A layer expanded to its edges keeps the paths made into guides inside it, as it keeps its ruler
guides. A clipping group with Revolve and Rotate is cut for Revolve, the effect the canvas draws,
so its fills go in one piece and art with more fills than a 3D effect takes still expands.
File › Place with Link reads a DCS 1.0 or 2.0 file (an EPS file whose
header names one EPS program per printing plate) as one linked image of
its plates. Each spot plate adds a spot swatch in the CMYK values the
file gives, and the clipping path the file's composite is drawn through
clips the image. document.open, file.place without link or from bytes,
and links.embed refuse a DCS file and change nothing.
- The screen, composite print and exports show the plates mixed into
CMYK. Separations Preview and print separations show each plate on
its own ink; a spot plate prints as its CMYK values when spots print
as process.
- links.list answers the format DCS, and with dcsTransparency marks the
DCS images that are transparent or overlap transparent objects (the
Links panel menu's Show DCS Transparency Interactions).
- swatch.unused leaves out a spot swatch while a DCS image has a plate
of its ink.
- links.update and links.relink read the plates and the clipping path
again, and the link shows as modified when one of its plate files
changes or is gone.
- The plates go on the first plate's pixel grid, grown to hold every
plate where it prints; a plate of another size or position is
resampled onto it.
- A file may name 64 plates, a plate file may be 1 GB, and the plates
together may hold 512 MB of ink amounts. A file naming more plates is
an error.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md, docs/file-format-parity.md.
In a CID-keyed font whose CIDFont the file only names, a cshow procedure
now runs with the CIDFont as the current font, rootfont gives the
composite font, and the procedure gets each code's last byte. A show in
the CIDFont shows the character of that code, and any other string is a
rangecheck error. The current font is restored after each procedure.
A kshow procedure no longer leaves a font it sets current: the current
font is restored when the procedure completes, for every font, and a
kshow the procedure runs sees the font the procedure set.
In GBT-H and CNS2-H, whose mappings are not read, a byte that starts no
row-and-cell code is a code of its own.
docs/gaps.md dates this G9 work in a bullet of its own.
Under --automation-read-root, document.json names a linked image or
placed file in a stored brush's art outside the read roots by its file
name alone, as it does in the layers. A stored brush entry that does not
read as a brush is left out of the reply, and a stored brush library
that is not a list becomes an empty one. A link whose file is inside the
read roots loses its stored relative path when that path leads outside
them, from the folder of the file the document was read from or from the
document's own folder.
Under automation read roots, a reply's base64 `thumbnail` (a library
item's PNG in `library.get`, a page's PNG in `document.pdfInfo`) was
searched for hidden library paths like any other text, so a short path
that happened to occur in the encoded bytes was rewritten and the image
broke. `thumbnail` now joins `dataBase64`, `pngBase64` and
`thumbnailBase64` as encoded data that is left unchanged; text under it
that is not base64 is still searched.
With Size 0, Roughen moved no point but still replaced each segment
with its Detail's points joined by straight lines (Corner) or by a
smoothed curve through them (Smooth), so a curved path lost its shape.
At Size 0 each segment is now split at the Detail spacing into pieces
of equal length on the segment itself, with `pathtools::insert_at`: a
straight segment gets corner points without handles, and a curve gets
smooth points whose handles follow it. The path keeps its outline with
Smooth or Corner points alike. The params text of `distort.roughen`
describes size 0.
`insert_at` now counts the anchors added before each returned mark in
one pass. It counted them again for every split segment, which took
quadratic time on a path with many split segments. Its results are
unchanged.
Existing documents with a Roughen of Size 0 on a curved path, or with
Smooth points, draw differently.
This is VectorCraft's own rule. What Roughen does is described in
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/reshape-transform-objects/distort-and-transform-effects-in-illustrator.html
Under automation read roots, `ui.inspect` kept a folder preference whose
stored value was readable even when the trimmed path the app uses was
not: ` /outside/fonts` reads as a name in the working folder, while the
app uses `/outside/fonts`. A folder preference now stays only when both
forms are readable. A reply string is decoded for path matching only when
it holds a `%XX` escape, so a string such as `width="100%"` is no longer
decoded and thrown away. The library list line in the progress doc now
states when a hidden library's `loaded/<file name>` id moves.
docs/file-format-parity.md held 36 copies of the paragraph on the
editing copy of a file. #6202 and #6249 each added a combined copy
without removing the copies it replaced, so the count went from 34 to
35 and then to 36. The section now holds one copy: #6249's combined
copy, with the Align to Path distance clause that seven of the other
copies carry from #6247. Every other clause of the removed copies is in
the kept one, word for word or in the newer, longer form another copy
wrote. The older Align to Path clause, with its measurements for one
font at 24 pt, is removed because #6247's wording replaces it. The
paragraph now starts with a capital letter.
The summary table also repeated its "Formats opened or placed" and
"Formats saved (Save As)" rows. The older row of each is removed: the
one that still lists HEIC/HEIF as missing, and the one that lists fewer
contents of the editing copy that `.ai` saves write.
A Recent Colors chip in the Color or Swatches panel now starts a paint
drag. Dropped on the Swatches panel's list it becomes a swatch of its
color, in its color model, through swatch.new as one undo step: on a
color group or one of its swatches it joins that group, elsewhere it
joins the ungrouped swatches. A click on a chip still paints the
selected art, and a drag does not.
A paint Alt-dropped on Registration now becomes a new swatch instead of
ending in a "can't be edited" error from swatch.edit.
Each writer marks its notes as a loss (something of the document that the
file leaves out or that reaches it changed) or as a note on the options
(an option it didn't apply or applied another way while the art reaches
the file as it looks, or something an option turns off). The PDF, SVG,
EPS, legacy .ai, DXF and HP-GL writers return their notes on the options
in a list of their own (`setting_notes`) beside `warnings`, and the
engine's `Encoded` does the same.
The replies of the save and export commands, and of
`clipboard.exportPdf` and `clipboard.exportPng`, list the losses first,
each kind in the order the writers gave them, across every file that
Export for Screens writes. The status bar names the first note, so an
export to lossy WebP of type in a font that isn't installed now names the
fallback-font note instead of the lossy WebP note. A print to a file
keeps the order its notes are given in.
With a Shaper Group or one of its faces selected, a Shaper click within
3 screen pixels of one of the group's original shapes' outlines enters
Construction mode with that shape selected, also where the outline runs
through a merged face. shaper.select takes a tolerance in points
(default 3, at most 1000); hidden and locked shapes are skipped, and a
Shaper Group above the selected one still takes the click.
The text document reader never read a story's manual kerning, so type
kerned by hand in a .ai or EPS editing copy came in with automatic
kerning on every pair and drifted from the file's page from each kerned
pair on. Envelopes of such type drew apart from their drawn art and
kept it.
Key 8 of a story's text holds the kerning as runs of characters (key 1),
each with a value in thousandths of an em (key 0 of key 0) or empty
where the automatic kerning applies. Each character with a value now
takes it as its Kerning, the space after it, and the style runs split
where the value changes. A value that can't be read keeps the automatic
kerning, a run whose length can't be read ends the runs there, and past
65,536 runs the characters keep the automatic kerning.
- ate.rs: Story reads the runs (manual_kerning) and node() splits its
text runs at them (Kerns), with a unit test over values, style-run
boundaries, hostile values and the laid-out gap, and one that pins
the limit of runs.
- tests_native.rs: an imported story with kerned and automatic runs.
- docs/file-format-parity.md: status line, mapping line, revision row.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The new General preference Show Bounding Box While Moving and Drawing
(`boundingBoxWhileMovingAndDrawing`, off by default) keeps the bounding
box and its handles visible during two kinds of drag, with View › Show
Bounding Box on. While a drag moves the selection (a Selection tool
move, an Alt-drag copy, or a shape tool's move by the center point),
the box is drawn where the drag has moved the selection. The box is
measured once when the drag starts and offset by each step's move.
While the Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse, Polygon and Star tools
draw a shape, the box is drawn around the shape. A rotation and a
widget drag still hide the box until the release. The Line Segment
tool, the Pen, the Pencil and the Paintbrush draw no box.
With the preference off, the box hides during a move (#737, for #712)
and while a shape is drawn (#5839), as before. A Selection tool move
with Real-time Drawing off still moves the box with the pointer, and a
shape tool's move by the center point hides it in both modes.
With Real-time Drawing off, the box of a shape being drawn is measured
from the pending preview, in the color of the layer the shape goes on.
A shape being drawn shows no box until a preview step has succeeded,
so a failed preview does not show the box of the selection from before
the drag. The preference's label has a row in every catalog.
Session::deferred_move() is replaced by Session::move_drag_box(), which
returns the moved box, and Session::deferred_transform_box() now also
returns the layer color of the box.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
A blend between two strokes drawn with a pressure-sensitive brush gave
every step the pen recording of the nearer key, so the brush jumped at
the middle step. The steps now interpolate the pressure, tilt, bearing
and rotation at every position either key has a sample. A key without a
recording counts as half pressure, half tilt and 0 degrees, as brushes
read it. Angles turn the shorter way round, and steps and whole turns in
a recording stay in the steps. Different brushes still switch halfway.
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