Merge pull request #7219 from dotCooCoo/fix/docs-layers-row-menu

Docs: Layers row context menu offers Collect for Export

docs/gaps.md

@@ -503,8 +503,8 @@ macOS cursor delivery (#2292) is narrowed to a native host adapter using the exi
   Plug-ins & Scratch Disks › Primary and Secondary (documents are kept in memory; nothing pages to
   disk), and Clipboard Handling › Legacy vector clipboard with its Preserve Paths / Preserve Appearance and
   Overprints choice (Illustrator's own clipboard flavour, which has no public specification). Also Properties
-  panel per context, context menus beyond the canvas, Layers panel row menus and Collect for Export, SVG
-  Interactivity.
+  panel per context, context menus in the panels that have none, Layers row menu commands beyond Collect for
+  Export, and menus on guide and blend spine rows in the Layers panel.
 - **Impact:** settings that silently do nothing erode trust.
 - **Estimate:** 13–20 h.
 

docs/target-app-parity.md

@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ dominate; 3D, graphs and automation are specialist). They sum to 105. Feature de
 | Raster effects (Effect Gallery) | 4 | 55% | — | — | estimated (raised from 52%: the Effect Gallery's filter thumbnails and in-dialog preview, an original landscape drawing passed through each filter, [Filter Gallery overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/desktop/effects-filters/get-started-with-filters/filter-gallery.html), `dialogs::effect_gallery::tests::gallery_shows_thumbnails_and_an_in_dialog_preview`; the gallery itself shipped in #2883, six categories, per-filter settings, ordered stack, live canvas preview, one undo step, `stack_ok_is_one_undo_step`, `stack_preview_is_one_interaction`); measured count 57/57 (Artistic complete with Colored Pencil, Fresco, Paint Daubs, Palette Knife, Rough Pastels and Underpainting; Sketch complete with Torn Edges and Conté Crayon, `pixel::tests_sketch::conte_crayon_*`); texture redraw distances optimized (#1257), pixels verified; the score stays under 100% because the filters are original approximations; depth estimated |
 | Symbols, blends, envelopes, Repeat, perspective | 5 | 88% | remaining: dynamic symbols' `.ai` round trip, further built-in symbol libraries (Basic Shapes, UI Frames with default 9-slice, Map Markers, Inventory Icons and Skill Icons are done), envelope Anti-Alias/Preserve Shape, 9-slice guides outside the art; Symbol Options › Registration, Export Type and Symbol Type (dynamic on-canvas fill/stroke including gradient/pattern, opacity and blend, #4938) and on-canvas 9-slice guides (#5280) are done | 4–7 | estimated |
 | Image Trace, graphs, image tools | 3 | 75% | graph Column designs, Image Trace Create Strokes depth (Create Object Mosaic is done; junction-returning piece survival has source-generated regressions in `image-trace-quality.md`; large images trace with a warning; Auto Color keeps rare distinct colours) | 5–8 | estimated (raised from 72%); quick presets reveal adjustment controls, Properties reopens them |
-| Layers, artboards, document setup | 5 | 78% | Selected-artboard deletion is consistent across panel actions (all-selected retains artboard 1); history prunes removed indices while preserving valid multiselection; remaining:  30.0's artboard locking and colours and managing artboards from the canvas, Layers panel row context menus and Collect for Export (click-to-fit objects is done, #1227) | 5–8 | estimated (lowered from 82%: target moved); Artboard deletion keys keep artwork and the first of an all-selected set; Artboard Options' Show Center Mark and Show Cross Hairs draw on the canvas only (exports and print leave them out), regression-tested; Artboard Options' Show Video Safe Areas and Video Ruler Pixel Aspect Ratio (per artboard, native format) are done ([video display options](#evidence-what-ships-today-by-area)), score unchanged |
+| Layers, artboards, document setup | 5 | 78% | Selected-artboard deletion is consistent across panel actions (all-selected retains artboard 1); history prunes removed indices while preserving valid multiselection; remaining:  30.0's artboard locking and colours and managing artboards from the canvas, Layers row menu commands beyond Collect for Export and menus on guide and blend spine rows (click-to-fit objects is done, #1227) | 5–8 | estimated (lowered from 82%: target moved); Artboard deletion keys keep artwork and the first of an all-selected set; Artboard Options' Show Center Mark and Show Cross Hairs draw on the canvas only (exports and print leave them out), regression-tested; Artboard Options' Show Video Safe Areas and Video Ruler Pixel Aspect Ratio (per artboard, native format) are done ([video display options](#evidence-what-ships-today-by-area)), score unchanged |
 | View & navigation | 3 | 70% | multiple windows and the rest of Arrange (Cascade, Float in Window, Float All in Windows) | 9–14 | estimated; Window › Arrange › Tile and Consolidate All Windows done (score/hours unchanged); 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); cached canvas dimensions match the renderer limit before cache-key creation, view construction and worker submission (regression evidence below) |
 | File formats | 6 | 75% | `.ai` files open with a flattened or wrong layer structure in real cases (#951), no writing of Illustrator's editing data (#868), FreeHand/CorelDRAW/DWG/HEIC import, 3D export; see [file-format-parity.md](file-format-parity.md); EPS legacy mesh/opacity-mask and raster comparison follow-up verified  PDF marked-text batching covered by M4 evidence (#6309); cross-line/style ActualText layout (#6165) and styled-cluster limits remain.| 10–20 | estimated (lowered from 85%: open issues); DXF control-point SPLINE import closure regression-tested (#1299 follow-up after #1320); DXF export's Include Placed Images and Include Fill Hatches options, off in CNC / CAM (`images_and_hatches_are_left_out_independently_and_the_cnc_preset_leaves_out_both`; score, gaps and hours unchanged); 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`; the distance from the path under Align to Path is measured from the top of each character's em box, half the height of the top of its H or the bottom of its font's bounding box (`tests_native::aligned_type_lies_as_far_from_its_path_as_the_file_lays_it_out`), and the fit under Gravity does not reproduce the file's layout), blend state (`ai::tests::a_blends_transparency_follows_its_record`); scores and estimates unchanged. PDF ActualText preserved in editable import (#6165; bounded synthetic coverage below); score/hours unchanged. |
 | File formats | 6 | 75% | `.ai` files open with a flattened or wrong layer structure in real cases (#951), a saved `.ai`'s editing copy without live effects on objects other than paths, compound paths and groups that qualify (at most a fill and a stroke, a non-zero fill rule when filled, no large canvas) and whose appearance and effects the art-style writer supports, and with live objects as their art (#868), FreeHand/CorelDRAW/DWG/HEIC import, textures, map art and shading in 3D export; see [file-format-parity.md](file-format-parity.md); EPS legacy mesh/opacity-mask and raster comparison follow-up verified  PDF marked-text batching covered by M4 evidence (#6309); cross-line/style ActualText layout (#6165) and styled-cluster limits remain.| 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. PDF ActualText preserved in editable import (#6165; bounded synthetic coverage below); score/hours unchanged. |
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ dominate; 3D, graphs and automation are specialist). They sum to 105. Feature de
 | 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 |
-| UI chrome (panels, Properties, workspaces, preferences) | 6 | 80% | Properties per context, 2 Preferences options stored but unused (#394, audited 2026-10-30: Scratch Disks, legacy vector clipboard), SVG Interactivity, context menus beyond the canvas, accessibility | 13–20 | estimated; floating panels in OS windows of their own on the desktop (#4135), score and hours unchanged; macOS save Format menu implemented (#866), score and hours unchanged; Eyedropper cursor and precise setting checked (#1269), OS visual QA unverified; numeric-field focus and normal text drags regression-tested (#1326); a focus click released more than 1 pt from its press keeps the caret and a tap within 1 pt selects all (#6659); artboard navigation synchronizes the tool selection before destructive actions; status messages and readouts use stable responsive allocations sized for localized labels and ordinary coordinates (sample widths cached by language/unit/DPI; regression and contributor original-file evidence below; scores/hours unchanged); effect dialogs' colour fields show a swatch that opens the Color Picker (#5365), score and hours unchanged; icon-strip flyouts retain user sizes (#5713); floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it (#5925, in part), scores and hours unchanged ; interim macOS cursor delivery (#2292), headless coverage only; native validation pending, score and hours unchanged |
+| UI chrome (panels, Properties, workspaces, preferences) | 6 | 80% | Properties per context, 2 Preferences options stored but unused (#394, audited 2026-10-30: Scratch Disks, legacy vector clipboard), context menus in the panels that have none, accessibility | 13–20 | estimated; floating panels in OS windows of their own on the desktop (#4135), score and hours unchanged; macOS save Format menu implemented (#866), score and hours unchanged; Eyedropper cursor and precise setting checked (#1269), OS visual QA unverified; numeric-field focus and normal text drags regression-tested (#1326); a focus click released more than 1 pt from its press keeps the caret and a tap within 1 pt selects all (#6659); artboard navigation synchronizes the tool selection before destructive actions; status messages and readouts use stable responsive allocations sized for localized labels and ordinary coordinates (sample widths cached by language/unit/DPI; regression and contributor original-file evidence below; scores/hours unchanged); effect dialogs' colour fields show a swatch that opens the Color Picker (#5365), score and hours unchanged; icon-strip flyouts retain user sizes (#5713); floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it (#5925, in part), scores and hours unchanged ; interim macOS cursor delivery (#2292), headless coverage only; native validation pending, score and hours unchanged |
 | Libraries, Links, Package | 2 | 82% | shared libraries, linked graphics, gradients and patterns as library items (no cloud by design) | 2–3 | estimated |
 | Generative AI (Text to Vector, Generative Recolor, Shape Fill, Concept to Vector, Prompt to Edit, Rewrite Text) | 2 | 0% | a pluggable provider and the panels; needs an owner decision on models | 30–60 | measured (absent) |
 | **Feature depth** | **105** | **~75%** | | **~250–420** | |
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ Depth here is "does the basic use work", not the area's full score.
 | Gradients, basic | 4 | 90% | Gradient panel and on-canvas annotator |
 | Type: point and area text, font, size | 8 | 88% | font menu with previews; Hyphenation… and Justification… options per paragraph (#2310, #2755) |
 | Align, group, arrange | 6 | 95% | |
-| Layers, basic | 4 | 85% | Layers panel rework; no row context menus |
+| Layers, basic | 4 | 85% | Layers panel rework; row context menus offer only Collect for Export |
 | Shape Builder | 5 | 70% | beginners lean on it; region detection failed on art of thousands of segments (#937's reproduced case, fixed, and its edge-source grid is bounded in memory; unconfirmed on the reporter's file) |
 | Pathfinder | 4 | 95% | exact booleans |
 | Place images, Image Trace | 4 | 85% | 13 trace presets |
@@ -510,15 +510,15 @@ about 1–1.5 agent-hours each, so the other rows (estimated on the older scale)
 | Type core | 9 | 80% | Middle Eastern features beyond bidi layout, Paragraph Direction, digit types and Kashidas (the Middle Eastern composers, editable bidirectional SVG text, a split caret where directions meet); paint-only harakat keep joining with conditional GDEF-mark colour ownership, but fonts without GDEF mark classes and some AAT/`morx` ligatures can still leave marks painted as their letters; Every-line Composer fidelity for justified and ragged text (available per object; mixed type sizes in a paragraph still break single-line in non-rectangular area type and with text wrap), Optical Margin Alignment, paragraph spacing limit for vertically justified area type, hidden characters, paragraph attributes in the Type tool's copy and paste (the characters keep their styles, the paragraphs take the destination's), mixed-value display in the Paragraph panel for a selection across differing paragraphs, partial selection of type-area anchors by marquee, optional font-size preservation during group scaling (scaled character controls fixed in #1034). Hyphenation and Justification options, Fractional Widths, System Layout, styled Type-range canvas Paste (#5636), and pattern hyphenation for eleven Indian languages with grapheme/cluster protection (#4947) are done; Sanskrit automatic patterns remain pending an allowlisted source | 14–19 |
 | Symbols, blends, envelopes, Repeat, perspective | 5 | 90% | further built-in symbol libraries (Basic Shapes, UI Frames with default 9-slice, Map Markers, Inventory Icons and Skill Icons are done), dynamic symbols' `.ai` round trip, envelope Anti-Alias/Preserve Shape output and warp point editing, brush interpolation in blends (M8 fidelity pass done); Symbol Options › Registration and Export Type and on-canvas dynamic part paint (gradient/pattern, opacity, blend) are done; symbol editing shows draggable 9-slice guides (#5280), while guides outside the artwork remain unsupported | 4–7 |
 | Image Trace, graphs, image tools | 3 | 72% | graph Column designs (Graph Design, Marker designs and series colours set with Group Selection are done), Create Object Mosaic, per-feature stroke/fill choice and varying widths in Image Trace's Create Strokes (Vector Halftone and the Image Trace View modes, Palette and Create Strokes are done) | 6–10 |
-| Layers, artboards, document setup | 5 | 82% | Layers panel: a confirmation before deleting layers that hold art, Collect for Export, row context menus, the Layer Options dialog for several rows with mixed values, Paste Remembers Layers for sublayers; artboard preset polish (artboard escape routing and document setup modal handoff done; Move Artwork for artboard X/Y edits, Rearrange All Artboards, Document Setup, New Document and the rest of the Layers panel are done) | 4–7 |
+| Layers, artboards, document setup | 5 | 82% | Layers panel: a confirmation before deleting layers that hold art, row menu commands beyond Collect for Export (now on every layer, sublayer, group and object row), menus on guide and blend spine rows, the Layer Options dialog for several rows with mixed values, Paste Remembers Layers for sublayers; artboard preset polish (artboard escape routing and document setup modal handoff done; Move Artwork for artboard X/Y edits, Rearrange All Artboards, Document Setup, New Document and the rest of the Layers panel are done) | 4–7 |
 | View & navigation | 3 | 70% | New View/Edit Views, multiple windows/arrange, Snap to Pixel/Glyph (print tiling is done) | 9–14 |
 | Guides, grids, smart guides, snapping, rulers | 3 | 85% | global/video rulers, Spacing Guides' distance readouts and spacing for resized or drawn art, Alt swapping a ruler guide's orientation, ruler guides selected together with art (marquee, Shift-click), ruler guides as Layers rows with their own lock and hide (#451: Lock Guides locks them all; Make Guides paths are Layers rows already) (dragging existing guides is done, #414; new guides snapping to side midpoints and artboards, and artboard guides, #451; the drawing tools snapping, with Construction Guides, #506; Spacing Guides for moves, #394; moves snapping to the grid, #740; ruler guides pulling drawn points with Smart Guides on, and "center" and "anchor" labels while hovering with the Selection tool, #812; distance and angle labels while drawing, #2983) | 2–4; status-bar X/Y uses the active ruler origin and General units |
 | File formats | 6 | 85% | PDF import: glyphs inside a marked-content span with an empty `ActualText` come in as outlines in their fill and stroke, adding no text (#6971; scores and estimates unchanged); Explicit editing-data oversized single-artboard import fixed (#6865); scores and estimates unchanged. Affinity export, and the rest of Affinity import (adjustments, blur and bevel effects, brushes, live symbol instances, text threading), DWG (no open spec: DXF instead), PSD placement as layers (Photoshop Import Options; the merged image is done), EPS checked against more real files users send (Inkscape files open as vectors; other generators' constructs are tested with programs written from the PostScript Language Reference only; CID-keyed CJK type and `CCITTFaxDecode` images not read), legacy `.ai` files saved without the prolog that defines their operators (their own operator set isn't read yet), the rest of Illustrator's editing data (appearances and live effects, symbols, pattern fills, brushes, placed files: #637), the remaining fidelity polish; EPS, DXF, EMF/WMF, TIFF, BMP, Targa, PSD export, SVGZ, PDF security, PDF/X, PDF layers, presets and Affinity import are done | 6–10 (existing scope; Affinity export unestimated) |
 | Export for Screens, Asset Export, slices, Save for Web | 3 | 85% | polish only (all four are done) | 2–4 |
 | Print, colour management, separations, flattener | 3 | 80% | print preview fidelity (flattener presets in PDF and print, overprint in PDF and composite print, Print dialog, presets, PostScript, marks, separations, Print Tiling, print overprint/flattener/bitmap options and printer profile are done, as are the Japanese papers in its Media list: JIS B4/B5/B6, はがき, 往復はがき, 封筒 長形3号/長形4号/角形2号/角形3号 and 四六判, beside the ISO B4/B5 that settings saved before them keep) | 1–2 |
 | Automation | 3 | 65% | scripting surface, batch (MCP drops malformed app replies without replay; Variables: text/visibility variables bound to objects, an object may carry several, dataset rows applied in one undo step, panel and Window › Variables with dialogs; image/graph kinds and dataset import/export open) | 6–10 |
-| UI chrome (panels, contextual Properties, workspaces, prefs) | 6 | 80% | macOS native menu dismissal fixed (M14.8); Variables, Links, Asset Export, CSS Properties, Attributes, the canvas context menu and docking panels into any dock group by dragging (as tabs, a top/bottom split or icons) are done; remaining: SVG Interactivity, Properties per context, Consolidate All Windows, floating panels outside the app window, context menus beyond the canvas, about 13 Preferences options stored but not yet acted on (#394: Open Documents As Tabs, Real-time Drawing, hyphenation language, devices…) | 13–20 |
-| UI chrome (panels, contextual Properties, workspaces, prefs) | 6 | 80% | macOS native menu dismissal fixed (M14.8); Variables, Links, Asset Export, CSS Properties, Attributes, the canvas context menu and docking panels into any dock group by dragging (as tabs, a top/bottom split or icons) are done; remaining: SVG Interactivity, Properties per context, Consolidate All Windows, floating panels outside the app window, context menus beyond the canvas, about 14 Preferences options stored but not yet acted on (#394: Highlight Alternate Glyphs, Open Documents As Tabs, Real-time Drawing, hyphenation language, devices…) | 13–20 |
+| UI chrome (panels, contextual Properties, workspaces, prefs) | 6 | 80% | macOS native menu dismissal fixed (M14.8); Variables, Links, Asset Export, CSS Properties, Attributes, the canvas context menu and docking panels into any dock group by dragging (as tabs, a top/bottom split or icons) are done; remaining: Properties per context, Consolidate All Windows, floating panels outside the app window, context menus in the panels that have none, about 13 Preferences options stored but not yet acted on (#394: Open Documents As Tabs, Real-time Drawing, hyphenation language, devices…) | 13–20 |
+| UI chrome (panels, contextual Properties, workspaces, prefs) | 6 | 80% | macOS native menu dismissal fixed (M14.8); Variables, Links, Asset Export, CSS Properties, Attributes, the canvas context menu and docking panels into any dock group by dragging (as tabs, a top/bottom split or icons) are done; remaining: Properties per context, Consolidate All Windows, floating panels outside the app window, context menus in the panels that have none, about 14 Preferences options stored but not yet acted on (#394: Highlight Alternate Glyphs, Open Documents As Tabs, Real-time Drawing, hyphenation language, devices…) | 13–20 |
 | Libraries, Links, Package | 2 | 82% | the Libraries panel is local only (no cloud by design: libraries are files on this machine) and has no shared libraries, linked graphics or gradients and patterns as items yet; its graphics, colours and text styles (#745), its search, groups and library export/import as `.vclibrary` files (#926), a list that scrolls, with items and groups reordered by dragging and items dragged into and out of groups, art and swatches dragged in added where they are dropped, and items shown as icons or in a list with their names, are done; Links and Package are done; placed VectorCraft documents are done (linked by default, vectors in every output, previews, Break Link, Expand, Edit Original, refresh on save) | 2–3 |
 | **Feature parity** | **103** | **~75%** | | **~210–330** |
 | Interaction-fidelity pass (side by side with Illustrator: every tool modifier, cursor, dialog, Properties context) | | | | 60–90 |
@@ -1138,7 +1138,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
     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. A guide's row has its own eye and lock, which hide or lock that guide alone in one undo step and take part in a drag down either column ([help page](https://helpx.adobe.com/in_hi/tutorial-builder/user-guide/illustrator-tutorial-builder/-ai--examples-of-common-coach-marks.html) lists a Guide among the Layers panel's items); a hidden guide is not drawn and does not snap, a locked one is drawn and snaps but can't be selected, moved or deleted, and its own state is kept through save and reopen and while its layer is hidden or locked (`layer.setProps` on its `guide.list` id). Object › Lock › Selection and Object › Hide › Selection lock or hide a selected guide with the selected art, and Unlock All and Show All unlock or show such guides and select them ([help page](https://help.adobe.com/archive/en_US/illustrator/cs3/illustrator_cs3_help.pdf) for Lock and Hide Selection). A guide row dropped on the panel's trash deletes its guide, the trash deletes a guide its row selected, and after a click on a guide row Delete deletes the guide rather than the rows highlighted before ([help page](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/measure-and-align/grids-and-guides/align-graphic-objects-with-guides.html) for deleting a selected guide). Not done: guides stacked among the art of their layer (they are listed above it). 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). Preferences › Guides & Grid › Lock Guides by Default locks guides when the app starts; it is off by default, and new guides can still be dragged out of a ruler while guides are locked. 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.
 - **Releasing ruler guides:** View › Guides › Release Guides turns the selected ruler guides into paths with no fill or stroke. An artboard guide becomes a line across its artboard, and a canvas guide becomes a line across the artboards (`view.guides.release {index?, ids?}`). A Cmd/Ctrl+Shift double-click with the Selection, Direct Selection or Group Selection tool releases the ruler guide or guide path under the pointer.
-- **Layers panel:** every layer, sublayer, group and object is a clickable row at any depth: a click highlights it and makes its layer current (new art goes there), Shift-click a range, Ctrl/Cmd-click toggles. Sublayers are no longer treated as objects: clicks, marquees, Select All and the Select menu take the art inside them, and each sublayer selects in its own colour. Selection squares on rows with selected art (click selects a row's art, Shift adds or removes; dragging the square moves the selection to another row, Alt copies), the eye and lock on every row with drag-down-the-column (one undo step), Ctrl/Cmd-click an eye for per-layer Outline, Alt-click an eye or lock to hide or lock the other layers (again: show or unlock them all), triangles with Alt to open or close everything inside, drag and drop rows above, below or into layers and groups with a drop line (Alt copies) and a dimmed copy of the row under the pointer (layers dropped in the empty space under the last row go below the bottom layer, #2260; dropped on the trash rows are deleted, on New Layer duplicated, as in Illustrator), inline rename, Delete key on highlighted rows. Buttons and the full panel menu: New Layer/Sublayer (Alt: options, Ctrl: on top), Duplicate, Delete, Options for Selection, clipping mask, isolation, Locate Object, Merge Selected, Flatten Artwork, Collect in New Layer, Release to Layers (Sequence and Build), Reverse Order, Template, Hide/Outline/Lock Others and Show/Preview/Unlock All, Paste Remembers Layers, Panel Options (row size, thumbnails per kind, Show Layers Only). Layer Options: name, colour (presets, each with a chip of its colour, or custom), Template, Lock, Show, Print, Preview (outline drawing and clicking) and Dim Images to %. Every operation is a command (`layer.move`, `layer.highlight`, `layer.merge`…) with validation against cycles and invalid nesting. A document opens with only its top-level layers open; the rows left open are saved in the native file (nothing is written for the default) and reopen that way. Only the rows scrolled into view are laid out, from a row list made once per change: a layer of 5,000 groups of 10 paths, all open, draws the panel in 0.4 ms a frame instead of about 29 s (#638).
+- **Layers panel:** every layer, sublayer, group and object is a clickable row at any depth: a click highlights it and makes its layer current (new art goes there), Shift-click a range, Ctrl/Cmd-click toggles. Sublayers are no longer treated as objects: clicks, marquees, Select All and the Select menu take the art inside them, and each sublayer selects in its own colour. Selection squares on rows with selected art (click selects a row's art, Shift adds or removes; dragging the square moves the selection to another row, Alt copies), the eye and lock on every row with drag-down-the-column (one undo step), Ctrl/Cmd-click an eye for per-layer Outline, Alt-click an eye or lock to hide or lock the other layers (again: show or unlock them all), triangles with Alt to open or close everything inside, drag and drop rows above, below or into layers and groups with a drop line (Alt copies) and a dimmed copy of the row under the pointer (layers dropped in the empty space under the last row go below the bottom layer, #2260; dropped on the trash rows are deleted, on New Layer duplicated, as in Illustrator), inline rename, Delete key on highlighted rows. Buttons and the full panel menu: New Layer/Sublayer (Alt: options, Ctrl: on top), Duplicate, Delete, Options for Selection, clipping mask, isolation, Locate Object, Merge Selected, Flatten Artwork, Collect in New Layer, Collect for Export (As Single Asset, As Multiple Assets), Release to Layers (Sequence and Build), Reverse Order, Template, Hide/Outline/Lock Others and Show/Preview/Unlock All, Paste Remembers Layers, Panel Options (row size, thumbnails per kind, Show Layers Only). Right-clicking a layer, sublayer, group or object row offers Collect for Export for that row, or for every highlighted row when it is one of them; guide and blend spine rows have no context menu. Layer Options: name, colour (presets, each with a chip of its colour, or custom), Template, Lock, Show, Print, Preview (outline drawing and clicking) and Dim Images to %. Every operation is a command (`layer.move`, `layer.highlight`, `layer.merge`…) with validation against cycles and invalid nesting. A document opens with only its top-level layers open; the rows left open are saved in the native file (nothing is written for the default) and reopen that way. Only the rows scrolled into view are laid out, from a row list made once per change: a layer of 5,000 groups of 10 paths, all open, draws the panel in 0.4 ms a frame instead of about 29 s (#638).
   With Paste Remembers Layers on, art copied from a sublayer pastes back into that sublayer, as [the help page](https://help.adobe.com/archive/en_US/illustrator/cs5/illustrator_cs5_help.pdf#page=223) describes art going back to the layer it was copied from: in the same document while the sublayer is still there, two sublayers of the same name in different layers kept apart; in another document by the names of the sublayer and the layers around it. These rules are VectorCraft's own: a missing sublayer is made inside its layer (a missing layer on top, with the sublayer inside it), in the paste's one undo step; of layers with the same names, the topmost chain that matches the most names wins, a shown and unlocked one first; a matched layer that is hidden or locked, or inside one that is, refuses the paste, and nothing is pasted.
   The Filter button at the right of Search All keeps the rows that are of an object kind ticked under By Object (paths, shapes, text, images, effects, groups, linked files, guides) and in a state ticked under By Layer (locked, hidden), with the rows that hold them; a section with nothing ticked takes every row. The filter combines with the search, the button is lit while a filter is on, and Clear All in its popup turns the filter off (`ui.layersFilter`). The filter lasts the session.
   The panel menu's Save Selection submenu has Save Selection…, Update Selection and Edit Selection…, enabled and run as in the Select menu, and lists the document's saved selections: choosing one selects its objects again (`select.recall`).

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 | Pathfinder panel › Pathfinder Options…: Precision, Remove Redundant Points, Divide and Outline Will Remove Unpainted Artwork | done | #3426; `object.pathfinder.options`, kept in the preferences; defaults (0.01 pt, both off) keep the earlier results; [spec](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/reshape-transform-objects/pathfinder-panel-overview.html) |
 | Cmd/Ctrl+4 repeats the last successful Shape Mode or Pathfinder operation on the selection | done | Panel operations, direct `object.pathfinder.*` commands and `command.batch` steps (Actions playback) set history; `action.batch`, Trap, compound-shape edits and live effects do not. Repeat uses current Pathfinder Options; [key spec](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html), [menu spec](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/reshape-transform-objects/pathfinder-panel-overview.html) |
 | Pathfinder panel: compound shapes (Make, Release and Expand Compound Shape in the panel menu, Alt-click a Shape Mode, a Shape Mode for selected members, the Expand button) | partial | #4522; `object.compoundShape.make`/`setMode`/`release`/`expand`; members stay editable, the area draws, exports and saves; the button of the members' shared mode is lit; blends, envelopes and warped objects are members as they draw; [spec](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/reshape-transform-objects/create-compound-shapes-with-pathfinder.html); missing: question marks for mixed modes, hit-testing by the area |
-| Canvas context menu | done | Layers rows, panels and type have none (gap) |
+| Canvas context menu | done | Right-clicking type opens the canvas menu, with Bullets and Numbering and Spelling. Layer, sublayer, group and object rows in the Layers panel offer Collect for Export (As Single Asset, As Multiple Assets) for the row, or for every highlighted row when it is one of them; artboard rows, library groups and items, the rulers and floating toolbar grips have menus too. Gaps: the Layers row menu has no other commands, guide and blend spine rows have no menu, and other panels have none |
 | SVG Interactivity panel: JavaScript for each object's events and the document's linked JavaScript files, written to SVG and read back as text | done | `svgInteractivity.*`, `ui.javascriptFilesDialog` |
 | Retype, Comments, Version History panels | missing | the last two are cloud features (out of scope) |
 | Blend panel (30.7) | partial | Window › Blend provides Type (Ease In, Ease Out, Ease In Out, Ease Out In), Ramp 0–100% and independent color Shift, alongside the existing blend controls. Easing is disabled without a spine. Original polynomial distributions approximate the publicly documented behavior. On-canvas Appearance and Easing widgets set Shift and Ramp; a blend without a spine shows the Appearance widget alone. [Public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-colors/apply-transparency-and-blending/blend-panel-overview.html) |
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 | Gradient panel: Method, Classic or Perceptual (30.0) | done | Method menu under the Stroke buttons for linear and radial gradients (`paint.editGradient` `method`); [public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/create-and-edit-gradients/control-perceptual-interpolation-in-gradients.html); `panels::gradient` test |
 | Gradient panel: Presets (30.0) | done | Presets menu by library (theme) plus Saved: applies a preset to the gradient behind the active proxy, keeping its placement, one undo step; panel menu Save Gradient Preset…, Delete Gradient Preset, Hide/Show Presets (`gradient.presets.*`); `panels::gradient` tests |
 | Gradient panel: delete a stop | done | Delete Stop at the right end of the ramp deletes the selected stop, and a stop dragged down off the ramp is deleted on release, never below two stops, one undo step each; [Gradient panel options](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/create-and-edit-gradients/gradient-tool-and-panel.html); `panels::gradient` test |
-| SVG Interactivity, Retype, Comments, Version History panels | missing | the last two are cloud features (out of scope) |
 | Workspaces (save, reset, switch); each remembers the layout changes made in it across switches and restarts until Reset <name> | done | `UiState::workspace_changes` |
 | Opening a file: after 0.4 s a progress window with the file name, a moving bar (reading counts no steps), how many more files wait, Cancel (Esc: the file doesn't open) and Continue in Background; never over another dialog or progress window | done | #5930; `opening::show`, `file.cancelOpen`, `file.openInBackground`. Save, Place and Close still show only the status bar's spinner (Place and Save run off the UI thread; Close is immediate) |
 | Window › Help Bar shows or hides the tool-help strip apart from the status bar; kept with the preferences and in saved workspaces; Presentation Mode hides both bars | done | `window.helpBar`; `help_bar_toggle_is_independent_and_saved_in_workspaces`, `help_bar_and_status_bar_render_independently`, `legacy_help_bar_visibility_follows_each_layouts_status_bar` |