docs/gaps.md, docs/file-format-parity.md and docs/ui-parity.md still
listed the CNC preset as open after #5500 added it. They now name DXF
Options' Preset menu and dxfPreset: "cnc" on document.exportDxf; VCarve
QA stays open. The ui-parity row also no longer lists native CIRCLE/ARC
export as pending.
Convert To Point Type left Dynamic Text on when it turned Block area
type into point type. Point type has no Dynamic Text, but the flag was
saved, and converting the type back to area type turned Block on again
and fitted the lines to the new frame. The conversion now turns it off;
the point type keeps the sizes and leading Block wrote into the
characters, and the conversion is still one undo step.
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.
A new gradient kind, `diamond`, runs its stops from the center (the
start) out to a square with a corner at the end of the vector; the
aspect stretches the square across the vector into a rhombus. The
Gradient panel's Type row has a Diamond button, the Gradient tool draws
the square with the aspect handle and center ring, and a gradient
fitted to an object covers its box.
- Model and canvas: the level is |x| + |y| in the square's frame; a
square with no area (no vector, an aspect of 0, numbers out of range)
paints the last stop. The canvas draws it as pixels, out to a
stroke's miters, caps and arrowheads. Transforms keep the vector and
take the mapped size across it as the aspect.
- Commands: `paint.setFill`, `paint.editGradient` and
`paint.setGradientGeom` take `kind: "diamond"`; a negative aspect or
a focal point is an error. A conic or diamond gradient that a plug-in
returns with a focal point loses the focal point.
- Gradient tool: dragging the aspect handle of a radial or diamond
gradient whose file gave it a negative aspect now sets a positive
aspect; only a conic's negative aspect mirrors it.
- Export: PDF, SVG, EPS and legacy .ai write four linear gradients, one
for each quarter of the square, clipped to the shape (PDF as axial
shadings). PDF and SVG write an image for translucent stops, a
dithered fill or a flat square, and for the Perceptual method unless
PDF writes the stops as spot color shadings. SVG writes a diamond on
type characters as a radial gradient through the corners, and so
does CSS. A swatch library saved as CSS gets four corner layers, a
value for the `background` property (a circle when the swatch is
turned by an angle that is not a multiple of 90 degrees). The .ai
editing data holds a radial gradient through the corners. The
document exports give a warning.
- SVG export: a stroke drawn as an image, as conic wedges or as diamond
quarters now covers the miters, caps and arrowheads that reach past
its paint box.
- PDF import reads a function-based shading whose color is the same
along each square about the origin of its space as a diamond.
- Object > Expand gives nested squares or a mesh of rings.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
action.batch read its true/false options with a fallback, so
{"stopOnError": "false"} kept stopping on the first error, and a
number for a string option such as label or datasetFileNaming was
dropped or turned into an empty string. The source check also ran
after the destination folder was made.
includeSubdirs, overrideOpen, overrideSave, overrideExport and
stopOnError now take only true or false, and source, folder,
destination, destinationFolder, datasetFileNaming and label take only
a string. Any other value is an error naming the key, given before the
destination folder is made or a file is opened. A null reads as a key
left out. The params text and docs/mcp.md say so.
script_pump read vectorcraft_doc::cancel only after the guard that keeps
a run waiting, so a run asleep in $.sleep went on waiting until its wake
time (up to 1,000 ms), and a run waiting at a dialog or for approval to
grow waited until someone answered. The check now runs before that
guard, after the dialog-failure check, so a canceled request ends the
run at the next slice and every document goes back.
Direct and indirect eval, Function and host evaluators parsed and compiled
their source before taking any fuel or checking the heap, so a script with a
small fuel limit could make the interpreter parse megabytes of source in a
handful of instructions. Interp::prepare_source now takes one unit of fuel for
each UTF-16 code unit and checks that the source text fits in the heap before
the source is flattened, parsed or compiled. A host evaluator's string takes
the fuel for a third of its bytes before it is encoded, and the rest after.
Limits::fuel and the maxFuel row in docs/mcp.md say so.
A new built-in add-on, Image Tools (Object › Plug-ins › Image Tools),
adds Remove Background… (`addon.image.removeBackground`). It makes the
background of the selected images transparent by lowering the alpha of
their own pixels, in one undo step, with no service or model. The
background is the most common color along the image's edges, the
average of the image's corners, or colors the user picks. Contiguous
(on by default) clears it only where it reaches in from an edge; off,
it is cleared wherever it is. Tolerance and Softness (0 to 100, 10 by
default) set how near a color must be to be cleared and the band over
which pixels fade out. Match measures that nearness as the RGB
distance or as the largest difference on one channel. It is a
VectorCraft addition.
- The image stays an image: an embedded PNG with alpha, the source's
ICC profile and resolution, and 16 bits or gray when the source is.
A linked image is embedded and keeps its Placement Options.
- When the edges hold at least as many clear pixels as pixels of their
most common color, edge mode clears nothing, so a second run leaves
the subject alone. Corner mode leaves clear corners out of the
average and clears nothing when all four are clear.
- With Match set to Each Channel, a tolerance of t / 255 × 100 clears
the colors within t 8-bit steps on every channel.
- A CMYK image, a linked image that shows its preview, an image that
would need more than the decode allowance (checked from its header)
and a result with no pixel left are refused, and the document stays
as it was. When no pixel changes, no undo step is added. The result
reports `cleared`, the pixels made fully clear.
- Picked colors are hex colors, with or without `#`, or black, white,
red, green or blue.
- The dialog opens with Preview off; with Preview on, the canvas shows
the result, and Cancel puts the image back. While the dialog
previews, the session keeps the images' decoded pixels (at most
128 MiB, 32 MiB in the web app) so each preview step does not decode
them again, and releases them when the dialog closes with OK or
Cancel. A run that is not a preview step keeps nothing.
Docs: docs/mcp.md (Image Tools add-on), docs/target-app-parity.md.
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