Under automation read roots, stroke.arrowheads.list gives `file` as
null for an arrowheads file outside them and names it by its file name
in `error`. stroke.arrowheads.edit and stroke.arrowheads.reload refuse
such a file with the root-check error, naming it by its file name:
edit makes no folder or file and neither opens nor activates the file,
and reload does not read it. Inside the roots, edit opens the file
under the client's roots. The Stroke panel menu is not confined.
A right-click on a selection that holds a path (a path, a group of
paths, a compound path, or anchors selected with Direct Selection) lists
Smooth…, after Join and Average… and the anchor entries when those are
listed. It opens the slider that Object › Path › Smooth opens, which
previews the result until OK keeps it as one undo step. With nothing,
only type or a group of type selected, Smooth… is not listed.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
object.expand.info reported a gradient (and a fill) to expand for any
type whose characters have a gradient fill. Expand outlines type first,
and each outline then holds the run's gradient on its own box, so a
gradient that repeats or reflects in more than 256 runs across every
outline stays a gradient: the dialog enabled options that changed
nothing.
- The query now measures the paths type.createOutlines makes of the
glyphs, ruby glyphs and underline and strikethrough bars, each with
its run's paint, and reports a gradient when one of them expands. It
lays the text out only when a run has a gradient fill, stops at the
first outline that expands, and does not change the document. Type in
symbol art, blends and repeats goes through the same check.
- docs/mcp.md says when gradient is false; docs/target-app-parity.md
gets an evidence line.
The Gradient panel's Method menu gets two methods of VectorCraft's own
beside Classic and Perceptual. They mix a linear, radial, conic or
diamond gradient's colors around the hue wheel: hue, saturation and
brightness each change evenly from one stop to the next, and the hue
angle keeps one direction, as the fixed-direction rules of
https://www.w3.org/TR/css-color-4/#hue-interpolation do. Hue Clockwise
lowers the angle (red, magenta, blue), which is clockwise on the color
wheels, and Hue Counterclockwise raises it (red, yellow, green).
Two stops whose hues are less than half a color level apart count as
one hue and keep it, so a color and a tint or shade of it do not turn
the whole wheel. A stop whose RGB numbers are less than half a color
level apart is gray and takes the hue of the stop it mixes with, and
black takes that stop's saturation too.
- `paint.editGradient` and `paint.setFill` take `method: hue-clockwise`
or `hue-counterclockwise`, in any case, with a space or an underscore
for the hyphen or without it; other spellings are an error. The native
file writes `HueClockwise` and `HueCounterclockwise`.
- The canvas and raster exports draw the gradient through stops on its
curve, within half a color level.
- Reverse turns the method the other way with the stops, and a Reflect
spread is repeated from the curve's stops, so both keep the colors.
- SVG and PDF write the gradient as an RGB image, CMYK and spot color
stops included, with the spot warning. EPS writes a shading in process
colors with a warning for spot stops. A legacy .ai file and the .ai
editing data get the colors between the stops as stops of their own,
in process colors, at most 256, with a warning. CSS gets those stops
too.
- The `method` error names the four values, in every catalog.
- The Method menu is as wide as its longest name in the interface
language, within the panel.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/plugins.md, docs/target-app-parity.md, ROADMAP.
An app that does not send the image back wrote the window capture to
vectorcraft-window-<pid>.png directly in the system's temporary folder.
On a shared Unix temporary folder another user could put a link at
that name, and the app would then overwrite the file it points to. A
failed read also left the file behind.
The capture now goes to window.png in a new folder made for it inside
the temporary folder (owner-only on Unix; a name that is taken is
skipped). The folder is removed after the read, also when the app or
the read fails.
PDF export without a PDF/X or PDF/A standard writes pages longer than
200 in at full size in points instead of with a UserUnit scale.
longPagesInPoints is now on by default in PdfSettings, the built-in
presets and the Save PDF dialog. Turning it off writes such a page with a
UserUnit from PDF 1.6 on, as before. PDF/A-2b files keep the UserUnit,
and .ai saves keep it unless longPagesInPoints: true is passed.
Docs: params text, docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
With one Objects on Path group selected and an object chosen with its
Select/Move widget, Detach in the Properties panel's Objects on Path
Options section takes that object out of the group
(`object.objectsOnPath.detach {member?}`). The object goes just above
the group in the Layers panel, stays where it is drawn and is selected
alone. The other objects move up the path in their order: Auto Space
spreads them evenly again, and a Space value and the start are kept.
The group and its path stay with one object or none left. Hidden or
locked objects and groups are refused, and Detach is one undo step.
When the group is itself on another group's path, the object goes
above the outer group so it does not join that path.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md. Detach and its undo name
have rows in every catalog, and the new message in the complete-message
catalogs.
The profiles Edit > Assign Profile gives a document stayed the active
color settings after another document came to the front, so a new,
opened or switched-to document drew and converted its colors through the
previous document's profile, and closing the last document left it in
use.
The session now puts the front document's profiles in use (the working
spaces where it has none, or no document is open) after a new or opened
document, a tab switch, a close, File > Revert, every command including
each batch step and Undo or Redo of Assign Profile, a failed batch or
plug-in call, a script's rollback and slice boundaries, a canceled
preview, undo group or undo scope, and for each document Export All Open
and the update of placed documents work in. The active settings are
rebuilt, and the documents redrawn, only when they change.
document.export and document.serialize to .ai with useArtboards: false
wrote the one page of the visible art, but embedded the one-artboard
stand-in as the native document and as the editing copy for other apps.
Reopened, the file replaced the document's artboards with one artboard
around the art.
- The .ai of the art's bounds now leaves out both editing copies and
returns the warning "Preserve editing was left out: an .ai file of the
art's bounds would replace the document's artboards when reopened",
as the PDF of the art's bounds does.
- useArtboards: false with pdfCompatible: false is refused, with or
without editingData, since the file would have blank pages and no
editing copy.
- Save, Save As, Save a Copy and exports of the artboards keep both
copies. Legacy version 7 .ai files are written as before.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md, document.export params.
A graph draws its series groups again with no rows of their own, so a
fill, stroke, opacity or graphic style that a command put on a series
group was lost the next time the graph's data, type or size changed,
and the graph stored nothing. paint.setFill and paint.setStroke already
pass a series group's id on to the paths directly inside it.
- appearance.addFill, addStroke, setItem, removeItem, duplicateItem and
moveItem, graphicStyle.apply and transparency.set with a fill or
stroke item now edit the paths directly in a series group given by id
or picked with Group Selection, and the graph stores what they change.
A series group with no such path, or with a fill or stroke row of its
own, is still edited itself, and appearance.moveItem from "contents"
still moves the group's own Contents row.
- appearance.clear, appearance.reduceToBasic, appearance.showAllHidden
and graphicStyle.breakLink edit the group as well as its paths.
- graphicStyle.apply without add and appearance.transfer onto a series
group clear the group's own opacity, blend mode, isolation, knockout,
effects and style link, and graphicStyle.apply with add unlinks the
group. A transfer source that is one of the group's paths keeps its
look, and a source that is the group's only path is an error.
- graphicStyle.redefine passes the style to the paths of a linked series
group, other than the source and the linked paths whose look was
edited, and clears and unlinks the group.
- graphicStyle.new, graphicStyle.redefine and appearance.transfer read a
series group that holds no row, effect, opacity, blend mode,
isolation, knockout or style link of its own through the topmost path
directly in it, and a move clears each of those paths. A series group
that holds one of them is read itself, as before.
- The Graphic Styles panel reads the style link of such a selected
series group from that path.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md. Not yet: the Appearance
panel and appearance.setActiveItem still read the selected group's own
rows, and the effect commands and the paint, stroke and gradient
commands with an item still edit the group itself.
Follows #5501.
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