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# Control protocol
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> **Last updated:** 2026-10-31 · **Change:** Confining file access refuses a `:` in a name after the drive on Windows, an NTFS alternate data stream such as `x.svg:evil` (#3604); previously: Object → Expand… dimmed while the selection has an appearance Expand Appearance expands (`object.expand.info`'s `appearance`, #3089); previously: brush library panels (`window.brushLibrary`, `window.brushLibrary.other`, `ui.saveBrushLibrary`); previously: Transform Each opens on the values it was last confirmed with; its Copy button confirms with `copy: true` (#1732); previously: panel docking on craft-ui's layout: `ui.docking`, the parameters of `window.panel.float` and `window.panel.dock`; previously: `ui.screenshot`'s 64 MiB inline-PNG cap and its path-plus-data downgrade; symbol library panels (`window.symbolLibrary`, `window.symbolLibrary.other`, `ui.saveSymbolLibrary`); synthetic input budgets (#1709); bounded transport waits (#1726).
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> **Last updated:** 2026-11-07 · **Change:** text style commands take a feature with a value (`"features": ["salt=2"]`), the font's alternate number, and shape runs that differ only in features as one piece of text; previously: Confining file access refuses a `:` in a name after the drive on Windows, an NTFS alternate data stream such as `x.svg:evil` (#3604); previously: Object → Expand… dimmed while the selection has an appearance Expand Appearance expands (`object.expand.info`'s `appearance`, #3089); previously: brush library panels (`window.brushLibrary`, `window.brushLibrary.other`, `ui.saveBrushLibrary`); previously: Transform Each opens on the values it was last confirmed with; its Copy button confirms with `copy: true` (#1732); previously: panel docking on craft-ui's layout: `ui.docking`, the parameters of `window.panel.float` and `window.panel.dock`; previously: `ui.screenshot`'s 64 MiB inline-PNG cap and its path-plus-data downgrade; symbol library panels (`window.symbolLibrary`, `window.symbolLibrary.other`, `ui.saveSymbolLibrary`); synthetic input budgets (#1709); bounded transport waits (#1726).
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`vectorcraft --control <port>` listens on `127.0.0.1:<port>` (loopback only). The port must be a number
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from 1 to 65535 (`--control=<port>` works too), given once; otherwise the app prints an error and exits
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The Color Picker is a dialog too: `engine.execute {command: "ui.colorPicker", params: {stroke?, color?}}` opens it for the fill (or stroke) proxy; `ui.dialog.set {field: "hex", value: "00FF00"}` (or `color`, `channel`, `webOnly`, `swatches`) then `ui.dialog.confirm` applies the colour through `paint.setFill` / `paint.setStroke`.
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Sample Color from Screen: `ui.sampleScreenColor {stroke?, picker?}` shows the system's color sampler (macOS, and browsers with an EyeDropper) and returns `null` at once. When the person at the computer clicks a color anywhere on the screen, it runs `paint.setFill` (or `paint.setStroke`) with that color as one undo step, or with `picker: true` sets the open Color Picker's `color`; Escape cancels it and the colors stay as they were. The sampled display sRGB color is converted into the working RGB space. `ui.inspect` reports `screenSampler: true` until the sampler answers. Without a sampler (Windows, Linux, other browsers) the call returns an error. To read a color from VectorCraft's own window without a person, call `ui.screenshot`.
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Sample Color from Screen: `ui.sampleScreenColor {stroke?, picker?}` shows the system's color sampler (macOS; Linux through the XDG desktop portal's [PickColor](https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/doc-org.freedesktop.portal.Screenshot.html); browsers with an EyeDropper) and returns `null` at once. When the person at the computer clicks a color anywhere on the screen, it runs `paint.setFill` (or `paint.setStroke`) with that color as one undo step, or with `picker: true` sets the open Color Picker's `color`; a cancel (Escape on macOS and in browsers) leaves the colors as they were. The sampled display sRGB color is converted into the working RGB space. `ui.inspect` reports `screenSampler: true` until the sampler answers. On Linux, a session without a portal that has PickColor, a portal that does not return from the call within 25 seconds (VectorCraft's own limit) or leaves the bus before it answers, and a portal that ends the request in another way each put a message in the status bar and end the wait, so the sampler can be shown again. A portal that returns from the call and then neither answers nor leaves the bus keeps the sampler open. Without a sampler (Windows, FreeBSD, DragonFly BSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, other browsers) the call returns an error. To read a color from VectorCraft's own window without a person, call `ui.screenshot`.
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Graphic styles: `ui.graphicStyleOptions {name}` opens the `graphicStyleOptions` dialog (field `name`) for a style and
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`ui.dialog.confirm` renames it with `graphicStyle.rename` (a name another style has returns an error and keeps the
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selected the Control bar shows its controls (Edit Envelope / Edit Contents, warp style, orientation, bend and
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distortions or mesh rows and columns, Reset, Envelope Options); each runs an `object.envelope.*` command.
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## OpenType feature values in text commands
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`text.setRangeStyle`, `text.setStyle` and the character style commands take OpenType features as a list of tags in
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`features` (the whole list) or `featureChanges` (changes on top of each character's own): `"dlig"` on, `"-liga"` off.
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A feature with alternates (`swsh`, `ss01`–`ss20`, `salt`, `titl`, `pnum`, `lnum`, `sups`, `subs`, `numr`, `dnom`,
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`aalt`) also takes `tag=N`, `N` from 0 to 65535, the font's alternate number: `"salt=2"` draws the second alternate of
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each glyph in the range that has one. It is the value the shaper gets (an OpenType alternate substitution picks the
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glyph at that position of its set), so `"salt"` is `"salt=1"`, and `"-salt"`, `"salt=0"` and a missing tag are off. A
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later value replaces an earlier one; `salt=x`, `salt=65536`, `-salt=2` and `liga=2` are refused. The style's
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`features` list and the saved file keep the string as typed (`["salt=2"]`), and SVG export writes CSS
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`font-feature-settings: "salt" 2`. Runs that differ only in `features` are shaped as one piece of text with each run's
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features over its own characters, so one letter of an Arabic word with `salt=2` keeps its neighbours' joining forms.
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```json
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{"id":1,"method":"engine.execute","params":{"command":"text.setRangeStyle","params":{"id":7,"start":4,"end":6,"features":["salt=2"]}}}
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```
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## Shared panel docking
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The canvas and the panels form one craft-ui docking layout: the protected `canvas` panel beside a dock at the
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| Date | Change | Summary |
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| 2026-11-07 | minor | Documented OpenType feature values in text commands (`"salt=2"`, the font's alternate number) and that runs differing only in features shape as one piece of text. |
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| 2026-10-31 | minor | Confining file access: on Windows a `:` in a name after the drive (an NTFS alternate data stream) is refused with the device names (#3604). |
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| 2026-10-25 | minor | Panel docking on craft-ui's layout: `ui.docking`, the floating and dock parameters, native floating windows. |
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| 2026-10-25 | minor | Documented that Object → Expand… is dimmed, and `ui.expandDialog` refuses, while the selection has an appearance Expand Appearance expands (`object.expand.info`'s `appearance`, #3089). |
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# File format parity
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> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-12 · **Change:** minor (#6865: explicitly requested oversized editing artboard; newly imported SVG/SVGZ titles are filtered and bounded without changing restored titles, #3626; `.ai` and EPS import, and what every export and `.ai` save draw: type's strokes in an envelope paint at their own weight along its bent outlines, Distort Appearance on or off, #6644; `.ai` and EPS import: centred and right-aligned lines of tracked type are aligned without the tracking after their last character, as the file's page aligns them, #6610; `.ai` and EPS import: an envelope saved in Edit Contents whose mesh lies away from its drawn art by a move opens live on that art, #6570; `.ai` save and open: layer colour presets Yellow, Magenta and Cyan keep their colour, as the `Lb` colour index now follows the file's numbering, #6502; `.ai` save: stroked type keeps its stroke's cap, join and miter limit in the text document, #6472; `.ai` and EPS import, PDF import: tracking and manual kerning in horizontally scaled type take the Horizontal Scale, as the file's page spaces such type; `.ai` and EPS import: stroked type in an envelope maps from its glyphs grown by half its stroke, #3179; `.ai` and EPS import: warps of type open as mesh envelopes on their saved grid, #3179; `.ai` and EPS import: stroked type keeps its stroke's cap, join and miter limit from the text document, #6472; `.ai` save: type in a variable font's named instance names its design-space setting, #6388; `.ai` and EPS import: envelopes of type open live where they draw as their drawn art and the layers with them draw as the page, #3179; `.ai` and EPS import: a note for type in an envelope, #3179; `.ai` and EPS import: the live envelope and warped type check sees white art; PDF import: DeviceN images of one ink or of process plates keep their inks, #6348; `.ai` import: images in a spot ink's Separation space keep their ink, #6350; PDF import: Separation images keep their ink, #6314; PDF editable import preserves authored ActualText once, including empty/nested spans and authored ordering (#6165); cross-line/style layout remains approximate; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF marked-text export (#6309): compatible glyphs stay on one layout line with per-glyph offsets; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF import: image masks open colorized by the color they are painted in, #6313; EPS and `.ai` editing data: a ligature the page names by a private-use glyph matches its text object; EPS import: CIDFonts only named, over a Unicode CMap, set as live type; EPS import: CMap mappings to base-font codes and glyph names; EPS import: CID-keyed fonts in FontSets (CFF) draw their glyphs; EPS import: `kshow` procedures kern live type; EPS import: embedded Type 1 fonts' glyphs and widths; EPS import: CID-keyed fonts draw their glyphs; EPS import: Type 42 fonts' characters and widths from the font they carry, show operators' spacing kept as tracking; EPS import: an image decoder's own buffers stop counting against the memory budget once it is decoded; EPS import: sampled functions interpolate between their samples; `.ai` and EPS type from the text document keeps its tab stops; it keeps auto leading and hyphenation options, and may show more of the file's last lines in an area frame; `.ai` and EPS import: Art brushes in the older form of their objects come into the Brushes panel; EPS import: gradients drawn as abutting strips come in as one gradient, without seams; EPS import: composite fonts draw their Type 42 glyphs; SVG import: filter and mask regions clip, #5876, #5875; SVG import: Gaussian blurs keep `color-interpolation-filters`, #5877; PDF and `.ai` export: objects' URLs as links, #5785; SVG import: `color-interpolation="linearRGB"` gradients, #5878; `.ai` import: paths with a Calligraphic brush open brushed, #372) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
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> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-12 · **Change:** minor (#6865: explicitly requested oversized editing artboard; PDF import: Indic type keeps its marks on their line, and a line whose type would not draw as the file does keeps the file's glyphs as outlines, #5235; previously: newly imported SVG/SVGZ titles are filtered and bounded without changing restored titles, #3626; `.ai` and EPS import, and what every export and `.ai` save draw: type's strokes in an envelope paint at their own weight along its bent outlines, Distort Appearance on or off, #6644; `.ai` and EPS import: centred and right-aligned lines of tracked type are aligned without the tracking after their last character, as the file's page aligns them, #6610; `.ai` and EPS import: an envelope saved in Edit Contents whose mesh lies away from its drawn art by a move opens live on that art, #6570; `.ai` save and open: layer colour presets Yellow, Magenta and Cyan keep their colour, as the `Lb` colour index now follows the file's numbering, #6502; `.ai` save: stroked type keeps its stroke's cap, join and miter limit in the text document, #6472; `.ai` and EPS import, PDF import: tracking and manual kerning in horizontally scaled type take the Horizontal Scale, as the file's page spaces such type; `.ai` and EPS import: stroked type in an envelope maps from its glyphs grown by half its stroke, #3179; `.ai` and EPS import: warps of type open as mesh envelopes on their saved grid, #3179; `.ai` and EPS import: stroked type keeps its stroke's cap, join and miter limit from the text document, #6472; `.ai` save: type in a variable font's named instance names its design-space setting, #6388; `.ai` and EPS import: envelopes of type open live where they draw as their drawn art and the layers with them draw as the page, #3179; `.ai` and EPS import: a note for type in an envelope, #3179; `.ai` and EPS import: the live envelope and warped type check sees white art; PDF import: DeviceN images of one ink or of process plates keep their inks, #6348; `.ai` import: images in a spot ink's Separation space keep their ink, #6350; PDF import: Separation images keep their ink, #6314; PDF editable import preserves authored ActualText once, including empty/nested spans and authored ordering (#6165); cross-line/style layout remains approximate; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF marked-text export (#6309): compatible glyphs stay on one layout line with per-glyph offsets; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF import: image masks open colorized by the color they are painted in, #6313; EPS and `.ai` editing data: a ligature the page names by a private-use glyph matches its text object; EPS import: CIDFonts only named, over a Unicode CMap, set as live type; EPS import: CMap mappings to base-font codes and glyph names; EPS import: CID-keyed fonts in FontSets (CFF) draw their glyphs; EPS import: `kshow` procedures kern live type; EPS import: embedded Type 1 fonts' glyphs and widths; EPS import: CID-keyed fonts draw their glyphs; EPS import: Type 42 fonts' characters and widths from the font they carry, show operators' spacing kept as tracking; EPS import: an image decoder's own buffers stop counting against the memory budget once it is decoded; EPS import: sampled functions interpolate between their samples; `.ai` and EPS type from the text document keeps its tab stops; it keeps auto leading and hyphenation options, and may show more of the file's last lines in an area frame; `.ai` and EPS import: Art brushes in the older form of their objects come into the Brushes panel; EPS import: gradients drawn as abutting strips come in as one gradient, without seams; EPS import: composite fonts draw their Type 42 glyphs; SVG import: filter and mask regions clip, #5876, #5875; SVG import: Gaussian blurs keep `color-interpolation-filters`, #5877; PDF and `.ai` export: objects' URLs as links, #5785; SVG import: `color-interpolation="linearRGB"` gradients, #5878; `.ai` import: paths with a Calligraphic brush open brushed, #372) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
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>
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> Oversized artboard import update (2026-11-12): Explicit editing-data import retains a single artboard beyond a capped 14,400 pt PDF page (#6865).
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Transform, Free Distort, Pucker & Bloat, Twist, Zig Zag and Gaussian Blur too). Styles with gradient or pattern fills,
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with fills, strokes or effects the reader doesn't read back, with a name another style has, with names over 1,024
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bytes and past 4,096 styles are left out with a warning. A panel with no style written opens with a new document's
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styles, with a warning. No art style is written on a large canvas.
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styles, with a warning. No art style is written on a large canvas. The Brushes panel's Calligraphic brushes, and its
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Scatter and Art brushes with their art, are written in its order: Scatter and Art brushes in Tints or keeping their
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art's colors, Art brushes that stretch their art along the path from left to right at 100% unflipped without
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overlap, and art of paths and compound paths with points and groups with members, with one solid fill and one
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plain stroke each. Other brushes,
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Pattern and Bristle brushes among them, and brushes past the number or the art VectorCraft's reader reads are left
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out with a warning; no brush is written on a large canvas. A path or compound path with a Calligraphic brush, or
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with an Art brush in Tints whose art bends along the path, keeps the brush on its stroke; other brushed strokes are
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written as their brush's art. A document that uses a new document's brushes writes none until a path keeps one on
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its stroke; then the brushes are written, and the file opens without the new document's Pattern and Bristle brushes
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and its Art brush with other options.
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Point type, area type (with its rows, columns,
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gutters and first baseline, threaded frames included) and type on a path are written as text: a text object for
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each, naming its story in the text document, with the characters, fonts, sizes, leading, tracking, baseline shift,
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| Illustrator template `.ait` | open, save | yes | PDF-compatible only, from Save as Template (`.vctemplate` stays its default) | New from Template opens a saved `.ait` untitled with its layers and art (`tests_pdfedit.rs`) |
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| Illustrator `.ai` | open, save | yes (PDF-compatible + editing-data structure with template layers and ruler guides, File Info) | PDF-compatible, or legacy version 7 (layers and groups) | see above; no real-file corpus |
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| PDF | open, place, save | yes (authored ActualText in editable import, #6165; layers, masks, editable text, security, overprint, File Info from the XMP packet and the document information dictionary; Crop To › Trim takes the bleed box as the document's bleed) | yes (presets, PDF/X-1a/3/4, layers, marks and bleed, ICC, fast web view, 1.3+; objects' URLs as link annotations, not in PDF/X) | fuzzed import; shared guarded writer and windowed reader ([pdf-backend.md](pdf-backend.md)), metadata, incomplete-content and dependency-source regressions; PDF text opens where the file draws it, glyph by glyph (#722: kerning or none, spacing per character, text rise as baseline shift, vertical writing, justified text boxes); alpha soft masks drawn as images import with the mask (#1551); a clip only counts as covering the page when its shape does (#1542); a PDF another app copied pastes as editable vector art (#1499); letter-spaced type on a path keeps its length and its glyph-by-glyph stroke comes in as one text object (#1586, #1585); a crafted name tree with shared nodes no longer takes exponential time on open (#1781); fonts named with hyphens (`Noto-Sans-Bold`) or with a composite font's CMap (`Name-Identity-H`) find the installed family; invisible text (rendering mode 3: a scanned page's recognized text) opens as type with no fill or stroke and saves back as invisible, searchable text (#2675); PDF/X-1a and X-3 flattening in a CMYK document keeps CMYK inks where it rasterizes (#2160); an image mask (`/ImageMask true`) painted in a solid color opens as a grayscale image colorized by that color, a spot color keeping its swatch and tint, so Fill and Recolor Artwork reach it, and the same mask painted again in another color keeps that color (#6313); an image in a Separation space opens as a grayscale image of its tints colorized by its ink at 100 % (a spot swatch, a process plate or Registration), its soft mask as its opacity mask (#6314); a DeviceN image of one colorant opens the same way, and one of process plates only (the ink `None` may be among them) opens in CMYK with each colorant's tint in its plate (#6348) PDF export keeps harakat and zero-advance Noto Arabic dot glyphs in one compatible batch per layout line, with per-glyph vertical offsets (#6309). `crates/pdf/src/tests/realtext.rs` (`mark_text_*`) checks decoded cluster mappings, mixed Arabic/Latin/digits, contour placement against outline export, vertical columns, differing path rotations and PDF/X-1a/3/4. Editable-text import preserves authored ActualText separately (#6165), with cross-line/style layout limits; separately styled or differently rotated clusters and external viewer search/copy remain outside this export-only evidence. |
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| 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) |
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| EPS | open, place, save | yes (own PostScript L3 interpreter, Illustrator EPS editing data structure) | yes (L2/L3, TIFF previews) | CIDFonts the file doesn't carry not drawn, but for those over a predefined CMap (`UniJIS-UCS2-H`, `90ms-RKSJ-H`, `GBK-EUC-H`, `KSCms-UHC-H`, `ETen-B5-H`), set as type in the font of the CIDFont's name, vertical over a `-V` CMap; a name that ends in the row-and-cell CMap `H` or `V` splits off the CMap only when the file defines the CIDFont of that name, or the name has a hyphen and an installed face that covers Japanese has it; name-keyed fonts in a FontSet set as type by name; #505; images encoded with `CCITTFaxDecode` (ITU-T T.4 Group 3 and T.6 Group 4, with `K`, `Columns`, `Rows`, `EndOfBlock`, `EndOfLine`, `EncodedByteAlign` and `BlackIs1`) draw, and damaged data keeps the rows decoded before its first damaged row; Type 42 (TrueType) fonts set type at its size (#1553); an embedded Type 1 font's encrypted part is read for its glyphs, which space its type, outline it and draw glyphs without a character, in plain and composite fonts; a Type 42 font that carries its TrueType font gives each code its character by its glyph name or, for names that say nothing (`/g12`), by the glyph's entry in the font's own character map, spaces its type by its own widths and draws glyphs that stand for no character from its outlines; the show operators' spacing along the baseline (`ashow`, `widthshow`, `xshow`, `yshow`, `xyshow`, and the moves of `kshow`'s procedure, run between each two characters) is kept on live type as tracking, so type in a font that isn't installed keeps the file's line lengths (spacing that moves characters off the baseline, as `yshow`, `xyshow` or a `kshow` procedure can, places each character as its own text object); composite (Type 0) fonts with the 8/8 mapping, as PDF-to-PostScript converters write two-byte fonts, draw a Type 42 descendant's glyphs from the TrueType outlines it carries and an embedded Type 1 descendant's from its charstrings, and set other descendants' characters as type at the composite font's size (other mappings are still set as type in the font of their name); CID-keyed fonts (`composefont`, `FMapType` 9 over a CMap built with the CIDInit operators or `Identity-H`/`Identity-V`; `bfchar` and `bfrange` mappings give a base-font descendant its codes or glyph names) draw the glyphs of the Type 0 CIDFonts (Type 1 charstrings in their `StartData` binary data or `GlyphDirectory`) and Type 2 CIDFonts (TrueType glyphs through `CIDMap`) they carry, and the CID-keyed fonts of a FontSet's Compact Font Format data (Type 2 charstrings); a clip only counts as covering the page when its shape does (#1542); an EPS another app copied pastes as editable vector art (`clipboard.importEps`, #1499); a stitched shading keeps its hard colour changes on import (#1654); sampled functions (type 0) interpolate between their samples, multilinearly or by cubics with `Order 3`, and a sampled axial or radial gradient has a stop at each sample; a gradient the page paints as a row of abutting one-colour strips (as Level 2 writers draw smooth shades) imports as one linear gradient, without the seams the strips leave when each is drawn alone; CMYK images, CMYK JPEGs included, keep their ink amounts on import, as from PDF, and the pixels a `MaskColor` or `ImageType 3` mask hides become a grayscale opacity mask; ruzstd 0.9.1 for compressed editing data (#1807, RUSTSEC-2026-0344) |
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| 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` |
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| SVG / SVGZ | open, place, save | yes | yes (SVG Options, Preserve Editing, symbols, filters, rich text) | strongest format; tests in `crates/svg/tests`; text on a path follows basic shapes as their SVG 2 equivalent paths (#1527); CSS transforms and the `font` shorthand (#1565), percentage lengths in symbols (#1596), Inkscape flowed text as area type (#1568) and Inkscape pages as artboards (#1601) import; an unsupported filter is named in its warning (#1598); an artboard exported on its own (Export As with Use Artboards, Export for Screens, Asset Export) has the artboard's name as `<title>`, Save the document's (#3544); attributes in other applications' XML namespaces (`plotter:pen="2"`) kept on their objects from import to export, as `data-*` attributes are (`crates/svg/tests/it/foreign_attributes.rs`); simple shapes export as `<rect>`, `<circle>`, `<ellipse>`, `<line>`, `<polygon>` and `<polyline>` where they draw the same as the path (#4652, `crates/svg/tests/it/basic_shapes.rs`); the regions of exported masks and filters (opacity masks, inverted masks, knockout groups) cover the art they apply to, and over type keep a region that covers any artwork (#6401, `crates/svg/tests/it/blend_export.rs`) |
|
||||
| DXF | open, export | yes | yes (R12–2018) | R13–2018 closed SPLINE flags and control-point closure on import verified (#1299); circular cubic paths export as native CIRCLE/ARC where stroke semantics permit; R12 weighted strokes remain POLYLINE while non-circular curves keep the existing fallback (`crates/cad/src/tests.rs`); [Autodesk group 70](https://help.autodesk.com/cloudhelp/2024/ENU/AutoCAD-DXF/files/GUID-E1F884F8-AA90-4864-A215-3182D47A9C74.htm). DXF 2000–2018 LAYOUT objects write the paper image origin as 148/149 (was a stray 158), the shade plot codes (2004+) and the model type flag, and the plot style placeholder carries no subclass marker (#3085; structure test `r2000_and_later_files_have_the_structure_cad_apps_require`, checked with ezdxf's audit; not yet confirmed in Autodesk Fusion). DXF Options' Preset menu and `document.exportDxf`'s `dxfPreset: "cnc"` set the CNC / CAM options (#5500); VCarve QA remains open |
|
||||
@@ -347,6 +357,7 @@ Stop opacity on translated artboards remains outside this regression coverage.
|
||||
| Date | Change | Summary |
|
||||
|---|---|---|
|
||||
| 2026-11-12 | minor | Explicit editing-data import keeps a single artboard beyond a capped 14,400 pt PDF page (#6865), with a warning; automatic mode stays unchanged. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
|
||||
| 2026-11-12 | minor | PDF import (#5235): a glyph with no advance in a font the file writes horizontally (a vowel sign or anusvara set over its letter) stays on its line instead of opening as vertical type of its own. A line of type in an Indic script (U+0900 to U+0DFF) is set again after it is read and compared with the glyphs the file drew: when it would draw other glyphs or put them elsewhere (a vowel sign the file draws before its consonant, a conjunct the file doesn't name), the line keeps the file's glyphs as outlines, with a note. Indic type in a font that isn't installed never draws as the file does, so it keeps the file's glyphs too; other type in such a font still shows in the fallback font (#4568). Tests: `crates/pdf/src/tests/reshaped.rs`. Scores unchanged. |
|
||||
| 2026-11-12 | minor | Save refusal follow-up (#6146): changed format opens its Save options; unchanged format retains original options. Focused UI regressions passed, including the format-change case that failed before the fix; native panel acceptance pending. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
|
||||
| 2026-11-11 | minor | Newly imported SVG/SVGZ titles use the imported-text rules: generated Untitled names and control-only titles give the filename fallback, other control characters are removed, and titles are limited to 65,536 characters. Native and Preserve Editing titles remain unchanged (#3626). |
|
||||
| 2026-11-11 | minor | Native and Preserve Editing restores keep an existing File Info title exactly, including repeated spaces; imported-text fallback titles alone are normalized (#3626). |
|
||||
|
||||
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|
||||
| Hybrid-graphics GPU choice | automatic | power-saving GPU by default, Preferences › Graphics Processor | same; DX12 then OpenGL; no Vulkan unless asked (#545, #806) | the desktop's GPU | browser | done |
|
||||
| Restart on another GPU when the first fails to present | — | yes (#502, #964) | yes | yes | restart on lost device (#369) | done |
|
||||
| Pen pressure | yes (Wacom, Windows Ink, macOS tablet events) | yes, read from AppKit's tablet events before the window gets them (winit reports none), each move of a stroke with its own pressure, mouse event coalescing off (#852; not yet tried on a Mac) | yes (pointer force via `WM_POINTER`) | under X11 and XWayland (Preferences › Performance › Linux Display Server, #1151, #2028; Automatic uses XWayland when a pen is attached on a Wayland session, #4967), read from XInput2 raw events (#764); **no** on native Wayland, where winit reports none and the pen may not reach the window (#491) | browser pointer events, with coalesced events; Apple Pencil on iPad (hover, palm rejection: fingers navigate after a pen contact until reload) | partial: 2–4 h for Wayland (winit 0.31), plus a check on a Mac |
|
||||
| Pen tilt, bearing, barrel rotation (6D Art Pen) | yes, drives brushes | read from AppKit's tablet events (tilt, and the barrel rotation of a pen that reports one); Calligraphic and Scatter brushes vary with them (#764; not yet tried on a Mac) | with Windows Ink, read from the pen's `POINTER_PEN_INFO` (tilt and barrel rotation where its pen mask says the pen reports them); Calligraphic and Scatter brushes vary with them (#372; not yet tried with a pen) | under X11 and XWayland, read from XInput2 raw events; Calligraphic and Scatter brushes vary with them (#764); **no** on native Wayland | no | partial: native Wayland and the web read none, and Art, Pattern and Bristle brushes do not use them; 3–6 h (#372) |
|
||||
| Pen tilt, bearing, barrel rotation (6D Art Pen) | yes, drives brushes | read from AppKit's tablet events (tilt, and the barrel rotation of a pen that reports one); Calligraphic and Scatter brushes vary with them (#764; not yet tried on a Mac) | with Windows Ink, read from the pen's `POINTER_PEN_INFO` (tilt and barrel rotation where its pen mask says the pen reports them); Calligraphic and Scatter brushes vary with them (#372; not yet tried with a pen) | under X11 and XWayland, read from XInput2 raw events; Calligraphic and Scatter brushes vary with them (#764); **no** on native Wayland | no | partial: native Wayland and the web read none, and Pattern and Bristle brushes do not use them (an Art brush's Width follows them); 3–6 h (#372) |
|
||||
| Pen eraser end | yes | the eraser end (AppKit's tablet proximity events) selects the Eraser tool and the tip brings back the tool used before, as on Linux (#852; not yet tried on a Mac) | with Windows Ink, an inverted pen or its eraser button (`PEN_FLAG_INVERTED`, `PEN_FLAG_ERASER` in the pen's pointer messages) selects the Eraser tool and the tip brings back the tool used before, as on Linux (not yet tried with a pen) | under X11 and XWayland, the eraser end selects the Eraser tool and the tip brings back the tool used before (#764); **no** on native Wayland | a press of the eraser end (Pointer Events eraser button, `button` 5) selects the Eraser tool, and that press erases; a press of the tip brings back the tool used before; Pointer Events report no end while the pen hovers | partial |
|
||||
| Touch gestures (pinch zoom, two-finger pan, rotate view, Touch workspace) | yes (Windows touch, Surface) | trackpad pinch, scroll and rotate | pinch, pan (a second finger cancels the first finger's tool press, #4198); two-finger tap undo, three-finger redo (#585) | same where winit reports touch | eframe until the first pen contact, then Pointer Events (pen and fingers told apart); long press opens the context menu | partial: touch workspace and touch-screen rotation missing, 3–5 h |
|
||||
| Trackpad (smooth scroll, pinch) | yes | yes | precision touchpads | yes | yes | done |
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -126,6 +126,36 @@ flipped crack's, and the image does have cracks the one-sided reading gets wrong
|
||||
48 px noisy ripple in Black and White at thresholds 140, 157, 170 and Paths 0, 50, 100, sampled on
|
||||
the 4 × 4 grid per pixel the shared-boundary check uses). With the one-sided reading 482–1,228
|
||||
sample points per trace were uncovered; now none are. The crate's other tests pass unchanged.
|
||||
## Band borders in smooth areas
|
||||
In a gradient or a shaded area, the palette colors on either side of a band border differ by more than
|
||||
the image changes across it. Pixel noise placed the border, and the fitter smoothed it over 0.5 px as it
|
||||
smooths an edge, so the border wobbled, kept stair steps and took many anchors. For each crack between
|
||||
two colors, `Layers::step` now reads the share of the step between the two colors that the image makes
|
||||
next to the crack and a few pixels further out, how far the image changes next to the crack along the
|
||||
line between the two colors and in any direction, and how much it changes within each side, as RGB
|
||||
distances (0 to 255 a channel). `subpixel::low_contrast` makes a piece of outline the contour of a smooth
|
||||
area when, over its cracks, the near share is under one half; the far share is at least 1.25 times the
|
||||
near one, the change along the line is under 12 (about 7 levels in each channel of a gray), or no crack
|
||||
has a far share; the sides change within themselves, by at least 1/32 of the change along the line; and the
|
||||
whole change is under twice the change along the line, or under 24. Black and White traces do not use
|
||||
the rule. A contour piece is smoothed over 4 px (a closed one over at most an eighth of its smaller width
|
||||
or height), keeps no corners, is fitted to at least 0.5 px and is checked against its smoothed points.
|
||||
Grayscale now reads each pixel as its gray for this rule and for every edge's sub-pixel shift
|
||||
(`Layers::shift`), which read the pixels' colors against gray palette entries before.
|
||||
Measured with the harness below, before and after the change: Color traces of the "flat colour art"
|
||||
inputs, and corners % in every row, do not change. Shades of Gray on those inputs: off mean 0.263 to 0.165 px,
|
||||
off max 1.47 to 1.04 px, anchors 196 to 122. Gradient and photo inputs: anchors 2,138 to 798 (16 Colors,
|
||||
gradient and photo), 1,372 to 200 (16 Colors, linear gradients), 10,063 to 6,766 (High Fidelity Photo,
|
||||
gradient and photo); ΔE and edge ΔE change by −0.25 to +0.02. Specks rise by up to 0.8 per image (16
|
||||
Colors on gradient and photo 0.0 to 0.8, Auto Color 0.0 to 0.5). Auto Color, enhanced (Shapes on) on
|
||||
gradient and photo leaves a gap of 0.3 px (was 0.0) and an overlap of 0.4 px (was 0.1). The tables below
|
||||
are the previous measurement, not a rerun.
|
||||
Tests on code-drawn images: `tests::the_borders_of_a_gradients_bands_follow_its_contours` (a 256 × 128
|
||||
gradient whose contours wave, with noise, and a dark square with crisp sides: the band borders stray
|
||||
under 0.9 px RMS from the gradient's contours, 1.13 px when smoothed as edges, and the square keeps its
|
||||
four corners); `layers::tests` (a ramp, flat colors in palette entries far apart, close flat colors, a
|
||||
thin flat stroke, colors off the line between their entries, and Grayscale's grays, each read from both
|
||||
sides of the crack) and `subpixel::tests` (the rule, and one decision for a whole piece from either side).
|
||||
## A simpler contour walk
|
||||
`contour::trace_mask` follows each region's outline along the pixel cracks with the inside on the
|
||||
right. It used to build a table of outgoing directions for every pixel corner in a raster pass and
|
||||
|
||||
+173
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@@ -131,7 +131,9 @@ the suite) keep the agent to the folders you give it:
|
||||
written beside it by their file names. A save without a path known (`file.saveAs` and `file.saveCopy` without
|
||||
one, a document never saved) leaves out the suggested `folder`. `document.exportForScreens` into the `folder`
|
||||
of its `exportPreset` leaves out the ZIP's `path` and lists `files` relative to that folder, and an error
|
||||
for that export names the folder by its name alone.
|
||||
for that export names the folder by its name alone. With Background Export on, an export into the `folder` of
|
||||
its `exportPreset` runs in the background as one into a `folder` the agent gives, and its replies, errors and
|
||||
status bar text name that folder the same way.
|
||||
`document.exportSettings`, `document.exportPresets.list` and `document.exportPresets.export` (as data and as
|
||||
a file) leave out a kept `folder` outside the read roots. `file.package`
|
||||
names the document's file and the linked files outside the read roots by their file names in `warnings`, in
|
||||
@@ -535,6 +537,19 @@ opens the picker through `run_command` with the remote backend. `ui.colorPanel {
|
||||
the panel menu's Show Recent Colors, which hides the Color panel's Recent Colors row, and `true` shows it again;
|
||||
applied colors still join the list while it is hidden.
|
||||
|
||||
In remote desktop mode, `invoke_menu` with `{"command":"ui.sampleScreenColor","params":{}}` shows the system's
|
||||
screen color sampler and returns `null` before a color is picked: the system's sampler on macOS, the XDG desktop
|
||||
portal's [PickColor](https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/doc-org.freedesktop.portal.Screenshot.html)
|
||||
on Linux, and the EyeDropper API in browsers that have it. `inspect_ui` reports `screenSampler: true` while it
|
||||
waits. The picked sRGB color is converted into the working RGB space and becomes the fill or the stroke of the
|
||||
active proxy in one undo step; `stroke: true` picks the stroke, and `picker: true` sends the color to the open
|
||||
Color Picker. A cancel leaves the colors as they were. On Linux, a session without a portal that has PickColor
|
||||
shows "this system has no screen color sampler" in the status bar, a portal that does not return from the call
|
||||
within 25 seconds (VectorCraft's own limit) or leaves the bus before it answers shows "the screen color sampler
|
||||
did not answer", and a portal that ends the request in another way shows "the screen color sampler failed"; each
|
||||
ends the wait, so the sampler can be shown again. Windows, the BSDs and headless sessions have no screen color
|
||||
sampler.
|
||||
|
||||
| Tool | Arguments | Notes |
|
||||
|---|---|---|
|
||||
| `list_commands` | `{filter?, query?, menu?, enabledOnly?, brief?}` | The command catalogue: id, label, menu, shortcut, params doc, enablement, and `schema` and `inputSchema` for a command with a parameter schema (the params doc and both schemas are left out with `brief`). |
|
||||
@@ -815,7 +830,7 @@ symbol (named after its `data-name`, else its id) with an instance per `<use>`;
|
||||
symbol with strokes) stays art. `feGaussianBlur`, `feDropShadow` and the usual shadow chains (offset, blur, flood or
|
||||
colour matrix, composite, merge) become Gaussian Blur, Drop Shadow, Outer Glow, Inner Glow and Feather effects; other
|
||||
filters are listed in `warnings`. Undisplayed objects (`display:none`) come back hidden, nested clip paths intersect,
|
||||
and reflected or repeated gradients (`spreadMethod`) are expanded into stops. `<image>` files (relative links are
|
||||
and reflected or repeated gradients (`spreadMethod`) import as gradients that repeat or reflect (see Spread under Examples). `<image>` files (relative links are
|
||||
found in the SVG's folder; only files on this computer or the SVG's network share are read, and pasted SVG reads only
|
||||
absolute paths) stay linked images (see Linked images); SVG files and `data:` SVGs become art; a file that
|
||||
can't be read becomes a placeholder in its box, named in `warnings` and `missingLinks`.
|
||||
@@ -1164,6 +1179,41 @@ another form gives a warning:
|
||||
{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"paint.setFill","params":{"gradient":{"kind":"diamond","start":[150,150],"end":[200,150],"aspect":60}}}}
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Spread (the Gradient panel's menu, beside a Repeats field) says what a linear, radial, conic or diamond gradient
|
||||
paints past the ends of its stops. `pad` (the default) carries the first and last colors on. `repeat` and `reflect`
|
||||
run the stops `repeats` times along the vector (1 to 100, VectorCraft's own limit; default 1) and keep going past
|
||||
both ends of it, `repeat` starting the stops again each time and `reflect` running every other run backwards. A
|
||||
radial or diamond gradient repeats in rings or squares out from its center (an off-center radial's rings grow about
|
||||
its focal point), and a conic one repeats around the turn. A freeform gradient has no ends, so a `spread` other
|
||||
than `pad` is an error for one, and so is a `repeats` that is not a whole number from 1 to 100. Both edit as one
|
||||
undo step, and an edit that changes nothing records none. A gradient set back to `pad` keeps its count for later,
|
||||
and it matches a preset or swatch of the same gradient whatever count it keeps. The Gradient tool marks each place
|
||||
along the bar where one run meets the next (on a conic, across its extent ellipse). A gradient along or across a
|
||||
stroke runs its stops `repeats` times along or across it, a blend between two gradients that repeat (or reflect)
|
||||
steps the count from one to the other, and a gradient swatch saved as CSS gets its stops repeated across the box. The
|
||||
Gradient tool's stop and midpoint markers lie along the whole bar, as on the Gradient panel's slider, and edit the
|
||||
stops of one run.
|
||||
|
||||
SVG export writes `spreadMethod` with the gradient's vector shortened to one run
|
||||
(https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG2/pservers.html), and SVG import reads
|
||||
`spreadMethod` as the spread, with a count of 1. CSS writes `repeating-linear-gradient` and `repeating-radial-gradient` over one run, or
|
||||
one run and its mirror for `reflect` (https://www.w3.org/TR/css-images-3/#repeating-gradients), and a conic gradient
|
||||
with its stops repeated around the turn. PDF writes a conic gradient's sweep shading over one run, repeated or
|
||||
reflected past it. PDF, EPS and legacy `.ai` gradients pad past their ends, so a linear, radial or diamond gradient
|
||||
is written with its stops repeated as many times as the shape needs: at most 256 runs and 16,384 stops (256 stops in
|
||||
legacy `.ai`), and for a radial or diamond gradient no farther from its center than 65,536 runs, or than a million
|
||||
times the smallest gap between its stops (measured in runs) when that is less. Past those it pads, with a warning.
|
||||
The `.ai` editing data has no spread either: it holds the stops repeated across the shape, at most 256 of them, with
|
||||
a warning. PDF import finds a sharp step between two colors in an axial or radial shading, in any PDF, by halving
|
||||
the spans between its samples, so the step reads back where it is in the file (to 1/64 × 2^-14 of the axis, with at
|
||||
most 16,384 samples a shading) instead of blurred across the samples around it. Object › Expand expands the
|
||||
repeated stops, into the same whole number of `steps` objects for each run (at least one, so about `steps` in all),
|
||||
each run starting on an object's edge:
|
||||
|
||||
```json
|
||||
{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"paint.editGradient","params":{"spread":"reflect","repeats":3}}}
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Dither (the Gradient panel's box) draws a linear, radial, conic or diamond gradient fill with fine noise that hides
|
||||
banding; SVG and PDF exports write such a fill as an image at the Document Raster Effects resolution. It applies to
|
||||
fills (`stroke: true` is refused):
|
||||
@@ -2415,7 +2465,9 @@ each of the others, whose hidden or locked objects are left as they are; when th
|
||||
other group takes its objects at that level, keeping its own ids in order. Whenever the document is put back (Undo,
|
||||
Redo, a cancelled drag or scrub), the matches it no longer has leave the Global Edit, which ends when fewer than two
|
||||
are left. An edit that would take any match past the canvas fails with the coordinates-out-of-range error and changes
|
||||
nothing. Nothing of it is saved.
|
||||
nothing. Nothing of it is saved. Before Global Edit starts, while one object that `select.globalEdit` accepts is
|
||||
selected with the Selection tool, the canvas highlights the other objects a start would take with the current Global
|
||||
Edit Options (none while a drag is in progress, or when there are none).
|
||||
|
||||
`select.globalEditExclude {id}` leaves the match `id` out of the Global Edit, as a Shift-click on a highlighted match
|
||||
(or on an object inside it) with the Selection tool does: it is no longer highlighted, and later edits leave it as it
|
||||
@@ -4820,6 +4872,30 @@ They list such a command while the user has changed its shortcut (`overridden: t
|
||||
shortcut for that command runs what a click on the item runs: Object › Path › Clean Up…, Print Ink Fixes… and Edit ›
|
||||
Find and Replace… open their dialogs.
|
||||
|
||||
A command without a menu path of its own is listed when an item of the menu bar runs it with no params, or when every
|
||||
item that runs it gives it the same params. It is listed in the group named by the first part of its id. These
|
||||
commands are listed this way:
|
||||
|
||||
- `addon.pathtools.cornerSet` (Object › Plug-ins › Path Precision Tools › Set Corners…, which opens its dialog),
|
||||
under Addon;
|
||||
- `perspective.grid.lock`, `perspective.grid.lockStation`, `perspective.grid.rulers` and `perspective.grid.snap`
|
||||
(View › Perspective Grid), and `perspective.attach`, `perspective.editText` and `perspective.plane.matchObject`
|
||||
(Object › Perspective), under Perspective;
|
||||
- `text.spelling.dictionary` (Edit › Edit Custom Dictionary…), under Text;
|
||||
- the UI commands `ui.recolorDialog` (Edit › Edit Colors › Recolor Artwork…), `ui.flattenerPresetsDialog`,
|
||||
`ui.printPresetsDialog`, `ui.pdfPresetsDialog`, `ui.perspectivePresetsDialog`, `ui.svgFilterDialog`,
|
||||
`ui.saveSwatchLibrary`, `ui.saveBrushLibrary`, `ui.saveGraphicStyleLibrary` and `ui.saveSymbolLibrary`, under Ui;
|
||||
`file.exportAs` and `file.exportSelection`, under File; `links.editOriginal`, under Links; `type.applyBullets` and
|
||||
`type.applyNumbers`, under Type; and `window.toolbar.new`, `window.toolbarColumns`, `window.toolsBesideCanvas`,
|
||||
`window.workspace.new`, `window.arrange.floatInWindow` and `window.arrange.consolidateAllWindows`, under Window.
|
||||
|
||||
When such a command has the same group and label as an engine command that no item of the menu bar runs, the
|
||||
command the menu item runs keeps the name, and the engine command is listed in the group named by the first part of
|
||||
its id: File › Export Selection… runs `file.exportSelection`, as the menu item does, and `document.exportSelection`
|
||||
is listed as Document › Export Selection…. A shortcut already given to `document.exportSelection` keeps running it.
|
||||
When the other entry is anything else, the command is not listed: `window.learn` is left out, and Window › Learn is
|
||||
the Learn panel's entry.
|
||||
|
||||
Each installed filter plug-in's Object › Plug-ins item is its own row, with id `plugin:<id>` (the plug-in's id), its
|
||||
menu label and no default shortcut, so two filters with the same name have two rows. `shortcuts.set {id:
|
||||
"plugin:<id>", shortcut}`, `shortcuts.list` and Import Shortcut Set use that id, `shortcuts.exportText` writes one line
|
||||
@@ -5051,7 +5127,8 @@ control channel's `ui.drag` scrubs), `showHomeScreen` (on by default: the Home s
|
||||
off, an empty window, and the Home button or `app.home` still shows the screen), `autoCollapseIconPanels` (off by
|
||||
default: on, a click away from a panel popped out of the icon column puts it away), `displayPrintSize` (off by
|
||||
default: View › Actual Size / `view.actualSize` is one document point per screen point; on, one document inch fills
|
||||
96 screen points, an inch at the system's reference density whatever the display scaling). The tool shortcut
|
||||
96 screen points, an inch at the system's reference density whatever the display scaling). `uiScaling` scales the
|
||||
interface and not the art: a zoom shows the art at the same size at every UI Scaling. The tool shortcut
|
||||
preference `holdToolKeys` also needs the desktop app. It is on by default: a single-key tool shortcut held for 0.25 s
|
||||
or more, or held while its tool is used, chooses the tool until the key is let go and then returns to the tool active
|
||||
before, after any drag in progress; a quicker press chooses the tool for good. With it off, every press and every key
|
||||
@@ -5420,7 +5497,11 @@ value outside that range is read as the nearer end), `previewMode` and `alignNew
|
||||
`file.newPresets {category?}` lists the categories and presets (Recent: the last sizes used; Saved: the user's presets,
|
||||
kept in the preferences by `file.newPresets.save` and removed by `file.newPresets.delete`). A listed preset can be
|
||||
passed straight back to `file.new`. Print presets and sizes without `units` start in `unitsGeneral`; screen presets
|
||||
(mobile, web, video, social) in Pixels. A saved or Recent preset whose size (up to 163,830 pt), `artboards` (1 to
|
||||
(mobile, web, video, social) in Pixels. `file.new` and `artboard.new` take the same artboard sizes: each side more than 0
|
||||
and at most 3,999,856 pt (the 4,000,000 pt the canvas reaches from the origin, less a 72 pt bleed on both sides). A side outside that range is
|
||||
refused with `width and height must be more than 0 and at most 3999856 pt`, followed by the limit in the document's
|
||||
units in parentheses when they are not points, such as `(1411.0603 m)`, and no document or artboard is made.
|
||||
A saved or Recent preset whose size (up to 3,999,856 pt), `artboards` (1 to
|
||||
1,000), spacing (0 to 100,000 pt) or bleed (0 to 72 pt a side) lies outside those ranges is read with the nearer end of
|
||||
each range, and a size of 0 or less is read as 1 pt.
|
||||
The desktop app's `file.newDialog` (Cmd/Ctrl+N) opens the New Document dialog on the first Recent entry, or on the
|
||||
@@ -6234,7 +6315,13 @@ the patterns it uses, which the patterns category lists as Pattern Objects and `
|
||||
stroked with a gradient, by the same rules as `patternObjects`, with the gradients it uses: the name of the gradient
|
||||
swatch a gradient is linked to, else `Linear gradient`, `Radial gradient` or `Freeform gradient`; the gradients category
|
||||
lists them as Gradient Objects and `objects.gradients` counts them; gradient swatches no art uses are not listed; with
|
||||
`selectionOnly`, those in the selection), `gradientNames` (the gradients those objects use) and `pathLength` (pt: the total length of the paths, compound paths' pieces included and guides left
|
||||
`selectionOnly`, those in the selection), `gradientNames` (the gradients those objects use), `spotObjects`
|
||||
(`[{id, name, spotColors}]`: every object filled or stroked with a spot color swatch, as a solid color or in the
|
||||
stops of a gradient with a stop above opacity 0, at a tint above 0, and every grayscale image colorized with one, by
|
||||
the same rules as `patternObjects`, with the spot colors it uses; a process
|
||||
color, even one of the same color, and Registration are not spot colors; the spotColors category lists them as Spot
|
||||
Color Objects and `objects.spots` counts them; spot swatches no art uses are not listed; with `selectionOnly`, those
|
||||
in the selection), `spotColorNames` and `spotColors` (the spot colors those objects use) and `pathLength` (pt: the total length of the paths, compound paths' pieces included and guides left
|
||||
out, which objects lists as Path Length in the document's units, say for a cut line or an LED strip along the letters);
|
||||
`format: "text"` returns the plain-text report Document Info › Save… (`docInfo.save {path?, selectionOnly?, category?}`:
|
||||
only `category` when given, else every category) and the package report write.
|
||||
@@ -6890,7 +6977,7 @@ dictionaries (the standard ones are values in `systemdict`; `dictstack`, `intern
|
||||
intervals share storage, resources (categories made from `Generic`, `resourceforall`), executable filters (`cvx exec`
|
||||
runs their data; `flushfile` skips it), axial and radial shadings and shading patterns (gradients), images and image
|
||||
masks (data in the file through ASCII85, hex, run-length, Flate, LZW or DCT filters, or from procedures), and type as
|
||||
point type in the font the file names (embedded Type 1 and Type 42 fonts' characters and widths come from the font program they carry, and the show operators' spacing along the baseline is kept as tracking, while spacing that moves characters off it (`yshow`, `xyshow`) makes a text object per character; CID-keyed fonts draw the glyphs of the Type 0 and Type 2 CIDFonts the file carries, CIDFonts in a FontSet's Compact Font Format data included). In a file in Illustrator's own format
|
||||
point type in the font the file names (embedded Type 1 and Type 42 fonts' characters and widths come from the font program they carry, and the show operators' spacing along the baseline is kept as tracking, while spacing that moves characters off it (`yshow`, `xyshow`) makes a text object per character; CID-keyed fonts draw the glyphs of the Type 0 and Type 2 CIDFonts the file carries, CIDFonts in a FontSet's Compact Font Format data included; a CID-keyed font whose CIDFont the file only names, over a predefined CMap such as `UniJIS-UCS2-H`, `90ms-RKSJ-H` or `GBK-EUC-H`, sets the characters its codes stand for as type in the font of the CIDFont's name, as vertical type over a `-V` CMap, and type in a predefined CMap that can't be read is left out with a warning). In a file in Illustrator's own format
|
||||
(Illustrator 3–8 `.ai` and their EPS, written with the prolog that defines its operators) the groups it writes (`u` …
|
||||
`U`) come in as groups, nested as they were; clips and groups nest at most 128 deep. The artboard is the `%%HiResBoundingBox`
|
||||
(else `%%BoundingBox`; a letter page without one). A program the interpreter can't run (an operator it doesn't know,
|
||||
@@ -7945,20 +8032,23 @@ it, as with any style change to one character (`text.setRangeStyle`). The type s
|
||||
## Alternate glyphs
|
||||
|
||||
The Glyphs panel's Show › Alternates for Current Selection lists the alternate glyphs of the character selected with
|
||||
the Type tool (a range's first character, else the one before the caret), with the default glyph first when the font
|
||||
does not list it, and a double-click on one draws that character with it. `text.glyphAlternates {id, start}` lists them for the character at byte `start`: `{char, font, style, default,
|
||||
the Type tool (a range's first character, else the one before the caret) as it stands in its word, with the glyph the
|
||||
shaper makes for it first, and a double-click on one applies the OpenType feature that draws it to that character alone
|
||||
(see [Alternates as OpenType feature values](#alternates-as-opentype-feature-values)); a glyph no feature draws there is
|
||||
drawn by `text.setGlyphAlternate`. `text.glyphAlternates {id, start}` lists them for the character at byte `start`: `{char, font, style, default,
|
||||
chosen, alternates: [{gid, feature}]}`, where `default` is the glyph the font's character map gives, `chosen` the glyph
|
||||
drawn now, and `alternates` the glyphs the font's `GSUB` single and alternate substitutions put in place of the default
|
||||
glyph: `aalt` first, then `salt`, `ss01` to `ss20`, `swsh`, `cv01` to `cv99`, `hist`, `jalt`, `nalt`, `ornm` and
|
||||
`titl`, in lookup order within each, each glyph once. The default glyph is listed only when `aalt` lists it. Ligatures
|
||||
and contextual substitutions are not listed. `text.setGlyphAlternate {id, start, gid}` draws the character with glyph
|
||||
`gid`, one of those alternates or the default glyph, as one undo step; `gid: null` takes the choice away, and the
|
||||
`gid`, one of those alternates, a glyph that no character maps and no feature reaches whose name is not another letter's
|
||||
(`a.salt` for `a`, in a font with no `salt`), or the default glyph, as one undo step; `gid: null` takes the choice away, and the
|
||||
character is drawn as its style draws it (a feature such as `salt` can draw another glyph than the default). The text
|
||||
keeps the character and its other attributes, and characters typed next to it take their default glyphs. The choice is
|
||||
saved with the character's style as `glyphAlternate: {ch, gid, font, version}`, the face's PostScript name and version
|
||||
string: set in another font or version, or with the font missing, the character takes its default glyph. Both commands
|
||||
refuse a character whose font is not available, and `text.setGlyphAlternate` refuses a glyph that is not one of the
|
||||
character's alternates and a glyph that the character's style does not draw (All Caps, Small Caps or another numeral
|
||||
refuse a character whose font is not available, and `text.setGlyphAlternate` refuses a glyph that is not one of those
|
||||
and a glyph that the character's style does not draw (All Caps, Small Caps or another numeral
|
||||
system). Choosing the glyph a character already draws is not an edit. Character styles do not take `glyphAlternate`:
|
||||
`charStyle.new`, `charStyle.edit` and `charStyle.setAttrs` refuse it.
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -7967,6 +8057,36 @@ system). Choosing the glyph a character already draws is not an edit. Character
|
||||
{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"text.setGlyphAlternate","params":{"id":7,"start":2,"gid":1043}}}
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
### Alternates as OpenType feature values
|
||||
|
||||
`text.setGlyphAlternate`'s choice swaps a glyph id into one character and shapes that character apart from its neighbours.
|
||||
A feature with a value keeps the text real and joined: `features`, `featureChanges` (`text.setRangeStyle`,
|
||||
`text.setStyle`, `charStyle.*`) take `tag=N` for `swsh`, `ss01` to `ss20`, `salt`, `titl`, `pnum`, `lnum`, `sups`,
|
||||
`subs`, `numr`, `dnom` and `aalt`, `N` from 0 to 65535, and the style's `features` list keeps the string:
|
||||
`"salt=2"` draws the font's second alternate of every glyph in the run that has one (the OpenType alternate
|
||||
substitution picks the glyph at that position of its set; a glyph without one, or with fewer alternates, keeps the
|
||||
glyph it has). A plain `"salt"` is `"salt=1"` and is written so; `"salt=0"`, `"-salt"` and leaving it out are off. The
|
||||
next value for a feature replaces the last one, in `features` and in `featureChanges`, and a tag the build does not know
|
||||
(`salt=x`, `salt=65536`, `-salt=2`, `liga=2`) is refused with the unknown-feature error. SVG export writes the value as
|
||||
CSS `font-feature-settings: "salt" 2`.
|
||||
|
||||
Runs that differ only in their `features` are shaped together as one piece of text, each run's features over its own
|
||||
characters: styling the middle letter of an Arabic word with `salt=2` leaves every other letter its initial, medial or
|
||||
final form and the letters still join, as the same word typed with no style change. Runs that differ in font, size,
|
||||
scale, case, language, script or direction are still shaped apart.
|
||||
|
||||
`text.glyphAlternates` lists a character's alternates by the glyph the font's character map gives it; the Glyphs panel
|
||||
instead lists those of the glyph the shaper makes for the character in its word (a medial letter's medial form), finds
|
||||
for each the feature value that draws it there, and on a double-click runs one `text.setRangeStyle` on exactly that
|
||||
character: `featureChanges` turns its other alternate features (`salt`, `aalt`, `swsh`, `ss01`–`ss20`) off and sets the
|
||||
value (`["-ss01", "salt=2"]`), and `glyphAlternate: null` takes away a glyph choice that would otherwise keep drawing
|
||||
its own glyph (`text.setRangeStyle` takes it; any other value is refused). It is one undo step.
|
||||
|
||||
```json
|
||||
{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"text.setRangeStyle","params":{"id":7,"start":4,"end":6,"features":["salt=2"]}}}
|
||||
{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"text.setRangeStyle","params":{"id":7,"start":4,"end":6,"featureChanges":["-salt"]}}}
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
## New type in a Japanese interface
|
||||
|
||||
While the interface is in Japanese (Preferences › User Interface › Language, or `auto` on a Japanese system), new type starts with em
|
||||
@@ -9575,8 +9695,9 @@ it ends up in front), baked with `effect.expandAppearance`, then `object.pathfin
|
||||
|
||||
## Cutting Tools add-on
|
||||
|
||||
Cutting Tools is a built-in add-on that prepares art for cutting. Its command is `addon.cutting.bridges`; in the desktop
|
||||
app it is Object › Plug-ins › Cutting Tools › Stencil Bridges….
|
||||
Cutting Tools is a built-in add-on that prepares art for cutting. Its commands are `addon.cutting.bridges` and
|
||||
`addon.cutting.weed`; in the desktop app they are Object › Plug-ins › Cutting Tools › Stencil Bridges… and Weed Box and
|
||||
Lines….
|
||||
|
||||
### Stencil Bridges
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -9627,6 +9748,44 @@ Crossing) and Keep Original.
|
||||
{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"addon.cutting.bridges","params":{"width":3,"count":2,"direction":"shortest","keepOriginal":false}}}
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
### Weed Box and Lines
|
||||
|
||||
`addon.cutting.weed {margin?, box?, direction?, count?, spacing?, gap?, weight?, swatch?}` adds a weed box around the
|
||||
selected art and weeding lines across the box, so the waste vinyl around the art lifts off in pieces
|
||||
([what a weeding border is](https://help.arlon.com/what-is-a-weeding-border)). The ranges, defaults and rules below are
|
||||
VectorCraft's own. The weed box is a rectangle `margin` points (0 to 100000, default 9) outside the art's bounds;
|
||||
`box: false` leaves it out. The weeding lines run `"horizontal"`, `"vertical"` or `"both"` ways (default `"both"`) from
|
||||
one side of the box to the other and divide it evenly: `count` lines each way (a whole number from 0 to 1000, default 1),
|
||||
or with `spacing` instead, as few lines as keep them at most that far apart. A line is left out over the art's area and
|
||||
within `gap` points of its outlines (0 to 100000, default 0: the lines stop at the outlines), so it ends in several
|
||||
pieces, each a straight path. The lines and the box are stroked `weight` points wide (0.01 to 1000, default 0.3) in the
|
||||
color swatch `swatch` (default `"[Registration]"`), with no fill.
|
||||
|
||||
The art is measured by the outlines a cutter cuts. Closed paths enclose their area by their fill rule, so the hole of a
|
||||
compound path filled even-odd gets lines too, and open paths are lines with no area. Type is measured by its glyph
|
||||
outlines, a clip group by what shows inside its clipping path (an open clipping path clips as if closed), an image by
|
||||
its frame, a placed file by the art it shows (by its box when the file can't be read), a symbol instance by its art (an
|
||||
instance of a symbol the document doesn't have adds nothing) and a live object such as a blend by the art it draws. An
|
||||
object selected inside a clip group is measured by what shows of it, and a clipping path selected on its own as its clip
|
||||
group. Strokes, effects, hidden objects and objects in a hidden group or layer are left out.
|
||||
|
||||
The result is one group named "Weeding" (the box is its member "Weed Box"), added on top of the current layer and
|
||||
selected, as one undo step. While a clip group, or a group inside one, is edited in isolation, the group goes on top of
|
||||
the container that holds the outermost clip group around it. With nothing selected, or with a selection that has no
|
||||
outlines, the command fails. It also fails when the art's outlines, followed in straight segments, have more than
|
||||
200000 points; when groups, symbol instances and live objects are nested more than 128 levels deep; when measuring the
|
||||
clip groups' outlines against each other takes more than 40000000 tests of one segment or outline point against another,
|
||||
counted over every clip group in the selection together and including the outlines a nested clip group hides; when, for the
|
||||
lines one way, more than 10000000 pairs of a line and an outline segment within `gap` of it are found, or closed
|
||||
outline segments are checked for crossings with the lines more than 10000000 times; when the lines would be more than
|
||||
100000 pieces; and when no line fits outside the art while `box` is false. Result: `{id, box, lines}`: the group's id,
|
||||
the weed box's id (null without one) and the number of pieces of weeding line. Weed Box and Lines… opens the command
|
||||
dialog with Preview; a Spacing above 0 is used instead of the Count.
|
||||
|
||||
```json
|
||||
{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"addon.cutting.weed","params":{"margin":"0.25 in","direction":"both","spacing":"2 in","gap":1}}}
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
## Color Effects add-on
|
||||
|
||||
Color Effects is a built-in add-on: its effects are colour adjustments in Effect › Color Effects, its command is
|
||||
|
||||
+2
-1
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ native wording review, layout checks and a web Devanagari font remain. [Notes](l
|
||||
| M4 | Files (native, SVG, PDF, raster, Export for Screens, clipboard interop) | Explicit editing-data import keeps oversized capped-page artboards (#6865; estimates unchanged); Save refusal continuation (#6146): ordinary Save offers Save As; unchanged format keeps options, changed format opens its Save options; cancellation/automation isolation; focused UI regressions passed, native acceptance pending; 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 |
|
||||
| M7 | Type (point/area/path, editing, styles, OpenType, threading, glyphs) | Spell check engine: `text.spelling.check` and `text.spelling.suggest` on craft-proof and the custom dictionary and Ignore All commands and Auto Spell Check with its right-click suggestions, Ignore All and Add to Dictionary, and Spelling › Auto Spell Check in the context menu of type, and the Edit Custom Dictionary dialog (#4936; the Check Spelling dialog remains); Right-aligned area type sets the text after a line's last tab against the right edge, the text before it at its stops (#6147); A line a soft return ends is justified as a wrapped line is (#6137); Indian-language pattern hyphenation preserves syllables in both composers (#4947); 🟡 Hanging punctuation keeps its published amounts under Glyph Scaling, and Standard burasagari counts a hung line start as room; Fullwidth `！` / `？` keep an upright fallback in vertical type; Hyphenation… and Justification… per paragraph (#2310, #2755), Auto Leading also driving the Character panel's Leading, the Alt+↑/↓ leading nudge and Fill with Placeholder Text; Document-point character controls after object/group scaling (#1034; optional font-size preservation remains separate), Character/Paragraph Styles (explicit Auto-leading resets and local leading overrides), per-paragraph paragraph attributes, mixed paragraph alignment indication (headless regressions, full integration CI and visual review pass), Area Type Options (with Width/Height, Auto Size and Shrink Text to Fit; overflow reported to agents and vertical Align), type areas resized by their handles and reshaped with Direct Selection, threaded text, Fit Headline, Glyphs, OpenType panel (including font-defined Stylistic Sets), Find Font (Document, Recent and System replacement sources, #5217), installed system fonts in every font menu (fonts registered with Windows outside its font folders, the XDG and Flatpak host font folders on Linux, and fonts installed while the app runs, listed when it comes back to the front; searchable; the Character and Properties menus show each family's sample of the selected text, preview it live under the pointer or ↑/↓, show recently applied families first (#3515), filter by script and kind, list a family's styles, and star favourites; the Glyphs panel and Find Font's Replace With use the same menu without the live preview) and found by name on open/import (full-name aliases and Missing Fonts searches verified, #1258; Windows font-service QA pending), variable fonts' named instances as styles, CJK names in the UI, input methods (marked text in place, candidate window at the caret; Japanese IME), Text Wrap (offset, invert, both sides of an object; follows edits), Type on a Path effects and Options with draggable start/centre/end brackets (slide, flip), tab stops + Tabs panel (Above Text floats it over the selected text, its ruler at the canvas zoom so stops line up with the columns, #729), inline symbols in text (beyond parity), Hebrew/Arabic bidirectional text, Paragraph Direction, Every-line/Single-line Composer per object (ragged text too) done; paint-only Arabic harakat keep joining with GDEF-mark ownership and Insert Kashidas tatweels on the base letter's paint (`tests::harakat`); tab leaders, spell check, vertical type pending | 45–60 |
|
||||
| M7 | Type (point/area/path, editing, styles, OpenType, threading, glyphs) | Spell check engine: `text.spelling.check` and `text.spelling.suggest` on craft-proof and the custom dictionary and Ignore All commands and Auto Spell Check with its right-click suggestions, Ignore All and Add to Dictionary, and Spelling › Auto Spell Check in the context menu of type, and the Edit Custom Dictionary dialog (#4936; the Check Spelling dialog remains); Right-aligned area type sets the text after a line's last tab against the right edge, the text before it at its stops (#6147); A line a soft return ends is justified as a wrapped line is (#6137); Indian-language pattern hyphenation preserves syllables in both composers (#4947); 🟡 Hanging punctuation keeps its published amounts under Glyph Scaling, and Standard burasagari counts a hung line start as room; Fullwidth `！` / `？` keep an upright fallback in vertical type; Hyphenation… and Justification… per paragraph (#2310, #2755), Auto Leading also driving the Character panel's Leading, the Alt+↑/↓ leading nudge and Fill with Placeholder Text; Document-point character controls after object/group scaling (#1034; optional font-size preservation remains separate), Character/Paragraph Styles (explicit Auto-leading resets and local leading overrides), per-paragraph paragraph attributes, mixed paragraph alignment indication (headless regressions, full integration CI and visual review pass), Area Type Options (with Width/Height, Auto Size and Shrink Text to Fit; overflow reported to agents and vertical Align), type areas resized by their handles and reshaped with Direct Selection, threaded text, Fit Headline, Glyphs (feature-valued alternates and unencoded glyphs applied in one Undo step while keeping Arabic joining, #5514), OpenType panel (including font-defined Stylistic Sets), Find Font (Document, Recent and System replacement sources, #5217), installed system fonts in every font menu (fonts registered with Windows outside its font folders, the XDG and Flatpak host font folders on Linux, and fonts installed while the app runs, listed when it comes back to the front; searchable; the Character and Properties menus show each family's sample of the selected text, preview it live under the pointer or ↑/↓, show recently applied families first (#3515), filter by script and kind, list a family's styles, and star favourites; the Glyphs panel and Find Font's Replace With use the same menu without the live preview) and found by name on open/import (full-name aliases and Missing Fonts searches verified, #1258; Windows font-service QA pending), variable fonts' named instances as styles, CJK names in the UI, input methods (marked text in place, candidate window at the caret; Japanese IME), Text Wrap (offset, invert, both sides of an object; follows edits), Type on a Path effects and Options with draggable start/centre/end brackets (slide, flip), tab stops + Tabs panel (Above Text floats it over the selected text, its ruler at the canvas zoom so stops line up with the columns, #729), inline symbols in text (beyond parity), Hebrew/Arabic bidirectional text, Paragraph Direction, Every-line/Single-line Composer per object (ragged text too) done; paint-only Arabic harakat keep joining with GDEF-mark ownership and Insert Kashidas tatweels on the base letter's paint (`tests::harakat`); tab leaders, spell check, vertical type pending | 45–60 |
|
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| M8 | Transform & distort (Puppet Warp, Liquify tools, Envelopes, Blends, Perspective Grid) | ✅ done (M8.1–M8.20 on 2026-10-06, fidelity pass): Liquify Tool Options with one shared brush, pen pressure, hold-to-apply, a safe scope and incremental strokes; tool options that last; Puppet Warp rotation, multi-select, Control bar and a rest-shape session that follows Undo; Width tool on compound paths; Envelope dialogs with preview, Reset with Warp/Mesh, full Envelope Options, type/images/symbols/appearance/gradients/patterns distorted on canvas and in every export, warps that keep their frame, Edit Contents, mesh handles and Control bar; Blend Options, anchor-targeted Blend tool, editable spine, keys picked on the canvas, faithful interpolation and knockout; Anchor Point spine conversion/handle editing and selection priority (#2544), with #2425 Shift reshape preserved; Perspective Grid with Define Grid, presets, lock/snap/rulers, widgets, the 1–4 plane switch, movable planes, Perspective Selection scale/copy/perpendicular/Transform Again, and type and symbols truly projected with Edit Text. Left: Anti-Alias and Preserve Shape output, warp-envelope point editing, brush interpolation in blends, Free Transform/Scale/Reflect along a rotated box | 2–4 |
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| 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 |
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| 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, eight generated libraries including Bristle Brushes and Dry Media, 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 |
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| 2026-11-12 | minor | Explicit editing-data import keeps a single artboard beyond a capped 14,400 pt PDF page (#6865), with a warning; automatic mode stays unchanged. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
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| 2026-11-12 | minor | M7: Glyphs panel applies feature-valued alternates and unencoded glyphs while keeping Arabic joining (#5514). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
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| 2026-11-12 | minor | M14: numeric fields keep the caret when a focus click is released more than 1 pt from its press; a tap within 1 pt still selects all (#6659, follow-up to #1326); estimates unchanged. |
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| 2026-11-12 | minor | M12: Live Paint Bucket fills faces crossed in one drag (#6373). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
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| 2026-11-12 | minor | Save refusal follow-up (#6146): changed format opens its Save options; unchanged format retains original options. Focused UI regressions passed, including the format-change case that failed before the fix; native panel acceptance pending. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
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> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-11 · **Change:** minor (kerning at the Type tool's caret at the start of a line sets the space before the character after it, #5111; previously minor: type's strokes in an envelope paint along its bent glyph outlines at their own weight, Distort Appearance on or off, as users' `.ai` files draw them, #6644; previously minor: a centred or right-aligned line of tracked type is aligned without the tracking after its last character, as the page of users' `.ai` files aligns it, #6610; previously minor: tracking and manual kerning in horizontally scaled type are thousandths of the em as the Horizontal Scale draws it, as the page of users' `.ai` files spaces such type; previously minor: Edit › Edit Custom Dictionary…: its dialog adds, deletes and changes the custom dictionary's words, #4936; previously minor: Direct Selection shows and drags the direction handles of type on a path's path, #3565; previously minor: right-click on type: Spelling › Auto Spell Check, with its check mark, #4936; previously minor: right-click on a word Auto Spell Check underlined: its suggestions, Ignore All and Add to Dictionary, #4936; previously minor: Auto Spell Check: `edit.autoSpellCheck` underlines the unknown words, #4936; previously minor: PDF marked-text export (#6309): compatible glyphs stay on one layout line with per-glyph offsets; scores and estimates unchanged; paint-only Arabic harakat keep joining with GDEF-mark ownership and Insert Kashidas base-letter paint; scores and estimates unchanged; custom dictionary and Ignore All: `text.spelling.addWord`, `removeWord`, `changeWord`, `dictionary` and `ignoreAll`, #4936; previously minor: spell check engine: `text.spelling.check` and `text.spelling.suggest` on craft-proof, #4936; previously minor: right-aligned area type sets the text after a line's last tab against the right edge; a soft return in justified type no longer keeps its line from being justified; Character Styles panel: a double-click on a style's row opens its Character Style Options; the dialog keeps a fixed width and scrolls its sections, so its buttons stay on screen) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
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Glyphs review (#6084): a positional variant no supported feature draws is accepted as a glyph choice. Entire Font respects the selection's variable axes and font version; the default cell can reset an unlisted choice without GSUB alternates. Contextual choices use the supplying face, including fallback. Feature-only boundaries preserve ligature clusters and Arabic mark attachment. Encoded characters insert unchanged except Arabic presentation forms with a joining base letter; normalization reports success only after insertion succeeds. Latest follow-up regressions await runtime verification. Scores and estimates unchanged.
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Type is Illustrator's largest single area by use (weight 13 of 105 across "Type core" and "Type advanced" in
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[target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md)). This checklist lists the features one by one. Status is from the
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| Copy or Cut selected characters, then paste as separate text art | done | A Type-range copy keeps the selected characters' font family, size and color when pasted on the canvas after leaving text editing, in the same document or another. On desktop the clipboard offers plain text to text consumers and rich art for canvas Paste; Paste Without Formatting while editing uses the destination text's style. `tests::clipboard::type_range_copy_stays_styled_when_pasted_as_art` (#5636) |
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| Character size and horizontal scale after object/group scaling | done | #1034: fields and setters compensate the stored affine; point size follows the transformed em-height axis, not the glyph ink bounds. Range edits, keyboard increments, leading and baseline shift use document points; rotation, reflection and shear remain editable. |
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| Preserve font sizes while scaling a group | missing | Separate enhancement; scaling still scales text with the other artwork. |
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| OpenType panel, Glyphs panel, alternates | done | Highlight Alternate Glyphs preference (#394, off by default) paints pink behind OpenType substitutions on screen when on (required shaping such as Arabic joining forms and the lam-alef ligature, including a lam-alef older fonts file under `liga`, is not highlighted; an optional feature that changes the ligature is); stylistic sets ss01–ss20, stylistic and titling alternates, proportional and lining figures, superscript and subscript are character-style features (`text.setStyle {features}`, #1607); the OpenType panel's Position menu sets superscript, subscript, numerator or denominator glyphs (`sups`, `subs`, `numr`, `dnom`). The OpenType panel's Stylistic Sets menu lists the selected font's `ss01`–`ss20` features, using a font-supplied name where available and `Set N` otherwise; several sets can be active, and selecting an active one removes it. For a mixed-font selection it uses the first selected character's font, a VectorCraft design choice ([public help](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/special-characters-glyphs/add-stylistic-sets-to-selected-text.html), [OpenType feature specification](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/features_pt)). The Glyphs panel highlights the character selected with the Type tool (a range's first character, else the one before the caret) and scrolls it into view as the selection moves (#4908; `panels::glyphs` tests); its Show menu lists Unicode ranges and Alternates for Current Selection, the selected character's alternate glyphs from the font's `GSUB` table, one of which a double-click draws for that character (`text.setGlyphAlternate`); the glyph-cell pop-up of alternates is not there yet |
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| OpenType panel, Glyphs panel, alternates | done | Highlight Alternate Glyphs preference (#394, off by default) paints pink behind OpenType substitutions on screen when on (required shaping such as Arabic joining forms and the lam-alef ligature, including a lam-alef older fonts file under `liga`, is not highlighted; an optional feature that changes the ligature is); stylistic sets ss01–ss20, stylistic and titling alternates, proportional and lining figures, superscript and subscript are character-style features (`text.setStyle {features}`, #1607); the OpenType panel's Position menu sets superscript, subscript, numerator or denominator glyphs (`sups`, `subs`, `numr`, `dnom`). The OpenType panel's Stylistic Sets menu lists the selected font's `ss01`–`ss20` features, using a font-supplied name where available and `Set N` otherwise; several sets can be active, and selecting an active one removes it. For a mixed-font selection it uses the first selected character's font, a VectorCraft design choice ([public help](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/special-characters-glyphs/add-stylistic-sets-to-selected-text.html), [OpenType feature specification](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/features_pt)). The Glyphs panel highlights the character selected with the Type tool (a range's first character, else the one before the caret) and scrolls it into view as the selection moves (#4908; `panels::glyphs` tests); its Show menu lists Unicode ranges and Alternates for Current Selection, the selected character's alternate glyphs from the font's `GSUB` table. A double-click applies the OpenType feature that draws a variant to that character alone, or uses a glyph choice when no supported feature draws it; see the Glyphs panel row below for Entire Font and the joining limits. The glyph-cell pop-up of alternates is not there yet |
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| Glyphs panel: alternates as OpenType feature values, unencoded glyphs | done | #5514, as [Replace characters with alternate glyphs](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/special-characters-glyphs/replace-characters-with-alternate-glyphs.html) describes (Show › Alternates For Current Selection; replace the selected character by double-clicking the glyph). A character-style feature takes a value (`"salt=2"`, the font's alternate number; `ss01`–`ss20`, `swsh`, `titl` and `aalt` too) in `features` and `featureChanges`, in SVG `font-feature-settings` (`"salt" 2`) and in native files as the plain string. Show › Entire Font applies an unencoded glyph the same way when it is an alternate of the selected character in its word, applies one no feature reaches (`A.salt` in a font with no `salt`) to the selected character as a glyph choice (it may not join), and dims the others with the reason in the tooltip (e.g. `yehfarsi.fina.alt2 belongs to ی (U+06CC) at the end of a word; your selection is ي (U+064A)`); an Arabic presentation form picked there inserts its letter so the word joins. Runs that differ only in their features shape as one piece of text, each run's features over its own characters, so a variant on one letter of an Arabic word keeps its neighbours' initial, medial and final forms and the letters still touch. The panel lists the alternates of the glyph the shaper makes for the selected character in its word (a medial letter shows medial variants), and a double-click applies the OpenType feature that draws the variant (`salt=N` or `ssNN`) to that character alone, in one undo step (`text.setRangeStyle`); a variant no feature reaches falls back to a replacement glyph (`text.setGlyphAlternate`), which its tooltip says may not join. Show › Entire Font also lists the glyphs no character maps, with their name or `gid N` and the feature that gives them. The text crate reads each face's `GSUB` once (alternate sets, single substitutions, the feature that reaches a glyph). Not done: alternates reached through contextual or ligature lookups, and features of the font that the style has no tag for (`cv01`–`cv99`, `hist`). Evidence: `tests::glyph_alternates` in the text crate (a fixture font with a medial teh at `salt=1` to `3`, the neighbours' forms, no gap; Kufi Murabba PIIIX when it is installed), `features::tests::feature_values_are_parsed_validated_and_shaped`, `tests::textedit::feature_values_are_set_replaced_and_saved`, the `panels::glyphs` tests. |
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| Font menu: samples, live preview, filters, favourites, recent families; font matching by any name; Find Font | done | #3515: recently applied families appear first, once each; missing families are omitted and the existing Number of Recent Fonts setting applies; #339; script filter: Japanese, Latin, Thai; the font scan on Linux also reads the folders fontconfig's configuration lists, such as TeX fonts under `/usr/share/texmf/fonts` (#1548, fixes #1529; not verified on Linux); Select Text by Font takes a scope: the document, chosen artboards or chosen layers; Find Font's Find In offers Document, Artboard (the active one) and Layers (the selected ones, else the current one) (#5529, a VectorCraft addition); Replace With Font lists family and style rows, one click setting both, with a search over them; its list scrolls on its own, apart from the document's font list (#4972). |
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| Missing glyphs set in an installed font made for their script (Thai, Lao, Khmer, Myanmar first; then any font that has them) | done | Thai: Leelawadee UI, Tahoma, Thonburi, Sukhumvit Set, Noto Sans Thai, TLWG |
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| Full font-name matching (OpenType name ID 4) | done | #1258: loaded/cataloged faces and Missing Fonts searches; localized names and variable default faces; Windows font-service QA pending |
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| 2026-11-12 | minor | Glyphs review (#6084): validate contextual glyph choices against their supplying face, including fallback and overflow; keep feature-only boundaries inside ligatures and Arabic mark clusters while retaining drawing-attribute splits; preserve insertion failures instead of reporting normalization success. Deterministic engine, shaping and panel regression sources added; ligature range assertions use the fixture's unencoded glyph identity. Runtime proof pending. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
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| 2026-11-12 | minor | Glyphs review (#6084): Entire Font resolves the selected font's version and variable axes; the default cell remains available to reset an unlisted choice with no listed alternates. Character insertion normalizes only Arabic presentation forms, preserving ordinary characters whose glyphs share Arabic substitution provenance. Add deterministic panel apply/reset/Undo regressions without OS-font dependencies. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
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| 2026-11-09 | minor | Glyphs review (#6084): the engine accepts a positional alternate as a glyph choice when no supported feature draws it, not only an isolated character's alternates; both panel views exercise apply and Undo. OpenType style options preserve only a valid last on-value when enabling a stylistic set. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
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| 2026-11-07 | minor | Glyphs panel (#5514): Alternates for Current Selection lists the alternates of the selected character's glyph in its word and a double-click applies the OpenType feature that draws one to that letter alone (`salt=2`; `features` and `featureChanges` take `tag=N`), so an Arabic word stays joined, and Entire Font lists the unencoded glyphs, applies the ones that are the selected letter's alternates, or that no feature reaches and the font's names do not give to another letter, and dims, with the reason, those that are not. Runs that differ only in their features shape as one piece of text. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
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| 2026-11-11 | minor | Kerning at the start of a line (#5111): at the Type tool's caret before the first character of the text, of a paragraph or after a forced line break, the Kerning field, Alt+arrows and Reset Tracking and Kerning set the space before the character after the caret (`CharStyle::kerning_before`, `kerningBefore` in `text.setRangeStyle`), which moves it and the rest of its line, in horizontal, right-to-left and vertical type and in SVG export. They did nothing at the text's start and kerned the invisible line break at a paragraph's. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
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| 2026-11-11 | minor | Type in envelopes: its strokes (its characters' and those on its own appearance) paint along the bent glyph outlines at their own weight, Distort Appearance on or off, as the drawn art of users' `.ai` files strokes them; with Distort Appearance they bent with the art as their filled outlines. The same holds in an envelope inside an envelope. Geometry effects on type's fills and strokes, and an opacity mask on type, still bend; Expand gives the bent outlines with the strokes on them. The visual bounds of envelopes, blends and repeats count type's character strokes as type's own visual bounds do. This changes how VectorCraft's own envelopes of stroked type draw (#6644). Score unchanged (estimated) |
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| 2026-11-11 | minor | Aligned lines of tracked type: a centred or right-aligned line is as wide as its characters without the tracking after its last one (`LineInfo::trailing`), so a centred line sits half that tracking right of where it did and a right-aligned line's last glyph ends on its anchor or frame edge, the tracking after it reaching past. The page of users' `.ai` files (used locally, never committed) aligns tracked lines so: matched glyph by glyph with the page, 176 centred lines of point type in 51 files sat half their last character's tracking left of it (median 0.500 of it; 143 within 0.05 pt), 58 right-aligned lines in 5 files the whole tracking (median 1.001), and 182 left-aligned lines where the page has them; in a line whose last character is tracked 150 and the others −34, the offset is half the last character's tracking (0.498 of it). All those lines end a paragraph. The last character is the last the line draws before a paragraph's end, a forced line break or the spaces a wrap leaves (they hang past the line). Spaces or a tab typed before a paragraph's end or a forced line break are the line's last characters, and the letter before them keeps its tracking: in the 2 such lines in the files, the page counts the space and the letter's tracking and leaves out only the space's own (VectorCraft still leaves trailing spaces out of the width). Forced line breaks and wrapped lines of tracked type aren't in the files: they take the rule unverified, so that Convert To Point Type and Artwork Cleanup's Break Text, which turn wraps into paragraphs and forced line breaks, keep the lines where they were. A hyphenated line, one whose last character hangs, justified, vertical and right-to-left lines and type on a path keep the tracking, and so do right, centre and decimal tab stops, which still align the text after them with its last character's tracking. Manual kerning on the last character, line breaking and justification are unchanged (none in the files). The tracking stays in the last glyph's advance (the caret after it and a selection of it take it in), and Fit Headline still counts it, as line breaking does. Right-aligned area type sets the text after its last tab the same way. Convert To Area Type makes the frame end where the lines are aligned, with room for that tracking, so tracked type converted either way stays where it is (it moved by the tracking on each round trip). Affinity import aligns artistic text by the same rule, so centred or right-aligned tracked artistic text moves by half or all of its last character's tracking (unverified against Affinity). Centred and right-aligned tracked type lays out differently than before in every document. Tests `tests::an_aligned_line_leaves_its_last_characters_tracking_out_of_its_width`, `tests::which_lines_leave_the_tracking_after_their_last_character_out`, `tests::an_aligned_line_leaves_out_its_last_tracking_as_glyph_scaling_sets_it`, `tests::the_text_after_the_last_tab_of_right_aligned_type_leaves_its_last_tracking_out`, and the engine's `converting_tracked_type_between_point_and_area_keeps_it_in_place` and `break_tracked_area_type_keeps_its_aligned_lines_in_place`. Scores and estimates unchanged. (#6610) |
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> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-12 · **Change:** minor (Remove Background in the Contextual Task Bar, Properties › Quick Actions and the Control bar; previously minor: Ruler origin: the corner drag snaps as a drawn point does; previously minor: Live Paint Bucket fills faces crossed in one drag (#6373); previously: #6404: transform-aware Eyedropper character copying; scores and estimates unchanged; previously: Outline view: images and gradient meshes are picked on what Outline draws, so a click inside them reaches the path behind, #6437; previously minor: a middle-click on a document tab closes it, #6506; previously minor: Blob Brush: a round tip's preview is the outline of the area it adds, round at both ends, as the stroke it commits (#4343); scores and estimates unchanged; previously:; ruler double-click adds a guide at the pointer, #5239; G5: Inventory Icons built-in symbol library (four built-ins); previously minor: files that record no units open in Preferences › Units › General, #5820; previously minor: interim macOS cursor delivery, #2292; native validation pending; scores and estimates unchanged; Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged; floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it, #5925 in part; numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking keyboard focus, #5949; Character Styles panel: a double-click on a style's row opens its Character Style Options; the dialog keeps a fixed width and scrolls its sections, so its buttons stay on screen; Selection QoL: marquee modes and visible feedback, #5313; #3380 deletion-only review follow-up: independent survivors keep gradient placement, owned subpaths avoid discarded copies, and contracts/status/evidence are clarified; endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged; Drop Shadow and glow dialogs: spinner arrows, #5367, #5368; Stroke Weight Up and Down shortcuts, #5797; Layers: Rename (`ui.rename`) opens the name field of the selected layer, group or object, #5324; Properties in Edit Artboards: Transform section above the Artboards section, #5219; scrubby labels: the Control bar's Stroke: and Opacity: links and the Properties panel's Stroke link scrub their fields, #4088; Properties: Quick Actions has Repeat Options for one selected repeat, #5181; Direct Selection: Shift-click picks several blend spine points, which drag together, #5285; Direct Selection: Cmd/Ctrl held lends the Selection tool and shows its bounding box, #3901; Join tool trims two crossing open paths and joins them at the crossing, #5844; Control bar: Paragraph: link and Align left/center/right while type is selected, #5372; shape tools: a press on the selection's centre point moves it and one in the rotate zone outside a box corner turns it, #5477; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; Units › East Asian Type acts, with Q and Ha units; scores unchanged)
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> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-12 · **Change:** minor (macOS: the canvas cursor stays after the pointer moves, #6362; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: Remove Background in the Contextual Task Bar, Properties › Quick Actions and the Control bar; previously minor: Ruler origin: the corner drag snaps as a drawn point does; previously minor: Live Paint Bucket fills faces crossed in one drag (#6373); previously: #6404: transform-aware Eyedropper character copying; scores and estimates unchanged; previously: Outline view: images and gradient meshes are picked on what Outline draws, so a click inside them reaches the path behind, #6437; previously minor: a middle-click on a document tab closes it, #6506; previously minor: Blob Brush: a round tip's preview is the outline of the area it adds, round at both ends, as the stroke it commits (#4343); scores and estimates unchanged; previously:; ruler double-click adds a guide at the pointer, #5239; G5: Inventory Icons built-in symbol library (four built-ins); previously minor: files that record no units open in Preferences › Units › General, #5820; previously minor: interim macOS cursor delivery, #2292; native validation pending; scores and estimates unchanged; Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged; floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it, #5925 in part; numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking keyboard focus, #5949; Character Styles panel: a double-click on a style's row opens its Character Style Options; the dialog keeps a fixed width and scrolls its sections, so its buttons stay on screen; Selection QoL: marquee modes and visible feedback, #5313; #3380 deletion-only review follow-up: independent survivors keep gradient placement, owned subpaths avoid discarded copies, and contracts/status/evidence are clarified; endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged; Drop Shadow and glow dialogs: spinner arrows, #5367, #5368; Stroke Weight Up and Down shortcuts, #5797; Layers: Rename (`ui.rename`) opens the name field of the selected layer, group or object, #5324; Properties in Edit Artboards: Transform section above the Artboards section, #5219; scrubby labels: the Control bar's Stroke: and Opacity: links and the Properties panel's Stroke link scrub their fields, #4088; Properties: Quick Actions has Repeat Options for one selected repeat, #5181; Direct Selection: Shift-click picks several blend spine points, which drag together, #5285; Direct Selection: Cmd/Ctrl held lends the Selection tool and shows its bounding box, #3901; Join tool trims two crossing open paths and joins them at the crossing, #5844; Control bar: Paragraph: link and Align left/center/right while type is selected, #5372; shape tools: a press on the selection's centre point moves it and one in the rotate zone outside a box corner turns it, #5477; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; Units › East Asian Type acts, with Q and Ha units; scores unchanged)
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| Tool double-click opens its options | done | |
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| Per-platform mapping (Cmd ↔ Ctrl, Option ↔ Alt) | done | |
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| Eyedropper cursor; Use Precise Cursors | partial | original pipette at the sampling tip, distinct from the precise crosshair at five DPI scales (#1269); OS cursor display unverified; while Caps Lock is on, the tools that Use Precise Cursors changes show the crosshair, and the saved preference does not change (the desktop app reads the lock state on macOS, Windows and Linux X11, not on native Wayland; `view.capsLock` reads or sets it); a Use Precise Cursors command toggles the preference and can take a shortcut (#1663); cursors are painted into the window on Wayland (#1652, not run on Linux) |
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| macOS canvas cursor delivery (#2292) | partial | The UI prepares the existing glyphs as aligned 1×/2× RGBA requests; the desktop host builds AppKit cursors and owns cursor rectangles for the root document window. Detached document viewports and requests without a usable native bitmap retain the visible system fallback; precise-cursor and UI-scale preferences retained. Headless regressions cover routing, pixels/hotspots and lifecycle; native focus/menu/handback timing, mixed displays, Spotlight and full-screen Spaces remain unverified. Wayland still paints its glyphs. |
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| macOS canvas cursor delivery (#2292) | partial | The UI prepares the existing glyphs as aligned 1×/2× RGBA requests; the desktop host builds AppKit cursors and owns cursor rectangles for the root document window. While it owns the cursor, the host sets it again on every pass, so the tool's cursor stays when the pointer moves (#6362). Detached document viewports and requests without a usable native bitmap retain the visible system fallback; precise-cursor and UI-scale preferences retained. Headless regressions cover routing, pixels/hotspots and lifecycle; native focus/menu/handback timing, mixed displays, Spotlight and full-screen Spaces remain unverified. Wayland still paints its glyphs. |
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| Every tool's modifiers checked against the shortcut reference | missing | this is the fidelity pass |
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## Keyboard shortcuts
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| 2026-11-12 | minor | Live Paint Bucket fills faces crossed in one drag (#6373). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
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| 2026-11-12 | minor | Save refusal follow-up (#6146): changed format opens its Save options; unchanged format retains original options. Focused UI regressions passed, including the format-change case that failed before the fix; native panel acceptance pending. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
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| 2026-11-11 | minor | Ruler origin: the corner drag snaps as a drawn point does, onto the art's and the artboards' anchors, centres, edges and paths, and with Snap to Point along the ruler guides; scores and estimates unchanged |
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| 2026-11-11 | minor | macOS canvas cursor delivery (#2292): while the host owns the cursor it sets it again on every pass, so the tool's cursor stays after the pointer moves (#6362); `mac_cursor` ownership test updated; scores and estimates unchanged. |
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| 2026-11-11 | minor | Eyedropper copies effective character dimensions between transformed text objects (#6404); scores and estimates unchanged. |
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| 2026-11-11 | minor | Ordinary Save to a location refusing writes offers Save As (#6146); cancellation preserves the original path and modified state; automation receives READ_ONLY_LOCATION. Scores and estimates unchanged. Validation pending. |
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| 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). |
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