| `ui.wheel` | `{x, y, dy?, dx?, unit?: "line"\|"point", shift?, alt?, cmd?}` | a mouse wheel turn over screen point (x, y): `dy` notches up (+) or down, `dx` sideways. Over the canvas the wheel scrolls, Cmd-wheel (Ctrl on Windows and Linux) scrolls sideways and Alt-wheel (Option on the Mac) zooms about the pointer (with the `ctrlWheelScrollsSideways` preference off, Cmd-wheel zooms too); with the `zoomWithMouseWheel` preference the wheel and Alt-wheel zoom about the pointer, Shift-wheel scrolls up and down and Cmd-wheel (Ctrl on Windows and Linux) sideways. Over a focused numeric field (click it first) each notch steps its value as Up/Down do (Shift: ten, Cmd/Ctrl: a tenth) and the panel stays put; over anything else in a panel the wheel scrolls it. Over the canvas, the wheel preferences in `docs/mcp.md` change what these keys do |
| `ui.set` | `{brightness?, panel?, rulers?, outline?, grid?, smartGuides?, boundingBox?, controlBar?, imageTracePreview?}` | `outline`: View › Outline for the active document only (each document has its own, a document opens in Preview, and `ui.inspect` shows it as `view.outline`; an error without a document). `imageTracePreview`: the Image Trace panel's Preview (`ui.inspect` shows it as `ui.image_trace_preview`) |
| `ui.dialog.set` / `.confirm` / `.cancel` | `{field, value, action?}` or `{fields: [{field, value}…], action?}` | fill and submit the open dialog. `ui.dialog.set` takes the fields the dialog has (`ui.inspect`) other than its `__` fields, the `__` fields that are controls of the dialog (such as `__section` and `__allArtboards` in Save PDF, `__constrain` in Transform Each and the shape dialogs, and `__search` and `__category` in Preferences; Save PDF's and Print's `__savePresetAs`, the preset name, only while Save Preset… asks for it, since OK then saves a preset), `discard` on a dialog with a discard button, `preview` on one with a live preview, the fields that the dialog reads but adds only when a control changes (such as `searchFolder`, or `copy` in the Transform dialogs), and the fields it passes to the command it runs: every parameter of the `command` dialog's command (`ui.paramDialog`), and the `textureImage` that Load Texture… sets in the Glass and Texturizer effects; any other field is an error that lists the dialog's fields, and the dialog stays as it was. Any other `__` field, held or not, holds what the dialog's OK acts on (such as the `__command` and `__params` of a `confirm` or `command` dialog) or the dialog's own state: setting it is the error "the `<kind>` dialog cannot set protected field `<field>`", and the dialog stays as it was. `fields` sets the list (at most 256 items) in order (a missing `value` is `null`) and checks every item first: when one is refused, the call is an error and no field changes. `action: "confirm"` or `"cancel"` on `ui.dialog.set` then confirms or cancels the same dialog in the same request, as `ui.dialog.confirm` and `ui.dialog.cancel` do, and the reply is `{dialog, result}`: the dialog after the fields were set and the reply to confirm (`null` for cancel); any other `action` is an error and no field changes |
| `ui.dialog.set` / `.confirm` / `.cancel` | `{field, value, action?}` or `{fields: [{field, value}…], action?}` | fill and submit the open dialog. `ui.dialog.set` takes the fields the dialog has (`ui.inspect`) other than its `__` fields, the `__` fields that are controls of the dialog (such as `__section` and `__allArtboards` in Save PDF, `__constrain` in Transform Each and the shape dialogs, and `__search` and `__category` in Preferences; Save PDF's and Print's `__savePresetAs`, the preset name, only while Save Preset… asks for it, since OK then saves a preset), `discard` on a dialog with a discard button, `preview` on one with a live preview, the fields that the dialog reads but adds only when a control changes (such as `searchFolder`, or `copy` in the Transform dialogs), and the fields it passes to the command it runs: every parameter of the `command` dialog's command (`ui.paramDialog`), and the `textureImage` that Load Texture… sets in the Glass, Texturizer and Rough Pastels effects; any other field is an error that lists the dialog's fields, and the dialog stays as it was. Any other `__` field, held or not, holds what the dialog's OK acts on (such as the `__command` and `__params` of a `confirm` or `command` dialog) or the dialog's own state: setting it is the error "the `<kind>` dialog cannot set protected field `<field>`", and the dialog stays as it was. `fields` sets the list (at most 256 items) in order (a missing `value` is `null`) and checks every item first: when one is refused, the call is an error and no field changes. `action: "confirm"` or `"cancel"` on `ui.dialog.set` then confirms or cancels the same dialog in the same request, as `ui.dialog.confirm` and `ui.dialog.cancel` do, and the reply is `{dialog, result}`: the dialog after the fields were set and the reply to confirm (`null` for cancel); any other `action` is an error and no field changes |
| `ui.screenshot` | `{path?, data?}` | capture the window (PNG), written to `path`; `data: true` sends it back as `pngBase64` too. The inline PNG is capped at 64 MiB: with a `path` the file is still written and `pngBase64` is omitted when the image is larger, while a path-less `data: true` request fails if either the raw RGBA image or the encoded PNG exceeds the cap. Needs a presented frame: with the screen locked or the window minimized/covered it fails after ~8 s with an explanatory error |
| `ui.render` | `{path?, scale?, artboard?, data?, traceViews?}` | render an artboard headlessly (PNG with the pixels of `app.export {format: "png", background: "white"}` at the same scale; `artboard`: its 0-based index, default the first; `traceViews: true`: Image Trace objects draw in their View, as on the canvas, instead of their tracing result): written to `path`, else (or with `data: true` as well) sent back as `pngBase64` |
| `ui.render` | `{path?, scale?, artboard?, data?}` | render an artboard headlessly (PNG with the pixels of `app.export {format: "png", background: "white"}` at the same scale; `artboard`: its 0-based index, default the first): written to `path`, else (or with `data: true` as well) sent back as `pngBase64` |
group is tagged once and paints its marks with one fill and one stroke, which the graph keeps as that series'
paint; Graph Data then edits it. Other graphs (pie and scatter graphs, graphs with designs or
customizations, records of later versions) come in as plain groups, paths and type, with a note. Saving a graph to
`.ai`, in either form, writes its art without its data or settings, with a warning.
`.ai`, in either form, writes these records around its art when the reader above reads them back as the same graph,
so the file opens again with its data and settings; any other graph is written as its art, with a warning.
Legacy `.ai` patterns in the version 7 form (a list of `@` and `&` layers, `_ &` for the tile's background)
open as pattern swatches, with a fill's offset, scale, rotation, reflection and shear applied before its
matrix. Legacy `.ai` linked images in
@@ -290,8 +291,8 @@ Names in the editing data that aren't UTF-8 (layers, objects, artboards, colors,
| 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 (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 | |
| PSD | open, place, export | yes (open: layers as layers, or the merged image with `layers: false`; place: merged image; the merged image comes in clipped by the file's clipping path; 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; the merged image comes in clipped by the file's clipping path) | 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` |
- **Done:** Effect › Artistic › Rough Pastels › Load Texture… ([raster effects reference](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/special-effects-styles/apply-filter-effects/raster-effects-reference.html)): the image's gray levels are the paper surface, stored with the effect, listed as Loaded Texture in the Texture menu, with Scaling, Relief, Light Direction and Invert acting on it.
- **Done:** the Effect Gallery's filter thumbnails and in-dialog preview ([Filter Gallery overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/desktop/effects-filters/get-started-with-filters/filter-gallery.html)). Each thumbnail is an original landscape drawing passed through that filter at its defaults; the preview area shows the same drawing through the visible stack, or through the filter being browsed when the stack is empty. The canvas preview and the one-undo OK are unchanged (`dialogs::effect_gallery::tests::gallery_shows_thumbnails_and_an_in_dialog_preview`). All 57 Photoshop-style filters are in the catalogue. Measured in
[effects-parity.md](effects-parity.md).
- **Done:** the Effect Gallery (#2883): Effect › Effect Gallery… browses the Artistic, Brush Strokes, Distort, Sketch, Stylize and Texture filters, edits each filter's settings, builds an ordered stack (add, reorder, hide, remove) with a live canvas preview, and OK applies it as separate appearance effects in one undo step (`dialogs::effect_gallery::tests::stack_ok_is_one_undo_step`, `stack_preview_is_one_interaction`).
`ui.imageTracePresetDialog {params?, rename?}` opens the Image Trace panel's Save as New Preset… or Rename… dialog.
- Live Paint: `livePaint.make`, `livePaint.merge`, `livePaint.fill {group?, point}`, `livePaint.strokeEdge`,
`livePaint.info {group?|id?}`, `livePaint.release`, `livePaint.expand`, and `livePaint.gapOptions {ids?, detect?, size?,
color?, closeGaps?}` (Object › Live Paint › Gap Options). Make gives each covered face the fill of its front-most
covering source, including compound paths with shared curved boundaries. Expand keeps those face fills.
color?, closeGaps?}` (Object › Live Paint › Gap Options). Make gives each covered face the fill rows that draw of
its front-most covering source that has one, including compound paths with shared curved boundaries, and each edge
the stroke rows that draw of its source. A row draws when it is shown and has paint and an opacity above 0; a
stroke also needs a weight above 0, and a source whose opacity is 0 has no rows that draw. The rows keep their order
and settings (opacity, blending mode, effects, overprint, and a stroke's weight, caps, joins, dashes and alignment),
gradients keep their fit on the source, and the face or edge takes the source's opacity and blending mode. Where a
path is cut into several edges, each edge runs the way the path does, its dashes go on from where it starts along
the path (Align Dashes to Corners is turned off on it), the arrowheads stay only at the path's own ends, and a width
profile or brush stays only on an edge that runs the whole path. A gradient applied along a stroke starts again on
each cut edge, and an inside or outside stroke is drawn centered on an edge that is an open piece of a closed path.
When `livePaint.gapOptions` or `livePaint.merge` cuts an edge into pieces, each piece takes the edge's paint, with
its rows fitted to its part of the edge in the same way. A face or edge given no such row has one unpainted row. Rows that do not draw stay with the stored sources, which
`livePaint.release` returns unchanged. The source's object effects and the strokes' pen pressure are not carried.
Expand keeps those face fills.
`livePaint.expand` keeps each face and edge that draws, with all its fill and stroke rows: it is shown, its opacity
is above 0, and a fill or stroke row is shown, has paint and an opacity above 0 (a stroke also a weight above 0),
whichever row is on top. A painted lower row under an unpainted top row keeps the part; a part whose only painted
@@ -5699,6 +5718,25 @@ used, as a transform's does.
`object.scale` and `object.reflect` with a named axis act along the selection's bounding box: after a rotation, `sx`
stretches along the box's own width and `sy` along its height, and `"vertical"` and `"horizontal"` are the box's own
axes, until Object › Transform › Reset Bounding Box squares the box to the page. Both take `basis?: "box"|"page"`:
`"box"` is the default, and `"page"` acts along the page's axes. Any other `basis` is an error, and nothing changes.
`origin` is still a page point, and a numeric `axis` is still a line on the page at that angle. Selections whose
objects stand at different angles, and anchors selected with Direct Selection, use the page's axes; with `copy` or
with `objects: false`, the whole objects or their pattern tiles transform, along the box. The journal entry
records the `basis` used, so a recorded action replays in the same frame; a saved step without `basis` (an action or
journal entry recorded before it) plays along the page's axes, as it did when it was recorded. `object.transformAgain` repeats the transform's page matrix, also after Reset Bounding Box. The Scale
and Reflect dialogs, the Transform and Properties panels' flips, the Scale tool and the Reflect tool's default axis
and Shift steps follow the box the same way; a Reflect axis drawn with the tool is the line drawn on the page.
A placed image linked to its file (`file.place {path}`, Link on) records the file's absolute path, its size,
@@ -8280,6 +8328,16 @@ flattened picture every PSD file carries: Bitmap, Grayscale, Duotone, Indexed, R
A document with transparency keeps it. `file.place {path}` links the file like any image (`links.update` reads it
again when it changes); Multichannel files are refused.
A PSD or PSB file that names a clipping path (the saved path its clipping path resource names, in the
[published PSD file format specification](https://www.adobe.com/devnet-apps/photoshop/fileformatashtml/)) places, and
opens as its merged image (`layers: false`, a file with no layers, or a file whose layers can't be read), inside a clip group whose clipping
path is that path, under the even-odd rule, so the image shows only inside it. The clipping path is an ordinary path
that can be edited or released. `file.place` answers `image`, the id of the image in the clip group. The
[import options help page](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/add-and-import-files/import-from-other-apps/photoshop-import-options.html)
says that a file imported as one flattened image keeps the document's clipping path when it has one. `links.update`
and `links.relink` read the file's pixels again and leave the clip group and its clipping path as they are. Files that name no clipping path, or name a path
they don't have, come in as a plain image.
`document.open` converts a PSD or PSB file's layers to objects. In
@@ -259,8 +259,8 @@ dominate; 3D, graphs and automation are specialist). They sum to 105. Feature de
| Layers, artboards, document setup | 5 | 78% | Selected-artboard deletion is consistent across panel actions (all-selected retains artboard 1); history prunes removed indices while preserving valid multiselection; remaining: 30.0's artboard locking and colours and managing artboards from the canvas, Layers row menu commands beyond Collect for Export and menus on guide and blend spine rows (click-to-fit objects is done, #1227) | 5–8 | estimated (lowered from 82%: target moved); Artboard deletion keys keep artwork and the first of an all-selected set; Artboard Options' Show Center Mark and Show Cross Hairs draw on the canvas only (exports and print leave them out), regression-tested; Artboard Options' Show Video Safe Areas and Video Ruler Pixel Aspect Ratio (per artboard, native format) are done ([video display options](#evidence-what-ships-today-by-area)), score unchanged |
| View & navigation | 3 | 70% | multiple windows and the rest of Arrange (Cascade, Float in Window, Float All in Windows) | 9–14 | estimated; Window › Arrange › Tile and Consolidate All Windows done (score/hours unchanged); document-tab artwork hover/copy and lossless transfer tested (2026-10-22; score/hours unchanged); cached canvas reprojection preserves scale during resize, rotation and DPI changes (regression and contributor original-file evidence below; scores/hours unchanged); cached canvas dimensions match the renderer limit before cache-key creation, view construction and worker submission (regression evidence below) |
| File formats | 6 | 75% | `.ai` files open with a flattened or wrong layer structure in real cases (#951), no writing of Illustrator's editing data (#868), FreeHand/CorelDRAW/DWG/HEIC import, 3D export; see [file-format-parity.md](file-format-parity.md); EPS legacy mesh/opacity-mask and raster comparison follow-up verified PDF marked-text batching covered by M4 evidence (#6309); cross-line/style ActualText layout (#6165) and styled-cluster limits remain.| 10–20 | estimated (lowered from 85%: open issues); DXF control-point SPLINE import closure regression-tested (#1299 follow-up after #1320); DXF export's Include Placed Images and Include Fill Hatches options, off in CNC / CAM (`images_and_hatches_are_left_out_independently_and_the_cnc_preset_leaves_out_both`; score, gaps and hours unchanged); PDF writer metadata, reader streaming and immutable backend checks in `crates/pdf/src/tests.rs`, `crates/pdf/src/tests/reader_streaming.rs` and `xtask/src/pdf_deps.rs`; PDF Place and clipboard paste retain live text (synthetic regressions); EPS ordinary Save retains the page frame and editable document (2026-10-26); `.ai`/EPS editing data checked against a user's files (2026-10-30): case setting (`ate::tests`, `tests_native::type_from_the_text_document_keeps_its_case_setting`), placed-file placements (`tests_native::a_small_placed_file_goes_where_it_draws_closer_to_the_page`), pages cropped to the art (`tests_native::type_on_the_copies_of_a_page_cropped_to_the_art_is_read_once`), mesh corner weights and state (`ai::mesh::tests::corners_with_handle_weights_of_zero_are_read`, `ai::tests::a_gradient_mesh_takes_the_transparency_written_after_it`), type on a path spacing (`tests_native::type_round_a_circle_is_spaced_as_the_file_lays_it_out`; the distance from the path under Align to Path is measured from the top of each character's em box, half the height of the top of its H or the bottom of its font's bounding box (`tests_native::aligned_type_lies_as_far_from_its_path_as_the_file_lays_it_out`), and the fit under Gravity does not reproduce the file's layout), blend state (`ai::tests::a_blends_transparency_follows_its_record`); scores and estimates unchanged. PDF ActualText preserved in editable import (#6165; bounded synthetic coverage below); score/hours unchanged. Legacy `.ai` type keeps its manual kerning pairs (`Tk`, `TK`), discretionary hyphens (`T+`, `T-`) and hyphenation language (`XL`) when it opens, and legacy `.ai` saves write manual kerning as `Tk` and soft hyphens as `T+` (`import::ai::tests::legacy_manual_pair_kerning_is_kept`, `legacy_ai::tests::manual_kerning_and_soft_hyphens_are_written_and_read_back`); score, gaps and hours unchanged. |
| File formats | 6 | 75% | `.ai` files open with a flattened or wrong layer structure in real cases (#951), a saved `.ai`'s editing copy without live effects on objects other than paths, compound paths and groups that qualify (at most a fill and a stroke, a non-zero fill rule when filled, no large canvas) and whose appearance and effects the art-style writer supports, and with live objects as their art (#868), FreeHand/CorelDRAW/DWG/HEIC import, textures, map art and shading in 3D export; see [file-format-parity.md](file-format-parity.md); EPS legacy mesh/opacity-mask and raster comparison follow-up verified PDF marked-text batching covered by M4 evidence (#6309); cross-line/style ActualText layout (#6165) and styled-cluster limits remain.| 10–20 | estimated (lowered from 85%: open issues); DXF control-point SPLINE import closure regression-tested (#1299 follow-up after #1320); PDF writer metadata, reader streaming and immutable backend checks in `crates/pdf/src/tests.rs`, `crates/pdf/src/tests/reader_streaming.rs` and `xtask/src/pdf_deps.rs`; PDF Place and clipboard paste retain live text (synthetic regressions); EPS ordinary Save retains the page frame and editable document (2026-10-26); `.ai`/EPS editing data checked against a user's files (2026-10-30): case setting (`ate::tests`, `tests_native::type_from_the_text_document_keeps_its_case_setting`), placed-file placements (`tests_native::a_small_placed_file_goes_where_it_draws_closer_to_the_page`), pages cropped to the art (`tests_native::type_on_the_copies_of_a_page_cropped_to_the_art_is_read_once`), mesh corner weights and state (`ai::mesh::tests::corners_with_handle_weights_of_zero_are_read`, `ai::tests::a_gradient_mesh_takes_the_transparency_written_after_it`), type on a path spacing (`tests_native::type_round_a_circle_is_spaced_as_the_file_lays_it_out`), blend state (`ai::tests::a_blends_transparency_follows_its_record`); scores and estimates unchanged. PDF ActualText preserved in editable import (#6165; bounded synthetic coverage below); score/hours unchanged. Legacy `.ai` type keeps its manual kerning pairs (`Tk`, `TK`), discretionary hyphens (`T+`, `T-`) and hyphenation language (`XL`) when it opens, and legacy `.ai` saves write manual kerning as `Tk` and soft hyphens as `T+` (`import::ai::tests::legacy_manual_pair_kerning_is_kept`, `legacy_ai::tests::manual_kerning_and_soft_hyphens_are_written_and_read_back`); score, gaps and hours unchanged. |
| File formats | 6 | 75% | `.ai` files open with a flattened or wrong layer structure in real cases (#951), a saved `.ai`'s editing copy without live effects on objects other than paths, compound paths and groups that qualify (at most a fill and a stroke, a non-zero fill rule when filled, no large canvas) and whose appearance and effects the art-style writer supports, and with live objects as their art (#868), FreeHand/CorelDRAW/DWG/HEIC import, 3D export; see [file-format-parity.md](file-format-parity.md); EPS legacy mesh/opacity-mask and raster comparison follow-up verified PDF marked-text batching covered by M4 evidence (#6309); cross-line/style ActualText layout (#6165) and styled-cluster limits remain.| 10–20 | estimated (lowered from 85%: open issues); DXF control-point SPLINE import closure regression-tested (#1299 follow-up after #1320); PDF writer metadata, reader streaming and immutable backend checks in `crates/pdf/src/tests.rs`, `crates/pdf/src/tests/reader_streaming.rs` and `xtask/src/pdf_deps.rs`; PDF Place and clipboard paste retain live text (synthetic regressions); SVG CSS classes survive export and repeated import in all four styling modes (#2480); current-main integration retains event attributes and scripts; EPS ordinary Save retains the page frame and editable document (2026-10-26); `.ai`/EPS editing data checked against a user's files (2026-10-30): case setting (`ate::tests`, `tests_native::type_from_the_text_document_keeps_its_case_setting`), placed-file placements (`tests_native::a_small_placed_file_goes_where_it_draws_closer_to_the_page`), pages cropped to the art (`tests_native::type_on_the_copies_of_a_page_cropped_to_the_art_is_read_once`), mesh corner weights and state (`ai::mesh::tests::corners_with_handle_weights_of_zero_are_read`, `ai::tests::a_gradient_mesh_takes_the_transparency_written_after_it`), type on a path spacing (`tests_native::type_round_a_circle_is_spaced_as_the_file_lays_it_out`), blend state (`ai::tests::a_blends_transparency_follows_its_record`); scores and estimates unchanged. PDF ActualText preserved in editable import (#6165; bounded synthetic coverage below); score/hours unchanged. Save refusal continuation (#6146): `READ_ONLY_LOCATION`, Save As on ordinary UI Save only; regression execution pending; score/hours unchanged. Legacy `.ai` type keeps its manual kerning pairs (`Tk`, `TK`), discretionary hyphens (`T+`, `T-`) and hyphenation language (`XL`) when it opens, and legacy `.ai` saves write manual kerning as `Tk` and soft hyphens as `T+` (`import::ai::tests::legacy_manual_pair_kerning_is_kept`, `legacy_ai::tests::manual_kerning_and_soft_hyphens_are_written_and_read_back`); score, gaps and hours unchanged. |
| File formats | 6 | 75% | `.ai` files open with a flattened or wrong layer structure in real cases (#951), a saved `.ai`'s editing copy without live effects on objects other than paths, compound paths and groups that qualify (at most a fill and a stroke, a non-zero fill rule when filled, no large canvas) and whose appearance and effects the art-style writer supports, and with live objects other than grouped column, stacked column, line and area graphs the `.ai` reader reads back whole as their art (#868), FreeHand/CorelDRAW/DWG/HEIC import, textures, map art and shading in 3D export; see [file-format-parity.md](file-format-parity.md); EPS legacy mesh/opacity-mask and raster comparison follow-up verified PDF marked-text batching covered by M4 evidence (#6309); cross-line/style ActualText layout (#6165) and styled-cluster limits remain.| 10–20 | estimated (lowered from 85%: open issues); DXF control-point SPLINE import closure regression-tested (#1299 follow-up after #1320); PDF writer metadata, reader streaming and immutable backend checks in `crates/pdf/src/tests.rs`, `crates/pdf/src/tests/reader_streaming.rs` and `xtask/src/pdf_deps.rs`; PDF Place and clipboard paste retain live text (synthetic regressions); EPS ordinary Save retains the page frame and editable document (2026-10-26); `.ai`/EPS editing data checked against a user's files (2026-10-30): case setting (`ate::tests`, `tests_native::type_from_the_text_document_keeps_its_case_setting`), placed-file placements (`tests_native::a_small_placed_file_goes_where_it_draws_closer_to_the_page`), pages cropped to the art (`tests_native::type_on_the_copies_of_a_page_cropped_to_the_art_is_read_once`), mesh corner weights and state (`ai::mesh::tests::corners_with_handle_weights_of_zero_are_read`, `ai::tests::a_gradient_mesh_takes_the_transparency_written_after_it`), type on a path spacing (`tests_native::type_round_a_circle_is_spaced_as_the_file_lays_it_out`), blend state (`ai::tests::a_blends_transparency_follows_its_record`); scores and estimates unchanged. Graphs saved to `.ai` in either form open again as live graphs (`ai_editing::tests::graphs_are_written_with_their_records_and_open_live`, `legacy_ai::tests::graphs_are_written_with_their_records_and_open_live`, `cmd::graph::tests::a_drawn_graph_saved_as_ai_opens_as_a_graph_unless_the_save_warns`); other graphs are still written as their art (`graphs_the_records_cant_keep_are_written_as_their_art`); score and hours unchanged. PDF ActualText preserved in editable import (#6165; bounded synthetic coverage below); score/hours unchanged. Legacy `.ai` type keeps its manual kerning pairs (`Tk`, `TK`), discretionary hyphens (`T+`, `T-`) and hyphenation language (`XL`) when it opens, and legacy `.ai` saves write manual kerning as `Tk` and soft hyphens as `T+` (`import::ai::tests::legacy_manual_pair_kerning_is_kept`, `legacy_ai::tests::manual_kerning_and_soft_hyphens_are_written_and_read_back`); score, gaps and hours unchanged. |
| File formats | 6 | 75% | `.ai` files open with a flattened or wrong layer structure in real cases (#951), a saved `.ai`'s editing copy without live effects on objects other than paths, compound paths and groups that qualify (at most a fill and a stroke, a non-zero fill rule when filled, no large canvas) and whose appearance and effects the art-style writer supports, and with live objects other than grouped column, stacked column, line and area graphs the `.ai` reader reads back whole as their art (#868), FreeHand/CorelDRAW/DWG/HEIC import, 3D export; see [file-format-parity.md](file-format-parity.md); EPS legacy mesh/opacity-mask and raster comparison follow-up verified PDF marked-text batching covered by M4 evidence (#6309); cross-line/style ActualText layout (#6165) and styled-cluster limits remain.| 10–20 | estimated (lowered from 85%: open issues); DXF control-point SPLINE import closure regression-tested (#1299 follow-up after #1320); PDF writer metadata, reader streaming and immutable backend checks in `crates/pdf/src/tests.rs`, `crates/pdf/src/tests/reader_streaming.rs` and `xtask/src/pdf_deps.rs`; PDF Place and clipboard paste retain live text (synthetic regressions); SVG CSS classes survive export and repeated import in all four styling modes (#2480); current-main integration retains event attributes and scripts; EPS ordinary Save retains the page frame and editable document (2026-10-26); `.ai`/EPS editing data checked against a user's files (2026-10-30): case setting (`ate::tests`, `tests_native::type_from_the_text_document_keeps_its_case_setting`), placed-file placements (`tests_native::a_small_placed_file_goes_where_it_draws_closer_to_the_page`), pages cropped to the art (`tests_native::type_on_the_copies_of_a_page_cropped_to_the_art_is_read_once`), mesh corner weights and state (`ai::mesh::tests::corners_with_handle_weights_of_zero_are_read`, `ai::tests::a_gradient_mesh_takes_the_transparency_written_after_it`), type on a path spacing (`tests_native::type_round_a_circle_is_spaced_as_the_file_lays_it_out`), blend state (`ai::tests::a_blends_transparency_follows_its_record`); scores and estimates unchanged. Graphs saved to `.ai` in either form open again as live graphs (`ai_editing::tests::graphs_are_written_with_their_records_and_open_live`, `legacy_ai::tests::graphs_are_written_with_their_records_and_open_live`, `cmd::graph::tests::a_drawn_graph_saved_as_ai_opens_as_a_graph_unless_the_save_warns`); other graphs are still written as their art (`graphs_the_records_cant_keep_are_written_as_their_art`); score and hours unchanged. PDF ActualText preserved in editable import (#6165; bounded synthetic coverage below); score/hours unchanged. Save refusal continuation (#6146): `READ_ONLY_LOCATION`, Save As on ordinary UI Save only; regression execution pending; score/hours unchanged. Legacy `.ai` type keeps its manual kerning pairs (`Tk`, `TK`), discretionary hyphens (`T+`, `T-`) and hyphenation language (`XL`) when it opens, and legacy `.ai` saves write manual kerning as `Tk` and soft hyphens as `T+` (`import::ai::tests::legacy_manual_pair_kerning_is_kept`, `legacy_ai::tests::manual_kerning_and_soft_hyphens_are_written_and_read_back`); score, gaps and hours unchanged. |
| View & navigation | 3 | 70% | multiple windows and the rest of Arrange (Cascade, Float in Window, Float All in Windows) | 9–14 | estimated; Window › Arrange › Tile and Consolidate All Windows done (score/hours unchanged); document-tab artwork hover/copy and lossless transfer tested (2026-10-22; score/hours unchanged); cached canvas reprojection preserves scale during resize, rotation and DPI changes (regression and contributor original-file evidence below; scores/hours unchanged) |
| View & navigation | 3 | 70% | multiple windows and the rest of Arrange (Cascade, Float in Window, Float All in Windows) | 9–14 | estimated; Window › Arrange › Tile and Consolidate All Windows done (score/hours unchanged) |
| Guides, grids, smart guides, snapping, rulers | 3 | 80% | "intersect" smart guides for a moved selection's anchors (drawn points and dragged anchors snap to intersections, #1658) | 4–7 | estimated (lowered from 85%: target moved); Control bar snapping quick access includes Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides (#6164); new ruler-guide Alt orientation implemented; global/artboard ruler modes (`view.globalRulers`) and video rulers (View › Rulers › Show Video Rulers, #2849) done; status-bar X/Y uses the active ruler origin and General units; score unchanged |
@@ -617,6 +617,7 @@ since 2026-10-01.
- **Tab stops in `.ai`/EPS type and right-aligned lines with tabs (#6147):** type from the text document keeps its paragraphs' tab stops (key 30: positions and left, center, right and decimal 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. In right-aligned area type, the text before a line's last tab sits at its stops, measured from the left edge, and the text after it (none when the tab ends the line, with its hyphen when the line is hyphenated) against the right edge; centred and justified lines, point type and right-to-left paragraphs are aligned as a whole as before. Evidence: `ate::tests::a_paragraph_keeps_its_tab_stops`, `ate::tests::a_story_s_tab_stops_are_bounded`, `tests::right_aligned_area_type_sets_the_text_after_its_last_tab_against_the_edge`, `import_fuzz::text_frames_with_hostile_paragraph_attributes_never_panic`. Scores unchanged.
- **`.ai`/EPS graphic styles that paint with a named gradient:** a graphic style library's style (or a file's listed style) whose fill, or the fill or stroke of a style of one paint, paints with one of the file's gradients by name loads with that gradient at the style's angle, fitted to the bounds of each object it is applied to (VectorCraft's own placement; the style stores only the gradient's name and angle). A style naming a gradient the file doesn't define, or painting with a pattern, is still left out. Evidence: `fileio::tests_aiimport::graphic_styles_in_a_ai_library_that_paint_with_a_named_gradient_load_with_it`, `style::tests::a_style_of_one_paint_reads_as_the_fill_and_stroke_its_xd_turns_on`. Scores unchanged.
- **`.ai`/EPS type laid out closer to the file's page (#6137):** type from the text document keeps auto leading as auto, each line taking the paragraph's Auto Leading share (key 7) of the largest type on it ([Line and character spacing](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/line-character-spacing.html)); the paragraph's hyphenation options (keys 10 to 15) are read; area type of one frame whose last lines the file sets, but which don't fit here, may get a frame taller from its bottom, by its lines' deepest descent plus 0.05 pt and only when that shows more of those lines and no more than the file has (`vectorcraft_text::fit_source_lines`), with a warning when it does: the frame can stay as it is, or show only some of them; and a line a soft return ends is justified as a wrapped line is, a paragraph's last line keeping its alignment. Evidence: `ate::tests::auto_leading_follows_the_size_of_each_line`, `ate::tests::a_paragraph_keeps_its_auto_leading`, `ate::tests::a_paragraph_keeps_its_hyphenation_options`, `ate::tests::the_last_lines_the_file_sets_in_its_frame_show`, `tests::fit_source_lines_keeps_the_last_lines_the_source_sets`, `tests::typo::soft_return_in_justified_text_spreads_like_a_wrapped_line`. Limits: frames grow only for area type of one frame, horizontal, by its lines' deepest descent plus 0.05 pt; type in a font that isn't installed, and hyphenation in a language that isn't imported, still lay out differently. Scores unchanged.
- **Graphs saved to `.ai` keep their data and settings:** a grouped column, stacked column, line or area graph is written to a `.ai` file, in either form, with the records the `.ai` reader reads (`crates/eps/src/import/ai/read/graph.rs`, #7311): `%_Gs`, its plot, type, settings, axes and table, its series' groups each tagged `Go`, and `%_GS` ([the specification](https://13thmonkey.org/documentation/fonts/AI7FileFormat.pdf), §17 and appendix A). The file opens again with the same live graph. A graph with settings the reader doesn't keep, graph designs, label formatting, more than 10,000 categories or 256 series, or art the reader doesn't attach a graph to is written as its art, with a warning. `crates/eps/src/legacy_ai/tests.rs` and `crates/eps/src/ai_editing/tests.rs` write and read back each kind of graph; `a_drawn_graph_saved_as_ai_opens_as_a_graph_unless_the_save_warns` checks every graph type the graph tools draw. Scores unchanged.
- **Selected Grid Repeat handles (#2691):**`tools/src/repeat_grid.rs` tests place the handles outside the grid at zoom 0.5, 1 and 4, preview rows, columns and spacing, leave no undo step for a drag that ends where it began, and give bounding-box handles priority; a headless canvas regression drags the row handle two tiles down in a zoomed view (3 → 5 rows, the source unchanged, one Undo back) and the column-spacing slider. Scores and hours unchanged.
- **Selected Mirror Repeat handles:** a headless canvas regression creates the default mirror repeat and drags its Top bounding-box handle where the axis crosses it; the repeat grows vertically while its width stays fixed. Existing mirror-axis checks cover center movement and end-handle hit priority. The focused UI mirror tests pass. Scores and hours unchanged.
- **Transform effect options (#885):** Effect › Distort & Transform › Transform… has visible Transform Objects, Transform Patterns and Scale Strokes & Effects checkboxes (`distort.transform` params `objects`, `patterns`, `strokes`; files without them draw as before). With Transform Objects off the geometry stays and makes no copies; Scale Strokes & Effects scales stroke weights, dashes and the fills' and strokes' effect distances by the mean scale, and Transform Patterns moves pattern tiles, each copy `k` by the transformation `k` times. Such objects draw, export and expand through the same per-copy art, so the canvas and Expand Appearance agree (engine `tests_transformfx`, effects `tests_transformfx`, the dialog test). A Transform effect in a fill's or stroke's own effects applies the same options to that fill or stroke: its weight and dashes and its pattern follow the transformation, and with copies each copy is an object of its own; the canvas, export, Expand Appearance and Use Preview Bounds use the same art (effects `tests_transformfx`). The effects listed after it in that fill's or stroke's list keep their own distances and apply to the transformed art and to each copy, as an object's later effects do after the object's Transform effect: a Drop Shadow after it keeps its offset, an Offset Path after it offsets by its own distance, and an SVG filter after it keeps its scale and the origin of its user space. With Transform Objects off, the effects before it keep their distances too. Before, Scale Strokes & Effects scaled a fill's or stroke's later effects by the mean scale, so existing documents with such effects draw differently. Effects apply in the order they are listed ([Appearance attributes](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/special-effects-styles/apply-graphic-styles/appearance-attributes-in-illustrator.html)); how the two options treat the effects after a fill's or stroke's own Transform effect is VectorCraft's own rule, following that order (effects `tests::rasterfollow::a_fills_own_transform_leaves_the_shadow_after_it`, `tests::rasterfollow::a_fills_own_transform_leaves_the_offset_after_it`, `tests::rasterfollow::a_fills_own_transform_leaves_the_svg_filter_after_it`, `tests::transformfx::a_fills_own_transform_with_scale_strokes_and_effects_leaves_its_later_effects`; engine `plugins::a_transform_after_a_painted_fill_effect_leaves_the_later_shadow_on_every_paint`). Public reference: [Scale objects](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/reshape-transform-objects/scale-objects.html), [How to apply effects](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/effects.html), [Distort and transform effects](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/reshape-transform-objects/distort-and-transform-effects-in-illustrator.html). Scores and hours unchanged.
@@ -953,7 +954,8 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
- Align New Objects to Pixel Grid (`document.setup {alignNewObjectsToPixelGrid}`, a checkbox in New Document's Advanced Options and a checked item in the Transform panel menu) gives every path and compound path drawn in the document, the paths of a new grid or flare included, the pixel-aligned property, snapped in the step that draws it; it is on in the Mobile and Web presets and off in the others, saved presets and Recent keep it, and the document saves it. Type, images and groups do not take it, and art already in the document, pasted, duplicated or placed keeps its own property (VectorCraft's own rules) ([Pixel-aligned property](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/get-started/learn-the-basics/pixel-preview-mode-for-web-graphics.html); `tests::pixelalign::align_new_objects_makes_new_paths_pixel_aligned`, `align_new_objects_reaches_grids_flares_and_add_on_shapes`, `align_new_objects_is_saved_and_read_back`, `tests::newdoc::align_new_objects_to_pixel_grid_follows_the_preset`, `panels::transform::tests::align_new_objects_menu_item_toggles_the_active_document`, `dialogs::new_document::tests::align_new_objects_checkbox_follows_the_preset_and_reaches_the_document`).
- Break Link to Symbol and Object › Expand give a symbol instance's art the instance's own bounding box: after Reset Bounding Box the art stands square to the page, an object turned inside the symbol keeps its angle relative to the instance's box, a group added for the instance's opacity takes the instance's box, and the clip groups of 9-slice art take the angle of their cell. Compound shapes and Pathfinder receive an instance's art with the same angles (VectorCraft's own behavior; `bboxrotate::reset_bounding_box_then_expand_symbol_instance`, `reset_bounding_box_then_expand_keeps_the_angles_inside_the_symbol`, `expanding_a_faded_symbol_instance_gives_its_group_the_instance_box`, `expanding_a_reflected_symbol_instance_keeps_its_box`, `symbol_nine_slice::break_link_turns_the_cells_of_a_sliced_instance_with_its_box`, effects `outline_object_turns_an_instances_art_with_its_box`).
- Object › Transform › Reset Bounding Box squares the box of every object inside the selected ones as well: the children of groups, compound paths, clip groups, blends, envelopes, repeats and intertwines, and the art of linked opacity masks. Ungroup and the release commands then bring back boxes square to the page (VectorCraft's own behavior; `bboxrotate::reset_bounding_box_squares_the_objects_inside_a_group`, `reset_bounding_box_squares_the_turned_members_of_a_square_group`, `reset_bounding_box_then_release_clipping_mask` and the other `reset_bounding_box_then_*` tests, `reset_bounding_box_leaves_the_art_of_an_unlinked_opacity_mask`).
- After a rotation the Free Transform tool shows and drags the same turned bounding box as the Selection tool: its handles, their cursors and its rotate zone sit on the selection's own sides, a handle scales along those sides from the opposite handle ([the help page](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/reshape-transform-objects/scale-objects.html)), Cmd/Ctrl on a side handle shears along that side, and Perspective Distort and Free Distort start from the turned box's corners (`object.distort` takes `angle` with `from`). The Scale and Reflect tools, their dialogs and commands, and the Transform panel's flips keep the page's axes (VectorCraft's own rule;`bboxrotate::free_transform_handles_turn_with_the_object_and_scale_along_its_axes`, `free_transform_shears_along_the_turned_side`, `free_transform_distort_starts_from_the_turned_box`, `xform::distort_reads_from_in_a_turned_frame_and_rejects_a_bad_angle`, tools `xform::free::tests::the_box_and_its_handles_turn_with_the_selection`).
- After a rotation the Free Transform tool shows and drags the same turned bounding box as the Selection tool: its handles, their cursors and its rotate zone sit on the selection's own sides, a handle scales along those sides from the opposite handle ([the help page](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/reshape-transform-objects/scale-objects.html)), Cmd/Ctrl on a side handle shears along that side, and Perspective Distort and Free Distort start from the turned box's corners (`object.distort` takes `angle` with `from`) (`bboxrotate::free_transform_handles_turn_with_the_object_and_scale_along_its_axes`, `free_transform_shears_along_the_turned_side`, `free_transform_distort_starts_from_the_turned_box`, `xform::distort_reads_from_in_a_turned_frame_and_rejects_a_bad_angle`, tools `xform::free::tests::the_box_and_its_handles_turn_with_the_selection`).
- After a rotation the Scale and Reflect tools, the Scale and Reflect dialogs, `object.scale`, `object.reflect` with a named axis and the Transform and Properties panels' flips act along the selection's turned bounding box until Reset Bounding Box: the horizontal and vertical scale stretch along its own width and height, and the vertical and horizontal reflection axes are its own. The Reflect tool's default axis and its Shift steps start from the box's axes, and an axis drawn with the tool is the line drawn on the page. `basis: "page"` keeps the page's axes (VectorCraft's own rules; `bboxrotate::scale_and_reflect_follow_the_turned_box`, tools `xform::transform::tests::scale_and_reflect_drags_follow_a_turned_bounding_box`).
- Perspective Distort and Free Distort (`object.distort`) turn each warped object's bounding box as the warp turns the object at its own center, the objects inside groups, compound paths and clip groups and the art of linked opacity masks included, so the next Selection or Free Transform drag uses the tilted box; Object › Transform › Reset Bounding Box squares it again, and corners left where they are add no undo step (VectorCraft's own rule; `bboxrotate::distort_turns_an_upright_box_with_the_warp_at_its_center`, `distort_turns_each_member_and_linked_mask_by_its_own_warp`, `mirrored_and_collapsing_distorts_keep_valid_angles`, `distort_angles_undo_redo_and_reopen_together`, `xform::unchanged_distort_records_no_history`).
- The Free Transform widget's Constrain works in Free Distort as well as in Free Transform ([the help page](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/tool-techniques/free-transform-tool.html)). With Constrain on, or Shift held, a corner dragged in Free Distort moves only along the line through the opposite corner, in the box's own proportions, and the other three corners stay in place; on a turned box the line runs through the box's own corners. The line is VectorCraft's own rule. Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+Shift on a corner still drags in Perspective Distort, where Constrain stays unavailable (tools `xform::free::tests::free_distort_corner_keeps_to_its_diagonal_with_shift_or_constrain`, `shift_pressed_during_a_free_distort_drag_constrains_it`, `a_turned_box_is_constrained_along_its_own_diagonal`, `along_diagonal_of_a_degenerate_box`; engine `xform::free_transform_constrained_distort_keeps_the_corner_on_its_diagonal`; ui-egui `free_transform::tests::the_widget_sets_the_mode_and_a_corner_drag_then_distorts`).
- Native macOS menu bar, vector tool cursors, a ⌘K command palette, middle-button panning with any tool. Native menus explicitly end tracking on command selection, outside window presses and Escape; menu updates wait until tracking ends, and a dismissing press never starts a canvas gesture (M14.8).
@@ -989,7 +991,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
- **Delete Symbol asks first** ([Symbols panel](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/symbols-panel-options.html), [symbol libraries](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/create-or-import-symbol-libraries.html), [Alt-click Delete](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html)): the Symbols panel's Delete Symbol button and menu item ask "Delete the selected symbol?" with Yes and No for a symbol no instance uses. For a symbol with placed instances they ask with Expand Instances (the instances become ordinary art), Delete Instances and Cancel; either Instances button deletes the symbol in one undo step. Alt-click on the button deletes an unused symbol without asking and still asks about one with instances. A question left open while another document became active deletes nothing. `symbol.delete` itself does not ask. Tests: `panels::symbols::tests::delete_symbol_asks_first_and_alt_click_deletes_an_unused_symbol_at_once`, `the_in_use_question_expands_or_deletes_the_instances`, `a_stale_delete_symbol_question_deletes_nothing`, `the_delete_symbol_questions_show_their_buttons`.
- **Symbols panel context menu** ([Symbols panel](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/symbols-panel-options.html)): right-clicking a symbol in thumbnail view or list view displays a context menu with Place Symbol Instance (passes view center or artboard center), Edit Symbol, Duplicate Symbol, Delete Symbol, Break Link to Symbol (enabled when canvas selection includes instances of this symbol), and Select All Instances. Right-clicking an unselected symbol selects it first (`symbol.setCurrent`). Tests: `panels::symbols::tests::right_click_context_menu_in_symbols_panel_runs_actions`.
- **Symbols › Select All Unused** ([Symbols panel](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/symbols-panel-options.html), #4918): the Symbols panel menu's Select All Unused shows the symbols nothing places selected (`symbol.unused`): instances in the art (opacity masks included), graph designs, pattern tiles and brush art count, and so do instances in a used symbol's art. Delete Symbol, the button or the menu item, then asks "Delete the selected symbols?" once and deletes those still unused in one undo step (`symbol.delete {names}`); Alt-click on the button deletes them without asking, and a click on a symbol picks just it again. Tests: `tests::brushsym::symbol_unused_lists_the_symbols_nothing_places_and_delete_takes_several`, `panels::symbols::tests::select_all_unused_picks_the_unused_symbols_and_delete_deletes_them`, `dialogs::symbol_delete::tests::several_symbols_get_the_plural_question`.
- **Symbols › Sort by Name and the list views** ([the help page](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/symbols-panel-options.html)): the Symbols panel menu's Sort by Name puts the symbols in alphabetical order (`symbol.sortByName`), and its Thumbnail View, Small List View and Large List View show them as thumbnails, in a compact list or in a list with larger thumbnails. VectorCraft's own rules: the sort ignores case and keeps names that differ only in case in their order; it changes the document's order, which `symbol.list` reports, as one undo step, keeps the current symbol and adds no undo step when the symbols are already in order; Thumbnail View is the default, Small List View has 18-point rows with 14-point thumbnails and Large List View 26-point rows with 22-point thumbnails, and a click or double-click on a symbol does the same in every view. Tests: `tests::brushsym::symbol_sort_by_name_orders_the_symbols_in_one_undo_step`, `panels::symbols::tests::sort_by_name_and_the_small_and_large_list_views`.
- **Symbols › Sort by Name and the list views** ([the help page](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/symbols-panel-options.html)): the Symbols panel menu's Sort by Name puts the symbols in alphabetical order (`symbol.sortByName`), and its Thumbnail View, Small List View and Large List View show them as thumbnails, in a compact list or in a list with larger thumbnails. VectorCraft's own rules: the sort ignores case and keeps names that differ only in case in their order; it changes the document's order, which `symbol.list` reports, as one undo step, keeps the current symbol and adds no undo step when the symbols are already in order; Thumbnail View is the default, Small List View has 18-point rows with 14-point thumbnails and Large List View 26-point rows with 22-point thumbnails, and a click or double-click on a symbol does the same in every view.`ui.panelView` sets the view of the Symbols panel, and of the Swatches and Graphic Styles panels, as their panel menus do. Tests: `tests::brushsym::symbol_sort_by_name_orders_the_symbols_in_one_undo_step`, `panels::symbols::tests::sort_by_name_and_the_small_and_large_list_views`, `panels::symbols::tests::panel_view_sets_the_view_of_each_panel`.
- **Expand of symbol instances:** Object › Expand turns selected symbol instances (without effects, not in perspective, in groups or placed documents too) into their art as Break Link to Symbol places it, one level deep, as one undo step; the Expand dialog's Fill and Stroke reach that art (`object.expand`, `crates/engine/src/tests/expand_symbols.rs`; estimated, score unchanged).
- **Reset Transformation** ([Transform symbols](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/transform-symbols.html), [Symbols panel options](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/symbols-panel-options.html)): the Symbols panel menu's Reset Transformation and the Control bar's Reset, shown while symbol instances are selected, give the selected instances their symbol's own scale again, without rotation or shear, as one undo step (`symbol.instance.resetTransform`); an instance in perspective is left as it is. VectorCraft's own rules: each instance keeps the center of its bounding box in place, reflection is removed too, and the menu item and the button are enabled only while a selected instance would change. Tests: `tests::brushsym::reset_transformation_restores_the_symbols_scale_and_keeps_the_center`, `reset_transformation_keeps_the_center_of_art_away_from_the_origin`, `reset_transformation_ignores_a_stored_size_that_is_not_positive`, `reset_transformation_leaves_unchanged_instances_and_refuses_bad_ids`, `panels::symbols::tests::reset_transformation_is_enabled_for_a_transformed_instance_and_resets_it`.
- **Expand of dimensions:** Object › Expand, Expand Appearance, Create Outlines and Outline Stroke turn a dimension whose art they change into a plain group of that art, which stays as it is through later moves, scales and edits of what it measured; undo gives the live dimension back (`crates/engine/tests/it/dimensions.rs`; VectorCraft's own rule; estimated, score unchanged).
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With Smart Guides on, a straight Knife cut snaps to anchor points and paths: [Cut objects using the Knife and Scissors tools](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/edit-objects/cut-objects.html) describes the Knife snapping to anchor points and paths while Smart Guides are on. Its ends snap as the ends of the Pencil's straight line do, to anchor points and path segments of art that is shown: the press, and the release of an Alt-drag. Shift+Alt steps 45° from the snapped press, and its release stays on that step. With Smart Guides off, or with Snap to Pixel or Snap to Grid on, the cut is not snapped. The dashed line and `path.knife` use the snapped points.
Eraser Tool Options has Angle and Roundness besides Size, as [Erase paths using the Eraser tool](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/draw-shapes-and-paths/modify-paths/erase-paths-using-eraser-tool.html) describes: the Eraser's tip is an ellipse Size across, its long axis at Angle and its short axis Roundness percent of the long one, and a drag with a tip that is not round shows the outline of the area it erases (`path.eraseRegion``angle` and `roundness`).
The outline a Blob Brush or Eraser drag shows is built a bounded amount per frame, so a long stroke does not slow the canvas: each frame takes at most 256 new points of the drag and outlines again only the pieces of up to 32 segments they change, and the parts of a piece's outline inside the rest of the area are removed a limited amount at a time. While work is left, the canvas draws again with the pointer still, the points not outlined yet show as a thin line, and the tip shows at the pointer. With Size set to Pressure the outline also shows only the edge of the whole area. The release sends the whole stroke as before (`path.blob`, `path.eraseRegion`).
The settled part of that outline is kept in paths of up to 64 pieces each. A path is shared from one frame to the next until a piece in it changes, and the canvas keeps the triangles it drew the path with while the view stays the same, so a frame does not copy, flatten or tessellate a settled path again; a pan, zoom or rotation draws each one once more. This is VectorCraft's own rule. The outline of a drag with a round Eraser tip is drawn whole each frame.
- **Transform:** Rotate, Reflect, Scale, Shear (click or Alt-click snaps the reference point to anchors and centres; Alt-click opens the tool's dialog, and a drag with Alt down at the release, from the press or pressed mid-drag, transforms a copy), Reshape, Free Transform (free and perspective distort and shear, switched by the keys held during a handle drag).
A Reshape drag stretches part of a path from the dragged point without losing the path's general form, as [Adjust path segments](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/draw-shapes-and-paths/modify-paths/adjust-path-segments.html) has it. On an open path the stretch reaches both ends: the end anchors stay in place, each anchor between moves less the nearer it lies to an end, and the handles of a smooth anchor stay in line (`path.reshape`; the reach and the shares are VectorCraft's own rule, in `docs/mcp.md`). A click sets a focal point and a click on a segment adds a highlighted anchor there; Shift-click adds more, and a drag from any of them moves them all. The anchors that are not direct-selected stay in place and a closed path selected whole moves whole (VectorCraft's own rule, in `docs/mcp.md`).
Align, Distribute, Distribute Spacing, Reflect and Shear return an error for any `horizontal`, `vertical`, `to`, `axis`, `bounds` or `spacing` value they don't take, listing the choices, and Align returns one when a call gives neither `horizontal` nor `vertical`; nothing moves and no undo step is recorded. 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).
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The Glyphs panel's Alternates for Current Selection (#5514) applies the OpenType feature that draws the glyph to the selected character alone, as [Replace characters with alternate glyphs](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/special-characters-glyphs/replace-characters-with-alternate-glyphs.html) describes (Alternates For Current Selection in the Show menu; double-click the glyph to replace the selected character). One deliberate difference from a literal reading: the text keeps the Unicode character and gains a character-style feature with a value (`salt=2`, `ss03`; `text.setRangeStyle {featureChanges}`) instead of taking an unencoded glyph in its place. The grid lists the alternates of the glyph the shaper makes for the character in its word (a medial letter shows its medial variants; the default glyph comes first and the current glyph is highlighted); a variant no supported feature draws there stays enabled as a replacement glyph (`text.setGlyphAlternate`, including positional alternates), and its tooltip says it may not join its neighbors; the default glyph takes the character's alternate features off again. Runs that differ only in their OpenType features are shaped as one piece of text, each run's features over its own characters, so the letters of an Arabic word keep their joining forms. Show › Entire Font also lists the glyphs no character maps, with the font's name for them (or `gid N`) and the feature that gives them. It applies the selected letter's contextual alternates the same way, and applies a glyph no feature reaches whose name does not belong to another letter as a glyph choice; other glyphs are dimmed with the reason. An Arabic presentation form picked there inserts its base letter. These rules are VectorCraft's own. Tests: `tests::glyph_alternates` in the text crate (a fixture font; Kufi Murabba PIIIX when it is installed), `panels::glyphs::tests` (including positional glyph choices, unlisted glyph name ownership, apply and Undo), `tests::textedit::feature_values_are_set_replaced_and_saved`.
With a Type tool and exactly one character selected, the canvas shows that character's alternate glyphs in a row beside it, and a click on one replaces the character's glyph, as [Replace characters with alternate glyphs](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/special-characters-glyphs/replace-characters-with-alternate-glyphs.html) describes ("Replace a character with on-canvas alternate glyphs"). The row shows at most five alternates, and an arrow at its end opens the Glyphs panel on Alternates for Current Selection when the character has more, as the [reference manual](https://web.archive.org/web/20210601162814/https://helpx.adobe.com/pdf/illustrator_reference.pdf#page=479) describes. A click runs the command the panel's double-click runs, as one undo step, so a letter of an Arabic word keeps the word joined. These rules are VectorCraft's own: the row leaves out the glyph the character is drawn with and puts the default glyph first for a character drawn with an alternate; it stands under a character of horizontal type and on the right of a character of vertical type, or on the other side when the canvas ends there or the Contextual Task Bar is there; Preferences › Type › Show Character Alternates (`showCharacterAlternates`, on by default) turns it off. Tests: `canvas::alternates_bar::tests`, `tests::prefs::show_character_alternates_preference_is_on_by_default_and_saved`.
The OpenType panel's Stylistic Sets menu offers `ss01`–`ss20` sets present in the selected text's font, using the font's custom labels when available and numbered labels otherwise. Sets can be combined and deselected individually. With mixed fonts, the menu shows the first selected character's font's sets and applies the feature tag to all selected text; a font without that set draws unchanged. The mixed-font rule is a VectorCraft design choice. Behavior reference: [Add stylistic sets to selected text](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/special-characters-glyphs/add-stylistic-sets-to-selected-text.html) and the [OpenType specification](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/features_pt).
With Show East Asian Options on, the OpenType panel menu has H or V Style and Roman Italics, as [Format East Asian characters](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/formatting-asian-characters.html) describes. H or V Style sets the feature tag `hkna`, which draws kana with the forms the font makes for horizontal type, and with `vkna` for vertical type in vertical type; Roman Italics sets `ital`, the font's italic forms of half-width alphanumerics ([OpenType feature list](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/featurelist)). Each is checked when every selected character has it and turns it on or off for all of them in one undo step; character styles carry both in OpenType Features. Tests: `panels::opentype::tests::kana_style_and_roman_italics_turn_on_and_off`, `features::tests::kana_style_and_roman_italics_are_kept_and_shaped`.
`text.setStyle {stroke, strokeWidth}` sets the character stroke's color and weight of the selected type or of a range of its characters (the weight in document points, as `stroke.set` sets it), in the same undo step as the command's other changes. Tests: `tests::textedit::set_style_sets_the_character_stroke`.
- **Paragraph alignment:** the shared Paragraph/Properties alignment row leaves every button unselected when the paragraphs it acts on differ. Auto resolves per paragraph; choosing an alignment uses the existing command. Headless paragraph_mixed_alignment_* regressions exercise mixed → Center → Undo, caret/uniform states, Unicode range boundaries, Auto/direction, split runs and grouped text. These regressions and full integration CI pass. Original captures confirm mixed → Center → Undo in the existing alignment-button layout. The [public Paragraph panel guide](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/edit-format-text/paragraph-panel-overview.html) lists the seven controls, but does not specify mixed-state rendering. Other paragraph fields remain outside this change; scores and hours unchanged.
For Auto Size area type in columns, the bisection for the frame's height runs on the lines of the one-column layout, and its result is checked with at most two layouts of the columns. When the text wraps around objects or does not fit the one-column layout, or when the check fails, the columns are laid out at every step of the bisection, as before. Typing at the start of a story of 50,000 characters in 2 columns took 1,670 ms a keystroke and now takes 292 ms (release build, `auto_height_in_columns_typing_timing`).
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Double-clicking the Live Paint Bucket opens Live Paint Bucket Options ([Paint with the Live Paint Bucket tool](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/learn-painting-basics/paint-with-the-live-paint-bucket-tool.html)): Paint Fills (on) and Paint Strokes (off) set whether a click paints faces, edges or both, Highlight turns the outline of the face or edge under the pointer on or off, and Color and Width set it (red and 4 px by default). Faces are outlined at the Width and edges at half of it, as the page says faces are highlighted with a thick line and edges with a thin line. With both on, a click paints the edge within 4 px of the pointer, else the face, and Shift switches to Paint Fills only; with one on, Shift switches to the other. The options last across tool switches and are saved with the preferences (`tool.setOption {tool: "livePaintBucket"}`). Evidence: `builder::tests::{bucket_options_choose_what_a_click_paints, bucket_options_set_the_highlight, bucket_highlights_an_edge_thinner_than_a_face}`, `dialogs::live_paint_bucket::tests::double_clicking_the_tool_opens_its_options_and_ok_sets_them`.
Live Paint Bucket double-click and triple-click, as [the help page](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/learn-painting-basics/paint-with-the-live-paint-bucket-tool.html) describes them: a double-click on a face fills it and the faces reached across edges that draw no stroke, and on an edge it paints the edges joined to it with the same stroke; a triple-click fills every face of the group with the face's fill, or paints every edge with the edge's stroke (`livePaint.fill` and `livePaint.strokeEdge``{scope: "connected" | "samePaint", match?}`; `pointer_gesture` and `ui.pointer` take `tripleclick`). Each click paints as it arrives, as its own undo step, and the paint compared is the one the face or edge had before the first of its clicks that painted it; a first click that made the Live Paint group counts when the face it filled is the clicked face. With Space held for the view tools, a click, double-click or triple-click paints nothing and no face or edge is outlined, and with Cmd/Ctrl held a double-click or triple-click paints nothing. Which faces and edges join and which paints match are VectorCraft's own rules. Evidence: `tests_build::{live_paint_bucket_double_click_floods_across_unstroked_edges, live_paint_bucket_double_click_floods_curved_and_narrow_faces, live_paint_bucket_double_click_floods_across_hidden_edges_and_past_gaps, live_paint_bucket_triple_click_fills_every_face_of_the_same_fill, live_paint_bucket_triple_click_after_making_the_group_matches_the_made_fill, live_paint_bucket_double_and_triple_click_paint_joined_and_same_stroke_edges, live_paint_scope_and_match_are_checked}`, `builder::tests::{bucket_double_and_triple_click_widen_what_a_click_paints, bucket_triple_click_after_making_the_group_on_another_face_matches_its_own_face, bucket_triple_click_with_a_click_on_another_face_between_matches_the_first_fill, bucket_highlights_nothing_with_space_held}`, `tests::build::{live_paint_scoped_fill_and_stroke_skip_parts_with_the_paint, live_paint_bucket_cmd_double_and_triple_click_paint_nothing}`, `tests::livepaint::{a_triple_click_fills_every_face_of_the_same_fill, clicks_with_space_held_paint_nothing}` (MCP).
Live Paint Bucket Options has Cursor Swatch Preview, as the [help page](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/learn-painting-basics/paint-with-the-live-paint-bucket-tool.html) lists: with the Bucket selected, the active fill or stroke shows above the pointer between the color swatches before and after it in the Swatches panel, and the Left and Right arrow keys pick the swatch before or after it, as the page describes. The selected art keeps its paint. As VectorCraft's own rules, the option is on at first, the arrows step the stroke when the Stroke proxy is in front, they wrap around at the ends and still step with the preview off, a color that is no swatch shows alone until Right picks the first swatch or Left the last, and the arrows do nothing during a fill drag or with no color swatch. Evidence: `tests::build::{live_paint_bucket_arrow_keys_step_the_active_paint_through_the_swatches, live_paint_bucket_arrow_keys_handle_unmatched_paint_few_swatches_and_drags, live_paint_bucket_arrow_keys_pass_swatches_of_the_same_color_for_fill_and_stroke, swatch_arrow_keys_leave_modified_arrows_to_the_shortcuts}`.
Object › Live Paint › Make turns the selected paths into a Live Paint group of faces and edges ([the help page](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/learn-painting-basics/create-live-paint-groups.html)). As VectorCraft's own rule, each face takes every fill row that draws (shown, with paint and an opacity above 0) of its front-most covering source that has one and an opacity above 0, and each edge every stroke row that draws (also with a weight above 0) of its source, in order with their opacity, blending mode, effects and stroke settings, with gradients kept at their fit on the source and with the source's opacity and blending mode. Where a path is cut into several edges, each edge's dashes go on from where it starts along the path with the lengths set (dashes aligned to corners and path ends are not fitted to the cut edges), the arrowheads stay at the path's own ends, and a width profile or brush stays only on an edge that runs the whole path; each edge runs the way its path does, a gradient applied along a stroke starts again on each cut edge, and an inside or outside stroke is drawn centered on an open piece of a closed path. A painted lower row under an unpainted or hidden top row is kept, a hidden top row does not become visible, and a source in front whose fill does not draw does not hide the fill behind it. Rows that do not draw stay with the stored sources, which Release returns unchanged; the source's object effects are not carried. Evidence: `tests::build::{live_paint_make_keeps_lower_drawn_stroke_rows, live_paint_make_fits_dashes_and_arrowheads_to_each_edge, live_paint_make_starts_a_closed_edge_where_its_path_starts, live_paint_make_keeps_the_direction_of_gradient_strokes, live_paint_make_keeps_all_drawn_fill_rows_and_attributes, live_paint_make_uses_frontmost_source_with_drawn_fill}`.
Live Paint Make preserves the front-most covering source's fill when compound paths share a curved boundary, and Expand keeps the face fills. Regression evidence: `planar::tests::coincident_curves_keep_their_source_faces` checks source order, winding, fill rules and nearby boundaries; `tests::build::live_paint_make_and_expand_keep_abutting_compound_colors` checks native compound paths, Make, Expand and Undo/Redo. This preserves VectorCraft's source-fill rule without changing arrangement precision.
Object › Live Paint › Expand keeps the faces and edges that draw on the canvas, with all their fill and stroke rows, so the expanded paths look as the painted group did ([Create Live Paint groups](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/learn-painting-basics/create-live-paint-groups.html)). As VectorCraft's own rule, a face or edge draws when it is shown, its opacity is above 0, and any of its fill or stroke rows is shown, has paint and an opacity above 0 (a stroke also needs a weight above 0), whichever row is on top: a painted lower row under an unpainted top row is kept, and a part whose only painted row is hidden is removed. Merge copies the fill and stroke rows, visibility, opacity and blending mode of each face that draws by this rule, and of each edge, to the rebuilt parts, with their gradients kept at their fit on the old outline and without the strokes' pen pressure, tilt, bearing and rotation. Evidence: `tests::build::{live_paint_expand_keeps_the_faces_and_edges_that_draw, live_paint_merge_carries_the_faces_that_draw, live_paint_merge_leaves_pen_pressure_behind, live_paint_merge_keeps_the_fit_of_carried_gradients, live_paint_merge_keeps_the_visibility_opacity_and_blending_of_carried_parts}`.
`livePaint.info` lists every fill and stroke row of each face and edge, bottom first, with its paint, opacity, visibility, weight for a stroke, and whether it draws by the rule above, beside the top fill, stroke and weight it already reported. Evidence: `tests::build::live_paint_info_lists_every_appearance_row`.
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A `.ai` opened from its editing data opens its Objects on Path groups live, with their path, their objects in order along it, Pivot and Rotate, and their art where the file draws it; a group whose spacing has been dragged, or with options an Objects on Path group doesn't hold, opens as a plain group (`crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs`).
`.ai` symbol definitions and placed instances open as live symbols, in the Symbols panel's order; an instance of a symbol that isn't read, or whose appearance differs from its symbol's, comes in as the page draws it (`crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs`).
In a `.ai` opened from its editing data, an object in a pattern's art or a brush's art with an art style VectorCraft reads opens as itself with its effects live, as an object on a layer does, and an object in a pattern's art keeps the id of a graphic style in the file's list (`crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs`).
A graph in a `.ai` whose records have the shape and values the published version 7 specification gives ([the specification](https://13thmonkey.org/documentation/fonts/AI7FileFormat.pdf), printed pp. 109–112 and 146–158) opens as a live grouped column, stacked column, line or area graph with its saved art, table, axes and settings, and Graph Data edits it ([the help page](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/visualize-data/add-graph-data.html)); other graphs keep their art as plain objects with a note, and saving a graph to `.ai` warns that its data and settings aren't written (`crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs`, `crates/engine/src/cmd/graph/tests.rs`).
A graph in a `.ai` whose records have the shape and values the published version 7 specification gives ([the specification](https://13thmonkey.org/documentation/fonts/AI7FileFormat.pdf), printed pp. 109–112 and 146–158) opens as a live grouped column, stacked column, line or area graph with its saved art, table, axes and settings, and Graph Data edits it ([the help page](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/visualize-data/add-graph-data.html)); other graphs keep their art as plain objects with a note. Saving to `.ai` writes these records for a graph that reads back as the same graph, and warns that any other graph's data and settings aren't written (`crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs`, `crates/engine/src/cmd/graph/tests.rs`).
Blends and envelopes in the definitions of a `.ai`'s symbols, patterns and brushes' art count against the same per-file limits on blend layout and envelope checks as the layers' art, so a file with many definitions does not get those limits again for each one (`crates/eps/src/import/ai/read/directives.rs`).
A `.ai` or EPS whose editing data has brushes opens with the file's Calligraphic, Scatter, Art and Bristle brushes in the Brushes panel in place of the default ones, in the file's order: the Calligraphic size, roundness and angle with their variation, the Scatter size, spacing, scatter and rotation, the Bristle settings, and the Scatter and Art brushes' art (Art brushes in the older and newer forms of their objects). A brush library `.ai` (brushes and no layers) opens from its PDF part with its brushes, so Other Library lists them. An Art brush in None or Tints keeps that colorization, and one in the newer form also keeps its fixed width, Flip Along and Flip Across, and Scale Proportionately, Stretch to Fit Stroke Length or Stretch Between Guides with its guides ([Art brush options](https://web.archive.org/web/20220911143322/https://helpx.adobe.com/pdf/cs6/illustrator_reference.pdf), printed page 193). Pattern brushes and brushes that can't be read are left out with a note. Paths with a Calligraphic brush, and paths with an Art brush in the newer form that bends art of solid-filled paths with those options, open as the path with the brush on its stroke, except paths whose brush scales its art proportionately. Paths with an Art brush in the older form, and other brushed paths, still come in as their drawn look (part of #372 and #637; `crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs`, `crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs`).
In a `.ai` opened from its editing data, a path or type object with Offset Path, Outline Object or Outline Stroke on the whole object opens as itself with those effects live, in their order and shown or hidden; on a fill or stroke of type they stay on that fill or stroke. Offset Path keeps its Offset, Joins and Miter Limit, and Outline Stroke takes its width from the stroke. An Offset Path with a setting missing, out of range or not read keeps the drawn art, as does a path with a Path effect on one fill or stroke (`crates/eps/src/import/ai/style/tests.rs`, `crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs`, `crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs`).
@@ -1816,6 +1821,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
- Targa files (`.tga`, `.vda`, `.icb`, `.vst`) open, place linked or embedded, relink and update at their pixel size: color-mapped, true-color and black-and-white, raw or run-length encoded, in any of the four row orders. The image descriptor's attribute bits and the extension area's Attributes Type decide the transparency: a file with no attribute bits, or with attribute data the Attributes Type calls undefined, opens opaque; with one bit, a 16-bit true-color pixel takes that bit as its alpha, and a color-mapped pixel takes the bit of the 16-bit color map entry it indexes; premultiplied colors are divided by their alpha. Open and Place recognize a Targa file by its extension, and `clipboard.importImage` and Glass's Load Texture… by its header; a Targa file copied in a file manager pastes as a bitmap (`crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_tiffbmp.rs`, `crates/engine/src/tests/links.rs`).
- BMP files named `.dib` or `.rle` (run-length encoded bitmaps included), Photoshop files named `.pdd` and PNG files named `.pns` open and place, linked or embedded, as BMP, PSD and PNG files, in any letter case: the Open and Place dialogs list them with their format, the Links panel names their format, and Edit Original opens them. Exports write only `.bmp`, `.psd` and `.png` (`crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_tiffbmp.rs`, `crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_psdread.rs`, `crates/engine/src/tests/links.rs`).
- File › Open converts a PSD or PSB file's layers to objects, keeping the layer structure, merging clipped layers into one layer and leaving out hidden layers that would need a merge, as [PSD import options](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/add-and-import-files/import-from-other-apps/photoshop-import-options.html) describes for the option that converts layers to objects; hidden layers come in with `hiddenLayers`, as Import Hidden Layers brings them in, and `layers: false` opens the merged image. VectorCraft's own rules: each layer becomes a layer holding its pixels with its name, visibility, opacity and blend mode, groups become layers of sublayers, layers in Dissolve, Linear Burn, Linear Dodge, Vivid Light, Linear Light, Pin Light, Hard Mix, Subtract, Divide, Darker Color and Lighter Color are merged with the layers below, layer masks become opacity masks, fill opacity multiplies the opacity (in a layer that others are clipped to, it fades only that layer's own pixels), and adjustment layers, layer effects, knockouts and vector masks aren't applied and are counted in the warnings. 8-, 16- and 32-bit files, PSB, raw, PackBits and zipped channels. There is no PSD import options dialog yet (`crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_psdlayers.rs`).
- A PSD or PSB file's clipping path, the saved path that image resource 2999 names in the [PSD file format specification](https://www.adobe.com/devnet-apps/photoshop/fileformatashtml/), clips its merged image on File › Place and on File › Open of the merged image, as [PSD import options](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/add-and-import-files/import-from-other-apps/photoshop-import-options.html) describes for a file imported as one flattened image. The image comes in a clip group whose clipping path has no paint and uses the even-odd rule, and the path can be edited or released. `links.update` and `links.relink` keep the clip group, and files that name no clipping path come in as before (`crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_psdread.rs`).
- PCX files (`.pcx`) open and place, from the ZSoft PCX Technical Reference Manual: 1 bit in the header palette's first two colors (black and white when the version has no palette or both colors are the same), 1 bit in two to four planes and 4 bits with up to 16 colors from the header's palette (the EGA colors for versions 0 and 3), 2 bits in the CGA colors that the header's CGA palette settings pick (background, color burst, palette and intensity), 8 bits with the 256-color palette after the image data (gray levels without one) and 24-bit color in three planes, run-length encoded. The header's HDpi and VDpi size the image. A file of another depth or plane count, one cut short, and one whose pixels as RGBA pass the pixel allowance are refused with a message before its pixels are decoded. Open and Place recognize a PCX file by its extension, and `clipboard.importImage` and Glass's Load Texture… by its header; a PCX file copied in a file manager pastes as a bitmap (`crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_pcxread.rs`).
- Pixar picture files (`.pxr`) open, place and paste, from "The Format of Stored Pictures" in the Pixar Image Computer manuals: any set of the R, G, B and A channels in 8 or 12 bits, dumped or run-length encoded with all four packet kinds and block ends, in tiles of any size (pixels of border tiles past the picture are dropped). R alone is gray, a missing color channel is 0 and a missing A opaque; 12-bit samples are clamped to 0.0 to 1.0; color matted to black becomes straight color; a null tile is transparent when the picture has A and black otherwise. The offsets aren't read, and the image takes the default resolution. Version 2 headers read like version 0. A file cut short, one with a tile whose writing wasn't finished, one with header values or packets the format doesn't define, and one whose pixels as RGBA pass the pixel allowance are refused with a message. Every reader recognizes a Pixar file by its magic number. Tested on synthetic files only (`crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_pxrread.rs`).
- JPEG 2000 JP2 and raw codestream images open and place from `.jpf`, `.jpx`, `.jp2`, `.j2k`, `.j2c` and `.jpc`. Each axis uses the valid display resolution (`resd`), else the valid capture resolution (`resc`), whichever box comes first ([ITU-T T.800](https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-T.800/en), I.5.3.7.2); an axis with none uses 72 ppi. Multiple codestreams, JPX composition or layers, and unsupported color spaces are refused with a message. The decoder checks image size before allocating (`crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_jp2read.rs`).
@@ -2017,6 +2023,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
- **Moving objects with raster effects (#1257):** during a drag or a dialog's preview, an object whose content only moved draws its cached drop shadows, outer glows and filtered content (Gaussian Blur, Feather and the Photoshop-style filters) from the rasters of an earlier frame at the nearest whole pixel, without running the effects again. The renderer first draws the moved content where the old content lies in its raster and compares the pixels. De-Interlace runs again. The frame after the drag runs the effects again and draws what a fresh renderer draws; on the desktop, the canvas renders that frame on the render worker. `texture_drag_perf` times a drag's frames and the frame after it.
- **Glass's Load Texture:** Effect › Distort › Glass… has a Load Texture… button that reads a PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP, TIFF, BMP, Targa, PSD, PSB, PCX, Pixar, JPEG 2000, HEIC/HEIF or JPEG XL file and adds Loaded Texture to the Texture menu (`textureImage`: `{path}` or `{name?, dataBase64}`, stored in the effect and saved with the document as a grayscale PNG in base64). The texture lies one image pixel per point at Scaling 100%, centered on the object and repeated; each pixel's luma is the surface's height, from 0 for black to 1 pt for white, and a transparent pixel counts as middle gray. Scaling and Invert act on it as on the built-in textures. A Glass saved without `textureImage` draws and saves as before.
- **Rough Pastels' Load Texture:** Effect › Artistic › Rough Pastels… has the same Load Texture… button, and its Texture and Light Direction controls are menus. The loaded image's gray levels are the paper surface (Loaded Texture in the Texture menu, `textureImage` stored with the effect), and Scaling, Relief, Light Direction and Invert act on it as on Brick, Burlap, Canvas and Sandstone (`pixel::tests::rough_pastels_draws_a_loaded_texture_as_its_surface`, `rough_pastels_loads_a_texture_saves_it_and_draws_it`).
- **Bounded effect length inputs (#4638):** Effect dialog fields with defined length ranges (such as Crystallize Cell Size 3..300 pt) clamp immediately on commit and reject invalid inputs visibly with an accent highlight without reverting to sub-minimum values.
- **Color Halftone in raster pixels (#3260):** Max Radius is 4–127 px of the Document Raster Effects resolution, as public documentation gives it, shown in px whatever the document units; documents from before open with their radii in points converted (document version 3), and a file saved for an older app version holds them in points again.
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ against Illustrator's public documentation; **estimated** unless noted.
| Preserve font sizes while scaling a group | missing | Separate enhancement; scaling still scales text with the other artwork. |
| OpenType panel, Glyphs panel, alternates | done | Highlight Alternate Glyphs preference (#394, off by default) paints pink behind OpenType substitutions on screen when on (required shaping such as Arabic joining forms and the lam-alef ligature, including a lam-alef older fonts file under `liga`, is not highlighted; an optional feature that changes the ligature is); stylistic sets ss01–ss20, stylistic and titling alternates, proportional and lining figures, superscript and subscript are character-style features (`text.setStyle {features}`, #1607); the OpenType panel's Position menu sets superscript, subscript, numerator or denominator glyphs (`sups`, `subs`, `numr`, `dnom`). The OpenType panel's Stylistic Sets menu lists the selected font's `ss01`–`ss20` features, using a font-supplied name where available and `Set N` otherwise; several sets can be active, and selecting an active one removes it. For a mixed-font selection it uses the first selected character's font, a VectorCraft design choice ([public help](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/special-characters-glyphs/add-stylistic-sets-to-selected-text.html), [OpenType feature specification](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/features_pt)). The Glyphs panel highlights the character selected with the Type tool (a range's first character, else the one before the caret) and scrolls it into view as the selection moves (#4908; `panels::glyphs` tests); its Show menu lists Unicode ranges and Alternates for Current Selection, the selected character's alternate glyphs from the font's `GSUB` table. A double-click applies the OpenType feature that draws a variant to that character alone, or uses a glyph choice when no supported feature draws it; see the Glyphs panel row below for Entire Font and the joining limits. The glyph-cell pop-up of alternates is not there yet |
| Glyphs panel: alternates as OpenType feature values, unencoded glyphs | done | #5514, as [Replace characters with alternate glyphs](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/special-characters-glyphs/replace-characters-with-alternate-glyphs.html) describes (Show › Alternates For Current Selection; replace the selected character by double-clicking the glyph). A character-style feature takes a value (`"salt=2"`, the font's alternate number; `ss01`–`ss20`, `swsh`, `titl` and `aalt` too) in `features` and `featureChanges`, in SVG `font-feature-settings` (`"salt" 2`) and in native files as the plain string. Show › Entire Font applies an unencoded glyph the same way when it is an alternate of the selected character in its word, applies one no feature reaches (`A.salt` in a font with no `salt`) to the selected character as a glyph choice (it may not join), and dims the others with the reason in the tooltip (e.g. `yehfarsi.fina.alt2 belongs to ی (U+06CC) at the end of a word; your selection is ي (U+064A)`); an Arabic presentation form picked there inserts its letter so the word joins. Runs that differ only in their features shape as one piece of text, each run's features over its own characters, so a variant on one letter of an Arabic word keeps its neighbours' initial, medial and final forms and the letters still touch. The panel lists the alternates of the glyph the shaper makes for the selected character in its word (a medial letter shows medial variants), and a double-click applies the OpenType feature that draws the variant (`salt=N` or `ssNN`) to that character alone, in one undo step (`text.setRangeStyle`); a variant no feature reaches falls back to a replacement glyph (`text.setGlyphAlternate`), which its tooltip says may not join. Show › Entire Font also lists the glyphs no character maps, with their name or `gid N` and the feature that gives them. The text crate reads each face's `GSUB` once (alternate sets, single substitutions, the feature that reaches a glyph). Not done: alternates reached through contextual or ligature lookups, and features of the font that the style has no tag for (`cv01`–`cv99`, `hist`). Evidence: `tests::glyph_alternates` in the text crate (a fixture font with a medial teh at `salt=1` to `3`, the neighbours' forms, no gap; Kufi Murabba PIIIX when it is installed), `features::tests::feature_values_are_parsed_validated_and_shaped`, `tests::textedit::feature_values_are_set_replaced_and_saved`, the `panels::glyphs` tests. |
| OpenType panel menu: H or V Style, Roman Italics | done | With Show East Asian Options, as [Format East Asian characters](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/formatting-asian-characters.html) describes: H or V Style is the character feature `hkna` (kana in the font's horizontal forms, shaped as `vkna` in vertical type) and Roman Italics is `ital` (the font's italic half-width alphanumerics), set with `text.setStyle` / `text.setRangeStyle {features, featureChanges}`, on or off only, and in Character Style Options › OpenType Features ([OpenType feature list](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/featurelist)). |
| Font menu: samples, live preview, filters, favourites, recent families; font matching by any name; Find Font | done | #3515: recently applied families appear first, once each; missing families are omitted and the existing Number of Recent Fonts setting applies; #339; script filter: Japanese, Latin, Thai; the font scan on Linux also reads the folders fontconfig's configuration lists, such as TeX fonts under `/usr/share/texmf/fonts` (#1548, fixes #1529; not verified on Linux); Select Text by Font takes a scope: the document, chosen artboards or chosen layers; Find Font's Find In offers Document, Artboard (the active one) and Layers (the selected ones, else the current one) (#5529, a VectorCraft addition); Replace With Font lists family and style rows, one click setting both, with a search over them; its list scrolls on its own, apart from the document's font list (#4972); wherever the font menu opens, its filters keep the same four rows, and it opens at least wide enough for them and for a family name up to 220 points wide with its sample (up to 60% of the window), each sample filling its row's height (a VectorCraft layout); a filter chosen in the font menu of the Character panel, the Control bar or the Properties panel is on in the others, and the filters are cleared when the app quits ([Font browser overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/fonts-and-scripts/font-options-overview.html)); the font menus of the Glyphs panel and of the dialogs that pick a font share the same filters (a VectorCraft choice). |
| Missing glyphs set in an installed font made for their script (Thai, Lao, Khmer, Myanmar first; then any font that has them) | done | Thai: Leelawadee UI, Tahoma, Thonburi, Sukhumvit Set, Noto Sans Thai, TLWG |
| Full font-name matching (OpenType name ID 4) | done | #1258: loaded/cataloged faces and Missing Fonts searches; localized names and variable default faces; Windows font-service QA pending |
@@ -207,6 +207,7 @@ tools, never checked side by side) isn't captured row by row.
| Ruler guides align to a key object: a click on an object selected with guides makes it the key (one object is enough); Align moves the selected guides to its edge or centre (vertical guides to left, centre or right, horizontal ones to top, centre or bottom) and the key stays put | done | #2143; aligning to the selection or the artboard leaves guides alone |
| Align panel menu › Align to Glyph Bounds › Point Text and Area Text (checked while on): Align and Distribute measure point type or area type by the ink of its glyphs instead of its em box or frame | done | #4231; `alignGlyphBoundsPoint`, `alignGlyphBoundsArea` ([Align text](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/edit-format-text/align-text.html)); `tests::glyphbounds`, `panels::align::tests::align_to_glyph_bounds_toggles_point_and_area_text`; the Character and Properties panels' Align to Glyph Bounds controls are not done |
| Align and distribute artboards: with the Artboard tool chosen, the Align panel's Align Objects, Distribute Objects and Distribute Spacing buttons, and the Control bar's, move the selected artboards with the art inside them (Move Artwork with Artboard) | done | `artboard.align`, `artboard.distribute`, `artboard.distributeSpacing` ([Align and distribute artboards](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/create-manage-artboards/organize-manage-artboards/align-and-distribute-artboards.html)); VectorCraft's own rules: Align to Artboard keeps the active artboard in place and sends the Distribute Spacing value, Align to Key Object is off, a locked artboard stays where it is; `cmd::artboardalign::tests`, `panels::align::tests::the_align_buttons_align_the_selected_artboards` |
| Object › Distribute, below Object › Align: Horizontal Distribute Left, Center and Right, Vertical Distribute Top, Center and Bottom, Horizontal Distribute Space and Vertical Distribute Space, each running what a click on its Align panel button runs (Align To, the key object, the Distribute Spacing value and, with the Artboard tool chosen, the selected artboards) | done | The `align.distribute*` commands; the public page names Object › Distribute beside Object › Align for the Align and Distribute commands ([Align and distribute objects](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/arrange-objects/align-and-distribute-objects.html)); the items and their order are VectorCraft's own, taken from the Align panel; `menus::tests::object_distribute_runs_the_distribute_buttons` |
| A marquee selects the objects whose paths it touches (anchors or segments): drawn inside a filled shape, over a background, it leaves that shape (Preview and Outline) | done | #1103 |
| Click a segment independently of its endpoint anchors; only its direction handles show | done | #1278: hollow endpoint squares, selected edge emphasized; headless egui checked |
| Drag a curved segment to bend it, a straight one to move its anchors | done | |
@@ -268,7 +269,7 @@ tools, never checked side by side) isn't captured row by row.
| Bounding-box handles: Shift proportional, Alt from centre, rotate outside the corners | done | |
| Rotated objects keep a rotated bounding box and their angle; Reset Bounding Box | done | |
| Vector Halftone Preview keeps the selection box and hides selection marks on the temporary dots | done | #6369; Preview off and Cancel restore the original marks. |
| Free Transform, Scale and Reflect along a rotated box | missing | |
| Free Transform, Scale and Reflect along a rotated box | done | The Scale and Reflect tools, dialogs and commands and the Transform and Properties panels' flips act along the turned box until Reset Bounding Box; `basis: "page"` keeps the page's axes |
| Transform tools: click sets the reference point (snaps to anchors/centres), Alt-click opens the dialog, Alt-release copies | done | with anchors selected with Direct Selection, the tools, the dialogs and Move transform those anchors alone, about the centre of their box by default (#1408; the default point and whole-object copies are our choices) |
| Move, Rotate, Scale, Reflect and Shear dialogs: live Preview; Up/Down step angles and percentages by 1, Shift by 10 | done | #1412; Preview starts off (our choice: the public documentation gives no default), Move's as it was last confirmed; OK is one undo step and Transform Again repeats it |
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