The reader gives an Xy right after a compound path or a text object to
that object. The writer now writes XR before the Xy of type, images and
guides, so type next to type, a compound path before type, image or
guide, and type before an image or guide keep their own opacity, blend
mode and knockout shape flag.
- Type keeps its Isolate Blending and Knockout Group state in a state
block after its text object, as its outlines did on their group.
- The reader no longer gives a layer the Xy before its last text object.
- The ASCII85 end marker of the text document stays on one line.
- The warning and docs/file-format-parity.md also list area type in an
open frame, type on an open path whose ends meet, type of only white
space and threads of type on a path as written as outlines.
- README.md, ROADMAP.md, docs/gaps.md, docs/roadmap.md and
docs/target-app-parity.md describe the editing copy a saved .ai holds.
- clip_path's doc comment is back on clip_path.
- import_fuzz reaches threaded area type and vertical type.
Review of #5694 asked for two changes.
Add-on, not a core tool, as Enclosing Lasso is:
- The command is addon.contour.set, in an add-on module of its own
(crates/engine/src/cmd/addons/contour.rs) with its tests beside it.
- The tool is listed under Object > Plug-ins > Contour and under its own
"Contour" heading in All Tools. It has no Basic or Advanced toolbar
slot and no default shortcut. The Contour bar is unchanged.
- The add-on drawer test lists Contour with the other add-on tools.
- Docs (mcp.md, the parity documents, ROADMAP) say add-on and use the
new command name; mcp.md gains a Contour add-on section.
Translations: rows for "Contour", "Contour Tool", "Sharp", "Bake" and
"Turn the Contour into plain paths" in all 26 catalogs ("Round" and
"Square" already had them). Drafted from each catalog's own vocabulary
(for Bake, the verb it uses for Expand Appearance; a word other than the
catalog's Stroke or Path word for the tool's name where they collide);
they are not native-speaker reviewed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add a Contour tool (Modify group). Dragging away from a selected path or
shape's edge makes a copy of it that carries a live Offset Path effect,
grown by the drag; dragging toward the inside shrinks it. The result is
one undo step and stays editable until baked with Expand Appearance. A
second drag on a selected Contour changes its distance instead of
nesting another effect.
- object.contour: the command behind it (offset, sharp/round/square
corners, miter limit), usable over MCP and the control channel too.
- Contour tool: live preview, Shift rounds to whole points, Escape
cancels, a dashed guide with a white halo shows the outline the shape
had, and a pill shows the distance.
- Contour bar: a floating bar above the selection with the offset box,
Sharp / Round / Square and Bake (Expand Appearance).
- Toolbar slot under Modify (Basic and Advanced) and dc-contour.svg, an
original icon with its ASSETS.md row.
- Tests for the command, the tool's pointer gestures and the bar; the
border-with-a-gap recipe (two Contours, bake, Minus Front) is covered
end to end.
- Docs: beyond-Illustrator row, revision histories and the ROADMAP log.
Beyond Illustrator: a VectorCraft design built on Offset Path. Scores and
estimates unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A Type Tools add-on command (Object › Plug-ins › Type Tools › Release Type on a
Path…, `addon.type.releasePath`): each selected type on a path becomes point
type with the same runs, character and paragraph attributes, on one straight
line whose baseline starts where its first character sat, and the plain path
it was set on, with its exact shape and transform, in its layer and stacking
place, with no fill or stroke. `mode` keeps both, the path only or the text
only; `keepOriginal` leaves the type on a path and adds the released objects
above it. Other objects are left alone, nothing to release makes no undo step,
the run is one undo step and the released objects are selected. The command
dialog previews it as Type on a Path Options does (#5360): Cancel leaves no
history, OK is one step. Tests, command_sweep cases, catalog rows in all 26
languages, docs/mcp.md and the parity docs (beyond Illustrator: scores
unchanged).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Choosing units in Preset Details restyled every preset card in the Recent
and Saved tabs, so switching between inches and millimetres rewrote all the
user's templates at once. The pane's options apply to the selected preset
(helpx, "Create and save custom document presets"), so only the chosen card
follows the chosen units now; the others keep the units their document or
preset was made in, and clicking one brings its units back. The built-in
category tabs still show the chosen units (#2078).
Generated with [Devin](https://devin.ai)
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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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
Window › Swatch Libraries and the Swatches panel's library menu get a
Patterns submenu with Geometric Patterns, a built-in library of eleven
black pattern swatches drawn in code (dots, stripes, a checkerboard, a
grid, diamonds, triangles, crosses and a zigzag).
- Clicking a pattern in its library panel adds the pattern and its
swatch to the document and applies it to the active fill or stroke
(Alt: the other one), as one undo step. A second click reuses the
swatch; a different pattern under the same name keeps its name and
the library's pattern comes in numbered.
- swatch.library.list lists the pattern libraries after the gradient
libraries (category "patterns"), and swatch.library.add brings a
pattern swatch's pattern as pasting art painted with it does.
- The library panel draws each pattern tile from the library's pattern.
- "Geometric Patterns" is translated in every catalog.
Object > Plug-ins > Color Effects > Find Nearest Swatch... picks a
library (the document's swatches, a built-in library, or a library or
colour book the user saved or loaded) and Fill and Stroke, and lists
each colour of the selection with its three closest swatches and their
CIEDE2000 difference. Apply gives each colour its nearest swatch as one
undo step.
- addon.color.nearestSwatch (a query): the closest swatches of a
library to each colour of the selection's fills and strokes (solid
colours and gradient stops, inside groups and type), or to a colour
given, with deltaE; count 1..50.
- addon.color.applyNearestSwatch: recolours those paints (and gradient
meshes) to their nearest swatch; global and spot swatches link, and a
library's swatches the colours take are added to the document first
(as swatch.library.add adds them), so a spot colour stays spot.
- The library picker Image Trace's Document Library uses moves to the
Swatches panel module and is shared.
- No colour book data ships: only libraries VectorCraft computes or the
user loads are searched.
addon.pathtools.divideDashes cuts the selected paths (or only their
direct-selected segments) into separate open paths of a dash length
measured along the curve, with an optional gap (gap pieces dropped
unless removeGaps is false) and Fit to Corners and Ends; pieces keep
the path's appearance, one undo step, at most 100000 pieces. Geometry
in vectorcraft-pathops; dialog with unit fields and Preview; tests,
sweep cases, catalog rows and docs.
addon.arrange.groupOverlapping groups the selected top-level objects
whose visual bounds overlap or touch, chains included (union-find over a
sweep along x, at most 20000 objects), only within one layer or group.
Each group takes its frontmost member's stacking place; one undo step,
all groups made in one pass over the tree. Menu item, tests, sweep case,
catalog rows and docs.
A built-in add-on in Object › Plug-ins › Arrange Tools (#4830, #4831, #4832, #4833, #4834):
- addon.arrange.grid lays the top-level selected objects out in rows and
columns, a row or a column (stacking order from the back, visual bounds,
each object centred in its cell), from the selection's top-left or
centred on the artboard.
- addon.arrange.swap swaps two objects' bounds centres, and with `size`
their widths and heights.
- addon.arrange.replace puts a copy of the topmost selected object centred
on each of the others, in its stacking place, kept, stretched or fitted
in proportion; the replaced objects are deleted unless `keep`.
- addon.arrange.size gives each selected object an exact width and/or
height about a reference point.
- addon.arrange.zoomSelection (a UI command) fits the active view to the
selection.
Places and sizes are measured as object.setBounds measures them (its
transform, now also available per object), strokes scale as Scale Strokes
& Effects says, each command is one undo step, and Arrange in Grid,
Replace with Top Object and Set Size of Each open previewed dialogs.
Catalog rows, command sweep cases, docs/mcp.md, parity docs and the
ROADMAP progress log.
bs.tsv: Bosnian (Latin script, Ijekavian) catalog covering every key of
VectorCraft's other catalogs, its wording shared with storytold/craft-i18n
locales/bs/ and the strings craft-i18n lacks translated new. Every bs-*
locale selects it; counts use one/few/other. Locale and plural tests,
localization docs and an attribution entry (AI-assisted, not yet
reviewed by a native speaker).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013Tayw8nmxoLLmKv13jK93z
People reuse the same gradients across documents and rebuilt them by
hand. The Gradient panel now has a Presets menu: the presets of the
app's built-in gradient libraries, grouped by library (theme), then
the saved ones. Choosing one gives the gradient behind the active
proxy (or a solid paint) the preset's type, stops, method and dither,
keeping its placement, as one undo step, through paint.editGradient.
The panel menu saves the current gradient as a preset (named in a
dialog) and deletes saved ones; Hide/Show Presets toggles the row.
Saved presets are kept with the preferences, next to the other user
preset lists (width profiles, flattener, perspective). Stops linked to
a document swatch keep their colour, unlinked, since a preset is used
in other documents. Built-in presets can't be deleted; names are
unique.
Commands: gradient.presets.list, .apply, .save and .delete. The menu's
rows are drawn only while in view, as its headings are.
Tests: engine tests for list, apply (fill and stroke, placement kept,
one undo step), save (unique names, unlinked swatch stops) and delete;
panel tests for applying from the menu and saving, deleting and
hiding presets from the panel menu, including scrolling the menu to
the saved presets. Docs: gaps G13, target-app and UI parity, ROADMAP.
Where arboard can't open (GNOME has no data-control protocol, and the Flatpak on a
Wayland session has no X11), Copy and Paste use the compositor's core data-device
protocol on the window's own connection through smithay-clipboard, already in the
build through egui-winit: text only, a copy's text or its SVG markup. A bitmap-only
copy reports that this clipboard carries text only and leaves it as it was.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Flatpak on GNOME has no X11 (fallback-x11 on a Wayland session) and GNOME offers
no data-control protocol, so arboard::Clipboard::new() failed every time. The handle
was kept only on success, so the background Paste check reconnected to the compositor
and logged a warning every 250 ms: 267k warnings in 18 h, the 16 MB log full in 3 h.
- A clipboard that can't be opened is tried again after 1 s, doubling to a minute.
A Copy or Paste of the user's retries at most once a second.
- The outage is logged once (WARN) and its end once (INFO), across the UI's and the
background check's handles.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review follow-up (CodeRabbit): the two older G2 bullets counting 46 and 49
filters were superseded by Conté Crayon (57/57) and are folded into one
current bullet; the G2 row in the ranked table and the entry's estimate now
both say 4–6 h, as ROADMAP.md and roadmap.md do. ROADMAP.md's revision
history gains its 2026-10-22 row.
- One budget for the whole read (layers, pixels, characters, table
cells), shared with embedded documents and charged also when their
reading fails; the first reading is dropped before the second.
- Tables: at most 65 536 cells; lines and cell formats that don't
match the grid are left out instead of shifted.
- Paragraph formats matched to runs by binary search; font names
longer than 256 bytes are dropped.
- Overlays: one work budget per import; encoded originals decoded
within their layer's size; table cell outlines recoloured too.
- Engine: master page copies capped, each page's master found in
linear time, line gaps looked up once per font, the working CMYK
table built once, objects past MAX_COORD left out.
- Embedded content stays with its node; pixel masks under artistic
text are read whole and include stroke reach; gradient overlays on
hidden layers are kept.
- Render: contexts and raster effect images stay within
MAX_RASTER_SIDE per side (vello overflowed near u16::MAX; found by
the new fuzz target).
- Tests: affinity tests/import_limits.rs, feature samples in
import_fuzz.rs, shared builders in engine/tests/support/.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Strokes set to None no longer import as black 1px strokes.
- Underline and strikethrough are kept.
- Frame text starts at cap height; lines hanging out of a frame make it taller;
mixed-alignment artistic text lines up within its longest line; line breaks
inside a paragraph get no paragraph spacing.
- Table cell text taller than its cell is centred and stays visible.
- Outline effects on stroked shapes are drawn around the stroke.
- CMYK pixel layers go through the document's embedded CMYK profile; without
one, opaque layers stay CMYK.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Print dialog's Media list only had Letter/Legal/Tabloid and the ISO A
and B papers, so Japanese papers had to be entered as a custom size, and
"B4"/"B5" were ISO 216 (250 × 353 and 176 × 250 mm) although Japanese
printing uses the JIS sizes (257 × 364 and 182 × 257 mm, JIS X 6310).
Media gains JIS B4, B5 and B6 next to the ISO ones, and はがき
(japanese postcard, 100 × 148 mm), 往復はがき (japanese double postcard,
148 × 200 mm), 封筒 長形3号/長形4号 (japanese envelope #3/#4, 120 × 235
and 90 × 225 mm), 角形2号/角形3号 (kaku #2/#3, 240 × 332 and 216 × 277 mm),
四六判 (yonroku-ban, 127 × 188 mm) and A6, all in millimetres at 72/25.4.
b4 and b5 keep their ISO 216 dimensions so print settings and presets
saved before the Japanese papers existed keep their paper; the dialog
labels say "B4 (ISO)"/"B5 (ISO)" beside "B4 (JIS)"/"B5 (JIS)".
A paper is named by its JSON id or by its dialog label, any case and
spacing ("b5 (jis)", "B5 (JIS)" and "b5jis" all mean the JIS B5), so
agents and the control channel need not know the id spelling; an unknown
name is still refused. Media is written out instead of through the
choice! macro to carry that lookup.
The print.setup/file.print parameter docs and docs/mcp.md list the new
papers; the Print dialog picks them up from Choice::ALL with no UI code
change, and the Japanese labels are translated in ja.tsv (はがき,
往復はがき, 長形3号, 長形4号, 角形2号, 角形3号, 四六判).
Tests: japanese_paper_sizes checks every added size in points, that the
ISO B4/B5 values did not change, name resolution and id/label round
trips, and that each paper prints a PDF page with its own MediaBox size.
Validation: cargo fmt --all -- --check clean; cargo clippy
-p vectorcraft-pdf --all-targets -- -D warnings clean; cargo test
-p vectorcraft-pdf -> 330 passed, 0 failed (328 lib + 2 integration).
Squashed from #2533 onto #2525 (Smudge Stick, Sponge, Watercolor): both sets in PIXEL_EFFECTS (45), the catalogs and the docs, whose counts now read 45/57.
ROADMAP: a progress row and status line for the community PRs of 2026-10-19; the reproducible-bytes and inch-ruler rows appeared twice. gaps.md: G6 held four interleaved versions of its Missing line; it now says what is left (a scripting surface). target-app-parity.md: three copies of the Type evidence bullet, merged into one with every sentence. type-parity.md and ui-parity.md: a row and a shorter copy of it.
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