.ai import: a note for type in an envelope (part of #3179)

An envelope of type keeps its drawn art with its type hidden, but nothing
in the import notes said so, while the other envelopes that keep their
drawn art do. Opening such a file now notes that the type in an envelope
comes in as the envelope's drawn art, not as editable type, and that the
type is kept hidden. The type is still not editable in the envelope.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

crates/eps/src/import/ai.rs

@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ use crate::ps;
 pub(crate) use envelope::DRAWN as ENVELOPE_DRAWN;
 #[cfg(test)]
 pub(crate) use envelope::MAX_CHECKED;
+#[cfg(test)]
+pub(crate) use envelope::TYPE_DRAWN as ENVELOPE_TYPE_DRAWN;
 pub(crate) use envelope::{WARPED_TYPE_DRAWN, WarpedType};
 pub(crate) use frames::text_frames;
 pub use obj::{NameEncoding, Names};

crates/eps/src/import/ai/envelope.rs

@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ use crate::import::native::compare::{MAX_DIFFERENCE, MAX_SOLID_DIFFERENCE, compa
 pub(super) const PLUGIN: &str = "Adobe Deform Plugin"; // brand-ok: the plugin name the files use
 /// The note for an envelope that keeps its drawn art.
 pub(crate) const DRAWN: &str = "an envelope VectorCraft couldn't read as a live envelope comes in as its drawn art";
+/// The note for an envelope of type, which keeps its drawn art with its type hidden.
+pub(crate) const TYPE_DRAWN: &str = "type in an envelope comes in as the envelope's drawn art, not as editable type: the type is kept, hidden";
 /// The note for warped type that keeps its drawn art, before how many.
 pub(crate) const WARPED_TYPE_DRAWN: &str = "warped text objects that came in as drawn art, not as editable type";
 /// The most envelopes waiting for their drawn art at once.

crates/eps/src/import/ai/read/containers.rs

@@ -519,6 +519,7 @@ impl<'a> Reader<'a> {
                     // An envelope of type keeps its drawn art and its type, hidden, as above: the
                     // type is filled in after reading, which the envelope can't wait for.
                     if typed {
+                        self.warn(crate::import::ai::envelope::TYPE_DRAWN);
                         return Ok(());
                     }
                     if self.envelopes.len() >= crate::import::ai::envelope::MAX_PENDING {

crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs

@@ -5222,7 +5222,8 @@ fn envelope_options_keep_the_source_text_hidden_under_its_outlined_appearance()
         }
     });
     assert_eq!(texts, [("CHONKYCATS".to_string(), false)], "{:?}", r.warnings);
-    assert!(super::tests::program_warnings(&r.warnings).is_empty(), "{:?}", r.warnings);
+    // The notes say the type isn't editable.
+    assert_eq!(super::tests::program_warnings(&r.warnings), [crate::import::ai::ENVELOPE_TYPE_DRAWN], "{:?}", r.warnings);
 }
 
 /// A live envelope that draws a little apart from its drawn art, in layers that already differ

docs/file-format-parity.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # File format parity
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-09 · **Change:** minor (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:** 2026-11-10 · **Change:** minor (`.ai` and EPS import: a note for type in an envelope, #3179; 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
@@ -324,6 +324,7 @@ Names in the editing data that aren't UTF-8 (layers, objects, artboards, colors,
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-10 | minor | `.ai` and EPS import: an envelope of type, which keeps its drawn art with its type hidden, now says so in the import notes ("type in an envelope comes in as the envelope's drawn art, not as editable type: the type is kept, hidden"); nothing said it before, as the other envelopes that keep their drawn art do. The type is still not editable in the envelope (part of #3179). Test `tests_native::envelope_options_keep_the_source_text_hidden_under_its_outlined_appearance` |
 | 2026-11-09 | minor | PDF import: an image in a Separation color space (one ink, ISO 32000-1 §8.6.6.4) opens as a grayscale image of its tints (white where it lays no ink, black at 100 %, its Decode array applied; 1, 2, 4, 8 and 16 bits a sample, or one gray channel from its JPEG, CCITT, JBIG2 or JPEG 2000 decoder) colorized by its ink at 100 %: a spot ink's swatch, a process plate's CMYK color, or Registration. It used to open as an RGB image, losing the ink, and Fill and Recolor Artwork didn't reach its color. Its soft mask or mask becomes its opacity mask, as a CMYK image's does. The ink is found by the image's color space (kind, colorant name and tint transform), once per image. As with any colorized image, where it lays no ink the art under it shows, where the RGB image was opaque white. The ink `None`, which paints nothing, an ink whose color can't be told, an image inside an alpha soft mask, inline images and DeviceN images open as before; samples that can't be read (data cut short, a decoder's output of another layout) open in RGB with a warning, and the ink gets no swatch. Tests `colorize::a_separation_image_opens_colorized_by_its_ink`, `colorize::a_separation_image_reads_its_samples_and_decode_array`, `colorize::a_separation_image_of_a_process_plate_or_of_no_ink`, `colorize::a_separation_image_keeps_its_soft_mask`, `colorize::a_separation_image_drawn_twice_is_colorized_twice`, `colorize::a_separation_jpeg_opens_colorized_by_its_ink`, `colorize::a_separation_image_that_cant_be_read_stays_rgb` (#6314) |
 | 2026-11-09 | minor | PDF import: an image mask (`/ImageMask true`, ISO 32000-1 §8.9.6.2) painted in a solid color opens as a grayscale image of what it paints (black, the rest white) colorized by that color, as the `.ai` reader opens a 1-bit image mask (#5790). It used to open as an RGB image with the color in its pixels: Fill and Recolor Artwork didn't reach the color, a spot color lost its ink, and the same mask painted again in another color took the first color, in an uncolored pattern's cell too. Its color now counts toward the document's color mode, as a fill's does. A spot color is found by its color space, as a fill's is when the page's walk names no ink: two spaces of other inks with the same alternate and tint transform can't be told apart, and the color comes in as RGB. Inside an alpha soft mask, or painted with a pattern, a mask opens as before. Tests `colorize::an_image_mask_opens_colorized_by_its_spot_color`, `colorize::an_image_mask_drawn_in_two_colors_keeps_both`, `colorize::an_uncolored_pattern_drawing_an_image_mask_keeps_each_color` (#6313) |
 | 2026-11-09 | 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. Synthetic evidence: `crates/pdf/src/tests/actual_text.rs`. |

docs/target-app-parity.md

@@ -1382,7 +1382,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
     A `.ai`, or a PDF saved with Illustrator's editing data, whose editing data can't be decompressed opens from its PDF part with a warning that its layers weren't read and why, and an export or Save As to its own path asks first (`acknowledgeLoss`), as for a file whose layers the reader can't read (`crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs`, `crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_aiimport.rs`).
     A `.ai` or EPS opened from its editing data with one object on a shown layer that the reader can't read (an unknown operator inside a group, a pattern fill whose pattern it doesn't have, a symbol instance, a placed file without a usable preview) keeps its layers and groups: in that object's place, its layer gets a group of the page's objects inside the object's box, named after it, with a warning that lists what came in as the page's art and an export or Save As to its own path asking first (`acknowledgeLoss`). The file still opens from its page or PDF part when no box can be found, when live art or another unread object shares the page art inside it, when the object spans two artboards or lies on an artboard that has no page, when no page art lies inside its box, when that page art is inside a page group with a clip, mask, transparency or appearance, when the object holds a frame of threaded type, when the page art uses a pattern, image or swatch that the page lacks or that differs from the editing data's, or when the page art doesn't carry the object's transparency (#4806; `crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs`, `crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_aiimport.rs`).
     A `.ai` or EPS opened from its editing data with one object on a shown layer that the reader can't read (an unknown operator inside a group, a pattern fill whose pattern it doesn't have, a symbol instance, a placed file without a usable preview) keeps its layers and groups: in that object's place, its layer gets a group of the page's objects inside the object's box, named after it, with a warning that lists what came in as the page's art and an export or Save As to its own path asking first (`acknowledgeLoss`). The file still opens from its page or PDF part when no box can be found, when live art or another unread object shares the page art inside it, when the object spans two artboards, or when the page art doesn't carry the object's transparency (#4806; `crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs`, `crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_aiimport.rs`).
-    In a `.ai` opened from its editing data, an envelope made with a warp, a mesh or a top object opens as a live envelope of its contents, with its warp style, bend and distortions, its mesh points and handles or its top object's outline, its Envelope Options, its Fidelity and whether its contents are being edited. When Distort Appearance is on and the size the file saves for the contents matches their bounds with strokes, the contents map from that stroked box, until an edit in Edit Contents changes how far the strokes reach; VectorCraft's new envelopes map from the geometric box, as do contents with no width or no height, such as a single straight line. An envelope that can't be read, or that VectorCraft draws differently from the file's drawn art, keeps that drawn art, with a note. An envelope of type keeps its drawn art, with its type hidden (`crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs`, `crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs`).
+    In a `.ai` opened from its editing data, an envelope made with a warp, a mesh or a top object opens as a live envelope of its contents, with its warp style, bend and distortions, its mesh points and handles or its top object's outline, its Envelope Options, its Fidelity and whether its contents are being edited. When Distort Appearance is on and the size the file saves for the contents matches their bounds with strokes, the contents map from that stroked box, until an edit in Edit Contents changes how far the strokes reach; VectorCraft's new envelopes map from the geometric box, as do contents with no width or no height, such as a single straight line. An envelope that can't be read, or that VectorCraft draws differently from the file's drawn art, keeps that drawn art, with a note. An envelope of type keeps its drawn art, with its type hidden and a note that says the type isn't editable (#3179; `crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs`, `crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs`).
     In a `.ai` opened from its editing data, Convert to Shape on a whole path or type object opens as a live Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle or Ellipse effect with its Absolute or Relative size, its corner radius, its place among the object's effects and whether it is hidden. A relative size in the file is added to each side. A relative Ellipse, or a setting VectorCraft doesn't read, keeps the drawn art (`crates/eps/src/import/ai/style/tests.rs`, `crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs`, `crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs`).
     In a `.ai` opened from its editing data, Bas Relief in an art style takes its Detail, Smoothness and Light direction from the style's settings block, and an object other than type with it opens as itself with the live effect. A settings block that VectorCraft can't read (malformed, another effect's, a value out of range or a key it doesn't know) keeps the object's drawn look (part of #637; [raster effects reference](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/special-effects-styles/apply-filter-effects/raster-effects-reference.html), [Photoshop File Formats Specification](https://www.adobe.com/devnet-apps/photoshop/fileformatashtml/), [scripting the filter gallery](https://community.adobe.com/questions-712/scripting-support-for-the-filter-gallery-1064646); `crates/eps/src/import/ai/style/tests.rs`, `crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs`).
     PDF export and `.ai` saves write a page with a side longer than 14,400 pt with a `UserUnit` (PDF 1.6), its longer side divided by 14,400 and rounded up to the next thousandth, so that no side is longer than 14,400 units (ISO 32000-1, Annex C.2); in PDF 1.3 to 1.5 files and PDF/X files such a page is written in points.