Save As fallback asks for a changed format's options

When the read-only fallback's Save As panel returns a different format, drop the options captured for the original format and open the picked format's normal Save options; an unchanged format keeps its options. Regenerate the file.save entry in the MCP command catalogue.

crates/mcp/src/ui_catalog.rs

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ pub const UI_COMMANDS: &[(&str, &str, &str, &str)] = &[
         "file.save",
         "Save",
         "Cmd+S",
-        "{path?, format?, options?, svg?: {…SVG options}} = document.save, written through the app (a document saved as SVG, PDF or .ai, or opened from one Save can write back, saves as that again, with the same options); with no path known (never saved, converted) the Save As panel asks first",
+        "{path?, format?, options?, svg?: {…SVG options}} = document.save, written through the app (a document saved as SVG, PDF or .ai, or opened from one Save can write back, saves as that again, with the same options); with no path known (never saved, converted) the Save As panel asks first; ordinary Save to the document's existing file refused by filesystem permissions or a read-only volume opens Save As in Documents with the same name, format and options; cancelling keeps the original path and modified state. Explicit destinations and Close/Quit keep their existing error dialog. Automation gets READ_ONLY_LOCATION: followed by the reason and no panel",
     ),
     (
         "file.place",

crates/ui-egui/src/io/save.rs

@@ -315,17 +315,23 @@ pub(super) fn save_suggesting(
         filters,
     };
     let picked = pick_finished(app, &pick, |picked, file_type| with_picked_type(picked, &pick.name, file_type, first.format, mode))?;
+    // Only the read-only retry carries options for the original format through Save As.
+    // A different format must use its own normal options flow instead.
+    let changed_retry_format = suggestion.is_some() && fileio::format_for_name(&picked).is_some_and(|f| f.id != first.format.id);
     // The picked file type wins over a `format` param.
     let mut q = if p.is_object() { p.clone() } else { json!({}) };
     if let Some(o) = q.as_object_mut() {
         o.remove("format");
+        if changed_retry_format {
+            o.remove("options");
+        }
         o.insert("path".into(), json!(picked));
     }
     let chosen = plan(app, mode, &acknowledged(&q))?;
     if let Some(r) = chosen.path.as_deref().and_then(|path| ask_before_losing(app, path, save_command(mode), &q)) {
         return Ok(r);
     }
-    if ask && asks_options(mode, chosen.format) {
+    if (ask || changed_retry_format) && asks_options(mode, chosen.format) {
         let path = chosen.path.clone().unwrap_or_default();
         let r = ask_format_options(app, mode, chosen.format, &path);
         crate::dialogs::opened_by_panel(app);

crates/ui-egui/src/io/tests_read_only_save.rs

@@ -264,3 +264,18 @@ fn readonly_busy_picker_and_save_changes_keep_the_existing_error_flow() {
     assert_eq!(app.session.documents().len(), 1);
     assert!(app.session.doc().unwrap().is_dirty());
 }
+
+#[test]
+fn readonly_changed_format_asks_for_its_options_before_writing() {
+    let (mut app, files) = app("svg", ErrorKind::PermissionDenied);
+    let before = state(&app);
+    let (shown, _) = off_the_ui_thread(&mut app.services);
+    assert_eq!(app.run("file.save", json!({})).unwrap()["pending"], "fileDialog");
+    shown.answer(&["/elsewhere/Poster.pdf"]);
+    poll(&mut app);
+    let dialog = app.ui.dialog.as_ref().expect("the picked format's Save dialog");
+    assert_eq!(dialog.kind, "savePdf");
+    assert_eq!(dialog.str("path"), "/elsewhere/Poster.pdf");
+    assert_eq!(state(&app), before);
+    assert_eq!(files.lock().unwrap().attempts, ["/locked/Poster.svg"]);
+}

docs/file-format-parity.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # File format parity
 
-> **Last updated:** 2026-11-11 · **Change:** Ordinary Save to a location refusing writes offers Save As (#6146); cancellation preserves the original path and modified state; automation receives READ_ONLY_LOCATION. Scores and estimates unchanged. Validation pending.
+> **Last updated:** 2026-11-12 · **Change:** Save refusal follow-up (#6146): changing format in fallback Save As opens that format’s options; unchanged format keeps the original options. Focused UI regressions passed; native panel acceptance pending; scores and estimates unchanged.
 
 > **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-11 · **Change:** minor (`.ai` and EPS import: centred and right-aligned lines of tracked type are aligned without the tracking after their last character, as the file's page aligns them, #6610; `.ai` and EPS import: an envelope saved in Edit Contents whose mesh lies away from its drawn art by a move opens live on that art, #6570; `.ai` save and open: layer colour presets Yellow, Magenta and Cyan keep their colour, as the `Lb` colour index now follows the file's numbering, #6502; `.ai` save: stroked type keeps its stroke's cap, join and miter limit in the text document, #6472; `.ai` and EPS import, PDF import: tracking and manual kerning in horizontally scaled type take the Horizontal Scale, as the file's page spaces such type; `.ai` and EPS import: stroked type in an envelope maps from its glyphs grown by half its stroke, #3179; `.ai` and EPS import: warps of type open as mesh envelopes on their saved grid, #3179; `.ai` and EPS import: stroked type keeps its stroke's cap, join and miter limit from the text document, #6472; `.ai` save: type in a variable font's named instance names its design-space setting, #6388; `.ai` and EPS import: envelopes of type open live where they draw as their drawn art and the layers with them draw as the page, #3179; `.ai` and EPS import: a note for type in an envelope, #3179; `.ai` and EPS import: the live envelope and warped type check sees white art; PDF import: DeviceN images of one ink or of process plates keep their inks, #6348; `.ai` import: images in a spot ink's Separation space keep their ink, #6350; PDF import: Separation images keep their ink, #6314; PDF editable import preserves authored ActualText once, including empty/nested spans and authored ordering (#6165); cross-line/style layout remains approximate; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF marked-text export (#6309): compatible glyphs stay on one layout line with per-glyph offsets; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF import: image masks open colorized by the color they are painted in, #6313; EPS and `.ai` editing data: a ligature the page names by a private-use glyph matches its text object; EPS import: CIDFonts only named, over a Unicode CMap, set as live type; EPS import: CMap mappings to base-font codes and glyph names; EPS import: CID-keyed fonts in FontSets (CFF) draw their glyphs; EPS import: `kshow` procedures kern live type; EPS import: embedded Type 1 fonts' glyphs and widths; EPS import: CID-keyed fonts draw their glyphs; EPS import: Type 42 fonts' characters and widths from the font they carry, show operators' spacing kept as tracking; EPS import: an image decoder's own buffers stop counting against the memory budget once it is decoded; EPS import: sampled functions interpolate between their samples; `.ai` and EPS type from the text document keeps its tab stops; it keeps auto leading and hyphenation options, and may show more of the file's last lines in an area frame; `.ai` and EPS import: Art brushes in the older form of their objects come into the Brushes panel; EPS import: gradients drawn as abutting strips come in as one gradient, without seams; EPS import: composite fonts draw their Type 42 glyphs; SVG import: filter and mask regions clip, #5876, #5875; SVG import: Gaussian blurs keep `color-interpolation-filters`, #5877; PDF and `.ai` export: objects' URLs as links, #5785; SVG import: `color-interpolation="linearRGB"` gradients, #5878; `.ai` import: paths with a Calligraphic brush open brushed, #372) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
 
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ from the public specifications, and users' own `.ai` files are used locally only
 
 ## Summary
 
-Ordinary File > Save offers Save As when its own location refuses writes with a terminal permission/read-only error (#6146). The picker keeps the filename, format and options and starts in Documents (home or host default if unavailable). Cancel leaves the document modified at its original path. Explicit Save As/Copy/export, recovery failures and Close/Quit keep their existing error dialog. Non-UI saves return `READ_ONLY_LOCATION: <reason>` without opening a panel. Regression execution and native panel acceptance pending; format scores unchanged.
+Ordinary File > Save offers Save As when its own location refuses writes with a terminal permission/read-only error (#6146). The picker suggests the original filename and format, keeps the original options when the format is unchanged, and opens the chosen format’s Save options when it changes. It starts in Documents (home or host default if unavailable). Cancel leaves the document modified at its original path. Explicit Save As/Copy/export, recovery failures and Close/Quit keep their existing error dialog. Non-UI saves return `READ_ONLY_LOCATION: <reason>` without opening a panel. Focused UI regressions passed; engine regression execution and native panel acceptance pending; format scores unchanged.
 
 | | Illustrator | VectorCraft | Notes |
 |---|---:|---:|---|
@@ -343,6 +343,7 @@ Stop opacity on translated artboards remains outside this regression coverage.
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-12 | minor | Save refusal follow-up (#6146): changed format opens its Save options; unchanged format retains original options. Focused UI regressions passed, including the format-change case that failed before the fix; native panel acceptance pending. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | Ordinary Save to a location refusing writes offers Save As (#6146); cancellation preserves the original path and modified state; automation receives READ_ONLY_LOCATION. Scores and estimates unchanged. Validation pending. |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | `.ai` and EPS import, and what SVG export, PDF export and `.ai` save draw: centred and right-aligned lines of tracked type are aligned without the tracking after their last character, as a `.ai`'s own page aligns them (see type-parity.md, same date). In 224 users' files (used locally, never committed), 63 render differently: 54 closer to the page, 7 further, 1 alike and 1 that couldn't be compared; among them the median share of pixels that differ from the page went from 4.4% to 1.0%. Of the 7: one now opens from its layers instead of its PDF part (they differ from the page by less than the import's 5% limit now; type note 3.8%); one has a centred line whose spacing inside it differs from the page's, which now centres on the page's line while half of it no longer lies on the page's glyphs (type note 1.4% to 2.4%); five moved by less than 0.05 of a percentage point, in type the page draws in other glyphs. The type note shows a smaller share in 6 files; 2 more envelopes of type open live (129 to 131, none fewer in any file). SVG import: `text-anchor` aligns a line's advance, which ends after its last character's letter spacing, so a centred or right-aligned letter-spaced line moves back by half or all of it and stays where a reader draws it; SVG export, which anchors lines so, reads back unchanged (test `import_text::anchored_letter_spaced_lines_stay_where_a_reader_draws_them`). Affinity import: centred or right-aligned tracked artistic text moves by half or all of its last character's tracking, as layout now aligns it (unverified against Affinity, whose files we don't have), and differently aligned paragraphs line up by the widths layout aligns them by (`affinity_features::artistic_text_aligns_its_lines_within_the_longest`). Scores and estimates unchanged. (#6610) |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | `.ai` and EPS import: while an envelope's contents are edited, the editing data keeps its mesh (a mesh's, a top object's or a warp's grid) in its dictionary, and in some files that mesh lies away from the drawn art by a move, the contents with the drawn art, as if the mesh hadn't followed the envelope when it moved: the envelope drew its contents elsewhere and kept its drawn art. A mesh or top object saved in Edit Contents (or a warp of type tried on its saved grid) whose mesh draws the contents as large as the drawn art, within half a point over width and height together, but further from it than that, is now tried again, after every other way and with one more of the import's checks, with its mesh moved by as far as the drawn art's box lies from the box of what it draws; it opens live there where it then draws as the drawn art. In users' files, used locally and never committed, only envelopes saved in Edit Contents draw elsewhere than their drawn art, and nothing in their dictionaries says by how much they moved. Tests `ai::tests::an_envelope_in_edit_contents_whose_mesh_stayed_behind_opens_live_on_its_drawn_art`, `tests_native::a_warp_of_type_in_edit_contents_whose_grid_stayed_behind_opens_on_its_drawn_art` (#6570) |

docs/roadmap.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Roadmap: milestones and what's next
 
-> **Last updated:** 2026-11-11 · **Change:** Ordinary Save to a location refusing writes offers Save As (#6146); cancellation preserves the original path and modified state; automation receives READ_ONLY_LOCATION. Scores and estimates unchanged. Validation pending.
+> **Last updated:** 2026-11-12 · **Change:** Save refusal follow-up (#6146): changing format in fallback Save As opens that format’s options; unchanged format keeps the original options. Focused UI regressions passed; native panel acceptance pending; scores and estimates unchanged.
 
 > **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-10 · **Change:** minor (M10/G5: Energy Beams brush library; MCP docs list Energy Beams; previously minor: M10/G5: Skill Icons symbol library; MCP docs list Skill Icons; previously minor: M10/G5: Status Effects graphic style library; MCP docs catch-up for symbol libraries; previously minor: M10/G5: Inventory Icons built-in symbol library; previously minor: Edit › Edit Custom Dictionary…: its dialog adds, deletes and changes the custom dictionary's words, #4936; previously minor: M10/G5: Game HUD graphic style library; previously minor: resizable icon-strip flyouts and bottom-aligned panel footers, #5713; previously minor: M10/G5: Map Markers built-in symbol library; previously minor: right-click on type: Spelling › Auto Spell Check, with its check mark, #4936; previously minor: right-click on a word Auto Spell Check underlined: its suggestions, Ignore All and Add to Dictionary, #4936; previously minor: G2: Effect Gallery thumbnails and in-dialog preview are in; Auto Spell Check: `edit.autoSpellCheck` underlines the unknown words, #4936; previously minor: PDF editable import preserves authored ActualText once, including empty/nested spans and authored ordering (#6165); cross-line/style layout remains approximate; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF marked-text export (#6309): compatible glyphs stay on one layout line with per-glyph offsets; scores and estimates unchanged; interim macOS cursor delivery, #2292; native validation pending; scores and estimates unchanged; Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged; custom dictionary and Ignore All: `text.spelling.addWord`, `removeWord`, `changeWord`, `dictionary` and `ignoreAll`, #4936; previously minor: EPS import: embedded fonts (composite, Type 42, CID-keyed, Type 1, CFF FontSet) draw their glyphs; spell check engine: `text.spelling.check` and `text.spelling.suggest` on craft-proof, #4936; previously minor: floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it, #5925 in part; M4/M7: `.ai`/EPS type keeps its tab stops, and right-aligned lines with tabs lay out as the file's page, #6147; M4/M7: `.ai`/EPS type from the text document lays its lines out closer to the file's page, within limits, #6137; numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking keyboard focus, #5949; Character Styles panel: a double-click on a style's row opens its Character Style Options; the dialog keeps a fixed width and scrolls its sections, so its buttons stay on screen; Selection QoL: marquee modes and visible feedback, #5313; SVG CSS classes survive export and repeated import in all four styling modes (#2480); current-main integration retains event attributes and scripts; #3380 deletion-only review follow-up: independent survivors keep gradient placement, owned subpaths avoid discarded copies, and contracts/status/evidence are clarified; endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged; Indian-language hyphenation review and license allowlist, #4947; Hindi catalog and contributor loanword preferences; full wording review in progress; Effect dialogs: a colour swatch beside a hex colour opens the Color Picker, #5365; shape tools move the selection from its centre point and turn it from the zone outside a box corner, #5477; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
 >
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ native wording review, layout checks and a web Devanagari font remain. [Notes](l
 | M1 | Selection, transform, layers, MCP (common command tools, strict keys, session resources and version-aware result hints) | ✅ mostly done (document-tab artwork drag with lossless resource transfer and one target Undo; malformed MCP app replies discard the connection without replay, #1761; bounded control socket waits and connection-slot recovery, #1726; bounded synthetic control input, #1709; no-op anchor Align keeps Undo, Redo and saved state (#1180 follow-up); transform reference point snaps to anchors/centres; rotated objects keep a rotated bounding box and their angle; Free Transform, Scale and Reflect along a rotated box pending; the Transform fields take one Tab each, the W/H link after them) | 4–6 |
 | M2 | Drawing tools + smart guides | ✅ mostly done (#3380 deletion creates independent selected path pieces and keeps bounds-fitted gradients in place; endpoint highlighting remains open; Polygon/Star exact-size count persistence, with repeated-drag, tool-switch and Cancel regression coverage; Curvature point markers without direction handles (#1236, in part); Direct Selection segment click/Delete preserves neighboring edges, #1278; Flare, Reshape, Live Corners widget dragging and per-corner radii and kinds landed, on any path's corners; Shaper rough-shape recognition and orientation steps, the remaining Pen modifier nuances; Shaper Groups with editable sources and separate fill/stroke edits landed; custom ruler origin with drag preview, active-artboard reset, relative X/Y fields and native round-trip (#1212); construction widget/refinements pending); a shape just drawn moves by its centre point and turns from the zone outside a corner with its tool still active (#5477); Tangent and straight-segment perpendicular snapping use saved Smart Guides Geometric Guides preferences and Control bar quick access (#2537), including the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); no View submenu; Copy and Cut with the Pen or Curvature tool take the anchors a Cmd/Ctrl-lent Direct Selection picked (#6123) | 12–18 |
 | M3 | Paint & appearance (swatches, color, gradient, stroke, appearance, transparency, styles) | ✅ done (M3.7–M3.98): swatches, groups, libraries, tints, Lab spots and Registration; Eyedropper styles highlighted text only (atomic transparency rejection); Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); Color Picker, Color panel, Color Guide, Color Themes, Edit Colors and Recolor Artwork (screen-bounded Edit chip list, #3416); gradients that follow every transform, the annotator, linked stops, freeform gradients, focal points, gradients on strokes and Expand; visible strokes when paint is added to inherited None/zero-width art (#1253); stroke geometry, arrowheads, dashes fitted to corners, stroke on type, width profiles and the Width tool (Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment in Width Point Edit; finite-arithmetic follow-up regressions and full CI passed ([Validation evidence](target-app-parity.md#evidence-what-ships-today-by-area))), Scale Strokes and preview bounds; Appearance targeting, container appearance, target circles, Expand Appearance; knockout, isolation, blend accuracy, CMYK blending, overprint, Attributes, masks and clipping, Flatten Transparency; graphic styles, links and libraries; CSS library export preserves fractional linear and radial gradient stop positions. Left: freeform gradients in SVG/PDF, mixed spot/process gradients in SVG and PDF gradients mixing a spot color with RGB or Lab stops export as stops or process colors; PDF export writes dithered gradient fills with spot stops, and Perceptual spot gradients with RGB or Lab stops other than white or more than 4,096 stops on their curve, as images in process colors; confirm the Scale Strokes & Effects default; Recolor model selection is available through the engine and MCP only (#2520); the dialog retains its existing controls | 4–8 |
-| M4 | Files (native, SVG, PDF, raster, Export for Screens, clipboard interop) | Save refusal continuation (#6146): ordinary Save offers Save As; cancellation/automation isolation; validation pending; PDF authored ActualText preserved once in editable import (#6165; first-glyph line/style, bounded input; estimates unchanged); PDF export keeps harakat and zero-advance Noto Arabic dot glyphs in one compatible batch per layout line, with per-glyph vertical offsets (#6309). `crates/pdf/src/tests/realtext.rs` (`mark_text_*`) checks decoded cluster mappings, mixed Arabic/Latin/digits, contour placement against outline export, vertical columns, differing path rotations and PDF/X-1a/3/4. Editable-text import preserves authored ActualText separately (#6165), with cross-line/style layout limits; separately styled or differently rotated clusters and external viewer search/copy remain outside this export-only evidence. `.ai`/EPS type from the text document keeps its paragraphs' tab stops (#6147); `.ai`/EPS type from the text document keeps auto leading per line, its hyphenation options, and may show more of the last lines the file sets in an area frame of its own, when growing the frame by its lines' deepest descent plus 0.05 pt shows them (#6137); ✅ done (M4.14–M4.98 on 2026-10-05): Save As/Save a Copy/Revert/templates, Data Recovery and background save, SVG import and export fidelity (units, text, symbols, filters, SVGZ, Preserve Editing, SVG Options), shared guarded PDF writer and windowed reader ([pdf-backend.md](pdf-backend.md)), PDF import (colours, layers, masks, editable text, security) and export (presets, marks, bleed, ICC and output intent, raster effects, subset fonts, PDF/X-1a, X-3 and X-4, PDF layers, overprint, page thumbnails, fast web view, PDF 1.3), Place and Links, Package, EPS and DXF in and out (EPS legacy mesh corners, vector opacity masks and raster page comparison verified; closed SPLINE flags round-trip and circular paths export as native CIRCLE/ARC, #1299), EMF/WMF, TIFF/BMP/Targa/PSD/GIF/PNG-8 export, Print and print presets, slices, Save for Web, TIFF in Export for Screens and Asset Export, clipboard flavours, File Info; AF.1–AF.4 add Affinity import (native layers, artboards, vectors, text and images from Affinity 1–3 files; the embedded preview only as a warned fallback; AF.4 expands current `.af` fixtures and every-board round-trip validation); EPS Save and Save As keep an opened EPS as EPS with its page frame and complete editable VectorCraft document (2026-10-26; G9 import fidelity unchanged). Left: DWG (use DXF), PSD placement as layers, overprint read back from PDF, Affinity export, polish; SVG CSS classes survive export and repeated import in all four styling modes (#2480); current-main integration retains event attributes and scripts; SVG CSS classes survive export and repeated import in all four styling modes (#2480); current-main integration retains event attributes and scripts | 3–6 (existing scope; Affinity export unestimated) |
+| M4 | Files (native, SVG, PDF, raster, Export for Screens, clipboard interop) | Save refusal continuation (#6146): ordinary Save offers Save As; unchanged format keeps options, changed format opens its Save options; cancellation/automation isolation; focused UI regressions passed, native acceptance pending; PDF authored ActualText preserved once in editable import (#6165; first-glyph line/style, bounded input; estimates unchanged); PDF export keeps harakat and zero-advance Noto Arabic dot glyphs in one compatible batch per layout line, with per-glyph vertical offsets (#6309). `crates/pdf/src/tests/realtext.rs` (`mark_text_*`) checks decoded cluster mappings, mixed Arabic/Latin/digits, contour placement against outline export, vertical columns, differing path rotations and PDF/X-1a/3/4. Editable-text import preserves authored ActualText separately (#6165), with cross-line/style layout limits; separately styled or differently rotated clusters and external viewer search/copy remain outside this export-only evidence. `.ai`/EPS type from the text document keeps its paragraphs' tab stops (#6147); `.ai`/EPS type from the text document keeps auto leading per line, its hyphenation options, and may show more of the last lines the file sets in an area frame of its own, when growing the frame by its lines' deepest descent plus 0.05 pt shows them (#6137); ✅ done (M4.14–M4.98 on 2026-10-05): Save As/Save a Copy/Revert/templates, Data Recovery and background save, SVG import and export fidelity (units, text, symbols, filters, SVGZ, Preserve Editing, SVG Options), shared guarded PDF writer and windowed reader ([pdf-backend.md](pdf-backend.md)), PDF import (colours, layers, masks, editable text, security) and export (presets, marks, bleed, ICC and output intent, raster effects, subset fonts, PDF/X-1a, X-3 and X-4, PDF layers, overprint, page thumbnails, fast web view, PDF 1.3), Place and Links, Package, EPS and DXF in and out (EPS legacy mesh corners, vector opacity masks and raster page comparison verified; closed SPLINE flags round-trip and circular paths export as native CIRCLE/ARC, #1299), EMF/WMF, TIFF/BMP/Targa/PSD/GIF/PNG-8 export, Print and print presets, slices, Save for Web, TIFF in Export for Screens and Asset Export, clipboard flavours, File Info; AF.1–AF.4 add Affinity import (native layers, artboards, vectors, text and images from Affinity 1–3 files; the embedded preview only as a warned fallback; AF.4 expands current `.af` fixtures and every-board round-trip validation); EPS Save and Save As keep an opened EPS as EPS with its page frame and complete editable VectorCraft document (2026-10-26; G9 import fidelity unchanged). Left: DWG (use DXF), PSD placement as layers, overprint read back from PDF, Affinity export, polish; SVG CSS classes survive export and repeated import in all four styling modes (#2480); current-main integration retains event attributes and scripts; SVG CSS classes survive export and repeated import in all four styling modes (#2480); current-main integration retains event attributes and scripts | 3–6 (existing scope; Affinity export unestimated) |
 | M5 | Performance | 🟡 background render + caches + MT done; `vectorcraft-cli bench` and `vectorcraft-cli perf` (budget suite); opaque solid-fill knockout paths draw once in hard-edge/supersampled raster export, with analytical-AA compositing unchanged; file format v2 opens 3× faster (50k paths: 722 → 244 ms); raster effects (glows, shadows, blur, feather) no longer force the whole frame single-threaded (filtered offscreen per effect, verified equal to the single-threaded reference); Craquelure/Mosaic Tiles/Stained Glass distance searches optimized with pixel-invariance checks and the `texture_drag_perf` probe (#1257); effect-heavy demos need a clean-machine benchmark; dirty-region rendering, GPU backend spike pending | 15–25 |
 | M6 | Path operations (Pathfinder, Shape Builder, offset…) | ✅ mostly done (live compound shapes: Make, Alt-click a Shape Mode, member modes, Release, Expand (#4522); single-result Pathfinder names and SVG IDs retained (#1293); Divide open-cutting-path geometry, appearance and history verified (#1307; existing segment cap remains); Simplify preview/counts and rewritten-path component selection verified (#1272; the slider opens at the Auto-Simplify level; a Direct Selection part of a path simplifies on its own); Compound appearance and member fill-rule edits verified (#1197); Boolean precision on almost-horizontal edges fixed and the property tests made deterministic; Shape Builder gap detection, large-offset bug open); Shape Builder Gap Detection shares Live Paint’s spatial gap finder and temporary merge bridges (#2526); Custom is capped at 72 pt in the existing options dialog | 3–6 |
 | M7 | Type (point/area/path, editing, styles, OpenType, threading, glyphs) | Spell check engine: `text.spelling.check` and `text.spelling.suggest` on craft-proof and the custom dictionary and Ignore All commands and Auto Spell Check with its right-click suggestions, Ignore All and Add to Dictionary, and Spelling › Auto Spell Check in the context menu of type, and the Edit Custom Dictionary dialog (#4936; the Check Spelling dialog remains); Right-aligned area type sets the text after a line's last tab against the right edge, the text before it at its stops (#6147); A line a soft return ends is justified as a wrapped line is (#6137); Indian-language pattern hyphenation preserves syllables in both composers (#4947); 🟡 Hanging punctuation keeps its published amounts under Glyph Scaling, and Standard burasagari counts a hung line start as room; Fullwidth `！` / `？` keep an upright fallback in vertical type; Hyphenation… and Justification… per paragraph (#2310, #2755), Auto Leading also driving the Character panel's Leading, the Alt+↑/↓ leading nudge and Fill with Placeholder Text; Document-point character controls after object/group scaling (#1034; optional font-size preservation remains separate), Character/Paragraph Styles (explicit Auto-leading resets and local leading overrides), per-paragraph paragraph attributes, mixed paragraph alignment indication (headless regressions, full integration CI and visual review pass), Area Type Options (with Width/Height, Auto Size and Shrink Text to Fit; overflow reported to agents and vertical Align), type areas resized by their handles and reshaped with Direct Selection, threaded text, Fit Headline, Glyphs, OpenType panel (including font-defined Stylistic Sets), Find Font (Document, Recent and System replacement sources, #5217), installed system fonts in every font menu (fonts registered with Windows outside its font folders, the XDG and Flatpak host font folders on Linux, and fonts installed while the app runs, listed when it comes back to the front; searchable; the Character and Properties menus show each family's sample of the selected text, preview it live under the pointer or ↑/↓, show recently applied families first (#3515), filter by script and kind, list a family's styles, and star favourites; the Glyphs panel and Find Font's Replace With use the same menu without the live preview) and found by name on open/import (full-name aliases and Missing Fonts searches verified, #1258; Windows font-service QA pending), variable fonts' named instances as styles, CJK names in the UI, input methods (marked text in place, candidate window at the caret; Japanese IME), Text Wrap (offset, invert, both sides of an object; follows edits), Type on a Path effects and Options with draggable start/centre/end brackets (slide, flip), tab stops + Tabs panel (Above Text floats it over the selected text, its ruler at the canvas zoom so stops line up with the columns, #729), inline symbols in text (beyond parity), Hebrew/Arabic bidirectional text, Paragraph Direction, Every-line/Single-line Composer per object (ragged text too) done; paint-only Arabic harakat keep joining with GDEF-mark ownership and Insert Kashidas tatweels on the base letter's paint (`tests::harakat`); tab leaders, spell check, vertical type pending | 45–60 |
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 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-12 | minor | Save refusal follow-up (#6146): changed format opens its Save options; unchanged format retains original options. Focused UI regressions passed, including the format-change case that failed before the fix; native panel acceptance pending. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | Ordinary Save to a location refusing writes offers Save As (#6146); cancellation preserves the original path and modified state; automation receives READ_ONLY_LOCATION. Scores and estimates unchanged. Validation pending. |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | M10/G5: Energy Beams built-in brush library; MCP docs catch-up; estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | M10/G5: Skill Icons built-in symbol library; MCP docs catch-up; estimates unchanged |

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 # UI and interaction parity
 
-> **Last updated:** 2026-11-11 · **Change:** Ordinary Save to a location refusing writes offers Save As (#6146); cancellation preserves the original path and modified state; automation receives READ_ONLY_LOCATION. Scores and estimates unchanged. Validation pending.
+> **Last updated:** 2026-11-12 · **Change:** Save refusal follow-up (#6146): changing format in fallback Save As opens that format’s options; unchanged format keeps the original options. Focused UI regressions passed; native panel acceptance pending; scores and estimates unchanged.
 
 > **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-11 · **Change:** minor (Outline view: images and gradient meshes are picked on what Outline draws, so a click inside them reaches the path behind, #6437; previously minor: a middle-click on a document tab closes it, #6506; previously minor: Blob Brush: a round tip's preview is the outline of the area it adds, round at both ends, as the stroke it commits (#4343); scores and estimates unchanged; previously:; ruler double-click adds a guide at the pointer, #5239; G5: Inventory Icons built-in symbol library (four built-ins); previously minor: files that record no units open in Preferences › Units › General, #5820; previously minor: interim macOS cursor delivery, #2292; native validation pending; scores and estimates unchanged; Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged; floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it, #5925 in part; numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking keyboard focus, #5949; Character Styles panel: a double-click on a style's row opens its Character Style Options; the dialog keeps a fixed width and scrolls its sections, so its buttons stay on screen; Selection QoL: marquee modes and visible feedback, #5313; #3380 deletion-only review follow-up: independent survivors keep gradient placement, owned subpaths avoid discarded copies, and contracts/status/evidence are clarified; endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged; Drop Shadow and glow dialogs: spinner arrows, #5367, #5368; Stroke Weight Up and Down shortcuts, #5797; Layers: Rename (`ui.rename`) opens the name field of the selected layer, group or object, #5324; Properties in Edit Artboards: Transform section above the Artboards section, #5219; scrubby labels: the Control bar's Stroke: and Opacity: links and the Properties panel's Stroke link scrub their fields, #4088; Properties: Quick Actions has Repeat Options for one selected repeat, #5181; Direct Selection: Shift-click picks several blend spine points, which drag together, #5285; Direct Selection: Cmd/Ctrl held lends the Selection tool and shows its bounding box, #3901; Join tool trims two crossing open paths and joins them at the crossing, #5844; Control bar: Paragraph: link and Align left/center/right while type is selected, #5372; shape tools: a press on the selection's centre point moves it and one in the rotate zone outside a box corner turns it, #5477; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; Units › East Asian Type acts, with Q and Ha units; scores unchanged)
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 | Interaction | Status | Evidence |
 |---|---|---|
-| Ordinary Save refused by filesystem permissions/read-only storage offers Save As | implemented; validation pending | #6146; `io::tests_read_only_save`; same name/format/options, Documents folder, UID-bound continuation; cancellation and automation isolation |
+| Ordinary Save refused by filesystem permissions/read-only storage offers Save As | focused UI regressions passed; native acceptance pending | #6146; `io::tests_read_only_save`; same name/format suggested; unchanged format keeps options, changed format opens its Save options; Documents folder, UID-bound continuation; cancellation and automation isolation |
 | Selection artwork drag hovers a visible document tab to activate it, then drops editable artwork on its canvas | done | `tests_document_drag`, `edit.dropSelection`, lossless resource and one-step Undo regressions; overflow and cross-window drag remain separate |
 | A document tab dragged along the tab strip moves its document; a line marks where it goes, the current document and every document's view stay as they were, and a drag off the strip still floats it | done | #5663, [public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/customizing-workspace.html); `document.move`; `tests::tab_reorder`, `chrome::tests` (drop index with floating and view tabs), `engine` `tests::document_move` |
 | A middle-click on a document tab or its × closes it as the × does; closing a modified document's last view asks to save first (VectorCraft addition, as in PhotoCraft) | done | #6506; `chrome::tests::a_middle_click_on_a_tab_closes_it_as_the_close_box_does`; not scored |
@@ -514,6 +514,7 @@ separate. Scores and hours unchanged. [Behavior and command details](development
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-12 | minor | Save refusal follow-up (#6146): changed format opens its Save options; unchanged format retains original options. Focused UI regressions passed, including the format-change case that failed before the fix; native panel acceptance pending. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | Ordinary Save to a location refusing writes offers Save As (#6146); cancellation preserves the original path and modified state; automation receives READ_ONLY_LOCATION. Scores and estimates unchanged. Validation pending. |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | Outline view: a click on a path's outline selects it through an image or a gradient mesh in front, which Outline draws as a frame or mesh lines (#6437). |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | A middle-click on a document tab (or its ×) closes it as the × does; closing a document's last view with unsaved changes asks to save first (#6506). VectorCraft addition; scores and estimates unchanged. |