The task bar offered no Type on a Path item for a selected type on a
path: of the type actions, it showed only Create Outlines. It now also
offers Type on a Path Options, which opens the same dialog as Type ›
Type on a Path › Type on a Path Options, with the selected type's
effect, alignment and spacing filled in. Point and area type keep
their Convert To Area Type and Convert To Point Type buttons.
Select > Same > Font Family, Font Family & Style, Font Family, Style & Size,
Font Size and the text fill and stroke color commands took the type to match
from the first type found among the selected objects. Type that is hidden or
locked inside a selected group, type on a template layer and type outside the
isolated group could set the reference. They now take it from the type that
Link Block Series starts from, in the same selection order. A selection whose
only type cannot be selected returns "select a text object".
Window > New Window was grayed out. It now opens another view of the
current document, with its own zoom, center, rotation, artboard and
Outline or Preview, as a tab of its own. While a document has more than
one view, each tab shows the view's number after the name
("Untitled-1:2"). An edit in one view shows in every view of the
document.
Tile, Cascade, Float in Window, Float All in Windows and Consolidate All
Windows arrange each view as they arrange a document, and Tile and
Cascade are enabled with two views of one document. A new view of a view
in a floating window opens in a floating window too. File > Close and a
tab's close button close the view; the document's last view closes the
document, asking to save it first. Next Document and Previous Document
step through the views in tab order.
Each Tile pane and floating window draws its view in its own Outline or
Preview, and switching views with the Artboard tool targets the artboard
the view shows. A switch to another view of the current document resets
the tool, as a switch to another document does (Session::reset_tool).
Artwork held over another view's tab during a drag switches to that
view, and a drop there moves it.
Fixes#4116
A path made of straight segments and circular arcs (a slot, a D shape,
a rounded rectangle, a pie) was written as one SPLINE, or as a flattened
polyline in R12. It is now one polyline whose vertices carry a bulge
(group 42) for each arc: an LWPOLYLINE in R14 and later, a POLYLINE with
VERTEX entities in R12 and R13, closed when the path is closed. Each run
of cubics on one circle becomes one arc. A path with any other curve
stays a SPLINE, and whole circles, arcs and ellipses keep their CIRCLE,
ARC and ELLIPSE entities.
- The circle test's tolerance is 5e-4 of the smaller of the radius and
the curve's extent, so a shallow curve that is not circular is no
longer written as an ARC.
- The drawing extents take each ARC's and each bulge's furthest points.
Part of #1299
A projection now counts as invertible when its determinant, or its
adjugate's determinant, is more than 1e-15 times the largest of the six
products that determinant sums. The adjugate of the adjugate is the map
times a number, so the inverse of a projection that inverts also inverts,
is stored and reads back. The adjugate's cofactors are formed with exact
products, so the inverse of that inverse gives back the original map up
to scale, within 1e-6 of each row's largest entry, and a map whose third
row is the sum of its first two is still refused.
Homography::conjugated and Node::transform_projection judged the affine
map by an absolute determinant of 1e-15, so a scale by 1e-8 left type and
symbol instances in perspective with their old projection. Both now use
Homography::affine_is_invertible, which compares the determinant with
the two products it sums at any scale of the map. An affine map whose
determinant or inverse is not finite, such as a scale by 1e200 or
1e-200, is inverted through Homography::inverse. When the direct product
underflows to a map that is not invertible, as for a projection stored
at a subnormal scale, conjugated forms it again with its powers of two
kept apart.
- crates/geom/src/projective.rs: the_inverse_of_an_invertible_map_is_invertible,
conjugating_does_not_depend_on_the_scale_of_the_affine,
conjugating_a_map_at_a_tiny_scale_gives_an_invertible_map
- crates/doc/src/node/tests.rs: a_projection_follows_the_transform_or_is_removed
covers an invertible scale by 1e-8 and a singular map at that size
docs/mcp.md (dataset.import) and docs/gaps.md (Recolor Artwork ›
Assign, Average & Join) quoted sentences from the reference app's help
pages. Each quote is replaced by a plain statement of the behavior, and
each help-page link stays as the source.
A double-click on the top ruler adds a vertical guide at the pointer's x, one on the left ruler a horizontal guide at its y, through guide.add (one undo step, shown even with guides hidden, an artboard guide with the Artboard tool as a drag from a ruler makes one).
An SVG's root <title> and a PDF's XMP dc:title (else Info Title) title the imported document; a file that gives none, or only the Untitled-N name, takes its file name without the extension. Native files and documents restored from editing data keep their own title.
A folder source's stem is picked once the file is open, so the files a
save or export writes for each artboard count, as they do for data sets.
With the destination folder the same as the source folder, saving
a.vectorcraft with separateArtboards wrote a-Artboard-1.vectorcraft over
the source file of that name; a.vectorcraft is now saved as a-2.
With Preview on, the selected type on a path follows Effect, Flip, Align
to Path and Spacing while the dialog is open. Cancel puts it back with no
history step; OK keeps the previewed values as one undo step. Preview
starts off. The public pages list no Preview for this dialog, so this is
a VectorCraft choice, recorded as such in the parity docs.
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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.
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Per CodeRabbit on #5327: on Windows Edit Original looked for photocraft.exe
only on the PATH, but PhotoCraft's MSI installs it to ArtCraft\PhotoCraft
under %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs (per user, the default) or Program Files (for
everyone), neither on the PATH. Look first at the path the installer
registers under App Paths (HKCU, then HKLM; `reg query`, as i18n reads the
locale, which also covers a folder chosen in setup), then those two default
folders, then the PATH. Each candidate must still be an .exe.
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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.
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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.
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A compound path was assembled from its members in every frame it was
drawn, and Node::stroke_path grew its buffer by doubling, copying the
path into ever larger buffers for a compound path of many anchors. The
renderer's geometry cache was swept only once it held more than 1,024
entries, so while an object was dragged (a new node, and layer, in
every frame) the old copies stayed alive with all their members.
Now:
- a compound path is drawn from the path the renderer keeps for it in
its geometry cache, as a plain path already was, and is assembled
only when the node changes;
- Node::stroke_path sizes a compound path's buffer up front from its
members' segment counts (the same elements, in the same order);
- unused geometry entries are dropped after a few frames however few
entries there are.
Tests:
- crates/render/src/tests/memory.rs: the second frame draws the kept
path and the same pixels as the first and as a new renderer; after a
five-frame move the renderer no longer holds the compound path drawn
before it. The test fails without the renderer change.
- crates/doc/src/node/tests.rs: a compound path's path is its members'
paths in order (open, closed, empty and single-anchor members).
Not timed; vectorcraft-cli perf was not rerun.
Every click and hover measured each path and compound path along its
curves to cull it (Node::reach_bounds_with), and a compound path was
then assembled whole to test its outline and fill. For a compound path
of thousands of members that took milliseconds per click.
Hit testing now culls paths and compound paths by the box of their
control points (which holds the curves), grown by their strokes' reach,
so the box is never smaller than the reach box it replaces. A compound
path's outline and fill are tested against only the members whose
control box, grown by the tolerance, holds the point: a member outside
that box is farther than the tolerance and winds zero times round the
point. Painted strokes still follow the whole compound path (alignment,
dashes, width profiles) and are measured along all of it, as before.
Tests (crates/doc/src/hit/tests.rs):
- a 2,000-member compound path hits exactly as the whole-path test did,
at random points, on and next to anchors and on the edges of the
members' boxes, for both fill rules, in Outline view and with Object
Selection by Path Only;
- wide strokes painting past the control points are still hit, for a
path and a compound path;
- the cull box holds the reach box for paths and compound paths.
Measured in a debug test build (one run, machine not idle): a click on
a 20,000-member compound path went from about 18 ms to about 1 ms.
vectorcraft-cli perf was not rerun.
Apply wheel steps over the closed family fields in Character, Properties and Control, preserving event order and one undo step per effective notch. Document the supported controls and the application choices. Fixes#5253.
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.
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