Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/main' into codex/snapping-quick-access

docs/control-protocol.md

@@ -96,18 +96,18 @@ the two can still win that race.
 | `ui.menu.list` / `ui.menu.invoke` | `{command, params}` | the full menu tree / invoke an item |
 | `ui.contextMenu.list` | | the canvas context menu for the current selection, flattened like `ui.menu.list` (`path` holds its submenus). `ui.click {x, y, button: "right"}` on the canvas opens it, after selecting the object there unless it is already selected. With the Artboard tool it lists the artboard entries (see `docs/mcp.md`), after selecting the artboard there unless it is already selected. While a menu opened over locked objects is open, it has an `Unlock` submenu with one item for each locked object under the pointer, topmost first and at most 20, labeled with the object's name, which runs `layer.setProps {ids: [id], locked: false}`. A locked group gets one item, and the locked objects inside it get none. Hidden objects, objects on hidden, locked or template layers, and in isolation mode objects outside the isolated group get no item |
 | `ui.tool.select` / `ui.tool.list` | `{tool}` | |
-| `ui.pointer` | `{events:[{kind: down|drag|up|move|doubleclick, x, y, space?: "doc"|"screen", mods?}]}` | drive the active tool exactly like the mouse: `mods.cmd` held at a press with any tool but a selection tool drags with the selection tool chosen last (Direct Selection with the Pen until one is), and the release gives the tool back as it was; the reply lists `selection`, `key` (the key object, null without one) and `tool`. With the Shape Builder or the Live Paint Bucket and a selection of more than 128 segments, the app finds the regions off the UI thread, so a `move` replies before the region under the pointer is highlighted, and the highlight shows in the first frame after the regions are found |
+| `ui.pointer` | `{events:[{kind: down|drag|up|move|doubleclick, x, y, space?: "doc"|"screen", mods?}]}` | drive the active tool exactly like the mouse: `mods.cmd` held at a press with any tool but a selection tool drags with the selection tool chosen last (Direct Selection with the Pen until one is), and the release gives the tool back as it was; the reply lists `selection`, `key` (the key object, null without one) and `tool`. With the Shape Builder or the Live Paint Bucket and a selection of more than 128 segments, the app finds the regions off the UI thread, so a `move` replies before the region under the pointer is highlighted, and the highlight shows in the first frame after the regions are found. With the Shape Builder and such a selection, the app also merges off the UI thread: the reply to the events that end a click or drag comes once the merge is applied. A click or drag made before the regions are found does not wait for them; the app records it and makes it once they are found. Until then the canvas keeps drawing, with the touched regions highlighted and the busy pointer. A click or drag sent meanwhile, with `mods.cmd` too, and the Shape Builder's arrow keys are made after the merge in the order sent, and the reply to such a request comes once its events are made and any merge they start is applied; a request of `move` events alone is answered at once. A command that can edit, select, save or redraw the documents (an edit, an undo, a selection, a save or an export, a tool option, another tool, another document, closing, a dialog's preview, a menu item, a command of the app's own such as `ui.recolorDialog`, the proof and separations views, a preference, added fonts) waits for the merge and the input sent before it, and runs after them; queries that only read, such as `document.inspect`, run at once on the document before the merge |
 | `ui.key` / `ui.text` | `{key, shift?, alt?, cmd?}` / `{text}` | synthetic keyboard input |
 | `ui.move` | `{x, y}` | screen-point pointer move |
 | `ui.click` / `ui.drag` | `{x, y, button?, count?, shift?, alt?, ctrl?, cmd?}` / `{x, y, toX, toY, steps?, count?, button?, shift?, alt?, ctrl?, cmd?}` | egui pointer input; see synthetic input budgets above |
-| `ui.wheel` | `{x, y, dy?, dx?, unit?: "line"\|"point", shift?, alt?, cmd?}` | a mouse wheel turn over screen point (x, y): `dy` notches up (+) or down, `dx` sideways. Over the canvas the wheel scrolls and Cmd- or Alt-wheel (Option on the Mac) zooms about the pointer; with the `zoomWithMouseWheel` preference the wheel and Alt-wheel zoom about the pointer, Shift-wheel scrolls up and down and Cmd-wheel (Ctrl on Windows and Linux) sideways. Over a focused numeric field (click it first) each notch steps its value as Up/Down do (Shift: ten, Cmd/Ctrl: a tenth) and the panel stays put; over anything else in a panel the wheel scrolls it |
+| `ui.wheel` | `{x, y, dy?, dx?, unit?: "line"\|"point", shift?, alt?, cmd?}` | a mouse wheel turn over screen point (x, y): `dy` notches up (+) or down, `dx` sideways. Over the canvas the wheel scrolls, Cmd-wheel (Ctrl on Windows and Linux) scrolls sideways and Alt-wheel (Option on the Mac) zooms about the pointer (with the `ctrlWheelScrollsSideways` preference off, Cmd-wheel zooms too); with the `zoomWithMouseWheel` preference the wheel and Alt-wheel zoom about the pointer, Shift-wheel scrolls up and down and Cmd-wheel (Ctrl on Windows and Linux) sideways. Over a focused numeric field (click it first) each notch steps its value as Up/Down do (Shift: ten, Cmd/Ctrl: a tenth) and the panel stays put; over anything else in a panel the wheel scrolls it. Over the canvas, the wheel preferences in `docs/mcp.md` change what these keys do |
 | `ui.set` | `{brightness?, panel?, rulers?, outline?, grid?, smartGuides?, boundingBox?, controlBar?, imageTracePreview?}` | `outline`: View › Outline for the active document only (each document has its own, a document opens in Preview, and `ui.inspect` shows it as `view.outline`; an error without a document). `imageTracePreview`: the Image Trace panel's Preview (`ui.inspect` shows it as `ui.image_trace_preview`) |
 | `ui.dialog.set` / `.confirm` / `.cancel` | `{field, value}` or `{fields: [{field, value}…]}` | fill and submit the open dialog. `ui.dialog.set` takes the fields the dialog has (`ui.inspect`), `__` fields, `discard` on a dialog with a discard button, `preview` on one with a live preview, the fields that the dialog reads but adds only when a control changes (such as `searchFolder`, or `copy` in the Transform dialogs), and the fields it passes to the command it runs: every parameter of the `command` dialog's command (`ui.paramDialog`), and the `textureImage` that Load Texture… sets in the Glass and Texturizer effects; any other field is an error that lists the dialog's fields, and the dialog stays as it was `fields` sets the list (at most 256 items) in order (a missing `value` is `null`) and checks every item first: when one is refused, the call is an error and no field changes |
 | `ui.screenshot` | `{path?, data?}` | capture the window (PNG), written to `path`; `data: true` sends it back as `pngBase64` too. The inline PNG is capped at 64 MiB: with a `path` the file is still written and `pngBase64` is omitted when the image is larger, while a path-less `data: true` request fails if either the raw RGBA image or the encoded PNG exceeds the cap. Needs a presented frame: with the screen locked or the window minimized/covered it fails after ~8 s with an explanatory error |
 | `ui.render` | `{path?, scale?, artboard?, data?, traceViews?}` | render an artboard headlessly (PNG with the pixels of `app.export {format: "png", background: "white"}` at the same scale; `artboard`: its 0-based index, default the first; `traceViews: true`: Image Trace objects draw in their View, as on the canvas, instead of their tracing result): written to `path`, else (or with `data: true` as well) sent back as `pngBase64` |
 | `ui.render` | `{path?, scale?, artboard?, data?}` | render an artboard headlessly (PNG with the pixels of `app.export {format: "png", background: "white"}` at the same scale; `artboard`: its 0-based index, default the first): written to `path`, else (or with `data: true` as well) sent back as `pngBase64` |
 | `ui.resize` / `ui.focus` | | |
-| `app.open` / `app.save` / `app.export` / `app.quit` | `{path}` / `{path?}` / `{path?, format?, artboard?, range?, scale?, …}` | `app.open` reads every format `document.open` reads (see `document.formats`) and returns its result (`{index, title, format, warnings, …}`; `warnings` say what didn't come in as it was, such as an EPS shown as its preview image and why its PostScript couldn't be read), or null when a dialog asks first or a library loads. `app.export` encodes through the engine's `document.export` (same options; the document keeps its path) and writes `path` through the host; without `path` it returns `{dataBase64, format, bytes}`, as headless mode does. `app.quit`, `file.close` and `file.closeAll` first open a `saveChanges` dialog for each modified document (they return `{"pending": "saveChanges"}`): `ui.dialog.confirm` saves, `ui.dialog.set {field: "discard", value: true}` then confirm discards, `ui.dialog.cancel` cancels the whole close or quit |
+| `app.open` / `app.save` / `app.export` / `app.quit` | `{path, importer?, params?}` / `{path?}` / `{path?, format?, artboard?, range?, scale?, …}` | `app.open` reads every format `document.open` reads (see `document.formats`) and returns its result (`{index, title, format, warnings, …}`; `warnings` say what didn't come in as it was, such as an EPS shown as its preview image and why its PostScript couldn't be read), or null when a dialog asks first or a library loads. With `importer` (an importer plug-in's format id, `plugin.<id>`) it runs `file.openWith`: the file opens with that importer, also when a built-in format reads its extension, with the importer's parameters `params` (their defaults when omitted; no dialog asks for them). Without `importer`, `params` go to the importer that opens the file, and a built-in format does not read them. `app.export` encodes through the engine's `document.export` (same options; the document keeps its path) and writes `path` through the host; without `path` it returns `{dataBase64, format, bytes}`, as headless mode does. It refuses a key that no format takes, and an unknown key inside a PDF or EPS option object, before it writes anything (`docs/mcp.md`, Parameter keys). `app.save` refuses a key that no save format takes, beside the path or in `options`, the same way. `app.quit`, `file.close` and `file.closeAll` first open a `saveChanges` dialog for each modified document (they return `{"pending": "saveChanges"}`): `ui.dialog.confirm` saves, `ui.dialog.set {field: "discard", value: true}` then confirm discards, `ui.dialog.cancel` cancels the whole close or quit |
 | `app.export` with `useArtboards` | `{path, useArtboards: true, range? \| artboards?, …}` | Export As: PNG, JPEG and WebP write one file per chosen artboard (default all; SVG does so for a `range`), `<path stem>-<artboard>.<ext>`, and return `{path, files: [path…]}`; a PDF keeps them as pages of `path`. `useArtboards: false` covers the bounds of the visible art. The menu's Export As… is `file.exportAs`: the `exportAs` dialog (`format`, `useArtboards`, `all`, `range`), then a save dialog and the format's options: `pngOptions` / `jpgOptions` / `webpOptions`, `svgOptions`, or `savePdf` for a PDF with Use Artboards |
 | `ui.dialog.*` on `gradientStop` | `{field: "color" \| "opacity" \| "location", value}` | double-clicking a stop on the Gradient tool's annotator opens its popover (fields `index`, `x`, `y`, `tab`); set `color` (hex), `opacity` or `location` (percentages) and `ui.dialog.confirm` to apply them to the selected stop. `gradient.selectStop {index}` picks the stop the annotator, the panels and Delete/←/→ (`ui.key`) act on |
 | `engine.execute` `ui.savePdfDialog` | `{path?, preset?, range?, …document.exportPdf options}` | opens the Save PDF dialog (`file.export.pdf` with no params opens it too). Its fields are the `document.exportPdf` options: set `compatibility` with `ui.dialog.set {field: "compatibility", value: "1.5"}`, a whole section with `{field: "compression", value: {…}}`, the artboards with `__allArtboards: false` and `range`, the visible section with `__section` (General, Compression, Marks and Bleeds, Output, Advanced, Security, Summary). `ui.dialog.confirm` writes `path` (else asks for one), returns `{path, bytes, warnings}` and opens the file when `viewAfterSaving` is set |
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ the two can still win that race.
 | `engine.execute` `file.exportSelection` | `{multiple?}` | File › Export Selection…: collects the selected objects as one asset (`assets.add`; one per object with `multiple: true`) and opens `exportForScreens` on its Assets tab with just them checked → `{assets}`. `document.exportSelection` still exports the selection in one go, without the dialog |
 | CSS Properties panel | `window.panel {panel: "cssProperties"}`; `engine.execute` `css.copy` / `css.exportFile` | the panel shows `css.selection` of the selection (after Generate CSS, while nothing is selected, `css.generate`); its menu holds the options the commands take (`units`, `position`, `dimensions`, `unnamed`, `rasterize`). `css.copy {scope?, …options}` copies the CSS to the clipboard → `{css, rules}`; `css.exportFile {path?, scope?, …options}` writes `css.export` to `path` (else a picked file; the web downloads it) with the pictures of rasterized art next to it → `{path, rules, images, warnings}`, and the status bar shows the first of `warnings` as Export As shows an export's notes |
 
-| `ui.dialog.*` on `importPdf` | `{field: "page" \| "allPages" \| "range" \| "cropTo" \| "password", value}` | opening (`app.open`, `file.open`) a PDF or `.ai` with several pages or a password, or placing one (`file.place` without `page`), opens the Import PDF dialog (`mode`: `open` or `place`; `pageCount`). While `__locked` is true, set `password` and `ui.dialog.confirm` to unlock it (a one-page file then opens or is placed). Then set `allPages: false` and `range` ("2-3, 5") to open some pages, or `page` to place one, and `cropTo` (`bounding`, `art`, `crop`, `trim`, `bleed`, `media`); `ui.dialog.confirm` opens or places them (placing keeps the other `file.place` params, such as `link`, `template` and `at`, in `__place`). `document.open {pages, cropTo, password}` and `file.place {page, crop, password}` do the same without the dialog |
+| `ui.dialog.*` on `importPdf` | `{field: "page" \| "allPages" \| "range" \| "cropTo" \| "password", value}` | opening (`app.open`, `file.open`) a PDF, `.ai` or `.ait` with a password, or one with several pages unless it is a `.ai` or `.ait` with its editing data or carries its VectorCraft document (those open whole), or placing (`file.place` without `page`) any of them with several pages or a password, opens the Import PDF dialog (`mode`: `open` or `place`; `pageCount`). While `__locked` is true, set `password` and `ui.dialog.confirm` to unlock it (a one-page file then opens or is placed). Then set `allPages: false` and `range` ("2-3, 5") to open some pages, or `page` to place one, and `cropTo` (`bounding`, `art`, `crop`, `trim`, `bleed`, `media`); `ui.dialog.confirm` opens or places them (placing keeps the other `file.place` params, such as `link`, `template` and `at`, in `__place`). `document.open {pages, cropTo, password}` and `file.place {page, crop, password}` do the same without the dialog |
 
 Swatch editors: `engine.execute` with `ui.swatchOptions {name}` opens the `swatchOptions` dialog for a colour swatch
 (fields `name`, `spot`, `global`, `mode`: `gray`/`rgb`/`hsb`/`lab`/`cmyk`/`web`, `color`: `"#rrggbb"` or a colour object,
@@ -213,8 +213,11 @@ after it), `__plugin` (the plug-in id) and `preview`. It previews `plugin.run` o
 `ui.dialog.confirm` keeps the result as one undo step and `ui.dialog.cancel` rolls it back. Live-effect plug-ins open
 the `effect` dialog (`effect.dialog {effect: "plugin.<id>"}`). An exporter plug-in with parameters opens the
 `pluginExport` dialog once Export As has picked the file: one field per parameter, `__plugin`, and `__export` (the
-export's own parameters); `ui.dialog.confirm` writes the file. `ui.installPlugin {path?}` installs a `.wasm` (without
-a path it asks for one); see [plugins.md](plugins.md).
+export's own parameters); `ui.dialog.confirm` writes the file. An importer plug-in with parameters opens the
+`pluginImport` dialog when `file.openWith` is given no `params`: one field per parameter, `__plugin`, and `__open`
+(`path` and `importer`); `ui.dialog.confirm` opens the file. `ui.installPlugin {path?}` installs a `.wasm` (without
+a path it asks for one); one that needs approval opens the `pluginInstall` dialog, which only a person can confirm
+(`ui.dialog.confirm` and injected input are refused); see [plugins.md](plugins.md).
 
 Overprint Black: the Edit → Edit Colors → Overprint Black… menu item opens a `command` parameter dialog for
 `edit.colors.overprintBlack` (fields `remove`, `percentage`, `fill`, `stroke`, `includeCmyBlacks`,
@@ -244,6 +247,11 @@ Color Themes panel (`window.panel {panel: "colorThemes"}`): its Create tab makes
 My Themes tab lists the saved themes; every action runs a command (`colorTheme.save`, `colorTheme.delete`,
 `colorTheme.addToSwatches`, `swatch.newGroup` for the theme being made), and `colorTheme.list` reads the library.
 
+Color Wheel panel (`window.panel {panel: "colorWheel"}`): a hue ring around a saturation and brightness square. A
+pick runs the commands the Color panel's sliders run: `paint.setFill` or `paint.setStroke` with `keepModel`,
+`paint.editGradient` for a gradient's selected stop, and `paint.freeform.setPoint` for a freeform gradient's selected
+point (the first stop or point when none is selected).
+
 Edit Colors dialogs: `ui.colorBalanceDialog` opens Adjust Colors (`colorBalance`: fields `mode` `gray`/`rgb`/`cmyk`/
 `global`, the channels `r` `g` `b` / `c` `m` `y` `k` / `gray` / `tint` (global mode) from −100 to 100, `convert`, `fill`, `stroke`,
 `preview`) and `ui.saturateDialog` opens Saturate (`saturate`: `intensity` −100..100, `preview`). Both preview on the
@@ -328,7 +336,19 @@ not commands, so drive them with `ui.click` if needed. Close runs `app.quit` (th
 modified documents), and empty bar space and the 5 pt window edges move and resize the window. Preferences › User
 Interface › System Title Bar (`systemTitleBar`, read when the app starts) gives the window its OS decorations back
 instead: the OS title then shows the active document (`*name — VectorCraft` with unsaved changes) and the app bar
-drops its brand mark. On macOS the window buttons are centred on the app bar; the web build is unchanged.
+drops its brand mark. On Linux the app bar also drops its brand mark whenever the desktop draws the window's frame, with
+System Title Bar on or off. On macOS the window buttons are centred on the app bar; the web build is unchanged.
+
+On Linux and the BSDs, Preferences › User Interface › VectorCraft Title Bar on Every Desktop (`appTitleBar`, read
+when the app starts, off by default) turns off the desktop's frame and uses the app bar as the title bar in the
+sessions where the desktop would draw the frame: X11 sessions, Wayland compositors that draw server-side decorations
+such as KDE Plasma, and a window opened through XWayland. System Title Bar and `VECTORCRAFT_TITLEBAR` (`app`, or
+`system` or `desktop`) take precedence over it. The checkbox is dimmed while either applies, and a note under it names
+each one that applies. `VECTORCRAFT_TITLEBAR` also takes precedence over System Title Bar for the run it is set in:
+`app` keeps the app bar as the title bar with System Title Bar on. Only the values `app`, `system` and `desktop` take
+precedence (case-sensitive, surrounding spaces ignored); any other value, such as `unknown`, is ignored and does not
+override System Title Bar. While the variable is set to one of those values, the Preferences dialog dims
+System Title Bar and its `__titlebarFromEnv` field is `true`.
 
 Fill/Stroke chips and panel shortcuts: the Control bar's and Properties' Fill and Stroke chips bring their proxy
 forward (`paint.toggleActive {fill}`) and open a popover with the Swatches panel (Shift-click: the Color panel's mixer);
@@ -428,7 +448,9 @@ below). Dragging a tab, a group's drag bar or an icon out of the dock and droppi
 floats it; dropping it on a group's tabs, on a group's upper or lower edge or beside a column docks it there. On
 the desktop each floating window is an OS window of its own; on the web and on Wayland it floats inside the app
 window. `ui.toolbar_pos` in `ui.inspect` is the Tools panel's corner (null: docked); `window.panel.float` and
-`window.panel.dock` with `panel: "tools"` float it at `x`, `y` or dock it on the window's left edge.
+`window.panel.dock` with `panel: "tools"` float it at `x`, `y` or dock it on the window's left edge. With
+`window.toolsBesideCanvas {on?}` (Window › Toolbars › Keep Tools Beside the Canvas, off by default; `ui.tools_beside_canvas`)
+the docked Tools panel sits between left-side panels and the canvas, and `window.panel.dock` docks it there.
 
 Flatten Transparency: `ui.flattenTransparencyDialog` opens the `flattenTransparency` dialog for the selection
 (fields `preset`: a preset name, setting it loads that preset's options; the option keys of
@@ -666,9 +688,11 @@ with.
 
 DXF Options: Export As… with the DXF format (`file.exportAs {format: "dxf"}`, then the save dialog), or
 `ui.dxfOptionsDialog {path?, …document.exportDxf options}` for agents, opens the `dxfOptions` dialog. Its fields are
-`document.export` params: `version`, `unit` (a unit name such as `Millimeters`), `scale`, `scaleLineweights`, `colors`
-(`8`, `16`, `256`, `true`), `rasterFormat` (`png`, `jpeg`), `preserve` (`appearance`, `editability`), `selectedOnly`,
-`alterPaths`, `outlineText`, plus `path` and the artboard choice. `ui.dialog.confirm` checks them (a bad value, or
+`document.export` params: `dxfPreset` (`custom`, `cnc`), `version`, `unit` (a unit name such as `Millimeters`), `scale`,
+`scaleLineweights`, `colors` (`8`, `16`, `256`, `true`), `rasterFormat` (`png`, `jpeg`), `preserve` (`appearance`,
+`editability`), `selectedOnly`, `alterPaths`, `outlineText`, plus `path` and the artboard choice. Setting `dxfPreset` to
+`cnc` sets the fields it sets (see `document.exportDxf`), and `dxfPreset` reads `custom` again once one of them is
+changed; setting it to `custom` puts back the defaults. `ui.dialog.confirm` checks them (a bad value, or
 Export Selected Art Only with nothing selected, keeps the dialog open), remembers them for the next DXF Options and
 writes the file (asking for a path when there is none). Export As also lists DWG, greyed out: setting its `format` to
 `dwg` shows, and on confirm answers, the hint to export DXF instead.

docs/development.md

@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ A file opened from the file manager (double-click, Open With, a drop on the exec
 
 ## Linux: Wayland and X11
 
-On GNOME/Wayland, enable **Preferences › User Interface › System Title Bar** and restart to use winit's font-free Adwaita window controls (`wayland-csd-adwaita-notitle`); the existing custom title bar remains the Linux default.
+On GNOME/Wayland, enable **Preferences › User Interface › System Title Bar** and restart to use winit's font-free Adwaita window controls (`wayland-csd-adwaita-notitle`); the existing custom title bar remains the Linux default. On X11, on a Wayland compositor that draws server-side decorations such as KDE Plasma, and in a window opened through XWayland, enable **Preferences › User Interface › VectorCraft Title Bar on Every Desktop** and restart to use the app bar as the title bar instead of the desktop's frame. `VECTORCRAFT_TITLEBAR=app`, `=system` or `=desktop` chooses the frame for one run and takes precedence over System Title Bar and VectorCraft Title Bar on Every Desktop. The variable is case-sensitive and surrounding spaces are ignored; any other value, such as `unknown`, is ignored and does not override System Title Bar.
 
 The window runs natively on Wayland (eframe's `wayland` feature) and on X11. On machines with two GPUs it renders on the one the desktop runs on unless Preferences say otherwise; see [Desktop graphics processor](#desktop-graphics-processor) (#502). The system clipboard (`apps/vectorcraft/src/clipboard.rs`) is arboard with its `wayland-data-control` feature:
 

docs/effects-parity.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Effects parity
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-06 · **Change:** minor (Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate apply to groups and layers, their objects turning about one shared axis (#4506); the Transform effect's copies of a path with a fill and a stroke (or several fills and strokes, an even-odd fill, or a partly transparent one) are drawn each above the one before, as Expand Appearance makes them (#5920); Expand Appearance makes each copy of a path's Transform effect an object of its own (#5612); previously: Pixelate › Color Halftone: Max Radius in pixels of the Document Raster Effects resolution, 4–127 px, with older documents converted on opening and radii written back in points for older app versions (#3260); Effect dialogs clamp bounded length inputs immediately on commit and flash rejection on invalid input (#4638); previously: Drop Shadow Darkness uses fixed RGB subtraction and CMYK black addition; scores unchanged; Pathfinder › Trap: the Pathfinder panel's Trap… and Effect › Pathfinder › Trap… add an overprinting strip of the lighter colour where two solid colours meet; recounted with Hard Mix (#3061) and Soft Mix already in the catalogue: Pathfinder 13/13, Illustrator effects 49/50) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-08 · **Change:** minor (Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate merge contours that cross, touch or overlap, as type often draws a glyph, before building a solid; previously: Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate apply to groups and layers, their objects turning about one shared axis (#4506); the Transform effect's copies of a path with a fill and a stroke (or several fills and strokes, an even-odd fill, or a partly transparent one) are drawn each above the one before, as Expand Appearance makes them (#5920); Expand Appearance makes each copy of a path's Transform effect an object of its own (#5612); previously: Pixelate › Color Halftone: Max Radius in pixels of the Document Raster Effects resolution, 4–127 px, with older documents converted on opening and radii written back in points for older app versions (#3260); Effect dialogs clamp bounded length inputs immediately on commit and flash rejection on invalid input (#4638); previously: Drop Shadow Darkness uses fixed RGB subtraction and CMYK black addition; scores unchanged; Pathfinder › Trap: the Pathfinder panel's Trap… and Effect › Pathfinder › Trap… add an overprinting strip of the lighter colour where two solid colours meet; recounted with Hard Mix (#3061) and Soft Mix already in the catalogue: Pathfinder 13/13, Illustrator effects 49/50) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
 
 Every entry of Illustrator's Effect menu, by its public feature name, against VectorCraft's effects catalogue
 (`effect_catalog()` in `crates/effects/src/lib.rs`) and the Effect menu built from it
@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ Part of [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md); open work is in [gaps.md](
 
 | Group | Illustrator | VectorCraft | % | Remaining (h) |
 |---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
-| Illustrator effects (vector and stylize) | 50 | 49 | 98% | 4–8 |
+| Illustrator effects (vector and stylize) | 50 | 50 | 100% | — |
 | Photoshop effects (raster, Effect Gallery) | 57 | 57 | 100% | 1–2 (Effect Gallery thumbnails and in-dialog preview) |
-| 3D and Materials | 4 (+3 Classic) | 4 (initial: Extrude & Bevel, Revolve, Inflate, Rotate) | ~25% | 25–45 |
+| 3D and Materials | 4 (+3 Classic) | 4 (+1 Classic; initial: Extrude & Bevel, Revolve, Inflate, Rotate, Extrude & Bevel (Classic)) | ~25% | 25–45 |
 | Beyond Illustrator: Effect › Color Adjustments (6), effect plug-ins (WebAssembly) | — | 6 + plug-ins | — | — |
 
 ## Illustrator effects
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Part of [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md); open work is in [gaps.md](
 | Pathfinder | Add, Intersect, Exclude, Subtract, Minus Back, Divide, Trim, Merge, Crop, Outline, Hard Mix, Soft Mix, Trap | 13/13 | Trap traps only solid fills (gradients and patterns hide what is below them but don't trap) and spreads each colour's visible area as a whole; the public page gives no default values, so Trap's 0.25 pt, 100% and 40% are VectorCraft's own |
 | Rasterize | Rasterize… (as a live effect) | 1/1 | — |
 | Stylize | Drop Shadow, Feather, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Round Corners, Scribble | 6/6 | Scribble Options' Settings presets |
-| SVG Filters | Apply SVG Filter… and the filter list | 0/1 | the whole submenu (SVG filters on import round-trip already) |
+| SVG Filters | Apply SVG Filter… and the filter list | 1/1 | The submenu lists the document's own filters: VectorCraft ships no default filters. A filter that is the object's last effect is written to SVG as a `<filter>` element; otherwise SVG export draws the object as an image. A filter on a turned or skewed object in an imported SVG is left out with a warning |
 | Warp | Arc, Arc Lower, Arc Upper, Arch, Bulge, Shell Lower, Shell Upper, Flag, Wave, Fish, Rise, Fisheye, Inflate, Squeeze, Twist | 15/15 | warp point editing in envelopes; Arc is a circular arc in the object's own proportions (#1578) |
 
 Document Raster Effects Settings exists. When the 64 million pixel cap on an effect image lowers
@@ -179,20 +179,21 @@ VectorCraft choices; an original approximation, never compared with another appl
 | Item | Ours |
 |---|---|
 | Revolve | initial: live, editable profile, rotation and light gizmos, default-on Cap with continuous curved rims, smooth vector shading and round seam joins, SVG/PDF output, Expand Appearance ([revolve.md](revolve.md), #846) |
-| Extrude & Bevel, Inflate, Rotate | initial: live, depth, twist, taper, solid or hollow caps, five original bevel shapes, Inflate volume, both sides, twist, taper and cap, Rotate of every fill and stroke, groups and layers turned about one shared axis (#4506), Position presets, rotation and light gizmos, SVG/PDF output, Expand Appearance ([three-d.md](three-d.md)) |
+| Extrude & Bevel, Inflate, Rotate | initial: live, depth, twist, taper, solid or hollow caps, five original bevel shapes, Inflate volume, both sides, twist, taper and cap, Rotate of every fill and stroke, groups and layers turned about one shared axis (#4506), contours that cross, touch or overlap merged first ([three-d.md](three-d.md)), Position presets, rotation and light gizmos, SVG/PDF output, Expand Appearance ([three-d.md](three-d.md)) |
 | Materials panel, lighting, ray-traced render | Window › 3D and Materials panel with the object types (Plane, Extrude, Revolve, Inflate) and the Object, Rotation and Lighting settings of the applied effect ([three-d.md](three-d.md#3d-and-materials-panel)); one to ten directional lights with per-light Color (opaque RGB, white by default), Intensity, Rotation, Height, Softness and neutral Ambient Light, Revolve and colored Inflate use smooth vector shading; Extrude & Bevel and Rotate retain planar shading; original Standard, Diffuse, Top Left and Right lighting rigs; no materials, shadows or ray tracing |
-| 3D (Classic): Extrude & Bevel, Revolve, Rotate | none |
+| 3D (Classic): Extrude & Bevel, Revolve, Rotate | Extrude & Bevel (Classic) initial: live, Extrude Depth, Cap, five original bevel shapes with Height and Bevel Extent In or Out, Position presets and rotation gizmo, Perspective, Wireframe, No Shading, Diffuse and Plastic surfaces with one to ten lights, Light Intensity, Ambient Light, Highlight Intensity and Size, Blend Steps, Black, Custom or no Shading Color, Draw Hidden Faces ([create 3D objects](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/special-effects-styles/create-3d-graphics/create-3d-objects.html)); Revolve (Classic), Rotate (Classic) and Map Art: none |
 | Turntable (30.0 beta) | none |
-| Export 3D objects (OBJ, USDA, glTF) | none |
+| Export 3D objects (OBJ, USDA, glTF) | initial: Asset Export's Export 3D Object collects an object with Extrude & Bevel, Revolve, Inflate or Rotate as a 3D asset, and Export writes its solids as a USDA (the default), USDZ, glTF or OBJ mesh with a material in each solid's paint color (`assets.add3D`, `assets.set3DFormat`, `assets.export3D`); no textures, map art or shading ([3D export help](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/special-effects-styles/create-3d-graphics/export-3d-vector-artwork.html)) |
 
 The `three-d` crate (depends on `geom` and `pathops`, with no UI or GPU dependencies) builds, rotates, projects, shades and depth-sorts the surfaces;
 the effects crate turns them into art. What's left (materials and shadows, ray-traced rendering,
-angular cut caps, exact visibility, 3D Classic, Turntable, 3D export) is 25–45 h.
+angular cut caps, exact visibility, the rest of 3D Classic (Revolve, Rotate, Map Art), Turntable) is 25–45 h.
 
 ## Revision history
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-08 | minor | Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate merge contours that cross, touch or overlap (a glyph's arm across its stem) before building a solid, so the solid follows the shape as it is filled; others are built as drawn ([three-d.md](three-d.md)); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate apply to a group or layer: a solid for every path, compound path and type in it, all turned about one shared axis as the public documentation describes for groups ([three-d.md](three-d.md#groups), #4506); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | The Transform effect's copies of a path or compound path whose fills and strokes stack (a fill and a stroke, several of either, an even-odd fill, or a partly transparent or blended one) are drawn each as an object of its own above the one before, as Expand Appearance makes them, instead of one path of every copy whose fill lay under every copy's stroke (#5920). A single opaque stroke or nonzero fill still draws as one path. Counts unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-04 | minor | Expand Appearance of a path or compound path whose Transform effect makes copies gives a group of one object per copy, each with the path's fills and strokes, instead of one compound path of every copy; copies of copies nest (#5612). Counts unchanged. |

docs/gaps.md

@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 # Gaps
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-07 · **Change:** minor (Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged; Indian-language hyphenation review and license allowlist, #4947; opening a slow file shows a progress window, part of #5930; Hindi catalog and contributor loanword preferences; agent wording pass complete; wider native proofreading welcome; an image zoomed in on is separated, colorized or proofed only where it shows (#4155); scores and estimates unchanged; a document's first frame renders on the render worker, so opening a heavy file no longer freezes the window; scores and estimates unchanged; large images in CMYK documents are shrunk before they are separated into ink planes (#4155); scores and estimates unchanged; `.ai` paths with a Calligraphic brush open brushed, with the 6D Art Pen's channels, and Windows reads the pen's tilt and barrel rotation, #372; scores and estimates unchanged; Compound Shapes add-on, beyond Illustrator; scores and estimates unchanged; Contour add-on, beyond Illustrator; scores and estimates unchanged; a slow first frame is waited for instead of restarting without the graphics adapter, and the menu bar no longer waits for the installed fonts' scan; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-09 · **Change:** minor (Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged; 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; G9: EPS gradients drawn as abutting strips import as one gradient, without seams; Tools stays beside the canvas with left-side panels; new gradients follow document color mode; 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; Indian-language hyphenation review and license allowlist, #4947; opening a slow file shows a progress window, part of #5930; Hindi catalog and contributor loanword preferences; agent wording pass complete; wider native proofreading welcome; an image zoomed in on is separated, colorized or proofed only where it shows (#4155); scores and estimates unchanged; a document's first frame renders on the render worker, so opening a heavy file no longer freezes the window; scores and estimates unchanged; large images in CMYK documents are shrunk before they are separated into ink planes (#4155); scores and estimates unchanged; `.ai` paths with a Calligraphic brush open brushed, with the 6D Art Pen's channels, and Windows reads the pen's tilt and barrel rotation, #372; scores and estimates unchanged; Compound Shapes add-on, beyond Illustrator; scores and estimates unchanged; Contour add-on, beyond Illustrator; scores and estimates unchanged; a slow first frame is waited for instead of restarting without the graphics adapter, and the menu bar no longer waits for the installed fonts' scan; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
 
 ## Feature submission evidence
 
+**Feature evidence last updated:** 2026-11-02.
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Opening a file that takes longer than 0.4 s shows a progress window: the file name, a moving bar (reading reports no steps), how many more files wait, Cancel (Esc; the file doesn't open) and Continue in Background (`file.cancelOpen`, `file.openInBackground`); it never opens over another dialog or progress window (part of #5930); scores and estimates unchanged |
 Raster rendering fits and preflattens curved stroke outlines more tightly only below four times the raster tolerance, retaining thin-band coverage without changing stroke weight or vector export geometry. Current cached character/object outlines, cropped long strokes, gradient clips and effect rasters share the helper; cropped-region reuse and guarded flattening remain. The unchanged `fractional_curved_strokes_retain_coverage_between_notches` regression covers fractional weights, rotation, phase, opacity and f32-rounded endpoints. This is a quality/cost tradeoff, not a speed claim. Scores and estimates unchanged.
 
@@ -15,6 +16,8 @@ Group Selection keeps an already selected component selected during a drag; a co
 
 Creating a gradient from solid or empty paint uses the document's color model for its default stops, including drawing its vector with the Gradient tool. Explicit `keepModel: true` retains RGB defaults, and existing gradients keep their own colors. Scores and estimates are unchanged.
 
+Window → Help Bar toggles the bottom tool-help strip independently of the status bar. Its visibility is saved with workspaces and UI preferences; Presentation Mode hides both bars. Scores and estimates are unchanged.
+
 The closed font-family fields in Character, Properties and Control now accept the
 mouse wheel for selected text (#5253). Each effective notch applies one family and
 adds one undo step; the list follows saved font filters, ignores search text, and
@@ -37,6 +40,11 @@ Artboard Options forwards the active Artboard tool's Scale Artwork with Artboard
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-08 | minor | #3380, deletion only: preserve gradient placement and exact surviving geometry; consume owned subpaths with a shared original-node snapshot; consolidate status/evidence and document command/helper contracts. Compound behavior and the existing M2 status entry are retained. Endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-07 | minor | #3380 (deletion only): independent surviving path objects; transformed appearance, stacking, selection, cubic handles and Undo/Redo covered by `delete_path_pieces`; compound semantics retained. Endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-06 | minor | G9: EPS import reads gradients a page paints as abutting strips as one linear gradient each (no seams); an Illustrator EPS whose page drew them that way keeps its layers. Estimate unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-03 | minor | Docked Tools stays between left-side panels and the canvas; redocking accepts canvas and window edges. Requested layout choice; scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-02 | minor | Selection QoL: saved marquee modes, screen drag direction with a 3 px dead zone, and translated mode/E feedback (#5313); VectorCraft addition, scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-07 | minor | Indian-language hyphenation (#4947): eleven MIT-licensed pattern sets, with grapheme and shaping-cluster protection in both composers and existing paragraph limits. Assamese and Sanskrit are selectable; Sanskrit automatic patterns remain pending an allowlisted source. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-05 | minor | G15: long open strokes with an undashed width profile are outlined near the view while keeping profile positions on the full path; a 200,000-segment outline took 59.95 ms before and 8.44 ms after in local median runs. Closed and dashed profile strokes remain whole; estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-05 | minor | G15: Direct Selection reuses one document hit result when choosing the cursor over a path; a 200,000-anchor path's segment cursor took 58.15 ms before and 29.33 ms after in local median runs. Cursor behavior is unchanged; estimate unchanged. |
@@ -49,6 +57,7 @@ Artboard Options forwards the active Artboard tool's Scale Artwork with Artboard
 | 2026-11-05 | minor | G12: Hyphenation › Default Language sets the language of new type unless Document Setup chose one, stored as a tag; each run hyphenates in its own language, English only so far, so 2 Preferences options stay unused (#394) |
 | 2026-11-05 | minor | Compound Shapes add-on (beyond Illustrator): Object › Plug-ins › Compound Shapes lists Make, Release and Expand Compound Shape, and holds a setting, off by default, that makes the Pathfinder panel's Shape Mode buttons make a compound shape on a click and give the permanent result on Alt-click (the default is the reverse). Selected members of a compound shape always take the clicked mode. The setting is `window.pathfinder.compoundShapes`; no existing behavior changes while it is off. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | New gradients use CMYK default stops in CMYK documents, including Gradient tool creation. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-03 | minor | Help Bar has its own Window menu toggle and workspace visibility setting. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-02 | minor | Font-family fields step selected text with the mouse wheel (#5253); no scored gap or estimate reassessed. |
 | 2026-10-24 | minor | G12: General › Corner Radius is the Rounded Rectangle tool's radius, a change while the tool is active reaches it, and the radius ↑/↓ set while drawing (or a Tool Options value) becomes the preference, within 0–1296 pt (#394, `crates/engine/src/tests/constrain_tools.rs`); no entry closed, estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-22 | minor | Reconcile upstream documentation after review F-3; preserve every dated revision and the original scaleArt runtime evidence without repeating completed jobs. |
@@ -106,6 +115,8 @@ from G14 and the budget run of G15: **~170–270 h** one agent, ~50–80 h wall
 
 ## G1 Interaction fidelity
 
+- **Panel collapse controls (#5925, in part):** The small » in a floating tab-group header moves that group into the side icon rail, reusing the existing rail or creating one. An opened rail panel has the same control to fold its flyout back into the rail, including after a tab switch. Both controls preserve the tab group and its menu; other floating groups and full-width docked headers stay as they were. Pointer regressions in `crates/ui-egui/src/panel_docking/tests.rs` cover grouped tabs, reopening, separate groups, a missing rail, the menu and flyout closure after switching tabs; `native_tests.rs` covers the native-window click and removal of the empty palette. Scores and estimates unchanged.
+
 - **Done:** Distance Guides ([public page](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/measure-and-align/grids-and-guides/use-distance-guides-for-accurate-placement.html)): with Smart Guides on and something selected, the Selection tool with Alt/Option held over another object shows the horizontal and vertical distances between them, and over an empty part of an artboard the selection's distances from its four edges, labelled in the General unit; Preferences › Smart Guides › Invoke Distance Guides turns them off. Hover only, as documented: not while moving or nudging. No entry closed; estimates unchanged.
 
 - **Done (part of #4028):** Recolor Artwork › Assign: double-clicking a row's new color opens the Color Picker, as the [public page](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-colors/modify-colors/assign-new-colors-to-selected-artwork.html) describes. OK sets the row's new color in the model it was picked in, so a CMYK mix is no longer a hex value converted back; Cancel leaves the row. A Lab new color is kept, but can't be typed yet: the picker's Lab fields work in RGB, as for fill and stroke. **Missing:** Lab entry in the picker, swatch libraries in the picker and the row's right-click menu (Pick from Swatches, Limit to Library).
@@ -184,7 +195,9 @@ from G14 and the budget run of G15: **~170–270 h** one agent, ~50–80 h wall
 
 ## G9 Illustrator `.ai` and EPS files from real users
 
-- **Done (2026-10-30):** from an audit of a user's `.ai`/EPS files: All Caps and Small Caps; placed files at their box's corner; pages cropped to the art; gradient mesh corners with handle weights of 0 and the transparency written after a mesh, a masked mesh and a blend; a layer's state block with the stroke style; type on a path spaced as the file lays it out (the distance from the path under Align to Path comes from VectorCraft's font metrics, and the fit under Gravity does not reproduce the file's layout); EPS10 legacy-format type; a PDF of some artboards compared on the artboard its page shows. Comparison limits remain unchanged. This narrows G9; scores and estimates unchanged.
+- **Done (2026-11-09):** the fonts an EPS carries draw their glyphs instead of being set as type in an installed font: composite (Type 0) fonts with the 8/8 mapping, plain Type 42 fonts (characters from their glyph names or character map, widths from the font), CID-keyed fonts over CMaps (Type 0 and Type 2 CIDFonts, CIDFonts in a FontSet's Compact Font Format data, base-font CMaps, named CIDFonts over predefined Unicode CMaps set as type) and embedded Type 1 fonts; the show operators' spacing along the baseline is kept as tracking, `kshow` included. Each step is charged to the interpreter's budgets. Hand-written test files only (no corpus file uses these fonts); scores and estimates unchanged. This narrows G9.
+- **Done (2026-11-06):** an EPS page that paints its gradients as rows of abutting one-colour strips imports them as linear gradients, so the seams between strips no longer show and an Illustrator EPS drawn that way keeps its layers instead of opening as its page. This narrows G9; scores and estimates unchanged.
+- **Done (2026-10-30):** from an audit of a user's `.ai`/EPS files: All Caps and Small Caps; placed files at their box's corner; pages cropped to the art; gradient mesh corners with handle weights of 0 and the transparency written after a mesh, a masked mesh and a blend; a layer's state block with the stroke style; type on a path 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, and the fit under Gravity does not reproduce the file's layout); EPS10 legacy-format type; a PDF of some artboards compared on the artboard its page shows. Comparison limits remain unchanged. This narrows G9; scores and estimates unchanged.
 
 - **Save-back update (2026-10-26):** ordinary EPS Save retains page margins and the whole editable document; source-loss confirmation remains. Import fidelity gaps and estimates below are unchanged.
 
@@ -298,6 +311,8 @@ from G14 and the budget run of G15: **~170–270 h** one agent, ~50–80 h wall
 
 ## G11 Correctness bugs in core tools
 
+- **Done, deletion only (#3380):** deleting anchors or segments that disconnect an ordinary contour creates independent selected path objects, preserving appearance, baked transforms, sibling order and one-step Undo/Redo. Existing multi-subpath paths and compound members stay intact. A second Delete removes all selected survivors. Bounds-fitted gradients keep their original placement on the new objects; already placed gradients stay unchanged. Segment endpoint highlighting remains open; broader G11 scope, scores and estimates are unchanged. Evidence: `crates/engine/tests/it/delete_path_pieces.rs` and the Delete/Backspace frame regression in `crates/ui-egui/src/tests/removeanchors.rs`.
+
 - **Live trace result bounds and selection highlights exclude the retained bitmap except in source-image views:** `live_trace_result_bounds_exclude_the_retained_bitmap_at_any_angle` checks every TraceView, geometric and visual bounds and rotated result bounds. `live_trace_selection_highlight_excludes_the_retained_source_rectangle` checks result highlights and the existing ordinary-group policy. Shared editing-child traversal also preserves Shaper handling. Broader scope and estimates unchanged.
 
 - **Implemented, Windows native canvas and regression checks passed in PR #2643 (#2544):** Anchor Point edits selected blend spine points and handles with path-compatible selection/stacking, handle visibility and 45-degree constraints; #2425 perpendicular segment reshaping is preserved. Broader G11 scope and estimates unchanged.
@@ -427,7 +442,8 @@ from G14 and the budget run of G15: **~170–270 h** one agent, ~50–80 h wall
   own pixels until a document takes them in; estimate unchanged.
 - **Missing:** CJK vertical
   composition (mojikumi sets and dialog, kinsoku settings #633, manual tate-chu-yoko), Middle Eastern
-  features beyond bidi, digit types, Character Direction and Kashidas (Middle Eastern composers, a split caret), spell check with an open dictionary,
+  features beyond bidi, digit types, Character Direction and Kashidas (Middle Eastern composers, a split caret), spell check (its engine is done, #4936: `text.spelling.check` and
+  `text.spelling.suggest` on craft-proof; the Check Spelling dialog, Auto Spell Check and the custom dictionary remain),
   Touch Type, Retype, Snap to Glyph; optional preservation of font sizes during group scaling (#1034 enhancement).
   Itemized in [type-parity.md](type-parity.md).
 - **Impact:** professional typography and Japanese/Chinese publishing.
@@ -623,9 +639,9 @@ from G14 and the budget run of G15: **~170–270 h** one agent, ~50–80 h wall
   as a `.vectorcraft` library into the user library folder (listed under User Defined) or a file
   (`brush.libraries`, `brush.addFromLibrary`, `brush.saveLibrary`, `brush.loadLibrary`).
 - **Missing:** the Art brush's Overlap; more built-in brush, symbol and graphic-style libraries (original,
-  generated in code, never Adobe's); dynamic symbols' on-canvas editing (Direct Selection of an object inside a
-  dynamic instance, with the Fill/Stroke controls and Appearance panel then setting its change) and their `.ai`
-  read and write; Global Edit of groups holding type or
+  generated in code, never Adobe's); dynamic symbols' on-canvas editing beyond a solid fill and stroke on a path,
+  compound path or type object inside a dynamic instance (Direct Selection selects it, and the Fill/Stroke controls set
+  its change) and their `.ai` read and write; Global Edit of groups holding type or
   images, rotated copies as matches, Shift-click to leave a match out and highlighting matches before the start;
   9-slice guides outside the symbol's art (a dragged guide stops at the art's edge).
 - **Estimate:** 14–24 h.
@@ -635,8 +651,8 @@ from G14 and the budget run of G15: **~170–270 h** one agent, ~50–80 h wall
 - **Done:** an initial live Revolve in the `three-d` crate (#846, from the contributor who offered in #605), with automatic smooth vector shading, default-on circular caps and spike-free continuous rims;
   Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate with Position presets ([three-d.md](three-d.md), #1407). Colored Inflate has automatic smooth vector lighting from shared membrane normals. White-light Inflate keeps its existing appearance. All four take one to ten colored directional lights, with neutral ambient applied once, a light list and independent previewing controls. Standard, Diffuse, Top Left and Right select original rigs, shared with commands; manual settings show Custom.
 - **Missing:** materials (base, Substance, graphics), shadows,
-  ray-traced rendering, angular cut caps, exact visibility for intersecting and concave surfaces, 3D Classic,
-  Turntable, 3D export (OBJ, USDA, glTF).
+  ray-traced rendering, angular cut caps, exact visibility for intersecting and concave surfaces, the rest of 3D
+  Classic (Revolve, Rotate, Map Art), Turntable, textures, map art and shading in 3D export.
 - **Impact:** specialist; Materials is the one menu stub left.
 - **Estimate:** 25–45 h; plan in `plan/` before coding.
 
@@ -742,9 +758,14 @@ from G14 and the budget run of G15: **~170–270 h** one agent, ~50–80 h wall
 ## G17 Ecosystem: third-party plug-ins
 
 - **Missing:** Illustrator's ecosystem is a C++ plug-in SDK and a large commercial plug-in market. VectorCraft
-  has sandboxed WebAssembly plug-ins for object filters, live effects and file formats it writes
-  ([plugins.md](plugins.md)) and MCP; missing are tool plug-ins, panel plug-ins, importers, a plug-in directory and
+  has sandboxed WebAssembly plug-ins for object filters, live effects and file formats it writes or reads
+  ([plugins.md](plugins.md)) and MCP; missing are tool plug-ins, panel plug-ins, a plug-in directory and
   any third-party plug-ins (#710).
+- **Done:** importer plug-ins (`"kind": "importer"`). A plug-in adds a read-only file format that File › Open lists
+  and File › Open With names; `document.open` uses it for a file no built-in format reads, or when `importer` names it.
+  It is given at most 128 MiB of the file and returns paths and compound paths, checked as a filter's output is, which
+  become a new document; nothing opens when it fails, declines or is cancelled. Engine, unit and headless Open With
+  regressions.
 - **Done:** exporter plug-ins (`"kind": "exporter"`). A plug-in adds a write-only file format that File › Export ›
   Export As lists after the built-in ones and `document.export` writes (`plugin.<id>`, or a path ending in one of its
   extensions). It is given the document as the native file's JSON and its parameters, with a larger budget than a
@@ -820,6 +841,9 @@ trap, and the defaults (0.25 pt, 100%, 40%) are VectorCraft's own, the pages giv
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-09 | minor | G9: EPS import: the fonts an EPS carries draw their glyphs instead of being set as type in an installed font: composite (Type 0) fonts with the 8/8 mapping, plain Type 42 fonts (characters from their glyph names or character map, widths from the font), CID-keyed fonts over CMaps (Type 0 and Type 2 CIDFonts, CIDFonts in a FontSet's Compact Font Format data, base-font CMaps, named CIDFonts over predefined Unicode CMaps set as type) and embedded Type 1 fonts; the show operators' spacing along the baseline is kept as tracking, `kshow` included. Each step is charged to the interpreter's budgets. Hand-written test files only (no corpus file uses these fonts); scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-08 | minor | G4 type: the spell check engine is done (`text.spelling.check`, `text.spelling.suggest` on craft-proof, #4936); the Check Spelling dialog, Auto Spell Check and the custom dictionary remain; scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-08 | minor | Floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it (#5925, in part); tab groups remain intact. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-07 | minor | Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Hindi (`hi`): 7,877-row machine-assisted catalog, zero/one singular plurals, desktop font fallback and optional Devanagari craft-fonts fallback; all 55 translation tests pass; native review and a web font remain; scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-05 | minor | G15: nearby hits on plain long strokes and outlines check their candidate segments directly; a 200,000-anchor middle hit took about 11–13 ms before and 1.0–1.4 ms after in paired runs. An inside-bounds miss fell from 18.7 ms to 1.6 ms. Estimate unchanged; idle budget run still open. |
@@ -902,15 +926,6 @@ trap, and the defaults (0.25 pt, 100%, 40%) are VectorCraft's own, the pages giv
 | 2026-10-22 | minor | Affinity import: master pages, tables, paragraph formats, text scale, shadows, glows, outlines, overlays, underlines, strikethrough, CMYK pixel layers through the document's profile and editable embedded documents, text placed as Affinity places it (AF.5, from storytold/designcraft#291). No entry closed, estimates unchanged. Hostile files stay bounded: one budget for the whole read (layers, pixels, characters, table cells, embedded documents included), a work budget for overlays, capped master page copies, objects past `MAX_COORD` left out; the import fuzzer and limit tests cover tables, paragraphs, effects, overlays, master pages, CMYK pixels and embedded documents. |
 | 2026-10-22 | minor | Recolor Artwork Edit chips scroll within the available screen height (#3416); small palettes retain their tab height; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | G17: filter plug-ins keep data with the document (`documentData`), as its foreign data, so the native file needs no section of its own; engine and unit regressions. No entry closed, estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | Artboard Options honors Scale Artwork with Artboard for preset, orientation and typed-size changes; both Fits keep artwork stationary; scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | G8: stacked geometry effects make at most 2 million anchors of a path and about 8 million lines to draw: Roughen, Zig Zag, Free Distort, Twist, the warps and Transform build within it, and an effect that would still pass it is left out (#3578). No entry closed, estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | G13: gradient Method (30.0), Classic or Perceptual, in the Gradient panel, on the canvas, in raster exports and as images in SVG and PDF exports (with Dither, a Perceptual fill takes its noise); G13 estimate 14–24 h → 13–23 h. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | G8: SVG images in SVG images share the depth cap (any data URL type usvg reads as SVG) and SVGZ images one 512 MB unpacking cap; past either, an image is left out with a warning (#3562, #3563). No entry closed, estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | G2: the Effect Gallery shipped (#2883): Effect › Effect Gallery… browses the Artistic, Brush Strokes, Distort, Sketch, Stylize and Texture filters, edits each filter's settings, builds an ordered stack (add, reorder, hide, remove) with a live canvas preview, and OK applies it as separate appearance effects in one undo step; remaining: filter thumbnails and a preview area inside the dialog; G2 estimate 4–6 → 1–2 h; Raster effects 82% → 85% (power-user view 49% → 52%), estimated, a modest move because the named missing dialog landed without thumbnails or an in-dialog preview. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | G19: PDF export asks viewers to display the document title only when File Info has a Document Title or an explicit export title is supplied; untitled documents keep the PDF file name in the viewer title bar (#3646); scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | G4: colour emoji fonts with bitmap glyphs (`sbix`: Apple Color Emoji; `CBDT`: Noto Color Emoji) draw on the canvas and export: PDF Type 3 glyphs or images, SVG images with outlined text, EPS and legacy `.ai` images, Create Outlines images; COLR and OpenType SVG fonts remain; estimate unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | G13: gradient Dither (30.0) in the Gradient panel, on the canvas, in raster exports and as images in SVG and PDF exports; G13 estimate 15–25 h → 14–24 h. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | G2: Effect › Sketch › Conté Crayon (Foreground Level, Background Level, Texture, Scaling, Relief, Light Direction, Invert; a black crayon in the dark areas and a white one in the light areas on textured mid-grey paper; ranges and defaults unverified VectorCraft choices); measured Photoshop-style filters 57/57, the Effect Gallery remains (4–6 h). |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | Blend panel Type and Ramp control step easing with a separate color Shift (#2539); Blend Options retains spacing and orientation; polynomial curves are original approximations. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | M3: highlighted-text Eyedropper sampling preserves ranges and rejects unsupported source/target transparency atomically; regression-tested; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | 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. Scores and estimates unchanged. |

docs/image-trace-adjustments.md

@@ -32,6 +32,20 @@ white beside a cream), at most six; scattered specks of a colour add none. Adobe
 its own palettes are chosen; this is VectorCraft's own method (see
 [image-trace-quality.md](image-trace-quality.md#auto-color-keeps-rare-colours)).
 
+**Keep Colors.** `"keepColors": ["#rrggbb", …]` in the params of `imageTrace.make` or
+`imageTrace.makeAndExpand` traces only the palette colors within about 30 levels of a listed color,
+the distance Ignore Color matches by, and leaves the other colors out. With Method Abutting, the paths
+of the kept colors are the same as in a trace of every color. With Method Overlapping, a kept color's
+paths reach under the kept colors above it in the stack and not under the colors left out, as with
+Ignore Color. An empty list traces every color, and a value that is not a six-digit hex color is
+refused. With Ignore Color as well, a kept color that Ignore Color matches is still left out. Flat
+Logo does not use `keepColors`: it traces the colors named in `logoColors`, or the colors it finds.
+The reply's `warnings` name each listed color that matches none of the colors the trace found. When
+nothing is traced because no listed color matches, because Ignore Color leaves out every area of the
+ones that match, or because the ones that match produce no paths, the first warning says so, and the
+status bar shows it. In Flat Logo mode the
+warning says that `keepColors` is not used.
+
 **Document Library color groups.** With Palette › Document Library and Library › Document Swatches,
 the panel's **Colors** menu traces with every document swatch (**All**) or with the colors of one
 color group from the Swatches panel, as the public
@@ -51,6 +65,13 @@ traced fills and strokes take the library color without a link to its swatch. Th
 spot and tint swatches. Tints trace at the color shown by the tint swatch. Editing a swatch later
 does not recolor the trace. Colors from other swatch libraries are also unlinked.
 
+**Ignore Color, background only.** Ignore Color leaves out every area of the chosen color. With
+`"ignoreBackground": true` beside `"ignoreWhite": true` in the params of `imageTrace.make` or
+`imageTrace.makeAndExpand`, it leaves out only the areas of that color that reach the image's edge,
+joined through pixels above, below or to either side, and traces the areas of it that other colors
+enclose: black line work inside a panel stays when the black around the panel is left out. Flat Logo
+leaves out every white area whatever `ignoreBackground` is.
+
 **Document Library** traces with the library's colors as they are. Each pixel takes the library
 color nearest to it in lightness and hue, with a difference in hue or chroma counted three times
 as much as one in lightness, so a gray or a muted brown takes a black, white or other neutral

docs/plugins.md

@@ -5,16 +5,20 @@ arbitrary machine code and cannot work in the browser build. Instead, plug-ins a
 run in a sandbox. One `.wasm` file works on macOS, Windows, Linux and the web. The design follows PhotoCraft's
 plug-in API (same sandbox, same manifest and parameter schema), extended for vector documents.
 
-There are three kinds of plug-in:
+There are four kinds of plug-in:
 
 - **Object filters** read the selected paths and compound paths (geometry, fills, strokes, gradients, opacity)
   and return the objects to keep, change or add. A run is one undo step. Use them for recolouring, path
   clean-up, halftones, generative patterns and the like.
 - **Live effects** rewrite one object's geometry each time it is drawn, from its appearance stack, like the
-  built-in Distort & Transform effects. The art stays editable: move or reshape it and the effect follows.
+  built-in Distort & Transform effects. The art stays editable: move or reshape it and the effect follows. A live
+  effect may also paint what it returns ([painted live effects](#painted-live-effects)).
 - **Exporters** write the whole document in a file format of their own, for pen plotters, cutting machines,
   laser cutters and the like. File › Export › Export As lists them after the built-in formats, and the host writes the
   bytes they return: a plug-in still never touches a file.
+- **Importers** read files in a format of their own, such as a plotter's or a cutting machine's, into a new document of
+  paths and compound paths. File › Open lists their files, File › Open With lists the importers by name, and the host
+  hands them the file's bytes.
 
 This page is the contract for plug-in authors and the reference for the host (`crates/plugins`, the
 `plugin.*` commands in `crates/engine/src/cmd/plugin.rs`).
@@ -23,12 +27,13 @@ This page is the contract for plug-in authors and the reference for the host (`c
 
 | Command | Params | What it does |
 |---|---|---|
-| `plugin.list` | `{}` | `{"plugins": [{id, name, version, kind, author, description, params, paramsSchema, effect?, format?, extensions?, budget?, size, source, api, permissions, hash}], "folder": report}` (`api` is the manifest's [plug-in API level](#permissions); `budget: "heavy"` for a [heavy filter](#heavy-filters); `permissions` lists what it [may do](#permissions), `hash` is the module's SHA-256) |
+| `plugin.list` | `{}` | `{"plugins": [{id, name, version, kind, author, description, params, paramsSchema, effect?, format?, extensions?, budget?, commands?, size, source, api, paintOutput?, permissions, hash, cacheBytes}], "folder": report}` (`api` is the manifest's [plug-in API level](#permissions); `budget: "heavy"` for a [heavy filter](#heavy-filters); `commands` lists its [commands](#commands); `paintOutput: true` marks a [painted live effect](#painted-live-effects); `permissions` lists what it [may do](#permissions), `hash` is the module's SHA-256; `cacheBytes` is the size of its [cache](#settings-and-cache)) |
 | `plugin.info` | `{"id"}` | One plug-in: the `plugin.list` entry plus `manifest`, `defaults` and `lastError` (a live effect's last failure). |
-| `plugin.run` | `{"id", "params"?: {…}, "ids"?: [...]}` (plug-in params may also be top-level keys) | Runs an object filter on the selection (or `ids`). One undo step; the result is selected, except the objects it locked or made guides. |
-| `plugin.install` | `{"path": "/x/y.wasm"}` (desktop) or `{"dataBase64": "…", "name"?}`, `"replace": bool = true`, `"allowHeavy": bool = false`, `"grant"?: [permission]`, `"hash"?: "sha256 hex"` | Validates and installs a module; returns its `plugin.list` entry. The desktop app and `vectorcraft-cli` keep it in the `Plug-ins` folder next to the preferences, so it is installed again after a restart (#2541). A [heavy filter](#heavy-filters) installs only with `allowHeavy: true`, once the user agreed. A plug-in whose manifest lists [permissions](#permissions) installs only when `grant` lists every one of them, once the user agreed. With `hash`, a module whose SHA-256 differs is refused. |
-| `plugin.inspect` | as `plugin.install`: `{"path"}` or `{"dataBase64", "name"?}` | Validates a module without installing it; returns the `plugin.list` entry it would have, plus `needsApproval` (true when `plugin.install` needs `grant`). |
-| `plugin.remove` | `{"id"}` | Uninstalls, and deletes it from the `Plug-ins` folder. |
+| `plugin.run` | `{"id", "params"?: {…}, "ids"?: [...]}` (plug-in params may also be top-level keys) | Runs an object filter on the selection (or `ids`; an `ids` that is not a list of object ids is an error). One undo step; the result is selected, except the objects it locked or made guides. |
+| `plugin.install` | `{"path": "/x/y.wasm"}` (desktop) or `{"dataBase64": "…", "name"?}`, `"replace"?: bool`, `"allowHeavy": bool = false`, `"grant"?: [permission]`, `"hash"?: "sha256 hex"` | Validates and installs a module; returns its `plugin.list` entry. The desktop app and `vectorcraft-cli` keep it in the `Plug-ins` folder next to the preferences, so it is installed again after a restart (#2541). A module with other bytes than the plug-in installed with its id, or, with none installed, one whose id has [settings and a cache](#settings-and-cache) in the `Plug-ins` folder, installs only with `replace: true`, once the user agreed; it takes that plug-in's place and gets its settings and cache. The same module installs again without `replace`, and `replace: false` refuses a module whose id is installed. A [heavy filter](#heavy-filters) installs only with `allowHeavy: true`. A plug-in whose manifest lists [permissions](#permissions) installs only when `grant` lists every one of them, unless a grant is already recorded for a module with the same SHA-256. A request's `grant` and `allowHeavy` are refused except in a session started with `vectorcraft-cli --allow-plugin-grants`. With `hash`, a module whose SHA-256 differs is refused. |
+| `plugin.inspect` | as `plugin.install`: `{"path"}` or `{"dataBase64", "name"?}` | Validates a module without installing it; returns the `plugin.list` entry it would have, plus `needsApproval` (true when installing it needs a person's approval) and `needsReplace` (true when `plugin.install` needs `replace: true`). |
+| `plugin.remove` | `{"id"}` | Uninstalls, and deletes it from the `Plug-ins` folder with its [settings and cache](#settings-and-cache). |
+| `plugin.clearCache` | `{"id"?}` | Deletes every entry in the [cache](#settings-and-cache) of plug-in `id`, or of every installed plug-in; settings stay. Returns `{"cleared": [id], "bytesFreed"}`. |
 | `plugin.reload` | `{"path"?: "folder"}` (default: the preference folder) | Installs every `*.wasm` in a folder; a bad module is reported and skipped, and so are a heavy filter and a plug-in whose permissions the user hasn't granted (nobody was asked). |
 
 Live effects are applied like any effect: `effect.apply {"effect": "plugin.<id>", "params": {…}}`, edited with
@@ -38,18 +43,69 @@ An exporter adds a write-only format, `plugin.<id>`, which `document.formats` li
 `document.export {"format": "plugin.<id>", "params"?: {…}, "path"?}` writes it, and so does a `path` ending in one of
 its extensions that no built-in format has; `selectedOnly` hands it the selection, as for the built-in formats.
 
+An importer adds a read-only format, `plugin.<id>`, which `document.formats` lists with its `plugin` id. `openExtensions`
+holds the extensions File › Open opens with the importer (the lists below describe which are left out). `document.open {"path"}` (or `{"name", "dataBase64"}`) opens a file with it when no built-in format
+reads the file, by its content or by its extension, and the importer lists the file's extension; when several do, the
+one whose id sorts first opens it. `document.open {"importer": "plugin.<id>", "params"?: {…}}` names the importer,
+which must list the file's extension, also one a built-in format reads (an importer that lists `svg` opens an `.svg`
+only this way). A damaged file of a built-in format reports that format's error, and the file is not handed to an
+importer. The importer's objects become a new document whose artboard is their bounds (at least 1 pt wide and high,
+and within ±4,000,000 pt); the document keeps no path, so Save asks for a name. File › Place reads only the built-in formats, and a file only an importer reads opens as a new document when it is dropped on the canvas. These rules are
+VectorCraft's own.
+
 In the app, installed filters appear under **Object › Plug-ins**, next to **Install Plug-in…** and **Reload
 Plug-ins**; live effects under **Effect › Plug-ins** and in the Appearance panel's effect menu. A plug-in with
 parameters gets a dialog generated from its schema (numbers, whole numbers, checkboxes, dropdowns, text, lists
 of numbers and colors, labelled, explained and sorted into sections as its manifest says) with a live preview; without
-parameters it runs at once. Parameters too many for the window's height scroll inside the dialog, which keeps its
+parameters it runs at once. Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts lists each installed filter under Object › Plug-ins, where
+it can be given a shortcut (`plugin:<id>`); the shortcut stays saved while the plug-in is removed and applies again
+when it is reinstalled. Parameters too many for the window's height scroll inside the dialog, which keeps its
 heading and buttons in view. Exporters are formats of **File › Export › Export As**, where Use
 Artboards is greyed out (the plug-in writes the whole document); one with parameters asks for them in a dialog of the
-same kind once the file is picked, and its Export button writes the file. **File › Open** of a `.wasm` file installs
+same kind once the file is picked, and its Export button writes the file. Importers' files are listed under File ›
+Open's "All readable files" and under a filter of their own, named after the importer (other open dialogs, such as New
+from Template and Load Styles, list only the files the built-in formats read). These lists leave out an importer's
+extensions that a built-in format reads, and those File › Open installs, imports or loads as something else (`.wasm`,
+`.kys`, `.jsx`, presets, libraries and swatch or graphic style libraries such as `.ase`). File › Open does not give
+those files to the importer, and Open With does. **File › Open With** lists the
+installed importers by name (`file.openWith {"importer", "path"?, "params"?}`), and each opens a file picked among its
+extensions with that importer (on the web, File › Open's picker opens instead) and adds it to Open Recent. On the
+desktop the importer runs off the UI thread, and a run that takes a while shows a progress window with Cancel, which
+stops it. An importer
+with parameters, given no `params`, asks for them in a dialog of the same kind once the file is picked, and its Open
+button opens the file; File › Open runs an importer with its parameters' defaults. Open Recent opens a file the way
+File › Open does: it does not remember the importer or the parameters given to Open With. A built-in format reads the
+file if one can, and otherwise the first importer by id that lists its extension reads it with its parameters' defaults.
+**File › Open** of a `.wasm` file installs
 a plug-in too (on the web this is how plug-ins get in). A heavy filter asks before it is installed, and runs in the
 background ([below](#heavy-filters)). A plug-in that lists permissions asks for them before it is installed
 ([below](#permissions)).
 
+### Commands
+
+A filter or a live effect may declare commands of its own in its manifest (`commands`, [below](#manifest)). Each
+becomes the command `plugin.<id>.<command>` while the plug-in is installed, and is gone once the plug-in is removed or
+replaced by a module without it.
+
+- **Menus.** A plug-in with commands is a submenu of **Object › Plug-ins** (a live effect: **Effect › Plug-ins**)
+  named after the plug-in. The submenu holds the plug-in's own item, then its commands. A command with parameters has
+  an ellipsis and opens a dialog for them, with a live preview, as a filter's own item does. A manifest cannot put a
+  command in another menu: a `menu` key in a command is ignored.
+- **Keyboard Shortcuts.** Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts lists each command under its submenu, and the user can give it a
+  shortcut. A manifest cannot give a command a shortcut.
+- **Actions and agents.** A command run is recorded in an action like any other command and plays back with its
+  parameters. `run`, MCP and `command.batch` call it as `plugin.<id>.<command>` with `{"ids"?: [...], "params"?: {…}}`
+  (its parameters may also be top-level keys). MCP's `command_list` and `list_commands` list it, and `plugin.list`
+  lists a plug-in's commands as `commands: [{id, command, label, params, paramsSchema}]`.
+- **Runs.** The parameters are checked against the command's declarations before the plug-in runs. The plug-in runs
+  through `vc_run` on the selection (or `ids`) as a filter run does, with `_context.mode` `"command"` and
+  `_context.command` set to the command's id ([Parameters](#parameters)), under the plug-in's
+  [permissions](#permissions): a live effect with commands may also hold `doc.write` and `state`, which only its
+  commands use. `ids` left out or null means the selection; an `ids` that is not a list of object ids is an error. One run
+  is one undo step named after the command. A run that traps, runs out of its instruction budget or fails leaves the
+  document and the undo history as they were, and the error starts with the plug-in's name and the command's label
+  (`“Cmd Test” › Grow: …`).
+
 **Preference folder.** Edit › Preferences › Plug-ins & Scratch Disks › *Additional Plug-ins Folder*: when set, every
 `*.wasm` in that folder (not recursive) is installed at startup and whenever the preference changes (desktop builds;
 the web build installs from bytes). On the desktop, Choose… beside the field picks the folder; the dialog refuses a
@@ -67,30 +123,33 @@ The host is [`wasmi`](https://github.com/wasmi-labs/wasmi), a pure-Rust WebAssem
 
 | Limit | Default | On violation |
 |---|---|---|
-| Host imports | none at API level 1; at level 2 only the three [host imports](#host-imports-api-level-2): no WASI, file system, network, clock or randomness | module rejected at install, naming the import |
+| Host imports | none at API level 1; at level 2 only the [host imports](#host-imports-api-level-2): no WASI, file system, network, clock or randomness | module rejected at install, naming the import |
 | Module size | 32 MiB | rejected |
 | Linear memory | 512 MiB per instance (input and parameters: at most half) | `memory.grow` returns -1; oversized input or initial memory fails |
 | Output | 64 MiB of JSON | `Limit("output size")` |
-| Instructions (fuel) | 50 M per call + 4,000 per input byte for `vc_run`; a [heavy filter](#heavy-filters) 1 G + 4,000 per byte; an export 10 G + 4,000 per byte | `Limit("instruction budget")` |
-| Wall clock | 60 s per filter run, 5 s per live-effect run, 300 s per heavy filter run or export (desktop; checked every 20 M instructions) | `Limit("time budget")` |
+| Instructions (fuel) | 50 M per call + 4,000 per input byte for `vc_run`; a [heavy filter](#heavy-filters) 1 G + 4,000 per byte; an export or import 10 G + 4,000 per byte | `Limit("instruction budget")` |
+| Wall clock | 60 s per filter run, 5 s per live-effect run, 300 s per heavy filter run, export or import (desktop; checked every 20 M instructions) | `Limit("time budget")` |
+| Import input | 128 MiB of the file (`vectorcraft_plugins::import::MAX_INPUT_BYTES`) | the file doesn't open; a larger file named by `path` is not read past that |
 | Call depth | 1,024 frames | trap |
 | Module shape | wasmi's strict limits (≤ 10,000 functions, 1 memory, …) | rejected |
 
 An export runs where the export runs: with Background Export on, on the export's worker, whose Cancel stops the
-plug-in between two of those 20 M-instruction slices; nothing is written then.
+plug-in between two of those 20 M-instruction slices; nothing is written then. An import stops the same way when the
+open it runs in is cancelled, and nothing opens then.
 
 ### Heavy filters
 
 Some filters do heavy but legitimate work, such as routing a plotter's pen, packing shapes onto a sheet or running a
 simulation, which a minute and 50 M instructions don't cover. Such a filter declares `"budget": "heavy"` in its
-manifest (only a filter may: a live effect runs whenever the document is drawn, and an exporter has an export's
-budget). Each of its runs gets 1 G instructions (20 times a light run's) plus the 4,000 per input byte, and 300 s
+manifest (only a filter may: a live effect runs whenever the document is drawn, an exporter has an export's budget and
+an importer an import's). Each of its runs gets 1 G instructions (20 times a light run's) plus the 4,000 per input byte, and 300 s
 (`vectorcraft_plugins::{HEAVY_FUEL, HEAVY_WALL_TIME_MS}`). Its output can't add to the budget: the host learns how
 much there is only once the run has ended.
 
 - **Installing asks first.** Install Plug-in… and File › Open show what the filter asks for, and install it once the
-  user clicks OK; `plugin.install` refuses it without `allowHeavy: true`, which an agent passes once the user agreed
-  (`plugin.inspect` tells it beforehand). A filter kept in the `Plug-ins` folder was agreed to and is installed again
+  user clicks OK (see [Permissions](#permissions) for who can). `plugin.install` refuses it without `allowHeavy: true`,
+  and refuses `allowHeavy` from a request except in a session started with `vectorcraft-cli --allow-plugin-grants`
+  (`plugin.inspect` shows the budget beforehand). A filter kept in the `Plug-ins` folder was agreed to and is installed again
   at startup. The Additional Plug-ins Folder skips heavy filters with a note in its report, since loading a folder
   asks nobody.
 - **It runs in the background.** Its dialog has no Preview. OK (or the menu item, without parameters) runs it on a
@@ -110,48 +169,110 @@ capability model proposed for PhotoCraft plug-ins
 
 | Permission | Kinds | What it allows |
 |---|---|---|
-| `doc.read` | all | Read the objects it is given. |
-| `doc.write` | filter | Change, add and delete objects in the document. |
-| `state` | filter | Keep data of its own with the document (`documentData`). |
+| `doc.read` | filter, effect, exporter | Read the objects it is given. |
+| `doc.write` | filter, effect with `commands` | Change, add and delete objects in the document. |
+| `state` | filter, effect with `commands` | Keep data of its own with the document (`documentData`). |
 | `effect.render` | effect | Change how the objects its effect is applied to are drawn. |
 | `export.write` | exporter | Write the document as a file in its own format. |
+| `import.read` | importer | Read files you open in its format and make documents from them. |
 | `progress` | all | Show its progress, see Cancel and write log lines through the [host imports](#host-imports-api-level-2). Needs `api` 2. |
+| `settings` | all | Keep settings of its own between runs and sessions ([settings and cache](#settings-and-cache)). Needs `api` 2. |
+| `cache` | all | Keep a cache of its own, which the user can clear ([settings and cache](#settings-and-cache)). Needs `api` 2. |
 
 - A manifest without `permissions` gets the ones its kind implies, as plug-ins did before the key existed: a filter
-  `doc.read`, `doc.write` and `state`; an effect `doc.read` and `effect.render`; an exporter `doc.read` and
-  `export.write`. Such a plug-in installs without a prompt. This rule is VectorCraft's own. A filter whose list is
-  empty may do none of these, and also installs without a prompt.
-- An effect or an exporter that lists permissions lists both of its implied ones. A filter may list any of its three.
-  Any kind may add `progress`, which no kind implies. An unknown name, a name listed twice, a name that doesn't apply
-  to the kind, more than 16 names, `progress` with an `api` below 2, or one of the names kept for a later plug-in API
+  `doc.read`, `doc.write` and `state`; an effect `doc.read` and `effect.render`, and also `doc.write` and `state`
+  when it declares [commands](#commands); an exporter `doc.read` and `export.write`; an importer `import.read`. Such a
+  plug-in installs without a prompt. This rule is VectorCraft's own. A filter whose list is empty may do none of
+  these, and also installs without a prompt.
+- An effect, an exporter or an importer that lists permissions lists all of its implied ones (`doc.read` and
+  `effect.render`; `doc.read` and `export.write`; `import.read`). An effect with commands may add `doc.write` and
+  `state`, which only its commands use. A filter may list any of its three.
+  Any kind may add `progress`, `settings` and `cache`, which no kind implies. An unknown name, a name listed twice, a
+  name that doesn't apply to the kind, more than 16 names, `progress`, `settings` or `cache` with an `api` below 2, or
+  one of the names kept for a later plug-in API
   (`ui.panel`, `ui.tool`) is refused when the module is installed, and the error names it.
 - **Installing asks first.** Install Plug-in… and File › Open show the plug-in's name, id, version, the SHA-256 of
   the file and each permission in plain words, and install it once the user clicks OK, if the file still has the
   SHA-256 shown; Cancel installs nothing. The
   names shown have control and bidirectional characters escaped (`\u{202E}`) and are cut to 64 characters.
-  `plugin.install` refuses the module, naming the permissions it needs, unless `grant` lists them all, which an agent
-  passes once the user agreed (`plugin.inspect`'s `needsApproval` tells it beforehand), with `hash` set to the
-  `plugin.inspect` entry's `hash` so that the module installed is the one the user saw.
+  Only a person can press its OK: `ui.dialog.confirm`, MCP's `answer_dialog` and injected input (`ui.key`, `ui.click`)
+  are refused and the dialog stays open. Enter confirms it only when OK has the keyboard focus. `ui.dialog.set` can't
+  change what it installs.
+- `plugin.install` refuses the module, naming the permissions it needs, unless this module already has a recorded grant
+  (`plugin.inspect`'s `needsApproval` tells it beforehand). A request's `grant` is refused too: `plugin.install` takes
+  it only with the approval the dialog gives. A `vectorcraft-cli mcp` or `run` started with `--allow-plugin-grants`
+  takes `grant` and `allowHeavy` from any request; only the person starting the process can set that flag, and it
+  doesn't apply to a running app. `mcp` refuses the flag together with `--automation-read-root` or
+  `--automation-write-root`: a server confined to folders has no plug-in store, so it reads no `grants.json`, and a
+  module that lists permissions or asks for a heavy budget does not install there. Without the flag, MCP in headless
+  mode and the CLI install a module that lists permissions only when its hash is recorded in the shared `grants.json`.
+  A person's approval in the desktop app records it, and so does a `grant` accepted under `--allow-plugin-grants`. A
+  recorded grant counts as approved in later sessions without the flag and in the desktop app. With
+  `VECTORCRAFT_NO_PREFS` set there is no store, and a `grant` accepted under the flag lasts for that session only.
+  With `--allow-plugin-grants`, pass `hash` set to the `plugin.inspect` entry's `hash` so that the module installed is
+  the one the user saw.
+- **Replacing asks first.** When the file is another module than the plug-in installed with its id, or, with none
+  installed, its id has settings and a cache in the `Plug-ins` folder, Install Plug-in… and File › Open show its id
+  and SHA-256 and ask whether to install it in place of that plug-in, which gives it the settings and cache kept for
+  the id. When the same module also needs its permissions or a heavy budget approved, the one approval dialog asks
+  about all of them, and only a person can press its OK. `plugin.install` refuses such a module, naming it, unless
+  `replace` is `true`, which an agent passes once the user agreed (`plugin.inspect`'s `needsReplace` tells it
+  beforehand). The Additional Plug-ins Folder and `plugin.reload` do not ask.
 - The grant is recorded with the plug-in's id, the module's hash and the permissions, in `grants.json` in the
-  `Plug-ins` folder. Installing a module with the same id that lists no new permission needs no new approval; one that
-  lists more asks again. `plugin.remove` forgets the grant. An entry of `grants.json` that this version can't use (a
-  permission it doesn't know, an invalid id) is skipped and stays in the file until its plug-in is granted again or
-  removed. A `grants.json` that is not a JSON list is never overwritten, and the file is never written larger than
+  `Plug-ins` folder, and covers only that module. Installing the same bytes again needs no new approval. A module with
+  other bytes asks again, even when it lists the same permissions, and does not get the id's settings and cache until
+  it is approved. Until then, the installed module and its grant stay as they are; once it is approved, the grant
+  records the new hash. When the new module or its grant can't be written to the `Plug-ins` folder, the folder keeps
+  the old module and its grant, and the old module loads at the next start. If the write that puts the old module back
+  fails as well, the folder holds the new module with the old grant, the grant does not cover that module, and the
+  plug-in is skipped at the next start until it is approved again. A grant whose hash is not 64 lower-case
+  hexadecimal digits covers nothing. `plugin.remove` forgets the grant, and so does a successful `plugin.install` of a
+  module that lists no permissions under that id, so the earlier bytes need a new approval. When `plugin.remove` can't
+  remove the grant from `grants.json`, it returns an error, the plug-in stays installed, and a second `plugin.remove`
+  tries again. A refused install leaves the grant as it is. When an install of a module that lists no permissions can't
+  write the module to the `Plug-ins` folder, or can't remove the grant from `grants.json`, the folder keeps the module
+  it held and `grants.json` keeps the grant. The new module runs until the session ends. When the grant can't be
+  removed and the module already stored can't be read back or written back, the new module stays in the folder, and
+  the grant does not count for the rest of the session. The grant also does not count when the folder held no module
+  for that id. A
+  `grants.json` larger than 1 MiB, or one that is not a JSON list, grants nothing: the new module stays in the folder,
+  and `plugin.remove` removes the plug-in. A `grants.json` that can't be opened or read counts as a grant that can't be
+  removed. When VectorCraft loads the `Plug-ins` folder, it forgets any grant for an id whose stored module lists no
+  permissions. When it can't remove that grant from `grants.json`, or can't read the file, the grant does not count for
+  the rest of the session, or until the plug-in is granted again, including for the next load, which tries the removal
+  again. In Safe Mode, and for
+  a stored module that the user disabled,
+  VectorCraft does not read the module, and `grants.json` keeps the grant for its id. The Additional Plug-ins Folder
+  and `plugin.reload` do not change the `Plug-ins` folder: when they leave a module that lists no permissions under an
+  id, the process forgets its own grant for that id, and a grant kept in `grants.json` stays with the stored module it
+  covers. An entry of `grants.json` that this version can't use (a permission it doesn't know, an invalid id) is
+  skipped and stays in the file until its plug-in is granted again, replaced by a module that lists no permissions, or
+  removed. When such an entry can't be removed from the file, `plugin.install` and `plugin.remove` treat it as a grant
+  that can't be removed. A `grants.json` that is not a JSON list is never overwritten, and the file is never written larger than
   1 MiB, the most that is read. When a `Plug-ins` folder is in use, only the grants kept
   in it count for `plugin.install`, `plugin.inspect`, `plugin.reload` and the Additional Plug-ins Folder. At startup,
-  a stored plug-in whose permissions are not granted is skipped. The Additional Plug-ins Folder and `plugin.reload`
-  install only plug-ins whose permissions were granted, and report the others.
-- The host enforces the grant on a filter run: without `doc.read` the filter is given no objects; without `state` its
+  a stored plug-in is skipped when no grant covers its bytes and the permissions it lists. The Additional Plug-ins
+  Folder and `plugin.reload` install only plug-ins that such a grant covers, and report the others. A module without a
+  `permissions` list, or with an empty one, needs no grant.
+- The host enforces the grant on a filter run and a command run: without `doc.read` the filter is given no objects; without `state` its
   `documentData` is `null` and an output that sets it is refused; without `doc.write` an output that changes the
   document is refused. A refused output leaves the document as it was.
 - `api` is the plug-in API level the manifest is written for: `1` (the default) or `2`, which adds the [host
-  imports](#host-imports-api-level-2). A higher one is refused. `plugin.list` and `plugin.info` give it as `api`.
+  imports](#host-imports-api-level-2), a filter's `inputs` ([reading type, images and
+  symbols](#reading-type-images-and-symbols)) and a live effect's [`paintOutput`](#painted-live-effects). A higher one
+  is refused. `plugin.list` and `plugin.info` give it as `api`. `inputs` is not a permission: the objects it asks for
+  are read under `doc.read`, which a filter that lists `inputs` must list in `permissions`, so installing it asks the
+  user to grant them. A level 2 effect that declares `paintOutput` needs no other permission than `doc.read` and
+  `effect.render`.
 - Parameter declarations are unchanged by permissions (`params`, below).
 
-Every run gets a **fresh instance**, so no state survives between calls. Traps, exhausted budgets, malformed
+Every run gets a **fresh instance**, so no state survives between calls except what a plug-in writes to its
+[settings and cache](#settings-and-cache). Traps, exhausted budgets, malformed
 modules, bad manifests, out-of-range pointers, negative return codes and invalid output all become errors, and the
 document is left untouched: a filter's output is checked completely before one edit applies it. A live effect that
-fails draws the object's geometry unchanged; `plugin.info` reports why (`lastError`).
+fails draws the object's geometry unchanged; `plugin.info` reports why (`lastError`). A run that succeeds clears the
+error of a failed run. A check that finds every swatch and pattern a painted result names clears only the error of a
+refused swatch or pattern.
 
 wasmi is built with its *portable* (loop) dispatcher: the default tail-call dispatcher relies on LLVM
 sibling-call optimisation, and when that doesn't happen a long-running module overflows the host stack, which aborts
@@ -162,8 +283,10 @@ takes as many instructions the first time as the next. Charged to the run, as wa
 could fail it: when the 20 M-instruction slice the run was in ran out while a function compiled, wasmi ended the run
 with an error rather than a pause the host resumes, and the run stopped with most of its budget left.
 
-Drawing evaluates effects often, so live-effect results are cached by plug-in installation, parameters and input
-geometry: a plug-in runs again only when one of them changes.
+Drawing evaluates effects often, so live-effect results are cached by plug-in installation, parameters, input
+geometry, fill rule, reference box and the paints the effect is given: a plug-in runs again only when one of them
+changes. Failures are cached too. The swatches and patterns a painted result names are checked against the document
+each time it is drawn, and a paint linked to a global swatch is drawn in that swatch's current color at its own tint.
 
 ## ABI v1
 
@@ -182,9 +305,10 @@ module's memory.
 
 ### Host imports (API level 2)
 
-A plug-in whose manifest gives `"api": 2` and lists the `progress` [permission](#permissions) may import these
+A plug-in whose manifest gives `"api": 2` and lists the [permission](#permissions) an import needs may import these
 functions from module `env` (the module a Rust or C toolchain gives `extern` functions by default). `vc_abi_version`
-still returns `1`.
+still returns `1`. `vc_progress`, `vc_cancelled` and `vc_log` need `progress`; the `vc_settings_*` imports need
+`settings` and the `vc_cache_*` imports need `cache` ([settings and cache](#settings-and-cache)).
 
 | Import | Signature | Meaning |
 |---|---|---|
@@ -193,8 +317,8 @@ still returns `1`.
 | `vc_log` | `(level, ptr, len) -> i32` | Writes the UTF-8 text at `ptr` as a log line of `level` (0 error, 1 warning, 2 information, 3 debug). Returns `0` when written, `1` when the run's log budget is spent and the line was dropped, `-1` when the text doesn't lie inside the module's memory, `-2` when it is not UTF-8, `-3` for another level. |
 
 - The host checks the imports when the module is installed: an import it doesn't offer, one with another signature,
-  and one the manifest doesn't allow (an `api` below 2, or no `progress` permission) refuse the module, and the error
-  names the import.
+  and one the manifest doesn't allow (an `api` below 2, or without the import's permission) refuse the module, and the
+  error names the import and the permission.
 - A filter's or an exporter's progress is shown as a share: a heavy filter's progress window and the export's progress
   window draw a bar with a percentage, and Cancel there makes `vc_cancelled` return `1`. A plug-in that checks it can
   stop early, and the host discards what it returns after the Cancel or after its time budget ran out; one that
@@ -208,6 +332,63 @@ still returns `1`.
   text, and the host reads at most 1 MiB of log text in a run; past any of these, one "log truncated" line is written
   and the rest are dropped.
 
+### Settings and cache
+
+A plug-in with the `settings` permission keeps named values between runs and sessions, and one with `cache` keeps
+named entries that the user can clear (#2191). It names each value by a key and never by a path. Each import takes
+the key as `(key, key_len)`, the UTF-8 bytes at `key` in its memory:
+
+| Import | Signature | Meaning |
+|---|---|---|
+| `vc_settings_get` | `(key, key_len, out, out_cap) -> i32` | The setting's length in bytes. When it fits in the `out_cap` bytes at `out`, its bytes are copied there; otherwise nothing is copied. |
+| `vc_settings_set` | `(key, key_len, value, value_len) -> i32` | Sets the setting to the `value_len` bytes at `value`. Returns `0`. |
+| `vc_settings_delete` | `(key, key_len) -> i32` | Removes the setting. Returns `0`. |
+| `vc_cache_read` | `(key, key_len, out, out_cap) -> i32` | As `vc_settings_get`, for the cache entry. |
+| `vc_cache_write` | `(key, key_len, value, value_len) -> i32` | As `vc_settings_set`, for the cache entry. |
+| `vc_cache_clear` | `(key, key_len) -> i32` | Removes the cache entry; with `key_len` 0, every entry. Returns `0`. |
+
+A call that fails returns `-1` when the key has no value, `-2` when a key, value or buffer doesn't lie inside the
+module's memory, `-3` when the key is not a valid key, `-4` when the write would pass a cap (nothing changes), `-5`
+when there is nowhere to keep anything, `-6` when reading or writing the file failed, and `-7` when the run has used
+its 10,000 storage calls or its 1 GiB of storage reads and writes. Each call counts the bytes it reads and writes. A
+settings call counts the whole settings file when it reads the file, and a set or delete also counts the whole file
+when it writes the file; a cache call counts the entry it reads or writes. A read counts them even when the value
+doesn't fit and nothing is copied. A call that would pass the 1 GiB returns `-7` before it reads or writes anything.
+
+The app keeps the settings in memory after the first call and reads `settings.json` again only when the file's size
+or modified time differs from the last read or write. A get answered from memory reads no file and counts no bytes. A
+set to the value the key already has writes nothing, and neither does a delete of a key that has no value. A delete
+of the last setting removes the file and counts no written bytes. Every other successful set or delete writes the
+file before the call returns. A cache call reads or writes the whole entry in memory in one step, up to 64 MiB, and
+the run waits for it.
+A live effect runs while the art draws, so keep the entries it uses small.
+
+- A key is 1 to 64 characters from `A-Z`, `a-z`, `0-9`, `_` and `-`, and is not a Windows device name (`CON`, `PRN`,
+  `AUX`, `NUL`, `COM0` to `COM9`, `LPT0` to `LPT9`, in any case). Keys differ in case: `tile` and `Tile` are two.
+- These caps are VectorCraft's own values: at most 256 settings of at most 64 KiB each, in a settings file of at most
+  1 MiB; cache entries of at most 64 MiB each, at most 4,096 entries and 512 MiB per plug-in. The cache has no
+  automatic eviction: a write past a cap fails with `-4`, and the plug-in or the user clears entries. A cache write
+  also fails with `-4` when the `cache` folder holds more than 8,192 items; clearing the cache removes every file in
+  it.
+- The desktop app and `vectorcraft-cli` keep them in a folder named from the id under `storage/` in the `Plug-ins`
+  folder (ids that differ only in case get two folders): `settings.json` and a
+  `cache` folder with one file per entry, named by the host. A settings file that is too large or doesn't parse is
+  moved to `settings.unreadable.json`, replacing an earlier one there, and the settings start empty. A link in that
+  folder is refused (`-5`). Writes go to a temporary file that then replaces the old one; a temporary file a failed
+  write leaves in the `cache` folder does not count toward the caps, and clearing the cache removes it.
+- A plug-in reaches only the storage of its own id. Replacing it with another module of the same id
+  (`plugin.install` with `replace: true`, after the user agreed) keeps the storage; `plugin.remove` deletes it, and a run of the plug-in still going gets `-5` from every storage call after that.
+  `plugin.remove` first renames the folder (adding `.removed` to its name). When that fails, `plugin.remove` fails
+  and the plug-in stays installed with its storage as it was. Files that can't be deleted after the rename stay in the
+  `.removed` folder, where no plug-in reaches them. A later `plugin.remove` tries again to delete them when a plug-in
+  with that id is installed or a storage folder for the id exists, and that deletion can fail too. For an id that
+  isn't installed and has only a `.removed` folder, `plugin.remove` does not delete the folder and fails as not found.
+  `plugin.remove` with the id of a plug-in that isn't installed deletes the storage kept for that id, when there is
+  any.
+  `plugin.clearCache` empties the cache and leaves the settings, and `plugin.list` and
+  `plugin.info` give the cache's size as `cacheBytes`.
+- Without a `Plug-ins` folder (the web build, and embedders that attach none) the storage calls return `-5`.
+
 ### Manifest
 
 ```json
@@ -230,16 +411,32 @@ still returns `1`.
 
 - `id`: 1–64 characters from `A-Z a-z 0-9 . _ -` (reverse-DNS recommended). Installing a module with the same id
   replaces the old one. A live effect's effect id is `plugin.<id>`.
-- `name`: the menu label, or an exporter's format name in Export As (1–64 printable characters). `kind`: `"filter"`
-  (object filter), `"effect"` (live effect) or `"exporter"`. Exporters came after the first ABI v1 hosts, which refuse
-  the kind when the plug-in is installed.
+- `name`: the menu label, or an exporter's or importer's format name in Export As, Open and Open With (1–64 printable
+  characters). `kind`: `"filter"` (object filter), `"effect"` (live effect), `"exporter"` or `"importer"`. Exporters
+  and importers came after the first ABI v1 hosts, which refuse the kind when the plug-in is installed.
 - `budget` (filters only): `"light"` (the default) or `"heavy"`, for work that takes minutes ([heavy
   filters](#heavy-filters)). Hosts from before it ignore the key, so there the filter gets a light run's budget.
 - `api`: the plug-in API level, `1` when left out. `permissions`: what the plug-in may do, a list of names
   ([permissions](#permissions)); without it, what its kind implies.
-- `extensions` (exporters only, and required): 1–8 file extensions, lower-case letters and digits without the dot
-  (`["plt"]`); the first is the one Export As gives the file. A built-in format keeps an extension both list (`svg`):
-  `document.export` then writes the exporter's format only when asked for by its format id.
+- `inputs` (filters at `api` 2 only): the kinds of object besides paths and compound paths the filter reads, any of
+  `"type"`, `"image"` and `"symbolInstance"`, each at most once (`"inputs": ["type", "image"]`). Left out or `[]`, the
+  filter gets paths and compound paths alone, as before. An unknown, repeated or wrongly typed entry, `inputs` on
+  another kind, below `api` 2, or without a `permissions` list that holds `doc.read`, is refused when the plug-in is
+  installed, and so is `api` 2 on hosts from before it.
+- `paintOutput` (live effects at `api` 2 only): `true` makes the effect return [painted pieces](#painted-live-effects)
+  instead of geometry alone. `true` is the only value the key takes; `false`, `null`, another type, another kind or
+  `api` 1 is refused when the module is installed, and the error names `paintOutput`. Without the key the effect returns
+  geometry, at any level. Hosts at `api` 1 refuse the manifest for its `api`, so such an effect never draws unpainted
+  there.
+- `extensions` (exporters and importers only, and required): 1–8 file extensions, lower-case letters and digits
+  without the dot (`["plt"]`); the first is the one Export As gives the file. A built-in format keeps an extension both
+  list (`svg`): `document.export` then writes the exporter's format only when asked for by its format id, and
+  `document.open` reads a file with the importer only when `importer` names it.
+- `commands` (filters and live effects; not heavy filters): up to 32 commands of the plug-in's own
+  ([Commands](#commands)), each `{"id": "grow", "label": "Grow", "params"?: {…}}`. An `id` is 1–32 characters from
+  `a-z 0-9 _` that starts with a letter, and appears once. A `label` is 1–64 printable characters; menus show it with
+  control and bidirectional characters escaped. `params` are declared as the plug-in's own `params` are. A malformed
+  entry is refused when the module is installed, and the error names the command by its id (or its place, `[0]`).
 - `params`: in dialog order. Names are `[A-Za-z0-9_]`, not starting with `_`, and not `id`, `ids`, `params` or
   `preview`. The host validates the user's values before calling: missing values take the default, numbers are
   clamped to `min..max` (ints rounded), a wrong type or an unknown choice is an error. Numeric defaults
@@ -276,18 +473,22 @@ parameters uses `label`, `unit`, `help` and `visibleWhen`, and lists the paramet
 
 `input` is UTF-8 JSON: `{"objects": [...]}`. An object filter gets the selected paths and compound paths in paint
 order (bottom first): the selected ones and those inside selected groups and layers; hidden, locked, guide (compound
-guides too) and clipping paths are left out, and so are other kinds of object (type, images, symbols, live blends…), which a filter never
-touches. With nothing selected the list is empty (a generator then adds its own objects). A live effect gets one
+guides too) and clipping paths are left out, and so are other kinds of object (type, images, symbols, live blends…),
+which a filter never touches unless its manifest lists them in `inputs` ([reading type, images and
+symbols](#reading-type-images-and-symbols)). With nothing selected the list is empty (a generator then adds its own objects). A live effect gets one
 object: its geometry (`type`, `path`, `fillRule`, `bounds`) and its `fills` and `strokes`, as a filter gets them (hosts
 from before these give geometry only). The paints are read only: an effect may draw as wide as a stroke or use a
-fill's colour to decide its shape, but it changes only the geometry.
+fill's colour to decide its shape, but it changes only the geometry, unless it declares `paintOutput` ([painted live
+effects](#painted-live-effects)).
 
-An **exporter** gets something else: the document as a native `.vectorcraft` file's JSON, as `document.save` writes it
-but without indentation (the format is documented in [`crates/format/src/lib.rs`](../crates/format/src/lib.rs)). That is every layer, object,
+An **exporter** gets something else: the native `.vectorcraft` document JSON without indentation, optional preview/PDF
+renditions or save-preference metadata (the format is documented in [`crates/format/src/lib.rs`](../crates/format/src/lib.rs)). That is every layer, object,
 appearance and effect record, artboard, swatch and symbol, so an exporter reads whatever the document holds; it checks
 `version`, since a later host may write a newer one. Images of 8 KiB or more are listed in `images` with their MIME
 type and `blob` but without their data, which follows the JSON in a saved file; smaller ones keep their base64 `data`.
 
+An **importer** gets the bytes of the file being opened, as they are (not JSON), at most 128 MiB of them.
+
 ```json
 {"objects": [
   {"id": 12, "type": "path", "name": "Leaf",
@@ -323,6 +524,70 @@ type and `blob` but without their data, which follows the JSON in a saved file;
   `plugin.<id>` for a live-effect plug-in), `params` and `visible`. Its fills' and strokes' own effects aren't listed.
 - `bounds`: `[x0, y0, x1, y1]`, the geometric bounds (read only).
 
+### Reading type, images and symbols
+
+A filter whose manifest lists `inputs` also gets the selected objects of those kinds, in paint order among the paths
+and under the same rules (hidden and locked ones, objects that clip a clip group, alone or inside a group that clips
+it, and anything inside a symbol, a placed document or a live object are left out). They are never turned into
+outlines, rectangles or the symbol's art. Each has `id`, `type`, `name` (when it has one), `bounds` (`null` until the
+object has been laid out or drawn) and
+`transform`, `[a, b, c, d, e, f]` mapping its own space (text space, pixel space, the symbol's art) into the document.
+In this example the character and paragraph styles are cut short; a filter gets every attribute:
+
+```json
+{"objects": [
+  {"id": 17, "type": "type", "bounds": [10, 38, 52, 52], "transform": [1, 0, 0, 1, 10, 50],
+   "text": {"kind": "point", "vertical": false,
+            "runs": [{"text": "Hello\nthere", "style": {"font_family": "Source Sans 3", "size": 12}}],
+            "paragraphs": [{"justify": "Left"}, {"justify": "Center"}]},
+   "truncated": false},
+  {"id": 18, "type": "image", "bounds": [0, 0, 4, 2], "transform": [2, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0], "pixelSize": [2, 1],
+   "colorMode": "rgb", "linked": false, "pixelsOmitted": false, "pixelsBase64": "AAAegGQAHoA="},
+  {"id": 19, "type": "symbolInstance", "bounds": [100, 0, 110, 10], "transform": [1, 0, 0, 1, 100, 0],
+   "symbolId": "Star", "overrides": {}}
+]}
+```
+
+- Type (`"type"`): `text.kind` is `"point"`, `"area"` or `"path"`; `runs` are its text runs with their character
+  attributes as the native file stores them (`inline` when a run is an inline graphic), and `paragraphs` holds one
+  paragraph style per paragraph (the paragraphs are split at `\n`). No font data or glyph outlines are given. Type
+  whose runs hold more than 256 KiB of UTF-8 text, or more than 4,096 runs or paragraphs, comes with `truncated:
+  true` and empty `runs` and `paragraphs`. The runs and paragraphs of all the type in one input take at most 16 MiB
+  of JSON: type whose runs and paragraphs don't fit what the type before it in paint order left comes with
+  `truncated: true` too.
+- An image (`"image"`): `pixelSize` is its width and height in pixels; `colorMode` is `"rgb"`, `"cmyk"`, `"gray"` or
+  `"unknown"`, read from the image itself. An embedded image whose pixels take at most 1 MiB in base64 (443 × 443
+  pixels fit) has them in `pixelsBase64`: straight RGBA, 8 bits a channel, row by row from the top, and
+  `pixelsOmitted: false`. A CMYK image's pixels are its inks through the working CMYK profile, as sRGB. The pixels of
+  all the images in one input take at most 16 MiB in base64, and an image the host starts to decode takes its size
+  from those 16 MiB even when decoding fails. A larger image, one whose pixels don't fit what the images before
+  it in paint order left, and a linked image (`linked: true`) have
+  `pixelsOmitted: true` and no pixels; the host checks an image's size before it decodes the image. An image of any
+  size also has `pixelsOmitted: true` when its data is missing from the document, when its width or height is 0, when
+  its data cannot be decoded (including a non-CMYK image whose decoder enforces the host's 64 MiB memory limit and
+  needs more, and a TIFF the host rejects as too large), or when the dimensions in its data differ from `pixelSize`.
+  A plug-in checks `pixelsOmitted` before it reads `pixelsBase64`, which is present only when `pixelsOmitted` is `false`. The host never
+  reads a linked image's file for a filter and never gives its path.
+- A symbol instance (`"symbolInstance"`): `symbolId` is the name of the symbol it shows, with `missing: true` when the
+  document has no symbol of that name. `overrides` is `{}`.
+
+These objects are read only. The output must list each of them exactly once, as `{"id": 17}` alone or exactly as it
+was given (numbers compare by value, so `1` and `1.0` are the same). A changed or added field, one left out, an object
+listed twice or left out, and a new object with one of these types are refused, and the document and undo history
+stay as they were: `objects[1] (id 17): read-only field 'text.runs[0].text' changed`, `objects (id 17): a read-only
+object was left out`. The field is named with control and bidirectional characters escaped (`\u{202E}`), cut to 64
+characters. New objects listed after one of them go just above it.
+
+Every object in the input counts toward the half of the memory cap that the input and the parameters share, in paint
+order, with its id, bounds, transform and name. Type whose runs and paragraphs don't fit what is left comes with
+`truncated: true`, and an image whose pixels don't fit comes with `pixelsOmitted: true`. When the other fields of one
+of these objects don't fit what is left, the run fails before the plug-in starts, naming the object and the bytes it
+needs: `plug-in exceeded its memory budget (object 17 needs 4200 bytes of input, 1000 left)`. A path or compound path
+that doesn't fit fails it with `plug-in exceeded its memory budget (the selection is too large to hand over)` before
+the objects after it are written. An output lists at most 100,000 objects, so a run given more than 100,000 of these
+objects fails with `plug-in exceeded its object budget (more than 100000 read-only objects)`. An echo of them counts
+toward the 64 MiB output cap.
+
 ### Parameters
 
 `params` points at `params_len` bytes of UTF-8 JSON: the validated parameters, plus `_context`:
@@ -332,14 +597,17 @@ type and `blob` but without their data, which follows the JSON in a saved file;
  "_context": {"mode": "filter", "bounds": [10, 0, 75, 60], "artboard": [0, 0, 612, 792], "documentData": {"pens": 4}}}
 ```
 
-`mode` is `"filter"`, `"effect"` or `"export"`; `bounds` the selection's geometric bounds (a live effect: the reference
+`mode` is `"filter"`, `"effect"`, `"export"`, `"import"` or `"command"` (a [command](#commands) run, whose
+`command` is the command's id); `bounds` the selection's geometric bounds (a live effect: the reference
 box of the effect, the object's bounds or those of the previous effect's result); `artboard` (filters) the artboard
 under the selection's centre, else the first; `documentData` (filters) what the plug-in last kept with the document
 (`null` until it keeps something; see Output). A live effect's `item` says where it sits: `"object"` (one of the
 object's effects), or `{"fill": i}` / `{"stroke": i}` (in the own effects of the object's `i`th fill or stroke,
 counted from the bottom as in `fills` and `strokes`). An export's `_context` is `{"mode": "export", "extension": "plt",
 "name": "Poster"}` instead: the extension of the file being written (one the exporter lists) and its name without the
-extension (the document's name when the export is not given a path), which some formats keep in their header.
+extension (the document's name when the export is not given a path), which some formats keep in their header. An
+import's `_context` is `{"mode": "import", "extension": "plt", "name": "Poster"}`: the extension of the file being
+opened and its name without the extension.
 
 ### Output
 
@@ -384,12 +652,63 @@ document, so it can read what every plug-in keeps there, not only its own. A liv
 is worked out from the object alone.
 
 For a **live effect**, the geometry of every returned object's `path` (their subpaths, in order) replaces the
-object's; the rest is ignored (the object keeps its own appearance). An empty list removes the geometry.
+object's; the rest is ignored (the object keeps its own appearance). An empty list removes the geometry. A live effect
+that declares `paintOutput` returns painted pieces instead ([below](#painted-live-effects)).
+
+#### Painted live effects
+
+A live effect whose manifest has `"api": 2` and `"paintOutput": true` returns `{"objects": [...]}` too, but each entry
+is a piece drawn by itself, in the order returned, with paints of its own:
+
+```json
+{"objects": [
+  {"path": {…}, "fills": [{"type": "solid", "color": {"model": "rgb", "r": 0, "g": 0.6, "b": 0.3}}]},
+  {"path": {…}, "fillRule": "evenodd", "strokes": [{"paint": null}, {"paint": {…}, "width": 4, "join": "round"}]},
+  {"path": {…}}
+]}
+```
+
+- `path` is required; `fillRule` defaults to the object's. `type` and `bounds` may be handed back as given and are
+  ignored. Any other key (`opacity`, `effects`, `guide`, `locked`, `name`, a top-level `documentData`…) refuses the
+  result, as does a key that a paint, its color, a gradient stop, a gradient's placement or a freeform point does not
+  have, such as `opacity` on a solid paint.
+- `fills` and `strokes` take the forms a filter returns ([Input](#input)). A piece without `fills` (or `strokes`) is
+  painted with the ones the effect was given; an empty list paints none. Given ones replace the object's in order, as
+  a filter's output sets them: an existing fill or stroke keeps its own effects, opacity and blending, and a new stroke
+  starts at 1 pt, miter join, butt cap, miter limit 10.
+- An effect on a fill (`_context.item` `{"fill": i}`) returns only `fills`, which replace that fill on each piece; an
+  effect on a stroke returns only `strokes`. The object's other fills and strokes stay where they are.
+- The effects after it in the stack apply to the pieces together, the reference box being the bounds of all of them.
+  Bounds, raster effects, Pathfinder effects, compound shapes and Envelope Options › Distort Appearance use the pieces
+  as they are drawn. Outside outline mode, an image is also hit where the pieces of its own fills and strokes paint; a
+  path or compound path is hit-tested on its source path and appearance. On an object with no geometry effect of its
+  own, Pathfinder effects and compound shapes use the object's path for an effect on a fill or stroke, as they do for
+  every other effect on a fill or stroke; on an object that has one, they also use the pieces of a painted effect on a
+  fill or stroke. A 3D effect later in the stack uses the
+  object's input path when the pieces name a swatch or pattern. Each piece counts against the budget of the
+  object's geometry effects as well as its anchors, so all the painted effects in a stack make at most 100,000 pieces
+  together; a run whose pieces would pass the budget draws its input as it was.
+- The result is checked whole before any of it is drawn: the limits of a filter's output (100,000 objects, 4,000,000
+  anchors, 256 fills and 256 strokes per piece, 256 stops per gradient), finite numbers in range with nothing clamped
+  (color components, tints, offsets, opacities, midpoints 0.13 to 0.87, stops in order of `offset`, stroke
+  widths 0 to 1,000 pt, miter limits 1 to 500), and every swatch a solid paint, gradient or stop links to and every pattern named in
+  the document. One fault refuses the whole result: that step of the stack draws its input as it was, the effect
+  record stays, and `plugin.info`'s `lastError` names the plug-in and the field, for example
+  `Test Tone: plug-in output: objects[1].strokes[0].width: …`.
+- The pieces are never written into the document while it is drawn, measured, previewed, saved or exported. PDF and SVG
+  export draw them as the canvas does, from a copy of the document. Object › Expand Appearance writes each piece as an
+  ordinary path or compound path with its fills and strokes, as one undo step. Object › Expand of gradient and pattern
+  fills expands the fills of each piece, and leaves a piece with other paints as it is drawn.
 
 An **exporter** returns `{"dataBase64": "…", "warnings"?: ["…"]}`: the file, in base64, which the host writes as it
 is, and what the export left out or changed, for the user (at most 100 warnings of at most 500 characters each, shown
 with the export's own). A decline (`{"error": …}`), a missing `dataBase64` or data that isn't base64 writes nothing.
 
+An **importer** returns `{"objects": [...], "warnings"?: ["…"]}`: new paths and compound paths (no `id`) in the
+filters' object form, checked as a filter's new objects are, with warnings capped as an exporter's are and shown with
+the open's own. An output with no objects, with keys other than `objects`, `warnings` and `error`, or with an object
+that fails the checks opens nothing, and neither does a decline (`{"error": …}`).
+
 ## Writing a plug-in in Rust
 
 [`crates/plugins/example`](../crates/plugins/example) is a complete object filter, **Desaturate**: it moves every
@@ -418,8 +737,10 @@ per change of their input, parameters or paints (results are cached), not per fr
 
 ## Not in v1
 
-- Tool plug-ins (pointer events on the canvas, a guide line or rectangle, geometry back), panel plug-ins, importers
-  (plug-in formats that open files).
-- Live effects that change paint (they reshape geometry; an object filter recolours), and filters on type, images or
-  symbols.
+- Tool plug-ins (pointer events on the canvas, a guide line or rectangle, geometry back), panel plug-ins, and
+  importers that place files (File › Place reads only the built-in formats) or make type, images, layers or
+  artboards.
+- Live effects that change opacity, blending or effects (at `api` 2 one may [paint](#painted-live-effects) the pieces
+  it returns), and filters that change type, images or symbol instances (a filter at `api` 2 reads them, see
+  [`inputs`](#reading-type-images-and-symbols)).
 - Apply Last Effect and Last Effect work for plug-in effects; there is no "last filter" for object filters yet.

docs/releasing.md

@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ to the target triple, so host build scripts aren't affected.
 AppStream metainfo, the MIME type for VectorCraft documents, the icons and the licence files.
 
 **Document types.** The desktop entry's `MimeType` lists every format File › Open reads but PSD,
-PSB, `.ps` PostScript, Targa, PCX, Pixar and JPEG 2000, so file managers list VectorCraft under Open With for them.
+PSB, `.ps` PostScript, Targa, PCX, Pixar, JPEG 2000 and HEIC/HEIF, so file managers list VectorCraft under Open With for them.
 `ai.storyteller.vectorcraft.mime.xml` declares the types that shared-mime-info lacks: VectorCraft
 documents and templates, `.ait` templates and Affinity files (`application/x-affinity`). An `.af`
 file gets the Affinity type by its content, and `.afdesign` and `.afpub` files by their extension.

docs/roadmap.md

@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 # Roadmap: milestones and what's next
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-07 · **Change:** minor (Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); 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)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-09 · **Change:** minor (Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged; 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)
 
 ## Feature submission evidence
 
+Numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking keyboard focus (#5949). Arrow keys still require focus; modifiers, units, limits, mixed values and existing rounding stay in the shared stepping path. Headless regressions in `tests/numfields.rs` cover hovered unfocused fields, focused fields, trackpad accumulation and panel scroll exclusion. Scores and estimates unchanged.
+
 Raster rendering fits and preflattens curved stroke outlines more tightly only below four times the raster tolerance, retaining thin-band coverage without changing stroke weight or vector export geometry. Current cached character/object outlines, cropped long strokes, gradient clips and effect rasters share the helper; cropped-region reuse and guarded flattening remain. The unchanged `fractional_curved_strokes_retain_coverage_between_notches` regression covers fractional weights, rotation, phase, opacity and f32-rounded endpoints. This is a quality/cost tradeoff, not a speed claim. Scores and estimates unchanged.
 
 **PR #3273 revision — 2026-11-04:** Thin curved stroke coverage ported to the current raster-only cache, cropped-long-stroke and effect paths with guarded flattening; vector export geometry unchanged. Scores and estimates unchanged.
@@ -14,6 +16,8 @@ Group Selection keeps an already selected component selected during a drag; a co
 
 Creating a gradient from solid or empty paint uses the document's color model for its default stops, including drawing its vector with the Gradient tool. Explicit `keepModel: true` retains RGB defaults, and existing gradients keep their own colors. Scores and estimates are unchanged.
 
+Window → Help Bar toggles the bottom tool-help strip independently of the status bar. Its visibility is saved with workspaces and UI preferences; Presentation Mode hides both bars. Scores and estimates are unchanged.
+
 **Feature evidence last updated:** 2026-11-03.
 
 M1 selection: Enclosing Lasso selects whole objects enclosed by a freehand loop. It is an add-on
@@ -36,11 +40,18 @@ M7 type: Touch Type moves a right-to-left character along its line and up from i
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-07 | minor | M4/M7: `.ai`/EPS type from the text document keeps its paragraphs' tab stops, and right-aligned area type sets the text after a line's last tab against the right edge, the text before it at its stops from the left edge (#6147). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-07 | minor | M4/M7: `.ai`/EPS type from the text document keeps auto leading at the paragraph's share, the paragraph's 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, and a line a soft return ends is justified as a wrapped line is (#6137); a user's `.ai` that opened from its PDF part now opens from its layers. Limits: frames grow only for area type of one frame, horizontal, by its lines' deepest descent plus 0.05 pt; type in a font that isn't installed, and hyphenation in a language that isn't imported, still lay out differently. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-08 | minor | Character Styles panel: a double-click on a user style's row opens its Character Style Options (`ui.charStyleOptions`); the dialog keeps a fixed width and scrolls its sections in a shorter window, so OK and Cancel stay on screen. Tests `panels::text_styles::tests::double_clicking_a_character_style_row_opens_its_options` and `dialogs::char_style_options::tests::the_sections_scroll_in_a_window_shorter_than_the_general_list`. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-08 | minor | #3380, deletion only: preserve gradient placement and exact surviving geometry; consume owned subpaths with a shared original-node snapshot; consolidate status/evidence and document command/helper contracts. Compound behavior and the existing M2 status entry are retained. Endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-07 | minor | #3380 (deletion only): independent surviving path objects; transformed appearance, stacking, selection, cubic handles and Undo/Redo covered by `delete_path_pieces`; compound semantics retained. Endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-02 | minor | Selection QoL: saved marquee modes, screen drag direction with a 3 px dead zone, and translated mode/E feedback (#5313); VectorCraft addition, scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-07 | minor | Indian-language hyphenation (#4947): eleven MIT-licensed pattern sets, with grapheme and shaping-cluster protection in both composers and existing paragraph limits. Assamese and Sanskrit are selectable; Sanskrit automatic patterns remain pending an allowlisted source. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-05 | minor | Effect dialogs: a colour swatch beside a hex colour field follows typed values, and a double-click opens the Color Picker over the dialog, whose OK fills the field (#5365); scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-05 | minor | Selection Tools add-on: Select Linked, Embedded, Missing and Modified select the images and placed documents with that link status (Object › Plug-ins › Selection Tools and the Links panel menu; Shift adds), and Select by Link Status… lists them by name, status and format to pick from, optionally zooming to them; what is hidden, locked, on a template layer or outside the isolated group is left out and the status bar says how many (#5526, a VectorCraft addition); scores and estimates unchanged (estimated). |
 | 2026-11-05 | minor | Pencil and Paintbrush: a new stroke with Keep selected off leaves nothing selected, the earlier selection included, while Keep selected on selects only the new path (#5752); scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-05 | minor | Layers panel: a layer whose Layer Options › Print is off shows its name italic, as the reference application shows non-printing layers, and keeps it while the row is dragged (#5739); scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-04 | minor | M7: Select Text by Font takes a scope: the document, chosen artboards or chosen layers; Find Font's Find In offers Document, Artboard (the active one) and Layers (the selected ones, else the current one) (#5529, a VectorCraft addition); estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-04 | minor | M7: Find Font's Replace With Font lists family and style rows with a search, and the list and the document's font list scroll on their own (#4972); scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-04 | minor | Selection Tools add-on: Select by Artboards selects the objects overlapping, fully inside or fully outside several chosen artboards, from a dialog that lists, searches and multi-selects the artboards and fits one in the window on double-click (#5525, #5548, #5549, a VectorCraft addition); scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-04 | minor | M4: raster/PSD exports default to document resolution; CLI run/convert expose --ppi, matching the engine and MCP precedence. Scores and hours unchanged. |
@@ -48,6 +59,7 @@ M7 type: Touch Type moves a right-to-left character along its line and up from i
 | 2026-11-04 | minor | New Document: the units chosen in Preset Details belong to the chosen preset; Recent and Saved cards keep the units their document or preset was made in, and the built-in tabs still follow the chosen units (#2078). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | M1: Enclosing Lasso provides whole-object enclosure selection as an add-on with no default shortcut or Basic toolbar slot; estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | New gradients use CMYK default stops in CMYK documents, including Gradient tool creation. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-03 | minor | Help Bar has its own Window menu toggle and workspace visibility setting. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | M4: 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 | M4: 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`; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | M7: Find Font replacement sources Document, Recent and System are shipped (#5217); estimates unchanged. |
@@ -119,17 +131,15 @@ native wording review, layout checks and a web Devanagari font remain. [Notes](l
 |---|---|---|---|
 | M0 | Skeleton + vertical slice | ✅ done | — |
 | 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 (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 | 12–18 |
-| M2 | Drawing tools + smart guides | ✅ mostly done (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); Tangent and straight-segment perpendicular snapping use saved Smart Guides Geometric Guides preferences and Control bar quick access (#2537); no View submenu | 12–18 |
+| 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 |
-| M2 | Drawing tools + smart guides | ✅ mostly done (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) | 12–18 |
-| M4 | Files (native, SVG, PDF, raster, Export for Screens, clipboard interop) | ✅ 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 | 3–6 (existing scope; Affinity export unestimated) |
+| M4 | Files (native, SVG, PDF, raster, Export for Screens, clipboard interop) | `.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) |
 | 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), 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 | 4–8 |
 | 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) | 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; 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; tab leaders, spell check, vertical type pending | 45–60 |
-| M7 | Type (point/area/path, editing, styles, OpenType, threading, glyphs) | Indian-language pattern hyphenation preserves syllables in both composers (#4947); 🟡 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, 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 ↑/↓, 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; tab leaders, spell check, vertical type pending | 45–60 |
-| M7 | Type (point/area/path, editing, styles, OpenType, threading, glyphs) | Indian-language pattern hyphenation preserves syllables in both composers (#4947); 🟡 Fullwidth `！` / `？` keep an upright fallback in vertical type; 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, 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; tab leaders, spell check, vertical type pending | 45–60 |
+| M7 | Type (point/area/path, editing, styles, OpenType, threading, glyphs) | Spell check engine: `text.spelling.check` and `text.spelling.suggest` on craft-proof (#4936; the dialog, Auto Spell Check and the custom dictionary remain); 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; 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; tab leaders, spell check, vertical type pending | 45–60 |
+| M7 | Type (point/area/path, editing, styles, OpenType, threading, glyphs) | Spell check engine: `text.spelling.check` and `text.spelling.suggest` on craft-proof (#4936; the dialog, Auto Spell Check and the custom dictionary remain); 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); 🟡 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, 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 ↑/↓, 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; tab leaders, spell check, vertical type pending | 45–60 |
+| M7 | Type (point/area/path, editing, styles, OpenType, threading, glyphs) | Spell check engine: `text.spelling.check` and `text.spelling.suggest` on craft-proof (#4936; the dialog, Auto Spell Check and the custom dictionary remain); 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); 🟡 Fullwidth `！` / `？` keep an upright fallback in vertical type; 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, 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; tab leaders, spell check, vertical type pending | 45–60 |
 | M8 | Transform & distort (Puppet Warp, Liquify tools, Envelopes, Blends, Perspective Grid) | ✅ done (M8.1–M8.20 on 2026-10-06, fidelity pass): Liquify Tool Options with one shared brush, pen pressure, hold-to-apply, a safe scope and incremental strokes; tool options that last; Puppet Warp rotation, multi-select, Control bar and a rest-shape session that follows Undo; Width tool on compound paths; Envelope dialogs with preview, Reset with Warp/Mesh, full Envelope Options, type/images/symbols/appearance/gradients/patterns distorted on canvas and in every export, warps that keep their frame, Edit Contents, mesh handles and Control bar; Blend Options, anchor-targeted Blend tool, editable spine, keys picked on the canvas, faithful interpolation and knockout; Anchor Point spine conversion/handle editing and selection priority (#2544), with #2425 Shift reshape preserved; Perspective Grid with Define Grid, presets, lock/snap/rulers, widgets, the 1–4 plane switch, movable planes, Perspective Selection scale/copy/perpendicular/Transform Again, and type and symbols truly projected with Edit Text. Left: Anti-Alias and Preserve Shape output, warp-envelope point editing, brush interpolation in blends, Free Transform/Scale/Reflect along a rotated box | 2–4 |
 | M9 | Live effects (+ 3D & Materials) | 🟡 2D effects done incl. Effect → Pathfinder, Color Adjustments and Document Raster Effects Settings; PDF export warns when the pixel cap lowers raster-effect resolution; Artistic › Colored Pencil, Cutout, Dry Brush, Film Grain, Fresco, Neon Glow, Paint Daubs, Palette Knife, Poster Edges, Rough Pastels, Smudge Stick, Sponge, Underpainting and Watercolor and Sketch › Halftone Pattern, Bas Relief, Charcoal, Conté Crayon, Photocopy, Stamp, Torn Edges and Water Paper done (57/57 Photoshop filters); Revolve with automatic smooth vector shading, default-on circular caps and continuous rims, Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate with one to ten colored directional lights and four original lighting presets; SVG Filters, remaining raster effects and 3D materials and shadows pending | 81–130 |
 | M10 | Brushes, symbols, patterns, Repeat | 🟡 pattern swatches (5 tile types, Pattern Options, editing mode, SVG `<pattern>`/PDF export) and live Repeat (radial/grid/mirror) done; interactive selected mirror axis implemented (focused and native checks passed; full CI blocked by an unrelated text test); symbol libraries done (Window › Symbol Libraries, a generated Basic Shapes library, User Defined, Other Library…, Save Symbols); brush libraries done (Window › Brush Libraries, four generated libraries, User Defined, Other Library…, Save Brushes); symbol editing shows draggable 9-slice guides (#5280), with guides outside the artwork still unsupported; brushes/symbols in progress | 23–37 |
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 | M12 | Advanced color & art (CMYK/ICC, separations, Gradient Mesh, Live Paint, Image Trace, Graphs) | 🟡 Gradient Mesh, Live Paint, Image Trace (junction-returning pieces retain their positioned boundaries; a simpler contour walk with identical output; an edge's sub-pixel shift is the same from either side; notches read only their own piece; collapsed loops keep few segments; large images trace with a warning; Auto Color keeps rare distinct colours; quick presets trace at once and the Image Trace button opens the adjustment controls; Properties reopens them; tiny fitted contours retain islands and holes; Create Strokes: exact crop EDT, Guo–Hall thinning and maximal-disc graph simplification; 15 presets, the 14 documented ones each with an enhanced version; Ignore Color, Shapes, Auto Grouping and Gradients options; measured in `image-trace-quality.md`; closed outlines retain their interior after straightening; the Flat Logo mode places edges to a fraction of a pixel, restores sharp corners, snaps lines and circles, and refuses gradients; live trace result bounds and selection highlights exclude the retained bitmap except in source-image views), Recolor Artwork, colour management (ICC, soft proofing, separations preview), Graphs (all 9 tools, Graph Data/Type, group-selected series colours persist through regenerate/save/open) done; Graph Design and Marker designs, Transpose and Switch x/y, `\|` label line breaks, the pie options, drop shadows, the legend across the top, overlapping widths, First Row/Column in Front, filled lines, kept label formatting and the Graph Data worksheet done; graph Column designs pending | 6–10 |
 | M13 | Automation (Actions ✅ record/playback, persisted; variables, scripting, batch) | 🟡 MCP `add_text` exposes existing vertical point, area and path type; broader scripting and batch work remains | 18–27 |
 | M13 | Automation (Actions ✅ record/playback, persisted; variables, scripting, batch) | 🟡 | 18–27 |
-| M14 | 1.0 polish (preferences, shortcut editor, workspaces, accessibility, packaging for all OSes) (status messages and readouts use stable responsive allocations sized for localized labels and ordinary coordinates; sample widths cached by language/unit/DPI; regression-tested and contributor-confirmed 2026-10-19; estimates unchanged) | 🟡 Dock groups collapse to their tabs by a double-click on a tab (UI.8); Preferences › General › Constrain Angle acts for the arrow keys, Shift drags and new objects (#394, 2026-10-21); numeric-field pointer selection and focus regression-tested (#1326, in part; short movements still select all); RPM runtime capabilities and glibc floor checked (#1275; real-distro install/start-up pending), Eyedropper cursor with precise-setting checks (#1269), Preferences, shortcut editor (chords with Shift and a punctuation key fire as typed; other apps' text shortcut sets imported), workspaces (each keeps its layout changes until Reset <name>, UI.7), panels docked by dragging into any dock group (as tabs or a top/bottom split) or into the icon column, and closed from a dock tab's context menu (UI.6), a custom title bar on Windows/Linux with a Home button, content-sized dialogs, menus that scroll when longer than the window and macOS native menu dismissal done (M14.8), and native macOS save sheets with a Format menu (#866); titled PDF exports set `DisplayDocTitle` for viewers and accessibility checkers (#3646); accessibility and broader Windows/Linux packaging/QA pending | 18–28 |
+| M14 | 1.0 polish (preferences, shortcut editor, workspaces, accessibility, packaging for all OSes) (status messages and readouts use stable responsive allocations sized for localized labels and ordinary coordinates; sample widths cached by language/unit/DPI; regression-tested and contributor-confirmed 2026-10-19; estimates unchanged) | 🟡 Dock groups collapse to their tabs by a double-click on a tab (UI.8); Preferences › General › Constrain Angle acts for the arrow keys, Shift drags and new objects (#394, 2026-10-21); numeric-field pointer selection and focus regression-tested (#1326, in part; short movements still select all); RPM runtime capabilities and glibc floor checked (#1275; real-distro install/start-up pending), Eyedropper cursor with precise-setting checks (#1269), Preferences, shortcut editor (chords with Shift and a punctuation key fire as typed; other apps' text shortcut sets imported), workspaces (each keeps its layout changes until Reset <name>, UI.7), Window › Help Bar shown or hidden apart from the status bar and kept in saved workspaces, panels docked by dragging into any dock group (as tabs or a top/bottom split) or into the icon column, and closed from a dock tab's context menu (UI.6), a custom title bar on Windows/Linux with a Home button, content-sized dialogs, menus that scroll when longer than the window and macOS native menu dismissal done (M14.8), and native macOS save sheets with a Format menu (#866); titled PDF exports set `DisplayDocTitle` for viewers and accessibility checkers (#3646); accessibility and broader Windows/Linux packaging/QA pending; floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it (#5925, in part), with pointer and native-window regression coverage; estimates unchanged | 18–28 |
 | — | Interaction fidelity pass (every tool's modifiers, Properties panel per context, isolation, nuance; width-point creation and adjoining adjustment regression-tested; dialog layout reviewed) | ⬜ (new ruler-guide Alt orientation implemented; existing-guide Escape cancellation regression-tested; broader pass remains) | 60–90 |
 | — | Hardening at scale (big-file corpus, fuzzing, cross-platform + browser QA) | 🟡 PngSuite integrity and bounded fetching verified (#1729); real-world corpus/manual QA remain | 50–80 |
 | M14 follow-up | Color Picker layout (#2008) | ✅ Compact controls, centered header, stacked actions, aligned fields and screen sampling; narrow windows scroll vertically | Included above |
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+| 2026-11-09 | minor | M4/G9: EPS import: the fonts an EPS carries draw their glyphs instead of being set as type in an installed font: composite (Type 0) fonts with the 8/8 mapping, plain Type 42 fonts (characters from their glyph names or character map, widths from the font), CID-keyed fonts over CMaps (Type 0 and Type 2 CIDFonts, CIDFonts in a FontSet's Compact Font Format data, base-font CMaps, named CIDFonts over predefined Unicode CMaps set as type) and embedded Type 1 fonts; the show operators' spacing along the baseline is kept as tracking, `kshow` included. Each step is charged to the interpreter's budgets. Hand-written test files only (no corpus file uses these fonts); scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-08 | minor | M7: spell check engine, `text.spelling.check` and `text.spelling.suggest` on craft-proof (#4936); the dialog, Auto Spell Check and the custom dictionary remain; scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-08 | minor | Floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it (#5925, in part); tab groups remain intact. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-09 | minor | Numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking focus; keyboard focus and existing rounding rules remain (#5949). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-07 | minor | M2: with the Pen or Curvature tool, Edit › Copy and Cut take the anchors and segments a Cmd/Ctrl-lent Direct Selection picked, not the whole path (#6123); estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-07 | minor | Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | M2: a shape just drawn moves by its centre point (Show Center) and turns from the rotate zone just outside a bounding-box corner with its tool still active, as the Selection tool's gestures do (#5477); estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Hindi (`hi`): 7,877-row machine-assisted catalog, zero/one singular plurals, desktop font fallback and optional Devanagari craft-fonts fallback; all 55 translation tests pass; native review and a web font remain; scores and estimates unchanged |
@@ -192,8 +207,6 @@ separate. Scores and hours unchanged. [Behavior and command details](development
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | M7: Touch Type moves right-to-left characters along their line while keeping text editable; first-logical-character restriction retained. Estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-30 | patch | M5: opaque solid-fill knockout paths avoid redundant erase/add layers in hard-edge frames and supersampled raster export; exact-pixel regression coverage retains analytical-AA rounding and translucent knockout behavior; scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | M7: retain composition trimming in rotated character placement and rotation metadata; estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-30 | minor | M4: 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 | M4: 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`; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-29 | minor | M6: Pathfinder: live compound shapes (#4522): the panel menu's Make, Release and Expand Compound Shape, Alt-clicking a Shape Mode, a selected member's Shape Mode and the Expand button act; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-26 | minor | M4/G9: EPS Save and Save As: 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; it does not write Illustrator's own editing data (#868), and G9's real-file import fidelity is unchanged; scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | M10/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); estimates unchanged |
@@ -212,9 +225,6 @@ separate. Scores and hours unchanged. [Behavior and command details](development
 | 2026-10-22 | minor | G2: the Effect Gallery shipped (#2883): Effect › Effect Gallery… browses the Artistic, Brush Strokes, Distort, Sketch, Stylize and Texture filters, edits each filter's settings, builds an ordered stack (add, reorder, hide, remove) with a live canvas preview, and OK applies it as separate appearance effects in one undo step; remaining: filter thumbnails and a preview area inside the dialog; G2 estimate 4–6 → 1–2 h; Raster effects 82% → 85% (power-user view 49% → 52%), estimated, a modest move because the named missing dialog landed without thumbnails or an in-dialog preview. |
 | 2026-10-22 | minor | G2: Effect › Sketch › Conté Crayon (Foreground Level, Background Level, Texture, Scaling, Relief, Light Direction, Invert; a black crayon in the dark areas and a white one in the light areas on textured mid-grey paper; ranges and defaults unverified VectorCraft choices); measured Photoshop-style filters 57/57, the Effect Gallery remains (4–6 h). |
 | 2026-10-22 | minor | Recolor Artwork Edit chips scroll within the available screen height (#3416); small palettes retain their tab height; scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | Artboard Options honors Scale Artwork with Artboard for preset, orientation and typed-size changes; both Fits keep artwork stationary; scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | G2: the Effect Gallery shipped (#2883): Effect › Effect Gallery… browses the Artistic, Brush Strokes, Distort, Sketch, Stylize and Texture filters, edits each filter's settings, builds an ordered stack (add, reorder, hide, remove) with a live canvas preview, and OK applies it as separate appearance effects in one undo step; remaining: filter thumbnails and a preview area inside the dialog; G2 estimate 4–6 → 1–2 h; Raster effects 82% → 85% (power-user view 49% → 52%), estimated, a modest move because the named missing dialog landed without thumbnails or an in-dialog preview. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | G2: Effect › Sketch › Conté Crayon (Foreground Level, Background Level, Texture, Scaling, Relief, Light Direction, Invert; a black crayon in the dark areas and a white one in the light areas on textured mid-grey paper; ranges and defaults unverified VectorCraft choices); measured Photoshop-style filters 57/57, the Effect Gallery remains (4–6 h). |
 | 2026-10-22 | minor | Font pickers list recently applied families first (#3515), using the existing recent-font limit; search, filters, previews and keyboard selection share the same rows. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | Blend panel Type and Ramp control step easing with a separate color Shift (#2539); Blend Options retains spacing and orientation; polynomial curves are original approximation. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | M14: workspaces keep the layout changes made in them across switches and restarts until Reset <name> (UI.7); estimates unchanged |
@@ -225,6 +235,7 @@ separate. Scores and hours unchanged. [Behavior and command details](development
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | 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. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | Recolor model selection is available through the engine and MCP only (#2520); the dialog retains its existing controls. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | Tangent and straight-segment perpendicular snapping use saved Smart Guides Geometric Guides preferences and Control bar quick access (#2537); no View submenu; Recolor model selection is available through the engine and MCP only (#2520); the dialog retains its existing controls. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-21 | minor | SVG CSS classes survive export and repeated import in all four styling modes (#2480); current-main integration retains event attributes and scripts. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | 3D: original Standard, Diffuse, Top Left and Right lighting presets; command access, effective-setting recognition and preview/history; scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-20 | minor | Polygon and Star exact-size placement remembers the chosen count for later drags and dialog openings; Cancel preserves the previous count; existing opening gestures retained; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-20 | minor | M12: consolidated three duplicate milestone rows into one, retaining distinct Image Trace and Graphs details and the quick-preset wording correction; status, scores and 6–10 h estimate unchanged. |

docs/three-d.md

@@ -17,6 +17,14 @@ Preview changes are temporary until OK; Cancel restores the document; OK is one
 3D effect: edit its options in the Appearance panel or the 3D and Materials panel, or remove it before applying
 another.
 
+Each solid follows its shape as it is filled. Separate and nested contours are built as drawn. Contours that cross,
+touch or run along each other or themselves, as type often draws a glyph, are first merged into one outline by
+[`vectorcraft-pathops`](../crates/pathops/README.md), keeping every contour but the numerical debris a boolean leaves.
+Whether contours meet is judged on the outline as it is followed (see the curve tolerance below), so curves that
+overlap by less than that are built as drawn. All three effects share pathops'
+[limits](../crates/pathops/README.md#limits): a shape it refuses is built from its contours as drawn, where it can be.
+An open subpath is closed by a straight line either way.
+
 ## 3D and Materials panel
 
 **Window › 3D and Materials** opens a panel that edits the 3D effect of the selection without a dialog, as the
@@ -228,9 +236,11 @@ out, perspective). No Adobe software, assets, presets or bevel shapes were used.
   effect per object.
 - Curves are followed within 1/2000 of the shape's size (at least 0.05 pt), so a small curve takes a few points
   and a large one up to 32. Extrude & Bevel and Inflate take up to 2,048 outline points (a stroke's outline is
-  counted on its own), Rotate (which only turns the outline) 65,536.
-- **3D (Classic)** (the track cube, surface types, blend steps, map art), Turntable and 3D export are separate,
-  unbuilt items.
+  counted on its own), Rotate (which only turns the outline) 65,536. The limit is counted on the shape as drawn and,
+  when its contours meet, again on the merged outline, which can have more points (bars crossing in a grid trace
+  every hole between them); past it, the shape is too complex for the effect.
+- **3D (Classic)**: Extrude & Bevel (Classic) is built, with its surface types and blend steps. Revolve (Classic),
+  Rotate (Classic), the track cube, map art, Turntable and 3D export are separate, unbuilt items.
 
 Release measurements and a repeatable CLI scene are in [3D lighting performance](3d-lighting-performance.md).
 
@@ -238,6 +248,7 @@ Release measurements and a repeatable CLI scene are in [3D lighting performance]
 
 | Date | Change |
 |---|---|
+| 2026-11-08 | Contours that cross, touch or overlap are merged by vectorcraft-pathops before Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate build a solid, sharing its limits; others are built as drawn. |
 | 2026-11-06 | Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate apply to groups and layers: every path, compound path and type in them turns about one shared axis (#4506). |
 | 2026-10-21 | Four original lighting presets, shared by all four 3D effects and commands, with effective-setting recognition and existing preview/history behavior. |
 | 2026-10-17 | Smooth colored Inflate lighting and surface batching; legacy white-light appearance and the 0.05 seam minimum preserved; shared light Color and multiple lights remain vector output. |

docs/type-parity.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Type parity
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-07 · **Change:** minor (Indian-language hyphenation review and license allowlist, #4947; Bulgarian among the languages, with its quote marks and the fonts' Bulgarian forms, #5945; previously minor: Show Snap to Glyph Options scrolls to the options, with a Snap to Glyph checkbox, #5273; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-09 · **Change:** minor (spell check engine: `text.spelling.check` and `text.spelling.suggest` on craft-proof, #4936; previously minor: right-aligned area type sets the text after a line's last tab against the right edge; a soft return in justified type no longer keeps its line from being justified; 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) · **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
@@ -19,19 +19,19 @@ against Illustrator's public documentation; **estimated** unless noted.
 | Feature | Status | Notes |
 |---|---|---|
 | Mouse wheel over the closed font-family field | done | #5253: Character, Properties and Control step selected text through the family list using saved font filters (excluding search text), one undo step per notch; the style is matched and the list stops at either end. Escape and leaving the field keep the change. Order, bounds and Undo grouping are VectorCraft's choices; scores unchanged. |
-| Soft return (forced line break, Shift+Enter) | done | Shift+Enter inserts a soft return (U+2028), breaking the line without starting a new paragraph; paragraph spacing (space before/after) and first-line indents apply only at paragraph ends; continuation lines in lists do not repeat the marker; soft return lines in justified text do not spread (#2754) |
+| Soft return (forced line break, Shift+Enter) | done | Shift+Enter inserts a soft return (U+2028), breaking the line without starting a new paragraph; paragraph spacing (space before/after) and first-line indents apply only at paragraph ends; continuation lines in lists do not repeat the marker; in justified text a line a soft return ends is justified as a wrapped line is, only the paragraph's last line keeping its alignment, as Illustrator's own layout in a user's `.ai` sets it (evidence: `tests::typo::soft_return_in_justified_text_spreads_like_a_wrapped_line`; first done the other way in #2754) |
 | Native font-family labels | partial | With Show Font Names in English off, localized legacy names are used when typographic names contain no native label (#2208); loaded-font and catalog-only regressions. Choosing among multiple native languages is unchanged. |
-| Point, area and type-on-a-path type; vertical variants | done / partial | vertical point, area and path type have initial support; fullwidth `！` / `？` keep the nominal glyph upright when no vertical alternate exists (Unicode Tu); in a non-rectangular area a word too wide for the top lines moves down to the first line that holds it (#1615); Escape while typing ends the edit, keeps the type selected and switches to the Selection tool (#1802), and Cmd+Enter (Ctrl+Enter on Windows and Linux) does the same unless a command is bound to it; `text.create` and `text.createInPath` take `justify` (#1752); MCP `add_text` forwards `vertical` to both commands; the Type and Vertical Type tools make area type when a closed path's outline is clicked and type on a path when an open one is, with pointers that say which, as the public help describes ([Create text](https://web.archive.org/web/20220127090642/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/creating-text.html), [Create type on a path](https://web.archive.org/web/20220127090635/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/creating-type-path.html)) |
+| Point, area and type-on-a-path type; vertical variants | done / partial | vertical point, area and path type have initial support; fullwidth `！` / `？` keep the nominal glyph upright when no vertical alternate exists (Unicode Tu); in a non-rectangular area a word too wide for the top lines moves down to the first line that holds it (#1615); Escape while typing ends the edit, keeps the type selected and switches back to the tool whose double-click on type chose the Type tool (kept until another tool is chosen or another document or window becomes active, so later edits with the Type tool return there too), or to the Selection tool when there is no such tool, as when the Type tool was chosen from the toolbar or after such a switch (#1802), and Cmd+Enter (Ctrl+Enter on Windows and Linux) does the same unless a command is bound to it; `text.create` and `text.createInPath` take `justify` (#1752); MCP `add_text` forwards `vertical` to both commands; Type › Type Orientation sets every frame of a thread, and a thread's frames share one writing direction; the Type and Vertical Type tools make area type when a closed path's outline is clicked and type on a path when an open one is, with pointers that say which, as the public help describes ([Create text](https://web.archive.org/web/20220127090642/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/creating-text.html), [Create type on a path](https://web.archive.org/web/20220127090635/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/creating-type-path.html)) |
 | Area Type Options (rows, columns, inset, first baseline, Text Flow by rows or by columns, Auto Size, Shrink Text to Fit) | done | Text Flow fills the cells down each column first (By Columns, the default, as files from before it open) or across each row first (By Rows), in the dialog and `text.areaOptions {flow}` (#4978); the commands that make or restyle type say when it does not fit its frame; MCP `add_text` takes Auto Size and Shrink Text to Fit (#1471) |
 | Threaded text, Fit Headline, Text Wrap | done | Fit Headline sees wrapping in a frame one line tall (#1444); a thread holds area type and type on a path in any mix, as Illustrator links type in an area or along a path ([help](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/manage-text-area.html)) |
 | Threading from the ports: selected area type and type on a path show an in port and an out port, empty, with an arrow on a side where the frame is threaded, or with a red "+" in the out port when the text doesn't fit; a click on either port loads the text; a click on a closed path, area type or type on a path threads into it, a click on empty canvas makes a frame of the same kind, shape and size there, a drag draws a rectangular frame; the frame placed comes after the clicked one from its out port and before it from its in port (the story then starts there); Escape or another tool cancels; a double-click on a threaded port breaks the thread there | partial | #2572: the Selection tool, `text.thread.add {from, to?, rect?, at?, before?}`, as the reference app's help describes ports and threading ([archived help, Threading text between objects](https://web.archive.org/web/20210119051048/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/creating-text.html), [create text threads](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/add-manage-text/create-text-threads-between-objects.html)); area type's in port sits on the left side below the top-left corner, type on a path's just before its start bracket; Show Text Threads draws its lines between the same ports; with more than 1,000 such objects selected no ports are drawn. a double-click on a port where the frame is threaded breaks the thread there, the story flowing into the frames before the break and the frames after it left empty, still threaded with each other when two or more (`text.thread.break`, [archived help](https://web.archive.org/web/20220127090642/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/creating-text.html)). Remaining: the ports only take clicks with the Selection tool, and the loaded cursor borrows the I-beam until it's drawn |
 | Type on a Path effects and options; brackets | done | #429; Type on a Path Options has a Preview checkbox (#5360, as public tutorials of the dialog show) |
-| 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 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. Double-clicking a user character style's row opens its Character Style Options, and the dialog keeps a fixed width while its sections scroll when the window is shorter, so its buttons stay on screen; a paragraph style's row opens its Paragraph Style Options, the rename dialog the panel menu opens. Evidence: `panels::text_styles::tests::double_clicking_a_character_style_row_opens_its_options`, `dialogs::char_style_options::tests::the_sections_scroll_in_a_window_shorter_than_the_general_list` |
 | Copy or Cut selected characters, then paste as separate text art | done | A Type-range copy keeps the selected characters' font family, size and color when pasted on the canvas after leaving text editing, in the same document or another. On desktop the clipboard offers plain text to text consumers and rich art for canvas Paste; Paste Without Formatting while editing uses the destination text's style. `tests::clipboard::type_range_copy_stays_styled_when_pasted_as_art` (#5636) |
 | 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; 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); the OpenType panel's Position menu sets superscript, subscript, numerator or denominator glyphs (`sups`, `subs`, `numr`, `dnom`). The OpenType panel's Stylistic Sets menu lists the selected font's `ss01`–`ss20` features, using a font-supplied name where available and `Set N` otherwise; several sets can be active, and selecting an active one removes it. For a mixed-font selection it uses the first selected character's font, a VectorCraft design choice ([public help](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/special-characters-glyphs/add-stylistic-sets-to-selected-text.html), [OpenType feature specification](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/features_pt)). The Glyphs panel highlights the character selected with the Type tool (a range's first character, else the one before the caret) and scrolls it into view as the selection moves (#4908; `panels::glyphs` tests); its Show menu lists Unicode ranges and Alternates for Current Selection, the selected character's alternate glyphs from the font's `GSUB` table, one of which a double-click draws for that character (`text.setGlyphAlternate`); the glyph-cell pop-up of alternates is not there yet |
-| 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)  Replace With Font lists family and style rows, one click setting both, with a search over them; its list scrolls on its own, apart from the document's font list (#4972). |
+| 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); Select Text by Font takes a scope: the document, chosen artboards or chosen layers; Find Font's Find In offers Document, Artboard (the active one) and Layers (the selected ones, else the current one) (#5529, a VectorCraft addition); Replace With Font lists family and style rows, one click setting both, with a search over them; its list scrolls on its own, apart from the document's font list (#4972). |
 | 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 |
 | Variable fonts | done | named instances as styles; Character panel › Variable Font sets each axis (`fontAxes`); the font menu's Font Technology › Variable lists only variable font families, with the script, kind and ★ filters ([Find, apply, and adjust variable fonts](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/fonts-and-scripts/find-apply-and-adjust-variable-fonts.html)); a family with a variable file beside static ones counts as variable. Evidence: `font_menu::tests::the_variable_filter_lists_only_variable_families`, `tests_axes::a_family_with_variation_axes_is_variable`, `tests_sysfonts::a_family_with_a_variable_file_beside_static_ones_is_variable` |
@@ -45,11 +45,11 @@ against Illustrator's public documentation; **estimated** unless noted.
 | Hyphenation… and Justification… options | done | Eleven Indian languages use attributed patterns and preserve syllables in both composers (#4947). Hyphenation… (`ui.hyphenation`, `text.setFormat`) sets each paragraph's Words Longer Than, After First, Before Last, Hyphen Limit, Hyphenation Zone (Single-line Composer only) and Hyphenate Capitalized Words, and paragraph styles carry them (#2310). Justification… (`ui.justification`, `text.setFormat`, #2755) sets Word Spacing, Letter Spacing and Glyph Scaling (Minimum, Desired, Maximum), Auto Leading and Single Word Justification; Desired applies to every line, justified lines and the Every-line Composer use the ranges. Vertical type isn't glyph scaled; type on a path doesn't use them. Evidence: `crates/text/src/tests/justify.rs`, `dialogs::justification::tests` |
 | Roman Hanging Punctuation | done | Paragraph panel menu › Roman Hanging Punctuation, `text.setFormat {romanHangingPunctuation}` (#2756): per paragraph, Optical Margin Alignment's punctuation and amounts without the letters; paragraph styles carry it. Evidence: `tests::roman_hanging_punctuation_hangs_punctuation_but_not_letters`, `typecmd::area_tests::roman_hanging_punctuation_is_set_per_paragraph_and_saved_only_when_on` |
 | Hyphenation… and Justification… options | done | Eleven Indian languages use attributed patterns and preserve syllables in both composers (#4947). Hyphenation… (`ui.hyphenation`, `text.setFormat`) sets each paragraph's Words Longer Than, After First, Before Last, Hyphen Limit, Hyphenation Zone (Single-line Composer only) and Hyphenate Capitalized Words, and paragraph styles carry them (#2310). Justification… (`ui.justification`, `text.setFormat`, #2755) sets Word Spacing, Letter Spacing and Glyph Scaling (Minimum, Desired, Maximum), Auto Leading and Single Word Justification; Desired applies to every line, justified lines and the Every-line Composer use the ranges. Vertical type isn't glyph scaled; type on a path doesn't use them. Auto Leading also sets the Leading the Character panel shows for Auto type, the leading Alt+↑/↓ (`type.step`) steps from, per paragraph, and the lines Fill with Placeholder Text counts. Evidence: `crates/text/src/tests/justify.rs`, `dialogs::justification::tests`, `tests_prefs::auto_leading_steps_and_fills_from_the_paragraph_auto_leading`, `panels::character` test `leading_field_shows_the_paragraph_auto_leading` |
-| Tab stops and leaders; Tabs panel | partial | Tabs panel and stops with leaders in the model (`text.tabs.set`); a stop drags from where the press landed (#1458); leaders fill the tab's gap, repeated on a grid so they line up from line to line (#1877); Ctrl-dragging a stop (Command on macOS) moves all the stops together |
+| Tab stops and leaders; Tabs panel | partial | Tabs panel and stops with leaders in the model (`text.tabs.set`); a stop drags from where the press landed (#1458); leaders fill the tab's gap, repeated on a grid so they line up from line to line (#1877); Ctrl-dragging a stop (Command on macOS) moves all the stops together; in right-aligned area type the text before a line's last tab sits at its stops, from the left edge, and the text after it against the right edge, as Illustrator's own layout in a user's `.ai` sets a price list (evidence: `tests::right_aligned_area_type_sets_the_text_after_its_last_tab_against_the_edge`; centred and justified lines are still aligned as a whole) |
 | Hidden characters (Show Hidden Characters) | done | `type.hiddenCharacters` |
-| Spell check (Check Spelling, Auto Spell Check, custom dictionary) | missing | menu stubs; needs an openly licensed dictionary |
+| Spell check (Check Spelling, Auto Spell Check, custom dictionary) | partial | the engine (#4936): `text.spelling.check` lists the unknown words of the document's type, each run in its Language, at the bytes `text.editRange` changes, and `text.spelling.suggest` gives suggestions, both from craft-proof, each paragraph on its own (English from the first dictionary it finds: a Hunspell dictionary in the user's dictionaries folder, the SCOWL dictionary built in from craft-i18n, a system Hunspell dictionary, and last the public-domain Moby word list built into it; other languages from the dictionaries craft-proof finds for them). The Check Spelling dialog, Auto Spell Check and Edit Custom Dictionary remain (the Edit › Spelling items are still off). Evidence: `crates/engine/src/tests/spelling.rs` |
 | Smart Punctuation, Change Case, Find & Replace | done | |
-| Alt + numeric-keypad codes while typing (Windows: `Alt+0176` → °) | partial | #5108: on Windows the character Windows posts when Alt comes up after keypad digits is typed at the caret like any other, in the typing's undo step, and the keypad digits typed with Alt run no shortcut (`windows_alt_codes` tests; not yet tried on a Windows machine). `type.insert {code}` (Windows Alt+0 code, Windows-1252 for 128–159) and `{unicode}` (hex code point) insert a character by its code (`menucmds::insert_a_character_by_its_code`). macOS and Linux have no such system convention and egui reports a keypad digit as the top-row digit, so there it does nothing; a floating panel window doesn't receive the character |
+| Alt + numeric-keypad codes while typing (Windows: `Alt+0176` → °) | partial | #5108: on Windows the character Windows posts when Alt comes up after keypad digits is typed at the caret like any other, in the typing's undo step, and the keypad digits typed with Alt run no shortcut. With NumLock off the keypad keys (Insert, End, arrows, Clear, Home, Page Up/Down without the extended-key flag) count as digits too and don't move the caret (`windows_alt_codes` unit tests; neither NumLock on nor off has been tried on a Windows machine yet). `type.insert {code}` (Windows Alt+0 code, Windows-1252 for 128–159) and `{unicode}` (hex code point) insert a character by its code (`menucmds::insert_a_character_by_its_code`). macOS and Linux have no such system convention and egui reports a keypad digit as the top-row digit, so there it does nothing; a floating panel window doesn't receive the character |
 | Caret: the arrows and Delete step over whole clusters (Thai consonant with its marks, combining accents, emoji); Backspace removes one character | done | in text with right-to-left characters the arrows move in visual order and stop on both sides of a character drawn with no width, such as a zero width non-joiner |
 | Touch Type tool | done | moves, scales and rotates one character through its kerning, baseline shift, scales and rotation (`text.touchType`); a character with a preceding logical character on the same line can move along the line in either reading direction; the first logical character moves only up and down. Positive `dx` follows reading order. These direction rules are VectorCraft's choices. |
 | Retype (identify fonts in outlines/images) | missing | Illustrator's uses a cloud model |
@@ -61,13 +61,15 @@ against Illustrator's public documentation; **estimated** unless noted.
 | Middle Eastern: Middle Eastern composers, split caret | missing | Character Direction is done; editable bidirectional SVG text remains incomplete. |
 | CJK: input methods (marked text, candidate window) | done | |
 | CJK: kinsoku (Hard, Soft, None), Line-end Punctuation Half Width, tate-chu-yoko (auto) | done / partial | custom kinsoku sets, the Mojikumi Settings dialog and the other mojikumi sets missing |
+| CJK: Kinsoku Shori Type (Push In First, Push Out First, Push Out Only) | done | Paragraph panel menu › Kinsoku Shori Type (`text.setFormat {kinsokuType}`), with the East Asian options ([Formatting Asian characters](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/formatting-asian-characters.html)); Push Out Only is the default, and a push-in closes the line's gaps next to CJK characters by at most a tenth of an em each (VectorCraft's own limit). Evidence: `layout::wrapping_tests::kinsoku_shori_type_pushes_a_closing_bracket_in_or_out`, `tests::vertical::kinsoku_shori_type_pushes_a_closing_bracket_in_or_out`, `typecmd::area_tests::kinsoku_shori_type_is_set_per_paragraph_and_saved_only_when_not_push_out_only` |
 | CJK: Proportional Metrics (`palt` in horizontal type, `vpal` in vertical type) | done | #966 |
 | CJK: East Asian Type units (Q, Ha) | done | Preferences › Units › East Asian Type (`unitsAsianType`, Points by default) offers every unit and Q and Ha, a quarter of a millimetre each ([Scripting Guide](https://ai-scripting.docsforadobe.dev/scripting/measurementUnits/): 0.709 pt per Q; [InDesign's unit notation](https://helpx.adobe.com/in/indesign/desktop/layout-and-grid-tools/rulers-and-measure-tools/change-ruler-measurement-units.html): `q`, `h`). The public pages do not say which fields follow it, so no field uses it yet and that waits for a source. Evidence: `q_and_ha_are_a_quarter_millimetre`, `east_asian_type_unit_*` |
 | CJK: manual tate-chu-yoko | done | Character panel menu › Tate-chu-yoko (`text.setFormat` / `text.setRangeStyle {tateChuYoko}`), with Show East Asian Options: marked characters stand side by side across one em of a vertical column, squeezed to the em when wider; two or three half-width digits still do so without the mark; horizontal type keeps the mark and does not move them. Tate-chu-yoko Settings… (`ui.tateChuYokoSettings`, `{tcyUpDown, tcyLeftRight}` in points) moves a marked block up or down and right or left as one piece. Evidence: `tests_vertical::manual_tate_chu_yoko_sets_marked_characters_across_one_em`, `tests_vertical::tate_chu_yoko_settings_move_a_marked_block_up_down_left_and_right`, `typecmd::tate_chu_yoko_is_a_character_attribute_saved_only_when_on`, `typecmd::tate_chu_yoko_settings_are_character_attributes_saved_only_when_set`, `dialogs::tate_chu_yoko::tests` |
 | CJK: Standard Vertical Roman Alignment | done | Character panel menu › Standard Vertical Roman Alignment (`text.setFormat` / `text.setRangeStyle {standardVerticalRoman}`), with Show East Asian Options, off by default: in vertical type the marked half-width characters (Latin letters, digits and other characters that would lie on their side) stand upright one below the other, each in its upright cell; spaces keep their width and tate-chu-yoko blocks stay across the column; horizontal type keeps the mark and does not change. Character Style Options has its own checkbox for it. Evidence: `tests_vertical::standard_vertical_roman_alignment_stands_half_width_characters_upright`, `typecmd::standard_vertical_roman_is_a_character_attribute_saved_only_when_on` |
+| CJK: composite fonts | partial | Type › Composite Fonts… (`type.compositeFonts.set`), with Show East Asian Options: a font made of a font per class of character (Kanji, Kana, Punctuation, Symbols, Roman, Numerals), each with its own style, size and baseline in percent of the type's size, Kana, Roman and Numerals with horizontal and vertical scale, and Kana with Scale at Center; New, Delete Font, Import… and Export… (`.vccomposite`, `type.compositeFonts.import` and `.export`) ([Creating composite fonts](https://help.adobe.com/archive/en_US/illustrator/cs3/illustrator_cs3_help.pdf#page=347)). Composite fonts are listed first in the font menus, saved with the document, and their type is laid out per class; SVG and legacy `.ai` write it as outlines. Not yet: custom character sets, the Units menu, Show Sample. Evidence: `text::composite::tests::characters_fall_in_their_classes`, `tests::composite::composite_type_draws_each_class_in_its_font`, `compositefonts::tests`, `dialogs::composite_fonts::tests` |
 | CJK: ruby | partial | ruby (ふりがな) for live text (`type.ruby`): a reading over a byte range, above (right of the column in vertical type) or below, start/centre/end alignment, size, overhang or squeeze; saved natively, laid out with its line growing, drawn on the canvas, in SVG and PDF (as outlines where ruby is present), in EPS, EMF/WMF and legacy `.ai` (legacy `.ai` writes type with ruby as outlines), and kept by Create Outlines, Expand Appearance and flattening, each glyph where the layout puts it (`typecmd::ruby_tests::create_outlines_keeps_the_ruby_where_it_is_laid_out`) | #633 |
-| Language per character (Character panel › Language, character styles), text shaped in it | done | `text.setFormat` / `text.setRangeStyle {language}` by name or BCP 47 tag, one of Document Setup's languages (Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia and Urdu added, #4943; Assamese and Sanskrit added, #4947; Serbian: Cyrillic, Serbian: Latin and Croatian); the shaper gets the tag, so the font's language forms apply (OpenType `locl`: Turkish keeps `fi` apart and the dot on its i, #4940); new type takes the document's language; saved as the tag only when set, carried by character styles (#4946). English and eleven Indian languages hyphenate by run language; Sanskrit automatic hyphenation awaits allowlisted patterns (#4947). Not yet: spelling by it, `.ai`/PDF import of a text's language, paragraph styles. Evidence: `features::tests::language_picks_the_fonts_forms`, `features::tests::serbian_gets_the_fonts_serbian_forms`, `typecmd::area_tests::language_is_a_character_attribute_saved_only_when_set`, `tests::typo::indic_language_runs_hyphenate_with_both_composers`, `hyphen::tests::sanskrit_without_allowlisted_patterns_uses_only_exceptions` |
-| Language per character (Character panel › Language, character styles), text shaped in it | done | `text.setFormat` / `text.setRangeStyle {language}` by name or BCP 47 tag, one of Document Setup's languages (Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia and Urdu added, #4943; Serbian: Cyrillic, Serbian: Latin and Croatian; Bulgarian, #5945); the shaper gets the tag, so the font's language forms apply (OpenType `locl`: Turkish keeps `fi` apart and the dot on its i, #4940); new type takes the document's language; saved as the tag only when set, carried by character styles (#4946). Not yet: hyphenation and spelling by it, `.ai`/PDF import of a text's language, paragraph styles. Evidence: `features::tests::language_picks_the_fonts_forms`, `features::tests::serbian_gets_the_fonts_serbian_forms`, `typecmd::area_tests::language_is_a_character_attribute_saved_only_when_set` |
+| Language per character (Character panel › Language, character styles), text shaped in it | done | `text.setFormat` / `text.setRangeStyle {language}` by name or BCP 47 tag, one of Document Setup's languages (Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia and Urdu added, #4943; Assamese and Sanskrit added, #4947; Serbian: Cyrillic, Serbian: Latin and Croatian); the shaper gets the tag, so the font's language forms apply (OpenType `locl`: Turkish keeps `fi` apart and the dot on its i, #4940); new type takes the document's language; saved as the tag only when set, carried by character styles (#4946). English and eleven Indian languages hyphenate by run language; Sanskrit automatic hyphenation awaits allowlisted patterns (#4947). Not yet: `.ai`/PDF import of a text's language, paragraph styles. Evidence: `features::tests::language_picks_the_fonts_forms`, `features::tests::serbian_gets_the_fonts_serbian_forms`, `typecmd::area_tests::language_is_a_character_attribute_saved_only_when_set`, `tests::typo::indic_language_runs_hyphenate_with_both_composers`, `hyphen::tests::sanskrit_without_allowlisted_patterns_uses_only_exceptions`; spelling is checked in each run's Language (`text.spelling.check`, #4936) |
+| Language per character (Character panel › Language, character styles), text shaped in it | done | `text.setFormat` / `text.setRangeStyle {language}` by name or BCP 47 tag, one of Document Setup's languages (Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia and Urdu added, #4943; Serbian: Cyrillic, Serbian: Latin and Croatian; Bulgarian, #5945); the shaper gets the tag, so the font's language forms apply (OpenType `locl`: Turkish keeps `fi` apart and the dot on its i, #4940); new type takes the document's language; saved as the tag only when set, carried by character styles (#4946). Not yet: hyphenation by it in languages other than English and the eleven Indian languages above, `.ai`/PDF import of a text's language, paragraph styles. Evidence: `features::tests::language_picks_the_fonts_forms`, `features::tests::serbian_gets_the_fonts_serbian_forms`, `typecmd::area_tests::language_is_a_character_attribute_saved_only_when_set`; spelling is checked in each run's Language (`text.spelling.check`, #4936) |
 | No Break | done | Character panel menu (`text.setFormat` / `text.setRangeStyle {noBreak}`): the marked characters stay on one line, including across a space; a run that does not fit after earlier text moves together, and a run longer than the line stays together. Evidence: `layout::wrapping_tests::no_break_keeps_marked_characters_on_one_line`, `tests::no_break_keeps_marked_words_on_one_line`, `typecmd::no_break_is_a_character_attribute_saved_only_when_on` |
 | Inline symbols in text | beyond Illustrator | not scored |
 | Align Stroke (inside, outside) on live type's character stroke | beyond Illustrator | not scored; `stroke.set {align}` and `text.setRangeStyle {strokeOptions: {align}}`; saved natively, drawn around the glyphs on the canvas and in PDF, EPS and SVG (live text, stroke on the glyph outlines); visual bounds grow with it (#2294) |
@@ -79,11 +81,18 @@ Character Styles menu New/Redefine and footer New capture the first selected cha
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-08 | minor | Spell check engine (#4936): `text.spelling.check` lists unknown words per run language at `text.editRange` byte offsets and `text.spelling.suggest` gives suggestions, from craft-proof; the dialog, Auto Spell Check and the custom dictionary remain. Spelling noted in the Language per character rows, which no longer list it as not yet done; their hyphenation note names the languages that still lack it. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-07 | minor | Tabs: in right-aligned area type, the text before a line's last tab sits at its stops, measured from the left edge, and the text after it (none, when the tab ends the line) against the right edge; the line was aligned as a whole, which moved its start off the left edge. Illustrator's own layout in a user's `.ai` (used locally, not committed) sets its price lists so. Centred and justified lines keep their alignment as a whole. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-07 | minor | Soft return: in Justify Left, Center or Right, the line a soft return ends is justified as a wrapped line is; only the paragraph's last line keeps its alignment. Illustrator's own layout in a user's `.ai` (used locally, not committed) justifies those lines. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-08 | minor | Style panels: a double-click on a user character style's row opens its Character Style Options (`ui.charStyleOptions`), and on a paragraph style's row its Paragraph Style Options (rename); the Character Style Options dialog keeps a fixed width and scrolls its sections in a shorter window, so OK and Cancel stay on screen. Tests `panels::text_styles::tests::double_clicking_a_character_style_row_opens_its_options` and `dialogs::char_style_options::tests::the_sections_scroll_in_a_window_shorter_than_the_general_list`. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-07 | minor | Alt + numeric-keypad codes with NumLock off: the keypad keys arrive as Insert, End, arrows, Clear, Home and Page Up/Down, which Windows still composes into the code; with Alt held they now count as digits and are taken out of the frame instead of moving the caret, while the separate navigation keys (extended-key flag) keep their meaning (follow-up to #5939). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-07 | minor | Indian-language hyphenation (#4947): eleven MIT-licensed pattern sets, with grapheme and shaping-cluster protection in both composers and existing paragraph limits. Assamese and Sanskrit are selectable; Sanskrit automatic patterns remain pending an allowlisted source. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Alt + numeric-keypad codes (`Alt+0176` → °) type their character at the caret on Windows, and `type.insert` inserts a character by `code` or `unicode` (#5108); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Snap to Glyph › Glyph Bounds: each glyph's box gives four corners a drawn point lands on, also on a curved side (`B`), and its box and edges turn with rotated type (#5112); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-05 | minor | Character panel › Show Snap to Glyph Options scrolls the panel down to the Snap to Glyph section, which comes after every character attribute and could sit out of sight, and the section starts with a Snap to Glyph checkbox (View › Snap to Glyph) so its dimmed options can be turned on there (#5273); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-05 | minor | Release Type on a Path joins the Type Tools add-on: type on a path splits into point type and its path (#5532, beyond Illustrator). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-04 | minor | Select Text by Font takes a scope: the document, chosen artboards or chosen layers; Find Font's Find In offers Document, Artboard (the active one) and Layers (the selected ones, else the current one) (#5529, a VectorCraft addition); scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-04 | minor | Typographer's Quotes: a lone typed `”` (U+201D) is set like a straight `"` where a quote opens (at the start, after a space), taking the document's opening quote, and stays `”` where one closes: the macOS Serbian Cyrillic layout has no straight quote and types `”` on Shift+2, which now gives „…” (#5247). `“ „` and the single quotes `‘ ’ ‚` stay as typed (that layout's apostrophe key types `’`, and `’90s` keeps its apostrophe); pasted text keeps its quotes; with the option off `”` stays as typed. Evidence: `docsetup::a_typed_closing_double_quote_opens_where_a_quote_opens`; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-11-04 | minor | A Type-range Copy or Cut publishes styled art alongside plain text, so a later canvas Paste keeps its character formatting after editing ends (#5636). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | Glyphs panel adds Alternates for Current Selection. A chosen alternate changes one character's drawn glyph while keeping its Unicode text; character-style capture does not copy that per-character choice. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-04 | minor | Find Font's Replace With Font lists family and style rows, one click setting both, with a search over them; the list scrolls apart from the document's font list and refreshes after each replacement (#4972); scores and estimates unchanged. |

docs/ui-parity.md

@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 # UI and interaction parity
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-07 · **Change:** minor (Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); 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)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-09 · **Change:** minor (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)
 
 ## Feature submission evidence
 
+Numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking keyboard focus (#5949). Arrow keys still require focus; modifiers, units, limits, mixed values and existing rounding stay in the shared stepping path. Headless regressions in `tests/numfields.rs` cover hovered unfocused fields, focused fields, trackpad accumulation and panel scroll exclusion. Scores and estimates unchanged.
+
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Opening a file that takes longer than 0.4 s shows a progress window: the file name, a moving bar (reading reports no steps), how many more files wait, Cancel (Esc; the file doesn't open) and Continue in Background (`file.cancelOpen`, `file.openInBackground`); it never opens over another dialog or progress window (part of #5930); scores and estimates unchanged |
 Raster rendering fits and preflattens curved stroke outlines more tightly only below four times the raster tolerance, retaining thin-band coverage without changing stroke weight or vector export geometry. Current cached character/object outlines, cropped long strokes, gradient clips and effect rasters share the helper; cropped-region reuse and guarded flattening remain. The unchanged `fractional_curved_strokes_retain_coverage_between_notches` regression covers fractional weights, rotation, phase, opacity and f32-rounded endpoints. This is a quality/cost tradeoff, not a speed claim. Scores and estimates unchanged.
 
@@ -15,6 +17,8 @@ Group Selection keeps an already selected component selected during a drag; a co
 
 Creating a gradient from solid or empty paint uses the document's color model for its default stops, including drawing its vector with the Gradient tool. Explicit `keepModel: true` retains RGB defaults, and existing gradients keep their own colors. Scores and estimates are unchanged.
 
+Window → Help Bar toggles the bottom tool-help strip independently of the status bar. Its visibility is saved with workspaces and UI preferences; Presentation Mode hides both bars. Scores and estimates are unchanged.
+
 **Feature evidence last updated:** 2026-11-03.
 
 Enclosing Lasso is an add-on under Object › Plug-ins with its own heading in All Tools. It has
@@ -39,6 +43,10 @@ Artboard Options forwards the active Artboard tool's Scale Artwork with Artboard
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-08 | minor | Style panels: a double-click on a user character style's row opens its Character Style Options (`ui.charStyleOptions`), and on a paragraph style's row its Paragraph Style Options (rename); the Character Style Options dialog keeps a fixed width and scrolls its sections in a shorter window, so OK and Cancel stay on screen. Tests `panels::text_styles::tests::double_clicking_a_character_style_row_opens_its_options` and `dialogs::char_style_options::tests::the_sections_scroll_in_a_window_shorter_than_the_general_list`. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-08 | minor | #3380, deletion only: preserve gradient placement and exact surviving geometry; consume owned subpaths with a shared original-node snapshot; consolidate status/evidence and document command/helper contracts. Compound behavior and the existing M2 status entry are retained. Endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-07 | minor | #3380 (deletion only): independent surviving path objects; transformed appearance, stacking, selection, cubic handles and Undo/Redo covered by `delete_path_pieces`; compound semantics retained. Endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-02 | minor | Selection QoL: saved marquee modes, screen drag direction with a 3 px dead zone, and translated mode/E feedback (#5313); VectorCraft addition, scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | Home screen: welcome, New / Open and Community are centred and the large Discord button uses the theme accent, part of #4684; scores and estimates unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Snap to Grid: a straight segment dragged with Direct Selection lands its anchors on the grid, not the pressed point (#3835); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Drop Shadow: a swatch beside Color follows the hex and a double-click opens the Color Picker over the dialog, whose OK fills Color (#5364); scores and estimates unchanged |
@@ -71,6 +79,7 @@ Artboard Options forwards the active Artboard tool's Scale Artwork with Artboard
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | Enclosing Lasso provides whole-object enclosure selection as an add-on with no default shortcut or Basic toolbar slot. Scores and estimates remain unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | Transform previews valid typed values while numeric fields remain focused. Effect dialogs use the object, group, or layer targeted in Appearance. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | New gradients use CMYK default stops in CMYK documents, including Gradient tool creation. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-03 | minor | Help Bar has its own Window menu toggle and workspace visibility setting. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-26 | minor | Pencil Fidelity goes down to 0.01 pt (dialog, tool and engine; Smooth keeps 0.05) on a logarithmic slider across the Tool Options row, with hundredths in the field and key steps that fit the range (#3328); scores and estimates unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-22 | minor | Reconcile upstream documentation after review F-3; preserve every dated revision and the original scaleArt runtime evidence without repeating completed jobs. |
 | 2026-10-22 | minor | Reconcile upstream documentation after review F-2; preserve every dated revision and the original scaleArt runtime evidence without repeating completed jobs. |
@@ -130,7 +139,7 @@ tools, never checked side by side) isn't captured row by row.
 | Click the first anchor to close; the drag shapes the closing curve | done | |
 | Click the last anchor to retract its outgoing handle; drag from it to pull a new one | done | |
 | Alt over a handle, anchor or segment acts as the Anchor Point tool | done | |
-| Cmd/Ctrl lends the last-used selection tool | done | the path being drawn continues afterwards; with Direct Selection (the default until a selection tool is chosen) a Cmd drag moves an anchor of the path being drawn, moves a straight segment or bends a curved one, one undo step each, and a Cmd-click away from art ends the path; with Selection the hidden bounding box of the path being drawn takes no press, so the drag moves the path (#4980) |
+| Cmd/Ctrl lends the last-used selection tool | done | the path being drawn continues afterwards; with Direct Selection (the default until a selection tool is chosen) a Cmd drag moves an anchor of the path being drawn, moves a straight segment or bends a curved one, one undo step each, and a Cmd-click away from art ends the path; with Selection the hidden bounding box of the path being drawn takes no press, so the drag moves the path (#4980); anchors or segments the lent Direct Selection picks are what Copy and Cut take, as with Direct Selection chosen, while Copy with the Pen's own last anchor selected takes the whole path (#6123) |
 | Click an open path's end to continue it; click another path's end to join | done | #776 |
 | Rubber Band preview | done | Preferences option |
 | Auto Add/Delete on a selected path; Shift or the preference disables it | done | |
@@ -167,6 +176,7 @@ tools, never checked side by side) isn't captured row by row.
 
 | Behaviour | Status | Notes |
 |---|---|---|
+| Deleting segments or anchors that disconnect an ordinary path creates independent selected objects | done | #3380, deletion only: first piece retains its ID, styles and transforms carry over in sibling order, bounds-fitted gradients keep their original placement, and one Undo restores the original. Existing multi-subpath paths and compound members stay intact. `delete_path_pieces` covers transformed/styled rectangles, cubic handles and Undo/Redo. Endpoint highlighting remains open. |
 | Click/Shift-click anchors; marquee toggles with Shift | done | #483 |
 | Align selected anchors to their bounds or the artboard; repeating an alignment that moves nothing keeps Undo, Redo and saved state | done | #1180 follow-up; engine regressions include rounding-only moves and unchanged handles; #1641 (fixes #1636): Align and Distribute act on the anchors selected with Direct Selection, the points of one path aligning to each other and Distribute spacing them |
 | Align selected anchors to a key anchor | missing | #1636 |
@@ -183,14 +193,14 @@ tools, never checked side by side) isn't captured row by row.
 | Drag a handle with Shift (45° about its anchor), Alt (move one handle alone) | done | handles snap to smart guides; handle and anchor drags no longer stall when the pointer leaves and re-enters the window, and a move in the release's frame lands (#834) |
 | Show handles when multiple anchors are selected; Highlight anchors on mouse over; anchor and handle size | done | Preferences › Selection & Anchor Display |
 | Convert selected anchors to corner/smooth from the Control bar and Properties | done | |
-| Cut path at selected anchors, Remove Anchor Points, Delete removes segments | done | Open-path anchor Delete removes adjoining segments without bridging the gap; targeted core and full-frame Delete/Backspace regressions pass for survivor selection and Undo/Redo. Explicit Remove Anchor Points keeps its reconnect/refit behavior; #1278: segment Delete preserves neighboring edges and endpoint anchors; a second Delete removes the remainder; explicit anchor Delete retains its behavior; #1674: Delete removes every selected anchor of a closed path and objects selected whole along with them, and keeps the remainder selected; #2241: Remove Anchor Points then selects the next anchor along the path (the one before at an open end), so it can be run again without picking each anchor |
+| Cut path at selected anchors, Remove Anchor Points, Delete removes segments | done | Open-path anchor Delete removes adjoining segments without bridging the gap; #3380 (deletion only): disconnected survivors of an ordinary contour become independent selected sibling objects, while multi-subpath paths and compound members stay intact; targeted core and full-frame Delete/Backspace regressions pass for survivor selection and Undo/Redo. Explicit Remove Anchor Points keeps its reconnect/refit behavior; #1278: segment Delete preserves neighboring edges and endpoint anchors; a second Delete removes all selected surviving objects; explicit anchor Delete retains its behavior; #1674: Delete removes every selected anchor of a closed path and objects selected whole along with them, and keeps the surviving objects selected; #2241: Remove Anchor Points then selects the next anchor along the path (the one before at an open end), so it can be run again without picking each anchor |
 | 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) |
+| 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), and with every corner selected a Shift-click on a widget picks that corner alone instead of deselecting it (#5188); 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 |
 | A shape just drawn shows its bounding box and Live Shape widgets with the shape tool still active, and the selection can be moved and turned without switching tools | done | #5477: Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse, Polygon and Star keep the selection's bounding box, corner widgets and pie widgets on show while they draw nothing; a drag on a corner or pie widget adjusts it (arrows step the corner kind, Escape cancels), a press on the selection's centre point (Attributes › Show Center) moves the selection — the Selection tool's move arrow, snapping and Alt copy — a press just outside a corner of the box turns it about the centre (the Selection tool's rotate zone and cursor), and a press anywhere else draws (so a second shape drawn from the first one's centre moves the first: press elsewhere or deselect first). Public descriptions: [Live Shapes](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/live-shapes.html) (live shapes adjust without switching tools) and [CreativePro, Working with Live Shapes](https://creativepro.com/?p=23921) (a widget shows in every corner on release; drag one toward the centre to round). The bounding-box handles show but scale only with the Selection tool, so a press on a corner still starts a new shape there; double-clicking a widget opens nothing with a shape tool. Tests `a_shape_tool_drags_the_selected_shapes_widgets` and `a_shape_tool_moves_the_selection_by_its_centre_point_and_turns_it_from_a_corner` |
@@ -257,7 +267,7 @@ tools, never checked side by side) isn't captured row by row.
 | Wheel over a closed font-family field in Character, Properties or Control | done | #5253: applies the next or previous family to selected text, one undo step per notch; uses saved font filters, ignores search text and stops at the list's ends. Escape and pointer departure keep the change. Other font-picking menus and modifier-wheel input keep their existing behavior. |
 | Arrow keys nudge by Keyboard Increment (0.001–1296 pt); Shift ×10; Alt copies | done | |
 | Fields commit what was typed on a click away or a move to another field, as Enter does; Escape discards it | done | #1787 |
-| Number fields: Up/Down step, Shift ×10, Cmd/Ctrl ÷10, wheel over a focused field; steps, the wheel and label scrubs stop at the field's bounds (a stroke weight at 0, a miter limit at 1) | done | Shift+arrow in the Stroke weight field doesn't step by 10 (#991); bounds #3370 |
+| Number fields: Up/Down step, Shift ×10, Cmd/Ctrl ÷10, wheel over a hovered field without a click; steps, the wheel and label scrubs stop at the field's bounds (a stroke weight at 0, a miter limit at 1) | done | Shift+arrow in the Stroke weight field doesn't step by 10 (#991); bounds #3370 |
 | Arithmetic in fields (`+ - * /`, and `%` of the value before it: `3cm*50%`, `50pt+25%`) and unit suffixes (`3 mm`, `1in`, `2p6`) | done | `Unit::parse`; mixed units in one expression not verified |
 | Numeric fields: focus click selects the whole value; dragging selects from the pressed character | partial | #1326; select-all waits for click release; px/pt/plain/optional fields, both directions and replacement text tested; native API input, 17 px partial replacement, Undo/Redo, saved-file round trip and screenshots verified; Tab, double-click, arrows and wheel preserved; short movements still classified as clicks can select all and remain open |
 | Units: pt, pc, in, mm, cm, px, ft-in, m, yd, ft; General/Stroke/Type units | done | units preference reverting to points on SVG output reported (#864) |
@@ -266,7 +276,7 @@ tools, never checked side by side) isn't captured row by row.
 | Scrubby labels (beyond Illustrator) | done | #400; the labels that are links (the Control bar's Stroke: and Opacity:, the Properties panel's Stroke) scrub too, and a click on them still opens their panel (#4088) |
 | 3D Lighting Color picker, preview, reset dot and Reset all | initial | One to ten opaque RGB lights for Revolve, Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate; select, add or delete a light and edit its settings or gizmo; Standard, Diffuse, Top Left and Right select original rigs, with Custom for manual changes; Cancel restores all lights |
 | Dialogs open with the first field focused and selected; Enter confirms | done | on every open, not only the first (#1367); a first field that starts greyed out takes the focus once enabled (#1395) |
-| Value fields: selected text readable in every brightness; a focused field follows its value when a slider or preview changes it | partial | #1490 (part of #1465: the wheel over a hovered, unfocused field still scrolls the panel), #1457 |
+| Value fields: selected text readable in every brightness; a focused field follows its value when a slider or preview changes it | partial | #1490, #1457; hover wheel stepping #5949 |
 | Sliders in dialogs and popups (Save for Web, raster export options, Preferences, the opacity popup) show their rail, filled up to the handle | done | #1483 |
 | Rectangular Grid and Polar Grid click dialogs: size, divider counts with a skew slider each, Use Outside Rectangle As Frame / Create Compound Path From Ellipses, Fill Grid; kept as the tool's options, used by drags too | done | #1377. The options are the documented ones; how far a skew percentage moves the dividers and which way the radial skew turns are our own choice (the public documentation gives neither). The reference point locator is in the dialog, and a double-click on the tool opens it as the tool's Tool Options (next row) |
 | Double-click the Line Segment, Arc, Rectangular Grid or Polar Grid tool: its Tool Options ([Rectangular Grid tool](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/tool-techniques/rectangular-grid-tool.html) and [Arc tool](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/tool-techniques/arc-tool.html) step 3, [Tools](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/tools.html)) | done | #2691. The tool's click dialog without a place to draw: Line Segment's Length, Angle and Fill Line; Arc's lengths, Reference Point, Type, Base Along, Slope and Fill Arc; the grids' Reference Point, Default Size, dividers, skews and switches. OK draws nothing and sets what the next drag draws with (Fill Line, the arc's type, base, slope and fill, the grids' dividers, skews and switches) and what a click's dialog opens at (with the Length, Angle and Default Size); Cancel changes nothing (`double_clicking_the_line_arc_and_grid_tools_opens_their_tool_options`) |
@@ -287,7 +297,7 @@ tools, never checked side by side) isn't captured row by row.
 | Artboard tool: the canvas right-click menu has Lock Artboards (Lock Selected, Lock All Except Selected, Lock All) and Unlock Artboards (Unlock Selected, Unlock All) | done | #2531; `artboard.setProps` with `locked` for each artboard named; the lock itself is #2592 |
 | Document Setup → Edit Artboards applies valid settings, closes the dialog and activates the Artboard tool | done | Pointer-click tests cover successful handoff, invalid settings, OK, Cancel and Undo in `dialogs/document_setup.rs`. |
 | Escape leaves Artboard editing for Selection; during a drag it first cancels the gesture | done | Headless egui key events cover idle Escape, active-drag cancellation and a subsequent Escape in `tests/distortkeys.rs`. |
-| Escape while typing ends the edit, keeps the type selected and switches to the Selection tool | done | #1802 (#1686, #1656) |
+| Escape while typing ends the edit, keeps the type selected and switches back to the tool whose double-click on type chose the Type tool (kept until another tool is chosen or another document or window becomes active, so later edits with the Type tool return there too), or to the Selection tool when there is no such tool, as when the Type tool was chosen from the toolbar or after such a switch | done | #1802 (#1686, #1656) |
 | Selection tool: selected area type and type on a path show an in port and an out port (empty, an arrow where threaded, the red "+" of overflow); a click on either loads the text cursor; a click on a closed path, on empty canvas or a drag threads the text there, after the clicked frame from its out port, before it from its in port; Escape or another tool drops it; a double-click on a threaded port breaks the thread there | partial | #2572 (`text.thread.add`, `before` for the in port); the out port sits on the frame's right side above the bottom-right corner handle and the in port on its left side below the top-left one, so the handles can still be grabbed; a double-click on a threaded port breaks the thread (`text.thread.break`, [archived help](https://web.archive.org/web/20220127090642/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/creating-text.html)); the loaded cursor borrows the I-beam |
 | Shift-click selects several artboards (Artboard tool, Artboards panel); they move, Alt-copy and delete together | done | `artboard.move`/`artboard.delete` `indices` (#1139); in the panel, Shift- and Ctrl/Cmd-click work with any tool by switching to the Artboard tool (#5698); panel menu, trash and Properties share selected-set deletion; all-selected retains artboard 1 and a single board cannot be deleted, with pointer-event and Undo/Redo coverage |
 | Artboards panel: drag a row above or below another to reorder the artboards (as Move Up / Move Down do) | done | #4687; a line shows where the row lands, `artboard.reorder` in one undo step, the moved artboard becomes active; public forum answers describe the drag |
@@ -334,6 +344,8 @@ next unit in the order a right-click on a ruler lists them, from Feet back to Po
 
 ## Panels, Control bar, Properties, context menus
 
+- **Panel collapse controls (#5925, in part):** The small » in a floating tab-group header moves that group into the side icon rail, reusing the existing rail or creating one. An opened rail panel has the same control to fold its flyout back into the rail, including after a tab switch. Both controls preserve the tab group and its menu; other floating groups and full-width docked headers stay as they were. Pointer regressions in `crates/ui-egui/src/panel_docking/tests.rs` cover grouped tabs, reopening, separate groups, a missing rail, the menu and flyout closure after switching tabs; `native_tests.rs` covers the native-window click and removal of the empty palette. Scores and estimates unchanged.
+
 | Interaction | Status | Evidence |
 |---|---|---|
 | 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 |
@@ -365,7 +377,8 @@ next unit in the order a right-click on a ruler lists them, from Feet back to Po
 | Live trace result bounds and selection highlights exclude the retained bitmap; source-image views retain it | done | All TraceView modes and rotated result bounds regression-covered; ordinary hidden group behavior retained |
 | Image Trace panel: the Preview checkbox before Trace chooses whether a setting change traces the selected Image Trace object again at once | done | Per the public documentation, Preview shows the result of the current settings and Trace traces with them (<https://web.archive.org/web/20250831090623/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/image-trace.html>). Preview is on by default and kept with the UI preferences; Reset to Default leaves it. Off, changes wait in the panel until Trace applies them as one undo step, or until Preview is turned on again. Changes stay with the object they were made for while another object is selected, and come back when it is selected again. `imageTrace.preview {on?}`, `ui.set {imageTracePreview}`; `panels/image_trace.rs` headless tests (`with_preview_off_a_slider_change_waits_for_trace`, `turning_preview_on_traces_the_changes_that_waited`, `preview_turned_on_with_nothing_selected_traces_when_the_object_is_selected_again`, `settings_that_wait_stay_with_their_object`, `settings_that_wait_come_back_when_their_object_is_selected_again`, `settings_that_wait_are_dropped_when_their_object_changed_since`, `preview_is_kept_with_the_preferences_and_reset_to_default_leaves_it`) |
 | 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: ≡ › Save Actions… saves the current set with all its actions to a file and ≡ › Load Actions… adds a saved set ([Manage a set of actions](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/manage-a-set-of-actions.html)) | partial | `ui.actionSet.save`, `ui.actionSet.load`; `panels/actions.rs` tests. The file is VectorCraft's own `.vcactions` JSON; the reference app's `.aia` files and Reset, Clear and Replace Actions remain |
+| Actions panel: ≡ › Save Actions… saves the current set with all its actions to a file and ≡ › Load Actions… adds a saved set ([Manage a set of actions](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/manage-a-set-of-actions.html)) | partial | `ui.actionSet.save`, `ui.actionSet.load`; `panels/actions.rs` tests. The file is VectorCraft's own `.vcactions` JSON; Reset, Clear and Replace Actions remain |
+| Actions panel: ≡ › Load Actions… also reads action sets saved as `.aia` files ([Actions panel overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/actions-panel-overview.html)) | partial | `actionSet.read`, `ui.actionSet.load`; `tests/actionset.rs`, `panels/actions.rs` tests, `import_fuzz`. Only steps with a label and no recorded values come in, as menu commands that run with no values and open no dialog, matched by label; the other steps, recorded menu items included, are left out and counted |
 | Actions panel: ≡ › Action Options… renames the selected action and sets its function key and color ([Actions panel overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/actions-panel-overview.html)) | partial | `ui.action.options`; `panels/actions.rs` tests (part of #1629). The color shows nowhere until Button Mode exists |
 | Actions panel: ≡ › Playback Options… plays actions Accelerated, Step by Step or with a pause between steps ([Specify playback speed](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/specify-playback-speed.html)) | done | `ui.action.playbackOptions`; `panels/actions.rs` tests. The pause is a whole number of seconds from 1 to 60 (VectorCraft's own range); Batch… plays at full speed |
 | 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 |
@@ -384,7 +397,7 @@ next unit in the order a right-click on a ruler lists them, from Feet back to Po
 | Symbol libraries: Window › Symbol Libraries (Basic Shapes, User Defined, Other Library…, Save Symbols…) and the Symbols panel's Symbol Libraries Menu button and its menu's Open Symbol Library / Save Symbol Library…; a click on a library symbol adds it to the document's Symbols (one undo step, it becomes the current symbol), Shift/Cmd-clicks select for Add to Symbols, and a symbol dragged onto the canvas is added and placed where it is dropped | done | [public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/create-or-import-symbol-libraries.html), [Symbols panel options](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/symbols-panel-options.html), [placing from a library](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/create-and-place-symbols.html); `window.symbolLibrary`, `window.symbolLibrary.other`, `ui.saveSymbolLibrary` (dialog `saveSymbolLibrary`), `window.userSymbolLibrary1`…`10`; `panels::tests_symbol_libraries`; only one built-in library (original, generated in code) |
 | Brush libraries: Window › Brush Libraries (Art Ribbons, Calligraphic Nibs, Pattern Borders, Scatter Shapes, User Defined, Other Library…, Save Brushes…) and the Brushes panel's Brush Libraries Menu button and its menu's Open Brush Library / Save Brush Library…; a click on a library brush adds it to the document's Brushes (one undo step, it becomes the current brush, and selected paths take it in the same step), Shift/Cmd-clicks select for Add to Brushes, a brush dragged onto a path is added and applied to it and one dragged onto the Brushes panel is added; thumbnails render with the library's patterns and symbols | done | [public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/apply-and-edit-strokes/create-new-brush-libraries.html), [import brushes](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/apply-and-edit-strokes/import-brushes-from-brush-libraries-or-other-files.html), [Brushes panel overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/apply-and-edit-strokes/brushes-panel-overview.html); `window.brushLibrary`, `window.brushLibrary.other`, `ui.saveBrushLibrary` (dialog `saveBrushLibrary`), `window.userBrushLibrary1`…`10`; `panels::tests_brush_libraries`; four built-in libraries (original, generated in code) |
 | Symbols panel: New Symbol opens Symbol Options (Name) before making the symbol; Alt-click skips it | partial | #1560 (#1566); Registration 9-point grid in Symbol Options (`symbol.new` / `symbol.place`); Export Type (Graphic / Movie Clip) and Enable Guides for 9-Slice Scaling (scaled instances keep their corners; in symbol editing mode the guides are drawn over the art and the Selection tool drags them); Symbol Type (Dynamic Symbol / Static Symbol, new symbols dynamic; #4938) |
-| Dynamic symbols: an instance changes the fill, stroke, opacity and blend of objects in its symbol's art and stays linked; Reset in the Properties panel's Quick Actions and the Symbols panel menu (Reset Symbol Instance) | partial | #4938; `symbol.instance.setAppearance` (by child-index path) and `symbol.instance.reset`; redefining keeps the changes, Break Link bakes them; on-canvas Direct Selection of a part inside an instance (with the Fill/Stroke controls then setting its change) remains |
+| Dynamic symbols: an instance changes the fill, stroke, opacity and blend of objects in its symbol's art and stays linked; Reset in the Properties panel's Quick Actions and the Symbols panel menu (Reset Symbol Instance) | partial | #4938; `symbol.instance.setAppearance` (by child-index path) and `symbol.instance.reset`; redefining keeps the changes, Break Link bakes them; Direct Selection of a path, compound path or type object inside an instance, with the Fill/Stroke controls setting its solid fill or stroke, is on canvas; on-canvas editing beyond a solid fill and stroke, and `.ai` read and write, remain |
 | Pathfinder Trim, Merge and Crop remove strokes; Merge joins same-fill objects whatever their strokes | done | #1570 (#1572) |
 | Pathfinder panel on one group selected alone; a greyed-out button says what it needs | partial | #1450; the group's members are combined; one plain path selected alone stays disabled (the public documentation doesn't say what the operations do to a single path) |
 | Pathfinder Divide: an open cutting line splits a filled path | done | #1307; straight, crossed, bent and curved cutters, holes and frontmost appearance regression-tested; native automation: independent piece movement, one Undo/Redo, saved-document round trip and window capture; existing bounded-map fallback remains |
@@ -402,6 +415,7 @@ next unit in the order a right-click on a ruler lists them, from Feet back to Po
 | 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` |
 | Background Export: a progress dialog with the file name, the artboard count and a bar (busy for one artboard and for formats made in one go), Cancel (Esc) and Continue in Background; it opens after 0.4 s and never over another dialog. A cancelled export writes no file | done | #2564; on the shared `vectorcraft_doc::cancel` token (#2546), so a cancelled render keeps no half-drawn pattern tile or effect raster. The bar moves between artboards, not within one. Save As, Export for Screens and Export Selection don't show it yet |
 | Swatch, graphic style and symbol library panels: each library opens in a panel of its own, several at once, that floats, groups, docks and closes like any panel; opening an open library brings its panel forward; Previous / Next Library change the library in place; the panel menu's Persistent reopens the panel at startup with its view and find field (a library loaded from a file is read again; when its file is missing the panel reopens showing the file's path with Locate Library…, and the status bar names the file) | done | #2603; panel ids `library:<kind>:<id>`, `ui.libraryPanel {panel, library?, view?, showFind?, persistent?}`, `ui.libraryPanel.locate {panel, path?}`; the library panels have no sort option, as before |
 | DXF export/import preserves intended curve closure | done | #1299; R13–2018 closed SPLINE bit set/read; an open curve ending at its start stays open; knots and control points unchanged; native CIRCLE/ARC export and CNC preset remain pending |
@@ -434,6 +448,7 @@ next unit in the order a right-click on a ruler lists them, from Feet back to Po
 | Color Effects add-on (VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Color Effects › Find Nearest Swatch… picks a Library (Document Swatches, a built-in library, or a library or colour book the user saved or loaded) and Fill and Stroke, lists each colour of the selection with its three closest swatches (chip, name, ΔE 2000), and Apply gives each colour its nearest swatch (global and spot swatches linked; a library's swatches added to the document first), one undo step | done | #4923; `addon.color.nearestSwatch`, `addon.color.applyNearestSwatch`, `crates/engine/src/cmd/addons/color/nearest.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/color/nearest.rs` and their tests; not a feature of the reference app, so it is not scored |
 | Selection Tools add-on (VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Selection Tools › Select by Artboards… lists every artboard (number, name, width × height in the document's units), filters them by name, chooses several (click, Shift-click for a range, Cmd/Ctrl-click to toggle; Select All / None act on the rows shown; a count of those chosen), fits a row's artboard in the window on double-click and makes it active, and on OK selects the objects overlapping, fully inside or fully outside the chosen artboards (Overlapping is All on Active Artboard's test) | done | #5525, #5548, #5549; `addon.select.byArtboards`, `crates/engine/src/cmd/addons/select.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/select.rs` and their tests; not a feature of the reference app |
 | Selection Tools add-on (VectorCraft addition): Select Linked, Select Embedded, Select Missing and Select Modified in Object › Plug-ins › Selection Tools and the Links panel menu (off when no image has that status; Shift adds to the selection) select the images and placed documents with that link status, leaving out hidden, locked, template-layer and outside-isolation ones, which the status bar counts (e.g. "Selected 9 missing images; 3 more are hidden or locked"); Select by Link Status… lists them with name, status and format, searches by name, filters by status, picks with checkboxes and All / None, and selects with Zoom to Selection on by default | done | #5526; `addon.select.byLinkStatus`, `crates/engine/src/cmd/addons/select.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/select/link_status.rs` and their tests; not a feature of the reference app |
+| Style panels: a double-click on a user character style's row opens its Character Style Options, and on a paragraph style's row its Paragraph Style Options (rename), and the Character Style Options dialog keeps a fixed width, its sections scrolling when the window is shorter so OK and Cancel stay on screen | done | `ui.charStyleOptions`, `ui.paramDialog` (`paraStyle.rename`); `panels::text_styles::tests::double_clicking_a_character_style_row_opens_its_options`, `dialogs::char_style_options::tests::the_sections_scroll_in_a_window_shorter_than_the_general_list` |
 
 ## Look and feel
 
@@ -478,6 +493,10 @@ separate. Scores and hours unchanged. [Behavior and command details](development
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-08 | minor | Floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it (#5925, in part); tab groups remain intact. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-09 | minor | Numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking focus; keyboard focus and existing rounding rules remain (#5949). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-07 | minor | Pen and Curvature tool with Cmd/Ctrl held: Edit › Copy and Cut take the anchors and segments the lent Direct Selection picked, as with Direct Selection chosen, not the whole path; with the Pen's own last anchor selected Copy still takes the whole path (#6123); scores and estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-11-07 | minor | Live Corners: with Direct Selection, while every corner of a path is selected, a Shift-click on a corner widget picks that corner alone instead of deselecting it (#5188); adding a hidden corner's widget by Shift-click stays open (#1232); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-07 | minor | Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Keyboard shortcuts: Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+. and Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+, (Stroke Weight Up and Down) step each selected stroke's weight, or the next object drawn's (#5797); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Properties: Quick Actions has Repeat Options for one selected radial, grid or mirror repeat, opening Object › Repeat › Options with its values (#5181); scores and estimates unchanged |
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 | 2026-10-22 | minor | Gradient panel: the Method menu, Classic or Perceptual (Illustrator 30.0); scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-22 | minor | Gradient panel: the Dither box (Illustrator 30.0); scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-22 | minor | Recolor Artwork Edit chips scroll within the available screen height (#3416); small palettes retain their tab height; scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | Artboard Options honors Scale Artwork with Artboard for preset, orientation and typed-size changes; both Fits keep artwork stationary; scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | Gradient panel: the Method menu, Classic or Perceptual (Illustrator 30.0); scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | Gradient panel: the Dither box (Illustrator 30.0); scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | Blend panel Type and Ramp control step easing with a separate color Shift (#2539); Blend Options retains spacing and orientation; polynomial curves are original approximations. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | Workspaces keep the layout changes made in them when switching away and back, and across restarts; Reset <name> returns to the saved layout; score unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | Panels dragged by the mouse join a dock group as tabs, split it top/bottom or become icons in the icon column; dock tabs close from their context menu; score unchanged (estimated) |