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# Contributors in the About window
**About ▸ Contributors** credits everyone who contributed to VectorCraft, and **About ▸ Models** credits
the AI models named in `Co-Authored-By` trailers. This follows the shared craftrules standard
[`standards/contributors.md`](https://github.com/storytold/craftrules/blob/main/standards/contributors.md);
this page is the local copy of the decision.
the AI models named in `Co-Authored-By` trailers.
## Decision
- Two files, both **compiled into the binary** by the UI crate's `build.rs` (nothing is read from
disk or the network at run time; the web build has them too):
- [`contributors/contributors.json`](../contributors/contributors.json): commit stats per GitHub
username. **Generated** by `craftrules/scripts/contributors.py`; never hand-edit.
username. Never hand-edit.
- [`contributors/people.toml`](../contributors/people.toml): the names people chose for
themselves. **Each contributor adds only their own entry**, in their own PR.
- Each contributor gets one line: GitHub username (always), display name (opt-in, or their synced
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sync_github_name = true # use the name on your public GitHub profile as display name
```
or, with craftrules checked out next to `craft-apps/`:
```sh
python3 ../../craftrules/scripts/contributors.py --add-me . --real-name "Your Name" --sync-github-name
```
Names show after the next refresh: the script checks that each entry was committed by its own
user (or by a maintainer with a `consent_source`). Delete your entry to remove your names.
## Refreshing (maintainers)
```sh
python3 ../../craftrules/scripts/contributors.py . # regenerate + verify; needs git, Python 3.11+, gh
python3 ../../craftrules/scripts/contributors.py --check . # verify people.toml only
```
Commit the updated `contributors/contributors.json`. Git author names and emails are never recorded.
Names show for entries committed by their own user (or by a maintainer with a `consent_source`).
Delete your entry to remove your names. Git author names and emails are never recorded.
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# Control protocol
> **Last updated:** 2026-10-25 · **Change:** 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).
> **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).
`vectorcraft --control <port>` listens on `127.0.0.1:<port>` (loopback only). The port must be a number
from 1 to 65535 (`--control=<port>` works too), given once; otherwise the app prints an error and exits
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ordinary error reply. Paths are made absolute against the app's working directory, links are followed
(for a file that doesn't exist yet, its folder's), and the comparison is by whole folder names (`/work2` is
not inside `/work`), ignoring case on Windows; `..` below a folder that doesn't exist, a link that leads
nowhere and Windows device names are refused. A root left out grants none of its access. The roots must be
nowhere, Windows device names and, on Windows, a `:` in any name after the drive (an NTFS alternate data stream such as `x.svg:evil`) are refused. A root left out grants none of its access. The roots must be
existing folders, or the app doesn't start; without `--control` they are ignored. See `docs/mcp.md`
› Confining file access for the details.
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the path a stroke draws, continues or merges into is not selected afterwards), `mergeOnlySelection` (Blob Brush;
off by default, and while it is on a stroke merges only with selected blobs), `closeWithin` and `editWithin`
(screen pixels, 0 turns it off; Pencil, Paintbrush), `size` (pt; Blob Brush, Eraser), and `angle`
(°, −180 to 180; 0) and `roundness` (%, 1 to 100; 100) of the Eraser's tip (Eraser). `ui.dialog.confirm` runs
(°, −180 to 180; 0) and `roundness` (%, 0 to 100 for the Blob Brush, where 0 is drawn as 0.1, and 1 to 100 for
the Eraser; 100) of the tip (Blob Brush, Eraser); the tip keeps its angle on the page along a stroke. `ui.dialog.confirm` runs
`tool.setOption {tool, values}`.
`ui.pointer` events also take `holdMs` (0..60000): the pointer then holds still that long, button down, before the
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| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 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). |
| 2026-10-25 | minor | Panel docking on craft-ui's layout: `ui.docking`, the floating and dock parameters, native floating windows. |
| 2026-10-24 | minor | Documented the brush library panel commands (`window.brushLibrary`, `.other`, `ui.saveBrushLibrary`, `window.userBrushLibrary1`…`10`). |
| 2026-10-24 | minor | Documented `ui.screenshot`'s 64 MiB inline-PNG reply cap: with `path` the file is still written and `pngBase64` is omitted when over the cap; a path-less `data: true` request fails before encoding. |
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## Fonts: craft-fonts (optional build input)
Font files are never committed to this repository. Fonts shared by the Crafting Apps live in
[storytold/craft-fonts](https://github.com/storytold/craft-fonts); the rules are in craftrules
[`standards/fonts.md`](https://github.com/storytold/craftrules/blob/main/standards/fonts.md). To add
[storytold/craft-fonts](https://github.com/storytold/craft-fonts). To add
a font, add it there. (The Latin fonts in `assets/fonts/` predate the rule and stay.)
VectorCraft builds, tests and runs without craft-fonts. To embed its Japanese fonts (BIZ UDPGothic
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# Gaps
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-30 · **Change:** minor (G13: gradient presets done; G1: Average & Join with a corner or smooth choice, Cmd+Alt+Shift+J, done; estimate unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-31 · **Change:** minor (G4: PDF import finds installed fonts whose PDF names hold hyphens or a composite font's CMap; estimate unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
## Feature submission evidence
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- **Done:** the Properties panel has the additional contextual controls of the public Properties panel overview: Blend Options in Quick Actions for one blend with the Blend tool, Merge Live Paint for a Live Paint group selected with more paths to merge (Live Paint Make and Merge refuse type, images and other objects that aren't paths, which used to vanish among the group's sources), the Width Profile list in Appearance with the Width tool or a variable-width stroke, an applied effect's Delete icon beside fx (with several effects it opens the Appearance panel), and Corner and Corner Radius for corners selected with Direct Selection (public doc cited in target-app-parity.md). Broader G1 estimates unchanged.
- **Done (#2691):** a selected Grid Repeat ([public page](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/create-and-edit-patterns/set-grid-repeat-options.html)) shows a handle below the grid, one right of it and one past its bottom-right corner: dragging them adds or removes rows, columns or both (1 to 500). A slider between the first two columns and one between the first two rows set the horizontal and vertical spacing, staying halfway across the gap under the pointer. Each drag is one undo step through `object.repeat.options` and Escape cancels it; the controls hide with the edges or the bounding box, and bounding-box handles keep priority where they meet. Radial Repeat handles remain. Estimates unchanged.
- **Done (#2651):** Object › Repeat › Options… for a Grid Repeat has a Preview checkbox ([public page](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/create-and-edit-patterns/set-grid-repeat-options.html)): while it is on the repeat on the canvas follows the fields, Cancel puts the original back without a history step and OK keeps the previewed values as one undo step. Radial and Mirror Repeat Options have none, as their public pages list none. Estimate unchanged.
- **Done (#2877):** a selected Mirror Repeat shows its axis: drag the line or the center handle to move it, an end handle to rotate it (Shift: 45°); each drag is one undo step and Escape cancels it. Bounding-box handles take priority over the axis line; the center and end handles keep their actions. Broader G1 estimates unchanged.
- **Existing-guide Escape cancellation:** Selection and Direct/Group Selection clear pending presses and cancel begun guide previews. App-input regressions cover preselected-guide document and interaction-start selection restoration, Undo/Redo and saved state, and later on-canvas motion/release. All eight app-input checks and the Direct Selection Escape control passed in current full CI; [Validation evidence](target-app-parity.md#evidence-what-ships-today-by-area). The broader G1 scope and estimate remain unchanged.
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taken whole or not at all, and the walk that counts an art tile's anchors charges the whole budget for a tree it
cannot finish, so nesting buys no room (#3594). The budget is per brushed stroke, not per document: many strokes
that each reach it still add up, and a brush inside a symbol is bounded per stroke rather than per instantiation.
- **Done (2026-10-31):** a gradient mesh is budgeted (#3592). One tessellation makes at most 1,048,576 quads, and a
mesh with more patches than that (rows times columns) is malformed, like a point count that doesn't fit, so it draws
nothing instead of exhausting memory: a 150 x 150 mesh from a 3 MB file exported at 20x asked for about 23 million
quads (2 GB). Below the budget the subdivision per patch gives way a step at a time (a 60 x 60 mesh draws at 16 x 16
quads a patch instead of 32 x 32); a small mesh is drawn as finely as before. The command's own cap of 50 rows and
columns is unchanged.
- **Done (2026-10-29):** a blend makes at most 100,000 steps in all, counting the steps of the blends inside its keys
and steps. Each step between keys that are blends is a copy of one, which makes its own steps when drawn, so step
counts capped at 1,000 a pair multiplied by nesting: five levels of 15 steps were 1.3 million steps from a 23 KB
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- **Done:** Numeric fields keep a text drag's start when the pointer gains focus and movement exceeds the click threshold (#1326, in part). A completed focus click selects the whole value; keyboard focus, double-click and numeric stepping remain regression-tested. Short movements still classified as clicks can select all; that case remains open.
- **Done:** DXF reads control-point SPLINE closure (#1299 follow-up after #1320); open curves keep their open state. DXF export now recognizes circular cubic paths conservatively and writes native CIRCLE/ARC where stroke semantics permit; R12 weighted strokes remain POLYLINE, and a non-circular ellipse keeps the existing fallback. CNC preset and VCarve QA remain open. Escape leaves Artboard editing for Selection; during a drag it first cancels the gesture. Headless egui key events cover idle Escape, active-drag cancellation and a subsequent Escape in `tests/distortkeys.rs`.
- **Done:** DXF reads control-point SPLINE closure (#1299 follow-up after #1320); open curves keep their open state. DXF export now recognizes circular cubic paths conservatively and writes native CIRCLE/ARC where stroke semantics permit; R12 weighted strokes remain POLYLINE, and a non-circular ellipse keeps the existing fallback. Alter Paths for Appearance outlines only the strokes a CAD line can't draw (aligned, profiled, offset dashes, wider than 2.11 mm, or in R13 and R14), so a 1 pt circle or arc stays a CIRCLE or ARC. CNC preset and VCarve QA remain open. Escape leaves Artboard editing for Selection; during a drag it first cancels the gesture. Headless egui key events cover idle Escape, active-drag cancellation and a subsequent Escape in `tests/distortkeys.rs`.
- **Done:** DXF reads control-point SPLINE closure (#1299 follow-up after #1320); open curves keep their open state. DXF export now recognizes circular cubic paths conservatively and writes native CIRCLE/ARC where stroke semantics permit; R12 weighted strokes remain POLYLINE. A closed four-cubic ellipse, or a circle scaled out of proportion, is written as a native ELLIPSE in R13 and later; R12 keeps the existing fallback. CNC preset and VCarve QA remain open. Escape leaves Artboard editing for Selection; during a drag it first cancels the gesture. Headless egui key events cover idle Escape, active-drag cancellation and a subsequent Escape in `tests/distortkeys.rs`.
- **Done:** Simplify and Add Anchor Points clear stale component selections on rewritten paths; Simplify previews and reports original/new point counts (#1272).
- **Done:** Object › Path › Simplify opens its slider at the Auto-Simplify level for the selection and previews that result, as the [manual-simplify page](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/draw-shapes-and-paths/modify-paths/manually-simplify-paths.html) describes; simplifying only a Direct Selection part of a path is done too (G1).
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- **Improved:** mixed paragraph alignments leave the existing Paragraph/Properties alignment buttons unselected; choosing an alignment still uses the range-aware command. Headless regressions, full integration CI and visual review pass. Other mixed paragraph fields remain; estimate unchanged.
- **Improved:** Paragraph panel left/right/first-line indents and space before/after show blank when paragraphs in scope differ; uniform values still display and edits apply through `text.setFormat`. Headless regression in `panels/paragraph.rs`; estimate unchanged.
- **Improved (#1258):** full font names (name ID 4) resolve the face instead of falling back, and Missing Fonts searches recognize the same aliases. Synthetic regressions cover loaded/cataloged fonts, localized names, real-family precedence and variable default faces. Windows font-service activation still needs reporter QA; estimate unchanged.
- **Improved:** PDF import finds an installed font whose PDF name holds hyphens (`Noto-Sans-Bold`, `Noto-Sans-CJK-JP`) or a composite font's CMap (`SomeFont-Italic-Identity-H`; ISO 32000-1 §9.7.6.1), and names a missing one by the whole name unless a style part follows (`MS-PGothic` is MS PGothic). Synthetic regressions in `crates/pdf/src/tests/import_fidelity.rs`; estimate unchanged.
- **Done:** Paragraph panel menu › Roman Hanging Punctuation (#2756), per paragraph; estimate unchanged.
- **Improved:** hanging punctuation (Roman Hanging Punctuation and Optical Margin Alignment) keeps its published amounts when justification scales glyphs, and Standard burasagari counts a hung line start as room; paragraph-level tests with both composers; estimate unchanged.
- **Done:** Paragraph panel menu › Justification… (#2755): word and letter spacing, glyph scaling (Minimum, Desired,
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perceptual mix with dither's noise (an image with the noise in SVG and PDF); a stroke has no noise.
- **Missing (asked for by users, from earlier versions):** radial gradients in Image Trace's
Gradients option, which traces linear ones only (draft #1849). Inside the estimate below.
- **Partial (#2530):** tangent snapping to curves and perpendicular snapping to straight target
segments for drawn lines. Controls are saved under Preferences › Smart Guides › Geometric Guides
and available from Control bar › Snapping; both default to on. Existing-line endpoint editing and
other tool cases remain unverified. [Public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/measure-and-align/plot-and-measure/snap-to-perpendicular.html).
- **Done (#2530):** tangent snapping to curves and perpendicular snapping to straight target
segments, as the public [perpendicular](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/measure-and-align/plot-and-measure/snap-to-perpendicular.html)
and [tangent](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/measure-and-align/plot-and-measure/snap-to-tangent.html)
pages describe, for the Line Segment and Pen tools' new lines and for existing lines: dragging the end
anchor of an open path's straight segment with Direct Selection lands it square to
another straight path (the foot of the perpendicular from the segment's other end) or grazing a curve, with
the "perpendicular" or "tangent" label (and the square-corner mark) Smart Guides show for drawn lines. As
the pages say, only line endpoints snap: the middle anchor of a path, the end of a curved segment, a closed
path's anchor, several anchors dragged together and Shift-constrained drags (which keep their angle step) do
not, and a curve is never a perpendicular target. Controls are saved under Preferences › Smart Guides ›
Geometric Guides and available from Control bar › Snapping; both default to on. Tests:
`dragged_line_ends_snap_perpendicular_to_segments_and_tangent_to_curves` in `crates/tools/src/direct/tests.rs`.
- **Done (2026-10-30):** gradient presets (30.0): the Gradient panel's Presets menu applies one of the
built-in gradient libraries' presets (by theme) or a saved one to the gradient behind the active proxy, keeping
its placement, as one undo step; the panel menu saves the gradient as a preset (kept with the preferences) and
deletes saved ones; `gradient.presets.*` commands.
- **Missing:** remaining tangent/perpendicular snapping cases and the consolidated
- **Missing:** the consolidated
snapping options (30.0); artboard colors in exports and print, and managing artboards from the canvas other
than locking and unlocking them from the Artboard tool's right-click menu (30.0); the Blend panel with ease
in/out and separate colour acceleration (30.7);
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| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-31 | minor | G4: PDF import finds an installed font whose PDF name holds hyphens (`Noto-Sans-Bold` is Noto Sans, Bold: the longest part before a hyphen that names an installed family) and a composite font by its CIDFont's name rather than its base name, which ends in the CMap's (`Name-Identity-H`, [ISO 32000-1 §9.7.6.1](https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/pdfstandards/PDF32000_2008.pdf)); a missing font is split only before a style part (`Helvetica-BoldOblique`), so it is reported as `MS PGothic`, not `MS`. Estimate unchanged. |
| 2026-10-31 | minor | G13: Direct Selection snaps the end of an existing straight line, dragged by its end anchor, square to straight paths and grazing curves (Smart Guides › Geometric Guides: Snap to Perpendicular and Snap to Tangent), the case the public Snap to Perpendicular and Snap to Tangent pages add to drawing with the Line Segment and Pen tools (#2530). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-31 | minor | G8: a gradient mesh read from a file is budgeted: at most about a million quads per tessellation, and a mesh with more patches than that is malformed (#3592); estimate unchanged. |
| 2026-10-30 | minor | G9: `.ai`/EPS editing data: a blend takes the transparency (opacity, blend mode, knockout) in its state block after its record, so its steps knock each other out as the page draws them; a user's file comes in 0.6% from its page instead of 1.3%. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-30 | minor | G1: Object › Path › Average & Join… (`path.averageJoin`, Cmd+Alt+Shift+J) moves two open path ends to their midpoint and joins them there, the joined anchor a corner or a smooth point as its dialog's Points choice asks, in one undo step; the "Average and Join in one step" entry is done. Estimate unchanged |
| 2026-10-30 | minor | G12: Preferences audit (#394): 5 options are stored but not acted on (Open Documents As Tabs, Units › East Asian Type, Hyphenation › Default Language, Scratch Disks, Legacy vector clipboard), each waiting on a subsystem; Highlight Alternate Glyphs, Real-time Drawing and the Devices options act. Estimate unchanged. |
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| 2026-10-26 | minor | G9: EPS save-back: an opened EPS saves back to its own path as EPS, keeping the chosen artboard's page frame and transparent margins and the complete editable VectorCraft document; Save's TIFF preview is capped at 1024 px (Export keeps 2048); partly read, preview-only or damaged-editing-data sources still need confirmation before they are overwritten. This narrows G9's save-back workflow only; its import-fidelity items (layer and group structure, guides, open speed, live objects) and estimate are unchanged, and writing Illustrator's own editing data stays out of scope (#868) |
| 2026-10-26 | minor | G7: View › New View… / Edit Views… ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/viewing-artwork.html)): the View menu lists every one of a document's 25 saved views (it listed 10), Edit Views… lists them to rename or delete in one undo step (`view.saved.edit {edits}`), and a file's views are checked when it opens; New View/Edit Views leave G7's missing list; estimate unchanged |
| 2026-10-25 | minor | G4: a double-click on a threaded port with the Selection tool breaks the thread there (`text.thread.break {id, port}`): the story flows into the frames before the break, the frames after it are left empty and stay threaded with each other when two or more; a double-click on a port with no thread does nothing; estimate unchanged |
| 2026-10-31 | minor | G1: Grid Repeat Options has a Preview checkbox (#2651); estimate unchanged. |
| 2026-10-25 | minor | G1: a selected Grid Repeat shows handles: the one below the grid adds or removes rows, the one right of it columns, the one past its bottom-right corner both, and the sliders between the first two columns and rows set the horizontal and vertical spacing; each drag is one undo step and Escape cancels it (#2691); bounding-box handles keep priority where they meet; Radial Repeat handles remain; estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-25 | minor | Floating panels open in OS windows of their own on the desktop (inside the window on the web and on Wayland); saved layouts from earlier versions convert to the shared docking layout (#4135); scores and estimates unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-24 | minor | Recolor Artwork › Assign: double-clicking a row's new color opens the Color Picker over the dialog; its OK sets the row's new color in the model it was picked in (a CMYK mix stays CMYK, RGB becomes CMYK in a CMYK document), Cancel leaves the row as it was. A Lab new color is kept, but a Lab color can't be typed yet: the picker's Lab fields work in RGB, as for fill and stroke (part of #4028; Lab entry, swatch libraries and the row menu remain). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
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doesn't exist is refused, as is a link that leads nowhere (writing through it would create its target).
The result is compared with the root by whole folder names: `/work2/x` is not inside `/work`. On
Windows case is ignored, UNC paths (`\\server\share\…`) are resolved like drive-letter ones, and
device names (`CON`, `NUL`, `COM1`…) are refused.
device names (`CON`, `NUL`, `COM1`…) and a `:` in a name after the drive (an NTFS alternate data stream
such as `x.svg:evil`, which hides data in a stream no folder listing shows) are refused.
- With `--connect`, the server makes the paths of `open_file`, `save_file`, `export` (`path` or
`options.path`) and `screenshot {path}` absolute against its own working directory before it sends
them to the app. Paths inside `run_command` and `command_batch` params go to the app as given, and the
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`path.reshapeSegment` and `object.blend.spine.reshapeSegment`; `x`, `y` and `t` in `path.curvatureEdit`; `x` and `y`
in `path.convertAnchor`; `t` in `path.insertAnchor`; `fidelity` and the `within` of `redraw` in `path.freehand` (and in
`brush.freehand`, which runs it); `size`, `sizeVariation`, `angle` and `roundness` in `path.eraseRegion`;
`size`, `sizeVariation` and `fidelity` in `path.blob`; `width` in `path.eraseSegments`;
`size`, `sizeVariation`, `angle`, `roundness` and `fidelity` in `path.blob`; `width` in `path.eraseSegments`;
`radius` and `fidelity` in `path.smoothRegion`; `tolerance` in `path.joinScrub`; `dx` and `dy` in `path.moveAnchors`;
and `dx`, `dy`, `tol` and `radius` in `path.reshape`. A null is read as a key left out. `path.convertAnchor` refuses
an `x` without a `y`, or a `y` without an `x`, with "x and y must be given together". `path.freehand`,
@@ -3199,7 +3200,7 @@ Pen's second anchor at (150, 431), in line with the square's centre.
give its Kerning or Tracking field the keyboard focus with the value selected, or open its font family menu with the
search field focused; each replies `{field: "kerning" | "tracking" | "fontName"}`. Without selected type or text the
Type tool edits, the panel shows and the command fails.
shows it, in the same text; at a caret it leaves the text as it is. The UI command `type.underline` (Cmd+Shift+U,
The UI command `type.underline` (Cmd+Shift+U,
in remote mode `press_key {key: "U", mods: {cmd: true, shift: true}}` or `invoke_menu`) does what the Character
panel's Underline button does: it underlines the Type tool's selected text or the selected type objects, or removes
the underline when the text the panel shows is underlined, and returns whether the text is now underlined.
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`document.exportDxf` (also `document.export` / `export` with format `dxf`) writes a CAD drawing, ASCII DXF R12 to 2018
(`version`: `R12`, `R13`, `R14`, `2000`, `2004`, `2007`, `2010`, `2013`, `2018`; default `2018`). Each layer becomes a
DXF layer (hidden layers switched off, locked ones locked, non-printing ones not plotted; template layers left out),
straight paths become polylines, curved ones cubic splines through every anchor, fills their outlines followed by
straight paths become polylines (an open path of one straight segment becomes a line, except for a stroke weight
before 2000), curved ones cubic splines through every anchor, fills their outlines followed by
solid hatches (laser and cutter software reads the outlines and skips hatches; R12 has no hatches: the outlines
alone), strokes lines with their lineweight and a linetype per dash pattern, and placed images image entities linked
to PNG or JPEG files (`rasterFormat`) written next to the drawing (`linked` in the result). Coordinates are y up
@@ -3840,8 +3842,10 @@ from the bottom-left corner of the first artboard (or `artboard`), in drawing un
1 mm = 1 unit, which sets `$INSUNITS`); `scaleLineweights` scales the lineweights with them. `colors` is `8`, `16` or
`256` indexed colours, or `true` (default; true colour with the nearest index, DXF 2004 and later). `preserve:
"appearance"` (default) writes type as glyph outlines and the strokes a CAD line can't draw (inside or outside,
width profiles, arrowheads) as filled outlines; `"editability"` keeps type as text and every stroke a line.
`alterPaths` writes every stroke as its filled outline, `outlineText` outlines type, `selectedOnly` writes only the
width profiles, arrowheads, dashes offset into their pattern) as filled outlines; `"editability"` keeps type as text
and every stroke a line. `alterPaths` writes as filled outlines those strokes (with `"editability"` too), strokes
wider than the widest lineweight (2.11 mm), and every stroke in R13 and R14, which have no lineweights; it keeps other
strokes as lines. `outlineText` outlines type, `selectedOnly` writes only the
selected objects in their layers (every export takes it), and `useArtboards: true` writes one drawing per chosen
artboard holding the art over it. What DXF can't hold (gradients and patterns as one colour, blending, opacity masks,
raster effects, clipping) comes back in `warnings`. In R13 and later, an image that can't be decoded is left out with
@@ -3983,8 +3987,9 @@ each file deflated, or stored when deflating does not make it smaller.
A row is `{format, scale?}` where `scale` is a factor (`2`, `"2x"`), a pixel width (`"100w"` or `width: 100`), a
height (`"100h"`) or a resolution (`"72ppi"`); raster rows name their files `@2x`, `@100w`… unless `suffix` says
otherwise. `fullDocument` writes one file per row instead (a PDF of every artboard, other formats the bounds of all
art), `includeBleed` grows each artboard by the document's bleed, `subfolders` puts each row's files in a sub-folder
(its size or format, or its own `folder`), `preset: "mobile"` or `"density"` (Android-style ldpi…xxxhdpi
art), `includeBleed` grows each artboard by the document's bleed, `pdfs: "single"` (Export PDFs As › Single file)
writes the artboards a PDF row exports as the pages of one PDF named after the document, `subfolders` puts each
row's files in a sub-folder (its size or format, or its own `folder`; `folders: "format"` sorts by format instead), `preset: "mobile"` or `"density"` (Android-style ldpi…xxxhdpi
sub-folders) replaces the rows, and `settings: {png: {…}, jpg: {…}, svg: {…}, pdf: {preset}}` gives every row of a
format its options. On every platform, `/`, `\`, `:`, `<`, `>`, `"`, `|`, `?`, `*` and control characters from a
prefix, a suffix, a name pattern or an item's name become `-` in file and folder names, a folder name ends without
@@ -5474,7 +5479,10 @@ distance along the plane's normal), so copies, duplicates and pastes stay attach
`perspectiveSelection` tool, a drag moves the selection within its plane (`perspective.move`; Alt copies), the
bounding-box handles scale it in plane space (`perspective.transform`; Shift keeps proportions, Alt scales about the
centre), and `press_key` `5` during a drag switches the move to perpendicular to the plane (press again to switch
back). `press_key` Escape during a move, a resize or a plane widget drag cancels it and puts the objects and the
back). Holding Shift during an in-plane move constrains each object's displacement to an axis or 45° diagonal of its
own plane. `perspective.move` accepts `constrain: true` (default false) and adjusts Snap to Grid along the constrained
direction on the first object's plane and depth.
`press_key` Escape during a move, a resize or a plane widget drag cancels it and puts the objects and the
grid back. The arrow keys nudge a selection in perspective by the keyboard increment (`perspective.nudge`; Shift ×10, Alt
copies). Object › Transform › Transform Again repeats the last perspective move or scale in plane space.
@@ -5719,7 +5727,7 @@ envelopes, graphs, symbols), are left out.
| `strayPoints` | Paths of one anchor (not clipping paths) | Removes them |
| `unpainted` | Paths and compound paths with no fill and no stroke | Removes them |
| `zeroOpacity` | Objects at 0 % opacity | Removes them |
| `duplicateObjects` | A path stacked directly on an identical one (geometry, paint, opacity) | Removes the upper one |
| `duplicateObjects` | A path stacked directly on an identical one (geometry, paint, opacity), or type stacked directly on the same type (text, styles, paint) within 1 pt of it | Removes the upper one |
| `offArtboard` | Top-level objects that touch no artboard | Removes them |
| `duplicateAnchors` | Neighbouring anchors within 0.01 pt | Merges them |
| `tinyHandles` | Handles shorter than 0.01 pt | Retracts them |
@@ -5766,6 +5774,11 @@ glyph of its first character lands where it was drawn.
more than 1 em, another look (paint, opacity, effects) or a piece that can't keep its place once joined (a ligature
forming across the join) starts another object. Each object made takes the place and paint of its leftmost piece. The
main use is type from a PDF that arrives one glyph per object.
- `addon.cleanup.joinText {ids?}` (Join Point Text) joins one-line horizontal point type into one point type object,
for text that arrives one line or fragment per object. Pieces turned and sheared like the top-left one are read as
lines (baselines within 0.4 em), top to bottom; a line's pieces join left to right with a space between them. Each
line becomes a left-aligned paragraph whose leading is the distance from the baseline above, so the lines stay where
they were. Character styles stay; the object takes the top-left piece's place and paint. Returns `{id, joined, lines}`.
- `addon.cleanup.removeBreaks {kind, ids?}` removes the forced line breaks (`kind: "line"`) or paragraph returns
(`"paragraph"`) in the characters selected with a Type tool, else in all the text of the selected type. A break
between two words becomes a space; merged paragraphs take the first one's paragraph style.
@@ -6147,3 +6160,29 @@ one, out of range values and a request with no fix on.
```json
{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"addon.color.printFixes","params":{"scope":"document","inkLimit":300,"removeWhiteOverprint":true,"overprintBlack":100}}}
```
## Arrange Tools add-on
Arrange Tools is a built-in add-on that lays out, swaps, replaces and sizes selected objects: its commands are
`addon.arrange.*`, and in the desktop app it lives in Object › Plug-ins › Arrange Tools. Each command acts on the
top-level selected objects and is one undo step; a run that moves nothing makes no step. Places and sizes are measured
as `object.setBounds` measures them (Use Preview Bounds), except Arrange in Grid, which uses visual bounds.
| Command | Parameters (default) | Does |
|---|---|---|
| `addon.arrange.grid` | `layout`: `grid`, `row`, `column` (`grid`); `columns`: 1…10000 (⌈√count⌉, never more than the count); `gapX` pt (10), `gapY` pt (`gapX`), each −1000000…1000000; `centerOnArtboard` (false) | Lays the objects out in their stacking order from the back, left to right and top to bottom. Each cell is as wide as the widest object in its column and as tall as the tallest in its row, and each object is centred in its cell. The grid starts at the selection's top-left, or is centred on the artboard under the selection's centre (the first artboard when none is there). → `{count}` |
| `addon.arrange.swap` | `size` (false); `scaleStrokes` (the Scale Strokes & Effects preference) | Swaps the bounds centres of exactly two selected objects (off otherwise); with `size`, each also takes the other's width and height. |
| `addon.arrange.replace` | `fit`: `keep`, `bounds` (the replaced object's width and height), `proportional` (fits inside them) (`keep`); `scaleStrokes`; `keep` (false) | Puts a copy of the topmost selected object centred on each of the other selected objects, in that object's place in the stacking order; the replaced objects are deleted unless `keep` (the copy then goes right above each). Needs two objects or more; the copies are selected. → `{ids}` |
| `addon.arrange.size` | `width`, `height` pt, 0.001…1000000 (at least one); `proportional` (false: a side not given stays; true: it follows the given one in proportion); `reference` 0…8 (4, the centre); `scaleStrokes` | Gives every selected object that width and height, keeping its reference point in place (the 9-point grid row by row from the top-left). |
Zoom to Selection is the UI command `addon.arrange.zoomSelection {}` (remote mode only): it zooms and centres the
active view so the selection's visual bounds fill the window with a margin, as `view.fitArtboard` fits the artboard,
and fails with nothing selected. Arrange in Grid…, Replace with Top Object… and Set Size of Each… open dialogs
(`ui.menuDialog {command}`, dialog kinds `arrangeGrid`, `arrangeReplace` and `arrangeSize`) whose fields are the
command's parameters, with Preview; Set Size of Each's `__width` and `__height` say which sizes OK applies.
```json
{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"addon.arrange.grid","params":{"columns":4,"gapX":12,"gapY":12}}}
{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"addon.arrange.replace","params":{"fit":"proportional"}}}
{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"addon.arrange.size","params":{"width":72,"proportional":true}}}
```
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`CRAFT_FONTS_REQUIRED=1`, so releases embed its Japanese fonts and fail rather than ship without
them (the web build embeds only the UI font, BIZ UDPGothic Regular, to stay small). The packages carry each embedded font's licence as `OFL-<family>.txt`
(`copy_font_licences` in `packaging/env.sh`). Bump the pins deliberately, in every job at once.
The rules are in craftrules `standards/fonts.md`, the build option in
The build option is in
[`docs/development.md`](development.md) › Fonts.
### macOS
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## Alpha gate
The core-workflow gate from craftrules' progress-docs standard: what a typical professional does with
The core-workflow gate: what a typical professional does with
Illustrator every day, checked end to end on the main platform (macOS) with save and reopen in the native
`.vectorcraft` format (lossless, property-tested round trips in `crates/format/tests/prop_format.rs`).
Checked 2026-10-10 from the code, tests and open issues; no workflow fails, so VectorCraft passes and stays alpha.
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ Checked 2026-10-10 from the code, tests and open issues; no workflow fails, so V
Milestone estimates predate the 2026-10-10 re-measure for M1–M14; the area table in
[target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md) is authoritative when they disagree.
## Progress log before the progress-docs standard
## Earlier progress log
The ROADMAP's "last updated" line as of 2026-10-10, kept as the record of what landed up to then:
docs/target-app-parity.md
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# Parity with Adobe Illustrator
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-31 · **Change:** minor (Path Precision Tools add-on: Shared Edge Merge Tool; scores unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; public release notes through 30.7, August 2026)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-31 · **Change:** minor (New Document: Save Preset in More Settings, #4893; scores unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; public release notes through 30.7, August 2026)
## Feature submission evidence
@@ -19,6 +19,14 @@ Artboard Options forwards the active Artboard tool's Scale Artwork with Artboard
| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-31 | minor | New Document: More Settings has the Save Preset button beside the name too, saving its settings (artboard layout included) as a preset (#4893); scores unchanged. |
| 2026-10-31 | minor | Object › Rasterize in a CMYK document with its CMYK colour model makes a CMYK image of the art's ink amounts (as CMYK exports draw them), so the Properties panel says CMYK and CMYK exports keep its inks; a transparent background becomes the image's opacity mask (#4882); scores unchanged. |
| 2026-10-31 | minor | Export for Screens is laid out as Illustrator's: Artboards and Assets tabs with a grid or list of thumbnails, Clear Selection and Prefix under them, Create Sub-folders by Scale or Format (on by default), Export PDFs As Single File or Multiple Files (`pdfs`), iOS and Android rows, the format presets in a ☰ menu, and a Selected / files-to-export count; the naming pattern, Layers and Selection pages and folders list stay in `document.exportForScreens` for scripts and MCP; scores unchanged. |
| 2026-10-31 | minor | Export for Screens is laid out as the reference app's: Artboards and Assets tabs with a grid or list of thumbnails, Clear Selection and Prefix under them, Create Sub-folders by Scale or Format (on by default), Export PDFs As Single File or Multiple Files (`pdfs`), iOS and Android rows, the format presets in a ☰ menu, and a Selected / files-to-export count; the naming pattern, Layers and Selection pages and folders list stay in `document.exportForScreens` for scripts and MCP; scores unchanged. |
| 2026-10-31 | minor | Artwork Cleanup add-on: Join Point Text (`addon.cleanup.joinText`) joins stacked one-line point type into one object, a paragraph per line keeping its baseline (#4826); scores unchanged. |
| 2026-10-31 | minor | Width tool: a stroke with a width profile keeps its shape while the view zooms out; the minimum visible width goes to its widest point instead of scaling the whole profile (#995); scores unchanged. |
| 2026-10-31 | minor | Patterns: Grid Repeat Options has a Preview checkbox, as the public grid options page lists (#2651); scores unchanged. |
| 2026-10-31 | minor | Hardening: a gradient mesh read from a file is budgeted at about a million quads, so a huge one no longer exhausts memory when drawn or exported (#3592); scores unchanged. |
| 2026-10-30 | minor | File formats: `.ai`/EPS editing data: a blend takes the transparency (opacity, blend mode, knockout) in its state block after its record, so its steps knock each other out as the page draws them; a user's file comes in 0.6% from its page instead of 1.3%. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-30 | minor | File formats: `.ai`/EPS editing-data fidelity from an audit of a user's files: All Caps and Small Caps (#4708); placed files at their box's corner, kept where they draw closer to the page (#4664, #4723, #4742); pages cropped to the art, with `UserUnit` (#4658, #4727); gradient mesh corners with handle weights of 0 and the state written after a mesh (#4738, #4744, #4748); type on a path spaced as the file lays it out (#4743); synthetic regressions in `crates/eps`; evidence added; scores unchanged. |
| 2026-10-30 | minor | Effects: bounded length inputs clamp on commit and reject invalid text visibly (#4638); scores unchanged. |
@@ -138,10 +146,10 @@ dominate; 3D, graphs and automation are specialist). They sum to 105. Feature de
| File formats | 6 | 75% | `.ai` files open with a flattened or wrong layer structure in real cases (#951), guides lost (#779), no writing of Illustrator's editing data (#868), FreeHand/CorelDRAW/DWG/HEIC/JPEG 2000 import, 3D export; see [file-format-parity.md](file-format-parity.md); EPS legacy mesh/opacity-mask and raster comparison follow-up verified | 10–20 | estimated (lowered from 85%: open issues); DXF control-point SPLINE import closure regression-tested (#1299 follow-up after #1320); PDF writer metadata, reader streaming and immutable backend checks in `crates/pdf/src/tests.rs`, `crates/pdf/src/tests/reader_streaming.rs` and `xtask/src/pdf_deps.rs`; PDF Place and clipboard paste retain live text (synthetic regressions); EPS ordinary Save retains the page frame and editable document (2026-10-26); `.ai`/EPS editing data checked against a user's files (2026-10-30): case setting (`ate::tests`, `tests_native::type_from_the_text_document_keeps_its_case_setting`), placed-file placements (`tests_native::a_small_placed_file_goes_where_it_draws_closer_to_the_page`), pages cropped to the art (`tests_native::type_on_the_copies_of_a_page_cropped_to_the_art_is_read_once`), mesh corner weights and state (`ai::mesh::tests::corners_with_handle_weights_of_zero_are_read`, `ai::tests::a_gradient_mesh_takes_the_transparency_written_after_it`), type on a path spacing (`tests_native::type_round_a_circle_is_spaced_as_the_file_lays_it_out`), blend state (`ai::tests::a_blends_transparency_follows_its_record`); scores and estimates unchanged. |
| View & navigation | 3 | 70% | multiple windows and Arrange | 9–14 | estimated; document-tab artwork hover/copy and lossless transfer tested (2026-10-22; score/hours unchanged); cached canvas reprojection preserves scale during resize, rotation and DPI changes (regression and contributor original-file evidence below; scores/hours unchanged) |
| View & navigation | 3 | 70% | multiple windows and Arrange | 9–14 | estimated |
| Guides, grids, smart guides, snapping, rulers | 3 | 80% | 30.0's tangent snapping to curves and perpendicular snapping to straight segments for lines drawn with the Pen, Curvature and Line Segment tools (Preferences › Smart Guides › Geometric Guides and Control bar › Snapping, #2530; other tool and drag cases remain), "intersect" smart guides for a moved selection's anchors (drawn points and dragged anchors snap to intersections, #1658), distance readouts while drawing | 4–7 | estimated (lowered from 85%: target moved); new ruler-guide Alt orientation implemented; video rulers (View › Rulers › Show Video Rulers, #2849) done, score unchanged |
| Guides, grids, smart guides, snapping, rulers | 3 | 80% | 30.0's tangent snapping to curves and perpendicular snapping to straight segments for lines drawn with the Pen, Curvature and Line Segment tools (Preferences › Smart Guides › Geometric Guides and Control bar › Snapping, #2530; other tool and drag cases remain), "intersect" smart guides for a moved selection's anchors (drawn points and dragged anchors snap to intersections, #1658), global/artboard ruler mode switch, distance readouts while drawing | 4–7 | estimated (lowered from 85%: target moved); new ruler-guide Alt orientation implemented; video rulers (View › Rulers › Show Video Rulers, #2849) done, score unchanged |
| Guides, grids, smart guides, snapping, rulers | 3 | 80% | 30.0's tangent snapping to curves and perpendicular snapping to straight segments for lines drawn with the Pen, Curvature and Line Segment tools (Preferences › Smart Guides › Geometric Guides and Control bar › Snapping, #2530; other tool and drag cases remain), "intersect" smart guides for a moved selection's anchors (drawn points and dragged anchors snap to intersections, #1658), video rulers, distance readouts while drawing | 4–7 | estimated (lowered from 85%: target moved); new ruler-guide Alt orientation implemented; status-bar X/Y uses the active ruler origin and General units |
| Guides, grids, smart guides, snapping, rulers | 3 | 80% | 30.0's tangent snapping to curves and perpendicular snapping to straight segments for lines drawn with the Pen, Curvature and Line Segment tools (Preferences › Smart Guides › Geometric Guides and Control bar › Snapping, #2530; other tool and drag cases remain), "intersect" smart guides for a moved selection's anchors (drawn points and dragged anchors snap to intersections, #1658), global/artboard ruler mode switch and video rulers, distance readouts while drawing | 4–7 | estimated (lowered from 85%: target moved); new ruler-guide Alt orientation implemented; status-bar X/Y uses the active ruler origin and General units |
| Guides, grids, smart guides, snapping, rulers | 3 | 80% | "intersect" smart guides for a moved selection's anchors (drawn points and dragged anchors snap to intersections, #1658), distance readouts while drawing | 4–7 | estimated (lowered from 85%: target moved); new ruler-guide Alt orientation implemented; video rulers (View › Rulers › Show Video Rulers, #2849) done, score unchanged |
| Guides, grids, smart guides, snapping, rulers | 3 | 80% | "intersect" smart guides for a moved selection's anchors (drawn points and dragged anchors snap to intersections, #1658), global/artboard ruler mode switch, distance readouts while drawing | 4–7 | estimated (lowered from 85%: target moved); new ruler-guide Alt orientation implemented; video rulers (View › Rulers › Show Video Rulers, #2849) done, score unchanged |
| Guides, grids, smart guides, snapping, rulers | 3 | 80% | "intersect" smart guides for a moved selection's anchors (drawn points and dragged anchors snap to intersections, #1658), video rulers, distance readouts while drawing | 4–7 | estimated (lowered from 85%: target moved); new ruler-guide Alt orientation implemented; status-bar X/Y uses the active ruler origin and General units |
| Guides, grids, smart guides, snapping, rulers | 3 | 80% | "intersect" smart guides for a moved selection's anchors (drawn points and dragged anchors snap to intersections, #1658), global/artboard ruler mode switch and video rulers, distance readouts while drawing | 4–7 | estimated (lowered from 85%: target moved); new ruler-guide Alt orientation implemented; status-bar X/Y uses the active ruler origin and General units |
| Export for Screens, Asset Export, slices, Save for Web | 3 | 85% | anti-aliasing ghost borders (#983); TIFF choices and settings are implemented | 2–4 | estimated |
| Print, colour management, separations, flattener | 3 | 80% | print preview fidelity | 2–4 | estimated |
| Automation (Actions, Variables, scripting, batch) | 3 | 60% | a scripting surface (Illustrator: JavaScript/ExtendScript), Batch, image and graph variables, dataset import/export | 8–14 | estimated; MCP `add_text` exposes existing vertical type; score and hours unchanged |
@@ -178,7 +186,7 @@ review parallelize less and need humans.
### Full Illustrator: additive weighted sum over the dimensions
The standard's method, the same in every app: a weighted **sum** over the dimensions, with written weights.
The method: a weighted **sum** over the dimensions, with written weights.
Values are from [By dimension](#by-dimension).
| Dimension | Weight | Value | Contribution |
@@ -379,10 +387,10 @@ about 1–1.5 agent-hours each, so the other rows (estimated on the older scale)
| Area | Weight | Done | Missing (main items) | One agent (h) |
|---|---:|---:|---|---:|
| Selection, transform & align tools | 6 | 85% | Free Transform/Scale/Reflect along a rotated box, Global Edit of similar groups, transform nuances (the rotated persistent bounding box is done) | 4–6 |
| Drawing tools | 7 | 85% | rough-square Shaper recognition and orientation steps corrected; editable Shaper Groups landed; remaining: Shaper construction widget/gesture refinements, pencil and the remaining pen modifier nuances, the freehand Tool Options' Keep selected, Alt to the Smooth tool, Blob Brush Merge Only with Selection and brush angle/roundness, Touch Type, Live Corners' Relative rounding (Curvature point display improved, #1236 in part) | 8–13 |
| Drawing tools | 7 | 85% | rough-square Shaper recognition and orientation steps corrected; editable Shaper Groups landed; remaining: Shaper construction widget/gesture refinements, pencil and the remaining pen modifier nuances, the freehand Tool Options' Keep selected, Alt to the Smooth tool, Blob Brush Merge Only with Selection, Touch Type, Live Corners' Relative rounding (Curvature point display improved, #1236 in part) | 8–13 |
| Selection, transform & align tools | 6 | 85% | Free Transform/Scale/Reflect along a rotated box, Global Edit of similar groups, transform nuances (the rotated persistent bounding box is done; no-op anchor Align history regression-tested, #1180 follow-up) | 4–6 |
| Selection, transform & align tools | 6 | 85% | Direct Selection segment click/Delete corrected (#1278); remaining: Free Transform/Scale/Reflect along a rotated box, Global Edit of similar groups, transform nuances (the rotated persistent bounding box is done) | 4–6 |
| Drawing tools | 7 | 86% | rough-square Shaper recognition and orientation steps corrected; editable Shaper Groups landed; Pencil: Alt key toggles to Smooth Tool (#2001); remaining: Shaper construction widget/gesture refinements, pencil and the remaining pen modifier nuances, Blob Brush Merge Only with Selection and brush angle/roundness, Touch Type, Live Corners' Relative rounding | 7–12 |
| Drawing tools | 7 | 86% | rough-square Shaper recognition and orientation steps corrected; editable Shaper Groups landed; Pencil: Alt key toggles to Smooth Tool (#2001); remaining: Shaper construction widget/gesture refinements, pencil and the remaining pen modifier nuances, Blob Brush Merge Only with Selection, Touch Type, Live Corners' Relative rounding | 7–12 |
| Path operations, Pathfinder, Shape Builder, Live Paint | 5 | 86% | Live Paint gap options, Shape Builder gap detection, options (Tool Options dialog, clicking a stroke in merge mode) and Shift-drag marquee | 3–6 |
| Colour, swatches, gradients, patterns, mesh, recolor | 7 | 96% | freeform and mixed spot/process gradients in SVG/PDF (exported as stops or process colours), pattern fills in Expand | 2–4; Eyedropper source reads regression-tested (#1251) |
| Strokes, brushes, width profiles | 5 | 90% | the Art brush's Overlap, auto-generated Pattern brush corners and new tile art in Pattern Brush Options (Brush Options for every brush type done), more built-in brush libraries (four generated in code are done), pen pressure on macOS (the windowing layer reports none there), brushes driven by pen tilt, bearing and barrel rotation (6D art pens) | 8–15 |
@@ -505,6 +513,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
- **Width-point finite-arithmetic follow-up (G1/M3):** Adjoining adjustments avoid intermediate overflow; non-finite normalized or resulting factors are rejected before committing. Engine regressions in `tests/widthpoints.rs` cover finite extremes, small nonzero results, atomic rejection, Undo/Redo and native save/reopen. Historical focused validation on the `a3357121` integration observed 2 expected RED failures with 11 passing controls, then all 13 tests passing with the repair; none were ignored. All three added regressions passed in current full CI. A full CI retry on the five-unit combined source at `a0671777` passed all seven stages with 6,613 test outcomes on 2026-10-14. An earlier full-CI run on the identical source panicked in the randomized `ai_mutated_save_never_panics` test; the cause remains unresolved. This five-fix batch does not claim to repair that failure. Scores and hours unchanged.
- **Width-point creation (G1):** double-click a stroked segment with the Width tool to open Width Point Edit using sampled side widths. OK creates the point and optionally adjusts adjoining widths in one undo step. Cancel or Delete discards a prospective point without changing the document or redo history. Command and pointer tests cover profiles, compound paths, adjoining adjustment, existing-point editing and Undo/Redo. Message-catalog checks and full CI passed; the original capture verifies opening and Cancel, and the dialog layout was reviewed (2026-10-13: 28 focused Width tests, all seven cargo xtask ci stages, and a headless opening/Cancel capture with original PNG review). [Variable-width strokes](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/stroke-object.html).
- **Escape deselects width points:** with the Width tool, Escape deselects the selected width points, on the key the reference app's [Default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) page lists for deselecting a width point. The path, its widths and the undo history do not change. With no width point selected, Escape does what it does with the other tools, such as leaving isolation mode.
- **Width strokes zoomed out (#995):** a stroke with a width profile keeps its shape while the view zooms out. The canvas keeps a hairline visible (at least half a device pixel); for a profiled stroke it is the profile's widest point that gets that minimum, not the weight, so a 1 pt stroke with a 6x width point is no longer drawn twice as thick at 25% zoom than at 100%. Plain strokes are unchanged. Test: `render::tests::widthzoom`.
- **Rulers (#1212):** drag the intersection to preview and set a document zero point, or double-click it to reset to the active artboard's top-left. Transform, Properties and Control X/Y fields measure from it and convert entered positions back to absolute command coordinates. The origin survives every native format version and compression; geometry, guides and patterns stay in place. Public reference: [Use rulers](https://helpx.adobe.com/ca/illustrator/desktop/measure-and-align/grids-and-guides/use-rulers.html).
- **Global and artboard rulers:** View › Rulers › Change to Global / Artboard Rulers (Cmd+Alt+R, `view.globalRulers`). A new document has artboard rulers: the rulers and the Transform, Properties, Control and Info X/Y count from the active artboard's top-left corner, or the zero point dragged out for that artboard, which moves with it; with global rulers one document zero point serves every artboard. Guide readouts and Shift ruler-tick snapping follow the same zero point. The mode is saved with the document; files from before it open with global rulers, as they measured. Regression tests: `engine/tests/it/ruler_origin.rs`, `ui-egui/src/tests/ruler_origin.rs`, `tools/src/rulerguide.rs`. Public reference: [About rulers](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/measure-and-align/grids-and-guides/about-rulers.html).
- **Video display options (#2849):** Artboard Options' Show Video Safe Areas and Video Ruler Pixel Aspect Ratio, and View › Rulers › Show Video Rulers ([Set video display options for artboards](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/create-manage-artboards/organize-manage-artboards/set-video-display-options-for-artboards.html)). Each artboard has its own (`artboard.setProps`/`artboard.new` `showVideoSafeAreas`, `videoRulerPixelAspectRatio` 0.1–10, default 1), set in one undo step and written to the native format only when on or not 1, so other documents save byte for byte as before. The help page names the safe areas without numbers; our choice is [EBU R 95](https://tech.ebu.ch/docs/r/r095.pdf)'s (note 5): the canvas outlines the action-safe area 3.5% and the title-safe (graphics-safe) area 5% in from each edge, 1 point wide and turned with the view; exports and print leave them out. Show Video Rulers (`view.videoRulers`) shows the rulers counting the active artboard in pixels from its top-left corner, whatever the ruler origin: a pixel is as many points wide as the ratio and one point tall, so a 720 × 480 pt artboard at 0.9 reads 800 × 480. Hide Video Rulers returns them to the General unit; Shift ruler-tick snapping of new guides keeps the General unit. Regression tests: `tests/panelcmds.rs` (`artboard_video_display_options_*`, `artboard_display_marks_stay_out_of_exports`), `tests/docsetup.rs` (`an_artboard_shows_its_video_safe_areas`), `canvas.rs` (`video_rulers_count_the_artboard_in_pixels_of_its_aspect_ratio`), `tests/ruler_origin.rs` (`show_video_rulers_counts_the_active_artboard_in_pixels`), `dialogs/tests.rs` (`artboard_options_show_video_display_options`).
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- **Names of new and renamed artboards, brushes and patterns:** `artboard.new` and `artboard.setProps` trim the white space around the name they are given, as the Artboards panel's rename does, and a blank name gives the artboard its default name, Artboard N for the Nth artboard. `brush.new`, `brush.duplicate`, `brush.options`, `object.pattern.make`, `object.pattern.saveCopy` and `pattern.options` trim the name as the Brush Options dialog and the Pattern Options panel do, and compare the trimmed name with the names there are; a blank name gives the name each command gives when there is none, and Brush Options and Pattern Options keep the name. Tests in `tests/panelcmds.rs`, `tests/brushsym.rs` and `tests/pattern.rs` cover each command. Public references: [Using multiple artboards](https://web.archive.org/web/20210925094818/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/using-multiple-artboards.html), [Brushes](https://web.archive.org/web/20251018101754/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/brushes.html) and [Create and edit patterns](https://web.archive.org/web/20211031180358/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/create-edit-patterns.html) (archived copies).
- **Pattern names and swatch names:** `pattern.options` refuses a new name that another pattern, a swatch or a color group has. It takes a name that only the pattern's own swatches have. The reference page does not say what happens when the new name is taken; the refusal follows VectorCraft's rule that swatches and color groups share one namespace (`Document::swatch_name_taken`), which `swatch.new` and `swatch.edit` also follow. A rename gives the new name only to the pattern's swatches that had the old one; any other swatch with the old name keeps it, and art linked to that swatch stays linked. `object.pattern.make` and `object.pattern.saveCopy` number a color group's name as they number a swatch's. Tests in `tests/pattern.rs` cover each command. Public reference: [Create and edit patterns](https://web.archive.org/web/20211031180358/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/create-edit-patterns.html) (archived copy).
- **A clip group in Properties:** with one clip group selected, the panel has Edit Clipping Path and Edit Contents at its top, under the Clip Group heading, which select the clipping path or the clipped art for the selection tools to transform alone, as Object › Clipping Mask does (<https://www.adobe.com/learn/illustrator/web/crop-using-masks>: with a clip group selected, the tutorial uses Edit Clipping Path at the top of the Properties panel to select the mask for editing, and uses Edit Contents to select the masked art). Edit Contents shows only when the group clips something. Not checked against the reference app: whether Properties keeps the buttons while the clipping path or the contents is selected; the Control bar has no clip-group buttons here. Evidence: `panels::properties::tests::one_clip_group_has_edit_clipping_path_and_edit_contents_at_the_top`.
- **Contextual controls in Properties:** the [Properties panel overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/get-started/learn-the-basics/properties-panel-overview.html) lists controls that appear for particular selections and tools; Properties has them, each running the existing command. Quick Actions has Blend Options for one selected blend while the Blend tool is in use (the Blend Options dialog, OK one undo step) and Merge Live Paint when a Live Paint group is selected with more paths and nothing Live Paint refuses (`livePaint.merge`). Appearance has the stroke's Variable Width Profile list, the Control bar's, with the Width tool or when the stroke has a variable width (`stroke.set {profile}`), and beside fx the Delete icon: with one effect on the one selected object (its own or a fill's or stroke's) its name and an icon that removes it (`effect.remove`), with several an icon that opens the Appearance panel, as the overview describes. With Direct Selection and corners of one path selected, Corner and Corner Radius set the kind and radius of those corners (`object.setLiveShape`); a live rectangle's and polygon's own rows already do. Each edit is one undo step. The overview's Variable Font icon was already in Character. Not checked against the reference app: whether Merge needs two Live Paint groups (the overview speaks of several selected groups; `livePaint.merge` takes a group and paths), and where exactly each control sits in its section. Evidence: `panels::properties::tests::{blend_options_is_a_quick_action_for_one_blend_with_the_blend_tool, merge_live_paint_is_a_quick_action_for_a_live_paint_group_and_more, the_width_profile_shows_for_a_variable_width_or_the_width_tool, direct_selected_corners_show_their_kind_and_radius, one_effect_has_a_delete_icon_in_appearance}`.
- **Contextual controls in Properties:** the [Properties panel overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/get-started/learn-the-basics/properties-panel-overview.html) lists controls that appear for particular selections and tools; Properties has them, each running the existing command. Quick Actions has Blend Options for one selected blend, with the Blend tool or any other, as the [blending page](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/blending-objects.html) describes (#4817) (the Blend Options dialog, OK one undo step) and Merge Live Paint when a Live Paint group is selected with more paths and nothing Live Paint refuses (`livePaint.merge`). Appearance has the stroke's Variable Width Profile list, the Control bar's, with the Width tool or when the stroke has a variable width (`stroke.set {profile}`), and beside fx the Delete icon: with one effect on the one selected object (its own or a fill's or stroke's) its name and an icon that removes it (`effect.remove`), with several an icon that opens the Appearance panel, as the overview describes. With Direct Selection and corners of one path selected, Corner and Corner Radius set the kind and radius of those corners (`object.setLiveShape`); a live rectangle's and polygon's own rows already do. Each edit is one undo step. The overview's Variable Font icon was already in Character. Not checked against the reference app: whether Merge needs two Live Paint groups (the overview speaks of several selected groups; `livePaint.merge` takes a group and paths), and where exactly each control sits in its section. Evidence: `panels::properties::tests::{blend_options_is_a_quick_action_for_one_blend_with_the_blend_tool, merge_live_paint_is_a_quick_action_for_a_live_paint_group_and_more, the_width_profile_shows_for_a_variable_width_or_the_width_tool, direct_selected_corners_show_their_kind_and_radius, one_effect_has_a_delete_icon_in_appearance}`.
- **Edit Artboards in Properties:** the active artboard's name is a field. Typing a new name and pressing Enter or clicking elsewhere renames that artboard in one undo step, as the Artboards panel's rename does (`artboard.setProps {index, name}`); pressing Escape or leaving the field empty keeps the old name. A click on the Artboard Options icon beside the field opens Artboard Options for the active artboard, as double-clicking the Artboard tool's button does (`tool.options {tool: "artboard"}`). Pointer and key tests in `panels/properties.rs` cover both. Public references: [Resize artboards](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/create-manage-artboards/add-edit-artboards/resize-artboards.html) and [Create and add new artboards](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/create-manage-artboards/add-edit-artboards/add-new-artboards.html).
- **Artboard background colors:** each artboard can have a background color (`artboard.setProps {index, color}`, `color: null` removes it). With the Artboard tool, Properties has a Fill row: its list sets None, White or Black, and its chip and its Color Picker… item open the Color Picker for the artboard. Artboard Options has a Background Color row with a list that sets None, White or Black, and a color button. The canvas draws the artboard's paper in the color, multiplied with the paper color while Simulate Colored Paper is on, and the transparency grid still covers it. The native format saves the color, and a document without colors saves as before. Exports and print do not draw the color. Engine, canvas, Properties, Color Picker and Artboard Options tests cover it. Public reference: [Apply colors to artboards](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/create-manage-artboards/organize-manage-artboards/add-background-color-to-artboards.html).
- **Resizing several artboards:** with several artboards selected with the Artboard tool, a new W or H in Properties, the Transform panel or the Control bar, a preset or an orientation in Properties or the Control bar, and a new Width or Height in Artboard Options resize every selected artboard in one undo step (`artboard.setProps {artboards}`); with Scale Artwork with Artboard on, Properties, the Transform panel and the Control bar scale each object once, with the artboard it was inside before the change. The Transform panel, the Control bar and Artboard Options resize each one about its own reference point, a preset sizes each one in its own orientation, and X and Y still move the active artboard alone. Pointer and key tests in `panels/properties.rs`, dialog tests in `dialogs/tests.rs` and an engine test in `tests/xform.rs` cover them. Public references: [Artboard Enhancements In Illustrator CC](https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2017/11/10/artboard-enhancements-in-illustrator-cc) (a height and a width entered once resize every selected artboard) and [Using multiple artboards](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/using-multiple-artboards.html) (2019).
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- Batch…: Override Save and Override Export name each file with the extension of the format the step writes, however the step spells the format (`.svg` and `SVG` give `.svg`, `png8` gives `.png`), in `action.batch`.
- Actions panel (record/playback, persisted), generic parameter dialogs for every "…" command.
- Batch… over data sets names each file after the document and the data set (`action.batch`). It writes `/`, `\`, `:`, `<`, `>`, `"`, `|`, `?`, `*` and control characters in the data set's name as `-`, and adds `-2`, `-3`… to a name an earlier data set used.
- Export for Screens: the dialog's Example line shows the path of the file the export writes first, sub-folder included, named as the export names it, for the first chosen artboard, asset, layer or object (`document.exportForScreens`).
- Export for Screens is laid out as the reference app's dialog: on the left the Artboards and Assets tabs (thumbnails with their checkboxes, number and name, in a grid or a list), Clear Selection and Prefix; on the right Select (All, Range, Include Bleed, Full Document), Export to, Open Location after Export, Create Sub-folders by Scale or by Format (on by default), Export PDFs As (Single File writes the chosen artboards as the pages of one PDF named after the document, `pdfs: "single"`), and the format rows with the iOS and Android buttons, the format presets (☰) and Format Settings; under them, how many items are selected and how many files the export writes. File name patterns, the Layers and Selection sources and per-item folders stay available through `document.exportForScreens` (scripts and MCP). Tests: `dialogs::tests_screens` (layout, iOS/Android, Clear Selection, sub-folders, Single File) and `fileio::tests_screens::single_file_pdfs_hold_every_chosen_artboard`.
- Save for Web: Preview in Browser writes each preview's page and images to a folder of its own inside `VectorCraft Save for Web` in the system's temporary folder. A later preview, from the same app or another one running, does not overwrite an earlier one. Each preview first removes the preview folders there that are an hour old or older and, on Linux, macOS and FreeBSD, belong to the current user; it leaves other files and folders alone. The folders a preview makes there are open to their owner only on those systems. When `VectorCraft Save for Web` is a link or is not a folder, or on those systems belongs to another user or can be written by other users, the preview goes to a new folder of its own in the temporary folder, which a later preview removes once it is an hour old (`file.saveForWeb.browser`).
- Export for Screens, Save for Web (slice images, and files named after the document's title) and the Libraries panel name files with the characters Windows does not allow written as `-` and with a `-` after a Windows device name such as `CON`, on every platform (`document.exportForScreens`, `document.exportForWeb`, `library.create`).
- Variables (data merge): text, visibility and image variables bound to objects (an object may carry several), dataset rows applied in one undo step (`variable.*`, `dataset.*`) from a Variables panel and Window › Variables, with dialogs to define, bind and edit, Make Text/Visibility/Image Dynamic, Capture/Update Data Set, CSV import/export (`dataset.import` / `dataset.export`), and a row in italics when an edit leaves the art not matching it; an image dataset value is a file path and apply keeps the object's bounds; bindings let go of deleted art and locked art is left alone; every command, like the rest, is drivable over MCP and the CLI.
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- The function key shortcuts for Brushes, Color, Layers, Info, Gradient, Stroke, Attributes, Graphic Styles, Appearance, Align, Transform, Pathfinder, Transparency, and Symbols activate a background tab on the first press, hide its expanded dock or floating group when that tab is in front, and restore the group with all its tabs together on the next press; in an icon column they open and close the flyout while keeping the icons. A reassigned chord keeps that behavior, and Window > a hidden sibling restores the group.
- Cmd/Ctrl+A follows the keyboard: in a panel, dialog or search field it selects the field's text, while the Type tool edits it selects all of that text (also `select.all` over MCP), and only otherwise every object. On macOS the menu bar's Select All, Cut, Copy and Paste (keys or clicks) act on a focused field too, and elsewhere the in-window menus' do: the field that had the keyboard when the menu opened gets them, with its selection, and the keyboard back (#516). Not yet: Select All across threaded frames (one frame's text is selected).
- While the Type tool edits text, a character typed with AltGr is typed and runs no command. Firefox on Windows reports AltGr as Ctrl and Alt held, so in the web build AltGr+L (ł on a Polish layout) does not also open Layer Options for a new layer, and AltGr+Q (@ on a German layout) does not also run Reset Tracking and Kerning. A Ctrl+Alt chord that types no character runs its command.
- On a layout without Latin letters, a one-key shortcut goes by the position of the key that typed the character, in the web build too, where the character arrives before its key press: on a Russian layout the P key (`з`) chooses the Pen, and two keys pressed in one frame each run their own shortcut.
- With the Artboard tool, Cmd/Ctrl+A after a click on a row of the Artboards panel selects every artboard, as the macOS menu bar's Select All does then; the active artboard stays active, and the art's selection does not change. After a press outside the panel's list, Cmd/Ctrl+A selects every object again. It used to select every object after a click in the panel too. Public reference: [Select artboards](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/create-manage-artboards/add-edit-artboards/select-artboards.html).
- Cmd/Ctrl+/ (`appearance.addFill`) and Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+/ (`appearance.addStroke`) add a new fill and a new stroke to the selected objects, as the Appearance panel's Add New Fill and Add New Stroke buttons do, on the keys the reference app's [Default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) page lists for adding a new fill and a new stroke. Keyboard Shortcuts lists both under Window › Appearance.
- Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+Shift+. and , (`type.size.increaseByFive`, `type.size.decreaseByFive`) step the font size of the selected type, or of the text the Type tool has selected, by five times the Size/Leading increment (Preferences › Type); Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+. and , still step it by one increment.
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- Shortcut sets other apps save as text (`.kys`) open in Import Shortcut Set from File › Open, from Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts › Import… in the desktop app, or from a drop on the window. It matches each entry to a tool, command or panel by name and decodes the file's key and modifier codes where VectorCraft's default shortcuts agree on them; the user answers the rest, and Apply fills the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog's working set. The answers are kept with the preferences for the next import (`shortcutSet.read`, `importMatches.*`).
- On Windows and Linux the app bar is the window's title bar (its own minimize, maximize and close buttons, drag to move, edges to resize), with the dragon app icon as the brand mark; dialogs and menus size to their content. As on a native menu bar, once one menu is open, moving the pointer onto another title opens that one.
- Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts lists items of the menu bar and panel menus, as the reference app's [Customize keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20221205131209id_/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/customizing-keyboard-shortcuts.html) page describes for its Menu Commands. A menu command with no default shortcut that needs a value a key press does not give, such as File › Document Setup › Units (`document.setUnits {units}`), is listed only while the user has changed its shortcut. A command stays listed when a menu bar item runs it without a value or when it opens a dialog run without one, as the Variables panel's commands do.
- A shortcut on the key left of 1 runs whatever character that key types, and Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts, the menus in the window, the command palette and tool tips show it as that character once the key has been pressed: `"` on a Turkish Q layout, `~` on a US layout as before. Shortcuts saved as `~` keep working (#4559).
- On Windows a maximized window stays inside the work area with the taskbar on any edge (#3242, #3723).
- On Windows a maximized window stops one pixel short of each monitor edge where an auto-hidden taskbar sits.
- **Tools:**
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`path.reshapeSegment`, `object.blend.spine.reshapeSegment`, `path.convertAnchor`, `path.curvatureEdit`, `path.insertAnchor`, `path.moveAnchors`, `path.reshape`, `path.close` and the Pencil, Curvature, Knife, Eraser, Path Eraser, Smooth, Join and Blob Brush commands refuse a number, point or handle given as text, such as "10", and leave the document unchanged; `path.convertAnchor` refuses an `x` without a `y`, or a `y` without an `x`.
`path.close` and `path.setHandle` (`independent`), `path.moveAnchors` (`patterns`), the Pencil (`closed`, `keepSelected`, `fill`), Curvature (`closed` and a point's `corner`), `path.curvatureEdit` (`corner`), `path.reshapeSegment` (`perpendicular`) and the Blob Brush (`keepSelected`, `mergeOnlySelection`, `merge`) refuse a value other than true, false or null, such as "true", and leave the document unchanged.
Direct Selection's marquee selects the frame anchors of area type that lie inside it, and a click on a frame anchor selects that one; Shift toggles them. The selected frame anchors show filled. A drag of one of them moves all of them, the arrow keys nudge them, and the type reflows at its size (`text.reshapeArea`, which takes `items` to move the anchors of several frames in one step), as [Create text](http://web.archive.org/web/20220127090642/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/creating-text.html) and [Selecting objects](http://web.archive.org/web/20211230015528/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/selecting-objects.html) describe. When the selection also holds other objects, path anchors or ruler guides, or when another change to the document or the selection follows the pick, the type is selected whole.
A press on a selected object's centre point (Attributes panel › Show Center) selects the object whole, and a drag from it moves the object as one Move, held by that point (#4891; test `the_centre_point_selects_and_moves_the_object_whole`).
- **Group Selection (#2441):** a click picks one path of a compound path (its outline within the pick tolerance, else the innermost path whose area holds the click: the outer shape or a hole), Shift-click adds another, and a click on a selected path adds the compound path, as a click on a group member climbs to its group. A path selected this way moves, rotates and scales on its own; paint still goes to the compound path.
With Direct Selection, an Alt-click on a path selected whole adds its group, and each further Alt-click adds the next group up, as Group Selection's clicks do; the climb stops below the layer and its sublayers and at the isolated object. An Alt-drag still copies the selection, and Alt+Shift-click on a segment or the fill still adds or removes the path. Public references: [Select objects](https://web.archive.org/web/20250904012025/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/selecting-objects.html) and [Default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) (archived copies).
With Alt held at the press, a Direct Selection marquee is Group Selection's for the drag: it selects every path it touches, whole (Shift toggles them), not the anchors inside it, and the Group Selection pointer stays until the release (#4890; test `an_alt_marquee_selects_the_paths_it_touches_whole`).
With Direct Selection, Shift pressed during the drag of a curved segment keeps both of its handles at right angles to the line between its anchors, on the same side and at the same length (`path.reshapeSegment {perpendicular}`). Shift held while any segment is dragged with the Anchor Point tool or the Pen with Alt does the same. With the Anchor Point tool, Shift held at the press on an anchor (or a selected blend's spine point) moves it, handles and all, instead of pulling out handles; Shift kept down keeps the move at 45° steps, and a Shift-click that doesn't move leaves the anchor as it was (`path.moveAnchor`). A selected blend spine's segment dragged with the Anchor Point tool, or a curved one dragged with Direct Selection, bends the same way (`object.blend.spine.reshapeSegment`).
- **Live Corners:** drag a live rectangle's corner widgets (Selection or Direct Selection) to round all corners, with a radius readout; with Direct Selection, select corner anchors to show and round just those corners (#381). Each corner keeps its own radius and kind (Round, Inverted Round, Chamfer): Alt-click a widget to cycle the kind, double-click it for the Corners dialog, and the Properties and Transform radius fields set the selected corners (`object.setLiveShape {corners, radius, kind}`). A link toggle behind Corner Radius (the `singleCornerRadius` preference) switches the panels to a field for each corner of a live rectangle: Top Left, Top Right, Bottom Right and Bottom Left. Corners stay circular when the rectangle is scaled unevenly or along its own sides when rotated (the radius keeps its size, or scales by the mean scale with Scale Corners on); only a shear distorts them. On a rectangle that isn't square every corner is the same circle: a radius past half the shorter side stops there for all of them, the widgets sit on the corners as drawn and turn the edited corners red at that limit, CSS export writes the drawn radii, and rectangles saved stretched by older versions get circular corners when their corners are next set (#442). Live Corners work on any path's corners too, as on a rectangle's (#511): a star's, a live polygon's (which also shows them to the Selection tool, has a Corner Radius field in the Properties and Transform panels and keeps its radius as its sides change) and a pen path's, wherever two sides meet at an angle at an anchor that isn't smooth: curved sides too, trimmed to what the cut leaves of them (#1144). Direct Selection shows the widgets of every corner, or of the corners holding selected anchors; each corner is a circle tangent to both sides, drawn no larger than takes its cut halfway along its shorter side; a path keeps its uncut outline so its corners stay editable, and the same command, dialog, angle preference and View › Hide Corner Widget apply. With Direct Selection a click on a widget (no drag) selects its corner, as a click on the corner's anchor does, so the next drag on it rounds that corner alone; Shift-click toggles it (#1239). While a corner widget is dragged with the Selection tool the bounding box hides, so the rounding shows against the path alone (#1229). A round corner next to a curved side curves smoothly instead of sticking out of the shape (#1547, fixes #1512).
View › Hide Edges hides the Live Corners widgets, the bounding box and the type widget, and the selection tools then do not answer a press on them or change the cursor over them.
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Shape Builder pieces on dense hatches (lines at exact 0.25 or 0.5 pt steps across another line) come back one per stretch between crossings, with no speck where the sweep cut a line's two passes a rounding error apart: the planar map contracts the stub between such cuts into one vertex, bounded by each cluster's extent so a run of tiny level segments keeps its length (`crates/pathops/src/planar.rs` tests `a_dense_hatch_at_exact_binary_steps_cuts_each_line_once_per_crossing`, `a_run_of_tiny_level_segments_is_not_contracted_as_stubs`, `a_line_crossed_where_its_two_passes_part_is_cut_once`).
The planar map's edge-source grid stays linear in memory on any input: a segment is filed once per cell it crosses, and the grid holds at most a budget of cell references (a few dozen per item plus a few rows' worth), past which the remaining items go to a short scanned list and are still found, so thousands of coincident segments cannot make the index quadratic (`crates/pathops/src/planar.rs` test `rect_index_holds_a_bounded_number_of_references`).
The Blob Brush Tool Options have Keep selected and Merge only with selection, both off by default: while Keep selected is off, the blob a stroke draws or merges into is not selected afterwards, and while Merge only with selection is on, a stroke merges only with selected blobs of its color that it touches (`path.blob` `keepSelected` and `mergeOnlySelection`).
The Blob Brush Tool Options also have Angle and Roundness, as the reference app's [Blob Brush options](https://web.archive.org/web/20261012042029/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/learn-painting-basics/blob-brush-options-and-best-practices.html) list them: Angle from −180° to 180° (0° by default) and Roundness from 0% to 100% (100%, a round tip, by default). The elliptical tip keeps its angle on the page along a stroke, a 0% tip is drawn 0.1% as wide as it is long, and the dialog shows the tip and three dabs of it. The values are kept with the tool's options (`path.blob` `angle` and `roundness`). Not done: the Random and pen-driven variations of Angle and Roundness.
The Blob Brush Tool Options also have Fidelity, as the reference app's [Blob Brush options](https://web.archive.org/web/20261012042029/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/learn-painting-basics/blob-brush-options-and-best-practices.html) list it: the Pencil's logarithmic slider from Accurate (0.01 pt) to Smooth (20 pt) and its field (up to 100 pt), 1.5 pt by default and kept with the tool's options. The brush follows the stroke fitted at the Fidelity, as a Pencil stroke is fitted: a low value follows the drag closely, jitter included, and a higher one gives smoother curves (`path.blob` `fidelity`).
A Blob Brush stroke merges with the topmost path of its fill color and no stroke that it touches, and with the other such paths it touches in the same group or layer that are next to that path in stacking order with no other kind of object between them; matching paths in other groups or layers are left alone, as the Blob Brush tool guidelines in [Paint with fills and strokes](https://web.archive.org/web/20241219085603/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/painting-fills-strokes.html) describe (`path.blob`).
- **Ruler guides as layer objects:** a guide goes on the current layer, shows, hides, locks and is deleted with it, is listed in the Layers panel (its row selects it) and moves to another layer (`guide.setLayer`, or its row dragged onto that layer's rows); guides on a hidden or locked layer can't be selected, moved or deleted, Duplicate copies a layer's guides and Merge Selected and Flatten Artwork keep them on the merged layer; guides from files saved before guides had layers go on the top visible, unlocked layer when the document opens. Not done: guides stacked among the art of their layer (they are listed above it), a guide row's own eye and lock. Lock Guides also locks the objects made into guides: they can't be selected, moved or deleted (#1543); they are drawn in the guide colour and style of Preferences, and a dragged selection snaps to ruler guides with Smart Guides on (#1583, fixes #1534). The Transform panel shows a selected ruler guide's X or Y, and typing a value moves it (#1659, part of #1597). This is not established by the documentation we could find: the public help pages on guides, rulers and the Transform, Control and Properties panels (read again on 2026-10-14) describe selecting and dragging unlocked guides and the panels' X and Y for a selection, not a guide's position in a panel, and the one public statement of it is a user's [community answer](https://community.adobe.com/questions-652/adding-a-new-custom-guide-785586), which is not documentation. It is kept as a convenience pending the owner's decision, with no parity claim and nothing counted towards a score.
@@ -911,6 +925,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
- **CSS swatch libraries:** fractional linear and radial gradient stop positions are preserved, so nearby stops such as 12.5% and 12.890625% remain distinct instead of collapsing to 13%. Reference: [CSS Images 3 color stops](https://www.w3.org/TR/css-images-3/#color-stop-syntax). The original synthetic regression is `palette_io::tests::css_preserves_fractional_gradient_stop_positions` in `crates/color/src/palette_io.rs`. Scores and hours are unchanged.
- **Swatches:** names follow the colour model and are unique; Swatch Options (process/spot, Global, Gray/RGB/HSB/CMYK/Web, live preview); editing a global or spot swatch recolours every linked fill, stroke and text run in one undo step; multi-select and delete with confirmation; New Swatch and New Color Group dialogs (a group from the selected artwork's colours); swatches in colour groups convert, separate and count like any other. The Swatches panel selects ranges and whole groups, has a find field, and drags swatches to reorder, regroup or paint art; Add Used Colors, Select All Unused, Merge, Ungroup and Sort by Kind; a CMYK document keeps applied colours in CMYK. Swatch libraries: nine generated colour libraries and five gradient libraries in a library panel, saved as `.vcswatches`, `.gpl`, swatch exchange (`.ase`) or CSS, and loaded from `.vcswatches`, `.gpl` and `.ase` files (`.ase` both ways: RGB, CMYK, Lab and Gray; global, spot and process; groups) and from color books (`.acb`, read only: the RGB, CMYK or Lab colors of a book such as a Pantone book a user owns, named with its prefix and suffix, spot unless it says process, #831); `swatch.library.copyToUser` copies a loaded library into the User Defined folder without replacing a file, and a file with the same extension and bytes as a User Defined library opens as that library. Tints of global and spot colours ("Name 40%") stay linked and separate as a percentage of their plate. Spot colours can be defined in Lab (Spot Colors options). A built-in [Registration] swatch prints on every plate.
Editing, renaming, deleting or merging a global swatch also changes the colors linked to it in graph designs, the art of brushes and the tile that pattern editing's Cancel puts back, in the same undo step as the rest of the art; Default Swatches with replace unlinks them there too.
The prompt for deleting several swatches and groups uses the interface language's plural form for the count. Evidence: `deleting_several_swatches_uses_each_count_form` in `crates/ui-egui/src/panels/swatches/tests.rs`.
- **Colorized images (#1466):** a fill color applied to a selected grayscale or 1-bit image (`paint.setFill`) colorizes it with black, white, a process color or a spot color, and refuses a process color when the image has an alpha channel ([Convert color modes](https://web.archive.org/web/20251220223850/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-colors/select-and-adjust-colors/convert-color-modes.html), "Colorize Grayscale or 1-bit images"); black and white are accepted there too. The canvas draws each pixel in the color as far as the pixel is dark, with white pixels transparent; PDF export writes the image in the color (a spot color as its ink, Registration in every ink) with the image as its soft mask; Separations Preview and printed separations show it on its color's plates; native files keep the color. EPS and SVG write the image's own pixels.
- **Missing library files:** a persistent swatch or graphic style library panel whose file is gone at startup reopens and stays in the preferences, showing the file's path with Locate Library… (`ui.libraryPanel.locate`), which reads the file from where it is now into the same panel.
- **Swatch library and Recolor Artwork parameters:** the `swatch.library.*` commands, `swatch.resetDefaults`, the graphic style library save, load and add, the `recolor.*` commands and `color.harmony`'s `limitTo` refuse parameters of the wrong form, such as `names: "Grays"`, `limitTo: 5` or `includeImages: "false"`. Errors name the parameter, except that a `limitTo` that is not a string, such as `5`, gets an unknown-library error. A `null` counts as left out except for `recolor.apply`'s `model`, which must be a string when given.
@@ -1039,7 +1054,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
- EPS and PostScript import keeps a CMYK image's ink amounts, as PDF import does: the samples of `image` and `colorimage` in a CMYK color space, and of a CMYK JPEG read through `DCTDecode`, come in as a CMYK TIFF, read through the image's Decode array, and the pixels a `MaskColor` or `ImageType 3` mask hides become a grayscale opacity mask (`crates/eps/src/import/tests_images.rs`). Such images came in as RGB PNGs.
- EPS and PostScript import reads image data through `CCITTFaxDecode`: Group 4 (ITU-T T.6) and Group 3 one-dimensional and mixed (ITU-T T.4) data, with the filter's `K`, `Columns`, `Rows`, `EndOfBlock`, `EndOfLine`, `EncodedByteAlign` and `BlackIs1` parameters, decodes to 1-bit rows for `image` and `imagemask`. Damaged data keeps the rows decoded before it (damage in the first row is a PostScript `ioerror`), and parameters out of range or past the 256 MiB limit on decoded data are refused (`crates/eps/src/import/tests_images.rs`). Reading such a file stopped at an error naming the filter, and the file opened from a fallback, such as its preview or the art drawn before the image, or did not open.
- EPS and PostScript `.ai` import undoes the TIFF predictor (`/Predictor 2`) of `FlateDecode` and `LZWDecode` data at 1, 2, 4 and 16 bits a component as well as 8: each component adds the same component of the pixel to its left within its bit width, 16-bit components add as big-endian numbers, and each row starts again (ISO 32000-1 §7.4.4.4; `crates/eps/src/import/tests_images.rs`, `crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_epsimport.rs`). At those depths the image drew the stored differences instead of its samples.
- DXF control-point SPLINE import honors its closed flag (#1299 follow-up after #1320 fixed export), including rational curves; open curves whose endpoints meet stay open. Own-fixture regressions cover controls/knots, fit-point fallback and all export versions (`crates/cad/src/import/tests.rs`, `crates/cad/src/tests.rs`); native save/read checked. Circular cubic paths export as native CIRCLE/ARC where stroke semantics permit; R12 weighted strokes remain POLYLINE, and a non-circular ellipse keeps the existing fallback (`crates/cad/src/tests.rs`); CNC preset and VCarve QA remain pending.
- DXF control-point SPLINE import honors its closed flag (#1299 follow-up after #1320 fixed export), including rational curves; open curves whose endpoints meet stay open. Own-fixture regressions cover controls/knots, fit-point fallback and all export versions (`crates/cad/src/import/tests.rs`, `crates/cad/src/tests.rs`); native save/read checked. Circular cubic paths export as native CIRCLE/ARC where stroke semantics permit; R12 weighted strokes remain POLYLINE, and a non-circular ellipse keeps the existing fallback (`crates/cad/src/tests.rs`); an open path of one straight segment exports as a LINE (R12 to R14 strokes with a weight stay polylines, which carry the width) and reads back as the same segment (`crates/cad/src/tests.rs`, `crates/cad/src/import/tests.rs`); CNC preset and VCarve QA remain pending.
- Affinity documents in (AF.1–AF.4): `.af` (Affinity 3) and `.afdesign`/`.afphoto`/`.afpub` (Affinity 1 and 2, container versions 8–12) open and place as editable art: layers and sublayers, groups (pass-through or isolated), artboards (with their names and backgrounds) and Publisher pages side by side, curves with live corners, parametric shapes (rectangles with corner radii, ellipses, polygons, stars, pies, triangles, trapezoids), compound shapes, solid/linear/elliptical gradient fills and strokes (weight, dashes, alignment, scale-with-object), clipping by nesting, vector and pixel masks, artistic and frame text with fonts, sizes, tracking, leading and alignment, placed images (their original JPEG/PNG) and pixel layers (8/16-bit RGB, CMYK), opacity, visibility, locking and blend modes, at the document's resolution in points. Effects, adjustments, brushes and pressure profiles, transparency gradients, master pages, symbol instances (imported as their cached picture), special shapes (cloud, heart, cog…, imported as ellipses) and Affinity-only blend modes are named in the import warning. A file whose native data can't be read opens as its embedded preview with the reason, and that preview can't be placed. Save never writes back over the Affinity file and there is no Affinity export. AF.5 (from DesignCraft's import, storytold/designcraft#291) adds master pages (on a locked layer behind the pages that show them), tables (area type per cell and a line per edge), each paragraph's alignment, indents, spacing and leading, horizontal text scale, outlined text, frame text sized by its text scale, drop shadows and outer glows as live effects (inner shadows as inner glows), outline effects as strokes, colour and gradient overlays baked into the paint, embedded Affinity documents as editable content (their artboards don't become artboards), pixel layers over 64 MP at a reduced resolution and HEIC photos from their stored pixels; automatic leading (size plus the font's line gap) fitted on thumbnails; underlines and strikethrough; strokes whose style is None (every shape stores one) left out, which also brings 6 public files closer to their thumbnails; line breaks inside a paragraph; table cell text centred as Affinity centres it, also where it is taller than its cell; CMYK pixel layers converted through the document's embedded CMYK profile (relative colorimetric with black-point compensation, as each layer's colour settings name), or kept as CMYK images when there is none; outline effects on stroked shapes around their stroke; artistic text whose paragraphs align differently aligned within its longest line, a frame's first baseline at cap height, and frames whose last lines' descenders hang out made tall enough to show them (all measured on a local document's own PDF export: baselines match to 0.1 pt); a local 56-artboard document's mean thumbnail difference went from 16.2 to 11.4, and its pages' mean difference from the owner's PDF export from 12.9 to 9.3. AF.4 adds Affinity 3 artboard recognition and actual-outline clipping, source-backed JPEG/PNG raster tiles, Unicode text-run recovery, stored fallback/exact installed fonts, OpenType feature flags and compound-geometry limits. 51 public CC0/MIT/Apache-2.0 files (33 current `.af`), pinned and sha256-verified (`cargo xtask corpus --affinity`), test native retention and every-board native/SVG/PDF/PSD output for current files; selected files compare their saved thumbnails. No Affinity reopen or independent paired PSD oracle was available; [source audit and complex-font gaps](affinity-validation.md); [scope, provenance and limits](../crates/affinity/README.md).
- Placed documents: File › Place of a `.vectorcraft` file links to it by default (`file.place`'s `link`): one locked object showing an artboard of the document (or its art's bounds), read the way placing it without Link reads it, its symbols, patterns and images kept apart from the document's; without Link (or from bytes, not a file) it is an editable copy as before. It stays vectors in every output (SVG, PDF, EPS, EMF, DXF), and so do placed documents inside it, read from their own files up to 8 levels deep (documents that place each other stop there). On screen they draw from bitmaps cached per file and zoom step, shared by every copy and made in the background (a placeholder until ready), so a sheet of them redraws in about a millisecond; exports and prints draw them exactly. Like linked images, a save keeps only a preview of each (JPEG when opaque) unless Include Linked Files; output, and zooming past the preview, read the file again, falling back to the preview with a warning when it is gone or changed. Saves for older versions write them as plain art. Links check, update, relink, Update Links on open, Link Info (the artboard's size), Placement Options, Break Link (also Embed, Object › Expand: the editable copy placing without Link gives, its resources joining the document), Edit Original (the document in a new tab) and the Links panel cover them; saving a document updates the open documents that place it. The native format (v4) keeps data of 8 KB or more after the JSON instead of base64 in it.
- Placed documents' bitmaps on screen: when a bitmap made in the background is ready, the desktop app renders the canvas again only where the objects that show its file are, when the frame shown was rendered on the UI thread and that part is at most half the canvas. Bitmaps drawn or made since a frame began are kept for that frame past the 512 MiB budget, up to 2 GiB, so a view showing more than the budget does not make them again in every frame. A bitmap that would take them past 2 GiB is not kept, and its file draws exactly at that zoom. A bitmap that can't be made (the file can't be read and there is no preview) shows the light placeholder and is not asked for again. Each ready bitmap used to render the whole canvas again, and bitmaps past the budget and bitmaps that could not be made were asked for again in every frame (`crates/render/src/tests/placed_document.rs`).
@@ -1103,6 +1118,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
An Alt-drag with the Selection, Direct Selection, Group Selection, Rotate, Scale, Reflect or Shear tool copies the selection on its first move, and the moves after it transform those copies; the previews of the Move, Rotate, Scale, Reflect and Shear dialogs with Copy and Preview on copy the selection once in the same way (#1429).
An Alt-drag of objects in perspective with the Perspective Selection tool, and an Alt-drag of a plane widget with that tool or the Perspective Grid tool, copy the objects on the first move, and the moves after it move those copies (#1429).
With the Perspective Selection tool, Ctrl+Alt-drag (Command+Option-drag on macOS) also copies objects on their perspective plane; Alt/Option-drag continues to do so.
With the Perspective Selection tool, holding Shift while moving or copying constrains each object's displacement to the nearest axis or 45° diagonal of its own plane; releasing Shift resumes the raw pointer position, and 5 still moves perpendicular to the plane. Snap to Grid follows the constrained line on the first object's plane and depth.
When the desktop app opens a document on a thread of its own (#1245), that thread also reads the document's linked files and lays out its type, and the UI thread only adds the finished document: in release builds, the step left on the UI thread takes 0.02 ms instead of 1.04 s for a document with 12 linked 3000 × 2000 TIFFs, and it takes 0.1 ms instead of 0.85 s for one with 300 Auto Size area type objects, every second one in three columns.
The Layers panel's Delete Selection, Duplicate Selection, Collect in New Layer, Merge Selected, Flatten Artwork, Release to Layers (Sequence) and row drags also take time in proportion to the size of the document, and so do Cut Artboard and Duplicate Artboard with their art and each move of an Alt-drag of one artboard with the Artboard tool while Move/Copy Artwork with Artboard is on (#1429).
In Outline view the renderer draws paths and compound paths from the geometry it keeps for them between frames, and it culls the members of clip groups by the bounds it keeps for them. Layers with Preview off and the outlines of Image Trace objects are drawn the same way.
@@ -1227,7 +1243,7 @@ applies to fills). Tests: `color::gradient::tests` (perceptual midpoint, expansi
## Artwork Cleanup add-on (2026-10-30)
A VectorCraft addition, not an Illustrator feature, so no area score moves. Object › Plug-ins › Artwork Cleanup and its
A VectorCraft addition, not a feature of the reference app, so no area score moves. Object › Plug-ins › Artwork Cleanup and its
panel run `addon.cleanup.*`: Simplify Anchors (Keep Shape) on the shared kernel
`vectorcraft_pathops::addons::keep_shape`, a health check of 16 kinds of issue on the selection or the document with
Show, Fix Selected and Fix All (each one undo step), Deep Ungroup and Rejoin Path Pieces. Tests: `addons::` in
@@ -1237,7 +1253,8 @@ alone; Fix All as one step; scopes; rejoin within the gap only) and `addons::cle
The add-on's text tools (2026-10-31) work on the shared text layout: Break Text into lines, paragraphs, words or glyphs
and Split Text at Cursor make point type pieces placed by the glyph of their first character, Combine Point Text merges
one-line point type back with every glyph where it was (tracking and spaces, checked against the layout), and Remove
one-line point type back with every glyph where it was (tracking and spaces, checked against the layout), Join Point
Text stacks one-line pieces into one object of paragraphs that keep their baselines (#4826), and Remove
Line / Paragraph Breaks, Set Alignment, Keep Position, Reset Text Transform and Replace Missing Fonts. Tests:
`cmd::addons::cleanup::text::tests` in `vectorcraft-engine` (glyphs kept in place, styles kept, one undo step,
refusals), `addons::cleanup::tests` in `vectorcraft-ui-egui` (the submenu and the panel's Text row run them) and
@@ -1245,7 +1262,7 @@ refusals), `addons::cleanup::tests` in `vectorcraft-ui-egui` (the submenu and th
## Path Precision Tools add-on (2026-10-30)
A VectorCraft addition, not an Illustrator feature, so no area score moves. Object › Plug-ins › Path Precision Tools,
A VectorCraft addition, not a feature of the reference app, so no area score moves. Object › Plug-ins › Path Precision Tools,
its Anchor Inspector panel and three tools kept out of the shipped toolbars (listed in the All Tools drawer) run
`addon.pathtools.*`: an Anchor Eraser Brush on the shared keep-shape kernel, an Extend Path tool (straight, stretched
curve or arc; shortening back along the path), a Measure & Inspect tool with hover readouts (lengths, area, curvature,
@@ -1308,7 +1325,7 @@ ends), `addons::shared_edge` in `vectorcraft-tools`, `cmd::addons::pathtools::sh
## Smart Pen add-on (2026-10-30)
A VectorCraft addition, not an Illustrator feature, so no area score moves. Object › Plug-ins › Smart Pen selects the
A VectorCraft addition, not a feature of the reference app, so no area score moves. Object › Plug-ins › Smart Pen selects the
Smart Pen Tool (kept out of the shipped toolbars, listed in the All Tools drawer, no shortcut) and opens its panel. The
tool draws with a straight or curved next segment (a curve after a straight segment leaves it tangent), smooth drags
with Alt, Shift and Space, Tab to switch a segment, a rubber band, closing, joining and continuing open ends; and edits
@@ -1323,7 +1340,7 @@ through the session) and `addons::pen::tests` in `vectorcraft-ui-egui` (the subm
## Color Effects add-on (2026-10-30)
A VectorCraft addition, not an Illustrator feature, so no area score moves. Effect › Color Effects adds live Exposure
A VectorCraft addition, not a feature of the reference app, so no area score moves. Effect › Color Effects adds live Exposure
(stops of linear light, offset and gamma), Desaturate and Invert Colors as colour adjustments evaluated with those of
Effect › Color Adjustments (`vectorcraft_effects::addons::color`), and `addon.color.filter` applies any colour adjustment
to the colours themselves through the Edit Colors pass. Object › Plug-ins › Color Effects and its panel reach them.
@@ -1350,10 +1367,31 @@ tints, curves, multiplied inks, skip spot), `duotone_*` and `cmd::addons::color:
params and RGB documents refused), and `the_duotone_dialog_has_a_row_per_tone_and_the_curve_of_one` and
`print_ink_fixes_opens_its_options_and_runs_on_ok` in `vectorcraft-ui-egui`. Commands: `docs/mcp.md` › Color Effects
add-on.
## Arrange Tools add-on (2026-10-31)
A VectorCraft addition, not a feature of the reference app, so no area score moves. Object › Plug-ins › Arrange Tools: Arrange in
Grid… lays the top-level selected objects out in their stacking order from the back, in rows and columns (⌈√count⌉ by
default), one row or one column, each centred in a cell as wide as its column's widest object and as tall as its row's
tallest (visual bounds), with horizontal and vertical gaps, from the selection's top-left or centred on the artboard;
Swap Objects swaps the bounds centres of two objects, and Swap Objects and Sizes their widths and heights too; Replace
with Top Object… puts a copy of the topmost selected object centred on each of the others, in its stacking place, at its
own size, the replaced object's size or fitted inside it in proportion, deleting or keeping the replaced objects; Set
Size of Each… gives every object an exact width and/or height (one side may follow in proportion) about one of the nine
reference points; Zoom to Selection fits the active view to the selection. Sizes and places are measured as
`object.setBounds` measures them (Use Preview Bounds), strokes and effects scale as Scale Strokes & Effects says, each
command is one undo step, and the three dialogs preview on the canvas. Tests: `cmd::addons::arrange::tests` in
`vectorcraft-engine` (grid, row, column and artboard centring, visual bounds, swap with and without sizes and stroke
scaling, replace with each fit and kept originals in stacking order, size with proportions and reference points, one
undo step, off states, bad params refused), `addons::arrange::tests` in `vectorcraft-ui-egui` (the submenu, the
dialogs, Preview and Cancel, Zoom to Selection) and `command_sweep`. Commands: `docs/mcp.md` › Arrange Tools add-on.
## Revision history
| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-31 | minor | Selection tools: with Alt held at the press, a Direct Selection marquee selects every path it touches whole and keeps the Group Selection pointer (#4890); a press on a selected object's centre point selects the object whole and a drag from it moves it (#4891); regression tests in `direct/tests.rs`; scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-31 | minor | Arrange Tools add-on (a VectorCraft addition): evidence added; scores unchanged. |
| 2026-10-31 | minor | Guides and snapping: Snap to Perpendicular and Snap to Tangent apply to an existing line's end dragged with Direct Selection, as the public pages describe for editing existing lines (the end anchor of a straight segment, not mid-line anchors or curved segments); a regression test covers both snaps, both toggles and non-snapping controls (#2530); scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-30 | minor | File formats: `.ai`/EPS editing data: a blend takes the transparency (opacity, blend mode, knockout) in its state block after its record, so its steps knock each other out as the page draws them; a user's file comes in 0.6% from its page instead of 1.3%. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-31 | minor | Path Precision Tools add-on: the Shared Edge Merge Tool and Keep Shared Points Together; evidence added; scores unchanged. |
| 2026-10-31 | minor | Path Precision Tools add-on: the Corner Tool and Slide Anchor Along Path; evidence added; scores unchanged. |
@@ -1640,7 +1678,7 @@ add-on.
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Type advanced: Proportional Metrics in vertical type (`vpal`, #966) leaves the missing list; score and hours unchanged at this rounding (estimated) |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Shape Builder #893 fixed (planar-map faces share their corners exactly, so merges leave no seams); Path operations stays 80% and Shape Builder 70% while #937 is open (estimated) |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Merged main: initial live Revolve landed (#846). 3D 0% → ~8% (50–85 h), menu stubs 28 → 27; depth, readiness and totals unchanged within rounding |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Method aligned with the standard, no new evidence: the full ready-for-real-work number is the additive weighted sum over the dimensions (~62%). The multiplicative 55% from earlier today is withdrawn, and the 50% before it was an unbroken-down judgement. Added hours to ~95% for each audience (full 340–560 h, mainstream 230–380 h, essentials 60–105 h). Beta distance is now ~13 points |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Method changed, no new evidence: the full ready-for-real-work number is the additive weighted sum over the dimensions (~62%). The multiplicative 55% from earlier today is withdrawn, and the 50% before it was an unbroken-down judgement. Added hours to ~95% for each audience (full 340–560 h, mainstream 230–380 h, essentials 60–105 h). Beta distance is now ~13 points |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Added the essentials-user readiness score (~75%): 16 core features weighted, depth ~91%, discounted for launch, discoverability and files people send |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Second look at ready for real work at the owner's request: 50% → 55% full Illustrator, and a new mainstream-illustrator figure of 65%. Why: the old 25-point discount was a judgement with no breakdown. Now each discount is written down and checked against the tracker: 86% of 79 core-drawing issues closed, 20 of 28 `.ai`/EPS issues fixed and the open ones about structure, praise from 15 people, no reports of switching; dimensions a typical illustrator rarely hits are taken out of readiness. Feature breadth, depth and hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Stage checked against the core-workflow gate: passes, stays alpha |
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# Type parity
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-30 · **Change:** minor (Highlight Alternate Glyphs leaves the required lam-alef ligature unhighlighted also in older Arabic fonts (such as legacy Arial) that put it in `liga` rather than `rlig` (#394); scores unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-31 · **Change:** minor (PDF import finds installed fonts whose PDF names hold hyphens or a composite font's CMap; scores unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
Type is Illustrator's largest single area by use (weight 13 of 105 across "Type core" and "Type advanced" in
[target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md)). This checklist lists the features one by one. Status is from the
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ against Illustrator's public documentation; **estimated** unless noted.
| Character and Paragraph panels, styles with overrides | done | Character-style Auto-leading resets, partial definitions, local leading overrides, override markers, Undo/Redo and native serialization have regression coverage; differing paragraph alignments leave the shared alignment buttons unselected (headless regressions, full integration CI and visual review pass); mixed-value display for other paragraph fields remains missing |
| 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. |
| Preserve font sizes while scaling a group | missing | Separate enhancement; scaling still scales text with the other artwork. |
| 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); stylistic sets ss01–ss20, stylistic and titling alternates, proportional and lining figures, superscript and subscript are character-style features (`text.setStyle {features}`, #1607) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 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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| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-31 | minor | PDF import finds an installed font whose PDF name holds hyphens (`Noto-Sans-Bold` is Noto Sans, Bold: the longest part before a hyphen that names an installed family) and a composite font by its CIDFont's name rather than its base name, which ends in the CMap's (`Name-Identity-H`, [ISO 32000-1 §9.7.6.1](https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/pdfstandards/PDF32000_2008.pdf)); a missing font is split only before a style part (`Helvetica-BoldOblique`), so it is reported as `MS PGothic`, not `MS`; scores unchanged |
| 2026-10-31 | minor | Highlight Alternate Glyphs: an optional feature (such as `salt`) that changes a lam-alef ligature is highlighted again, only the required ligature staying clear, and a lam-alef with any combining mark (Arabic Extended-A/B/C included) counts as the ligature (#394); scores unchanged |
| 2026-10-30 | minor | Highlight Alternate Glyphs leaves the required lam-alef ligature unhighlighted also in older Arabic fonts (such as legacy Arial) that put it in `liga` rather than `rlig` (#394); scores unchanged |
| 2026-10-30 | minor | Character panel menu › Show Snap to Glyph Options shows the Snap to Glyph section (Baseline, x-height, Glyph Bounds, Proximity Guides, Angular Guides, Anchor Point; `view.snapToGlyph.options`) (#4232); scores unchanged |
| 2026-10-29 | minor | Font fallback keeps a letter and its combining marks in one face; Vietnamese stacked diacritics (Ể, Ứ, Ự) attach in precomposed, decomposed and keyboard forms (#4491); scores and hours unchanged |
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# UI and interaction parity
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-31 · **Change:** minor (Path Precision Tools add-on: Shared Edge Merge Tool; scores unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-31 · **Change:** minor (New Document: Save Preset in More Settings, #4893; scores unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
## Feature submission evidence
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| Direct Selection and Group Selection pick only inside the isolated object in isolation mode | done | #1666 |
| Group Selection picks one path of a compound path (the outer shape or a hole) and moves it on its own; a second click adds the compound path | done | #2441; Shift-click on a selected member deselects it on release |
| Direct Selection, Group Selection and the Selection tool take a clipping path (a clip group's, or a layer's clipping mask) on its outline, within the selection tolerance, even where the art it clips lies over its edge | done | `HitOptions::clip_outlines`; Select Behind lists the same; the eyedropper and the tools that act on what is drawn take the art |
| Alt with Direct Selection makes a marquee Group Selection's for the drag: it selects every path it touches, whole (Shift toggles them), and the Group Selection pointer stays until the release | done | #4890 |
| Direct Selection: a click on a selected object's centre point (Attributes › Show Center) selects the object whole, and a drag from it moves the object in one undo step | done | #4891 |
| Escape cancels a Direct Selection drag | done | #1803 (#1743) |
| Live Corners widgets (radius readout, Alt-click cycles kind, double-click the Corners dialog) | done | a Direct Selection click on a widget selects its corner (#1239); a press-and-drag on a widget of a path selected whole still rounds every corner (#908), and adding widgets to the selection by Shift-click (#1232) is missing; the bounding box hides while a widget is dragged with the Selection tool (#1229); a round corner next to a curved side curves smoothly instead of sticking out of the shape (#1512); a corner rounds until its cut reaches its neighbours' cuts, so one corner of a square alone reaches the whole side (#2332) |
| Corners between curved sides (#1144), Relative rounding | done | #1144 closed; Relative rounding in the Corners dialog (Relative / Absolute, radius as a percentage of each corner's maximum, kept as the shape is resized; `object.setLiveShape` `relativeRadii`, #3091, `tests_livecorners::relative_corner_rounding_keeps_fraction_on_resize`) |
| Pie widgets on a live ellipse: drag one to set Pie Start or End Angle, double-click one to make the ellipse whole | done | Selection tool, with the bounding box showing |
| Isolation mode by double-click (groups and single objects), breadcrumbs, Esc to exit | done | Single paths, compound paths, images, meshes and placed files isolate too ([helpx: Isolate objects](https://helpx.adobe.com/africa/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/select-objects/isolate-objects.html)) |
| "Magnetic" moves of selected anchors with a modifier (#955 request) | missing | not an Illustrator feature as documented; under discussion |
| "Magnetic" moves of selected anchors with a modifier (#955 request) | missing | not a feature of the reference app as documented; under discussion |
| Coinciding anchors of overlapping objects: the selected object's anchor is taken, also under another object | done | #1508 |
## Smart guides and snapping
@@ -152,7 +154,7 @@ tools, never checked side by side) isn't captured row by row.
| Snapping tolerance preference | done | |
| Snap to Point, Snap to Grid, Snap to Pixel; Pixel Preview | done | #1840: with Snap to Grid on, anchors and objects snap to the grid even when Snap to Pixel is also ticked (#1816 waits for the reporter) |
| Snap to Glyph | done | View › Snap to Glyph (`view.snapToGlyph`); new type and drawing snap to live-text baselines and glyph bounds when Smart Guides are on (#3124). Character panel menu › Show Snap to Glyph Options: a checkbox for each guide (Baseline, x-height, Glyph Bounds, Proximity Guides, Angular Guides, Anchor Point), dimmed while Snap to Glyph is off (#4232) |
| Tangent and perpendicular snapping for line endpoints (new in 30.0) | partial | #2530: tangent snapping to curves and perpendicular snapping to straight segments for drawn lines; saved Preferences › Smart Guides › Geometric Guides controls, on by default. Other tool/drag cases remain. [Public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/measure-and-align/plot-and-measure/snap-to-perpendicular.html) |
| Tangent and perpendicular snapping for line endpoints (new in 30.0) | done | #2530: tangent snapping to curves and perpendicular snapping to straight segments for lines drawn with the Line Segment, Pen and Curvature tools, and for an existing line whose end anchor is dragged with Direct Selection (the only anchor selected, an open path's end on a straight segment; Shift keeps its angle step instead; Group Selection moves the path whole and does not snap so); mid-line anchors, curved segments' ends and curves as perpendicular targets are excluded, as the pages say. Saved Preferences › Smart Guides › Geometric Guides controls, on by default. [Perpendicular](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/measure-and-align/plot-and-measure/snap-to-perpendicular.html) and [tangent](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/measure-and-align/plot-and-measure/snap-to-tangent.html) pages; test `dragged_line_ends_snap_perpendicular_to_segments_and_tangent_to_curves` |
| Snapping panel/popover consolidating the snap options (30.0) | partial | Control bar › Snapping provides quick access through existing view commands and prefs.set; no View › Snapping submenu. Floating-panel parity remains unverified. |
| Customisable rotation snap angle (#973) | missing | Illustrator: Constrain Angle and construction angles only |
| Ruler guides: drag out, select, move, delete, lock, Make/Release Guides | done | #414, #451; marquee selects unlocked ruler guides |
@@ -274,6 +276,7 @@ next unit in the order a right-click on a ruler lists them, from Feet back to Po
| Command search: Up and Down move through the results, Enter runs the highlighted one | done | #1798 (#1757) |
| Pathfinder panel: a group selected alone counts its nested shapes, so an expanded stroked object keeps the Shape Modes enabled | done | #1642 (#1635) |
| Selected Grid Repeat shows row, column and corner handles and spacing sliders; bounding-box handles take priority where they meet | done | #2691, `tools/src/repeat_grid.rs`; [public behavior reference](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/create-and-edit-patterns/set-grid-repeat-options.html); drags preview and commit `object.repeat.options` as one undo step, Escape cancels; Radial Repeat has no handles yet |
| Grid Repeat Options (Object › Repeat › Options…) has a Preview checkbox: the repeat on the canvas follows the fields while the dialog is open, Cancel puts the original back without a history step, OK keeps the previewed values as one undo step | done | #2651; [public behavior reference](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/create-and-edit-patterns/set-grid-repeat-options.html) lists the Preview option for the grid options only, so Radial and Mirror Repeat Options have none; `dialogs/command.rs` tests |
| Selected Mirror Repeat shows a prominent axis with move and rotation handles; bounding-box handles take priority over the axis line | done | #2877, `tools/src/mirror.rs`; [public behavior reference](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/create-and-edit-patterns/set-mirror-repeat-options.html) |
| Object › Expand on radial, grid and mirror repeats makes groups of their instances | done | #1765 (#1756) |
| Object › Expand… is dimmed while the selection has appearance attributes (effects, several fills or strokes, a fill or stroke with its own transparency or effects, a brush); its tooltip and the status bar say to use Object › Expand Appearance first, which leaves a stroked line with Zig Zag a stroked zig-zag line that Expand then outlines | done | #3089; [public behavior reference](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/arrange-objects/expand-objects.html); `dialogs/expand.rs` tests, engine `tests_objexpand`. `object.expand` (agents, scripts) still bakes effects in one step |
@@ -292,7 +295,7 @@ next unit in the order a right-click on a ruler lists them, from Feet back to Po
| Toolbar without group labels by default, one or two columns; All Tools drawer by flyout group with shortcuts, its menu (Reset, Basic, Advanced) and Show section | done | #1751; a preference brings the labels back; `toolbar.show` sets the Fill/Stroke, Coloring, Draw Mode and Screen Mode controls |
| Actions panel: a clicked action stays selected for Play Current Selection and Delete Selection | partial | #1853 (part of #1629); editing actions and action shortcuts remain |
| Actions panel: Create New Set (bottom bar, ≡ › New Set…) names a new set and Set Options… renames the current one; a click on a set's name makes it current and a recording goes into the current set ([helpx: Automation with actions](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/automation-actions.html)) | partial | #3712; the New Action dialog (name, set menu, shortcut, colour), dragging actions between sets and deleting a set remain |
| Properties panel per context (every selection type's Quick Actions) | partial | one clip group: Edit Clipping Path and Edit Contents, at the top of the panel rather than in Quick Actions (G1); the overview's additional controls ([Properties panel overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/get-started/learn-the-basics/properties-panel-overview.html)): Blend Options (one blend, Blend tool) and Merge Live Paint (a Live Paint group with more) in Quick Actions, the Width Profile list (Width tool or a variable-width stroke) and an applied effect's Delete icon in Appearance, Corner and Corner Radius for corners selected with Direct Selection; Variable Font was already there |
| Properties panel per context (every selection type's Quick Actions) | partial | one clip group: Edit Clipping Path and Edit Contents, at the top of the panel rather than in Quick Actions (G1); the overview's additional controls ([Properties panel overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/get-started/learn-the-basics/properties-panel-overview.html)): Blend Options (one blend selected, with any tool, #4817) and Merge Live Paint (a Live Paint group with more) in Quick Actions, the Width Profile list (Width tool or a variable-width stroke) and an applied effect's Delete icon in Appearance, Corner and Corner Radius for corners selected with Direct Selection; Variable Font was already there |
| Select › Start Global Edit / Stop Global Edit; Properties › Quick Actions with the Global Edit Options popover (Match: Appearance, Size; On Artboards: All Artboards or a range, Include Objects On Canvas; Result(s)); Escape stops it; the matched objects are highlighted in their layer colour while it runs | partial | #3521, `select.globalEdit` / `select.globalEditOptions`, `crates/engine/src/tests/globaledit.rs`; paths, compound paths and symbol instances; the Control panel's copy of the options, Shift-click to leave a match out, highlighting matches before the start and similar groups remain ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/edit-objects/edit-similar-objects.html)) |
| Contextual task bar | done | |
| Control bar with Transform and Stroke popovers | done | |
@@ -325,16 +328,17 @@ next unit in the order a right-click on a ruler lists them, from Feet back to Po
| Preferences › General › Constrain Angle | done | arrow keys and Shift drags along the turned axes; the Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse and grid tools, point and area type and the shape size dialogs draw along them with the bounding box turned; Shift-drawn polygons and stars keep the turned base orientation; the Line Segment tool's Shift steps count from it (#394, <https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/arrange-objects/rotate-objects-by-specific-angles.html>); arcs, spirals, flares and Pen paths are not turned |
| Tabs panel: a stop drags from where the press landed, a stop just added included | done | #1458 |
| Outline view keeps template layers in Preview, dimmed | done | #1486; a picture placed to be traced stays visible under the outlines |
| Smart Pen add-on (VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Smart Pen selects the Smart Pen Tool, which the All Tools drawer lists under its own heading but neither toolbar shows as shipped (no shortcut), and opens the Smart Pen panel (next segment straight or curved; Remove Points Keep Shape, Make Smooth, Make Corner, Retract Handles, Close or Join). The tool draws (click: straight or curved segment, a curve after a straight one tangent; drag: smooth anchor, Alt breaks the handle, Shift 45°, Space moves it; Tab switches a segment; rubber band; close, join, continue) and edits without switching tools (click selects a point, drag moves it, Alt-click removes it keeping the shape, Shift+Alt-click deletes it, double-click toggles smooth/corner; handle drags with Shift and Alt; segment drags reshape, Alt-click adds a point) | done | `addon.pen.*`, `crates/tools/src/addons/smart_pen.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/pen.rs` and their tests; not an Illustrator feature, so it is not scored |
| Path Precision Tools add-on (VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Path Precision Tools selects its seven tools (Anchor Eraser Brush, Extend Path, Measure & Inspect, Parametric Shape, Corner Tool, Slide Anchor Along Path, Shared Edge Merge Tool), which the All Tools drawer lists under their own heading but neither toolbar shows as shipped, opens the Anchor Inspector panel (the selected anchor's X/Y and handle lengths and angles as fields; Make Smooth, Make Corner, Equalize Handles, Remove Points Keep Shape, Add Points, the three ways to close) and the Parametric Shape panel (kind, count, W/H, rotation, the kind's own values and corner radius of the selected parametric shape, or of the tool's next one), and runs Add Points at / Split at Crossings and Convert to Parametric Shape; the Parametric Shape Tool draws ten re-editable kinds from the centre (↑/↓ and ←/→ change their numbers while dragging) and edits a selected one with handles; the Corner Tool cuts editable corners on any path (hover shows the anchor, a click uses its radius and kind, a drag sizes the corner, Shift whole values; a corner's marker selects it and loads its values, drags to resize, to 0 or double-clicked removes it; never past what fits; Alt-marquee cuts every anchor inside) with a Corners section in the Anchor Inspector (radius, kind, selected count, Apply to Selected Anchors); Slide Anchor Along Path drags an anchor along its curve with the segments beside it refitted, Shift snapping where the tangent is a multiple of 45°; the Shared Edge Merge Tool shows, over two paths touching at two coincident anchors, the two stretches and the edge merging them, a click merges them (half way; Shift the upper path, Alt the lower), and near anchors meet or an anchor one path lacks is added to match (Shift+Alt asks for this inside a stretch), with a Shared Edges section in the Anchor Inspector (brush diameter, coincidence 0 to 3 pt, Keep Shared Points Together, which takes coincident anchors along with the add-on's own anchor moves); a double-click on the brush or Extend Path tool opens its options | done | `addon.pathtools.*`, `crates/tools/src/addons/`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/pathtools.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/pathtools/` and their tests; not an Illustrator feature, so it is not scored |
| Path Precision Tools add-on (VectorCraft addition): Effect › Path Effects lists its live effects (Dashes to Geometry, Add Anchors, Extend Path, Close Path, Smooth Anchors, Retract Handles, Reverse Direction, Simplify Anchors, Split at Anchors), each with the effect dialog's live Preview except Reverse Direction, which has no options, and listed in the Appearance panel like any effect | done | `addon.path.*`, `crates/effects/src/addons/path.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/pathtools.rs` and their tests; not an Illustrator feature, so it is not scored |
| Path Precision Tools add-on (VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Path Precision Tools selects its four tools (Anchor Eraser Brush, Extend Path, Measure & Inspect, Parametric Shape), which the All Tools drawer lists under their own heading but neither toolbar shows as shipped, opens the Anchor Inspector panel (the selected anchor's X/Y and handle lengths and angles as fields; Make Smooth, Make Corner, Equalize Handles, Remove Points Keep Shape, Add Points, the three ways to close) and the Parametric Shape panel (kind, count, W/H, rotation, the kind's own values and corner radius of the selected parametric shape, or of the tool's next one), and runs Add Points at / Split at Crossings and Convert to Parametric Shape; the Parametric Shape Tool draws ten re-editable kinds from the centre (↑/↓ and ←/→ change their numbers while dragging) and edits a selected one with handles; a double-click on the brush or Extend Path tool opens its options | done | `addon.pathtools.*`, `crates/tools/src/addons/`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/pathtools.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/pathtools/shape.rs` and their tests; not an Illustrator feature, so it is not scored |
| Path Precision Tools add-on (VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Path Precision Tools selects its six tools (Anchor Eraser Brush, Extend Path, Measure & Inspect, Parametric Shape, Corner Tool, Slide Anchor Along Path), which the All Tools drawer lists under their own heading but neither toolbar shows as shipped, opens the Anchor Inspector panel (the selected anchor's X/Y and handle lengths and angles as fields; Make Smooth, Make Corner, Equalize Handles, Remove Points Keep Shape, Add Points, the three ways to close) and the Parametric Shape panel (kind, count, W/H, rotation, the kind's own values and corner radius of the selected parametric shape, or of the tool's next one), and runs Add Points at / Split at Crossings and Convert to Parametric Shape; the Parametric Shape Tool draws ten re-editable kinds from the centre (↑/↓ and ←/→ change their numbers while dragging) and edits a selected one with handles; the Corner Tool cuts editable corners on any path (hover shows the anchor, a click uses its radius and kind, a drag sizes the corner, Shift whole values; a corner's marker selects it and loads its values, drags to resize, to 0 or double-clicked removes it; never past what fits; Alt-marquee cuts every anchor inside) with a Corners section in the Anchor Inspector (radius, kind, selected count, Apply to Selected Anchors); Slide Anchor Along Path drags an anchor along its curve with the segments beside it refitted, Shift snapping where the tangent is a multiple of 45°; a double-click on the brush or Extend Path tool opens its options | done | `addon.pathtools.*`, `crates/tools/src/addons/`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/pathtools.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/pathtools/` and their tests; not an Illustrator feature, so it is not scored |
| Smart Pen add-on (VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Smart Pen selects the Smart Pen Tool, which the All Tools drawer lists under its own heading but neither toolbar shows as shipped (no shortcut), and opens the Smart Pen panel (next segment straight or curved; Remove Points Keep Shape, Make Smooth, Make Corner, Retract Handles, Close or Join). The tool draws (click: straight or curved segment, a curve after a straight one tangent; drag: smooth anchor, Alt breaks the handle, Shift 45°, Space moves it; Tab switches a segment; rubber band; close, join, continue) and edits without switching tools (click selects a point, drag moves it, Alt-click removes it keeping the shape, Shift+Alt-click deletes it, double-click toggles smooth/corner; handle drags with Shift and Alt; segment drags reshape, Alt-click adds a point); an Alt-drag away from paths selects the points inside a marquee | done | `addon.pen.*`, `crates/tools/src/addons/smart_pen.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/pen.rs` and their tests; not an Illustrator feature, so it is not scored |
| Path Precision Tools add-on (VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Path Precision Tools selects its three tools (Anchor Eraser Brush, Extend Path, Measure & Inspect), which the All Tools drawer lists under their own heading but neither toolbar shows as shipped, opens the Anchor Inspector panel (the selected anchor's X/Y and handle lengths and angles as fields; Make Smooth, Make Corner, Equalize Handles, Remove Points Keep Shape, Add Points, the three ways to close) and runs Add Points at / Split at Crossings; a double-click on the brush or Extend Path tool opens its options | done | `addon.pathtools.*`, `crates/tools/src/addons/`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/pathtools.rs` and their tests; not an Illustrator feature, so it is not scored |
| Artwork Cleanup add-on (VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Artwork Cleanup opens its panel, which checks the selection or the document for 16 kinds of issue, lists them with counts, and shows or fixes the picked rows or all of them, each fix one undo step; Simplify Anchors (Keep Shape), Rejoin Path Pieces and Deep Ungroup open their options first | done | `addon.cleanup.*`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/cleanup.rs` and its tests; not an Illustrator feature, so it is not scored |
| Arrange Tools add-on (VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Arrange Tools runs Arrange in Grid… (grid by row, one row or one column; columns, H and V spacing, Center on Artboard; Preview), Swap Objects, Swap Objects and Sizes, Replace with Top Object… (Actual Size, Bounds or Bounds (Fit Proportionally); Keep Original; Scale Strokes & Effects; Preview), Set Size of Each… (Width and Height each ticked on or off, Constrain Width and Height Proportions with one side, the reference point, Scale Strokes & Effects; Preview) and Zoom to Selection, each one undo step | done | `addon.arrange.*`, `crates/engine/src/cmd/addons/arrange.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/arrange.rs` and their tests; not a feature of the reference app, so it is not scored |
| Smart Pen add-on (VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Smart Pen selects the Smart Pen Tool, which the All Tools drawer lists under its own heading but neither toolbar shows as shipped (no shortcut), and opens the Smart Pen panel (next segment straight or curved; Remove Points Keep Shape, Make Smooth, Make Corner, Retract Handles, Close or Join). The tool draws (click: straight or curved segment, a curve after a straight one tangent; drag: smooth anchor, Alt breaks the handle, Shift 45°, Space moves it; Tab switches a segment; rubber band; close, join, continue) and edits without switching tools (click selects a point, drag moves it, Alt-click removes it keeping the shape, Shift+Alt-click deletes it, double-click toggles smooth/corner; handle drags with Shift and Alt; segment drags reshape, Alt-click adds a point) | done | `addon.pen.*`, `crates/tools/src/addons/smart_pen.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/pen.rs` and their tests; not a feature of the reference app, so it is not scored |
| Path Precision Tools add-on (VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Path Precision Tools selects its seven tools (Anchor Eraser Brush, Extend Path, Measure & Inspect, Parametric Shape, Corner Tool, Slide Anchor Along Path, Shared Edge Merge Tool), which the All Tools drawer lists under their own heading but neither toolbar shows as shipped, opens the Anchor Inspector panel (the selected anchor's X/Y and handle lengths and angles as fields; Make Smooth, Make Corner, Equalize Handles, Remove Points Keep Shape, Add Points, the three ways to close) and the Parametric Shape panel (kind, count, W/H, rotation, the kind's own values and corner radius of the selected parametric shape, or of the tool's next one), and runs Add Points at / Split at Crossings and Convert to Parametric Shape; the Parametric Shape Tool draws ten re-editable kinds from the centre (↑/↓ and ←/→ change their numbers while dragging) and edits a selected one with handles; the Corner Tool cuts editable corners on any path (hover shows the anchor, a click uses its radius and kind, a drag sizes the corner, Shift whole values; a corner's marker selects it and loads its values, drags to resize, to 0 or double-clicked removes it; never past what fits; Alt-marquee cuts every anchor inside) with a Corners section in the Anchor Inspector (radius, kind, selected count, Apply to Selected Anchors); Slide Anchor Along Path drags an anchor along its curve with the segments beside it refitted, Shift snapping where the tangent is a multiple of 45°; the Shared Edge Merge Tool shows, over two paths touching at two coincident anchors, the two stretches and the edge merging them, a click merges them (half way; Shift the upper path, Alt the lower), and near anchors meet or an anchor one path lacks is added to match (Shift+Alt asks for this inside a stretch), with a Shared Edges section in the Anchor Inspector (brush diameter, coincidence 0 to 3 pt, Keep Shared Points Together, which takes coincident anchors along with the add-on's own anchor moves); a double-click on the brush or Extend Path tool opens its options | done | `addon.pathtools.*`, `crates/tools/src/addons/`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/pathtools.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/pathtools/` and their tests; not a feature of the reference app, so it is not scored |
| Path Precision Tools add-on (VectorCraft addition): Effect › Path Effects lists its live effects (Dashes to Geometry, Add Anchors, Extend Path, Close Path, Smooth Anchors, Retract Handles, Reverse Direction, Simplify Anchors, Split at Anchors), each with the effect dialog's live Preview except Reverse Direction, which has no options, and listed in the Appearance panel like any effect | done | `addon.path.*`, `crates/effects/src/addons/path.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/pathtools.rs` and their tests; not a feature of the reference app, so it is not scored |
| Path Precision Tools add-on (VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Path Precision Tools selects its four tools (Anchor Eraser Brush, Extend Path, Measure & Inspect, Parametric Shape), which the All Tools drawer lists under their own heading but neither toolbar shows as shipped, opens the Anchor Inspector panel (the selected anchor's X/Y and handle lengths and angles as fields; Make Smooth, Make Corner, Equalize Handles, Remove Points Keep Shape, Add Points, the three ways to close) and the Parametric Shape panel (kind, count, W/H, rotation, the kind's own values and corner radius of the selected parametric shape, or of the tool's next one), and runs Add Points at / Split at Crossings and Convert to Parametric Shape; the Parametric Shape Tool draws ten re-editable kinds from the centre (↑/↓ and ←/→ change their numbers while dragging) and edits a selected one with handles; a double-click on the brush or Extend Path tool opens its options | done | `addon.pathtools.*`, `crates/tools/src/addons/`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/pathtools.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/pathtools/shape.rs` and their tests; not a feature of the reference app, so it is not scored |
| Path Precision Tools add-on (VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Path Precision Tools selects its six tools (Anchor Eraser Brush, Extend Path, Measure & Inspect, Parametric Shape, Corner Tool, Slide Anchor Along Path), which the All Tools drawer lists under their own heading but neither toolbar shows as shipped, opens the Anchor Inspector panel (the selected anchor's X/Y and handle lengths and angles as fields; Make Smooth, Make Corner, Equalize Handles, Remove Points Keep Shape, Add Points, the three ways to close) and the Parametric Shape panel (kind, count, W/H, rotation, the kind's own values and corner radius of the selected parametric shape, or of the tool's next one), and runs Add Points at / Split at Crossings and Convert to Parametric Shape; the Parametric Shape Tool draws ten re-editable kinds from the centre (↑/↓ and ←/→ change their numbers while dragging) and edits a selected one with handles; the Corner Tool cuts editable corners on any path (hover shows the anchor, a click uses its radius and kind, a drag sizes the corner, Shift whole values; a corner's marker selects it and loads its values, drags to resize, to 0 or double-clicked removes it; never past what fits; Alt-marquee cuts every anchor inside) with a Corners section in the Anchor Inspector (radius, kind, selected count, Apply to Selected Anchors); Slide Anchor Along Path drags an anchor along its curve with the segments beside it refitted, Shift snapping where the tangent is a multiple of 45°; a double-click on the brush or Extend Path tool opens its options | done | `addon.pathtools.*`, `crates/tools/src/addons/`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/pathtools.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/pathtools/` and their tests; not a feature of the reference app, so it is not scored |
| Smart Pen add-on (VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Smart Pen selects the Smart Pen Tool, which the All Tools drawer lists under its own heading but neither toolbar shows as shipped (no shortcut), and opens the Smart Pen panel (next segment straight or curved; Remove Points Keep Shape, Make Smooth, Make Corner, Retract Handles, Close or Join). The tool draws (click: straight or curved segment, a curve after a straight one tangent; drag: smooth anchor, Alt breaks the handle, Shift 45°, Space moves it; Tab switches a segment; rubber band; close, join, continue) and edits without switching tools (click selects a point, drag moves it, Alt-click removes it keeping the shape, Shift+Alt-click deletes it, double-click toggles smooth/corner; handle drags with Shift and Alt; segment drags reshape, Alt-click adds a point); an Alt-drag away from paths selects the points inside a marquee | done | `addon.pen.*`, `crates/tools/src/addons/smart_pen.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/pen.rs` and their tests; not a feature of the reference app, so it is not scored |
| Path Precision Tools add-on (VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Path Precision Tools selects its three tools (Anchor Eraser Brush, Extend Path, Measure & Inspect), which the All Tools drawer lists under their own heading but neither toolbar shows as shipped, opens the Anchor Inspector panel (the selected anchor's X/Y and handle lengths and angles as fields; Make Smooth, Make Corner, Equalize Handles, Remove Points Keep Shape, Add Points, the three ways to close) and runs Add Points at / Split at Crossings; a double-click on the brush or Extend Path tool opens its options | done | `addon.pathtools.*`, `crates/tools/src/addons/`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/pathtools.rs` and their tests; not a feature of the reference app, so it is not scored |
| Artwork Cleanup add-on (VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Artwork Cleanup opens its panel, which checks the selection or the document for 16 kinds of issue, lists them with counts, and shows or fixes the picked rows or all of them, each fix one undo step; Simplify Anchors (Keep Shape), Rejoin Path Pieces and Deep Ungroup open their options first | done | `addon.cleanup.*`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/cleanup.rs` and its tests; not a feature of the reference app, so it is not scored |
| Artwork Cleanup add-on text tools (VectorCraft addition): the panel's Text row, which the panel can hide, and Object › Plug-ins › Artwork Cleanup set the alignment of point type keeping its place, break type into lines (Shift-click: paragraphs), words or glyphs, split type at the cursor, reset a text transform (Alt-click: and its horizontal scale), combine point type, remove line or paragraph breaks and replace missing fonts, each one undo step | done | `addon.cleanup.*` text commands, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/cleanup.rs` and its tests; a VectorCraft addition, so it is not scored |
| Color Effects add-on (VectorCraft addition): live Exposure, Desaturate and Invert Colors in Effect › Color Effects and Object › Plug-ins › Color Effects; its panel picks a colour adjustment and its values and adds it as a live effect or applies it as a filter, into the colours, as one undo step; Select by Color Kind selects the objects that use spot colours, carry colour effects, or are RGB, CMYK or grayscale images; Vector Halftone draws an object as halftone dots live (the dots Object › Vector Halftone makes), which Expand Appearance and the exporters write as paths; Duotone prints each colour's tone with one to four inks (a tint of a spot tone's swatch, or the CMYK mix of several), live or as a filter, its dialog a row per tone and the picked tone's curve; Print Ink Fixes (a CMYK document's ink limit, white overprint removed, black overprint set) opens its options from the submenu and the panel's Inks | done | `addon.color.*`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/color.rs` and its tests; not an Illustrator feature, so it is not scored |
| Color Effects add-on (VectorCraft addition): live Exposure, Desaturate and Invert Colors in Effect › Color Effects and Object › Plug-ins › Color Effects; its panel picks a colour adjustment and its values and adds it as a live effect or applies it as a filter, into the colours, as one undo step; Select by Color Kind selects the objects that use spot colours, carry colour effects, or are RGB, CMYK or grayscale images; Vector Halftone draws an object as halftone dots live (the dots Object › Vector Halftone makes), which Expand Appearance and the exporters write as paths; Duotone prints each colour's tone with one to four inks (a tint of a spot tone's swatch, or the CMYK mix of several), live or as a filter, its dialog a row per tone and the picked tone's curve; Print Ink Fixes (a CMYK document's ink limit, white overprint removed, black overprint set) opens its options from the submenu and the panel's Inks | done | `addon.color.*`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/color.rs` and its tests; not a feature of the reference app, so it is not scored |
## Look and feel
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| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-31 | minor | New Document: More Settings has Save Preset beside the name, as Preset Details does, and saves its settings (#4893); scores and estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-31 | minor | Export for Screens is laid out as the reference app's: Artboards and Assets tabs with a grid or list of thumbnails, Clear Selection and Prefix under them, Create Sub-folders by Scale or Format (on by default), Export PDFs As Single File or Multiple Files (`pdfs`), iOS and Android rows, the format presets in a ☰ menu, and a Selected / files-to-export count; the naming pattern, Layers and Selection pages and folders list stay in `document.exportForScreens` for scripts and MCP; scores unchanged |
| 2026-10-31 | minor | Direct Selection: with Alt held at the press, a marquee selects every path it touches whole and keeps the Group Selection pointer while dragging (#4890); a click on a selected object's centre point (Show Center) selects the object whole, and a drag from it moves the object (#4891); scores unchanged |
| 2026-10-31 | minor | Arrange Tools add-on (a VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Arrange Tools; scores and estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-31 | minor | Export for Screens is laid out as Illustrator's: Artboards and Assets tabs with a grid or list of thumbnails, Clear Selection and Prefix under them, Create Sub-folders by Scale or Format (on by default), Export PDFs As Single File or Multiple Files (`pdfs`), iOS and Android rows, the format presets in a ☰ menu, and a Selected / files-to-export count; the naming pattern, Layers and Selection pages and folders list stay in `document.exportForScreens` for scripts and MCP; scores unchanged |
| 2026-10-31 | minor | Properties: Quick Actions has Blend Options for one selected blend with any tool, not only the Blend tool, as the blending page describes (#4817); scores unchanged |
| 2026-10-31 | minor | Smart guides and snapping: Snap to Perpendicular and Snap to Tangent for an existing line's end dragged with Direct Selection (#2530), so the tangent and perpendicular row is done; scores and estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-31 | minor | Grid Repeat Options has a Preview checkbox (#2651); scores and estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-31 | minor | Path Precision Tools add-on: the Shared Edge Merge Tool and Keep Shared Points Together; scores and estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-31 | minor | Path Precision Tools add-on: live Path Effects in Effect › Path Effects; scores and estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-31 | minor | Path Precision Tools add-on: the Corner Tool (editable corners, panel section) and Slide Anchor Along Path; scores and estimates unchanged |