An image's own fill or stroke with Outline Object now follows the outline of
the image's pixels that are at least 50% opaque, traced from the alpha and
fitted with curves, instead of the image's frame. An image without
transparency, one whose pixels can't be read, one of more than 64 megapixels
or whose decoded pixels take more than 256 MB, and one whose outline would
need more than 100,000 anchor points keep the frame. An image with no pixel
at least half opaque gives nothing to paint. Images of more than 4 megapixels
are traced from their alpha averaged down to 4 megapixels, and an averaged
pixel that covers a pixel at least half opaque stays at least half opaque, so
thin opaque lines stay in the outline. Each outline is traced once for its
pixels, kept for the next redraw while those pixels are loaded, and dropped
after them; a second thread that needs the same outline waits for the trace.
- vectorcraft-trace: `decode_alpha` reads an image's alpha, and
`opaque_outline` traces it as Black and White mode at threshold 128.
- vectorcraft-effects: the reshaped image art uses it for rows whose first
effect is Outline Object; Convert to Shape rows keep the frame.
- Docs: docs/mcp.md, the Outline Object params text and an evidence line in
docs/target-app-parity.md. docs/mcp.md also says that Use Preview Bounds
takes in the shapes an image's fills and strokes paint.
A selected image offers Remove Background in the Contextual Task Bar, Properties'
Quick Actions and the Control bar, as the reference app does. A click runs it at
once with its defaults, as one undo step; Object > Plug-ins > Image Tools keeps
the dialog with Preview.
Pinning a closed replaced spine opens it with a copy of its first point
at its end, so a two-point ring became three points and Delete Spine
Point could leave a spine of two points in one place. The two-point
check now counts the points left that are apart.
Pinning a closed spine from Replace Spine (a spine edit, Reverse Spine)
stored it closed with both end keys on its first point, so moving the
first key afterwards landed it on the last. Pinning now opens the spine
there as the layout of a moved key does.
A function an earlier run of a named engine defined was reported without
a line, column or file when it threw in a later run. The realm now gives
each source a tag that stays the same from run to run (Realm::error_tag,
Realm::script_tag), and no two sources share one once the tags run out.
Each named engine keeps the source maps of its runs' scripts, included
files and $.evalFile files, within 8 MiB, dropping the oldest first, and
an error in kept code is reported at that file, line and column. The
report's name and the console line keep the calling run's name. For an
earlier script given as source, file is that run's name.
Docs: docs/mcp.md (Script engines), script.run params text,
docs/target-app-parity.md.
The 3D and Materials row of docs/target-app-parity.md names Revolve
(Classic) with its options and surfaces among what ships, and its
evidence names the tests that cover it.
Vertical type lays its lines out in line space and turns them a quarter turn
into text space. Convert To Area Type built the frame from line-space line
edges mixed with text-space bounds, so vertical point type moved (a 12 pt line
at (295.44, 40) went to (320.8, 28)). Convert To Point Type placed the new
origin in line space, so vertical area type moved down its column.
Both conversions now work out the frame or origin in line space and map it
through the layout's line transform. Horizontal type is unchanged.
A tolerance outside 0.01 to 10 points, or one that is not finite, and a pen table of more than 255 colors are errors instead of being clamped or cut short. document.export already refuses both.
text.tabs.set takes a list of more than 256 stops when every paragraph it
targets already holds at least that many, so a paragraph loaded with more
stops can lose them one at a time (the Tabs panel's Delete Tab). Any
other list of more than 256 stops is still refused, counted as supplied
before stops at one position merge.
Docs: docs/mcp.md.
With 256 stops, a click on an empty part of the Tabs panel's ruler adds
no stop and shows "at most 256 tab stops" in the status bar; the stops
and the selection stay as they were. Repeat Tab adds copies only up to
256 stops and shows the same message when it stops early. Before, both
built a longer list that text.tabs.set refused, so nothing changed and
no message showed.
When a dynamic symbol is redefined or edited, each instance kept every
appearance change whose path still named an object, even when that
object is now one that draws no fill or stroke of its own (an image, a
blend, a mesh) or a symbol instance given a gradient or pattern fill.
symbol.instance.setAppearance refuses such a paint, but the change stayed
on the instance and still counted as a color the document uses.
Fitting the changes to the new art now also clears a fill or stroke the
object at that path does not draw, and drops a change left empty.
On a closed spine from Replace Spine both end keys sit on its first
point, so moving one moved that point onto it and then back onto the
other. Once a key is moved off, the spine is now opened at its first
point, with a copy of it at the end taking the closing segment and the
last key.
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