diff --git a/docs/file-format-parity.md b/docs/file-format-parity.md index 0e11ca08f..2a2ecbe9b 100644 --- a/docs/file-format-parity.md +++ b/docs/file-format-parity.md @@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ private editing data. VectorCraft: ### Illustrator's private editing data +the app's own editing copy of a file (an EPS after its `%%EOF`, a `.ai`'s `AIPrivateData` streams, a PDF's `AIPDFPrivateData` streams when it was saved with the editing data (#868), Zstandard or zlib, the EPS's in ASCII85) is not documented as a whole. VectorCraft reads its structure: layers and sublayers (names, order, visibility, lock, printing, preview, dimming, colour), groups as they were nested, compound paths (painted by their last path, or the last painted one, with the paths of groups inside them kept as their paths: #1410), clipping groups and layer clipping, object names, hidden and locked objects, fills and strokes (grey, CMYK, RGB, named and spot colours, spot colours defined in Lab with their Lab values (#1032), global process colours as global swatches at their tint), linear and radial gradients, pattern fills with their patterns as pattern swatches (#1025), opacity, blend modes, isolation and knockout, embedded images where their matrix puts them, rotated ones too (#2269), with their alpha channel (CMYK images keep their ink amounts, as they do when a `.ai` opens from its PDF part, and an alpha channel that hides part of a CMYK image becomes a grayscale opacity mask), placed (linked) files as linked images in their place, each showing the low-resolution preview the file keeps of it until its file is found or relinked in the Links panel (#1264), guides, and every artboard where it is. A gradient with stops in the middle runs its whole ramp across its shape, and a gradient object does not pass its fill to the next path (#1390). An object whose art style is one fill and one stroke at most (solid colours, its own gradient, a variable-width profile) with an Outer Glow or Drop Shadow comes in as itself with them; one with more, other effects, a brush or dashes aligned to corners comes in as its drawn look (a group named after it). Type keeps its art style as a live appearance whatever its stack, so it can be retyped: each fill and stroke of the style's stack (solid colours, gradients and pattern fills, placed as the drawn look places them) with its own opacity, blend mode and effects, the effects on the whole object, and where the characters paint among them; the effects read are Warp, Offset Path, Transform (with copies), Drop Shadow, Outer Glow, Feather, Gaussian Blur and Bas Relief (its settings at their defaults), and a style with others keeps the type's drawn look. The page's drawing of such a style isn't held to look like VectorCraft's where its drawn look lay. Gradients take their matrix (`Xm`, radials and skewed ones too), focal point and the order of stops sharing a ramp point; gradient meshes, a clipping path's own fill and the artboards' names are read too. `editingData: "always"` (`convert --editing-data`) opens a `.ai` or an Illustrator EPS from its editing data even where it draws differently from its page, which can be older, with a note. Type is made from the file's text document, whole and editable, shown or not: point type (its frame's matrix, which newer files leave out when it is neither turned nor scaled, read as none), area type (a story in several frames as threaded type) and type on a path, with its characters, fonts, size, leading, tracking, scaling, baseline shift, fill and stroke (grey, RGB or CMYK), alignment, indents and paragraph spacing (a character attribute a run doesn't set comes from its character style, then the style that one is based on, then the document's defaults); the page's drawing of it (often in pieces) is left out. When it makes the type of every text object that shows, the page's type is only compared with it, each text object keeps its own group, frame and layer, and a line break inside a paragraph stays one. Where it can't make a text object's type (a frame of another kind), that text object takes the page's type where the text document puts its lines, or else what is left of the page's type in painting order (no group around it); the page's type where made type draws stays that type's, and hidden type is left out with a note. Kerning, underline and the other character and paragraph options aren't read yet. A `.ai` saved without PDF compatibility (a placeholder page) opens from its editing data alone, its point type, area type and type on a path made from the text document. A `.ai` whose PDF part shows only text isn't taken for that placeholder when its page states an art, trim or bleed box: it opens from its editing data alone where that reads, else from its PDF part (#1387). A `.ai` whose PDF part draws nothing at all (an empty page, with or without those boxes) opens from its editing data alone where that reads too: there is no page art to check its layers against, and the empty page would lose all of it. Text objects with an appearance keep their own text and frame, type of hidden layers stays hidden, and type on later artboards lands on its text objects (#1391); area type whose frame is too short for a line of the fallback font shows its first line (the frame is made taller, with a warning in the open result) (#1392). Symbols, pattern fills whose pattern it can't read, placed files the data keeps no preview of and anything else it doesn't read make the file come in as its page (on a layer that doesn't show, they are left out of that layer), with a warning saying what. An unread object on a shown layer whose box can be found instead comes in as a group of the page's objects inside that box, named after it, with the rest of the layers and groups kept and a warning listing what came in as the page's art; the file still comes in as its page when live art or another unread object shares that page art, 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 its transparency (#4806). The layers' art is also compared with the page (by lightness, so colours written as their CMYK equivalents compare alike, and by whether a pixel is inked at all); the page is used when they differ by more than 5% (away from type, when all the type is made from the text document), where one draws an object the other doesn't (away from type, whose lines may be laid out afresh), and when an EPS whose page is its art's box has art printed outside it (#735). An EPS whose page is its art's box keeps that page when it comes in through its layers, not the editing data's artboard, and a text object counts as drawn by the page by its colours, not only its lightness, so a red stroke stacked over a dark red one stays (#1102). `textAs: "outlines"` opens a `.ai` whose type shows from its PDF part, which has the outlines; `editingData: false` opens any of them as its page or PDF part only, for print pipelines (#735). A file whose import left something out (hidden text, art or layers) is never written over by an export or Save As to its own path unless `acknowledgeLoss: true` (`convert --replace-lossy`), so the original keeps what the document lacks. Where a `.ai` can't be read that way (or its layers are turned off in the import options), we read its PDF-compatible part, so Illustrator-only live objects arrive as appearance, and plain groups arrive ungrouped: that part draws each object on its own and marks only layers, clipping groups and groups with opacity, blending or a mask (those come back). Art outside the artboards isn't in that part at all (Illustrator's PDF part leaves it out), so it doesn't open; the import says so in a note (#472). Its pages still go where the editing data puts the artboards (a grid stays a grid), with the art on each, when it has as many artboards as pages, of the same sizes (#1068). A `.ai` whose PDF part's pages are cropped to its art (each page the box of all the art, which is the editing data's bounding box) instead of its artboards opens from its layers, with its own artboards, where they draw as that page does. Its pages are laid out so that art one of them draws past its artboard (notes beside a design, which the part doesn't clip) doesn't lie over the page before it in the row, where it was taken for that page's art: the check against the editing data then found art its layers don't have there and opened the file as its PDF part, without the art outside the artboards. That part also has no paragraphs: area type is written line by line, and comes back as area type only where its font is installed and lays the lines out with the same breaks, else as a point type object per line (#508). Art off the page that a PDF does draw opens on the pasteboard. the app's own editing copy of a file (an EPS after its `%%EOF`, a `.ai`'s `AIPrivateData` streams, a PDF's `AIPDFPrivateData` streams when it was saved with the editing data (#868), Zstandard or zlib, the EPS's in ASCII85) is not documented as a whole. VectorCraft reads its structure: layers and sublayers (names, order, visibility, lock, printing, preview, dimming, colour), groups as they were nested, compound paths (painted by their last path, or the last painted one, with the paths of groups inside them kept as their paths: #1410), clipping groups and layer clipping, object names, hidden and locked objects, fills and strokes (grey, CMYK, RGB, named and spot colours, spot colours defined in Lab with their Lab values (#1032), global process colours as global swatches at their tint), linear and radial gradients, pattern fills with their patterns as pattern swatches (#1025), opacity, blend modes, isolation and knockout, embedded images where their matrix puts them, rotated ones too (#2269), with their alpha channel (CMYK images keep their ink amounts, as they do when a `.ai` opens from its PDF part, and an alpha channel that hides part of a CMYK image becomes a grayscale opacity mask), placed (linked) files as linked images in their place, each showing the low-resolution preview the file keeps of it until its file is found or relinked in the Links panel (#1264), guides, and every artboard where it is. Objects on Path groups open live, with their path, their objects in order along it, Pivot and Rotate; one with a dragged spacing or other options opens as a plain group. A gradient with stops in the middle runs its whole ramp across its shape, and a gradient object does not pass its fill to the next path (#1390). An object whose art style is one fill and one stroke at most (solid colours, its own gradient, a variable-width profile) with an Outer Glow, Drop Shadow or Convert to Shape comes in as itself with them; one with more, other effects, a brush or dashes aligned to corners comes in as its drawn look (a group named after it). Type keeps its art style as a live appearance whatever its stack, so it can be retyped: each fill and stroke of the style's stack (solid colours, gradients and pattern fills, placed as the drawn look places them) with its own opacity, blend mode and effects, the effects on the whole object, and where the characters paint among them; the effects read are Warp, Offset Path, Transform (with copies), Drop Shadow, Outer Glow, Feather, Gaussian Blur, Bas Relief (its settings at their defaults) and Convert to Shape, and a style with others keeps the type's drawn look. Convert to Shape keeps its Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle or Ellipse, its Absolute or Relative size (a relative size in the file is added to each side) and its corner radius; a relative Ellipse, or a setting that isn't read, keeps the drawn look. The page's drawing of such a style isn't held to look like VectorCraft's where its drawn look lay. Gradients take their matrix (`Xm`, radials and skewed ones too), focal point and the order of stops sharing a ramp point; gradient meshes, a clipping path's own fill and the artboards' names are read too. `editingData: "always"` (`convert --editing-data`) opens a `.ai` or an Illustrator EPS from its editing data even where it draws differently from its page, which can be older, with a note. Type is made from the file's text document, whole and editable, shown or not: point type (its frame's matrix, which newer files leave out when it is neither turned nor scaled, read as none), area type (a story in several frames as threaded type) and type on a path, with its characters, fonts, size, leading, tracking, scaling, baseline shift, fill and stroke (grey, RGB or CMYK), alignment, indents and paragraph spacing (a character attribute a run doesn't set comes from its character style, then the style that one is based on, then the document's defaults); the page's drawing of it (often in pieces) is left out. When it makes the type of every text object that shows, the page's type is only compared with it, each text object keeps its own group, frame and layer, and a line break inside a paragraph stays one. Where it can't make a text object's type (a frame of another kind), that text object takes the page's type where the text document puts its lines, or else what is left of the page's type in painting order (no group around it); the page's type where made type draws stays that type's, and hidden type is left out with a note. Kerning, underline and the other character and paragraph options aren't read yet. A `.ai` saved without PDF compatibility (a placeholder page) opens from its editing data alone, its point type, area type and type on a path made from the text document. A `.ai` whose PDF part shows only text isn't taken for that placeholder when its page states an art, trim or bleed box: it opens from its editing data alone where that reads, else from its PDF part (#1387). A `.ai` whose PDF part draws nothing at all (an empty page, with or without those boxes) opens from its editing data alone where that reads too: there is no page art to check its layers against, and the empty page would lose all of it. Text objects with an appearance keep their own text and frame, type of hidden layers stays hidden, and type on later artboards lands on its text objects (#1391); area type whose frame is too short for a line of the fallback font shows its first line (the frame is made taller, with a warning in the open result) (#1392). Symbols, pattern fills whose pattern it can't read, placed files the data keeps no preview of and anything else it doesn't read make the file come in as its page (on a layer that doesn't show, they are left out of that layer), with a warning saying what. An unread object on a shown layer whose box can be found instead comes in as a group of the page's objects inside that box, named after it, with the rest of the layers and groups kept and a warning listing what came in as the page's art; the file still comes in as its page when live art or another unread object shares that page art, when the object spans two artboards, or when the page art doesn't carry its transparency (#4806). The layers' art is also compared with the page (by lightness, so colours written as their CMYK equivalents compare alike, and by whether a pixel is inked at all); the page is used when they differ by more than 5% (away from type, when all the type is made from the text document), where one draws an object the other doesn't (away from type, whose lines may be laid out afresh), and when an EPS whose page is its art's box has art printed outside it (#735). An EPS whose page is its art's box keeps that page when it comes in through its layers, not the editing data's artboard, and a text object counts as drawn by the page by its colours, not only its lightness, so a red stroke stacked over a dark red one stays (#1102). `textAs: "outlines"` opens a `.ai` whose type shows from its PDF part, which has the outlines; `editingData: false` opens any of them as its page or PDF part only, for print pipelines (#735). A file whose import left something out (hidden text, art or layers) is never written over by an export or Save As to its own path unless `acknowledgeLoss: true` (`convert --replace-lossy`), so the original keeps what the document lacks. Where a `.ai` can't be read that way (or its layers are turned off in the import options), we read its PDF-compatible part, so Illustrator-only live objects arrive as appearance, and plain groups arrive ungrouped: that part draws each object on its own and marks only layers, clipping groups and groups with opacity, blending or a mask (those come back). Art outside the artboards isn't in that part at all (Illustrator's PDF part leaves it out), so it doesn't open; the import says so in a note (#472). Its pages still go where the editing data puts the artboards (a grid stays a grid), with the art on each, when it has as many artboards as pages, of the same sizes (#1068). A `.ai` whose PDF part's pages are cropped to its art (each page the box of all the art, which is the editing data's bounding box) instead of its artboards opens from its layers, with its own artboards, where they draw as that page does. Its pages are laid out so that art one of them draws past its artboard (notes beside a design, which the part doesn't clip) doesn't lie over the page before it in the row, where it was taken for that page's art: the check against the editing data then found art its layers don't have there and opened the file as its PDF part, without the art outside the artboards. That part also has no paragraphs: area type is written line by line, and comes back as area type only where its font is installed and lays the lines out with the same breaks, else as a point type object per line (#508). Art off the page that a PDF does draw opens on the pasteboard. the app's own editing copy of a file (an EPS after its `%%EOF`, a `.ai`'s `AIPrivateData` streams, a PDF's `AIPDFPrivateData` streams when it was saved with the editing data (#868), Zstandard or zlib, the EPS's in ASCII85) is not documented as a whole. VectorCraft reads its structure: layers and sublayers (names, order, visibility, lock, printing, preview, dimming, colour), groups as they were nested, compound paths (painted by their last path, or the last painted one, with the paths of groups inside them kept as their paths: #1410), clipping groups and layer clipping, object names, hidden and locked objects, fills and strokes (grey, CMYK, RGB, named and spot colours, spot colours defined in Lab with their Lab values (#1032), global process colours as global swatches at their tint), linear and radial gradients, pattern fills with their patterns as pattern swatches (#1025), opacity, blend modes, isolation and knockout, embedded images where their matrix puts them, rotated ones too (#2269), with their alpha channel (CMYK images keep their ink amounts, as they do when a `.ai` opens from its PDF part, and an alpha channel that hides part of a CMYK image becomes a grayscale opacity mask), placed (linked) files as linked images in their place, each showing the low-resolution preview the file keeps of it until its file is found or relinked in the Links panel (#1264), guides, and every artboard where it is. Objects on Path groups open live, with their path, their objects in order along it, Pivot and Rotate; one with a dragged spacing or other options opens as a plain group. A gradient with stops in the middle runs its whole ramp across its shape, and a gradient object does not pass its fill to the next path (#1390). An object whose art style is one fill and one stroke at most (solid colours, its own gradient, a variable-width profile) with Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners or Scribble comes in as itself with them and their saved settings; one with more, other effects, an effect setting that is not read (an unknown key, a missing or out-of-range value, a Scribble with a color of its own), a brush or dashes aligned to corners comes in as its drawn look (a group named after it). Type keeps its art style as a live appearance whatever its stack, so it can be retyped: each fill and stroke of the style's stack (solid colours, gradients and pattern fills, placed as the drawn look places them) with its own opacity, blend mode and effects, the effects on the whole object, and where the characters paint among them; the effects read are Warp, Offset Path, Transform (with copies), Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Gaussian Blur and Bas Relief (its settings at their defaults), and a style with others keeps the type's drawn look. The page's drawing of such a style isn't held to look like VectorCraft's where its drawn look lay. Gradients take their matrix (`Xm`, radials and skewed ones too), focal point and the order of stops sharing a ramp point; gradient meshes, a clipping path's own fill and the artboards' names are read too. `editingData: "always"` (`convert --editing-data`) opens a `.ai` or an Illustrator EPS from its editing data even where it draws differently from its page, which can be older, with a note. Type is made from the file's text document, whole and editable, shown or not: point type (its frame's matrix, which newer files leave out when it is neither turned nor scaled, read as none), area type (a story in several frames as threaded type) and type on a path, with its characters, fonts, size, leading, tracking, scaling, baseline shift, fill and stroke (grey, RGB or CMYK), alignment, indents and paragraph spacing (a character attribute a run doesn't set comes from its character style, then the style that one is based on, then the document's defaults); the page's drawing of it (often in pieces) is left out. When it makes the type of every text object that shows, the page's type is only compared with it, each text object keeps its own group, frame and layer, and a line break inside a paragraph stays one. Where it can't make a text object's type (a frame of another kind), that text object takes the page's type where the text document puts its lines, or else what is left of the page's type in painting order (no group around it); the page's type where made type draws stays that type's, and hidden type is left out with a note. Kerning, underline and the other character and paragraph options aren't read yet. A `.ai` saved without PDF compatibility (a placeholder page) opens from its editing data alone, its point type, area type and type on a path made from the text document. A `.ai` whose PDF part shows only text isn't taken for that placeholder when its page states an art, trim or bleed box: it opens from its editing data alone where that reads, else from its PDF part (#1387). A `.ai` whose PDF part draws nothing at all (an empty page, with or without those boxes) opens from its editing data alone where that reads too: there is no page art to check its layers against, and the empty page would lose all of it. Text objects with an appearance keep their own text and frame, type of hidden layers stays hidden, and type on later artboards lands on its text objects (#1391); area type whose frame is too short for a line of the fallback font shows its first line (the frame is made taller, with a warning in the open result) (#1392). Symbols, pattern fills whose pattern it can't read, placed files the data keeps no preview of and anything else it doesn't read make the file come in as its page (on a layer that doesn't show, they are left out of that layer), with a warning saying what. An unread object on a shown layer whose box can be found instead comes in as a group of the page's objects inside that box, named after it, with the rest of the layers and groups kept and a warning listing what came in as the page's art; the file still comes in as its page when live art or another unread object shares that page art, when the object spans two artboards, or when the page art doesn't carry its transparency (#4806). The layers' art is also compared with the page (by lightness, so colours written as their CMYK equivalents compare alike, and by whether a pixel is inked at all); the page is used when they differ by more than 5% (away from type, when all the type is made from the text document), where one draws an object the other doesn't (away from type, whose lines may be laid out afresh), and when an EPS whose page is its art's box has art printed outside it (#735). An EPS whose page is its art's box keeps that page when it comes in through its layers, not the editing data's artboard, and a text object counts as drawn by the page by its colours, not only its lightness, so a red stroke stacked over a dark red one stays (#1102). `textAs: "outlines"` opens a `.ai` whose type shows from its PDF part, which has the outlines; `editingData: false` opens any of them as its page or PDF part only, for print pipelines (#735). A file whose import left something out (hidden text, art or layers) is never written over by an export or Save As to its own path unless `acknowledgeLoss: true` (`convert --replace-lossy`), so the original keeps what the document lacks. Where a `.ai` can't be read that way (or its layers are turned off in the import options), we read its PDF-compatible part, so Illustrator-only live objects arrive as appearance, and plain groups arrive ungrouped: that part draws each object on its own and marks only layers, clipping groups and groups with opacity, blending or a mask (those come back). Art outside the artboards isn't in that part at all (Illustrator's PDF part leaves it out), so it doesn't open; the import says so in a note (#472). Its pages still go where the editing data puts the artboards (a grid stays a grid), with the art on each, when it has as many artboards as pages, of the same sizes (#1068). A `.ai` whose PDF part's pages are cropped to its art (each page the box of all the art, which is the editing data's bounding box) instead of its artboards opens from its layers, with its own artboards, where they draw as that page does. Its pages are laid out so that art one of them draws past its artboard (notes beside a design, which the part doesn't clip) doesn't lie over the page before it in the row, where it was taken for that page's art: the check against the editing data then found art its layers don't have there and opened the file as its PDF part, without the art outside the artboards. That part also has no paragraphs: area type is written line by line, and comes back as area type only where its font is installed and lays the lines out with the same breaks, else as a point type object per line (#508). Art off the page that a PDF does draw opens on the pasteboard. the app's own editing copy of a file (an EPS after its `%%EOF`, a `.ai`'s `AIPrivateData` streams, a PDF's `AIPDFPrivateData` streams when it was saved with the editing data (#868), Zstandard or zlib, the EPS's in ASCII85) is not documented as a whole. VectorCraft reads its structure: layers and sublayers (names, order, visibility, lock, printing, preview, dimming, colour), groups as they were nested, compound paths (painted by their last path, or the last painted one, with the paths of groups inside them kept as their paths: #1410), clipping groups and layer clipping, object names, hidden and locked objects, fills and strokes (grey, CMYK, RGB, named and spot colours, spot colours defined in Lab with their Lab values (#1032), global process colours as global swatches at their tint), linear and radial gradients, pattern fills with their patterns as pattern swatches (#1025), opacity, blend modes, isolation and knockout, embedded images where their matrix puts them, rotated ones too (#2269), with their alpha channel (CMYK images keep their ink amounts, as they do when a `.ai` opens from its PDF part, and an alpha channel that hides part of a CMYK image becomes a grayscale opacity mask), placed (linked) files as linked images in their place, each showing the low-resolution preview the file keeps of it until its file is found or relinked in the Links panel (#1264), guides, and every artboard where it is. Objects on Path groups open live, with their path, their objects in order along it, Pivot and Rotate; one with a dragged spacing or other options opens as a plain group. A gradient with stops in the middle runs its whole ramp across its shape, and a gradient object does not pass its fill to the next path (#1390). An object whose art style is one fill and one stroke at most (solid colours, its own gradient, a variable-width profile) with an Outer Glow or Drop Shadow comes in as itself with them; one with more, other effects, a brush or dashes aligned to corners comes in as its drawn look (a group named after it). Type keeps its art style as a live appearance whatever its stack, so it can be retyped: each fill and stroke of the style's stack (solid colours, gradients and pattern fills, placed as the drawn look places them) with its own opacity, blend mode and effects, the effects on the whole object, and where the characters paint among them; the effects read are Warp, Offset Path, Transform (with copies), Drop Shadow, Outer Glow, Feather, Gaussian Blur and Bas Relief (its settings at their defaults), and a style with others keeps the type's drawn look. The page's drawing of such a style isn't held to look like VectorCraft's where its drawn look lay. Gradients take their matrix (`Xm`, radials and skewed ones too), focal point and the order of stops sharing a ramp point; gradient meshes, a clipping path's own fill and its stroke, and the artboards' names are read too. `editingData: "always"` (`convert --editing-data`) opens a `.ai` or an Illustrator EPS from its editing data even where it draws differently from its page, which can be older, with a note. Type is made from the file's text document, whole and editable, shown or not: point type (its frame's matrix, which newer files leave out when it is neither turned nor scaled, read as none), area type (a story in several frames as threaded type) and type on a path, with its characters, fonts, size, leading, tracking, scaling, baseline shift, fill and stroke (grey, RGB or CMYK), alignment, indents and paragraph spacing (a character attribute a run doesn't set comes from its character style, then the style that one is based on, then the document's defaults); the page's drawing of it (often in pieces) is left out. When it makes the type of every text object that shows, the page's type is only compared with it, each text object keeps its own group, frame and layer, and a line break inside a paragraph stays one. Where it can't make a text object's type (a frame of another kind), that text object takes the page's type where the text document puts its lines, or else what is left of the page's type in painting order (no group around it); the page's type where made type draws stays that type's, and hidden type is left out with a note. Kerning, underline and the other character and paragraph options aren't read yet. A `.ai` saved without PDF compatibility (a placeholder page) opens from its editing data alone, its point type, area type and type on a path made from the text document. A `.ai` whose PDF part shows only text isn't taken for that placeholder when its page states an art, trim or bleed box: it opens from its editing data alone where that reads, else from its PDF part (#1387). A `.ai` whose PDF part draws nothing at all (an empty page, with or without those boxes) opens from its editing data alone where that reads too: there is no page art to check its layers against, and the empty page would lose all of it. Text objects with an appearance keep their own text and frame, type of hidden layers stays hidden, and type on later artboards lands on its text objects (#1391); area type whose frame is too short for a line of the fallback font shows its first line (the frame is made taller, with a warning in the open result) (#1392). Symbols, pattern fills whose pattern it can't read, placed files the data keeps no preview of and anything else it doesn't read make the file come in as its page (on a layer that doesn't show, they are left out of that layer), with a warning saying what. An unread object on a shown layer whose box can be found instead comes in as a group of the page's objects inside that box, named after it, with the rest of the layers and groups kept and a warning listing what came in as the page's art; the file still comes in as its page when live art or another unread object shares that page art, when the object spans two artboards, or when the page art doesn't carry its transparency (#4806). The layers' art is also compared with the page (by lightness, so colours written as their CMYK equivalents compare alike, and by whether a pixel is inked at all); the page is used when they differ by more than 5% (away from type, when all the type is made from the text document), where one draws an object the other doesn't (away from type, whose lines may be laid out afresh), and when an EPS whose page is its art's box has art printed outside it (#735). An EPS whose page is its art's box keeps that page when it comes in through its layers, not the editing data's artboard, and a text object counts as drawn by the page by its colours, not only its lightness, so a red stroke stacked over a dark red one stays (#1102). `textAs: "outlines"` opens a `.ai` whose type shows from its PDF part, which has the outlines; `editingData: false` opens any of them as its page or PDF part only, for print pipelines (#735). A file whose import left something out (hidden text, art or layers) is never written over by an export or Save As to its own path unless `acknowledgeLoss: true` (`convert --replace-lossy`), so the original keeps what the document lacks. Where a `.ai` can't be read that way (or its layers are turned off in the import options), we read its PDF-compatible part, so Illustrator-only live objects arrive as appearance, and plain groups arrive ungrouped: that part draws each object on its own and marks only layers, clipping groups and groups with opacity, blending or a mask (those come back). Art outside the artboards isn't in that part at all (Illustrator's PDF part leaves it out), so it doesn't open; the import says so in a note (#472). Its pages still go where the editing data puts the artboards (a grid stays a grid), with the art on each, when it has as many artboards as pages, of the same sizes (#1068). A `.ai` whose PDF part's pages are cropped to its art (each page the box of all the art, which is the editing data's bounding box) instead of its artboards opens from its layers, with its own artboards, where they draw as that page does. Its pages are laid out so that art one of them draws past its artboard (notes beside a design, which the part doesn't clip) doesn't lie over the page before it in the row, where it was taken for that page's art: the check against the editing data then found art its layers don't have there and opened the file as its PDF part, without the art outside the artboards. That part also has no paragraphs: area type is written line by line, and comes back as area type only where its font is installed and lays the lines out with the same breaks, else as a point type object per line (#508). Art off the page that a PDF does draw opens on the pasteboard. diff --git a/docs/target-app-parity.md b/docs/target-app-parity.md index 2df8531f8..2294563f6 100644 --- a/docs/target-app-parity.md +++ b/docs/target-app-parity.md @@ -1074,6 +1074,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur A PDF page whose `UserUnit` (PDF 1.6) is above 1 opens at its size in points, its numbers times the `UserUnit` (one above 75,000 counts as 75,000), and `document.pdfInfo` gives its size and boxes in points too. A `.ai` whose editing data has its artboards in the units of such a page opens from that data at the page's size, with its layers, and when the layers can't be read its pages still take the artboard layout of the data, scaled the same way (part of #1482). When the editing data of a `.ai` or EPS is for a page of another size than the file's, the warning that its layers weren't read gives both sizes in points, and the scale of the editing data's page to the file's page (1:10 for a tenth of its size) when their sides are in proportion (#2034; `crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs`). 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. 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, 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`).