The History panel gets a New Document from State button at its bottom,
which runs the new edit.newDocumentFromState command. The command makes
a new document holding the art of a History panel row ({index?}, the
current state when omitted) and makes it the active document. An index
that names no state is an error and changes nothing.
The new document takes the next Untitled-N name, is marked unsaved, has
nothing selected, no steps to undo or redo and no modified date, and
leaves symbol, opacity-mask and pattern editing; the art drawn in a
pattern's tile is stored in the pattern, as Done stores it. Its links point at the files the
source finds, including files found in the source's folder away from the
links' paths. Those files are looked for only within the folders the
asking caller may read; for a caller without limits, within the folders
the caller that opened the source may read. The source
document, its steps and its saved state stay as they are; typing or a
drag in progress is first kept as a step, as Undo keeps it. While an IME
composes, the command waits, as Undo does.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The mesh tests now count each feedback path's subpaths, so a mesh that
drew its boundary instead of its mesh lines fails them. The progress-doc
lines name the Pathfinder, mesh and symbol instance outlines and the
limit's count of evaluated objects.
With Real-time Drawing and Editing off, each pointer move of a drag ran one
boolean union of a group's members to draw its outline. A group of 256
overlapping ellipses took seconds per move, and at 1,024 overlapping ellipses
the union went over its budget and no outline showed.
A move or handle drag now draws the outline of each visible member of a group
or intertwine, and of each object a blend, envelope, repeat, Pathfinder effect
or object effect evaluates to, without uniting them. A gradient mesh draws its
mesh lines and a symbol instance its bounds, as their selection highlights do.
The limit of 100,000 counts outline points and evaluated objects, so a
selection past it shows its moved bounds.
A compound shape or Pathfinder effect still evaluates its boolean on each move,
and so does a clip group whose clipping path is a group.
The Appearance commands do not store a stroke paint or weight for a series
that draws a Filled Lines band, but they do store a stroke opacity set on the
band, and the band's 0.25 pt black outline takes it when the graph is drawn
again. docs/mcp.md now says so, and a test covers it.
paint.setFill, paint.setStroke, paint.none, Apply Fill to Stroke and Apply
Stroke to Fill stored a series' paint on the graph. appearance.setItem, the
Eyedropper, appearance.transfer, Clear Appearance, Reduce to Basic Appearance
and the add, remove, move and duplicate row commands stored no paint or weight.
An Eyedropper pick of a blue fill at 40% onto a red column drew red at 40%
after the next redraw.
These commands and Show All Hidden Attributes now store the paint and weight
of the topmost visible fill and stroke of a path directly in a series group,
in the same undo step. A color, weight or opacity that a command writes to that
row replaces the stored value even when the mark's own value does not change. A
row that has no paint before and after the command does not change the stored
paint. These commands store no stroke for a series that draws Filled Lines
bands, and a band no longer takes its color from an empty stored stroke.
The stored opacity also comes from the topmost visible row: hiding a top row
stores the row under it, and an opacity set on a hidden top row is not stored.
Follows #5501.
Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts gains Export Text..., which saves the set shown
in the dialog, as edited so far, as a UTF-8 text file the user names in a
save dialog with a .txt filter. shortcuts.exportText {path?} does the same
for the current set over MCP and the control channel.
The file holds a "Keyboard Shortcuts" line and the set's name, then a
Tools and a Menu Commands section with the rows the dialog lists, in its
order and named as it shows them: the name, a tab and the shortcuts as the
dialog shows them on the current platform. A row with no shortcut ends
after the tab. A path that is not a string, or a file that cannot be
written, returns an error and nothing is written.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Choosing a PDF/X standard without a PDF/X preset writes a file with no bleed
(BleedBox = TrimBox) even when Document Setup sets one, and the export gave no
warning about it. The export now warns when a PDF/X file has no bleed on a side
where the document's bleed has one. The warning comes ahead of the flattening
note, because the status bar shows only the first warning. The code adds a
warning and does not change what is written.
These cases do not warn: the PDF/X presets, Use document bleed settings, a
nonzero bleed on every side the document sets, a document with no bleed, files
that aren't PDF/X files, and Export for Screens rows whose artboards Include
Bleed grows.
The warning has a row in every catalog. The Summary's warning and error rows in
the Save PDF and Print dialogs now go through the catalog, so they show its
translations.
Opening a document laid out every type object for its bounds and
baselines and threw the layouts away, and the first frame laid the same
objects out again. The open now keeps them, up to 128 MiB, and a frame
takes each one once.
A frame takes a layout only for a text object equal to the one laid out,
and only while the fonts, the system fallback setting and the hyphenation
exceptions are unchanged. When the last frame being drawn ends, the rest
are dropped if a frame took one, and all of them are dropped after eight
frames that take none. A layout with bitmap or color glyphs and a text
object with a gradient are not kept.
The progress doc listed the moved-path stroke outline reuse twice, once
with the timings first measured and once with the timings measured
against current main. The line with the earlier timings is removed.
The gradient swatches menu, the Image Trace button's list of presets, the
Appearance panel's swatch picker and the top level of the Add New Effect
popup (Appearance panel, Properties) had no length limit, so rows past the
bottom of a short window could not be reached. Each now uses menu_scroll.
Items, order and commands do not change, and a list that fits does not
scroll.
A tool group's flyout and the All Tools drawer draw in the main window,
so a floating panel's OS window covered them. On the desktop, except on
Wayland, floating panels now hide while either one is open, as they do
for a menu or a dialog, and show again when it closes. A flyout or
drawer left set under a hidden toolbar does not draw and does not hide
them.
A paste relinked every copy to the document's resources even when no
resource had another name or color and the objects linked no graphic
style. It now leaves those copies as they are.
Finding the pasted type looked each id up and compared every text object
with the ones already found. Text commands and the bounds refresh after
a paste now look all ids up in one walk and keep the found ids in a set.
Giving a pasted group new ids builds its map of old to new ids only for
an Objects on Path group, which is the only kind that reads it.
A pasted solid paint with no swatch link and a tint other than 1 now
keeps that tint when no relinking runs. Saved art carries a tint of 1 on
such a paint.
The Artboards panel menu asks whether Delete Empty Artboards can run on
every frame while it is open, and each ask measured the document. With
an open path of 200,000 anchors across two artboards, that took 70.4 ms
a frame in a release build.
The answer is now kept per open document with the version of the
document it was measured on, and is measured again when the document
changes. A later frame takes under 0.001 ms. The first frame after an
edit measures once. A change of the selection or the view keeps the
answer.
The main window's menu floor was stored once for the whole egui context,
so a menu in a panel's OS window stopped at the main window's bottom bars
instead of its own edge. The floor is now kept per window, and a window
with no recorded floor uses its bottom edge. A menu list is also never
taller than the window, so the last items of a menu stay reachable in a
100 pt window, below the 120 pt minimum.
The Digits, Stylistic Sets, Save Selection and Move to Group submenus,
the libraries menu, the Color Guide's Limit to Library menu and the Layers
panel's Filter popup now scroll the same way.
Object > Expand left a dimension's recipe on its group, so the next move
redrew the live dimension and discarded the expanded art. Expand now ends
the live link of a dimension whose art it changes, in the same undo step.
Moving or scaling the group leaves its art as it is, the art no longer
follows what it measured, and undo gives the live dimension back.
Expand Appearance, Create Outlines and Outline Stroke had the same fault
and now do the same, also when they reach only a part of a dimension. A
dimension whose art a command leaves as it was stays live. A dimension
selected with the art it measures becomes a plain group when Expand,
Expand Appearance or Outline Stroke replaces only that art.
The fill read apart from a clipping path that was read on %_ lines, and
the copies of its subpaths, are recorded as read on those lines too, so
the copy of a look's art that is removed takes them along. The file
format notes list a compound clipping path whose subpaths paint
differently among the exceptions to a clipping path keeping its fill.
Each layer a multi-layer mask covers gets a copy of the mask's path, so
a fill kept on that path painted in every layer, over the art the mask
covers in the layers before. The mask's fill is read as a path of its
own again, where the mask's path is, and the copies have no fill. A
fill read apart from a compound clipping path is a compound path whose
subpaths do not clip and have ids of their own. A fill read apart, its
subpaths and their points count toward the importer's object limit.
Docs: docs/file-format-parity.md.
The reader took the fill off a clipping path in a file's editing data and
added a copy of the path, holding only that fill, under the art it clips.
A clipping path paints its own fill under the clipped art and its stroke
over it, so the reader now keeps the fill on the clipping path. A filled
clipping path opens as one path instead of two, in a clipping group, a
clipping layer and each level of nested clipping paths. Its note, tags and
gradient stroke (`1 BB`) are on that path as before.
A compound clipping path whose subpaths all paint alike keeps their fill.
When its subpaths paint differently, the fills of the filled subpaths are
still a compound path of their own under the clipped art, so a subpath
the file does not fill stays unfilled. Clipping paths in a compound path
that holds its drawn look still have their fills read as paths of their
own under the art, each with its clipping path's opacity mask.
Docs: docs/file-format-parity.md.
A click put the caret among the six digits and the text box holds seven
characters, so only the first character of a pasted code went in. The
field then held no new color, and Enter closed the dialog with the old
color. A press on a field drawn before the hex field also dropped what
was typed, while Tab and Enter applied it.
The hex fields of the Color Picker, Swatch Options, Recolor Artwork, the
Color panel, Document Setup, Duotone, Color Themes and Perspective Grid
now share one set of rules:
- A click or keyboard focus selects the digits.
- A code of six digits, with or without #, replaces the digits wherever
the caret is.
- A code of three digits also replaces them, unless the paste holds only
those digits and exactly three digits stay. Those digits then edit the
text in place.
- A paste of only one, two, four or five digits edits the text in place
when it does not cover all of the text and the result has at most six
digits.
- Any other paste leaves the field as it was.
- A press elsewhere commits the text in the frame of the press.
- A commit returns the digits without # and writes a three-digit code out
as six, so Duotone reads a typed # and Perspective Grid, whose parser
reads six digits only, takes a three-digit code.
Part of #5013
The file-format entry states the 20,000-name limit across brush art and per section, the first-definition rule, and that colors past the limit still count toward the color mode.
The reader kept a brush's art but dropped the colors it read from it, so
a spot color that only a Scatter or Art brush's art used made no swatch,
and the art's process colors did not count toward the document's color
mode.
The reader now keeps each brush art section's colors with its art. When
the document is finished, the colors of the art that a kept brush uses
are added after the rest of the file's, in the order the art was read:
its spot colors make swatches and its colors count toward the color
mode. Art that no kept brush uses (a pattern brush's tiles, a section
that a later one of the same name replaced, a section inside a symbol's
definition) brings none of its colors, and a spot color that the page's
art, a pattern or a symbol also defines keeps the value defined there.
Part of #637.
The spacing fitted from a type-on-a-path layout measured each turn against
the glyph's own foot. Skew's feet stay upright, so on a tilted or leftward
path the turn picked up a false angle and the fitted spacing was wrong (a
straight path at 30 degrees gave -9.7 instead of 0). Effects other than
Rainbow and 3D Ribbon now measure the turn against the baseline turned a
right angle.
The file-format doc states that a frame whose options set key 6 to true
keeps the default effect, alignment and Flip.
Type on a path from a file's text document opened as Rainbow on its
baseline, not flipped, whatever Type on a Path Options the frame kept.
Each frame now keeps its effect (Rainbow, Skew, 3D Ribbon, Stair Step,
Gravity), Align to Path (Ascender, Descender, Center, Baseline) and Flip.
A code or flag that can't be read leaves that option at its default.
Flipped type opens with the frame's path reversed once, after a copied
object takes its own art path, and an open path's end bracket stays so
the type starts where the file's range ends.
Spacing is still fitted from the file's layout. The fit now measures along
the path when Align to Path moves the baselines off it, and it follows the
glyphs' feet under 3D Ribbon, whose baselines stay level.
The curve fitter split a piece over the tolerance at its worst point and
accepted any piece at depth 41 whatever its error. A worst point near the
end of a piece peels off a few points, so a long path refitted nearly all
of its points at every level. A serpentine of 200,000 anchors kept pieces
with a fitted error of up to about 1,598 pt at a tolerance of 1 pt.
Simplify also took at most 256 samples per segment, so the lines between
the samples on a long arc could be farther from it than the tolerance.
- `fit_rec` moves a split that is near an end of its piece to two fifths
of the piece from that end, so the depth is logarithmic, and it keeps no
piece over the tolerance. A piece of 32 points or more is first fitted
to about 16 of them, and it is split when that fit is over the tolerance.
- A curve is also rejected when it is over the tolerance from the lines
between the points it fits, with samples close enough that it stays
within 1% of the tolerance of the chord between them. A pair of points
that would need more than 1,024 samples counts as too far.
- `join_pieces` joins neighboring pieces when one curve fits them, up to
33 pieces per curve.
- `sample_steps` takes enough samples of a curved segment to keep it within
0.5% of the tolerance of the lines between them. A segment that would
need more than 65,536 samples stays as it is, and so does a segment
after a run's first 16,777,216 samples or 2,097,152 result segments. With
Convert to Straight Lines such a segment becomes evenly spaced lines, up
to 65,536. A fit holds at most 1,048,576 samples, so a longer run is
fitted in parts.
- Simplify fits at 98% of the tolerance, since turning a nearly straight
curve into a line moves it by up to 1.5%.
- Above slider level 0, Object > Path > Smooth fits a whole closed path
with no corner along one direction across its start, when no segment
stays as it is and the path is fitted as one part. A direct-selected
section does not get this. The start can still have a kink: a first or
last fitted curve that is nearly straight becomes a line, which leaves
along its chord, and a refit with more anchors than the path is
discarded, so the path stays as it is.
A closed subpath that refits to one curve is still dropped, as on main, so
it can end up farther than the tolerance from the result. docs/mcp.md
states this.
The anchors of every simplified path can differ from before, and so can
the results of the Pencil, Blob Brush and Smooth, which use the same fit.
Session::execute ran check_params only in the engine's own tests, so a
direct execute in a release build ran a misspelled key with the
command's default. It now checks every call, the commands a command runs
included, as MCP and the control port already did. A command.batch or
an action.batch is checked before its first step runs, and each step is
checked again as it runs, so an effect.setParams step is checked
against the effects the steps before it added.
Saved steps play through Session::replay, which takes keys a command no
longer reads, so an action recorded by an older version still plays and
Session::replay still plays an older journal. The Actions panel's Play
(Accelerated, Step by Step and Pause For, its function keys and
ui.action.play) and the Batch dialog use it.
Docs: the cmd/params.rs module doc, the Parameter keys section of
docs/mcp.md and a line in docs/target-app-parity.md describe both
paths.
About > Contributors still showed an old snapshot, because nothing
regenerated contributors/contributors.json before a release. Opt in to
the shared refresh from craft-common-actions: a read-only credits job
regenerates the snapshot for the release commit, and the shared release
workflow installs it before every source build. The snapshot is not
committed back.
request, execute, commands and screenshot move onto the shared crate (storytold/craft-libs#413): a timeout on every call, the screenshot's PNG also in data, and docInspect and uiInspect beside them. A call the page gave up on gives up its request if the app has not started it, so the app skips it. openFile, captureDownloads, files, readFile and inspect stay VectorCraft's own, on the same object.
The legacy reader skipped `TV`, `Tv`, `Ty` and `TY` of section 15.3.4 of
the version 7 file format specification, so type set with `1 TV` opened
horizontal.
- `TV` sets a text object's writing direction. VectorCraft keeps one
direction for each text object, the one in force at its first
character, with a warning when a later character has another.
- `Ty` marks a Kumi block as a Tate-chu-yoko run, which is VectorCraft's
own mapping, and `TY` does the same in horizontal type. A `TY` block in
vertical type opens unmarked. Two blocks with nothing between them open
as one block.
- `Tv` sets Standard Vertical Roman Alignment.
All four are modal, and an operand other than 0 or 1 leaves the value as
it was.
Docs: docs/file-format-parity.md.
After Select All in threaded text, the Tabs panel's indent markers read
the indents of the edited frame alone. When another frame's paragraphs
had a different left indent, a marker drag changed them by the edited
frame's values, or left them alone. The markers now take every
paragraph of every frame in the story, so each paragraph keeps its own
left indent or first-line position.
The Justification dialog kept the frames of the story from the moment
it opened. OK now acts on the frames in the edited frame's thread when
it is pressed, so a frame that left the thread while the dialog was
open is not changed, and a frame that joined it is.
After Select All in threaded text, the panels read the frames from the
list saved at Select All. A frame that had left the thread still took
Paragraph, Tabs, Justification and Text Styles changes, a frame added
later did not, and when the first saved frame had left, Character,
OpenType and font changes went to that frame alone.
text_story now reads the frames of the edited frame's thread from the
document. Locked and hidden frames stay in the story.
Q restores the painting state but not the transparency (Xy): the writer
sets Xy only when the next object's state differs from the last one it
wrote. Restored at Q, type after a clipping group following a Screen glow
drew in Screen and nearly vanished on a light background.
A blend whose spine was never edited has only its keys in the editing
data, no spine part. Its spine is the straight lines between the keys'
centres in the record's order; read as such, the blend comes in live
instead of as its drawn steps.
Illustrator 24 writes its symbol definitions ahead of %AI9_BeginArtStyles,
so a styled object inside a symbol found no style and came in as its drawn
look. The pre-pass that finds swatch names now also keeps the first
top-level art styles section, which the reader parses before the art.
prefs.set did not check the folder given as recoveryFolder or pluginsFolder,
beyond the automation roots check, so a control or MCP caller could save a
folder that does not exist, a file, or a folder the app cannot use. Only the
Preferences dialog checked the folder itself.
The dialog's folder checks move to the engine, and prefs.set runs them after the
automation roots check. A folder that fails returns the same error the dialog
shows, and no preference changes. An empty value, an omitted value and a folder
the preference already holds are not checked. The Wasm build skips the check, as
the dialog did. The dialog's OK now gets the check from prefs.set, and Choose…
calls the moved check directly.
The check tested one box per source segment for every candidate hole or
island. It now searches a tree of the segments' bounding boxes, built once
when the first contour is checked. The answer for each contour is the same,
so the output paths do not change. MAX_OFFSET_SEGMENT_PAIRS does not change.
With the Artboard tool, the canvas context menu lists the entries of the
public Use the artboard context menu page in its order, in place of the
entries for objects and the view. Lock Artboards and Unlock Artboards are
two submenus. An entry that cannot run is left out, and Undo and Redo stay
dimmed. A right-click on an artboard that is not selected selects it alone
first, and the menu measures the art for Delete Empty Artboards and Fit to
Artwork Bounds once, at the right-click.
Cut, Copy, Duplicate Artboards, Rename, Delete Artboards, Lock Selected,
Unlock Selected, Fit to Artwork Bounds, Switch Orientation and Export act on
the artboards the tool has selected, else the active one. docs/mcp.md lists
what the other entries act on.
- artboard.rename renames in one undo step and numbers several names. The
menu's Rename opens a dialog that runs it, and the Artboards panel's name
field runs it too.
- artboard.switchOrientation swaps width and height and keeps the top-left
corner, skipping square and locked artboards.
- artboard.selectAll chooses the tool and selects every artboard.
- edit.paste takes artboardsAt, and the menu's Paste centers copied
artboards on the right-click's point.
- The menu's Cut and Copy run artboard.cut and artboard.copy. In the desktop
app those commands publish to the system clipboard, and the menu shows the
Cut and Copy shortcuts for them.
- artboard.fitToArt and the panel's name field record no undo step when
nothing changes.
artboard.duplicate, copy, cut, rename and switchOrientation take their
artboards from the tool's selection when a call names none. Each now records
them in the journal as selectedArtboards, which a replay reads and a recorded
action leaves out. The copy commands also record art. switchOrientation
records scaleArt, and it takes patterns and lockedAndHidden and records what
its artboard.setProps step resolved for them.
While the Artboard tool is in use, a command chosen from any menu or the
command palette moves the tool's selection as the Artboards panel does:
artboard.new makes the new artboard active, artboard.duplicate selects the
copies, and artboard.delete and artboard.deleteEmpty make a remaining
artboard active.
The fitter accepted a piece at depth 14, or with fewer than six points,
whatever its error, so a traced outline could stay farther than the
tolerance from its points. Synthetic 2 px block noise at Paths 100 and
Corners 0 kept a piece 2.7 px off at a tolerance of 0.1.
Such a piece is now accepted only when each point is within the tolerance
of the curve. Otherwise a short run is cut at its worst point, down to
two points, and a run at the depth limit is cut in the middle, which keeps
the recursion shallow. Every other piece is unchanged. Noisy art can get
more anchors.
a_traced_pixel_that_straightens_to_no_area_... now traces at Paths 80. At
Paths 90 that pixel's no-area result came from pieces over the tolerance.
save_file's note for a key in `options` that the written format doesn't
read named every .ai file a PDF-compatible .ai, also when the save wrote
a version 7 file (`aiVersion: "7"`) or one without PDF content
(`pdfCompatible: false`).
The save itself now writes that note, beside its note on a top-level
`compress`, `version`, `preview` or `precision`, and names the file it
writes, including when it reuses the options the document was last saved
with. save_file returns the save's reply unchanged, and
`run_command document.save` and the other save commands give the same
notes.
The reader put an opacity mask's art in a group every time, so a mask
made from one path came back from a saved .ai as a group holding the
path, while Make Opacity Mask keeps one object as the art. This also
changes how existing files with single-object masks open, because
the editing data of a .ai, an EPS and a PDF goes through this reader:
the art is the object.
A hidden object or a guide stays in a group, because the canvas draws
the art's root whether it is shown or not and whether guides show. A
clipping path alone stays a clipping group.
The editing copy writes a plain group of one object as a group (u, the
object, U), so it reads back as a group. Its other plain groups are
still written as their members. Hidden mask art is written shown,
because the canvas draws it and a group read back would not.
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