The AppKit cursor delivery's evidence in docs/ui-parity.md and
docs/target-app-parity.md says the host sets its cursor again on every
pass while it owns it, so the tool's cursor stays when the pointer moves
(#6362). Status lines and history updated; scores and estimates
unchanged.
With Transform Objects off, a group's Transform effect scales the
strokes and moves the patterns of a member's linked mask as it does
the member's, instead of leaving the mask as it was.
- `charpath` in a CIDFont only named, over a predefined CMap, adds the
outlines of the characters its codes stand for, placed as `show` sets
them, and moves the point as `show` does. It added no outlines.
- `cshow` gives its procedure each code of such type, two bytes for a
two-byte code, with the code's width. It split two-byte codes into
single bytes.
- `glyphshow` sets the named character itself. It set the character's
UTF-8 bytes as Latin-1 letters.
- `kshow` runs its procedure between each two codes of such type, with
the two codes' values. It didn't run it. The procedure sees the font
the file set as current, and a font it sets stays current.
- A name that ends in the row-and-cell CMap `H` or `V` splits off the
CMap only when the file defines the CIDFont of that name (as a
resource or with `definefont`), or the name has a hyphen and an
installed face that covers Japanese has it. `Foo-Bold-H` stays a font
of the whole name.
- In a CMap that can't be read (`GBT-H`), each code moves the point one
em, along the line or down the column; a tab or carriage return byte
is a code of its own.
- One parser reads the names of the predefined Unicode CMaps, for EPS
and legacy `.ai` type.
- Outlines added to a path by `charpath` stop at the path's point limit.
- docs/file-format-parity.md, docs/gaps.md and docs/mcp.md describe type
in named CIDFonts over the predefined CMaps.
Single Word Justification's Full Justify counted and placed a gap after
every drawn glyph, so a combining mark or the vowel sign of a Devanagari
syllable moved away from its letter. Desired Letter Spacing and the
letter spacing range of a justified line did the same between two glyphs
of one cluster.
- The Full Justify gap count and placement share one check that skips
glyphs with the same cluster byte as the glyph drawn after them.
- Letter spacing goes after the last glyph of a cluster only.
- Letter spacing, Full Justify and CJK inter-character gaps pass over
every default-ignorable character drawn with no width (soft hyphens,
bidi marks, embeddings, overrides and isolates, joiners, word joiners,
variation selectors, tags, the byte order mark) and put the space
between the visible characters on either side. The Hangul fillers stay
letters.
- A zero-width space takes no word-space room on a justified line and
stays a line break opportunity. Letter spacing before it is set after
it, so a line broken there ends at its last letter.
- A single word that Full Justify spreads and that breaks at a hyphen
has the same gap before the drawn hyphen as between its letters.
- Kinsoku push-in counts the gaps it can close past format controls, as
the layout closes them.
Tests cover horizontal, right-to-left and vertical type, Desired and
fitted letter spacing, format controls, zero-width spaces, the drawn
hyphen, push-in, and a Devanagari syllable when a Devanagari face is
installed.
A linear, radial, conic or diamond gradient has a spread: Pad (the
default, as before), Repeat or Reflect, with a count of 1 to 100
(VectorCraft's own limit). Repeat and Reflect run the stops that many
times along the vector (around the turn for a conic) and keep going past
both ends, Reflect running every other run backwards, as SVG's
spreadMethod does.
The Gradient panel has a Spread menu and a Repeats field, and the
Gradient tool marks where the runs meet. paint.setFill and
paint.editGradient take `spread` and `repeats`; bad values are errors.
Presets, swatches, blends, strokes along or across a path, Outline
Stroke and Object › Expand follow the spread; Expand gives each run the
same whole number of objects, and Outline Stroke's mesh keeps the color
on each side of a sharp step between two stops at one offset.
SVG writes and reads spreadMethod: SVG import now reads a repeating or
reflecting gradient as one that repeats or reflects once, instead of
expanding its stops over the shape. CSS writes repeating gradients.
PDF writes a conic's sweep shading over one run. PDF, EPS, legacy .ai
and the .ai editing data write the other kinds with their stops
repeated across the shape: at most 256 runs and 16,384 stops (256 stops
in .ai files), and for a radial or diamond no farther than 65,536 runs
from its center, with a warning past those. PDF import now finds sharp
steps in any axial or radial shading instead of blurring them.
Docs: docs/mcp.md (Spread), docs/target-app-parity.md, docs/gaps.md.
The editing copy of a PDF-compatible .ai now holds the Brushes panel's
Calligraphic, Scatter and Art brushes in the panel's order, with the art
of Scatter and Art brushes. A path or compound path with a Calligraphic
brush, or with an Art brush in Tints whose art bends along the path,
keeps the brush on its stroke. Other brushed strokes are still written
as their brush's art.
The writer reads each brush back with the reader's code before writing
it. Brushes that would not come back with their settings, brushes past
the reader's limits and every brush on a large canvas are left out with
a warning. A brush that has the name of an earlier brush that was left
out is written, and no path is written with it on its stroke.
An object linked to a graphic style that is left out at the object
limit now also raises the warning about links left out.
Brushes and their options:
https://web.archive.org/web/20241230205225/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/brushes.html
Docs: docs/file-format-parity.md.
The sweeps in command_sweep.rs kept their own list of file and folder
keys (path, diffPath, folder, destinationFolder) in testkit's
safe_value and again in the temp-folder test, so a command whose file
key was not on the list was sent raw junk strings, and a key written as
`{path | name ...}` (document.open) was never swept.
- The engine exports the plug-in call rules' file keys as
`cmd::key_location`, `cmd::location_in` and `cmd::location_keys`,
which read every key a params description names, the keys of the
commands its `...` entries name, and the schema. `diffPath` is a file
key, so a plug-in call that carries it is refused; Slice Options'
`url` and Export for Screens' `folders` name part of the document, so
a call to object.slice.options with a top-level `url` is accepted.
- testkit's `param_keys` reads the keys the engine reads, and
`junk_params_for_command` and `safe_value_for_command` send every
string under a file or folder key, in arrays and in objects inside
them, as a location in the sweep's temp folder. Each such key also
gets a list of paths and a list of `{ids, path}` objects.
- Every catalog sweep, the serializability sweep included, uses them,
and the temp-folder test checks every key the catalog names, at any
depth.
Type and live objects in the art of a linked opacity mask are outlined
and evaluated before a group's or layer's geometry effects run over it,
so the mask moves and bends with the art it masks. Before, the effects
reached only the paths in a mask's art.
- With Scale Strokes & Effects on, a Transform effect scales the strokes
of an image's or symbol instance's linked mask as it scales those of a
path's mask.
- A mask's art takes Transform copies in the form it had before the
first effect, as the art it masks does.
- A linked mask whose art is one image or symbol instance takes a
Transform effect's move and copies with the art it masks. Under any
other geometry effect, which images and symbol instances do not take,
art whose masks hold one keeps its shape.
- A symbol instance in perspective projects the linked masks in its art
with that art.
- A live-effect plug-in that paints its pieces leaves art with linked
masks as it is, since a mask can't take the pieces.
Docs: the docs/target-app-parity.md line moves next to the Transparency
entry and lists the cases where existing documents draw differently.
The continuous-tone test asked whether 8 colors leave more than a tenth
of the error of one color. A gray picture's tones lie along one line,
where 8 colors come nearer to them, so some gray photos scored 0.078 to
0.093 and were traced as flat art, without the smoothing color photos
get. Their noise then mixed neighboring tones (a 16 Colors trace could
keep 10 or 12 colors) and stepped the edges.
A picture with at least 95% of its opaque pixels within 8 levels across
their channels now also counts as continuous tone when 8 colors leave
more than 0.065 of the error of one color, unless 16 colors leave at
most a fifth of the error of 8. These are VectorCraft's own values. The
exception keeps gray flat art of up to 16 clean levels on its old
route. Pictures with more than 5% of their opaque pixels outside that
8-level range are unchanged.
Anti-aliased or noisy gray flat art can now take the smoothed route as
well. Very noisy gray scans of flat art get fewer specks and staircase
edges; some gray illustrations and sketches get more anchors and
staircase edges at 16 Colors and High Fidelity Photo. Some 16 Colors
and High Fidelity Photo palettes of gray photos grow toward the
requested count, with more anchors and regions, and some 6 Colors
traces get more staircase edges.
Review feedback: with no tolerance, pen or trackpad jitter turned a tap
into a drag and the value was no longer selected. A release within 1 pt
of the press is a tap; anything further keeps the caret.
Regression test: a_tap_with_a_pixel_of_jitter_still_selects_all_on_release.
A shortcut given to Set Corners… (`addon.pathtools.cornerSet`) ran nothing,
on a single key or a chord. The keymap is built from the list in Edit ›
Keyboard Shortcuts, and that list left the command out. An engine command
without a menu path of its own was listed only when it had a default key,
or when it was an undoable command, not an alias, whose params doc ends
each field with `?`. A UI command was listed only when it had a default
key or a params doc of `{}` or `{path…}`, or was Rename. Set Corners…
needs a radius, so it was left out. The same rules left out other
commands that items of the menu bar run:
- View › Perspective Grid's Lock Grid, Lock Station Point, Show Rulers and
Snap to Grid, and Object › Perspective's Attach to Active Plane, Move
Plane to Match Object and Edit Text.
- Edit › Edit Custom Dictionary…, a query.
- UI commands: Recolor Artwork…, the Edit menu's four preset dialogs,
Apply SVG Filter…, Export As…, Export Selection…, Edit Original, Apply
Bullets, Apply Numbers, the four library saves, and the Window menu's
New Toolbar…, Double Column, Keep Tools Beside the Canvas, New
Workspace…, Float in Window and Consolidate All Windows.
Such a command is now listed when an item of the menu bar runs it as a key
press would: with no params, or with the one set of params all its items
give. `needs_a_value` already used this check, and it moves into
`a_menu_bar_item_runs` so that both use it. The command is listed in the
group named by the first part of its id, next to the commands of its
family that were listed before (Set Corners… under Addon with Corner
Tool, the grid toggles under Perspective).
File › Export Selection… was the row of `document.exportSelection`, which
no item of the menu bar runs. That row now runs `file.exportSelection`, as
the menu item does, and `document.exportSelection` is listed as Document ›
Export Selection…. A shortcut already given to it keeps running it. The
Window menu's Learn item gets no row, because the Learn panel's row
already has its name.
Tests: on F and on a chord, Set Corners…, Edit Custom Dictionary…, Recolor
Artwork…, the four preset dialogs and Apply SVG Filter… open the dialog a
click on their menu item opens. Snap to Grid turns off and on from F, and
Export Selection… on F opens Export for Screens. Every command the menu
bar runs this way is listed, none of them shares its group and label with
another entry, and a shortcut on four of them is kept through a saved
set's export and import. The other Object › Plug-ins dialogs, Select by
Link Status… and Composite Fonts… already opened from a shortcut and are
checked the same way.
A client confined by --automation-read-root saw paths outside its read
roots that the person or an earlier request had put in the session:
- plugin.list: the plug-in folder last loaded and its failed files;
plugin.list and plugin.info: a plug-in's source file; plugin.list,
plugin.safeMode and plugin.setEnabled: the file of a plug-in turned
off for the next launch.
- file.recovery.list and file.recovery.restore: a document's original
file; file.recovery.list and file.recovery.save: the recovery folder.
- ui.inspect's scriptReport: the files a run wrote and the included
file a failed run stopped in.
A folder outside the read roots is now null, and a file outside them is
named by its file name. plugin.setEnabled {file} takes that name. The
restored documents keep their files, and unconfined clients and the
app's own UI see the same replies as before.
A four-component JPEG whose EXIF orientation turns or flips it went
through the image decoder, which reads CMYK JPEGs as RGB, and was
stored as an RGB PNG without its inks. It is now stored the way a
turned CMYK TIFF is: its inks, 8 bits each, turned and written as a
CMYK TIFF with the turned resolution.
- vectorcraft_doc::cmyk::turned_cmyk turns the inks of a CMYK JPEG or
TIFF, next to stored_cmyk_tiff; tiff_inks is private again.
- raster_image swaps the resolution axes inline, as its HEIF branch
does.
- The links comment and the docs/target-app-parity.md line on EXIF
orientation now describe the turned CMYK TIFF.
With Background Export on, an Export for Screens call that gives only an
`exportPreset` whose preset keeps a folder ran at once on the UI thread,
because the background route looked at the call's own `folder` only. It
now takes the preset's folder as well and writes in the background with
the progress dialog and Cancel, as an export into a folder it names.
When that folder is outside an MCP client's read roots, the prepared
export carries the folder's shown name, so the reply written later lists
the files relative to the folder with no ZIP `path`, a refused write names
the folder by its name, and the status bar does the same, as for an
export made at once.
The status of a preset-only export made at once named an empty folder
("Exported 1 file to "); it now names the preset's folder.
- `Session::screen_export_folder` returns the folder an export writes
into and its shown name when the reply leaves it out.
- `ScreenExport::write` applies the read-root rule decided when the
export was prepared.
- docs/mcp.md and docs/target-app-parity.md describe the change.
The Dynamic Text: Block entry says the Contextual Task Bar offers the
item for point type too, and that turning it on makes point type area
type with Block on. The Dynamic Text entry no longer says point type in
the selection is left as it is.
A run whose script fails to compile defines no code, so its source map
is not kept and the places of earlier runs stay within the engine's
budget. docs/mcp.md and the progress line say so, and the progress line
names the errors that are reported without a line and column.
Rewrap the prose in docs/plugins.md whose lines broke well short of
the file's 120-column width or ran past it, including the Safe Mode
sentence, the permission-name and install-confirmation sentences, and
the grants.json paragraph. Each rewrapped line is at most 120 columns.
No words, punctuation, code blocks or tables change.
A linked opacity mask moves with the art it masks, and an unlinked one
stays in place. Geometry effects on a group or layer reshaped its
members but left their linked masks where they were, Free Distort left
a linked mask behind, and an envelope bent unlinked masks too.
- Geometry effects on a group or layer run over the art of the linked
masks of the paths, compound paths and groups inside it, nested and
inverted masks included. Each Transform copy of a masked path carries
its own mask, and an image or symbol instance moved by a Transform
effect carries its linked mask. The effects on an object do not move
that object's own mask.
- When a mask can't take an effect as the art it masks does (a path in
either would pass the geometry budget, or the mask would get fewer
Transform copies), the art and its masks keep their shape under that
effect. Mask art counts toward the budget.
- Free Distort (`object.distort`) warps a linked mask with its object;
the params text says so.
- An envelope bends only a linked mask.
Docs: a line in docs/target-app-parity.md.
A grayscale or 1-bit image colorized with a spot color now counts as a
Spot Color Object. A gradient whose stops are all at an opacity of 0
draws nothing, so its spot stops no longer list the object.
BFlat