An envelope mapped type from its laid-out box: ascent to descent for
point type, the frame for area type. The distorted glyphs then filled
less of the envelope than other art does, with room above the capitals
and below the baseline.
The envelope now maps type from the bounds of its glyph outlines,
underlines and strikethroughs when the type is on its own, in groups
and layers, or used as a clipping path. Inline graphics count by their
boxes. Rotated type and type in perspective map from their outlines as
they are drawn. Make with Mesh,
Make with Top Object and Reset with Mesh without Maintain Shape use
those bounds. Type that draws nothing keeps its laid-out box, and so
does type inside any other object, such as a blend, a repeat or a
symbol instance. Shrink Text to Fit type is measured as it is laid out
on the page.
vectorcraft-text's envelope_ink measures the type, and
register_envelope_ink registers it with the document crate. The engine
session, Renderer::new, live evaluation in vectorcraft-effects and the
.ai reader register it. The document crate keeps the measured boxes per
thread, by object and by a hash of the content, and measures again when
the type, the fonts, the hyphenation exceptions or the transform's
scale or rotation change.
This is VectorCraft's own rule. Envelopes of type made in VectorCraft
and in saved files map from the glyph outline bounds instead of the
type's laid-out box, so they redraw differently.
Layout kept no record of a run's face, so each paragraph looked up the face
of its first character three times for its line metrics and once more to
shape it. The layout now keeps each run's face the first time it is looked
up and uses it for shaping, for paragraph metrics, for on-path type's empty
line and for the column offset of vertical point type. Glyphs, positions,
bounds and baselines do not change.
A test-only helper lays text out looking every face up at each use, and a
new test requires point, vertical point, area and path type laid out both
ways to match exactly.
The layouts of 5,000 short point type objects take a median of 215 million
CPU cycles of the laying-out thread instead of 236 million in a release
build (11 alternating runs of each build on Windows 11, measured while
other builds were running).
An installed face added for characters the interface fonts lack (Microsoft
YaHei for Simplified Chinese on Windows, for example) now gets a FontTweak
y_offset_factor computed from its ascent, descent and line gap against the
first face of the Proportional family, so its glyphs share that face's
baseline instead of centering the difference in row height. The bundled
faces and Latin text do not move.
This follows designcraft#394 (baseline_tweak from line metrics) and
effectcraft#1395. vectorcraft-text gains line_metrics, and a test face with
a CJK system face's vertical proportions checks the baseline at 13, 24 and
40 pt in the interface families.
Three tests failed on a loaded machine because they asserted elapsed
time. Each now counts the work that the slow behavior it guards
against would repeat, with a counter compiled only into tests:
- The CSS cascade test counts selector tests, at most two per element
(testing every rule against every element tests N x N). It styles
5,000 elements, so the slow behavior fails on the count rather than
on the hang guard, which now waits 300 s.
- The stacked-glow test counts the silhouettes drawn, 30 for 30 glows
with and without the shadow cache.
- The Zstandard frames test counts the bytes looked at to find the
zero padding.
The hang guards for invalid dash patterns, text layout and script
checks of a pipe wait 300 s instead of 20 s.
Opening a document laid out every type object for its bounds and
baselines and threw the layouts away, and the first frame laid the same
objects out again. The open now keeps them, up to 128 MiB, and a frame
takes each one once.
A frame takes a layout only for a text object equal to the one laid out,
and only while the fonts, the system fallback setting and the hyphenation
exceptions are unchanged. When the last frame being drawn ends, the rest
are dropped if a frame took one, and all of them are dropped after eight
frames that take none. A layout with bitmap or color glyphs and a text
object with a gradient are not kept.
A new test binary opens a document of 13 type objects with the plans a
font face keeps and again while every shaped segment makes its own plan.
The document, its cached bounds and baselines included, and the first
frame's pixels must be the same. `test_fonts::keep_shape_plans` switches
the plans off; it exists only in tests and with the `test-fonts` feature.
The engine's open test now builds objects of one script and direction
that differ in kerning and language, and lays each one out in a font
database of its own, so a plan used for the wrong features fails its
comparison. It no longer sets Arabic, which could fall back to a system
font in one database and not the other.
Every shaped segment built its own harfrust shaping plan, although a
plan depends only on the face, direction, script, language and features.
Opening a document lays out each type object once, so a document of many
short objects built thousands of identical plans.
A font face now keeps up to 32 plans, oldest dropped first, and shapes
with the one that matches. Feature ranges still come from the shape
call, so text with the same features over other ranges shares a plan.
The glyphs, bounds and baselines do not change.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md.
Bulgarian was not among the text languages, so Bulgarian text could not
be tagged and fonts drew their Russian-style Cyrillic. Bulgarian (bg)
is now in the language list (Character panel, character styles,
text.setFormat by name or tag, the Hyphenation preference's default
language), with CLDR's quotes, „…“ at either level. Shaped as bg, the
fonts' locl forms for BGR apply: in the bundled Source Sans 3 Italic,
в, д, ж, з, к, л and ю take their Bulgarian forms.
Fixes#5945
Past a gutter of 1e300 a step no longer moves the baseline, so every cell of
a 100 x 100 frame was searched for all MAX_STEPS steps: over 40 s per layout.
AreaOptions::gutter has no limit, so a saved file can do this.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When a frame's text ends with a paragraph break and the next frame is empty, restyling that empty frame was undone on reflow: an unedited empty frame after it gave the story's last paragraph its own style again. A restyled empty frame now keeps its style against unedited empty frames that follow it. Unedited empty frames before it, later frames with text and later restyled frames still give the paragraph their style, as before.
To find the characters that justification or Mojikumi moves, SVG export
without Fewer <tspan> Elements laid out every live type object a second
time, as point type with
Mojikumi None and default Justification options, whenever its paragraph
had Mojikumi on. New type gets Line-end Punctuation Half Width, so every
new type object was laid out twice. Mojikumi only spaces Japanese
punctuation and Japanese letters, so type without them lays out the same
either way.
- TextLayout::mojikumi_applies says whether the text or a list marker
holds a character Mojikumi spaces.
- reader_advances keeps such a paragraph's Mojikumi, and reads the glyphs
from the layout it was given when the object it would lay out is the
same; otherwise it lays the object out again as before.
The SVG is unchanged. Exporting 5,000 point type objects takes a median
of 109.4 ms instead of 171.5 ms on Windows 11.
Ka, the halant, Ka again and the vowel sign I are shaped as one cluster:
the vowel sign, the first Ka's half form, then the second Ka's default
glyph. The glyph lookup looked for the character's default glyph across
the whole cluster before its alternates, so for the first Ka it found
the second Ka's default glyph instead of the half form. It again goes
through the cluster in order, and takes the first glyph that is the
character's default glyph or one of its alternates and is not the
default glyph of another character of the grapheme, so a vowel sign's
glyph that the font also lists as an alternate of the consonant is not
reported for the consonant.
text.glyphAlternates reported the default glyph as `chosen` for any
character that overflows its area. A character whose style substitutes
another glyph (`salt`, or `vert` in vertical type) was reported with a
glyph it is not drawn with. The query now shapes such a character alone,
with the rest of its grapheme in their own styles and in the text's
writing direction, by the same helper text.setGlyphAlternate uses.
The helper also shapes the character in the direction its paragraph
sets it in, from its bidi level, so a parenthesis set right to left is
reported with its mirrored glyph in both commands.
A document font drawn in a substitute style stayed listed and could be chosen as the
replacement: the family is installed, so the old check passed, and Change sent the
unavailable style to text.replaceFont, which stored it and warned that the text is drawn
in a stand-in. The exact face now decides both the automatic choice and whether Change
is available; the row stays listed.
Listing System asked the font database for each family's style-less face, and for a
family not loaded yet that reads all its cataloged files, so opening the dialog could
load a whole font library. FontDb::closest_style answers from the catalog's weight and
slant instead, and the rows put that style first as before.
Tests: the dialog's 26 (the closest style is the face a style-less request resolves to,
a stand-in style is listed but not chosen) and the text crate's 474.
text.glyphAlternates reported the first glyph of the character's
cluster as the chosen glyph. A vowel sign drawn before its consonant
(Devanagari Ka with the vowel sign I) comes first in that cluster, so
the query reported the vowel sign's glyph for Ka, while
text.setGlyphAlternate reported Ka's own glyph. Both commands now take
the character's glyph by the same rule, and so does the check in
text.setGlyphAlternate that the chosen glyph is drawn.
A character that overflows its area is shaped with its grapheme, and
each character of the grapheme now keeps its own style there, so a
nukta of another size no longer makes a ligature with its consonant
that the laid-out text does not draw. A test font with a Devanagari
nukta ligature checks both.
Optical moved every pair all the way to a fixed 0.08 em ink gap, tighter
than most text faces' own stem spacing, so ordinary text was squeezed
(at 100 pt, Source Sans 3 `nn` closed from 54.7 to 46.9 pt).
Each pair now moves 0.6 of the way toward the face's reference gap (the
median ink gap of `nn`, else `HH` or `oo`; 0.08 em when it has none),
keeps at least 0.3 of it at its narrowest, and changes by at most
0.12 em tighter or 0.06 em looser. Ideographs, kana, hangul, fullwidth
and CJK punctuation forms and dashes keep the font's spacing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Follows #5442.
- text.setGlyphAlternate keeps the default glyph as a choice when a
feature of the character's style (salt, a stylistic set) draws another
glyph for it, so the default glyph is drawn. A character that is not
laid out (overflowing text) is shaped alone in its style to decide.
gid: null reports the glyph the style draws.
- The Glyphs panel's alternates grid shows the default glyph first when
the font does not list it, so a chosen alternate can be put back.
- A test for a chosen character that starts a longer grapheme (f with a
combining acute), which is not split from its mark.
- The alternates tests in the engine hold the shared font lock while
they add fonts to the global font database.
With System Layout on or Fractional Widths off, each advance is rounded
to whole points, but a right-to-left character with manual kerning
still moved by the unrounded kerning value. The difference between the
two changed the space after the character before it in reading order.
The character now moves by the change the kerning makes to its rounded
advance, so only the space before the next character changes.
Baseline shift on an upright glyph in vertical type moved it up the column
instead of across it, at any Character Rotation, because the shift was
applied before the glyph was turned upright. The shift is now taken off
before the turn and put back after it, so an upright glyph moves across the
column by the shift as a letter lying on its side does, and still turns
about its shifted pen position.
The menu bar builds Type > Font in every frame, the first included, and
its family list waited for the scan of every installed font. When that
scan took longer than the 20 s first-frame watchdog (thousands of fonts
on a slow disk, or each file checked by antivirus), the app took the
graphics adapter for hung and started again without it, until none was
left and no window ever showed.
The menu now lists the fonts already loaded until the scan ends, then
all of them (FontDb::menu_family_list_now, installed_fonts_ready).
optical_pair_after_rtl_separate_mark_uses_base_outline sets Noto Sans
Arabic, which is not in assets/fonts. Without CRAFT_FONTS_DIR the font
database returns a fallback face, so the test checked that face instead.
The test now skips when Noto Sans Arabic is missing, as the Shippori
Mincho tests in the same file do.
A variable font can leave an ssNN feature empty in GSUB or GPOS and
supply its lookups through a FeatureVariations substitution. The
OpenType panel skipped those sets because the default feature has no
lookups. A set is now listed when a substitution in a variation record
replaces its feature with one that has lookups, and its name is read
from the default feature or the substituted one.
Records after one without conditions are ignored, and at most 4096
variation records and 4096 substitutions are read per table.
Follows #5447.
StylisticSet.name now holds only a name the font supplies. The OpenType panel shows a set without one as `Set {n}` through tl!, so the label is translated, and each UI catalog has a `Set {n}` row.
With SCALED_COMPONENT_OFFSET, a component's offset now scales each axis
by the length of that axis's basis vector, as the outline loader does,
instead of going through the whole matrix. A rotated or skewed
component's caret no longer lands away from its drawn point.
UNSCALED_COMPONENT_OFFSET now turns the scaling off when both flags are
set.
A composite glyph whose components expand into glyphs with no points
could make the contour-point caret lookup read billions of glyphs. The
whole lookup now shares a budget of 65,536 glyph reads and gives no
caret when it runs out, so the caret falls back to dividing the advance.
On a path, vertical type turns an upright glyph about its pen, so its cell
runs from 0.12 em before the pen to 0.88 em after it without the font's
vertical metrics. The ligature caret, a click and the selection measured
the cell from the pen instead. They now take the cell where the glyph's
transform draws it, with its placement, baseline shift, Horizontal Scale
and Skew.
A manual kerning value on an inline graphic's character was stored and
shown but did not move the text after it. The graphic's advance now
includes the value, as a letter's does, and in right-to-left horizontal
type its art moves right by the value, so the space goes between it and
the next character in reading order. Auto and Optical kerning still apply
no font pairs to an inline graphic.
Right-to-left manual kerning was added to the glyph's offset, which
Character Rotation turns, so a rotated character with kerning moved
across the line (up at 90 degrees) instead of away from the next
character in reading order. The shift is now applied to the pen
position along the baseline, outside the rotation, and the rotation
turns the glyph about that moved pen position.
A manual kerning value on a character in right-to-left text changed the
space between it and the character before it in reading order, under
both Auto and Optical kerning. The shaped glyphs of a right-to-left
cluster now also move right by the value, so the space its advance
gains is at its left, between it and the next character in reading
order. Left-to-right text and tracking are unchanged.
Optical kerning no longer takes the left glyph's manual value off the
advance it measures, since right to left the value is in that glyph's
offset as well.
The OpenType panel gets a Position menu after Figure, with Default
Position, Superscript, Subscript, Numerator and Denominator. `numr` and
`dnom` join the extra features (the existing bits keep their indices),
so they round-trip through the stored tags and reach the shaper.
text.setStyle and text.setRangeStyle take `featureChanges`, which turns
features on or off on top of each character's own features in one
command and keeps every tag the list does not name. The Figure menu,
the Position menu and the checkboxes send it, so on a selection whose
characters have different features each character keeps its other
features. Reset OpenType Features still sends `features`.
Catalog rows for Position:, Default Position, Numerator and
Denominator; one line each in docs/type-parity.md and
docs/target-app-parity.md.
Area type made from the editing data's text document came in with one
row, one column, the 18 pt gutter and the Ascent first baseline,
whatever its frame kept. Each area frame now keeps its rows and columns,
the gutter between rows and the gutter between columns, and its first
baseline (Fixed, Cap Height, Leading or x Height) with its minimum,
scaled with the art's units. Each frame of a thread keeps its own, and a
key that is missing or can't be read leaves that option as it was. A
first baseline the frame keeps is no longer replaced by the fixed one
that matches the file's first line.
AreaOptions gets row_gutter (rowGutter, left out while unset), which
layout spaces rows by; text.areaOptions takes and reports rowGutter, a
gutter given alone sets both, and the Area Type Options dialog shows
Row Gutter.
Area type whose frame a wrap object covers sets no line and overflows.
Area type wrapped around a shape of 10,000 anchors sets its lines beside
the shape.
Baseline shift now moves a character in the line's frame, outside
Character Rotation, so a positive shift moves a character up from its
line at any rotation, and the character turns about its shifted pen
position. The Touch Type tool splits a drag into its part along the line
(kerning) and its part up from the line (baseline shift) at every
rotation; before, within about 6 degrees of a quarter turn it dropped
the cross-line part.
Characters that already combine a rotation with a baseline shift are
drawn in a new position. Their stored values do not change.
- text: glyph transform order, PositionedGlyph::pivot (the turning
point), tab leaders in the same order
- tools: Touch Type splits drags against the line's up axis and measures
rotate-handle turns about the shifted pen position
- engine: text.touchType description; dy is up from the line
- docs: mcp.md Touch Type paragraph, target-app-parity.md progress line