A path whose fills and strokes stack (a fill and a stroke, several of
either, an even-odd fill, or a partly transparent or blended one) drew
its Transform effect's copies as one path, so every copy's stroke lay on
top of every copy's fill. It now draws each copy as an object of its own
above the one before, as Expand Appearance makes them.
Fixes#5920
The geometry effects after a fill's or stroke's own Transform effect with
Scale Strokes & Effects or Transform Patterns now take the bounds of the
transformed path and all its copies as their reference box, as an
object's own effects do. A later Rotate turns the copies about their
combined center instead of turning each copy about its own, and a later
Offset Path or plain Transform applies to the paths themselves. Each copy
keeps its own scaled distances.
Part of #885
transform_item_leaf now holds back the leaf's geometry for each plain or transformed piece that follows a transformed fill or stroke, so the copies of an earlier item no longer use up the budget that a later fill or stroke still needs. The nested pass over a transformed piece keeps to the same reduced limit.
Each fill or stroke without such a Transform effect is drawn on the object's geometry again, so its cost now counts toward the budget that limits the Transform effect's copies. The object's own geometry is no longer counted a second time next to the pieces that replace it. The Transform effect options entry in docs/target-app-parity.md links the current help pages.
Part of #885
A Transform effect in a fill's or stroke's own effect list now applies its
Scale Strokes & Effects and Transform Patterns options as the same effect on
the object does: the stroke's weight and dashes, the distances of the fill's
or stroke's later effects and its pattern follow the transformation, each
copy once more than the last, and with Transform Objects off the geometry
stays and the options apply once. The fill or stroke becomes an object of
its own in the art the canvas, export and Expand Appearance draw, and Use
Preview Bounds measures that art too (also for the object-level options).
Part of #885
Don Omondi