diff --git a/crates/tools/src/text.rs b/crates/tools/src/text.rs index 7fec4052b..3e854231d 100644 --- a/crates/tools/src/text.rs +++ b/crates/tools/src/text.rs @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ //! the Type tool […] and click anywhere on the object's path", [Create text](https://web.archive.org/web/20220127090642/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/creating-text.html); //! "To create horizontal text along a path, select the Type tool or the Type On A Path tool […] If //! the path is closed, rather than open, you must use the Type On A Path tool", [Create type on a -//! path](https://web.archive.org/web/20220127000000/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/creating-type-path.html)), +//! path](https://web.archive.org/web/20220127090635/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/creating-type-path.html)), //! Alt or not: type along a closed path stays with Type on a Path. //! Area Type / Type on a Path: click a path to turn it into a text frame or a baseline //! (`text.createInPath`). While type is being edited, a click that lands on no type only diff --git a/docs/type-parity.md b/docs/type-parity.md index c63e17840..9c0b7d400 100644 --- a/docs/type-parity.md +++ b/docs/type-parity.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Type parity -> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-31 · **Change:** minor (Glyphs panel: the character selected with the Type tool is highlighted and scrolled into view, #4908; previously minor: Serbian in Cyrillic and Latin and Croatian among the languages, with their quote marks; scores unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; Units › East Asian Type acts, with Q and Ha units (#394); scores unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x) +> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-01 · **Change:** minor (the Type tools make area type or type on a path from a clicked path; scores unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x) Type is Illustrator's largest single area by use (weight 13 of 105 across "Type core" and "Type advanced" in [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md)). This checklist lists the features one by one. Status is from the @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ against Illustrator's public documentation; **estimated** unless noted. |---|---|---| | Soft return (forced line break, Shift+Enter) | done | Shift+Enter inserts a soft return (U+2028), breaking the line without starting a new paragraph; paragraph spacing (space before/after) and first-line indents apply only at paragraph ends; continuation lines in lists do not repeat the marker; soft return lines in justified text do not spread (#2754) | | Native font-family labels | partial | With Show Font Names in English off, localized legacy names are used when typographic names contain no native label (#2208); loaded-font and catalog-only regressions. Choosing among multiple native languages is unchanged. | -| Point, area and type-on-a-path type; vertical variants | done / partial | vertical point, area and path type have initial support; fullwidth `！` / `？` keep the nominal glyph upright when no vertical alternate exists (Unicode Tu); in a non-rectangular area a word too wide for the top lines moves down to the first line that holds it (#1615); Escape while typing ends the edit, keeps the type selected and switches to the Selection tool (#1802); `text.create` and `text.createInPath` take `justify` (#1752); MCP `add_text` forwards `vertical` to both commands | +| Point, area and type-on-a-path type; vertical variants | done / partial | vertical point, area and path type have initial support; fullwidth `！` / `？` keep the nominal glyph upright when no vertical alternate exists (Unicode Tu); in a non-rectangular area a word too wide for the top lines moves down to the first line that holds it (#1615); Escape while typing ends the edit, keeps the type selected and switches to the Selection tool (#1802); `text.create` and `text.createInPath` take `justify` (#1752); MCP `add_text` forwards `vertical` to both commands; the Type and Vertical Type tools make area type when a closed path's outline is clicked and type on a path when an open one is, with pointers that say which, as the public help describes ([Create text](https://web.archive.org/web/20220127090642/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/creating-text.html), [Create type on a path](https://web.archive.org/web/20220127090635/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/creating-type-path.html)) | | Area Type Options (rows, columns, inset, first baseline, Text Flow by rows or by columns, Auto Size, Shrink Text to Fit) | done | Text Flow fills the cells down each column first (By Columns, the default, as files from before it open) or across each row first (By Rows), in the dialog and `text.areaOptions {flow}` (#4978); the commands that make or restyle type say when it does not fit its frame; MCP `add_text` takes Auto Size and Shrink Text to Fit (#1471) | | Threaded text, Fit Headline, Text Wrap | done | Fit Headline sees wrapping in a frame one line tall (#1444); a thread holds area type and type on a path in any mix, as Illustrator links type in an area or along a path ([help](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/manage-text-area.html)) | | Threading from the ports: selected area type and type on a path show an in port and an out port, empty, with an arrow on a side where the frame is threaded, or with a red "+" in the out port when the text doesn't fit; a click on either port loads the text; a click on a closed path, area type or type on a path threads into it, a click on empty canvas makes a frame of the same kind, shape and size there, a drag draws a rectangular frame; the frame placed comes after the clicked one from its out port and before it from its in port (the story then starts there); Escape or another tool cancels; a double-click on a threaded port breaks the thread there | partial | #2572: the Selection tool, `text.thread.add {from, to?, rect?, at?, before?}`, as the reference app's help describes ports and threading ([archived help, Threading text between objects](https://web.archive.org/web/20210119051048/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/creating-text.html), [create text threads](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/add-manage-text/create-text-threads-between-objects.html)); area type's in port sits on the left side below the top-left corner, type on a path's just before its start bracket; Show Text Threads draws its lines between the same ports; with more than 1,000 such objects selected no ports are drawn. a double-click on a port where the frame is threaded breaks the thread there, the story flowing into the frames before the break and the frames after it left empty, still threaded with each other when two or more (`text.thread.break`, [archived help](https://web.archive.org/web/20220127090642/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/creating-text.html)). Remaining: the ports only take clicks with the Selection tool, and the loaded cursor borrows the I-beam until it's drawn | @@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ Character Styles menu New/Redefine and footer New capture the first selected cha | Date | Change | Summary | |---|---|---| +| 2026-11-01 | minor | The Type and Vertical Type tools make area type in a clicked closed path and type on a path along a clicked open one, with their own pointers; each type tool has its own icon; scores unchanged (estimated) | | 2026-10-31 | minor | Units › East Asian Type acts (#394): Q and Ha (a quarter of a millimetre each) are units that preference offers; scores unchanged | | 2026-11-01 | minor | Glyphs panel (#4908): the character selected with the Type tool (a range's first, else the one before the caret) is highlighted in the grid and scrolled into view when the selection moves to another character; Show › Alternates for Current Selection not yet; scores unchanged | | 2026-11-01 | minor | Serbian: Cyrillic (`sr-Cyrl`), Serbian: Latin (`sr-Latn`) and Croatian (`hr`) in the language list, with their quote marks (Serbian „…” and ’…’ per the Pravopis srpskoga jezika, Matica srpska 2010, ISBN 978-86-7946-079-0, т. 168, and [CLDR `sr`](https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/main/sr.xml); Croatian „…“ and ‚…‘ per [CLDR `hr`](https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/main/hr.xml)); Serbian text gets the fonts' Serbian forms (italic б, г, д, п, т); scores unchanged |