Merge pull request #7268 from dotCooCoo/fix/ai-warped-image-pieces-cropped

.ai export: the pieces of a warped image write only the pixels they show

docs/target-app-parity.md

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 - **`.ai` files keep an image's Warp live:** an embedded image whose appearance is one Warp effect, with no opacity mask, is saved to the `.ai` editing data with an art style of that Warp: its bent pieces are its drawn look, and the image itself follows on `%_` lines, as for other styled objects. Opening an `.ai` file reads such an image as the image with its Warp live, its pixels, placement, name and opacity kept, when the live warp draws as the file's drawn look and the import has a comparison left; otherwise the drawn look stays, with the drawn-look note. The Warp effect applies to bitmap images ([the help page](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/reshape-transform-objects/distort-and-transform-effects-in-illustrator.html)), and native files keep live effects ([the help page](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/get-started/learn-the-basics/supported-file-formats-in-illustrator.html)). Images with an opacity mask, and images with a Warp and another effect or with another geometry effect, are saved and opened as their drawn art. Existing `.ai` files with an embedded image on `%_` lines open differently: before, that image also came in beside its drawn look. Which images keep the Warp and the comparison are VectorCraft's own rules (eps `ai_editing::tests::an_image_with_a_warp_reads_back_with_its_warp_live`, `an_image_whose_warp_draws_otherwise_than_its_look_keeps_its_look`, `an_image_on_hidden_lines_does_not_come_in_beside_its_look`, `other_warped_images_are_written_as_their_drawn_art`, `import::ai::read::ops::tests::an_image_takes_a_style_of_one_warp_alone`). Scores and hours unchanged.
 - **`.ai` files keep a linked image's Warp live and its link:** a linked image whose appearance is one Warp effect, with no opacity mask, is saved to the `.ai` editing data with an art style of that Warp, as an embedded one is: its bent pieces are its drawn look, and the image itself follows on `%_` lines as a placed file with its path, its folder relative to the document's and its preview. Before, it was saved as its drawn art and its live Warp was lost. Opening the file reads it as the linked image with its Warp live, its link, pixels, placement, name, opacity, hide and lock kept, under the same drawn-look comparison; a hidden image with a Warp, embedded or linked, is now compared with its look drawn shown, and keeps its Warp too. A linked image with a Warp in an opacity mask's art keeps its Warp and is embedded, with the existing warning for linked images in masks. Linked files stay connected to their source and track it by relative path ([the help page](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/add-and-import-files/manage-linked-and-embedded-files/links-panel-overview.html)); the placed-file form is the one the `.ai` reader reads (`crates/eps/src/import/ai/read/art.rs` `end_place`). eps `ai_editing::tests::a_linked_image_with_a_warp_reads_back_linked_with_its_warp_live`, `a_large_linked_image_with_a_warp_reads_back_from_its_preview`, `a_hidden_or_locked_image_with_a_warp_keeps_its_state`, `a_linked_image_with_a_warp_in_a_mask_is_embedded_with_its_warp_live`. Scores and hours unchanged.
 - **EPS writes a repeated image's samples once:** an image drawn more than once in an EPS file (the pieces of an envelope or a Warp effect, copies of one image, or one image in a symbol's instances) has its compressed samples written once in the setup, and each placement reads them from there: a reusable stream rewound for each placement at Language Level 3 ([PostScript Language Reference, 3rd ed., §3.13](https://www.adobe.com/jp/print/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf)), and an array of strings of at most 49,152 bytes fed to the image by a procedure at Level 2. An image drawn once is written where it is drawn, as before. The 256 MB limit on the page counts the samples once, so an envelope of a large photo no longer loses pieces to it. A colorized image is reused per ink (eps `tests::an_image_placed_twice_writes_its_samples_once_at_both_levels`, `tests::an_envelopes_image_pieces_draw_one_copy_of_its_samples`, `tests::each_ink_of_a_colorized_image_placed_twice_is_written_once`, `tests::samples_longer_than_a_string_are_reused_at_both_levels`, `tests::the_page_limit_counts_a_repeated_images_samples_once`). Scores and hours unchanged.
+- **`.ai` files write a warped image's pieces as the parts they show:** in the `.ai` editing data and in legacy `.ai` files, an embedded image cut to a clipping path (in the editing data, also an image under an opacity mask that clips) is written with all of its pixels the first time, and every later copy of the same pixels is written as the rectangle of them that the path or mask shows, 2 pixels more on each side, placed where it lies in the image. The pieces of a Warp effect, an envelope or their expanded art, 200 copies of the image for 10 × 10 cells before, now hold about 7 times the image's pixels in all for a 64 × 64 image. A copy whose opacity mask is left out, nested too deep or past the object limit, keeps all of its pixels. Each image's pixels are read once for the pieces that follow one another. An image cut to a rectangle of half its pixels or more, and the first copy written, keep all of their pixels. The `XI` operator's arguments give an image's location and size ([AI file-format specification, §8.1](https://web.archive.org/web/20050126105313/https://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/illustrator/sdk/AI7FileFormat.pdf)); the 2-pixel margin and the half-the-pixels limit are VectorCraft's own rules (eps `ai_editing::tests::the_pieces_of_a_warped_image_are_written_as_the_parts_they_show`, `masked_pieces_of_a_warped_image_are_written_as_the_parts_they_show`, `an_image_with_a_live_warp_writes_its_pixels_whole_once`, `a_clipped_image_written_first_keeps_all_of_its_pixels`, `a_masked_copy_whose_mask_is_left_out_keeps_all_of_its_pixels`, `a_masked_copy_nested_too_deep_for_its_mask_keeps_all_of_its_pixels`, `legacy_ai::tests::the_pieces_of_a_warped_image_are_written_as_the_parts_they_show`). Scores and hours unchanged.
 - **EPS writes a repeated freeform gradient's image once:** a freeform gradient whose image samples the same on more than one fill (copies of a shape moved with their points, or one shape in a symbol's instances) has its samples written once in the setup, as a repeated image's are, and a fill whose image differs (other colors, another size) gets its own. A freeform fill drawn once is written where it is drawn, as before, and a fill whose placement cannot be drawn, or that arrives when the page is already at the 256 MB limit, is no longer sampled first (eps `tests::a_freeform_gradients_image_drawn_twice_writes_its_samples_once`, `tests::freeform_gradients_sampled_differently_dont_share_an_image`, `tests::a_field_taken_back_at_the_page_limit_leaves_no_image_behind`). Scores and hours unchanged.
 - **PDF writes a warped image once:** with downsampling on, the pieces of an image bent by a Warp effect are resampled for the widest and the highest size any piece places the image at, so every piece paints one image XObject (a colorized image: one colorized image and its soft mask), instead of one image for each size a piece is placed at. Another placement of the same image is still resampled for its own size. Without downsampling, a colorized image and a CMYK image with a grayscale image mask on its grid are decoded and encoded once for all the sizes they are placed at (pdf `tests::compression::a_warped_image_is_written_once_for_all_its_pieces`, `tests::colorize::a_colorized_warped_image_is_written_once_for_all_its_pieces`, `export::images::tests::colorized_and_grid_masked_images_are_made_once_for_every_size_without_downsampling`). Scores and hours unchanged.
 - **Distort Appearance with Transform effect options:** with Envelope Options › Distort Appearance on, a path whose Transform effect has Scale Strokes & Effects or Transform Patterns on, or copies it with a gradient, is bent as the same per-copy art it draws and expands as outside the envelope: each copy's own stroke weight, dashes, pattern placement and gradient (effects `bake::tests`). Scores and hours unchanged.