Merge upstream main into file/save-read-only-offers-save-as

docs/control-protocol.md

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 # Control protocol
 
-> **Last updated:** 2026-11-11 · **Change:** Save location-refusal error (#6146); existing response shapes retained.
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 > **Last updated:** 2026-10-31 · **Change:** Confining file access refuses a `:` in a name after the drive on Windows, an NTFS alternate data stream such as `x.svg:evil` (#3604); previously: Object → Expand… dimmed while the selection has an appearance Expand Appearance expands (`object.expand.info`'s `appearance`, #3089); previously: brush library panels (`window.brushLibrary`, `window.brushLibrary.other`, `ui.saveBrushLibrary`); previously: Transform Each opens on the values it was last confirmed with; its Copy button confirms with `copy: true` (#1732); previously: panel docking on craft-ui's layout: `ui.docking`, the parameters of `window.panel.float` and `window.panel.dock`; previously: `ui.screenshot`'s 64 MiB inline-PNG cap and its path-plus-data downgrade; symbol library panels (`window.symbolLibrary`, `window.symbolLibrary.other`, `ui.saveSymbolLibrary`); synthetic input budgets (#1709); bounded transport waits (#1726).
 
 `vectorcraft --control <port>` listens on `127.0.0.1:<port>` (loopback only). The port must be a number
@@ -109,24 +107,24 @@ the two can still win that race.
 | `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, 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.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. The status bar (`ui.inspect` → `ui.status`) counts the `warnings` and names the first that says reading the file left something out (the notes that make Save ask before writing over it), else the first; with several, hovering it lists them in that order, as many as fit in the window (at most 30), then how many more. After `app.save`, and `app.export` with a `path`, the status bar counts the reply's `warnings` and names the first, and with several, hovering it lists them in the reply's order (a save's notes start with what the format loses). 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 |
-| `file.save` / `file.saveAs` / `file.saveCopy` / `file.saveAsTemplate` (via `engine.execute`) | `{path?, format?, options?, svg?}` | Save writes the document's own file in its own format (a document opened from or saved as SVG/PDF saves as that again; the result's `warnings` say what the format loses). With `path` the file is written at once (Save As or a Copy to an SVG path without SVG options first opens SVG Options, below). Without one (never saved, a converted older file, Save As, a Copy, a Template) the app shows a save panel with one file type per save format (`vectorcraft`, `template`, `pdf`, `svg`, `svgz`, `ai`; for a Template, `template` and `ait`), then the format's options: SVG opens the `svgOptions` dialog (below; returns `{"pending": "svgOptions", "path"}`), PDF the `savePdf` dialog (its `__save` field names the save command); `ui.dialog.confirm` finishes the save. A name typed in the panel without the file type's extension gets it, and a name the panel returns with the extension of a format the panel does not list has it replaced (in a native save, `card.png` and `card.ait` are saved as `card.vectorcraft`, and `notes.v2`, whose extension names no format, is saved as `notes.v2.vectorcraft`); when a file of that name exists, which the panel did not ask about, the save (and every export or other write through a save panel) answers `cancelled` and opens a `replaceFile` dialog (fields `message`, `detail`, `path`): `ui.dialog.confirm` writes that file, `ui.dialog.cancel` writes nothing. On the web a `saveOptions` dialog (fields `path`, `format`) first names the file and picks the format. `file.formatOptions {format?}` reads the options a save would use. `file.revert` opens a `confirm` dialog (`{"pending": "confirm"}`); `ui.dialog.confirm` reloads the saved file in the same tab Location refusals return `READ_ONLY_LOCATION: <reason>` without a fallback panel for automation; see [Save location errors](#save-location-errors). |
+| `file.save` / `file.saveAs` / `file.saveCopy` / `file.saveAsTemplate` (via `engine.execute`) | `{path?, format?, options?, svg?}` | Save writes the document's own file in its own format (a document opened from or saved as SVG/PDF saves as that again; the result's `warnings` say what the format loses). With `path` the file is written at once (Save As or a Copy to an SVG path without SVG options first opens SVG Options, below). Without one (never saved, a converted older file, Save As, a Copy, a Template) the app shows a save panel with one file type per save format (`vectorcraft`, `template`, `pdf`, `svg`, `svgz`, `ai`; for a Template, `template` and `ait`), then the format's options: SVG opens the `svgOptions` dialog (below; returns `{"pending": "svgOptions", "path"}`), PDF the `savePdf` dialog (its `__save` field names the save command); `ui.dialog.confirm` finishes the save. A name typed in the panel without the file type's extension gets it, and a name the panel returns with the extension of a format the panel does not list has it replaced (in a native save, `card.png` and `card.ait` are saved as `card.vectorcraft`, and `notes.v2`, whose extension names no format, is saved as `notes.v2.vectorcraft`); when a file of that name exists, which the panel did not ask about, the save (and every export or other write through a save panel) answers `cancelled` and opens a `replaceFile` dialog (fields `message`, `detail`, `path`): `ui.dialog.confirm` writes that file, `ui.dialog.cancel` writes nothing. On the web a `saveOptions` dialog (fields `path`, `format`) first names the file and picks the format. `file.formatOptions {format?}` reads the options a save would use. `file.revert` opens a `confirm` dialog (`{"pending": "confirm"}`); `ui.dialog.confirm` reloads the saved file in the same tab. Location refusals return `READ_ONLY_LOCATION: <reason>` without a fallback panel for automation; see [Save location errors](#save-location-errors). |
 | SVG Options (`engine.execute` of `file.export.svg`, `file.saveAs`, `file.saveCopy`) | `{}` / `{path?, svg?: {…}}` | `file.export.svg` without params, and Save As or Save a Copy to an `.svg`/`.svgz` path without SVG options, open the `svgOptions` dialog (`ui.dialog.set` its fields: `styling`, `outlineText`, `images`, `objectIds`, `decimals`, `minify`, `responsive`, `fewerTspans`, `metadata`, `preserveEditing`, `useArtboards`, `allArtboards`, `range`, `showCode`, `profile` (`svg11`/`tiny12`), `encoding` (`utf8`/`utf16`/`latin1`), `embedFonts`; `ui.dialog.confirm` exports or saves and remembers the choices). With `svg: {…}` (the `document.formats` SVG options) they run directly. `app.save {path?, svg?}` takes the same options; a document saved as SVG saves as SVG again with the same options |
 | `engine.execute` `file.place` | `{paths?}` / `{path \| name+dataBase64, …file.place params}` | with no file, picks files and opens the `place` dialog; with `paths`, opens it for them (fields `files`, `link`, `template`, `replace`; `__replace` says whether Replace applies, `__info` describes each file). `ui.dialog.confirm` places one file centered in the view (or in place of the selected object) and loads the place cursor with several (`file.place.queue`). In the desktop app the dialog reads its files off the UI thread: `__info` is empty until they are read, `ui.dialog.confirm` returns `{background: true, status}`, `ui.inspect` lists the files still being read in `placing`, and the file is placed (or the cursor loaded) once it is read. With a file, it runs `file.place` centered in the view, at once. Files dropped on the window with no document open open. On the web, files dropped on the canvas are placed at the drop point (linked; Shift embeds) and files dropped off it (the tab bar) open, as in Illustrator; desktop drops carry no pointer position, so documents (native, SVG, PDF, `.ai`, EPS, DXF, EMF/WMF) open as tabs of their own and pictures and text are placed in the middle of the view. Swatch libraries and color books (`.vcswatches`, `.gpl`, `.ase`, `.acb`), graphic style libraries (`.vcstyles`), Libraries panel files (`.vclibrary`), presets (`.vcflattener`, `.vcpdfpresets`, `.vcprintpresets`, `.vcperspective`, `.vcexportpresets`), plug-ins (`.wasm`) and shortcut sets (`.kys`, in Import Shortcut Set) open wherever they are dropped, as File › Open opens them. With the cursor loaded (`ui.inspect` → `tool: "place"`, `toolOptions: {count, current, name, names}`), `ui.pointer` clicks and drags place files (in the desktop app each file is read off the UI thread and placed once it is read, and `ui.inspect` lists it in `placing` until then) and `ui.key` ←/→/↑/↓ and Escape cycle and discard them |
 | `app.export` raster options | `{path?, format: png \| jpg \| webp, ppi?, width?, height?, background?, antiAlias?, interlaced?, quality?}` | `ppi` sets the pixel size (72 = one pixel per point) and is stored in PNG and JPEG files (WebP files store no resolution); `width` or `height` sets the size of each file in pixels instead (`width` wins), and PNG and JPEG files store the resolution that results; `background` is `transparent`, `white`, `black` or `"#rrggbb"`; `antiAlias` is `none`, `art` or `type` (text snapped to pixels); `interlaced` writes an Adam7 PNG. The PNG Options dialog (`pngOptions`; `jpgOptions` / `webpOptions` for the other raster formats) has the same fields: fill them with `ui.dialog.set` and press OK with `ui.dialog.confirm` |
 | `app.export` JPEG options | `{path?, format: jpg, quality?: 0–100, colorModel?: rgb \| cmyk \| gray, method?: baseline \| optimized \| progressive, scans?: 3–5, embedIcc?, imageMap?: none \| client \| server}` | `cmyk` writes ink amounts in the working CMYK space (CMYK colours keep their inks; RGB ones are separated with the colour settings); `embedIcc` (default true) embeds sRGB, the working CMYK profile or a grey profile, generated by the CMS; `imageMap` also writes `<stem>.html` (client-side `<map>`) or `<stem>.map` (NCSA) beside the image for the objects with a URL and an Image Map shape (`attributes.set`), returned in `linked`. The `jpgOptions` dialog has these fields too (`quality` is shown 0–10; a CMYK document defaults to `cmyk`) |
 | `app.export` PNG-8 and GIF | `{path?, format: png8 \| gif, colors?: 2–256, reduction?: perceptual \| selective \| adaptive \| web \| blackWhite \| gray, dither?: none \| diffusion \| pattern \| noise, ditherAmount?: 0–100, transparency?, matte?, interlaced?, …raster options}` | a palette of at most `colors` entries (art with that many colours or fewer keeps them exactly); pixels under half opacity become one transparent entry unless `transparency` is false, partly transparent edges are blended over `matte` (`none` keeps their colour). `png8` writes an indexed `.png` (1–8 bits per pixel); Export for Screens rows take both. The `png8Options` / `gifOptions` dialogs have these fields |
 | `app.export` Text and WebP | `{path?, format: txt, encoding?: utf8 \| utf16, lineEndings?: lf \| crlf, selectionOnly?}` / `{format: webp, lossless?, quality?}` | Text writes the stories in stacking order (back to front; a thread once; hidden objects and template layers left out), each line ended by `lineEndings`; `utf16` is little-endian with a byte order mark. Export As → Text opens `txtOptions` (fields `path`, `encoding`, `lineEndings`, `selectionOnly`; OK writes the file). WebP is always lossless: `lossless: false` adds a warning |
-| `engine.execute` `document.exportForOffice` | `{}` / `{path?, ppi?: 72 \| 150 \| 300, transparent?, artboard?}` | File → Save for Office Documents…: without params opens `saveForOffice` (fields `ppi`, `transparent`, `artboard`; OK picks the file); with params writes the artboard as a PNG (`path`, else a picked file) → `{path}`, and the status bar shows the first of the export's `warnings` as Save As shows a save's notes. Headless it returns `{dataBase64, width, height, warnings}` |
+| `engine.execute` `document.exportForOffice` | `{}` / `{path?, ppi?: 72 \| 150 \| 300, transparent?, artboard?}` | File → Save for Office Documents…: without params opens `saveForOffice` (fields `ppi`, `transparent`, `artboard`; OK picks the file); with params writes the artboard as a PNG (`path`, else a picked file) → `{path}`, and the status bar shows the export's `warnings` as Save As shows a save's notes. Headless it returns `{dataBase64, width, height, warnings}` |
 | Native file dialogs | any command with no `path` that needs one (`file.open`, `file.saveAs`, `file.place`, exports…) | on macOS (a sheet on the window) and Linux the dialog doesn't hold the window: the call returns `"cancelled"` at once, `ui.inspect` reports `fileDialog`, and when the person at the computer picks a file the command runs again on the document it was asked for. While it is open another dialog is refused: that call returns `"cancelled"` too, and the status bar (`ui.inspect` → `ui.status`) says `"A file dialog is open: choose there first"`; on macOS `app.quit`, `file.close` and `file.closeAll` return that message and the menu bar does nothing (#592, #867). On Windows the dialog is shown in line: the call returns once it closes. Pass `path` to skip the dialog |
 | Background Save / Export | `app.save`, `app.export {path}`, `file.save`, `file.saveAs`, `file.saveCopy`, `file.exportForScreens {folder, …}` | with the `backgroundSave` / `backgroundExport` preferences on (the default) the desktop app writes the file from a snapshot on a worker thread: the call returns `{path, background: true, status}` at once (`file.exportForScreens`: `{background: true, status}`, and the files are written into the folder from a snapshot taken at the call), `ui.inspect` lists the jobs still running in `background` (labels such as `"Saving a.vectorcraft"`), and the document counts as saved (as of the snapshot) once its file is written. Quit and Close wait for them. A job that fails reports the error in the status bar only (`ui.inspect` → `ui.status`), a path outside `--automation-write-root` included. With the preferences off (`prefs.set`), saves return once written. `app.save {path?, wait: true}` and `app.export {path, wait: true}` wait for the jobs already running, write the file before they reply whatever the preferences are set to, and return its result or the error. When the save asks first (the question before replacing a file that opened with losses, or on macOS and Linux the file dialog for an untitled document without `path`), the reply is `{pending}` or `"cancelled"` as before, and the save that runs after the answer uses the preferences. A `wait` that is not `true`, `false` or `null` is refused with "`wait` must be true or false", and nothing is written |
 | `engine.execute` `file.exportForScreens` | `{}` / `{…document.exportForScreens params}` | without params opens `exportForScreens` on the settings the document last exported with (`document.exportSettings`). While the Artboard tool is in use, the artboards it has selected (its `selected` option, the rows the Artboards panel highlights) are checked instead, and `select` is `range`, or `all` when every artboard is selected. Fields: `tab` (`artboards` \| `assets` \| `layers` \| `selection`; OK reads Export Layer or Export Selection on those), `layers` ([layer id…] checked), `selectionMode` (`one` \| `each`), `name` (the file name pattern of `document.exportForScreens`), `counterStart`, `folders` (`none` \| `rows` \| `format` \| `item` \| `itemFormat`), `exportPreset` (the preset applied last), `__savePreset` (the name typed to save one), `select` (`all` \| `range` \| `full`), `range` ("1-3, 5"), `boards` (a bool per artboard; checking them sets `select` and `range`), `includeBleed`, `folder` (desktop; default the Desktop, else home), `openLocation`, `subfolders`, `prefix`, `preset` (`""` \| `mobile` \| `density`), `formats` (rows `{format, scale: "2x" \| "100w" \| "100h" \| "72ppi", suffix, quality?, folder?}`), `settings` (`{png \| png8 \| jpg \| webp \| gif \| svg \| pdf: {…options}}`, the gear's Format Settings; `__settings` names the format shown). `ui.dialog.confirm` exports (a bad range or no folder keeps it open); on the web OK reads "Download" and the files download (several as one `.zip`). With params it runs `document.exportForScreens`: no `folder` returns the files (or with `zip: true` one zip) as `dataBase64`; with `openLocation` the first file is shown in the file manager. When `warnings` is not empty, an export into a folder or a download shows the first in the status bar as Save As shows a save's notes |
 | Export for Screens' Assets tab, Asset Export panel | `ui.dialog.set` `tab: "assets"`, `assets: [asset id…]`; `window.panel {panel: "assetExport"}` | on the Assets tab of `exportForScreens` the `assets` field lists the checked asset ids (all of them when it opens); `ui.dialog.confirm` runs `document.exportForScreens {assets}` (nothing checked keeps it open) and OK reads "Export Asset". The Asset Export panel acts through `assets.*` and shares the format rows with the dialog (`assets.settings.set`). The dialog has the format presets menu (☰). In the dialog, `exportPreset` names the preset applied last (`ui.dialog.set` of it applies the preset it names, as picking it does; a name that is not a preset's is an error and leaves the dialog as it was), `__exportPresets` lists the presets, and `__savePreset` holds the name being typed after Save Preset…. The panel menu applies presets through `assets.settings.set {exportPreset}` and holds Save As Preset…, Save Changes, Delete Preset, Import Preset… and Export Preset…. Import and Export use picked files. |
 | `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 |
+| 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 `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, `.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 |
 
@@ -219,7 +217,9 @@ export's own parameters); `ui.dialog.confirm` writes the file. An importer plug-
 `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).
+(`ui.dialog.confirm` and injected input are refused). When a control request opened it, directly or through a file
+dialog, the reply adds `approval: "personMustStartInstall"` and nobody can confirm it: the person chooses Object ›
+Plug-ins › Install Plug-in… to install the plug-in; 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`,
@@ -238,12 +238,15 @@ Edit or Apply Colors runs `ui.recolorDialog {colors, library?}` with the harmony
 recolours as usual; with nothing selected the colours themselves are the rows and `ui.dialog.confirm` saves them as a
 new colour group (`swatch.newGroup`, named by the `groupName` field).
 
-Color panel options: `ui.colorPanel {mode?, options?}` picks the panel's mode as its panel menu does (`grayscale`,
-`rgb`, `hsb`, `cmyk` or `websafe`; the active color converts to the mode's model as one undo step) and shows
-(`options: true`) or hides (`false`) the options. It answers `{mode, options, shown}`: `mode` is null until a mode is
-picked, and `shown` is the mode the panel shows the color in, or `tint` for a tint of a global or spot swatch.
-Another mode, `lab` included, answers an error. The desktop app keeps both settings with its preferences, and
-`ui.inspect` reports them as `ui.color_mode` and `ui.color_hide_options`.
+Color panel options: `ui.colorPanel {mode?, options?, recentColors?}` picks the panel's mode as its panel menu does
+(`grayscale`, `rgb`, `hsb`, `cmyk` or `websafe`; the active color converts to the mode's model as one undo step),
+shows (`options: true`) or hides (`false`) the options, and checks (`recentColors: true`) or unchecks (`false`) Show
+Recent Colors, which shows or hides the panel's Recent Colors row. Applied colors still join the list while the row
+is hidden, and the Swatches panel keeps its own row. It answers `{mode, options, recentColors, shown}`: `mode` is null
+until a mode is picked, and `shown` is the mode the panel shows the color in, or `tint` for a tint of a global or spot
+swatch. Another mode, `lab` included, answers an error, as does an `options` or `recentColors` value that is not true
+or false. The desktop app keeps the three settings with its preferences, and `ui.inspect` reports them as
+`ui.color_mode`, `ui.color_hide_options` and `ui.color_show_recent_colors`.
 
 Color Themes panel (`window.panel {panel: "colorThemes"}`): its Create tab makes a theme on a harmony wheel and its
 My Themes tab lists the saved themes; every action runs a command (`colorTheme.save`, `colorTheme.delete`,
@@ -398,7 +401,10 @@ the Tools panel alone, and Tab hides these toolbars with the other panels. Windo
 panel without them. A toolbar shown with its item or made with New Toolbar after Tab shows alone, and the other
 toolbars Tab hid are turned off. A toolbar's ••• button
 (`window.editToolbar {toolbar}`) opens the All Tools drawer beside it, and the drawer's drags and
-`toolbar.addTool`, `toolbar.removeTool` and `toolbar.reset` with `toolbar` edit it; the drawer has no Show section
+`toolbar.addTool`, `toolbar.removeTool` and `toolbar.reset` with `toolbar` edit it. The + button above the •••
+button (Add Tool…) opens a menu of every tool under the drawer's headings: a click on a tool runs `toolbar.addTool
+{tool, toolbar}`, which puts it at the end, and the tools under its Remove Tool heading run `toolbar.removeTool
+{tool, toolbar}`; the tools already in the toolbar are dimmed under their headings. The drawer has no Show section
 there. `window.floatTools {tool, toolbar}` floats one of its groups, and a group torn off it shows and hides with
 it. `window.toolbar.list` returns the toolbars (`ui.custom_toolbars` in `ui.inspect`: name, slots, shown flag,
 two-column flag, top-left corner, the groups torn off it). They are kept with the workspace they were made in:
@@ -570,8 +576,12 @@ Document Setup: File → Document Setup… (`file.documentSetup`, Cmd+Alt+P) ope
 are what `document.setup` reports (`units`, `bleed` [top, bottom, left, right] in pt, `outlineImages`,
 `highlightSubstitutedGlyphs`, `gridSize`, `gridColors`, `simulatePaper`, `flattenerPreset`,
 `discardWhiteOverprint`, `language`, `quotes`, `typographersQuotes`, `superscript`, `subscript`, `smallCapsSize`,
-`exportText`, `backgroundContents`) plus `tab` (`General`, `Transparency` or `Type`) and `bleedLinked`.
-`ui.dialog.confirm` runs `document.setup` with them as one undo step; a bad value answers with an error and the dialog
+`exportText`, `backgroundContents`) plus `tab` (`General`, `Transparency`, `Type` or `Color`) and `bleedLinked`, and
+the Color tab's `colorMode` (`rgb` or `cmyk`), `convertColors` (a mode change converts the colors; `false` keeps their
+numbers), `rgbProfile` and `cmykProfile` (a profile name, or null for the working space).
+`ui.dialog.confirm` runs `document.setup` with them as one undo step. When the Color tab's fields differ from the
+document, it runs `document.setup`, then `edit.assignProfile` with the changed profiles, then `file.documentColorMode`
+in one `command.batch`, and the document's changes are one undo step. A bad value answers with an error and the dialog
 stays open.
 
 New Document: File → New… (`file.newDialog`, Cmd+N) opens the `newDocument` dialog. Its fields are `file.new`'s params
@@ -703,8 +713,9 @@ 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: `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
+`scaleLineweights`, `colors` (`8`, `16`, `256`, `true`), `rasterFormat` (`png`, `jpeg`), `includeImages` (Include
+Placed Images), `preserve` (`appearance`, `editability`), `selectedOnly`, `alterPaths`, `outlineText`, `includeHatches`
+(Include Fill Hatches), 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
@@ -786,12 +797,19 @@ artboards' files. A `.ai` file's `aiVersion` comes first: `"pdf"` (the default)
 Options"), which takes only `transparentImages` (`"flatten"` or `"omit"`), `hiddenObjects` (`"layer"`, `"omit"` or
 `"visible"`, the Hidden Objects menu), `outlineText` (the Text menu: false Editable, true Outlines) and, with several artboards, the artboard
 picker: `boards`, one bool per artboard (default: those last saved, else all), saved as `range`, one file per checked
-artboard. OK is disabled with none checked.
+artboard. OK is disabled with none checked. Save As to an EPS file opens the same dialog after the save panel (heading
+"EPS Options") with `useArtboards`, `all` and `range`, then the options Export's EPS Options shows. Preview
+(`previewFormat`), Overprints (`overprints`), Flattener preset (`flattenerPreset`) and PostScript (`level`) are menus:
+a pick writes the option's value (`"tiffColor"`, `"preserve"`, a built-in preset's id such as `"medium"` or a saved
+preset's name, the level as a number), and a value none of them names shows as it is.
 
 EMF and WMF: Export As… lists both formats (`file.exportAs {format: "emf"}` or `"wmf"`); they have no options
 dialog, so `ui.dialog.confirm` asks for the path and writes the file (one per artboard with Use Artboards). Open and
 Place read `.emf` and `.wmf`; a paste of `image/emf` from a system clipboard service runs `clipboard.importEmf`.
 
+HP-GL: Export As… lists it (`file.exportAs {format: "hpgl"}`); it has no options dialog, so `ui.dialog.confirm` asks
+for the path and writes the `.plt` file with the default options (one per artboard with Use Artboards).
+
 TIFF, BMP and Targa Options: Export As… with the TIFF, BMP or Targa format (`file.exportAs {format: "tiff"}`, then
 the save dialog) opens `tiffOptions`, `bmpOptions` or `tgaOptions`: the raster rows of PNG Options (`ppi`,
 `background`, `antiAlias`), then TIFF's `colorModel` (`rgb`, `cmyk`, `gray`; a CMYK document starts on `cmyk`),
@@ -809,7 +827,7 @@ a preset) plus `__view` (`original`, `optimized`, `2up`, `4up`), `__zoom` (`fit`
 the image, or the page with HTML output; the web downloads the files); with `discard: true` it is Done: it remembers
 the settings and closes. `file.saveForWeb` with settings saves without the dialog, and `file.saveForWeb.browser`
 writes the HTML page to a temporary folder and opens it in the default browser (desktop). Both return the export's
-`warnings`, and the status bar shows the first one as Save As shows a save's notes.
+`warnings`, and the status bar shows them as Save As shows a save's notes.
 
 PSD Options: Export As… with the PSD format (`file.exportAs {format: "psd"}`, then the save dialog) opens `psdOptions`:
 the raster rows of PNG Options (`ppi`, `background`, `antiAlias`), then `colorModel` (`rgb`, `cmyk`, `gray`; a CMYK
@@ -1051,7 +1069,7 @@ app:
 | `vectorcraft.docInspect(params)` / `vectorcraft.uiInspect(params)` | `document.inspect` / `ui.inspect` |
 | `vectorcraft.inspect()` | `ui.inspect` (the name before `uiInspect`) |
 | `vectorcraft.screenshot(params)` | `ui.screenshot` (no `path`: the PNG comes back inline, as `data` and as `pngBase64`) |
-| `vectorcraft.openFile(name, bytes)` | opens the bytes the way a dropped file opens (returns `true` once queued) |
+| `vectorcraft.openFile(name, bytes)` | opens the bytes the way a dropped file opens, as automation: a plug-in install it asks for has to be started by the person (returns `true` once queued) |
 | `vectorcraft.captureDownloads(on)` | while on, a save or export is kept in the page instead of downloaded |
 | `vectorcraft.files()` / `vectorcraft.readFile(name)` | the kept files (`{path, size}`) / one of them as a `Uint8Array` |
 
@@ -1066,14 +1084,14 @@ hidden tab (whose frames the browser pauses) answers when it is shown again.
 |---|---|---|
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | Confining file access: on Windows a `:` in a name after the drive (an NTFS alternate data stream) is refused with the device names (#3604). |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | Panel docking on craft-ui's layout: `ui.docking`, the floating and dock parameters, native floating windows. |
-| 2026-10-24 | minor | Documented the brush library panel commands (`window.brushLibrary`, `.other`, `ui.saveBrushLibrary`, `window.userBrushLibrary1`…`10`). |
-| 2026-10-24 | minor | Documented `ui.screenshot`'s 64 MiB inline-PNG reply cap: with `path` the file is still written and `pngBase64` is omitted when over the cap; a path-less `data: true` request fails before encoding. |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | Documented that Object → Expand… is dimmed, and `ui.expandDialog` refuses, while the selection has an appearance Expand Appearance expands (`object.expand.info`'s `appearance`, #3089). |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | Documented that Transform Each opens on the values it was last confirmed with and that its Copy button confirms with `copy: true` (#1732). |
+| 2026-10-24 | minor | Documented the brush library panel commands (`window.brushLibrary`, `.other`, `ui.saveBrushLibrary`, `window.userBrushLibrary1`…`10`). |
+| 2026-10-24 | minor | Documented `ui.screenshot`'s 64 MiB inline-PNG reply cap: with `path` the file is still written and `pngBase64` is omitted when over the cap; a path-less `data: true` request fails before encoding. |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | Documented the symbol library panel commands (`window.symbolLibrary`, `.other`, `ui.saveSymbolLibrary`, `window.userSymbolLibrary1`…`10`). |
+| 2026-10-18 | minor | Documented `window.vectorcraft`, the web build's control channel. |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Documented count, pending-event and per-frame request budgets (#1709). |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Documented transport deadlines and connection-slot recovery (#1726). |
-| 2026-10-18 | minor | Documented `window.vectorcraft`, the web build's control channel. |
 
 ## Save location errors
 

docs/development.md

@@ -89,6 +89,8 @@ The desktop app writes its `log` records to standard error and to `logs/vectorcr
 
 By default VectorCraft's own crates log at `info` and everything else at `warn`. `RUST_LOG` replaces that with env_logger-style directives, for example `RUST_LOG=debug`, `RUST_LOG=warn,vectorcraft_render=trace` or `RUST_LOG=info,wgpu_core=warn`; a directive ending in `*` covers every target starting with it (`vectorcraft*=debug`). The logger is `apps/vectorcraft/src/logging.rs`. `vectorcraft-cli mcp` has its own logger, which sends records to the MCP client (`docs/mcp.md`).
 
+When the interface thread stays in one part of a frame for 3 s (VectorCraft's own value), a watching thread writes a hang report to the log and to `logs/hang-report-<process id>.txt`, which the process keeps locked. The report gives the part of the frame (the input hook, the app's logic, the interface, or the renderer after a frame in which any window had input), a system clipboard read or write in progress, the last 8 different command ids (a command run again moves to the end of the list), the times of the last 16 frames, the platform, the window system (Wayland, X11, AppKit, Win32, other or unknown), `XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP`, `XDG_SESSION_TYPE`, whether the app runs in a Flatpak, the graphics adapter, the present mode and frame latency the app asks the window surface for, the session's running time and how many documents are open. It holds no document contents, file paths or command parameters, and no native stack. The time after a frame that minimizes or hides the main window, or starts moving or resizing it, is not timed, and neither is an in-line file dialog (Windows and Linux) or an open menu of the macOS menu bar. When the interface answers again, the log records after how long and the file is removed. A file that no process holds locked at a later launch was left by a session that was closed while it did not answer (a locked one belongs to another instance and is left alone): that launch writes the report to the log, moves the file to `logs/hang-report.1.txt` (older abandoned reports beyond the newest 16 are removed) and, unless another start-up message is showing, says so in the status bar. Help › Copy Troubleshooting Info (`help.copyTroubleshootingInfo`) copies the platform facts, the recent commands and frame times, and the hang reports of this session and the last one, for a bug report. The watch is `apps/vectorcraft/src/hang_watch.rs`; the marks it reads are `crates/ui-egui/src/hang_beacon.rs`.
+
 ## Environment variables (desktop app)
 
 | Variable | Effect |
@@ -122,8 +124,8 @@ On GNOME/Wayland, enable **Preferences › User Interface › 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:
 
-- **Clipboard:** under Wayland arboard talks to the compositor through the data-control protocol (wlroots compositors such as Sway and Hyprland, KDE Plasma), so bitmaps (`image/png`), SVG markup and text copied in any app paste (#398). Where the compositor lacks the protocol (GNOME's Mutter, [arboard#223](https://github.com/1Password/arboard/issues/223)), arboard falls back to the X11 clipboard through XWayland, which only holds what X11 apps copied. Where there is no X11 either (the Flatpak on a Wayland session: `--socket=fallback-x11` gives it none), Copy and Paste use the compositor's core data-device protocol on the window's own connection through smithay-clipboard: text only (a copy's text or its SVG markup), and only while the window has focus. smithay-clipboard waits for the owner's data with no limit, so its reads run on a worker thread and a Paste waits 2 s at most: an owner that never sends its data costs one Paste 2 s, and later reads return at once until it answers. A clipboard neither backend opens is tried again after 1 s, doubling to a minute (a Copy or Paste of the user's at most once a second), and logged once when it goes and once when it comes back: before, the background Paste check reconnected and logged a warning every 250 ms. egui's own text paste into fields goes through smithay-clipboard and works either way.
-- **Clipboard owners that never answer (#510):** reading the clipboard waits on the app that owns it: arboard gives up on an X11 owner after 4 s, and a Wayland read waits for the owner to send its data. So on Linux the check that enables the Paste menu items runs on a background thread with a second clipboard handle (`crates/ui-egui/src/clipboard_probe.rs`, installed as `Services::clipboard_probe`), only while nothing is copied in the app and a document is open, and the window keeps drawing. A paste itself still reads on the UI thread, so pasting from such an owner waits for it once. Windows and macOS keep the check on the UI thread: Windows only asks which formats the clipboard holds, macOS asks the pasteboard server.
+- **Clipboard:** under Wayland arboard talks to the compositor through the data-control protocol (wlroots compositors such as Sway and Hyprland, KDE Plasma), so bitmaps (`image/png`), SVG markup and text copied in any app paste (#398). Where the compositor lacks the protocol (GNOME's Mutter, [arboard#223](https://github.com/1Password/arboard/issues/223)), arboard falls back to the X11 clipboard through XWayland, which only holds what X11 apps copied. Where there is no X11 either (the Flatpak on a Wayland session: `--socket=fallback-x11` gives it none), Copy and Paste use the compositor's core data-device protocol on the window's own connection through smithay-clipboard: text only (a copy's text or its SVG markup), and only while the window has focus. smithay-clipboard waits for the owner's data with no limit, so its reads run on a worker thread and the UI thread waits 2 s at most: an owner that never sends its data costs one read 2 s, and later reads return at once until it answers. When a read gets no answer in its 2 s, such as a paste's check whether the clipboard still holds what VectorCraft copied, the paste waits on its background thread for that read's answer, up to 10 s after the read was sent, and pastes the text unless it is empty or what VectorCraft copied. A clipboard neither backend opens is tried again after 1 s, doubling to a minute (a Copy or Paste of the user's at most once a second), and logged once when it goes and once when it comes back: before, the background Paste check reconnected and logged a warning every 250 ms. egui's own text paste into fields goes through smithay-clipboard and works either way.
+- **Clipboard owners that never answer (#510):** reading the clipboard waits on the app that owns it: arboard gives up on an X11 owner after 4 s for each format it tries, and a Wayland read waits for the owner to send its data. So on Linux the check that enables the Paste menu items runs on a background thread with a second clipboard handle (`crates/ui-egui/src/clipboard_probe.rs`, installed as `Services::clipboard_probe`), only while nothing is copied in the app and a document is open, and the window keeps drawing. Every arboard read on Linux and the BSDs, including the UI thread's (a paste, and a Copy or Cut checking what the clipboard held), runs on a worker thread with a handle of its own and waits 2 s at most: an owner that never sends its data costs one read that wait, and later reads fail at once until it answers. A paste's bitmap read waits up to 10 s on the paste's background thread, so the UI thread does not wait for it. When one of a paste's reads gets no answer in its 2 s, or a paste follows a read that has not been answered yet, such as the paste's own check whether the clipboard still holds what VectorCraft copied, the paste waits on that thread for that read's answer, up to 10 s after the read was sent, and pastes what it holds. When the answer is what VectorCraft copied, holds nothing to paste, or does not come, the paste takes the internal clipboard. On X11, quitting within 25 s of a read that got no answer waits for that read to end, so the app's own handle is the last one and hands what it copied to the clipboard manager. Windows and macOS keep the check on the UI thread: Windows only asks which formats the clipboard holds, macOS asks the pasteboard server.
 - **Copied files:** files copied in a file manager (`text/uri-list`; `CF_HDROP` on Windows, file URLs on macOS) paste as the first one that is art (SVG, PDF, EPS, EMF/WMF or a bitmap; a `.ai` or `.ait` file from the editing data it holds, else as the PDF or PostScript it holds), before the clipboard's other formats (which include the files' paths as text).
 - **Dropping files on the window does not work under Wayland:** winit 0.30, which eframe 0.37 runs on, has no Wayland drag and drop ([winit#1881](https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit/issues/1881), added in winit 0.31; [egui#1563](https://github.com/emilk/egui/issues/1563)), so no `dropped_files` arrive. Until eframe moves to winit 0.31: copy the files in the file manager and paste them, use File › Place or Open, or open the window through XWayland, where drops work: set **Preferences › Performance › Linux Display Server** to **X11 (XWayland)** and restart (#1151), or start the app with `WAYLAND_DISPLAY= vectorcraft`. The preference (`linuxDisplayServer`, read at startup in `apps/vectorcraft/src/main.rs`, shown on Linux only) has winit open the window on X11 (`EventLoopBuilderExtX11::with_x11`) when the session is Wayland, `DISPLAY` is set and the X11 libraries winit loads are installed (`apps/vectorcraft/src/xwayland.rs` reads `ldconfig -p` and the usual library directories); otherwise the window opens on Wayland and the log says why. Unlike clearing `WAYLAND_DISPLAY`, it leaves the clipboard on the compositor's own.
 - **Pens and pen displays under Wayland (#491, #2028):** winit 0.30 doesn't bind the Wayland tablet protocol (`zwp_tablet_v2`; tablet input arrives in winit 0.31, [winit#4318](https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit/pull/4318), [egui#7731](https://github.com/emilk/egui/pull/7731)). Since Plasma 6.3, KWin no longer turns tablet input into pointer input for such apps ([kwin!6336](https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/6336), commit [25c65abd](https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/commit/25c65abddd95eb87fb892a8594faccbf509ff62f)), and GNOME's Mutter does not turn it into pointer input either (that commit's message): on KWin the pen moves the compositor's cursor over the window, but the app gets no motion or presses and shows none of its own cursors. Until eframe moves to winit 0.31, the app runs under XWayland, which supports the tablet protocol and hands the pen to X11 apps as a pointer: Preferences › Performance › Linux Display Server's Automatic (the default) and X11 (XWayland) When a Pen Is Attached (`x11WithPen`) open the window through XWayland when `/proc/bus/input/devices` lists a pen as the app starts, a device with the `BTN_TOOL_PEN` key and the `ABS_X` and `ABS_Y` axes, and log `pen found: opening the window through XWayland`, as PhotoCraft does (#4967; `VECTORCRAFT_NATIVE_WAYLAND=1` keeps the window on Wayland). For a pen attached after the app started, either run the app under XWayland (Preferences › Performance › Linux Display Server › X11 (XWayland); `WAYLAND_DISPLAY= vectorcraft`, or `env -u WAYLAND_DISPLAY vectorcraft`; for a desktop launcher, put `env WAYLAND_DISPLAY=` before the command in its `Exec=` line), or turn KWin's deprecated emulation back on for the whole session by setting `KWIN_WAYLAND_EMULATE_TABLET=1` in KWin's environment (for example in a file under `~/.config/environment.d/` or in `/etc/environment`) and logging in again. The pen then works as a mouse. Under XWayland the app also reads the pen's pressure (next item); with KWin's emulation on native Wayland the pen has no pressure. Other compositors that don't emulate a pointer for tablets behave the same way.

docs/effects-parity.md

@@ -180,14 +180,14 @@ VectorCraft choices; an original approximation, never compared with another appl
 |---|---|
 | 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), 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 | 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 |
+| 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; hard-edged shadows behind or below the object from the first light ([three-d.md](three-d.md#shadows)); no materials, soft shadows or ray tracing |
+| 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) initial: live, Angle, Cap, Offset from the left or right edge, Position presets and rotation gizmo, Perspective, the same four surfaces, lights, highlight, Blend Steps and Shading Color, groups and layers revolved about one shared axis (same page); Rotate (Classic) initial: live, every fill and stroke turned as one plane, Position presets and rotation gizmo, Perspective, No Shading and Diffuse surfaces with lights, Ambient Light, Blend Steps and Shading Color ([rotate objects in 3D](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/special-effects-styles/create-3d-graphics/rotate-objects-in-3d.html)); Map Art: none |
 | Turntable (30.0 beta) | 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, the rest of 3D Classic (Revolve, Rotate, Map Art), Turntable) is 25–45 h.
+angular cut caps, exact visibility, the rest of 3D Classic (Map Art), Turntable) is 25–45 h.
 
 ## Revision history
 

docs/file-format-parity.md

@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 # File format parity
 
-> **Last updated:** 2026-11-12 · **Change:** Save refusal follow-up (#6146): changing format in fallback Save As opens that format’s options; unchanged format keeps the original options. Focused UI regressions passed; native panel acceptance pending; scores and estimates unchanged.
-
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-11 · **Change:** minor (`.ai` and EPS import: centred and right-aligned lines of tracked type are aligned without the tracking after their last character, as the file's page aligns them, #6610; `.ai` and EPS import: an envelope saved in Edit Contents whose mesh lies away from its drawn art by a move opens live on that art, #6570; `.ai` save and open: layer colour presets Yellow, Magenta and Cyan keep their colour, as the `Lb` colour index now follows the file's numbering, #6502; `.ai` save: stroked type keeps its stroke's cap, join and miter limit in the text document, #6472; `.ai` and EPS import, PDF import: tracking and manual kerning in horizontally scaled type take the Horizontal Scale, as the file's page spaces such type; `.ai` and EPS import: stroked type in an envelope maps from its glyphs grown by half its stroke, #3179; `.ai` and EPS import: warps of type open as mesh envelopes on their saved grid, #3179; `.ai` and EPS import: stroked type keeps its stroke's cap, join and miter limit from the text document, #6472; `.ai` save: type in a variable font's named instance names its design-space setting, #6388; `.ai` and EPS import: envelopes of type open live where they draw as their drawn art and the layers with them draw as the page, #3179; `.ai` and EPS import: a note for type in an envelope, #3179; `.ai` and EPS import: the live envelope and warped type check sees white art; PDF import: DeviceN images of one ink or of process plates keep their inks, #6348; `.ai` import: images in a spot ink's Separation space keep their ink, #6350; PDF import: Separation images keep their ink, #6314; PDF editable import preserves authored ActualText once, including empty/nested spans and authored ordering (#6165); cross-line/style layout remains approximate; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF marked-text export (#6309): compatible glyphs stay on one layout line with per-glyph offsets; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF import: image masks open colorized by the color they are painted in, #6313; EPS and `.ai` editing data: a ligature the page names by a private-use glyph matches its text object; EPS import: CIDFonts only named, over a Unicode CMap, set as live type; EPS import: CMap mappings to base-font codes and glyph names; EPS import: CID-keyed fonts in FontSets (CFF) draw their glyphs; EPS import: `kshow` procedures kern live type; EPS import: embedded Type 1 fonts' glyphs and widths; EPS import: CID-keyed fonts draw their glyphs; EPS import: Type 42 fonts' characters and widths from the font they carry, show operators' spacing kept as tracking; EPS import: an image decoder's own buffers stop counting against the memory budget once it is decoded; EPS import: sampled functions interpolate between their samples; `.ai` and EPS type from the text document keeps its tab stops; it keeps auto leading and hyphenation options, and may show more of the file's last lines in an area frame; `.ai` and EPS import: Art brushes in the older form of their objects come into the Brushes panel; EPS import: gradients drawn as abutting strips come in as one gradient, without seams; EPS import: composite fonts draw their Type 42 glyphs; SVG import: filter and mask regions clip, #5876, #5875; SVG import: Gaussian blurs keep `color-interpolation-filters`, #5877; PDF and `.ai` export: objects' URLs as links, #5785; SVG import: `color-interpolation="linearRGB"` gradients, #5878; `.ai` import: paths with a Calligraphic brush open brushed, #372) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-11 · **Change:** minor (`.ai` and EPS import, and what every export and `.ai` save draw: type's strokes in an envelope paint at their own weight along its bent outlines, Distort Appearance on or off, #6644; `.ai` and EPS import: centred and right-aligned lines of tracked type are aligned without the tracking after their last character, as the file's page aligns them, #6610; `.ai` and EPS import: an envelope saved in Edit Contents whose mesh lies away from its drawn art by a move opens live on that art, #6570; `.ai` save and open: layer colour presets Yellow, Magenta and Cyan keep their colour, as the `Lb` colour index now follows the file's numbering, #6502; `.ai` save: stroked type keeps its stroke's cap, join and miter limit in the text document, #6472; `.ai` and EPS import, PDF import: tracking and manual kerning in horizontally scaled type take the Horizontal Scale, as the file's page spaces such type; `.ai` and EPS import: stroked type in an envelope maps from its glyphs grown by half its stroke, #3179; `.ai` and EPS import: warps of type open as mesh envelopes on their saved grid, #3179; `.ai` and EPS import: stroked type keeps its stroke's cap, join and miter limit from the text document, #6472; `.ai` save: type in a variable font's named instance names its design-space setting, #6388; `.ai` and EPS import: envelopes of type open live where they draw as their drawn art and the layers with them draw as the page, #3179; `.ai` and EPS import: a note for type in an envelope, #3179; `.ai` and EPS import: the live envelope and warped type check sees white art; PDF import: DeviceN images of one ink or of process plates keep their inks, #6348; `.ai` import: images in a spot ink's Separation space keep their ink, #6350; PDF import: Separation images keep their ink, #6314; PDF editable import preserves authored ActualText once, including empty/nested spans and authored ordering (#6165); cross-line/style layout remains approximate; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF marked-text export (#6309): compatible glyphs stay on one layout line with per-glyph offsets; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF import: image masks open colorized by the color they are painted in, #6313; EPS and `.ai` editing data: a ligature the page names by a private-use glyph matches its text object; EPS import: CIDFonts only named, over a Unicode CMap, set as live type; EPS import: CMap mappings to base-font codes and glyph names; EPS import: CID-keyed fonts in FontSets (CFF) draw their glyphs; EPS import: `kshow` procedures kern live type; EPS import: embedded Type 1 fonts' glyphs and widths; EPS import: CID-keyed fonts draw their glyphs; EPS import: Type 42 fonts' characters and widths from the font they carry, show operators' spacing kept as tracking; EPS import: an image decoder's own buffers stop counting against the memory budget once it is decoded; EPS import: sampled functions interpolate between their samples; `.ai` and EPS type from the text document keeps its tab stops; it keeps auto leading and hyphenation options, and may show more of the file's last lines in an area frame; `.ai` and EPS import: Art brushes in the older form of their objects come into the Brushes panel; EPS import: gradients drawn as abutting strips come in as one gradient, without seams; EPS import: composite fonts draw their Type 42 glyphs; SVG import: filter and mask regions clip, #5876, #5875; SVG import: Gaussian blurs keep `color-interpolation-filters`, #5877; PDF and `.ai` export: objects' URLs as links, #5785; SVG import: `color-interpolation="linearRGB"` gradients, #5878; `.ai` import: paths with a Calligraphic brush open brushed, #372) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
 
 Every format Illustrator opens, places, saves or exports, against VectorCraft's format table (`FORMATS`,
 `OPEN_EXTS`, `PLACE_EXTS` in `crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/formats.rs`). Illustrator's list comes from its public
@@ -294,11 +292,12 @@ Names in the editing data that aren't UTF-8 (layers, objects, artboards, colors,
 | EPS | open, place, save | yes (own PostScript L3 interpreter, Illustrator EPS editing data structure) | yes (L2/L3, TIFF previews) | CIDFonts the file doesn't carry not drawn, but for those over a predefined Unicode CMap (`UniJIS-UCS2-H`), set as type in the font of the CIDFont's name; name-keyed fonts in a FontSet set as type by name; #505; images encoded with `CCITTFaxDecode` (ITU-T T.4 Group 3 and T.6 Group 4, with `K`, `Columns`, `Rows`, `EndOfBlock`, `EndOfLine`, `EncodedByteAlign` and `BlackIs1`) draw, and damaged data keeps the rows decoded before its first damaged row; Type 42 (TrueType) fonts set type at its size (#1553); an embedded Type 1 font's encrypted part is read for its glyphs, which space its type, outline it and draw glyphs without a character, in plain and composite fonts; a Type 42 font that carries its TrueType font gives each code its character by its glyph name or, for names that say nothing (`/g12`), by the glyph's entry in the font's own character map, spaces its type by its own widths and draws glyphs that stand for no character from its outlines; the show operators' spacing along the baseline (`ashow`, `widthshow`, `xshow`, `yshow`, `xyshow`, and the moves of `kshow`'s procedure, run between each two characters) is kept on live type as tracking, so type in a font that isn't installed keeps the file's line lengths (spacing that moves characters off the baseline, as `yshow`, `xyshow` or a `kshow` procedure can, places each character as its own text object); composite (Type 0) fonts with the 8/8 mapping, as PDF-to-PostScript converters write two-byte fonts, draw a Type 42 descendant's glyphs from the TrueType outlines it carries and an embedded Type 1 descendant's from its charstrings, and set other descendants' characters as type at the composite font's size (other mappings are still set as type in the font of their name); CID-keyed fonts (`composefont`, `FMapType` 9 over a CMap built with the CIDInit operators or `Identity-H`/`Identity-V`; `bfchar` and `bfrange` mappings give a base-font descendant its codes or glyph names) draw the glyphs of the Type 0 CIDFonts (Type 1 charstrings in their `StartData` binary data or `GlyphDirectory`) and Type 2 CIDFonts (TrueType glyphs through `CIDMap`) they carry, and the CID-keyed fonts of a FontSet's Compact Font Format data (Type 2 charstrings); a clip only counts as covering the page when its shape does (#1542); an EPS another app copied pastes as editable vector art (`clipboard.importEps`, #1499); a stitched shading keeps its hard colour changes on import (#1654); sampled functions (type 0) interpolate between their samples, multilinearly or by cubics with `Order 3`, and a sampled axial or radial gradient has a stop at each sample; a gradient the page paints as a row of abutting one-colour strips (as Level 2 writers draw smooth shades) imports as one linear gradient, without the seams the strips leave when each is drawn alone; CMYK images, CMYK JPEGs included, keep their ink amounts on import, as from PDF, and the pixels a `MaskColor` or `ImageType 3` mask hides become a grayscale opacity mask; ruzstd 0.9.1 for compressed editing data (#1807, RUSTSEC-2026-0344) |
 | PostScript `.ps` | open, place | yes (the EPS reader reads its first page; `.epsf` files open and place as EPS) | via Print to PostScript | `tests_epsimport.rs` |
 | SVG / SVGZ | open, place, save | yes | yes (SVG Options, Preserve Editing, symbols, filters, rich text) | strongest format; tests in `crates/svg/tests`; text on a path follows basic shapes as their SVG 2 equivalent paths (#1527); CSS transforms and the `font` shorthand (#1565), percentage lengths in symbols (#1596), Inkscape flowed text as area type (#1568) and Inkscape pages as artboards (#1601) import; an unsupported filter is named in its warning (#1598); an artboard exported on its own (Export As with Use Artboards, Export for Screens, Asset Export) has the artboard's name as `<title>`, Save the document's (#3544); attributes in other applications' XML namespaces (`plotter:pen="2"`) kept on their objects from import to export, as `data-*` attributes are (`crates/svg/tests/it/foreign_attributes.rs`); simple shapes export as `<rect>`, `<circle>`, `<ellipse>`, `<line>`, `<polygon>` and `<polyline>` where they draw the same as the path (#4652, `crates/svg/tests/it/basic_shapes.rs`); the regions of exported masks and filters (opacity masks, inverted masks, knockout groups) cover the art they apply to, and over type keep a region that covers any artwork (#6401, `crates/svg/tests/it/blend_export.rs`) |
-| DXF | open, export | yes | yes (R12–2018) | R13–2018 closed SPLINE flags and control-point closure on import verified (#1299); circular cubic paths export as native CIRCLE/ARC where stroke semantics permit; R12 weighted strokes remain POLYLINE while non-circular curves keep the existing fallback (`crates/cad/src/tests.rs`); [Autodesk group 70](https://help.autodesk.com/cloudhelp/2024/ENU/AutoCAD-DXF/files/GUID-E1F884F8-AA90-4864-A215-3182D47A9C74.htm). DXF 2000–2018 LAYOUT objects write the paper image origin as 148/149 (was a stray 158), the shade plot codes (2004+) and the model type flag, and the plot style placeholder carries no subclass marker (#3085; structure test `r2000_and_later_files_have_the_structure_cad_apps_require`, checked with ezdxf's audit; not yet confirmed in Autodesk Fusion). CNC preset and VCarve QA remain open |
+| DXF | open, export | yes | yes (R12–2018) | R13–2018 closed SPLINE flags and control-point closure on import verified (#1299); circular cubic paths export as native CIRCLE/ARC where stroke semantics permit; R12 weighted strokes remain POLYLINE while non-circular curves keep the existing fallback (`crates/cad/src/tests.rs`); [Autodesk group 70](https://help.autodesk.com/cloudhelp/2024/ENU/AutoCAD-DXF/files/GUID-E1F884F8-AA90-4864-A215-3182D47A9C74.htm). DXF 2000–2018 LAYOUT objects write the paper image origin as 148/149 (was a stray 158), the shade plot codes (2004+) and the model type flag, and the plot style placeholder carries no subclass marker (#3085; structure test `r2000_and_later_files_have_the_structure_cad_apps_require`, checked with ezdxf's audit; not yet confirmed in Autodesk Fusion). DXF Options' Preset menu and `document.exportDxf`'s `dxfPreset: "cnc"` set the CNC / CAM options (#5500); VCarve QA remains open |
+| HP-GL/2 `.plt`, `.hpgl`, `.hgl`, `.hpg` | — | yes (pen moves, pens and widths, line types and attributes, circles, arcs, wedges and Bézier curves, filled and edged rectangles, wedges and polygons, encoded polylines, scaling and rotation; labels, symbol mode, raster images and hatching aren't drawn) | yes (`.plt`: each visible path once along its line, a pen per color or a pen table, type as outlines, clipping applied, HP-GL or HP-GL/2 with pen colors and encoded polylines) | recognized by its first instructions after any printer escapes, under its own extensions or one no other format reads; `crates/cad/src/hpgl/tests.rs`, `crates/cad/src/hpgl/write/tests.rs` (plots read back by the reader), `tests_hpgl.rs`, `import_fuzz.rs` |
 | DWG | open, export | no | no | no open spec; DXF instead |
 | EMF / WMF | open, export | yes | yes | an oversized embedded PNG or JPEG is refused from its header, before any pixels are decoded (#1776) |
-| PSD | open, place, export | yes (merged image, every mode and depth; `.psd` and `.pdd`) | yes (layered, max editability) | placing as layers (Photoshop Import Options) missing; the embedded ICC profile's tags are 4-byte aligned (#1584) |
-| PSB | open | yes (merged image) | no | |
+| PSD | open, place, export | yes (open: layers as layers, or the merged image with `layers: false`; place: merged image; every mode and depth; `.psd` and `.pdd`) | yes (layered, max editability) | placing as layers and a PSD import options dialog missing; the embedded ICC profile's tags are 4-byte aligned (#1584) |
+| PSB | open | yes (layers as layers, or the merged image) | no | |
 | PNG / JPEG / GIF / BMP / TIFF / Targa | open, place, export | yes (PNG: `.png` and `.pns`; BMP: `.bmp`, `.dib` and `.rle`; Targa: `.tga`, `.vda`, `.icb` and `.vst`, raw or run-length encoded, with a 16-bit file's one-bit alpha) | yes; TIFF is also selectable in Export for Screens and Asset Export with its existing options | Targa: `tests_tiffbmp.rs`, `tests/links.rs`; TIFF: grayscale with an alpha channel or other extra channels reads (#1466 in part), and so do files that store each channel as its own plane (PlanarConfiguration 2), CMYK ones with their ink amounts, and 1-bit files compressed with CCITT Group 3 (Compression 2 and 3, one- and two-dimensional rows); the ICC profiles embedded in JPEG and TIFF have 4-byte aligned tags (#1584); PNG export marks its colours as sRGB (`embedIcc`, an `sRGB` chunk; no ICC profile is embedded, #2221) |
 | WebP | export (Export for Screens) | yes | yes (lossless only; lossy written lossless with a warning) | |
 | JPEG XL `.jxl` | — | yes (first frame; 16-bit and floating-point samples as 8 bits, alpha kept; CMYK refused) | no | decoded with jxl-oxide; the size is checked from the header before decoding; container Exif resolution sizes opened and placed images; tests in `crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_jxlread.rs` and `crates/engine/tests/import_fuzz.rs` |
@@ -344,6 +343,7 @@ Stop opacity on translated artboards remains outside this regression coverage.
 | Date | Change | Summary |
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 | 2026-11-12 | minor | Save refusal follow-up (#6146): changed format opens its Save options; unchanged format retains original options. Focused UI regressions passed, including the format-change case that failed before the fix; native panel acceptance pending. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-11 | minor | `.ai` and EPS import, and what the canvas, every export and `.ai` save draw: type's strokes in an envelope (its characters' and those on its own appearance) paint along the bent glyph outlines at their own weight, Distort Appearance on or off, as the drawn art of users' `.ai` files strokes them (used locally, never committed: there the drawn art keeps those strokes as stroked paths at the type's own weights, and its ring is as wide wherever the grid squeezes or stretches the type). With Distort Appearance, VectorCraft bent them with the art, as their filled outlines, so an envelope of stroked type in a squeezed or stretched grid didn't draw as its drawn art and kept it. The same holds in an envelope inside an envelope. Paths' strokes, geometry effects, opacity masks, linear gradients and pattern fills bend as before. On 224 of our own files: envelopes of type that open live go from 135 in 37 files to 154 in 45, and no file loses one; no file changes whether it opens from its layers or its PDF part; renders at 40 ppi change in 31 files, by at most 2.3% of their pixels, 19 closer to the file's own page and 12 further, 11 of those where an envelope of type now opens live in place of its drawn art (the page's own art) and one by 4 pixels. Tests `envelope_distort::type_strokes_paint_at_their_own_weight_in_a_squeezed_envelope`, `a_stroke_on_types_appearance_paints_at_its_own_weight_in_a_squeezed_envelope`, `a_paths_stroke_still_bends_in_a_squeezed_envelope`, `tests_native::an_envelope_of_stroked_type_whose_drawn_art_strokes_the_bent_outlines_at_the_weight_opens_live` (#6644) |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | Ordinary Save to a location refusing writes offers Save As (#6146); cancellation preserves the original path and modified state; automation receives READ_ONLY_LOCATION. Scores and estimates unchanged. Validation pending. |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | `.ai` and EPS import, and what SVG export, PDF export and `.ai` save draw: centred and right-aligned lines of tracked type are aligned without the tracking after their last character, as a `.ai`'s own page aligns them (see type-parity.md, same date). In 224 users' files (used locally, never committed), 63 render differently: 54 closer to the page, 7 further, 1 alike and 1 that couldn't be compared; among them the median share of pixels that differ from the page went from 4.4% to 1.0%. Of the 7: one now opens from its layers instead of its PDF part (they differ from the page by less than the import's 5% limit now; type note 3.8%); one has a centred line whose spacing inside it differs from the page's, which now centres on the page's line while half of it no longer lies on the page's glyphs (type note 1.4% to 2.4%); five moved by less than 0.05 of a percentage point, in type the page draws in other glyphs. The type note shows a smaller share in 6 files; 2 more envelopes of type open live (129 to 131, none fewer in any file). SVG import: `text-anchor` aligns a line's advance, which ends after its last character's letter spacing, so a centred or right-aligned letter-spaced line moves back by half or all of it and stays where a reader draws it; SVG export, which anchors lines so, reads back unchanged (test `import_text::anchored_letter_spaced_lines_stay_where_a_reader_draws_them`). Affinity import: centred or right-aligned tracked artistic text moves by half or all of its last character's tracking, as layout now aligns it (unverified against Affinity, whose files we don't have), and differently aligned paragraphs line up by the widths layout aligns them by (`affinity_features::artistic_text_aligns_its_lines_within_the_longest`). Scores and estimates unchanged. (#6610) |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | `.ai` and EPS import: while an envelope's contents are edited, the editing data keeps its mesh (a mesh's, a top object's or a warp's grid) in its dictionary, and in some files that mesh lies away from the drawn art by a move, the contents with the drawn art, as if the mesh hadn't followed the envelope when it moved: the envelope drew its contents elsewhere and kept its drawn art. A mesh or top object saved in Edit Contents (or a warp of type tried on its saved grid) whose mesh draws the contents as large as the drawn art, within half a point over width and height together, but further from it than that, is now tried again, after every other way and with one more of the import's checks, with its mesh moved by as far as the drawn art's box lies from the box of what it draws; it opens live there where it then draws as the drawn art. In users' files, used locally and never committed, only envelopes saved in Edit Contents draw elsewhere than their drawn art, and nothing in their dictionaries says by how much they moved. Tests `ai::tests::an_envelope_in_edit_contents_whose_mesh_stayed_behind_opens_live_on_its_drawn_art`, `tests_native::a_warp_of_type_in_edit_contents_whose_grid_stayed_behind_opens_on_its_drawn_art` (#6570) |
@@ -371,14 +371,14 @@ Stop opacity on translated artboards remains outside this regression coverage.
 | 2026-11-07 | minor | EPS import: an embedded Type 1 font's encrypted part (`eexec`, [Adobe Type 1 Font Format](https://adobe-type-tools.github.io/font-tech-notes/pdfs/T1_SPEC.pdf), chapter 7) is no longer only skipped: its charstrings are read, and the font dictionary gets the `CharStrings` dictionary the part would have given it. Its type then takes its characters from its glyph names (the standard and ISO Latin-1 encodings by their codes' names, PLRM 3rd ed., Appendix E), its widths move the current point and space the live type as tracking (as Type 42 fonts do), `stringwidth` and `charpath` read its glyphs, glyphs whose names say no character are drawn from its outlines, and a composite font's Type 1 descendants draw their glyphs. A font found by name, re-encoded with glyph names at other codes (codes 1 to 12 for `T`, `r`, `a`… in pdftocairo's subsets), sets the characters its names say instead of its codes read as Latin-1 (such type was left out). |
 | 2026-11-07 | minor | EPS import: CID-keyed fonts (PLRM 3rd ed., §5.11; [Adobe Technical Note #5014](https://adobe-type-tools.github.io/font-tech-notes/pdfs/5014.CIDFont_Spec.pdf)) draw from the font data the file carries instead of stopping the program at `composefont` or the CIDInit operators: CMaps built with `begincmap` … `endcmap` (codespace ranges, CID and notdef mappings, `usefont`, `usecmap`; mappings to base-font codes are not read) and the predefined `Identity-H` and `Identity-V`; `composefont` and `FMapType` 9 fonts, whose codes take as many bytes as their codespace range says, an invalid or unmapped code falling back as §5.11.5 says; Type 0 CIDFonts' Type 1 charstrings, read by `StartData` (binary or hexadecimal) or from a `GlyphDirectory`, with their FDArray dictionaries' matrices and subroutines (`Subrs` or the binary data's subroutine table); Type 2 CIDFonts' TrueType glyphs through `CIDMap` (strings, a dictionary or an offset); `Metrics` widths; vertical writing mode set downwards. A CIDFont the file doesn't carry draws nothing, with a warning; FontSet (Compact Font Format) data is skipped. |
 | 2026-11-07 | minor | EPS import: a plain Type 42 font that carries its TrueType font ([Adobe Technical Note #5012](https://adobe-type-tools.github.io/font-tech-notes/pdfs/5012.Type42_Spec.pdf)) gives each code its character by its glyph name (single characters, `uniXXXX`, the standard encoding's and Windows-1252's names) or, when the name says nothing (`/g12`), by the glyph `CharStrings` gives it in the font's own character map or `post` names, instead of reading the code as Latin-1 (a Euro at code 128 was dropped); the font's own widths move the current point (`stringwidth`, `show`), `charpath` outlines its glyphs, and a string with a glyph that stands for no character is drawn from the font's outlines. Live type keeps the spacing the file gives it: where the show operator's numbers (`ashow`, `widthshow`, `xshow`, `yshow`, `xyshow`: PLRM 3rd ed., chapter 8) or the embedded font's widths differ from the installed or fallback font's advances, each character's tracking makes up the difference, as PDF import does, so justified type in a font that isn't installed no longer drifts (pdftocairo and pdftops EPS of a justified PDF page set in a missing font: 10.2% and 9.0% of the page differing from Ghostscript's render, now 6.2% and 5.8%). Type under `nulldevice` no longer shows. |
-| 2026-11-06 | minor | EPS import: the buffers an image decoder makes for itself (its sample planes, its copies of the strings a procedure data source hands back, and the split buffers of an interleaved masked image) stop counting against the PostScript reader's 1 GiB memory budget once the image is decoded, as they are freed then; the pixels kept, and anything the program's own procedures allocate, still count. A user's Illustrator 25.2 EPS with 71 CMYK images (used locally, not committed) used to stop with "the program uses too much memory" and come in as its screen preview; it now opens with its art. The budget itself is unchanged. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-07 | minor | EPS import: a sampled function (type 0) of two or more inputs took the nearest sample, so a function-based shading (type 1) over one came in as flat blocks; it is now interpolated between its samples (multilinearly), and with `Order 3` by cubics through them (Catmull-Rom, kept in the function's range), as the PostScript Language Reference (3rd ed., §3.10.1, type 0 functions) defines. An axial or radial shading whose function is a linearly interpolated sampled function of one input has a stop at each sample, not 33 evenly spaced ones. Tests `sampled_functions_interpolate_linearly_or_by_cubics`, `mesh_and_function_shadings_become_gradient_meshes`; a 2 × 2 function-based shading is 1.2% from Ghostscript's render (it was 45.9%); scores unchanged |
 | 2026-11-07 | minor | EPS and `.ai` type from the text document keeps its paragraphs' tab stops (positions and alignments; leaders aren't read), at most 1,024 a paragraph and 2^20 a story, past which the default stops apply with a warning. A user's `.ai` (used locally, not committed) whose price lists came in on the default stops now lays them out as its page has them (its type 0.8% from its page, from 1.5%; what differs is hyphenation in Hungarian and type in a font that isn't installed). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-07 | minor | EPS and `.ai` type from the text document: auto leading stays auto at the paragraph's share (it was the first two lines' distance for every line, so 10 pt lines under a 15 pt heading came in 18 pt apart), the paragraph's hyphenation options are read, and area type of one frame whose last lines the file sets in too short a frame for them here may get a frame taller by its lines' deepest descent plus 0.05 pt, when that shows more of them. A user's `.ai` (used locally, not committed) whose type differed from its page by 6.6%, so that it opened from its PDF part, now opens from its layers (4.9%; type with tab stops in right-aligned paragraphs still differs, a separate issue) (#6137). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-07 | minor | EPS and `.ai` editing data: opacity mask art that sets no paint of its own paints with the paint before the mask's dictionary, not the black a dictionary's state starts with. A logo of white letters masked by a rectangle with no colour no longer opens hidden: a user's `.ai` (used locally, not committed) shows its six logos. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-06 | minor | EPS import: the buffers an image decoder makes for itself (its sample planes, its copies of the strings a procedure data source hands back, and the split buffers of an interleaved masked image) stop counting against the PostScript reader's 1 GiB memory budget once the image is decoded, as they are freed then; the pixels kept, and anything the program's own procedures allocate, still count. A user's Illustrator 25.2 EPS with 71 CMYK images (used locally, not committed) used to stop with "the program uses too much memory" and come in as its screen preview; it now opens with its art. The budget itself is unchanged. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | EPS and `.ai` editing data: a path or compound path whose art style stacks several fills and strokes (solid colours and gradients, each with its own visibility, opacity and blend mode, under effects any object takes) comes in as itself with that appearance instead of its drawn look. Each gradient must be its own swatch, placed as the drawn look places it; a stack that repeats a swatch, or whose look doesn't paint its gradients, keeps the drawn look, as do fills and strokes with effects of their own. |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | `.ai` and EPS import: Art brushes whose objects are in the older form (first number 1, one field fewer and 8 numbers at the end) come into the Brushes panel with their art instead of being left out with a note. In a survey of 302 users' EPS files (used locally, not committed), 652 Art brushes in 188 of the 197 files with the note were left out this way; afterwards 55 files have the note, all for Pattern brushes. Test `an_older_art_brush_comes_in_with_its_art` (crate `vectorcraft-eps`); scores unchanged |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | EPS import: composite (Type 0) fonts with the 8/8 mapping (`FMapType` 2: PLRM 3rd ed., §5.10) draw a Type 42 descendant's glyphs from the TrueType outlines its `sfnts` carry (Adobe Technical Note #5012), spaced by their own widths or the show operator's numbers, and `charpath` and `stringwidth` read them; descendants found by name set their characters as type at the composite font's size instead of a thousand times it. EPS from `pdftops` of a PDF with embedded TrueType fonts showed nothing, or one black shape, where its type was. |
-| 2026-11-07 | minor | EPS and `.ai` editing data: opacity mask art that sets no paint of its own paints with the paint before the mask's dictionary, not the black a dictionary's state starts with. A logo of white letters masked by a rectangle with no colour no longer opens hidden: a user's `.ai` (used locally, not committed) shows its six logos. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | EPS and `.ai` editing data: an art style's stroke aligned inside or outside its path (Stroke panel › Align Stroke, written as its own `Adobe Stroke Offset` filter) comes in as a stroke with that alignment, so objects whose style has one keep the style live instead of coming in as their drawn look. Without its inside/outside switch the drawn look stays. |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | EPS and `.ai` editing data: `Q` restores the painting state but not the transparency (`Xy`), which the writer only sets when the next object's differs from the last one written. A Screen glow followed by a clipping group set back to Normal no longer leaves the type after the group in Screen: two users' Illustrator 26.5 and 30 EPS posters (used locally, not committed) now show their gold heading and crescent, and both open from their layers (2.5% and 2.7% from the page before, under the limit after). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | EPS and `.ai` editing data: a blend whose spine was never edited, written with its keys and no spine part, comes in as a live blend along the straight lines between its keys' centres (in its record's order) instead of as its drawn steps. Checked on six users' Illustrator EPS files (used locally, not committed): every blend in four of them now comes in live, their renders unchanged; two still have blends the reader can't match to their drawn steps. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
@@ -403,8 +403,8 @@ Stop opacity on translated artboards remains outside this regression coverage.
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | `.ai`/EPS editing data: type made from the file's text document took each character attribute its run doesn't set from the document's base attributes, not from the character style the run names (`[Normal Character Style]` or another of the file's, and the styles each is based on). Where they differ the type came in wrong: a user's file whose base fill is white and whose Normal Character Style is black came in with its text white, so most of its type was missing wherever the page's own type didn't stand in for it. A run now takes its own attributes, then its character style's, then the document's ([Character and paragraph styles](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/character-paragraph-styles.html)). Test `import::tests_native::type_from_the_text_document_takes_its_character_styles_attributes`; checked locally against 377 users' files: none newly opens from its PDF part, and with #4791 that file opens from its layers (6.3% → 1.1% from its page); scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | SVG export (and Object › Expand, EPS, DXF, EMF and the other outputs that cut a gradient mesh into flat pieces): each patch was cut into 8 × 8 quads whatever its colours, so a patch of one colour became 64 identical pieces. Neighbouring quads are now joined into square blocks wherever the colour changes by no more than about one 8-bit step across the block, so a flat patch is one piece and a patch that shades strongly keeps all 64; a block's outline runs through its quads' corners, and a patch that folds over itself is not joined. A synthetic page of 400 meshes (6 × 6 patches, half flat) exports 468,000 pieces instead of 921,600 (35 MB instead of 66 MB), and resvg draws the two files identically. Tests `mesh_export` (crate `vectorcraft-svg`), `tests::live::mesh_expand_to_flat_pieces`; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | PDF import (and a `.ai`'s PDF part): a transparency group's knockout and isolate flags (`/K`, `/I`; ISO 32000-1, 11.4.6.3) come from the interpreter as it pushes the group. They were read from the file in order and matched to the groups pushed, but a group that adds nothing (full opacity, Normal, no mask, neither flag) is drawn straight onto its parent without being pushed, so every group after one lost its own flags and took another's; and a page drawing form groups more than 10,000 times failed to import (the list of their flags was capped), which it no longer does. A blend's steps written as a knockout group of falling opacity drew as solid dark shapes: a user's `.ai` with 143 such bubbles now draws them as light rings, as poppler does (its bubble area 4.9% → 1.2% of pixels off from poppler's render); 16 other users' PDFs with transparency groups (44 pages) draw the same. Test `tests::import_fidelity::knockout_groups_after_a_group_drawn_straight_keep_their_flag`; scores unchanged |
-| 2026-10-30 | minor | `.ai`/EPS editing data: a blend takes the transparency (opacity, blend mode, knockout; blends are written with knockout on) in the state block after its record, as a group takes the one after its end; it was left for the next object, so a blend's steps of falling opacity drew over each other instead of knocking each other out, and every such blend came in too dark (a user's file has 143, its bubbles came in as dark rings). Both a live blend and drawn steps kept as a group take it. Test `import::ai::tests::a_blends_transparency_follows_its_record`; checked locally against that file: it comes 1.3% → 0.6% nearer its page, though a mesh seen through a mesh-shaped opacity mask still keeps it just over the limit. When a blend is the layer's last object and the layer's own state block (`7 () XW`, then `LB`) follows, the state is the layer's and the blend keeps its own, as for meshes (#4748); scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | PDF (and `.ai`) with Illustrator editing data saved with only some of its artboards: its pages are those artboards, while the editing data keeps them all, and the layers were compared with the first page on the first artboard, so a page of the second artboard came in as the PDF part, without its layers. With fewer pages than artboards, the first page is now taken to be the artboard of its size whose art draws most like it (up to 16 weighed), and the pages' type goes to that artboard and the ones after it. All artboards come in, as before. Test `import::tests_native::a_pdf_of_its_second_artboard_is_compared_on_that_artboard`; scores unchanged |
+| 2026-10-30 | minor | `.ai`/EPS editing data: a blend takes the transparency (opacity, blend mode, knockout; blends are written with knockout on) in the state block after its record, as a group takes the one after its end; it was left for the next object, so a blend's steps of falling opacity drew over each other instead of knocking each other out, and every such blend came in too dark (a user's file has 143, its bubbles came in as dark rings). Both a live blend and drawn steps kept as a group take it. Test `import::ai::tests::a_blends_transparency_follows_its_record`; checked locally against that file: it comes 1.3% → 0.6% nearer its page, though a mesh seen through a mesh-shaped opacity mask still keeps it just over the limit. When a blend is the layer's last object and the layer's own state block (`7 () XW`, then `LB`) follows, the state is the layer's and the blend keeps its own, as for meshes (#4748); scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | `.ai`/EPS editing data: a blend takes the transparency (opacity, blend mode, knockout; blends are written with knockout on) in the state block after its record, as a group takes the one after its end; it was left for the next object, so a blend's steps of falling opacity drew over each other instead of knocking each other out, and every such blend came in too dark (a user's file has 143, its bubbles came in as dark rings). Both a live blend and drawn steps kept as a group take it. Test `import::ai::tests::a_blends_transparency_follows_its_record`; checked locally against that file: it comes 1.3% → 0.6% nearer its page, though a mesh seen through a mesh-shaped opacity mask still keeps it just over the limit; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | `.ai`/EPS editing data: a gradient mesh with an opacity mask takes the transparency (`Xy`) written after the mask's dictionary, as one without a mask takes the one right after its `/End X!`; the operators of the mask's art (on `%_` lines) hid it, so the state was read as the next object's and each masked mesh in a run drew with the blend mode of the one before it (a Multiply shading drawn Normal, an Overlay tint drawn Multiply over the art below). Test `import::ai::tests::a_masked_gradient_mesh_takes_the_transparency_written_after_its_mask`; checked locally against a user's files: one opens from its layers 0.1% from its page (it was 0.6%, just inside the limit), another comes 1.6% → 1.3% nearer; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | `.ai`/EPS editing data: a layer's own state block (`Xy`, `Xd`, `7 () XW` before `LB`) can have the stroke style (`J`, `j`, `w`, `M`, `d`, `XR`) between its `Xy` and `Xd`; read as the art moving on, it lost the layer's opacity, so a layer at 17% drew opaque over the art under it and the file came in as its page. When the layer's last object is a gradient mesh, the mesh keeps its own state through the stroke style too (#4748). An object's own state block (`6 () XW`) still isn't the layer's. Of 408 users' files whose editing data was checked, 3 have such a block: an EPS that now opens from its layers 0.5% from its page (it was 18.8%), one whose layer now draws at 85% as its page does, and one whose layers are all at 100%; the others draw as before. Test `import::ai::tests::a_layers_state_keeps_through_the_stroke_style_written_in_it`; scores unchanged |
@@ -428,9 +428,9 @@ Stop opacity on translated artboards remains outside this regression coverage.
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | `.ai` import: a PDF part counts as an empty page only when nothing on it was skipped (an image that can't be decoded draws nothing too), so such a page keeps its notes and is checked against the editing data as before; with `textAs: "outlines"`, a file read from its editing data alone (an empty page, or the text-only placeholder of #1387) has its type outlined. Tests in `tests_aiimport.rs`; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | `.ai` import: a file whose PDF part is an empty page opens from its editing data where that reads, instead of opening blank; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | `.ai` import: a file whose PDF part's pages are cropped to its art rather than its artboards no longer comes in as that PDF part (each page a copy of all the art) but from its layers, with its artboards, where they draw as the page does; own-fixture test in `tests_aiimport`; scores unchanged |
+| 2026-10-30 | minor | EMF export: a pattern fill whose tiles stay apart (grid and brick tilings, art inside its tile) is written as one shape for each part of the tile, clipped once to what it fills, instead of every tile in a clip of its own; the picture is the same. A rotated two-colour stripe fill goes from 473 shapes and 246 clips to 2 shapes and 1 clip (122 KB to 61 KB; unrotated 99 KB to 33 KB). Tiles that overlap, hex tilings and tiles with strokes, images or nested clips are written as before (#3911). Tests in `crates/metafile/src/tests.rs` and `scene::merge_tests`; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-29 | minor | `.ai` and Illustrator EPS import: the editing data is read up to an eighth of installed memory, from 512 MiB to 2 GiB on 64-bit builds (it was 512 MiB on every machine), so a layered file whose embedded rasters unpack past 512 MiB keeps its layers, groups and text on a machine with 8 GiB or more instead of opening as its page or PDF part (#3510, #4628). Measured: 1.1 GB of editing data peaked 1.1 GB above the start; data past the limit is still refused (a 2 MB file unpacking to 2.2 GB stops in under a second). 32-bit and web builds keep 256 MiB. Own-fixture tests `import::ai::tests::editing_data_past_512_mib_is_read_where_memory_allows`, `the_editing_data_limit_follows_installed_memory`; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-29 | minor | Affinity import: attached Recolor Adjustment (RcRA) layers import as color overlays with HSL lightness (#4420); scores unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-30 | minor | EMF export: a pattern fill whose tiles stay apart (grid and brick tilings, art inside its tile) is written as one shape for each part of the tile, clipped once to what it fills, instead of every tile in a clip of its own; the picture is the same. A rotated two-colour stripe fill goes from 473 shapes and 246 clips to 2 shapes and 1 clip (122 KB to 61 KB; unrotated 99 KB to 33 KB). Tiles that overlap, hex tilings and tiles with strokes, images or nested clips are written as before (#3911). Tests in `crates/metafile/src/tests.rs` and `scene::merge_tests`; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-26 | minor | 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; Save As leaves out the export-only crop and selection options. Synthetic regressions in `tests::save` (engine and UI) and `dialogs::save_options::tests`, listed under [EPS Save and source protection](#eps-save-and-source-protection); it does not write Illustrator's own editing data (#868), and G9's real-file import fidelity is unchanged; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | `.ai` import: the editing data is read up to 512 MiB on 64-bit builds (the limit was 256 MiB), so a file whose embedded rasters unpack to 300 MiB or more keeps its layers, groups and text instead of opening as its PDF part (part of #3510); 32-bit and web builds keep 256 MiB. Own-fixture test `import::ai::tests::editing_data_past_256_mib_is_read`; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | `.ai` import: the `--` placeholder of a radial gradient's highlight (`-- -- angle length Bh`, a gradient without one) and the `XC` operator after a linked image's file name no longer send the whole file to its PDF part, so files with them keep their layers, groups and live text (#4176). A `--` anywhere else is still an operator the reader doesn't know. Own-fixture tests in `import::ai::tests`; scores and hours unchanged |
@@ -456,15 +456,15 @@ Stop opacity on translated artboards remains outside this regression coverage.
 | 2026-10-16 | minor | SVG: CSS classes on imported elements (`class="hero"`) are kept on the object and written back on export, beside the generated `cls-N` classes (#2414); scores unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | Legacy `.ai` of version 7 runs as a PostScript program: its prolog is a procedure set of VectorCraft's own that gives each operator the writer uses its meaning (paths, colours, compound paths, clipping groups, layers that don't print, images; gradients flat, type not set), and the page trailer's `annotatepage` (§3 of the specification) marks nothing; every file the writer's tests write is run through VectorCraft's PostScript reader and must draw what the document it was written from draws (#868) |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | SVG import: `:not()` selectors (#1799, #1557), stacked descendant selectors over deep nesting no longer stall (#1834, #1703), linked files within the automation roots again (#1870); DXF export writes the VPORT view direction once (#1789); nesting capped at 32 objects with self-using symbols and patterns opened without the offending instance (#1852); deep and self-referencing PDF and `.ai` data (#1871), decompression bombs (#1873), self-drawing brushes (#1872), hostile EPS, Affinity and native data (#1863) and huge ids (#1862) handled; a failed save is reported in a dialog and the old file is kept (#1865, #1685, #1693, #1694); type inside symbols gets its layout bounds back on opening a native file (#1833, #1738). Scores unchanged (estimated) |
-| 2026-10-13 | minor | Pinned PngSuite HTTPS files verified by SHA-256 before publication; bounded downloads replace archive extraction (#1729). Scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | EPS import: a stitched shading keeps its hard colour changes (#1654, #1653); WMF/EMF import refuses an oversized embedded PNG or JPEG from its header, before any pixels are decoded (#1776); PDF open no longer takes exponential time on a crafted name tree with shared nodes when it looks for the editing data (#1781); The size limits on a native file's embedded data also apply to files read from memory, not only streamed ones (#1783); Saving over a private file on Unix no longer leaves a readable temporary copy beside it while the file is written (#1778); An Export for Screens suffix can no longer place files outside the export folder (#1777); Package refuses a folder where it would overwrite the open document or one of its linked files (#1786); ruzstd 0.9.1 fixes a decompression bomb (RUSTSEC-2026-0344) reachable from EPS/`.ai` and Affinity import (#1807); File Info dates are stamped only after a save succeeds, so a failed save no longer changes them (#1774); Linked files that change during a drag are updated after the drag instead of being missed (#1773); scores unchanged |
+| 2026-10-13 | minor | Pinned PngSuite HTTPS files verified by SHA-256 before publication; bounded downloads replace archive extraction (#1729). Scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | SVGs that move objects with a CSS transform (`translate(100px, 0)`, `rotate(45deg)`) or style type with the `font` shorthand import as drawn (#1565); SVG symbols whose shapes use percentage lengths import at the size and place they are drawn, the percentages being of the symbol's `viewBox` (#1596); Inkscape's flowed text (`flowRoot`) opens as area type in its rectangle, a paragraph per `flowPara`, instead of being dropped, and a region that can't be read is left out with a warning (#1569, fixes #1568); The warning for an unsupported SVG filter names the filter, its primitives and the object, and says the object is drawn without it (#1599, fixes #1598); The pages of an Inkscape multi-page SVG become artboards, named by their labels (#1603, fixes #1601); SVG export with CSS classes or style entities stays fast in documents with many distinct styles (#1567); PDF and `.ai` import: evenly letter-spaced or tightened type on a path keeps its length along the path instead of closing up to the font's advances (#1586), and type on a path whose stroke is written glyph by glyph comes in as one text object with its stroke, not one object per glyph (#1585); The ICC profiles embedded in JPEG, TIFF and PSD exports have every tag on a 4-byte boundary (ICC.1 §7.1.2), so strict readers accept them (#1589, fixes #1584); GIF, PNG-8 and other indexed exports find each pixel's palette colour through an index instead of a scan, with identical output (#1576); Saving to a network drive on macOS falls back to a plain fsync when the share refuses a full flush (#1625, part of #1620; not confirmed on a real share), and a save still succeeds when a folder refuses the temporary file, the rename over the document or copying permissions: the content is written elsewhere first and copied in, and a failed copy keeps the temporary file and names it (#1649, part of #1620); A document opened by a relative path finds its relatively linked images, and `vectorcraft-cli convert` lists what reading the input left out as `importWarnings` (#1606, fixes #1604); A zero-length subpath draws its round cap as a dot and its projecting cap as a square, so dots in imported `.ai` and SVG files show (#1619, fixes #1613); scores unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | PDF.R1: editable PDF import uses the shared pinned reader; layer and overprint scans preserve state across content windows and reject known incomplete input. Synthetic streaming, decoder-limit and dependency-source regressions added; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | PDF.W1: PDF export and print composition use the shared guarded writer; drawing, colour policy and editable import stay app-owned. Metadata regression coverage and immutable dependency checks added; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Native documents with a lot of path data (traced or generated art, in layers, symbols or patterns) are saved as compact JSON, about a fifth of the size; small documents stay pretty-printed (#1492); Paste takes a PDF or EPS another app copied as editable vector art: from the macOS pasteboard (with SVG), EPS on Windows beside PDF, and `.eps` files copied in a file manager, with the new command `clipboard.importEps` (#1538, fixes #1499); Opening or placing a file with an image too large to decode says so, and the Links panel shows it on the row (#1540, part of #1479); a multi-artboard `.ai` with notes beside its artboards opens from its editing data, a page's art past its artboard no longer lying over the page before it (#1528); a `.ai` gradient whose stops are listed upwards keeps each midpoint on the stop that starts its part of the ramp (#1530); SVG text on a path follows basic shapes (circle, ellipse, rect, line, polyline, polygon) as their SVG 2 equivalent paths (#1531, fixes #1527); PDFs whose alpha soft masks are drawn as images import with the mask instead of empty art (#1551); EPS and PostScript type set in Type 42 (TrueType) fonts imports at its size instead of 1000 times too large (#1553); PDF and EPS import keep a clipping path whose bounding box covers the page but whose shape doesn't (#1544, fixes #1542) (the `.ai` row for #1528 was written by that PR); scores unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | `.ai` read as its PDF part: a page whose art reaches past its artboard to the left (notes beside a design) moves right in the row until that art clears the page before it, so it is no longer taken for that page's art; a multi-artboard `.ai` with such notes opened as its PDF part ("the art on them differs from the page's"), without the art outside its artboards, and now opens from its editing data |
-| 2026-10-12 | minor | Legacy `.ai` of version 7 (Save As › `ai` › Version: Legacy (version 7), #868): written from the published specification, keeping layers, groups, compound paths, clipping groups, gradients and images, one artboard per file chosen in an artboard picker; type as editable text objects (point, area and on a path, fonts by PostScript name, Windows-1252), or outlines (Text: Outlines); hidden objects, which the format can't hide, in a hidden layer of their own, omitted or made visible (Hidden Objects); images with see-through pixels flattened with the art under them or omitted (Transparent Images). The `.ai` reader reads legacy type (`To` … `TO`) and `Ar`. `vectorcraft-cli convert` takes `--ai-version 7`, `--hidden-objects` and `--transparent-images`; scores unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | TIFF: grayscale files with an alpha channel or other extra channels place, relink and open, read as CMYK files with alpha already were (8 and 16 bits, either polarity; #1489, part of #1466); the rows for #1434 (strokes kept apart from a faded or masked fill, a `.ai`'s RGB numbers) and #1435 (SVG knockout groups without masks, `--decimals`) were written by those PRs; scores unchanged (estimated) |
+| 2026-10-12 | minor | Legacy `.ai` of version 7 (Save As › `ai` › Version: Legacy (version 7), #868): written from the published specification, keeping layers, groups, compound paths, clipping groups, gradients and images, one artboard per file chosen in an artboard picker; type as editable text objects (point, area and on a path, fonts by PostScript name, Windows-1252), or outlines (Text: Outlines); hidden objects, which the format can't hide, in a hidden layer of their own, omitted or made visible (Hidden Objects); images with see-through pixels flattened with the art under them or omitted (Transparent Images). The `.ai` reader reads legacy type (`To` … `TO`) and `Ar`. `vectorcraft-cli convert` takes `--ai-version 7`, `--hidden-objects` and `--transparent-images`; scores unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | TIFF is available in Export for Screens and Asset Export with shared format settings; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | Affinity import: a text frame too short for its first line (a 64 pt title in a 54 pt frame) is made taller from its top, with a warning in the open result, instead of showing nothing (#1423), as `.ai` area type is (#1392); the spacing Affinity itself fits the line with isn't read; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | `.ai` editing data: a compound path takes the paint, opacity, blend mode and fill rule of its last path (the last painted one when that has none), so gradient-filled compound paths no longer come in black, and paths grouped inside a compound path stay its paths (#1426, fixes #1410); hand-written editing data test; scores unchanged |
@@ -492,25 +492,39 @@ Stop opacity on translated artboards remains outside this regression coverage.
 
 Feature evidence updated 2026-10-26; scores and estimates unchanged.
 
-EPS is offered by Save As, and an opened EPS keeps its own path for ordinary Save. Save writes
-one artboard (the first by default, or the named artboard), retaining its page bounds and transparent
-margins rather than cropping to the drawn artwork. The whole editable VectorCraft document remains
-embedded in EPS comments, including other artboards. Save bounds the optional TIFF preview to
+EPS is offered by Save As, and an opened EPS keeps its own path for ordinary Save. The EPS
+Options of Save As show Use Artboards with All or Range under it, for a separate file per artboard
+([saving in EPS](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/save-and-export/export-files-to-different-formats/save-artwork-in-eps-format.html)),
+unchecked by default (the scripting reference's EPS save options list `saveMultipleArtboards` with
+a default of false,
+[scripting reference](https://web.archive.org/web/20160803105056/https://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/illustrator/sdk/CC2015_3/Illustrator%20JavaScript%20Scripting%20Reference.pdf)).
+Unchecked, Save writes one file whose bounding box fits all the visible art, as Export does,
+without the artboards' background colors; an opened EPS saved back this way loses the margins its
+page had. With no visible art the page is the first artboard, in its color. Naming artboards with
+`artboard`, `artboards` or `range` turns Use Artboards on. Checked with two or more chosen, the
+file at the path is the central file of the visible art and each artboard is also written to
+`<name>_<artboard>.eps` beside it, holding that artboard. Checked with one chosen, VectorCraft
+writes that artboard as the page of the file at the path alone, retaining its bounds and
+transparent margins. The file the document becomes carries the whole editable VectorCraft document
+in EPS comments, including other artboards. Save bounds the optional TIFF preview to
 1024 pixels on its longest side (about 4 MiB of RGBA pixels), avoiding the roughly 16 MiB preview a
 large artboard otherwise produces. Export keeps its existing 2048-pixel preview cap. Preview
 format choices are unchanged; no public preview-resolution option exists. The EPS PostScript appearance still flattens
 transparency; its existing warnings remain. This does not promise native Illustrator editing-data fidelity.
 
-Cropped and selected-only EPS output remains available through Export. Save refuses those options.
+Selected-only EPS output remains available through Export. Save refuses `selectedOnly`.
 An EPS opened from a preview, a partially interpreted program or damaged native editing data keeps
 its source-loss warning: writing over that original requires explicit confirmation. File › Save uses
 the same engine path and write-failure handling as other document formats.
 
-Synthetic regressions: `tests::save::opened_eps_saves_to_its_own_file_with_editable_data_and_page_margins`,
-`eps_save_keeps_all_editing_artboards_while_printing_one_page`,
+Synthetic regressions: `tests::save::opened_eps_saves_to_its_own_file_around_its_art_or_on_its_page`,
+`eps_save_without_use_artboards_fits_the_box_to_art_past_the_artboard`,
+`eps_save_keeps_all_editing_artboards_in_the_file_of_one_page`,
+`eps_save_with_use_artboards_writes_the_central_file_and_one_per_artboard`,
+`cmd::fileio::tests_artboard_fill::eps_save_draws_the_color_on_an_artboard_page`,
 `eps_save_supports_an_empty_artboard_without_cropping_its_page`,
 `partially_read_eps_requires_confirmation_before_save_back`,
 `eps_with_damaged_editing_data_requires_confirmation_before_save_back`,
 `eps_save_bounds_large_page_preview_without_cropping_vector_or_editing_data`, and the UI regressions
 `file_save_writes_opened_eps_back_without_another_save_as_dialog` and
-`eps_save_as_keeps_page_options_and_writes_eps_without_export_only_switches`.
+`eps_save_as_shows_use_artboards_off_and_writes_the_art_or_the_artboard`.

docs/gaps.md

@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 # Gaps
 
-> **Last updated:** 2026-11-11 · **Change:** Ordinary Save to a location refusing writes offers Save As (#6146); cancellation preserves the original path and modified state; automation receives READ_ONLY_LOCATION. Scores and estimates unchanged. Validation pending.
-
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-11 · **Change:** minor (G5: built-in Energy Beams brush library; estimate 5–15 → 4–14 h; previously minor: G5: built-in Skill Icons symbol library; estimate 6–16 → 5–15 h; previously minor: ruler double-click adds a guide at the pointer, #5239; G5: built-in Status Effects graphic style library; estimate 7–17 → 6–16 h; MCP docs catch-up for UI Frames and Map Markers; previously minor: G5: built-in Inventory Icons symbol library; estimate 8–18 → 7–17 h; previously minor: G9: `.ai` save names a variable font instance's design-space setting, #6388; previously minor: G5: built-in Game Trails brush library; estimate 9–19 → 8–18 h; previously minor: Edit › Edit Custom Dictionary…: its dialog adds, deletes and changes the custom dictionary's words, #4936; previously minor: docs tidy-up, no content change: stray notes at the top moved into the revision table; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: G5: built-in Game HUD graphic style library; estimate 10–20 → 9–19 h; previously minor: G5: built-in Map Markers symbol library; estimate 11–21 → 10–20 h; previously minor: right-click on type: Spelling › Auto Spell Check, with its check mark, #4936; previously minor: right-click on a word Auto Spell Check underlined: its suggestions, Ignore All and Add to Dictionary, #4936; previously minor: G2: Effect Gallery thumbnails and in-dialog preview; estimate 1–2 h → 0; Auto Spell Check: `edit.autoSpellCheck` underlines the unknown words, #4936; previously minor: PDF editable import preserves authored ActualText once, including empty/nested spans and authored ordering (#6165); cross-line/style layout remains approximate; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF marked-text export (#6309): compatible glyphs stay on one layout line with per-glyph offsets; scores and estimates unchanged; G5: built-in UI Frames symbol library with default 9-slice; estimate 11–21 h; previously minor: G5: dynamic symbol part on-canvas takes opacity, blend, gradient and pattern; docs Overlap/auto-corners sync; estimate 12–22 h; previously minor: interim macOS cursor delivery, #2292; native validation pending; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: G5 docs: Art brush Overlap, Pattern brush auto corners and Global Edit Shift-click leave-out moved from Missing to Done (code already shipped); previously minor: custom dictionary and Ignore All: `text.spelling.addWord`, `removeWord`, `changeWord`, `dictionary` and `ignoreAll`, #4936; previously minor: EPS import: embedded fonts (composite, Type 42, CID-keyed, Type 1, CFF FontSet) draw their glyphs; spell check engine: `text.spelling.check` and `text.spelling.suggest` on craft-proof, #4936; previously minor: floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it, #5925 in part; 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)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-11 · **Change:** minor (#6404: transform-aware Eyedropper character copying; scores and estimates unchanged; previously: G5: built-in Energy Beams brush library; estimate 5–15 → 4–14 h; previously minor: G5: built-in Skill Icons symbol library; estimate 6–16 → 5–15 h; previously minor: ruler double-click adds a guide at the pointer, #5239; G5: built-in Status Effects graphic style library; estimate 7–17 → 6–16 h; MCP docs catch-up for UI Frames and Map Markers; previously minor: G5: built-in Inventory Icons symbol library; estimate 8–18 → 7–17 h; previously minor: G9: `.ai` save names a variable font instance's design-space setting, #6388; previously minor: G5: built-in Game Trails brush library; estimate 9–19 → 8–18 h; previously minor: Edit › Edit Custom Dictionary…: its dialog adds, deletes and changes the custom dictionary's words, #4936; previously minor: docs tidy-up, no content change: stray notes at the top moved into the revision table; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: G5: built-in Game HUD graphic style library; estimate 10–20 → 9–19 h; previously minor: G5: built-in Map Markers symbol library; estimate 11–21 → 10–20 h; previously minor: right-click on type: Spelling › Auto Spell Check, with its check mark, #4936; previously minor: right-click on a word Auto Spell Check underlined: its suggestions, Ignore All and Add to Dictionary, #4936; previously minor: G2: Effect Gallery thumbnails and in-dialog preview; estimate 1–2 h → 0; Auto Spell Check: `edit.autoSpellCheck` underlines the unknown words, #4936; previously minor: PDF editable import preserves authored ActualText once, including empty/nested spans and authored ordering (#6165); cross-line/style layout remains approximate; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF marked-text export (#6309): compatible glyphs stay on one layout line with per-glyph offsets; scores and estimates unchanged; G5: built-in UI Frames symbol library with default 9-slice; estimate 11–21 h; previously minor: G5: dynamic symbol part on-canvas takes opacity, blend, gradient and pattern; docs Overlap/auto-corners sync; estimate 12–22 h; previously minor: interim macOS cursor delivery, #2292; native validation pending; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: G5 docs: Art brush Overlap, Pattern brush auto corners and Global Edit Shift-click leave-out moved from Missing to Done (code already shipped); previously minor: custom dictionary and Ignore All: `text.spelling.addWord`, `removeWord`, `changeWord`, `dictionary` and `ignoreAll`, #4936; previously minor: EPS import: embedded fonts (composite, Type 42, CID-keyed, Type 1, CFF FontSet) draw their glyphs; spell check engine: `text.spelling.check` and `text.spelling.suggest` on craft-proof, #4936; previously minor: floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it, #5925 in part; 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
 
@@ -36,29 +34,29 @@ Artboard Options forwards the active Artboard tool's Scale Artwork with Artboard
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
-| 2026-11-03 | minor | A double-click on a ruler adds a guide at the pointer (#5239): a vertical one on the top ruler, a horizontal one on the left ruler; 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. |
+| 2026-11-07 | 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 | 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. |
 | 2026-11-06 | 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 |
-| 2026-11-04 | minor | PR #3273: 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. |
-| 2026-11-04 | minor | PR #3272: Group Selection component drags defer ancestor selection until a completed click, using current Direct Selection release handling; original Outline Stroke fills and newer selection behavior retained. Scores and estimates 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. |
+| 2026-11-06 | minor | Icon-strip flyouts resize on their free edges and retain sizes with workspaces (#5713); saved heights beat auto-fit; panel footers stay at the bottom after enlargement. 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. |
 | 2026-11-05 | minor | G15: Selection skips building corner and pie widgets when the pointer is well outside a large selection; empty-canvas hover with 20,000 selected paths took 28.72 ms before and 16.41 ms after in local median runs. Other cursor targets remain active; estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-05 | minor | G15: Direct Selection reuses one document hit result when choosing the cursor over a path; after the path hit-test improvement, a 200,000-anchor path's segment cursor took 3.72 ms before and 2.66 ms after in local median runs. Cursor behavior is unchanged; estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-05 | minor | G15: large-selection transforms reuse object locations found during command validation; a 20,000-object nudge took 58.07 ms before and 51.26 ms after in paired median runs. Estimate unchanged. |
-| 2026-11-06 | minor | Icon-strip flyouts resize on their free edges and retain sizes with workspaces (#5713); saved heights beat auto-fit; panel footers stay at the bottom after enlargement. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-05 | minor | G9, G14: `.ai` paths with a Calligraphic brush open brushed (the brush on the stroke, at its weight) where the object's settings are the brush's own, and the brush's Tilt, Bearing and Rotation codes come in as those channels; Windows reads the pen's tilt and barrel rotation from Windows Ink (#372). Checked against a user's file of 6D Art Pen strokes, used locally; not tried with a pen. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-11-04 | minor | Contour add-on (beyond Illustrator): drag away from a selected shape's edge to grow a live copy of it, or toward the inside to shrink it; the copy carries a live Offset Path effect, so it stays editable until Bake (Expand Appearance), a second drag changes the same Contour instead of nesting one, and a floating bar sets the distance and the Sharp, Round or Square corners. `addon.contour.set` is the command behind it. It is a built-in add-on: Object › Plug-ins › Contour, and its own heading in All Tools, with no default shortcut or toolbar slot. A VectorCraft design built on Offset Path; no other application was inspected. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-11-04 | minor | Contour tool (beyond Illustrator): drag away from a selected shape's edge to grow a live copy of it, or toward the inside to shrink it; the copy carries a live Offset Path effect, so it stays editable until Bake (Expand Appearance), a second drag changes the same Contour instead of nesting one, and a floating bar sets the distance and the Sharp, Round or Square corners. `object.contour` is the command behind it. A VectorCraft design built on Offset Path; no other application was inspected. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 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. |
+| 2026-11-04 | minor | PR #3273: 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. |
+| 2026-11-04 | minor | PR #3272: Group Selection component drags defer ancestor selection until a completed click, using current Direct Selection release handling; original Outline Stroke fills and newer selection behavior retained. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-04 | minor | Contour add-on (beyond Illustrator): drag away from a selected shape's edge to grow a live copy of it, or toward the inside to shrink it; the copy carries a live Offset Path effect, so it stays editable until Bake (Expand Appearance), a second drag changes the same Contour instead of nesting one, and a floating bar sets the distance and the Sharp, Round or Square corners. `addon.contour.set` is the command behind it. It is a built-in add-on: Object › Plug-ins › Contour, and its own heading in All Tools, with no default shortcut or toolbar slot. A VectorCraft design built on Offset Path; no other application was inspected. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-04 | minor | Contour tool (beyond Illustrator): drag away from a selected shape's edge to grow a live copy of it, or toward the inside to shrink it; the copy carries a live Offset Path effect, so it stays editable until Bake (Expand Appearance), a second drag changes the same Contour instead of nesting one, and a floating bar sets the distance and the Sharp, Round or Square corners. `object.contour` is the command behind it. A VectorCraft design built on Offset Path; no other application was inspected. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-03 | minor | A double-click on a ruler adds a guide at the pointer (#5239): a vertical one on the top ruler, a horizontal one on the left ruler; scores and estimates 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. |
 | 2026-11-03 | 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 | 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. |
 | 2026-11-02 | 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 | Documentation reconciled with newer upstream progress docs in six passes (after reviews F-2 and F-3), including a corrected description of the scaleArt follow-up evidence; every dated revision and the original scaleArt runtime evidence kept; runtime, scores and estimates unchanged. |
@@ -168,6 +166,7 @@ macOS cursor delivery (#2292) is narrowed to a native host adapter using the exi
 - **Improved:** Eyedropper has an original pipette cursor at its sampling tip; Use Precise
   Cursors keeps the crosshair. Bitmap/DPI and preference checks cover the distinction (#1269).
   OS cursor display and Caps Lock remain unverified.
+- **Done (#6404):** Eyedropper character copying compensates for source and target text transforms, including highlighted ranges and reverse sampling; invalid dimensions reject the pick before document, default-paint or sample changes. G1 scores and estimates unchanged.
 - **Done (#1251):** Eyedropper source reads are independent of locks and isolation, including Shift/Shift+Alt and gradient stops. Source and selection preservation, unchanged Alt reverse/selection restrictions, hidden art and Undo/Redo have regression coverage. This addresses the reported behavior, with no new full-parity measurement.
 - **Done (#1253):** adding paint to an unpainted zero-width stroke restores the existing 1 pt default, including new-art defaults and Swap Fill/Stroke. The real Eyedropper inheritance sequence, targeted appearance items, preserved widths and Undo/Redo have regression coverage.
 - **Done:** a busy cursor while a file opens off the UI thread or a labelled background save or export runs (`Cursor::Busy` in `crates/tools/src/cursors.toml`). Heavy synchronous effect previews remain open.
@@ -200,7 +199,7 @@ macOS cursor delivery (#2292) is narrowed to a native host adapter using the exi
 - **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.
+- **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. Since 2026-11-12 Save keeps the page margins only with Use Artboards checked; unchecked, the default, the bounding box fits the visible art.
 
 - **Done (2026-10-16):** EPS legacy mesh corners and vector opacity masks retained; winding-declared compound member groups keep shared paint. Raster print-page minification no longer causes a false editing-data fallback; comparison limits remain unchanged. Synthetic regressions cover damage and missing artwork. This narrows G9; scores and estimates unchanged.
 
@@ -324,8 +323,7 @@ macOS cursor delivery (#2292) is narrowed to a native host adapter using the exi
 
 - **Done:** Numeric fields keep a text drag's start when the pointer gains focus and movement exceeds the click threshold (#1326, in part). A completed focus click selects the whole value; keyboard focus, double-click and numeric stepping remain regression-tested. Short movements still classified as clicks can select all; that case remains open.
 
-- **Done:** DXF reads control-point SPLINE closure (#1299 follow-up after #1320); open curves keep their open state. DXF export now recognizes circular cubic paths conservatively and writes native CIRCLE/ARC where stroke semantics permit; R12 weighted strokes remain POLYLINE, and a non-circular ellipse keeps the existing fallback. Alter Paths for Appearance outlines only the strokes a CAD line can't draw (aligned, profiled, offset dashes, wider than 2.11 mm, or in R13 and R14), so a 1 pt circle or arc stays a CIRCLE or ARC. CNC preset and VCarve QA remain open. Escape leaves Artboard editing for Selection; during a drag it first cancels the gesture. Headless egui key events cover idle Escape, active-drag cancellation and a subsequent Escape in `tests/distortkeys.rs`.
-- **Done:** DXF reads control-point SPLINE closure (#1299 follow-up after #1320); open curves keep their open state. DXF export now recognizes circular cubic paths conservatively and writes native CIRCLE/ARC where stroke semantics permit; R12 weighted strokes remain POLYLINE. A closed four-cubic ellipse, or a circle scaled out of proportion, is written as a native ELLIPSE in R13 and later; R12 keeps the existing fallback. CNC preset and VCarve QA remain open. Escape leaves Artboard editing for Selection; during a drag it first cancels the gesture. Headless egui key events cover idle Escape, active-drag cancellation and a subsequent Escape in `tests/distortkeys.rs`.
+- **Done:** DXF reads control-point SPLINE closure (#1299 follow-up after #1320); open curves keep their open state. DXF export now recognizes circular cubic paths conservatively and writes native CIRCLE/ARC where stroke semantics permit; R12 weighted strokes remain POLYLINE. A closed four-cubic ellipse, or a circle scaled out of proportion, is written as a native ELLIPSE in R13 and later; R12 keeps the existing fallback. Alter Paths for Appearance outlines only the strokes a CAD line can't draw (aligned, profiled, offset dashes, wider than 2.11 mm, or in R13 and R14), so a 1 pt circle or arc stays a CIRCLE or ARC. DXF Options' Preset menu and `document.exportDxf`'s `dxfPreset: "cnc"` set the CNC / CAM options (#5500); VCarve QA remains open. Escape leaves Artboard editing for Selection; during a drag it first cancels the gesture. Headless egui key events cover idle Escape, active-drag cancellation and a subsequent Escape in `tests/distortkeys.rs`.
 
 - **Done:** Simplify and Add Anchor Points clear stale component selections on rewritten paths; Simplify previews and reports original/new point counts (#1272).
 - **Done:** Object › Path › Simplify opens its slider at the Auto-Simplify level for the selection and previews that result, as the [manual-simplify page](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/draw-shapes-and-paths/modify-paths/manually-simplify-paths.html) describes; simplifying only a Direct Selection part of a path is done too (G1).
@@ -632,8 +630,8 @@ macOS cursor delivery (#2292) is narrowed to a native host adapter using the exi
   libraries ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/apply-and-edit-strokes/create-new-brush-libraries.html),
   [import](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/apply-and-edit-strokes/import-brushes-from-brush-libraries-or-other-files.html)):
   Window › Brush Libraries and the Brushes panel's Brush Libraries Menu open each library in a library panel of
-  its own (six original libraries generated in code: Art Ribbons, Calligraphic Nibs, Pattern Borders, Scatter
-  Shapes, Game Trails and Energy Beams; User Defined; Other Library… reads the brushes of any document VectorCraft opens); a
+  its own (seven original libraries generated in code: Art Ribbons, Calligraphic Nibs, Bristle Brushes (one
+  bristle brush for each tip shape), Pattern Borders, Scatter Shapes, Game Trails and Energy Beams; User Defined; Other Library… reads the brushes of any document VectorCraft opens); a
   click adds a
   brush to the document's Brushes with the patterns, symbols and other resources its art uses, as one undo
   step (applied to the selected paths in the same step), dragging one onto a path adds and applies it and
@@ -647,11 +645,14 @@ macOS cursor delivery (#2292) is narrowed to a native host adapter using the exi
   Direct Selection of a path, compound path or type inside a dynamic instance also takes opacity and blend
   (`transparency.set`) and a gradient or pattern fill or stroke (`paint.setFill` / `paint.setStroke`,
   Eyedropper), for that instance only;
-  graphic style libraries (Window › Graphic Style Libraries; eight original libraries generated in code, including
-  Game HUD with Health Fill, Mana Glow, Damage Flash, Quest Outline, Coin Shine and Boss Alert, and Status Effects
-  with Poison Tint, Freeze Edge, Burn Aura, Stun Pulse, Stealth Fade and Shield Buff; User Defined; Other
-  Library…; `graphicStyle.libraries`, `graphicStyle.addFromLibrary`).
-- **Missing:** more built-in brush libraries beyond the six shipped (and further graphic-style libraries beyond the eight shipped, and further symbol libraries beyond Basic
+  graphic style libraries (Window › Graphic Style Libraries; ten original libraries generated in code, including
+  Game HUD with Health Fill, Mana Glow, Damage Flash, Quest Outline, Coin Shine and Boss Alert, Status Effects
+  with Poison Tint, Freeze Edge, Burn Aura, Stun Pulse, Stealth Fade and Shield Buff, Painted and Sketched with
+  Washed Blue, Bristle Ochre, Pastel Heather, Charcoal Shade, Ink Contour, Wet Ink and Fine Pen, and Textures with
+  Fine Grain, Canvas Weave, Burlap Sack, Cracked Glaze, Mosaic Floor, Quilted Squares, Leaded Glass and Damp Paper,
+  painted with the texture effects; User Defined; Other Library…; `graphicStyle.libraries`,
+  `graphicStyle.addFromLibrary`).
+- **Missing:** more built-in brush libraries beyond the seven shipped (and further graphic-style libraries beyond the ten shipped, and further symbol libraries beyond Basic
   Shapes, UI Frames, Map Markers, Inventory Icons and Skill Icons; original, generated in code, never Adobe's); dynamic symbols' `.ai` read and write;
   Global Edit of groups holding type or images, rotated copies as matches and highlighting matches before the
   start; 9-slice guides outside the symbol's art (a dragged guide stops at the art's edge).
@@ -663,7 +664,7 @@ macOS cursor delivery (#2292) is narrowed to a native host adapter using the exi
   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, the rest of 3D
-  Classic (Revolve, Rotate, Map Art), Turntable, textures, map art and shading in 3D export.
+  Classic (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.
 
@@ -690,8 +691,9 @@ macOS cursor delivery (#2292) is narrowed to a native host adapter using the exi
 
 ## G6 Automation and scripting
 
-- **Missing:** the document object model for scripts and the `#targetengine` and `#engine` script directives (#1183 is
-  open). File › Scripts › Other Script… and `script.run` run JavaScript files over the command registry,
+- **Missing:** the document object model for scripts and the `#engine` script directive (#1183 is
+  open). File › Scripts › Other Script… and `script.run` run JavaScript files over the command registry, `#targetengine`
+  runs a script in a named engine whose globals last between runs,
   File › Scripts lists the scripts of the Scripts folder, and
   Window › Script Console shows their output, errors and run reports. Actions, Batch, Variables (text, visibility, image and graph), data set CSV import and
   export, and full agent control over MCP are done.
@@ -856,12 +858,13 @@ trap, and the defaults (0.25 pt, 100%, 40%) are VectorCraft's own, the pages giv
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-11 | minor | Eyedropper copies effective character dimensions between transformed text objects (#6404); scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | Ordinary Save to a location refusing writes offers Save As (#6146); cancellation preserves the original path and modified state; automation receives READ_ONLY_LOCATION. Scores and estimates unchanged. Validation pending. |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | G5: built-in Energy Beams brush library (Laser Bolt, Plasma Arc, Charge Wave, Spark Trail); Missing trimmed; estimate 5–15 → 4–14 h; MCP Brush libraries list Energy Beams. |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | G5: built-in Skill Icons symbol library (Attack, Defend, Heal, Buff, Ult); Missing trimmed; estimate 6–16 → 5–15 h; MCP Symbol libraries list Skill Icons. |
-| 2026-11-10 | minor | G6: MCP catalogue (#6460): headless lists `UI_COMMANDS` (`ui: true`), eight prompts, effect vs command ids, 33 tools, commands/reference; estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | G5: built-in Status Effects graphic style library (Poison Tint, Freeze Edge, Burn Aura, Stun Pulse, Stealth Fade, Shield Buff); Missing trimmed; estimate 7–17 → 6–16 h; MCP docs list UI Frames and Map Markers under Symbol libraries. |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | G5: built-in Inventory Icons symbol library (Sword, Shield, Potion, Key, Gem; no default 9-slice); Missing trimmed; estimate 8–18 → 7–17 h. |
+| 2026-11-10 | minor | G6: MCP catalogue (#6460): headless lists `UI_COMMANDS` (`ui: true`), eight prompts, effect vs command ids, 33 tools, commands/reference; estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-10 | minor | G4 type: Edit › Edit Custom Dictionary… adds, deletes and changes the custom dictionary's words, #4936; the Check Spelling dialog remains; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-10 | minor | Tidy-up, no content change: in Feature submission evidence, a stray table row and two "PR #NNNN revision" notes move into Feature revisions, the three "Feature evidence last updated" lines become one, the duplicate Flyout update note goes (its row stays), and eight reconciliation rows become two. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-10 | minor | G5: built-in Game HUD graphic style library (Health Fill, Mana Glow, Damage Flash, Quest Outline, Coin Shine, Boss Alert); Missing trimmed; estimate 10–20 → 9–19 h. |
@@ -888,16 +891,17 @@ trap, and the defaults (0.25 pt, 100%, 40%) are VectorCraft's own, the pages giv
 | 2026-11-05 | minor | G15: a document's first frame renders on the render worker (#4155); the longest UI-thread stall opening that file went from 8.7 s to 64 ms. Estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-05 | minor | G15: a reduced image is shrunk before it is separated into ink planes (#4155); first frame 9.2 s → 1.6 s, sharp frame after a pan 3.9 s → 8 ms on that file. Estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-05 | minor | G7: document tabs are dragged along the tab strip to reorder them (`document.move`, #5663). Estimate unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-03 | minor | Symbol editing shows draggable 9-slice guides within the artwork (#5280). Guides outside the artwork remain unsupported. The G5 estimate remains 14–24 h. |
 | 2026-11-02 | minor | G15: the renderer keeps a compound path's assembled path between frames and drops unused geometry entries after a few frames however few there are. Estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-02 | minor | G15: hit testing culls paths and compound paths by their control points' box and tests a compound path's outline and fill against only its members near the click; the same objects are hit. Estimate unchanged. |
-| 2026-11-03 | minor | Symbol editing shows draggable 9-slice guides within the artwork (#5280). Guides outside the artwork remain unsupported. The G5 estimate remains 14–24 h. |
-| 2026-10-31 | minor | G12: Units › East Asian Type acts (#394): Q and Ha (a quarter of a millimetre each) are units that preference offers; 4 Preferences options remain stored but not acted on. Estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | G5: dynamic symbols (#4938): Symbol Options › Symbol Type, per-instance fill, stroke, opacity and blend for objects of a dynamic symbol's art that stay linked (redefining keeps them, Break Link bakes them, Reset and Static drop them; `symbol.instance.setAppearance`, `symbol.instance.reset`; `crates/engine/src/tests/dynamic_symbols.rs`); on-canvas Direct Selection of the parts and `.ai` round trip remain. Estimate 15–26 → 14–24 h. |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | G13: Artboard background colors in output (#4937): raster exports (a transparent background too), PDF, SVG and EPS pages, `.ai` files' PDF pages, Export for Screens and print (and its preview) draw each artboard's color behind its art, inside the artboard and in the color's own model; Export for Screens has Include Artboard Fill beside Include Bleed (on by default, remembered; `includeArtboardFill`, also on `document.export` and `file.print`); editing data keeps the color as the artboard's, and Export for Screens' document rows keep it too; estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | G5: Select › Start Global Edit on a group takes the groups like it (the same objects at the same places, moved or scaled; Appearance, Size and the artboard options apply) and gives an edit made to an object inside one to the object at its place in each of the others, in proportion, as one undo step (#4939); rotated copies and Shift-click exclusion remain. Estimate unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-31 | minor | G12: Units › East Asian Type acts (#394): Q and Ha (a quarter of a millimetre each) are units that preference offers; 4 Preferences options remain stored but not acted on. Estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | G4: PDF import finds an installed font whose PDF name holds hyphens (`Noto-Sans-Bold` is Noto Sans, Bold: the longest part before a hyphen that names an installed family) and a composite font by its CIDFont's name rather than its base name, which ends in the CMap's (`Name-Identity-H`, [ISO 32000-1 §9.7.6.1](https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/pdfstandards/PDF32000_2008.pdf)); a missing font is split only before a style part (`Helvetica-BoldOblique`), so it is reported as `MS PGothic`, not `MS`. Estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | G13: Direct Selection snaps the end of an existing straight line, dragged by its end anchor, square to straight paths and grazing curves (Smart Guides › Geometric Guides: Snap to Perpendicular and Snap to Tangent), the case the public Snap to Perpendicular and Snap to Tangent pages add to drawing with the Line Segment and Pen tools (#2530). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | G8: a gradient mesh read from a file is budgeted: at most about a million quads per tessellation, and a mesh with more patches than that is malformed (#3592); estimate unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-31 | minor | G1: Grid Repeat Options has a Preview checkbox (#2651); estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | G9: `.ai`/EPS editing data: a blend takes the transparency (opacity, blend mode, knockout) in its state block after its record, so its steps knock each other out as the page draws them; a user's file comes in 0.6% from its page instead of 1.3%. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | G1: Object › Path › Average & Join… (`path.averageJoin`, Cmd+Alt+Shift+J) moves two open path ends to their midpoint and joins them there, the joined anchor a corner or a smooth point as its dialog's Points choice asks, in one undo step; the "Average and Join in one step" entry is done. Estimate unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | G12: Preferences audit (#394): 5 options are stored but not acted on (Open Documents As Tabs, Units › East Asian Type, Hyphenation › Default Language, Scratch Disks, Legacy vector clipboard), each waiting on a subsystem; Highlight Alternate Glyphs, Real-time Drawing and the Devices options act. Estimate unchanged. |
@@ -905,16 +909,19 @@ trap, and the defaults (0.25 pt, 100%, 40%) are VectorCraft's own, the pages giv
 | 2026-10-29 | minor | G10: the Linux Flatpak on GNOME stops the clipboard retry storm (retried with a growing wait, logged once). Estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-29 | minor | G12: 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. No entry closed, estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-29 | minor | G8: a blend makes at most 100,000 steps in all, the steps of blends nested in its keys and steps included; past it each pair of keys keeps the same share of its steps (#3579). No entry closed, estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-28 | minor | Flare ray rotation follows vertical travel at one degree per document point, independent of pointer event count. Shift freezes the current orientation; Space also freezes rotation on the first update. This is the chosen application interaction rate. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-28 | minor | Drop Shadow Darkness subtracts the normalized amount from RGB source channels or adds it to CMYK/Gray black before profile conversion and blur; near-100% becomes gray black, with shadow opacity separate. SVG keeps live filters for uniform sRGB sources and renders shadows for other RGB profiles, source models and gradients. Gradient-stop adjustment is an application rule; spot/custom colors and composite-source parity remain open. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-28 | minor | Blob Brush Shift locks after clear axial movement, keeps earlier samples fixed, and waits without an off-axis trail. Activation uses raw press displacement in logical screen pixels, with exact quarter-turn boundaries. Explicit application rule; scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-28 | minor | Flare Tool Options opened by a canvas click previews its settings at that click. Reset refreshes the enabled preview while keeping the dialog open. Cancel discards preview art and tentative options; OK accepts one flare in one Undo step. Editing existing flare artwork remains outside this dialog scope. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-26 | minor | G9: EPS save-back: an opened EPS saves back to its own path as EPS, keeping the chosen artboard's page frame and transparent margins and the complete editable VectorCraft document; Save's TIFF preview is capped at 1024 px (Export keeps 2048); partly read, preview-only or damaged-editing-data sources still need confirmation before they are overwritten. This narrows G9's save-back workflow only; its import-fidelity items (layer and group structure, guides, open speed, live objects) and estimate are unchanged, and writing Illustrator's own editing data stays out of scope (#868) |
 | 2026-10-26 | minor | G7: View › New View… / Edit Views… ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/viewing-artwork.html)): the View menu lists every one of a document's 25 saved views (it listed 10), Edit Views… lists them to rename or delete in one undo step (`view.saved.edit {edits}`), and a file's views are checked when it opens; New View/Edit Views leave G7's missing list; estimate unchanged |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | G4: a double-click on a threaded port with the Selection tool breaks the thread there (`text.thread.break {id, port}`): the story flows into the frames before the break, the frames after it are left empty and stay threaded with each other when two or more; a double-click on a port with no thread does nothing; estimate unchanged |
-| 2026-10-31 | minor | G1: Grid Repeat Options has a Preview checkbox (#2651); estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | G1: a selected Grid Repeat shows handles: the one below the grid adds or removes rows, the one right of it columns, the one past its bottom-right corner both, and the sliders between the first two columns and rows set the horizontal and vertical spacing; each drag is one undo step and Escape cancels it (#2691); bounding-box handles keep priority where they meet; Radial Repeat handles remain; estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | Floating panels open in OS windows of their own on the desktop (inside the window on the web and on Wayland); saved layouts from earlier versions convert to the shared docking layout (#4135); scores and estimates unchanged (estimated) |
-| 2026-10-24 | minor | Recolor Artwork › Assign: double-clicking a row's new color opens the Color Picker over the dialog; its OK sets the row's new color in the model it was picked in (a CMYK mix stays CMYK, RGB becomes CMYK in a CMYK document), Cancel leaves the row as it was. A Lab new color is kept, but a Lab color can't be typed yet: the picker's Lab fields work in RGB, as for fill and stroke (part of #4028; Lab entry, swatch libraries and the row menu remain). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | G12: Pathfinder panel › Pathfinder Options… (Precision, Remove Redundant Points, Divide and Outline Will Remove Unpainted Artwork), for #3426; no entry closed, estimate unchanged |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | G12: Artboards panel › Delete Empty Artboards (`artboard.deleteEmpty`); no entry closed, estimate unchanged |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | G12: the Transform panel menu's Transform Object Only / Pattern Only / Both (`transformPanelPatterns`) choose what the Transform panel and the Properties panel's Transform section transform (until a choice, General › Transform Pattern Tiles as before), and Use Registration Point for Symbol (`useRegistrationPointForSymbol`) measures and transforms one selected symbol instance from its registration point; estimate unchanged |
+| 2026-10-24 | minor | Recolor Artwork › Assign: double-clicking a row's new color opens the Color Picker over the dialog; its OK sets the row's new color in the model it was picked in (a CMYK mix stays CMYK, RGB becomes CMYK in a CMYK document), Cancel leaves the row as it was. A Lab new color is kept, but a Lab color can't be typed yet: the picker's Lab fields work in RGB, as for fill and stroke (part of #4028; Lab entry, swatch libraries and the row menu remain). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-24 | minor | G1: Live Paint Make, Merge and the Live Paint Bucket refuse type, images and other objects that aren't paths, changing nothing, instead of hiding them among the group's sources; Properties shows Merge Live Paint only for a selection it can take. No entry closed, estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-24 | minor | G1: Properties: Blend Options and Merge Live Paint in Quick Actions, the Width Profile list and an applied effect's Delete icon in Appearance, and the kind and radius of corners selected with Direct Selection, as the public Properties panel overview lists them. No entry closed, estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-24 | minor | Docs catch-up: G11's three Missing lines (left by merges, naming fixed bugs) become one: SVG units reverting to points (#864) and a Transform effect in a fill's or stroke's own effect list (#885) remain; Shape Builder regions (#937, closed), PDF text placement (#722), the bezier drag preview (#834) and interior anchor delete are done. G2's pre-#2883 "the Effect Gallery dialog" Missing and 4–6 h estimate lines and a duplicate Done line removed. Estimates unchanged. |
@@ -941,17 +948,15 @@ trap, and the defaults (0.25 pt, 100%, 40%) are VectorCraft's own, the pages giv
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | G4: OpenType SVG colour fonts draw and export as vector art; colour fonts are done but for images, scripts and text inside SVG glyph documents and palette variables; estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | G12: General › Constrain Angle acts for the arrow keys, Shift drags (selection tools, Free Transform, slices, Reshape, Measure, Pen handles) and new rectangles, ellipses, grids, type, polygons, stars and size-dialog shapes (#394); no entry closed, estimate unchanged |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | G4: Glyph Scaling leaves hung punctuation at its width and Standard burasagari counts a hung line start as room (`crates/text/src/tests/hang.rs`). No entry closed, estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-20 | minor | G4: a paragraph's Auto Leading also drives the Character panel's Leading, the leading nudge and Fill with Placeholder Text; estimate unchanged |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | G11: #834 done (a tool drag's preview could miss the position where the pointer came back into the window and the move in the release's frame, so the release committed a stale handle or anchor); estimate unchanged |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | G1: a path moved by a press on its stroke or beside its edge (Selection, Group Selection, Direct Selection), and a straight segment Direct Selection drags, snap by the nearest point of the path, so the path lands exactly on a ruler guide with "align" instead of the pressed spot landing there and the path a few pixels beside it (#3701). No entry closed, estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | G11: the Transform effect has Transform Objects, Transform Patterns and Scale Strokes & Effects, its checkboxes visible (#885); canvas, export and Expand Appearance agree. A Transform in a fill's or stroke's own effects ignores the two options. Estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | G4: COLR colour fonts (v0 and v1) draw and export as vector art; paints documents lack (sweep gradients, Porter-Duff compositing, radial gradients from a circle, repeating gradients) draw the glyph as an image; OpenType SVG fonts remain; estimate unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-18 | minor | G11: Shape Builder on art of thousands of segments (traced outlines, type outlines): lines cut it again past 4,096 segments, where the planar map used to give up and the tool offered whole shapes (#937's reproduced case; the planar map's edge-source and face lookups were quadratic in the segments, now indexed, and the cap is 65,536); estimate unchanged until confirmed on the reporter's file |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | Fix #3705 in part: drawing modes apply to pastes (Draw Inside puts Paste, Paste in Place and Paste on All Artboards inside the object drawn into; Draw Behind puts Paste in Place and Paste on All Artboards behind the selection), and Shift+D goes from Draw Behind back to Draw Normal when Draw Inside can't draw into the selection instead of stopping at Draw Behind; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | G7: Artboard Options' Show Video Safe Areas (action-safe 3.5% and title-safe 5% in from each edge, EBU R 95, canvas only) and Video Ruler Pixel Aspect Ratio (`artboard.setProps`/`artboard.new` `showVideoSafeAreas`, `videoRulerPixelAspectRatio`), and View › Rulers › Show Video Rulers (`view.videoRulers`), which counts the active artboard in those pixels (#2849); video rulers leave G7's missing list; estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | Artboard Options: Show Center Mark and Show Cross Hairs (`artboard.setProps`/`artboard.new` `showCenterMark`, `showCrossHairs`) draw a center cross and lines from the middle of each side through the center on the canvas only, in one undo step; video safe areas, video rulers and the pixel aspect ratio remain missing; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | G1: Simplify of part of a path: with anchors or segments of a path direct-selected, Object › Path › Simplify (slider, Auto-Simplify and dialog) refits only each run of selected segments between its end anchors and leaves the rest of the path exactly as it was; estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | G11: Simplify: Object › Path › Simplify opens its slider at the Auto-Simplify level for the selection, previewing that result, instead of at 1 pt; partial-path simplify remains missing; estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-10-22 | minor | G11: #834 done (a tool drag's preview could miss the position where the pointer came back into the window and the move in the release's frame, so the release committed a stale handle or anchor); estimate unchanged |
+| 2026-10-22 | minor | G11: the Transform effect has Transform Objects, Transform Patterns and Scale Strokes & Effects, its checkboxes visible (#885); canvas, export and Expand Appearance agree. A Transform in a fill's or stroke's own effects ignores the two options. Estimate 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. |
@@ -969,6 +974,7 @@ trap, and the defaults (0.25 pt, 100%, 40%) are VectorCraft's own, the pages giv
 | 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. 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 |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | G1: one selected clip group's Properties panel has Edit Clipping Path and Edit Contents at its top. No entry closed, estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-20 | minor | G4: a paragraph's Auto Leading also drives the Character panel's Leading, the leading nudge and Fill with Placeholder Text; estimate unchanged |
 | 2026-10-20 | minor | G1: for the selection tools, a press within the selection tolerance of a clipping path's outline (a clip group's, or a layer's clipping mask) hits the clipping path before the art it clips, so Direct Selection takes its segments and the Selection tool the clip group even where the art lies over the mask's edge; Select Behind lists the same; the eyedropper and the tools that act on what is drawn are unchanged. Doc and tool regression tests. No entry closed, 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 | Live trace result bounds and selection highlights exclude the retained bitmap except in source-image views; scores and hours unchanged. |
@@ -982,14 +988,16 @@ trap, and the defaults (0.25 pt, 100%, 40%) are VectorCraft's own, the pages giv
 | 2026-10-19 | minor | Cached canvas dimensions match the renderer limit before cache-key creation, view construction and worker submission. Regression coverage; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-19 | minor | Cached canvas reprojection preserves scale during resize, rotation and DPI changes. Contributor original-file acceptance confirmed; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-19 | minor | Color Picker layout (#2008): compact controls, centered header, stacked actions and aligned inputs; screen-reader channel values, current shared button names and styling, screen sampler and model-by-model Tab order retained. Narrow windows scroll vertically. Documentation correction: #1692 was completed upstream before #2008; the Direct Selection alignment gap remains open. Scores and hours unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-19 | minor | G13: blend easing (#1124): Ease In / Ease Out and separate Color Ease In / Out in Blend Options, saved with the blend; on-canvas handles and easing in the Blend panel remain. Estimate unchanged |
+| 2026-10-19 | minor | G13: tangent and perpendicular snapping for lines drawn from an anchor (Pen, Curvature, Line Segment, with Smart Guides on), View › Snapping with every snap option, and the `view.snapping` command (#2530); estimate unchanged |
+| 2026-10-18 | minor | G11: Shape Builder on art of thousands of segments (traced outlines, type outlines): lines cut it again past 4,096 segments, where the planar map used to give up and the tool offered whole shapes (#937's reproduced case; the planar map's edge-source and face lookups were quadratic in the segments, now indexed, and the cap is 65,536); estimate unchanged until confirmed on the reporter's file |
 | 2026-10-18 | minor | G11: Shape Builder Gap Detection (#2523): Shape Builder Tool Options with a Gap Length of Small, Medium, Large or Custom bridges small gaps between open paths for the regions they bound; the other Shape Builder options stay missing. The stale gap line on deleting an interior anchor of an open path is removed (the behaviour was already implemented). Estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-18 | minor | Mirror Repeat shows its axis when selected (#2877): drag the line or center handle to move it, drag an end handle to rotate it (Shift: 45°), Escape cancels and each drag is one undo step. Engine and headless canvas gesture regressions passed; native move, rotation and Escape screenshots reviewed. Formatting, Clippy, WASM and repository checks passed; the undo label reuses translated Repeat Options. (#2877) Scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-18 | minor | Bounding-box handles take priority where a selected Mirror Repeat axis crosses them; a Top-handle regression confirms scaling of the default repeat. Center and end handles retain their move and rotation behavior. G1 scope and estimate unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-19 | minor | G13: blend easing (#1124): Ease In / Ease Out and separate Color Ease In / Out in Blend Options, saved with the blend; on-canvas handles and easing in the Blend panel remain. Estimate unchanged |
-| 2026-10-19 | minor | G13: tangent and perpendicular snapping for lines drawn from an anchor (Pen, Curvature, Line Segment, with Smart Guides on), View › Snapping with every snap option, and the `view.snapping` command (#2530); estimate unchanged |
 | 2026-10-17 | minor | G11: #722 fixed (PDF text slid on open where the file spaced its glyphs other than the font's metrics: kerning, word and character spacing, `TJ` adjustments, text rise, narrow vertical glyphs; justified text boxes stayed lines); estimate unchanged |
 | 2026-10-17 | minor | Blend spine Anchor Point conversions, selection/stacking priority and Shift regression coverage (#2544); scores and hours unchanged. Windows native canvas checks and screenshots reviewed in PR #2643. |
 | 2026-10-17 | minor | G12: Background Export progress dialog with Cancel and Continue in Background (#2564); no entry closed, estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-10-17 | minor | Colored Inflate: shared membrane normals and smooth RGB vector ramps replace flat polygon bands; channel groups are batched per solid-fill surface. White-light Inflate retains its original polygons, paint composition and seam joins; the 0.05 seam minimum is restored. Scores and hour estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-16 | minor | Native documents restore transparency grid visibility (#1968); save/open regression covers on/off, old files and SVG; scores and hours unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-16 | minor | G6: MCP cancellation, progress notifications and a busy answer during long exports (#2165, #2171, #2172); no entry closed, estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-16 | minor | G11: PDF export of a CMYK document reports its RGB colours and non-CMYK images, with a count, in the export warnings (#2162); no entry closed, estimates unchanged |
@@ -1000,31 +1008,30 @@ trap, and the defaults (0.25 pt, 100%, 40%) are VectorCraft's own, the pages giv
 | 2026-10-16 | minor | G2: Effect › Sketch › Bas Relief, Charcoal, Photocopy and Stamp (#2527); measured Photoshop filters 37/57 with Cutout, Neon Glow and Poster Edges, 20 remaining (18–30 h). |
 | 2026-10-16 | minor | G2: Effect › Sketch › Halftone Pattern (Size, Contrast, Pattern Type Circle, Dot or Line; black ink on white paper, Size in points at any Document Raster Effects resolution); measured Photoshop filters 30/57, 27 remaining (22–38 h). |
 | 2026-10-16 | minor | G1: Smart Guides line extension for a dragged end of a straight segment, at any angle (#2120); estimate unchanged |
-| 2026-10-15 | minor | G1: no busy cursor during long operations, listed; estimate unchanged |
-| 2026-10-17 | minor | Colored Inflate: shared membrane normals and smooth RGB vector ramps replace flat polygon bands; channel groups are batched per solid-fill surface. White-light Inflate retains its original polygons, paint composition and seam joins; the 0.05 seam minimum is restored. Scores and hour estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-16 | minor | 3D lighting: one to ten directional lights, a selectable light list, Add Light and Delete Light, independent settings and artboard gestures; ambient applied once and smooth RGB vector export; scores and hour estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-16 | minor | 3D lighting: opaque RGB Color for the shared directional light, with neutral ambient, preview/reset controls and smooth vector Revolve shading; scores and hour estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-10-16 | minor | G13: Object › Create Gradient Mesh on an embedded image (#1676); a linked image is refused. No entry closed, estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-10-15 | minor | G1: no busy cursor during long operations, listed; estimate unchanged |
+| 2026-10-15 | minor | G13: Object › Intertwine (#1763): Make, Edit, Release, the Intertwine tool (hover, click, drawn path) and `object.intertwine.arrange` (toggle, front, back). Bring Forward / Send Backward stay missing; adding objects through the Layers panel is untested. No entry closed, estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-10-15 | minor | G11: Transform Each Reflect X flips left-right and Reflect Y top-bottom (#1910). Estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-15 | minor | Artboard tool: closing a clean active tab restores the displayed board before Properties Delete. Nine targeted checks passed; three original close-route captures reviewed; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | G16: Brazilian Portuguese (`pt-br`) catalog complete under the tests (#1914); three key languages remain (Hindi, Arabic, Indonesian), 55–90 → 50–85 h |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | G6: dataset CSV import/export (`dataset.import` / `dataset.export`); remaining: scripting surface, Batch, graph variables; estimate 6–12 → 4–8 h |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | G6: image variables (`VariableKind::Image`, `variable.makeImageDynamic`, path values on `dataset.select` keeping bounds); remaining: scripting surface, Batch, graph variables, dataset import/export; estimate 8–14 → 6–12 h |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | Effect > Warp: style, orientation and percent controls; focused checks passed and original captures reviewed; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | G11: open-path anchor Delete removes adjoining segments without bridging the gap; explicit Remove Anchors keeps its reconnect/refit behavior. Scores and hours unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-16 | minor | G13: Object › Create Gradient Mesh on an embedded image (#1676); a linked image is refused. No entry closed, estimates unchanged |
-| 2026-10-15 | minor | G13: Object › Intertwine (#1763): Make, Edit, Release, the Intertwine tool (hover, click, drawn path) and `object.intertwine.arrange` (toggle, front, back). Bring Forward / Send Backward stay missing; adding objects through the Layers panel is untested. No entry closed, estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | MCP `add_text` exposes the existing `vertical` option for point, area and path type; horizontal remains the default; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | Vertical fullwidth question and exclamation marks keep their nominal glyph upright when the font has no vertical alternate; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | G1: Curvature curve geometry (the Curvature tool's curve: each stretch of three points follows the circle through them (handles along its tangent, chord/(3·cos²(α/2)) long, shorter in a turn tighter than 30°), and the ends of an open path curve in, so uneven spacing neither overshoots nor loops; #1236, in part); neighbour re-curving on existing paths remains open; estimates unchanged |
-| 2026-10-15 | minor | G11: Transform Each Reflect X flips left-right and Reflect Y top-bottom (#1910). Estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | Quick Image Trace presets reveal the adjustment panel with Advanced open; Properties reopens it. Sliders keep their preset row until release so the re-trace is committed. UI regressions added; scores and remaining estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | Revolve: automatic smooth vector shading, default-on Cap with continuous curved rims, and bounded seam joins; angular cut sides remain open. Scores and hour estimates unchanged at this rounding |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | No entry closed. G8 and G11 record the later merges of 2026-10-14 (#1852, #1862–#1865, #1871–#1873, #1839, #1840, #1856); #1683 (Dim Images) and #1685 (failed-save dialog) are done by #1864 and #1865. Gaps noted for reporters: G1 Effect › Warp through Warp Options (#1760), Color Picker Tab order (#1692), aligning to a key anchor (#1636; the public Align page does not say how the key anchor is chosen); G7 custom toolbars (#1759), workspace panel widths (#1753); G11 Shape Builder regions between closed shapes (#1691), deleting an interior anchor of an open path; G13 Intertwine (#1763), gradient mesh from an embedded image (#1676), Image Trace radial gradients (draft #1849). Average and Join with a corner or smooth choice was already listed (G1). G12: a line two merges had left twice is there once, without Appearance of Black for output, which acts since #1750. Estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | Existing-guide Escape cancellation: eight app-input regressions, the Direct Selection Escape control and current full CI passed; scores and hours unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-15 | minor | Artboard tool: closing a clean active tab restores the displayed board before Properties Delete. Nine targeted checks passed; three original close-route captures reviewed; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | Artboard tab changes align the tool with the displayed board; same-tab multiselection and Move/Scale Artwork options preserved. Three tab regressions and historical full CI on `a0671777` passed; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | Width-point finite-arithmetic follow-up: atomicity, history and native round-trip regressions and current full CI passed; scores and hours unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-14 | minor | No entry closed. G11: Align and Distribute act on the anchor points selected with Direct Selection: the points of one path align to each other, not to the artboard, and Distribute spaces them (#1641, fixes #1636; aligning to a key anchor is still missing); Delete removes every selected anchor of a closed path (it used to remove the wrong ones), removes objects selected whole along with the selected anchors of others, and keeps the remainder selected so a second Delete removes it (#1674); In isolation mode Direct Selection and Group Selection pick only inside the isolated object (#1666); Escape cancels a Direct Selection drag (#1803, #1743); Escape while typing ends the edit, keeps the type selected and switches to the Selection tool (#1802, #1686, #1656); A filled Pencil path keeps a stroke of None (#1804, part of #1679); In the Pathfinder panel a group selected alone counts its nested shapes, so an expanded stroked object keeps the Shape Modes enabled (#1642, #1635); Object › Expand turns radial, grid and mirror repeats into groups of their instances (#1765, #1756); Select › Same matches type on its characters' fill and stroke (#1746, #1737); Roughen with Smooth keeps turn-backs smooth instead of making cusps that draw as spikes (#1646, #1643); Scribble draws one zig-zag per region, with no lines across holes and notches; convex shapes are unchanged (#1651, #1648). G8: WMF/EMF import refuses an oversized embedded PNG or JPEG from its header, before any pixels are decoded (#1776); PDF open no longer takes exponential time on a crafted name tree with shared nodes when it looks for the editing data (#1781); The size limits on a native file's embedded data also apply to files read from memory, not only streamed ones (#1783); Saving over a private file on Unix no longer leaves a readable temporary copy beside it while the file is written (#1778); An Export for Screens suffix can no longer place files outside the export folder (#1777); Package refuses a folder where it would overwrite the open document or one of its linked files (#1786); ruzstd 0.9.1 fixes a decompression bomb (RUSTSEC-2026-0344) reachable from EPS/`.ai` and Affinity import (#1807); Scatter graph data near the largest number is refused with a message instead of hanging the app (#1780); One very long Liquify stroke segment can no longer create an unbounded number of dabs (#1779); MCP limits: 16 MiB lines, 64-message batches, 256-step `command_batch` with 8 MiB of kept results and 256 MiB control replies (#1764, fixes #1727); MCP requires the JSON-RPC 2.0 envelope and matches control replies by id, and an app refusal without an id reports the app's reason (#1768, fixes #1728). G10, unconfirmed: Tool cursors are painted into the window on Wayland (#1652; not run on Linux, #1645 stays open until confirmed); On Windows the custom title bar's window stays truly borderless, so the pointer lines up with what is drawn on systems where the hidden caption offset it (#1791, #1758; awaiting the reporter's confirmation). A clause repeated in two G11 bullets is there once. Estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Pinned PngSuite HTTPS files verified by SHA-256 before publication; bounded downloads replace archive extraction (#1729). Scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Bounded synthetic control input (#1709): counts and queued events validated before mutation; control-channel bursts yield between frames. Scores and hours unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-14 | minor | No entry closed. G11: Align and Distribute act on the anchor points selected with Direct Selection: the points of one path align to each other, not to the artboard, and Distribute spaces them (#1641, fixes #1636; aligning to a key anchor is still missing); Delete removes every selected anchor of a closed path (it used to remove the wrong ones), removes objects selected whole along with the selected anchors of others, and keeps the remainder selected so a second Delete removes it (#1674); In isolation mode Direct Selection and Group Selection pick only inside the isolated object (#1666); Escape cancels a Direct Selection drag (#1803, #1743); Escape while typing ends the edit, keeps the type selected and switches to the Selection tool (#1802, #1686, #1656); A filled Pencil path keeps a stroke of None (#1804, part of #1679); In the Pathfinder panel a group selected alone counts its nested shapes, so an expanded stroked object keeps the Shape Modes enabled (#1642, #1635); Object › Expand turns radial, grid and mirror repeats into groups of their instances (#1765, #1756); Select › Same matches type on its characters' fill and stroke (#1746, #1737); Roughen with Smooth keeps turn-backs smooth instead of making cusps that draw as spikes (#1646, #1643); Scribble draws one zig-zag per region, with no lines across holes and notches; convex shapes are unchanged (#1651, #1648). G8: WMF/EMF import refuses an oversized embedded PNG or JPEG from its header, before any pixels are decoded (#1776); PDF open no longer takes exponential time on a crafted name tree with shared nodes when it looks for the editing data (#1781); The size limits on a native file's embedded data also apply to files read from memory, not only streamed ones (#1783); Saving over a private file on Unix no longer leaves a readable temporary copy beside it while the file is written (#1778); An Export for Screens suffix can no longer place files outside the export folder (#1777); Package refuses a folder where it would overwrite the open document or one of its linked files (#1786); ruzstd 0.9.1 fixes a decompression bomb (RUSTSEC-2026-0344) reachable from EPS/`.ai` and Affinity import (#1807); Scatter graph data near the largest number is refused with a message instead of hanging the app (#1780); One very long Liquify stroke segment can no longer create an unbounded number of dabs (#1779); MCP limits: 16 MiB lines, 64-message batches, 256-step `command_batch` with 8 MiB of kept results and 256 MiB control replies (#1764, fixes #1727); MCP requires the JSON-RPC 2.0 envelope and matches control replies by id, and an app refusal without an id reports the app's reason (#1768, fixes #1728). G10, unconfirmed: Tool cursors are painted into the window on Wayland (#1652; not run on Linux, #1645 stays open until confirmed); On Windows the custom title bar's window stays truly borderless, so the pointer lines up with what is drawn on systems where the hidden caption offset it (#1791, #1758; awaiting the reporter's confirmation). A clause repeated in two G11 bullets is there once. Estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | No entry closed. Pathfinder's Trim, Merge and Crop remove the objects' strokes, and Merge joins same-fill objects whatever their strokes were, as the public Pathfinder page describes (#1572, fixes #1570); Warp › Arc (the effect and Envelope › Make with Warp) bends in the object's real proportions: a circular arc with concentric edges and no fold-over at 100%, so Arc on art that isn't square draws differently from before (#1581, fixes #1578); Offset Path with an inset larger than the shapes says the offset leaves nothing, instead of asking to select paths (#1591, fixes #1590); A zero-length subpath draws its round cap as a dot and its projecting cap as a square, so dots in imported `.ai` and SVG files show (#1619, fixes #1613); Area type in a non-rectangular shape moves a word too wide for the top lines down to the first line that holds it instead of breaking it (#1617, fixes #1615); Tool flyouts are as wide as their longest translated name and shortcut need, so names no longer run into shortcuts in Spanish and other languages (#1650, fixes #1616); Saving to a network drive on macOS falls back to a plain fsync when the share refuses a full flush (#1625, part of #1620; not confirmed on a real share), and a save still succeeds when a folder refuses the temporary file, the rename over the document or copying permissions: the content is written elsewhere first and copied in, and a failed copy keeps the temporary file and names it (#1649, part of #1620); Smart Guides: a point drawn with the Pen or a shape tool, and an anchor dragged with Direct Selection, snaps to where paths and ruler guides cross, labelled "intersect" (#1658, part of #1602; a moved selection's own anchors don't); estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | G1/M11: Artboard panel deletion, protected deletion keys and navigator/tool synchronization before and after deletion; history normalization preserves valid multiselection; history regressions and full workspace CI pass; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | G4: mixed paragraph alignment indication implemented; headless regressions, full integration CI and visual review pass; other mixed paragraph fields and estimates unchanged, no gap entry closed |
@@ -1032,9 +1039,9 @@ trap, and the defaults (0.25 pt, 100%, 40%) are VectorCraft's own, the pages giv
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Control transport deadlines (#1726): idle and partial clients and blocked replies release connection slots; parity scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | G1: Average and Join in one step with a corner or smooth choice is listed as missing (the ui-parity row said done; the command does not exist); Join merges the selected anchor points that lie on one another, as after Average, into one anchor (#1582, fixes #1533); Lock Guides also locks the objects made into guides: they can't be selected, moved or deleted (#1543); they are drawn in the guide colour and style of Preferences, and a dragged selection snaps to ruler guides with Smart Guides on (#1583, fixes #1534); Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts lists Edit › Duplicate and the other commands that are in no menu but run without parameters (panel-menu commands such as Break Link to Symbol), so they can be given shortcuts (#1549, #1580, fixes #1539). G11: Make Compound Path on a group (such as outlined type) keeps the paint of its backmost path instead of drawing nothing, and compound paths joined into one keep their holes (#1537); a round corner next to a curved side curves smoothly instead of sticking out of the shape and the Smooth tool smooths only the stretch of path under the drag (#1547, fixes #1512); Raster effects (blur, shadow, glow, grain) drawn after a pattern, radial or freeform gradient fill export at their place and size (#1541, fixes #1536). G9: a multi-artboard `.ai` with notes beside its artboards opens from its editing data, a page's art past its artboard no longer lying over the page before it (#1528); a `.ai` gradient whose stops are listed upwards keeps each midpoint on the stop that starts its part of the ramp (#1530); SVG text on a path follows basic shapes (circle, ellipse, rect, line, polyline, polygon) as their SVG 2 equivalent paths (#1531, fixes #1527); PDFs whose alpha soft masks are drawn as images import with the mask instead of empty art (#1551); EPS and PostScript type set in Type 42 (TrueType) fonts imports at its size instead of 1000 times too large (#1553); PDF and EPS import keep a clipping path whose bounding box covers the page but whose shape doesn't (#1544, fixes #1542); Paste takes a PDF or EPS another app copied as editable vector art: from the macOS pasteboard (with SVG), EPS on Windows beside PDF, and `.eps` files copied in a file manager, with the new command `clipboard.importEps` (#1538, fixes #1499); Opening or placing a file with an image too large to decode says so, and the Links panel shows it on the row (#1540, part of #1479). Native documents with a lot of path data (traced or generated art, in layers, symbols or patterns) are saved as compact JSON, about a fifth of the size; small documents stay pretty-printed (#1492); 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); Polish catalog (#1498); estimates unchanged, no gap entry closed |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Interaction: Direct Selection takes the selected object's anchor where anchors of overlapping objects coincide (#1508), sliders in dialogs show their rail (#1483), a template layer stays in Preview in Outline view (#1486), a tab stop in the Tabs panel drags from where the press landed (#1458); type: commands and MCP `add_text` report area type that does not fit its frame (#1471); 3D and Materials on outlined type and other shapes of many small curves (#1481), Twist 0° to 360° (#1524), twisted walls keep their faces (#1525); print-size images draw, export and crop (#1517); `vectorcraft-cli perf` reports load and memory on Windows (#1502; the idle-machine run is still missing); French catalog complete again (#1511); `graph.setData`'s CSV keeps each value exactly (#1485); estimates unchanged, no gap entry closed |
+| 2026-10-13 | minor | G1: Split Into Grid has its documented options (#1462), Transform Objects in the Transform dialogs and Transform Each and Reflect across an angle (#1448, #1460), the Pathfinder panel works on a group selected alone (#1450; one plain path alone is not settled), a focused field follows its value (#1457), selected text in value fields is readable (#1465 in part); G9: grayscale TIFFs with an alpha channel or extra channels place (#1466 in part), strokes kept apart from a faded or masked fill on PDF and `.ai` import (#1434); G4: Fit Headline in a frame one line tall (#1444), frames beyond a billion points hold no text (#1451); G6: commands refuse a parameter key they don't take (#1442); G10: a window surface past 8192 px no longer closes the app (#1459 in part); G15: edits and Alt-drags of thousands of objects (#1429 in part); G16: 128 more Czech strings (#1461); estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | Width Point Edit: Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment; plain double-click keeps it off; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | G9: Save As `.ai` › Version: Legacy (version 7) writes the PostScript form from the published version 7 specification (#868): layers, groups, compound paths, clipping groups, type as text objects (or outlines), gradients and images, one artboard per file; hidden objects in a hidden layer, omitted or shown; transparent images flattened or omitted; legacy type read on open; it waits for users' testing, so the estimate is unchanged |
-| 2026-10-13 | minor | G1: Split Into Grid has its documented options (#1462), Transform Objects in the Transform dialogs and Transform Each and Reflect across an angle (#1448, #1460), the Pathfinder panel works on a group selected alone (#1450; one plain path alone is not settled), a focused field follows its value (#1457), selected text in value fields is readable (#1465 in part); G9: grayscale TIFFs with an alpha channel or extra channels place (#1466 in part), strokes kept apart from a faded or masked fill on PDF and `.ai` import (#1434); G4: Fit Headline in a frame one line tall (#1444), frames beyond a billion points hold no text (#1451); G6: commands refuse a parameter key they don't take (#1442); G10: a window surface past 8192 px no longer closes the app (#1459 in part); G15: edits and Alt-drags of thousands of objects (#1429 in part); G16: 128 more Czech strings (#1461); estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | TIFF is available in Export for Screens and Asset Export with shared format settings; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | Character styles retain explicit Auto leading, propagate resets and preserve local leading overrides; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | G3: Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate with Position presets ([three-d.md](three-d.md), #1407); materials, lights, shadows, Classic, Turntable and export remain, 45–75 → 25–45 h |
@@ -1053,7 +1060,6 @@ trap, and the defaults (0.25 pt, 100%, 40%) are VectorCraft's own, the pages giv
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | DXF reads control-point SPLINE closure (#1299 follow-up after #1320); open curves stay open and curves retained; rational/non-rational import and export versions regression-tested; scores/hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | G16: Vietnamese catalog added (complete under the tests); three key languages remain (Hindi, Arabic, Indonesian), 55–90 h |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | G16: Korean catalog added (complete under the tests); four key languages remain, 60–100 h |
-| 2026-10-11 | minor | Czech render-site follow-up: file-dialog filters, diagnostics, preset numbering, contributor tooltips/plurals, gradient grammar and contextual printer mark styles; estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | G11: clear stale component refs after Simplify/Add Anchor Points; preview and point counts give visible feedback (#1272); estimates unchanged |
@@ -1069,6 +1075,7 @@ trap, and the defaults (0.25 pt, 100%, 40%) are VectorCraft's own, the pages giv
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | G1: painted strokes regain the existing default after None/zero-width inheritance (#1253); estimate unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | G11: Divide uses open cutting paths without taking their paint (#1307); implicit filled closure, holes and history regression-tested; estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | G11: numeric fields keep the text-drag start instead of replacing it with select-all on press (#1326, in part); keyboard and click selection regression-tested; estimates unchanged; short movements below the click threshold remain open |
+| 2026-10-11 | minor | Czech render-site follow-up: file-dialog filters, diagnostics, preset numbering, contributor tooltips/plurals, gradient grammar and contextual printer mark styles; estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-11 | minor | G15: large-selection edits, cached live effects and faster Pathfinder (#1173); a 25k-path perf run meets every budget; estimate unchanged |
 | 2026-10-11 | minor | G4: Middle Eastern digit types done (Character panel menu › Digits); estimate unchanged |
 | 2026-10-11 | minor | G4: proportional vertical metrics (#966) done; estimate unchanged |
@@ -1080,10 +1087,6 @@ trap, and the defaults (0.25 pt, 100%, 40%) are VectorCraft's own, the pages giv
 | 2026-10-10 | minor | G9 evidence counted from the tracker (28 `.ai`/EPS issues, 20 fixed); impact narrowed to handing files back |
 | 2026-10-10 | minor | Alpha blockers checked against the core-workflow gate: none |
 | 2026-10-10 | major | Moved from the ROADMAP's "Where we're lacking"; kept ids G1–G8, added G9–G19 (file formats, stability, bugs, preferences, 30.x additions, pen hardware, performance, localization, ecosystem, AI, accessibility) and re-ranked |
-| 2026-10-28 | minor | Flare ray rotation follows vertical travel at one degree per document point, independent of pointer event count. Shift freezes the current orientation; Space also freezes rotation on the first update. This is the chosen application interaction rate. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-28 | minor | Drop Shadow Darkness subtracts the normalized amount from RGB source channels or adds it to CMYK/Gray black before profile conversion and blur; near-100% becomes gray black, with shadow opacity separate. SVG keeps live filters for uniform sRGB sources and renders shadows for other RGB profiles, source models and gradients. Gradient-stop adjustment is an application rule; spot/custom colors and composite-source parity remain open. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-28 | minor | Blob Brush Shift locks after clear axial movement, keeps earlier samples fixed, and waits without an off-axis trail. Activation uses raw press displacement in logical screen pixels, with exact quarter-turn boundaries. Explicit application rule; scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-28 | minor | Flare Tool Options opened by a canvas click previews its settings at that click. Reset refreshes the enabled preview while keeping the dialog open. Cancel discards preview art and tentative options; OK accepts one flare in one Undo step. Editing existing flare artwork remains outside this dialog scope. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 
 > **Tab-drag status (2026-10-22):** updated from upstream, including the Turkish catalog and all three tab-drag translations requested in #3479; Selection-tool reset regression-checked and clipboard evidence scoped to internal state; drag lifecycle, insertion and regression contracts documented; behavior, scores and estimates unchanged.
 
@@ -1096,4 +1099,4 @@ trap, and the defaults (0.25 pt, 100%, 40%) are VectorCraft's own, the pages giv
 
 2026-10-28 behavior correction: Flare ray rotation follows vertical travel at one degree per document point, independent of pointer event count. Shift freezes the current orientation; Space also freezes rotation on the first update. This is the chosen application interaction rate. Scores and estimates unchanged.
 ## EPS Save evidence (2026-10-26)
-Ordinary Save and Save As keep EPS as EPS, with the chosen page frame, transparent margins and the complete editable VectorCraft document. Existing import-loss confirmation and transparency warnings remain; the Save TIFF preview is capped at 1024 pixels, while Export retains 2048. See [file-format-parity.md](file-format-parity.md#eps-save-and-source-protection) for limits and regression evidence. This narrows G9 save-back workflow coverage; native Illustrator editing-data fidelity, parity scores and hour estimates are unchanged.
+Ordinary Save and Save As keep EPS as EPS, with the chosen page frame, transparent margins and the complete editable VectorCraft document. Existing import-loss confirmation and transparency warnings remain; the Save TIFF preview is capped at 1024 pixels, while Export retains 2048. See [file-format-parity.md](file-format-parity.md#eps-save-and-source-protection) for limits and regression evidence. This narrows G9 save-back workflow coverage; native Illustrator editing-data fidelity, parity scores and hour estimates are unchanged. Since 2026-11-12 the EPS Options of Save As show Use Artboards, unchecked by default: unchecked, the bounding box fits the visible art; checked, Save keeps the chosen page frame and margins described here.

docs/plugins.md

@@ -212,7 +212,21 @@ capability model proposed for PhotoCraft plug-ins
   names shown have control and bidirectional characters escaped (`\u{202E}`) and are cut to 64 characters.
   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.
+  change what it installs. OK stays disabled until the question has been on screen in the focused window for half a
+  second (VectorCraft's own value, from the delay the security guidance at
+  https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/main/docs/security/security-considerations-for-browser-ui.md
+  gives for dialog boxes), so a click, Enter or Space, or a press begun before then, installs nothing. The half second
+  starts over for every new question, even one that reads the same, and when the window gets the focus back. Cancel
+  and Escape work at once. A module that would take the place of the installed plug-in with its id asks in the same
+  dialog.
+- **An install that automation asked for is not approved in its dialog.** When a control request, MCP, injected input,
+  or a file dialog that one of them opened (even when the person picks the file there) leads to the approval dialog, its
+  OK stays disabled, a confirm is refused even after the half second, and the dialog says that automation asked for the
+  install. `ui.installPlugin` returns `{pending: "pluginInstall", approval: "personMustStartInstall"}`. Cancel still
+  closes it. To install the plug-in, the person chooses Object › Plug-ins › Install Plug-in… and picks the file, or
+  opens it with File › Open or drops it on the window: the module is inspected again and the new question waits its
+  half second. A request's `replace: true` does not skip asking about taking another module's place. A module that
+  needs no approval still installs at once from any request. This is VectorCraft's own rule.
 - `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`
@@ -226,6 +240,13 @@ capability model proposed for PhotoCraft plug-ins
   `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.
+- The approval protects against plug-ins and automation clients (MCP, scripts and CLI requests): none of them can
+  approve a module's permissions. VectorCraft's own code records a grant only after that approval and when it loads
+  `grants.json`, and installs a module that lists permissions only under a grant recorded for this very module,
+  also when it loads the Additional Plug-ins Folder. The approval does not protect against native code linked into
+  VectorCraft or against another program running as the same user, which can change the files in the `Plug-ins`
+  folder. `grants.json` is not signed, so such a program can add a grant to it. `--allow-plugin-grants` is a choice
+  the person starting a headless session makes.
 - **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
@@ -240,7 +261,9 @@ capability model proposed for PhotoCraft plug-ins
   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
+  plug-in is skipped at the next start until it is approved again. When the folder held no module for that id, that
+  write removes the new module; when the removal fails, the folder holds the new module and no grant covers it. In
+  both cases a disabled plug-in is turned on, as for any install the folder holds. 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`
@@ -248,14 +271,16 @@ capability model proposed for PhotoCraft plug-ins
   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
+  the grant stops counting. The grant also stops counting 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
+  permissions. When it can't remove that grant from `grants.json`, or can't read the file, the grant stops counting,
+  including for the next load, which tries the removal again. A grant that stops counting in either of these cases
+  does not count for any session in the same process that uses the same `Plug-ins` folder, by any path to it, until
+  `grants.json` can be written for that plug-in, as when the plug-in is granted again. Another process on the same
+  folder, for example `vectorcraft-cli` beside the app, still reads `grants.json` as it is written. A grant for the
+  same id kept in another `Plug-ins` folder counts. 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
@@ -336,7 +361,11 @@ still returns `1`. `vc_progress`, `vc_cancelled` and `vc_log` need `progress`; t
   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
+  window draw a bar with a percentage, and Cancel there makes `vc_cancelled` return `1`. In the desktop app a light
+  filter that lists `progress` runs in the background as a heavy one does, under its light budget, when it runs at once
+  from Object › Plug-ins or its shortcut, or when OK runs it with Preview off; with Preview on, its dialog keeps the
+  previewed run. A filter that also lists a `commandAllowlist` runs where it is called, since its command calls need
+  the document. A plug-in that checks `vc_cancelled` can
   stop early, and the host discards what it returns after the Cancel or after its time budget ran out; one that
   ignores it is still stopped by the instruction and time budgets. With a known total, a report is passed on only when
   it reaches another tenth of a percent; with an unknown total, each change of `done` is passed on. After 2,000 reports
@@ -394,11 +423,18 @@ A live effect runs while the art draws, so keep the entries it uses small.
   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` first renames the folder, adding `.removed` to its name (or `.removing` while a `.removed` folder
+  holds settings an earlier removal kept). When that fails, `plugin.remove` fails and the plug-in stays installed with
+  its storage as it was. Before VectorCraft deletes a renamed folder, it writes an empty file beside it with `.delete`
+  added to the folder's name, and removes that file once the folder is gone. When that file can't be written, the
+  folder is not deleted and is treated like any renamed folder without a `.delete` file (see below). Files that can't be deleted stay in the
+  renamed folder with the `.delete` file beside it, 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 such a folder, `plugin.remove` does not delete it and fails as
+  not found. When `plugin.remove` can't remove the grant and can't rename the folder back either, its error names the
+  renamed folder. The next load, install or `plugin.remove` of the plug-in renames a renamed folder that has no
+  `.delete` file back while the plug-in has no folder of its own; when it has one, that folder is used and the renamed
+  folder stays until `plugin.remove` deletes both.
   `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

docs/releasing.md

@@ -42,6 +42,12 @@ pick that branch for a full run. Run on any other branch, it is a dry run: the L
 FreeBSD and web jobs build and upload their artifacts, the environment refuses the signing jobs,
 and no draft release is created.
 
+Flatpak permission repairs need one update through the existing host-side installation method.
+After that update, Help > Check for Updates can inspect and update standalone bundles.
+Repository-managed installations continue to use their package manager; launcher-pinned
+versions keep their selected version. Both Flatpak manifests must grant network access,
+the host Flatpak interface, and read-only access to the shared version choices.
+
 ## What gets built
 
 | Platform | Artifacts | Built on |
@@ -164,7 +170,7 @@ 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, JPEG 2000 and HEIC/HEIF, so file managers list VectorCraft under Open With for them.
+PSB, `.ps` PostScript, Targa, PCX, Pixar, JPEG 2000, HEIC/HEIF and HP-GL, 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/three-d.md

@@ -51,8 +51,9 @@ pages describe it.
   unavailable while a setting of a single light differs between the selected effects.
 - Each change is one undo step. Dragging a value or a slider previews it on the artboard and records one step
   when the pointer is released; a typed value is recorded when it is entered. Drawing the panel records nothing.
-- The Materials tab, shadows and ray-traced rendering are not built (see below). The rotation and light rings on
-  the artboard are part of the options dialog only.
+- The Lighting tab also holds the Shadows switch and its settings ([Shadows](#shadows)). The Materials tab and
+  ray-traced rendering are not built (see below). The rotation and light rings on the artboard are part of the
+  options dialog only.
 
 ## Extrude & Bevel
 
@@ -99,7 +100,12 @@ reply on the reference app's bug forum says that strokes "will be treated as out
 The rest is our reading:
 
 - When the fill and every stroke are opaque with Normal blending, the faces of all the solids are drawn in one
-  back-to-front order, and the caps turned toward the viewer are drawn last, the lower item's first. Otherwise
+  back-to-front order, and the caps turned toward the viewer are drawn last, the lower item's first. With caps on,
+  each side face of the fill's solid that is turned toward the viewer is drawn before every face of the same
+  shape's strokes, turned toward the viewer, whose bounds overlap it, so the stroke's walls cover the fill's walls
+  at concave corners. This applies to strokes on closed paths without dashes, a width profile or a brush, painted
+  with a solid color or a gradient without transparent stops; with other strokes, and without caps, the faces keep
+  their depth order. Otherwise
   each solid is drawn on its own with its opacity and blending, the lower item's first. With a light that is not
   white, each solid is also drawn on its own when one of them is a puffed, shaded Inflate surface in a solid color
   (drawn as one composite) or is painted with a gradient that has transparent stops (drawn with an opacity mask).
@@ -135,7 +141,7 @@ them all. The members stay editable: moving or editing one reshapes the solids.
 
 ## Clipping groups, blends and symbol instances
 
-Every 3D effect (Extrude & Bevel, Extrude & Bevel (Classic), Inflate, Rotate and Revolve) also applies to a clipping
+Every 3D effect (Extrude & Bevel, Extrude & Bevel (Classic), Inflate, Rotate, Rotate (Classic), Revolve and Revolve (Classic)) also applies to a clipping
 group, a blend or a symbol instance, alone or inside a group or layer. The help page says that effects apply to
 objects, groups or layers ([Apply and modify effects](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/special-effects-styles/apply-filter-effects/apply-and-modify-effects.html)),
 that a clipping mask hides everything outside its shape ([Clipping masks](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/clipping-masks.html)),
@@ -242,6 +248,39 @@ the default light had (45° left of the eye and 45° up). Effects saved before (
 `lightAzimuth` and `lightElevation`; those are read as the Rotation, Height and side of the same direction, so the
 shading is exactly as before.
 
+## Shadows
+
+The public [3D and Materials panel options](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/special-effects-styles/create-3d-graphics/3d-materials-panel-options.html)
+page lists shadow settings that apply while shadows are on: a Position behind or below the object, a Distance
+from Object from 0 to 100 % and Shadow Bounds from 10 to 400 %. The Lighting tab of Revolve, Extrude & Bevel,
+Inflate and Rotate has a **Shadows** switch with those three settings below it.
+
+| Option | |
+|---|---|
+| Shadows | Off by default. On, the first light casts a hard-edged shadow of the solid, drawn behind it. |
+| Position | **Behind Object** (the default): on a plane square to the view, behind the object. **Below Object**: on the floor under the object, square to its own vertical axis and turned with it. |
+| Distance from Object | 0–100 %, default 0 %: how far the plane is from the object, as a share of the object's largest size. |
+| Shadow Bounds | 10–400 %, default 100 %: how far the plane reaches. At 100 % it is a square four times the object's largest size across, about the foot of the object's center; the shadow is cut at its edges. |
+
+Our reading:
+
+- The shadow is one path, filled black at 50 % opacity with the nonzero rule: every face of every solid of the
+  object (its fill and its strokes, or the members of a group) projected along the first light onto the plane.
+  Art that is partly transparent casts its part at 50 % times its opacity, and art with a blending mode casts
+  its part in that mode, each as a path of its own. A member whose
+  opacity mask or blending mode applies to its solids casts its part in that mask and mode too. The color, the
+  opacity and how Distance and Bounds scale are our own.
+- No shadow is drawn while Shading is off (the Shadows settings are then unavailable), when the first light's
+  Intensity is 0 %, or when it does not reach the plane: a light behind the object casts none behind it, and a
+  light from under the floor casts none below it. A fill, stroke or group member at 0 % opacity casts none. With no X rotation the floor is seen edge-on, so a
+  shadow below draws nothing until the object is tilted (the default Off-Axis Front position shows it).
+- Softness is not applied to the shadow, and only the first light casts one.
+- A shadow is cast from at most 327,680 faces, the solids of one object together (our own limit). Past it, a
+  command is refused with "The 3D shadow is too complex; turn Shadows off or simplify the art", and a loaded
+  file draws the source path.
+- Canvas, SVG and PDF exports draw the shadow, the art's bounds take it in, and Expand Appearance keeps it as a
+  path below the faces. Extrude & Bevel (Classic), Revolve (Classic) and Rotate (Classic) have no shadow.
+
 ## Parameters (`effect.apply`, `effect.setParams`)
 
 `threeD.extrude`: `depth`, `twist`, `taper` (%), `cap`, `bevel` (`none`, `classic`, `rounded`, `cove`, `step`,
@@ -249,7 +288,7 @@ shading is exactly as before.
 `threeD.inflate`: `depth`, `volume` (%), `bothSides`. All three take the view and lighting parameters Revolve
 uses: `rotationX`, `rotationY`, `rotationZ`, `perspectiveAngle` (degrees), `shade`, `lightColor` (`#rrggbb`, default `#ffffff`), `lightIntensity` (%), `lightRotation`,
 `lightHeight` (degrees), `lightSoftness` (%), `ambient` (%, to 200), `lightBehind`. Lengths are points and scale with the object (Scale Strokes & Effects).
-Commands validate the shape and the parameters before the document changes. All four also take `lights`: null (the default, use the earlier single-light fields), or an array of one to ten objects. Each object takes `color` (opaque `#rrggbb`, white), `intensity` (0..100%, 80), `rotation` (-180..180 degrees, 125.26), `height` (0..90 degrees, 30), `softness` (0..100%, 0), and `behind` (boolean, false). Omitted settings use those defaults. An explicit list replaces the earlier single light; `ambient` and `shade` remain shared. Set `lights` to null to return to the single-light fields. Invalid lists, counts, keys and values are rejected before editing; malformed loaded lists fall back to the earlier light safely.
+Commands validate the shape and the parameters before the document changes. All four also take `lights`: null (the default, use the earlier single-light fields), or an array of one to ten objects. Each object takes `color` (opaque `#rrggbb`, white), `intensity` (0..100%, 80), `rotation` (-180..180 degrees, 125.26), `height` (0..90 degrees, 30), `softness` (0..100%, 0), and `behind` (boolean, false). Omitted settings use those defaults. An explicit list replaces the earlier single light; `ambient` and `shade` remain shared. Set `lights` to null to return to the single-light fields. Invalid lists, counts, keys and values are rejected before editing; malformed loaded lists fall back to the earlier light safely. All four take `shadow` (boolean, false), `shadowPosition` (`behind` or `below`), `shadowDistance` (0..100%, 0) and `shadowBounds` (10..400%, 100) ([Shadows](#shadows)); values out of range are rejected before editing.
 
 ## What differs from the public documentation
 
@@ -258,9 +297,10 @@ and [Create 3D objects](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/special-effe
 pages, and the archived Extrude & Bevel option list (depth 0–2,000, cap on/off, bevel height, bevel extent in or
 out, perspective). No Adobe software, assets, presets or bevel shapes were used.
 
-- **Materials** (base, Adobe Substance and graphics), **shadows**
+- **Materials** (base, Adobe Substance and graphics), soft shadows, shadows of lights after the first,
   and **ray-traced rendering** are not built: shading uses directional lights, in the paint of the fill or
-  stroke the solid is built for ([Fills and strokes](#fills-and-strokes)).
+  stroke the solid is built for ([Fills and strokes](#fills-and-strokes)), and the shadow is hard-edged
+  ([Shadows](#shadows)).
 - The bevel shapes and their names are our own; custom bevel paths are not supported.
 - Visibility is a painter's algorithm: faces of a closed solid turned away are left out, and the rest are drawn
   back to front, with a flat cap or flat back turned toward the viewer drawn after all of them. Concave solids
@@ -296,8 +336,11 @@ out, perspective). No Adobe software, assets, presets or bevel shapes were used.
   outline crosses. An outline of tens of thousands of points that crosses nearly every cell (a comb of 4,000 teeth
   across the shape) is refused because the 3D surface is too complex; a closed path of 65,536 points round a
   circle builds.
-- **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.
+- **3D (Classic)**: Extrude & Bevel (Classic), Revolve (Classic) and Rotate (Classic) are built, with their surface
+  types and blend steps. Revolve (Classic) sweeps the surface Revolve sweeps, at 64 segments for a full turn, and draws
+  every face back to front, so it has no Draw Hidden Faces setting. Rotate (Classic) turns the plane Rotate turns, seen
+  from either side, with the No Shading and Diffuse surfaces only. 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).
 

docs/type-parity.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Type parity
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-11 · **Change:** minor (a centred or right-aligned line of tracked type is aligned without the tracking after its last character, as the page of users' `.ai` files aligns it, #6610; previously minor: tracking and manual kerning in horizontally scaled type are thousandths of the em as the Horizontal Scale draws it, as the page of users' `.ai` files spaces such type; previously minor: Edit › Edit Custom Dictionary…: its dialog adds, deletes and changes the custom dictionary's words, #4936; previously minor: Direct Selection shows and drags the direction handles of type on a path's path, #3565; previously minor: right-click on type: Spelling › Auto Spell Check, with its check mark, #4936; previously minor: right-click on a word Auto Spell Check underlined: its suggestions, Ignore All and Add to Dictionary, #4936; previously minor: Auto Spell Check: `edit.autoSpellCheck` underlines the unknown words, #4936; previously minor: PDF marked-text export (#6309): compatible glyphs stay on one layout line with per-glyph offsets; scores and estimates unchanged; paint-only Arabic harakat keep joining with GDEF-mark ownership and Insert Kashidas base-letter paint; scores and estimates unchanged; custom dictionary and Ignore All: `text.spelling.addWord`, `removeWord`, `changeWord`, `dictionary` and `ignoreAll`, #4936; previously 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)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-11 · **Change:** minor (kerning at the Type tool's caret at the start of a line sets the space before the character after it, #5111; previously minor: type's strokes in an envelope paint along its bent glyph outlines at their own weight, Distort Appearance on or off, as users' `.ai` files draw them, #6644; previously minor: a centred or right-aligned line of tracked type is aligned without the tracking after its last character, as the page of users' `.ai` files aligns it, #6610; previously minor: tracking and manual kerning in horizontally scaled type are thousandths of the em as the Horizontal Scale draws it, as the page of users' `.ai` files spaces such type; previously minor: Edit › Edit Custom Dictionary…: its dialog adds, deletes and changes the custom dictionary's words, #4936; previously minor: Direct Selection shows and drags the direction handles of type on a path's path, #3565; previously minor: right-click on type: Spelling › Auto Spell Check, with its check mark, #4936; previously minor: right-click on a word Auto Spell Check underlined: its suggestions, Ignore All and Add to Dictionary, #4936; previously minor: Auto Spell Check: `edit.autoSpellCheck` underlines the unknown words, #4936; previously minor: PDF marked-text export (#6309): compatible glyphs stay on one layout line with per-glyph offsets; scores and estimates unchanged; paint-only Arabic harakat keep joining with GDEF-mark ownership and Insert Kashidas base-letter paint; scores and estimates unchanged; custom dictionary and Ignore All: `text.spelling.addWord`, `removeWord`, `changeWord`, `dictionary` and `ignoreAll`, #4936; previously 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
@@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ Character Styles menu New/Redefine and footer New capture the first selected cha
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-11 | minor | Kerning at the start of a line (#5111): at the Type tool's caret before the first character of the text, of a paragraph or after a forced line break, the Kerning field, Alt+arrows and Reset Tracking and Kerning set the space before the character after the caret (`CharStyle::kerning_before`, `kerningBefore` in `text.setRangeStyle`), which moves it and the rest of its line, in horizontal, right-to-left and vertical type and in SVG export. They did nothing at the text's start and kerned the invisible line break at a paragraph's. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-11 | minor | Type in envelopes: its strokes (its characters' and those on its own appearance) paint along the bent glyph outlines at their own weight, Distort Appearance on or off, as the drawn art of users' `.ai` files strokes them; with Distort Appearance they bent with the art as their filled outlines. The same holds in an envelope inside an envelope. Geometry effects on type's fills and strokes, and an opacity mask on type, still bend; Expand gives the bent outlines with the strokes on them. The visual bounds of envelopes, blends and repeats count type's character strokes as type's own visual bounds do. This changes how VectorCraft's own envelopes of stroked type draw (#6644). Score unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | Aligned lines of tracked type: a centred or right-aligned line is as wide as its characters without the tracking after its last one (`LineInfo::trailing`), so a centred line sits half that tracking right of where it did and a right-aligned line's last glyph ends on its anchor or frame edge, the tracking after it reaching past. The page of users' `.ai` files (used locally, never committed) aligns tracked lines so: matched glyph by glyph with the page, 176 centred lines of point type in 51 files sat half their last character's tracking left of it (median 0.500 of it; 143 within 0.05 pt), 58 right-aligned lines in 5 files the whole tracking (median 1.001), and 182 left-aligned lines where the page has them; in a line whose last character is tracked 150 and the others −34, the offset is half the last character's tracking (0.498 of it). All those lines end a paragraph. The last character is the last the line draws before a paragraph's end, a forced line break or the spaces a wrap leaves (they hang past the line). Spaces or a tab typed before a paragraph's end or a forced line break are the line's last characters, and the letter before them keeps its tracking: in the 2 such lines in the files, the page counts the space and the letter's tracking and leaves out only the space's own (VectorCraft still leaves trailing spaces out of the width). Forced line breaks and wrapped lines of tracked type aren't in the files: they take the rule unverified, so that Convert To Point Type and Artwork Cleanup's Break Text, which turn wraps into paragraphs and forced line breaks, keep the lines where they were. A hyphenated line, one whose last character hangs, justified, vertical and right-to-left lines and type on a path keep the tracking, and so do right, centre and decimal tab stops, which still align the text after them with its last character's tracking. Manual kerning on the last character, line breaking and justification are unchanged (none in the files). The tracking stays in the last glyph's advance (the caret after it and a selection of it take it in), and Fit Headline still counts it, as line breaking does. Right-aligned area type sets the text after its last tab the same way. Convert To Area Type makes the frame end where the lines are aligned, with room for that tracking, so tracked type converted either way stays where it is (it moved by the tracking on each round trip). Affinity import aligns artistic text by the same rule, so centred or right-aligned tracked artistic text moves by half or all of its last character's tracking (unverified against Affinity). Centred and right-aligned tracked type lays out differently than before in every document. Tests `tests::an_aligned_line_leaves_its_last_characters_tracking_out_of_its_width`, `tests::which_lines_leave_the_tracking_after_their_last_character_out`, `tests::an_aligned_line_leaves_out_its_last_tracking_as_glyph_scaling_sets_it`, `tests::the_text_after_the_last_tab_of_right_aligned_type_leaves_its_last_tracking_out`, and the engine's `converting_tracked_type_between_point_and_area_keeps_it_in_place` and `break_tracked_area_type_keeps_its_aligned_lines_in_place`. Scores and estimates unchanged. (#6610) |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | Tracking and manual kerning in horizontally scaled type: they are thousandths of the em as the Horizontal Scale draws it (`vectorcraft_text::spacing_scale`), so at 50% a tracking of 100 adds 0.05 em after each character, half as much as at 100%. They were added at the full em whatever the scale, so narrow tracked type drifted further right with each letter. Illustrator's own layout in users' `.ai` files (used locally, not committed) spaces such type so, and PDF scales its character spacing by its horizontal scaling alike (ISO 32000-1 §9.4.4). Inline graphics take it after them too; vertical type keeps the full em, its advances down the column not all taking the Horizontal Scale. The automatic kerning the Character panel reads, Touch Type's limits and Artwork Cleanup's Combine Point Text measure in the same em, and Scale Text Attributes now keeps tracked type where a horizontal stretch of its transform drew it. Type that has both a Horizontal Scale other than 100% and tracking or manual kerning lays out differently than before in every document. Tests `tests::tracking_and_manual_kerning_take_the_horizontal_scale`, `tests::typo::optical_pairs_in_horizontally_scaled_type_measure_without_the_scaled_tracking`, `tests::inline::shift_tracking_and_missing_symbols`, `tests::vertical::vertical_tracking_keeps_the_em_at_any_horizontal_scale` and the engine's `horizontally_scaled_pair_reads_as_the_kerning_that_keeps_it`, `scale_text_attributes_keeps_tracked_type_where_it_was` and `combine_puts_horizontally_scaled_pieces_back_where_they_were`. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-10 | minor | Edit Custom Dictionary (#4936): Edit › Edit Custom Dictionary… adds, deletes and changes the custom dictionary's words, applied on Done; the Check Spelling dialog remains. Scores and estimates unchanged. |

docs/ui-parity.md

@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 # UI and interaction parity
 
-> **Last updated:** 2026-11-12 · **Change:** Save refusal follow-up (#6146): changing format in fallback Save As opens that format’s options; unchanged format keeps the original options. Focused UI regressions passed; native panel acceptance pending; scores and estimates unchanged.
-
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-11 · **Change:** minor (Outline view: images and gradient meshes are picked on what Outline draws, so a click inside them reaches the path behind, #6437; previously minor: a middle-click on a document tab closes it, #6506; previously minor: Blob Brush: a round tip's preview is the outline of the area it adds, round at both ends, as the stroke it commits (#4343); scores and estimates unchanged; previously:; ruler double-click adds a guide at the pointer, #5239; G5: Inventory Icons built-in symbol library (four built-ins); previously minor: files that record no units open in Preferences › Units › General, #5820; previously minor: interim macOS cursor delivery, #2292; native validation pending; scores and estimates unchanged; Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged; floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it, #5925 in part; numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking keyboard focus, #5949; Character Styles panel: a double-click on a style's row opens its Character Style Options; the dialog keeps a fixed width and scrolls its sections, so its buttons stay on screen; Selection QoL: marquee modes and visible feedback, #5313; #3380 deletion-only review follow-up: independent survivors keep gradient placement, owned subpaths avoid discarded copies, and contracts/status/evidence are clarified; endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged; Drop Shadow and glow dialogs: spinner arrows, #5367, #5368; Stroke Weight Up and Down shortcuts, #5797; Layers: Rename (`ui.rename`) opens the name field of the selected layer, group or object, #5324; Properties in Edit Artboards: Transform section above the Artboards section, #5219; scrubby labels: the Control bar's Stroke: and Opacity: links and the Properties panel's Stroke link scrub their fields, #4088; Properties: Quick Actions has Repeat Options for one selected repeat, #5181; Direct Selection: Shift-click picks several blend spine points, which drag together, #5285; Direct Selection: Cmd/Ctrl held lends the Selection tool and shows its bounding box, #3901; Join tool trims two crossing open paths and joins them at the crossing, #5844; Control bar: Paragraph: link and Align left/center/right while type is selected, #5372; shape tools: a press on the selection's centre point moves it and one in the rotate zone outside a box corner turns it, #5477; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; Units › East Asian Type acts, with Q and Ha units; scores unchanged)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-12 · **Change:** minor (Ruler origin: the corner drag snaps as a drawn point does; previously minor: Live Paint Bucket fills faces crossed in one drag (#6373); previously: #6404: transform-aware Eyedropper character copying; scores and estimates unchanged; previously: Outline view: images and gradient meshes are picked on what Outline draws, so a click inside them reaches the path behind, #6437; previously minor: a middle-click on a document tab closes it, #6506; previously minor: Blob Brush: a round tip's preview is the outline of the area it adds, round at both ends, as the stroke it commits (#4343); scores and estimates unchanged; previously:; ruler double-click adds a guide at the pointer, #5239; G5: Inventory Icons built-in symbol library (four built-ins); previously minor: files that record no units open in Preferences › Units › General, #5820; previously minor: interim macOS cursor delivery, #2292; native validation pending; scores and estimates unchanged; Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged; floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it, #5925 in part; numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking keyboard focus, #5949; Character Styles panel: a double-click on a style's row opens its Character Style Options; the dialog keeps a fixed width and scrolls its sections, so its buttons stay on screen; Selection QoL: marquee modes and visible feedback, #5313; #3380 deletion-only review follow-up: independent survivors keep gradient placement, owned subpaths avoid discarded copies, and contracts/status/evidence are clarified; endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged; Drop Shadow and glow dialogs: spinner arrows, #5367, #5368; Stroke Weight Up and Down shortcuts, #5797; Layers: Rename (`ui.rename`) opens the name field of the selected layer, group or object, #5324; Properties in Edit Artboards: Transform section above the Artboards section, #5219; scrubby labels: the Control bar's Stroke: and Opacity: links and the Properties panel's Stroke link scrub their fields, #4088; Properties: Quick Actions has Repeat Options for one selected repeat, #5181; Direct Selection: Shift-click picks several blend spine points, which drag together, #5285; Direct Selection: Cmd/Ctrl held lends the Selection tool and shows its bounding box, #3901; Join tool trims two crossing open paths and joins them at the crossing, #5844; Control bar: Paragraph: link and Align left/center/right while type is selected, #5372; shape tools: a press on the selection's centre point moves it and one in the rotate zone outside a box corner turns it, #5477; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; Units › East Asian Type acts, with Q and Ha units; scores unchanged)
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 > Vector Halftone preview update (2026-11-10): temporary dot selection marks are hidden, and the bounding box stays available (#6369).
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@@ -53,12 +51,9 @@ Artboard Options forwards the active Artboard tool's Scale Artwork with Artboard
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
-| 2026-11-03 | minor | A double-click on a ruler adds a guide at the pointer (#5239): a vertical one on the top ruler, a horizontal one on the left ruler; 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. |
 | 2026-11-08 | 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 |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Drop Shadow, Outer Glow and Inner Glow: spinner arrows beside Opacity, the offsets, Blur and Darkness (#5367, #5368); scores and estimates unchanged |
@@ -87,11 +82,14 @@ Artboard Options forwards the active Artboard tool's Scale Artwork with Artboard
 | 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 | File › Export › Export As PNG… exports the active artboard, or each artboard the Artboard tool has selected (one file each), instead of always the first (#5502); a choice the caller gives is kept; scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-04 | minor | Document Tools add-on (a VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Document Tools › Batch Trace Folder asks for a folder of images and a destination folder and traces each image into it (#4921); scores and estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-11-03 | minor | A double-click on a ruler adds a guide at the pointer (#5239): a vertical one on the top ruler, a horizontal one on the left ruler; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | The Action Options row cites the public Actions panel page and describes its controls. Scores and estimates remain unchanged. |
 | 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. |
+| 2026-11-02 | 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) |
 | 2026-10-26 | 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. |
@@ -242,7 +240,7 @@ tools, never checked side by side) isn't captured row by row.
 | Ruler guides: drag out, select, move, delete, lock, Make/Release Guides | done | #414, #451; marquee selects unlocked ruler guides |
 | A double-click on a ruler adds a guide at the pointer: a vertical one on the top ruler, a horizontal one on the left ruler (swapped in a view turned 90°, where the rulers read the other document axis; the nearer axis in between), exactly where the pointer is (no snapping), shown even with guides hidden, one undo step (`guide.add`); both clicks of the pair must be on that ruler, and the first adds nothing. The [public page on rulers](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/measure-and-align/grids-and-guides/use-rulers.html) doesn't describe this gesture, so it follows the request in #5239 | done | #5239; an artboard guide with the Artboard tool, as a drag from a ruler makes one; `canvas/tests.rs` `double_clicking_a_ruler_adds_a_guide_at_that_position`, `a_canvas_click_then_a_ruler_click_adds_no_guide`, `a_ruler_double_click_follows_a_rotated_view` |
 | Escape cancels an existing ruler-guide press, move or copy | done | Selection and Direct/Group Selection; app-input regressions cover preselected guides, document/interaction-start selection, Undo/Redo and saved state, later on-canvas motion/release and temporary borrowing from idle Pen. All eight checks and the Direct Selection Escape control passed in current full CI. [Validation evidence](target-app-parity.md#evidence-what-ships-today-by-area) |
-| Ruler origin: corner drag with preview, double-click reset to the active artboard, relative X/Y fields, native save/reopen | done | #1212; `document.setRulerOrigin`, `document.resetRulerOrigin`; geometry and command coordinates stay absolute |
+| Ruler origin: corner drag with preview, snapped as a drawn point is (Smart Guides, Snap to Point and the ruler guides, pixels, the grid), double-click reset to the active artboard, relative X/Y fields, native save/reopen | done | #1212; `document.setRulerOrigin`, `document.resetRulerOrigin`; geometry and command coordinates stay absolute |
 | Ruler guides as Layers rows: shown, hidden, locked and deleted with their layer; rows dragged to another layer | done | `guide.setLayer`; guides from older files go on a layer |
 | Objects made into guides: drawn in the guide colour and style of Preferences; Lock Guides locks them too (no select, move or delete); a dragged selection snaps to ruler guides with Smart Guides on, by the nearest point of the path when pressed on its stroke or beside its edge, so the path lands exactly on the guide | done | #1534 (#1543, #1583); #3701 |
 | A selected ruler guide's X or Y in the Transform panel; typing a value moves it | not scored | #1659 (part of #1597); several guides move together; not in Properties or the Control bar. Not established by the documentation we could find: the help pages on guides, rulers and the Transform, Control and Properties panels (read again on 2026-10-14) don't describe it, and the one public statement is a user's [community answer](https://community.adobe.com/questions-652/adding-a-new-custom-guide-785586), which is not documentation. Kept as a convenience pending the owner's decision; no parity claim |
@@ -273,6 +271,7 @@ tools, never checked side by side) isn't captured row by row.
 | Split Into Grid dialog: number, height or width, gutter and total for rows and columns, Add Guides, Preview | done | #1462; opens at the selection's size; several paths become one grid painted as the topmost one; a typed height or width keeps the gutter and changes the total (our choice) |
 | Reference point locator (nine squares) in Control bar and Transform panel | done | |
 | Transform panel menu: Transform Object Only, Transform Pattern Only, Transform Both (one checked), Use Registration Point for Symbol | done | `transformPanelPatterns` (`object`, `pattern`, `both`) sends `objects` and `patterns` with every field, flip and menu flip of the Transform panel and the Properties panel's Transform section; `useRegistrationPointForSymbol` makes them measure and transform one selected symbol instance from its symbol's registration point (Symbol Options › Registration), where the instance's flips, rotations and shears put it, instead of the reference point; the Properties panel's rotation and flips turn and mirror about it too ([Transform panel overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/reshape-transform-objects/transform-panel-overview.html)); until a choice is made (`default`) the panels follow General › Transform Pattern Tiles as before, the menu checking Transform Both while it is on and Transform Object Only while it is off |
+| Transform panel menu and New Document › Advanced Options: Align New Objects to Pixel Grid | done | `document.setup {alignNewObjectsToPixelGrid}` and `file.new {alignNewObjectsToPixelGrid}`: paths and compound paths drawn while it is on are pixel-aligned; on in the Mobile and Web presets; art already in the document, pasted, duplicated or placed keeps its own property (our choice) |
 | Transform panel, Properties and Control bar X/Y/W/H of the anchor points selected with Direct Selection | done | #1839 (fixes #1824): they show and edit the selected points' bounds; a whole-object selection is unchanged |
 
 ## Nudging, numeric entry and precision
@@ -304,6 +303,7 @@ tools, never checked side by side) isn't captured row by row.
 | Space: Hand; Cmd+Space / Cmd+Alt+Space: zoom in/out; middle button pans | done | Space pressed after a tool takes a drag keeps the view still and shows that tool's cursor. Shape and anchor tools may use Space to move the geometry being drawn. Cmd+Space pressed mid-drag likewise keeps the active tool cursor. Space held before a press starts a view gesture, and its view cursor returns after release. `space_during_a_pencil_drag_keeps_the_pencil_cursor`, `cmd_space_mid_tool_drag_keeps_the_active_tool_cursor` |
 | Document window scroll bars along the right and bottom edges (Normal and Full Screen Mode with Menu Bar; none in Full Screen and Presentation Mode): a thumb as long as the view against the art and the artboards; dragging it scrolls, a click on the track pages, the wheel over a bar scrolls along it; in a rotated view they follow the screen's axes | partial | #2322. The span is the art and the artboards with half a window around them, not Illustrator's 227 in canvas: VectorCraft has no bounded drawing area (#2284). A track click pages rather than jumping to the click; the page size and the rotated-view behaviour are our own choice (the public documentation gives neither) |
 | Cmd/Ctrl: last-used selection tool; Cmd+Alt: Group Selection inside Direct Selection | done | Cmd+Alt lends Group Selection only while Direct Selection is active (Cmd borrow from the Pen keeps Direct Selection so Alt stays copy/subtract); Cmd alone lends Direct Selection the Selection tool: its bounding box shows while Cmd is held over objects selected whole and its handles scale and rotate them, and a Cmd drag moves the whole object while its direct-selected anchors stay selected (#3901; no box over a selection with anchors picked yet); engine pointer and canvas regressions |
+| Eyedropper copies effective character dimensions between transformed text objects | done | Point/area and grouped text, highlighted ranges, reverse/remembered sampling, opt-outs and atomic invalid-transform rejection; `scaled_type_pick_*` (#6404) |
 | Eyedropper styles highlighted characters only and preserves ranges across Type switches | done | Font/paint, Shift color-only, Unicode, Undo/Redo and stale-range regression tests; enabled non-neutral source or target object transparency is refused atomically; disable Transparency to sample supported attributes |
 | Eyedropper reads visible sources while their layer/object is locked or outside isolation | done | Ordinary/Shift/Shift+Alt and gradient-stop reads preserve the source and selection; Alt reverse remains editable-only; hidden art stays excluded (`eyedropper_sources.rs`, #1251) |
 | Add a visible stroke after drawing with inherited None/zero-width paint | done | Paint and Swap Fill/Stroke restore the existing 1 pt default; positive widths and painted zero widths stay as set; Undo/Redo and targeted appearance items tested (`stroke_visibility.rs`, #1253) |
@@ -374,6 +374,7 @@ next unit in the order a right-click on a ruler lists them, from Feet back to Po
 |---|---|---|
 | Effect > Warp Options: style previews, orientation choices and percent controls | done | #1760; focused input, mixed-style and history checks passed; original captures reviewed. No geometry or optional Properties changes. |
 | Command search: Up and Down move through the results, Enter runs the highlighted one | done | #1798 (#1757) |
+| Learn panel: Window › Learn and Explore tutorials on the app bar open it; For you holds a Quick skill guide card, Skills lists VectorCraft's own skills with tutorial counts and empty progress rings, a tutorial shows its numbered steps, Back goes up a level | done | [the help page](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/get-started/learn-the-basics/learn-skills-quick-skill-guide.html); `learn.list`, `learn.show`; `panels::learn::tests` |
 | Pathfinder panel: a group selected alone counts its nested shapes, so an expanded stroked object keeps the Shape Modes enabled | done | #1642 (#1635) |
 | Selected Grid Repeat shows row, column and corner handles and spacing sliders; bounding-box handles take priority where they meet | done | #2691, `tools/src/repeat_grid.rs`; [public behavior reference](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/create-and-edit-patterns/set-grid-repeat-options.html); drags preview and commit `object.repeat.options` as one undo step, Escape cancels; Radial Repeat has no handles yet |
 | Grid Repeat Options (Object › Repeat › Options…) has a Preview checkbox: the repeat on the canvas follows the fields while the dialog is open, Cancel puts the original back without a history step, OK keeps the previewed values as one undo step | done | #2651; [public behavior reference](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/create-and-edit-patterns/set-grid-repeat-options.html) lists the Preview option for the grid options only, so Radial and Mirror Repeat Options have none; `dialogs/command.rs` tests |
@@ -437,7 +438,7 @@ next unit in the order a right-click on a ruler lists them, from Feet back to Po
 | 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 |
+| 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; circular cubic paths export as native CIRCLE/ARC where stroke semantics permit; DXF Options' Preset menu and `document.exportDxf`'s `dxfPreset: "cnc"` set the CNC / CAM options (#5500) |
 | macOS save sheet: choose the format from a menu | done | #866; the save panel is VectorCraft's own `NSSavePanel` with its Format menu set before the sheet opens (`apps/vectorcraft/src/mac_save_format.rs`); #1855 had withdrawn the menu that was added after the sheet began, which made Save As, Save a Copy and the first Save show no sheet |
 | Preferences: every option acts | partial | 2 stored but unused (#394, audited 2026-10-30): Scratch Disks, Legacy vector clipboard; the rest act (Units › East Asian Type since 2026-10-31; Open Documents As Tabs: cleared, new documents open in floating windows). General › Corner Radius drives the Rounded Rectangle tool and follows its ↑/↓ (2026-10-24) |
 | Preferences › General › Constrain Angle | done | arrow keys and Shift drags along the turned axes; the Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse and grid tools, point and area type and the shape size dialogs draw along them with the bounding box turned; Shift-drawn polygons and stars keep the turned base orientation; the Line Segment tool's Shift steps count from it (#394, <https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/arrange-objects/rotate-objects-by-specific-angles.html>); arcs, spirals, flares and Pen paths are not turned |
@@ -510,45 +511,55 @@ rendering, swatch conflicts, cancellation, rotated/zoomed views and target Undo/
 coverage (`tests_document_drag`, `tests_clipboard`). Overflow-menu and cross-window drag remain
 separate. Scores and hours unchanged. [Behavior and command details](development.md#drag-artwork-between-document-tabs-2026-10-22).
 
+## Live Paint Bucket
+
+Dragging from a face fills the visible faces crossed in that Live Paint group, even when a
+narrow face lies between pointer events. Undo restores the whole drag, and Escape cancels it
+before release (#6373). [Paint faces and edges](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/learn-painting-basics/paint-with-the-live-paint-bucket-tool.html).
+
 ## Revision history
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-12 | minor | Live Paint Bucket fills faces crossed in one drag (#6373). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-12 | minor | Save refusal follow-up (#6146): changed format opens its Save options; unchanged format retains original options. Focused UI regressions passed, including the format-change case that failed before the fix; native panel acceptance pending. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-11 | minor | Ruler origin: the corner drag snaps as a drawn point does, onto the art's and the artboards' anchors, centres, edges and paths, and with Snap to Point along the ruler guides; scores and estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-11-11 | minor | Eyedropper copies effective character dimensions between transformed text objects (#6404); scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | Ordinary Save to a location refusing writes offers Save As (#6146); cancellation preserves the original path and modified state; automation receives READ_ONLY_LOCATION. Scores and estimates unchanged. Validation pending. |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | Outline view: a click on a path's outline selects it through an image or a gradient mesh in front, which Outline draws as a frame or mesh lines (#6437). |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | A middle-click on a document tab (or its ×) closes it as the × does; closing a document's last view with unsaved changes asks to save first (#6506). VectorCraft addition; scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-11-03 | minor | A double-click on a ruler adds a guide at the pointer (#5239): a vertical one on the top ruler, a horizontal one on the left ruler; scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-11-10 | minor | Symbol libraries: Inventory Icons joins Basic Shapes, UI Frames and Map Markers as a fourth built-in library (Sword, Shield, Potion, Key, Gem; no default 9-slice). |
 | 2026-11-11 | minor | Files that record no units (PDF, EPS or `.ai` without ruler units, raster images, metafiles, Affinity files, importer plug-ins) open and revert in Preferences › Units › General instead of points; native, SVG and DXF files and `.ai`/EPS ruler units are kept (#5820). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-11 | minor | Blob Brush: while painting, the preview of a round tip is the outline of the area the stroke adds, round at both ends, as the stroke it commits (#4343). Scores unchanged (estimated). |
+| 2026-11-10 | minor | Symbol libraries: Inventory Icons joins Basic Shapes, UI Frames and Map Markers as a fourth built-in library (Sword, Shield, Potion, Key, Gem; no default 9-slice). |
 | 2026-11-10 | minor | Held numeric spinner arrows keep stepping past the click timeout and stop on release (#6307). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-10 | minor | Vector Halftone Preview leaves the dots unobscured and keeps the selection box (#6369). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-09 | minor | Interim macOS canvas cursor delivery (#2292): existing artwork in aligned 1×/2× AppKit representations, visible system fallback and host-owned restoration. Headless routing, bitmap and ownership coverage; native timing, menus, focus/handback, mixed displays, Spotlight and full-screen Spaces remain unverified. 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. |
+| 2026-11-08 | 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 | 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 |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Control bar: with type selected, a Paragraph: link (the Paragraph panel in a popover) and the Align left, Align center and Align right buttons follow the Character controls; the bar leaves them out from its right end when short of room, after X/Y/W/H and the Align buttons (#5372); scores and estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-11-05 | minor | Document tabs are reordered by dragging them along the tab strip (`document.move`, #5663). |
+| 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. |
 | 2026-11-04 | minor | Contour add-on (beyond Illustrator): drag away from a selected shape's edge to grow a live copy of it, or toward the inside to shrink it; the copy carries a live Offset Path effect, so it stays editable until Bake (Expand Appearance), a second drag changes the same Contour instead of nesting one, and a floating bar sets the distance and the Sharp, Round or Square corners. `addon.contour.set` is the command behind it. It is a built-in add-on: Object › Plug-ins › Contour, and its own heading in All Tools, with no default shortcut or toolbar slot. A VectorCraft design built on Offset Path; no other application was inspected. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-04 | minor | Contour tool (beyond Illustrator): drag away from a selected shape's edge to grow a live copy of it, or toward the inside to shrink it; the copy carries a live Offset Path effect, so it stays editable until Bake (Expand Appearance), a second drag changes the same Contour instead of nesting one, and a floating bar sets the distance and the Sharp, Round or Square corners. `object.contour` is the command behind it. A VectorCraft design built on Offset Path; no other application was inspected. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-11-05 | minor | Document tabs are reordered by dragging them along the tab strip (`document.move`, #5663). |
 | 2026-11-04 | minor | Path Precision Tools add-on (a VectorCraft addition): Set Corners… rounds only the corners in an angle range (#5545); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-04 | minor | Path Precision Tools add-on (a VectorCraft addition): Set Corners… rounds all, the odd-numbered or the even-numbered anchors (#5546); scores and estimates unchanged |
-| 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. |
 | 2026-11-04 | minor | New Document: the units chosen in Preset Details belong to the chosen document, as the pane's options are listed "for the selected preset" ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/add-and-import-files/start-a-new-file/create-and-save-custom-document-presets.html)); the chosen card shows them, every other Recent and Saved card keeps the units its document or preset was made in, and the built-in tabs still follow the chosen units (#2078); scores and estimates unchanged |
-| 2026-11-01 | minor | Object › Image Trace › Batch Trace Folder asks for a source and a destination folder and traces each image into it (#4921); scores and estimates unchanged |
-| 2026-11-01 | minor | Edit › Copy and Cut take the selected ruler guides, with the objects or alone; pasting puts them on the layer new art goes to, moved as the objects are (alone: where they were), Paste in Place onto the active artboard and Paste on All Artboards onto each (#3226); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-04 | minor | Area type: Align Top / Center / Bottom / Justify Vertically buttons in the Properties panel (Paragraph section) and the Control panel set its vertical alignment in the frame, as Area Type Options does; turned off for frames with rows or columns and threaded frames (#3759); scores and estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-11-03 | minor | A double-click on a ruler adds a guide at the pointer (#5239): a vertical one on the top ruler, a horizontal one on the left ruler; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | Enclosing Lasso selects fully enclosed objects with a freehand loop under Object › Plug-ins; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | Type on a Path Options has a Preview checkbox (#5360, as public tutorials of the dialog show); scores and estimates unchanged |
-| 2026-11-02 | minor | Font-family fields in Character, Properties and Control accept the wheel without opening the menu (#5253); scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | Symbol editing draws and drags 9-slice guides on the canvas (#5280). Guides outside the artwork remain unsupported. Scores and hours remain unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-02 | minor | Font-family fields in Character, Properties and Control accept the wheel without opening the menu (#5253); scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-01 | minor | Object › Image Trace › Batch Trace Folder asks for a source and a destination folder and traces each image into it (#4921); scores and estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-11-01 | minor | Edit › Copy and Cut take the selected ruler guides, with the objects or alone; pasting puts them on the layer new art goes to, moved as the objects are (alone: where they were), Paste in Place onto the active artboard and Paste on All Artboards onto each (#3226); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | A double-click on a Repeat with the Selection tool enters isolation mode on it, where its source art (type included: a double-click there edits the text) is edited and every copy follows (#5054); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | Live Corners: while a corner widget is pressed or dragged with the Selection or Direct Selection tool, the Up and Down arrows step the corners' kind (round, inverted round, chamfer) with the radius, as one undo step (#2898); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | Keyboard Shortcuts: every Effect menu item (Distort & Transform › Transform…, Stylize › Drop Shadow…, …) is listed under its menu path and takes a shortcut of its own, which the menu shows and which opens that effect's dialog (or applies an effect without options) (#3296); scores and estimates unchanged |
-| 2026-10-31 | minor | Units › East Asian Type acts (#394): Q and Ha (a quarter of a millimetre each) are units that preference offers; 4 Preferences options remain stored but unused; scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | Edit › Copy and Cut take the selected ruler guides, with the objects or alone; pasting puts them on the layer new art goes to, moved as the objects are (alone: where they were), Paste in Place onto the active artboard and Paste on All Artboards onto each; a Copy of guides alone empties the system clipboard, so Paste takes the guides, not what another app copied before (#3226); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | Color Effects add-on (a VectorCraft addition): Find Nearest Swatch (#4923); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | Artboards panel: a row dragged above or below another reorders the artboards (#4687); scores and estimates unchanged |
@@ -558,7 +569,6 @@ separate. Scores and hours unchanged. [Behavior and command details](development
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | Arrange Tools add-on (a VectorCraft addition): Randomize Opacity (#4925); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | Arrange Tools add-on (a VectorCraft addition): Sort Objects (#4917); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | Blob Brush and Eraser: the tip's outline (size, angle, roundness, at the zoom) follows the pointer before and while painting, around a small centre dot, updating at once with `[` / `]` and Tool Options; precise cursors (Caps Lock) show only the crosshair (#4977); scores and estimates unchanged (estimated) |
-| 2026-11-11 | minor | Blob Brush: while painting, the preview of a round tip is the outline of the area the stroke adds, round at both ends, as the stroke it commits (#4343). Scores unchanged (estimated). |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | Layers panel: an open blend lists its spine as a `<Path>` row below its key objects, and a click selects the blend so Direct Selection edits the spine (#4820); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | Pen with Cmd/Ctrl held: the lent Selection tool no longer scales the path being drawn by bounding-box handles the canvas hides while its end anchor is selected (a flat path did nothing under a resize pointer); a Cmd drag moves the path instead, and with Direct Selection moves anchors and segments, one undo step each (#4980); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | Dynamic symbols (#4938): Symbol Options › Symbol Type; per-instance appearance for objects of a dynamic symbol's art; Reset in the Properties panel and the Symbols panel menu; on-canvas Direct Selection of the parts remains |
@@ -570,6 +580,7 @@ separate. Scores and hours unchanged. [Behavior and command details](development
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | Arrange Tools add-on (a VectorCraft addition): Group Overlapping Objects (#4928); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | Character panel › Language: the selected characters' language, from Document Setup's list, which gains Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia and Urdu (#4946, #4943); the Digits menu's numeral names keep their own translations; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-11-01 | minor | VectorCraft Options' Version is a menu of the versions VectorCraft writes, each named by the releases that read it, and an uncompressible version turns Use Compression off (#4931); a save refused before writing shows the Can't save alert with the reason (#4933); About › Contributors' table keeps its header row above the scrolling rows (#4944); the Gradient panel's freeform point swatch opens the point's popover (#4953); scores unchanged |
+| 2026-10-31 | minor | Units › East Asian Type acts (#394): Q and Ha (a quarter of a millimetre each) are units that preference offers; 4 Preferences options remain stored but unused; scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | A file opened from the file manager while VectorCraft runs opens as a new tab in that window, which comes to the front, on Windows and Linux (#4892); `--new-instance` opts out; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | Object › Path › Smooth: Auto-Smooth takes a shaky line to one smooth curve, and direct-selected anchors smooth only their section; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | New Document: More Settings has Save Preset beside the name, as Preset Details does, and saves its settings (#4893); scores and estimates unchanged |
@@ -586,7 +597,6 @@ separate. Scores and hours unchanged. [Behavior and command details](development
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | Artwork Cleanup add-on (a VectorCraft addition): its text tools in the panel and Object › Plug-ins › Artwork Cleanup; scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | Color Effects add-on: live Duotone (one to four inks, spot tones kept) and Print Ink Fixes; scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | Color Effects add-on: live Vector Halftone; scores and estimates unchanged |
-| 2026-11-10 | minor | Vector Halftone Preview leaves the dots unobscured and keeps the selection box (#6369). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | Path Precision Tools add-on: the Parametric Shape Tool (ten re-editable shape kinds), its panel and Convert to Parametric Shape; scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | Smart Pen add-on: an Alt-drag away from paths selects points with a marquee; scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | Color Effects add-on: Select by Color Kind; scores and estimates unchanged |
@@ -612,17 +622,19 @@ separate. Scores and hours unchanged. [Behavior and command details](development
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | Gradient panel: Presets menu and Save/Delete Gradient Preset (30.0); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-29 | minor | 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 and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-29 | minor | Object › Path › Smooth… with its slider and Auto-Smooth (#4115); scores and estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-10-28 | minor | Blob Brush Shift locks after clear axial movement, keeps earlier samples fixed, and waits without an off-axis trail. Activation uses raw press displacement in logical screen pixels, with exact quarter-turn boundaries. Explicit application rule; scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-28 | minor | Flare Tool Options opened by a canvas click previews its settings at that click. Reset refreshes the enabled preview while keeping the dialog open. Cancel discards preview art and tentative options; OK accepts one flare in one Undo step. Editing existing flare artwork remains outside this dialog scope. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | Selection tool: a double-click on a threaded port breaks the thread there (`text.thread.break`); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | 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); headless canvas and tool regressions; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | Floating panels open in OS windows of their own on the desktop (inside the window on the web and on Wayland); saved layouts from earlier versions convert to the shared docking layout (#4135); scores and estimates unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | Object › Expand… is dimmed for a selection with appearance attributes, with a tooltip to use Object › Expand Appearance first, so a stroked line with an effect expands to a stroked line before its stroke is outlined (#3089). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 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. |
-| 2026-10-24 | 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. |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | Transform Each opens on the values it was last confirmed with (Copy aside) and has a Copy button left of Cancel instead of a Copy checkbox (#1732). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-24 | minor | Recolor Artwork › Assign: double-clicking a row's new color opens the Color Picker over the dialog; its OK sets the row's new color in the model it was picked in (a CMYK mix stays CMYK, RGB becomes CMYK in a CMYK document), Cancel leaves the row as it was. A Lab new color is kept, but a Lab color can't be typed yet: the picker's Lab fields work in RGB, as for fill and stroke (part of #4028; Lab entry, swatch libraries and the row menu remain). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | Pathfinder panel › Pathfinder Options… opens a dialog with Precision, Remove Redundant Points and Divide and Outline Will Remove Unpainted Artwork, which the panel's operations use (#3426); scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | Artboards panel › Delete Empty Artboards deletes the artboards with no artwork in one undo step and makes one that is left active; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-25 | minor | Transform panel menu: Transform Object Only / Pattern Only / Both and Use Registration Point for Symbol act in the Transform panel and the Properties panel's Transform section; scores and estimates unchanged |
+| 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. |
+| 2026-10-24 | 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. |
+| 2026-10-24 | minor | Recolor Artwork › Assign: double-clicking a row's new color opens the Color Picker over the dialog; its OK sets the row's new color in the model it was picked in (a CMYK mix stays CMYK, RGB becomes CMYK in a CMYK document), Cancel leaves the row as it was. A Lab new color is kept, but a Lab color can't be typed yet: the picker's Lab fields work in RGB, as for fill and stroke (part of #4028; Lab entry, swatch libraries and the row menu remain). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-24 | minor | Properties: Merge Live Paint shows only when the selection holds nothing Live Paint refuses (type, images and other objects that aren't paths), which `livePaint.merge` and Make now refuse too. Scores unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-24 | minor | G1: Properties has the additional contextual controls of the public Properties panel overview: Blend Options and Merge Live Paint in Quick Actions, the Width Profile list and an applied effect's Delete icon in Appearance, and the kind and radius of corners selected with Direct Selection. Scores unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-24 | minor | Docs catch-up: Relative rounding (#3091) marked done; the stale "Video rulers: missing" duplicate row removed (done, #2849). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
@@ -636,13 +648,13 @@ separate. Scores and hours unchanged. [Behavior and command details](development
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | Pencil: Shift held at the press draws a straight line at 45° steps from the Constrain Angle (part of #3799). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | Fix #3705: in Draw Inside, art drawn or pasted inside the isolated object takes isolation mode into its clip group, so it can be clicked and isn't dimmed (it used to stay locked and dimmed beside the isolated path); undo or redo that removes the isolated object ends isolation mode; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | Preferences › General › Constrain Angle: arrow keys, Shift drags and new rectangles, ellipses, grids, type, polygons, stars and size-dialog shapes follow it (#394). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-22 | minor | Pen, Anchor Point and Direct Selection drags: the preview gets every pointer position, including where it re-enters the window and the move in the release's frame (#834); score unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | Guides: a path moved by a press on its stroke or beside its edge, and a straight segment Direct Selection drags, snap by the nearest point of the path, landing exactly on a ruler guide (#3701); scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | Fix #3705 in part: drawing modes apply to pastes (Draw Inside puts Paste, Paste in Place and Paste on All Artboards inside the object drawn into; Draw Behind puts Paste in Place and Paste on All Artboards behind the selection), and Shift+D goes from Draw Behind back to Draw Normal when Draw Inside can't draw into the selection instead of stopping at Draw Behind; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | Artboard Options: Show Video Safe Areas (action-safe 3.5% and title-safe 5% in from each edge, EBU R 95, canvas only) and Video Ruler Pixel Aspect Ratio, per artboard; View › Rulers › Show Video Rulers counts the active artboard in those pixels (#2849); two rows done; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | Artboard Options: Show Center Mark and Show Cross Hairs (`artboard.setProps`/`artboard.new` `showCenterMark`, `showCrossHairs`) draw a center cross and lines from the middle of each side through the center on the canvas only, in one undo step; video safe areas, video rulers and the pixel aspect ratio remain missing; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | Simplify: Object › Path › Simplify opens its slider at the Auto-Simplify level for the selection, previewing that result, instead of at 1 pt; partial-path simplify remains missing; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-23 | minor | Simplify of part of a path: with anchors or segments of a path direct-selected, Object › Path › Simplify (slider, Auto-Simplify and dialog) refits only each run of selected segments between its end anchors; the Simplify row is done (its stale duplicate removed); scores and estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-22 | minor | Pen, Anchor Point and Direct Selection drags: the preview gets every pointer position, including where it re-enters the window and the move in the release's frame (#834); score unchanged (estimated) |
 | 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. |
@@ -650,27 +662,27 @@ separate. Scores and hours unchanged. [Behavior and command details](development
 | 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) |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | A double-click on a dock tab collapses its group to its tabs, as floating groups already did, and expands it again; another of its tabs expands it (`window.panel.collapse`); scores unchanged (estimated) |
-| 2026-10-20 | 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 | 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. |
 | 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. 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 |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | G1: one selected clip group's Properties panel has Edit Clipping Path and Edit Contents at its top (public doc cited in target-app-parity.md). Scores unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-19 | minor | Distribute Objects and Distribute Spacing space the selected ruler guides across the axis with the objects, as items with no size, and two or more guides selected alone (#1597 in part); with a key guide and a spacing, the guide stays put and the other items are spaced from it (key guide from #3165); the Distribute Spacing value is enabled for a key guide; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | Snap to Glyph marked done (#3124); scores unchanged |
+| 2026-10-20 | 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) |
 | 2026-10-20 | minor | The selection tools (Selection, Direct Selection, Group Selection) take a clipping path on its outline, within the selection tolerance, before the art it clips, so its segments can be dragged where the art covers the mask's edge; Select Behind lists the same, and the eyedropper and the tools that act on what is drawn are unchanged. Doc and tool regression tests. Scores 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 | Live trace result bounds and selection highlights exclude the retained bitmap except in source-image views; scores and hours unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-19 | minor | Distribute Objects and Distribute Spacing space the selected ruler guides across the axis with the objects, as items with no size, and two or more guides selected alone (#1597 in part); with a key guide and a spacing, the guide stays put and the other items are spaced from it (key guide from #3165); the Distribute Spacing value is enabled for a key guide; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-19 | minor | A ruler guide selected with objects can be the key object (#2143): the Selection tool's click on it, or Align to Key Object with one object; drawn thicker; Align lines the objects up on it and the guide stays put; the other way round, selected guides align to a key object, which one object selected with guides can be; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-19 | minor | Cache status-readout sample widths per UI, language, document unit and pixels per point; regressions check reuse across live frames and refresh after display-setting changes. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-19 | minor | Status messages and readouts use stable responsive allocations sized for localized labels and ordinary coordinates. Contributor original-file acceptance confirmed; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-19 | minor | Cached canvas dimensions match the renderer limit before cache-key creation, view construction and worker submission. Regression coverage; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-19 | minor | Cached canvas reprojection preserves scale during resize, rotation and DPI changes. Contributor original-file acceptance confirmed; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-19 | minor | Color Picker layout (#2008): compact controls, centered header, stacked actions and aligned inputs; screen-reader channel values, current shared button names and styling, screen sampler and model-by-model Tab order retained. Narrow windows scroll vertically; scores and hours unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-18 | minor | Mirror Repeat shows its axis when selected (#2877): drag the line or center handle to move it, drag an end handle to rotate it (Shift: 45°), Escape cancels and each drag is one undo step. Engine and headless canvas gesture regressions passed; native move, rotation and Escape screenshots reviewed. Formatting, Clippy, WASM and repository checks passed; the undo label reuses translated Repeat Options. (#2877) Scores and hours unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-18 | minor | Bounding-box handles take priority where a selected Mirror Repeat axis crosses them: the Top handle scales the repeat, while the center still moves it and the ends still rotate it. A headless canvas regression confirms height changes while width stays fixed; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-19 | minor | Blend Options: Ease In / Ease Out and Color Ease In / Out sliders with live preview (#1124); the Blend panel row stays partial (no easing in the panel, no on-canvas handles) |
 | 2026-10-19 | minor | Smart guides and snapping: tangent and perpendicular snapping for lines drawn from an anchor and View › Snapping (#2530), both partial; scores and hours unchanged |
+| 2026-10-18 | minor | Mirror Repeat shows its axis when selected (#2877): drag the line or center handle to move it, drag an end handle to rotate it (Shift: 45°), Escape cancels and each drag is one undo step. Engine and headless canvas gesture regressions passed; native move, rotation and Escape screenshots reviewed. Formatting, Clippy, WASM and repository checks passed; the undo label reuses translated Repeat Options. (#2877) Scores and hours unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-18 | minor | Bounding-box handles take priority where a selected Mirror Repeat axis crosses them: the Top handle scales the repeat, while the center still moves it and the ends still rotate it. A headless canvas regression confirms height changes while width stays fixed; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-18 | minor | Status-bar pointer X/Y follows the active global/artboard ruler origin and General units; three painted-text regressions cover origins, mode/artboard/reset/unit changes and read-only state; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-17 | minor | Blend spine Anchor Point conversions, selection/stacking priority and Shift regression coverage (#2544); scores and hours unchanged. Windows native canvas checks and screenshots reviewed in PR #2643. |
 | 2026-10-17 | minor | Artboard Options has X and Y beside a reference point locator, counted from the ruler origin as the Transform panel's are; a typed X or Y moves the artboard's reference point there and a new Width or Height keeps it in place (#1876); scores unchanged (estimated) |
@@ -685,29 +697,29 @@ separate. Scores and hours unchanged. [Behavior and command details](development
 | 2026-10-16 | minor | Batch exporting in Export for Screens (#1935): a file name pattern (document and item names, a counter, the date), folders per format, item or both, Layers and Selection tabs with thumbnails, EPS, AI and VectorCraft rows, a PDF row with printer's marks, and export presets (built-in Logo Package and Print-Ready PDF, saved ones); scores and hours unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-16 | minor | Anchor Point tool: a click on one handle end retracts that handle only; the anchor becomes a corner and keeps the other handle (#2267). Handle drags start past the same 2 px as anchor drags. Scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-16 | minor | Smart Guides: the dragged end of a straight segment snaps to the segment's extension at any angle, with the guide from its other end (#2120); scores and hours unchanged |
-| 2026-10-15 | minor | Cursors of their own for 36 more tool states: node-editing cursors as the public manual describes them, Anchor Point and Curvature, Free Transform's side-shear; the rest borrow a drawn cursor until they're drawn. Busy cursor listed as missing. Every cursor is listed in `crates/tools/src/cursors.toml` |
 | 2026-10-16 | minor | 3D lighting: one to ten directional lights, a selectable light list, Add Light and Delete Light, independent settings and artboard gestures; ambient applied once and smooth RGB vector export; scores and hour estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-16 | minor | 3D lighting: opaque RGB Color for the shared directional light, with neutral ambient, preview/reset controls and smooth vector Revolve shading; scores and hour estimates unchanged |
+| 2026-10-16 | minor | Document window scroll bars (#2322): thumb drag, track paging and the wheel over a bar; hidden in Full Screen and Presentation Mode; scores unchanged |
+| 2026-10-15 | minor | Cursors of their own for 36 more tool states: node-editing cursors as the public manual describes them, Anchor Point and Curvature, Free Transform's side-shear; the rest borrow a drawn cursor until they're drawn. Busy cursor listed as missing. Every cursor is listed in `crates/tools/src/cursors.toml` |
+| 2026-10-15 | minor | Artboard tool: closing a clean active tab restores the displayed board before Properties Delete. Nine targeted checks passed; three original close-route captures reviewed; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | Effect > Warp: style, orientation and percent controls; focused checks passed and original captures reviewed; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | G11: open-path anchor Delete leaves separate surviving runs; dedicated Remove Anchors remains connected. Keyboard and history regression coverage added; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | Curvature: the Curvature tool's curve: each stretch of three points follows the circle through them (handles along its tangent, chord/(3·cos²(α/2)) long, shorter in a turn tighter than 30°), and the ends of an open path curve in, so uneven spacing neither overshoots nor loops; the rubber band, dragged, inserted and converted points use the same rule; the Pencil's fitting unchanged (#1236, in part); scores unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | Quick Image Trace presets reveal the adjustment panel with Advanced open; Properties reopens it. Sliders keep their preset row until release so the re-trace is committed. UI regressions added; scores and remaining estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | The macOS save sheet's Format menu goes back to missing: #1855 withdrew it to restore saving (#866 reopened). Rows added for the X/Y/W/H of direct-selected anchors (#1839, fixes #1824), the toolbar and All Tools drawer (#1751) and the Actions panel selection (#1853, part of #1629); the snapping row notes Snap to Grid over Snap to Pixel (#1840). Scores unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | Existing-guide Escape cancellation: eight app-input regressions, the Direct Selection Escape control and current full CI passed; scores and hours unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-15 | minor | Artboard tool: closing a clean active tab restores the displayed board before Properties Delete. Nine targeted checks passed; three original close-route captures reviewed; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | Artboard tab changes align the tool with the displayed board; same-tab multiselection and Move/Scale Artwork options preserved. Three tab regressions and historical full CI on `a0671777` passed; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | Width-point finite-arithmetic follow-up: atomicity, history and native round-trip regressions and current full CI passed; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | Align and Distribute act on the anchor points selected with Direct Selection: the points of one path align to each other, not to the artboard, and Distribute spaces them (#1641, fixes #1636; aligning to a key anchor is still missing); Delete removes every selected anchor of a closed path (it used to remove the wrong ones), removes objects selected whole along with the selected anchors of others, and keeps the remainder selected so a second Delete removes it (#1674); In isolation mode Direct Selection and Group Selection pick only inside the isolated object (#1666); Escape cancels a Direct Selection drag (#1803, #1743); Escape while typing ends the edit, keeps the type selected and switches to the Selection tool (#1802, #1686, #1656); A filled Pencil path keeps a stroke of None (#1804, part of #1679); With the Pen, a press that moves under 3 screen pixels is a click (a corner without handles), and a Precise Cursors command toggles the existing preference and can take a shortcut (#1663); The [ and ] keys reach the Blob Brush, the Eraser and the Symbolism tools in the app (#1734, part of #1661); In the Pathfinder panel a group selected alone counts its nested shapes, so an expanded stroked object keeps the Shape Modes enabled (#1642, #1635); Object › Expand turns radial, grid and mirror repeats into groups of their instances (#1765, #1756); Select › Same matches type on its characters' fill and stroke (#1746, #1737); Fields commit what was typed when you click away or move to another field, as Enter does; Escape still discards it (#1787); Up and Down move through the command search results and Enter runs the highlighted one (#1798, #1757); Slider rails show on Medium Dark (#1808, #1662); On Windows the custom title bar's window stays truly borderless, so the pointer lines up with what is drawn on systems where the hidden caption offset it (#1791, #1758; awaiting the reporter's confirmation); Tool cursors are painted into the window on Wayland (#1652; not run on Linux, #1645 stays open until confirmed); the guide-position row (#1659) is now "not scored": the documentation found doesn't establish it, and it is kept as a convenience pending the owner's decision; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Pathfinder's Trim, Merge and Crop remove the objects' strokes, and Merge joins same-fill objects whatever their strokes were, as the public Pathfinder page describes (#1572, fixes #1570); Offset Path with an inset larger than the shapes says the offset leaves nothing, instead of asking to select paths (#1591, fixes #1590); The Symbols panel's New Symbol opens Symbol Options to name the symbol first, and Alt-click skips it (#1566, fixes #1560); Tool flyouts are as wide as their longest translated name and shortcut need, so names no longer run into shortcuts in Spanish and other languages (#1650, fixes #1616); Smart Guides: a point drawn with the Pen or a shape tool, and an anchor dragged with Direct Selection, snaps to where paths and ruler guides cross, labelled "intersect" (#1658, part of #1602; a moved selection's own anchors don't); The Transform panel shows a selected ruler guide's X or Y, and typing a value moves it (#1659, part of #1597). This is not established by the documentation we could find: the public help pages on guides, rulers and the Transform, Control and Properties panels (read again on 2026-10-14) describe selecting and dragging unlocked guides and the panels' X and Y for a selection, not a guide's position in a panel, and the one public statement of it is a user's [community answer](https://community.adobe.com/questions-652/adding-a-new-custom-guide-785586), which is not documentation. It is kept as a convenience pending the owner's decision, with no parity claim and nothing counted towards a score; Select Behind (Ctrl/Cmd-click) tests each object once, so a deep stack of overlapping objects no longer slows it; same objects in the same order (#1571); Commands that take `ids` run on the objects given with nothing selected, over MCP, the control channel and the CLI too (#1577, fixes #1575); scores unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | G1/M11: Artboard panel deletion, protected deletion keys and navigator/tool synchronization before and after deletion; history normalization preserves valid multiselection; history regressions and full workspace CI pass; scores and hours unchanged |
-| 2026-10-16 | minor | Document window scroll bars (#2322): thumb drag, track paging and the wheel over a bar; hidden in Full Screen and Presentation Mode; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Alt during a drag from either ruler swaps the new guide's orientation ([public shortcut reference](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html)); tool and egui event tests cover preview, snapping, release coordinates, cancellation and one-step Undo/Redo; scores unchanged (estimated). |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | G1: create width points through Width Point Edit with optional adjoining adjustment; command/pointer/history regressions and full CI passed; dialog layout reviewed; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Corner Radius: a link toggle behind the field in the Properties and Transform panels; off, a live rectangle shows a radius field for each corner (Top Left, Top Right, Bottom Right, Bottom Left), each setting its own corner (`singleCornerRadius` preference); split from #1594; score unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Join merges the selected anchor points that lie on one another, as after Average, into one anchor (#1582, fixes #1533); correction: "Join with corner/smooth choice" was listed as done, but `path.join` and `path.average` are separate commands and Join has no such choice, so Average and Join in one step with that choice is its own row, missing; the Smooth tool smooths only the stretch of path under the drag and a round corner next to a curved side curves smoothly instead of sticking out of the shape (#1547, fixes #1512); Lock Guides also locks the objects made into guides: they can't be selected, moved or deleted (#1543); they are drawn in the guide colour and style of Preferences, and a dragged selection snaps to ruler guides with Smart Guides on (#1583, fixes #1534); Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts lists Edit › Duplicate and the other commands that are in no menu but run without parameters (panel-menu commands such as Break Link to Symbol), so they can be given shortcuts (#1549, #1580, fixes #1539); Make Compound Path on a group (such as outlined type) keeps the paint of its backmost path instead of drawing nothing, and compound paths joined into one keep their holes (#1537); scores unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Sliders in Save for Web, the raster export options, Preferences and the opacity popup show their rail (#1506, fixes #1483); a template layer stays in Preview, dimmed, in Outline view (#1505, fixes #1486); Direct Selection takes the selected object's anchor where anchors of overlapping objects coincide (#1509, fixes #1508); a tab stop in the Tabs panel drags from where the press landed (#1487, fixes #1458); scores unchanged (estimated) |
-| 2026-10-12 | minor | Width Point Edit: Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment; plain double-click keeps it off; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Split Into Grid has its row and column sizes, gutters, totals, Add Guides and Preview (#1488, fixes #1462); Transform Objects in the Transform dialogs and Transform Each, and Reflect across an angle (#1494, fixes #1448 and #1460); the Pathfinder panel works on a group selected alone and its greyed-out buttons say what they need (#1493, for #1450); selected text in value fields is white or black on the highlight (#1490, part of #1465); a focused field follows its value when a slider or preview changes it (#1497, fixes #1457); an Alt-drag copies once per drag (#1464); scores unchanged (estimated) |
+| 2026-10-12 | minor | Width Point Edit: Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment; plain double-click keeps it off; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | Transform dialogs (Move, Rotate, Scale, Reflect, Shear) preview on the canvas and step their angles and percentages with the arrow keys (#1428, fixes #1412); the transform tools, dialogs and Move act on anchors selected with Direct Selection (#1427, fixes #1408); the bounding box hides during a corner drag with the Selection tool (#1402, fixes #1229); a picture pastes when blank text sits beside it on the clipboard (#1404); scores unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | Dialogs opened from a menu take the keyboard focus every time they open (#1367); a first field that starts greyed out takes it once enabled (#1395); art flush with an artboard within a rounding error moves, copies and scales with it (#1375, from #1295); scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | Rectangular Grid and Polar Grid tool options (skew, frame, compound path, Fill Grid; #1377, in part): a skew slider under each divider count, kept as tool options and used by drags; the skew curve is our own; score unchanged (estimated) |
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 | 2026-10-11 | minor | Edit Toolbar opens the All Tools drawer beside the toolbar instead of a centred dialog, dims the tools the toolbar holds, and edits the toolbar by drag and drop while it is open (#1018); score unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-11 | minor | Direct Selection: dragging a path selected whole by an anchor moves it whole; Alt-drag copies by an anchor too, toggles during the drag and snaps onto the original (#1104); score unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-10 | major | First checklist, built from the tool sources and tests against Illustrator 2026's public documentation |
-| 2026-10-28 | minor | Blob Brush Shift locks after clear axial movement, keeps earlier samples fixed, and waits without an off-axis trail. Activation uses raw press displacement in logical screen pixels, with exact quarter-turn boundaries. Explicit application rule; scores and estimates unchanged. |
-| 2026-10-28 | minor | Flare Tool Options opened by a canvas click previews its settings at that click. Reset refreshes the enabled preview while keeping the dialog open. Cancel discards preview art and tentative options; OK accepts one flare in one Undo step. Editing existing flare artwork remains outside this dialog scope. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 
 > **Tab-drag status (2026-10-22):** updated from upstream, including the Turkish catalog and all three tab-drag translations requested in #3479; Selection-tool reset regression-checked and clipboard evidence scoped to internal state; drag lifecycle, insertion and regression contracts documented; behavior, scores and estimates unchanged.