EPS/.ai editing data: blends with no spine written come in live

A blend whose spine was never edited has only its keys in the editing
data, no spine part. Its spine is the straight lines between the keys'
centres in the record's order; read as such, the blend comes in live
instead of as its drawn steps.

docs/file-format-parity.md

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 # File format parity
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-06 · **Change:** minor (EPS and `.ai` editing data: symbols defined before the art styles take them; 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)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-06 · **Change:** minor (EPS and `.ai` editing data: blends with no spine written come in live; 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)
 
 Every format Illustrator opens, places, saves or exports, against VectorCraft's format table (`FORMATS`,
 `OPEN_EXTS`, `PLACE_EXTS` in `crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/formats.rs`). Illustrator's list comes from its public
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 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-06 | minor | EPS and `.ai` editing data: a blend whose spine was never edited, written with its keys and no spine part, comes in as a live blend along the straight lines between its keys' centres (in its record's order) instead of as its drawn steps. Checked on six users' Illustrator EPS files (used locally, not committed): every blend in four of them now comes in live, their renders unchanged; two still have blends the reader can't match to their drawn steps. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | EPS and `.ai` editing data: the art styles are found before the art is read, so objects in symbols defined ahead of `%AI9_BeginArtStyles` (as Illustrator 24 writes it) come in as themselves with their style instead of their drawn look. Checked on two users' EPS files (used locally, not committed): one's Symbols panel gains live Feather and Round Corners, its drawn-look count drops from 5 to 2, and both render unchanged; own-fixture test in `import::ai::tests`; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Legacy `.ai` (version 7) export: the clipping path around a flattened transparent image followed 2 pt cells, a staircase that was visibly jagged at the image's resolution. It now follows the image's own pixels (in blocks only past 4 million pixels), grown by one pixel so the whole anti-aliased edge is inside, and runs through the middle of each pixel edge with Douglas–Peucker simplification, so slopes and curves are sloped lines instead of steps (#5264). Version 7 images have no alpha channel (§8.1 of the published format specification), so the image itself is still opaque. Test `legacy_ai::a_flattened_images_clip_follows_its_edge_smoothly` (crate `vectorcraft-engine`); scores unchanged |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Paste: cells copied from Excel, Google Sheets, LibreOffice Calc or Numbers (tab-separated text, quoted cells too) paste as a group of point type, one object per cell in columns and rows, over 0.5 pt gridlines; other text pastes as before; scores and estimates unchanged (#5296) |