A built-in Type Tools add-on (Object › Plug-ins › Type Tools › Text Tweaker…,
`addon.type.textTweaker`): size, baseline shift, rotation, horizontal or vertical
scale, tracking, leading or stroke weight go from a start value to an end value
along a straight ramp, an ease, a bow, a spike or at random with a seed, set as
the Character panel sets them, while the text stays live. One undo step, a
dialog with Preview, catalog rows in all 26 languages, docs/mcp.md and the
parity docs.
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Per review on #5327: Preferences › File Handling › Edit Original With (an app
path and Choose…) becomes the checkbox Use System Defaults for Edit Original,
on by default. Off, Edit Original opens a raster image in the app that made
it, PhotoCraft, looked for only where it installs; any other file, or no
PhotoCraft, goes to the system's default app. The preference is a boolean, so
prefs.set over control or MCP can no longer name an executable. The label has
a row in all 26 catalogs.
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macOS: wait for `open -a` (it returns once Launch Services has the
request) and report its error, such as a folder named .app that isn't a
bundle; other platforms still start the editor without waiting. A saved
or typed path also sets the dialog's Other Application choice, so
clearing it to type another keeps the field.
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The Other Application choice (before a path is typed) is a `__` field of
the Preferences dialog instead of egui memory, so a dialog opened again or
reset starts at System Default. The path field shows the stored value
untrimmed, so spaces can be typed.
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Preferences › File Handling › Edit Original With picks the app Links
panel › Edit Original opens a linked file in: System Default (as before),
PhotoCraft (found in /Applications or ~/Applications on macOS, on the
PATH elsewhere) or Other Application, with a path field and Choose….
The desktop host's new `open_file_with` service starts only an
application (an .app bundle on macOS, an .exe on Windows, an executable
file elsewhere), with the path as its only argument and never through a
shell. Edit Original still refuses control requests.
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`eexec` dropped its file operand and skipped the encrypted part of a
font program to `cleartomark` in the program's own file. With
`currentfile eexec` inside a file run with `cvx exec`, the program goes
on in that file, so the skip searched the outer file instead and failed
or skipped the wrong text. Ghostscript's eps2write runs each embedded
Type 1 font program that way, so an EPS with one did not open.
`eexec` now skips in its operand, through the same file reading as the
other data operators: the program's own file or the file being run. A
string operand skips in the file being read, as before.
A compound path was assembled from its members in every frame it was
drawn, and Node::stroke_path grew its buffer by doubling, copying the
path into ever larger buffers for a compound path of many anchors. The
renderer's geometry cache was swept only once it held more than 1,024
entries, so while an object was dragged (a new node, and layer, in
every frame) the old copies stayed alive with all their members.
Now:
- a compound path is drawn from the path the renderer keeps for it in
its geometry cache, as a plain path already was, and is assembled
only when the node changes;
- Node::stroke_path sizes a compound path's buffer up front from its
members' segment counts (the same elements, in the same order);
- unused geometry entries are dropped after a few frames however few
entries there are.
Tests:
- crates/render/src/tests/memory.rs: the second frame draws the kept
path and the same pixels as the first and as a new renderer; after a
five-frame move the renderer no longer holds the compound path drawn
before it. The test fails without the renderer change.
- crates/doc/src/node/tests.rs: a compound path's path is its members'
paths in order (open, closed, empty and single-anchor members).
Not timed; vectorcraft-cli perf was not rerun.
Every click and hover measured each path and compound path along its
curves to cull it (Node::reach_bounds_with), and a compound path was
then assembled whole to test its outline and fill. For a compound path
of thousands of members that took milliseconds per click.
Hit testing now culls paths and compound paths by the box of their
control points (which holds the curves), grown by their strokes' reach,
so the box is never smaller than the reach box it replaces. A compound
path's outline and fill are tested against only the members whose
control box, grown by the tolerance, holds the point: a member outside
that box is farther than the tolerance and winds zero times round the
point. Painted strokes still follow the whole compound path (alignment,
dashes, width profiles) and are measured along all of it, as before.
Tests (crates/doc/src/hit/tests.rs):
- a 2,000-member compound path hits exactly as the whole-path test did,
at random points, on and next to anchors and on the edges of the
members' boxes, for both fill rules, in Outline view and with Object
Selection by Path Only;
- wide strokes painting past the control points are still hit, for a
path and a compound path;
- the cull box holds the reach box for paths and compound paths.
Measured in a debug test build (one run, machine not idle): a click on
a 20,000-member compound path went from about 18 ms to about 1 ms.
vectorcraft-cli perf was not rerun.
Apply wheel steps over the closed family fields in Character, Properties and Control, preserving event order and one undo step per effective notch. Document the supported controls and the application choices. Fixes#5253.
With one Objects on Path group of two or more objects selected, the
Selection and Objects on Path tools show a square Space widget beyond the
last object, ahead along the path. Dragging it moves the last object
along the path, around its bends, as far as the pointer moves along it,
and the objects between follow evenly while the first one stays. With
Alt (Option on macOS) the objects spread from both ends toward or away
from the center of an open path, or of the first anchor of a closed one.
The distance between the objects shows next to the pointer in the
document's units; the drag is one undo step, and Escape cancels it.
- object.objectsOnPath.options takes spacing (points, or "auto", the
default even spread) and start (points from the first anchor). A
spacing the path has no room for is drawn smaller and kept, so a
longer path brings it back. Older files read as Auto.
- Moving the group, Pivot, Rotate, path edits, copies and saving keep
the Space. Scaling, rotating or shearing the group keeps the first
and last objects where the transform takes them on the new path, live
shapes included; a value that cannot be kept that way scales with the
path's length.
- The Rotate All widget follows the first object when Space moves it.
Behavior: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/arrange-objects/rearrange-and-edit-objects-on-a-path.html
and https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/objects-on-path.html.
Preferences > User Interface > Open Documents As Tabs was stored but did
nothing. With the box cleared, each document opened or created afterwards
opens in a floating window of its own, at the next cascade place, as
Window > Arrange > Float in Window floats it. Documents already open, and
documents open when the app starts, keep their tabs; checking the box
again leaves floating documents in their windows.
The engine records the preference on each document as it opens
(DocState::opened_as_tab), and the UI finds new documents by uid, so a
command batch that closes and opens documents, or changes the preference
between opening them, places each one as the preference was when it
opened.
A document tab dragged more than 24 pt above or below the tab strip
floats its document in a window under the pointer and makes it the
current document (window.arrange.floatInWindow takes index and at for
this). A shorter drag, or one along the strip, leaves the tabs as they
are. A document window dragged by its title bar onto the tab strip goes
back under the tabs; the strip shows an outline while a window is over
it. A desktop document window is an OS window, so it has the document's
tab at its top: dragging that tab moves the window, and dropping it on
the main window's tab strip docks it (window.arrange.consolidateAllWindows
takes index for one document).
A document floated again opens where it is asked to, not where its last
window was.
Window > Arrange > Float in Window (window.arrange.floatInWindow) moves
the current document out of the tab strip into a floating window of its
own, and Float All in Windows (window.arrange.floatAllInWindows), a new
item, does so for every tabbed document. Cascade (window.arrange.cascade)
floats every document and stacks the windows from the upper left of the
document area to its lower right, 30 pt apart, in tab order. On the
desktop each window is an OS window; on the web and on Wayland it is a
window inside the app's window, as floating panels are. While the
control channel is attached, the windows also open inside the app's
window, so ui.click, ui.drag and ui.screenshot reach them.
The current document's window holds the canvas. The other windows, and
the main window while the current document floats, draw their documents
as Tile's panes do, and a press in one makes its document the current
one. A document's OS window that takes the keyboard focus makes its
document the current one, and keys typed there run the main window's
shortcuts. Closing a window closes its document, asking to save unsaved
changes. Consolidate All Windows brings floating documents back under
the tabs, and Tile brings them back into its grid.
Cascade is enabled with two or more documents, Float in Window while the
current document is tabbed, Float All in Windows while any document is
tabbed, and Consolidate All Windows while documents are tiled or
floating. ui.inspect reports the floating documents.
A style whose features turn on pnum or lnum alone, or pair a figure tag with
one the shown entry turns off (onum with lnum, tnum with pnum), showed a Figure
entry that does not match its tags. Choosing that entry then left the field
unchanged, so the tags could not be cleared. Figure now opens unset for these
lists, and choosing Default Figure writes -tnum, -onum, -pnum and -lnum.
Character Style Options and New Character Style get a Character Color
section and an OpenType Features section.
Character Color sets the fill and stroke (None or a document swatch;
a global swatch or a tint of one stays linked, with a Tint from 0% to
100%), the stroke Weight, and Overprint Fill and Overprint Stroke. A
gradient or pattern paint the style already has stays until another
paint is chosen.
OpenType Features sets Figure, Position, Standard and Discretionary
Ligatures, Contextual, Stylistic and Titling Alternates, Swash,
Ordinals, Fractions and Stylistic Sets 1 to 20. A changed control
replaces only its own tags in the style's feature list, so other tags
stay, and Default Figure and Default Position are stored as their
features turned off, distinct from unset.
Empty controls stay unset, and each section's Reset Panel clears only
its own attributes.
charStyle.new, charStyle.edit and charStyle.setAttrs check a changed
fill, stroke, stroke weight or feature list: tints from 0 to 1, links
to global swatches of the document (the color follows the swatch),
weights from 0 to 4000000, and known feature tags, at most 256. Values
the style or the text it is made from already has are kept.
charStyle.duplicate keeps the copied style's values in the same way, so
a style with a language tag that is not in the list can be duplicated.
Editing a global swatch now also updates the fill and stroke stored in
character styles, so their text no longer shows as overriding the style
and text styled later takes the new color. swatch.unused counts a swatch
a character style links to as used.
The press picks the first object and selects it on the button-down. A dropped press now keeps
that pick with the selection, and still puts back the picks of earlier clicks.
A drag that takes a selected freeform gradient point out of the object previews its removal,
which deselects it. A dropped press now selects again the point that was selected once the
tool took the press, and Escape reselects a point dragged out and back inside the object.
Escape also clears state that earlier clicks set up, so taking Escape for a
dropped press lost it in five tools. Each now drops only the press:
- Blend: the object picked first and the blend being added to are put
back as they were at the press.
- Dimension: a dropped click picks nothing, and the points or lines picked
before stay; a dropped drag is canceled as before.
- Width: the drag ends and the width points selected at the press are
selected again.
- Gradient: a dropped click on a freeform gradient leaves the line being
drawn open.
- Selection: with the pointer loaded with text, a dropped press threads
nothing and the text stays loaded; a dropped press on a port loads none.
A dropped press on the Type tool no longer ends editing and switches tools:
the type being edited stays in editing, with the caret and selection it had
before the press, and the press does not count toward a double or triple
click. A dropped handle or move press with Crop Image puts the box back as it
was at the press and keeps earlier adjustments.
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