An Abutting trace with Fills now holds a "Seam Fills" group under its
paths. For each color it has one stroke, 1.5 image pixels wide, along
the edges where a filled path of that color meets a filled path drawn
after it, in that color. A renderer that anti-aliases each path on its
own no longer shows a light hairline along those edges. The traced
paths and their shared edges do not change, and edges against the
image's border, a transparent area or a color left out get no stroke.
- vectorcraft-trace: `seam_fills` finds the segments two filled paths
share and strokes them in the lower path's color (one stroke per
gradient path). Overlapping, traces without Fills and Flat Logo get
none.
- Image Trace commands: the group comes under every path (right above
the hidden image in a live trace). Expand keeps it, Expand by color
leaves it under the color groups, and a trace whose paths have more
than half of the anchor limit gets no seam fills.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, the params text, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Variable Options in the Variables panel only renamed a variable, and no
command changed a variable's kind. variable.rename now takes
{name, newName?, kind?} and renames the variable, changes its kind, or
both, in one undo step, with none when nothing changes. A null or empty
value, an unknown kind, a taken name and locked variables are refused.
A kind change unbinds the objects that can't hold the new kind (text
keeps type with no other text variable, image keeps image objects,
graph keeps graph roots, visibility keeps every object) and drops the
variable's values in every data set. The dialog shows the variable's
name and kind and sends both.
A linear or radial gradient of CMYK stops drawn as an image (a dithered
fill, or a Perceptual gradient that is not written as a spot shading)
was written as an RGB image whenever any stop was linked to a spot
swatch, even a stop that colors nothing: one inside fully transparent
stretches, one out of order between stretches with no width, or one at
a tint of 0 without process plates. The spot color warning already
skipped those stops.
The image now falls back to RGB only when a stop prints a spot ink, the
same test the warning and the spot shadings use. A drawn spot stop at a
tint above 0, or with process plates, still gives an RGB image with the
warning.
Automatic counted flat art's colors with a median cut that never splits a
box narrower than 24 levels, so evenly spaced levels about 17 apart (gray)
or 13 apart (sepia) shared boxes: 16 clean gray levels traced in 14 colors
and 16 sepia levels in 9.
When flat art's pixels fall in 2 to 16 histogram bins, each holding at
least the share a color needs to be counted, and every two bins lie at
least 12 levels apart on some channel, Automatic now takes one color per
bin. If mixed-color merging then finds two of those colors mixed through
each other (dithering, or a thin region beside a close level), the picture
is counted by median cut as before, with rare colors added.
Anti-aliased art whose levels lie more than 20 apart is counted level by
level too, because its blended edge pixels are left out of the count.
Noisy pictures, anti-aliased art whose levels lie 20 or fewer apart and
pictures of 17 levels or more are counted as before, and continuous-tone
classification is unchanged.
The Assign tab has a New Row button before Merge. With art selected it
adds a row with no current colors above the first selected row, or at
the top, with that row's new color, and selects it. Merge with the new
row first moves the other rows' current colors into it, and they take
its new color. The row shows an empty slot until then.
An empty row recolors nothing and does not count toward Colors. OK
sends it with the other rows. recolor.apply adds no library swatch for
it and gives a rewritten color group no color from it, in the dialog's
groupColors and in the command's default.
The Variables panel drew each variable as one "name · object" line in
the order the variables were defined, with no headers and no sorting.
The list now has three columns with headers: the type icon, Variables
and Objects. A click on a header sorts the list by that column, and a
second click reverses the order. The new command variable.sort {by:
name|object|type|none, descending?} sets the order, which is panel
state: not saved and not an undo step. variable.list lists the
variables in that order and reports it as sort. An unknown by, or a
descending that is not true or false, is an error.
Extrude & Bevel (Classic), Revolve (Classic) and Rotate (Classic) take a
preserveSpotColors param and a Preserve Spot Colors checkbox on the
Lighting tab. When it is on, a fill or stroke linked to a spot or global
swatch stays linked on every face: the highlight lowers the swatch's
tint, and a face that darkens gets black over it, multiplied and
overprinting, so a spot color keeps its own plate in separations and PDF.
The checkbox is unavailable while Shading Color is Custom, and the param
does nothing then. With the option off, the faces draw as before. A
value that is not true or false is refused.
A clipping path that paints a fill or stroke kept the geometry effects of
those fills and strokes live, so a geometry effect on the clip group or on
a group around it reshaped the path first and the fill's or stroke's
effect applied after it, on the canvas and in export alike. Unpainted
clipping paths already applied them first.
The clipping path now becomes one path per fill and stroke with those
effects applied, as an unpainted one does, in a group marked as such
pieces (`NodeExtras::clip_pieces`, saved with the document). `clip_paint`
paints that group's fill pieces behind the clipped art and its stroke
pieces over it, as the path paints its fills and strokes, also after an
effect around it turns a piece into a compound path or puts it in a group.
The clip group's visual bounds take in the stroke pieces' width, and HP-GL
export draws the clipping path once, in its stroke pieces.
An export of a painted clipping path with such effects in a clip group
without effects of its own also keeps its fill and stroke now, where the
baked pieces painted nothing.
While the Selection, Direct Selection or Group Selection tool moves the
selection, or the Gradient tool draws a vector, W and H show the change
in x and y, with the distance and the angle under them. A Scale tool
drag shows its percentages; a Rotate, Reflect or Shear tool drag shows
the center of the selection's box and its angles. The Zoom tool adds the
magnification and the Paintbrush the name of its brush.
W and H follow Use Preview Bounds. With several objects selected, the
panel shows only the fill, stroke and type values they share, and Show
Options adds a tint's swatch and percentage and a gradient's swatch name.
- Tool::readout and Readout (crates/tools/src/readout.rs).
- info.readout returns the selection's size and the tool's readout.
- Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/ui-parity.md.
The 3D and Materials panel gets a Render Settings menu with Wireframe.
Extrude & Bevel, Revolve, Inflate and Rotate take a `render` parameter,
`{mode: "shaded" | "wireframe"}`. In wireframe mode the effect stays
live and draws the edges Expand as Wireframes gives, each once, as
0.5 pt black strokes with round joins, with no shadow or graphics. The
object's own opacity, blending mode and opacity mask apply to the mesh.
Commands that set wireframe mode are checked against the edges it
draws: the shaded surface's paint copies, graphics and shadow limits do
not refuse them. A `render` value that is not an object holding only a
valid `mode`, and `render` on the 3D (Classic) effects, are refused.
Docs: docs/three-d.md, docs/mcp.md, docs/effects-parity.md,
docs/target-app-parity.md.
A triple-click with the Live Paint Selection tool on a face now selects
every face of its group with that face's fill, and on an edge every edge
of its group that draws with that edge's stroke paint. Hidden faces and
edges are left out. Before, a triple-click selected only what its third
click selected.
With Shift held, the parts are toggled from the selection there was
before the clicks: the tool keeps what the double-click and the Shift
clicks of the series toggled, and the triple-click toggles those back.
docs/target-app-parity.md's Live Paint Selection line says so.
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