC/HEIF, so file managers list VectorCraft under Open With for them.
+PSB, `.ps` PostScript, Targa, PCX, Pixar, JPEG 2000, HEIC/HEIF and HP-GL, so file managers list VectorCraft under Open With for them.
 `ai.storyteller.vectorcraft.mime.xml` declares the types that shared-mime-info lacks: VectorCraft
 documents and templates, `.ait` templates and Affinity files (`application/x-affinity`). An `.af`
 file gets the Affinity type by its content, and `.afdesign` and `.afpub` files by their extension.

docs/roadmap.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Roadmap: milestones and what's next
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-10 · **Change:** minor (M10/G5: Energy Beams brush library; MCP docs list Energy Beams; previously minor: M10/G5: Skill Icons symbol library; MCP docs list Skill Icons; previously minor: M10/G5: Status Effects graphic style library; MCP docs catch-up for symbol libraries; previously minor: M10/G5: Inventory Icons built-in symbol library; previously minor: Edit › Edit Custom Dictionary…: its dialog adds, deletes and changes the custom dictionary's words, #4936; previously minor: M10/G5: Game HUD graphic style library; previously minor: resizable icon-strip flyouts and bottom-aligned panel footers, #5713; previously minor: M10/G5: Map Markers built-in symbol library; 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 are in; 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; 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; 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; M4/M7: `.ai`/EPS type keeps its tab stops, and right-aligned lines with tabs lay out as the file's page, #6147; M4/M7: `.ai`/EPS type from the text document lays its lines out closer to the file's page, within limits, #6137; 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; SVG CSS classes survive export and repeated import in all four styling modes (#2480); current-main integration retains event attributes and scripts; #3380 deletion-only review follow-up: independent survivors keep gradient placement, owned subpaths avoid discarded copies, and contracts/status/evidence are clarified; endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged; Indian-language hyphenation review and license allowlist, #4947; Hindi catalog and contributor loanword preferences; full wording review in progress; Effect dialogs: a colour swatch beside a hex colour opens the Color Picker, #5365; shape tools move the selection from its centre point and turn it from the zone outside a box corner, #5477; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-12 · **Change:** minor (Live Paint Bucket fills faces crossed in one drag (#6373); previously: #6404: transform-aware Eyedropper character copying; scores and estimates unchanged; previously: M10/G5: Energy Beams brush library; MCP docs list Energy Beams; previously minor: M10/G5: Skill Icons symbol library; MCP docs list Skill Icons; previously minor: M10/G5: Status Effects graphic style library; MCP docs catch-up for symbol libraries; previously minor: M10/G5: Inventory Icons built-in symbol library; previously minor: Edit › Edit Custom Dictionary…: its dialog adds, deletes and changes the custom dictionary's words, #4936; previously minor: M10/G5: Game HUD graphic style library; previously minor: resizable icon-strip flyouts and bottom-aligned panel footers, #5713; previously minor: M10/G5: Map Markers built-in symbol library; 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 are in; 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; 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; 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; M4/M7: `.ai`/EPS type keeps its tab stops, and right-aligned lines with tabs lay out as the file's page, #6147; M4/M7: `.ai`/EPS type from the text document lays its lines out closer to the file's page, within limits, #6137; 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; SVG CSS classes survive export and repeated import in all four styling modes (#2480); current-main integration retains event attributes and scripts; #3380 deletion-only review follow-up: independent survivors keep gradient placement, owned subpaths avoid discarded copies, and contracts/status/evidence are clarified; endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged; Indian-language hyphenation review and license allowlist, #4947; Hindi catalog and contributor loanword preferences; full wording review in progress; Effect dialogs: a colour swatch beside a hex colour opens the Color Picker, #5365; shape tools move the selection from its centre point and turn it from the zone outside a box corner, #5477; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
 >
 > Vector Halftone preview update (2026-11-10): temporary dot selection marks are hidden, and the bounding box stays available (#6369).
 >
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ native wording review, layout checks and a web Devanagari font remain. [Notes](l
 | M0 | Skeleton + vertical slice | ✅ done | — |
 | M1 | Selection, transform, layers, MCP (common command tools, strict keys, session resources and version-aware result hints) | ✅ mostly done (document-tab artwork drag with lossless resource transfer and one target Undo; malformed MCP app replies discard the connection without replay, #1761; bounded control socket waits and connection-slot recovery, #1726; bounded synthetic control input, #1709; no-op anchor Align keeps Undo, Redo and saved state (#1180 follow-up); transform reference point snaps to anchors/centres; rotated objects keep a rotated bounding box and their angle; Free Transform, Scale and Reflect along a rotated box pending; the Transform fields take one Tab each, the W/H link after them) | 4–6 |
 | M2 | Drawing tools + smart guides | ✅ mostly done (#3380 deletion creates independent selected path pieces and keeps bounds-fitted gradients in place; endpoint highlighting remains open; Polygon/Star exact-size count persistence, with repeated-drag, tool-switch and Cancel regression coverage; Curvature point markers without direction handles (#1236, in part); Direct Selection segment click/Delete preserves neighboring edges, #1278; Flare, Reshape, Live Corners widget dragging and per-corner radii and kinds landed, on any path's corners; Shaper rough-shape recognition and orientation steps, the remaining Pen modifier nuances; Shaper Groups with editable sources and separate fill/stroke edits landed; custom ruler origin with drag preview, active-artboard reset, relative X/Y fields and native round-trip (#1212); construction widget/refinements pending); a shape just drawn moves by its centre point and turns from the zone outside a corner with its tool still active (#5477); Tangent and straight-segment perpendicular snapping use saved Smart Guides Geometric Guides preferences and Control bar quick access (#2537), including the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); no View submenu; Copy and Cut with the Pen or Curvature tool take the anchors a Cmd/Ctrl-lent Direct Selection picked (#6123) | 12–18 |
-| M3 | Paint & appearance (swatches, color, gradient, stroke, appearance, transparency, styles) | ✅ done (M3.7–M3.98): swatches, groups, libraries, tints, Lab spots and Registration; Eyedropper styles highlighted text only (atomic transparency rejection); Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); Color Picker, Color panel, Color Guide, Color Themes, Edit Colors and Recolor Artwork (screen-bounded Edit chip list, #3416); gradients that follow every transform, the annotator, linked stops, freeform gradients, focal points, gradients on strokes and Expand; visible strokes when paint is added to inherited None/zero-width art (#1253); stroke geometry, arrowheads, dashes fitted to corners, stroke on type, width profiles and the Width tool (Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment in Width Point Edit; finite-arithmetic follow-up regressions and full CI passed ([Validation evidence](target-app-parity.md#evidence-what-ships-today-by-area))), Scale Strokes and preview bounds; Appearance targeting, container appearance, target circles, Expand Appearance; knockout, isolation, blend accuracy, CMYK blending, overprint, Attributes, masks and clipping, Flatten Transparency; graphic styles, links and libraries; CSS library export preserves fractional linear and radial gradient stop positions. Left: freeform gradients in SVG/PDF, mixed spot/process gradients in SVG and PDF gradients mixing a spot color with RGB or Lab stops export as stops or process colors; PDF export writes dithered gradient fills with spot stops, and Perceptual spot gradients with RGB or Lab stops other than white or more than 4,096 stops on their curve, as images in process colors; confirm the Scale Strokes & Effects default; Recolor model selection is available through the engine and MCP only (#2520); the dialog retains its existing controls | 4–8 |
+| M3 | Paint & appearance (swatches, color, gradient, stroke, appearance, transparency, styles) | ✅ done (M3.7–M3.98): swatches, groups, libraries, tints, Lab spots and Registration; Eyedropper copies transformed character dimensions (#6404) and styles highlighted text only (atomic transparency rejection); Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); Color Picker, Color panel, Color Guide, Color Themes, Edit Colors and Recolor Artwork (screen-bounded Edit chip list, #3416); gradients that follow every transform, the annotator, linked stops, freeform gradients, focal points, gradients on strokes and Expand; visible strokes when paint is added to inherited None/zero-width art (#1253); stroke geometry, arrowheads, dashes fitted to corners, stroke on type, width profiles and the Width tool (Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment in Width Point Edit; finite-arithmetic follow-up regressions and full CI passed ([Validation evidence](target-app-parity.md#evidence-what-ships-today-by-area))), Scale Strokes and preview bounds; Appearance targeting, container appearance, target circles, Expand Appearance; knockout, isolation, blend accuracy, CMYK blending, overprint, Attributes, masks and clipping, Flatten Transparency; graphic styles, links and libraries; CSS library export preserves fractional linear and radial gradient stop positions. Left: freeform gradients in SVG/PDF, mixed spot/process gradients in SVG and PDF gradients mixing a spot color with RGB or Lab stops export as stops or process colors; PDF export writes dithered gradient fills with spot stops, and Perceptual spot gradients with RGB or Lab stops other than white or more than 4,096 stops on their curve, as images in process colors; confirm the Scale Strokes & Effects default; Recolor model selection is available through the engine and MCP only (#2520); the dialog retains its existing controls | 4–8 |
 | M4 | Files (native, SVG, PDF, raster, Export for Screens, clipboard interop) | PDF authored ActualText preserved once in editable import (#6165; first-glyph line/style, bounded input; estimates unchanged); 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. `.ai`/EPS type from the text document keeps its paragraphs' tab stops (#6147); `.ai`/EPS type from the text document keeps auto leading per line, its hyphenation options, and may show more of the last lines the file sets in an area frame of its own, when growing the frame by its lines' deepest descent plus 0.05 pt shows them (#6137); ✅ done (M4.14–M4.98 on 2026-10-05): Save As/Save a Copy/Revert/templates, Data Recovery and background save, SVG import and export fidelity (units, text, symbols, filters, SVGZ, Preserve Editing, SVG Options), shared guarded PDF writer and windowed reader ([pdf-backend.md](pdf-backend.md)), PDF import (colours, layers, masks, editable text, security) and export (presets, marks, bleed, ICC and output intent, raster effects, subset fonts, PDF/X-1a, X-3 and X-4, PDF layers, overprint, page thumbnails, fast web view, PDF 1.3), Place and Links, Package, EPS and DXF in and out (EPS legacy mesh corners, vector opacity masks and raster page comparison verified; closed SPLINE flags round-trip and circular paths export as native CIRCLE/ARC, #1299), EMF/WMF, TIFF/BMP/Targa/PSD/GIF/PNG-8 export, Print and print presets, slices, Save for Web, TIFF in Export for Screens and Asset Export, clipboard flavours, File Info; AF.1–AF.4 add Affinity import (native layers, artboards, vectors, text and images from Affinity 1–3 files; the embedded preview only as a warned fallback; AF.4 expands current `.af` fixtures and every-board round-trip validation); EPS Save and Save As keep an opened EPS as EPS with its page frame and complete editable VectorCraft document (2026-10-26; G9 import fidelity unchanged). Left: DWG (use DXF), PSD placement as layers, overprint read back from PDF, Affinity export, polish; SVG CSS classes survive export and repeated import in all four styling modes (#2480); current-main integration retains event attributes and scripts; SVG CSS classes survive export and repeated import in all four styling modes (#2480); current-main integration retains event attributes and scripts | 3–6 (existing scope; Affinity export unestimated) |
 | M5 | Performance | 🟡 background render + caches + MT done; `vectorcraft-cli bench` and `vectorcraft-cli perf` (budget suite); opaque solid-fill knockout paths draw once in hard-edge/supersampled raster export, with analytical-AA compositing unchanged; file format v2 opens 3× faster (50k paths: 722 → 244 ms); raster effects (glows, shadows, blur, feather) no longer force the whole frame single-threaded (filtered offscreen per effect, verified equal to the single-threaded reference); Craquelure/Mosaic Tiles/Stained Glass distance searches optimized with pixel-invariance checks and the `texture_drag_perf` probe (#1257); effect-heavy demos need a clean-machine benchmark; dirty-region rendering, GPU backend spike pending | 15–25 |
 | M6 | Path operations (Pathfinder, Shape Builder, offset…) | ✅ mostly done (live compound shapes: Make, Alt-click a Shape Mode, member modes, Release, Expand (#4522); single-result Pathfinder names and SVG IDs retained (#1293); Divide open-cutting-path geometry, appearance and history verified (#1307; existing segment cap remains); Simplify preview/counts and rewritten-path component selection verified (#1272; the slider opens at the Auto-Simplify level; a Direct Selection part of a path simplifies on its own); Compound appearance and member fill-rule edits verified (#1197); Boolean precision on almost-horizontal edges fixed and the property tests made deterministic; Shape Builder gap detection, large-offset bug open); Shape Builder Gap Detection shares Live Paint’s spatial gap finder and temporary merge bridges (#2526); Custom is capped at 72 pt in the existing options dialog | 3–6 |
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ native wording review, layout checks and a web Devanagari font remain. [Notes](l
 | M9 | Live effects (+ 3D & Materials) | 🟡 2D effects done incl. Effect → Pathfinder, Color Adjustments and Document Raster Effects Settings; PDF export warns when the pixel cap lowers raster-effect resolution; Artistic › Colored Pencil, Cutout, Dry Brush, Film Grain, Fresco, Neon Glow, Paint Daubs, Palette Knife, Poster Edges, Rough Pastels, Smudge Stick, Sponge, Underpainting and Watercolor and Sketch › Halftone Pattern, Bas Relief, Charcoal, Conté Crayon, Photocopy, Stamp, Torn Edges and Water Paper done (57/57 Photoshop filters); Revolve with automatic smooth vector shading, default-on circular caps and continuous rims, Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate with one to ten colored directional lights and four original lighting presets; SVG Filters, remaining raster effects and 3D materials and shadows pending | 81–130 |
 | M10 | Brushes, symbols, patterns, Repeat | 🟡 pattern swatches (5 tile types, Pattern Options, editing mode, SVG `<pattern>`/PDF export) and live Repeat (radial/grid/mirror) done; interactive selected mirror axis implemented (focused and native checks passed; full CI blocked by an unrelated text test); symbol libraries done (Window › Symbol Libraries, five generated libraries (Basic Shapes, UI Frames, Map Markers, Inventory Icons, Skill Icons), User Defined, Other Library…, Save Symbols); brush libraries done (Window › Brush Libraries, six generated libraries, User Defined, Other Library…, Save Brushes); symbol editing shows draggable 9-slice guides (#5280), with guides outside the artwork still unsupported; brushes/symbols in progress | 23–37 |
 | M11 | Artboards & views (selected-set deletion shared by Artboards menu, trash and Properties, retaining artboard 1 when all are selected; Artboard deletion keys keep the first of an all-selected set and protect artwork; history prunes invalid indices while preserving valid multiselection (history tests and full workspace CI pass); click-to-fit objects with the Artboard tool (#1227), artboard escape routing and document setup modal handoff done; artboard panel/tool with Move Artwork for X/Y fields and Artboard Options, Trim View, middle-button pan, print tiling and the status bar's artboard navigator with synchronized Artboard tool selection done; Window › Arrange › Tile and Consolidate All Windows done; multiple windows, presentation polish) (cached canvas reprojection preserves scale during resize, rotation and DPI changes; regression-tested and contributor-confirmed 2026-10-19; estimates unchanged) (cached canvas dimensions match the renderer limit before cache-key creation, view construction and worker submission; regression-tested; estimates unchanged); status-bar pointer coordinates follow the active ruler origin and General units | 🟡; Artboard Options shares existing presets and orientation controls and can fit artwork without moving it; artwork fitting includes all drawn document art across artboards and off-board; artwork bounds are cached by active document and revision, and selection uses the shared bounds cache across artboards | 15–25 |
-| M12 | Advanced color & art (CMYK/ICC, separations, Gradient Mesh, Live Paint, Image Trace, Graphs) | 🟡 Gradient Mesh, Live Paint, Image Trace (junction-returning pieces retain their positioned boundaries; a simpler contour walk with identical output; an edge's sub-pixel shift is the same from either side; notches read only their own piece; collapsed loops keep few segments; large images trace with a warning; Auto Color keeps rare distinct colours; quick presets trace at once and the Image Trace button opens the adjustment controls; Properties reopens them; tiny fitted contours retain islands and holes; Create Strokes: exact crop EDT, Guo–Hall thinning and maximal-disc graph simplification; 15 presets, the 14 documented ones each with an enhanced version; Ignore Color, Shapes, Auto Grouping and Gradients options; measured in `image-trace-quality.md`; closed outlines retain their interior after straightening; the Flat Logo mode places edges to a fraction of a pixel, restores sharp corners, snaps lines and circles, and refuses gradients; live trace result bounds and selection highlights exclude the retained bitmap except in source-image views), Recolor Artwork, colour management (ICC, soft proofing, separations preview), Graphs (all 9 tools, Graph Data/Type, group-selected series colours persist through regenerate/save/open) done; Graph Design and Marker designs, Transpose and Switch x/y, `\|` label line breaks, the pie options, drop shadows, the legend across the top, overlapping widths, First Row/Column in Front, filled lines, kept label formatting and the Graph Data worksheet done; graph Column designs pending; Vector Halftone Preview keeps the selection box without drawing dot selection marks (#6369) | 6–10 |
+| M12 | Advanced color & art (CMYK/ICC, separations, Gradient Mesh, Live Paint, Image Trace, Graphs) | 🟡 Gradient Mesh, Live Paint, Image Trace (junction-returning pieces retain their positioned boundaries; a simpler contour walk with identical output; an edge's sub-pixel shift is the same from either side; notches read only their own piece; collapsed loops keep few segments; large images trace with a warning; Auto Color keeps rare distinct colours; quick presets trace at once and the Image Trace button opens the adjustment controls; Properties reopens them; tiny fitted contours retain islands and holes; Create Strokes: exact crop EDT, Guo–Hall thinning and maximal-disc graph simplification; 15 presets, the 14 documented ones each with an enhanced version; Ignore Color, Shapes, Auto Grouping and Gradients options; measured in `image-trace-quality.md`; closed outlines retain their interior after straightening; the Flat Logo mode places edges to a fraction of a pixel, restores sharp corners, snaps lines and circles, and refuses gradients; live trace result bounds and selection highlights exclude the retained bitmap except in source-image views), Recolor Artwork, colour management (ICC, soft proofing, separations preview), Graphs (all 9 tools, Graph Data/Type, group-selected series colours persist through regenerate/save/open) done; Graph Design and Marker designs, Transpose and Switch x/y, `\|` label line breaks, the pie options, drop shadows, the legend across the top, overlapping widths, First Row/Column in Front, filled lines, kept label formatting and the Graph Data worksheet done; graph Column designs pending; Vector Halftone Preview keeps the selection box without drawing dot selection marks (#6369); Live Paint Bucket fills faces crossed in one drag (#6373) | 6–10 |
 | M13 | Automation (Actions ✅ record/playback, persisted; variables, scripting, batch) | 🟡 MCP `add_text` exposes existing vertical point, area and path type; `script.run` and File › Scripts › Other Script… run JavaScript files, and Window › Script Console shows their output; the script document model and batch work remain | 18–27 |
 | M14 | 1.0 polish (preferences, shortcut editor, workspaces, accessibility, packaging for all OSes) (status messages and readouts use stable responsive allocations sized for localized labels and ordinary coordinates; sample widths cached by language/unit/DPI; regression-tested and contributor-confirmed 2026-10-19; estimates unchanged) | 🟡 Icon-strip flyouts resize on their free edges and retain sizes (#5713); interim macOS cursor delivery (#2292) uses existing artwork and host-owned AppKit cursors; headless coverage only, native menu/focus/handback and display validation pending. Dock groups collapse to their tabs by a double-click on a tab (UI.8); Preferences › General › Constrain Angle acts for the arrow keys, Shift drags and new objects (#394, 2026-10-21); numeric-field pointer selection and focus regression-tested (#1326, in part; short movements still select all); RPM runtime capabilities and glibc floor checked (#1275; real-distro install/start-up pending), Eyedropper cursor with precise-setting checks (#1269), Preferences, shortcut editor (chords with Shift and a punctuation key fire as typed; other apps' text shortcut sets imported), workspaces (each keeps its layout changes until Reset <name>, UI.7), Window › Help Bar shown or hidden apart from the status bar and kept in saved workspaces, panels docked by dragging into any dock group (as tabs or a top/bottom split) or into the icon column, and closed from a dock tab's context menu (UI.6), a custom title bar on Windows/Linux with a Home button, content-sized dialogs, menus that scroll when longer than the window and macOS native menu dismissal done (M14.8), and native macOS save sheets with a Format menu (#866); titled PDF exports set `DisplayDocTitle` for viewers and accessibility checkers (#3646); accessibility and broader Windows/Linux packaging/QA pending; floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it (#5925, in part), with pointer and native-window regression coverage; estimates unchanged; numeric spinner arrows keep repeating while held with the mouse (#6307) | 18–28 |
 | — | Interaction fidelity pass (every tool's modifiers, Properties panel per context, isolation, nuance; width-point creation and adjoining adjustment regression-tested; dialog layout reviewed) | ⬜ (new ruler-guide Alt orientation implemented; existing-guide Escape cancellation regression-tested; broader pass remains) | 60–90 |
@@ -190,6 +190,8 @@ separate. Scores and hours unchanged. [Behavior and command details](development
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-12 | minor | M12: Live Paint Bucket fills faces crossed in one drag (#6373). 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 | M10/G5: Energy Beams built-in brush library; MCP docs catch-up; estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | M10/G5: Skill Icons built-in symbol library; MCP docs catch-up; estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-10 | minor | M10/G5: Status Effects built-in graphic style library; MCP docs catch-up for UI Frames and Map Markers; estimates unchanged |
@@ -379,4 +381,4 @@ separate. Scores and hours unchanged. [Behavior and command details](development
 
 2026-10-28 behavior correction: 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.
 ## EPS Save evidence (2026-10-26)
-Ordinary Save and Save As keep EPS as EPS, with the chosen page frame, transparent margins and the complete editable VectorCraft document. Existing import-loss confirmation and transparency warnings remain; the Save TIFF preview is capped at 1024 pixels, while Export retains 2048. See [file-format-parity.md](file-format-parity.md#eps-save-and-source-protection) for limits and regression evidence. This narrows G9 save-back workflow coverage; native Illustrator editing-data fidelity, parity scores and hour estimates are unchanged.
+Ordinary Save and Save As keep EPS as EPS, with the chosen page frame, transparent margins and the complete editable VectorCraft document. Existing import-loss confirmation and transparency warnings remain; the Save TIFF preview is capped at 1024 pixels, while Export retains 2048. See [file-format-parity.md](file-format-parity.md#eps-save-and-source-protection) for limits and regression evidence. This narrows G9 save-back workflow coverage; native Illustrator editing-data fidelity, parity scores and hour estimates are unchanged. Since 2026-11-12 the EPS Options of Save As show Use Artboards, unchecked by default: unchecked, the bounding box fits the visible art; checked, Save keeps the chosen page frame and margins described here.

docs/ui-parity.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # UI and interaction parity
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-11 · **Change:** minor (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 (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)
 >
 > Vector Halftone preview update (2026-11-10): temporary dot selection marks are hidden, and the bounding box stays available (#6369).
 >
@@ -271,6 +271,7 @@ tools, never checked side by side) isn't captured row by row.
 | Split Into Grid dialog: number, height or width, gutter and total for rows and columns, Add Guides, Preview | done | #1462; opens at the selection's size; several paths become one grid painted as the topmost one; a typed height or width keeps the gutter and changes the total (our choice) |
 | Reference point locator (nine squares) in Control bar and Transform panel | done | |
 | Transform panel menu: Transform Object Only, Transform Pattern Only, Transform Both (one checked), Use Registration Point for Symbol | done | `transformPanelPatterns` (`object`, `pattern`, `both`) sends `objects` and `patterns` with every field, flip and menu flip of the Transform panel and the Properties panel's Transform section; `useRegistrationPointForSymbol` makes them measure and transform one selected symbol instance from its symbol's registration point (Symbol Options › Registration), where the instance's flips, rotations and shears put it, instead of the reference point; the Properties panel's rotation and flips turn and mirror about it too ([Transform panel overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/reshape-transform-objects/transform-panel-overview.html)); until a choice is made (`default`) the panels follow General › Transform Pattern Tiles as before, the menu checking Transform Both while it is on and Transform Object Only while it is off |
+| Transform panel menu and New Document › Advanced Options: Align New Objects to Pixel Grid | done | `document.setup {alignNewObjectsToPixelGrid}` and `file.new {alignNewObjectsToPixelGrid}`: paths and compound paths drawn while it is on are pixel-aligned; on in the Mobile and Web presets; art already in the document, pasted, duplicated or placed keeps its own property (our choice) |
 | Transform panel, Properties and Control bar X/Y/W/H of the anchor points selected with Direct Selection | done | #1839 (fixes #1824): they show and edit the selected points' bounds; a whole-object selection is unchanged |
 
 ## Nudging, numeric entry and precision
@@ -302,6 +303,7 @@ tools, never checked side by side) isn't captured row by row.
 | Space: Hand; Cmd+Space / Cmd+Alt+Space: zoom in/out; middle button pans | done | Space pressed after a tool takes a drag keeps the view still and shows that tool's cursor. Shape and anchor tools may use Space to move the geometry being drawn. Cmd+Space pressed mid-drag likewise keeps the active tool cursor. Space held before a press starts a view gesture, and its view cursor returns after release. `space_during_a_pencil_drag_keeps_the_pencil_cursor`, `cmd_space_mid_tool_drag_keeps_the_active_tool_cursor` |
 | Document window scroll bars along the right and bottom edges (Normal and Full Screen Mode with Menu Bar; none in Full Screen and Presentation Mode): a thumb as long as the view against the art and the artboards; dragging it scrolls, a click on the track pages, the wheel over a bar scrolls along it; in a rotated view they follow the screen's axes | partial | #2322. The span is the art and the artboards with half a window around them, not Illustrator's 227 in canvas: VectorCraft has no bounded drawing area (#2284). A track click pages rather than jumping to the click; the page size and the rotated-view behaviour are our own choice (the public documentation gives neither) |
 | Cmd/Ctrl: last-used selection tool; Cmd+Alt: Group Selection inside Direct Selection | done | Cmd+Alt lends Group Selection only while Direct Selection is active (Cmd borrow from the Pen keeps Direct Selection so Alt stays copy/subtract); Cmd alone lends Direct Selection the Selection tool: its bounding box shows while Cmd is held over objects selected whole and its handles scale and rotate them, and a Cmd drag moves the whole object while its direct-selected anchors stay selected (#3901; no box over a selection with anchors picked yet); engine pointer and canvas regressions |
+| Eyedropper copies effective character dimensions between transformed text objects | done | Point/area and grouped text, highlighted ranges, reverse/remembered sampling, opt-outs and atomic invalid-transform rejection; `scaled_type_pick_*` (#6404) |
 | Eyedropper styles highlighted characters only and preserves ranges across Type switches | done | Font/paint, Shift color-only, Unicode, Undo/Redo and stale-range regression tests; enabled non-neutral source or target object transparency is refused atomically; disable Transparency to sample supported attributes |
 | Eyedropper reads visible sources while their layer/object is locked or outside isolation | done | Ordinary/Shift/Shift+Alt and gradient-stop reads preserve the source and selection; Alt reverse remains editable-only; hidden art stays excluded (`eyedropper_sources.rs`, #1251) |
 | Add a visible stroke after drawing with inherited None/zero-width paint | done | Paint and Swap Fill/Stroke restore the existing 1 pt default; positive widths and painted zero widths stay as set; Undo/Redo and targeted appearance items tested (`stroke_visibility.rs`, #1253) |
@@ -435,7 +437,7 @@ next unit in the order a right-click on a ruler lists them, from Feet back to Po
 | Window › Help Bar shows or hides the tool-help strip apart from the status bar; kept with the preferences and in saved workspaces; Presentation Mode hides both bars | done | `window.helpBar`; `help_bar_toggle_is_independent_and_saved_in_workspaces`, `help_bar_and_status_bar_render_independently`, `legacy_help_bar_visibility_follows_each_layouts_status_bar` |
 | Background Export: a progress dialog with the file name, the artboard count and a bar (busy for one artboard and for formats made in one go), Cancel (Esc) and Continue in Background; it opens after 0.4 s and never over another dialog. A cancelled export writes no file | done | #2564; on the shared `vectorcraft_doc::cancel` token (#2546), so a cancelled render keeps no half-drawn pattern tile or effect raster. The bar moves between artboards, not within one. Save As, Export for Screens and Export Selection don't show it yet |
 | Swatch, graphic style and symbol library panels: each library opens in a panel of its own, several at once, that floats, groups, docks and closes like any panel; opening an open library brings its panel forward; Previous / Next Library change the library in place; the panel menu's Persistent reopens the panel at startup with its view and find field (a library loaded from a file is read again; when its file is missing the panel reopens showing the file's path with Locate Library…, and the status bar names the file) | done | #2603; panel ids `library:<kind>:<id>`, `ui.libraryPanel {panel, library?, view?, showFind?, persistent?}`, `ui.libraryPanel.locate {panel, path?}`; the library panels have no sort option, as before |
-| DXF export/import preserves intended curve closure | done | #1299; R13–2018 closed SPLINE bit set/read; an open curve ending at its start stays open; knots and control points unchanged; native CIRCLE/ARC export and CNC preset remain pending |
+| DXF export/import preserves intended curve closure | done | #1299; R13–2018 closed SPLINE bit set/read; an open curve ending at its start stays open; knots and control points unchanged; circular cubic paths export as native CIRCLE/ARC where stroke semantics permit; DXF Options' Preset menu and `document.exportDxf`'s `dxfPreset: "cnc"` set the CNC / CAM options (#5500) |
 | macOS save sheet: choose the format from a menu | done | #866; the save panel is VectorCraft's own `NSSavePanel` with its Format menu set before the sheet opens (`apps/vectorcraft/src/mac_save_format.rs`); #1855 had withdrawn the menu that was added after the sheet began, which made Save As, Save a Copy and the first Save show no sheet |
 | Preferences: every option acts | partial | 2 stored but unused (#394, audited 2026-10-30): Scratch Disks, Legacy vector clipboard; the rest act (Units › East Asian Type since 2026-10-31; Open Documents As Tabs: cleared, new documents open in floating windows). General › Corner Radius drives the Rounded Rectangle tool and follows its ↑/↓ (2026-10-24) |
 | Preferences › General › Constrain Angle | done | arrow keys and Shift drags along the turned axes; the Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse and grid tools, point and area type and the shape size dialogs draw along them with the bounding box turned; Shift-drawn polygons and stars keep the turned base orientation; the Line Segment tool's Shift steps count from it (#394, <https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/arrange-objects/rotate-objects-by-specific-angles.html>); arcs, spirals, flares and Pen paths are not turned |
@@ -508,10 +510,18 @@ rendering, swatch conflicts, cancellation, rotated/zoomed views and target Undo/
 coverage (`tests_document_drag`, `tests_clipboard`). Overflow-menu and cross-window drag remain
 separate. Scores and hours unchanged. [Behavior and command details](development.md#drag-artwork-between-document-tabs-2026-10-22).
 
+## Live Paint Bucket
+
+Dragging from a face fills the visible faces crossed in that Live Paint group, even when a
+narrow face lies between pointer events. Undo restores the whole drag, and Escape cancels it
+before release (#6373). [Paint faces and edges](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/learn-painting-basics/paint-with-the-live-paint-bucket-tool.html).
+
 ## Revision history
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-12 | minor | Live Paint Bucket fills faces crossed in one drag (#6373). 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 | 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. |