File formats: HP-GL (.plt) plot files open and place

File › Open and File › Place refused plotter files: HP-GL/2 files
(.plt, .hpgl, .hgl, .hpg) were not a format VectorCraft reads.

The format table gets a read-only HP-GL format, read by a new
vectorcraft_cad::hpgl module. Each line the pen draws becomes a stroked
path in its pen's color and width, with the line type as a dash pattern
and the line attributes as caps and joins. Circles, arcs, wedges and
Bézier curves are drawn as curves. Filled and edged rectangles, wedges
and polygons (polygon mode) become filled or stroked paths, and encoded
polylines, scaling points, user units and rotation are read. Plotter
units (1016 to the inch, y up) become points, and the artboard holds
what the art paints. Place brings the art in as one group. Older HP-GL
files are read by the HP-GL/2 rules for the instructions the two share.

A file is recognized by its first instructions, after any printer
escape sequences and PJL lines, so a plot file also opens under an
extension no other format reads. VectorCraft's own rules where the
device decides: before the first SP the pen is pen 1, and the hard-clip
limits are 11 x 8.5 in, which P2 takes when the file sets no scaling
points. Labels, symbol-mode symbols and raster images are not drawn,
the input window does not clip, hatched fills are filled solid, and
later pages are drawn over the first; the warnings list each. Objects,
path points and pen widths are capped, and the import fuzzer covers
random, mutated and garbage plot files.

An importer plug-in that lists .plt, .hpgl, .hgl or .hpg now opens
those files only when document.open names it with `importer`.

Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/file-format-parity.md,
docs/target-app-parity.md, docs/releasing.md.

docs/file-format-parity.md

@@ -291,6 +291,7 @@ Names in the editing data that aren't UTF-8 (layers, objects, artboards, colors,
 | 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 |
+| 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 (merged image, every mode and depth; `.psd` and `.pdd`) | yes (layered, max editability) | placing as layers (Photoshop Import Options) missing; the embedded ICC profile's tags are 4-byte aligned (#1584) |

docs/mcp.md

@@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ opens the picker through `run_command` with the remote backend.
 | `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 Photoshop file as its merged image; 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. |
+| `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 Photoshop file as its merged image; 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. |
 | `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. |
@@ -6049,6 +6049,33 @@ 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

docs/releasing.md

@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ 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/target-app-parity.md

@@ -687,7 +687,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
 - **Artboard deletion keys:** Delete/Backspace delete selected boards in one Undo step, retaining the original first board in the current order when all are selected, as in the public [Delete artboards guide](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/create-manage-artboards/add-edit-artboards/delete-artboards.html). The last board and active drags stay protected; neither key clears selected artwork. Headless shortcut regressions in `tests/distortkeys.rs` cover reordered boards, artwork, saved state and Undo/Redo.
 - **Locked artboards:** a click in the Artboards panel's lock column locks or unlocks an artboard in one undo step (`artboard.setProps {index, locked}`), and the native format saves the lock. The Artboard tool doesn't move, copy, resize or delete a locked artboard, Rearrange and Fit to Artwork Bounds leave it as it is, and its name isn't edited on the canvas. The art on it (each object whose bounds overlap it, a group as one object) acts as locked art until it is unlocked: clicks, marquees, `select.set`, `select.all` and the tools pass over it, and commands that act on the selection leave it; art drawn or pasted onto it stays selected and editable until the selection leaves it out. Tests in `crates/doc/src/lib.rs`, `tests/panelcmds.rs`, `xform/artboard.rs`, `panels/artboards.rs` and `canvas.rs` cover them. Public references: [Lock artboards](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/create-manage-artboards/organize-manage-artboards/lock-artboards.html) and [Managing Artboards in Illustrator](https://creativepro.com/managing-artboards-in-illustrator/).
 - **Linux RPM packaging:** 64-bit runtime capabilities replace Fedora-specific required package names (#1275); glibc 2.35, libm and libgcc_s are declared alongside dynamically loaded xkbcommon and Vulkan/EGL. Generated x86_64/aarch64 metadata and isolated synthetic-provider resolution checked; real-distro install/start-up QA remains pending.
-- **Linux file associations:** the desktop entry lists the MIME type of every format File › Open reads but PSD, PSB, `.ps` PostScript, Targa, PCX, Pixar, JPEG 2000, HEIC/HEIF and JPEG XL, `.ai`, `.ait` and EPS included, and the MIME package declares the types shared-mime-info lacks (VectorCraft documents and templates, `.ait`, Affinity), so file managers list VectorCraft under Open With for them, as Finder does on macOS. `the_linux_desktop_entry_opens_every_readable_format` in `apps/vectorcraft/src/tests.rs` checks both files against `OPEN_EXTS`. On Debian 13, Ubuntu 24.04 and Fedora 42, `desktop-file-validate` accepts the desktop entry, `update-mime-database` accepts the MIME package, and `gio` registers the app for every one of these types.
+- **Linux file associations:** the desktop entry lists the MIME type of every format File › Open reads but PSD, PSB, `.ps` PostScript, Targa, PCX, Pixar, JPEG 2000, HEIC/HEIF, JPEG XL and HP-GL, `.ai`, `.ait` and EPS included, and the MIME package declares the types shared-mime-info lacks (VectorCraft documents and templates, `.ait`, Affinity), so file managers list VectorCraft under Open With for them, as Finder does on macOS. `the_linux_desktop_entry_opens_every_readable_format` in `apps/vectorcraft/src/tests.rs` checks both files against `OPEN_EXTS`. On Debian 13, Ubuntu 24.04 and Fedora 42, `desktop-file-validate` accepts the desktop entry, `update-mime-database` accepts the MIME package, and `gio` registers the app for every one of these types.
 
 - **Architecture:** 19+ crates with enforced layering (`cargo xtask layers`). Every action is a command (~400 engine + ~50 UI). Undo is unlimited via structural sharing. `command.batch` runs several commands as one transaction.
 - **Parameter schemas:** a command can carry a machine-readable parameter schema (the new `vectorcraft-apischema` crate): each parameter's type, range, unit, whether it is required, its default, whether null counts as left out, and the API levels it was added and deprecated at. `engine.commands` lists the schema in the shape of a JSON Schema 2020-12 object schema, a test keeps the command's `params` text equal to the text the schema writes, and a new call has the params checked against it before the command runs (batch steps before the first step), with an error naming the parameter and no change to the document; saved steps keep a key the schema does not name, and their values are checked. The View commands `view.capsLock`, `view.saved.new`, `view.saved.edit`, `view.saved.list`, `view.transparencyGrid` and `view.snapToGlyph.options` have schemas. The schemas belong to API level 1 (`vectorcraft_engine::schemas::API_VERSION`), and a test fails when a schema changes without a new level. Tests: `crates/apischema/src/tests.rs` (with `conformance.rs`, a separate check of the JSON form against the JSON Schema 2020-12 rules), `schemas::tests` and `cmd::views::tests::each_view_command_refuses_a_bad_value_naming_the_parameter` in `vectorcraft-engine`.
@@ -1466,6 +1466,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
   - Pixar picture files (`.pxr`) open, place and paste, from "The Format of Stored Pictures" in the Pixar Image Computer manuals: any set of the R, G, B and A channels in 8 or 12 bits, dumped or run-length encoded with all four packet kinds and block ends, in tiles of any size (pixels of border tiles past the picture are dropped). R alone is gray, a missing color channel is 0 and a missing A opaque; 12-bit samples are clamped to 0.0 to 1.0; color matted to black becomes straight color; a null tile is transparent when the picture has A and black otherwise. The offsets aren't read, and the image takes the default resolution. Version 2 headers read like version 0. A file cut short, one with a tile whose writing wasn't finished, one with header values or packets the format doesn't define, and one whose pixels as RGBA pass the pixel allowance are refused with a message. Every reader recognizes a Pixar file by its magic number. Tested on synthetic files only (`crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_pxrread.rs`).
   - JPEG 2000 JP2 and raw codestream images open and place from `.jpf`, `.jpx`, `.jp2`, `.j2k`, `.j2c` and `.jpc`. Each axis uses the valid display resolution (`resd`), else the valid capture resolution (`resc`), whichever box comes first ([ITU-T T.800](https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-T.800/en), I.5.3.7.2); an axis with none uses 72 ppi. Multiple codestreams, JPX composition or layers, and unsupported color spaces are refused with a message. The decoder checks image size before allocating (`crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_jp2read.rs`).
   - HEIC and HEIF images open and place from `.heic` and `.heif`, as the [supported file formats](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/supported-file-formats-illustrator.html) list High Efficiency Image under both Open and Place (and [Fix HEIF file import errors on Windows](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/add-and-import-files/import-other-file-types/fix-heif-file-import-errors-on-windows.html) covers both ways of bringing HEIF files in): HEVC-coded single pictures and grids of tiles, 8 to 10 bits, with an alpha image, decoded by heic-rs in the engine's default `heif` feature. The container's rotation, mirror and crop are applied. Without an `nclx` box, the HEVC stream's video signal type gives the samples' matrix and range. An RGB ICC profile, or Display P3 with the sRGB curve named by an `nclx` box or, without a color box, by the stream, is converted to sRGB; the EXIF resolution tags size the image, or 72 ppi. Image sequences, other codings and grids of cropped tiles are refused with a message, and so is every HEIF file in a build without the feature. The decoder checks image size before allocating (`crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_heifread.rs`).
+  - HP-GL/2 plot files (`.plt`, `.hpgl`, `.hgl`, `.hpg`, or a name no other format reads when the file starts with plotter instructions) open and place as paths on one layer, the artboard round the art: each line drawn with the pen down is a stroked path in its pen's color and width, line types become dash patterns, circles, arcs, wedges and Bézier curves are curves, filled and edged rectangles, wedges and polygons (polygon mode) are filled or stroked paths, and encoded polylines, scaling points, user units and rotation are read. Labels, symbol mode's symbols, raster images and hatching aren't drawn and are listed in the warnings (`crates/cad/src/hpgl/tests.rs`, `crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_hpgl.rs`).
   - EPS and DXF in and out, EMF/WMF in and out; PNG (with PNG-8), JPEG, WebP, GIF, TIFF, BMP, Targa and layered PSD export; grayscale TIFFs with an alpha channel or other extra channels place, relink and open, the alpha as the image's transparency (#1466 in part); PSD and PSB files open and place, linked or embedded, as their merged image in every colour mode and depth (#918). EPS import runs a PostScript Level 3 interpreter written from the PostScript Language Reference: resource categories and `resourceforall`, local and global VM (`currentglobal`/`setglobal`/`gcheck`), `clipsave`/`cliprestore`, subarrays and substrings that share storage, the standard dictionaries in `systemdict`, `dictstack`, `internaldict`, executable filters and strings, `load` by any key, `//name` immediate names, `token`, `execform`, user paths, `cshow`, `rootfont`, `cachestatus`, colour rendering and halftone queries, file `status` and data read with `flushfile`, and `pdfmark` marks dropped (Discord feedback, #466, #469, #474). Masked images (`ImageType 3` in its three interleavings) and reusable streams are read, and an image's several data sources are read in turn, as the reference defines (procedures that read one file get their own rows: such images came in banded, #498). `restore` puts dictionaries back as they were at the `save`, so programs that count their saves in a dictionary read to their end (part of #505). Tiling patterns come in as pattern swatches, uncoloured ones too; Type 3 fonts' glyphs as their outlines, spaced by `ashow`/`widthshow`/`xshow`/`kshow`; mesh and function-based shadings (types 1, 4–7) as gradient meshes; sampled functions (type 0) and Flate/LZW predictors are read. It is tested with programs written from the specification in the ways common generators use these features; Inkscape/cairo EPS files open as vectors. When a file's PostScript still can't be read, it opens as its TIFF preview, its Windows metafile preview (as vectors) or its EPSI preview, and the warning (in the status bar, `document.open`/`app.open`/MCP `open_file` replies and `vectorcraft-cli info`) names the error, the operator that raised it and the procedures it ran in. Legacy PostScript `.ai` files (Illustrator 3–8, written with the prolog that defines their operators) keep their groups and nested groups (`u` … `U`), between and inside clipping groups; EPS and EMF/WMF import nest clips (and groups) at most 128 deep, so a hostile file can't exhaust the stack. DXF TEXT justified Fit or Aligned spans its two points (stretched, or scaled as a whole). PDF export writes type as real, searchable text in embedded subset fonts by default, as Illustrator's PDF presets do (Convert Text to Outlines is an option; printer's marks stay shapes), so text-heavy PDFs stay small (#733). DXF export writes each fill as its outlines followed by its hatch, so laser and cutter software, which skips hatches, gets filled art and type too (#546).
   - TIFFs that store each channel as its own plane (PlanarConfiguration 2) place, relink and open as the same image stored pixel by pixel does, 8 and 16 bits: grayscale with an alpha channel or other extra channels, and CMYK with or without them. A planar CMYK TIFF keeps its ink amounts and is stored as a CMYK TIFF with each pixel's inks together, at the file's resolution. A TIFF whose header claims more strips or tiles than can be counted is refused as too large to draw (#1466 in part; `crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests.rs`).
   - 1-bit TIFFs compressed with CCITT Group 3 (ITU-T T.4) place, relink and open: Compression 2 (modified Huffman) and Compression 3 with one-dimensional rows or, with T4Options bit 0, two-dimensional ones, with or without fill bits, in strips or tiles, with either FillOrder and either polarity. Rows in T.4's uncompressed mode are not read. A file whose pixels would take more than the decoding allowance as RGBA is refused as too large to draw (#1466 in part; `crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests.rs`).