Option errors and notes for a .ai save called the file a
"PDF-compatible .ai" even when the save wrote a version 7 file
(aiVersion: "7") or a file without PDF content (pdfCompatible: false).
- Option errors: a version 7 .ai is now called a "legacy .ai
(version 7)" in the errors for its artboard, artboards and range
options. A .ai saved without PDF content is called a
"non-PDF-compatible .ai" in every .ai option error (includeLinked and
embedProfiles included), and a "non-PDF-compatible .ait template"
when Save as Template writes it. aiVersion: "7" takes precedence over
pdfCompatible: false, as it does when the file is written.
- The error for encoding a version 7 .ai of several artboards as one
file names the legacy .ai.
- The note for a native option the file does not read (version,
preview, precision) names the same kind of file.
- The error for aiVersion: "7" on a .ait template no longer says that a
.ait template is always PDF-compatible, since Save as Template writes
one without PDF content. It now reads "aiVersion 7 writes legacy .ai
files, not .ait templates", with its rows in the message catalogs
updated.
A PDF-compatible file keeps its name.
Follow-up to #5301. flavour_types (and clipboard.flavours) still listed PNG for art too large to render at the smallest scale, and the omission was only logged. PNG eligibility is now shared, and flavours_with_warnings returns a warning the status bar shows.
Follow-up to #5305. Stripping passwords from remembered settings made the next export of a password-protected PDF row write an unencrypted file without a word. The stripped settings now keep a non-secret passwordRequired flag, and an export refuses them until a password is given again (or security without the flag is given).
Follow-up to #5303. When deduplication shortens a thread ([[a, b], [b, c]] -> [[a, b], [c]]) and no frame changed, the fast path dropped [c] without clearing its threaded continuation. A thread that lost a listing now counts as changed and is flowed again.
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>
Per review on #5327: Preferences › File Handling › Edit Original With (an app
path and Choose…) becomes the checkbox Use System Defaults for Edit Original,
on by default. Off, Edit Original opens a raster image in the app that made
it, PhotoCraft, looked for only where it installs; any other file, or no
PhotoCraft, goes to the system's default app. The preference is a boolean, so
prefs.set over control or MCP can no longer name an executable. The label has
a row in all 26 catalogs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Preferences › File Handling › Edit Original With picks the app Links
panel › Edit Original opens a linked file in: System Default (as before),
PhotoCraft (found in /Applications or ~/Applications on macOS, on the
PATH elsewhere) or Other Application, with a path field and Choose….
The desktop host's new `open_file_with` service starts only an
application (an .app bundle on macOS, an .exe on Windows, an executable
file elsewhere), with the path as its only argument and never through a
shell. Edit Original still refuses control requests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
With one Objects on Path group of two or more objects selected, the
Selection and Objects on Path tools show a square Space widget beyond the
last object, ahead along the path. Dragging it moves the last object
along the path, around its bends, as far as the pointer moves along it,
and the objects between follow evenly while the first one stays. With
Alt (Option on macOS) the objects spread from both ends toward or away
from the center of an open path, or of the first anchor of a closed one.
The distance between the objects shows next to the pointer in the
document's units; the drag is one undo step, and Escape cancels it.
- object.objectsOnPath.options takes spacing (points, or "auto", the
default even spread) and start (points from the first anchor). A
spacing the path has no room for is drawn smaller and kept, so a
longer path brings it back. Older files read as Auto.
- Moving the group, Pivot, Rotate, path edits, copies and saving keep
the Space. Scaling, rotating or shearing the group keeps the first
and last objects where the transform takes them on the new path, live
shapes included; a value that cannot be kept that way scales with the
path's length.
- The Rotate All widget follows the first object when Space moves it.
Behavior: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/arrange-objects/rearrange-and-edit-objects-on-a-path.html
and https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/objects-on-path.html.
Character Style Options and New Character Style get a Character Color
section and an OpenType Features section.
Character Color sets the fill and stroke (None or a document swatch;
a global swatch or a tint of one stays linked, with a Tint from 0% to
100%), the stroke Weight, and Overprint Fill and Overprint Stroke. A
gradient or pattern paint the style already has stays until another
paint is chosen.
OpenType Features sets Figure, Position, Standard and Discretionary
Ligatures, Contextual, Stylistic and Titling Alternates, Swash,
Ordinals, Fractions and Stylistic Sets 1 to 20. A changed control
replaces only its own tags in the style's feature list, so other tags
stay, and Default Figure and Default Position are stored as their
features turned off, distinct from unset.
Empty controls stay unset, and each section's Reset Panel clears only
its own attributes.
charStyle.new, charStyle.edit and charStyle.setAttrs check a changed
fill, stroke, stroke weight or feature list: tints from 0 to 1, links
to global swatches of the document (the color follows the swatch),
weights from 0 to 4000000, and known feature tags, at most 256. Values
the style or the text it is made from already has are kept.
charStyle.duplicate keeps the copied style's values in the same way, so
a style with a language tag that is not in the list can be duplicated.
Editing a global swatch now also updates the fill and stroke stored in
character styles, so their text no longer shows as overriding the style
and text styled later takes the new color. swatch.unused counts a swatch
a character style links to as used.
A stroke color given without strokeWidth left characters at weight 0, so
nothing was drawn. As paint.setStroke does, a painted stroke now gives a
run with no weight 1 pt, for the characters and for the label styles a
graph keeps; an explicit strokeWidth still sets the weight.
text.setStyle takes stroke (a color or "none") and strokeWidth (the character
stroke's weight in document points, as stroke.set gives it), with keepModel
for both colors. They apply to all the text or to the start..end range, and
to graph label styles, in the same undo step as the command's other keys.
A stroke key was ignored before.
A successful Export for Screens stored its params in the document's
export settings, which native saves write, PDF security passwords
included, although the PDF settings themselves are saved without them.
Saved export presets kept them in the preferences the same way. Both now
drop openPassword and permissionsPassword wherever they appear in the
settings, keeping the other security choices.
The overlap grouping swept left to right comparing each object's bounds
with every box still open at its left edge, so many objects sharing a
horizontal extent (stacked in a column) cost a comparison per pair
before any of the flattener's geometry limits applied, and the grouping
could not be cancelled.
Open boxes are now kept in a tree by their tops that knows the lowest
bottom below each branch, so each box meets only the open boxes it
overlaps; an open box inside a later box of its group, ending no further
right, is closed early. The grouping checks for cancellation as it goes.
Groups are unchanged: a test compares them with every-pair grouping.
Copy scaled its PNG down to fit 4096 pixels a side but never below 0.01
pixels a point, so art over 409,600 pt across produced a PNG far past
that side, up to the general raster export limit of a gigabyte of
pixels, on an ordinary copy. Such art now gets no PNG flavour.
Reflow copied each listed frame's text into its thread's story, so a
document that listed one frame several times in a thread, or in several
threads, repeated that text in the story and wrote the grown story back
for the next thread to copy again, growing the text with every
repetition while the document opened. Reflow now keeps each frame at its
first place in the thread list only.
