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From: Don Omondi <282319807+mockydevs@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2026 21:44:48 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] PDF import (#6971): parity and roadmap entries

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 # Roadmap: milestones and what's next
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-12 · **Change:** minor (icon-strip flyouts also resize from the top edge and the canvas-side top corner, keeping the moved top in workspaces (storytold/craft-libs#1094); scores and estimates unchanged; previously: #6865: explicitly requested oversized editing artboard; Live Paint Bucket fills faces crossed in one drag (#6373); previously: #6404: transform-aware Eyedropper character copying; scores and estimates unchanged; previously: M10/G5: Energy Beams brush library; MCP docs list Energy Beams; previously minor: M10/G5: Skill Icons symbol library; MCP docs list Skill Icons; previously minor: M10/G5: Status Effects graphic style library; MCP docs catch-up for symbol libraries; previously minor: M10/G5: Inventory Icons built-in symbol library; previously minor: Edit › Edit Custom Dictionary…: its dialog adds, deletes and changes the custom dictionary's words, #4936; previously minor: M10/G5: Game HUD graphic style library; previously minor: resizable icon-strip flyouts and bottom-aligned panel footers, #5713; previously minor: M10/G5: Map Markers built-in symbol library; previously minor: right-click on type: Spelling › Auto Spell Check, with its check mark, #4936; previously minor: right-click on a word Auto Spell Check underlined: its suggestions, Ignore All and Add to Dictionary, #4936; previously minor: G2: Effect Gallery thumbnails and in-dialog preview are in; Auto Spell Check: `edit.autoSpellCheck` underlines the unknown words, #4936; previously minor: PDF editable import preserves authored ActualText once, including empty/nested spans and authored ordering (#6165); cross-line/style layout remains approximate; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF marked-text export (#6309): compatible glyphs stay on one layout line with per-glyph offsets; scores and estimates unchanged; interim macOS cursor delivery, #2292; native validation pending; scores and estimates unchanged; Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged; custom dictionary and Ignore All: `text.spelling.addWord`, `removeWord`, `changeWord`, `dictionary` and `ignoreAll`, #4936; previously minor: EPS import: embedded fonts (composite, Type 42, CID-keyed, Type 1, CFF FontSet) draw their glyphs; spell check engine: `text.spelling.check` and `text.spelling.suggest` on craft-proof, #4936; previously minor: floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it, #5925 in part; M4/M7: `.ai`/EPS type keeps its tab stops, and right-aligned lines with tabs lay out as the file's page, #6147; M4/M7: `.ai`/EPS type from the text document lays its lines out closer to the file's page, within limits, #6137; numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking keyboard focus, #5949; Character Styles panel: a double-click on a style's row opens its Character Style Options; the dialog keeps a fixed width and scrolls its sections, so its buttons stay on screen; Selection QoL: marquee modes and visible feedback, #5313; SVG CSS classes survive export and repeated import in all four styling modes (#2480); current-main integration retains event attributes and scripts; #3380 deletion-only review follow-up: independent survivors keep gradient placement, owned subpaths avoid discarded copies, and contracts/status/evidence are clarified; endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged; Indian-language hyphenation review and license allowlist, #4947; Hindi catalog and contributor loanword preferences; full wording review in progress; Effect dialogs: a colour swatch beside a hex colour opens the Color Picker, #5365; shape tools move the selection from its centre point and turn it from the zone outside a box corner, #5477; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-13 · **Change:** minor (PDF import: glyphs in a span with an empty ActualText come in as outlines, #6971; scores and estimates unchanged; previously: icon-strip flyouts also resize from the top edge and the canvas-side top corner, keeping the moved top in workspaces (storytold/craft-libs#1094); scores and estimates unchanged; previously: #6865: explicitly requested oversized editing artboard; Live Paint Bucket fills faces crossed in one drag (#6373); previously: #6404: transform-aware Eyedropper character copying; scores and estimates unchanged; previously: M10/G5: Energy Beams brush library; MCP docs list Energy Beams; previously minor: M10/G5: Skill Icons symbol library; MCP docs list Skill Icons; previously minor: M10/G5: Status Effects graphic style library; MCP docs catch-up for symbol libraries; previously minor: M10/G5: Inventory Icons built-in symbol library; previously minor: Edit › Edit Custom Dictionary…: its dialog adds, deletes and changes the custom dictionary's words, #4936; previously minor: M10/G5: Game HUD graphic style library; previously minor: resizable icon-strip flyouts and bottom-aligned panel footers, #5713; previously minor: M10/G5: Map Markers built-in symbol library; previously minor: right-click on type: Spelling › Auto Spell Check, with its check mark, #4936; previously minor: right-click on a word Auto Spell Check underlined: its suggestions, Ignore All and Add to Dictionary, #4936; previously minor: G2: Effect Gallery thumbnails and in-dialog preview are in; Auto Spell Check: `edit.autoSpellCheck` underlines the unknown words, #4936; previously minor: PDF editable import preserves authored ActualText once, including empty/nested spans and authored ordering (#6165); cross-line/style layout remains approximate; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF marked-text export (#6309): compatible glyphs stay on one layout line with per-glyph offsets; scores and estimates unchanged; interim macOS cursor delivery, #2292; native validation pending; scores and estimates unchanged; Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged; custom dictionary and Ignore All: `text.spelling.addWord`, `removeWord`, `changeWord`, `dictionary` and `ignoreAll`, #4936; previously minor: EPS import: embedded fonts (composite, Type 42, CID-keyed, Type 1, CFF FontSet) draw their glyphs; spell check engine: `text.spelling.check` and `text.spelling.suggest` on craft-proof, #4936; previously minor: floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it, #5925 in part; M4/M7: `.ai`/EPS type keeps its tab stops, and right-aligned lines with tabs lay out as the file's page, #6147; M4/M7: `.ai`/EPS type from the text document lays its lines out closer to the file's page, within limits, #6137; numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking keyboard focus, #5949; Character Styles panel: a double-click on a style's row opens its Character Style Options; the dialog keeps a fixed width and scrolls its sections, so its buttons stay on screen; Selection QoL: marquee modes and visible feedback, #5313; SVG CSS classes survive export and repeated import in all four styling modes (#2480); current-main integration retains event attributes and scripts; #3380 deletion-only review follow-up: independent survivors keep gradient placement, owned subpaths avoid discarded copies, and contracts/status/evidence are clarified; endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged; Indian-language hyphenation review and license allowlist, #4947; Hindi catalog and contributor loanword preferences; full wording review in progress; Effect dialogs: a colour swatch beside a hex colour opens the Color Picker, #5365; shape tools move the selection from its centre point and turn it from the zone outside a box corner, #5477; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
 >
 > 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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 | Date | Change | Summary |
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+| 2026-11-13 | minor | PDF import: glyphs inside a marked-content span with an empty `ActualText` come in as outlines in their fill and stroke instead of being left out, adding no text (#6971; `empty_actual_text_keeps_the_glyphs_art` in `crates/pdf/src/tests/actual_text.rs`). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-10 | minor | M13 / G6: MCP catalogue (#6460): headless lists UI commands, eight prompts, 33 tools, effect vs command ids; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-08 | minor | Character Styles panel: a double-click on a user style's row opens its Character Style Options (`ui.charStyleOptions`); the dialog keeps a fixed width and scrolls its sections in a shorter window, so OK and Cancel stay on screen. Tests `panels::text_styles::tests::double_clicking_a_character_style_row_opens_its_options` and `dialogs::char_style_options::tests::the_sections_scroll_in_a_window_shorter_than_the_general_list`. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-08 | minor | #3380, deletion only: preserve gradient placement and exact surviving geometry; consume owned subpaths with a shared original-node snapshot; consolidate status/evidence and document command/helper contracts. Compound behavior and the existing M2 status entry are retained. Endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged. |
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 | M1 | Selection, transform, layers, MCP (common command tools, strict keys, session resources and version-aware result hints) | ✅ mostly done (document-tab artwork drag with lossless resource transfer and one target Undo; malformed MCP app replies discard the connection without replay, #1761; bounded control socket waits and connection-slot recovery, #1726; bounded synthetic control input, #1709; no-op anchor Align keeps Undo, Redo and saved state (#1180 follow-up); transform reference point snaps to anchors/centres; rotated objects keep a rotated bounding box and their angle; Free Transform, Scale and Reflect along a rotated box pending; the Transform fields take one Tab each, the W/H link after them) | 4–6 |
 | M2 | Drawing tools + smart guides | ✅ mostly done (#3380 deletion creates independent selected path pieces and keeps bounds-fitted gradients in place; endpoint highlighting remains open; Polygon/Star exact-size count persistence, with repeated-drag, tool-switch and Cancel regression coverage; Curvature point markers without direction handles (#1236, in part); Direct Selection segment click/Delete preserves neighboring edges, #1278; Flare, Reshape, Live Corners widget dragging and per-corner radii and kinds landed, on any path's corners; Shaper rough-shape recognition and orientation steps, the remaining Pen modifier nuances; Shaper Groups with editable sources and separate fill/stroke edits landed; custom ruler origin with drag preview, active-artboard reset, relative X/Y fields and native round-trip (#1212); construction widget/refinements pending); a shape just drawn moves by its centre point and turns from the zone outside a corner with its tool still active (#5477); Tangent and straight-segment perpendicular snapping use saved Smart Guides Geometric Guides preferences and Control bar quick access (#2537), including the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); no View submenu; Copy and Cut with the Pen or Curvature tool take the anchors a Cmd/Ctrl-lent Direct Selection picked (#6123) | 12–18 |
 | M3 | Paint & appearance (swatches, color, gradient, stroke, appearance, transparency, styles) | ✅ done (M3.7–M3.98): swatches, groups, libraries, tints, Lab spots and Registration; Eyedropper copies transformed character dimensions (#6404) and styles highlighted text only (atomic transparency rejection); Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); Color Picker, Color panel, Color Guide, Color Themes, Edit Colors and Recolor Artwork (screen-bounded Edit chip list, #3416); gradients that follow every transform, the annotator, linked stops, freeform gradients, focal points, gradients on strokes and Expand; visible strokes when paint is added to inherited None/zero-width art (#1253); stroke geometry, arrowheads, dashes fitted to corners, stroke on type, width profiles and the Width tool (Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment in Width Point Edit; finite-arithmetic follow-up regressions and full CI passed ([Validation evidence](target-app-parity.md#evidence-what-ships-today-by-area))), Scale Strokes and preview bounds; Appearance targeting, container appearance, target circles, Expand Appearance; knockout, isolation, blend accuracy, CMYK blending, overprint, Attributes, masks and clipping, Flatten Transparency; graphic styles, links and libraries; CSS library export preserves fractional linear and radial gradient stop positions. Left: freeform gradients in SVG/PDF, mixed spot/process gradients in SVG and PDF gradients mixing a spot color with RGB or Lab stops export as stops or process colors; PDF export writes dithered gradient fills with spot stops, and Perceptual spot gradients with RGB or Lab stops other than white or more than 4,096 stops on their curve, as images in process colors; confirm the Scale Strokes & Effects default; Recolor model selection is available through the engine and MCP only (#2520); the dialog retains its existing controls | 4–8 |
-| M4 | Files (native, SVG, PDF, raster, Export for Screens, clipboard interop) | 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) |
+| 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 | PDF import: glyphs inside a marked-content span with an empty `ActualText` come in as outlines in their fill and stroke, adding no text (#6971; scores and estimates unchanged); 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 (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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 # Parity with Adobe Illustrator
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-13 · **Change:** minor (Object › Rasterize with the Grayscale or Bitmap colour model makes a grayscale image, #6969; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: `.ai` and EPS import: type in an envelope with Distort Appearance is also tried mapped from the box of what it paints, miter tips and moved strokes included, after its glyphs grown by half its strokes' weight (#6824; #6617: Swatches panel menu: Show Recent Colors; scores unchanged; previously minor: icon-strip flyouts also resize from the top edge and the canvas-side top corner, keeping the moved top in workspaces (storytold/craft-libs#1094); scores and estimates unchanged; previously: #6865: explicitly requested oversized editing artboard; macOS: the canvas cursor stays after the pointer moves, #6362; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: Type tool: kerning at a caret at the start of a line moves the character after it, #5111; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: Rulers: the zero point dragged out of the rulers' corner 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: Envelopes: with Distort Appearance, type's strokes paint along the bent glyph outlines at their own weight, as users' `.ai` files draw them, which changes how VectorCraft's own envelopes of stroked type draw (#6644; scores and estimates unchanged); previously minor: G5: Energy Beams brush library; bundled content ~44% → ~46%; previously minor: G5: Skill Icons symbol library; bundled content ~42% → ~44%; previously minor: `.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; scores and estimates unchanged); previously minor: ruler double-click adds a guide at the pointer, #5239; G5: Status Effects graphic style library; bundled content ~40% → ~42%; MCP symbol libraries list UI Frames and Map Markers; previously minor: G5: Inventory Icons built-in symbol library; bundled content ~38% → ~40%; previously minor: `.ai` and EPS import: stroked type in an envelope maps from its glyphs grown by half its stroke (#3179; scores and estimates unchanged); previously minor: `.ai` and EPS import: warps of type open as mesh envelopes on their saved grid where VectorCraft's warp doesn't draw as their drawn art (#3179; scores and estimates unchanged); G5: Game Trails brush library; bundled content ~36% → ~38%; previously minor: Edit › Edit Custom Dictionary…: its dialog adds, deletes and changes the custom dictionary's words, #4936; previously minor: `.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; scores and estimates unchanged); G5: Game HUD graphic style library; bundled content ~34% → ~36%; previously minor: Line Arrow arrowhead (#5421; scores and estimates unchanged); G5: Map Markers built-in symbol library; bundled content ~32% → ~34%; 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: Canvas: a 3D effect changed on type or a group redraws where its solid was; Fit to Artwork Bounds and per-artboard SVG export build each solid once for all artboards; previously minor: Effect Gallery: a thumbnail for each filter and a preview area inside the dialog, on an original drawing; Raster effects 52% → 55%, hours 1–2 → none; headline numbers unchanged; Auto Spell Check: `edit.autoSpellCheck` underlines the unknown words, #4936; previously minor: PDF editable import preserves authored ActualText once, including empty/nested spans and authored ordering (#6165); cross-line/style layout remains approximate; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF marked-text export (#6309): compatible glyphs stay on one layout line with per-glyph offsets; scores and estimates unchanged; G5: UI Frames built-in symbol library with default 9-slice; bundled content ~32%; previously minor: G5: dynamic symbol part on-canvas opacity/blend/gradient/pattern; strokes remaining no longer lists Overlap/auto corners; symbols ~88%; previously minor: interim macOS cursor delivery, #2292; native validation pending; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: harakat paint fallback clarified; previously minor: current Guides feature-area rows consolidated using existing ruler evidence; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: G5 docs: Art brush Overlap and Pattern brush auto corners removed from strokes remaining; symbols remaining lists dynamic on-canvas beyond solid and guides outside the art; previously minor: custom dictionary and Ignore All: `text.spelling.addWord`, `removeWord`, `changeWord`, `dictionary` and `ignoreAll`, #4936; previously minor: EPS import: embedded fonts (composite, Type 42, CID-keyed, Type 1, CFF FontSet) draw their glyphs; spell check engine: `text.spelling.check` and `text.spelling.suggest` on craft-proof, #4936; previously minor: floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it, #5925 in part; `.ai`/EPS type keeps its tab stops, and right-aligned lines with tabs lay out as the file's page, #6147; `.ai`/EPS type from the text document lays its lines out closer to the file's page, within limits, #6137; `.ai` and EPS import: older Art brush objects read; numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking keyboard focus, and a panel wheel turn cannot seed a canvas zoom glide, #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; Tools stays beside the canvas with left-side panels; new gradients follow document color mode; Selection QoL: marquee modes and visible feedback, #5313; SVG CSS classes survive export and repeated import in all four styling modes (#2480); current-main integration retains event attributes and scripts; #3380 deletion-only review follow-up: independent survivors keep gradient placement, owned subpaths avoid discarded copies, and contracts/status/evidence are clarified; endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged; the canvas keeps selection outlines and anchors between frames; Indian-language hyphenation review and license allowlist, #4947; Stroke gradients: an arrowhead aligned to the tip is painted to the corners of its base, #5964; Drop Shadow and glow dialogs: spinner arrows, #5367, #5368; Stroke Weight Up and Down shortcuts, #5797; Hindi catalog and contributor loanword preferences; full wording review in progress; Properties in Edit Artboards: a Transform section with the reference point above the Artboards section, #5219; the Control bar's Stroke: and Opacity: links scrub their fields, #4088; an image zoomed in on is separated, colorized or proofed only where it shows (#4155); a document's first frame renders on the render worker, so opening a heavy file no longer freezes the window, #4155; Control bar Paragraph section with type selected, #5372; translating unchanged type reuses its glyph and character-stroke outlines; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; public release notes through 30.7, August 2026; Units › East Asian Type acts, with Q and Ha units; scores unchanged)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-13 · **Change:** minor (PDF import: glyphs in a span with an empty ActualText come in as outlines, #6971; scores and estimates unchanged; previously: Object › Rasterize with the Grayscale or Bitmap colour model makes a grayscale image, #6969; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: `.ai` and EPS import: type in an envelope with Distort Appearance is also tried mapped from the box of what it paints, miter tips and moved strokes included, after its glyphs grown by half its strokes' weight (#6824; #6617: Swatches panel menu: Show Recent Colors; scores unchanged; previously minor: icon-strip flyouts also resize from the top edge and the canvas-side top corner, keeping the moved top in workspaces (storytold/craft-libs#1094); scores and estimates unchanged; previously: #6865: explicitly requested oversized editing artboard; macOS: the canvas cursor stays after the pointer moves, #6362; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: Type tool: kerning at a caret at the start of a line moves the character after it, #5111; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: Rulers: the zero point dragged out of the rulers' corner 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: Envelopes: with Distort Appearance, type's strokes paint along the bent glyph outlines at their own weight, as users' `.ai` files draw them, which changes how VectorCraft's own envelopes of stroked type draw (#6644; scores and estimates unchanged); previously minor: G5: Energy Beams brush library; bundled content ~44% → ~46%; previously minor: G5: Skill Icons symbol library; bundled content ~42% → ~44%; previously minor: `.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; scores and estimates unchanged); previously minor: ruler double-click adds a guide at the pointer, #5239; G5: Status Effects graphic style library; bundled content ~40% → ~42%; MCP symbol libraries list UI Frames and Map Markers; previously minor: G5: Inventory Icons built-in symbol library; bundled content ~38% → ~40%; previously minor: `.ai` and EPS import: stroked type in an envelope maps from its glyphs grown by half its stroke (#3179; scores and estimates unchanged); previously minor: `.ai` and EPS import: warps of type open as mesh envelopes on their saved grid where VectorCraft's warp doesn't draw as their drawn art (#3179; scores and estimates unchanged); G5: Game Trails brush library; bundled content ~36% → ~38%; previously minor: Edit › Edit Custom Dictionary…: its dialog adds, deletes and changes the custom dictionary's words, #4936; previously minor: `.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; scores and estimates unchanged); G5: Game HUD graphic style library; bundled content ~34% → ~36%; previously minor: Line Arrow arrowhead (#5421; scores and estimates unchanged); G5: Map Markers built-in symbol library; bundled content ~32% → ~34%; 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: Canvas: a 3D effect changed on type or a group redraws where its solid was; Fit to Artwork Bounds and per-artboard SVG export build each solid once for all artboards; previously minor: Effect Gallery: a thumbnail for each filter and a preview area inside the dialog, on an original drawing; Raster effects 52% → 55%, hours 1–2 → none; headline numbers unchanged; Auto Spell Check: `edit.autoSpellCheck` underlines the unknown words, #4936; previously minor: PDF editable import preserves authored ActualText once, including empty/nested spans and authored ordering (#6165); cross-line/style layout remains approximate; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF marked-text export (#6309): compatible glyphs stay on one layout line with per-glyph offsets; scores and estimates unchanged; G5: UI Frames built-in symbol library with default 9-slice; bundled content ~32%; previously minor: G5: dynamic symbol part on-canvas opacity/blend/gradient/pattern; strokes remaining no longer lists Overlap/auto corners; symbols ~88%; previously minor: interim macOS cursor delivery, #2292; native validation pending; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: harakat paint fallback clarified; previously minor: current Guides feature-area rows consolidated using existing ruler evidence; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: G5 docs: Art brush Overlap and Pattern brush auto corners removed from strokes remaining; symbols remaining lists dynamic on-canvas beyond solid and guides outside the art; previously minor: custom dictionary and Ignore All: `text.spelling.addWord`, `removeWord`, `changeWord`, `dictionary` and `ignoreAll`, #4936; previously minor: EPS import: embedded fonts (composite, Type 42, CID-keyed, Type 1, CFF FontSet) draw their glyphs; spell check engine: `text.spelling.check` and `text.spelling.suggest` on craft-proof, #4936; previously minor: floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it, #5925 in part; `.ai`/EPS type keeps its tab stops, and right-aligned lines with tabs lay out as the file's page, #6147; `.ai`/EPS type from the text document lays its lines out closer to the file's page, within limits, #6137; `.ai` and EPS import: older Art brush objects read; numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking keyboard focus, and a panel wheel turn cannot seed a canvas zoom glide, #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; Tools stays beside the canvas with left-side panels; new gradients follow document color mode; Selection QoL: marquee modes and visible feedback, #5313; SVG CSS classes survive export and repeated import in all four styling modes (#2480); current-main integration retains event attributes and scripts; #3380 deletion-only review follow-up: independent survivors keep gradient placement, owned subpaths avoid discarded copies, and contracts/status/evidence are clarified; endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged; the canvas keeps selection outlines and anchors between frames; Indian-language hyphenation review and license allowlist, #4947; Stroke gradients: an arrowhead aligned to the tip is painted to the corners of its base, #5964; Drop Shadow and glow dialogs: spinner arrows, #5367, #5368; Stroke Weight Up and Down shortcuts, #5797; Hindi catalog and contributor loanword preferences; full wording review in progress; Properties in Edit Artboards: a Transform section with the reference point above the Artboards section, #5219; the Control bar's Stroke: and Opacity: links scrub their fields, #4088; an image zoomed in on is separated, colorized or proofed only where it shows (#4155); a document's first frame renders on the render worker, so opening a heavy file no longer freezes the window, #4155; Control bar Paragraph section with type selected, #5372; translating unchanged type reuses its glyph and character-stroke outlines; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; public release notes through 30.7, August 2026; Units › East Asian Type acts, with Q and Ha units; scores unchanged)
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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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@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ Artboard Options forwards the active Artboard tool's Scale Artwork with Artboard
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-13 | minor | PDF import: glyphs inside a marked-content span with an empty `ActualText` come in as outlines in their fill and stroke instead of being left out, adding no text (#6971; `empty_actual_text_keeps_the_glyphs_art` in `crates/pdf/src/tests/actual_text.rs`). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-13 | minor | Swatches panel: its menu's Show Recent Colors hides and shows the panel's Recent Colors row, checked by default and kept between sessions apart from the Color panel's (#6617); scores unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-09 | minor | Stroke panel: Line Arrow, a 41st generated arrowhead: two arms of the head's weight (stroke weight × arrowhead scale, at least 0.25 pt: the line's weight at 100 % for lines of 0.25 pt or more) at right angles, a sharp tip and square-cut ends, twice as wide as the other heads; bounds and clicks follow each head's own reach (`stroke.set` `LineArrow`, #5421); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-09 | minor | Canvas: a 3D effect (Extrude & Bevel, Inflate, Rotate, Revolve) changed on type or a group draws again where its art was and is, measured by that art; the canvas measures through its renderer and draws the part with the art it made to measure it. Exports and Object › Rasterize take the solid of 3D type. Fit to Artwork Bounds and per-artboard SVG export measure every artboard through one renderer, building each solid once. A 3D effect on a fill or stroke that builds nothing (Revolve after Roughen) no longer overflows the stack on the canvas, in Object › Rasterize and in raster and EPS exports: the fill or stroke draws as without it. Tests `tests::changed::a_3d_effect_changed_on_type_or_a_group_changes_where_its_solid_was`, `fx::tests::a_renderer_measures_the_art_on_each_artboard_building_each_solid_once`, `canvas::tests::an_edit_to_a_3d_effect_redraws_with_the_art_measured`, `fx::tests::a_3d_effect_that_builds_nothing_draws_the_item_as_without_it`. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
@@ -509,7 +510,7 @@ about 1–1.5 agent-hours each, so the other rows (estimated on the older scale)
 | Layers, artboards, document setup | 5 | 82% | Layers panel: a confirmation before deleting layers that hold art, Collect for Export, row context menus, the Layer Options dialog for several rows with mixed values, Paste Remembers Layers for sublayers, drag-scrolling a long panel while dragging rows; artboard preset polish (artboard escape routing and document setup modal handoff done; Move Artwork for artboard X/Y edits, Rearrange All Artboards, Document Setup, New Document and the rest of the Layers panel are done) | 4–7 |
 | View & navigation | 3 | 70% | New View/Edit Views, multiple windows/arrange, Snap to Pixel/Glyph (print tiling is done) | 9–14 |
 | Guides, grids, smart guides, snapping, rulers | 3 | 85% | global/video rulers, Spacing Guides' distance readouts and spacing for resized or drawn art, Alt swapping a ruler guide's orientation, ruler guides selected together with art (marquee, Shift-click), ruler guides as Layers rows with their own lock and hide (#451: Lock Guides locks them all; Make Guides paths are Layers rows already) (dragging existing guides is done, #414; new guides snapping to side midpoints and artboards, and artboard guides, #451; the drawing tools snapping, with Construction Guides, #506; Spacing Guides for moves, #394; moves snapping to the grid, #740; ruler guides pulling drawn points with Smart Guides on, and "center" and "anchor" labels while hovering with the Selection tool, #812; distance and angle labels while drawing, #2983) | 2–4; status-bar X/Y uses the active ruler origin and General units |
-| File formats | 6 | 85% | Explicit editing-data oversized single-artboard import fixed (#6865); scores and estimates unchanged. Affinity export, and the rest of Affinity import (adjustments, blur and bevel effects, brushes, live symbol instances, text threading), DWG (no open spec: DXF instead), PSD placement as layers (Photoshop Import Options; the merged image is done), EPS checked against more real files users send (Inkscape files open as vectors; other generators' constructs are tested with programs written from the PostScript Language Reference only; CID-keyed CJK type and `CCITTFaxDecode` images not read), legacy `.ai` files saved without the prolog that defines their operators (their own operator set isn't read yet), the rest of Illustrator's editing data (appearances and live effects, symbols, pattern fills, brushes, placed files: #637), the remaining fidelity polish; EPS, DXF, EMF/WMF, TIFF, BMP, Targa, PSD export, SVGZ, PDF security, PDF/X, PDF layers, presets and Affinity import are done | 6–10 (existing scope; Affinity export unestimated) |
+| File formats | 6 | 85% | PDF import: glyphs inside a marked-content span with an empty `ActualText` come in as outlines in their fill and stroke, adding no text (#6971; scores and estimates unchanged); Explicit editing-data oversized single-artboard import fixed (#6865); scores and estimates unchanged. Affinity export, and the rest of Affinity import (adjustments, blur and bevel effects, brushes, live symbol instances, text threading), DWG (no open spec: DXF instead), PSD placement as layers (Photoshop Import Options; the merged image is done), EPS checked against more real files users send (Inkscape files open as vectors; other generators' constructs are tested with programs written from the PostScript Language Reference only; CID-keyed CJK type and `CCITTFaxDecode` images not read), legacy `.ai` files saved without the prolog that defines their operators (their own operator set isn't read yet), the rest of Illustrator's editing data (appearances and live effects, symbols, pattern fills, brushes, placed files: #637), the remaining fidelity polish; EPS, DXF, EMF/WMF, TIFF, BMP, Targa, PSD export, SVGZ, PDF security, PDF/X, PDF layers, presets and Affinity import are done | 6–10 (existing scope; Affinity export unestimated) |
 | Export for Screens, Asset Export, slices, Save for Web | 3 | 85% | polish only (all four are done) | 2–4 |
 | Print, colour management, separations, flattener | 3 | 80% | print preview fidelity (flattener presets in PDF and print, overprint in PDF and composite print, Print dialog, presets, PostScript, marks, separations, Print Tiling, print overprint/flattener/bitmap options and printer profile are done, as are the Japanese papers in its Media list: JIS B4/B5/B6, はがき, 往復はがき, 封筒 長形3号/長形4号/角形2号/角形3号 and 四六判, beside the ISO B4/B5 that settings saved before them keep) | 1–2 |
 | Automation | 3 | 65% | scripting surface, batch (MCP drops malformed app replies without replay; Variables: text/visibility variables bound to objects, an object may carry several, dataset rows applied in one undo step, panel and Window › Variables with dialogs; image/graph kinds and dataset import/export open) | 6–10 |