Window > Brush Libraries > Bristle Brushes holds ten original bristle
brushes generated in code, one for each tip shape: Fine Liner, Pointed
Flat, Stubby Round, Dry Scrub, Soft Dome, Filbert, Angled Round, Angled
Flat, Fan Blender and Grass Fan. Their names and values are VectorCraft's
own, and every value lies inside the range the bristle brush keeps.
A test checks the ranges, that every tip shape is covered, that no name
matches a default brush or another library's brush, that adding the
library is one undo step and a second add adds nothing, and that a saved
library reopens with the same brushes. The library and brush names have
rows in every catalog. docs/mcp.md lists the library.
Window › Graphic Style Libraries › Textures, after Hand-Drawn, holds eight
styles that paint their fills and strokes with the texture effects: Fine
Grain (Grain), Canvas Weave and Burlap Sack (Texturizer), Cracked Glaze
(Craquelure), Mosaic Floor (Mosaic Tiles), Quilted Squares (Patchwork),
Leaded Glass (Stained Glass) and Damp Paper (Water Paper). The styles,
their names and their settings are VectorCraft's own.
Each catalog has rows for the library and style names. Docs: docs/mcp.md,
docs/gaps.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
A script whose first lines name an engine with `#targetengine name` (or
`//@targetengine name`) runs in that engine, and a later script that names
it sees the globals and functions earlier runs left, until the engine is
dropped or the session ends. A script without the line, and
`#targetengine main`, still get a new engine for each run.
- A session keeps at most 8 named engines, each with a 64 MiB heap. A run
that goes past the heap ends with the heap limit, and the engine stays
usable. Names are 1 to 64 bytes. The line comes once, in the script
itself, before its code and its #include lines.
- An uncaught error, a limit or script.stop puts the documents back and
keeps the globals the run set. An internal error drops the engine. A run
stopped at a dialog or left paused ends where it was before the engine
is kept. An error in a function an earlier run defined is reported
without a line and column.
- `vc`, `$`, `alert`, `confirm` and `prompt` are made once for each engine
and act for the run that calls them, including copies an earlier run kept
in a global. `vc.args` gives a read-only copy of the calling run's
`args`, and what a run sets on `$` lasts for that run only.
- `script.engines` lists the named engines with their heap, and
`script.engine.drop {name}` drops one. Scripts cannot run either.
- The engines stay on the thread that made them. A session used on
another thread starts there with no named engines, and the old ones are
dropped on their own thread.
- The web build has no named engines: a run that names one other than
`main` ends with an error before any of it runs.
- `Realm::end` ends a run where it is, `Realm::error_source` counts from
the realm's last script, and `HostItem::FrozenGetter` gives a frozen
value each time it is read.
- The script checker lists `#targetengine` as a supported directive.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md, docs/gaps.md.
Headless command_list exposes the desktop UI catalogue with ui: true, docs
clarify effect vs command ids, and prompts cover spelling, variables and path tools.
A merge left a second copy of the G9 `.ai`/EPS Missing bullet's opening inside the bullet. That copy says
writing the editing data is out of scope, while the same bullet and file-format-parity.md say a
PDF-compatible `.ai` carries an editing copy of the art. The bullet now has one copy, with the newer
brush wording that matches the 2026-11-05 entry above it.
File › Scripts now lists the .js and .jsx files of the Scripts folder next
to the preferences, each named after its file without the extension, with
each subfolder as a submenu, above Check Script… and Other Script…. The
help page describes this listing:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/install-and-run-scripts.html
Choosing a listed script runs it through script.run without the warning
Other Script… shows. script.listInstalled returns the same listing, and
ui.runInstalledScript {path} runs one entry.
VectorCraft's own rules: the folder is read off the UI thread when the
app starts, when its window becomes active and when the File menu of the
window's menu bar opens; only names are read; links, junctions, hidden
and system entries are left out and checked again before a run; one read
stops at 2,048 entries, 512 scripts, 128 subfolders, 4 levels or 250 ms
and the menu then notes that some scripts were not listed. Under an
automation read root, script.listInstalled and ui.menu.list leave out a
folder outside the root.
#1183 (LloydNicholson) also proposed a Scripts menu listing a folder.
Scripts write to a new Script Console with $.write(...values) and
$.writeln(...values), each value as String(value) gives it. vc.log
entries, a run's uncaught error as name:line:column: message, and a
start, end and report line for each run go there too. The report line
gives the run's time, host calls and slowest commands.
- The console keeps at most 2,048 lines and 1 MiB of text, dropping the
oldest and counting what it dropped. A line is cut at 4,096 bytes and
a script's name at 256 bytes, with a count of cut lines. Line feeds,
carriage returns and CRLF break lines; other control characters show
as Unicode Control Pictures.
- script.run's result and scriptReport gain runTimeMs, timingAvailable,
hostCallCounts, slowestCommands and the run's own console. A failed
run's report has them too.
- script.console and script.console.clear read and empty the console;
ui.copyScriptConsole {first?, last?} copies lines as the panel shows
them.
- The panel lays out only the rows in view, selects with click and
Shift-click, and has Clear, Copy Selected and Copy All. Output goes on
while it is closed, and Clear works during a run.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/gaps.md, docs/roadmap.md,
docs/target-app-parity.md.
A variable font's CoolTypeFont record in the text document now carries
/4 (its design vector, one 16.16 value per fvar axis) and /5 (its
version string), and the font set keys on name plus design vector, so a
named instance or a run's own axis setting no longer opens at the
font's default instance. Static fonts are unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move a stray table row and the PR #3273/#3272 revision notes into
Feature revisions, keep one "Feature evidence last updated" line, drop the
duplicate Flyout update status line and fold eight reconciliation rows
into one per date. No score or estimate changes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The custom dictionary's words in a list, with an Entry field and Add, Delete
and Change, applied on Done, as the public Check and correct spelling page
describes it. The menu item moves from the Spelling submenu to the Edit menu,
where the page puts it.
A right-click on type has a Spelling submenu with Auto Spell Check, as the
public Check and correct spelling page describes. A submenu that holds only
toggles shows their check marks, even in the context menu.
File › Scripts › Other Script… picks a .js or .jsx file, shows a warning
that can be turned off in Preferences › General, and runs the script
against the open documents through the `vc` object. The new
`script.run` and `script.stop` commands run and stop a script over MCP.
- A run is one transaction. Each document it changed gets one undo step
named Run Script. An uncaught error, a limit or a stop puts every
document, the paint, the clipboard, menu state and preferences back.
- A command that fails inside a run, or whose result is too large to
reach the script, is undone and throws an error the script can catch.
- Files a command wrote stay on disk and the report names them, also
when the run is stopped from the quit question.
- While a script runs, other commands that change anything fail with a
busy error; MCP reports it as JSON-RPC error -32003.
- In the app the run advances one slice per frame with a Stop button in
the status bar. A run that adds a great many objects asks whether to
continue; Stop and Escape end it.
- Commands that change state outside the documents, such as prefs.*,
plugin.* and file.place.queue, are refused to scripts.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/gaps.md, docs/roadmap.md,
docs/target-app-parity.md.
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