Object › Plug-ins › Cutting Tools › Banner Hems and Grommets…
(`addon.cutting.banner`) marks where a printed banner is hemmed and where
its grommets go. The banner is the bounds of the selected art, or each
artboard when nothing is selected. On each chosen side the command adds a
hem line a set depth inside the edge (1 in by default) and grommet marks a
set inset inside it (0.5 in): one at each end of the side and the rest
spread evenly, as few as keep them at most a set spacing apart (24 in). A
corner that two chosen sides share gets one grommet. Each grommet mark is a
circle (27 pt by default) with a cross through its center. The marks are
stroked in a chosen swatch ([Registration] by default) with no fill, in one
group named Banner Marks per banner on top of the current layer, selected,
as one undo step. While a clip group is edited in isolation, the group goes
outside the outermost clip group, as Weed Box and Lines does.
The command refuses every side off, no hem and no grommets, and bad params
with a message. It also refuses a hem or inset that reaches the far edge of
the banner when one of two opposite sides is chosen, or that meets the marks
of the opposite side when both are chosen, an inset of more than half a
chosen side's length, and more than 100000 grommets. The dialog has Preview.
The grommets' distance from the edge is `grommetInset`, so the dialog shows
it as Grommet Inset with its own catalog rows. The new Diameter catalog
rows also translate the Diameter field of the `shape.flare` command dialog,
which had no rows.
Docs: docs/mcp.md (Cutting Tools add-on), docs/target-app-parity.md and
ROADMAP.
The Gradient panel's Method menu gets two methods of VectorCraft's own
beside Classic and Perceptual. They mix a linear, radial, conic or
diamond gradient's colors around the hue wheel: hue, saturation and
brightness each change evenly from one stop to the next, and the hue
angle keeps one direction, as the fixed-direction rules of
https://www.w3.org/TR/css-color-4/#hue-interpolation do. Hue Clockwise
lowers the angle (red, magenta, blue), which is clockwise on the color
wheels, and Hue Counterclockwise raises it (red, yellow, green).
Two stops whose hues are less than half a color level apart count as
one hue and keep it, so a color and a tint or shade of it do not turn
the whole wheel. A stop whose RGB numbers are less than half a color
level apart is gray and takes the hue of the stop it mixes with, and
black takes that stop's saturation too.
- `paint.editGradient` and `paint.setFill` take `method: hue-clockwise`
or `hue-counterclockwise`, in any case, with a space or an underscore
for the hyphen or without it; other spellings are an error. The native
file writes `HueClockwise` and `HueCounterclockwise`.
- The canvas and raster exports draw the gradient through stops on its
curve, within half a color level.
- Reverse turns the method the other way with the stops, and a Reflect
spread is repeated from the curve's stops, so both keep the colors.
- SVG and PDF write the gradient as an RGB image, CMYK and spot color
stops included, with the spot warning. EPS writes a shading in process
colors with a warning for spot stops. A legacy .ai file and the .ai
editing data get the colors between the stops as stops of their own,
in process colors, at most 256, with a warning. CSS gets those stops
too.
- The `method` error names the four values, in every catalog.
- The Method menu is as wide as its longest name in the interface
language, within the panel.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/plugins.md, docs/target-app-parity.md, ROADMAP.
Window › Swatch Libraries › Patterns and the Swatches panel's library
menu gain Optical Effects (`optical-effects`), a built-in pattern library
of eight black tiles drawn in code: Sine Bands, Ripple Lines,
Interference Rings, Offset Rings, Warped Checks, Pinched Stripes,
Chevron Pulse and Radiating Lenses. The names and designs are
VectorCraft's own. Each tile is 32 to 48 pt, one period of its design,
with fixed sample counts (at most 600 paths and 20,000 segments), so a
band that leaves one edge comes back at the same place on the opposite
edge, and rings and lenses that cross an edge are kept whole for the
tiling to draw on the next tile. Clicking a swatch adds its pattern and
swatch once and applies it, as with Geometric Patterns
(`swatch.library.add`).
The menu label has a row in every catalog; docs/mcp.md, the parity doc
and ROADMAP name the library.
Adds Gujarati to the target-app-parity localization evidence list and
the docs/roadmap.md milestone notes, following the Hindi entries, and
marks the catalog as reviewed by a native speaker with zero/one
singular plurals. Scores and estimates unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Window › Swatch Libraries › Gradients gains Holographic, after Organic
Fades: seven foils (opaque linear gradients of six narrow pastel and
pearl bands with off-center midpoints) and seven glows (radial
gradients from a bright center out to a clear edge), all mixed with the
Perceptual method. They also list in the Swatches panel's library menu,
swatch.library.list/get/add and the Gradient panel's Presets.
The names, colors and stops are VectorCraft's own. A saved preset that
already uses one of the new names is renamed with the first free number
when the preferences load.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md Swatches line, ROADMAP.
Object › Plug-ins › Cutting Tools › Stencil Bridges… (`addon.cutting.bridges`)
cuts strips of a set width out of the selected art so that a stencil cut
from it holds together: every island (the inside of an O, A or 8, a hole in
a shape) stays joined to the sheet, directly or through another island.
Bridges take the shortest crossings that fit first, then spread around each
island up to the count asked for, at least two widths apart. They run
vertically, horizontally or along the shortest crossing among 12
directions 15° apart.
- The art is measured by the area its outlines enclose, whatever their
paint, with hidden objects left out; type by its glyph outlines, without
converting the type. The result is one compound path with the strips cut
out, painted as the topmost selected shape with outlines, in the place of
the topmost selected object with outlines. Selected objects with no
outlines in the art stay where they are.
- Keep Original (on by default) moves the selected objects that make up the
art to a new hidden layer, Stencil Original; off replaces them.
- Art with no islands, or none a bridge of the width fits, is left as it is
with a message and no undo step. Islands the cut result still encloses
are counted in `unbridged`, with a message. Otherwise the run is one undo
step.
- Curves are followed within a twentieth of the width (0.002 to 0.25 pt).
Art that reaches more than 10000000 pt from the origin or has more than
200000 anchors is refused before it is combined. Art is also refused when
its combined area has more than 4000 outlines, when its outlines need
more than 200000 straight segments, or when placing the outlines or
joining every island takes more work than a fixed budget allows; when
the budget runs out while extra bridges are added, the bridges found so
far are kept.
Tests in vectorcraft-pathops, vectorcraft-engine and vectorcraft-ui-egui,
command_sweep cases, catalog rows in all 27 languages, docs/mcp.md, the
evidence list in docs/target-app-parity.md and the ROADMAP progress log.
Window › Swatch Libraries › Patterns and the Swatches panel's library
menu gain a second built-in pattern library, Grit Textures, with eight
black textures on square grid tiles of 18 to 36 pt: Fine Grain, Coarse
Grit, Sand, Speckle, Stipple, Scratches, Sparse Flecks and Dense Flecks.
Each is drawn in code from a fixed seed, so it is the same every time.
Marks that reach past a tile edge are drawn on the next tile by the
tiling, so the tiles join without a seam.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md, ROADMAP.
Window › Swatch Libraries › Gradients gains Organic Fades, a gradient
library of fifteen fades (ten linear, five radial). Each runs through
three to five unevenly spaced stops with off-center midpoints, mixes
with the Perceptual method, and thins out to transparent at the end of
a linear fade or at the edge of a radial one. The colors are computed
from VectorCraft's own OKLCH anchors.
The library also lists in the Swatches panel's library menu, in
swatch.library.list (category "gradients") and in the Gradient panel's
Presets. swatch.library.add keeps each fade's stops, opacities,
midpoints and method in RGB and CMYK documents.
The other built-in libraries are unchanged: their gradients still mix
with Classic and keep centered midpoints, and a test checks it.
- Gradient previews in the Swatch Libraries panel, the Gradient
panel's Presets menu, swatch tiles and the toolbar drew every stop
opaque. Each chip vertex now takes the sampled opacity as its alpha
(freeform points too), and a chip with any translucent vertex draws
a white and gray checkerboard under the gradient. Opaque gradients
draw as before.
- When the preferences are applied, a saved gradient preset whose name
matches a built-in preset, or an earlier saved preset, in any case,
is renamed to the first free "<name> N" (N from 2), so a saved
preset named like a new built-in fade stays listed and can be
applied and deleted.
Adds a Gujarati interface catalog modelled on the Hindi catalog.
Registers gu in LANGUAGES, adds Gujarati script font fallback, and
updates the localization parity doc and ROADMAP languages table.
Translations are written from the English meaning (clean-room).
Common English technology terms are transliterated. About 30 terms
are flagged for native review; 2,607 messages remain in English.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move the unheaded change bullets above the Stage line and the revision
row inside the Headline numbers table into Revision history, each under
the date of the commit that added it. No score or estimate changes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Direct Selection of a path, compound path or type inside a dynamic instance now applies transparency and gradient or pattern fills through the usual paint commands, and the G5 docs catch up on Overlap and Pattern auto corners.
Docked Tools stays at the window's left edge again, outside any panels
docked on the left. Window › Toolbars › Keep Tools Beside the Canvas
(`window.toolsBesideCanvas {on?}`) docks it between those panels and the
canvas instead.
- The setting is its own field in the UI state and in workspaces, and a
missing field reads as off, so saved state and workspaces keep Tools at
the window's edge. Built-in workspaces have it off.
- Off, app.rs draws docked Tools before the docking layout, the canvas
reserves no width for it, and only the full-height window-edge strip
docks a floating Tools panel. On, the canvas panel draws it, the canvas
keeps room for it, and both the window edge and the canvas edge dock it
beside the canvas.
- Turning the setting off forgets the canvas-edge strip, so a strip laid
out while it was on does not dock Tools. A floating Tools panel stays
floating when the setting changes.
- `window.panel.dock {panel: "tools"}` docks Tools where the setting says.
- The menu label has a row in every catalog.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/control-protocol.md, the ROADMAP progress log and
docs/target-app-parity.md. The headline-numbers row and the paragraphs
under the status lines are gone, and scores are unchanged.
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)
Co-Authored-By: Devin <158243242+devin-ai-integration[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
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.
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