Linked images and placed documents in the art of the stored brushes (a
scatter or art brush's art, a pattern brush's tiles) are listed in the
Links panel after the other stored art, one row per linked or placed
object in each brush tile, with the brush as owner
(`{kind: brush, name, index, tile?}`). Check Links, the missing and
modified files reported on open, the link watch, Find in Folder, Relink
(including Relink All Instances), Update, Embed, Placement Options, Link
Info and Go To act on them, and their tooltip names the brush.
- vectorcraft-doc: `Document::mounted_art` holds art kept outside the
document's trees while a command looks it up by id; the stored-art
lookups, link visitors and `art_roots` include it, and
`number_mounted_art` gives its objects ids of their own.
- vectorcraft-brush: `stored_art::StoredArt` mounts the art of the
brushes that hold images or placed documents and writes back only the
entries whose art changed. Entries that do not read as a brush are left
as stored. `brush::store` keeps ids of their own in that art, so a row
keeps its id between commands.
- vectorcraft-engine: the links commands, opening a document, saving a
placed document's source, output of linked files and placed documents,
color masks after Update or Relink, and Package relinking go through
the mounted art.
Brush art rows follow the general Links rule as VectorCraft's own
application of it.
Object › Plug-ins › Image Tools gains Color Mask… (`addon.image.colorMask`),
Remove Color Mask and Apply Color Mask. Color Mask hides colors of the
selected images without changing their pixels. It matches colors as Remove
Background does: the edge color, the corner color or picked colors, with
Contiguous, Match, Tolerance and Softness. The mask is kept with the image
object and saved with the document: its settings, and a PNG of the image's
pixels with the hidden colors made clear, at the source's depth with its
color profile and resolution. It is a VectorCraft addition.
- The canvas (clip groups and white-shape opacity masks included),
printing and separations, PDF (soft masks of CMYK images included), SVG,
EPS, the raster formats, the legacy .ai and .ai editing data, EMF/WMF,
DXF and the flattener draw the masked pixels. A linked image stays
linked, and an output that would refer to its file writes the masked
pixels instead.
- Copy and paste, placing a document and placed documents carry the masked
pixels with the image, under the names they are given there.
- The dialog opens on the selected image's mask settings, with a Preview.
Without settings, the command returns them and changes nothing.
- Setting, removing and applying a mask are each one undo step, and no
step is added when nothing changes. Apply makes the masked pixels the
image's own and embeds a linked image. A mask that hides nothing is only
taken off, and the image keeps its pixels and its link.
- When an image's own pixels are replaced (Update Link, Relink, Crop
Image, a recolor, a linked file read again on open), its mask is made
again for the new pixels, in every art tree and in opacity-mask art.
Crop Image cuts the image's own pixels. When the new pixels can't be
masked, the mask keeps its settings and hides nothing.
- Objects in `ids` that are not images, CMYK images, linked images that
show their preview, images past the decode allowance, masks that would
hide every pixel, and grayscale images colorized with a process color
are refused. The Eyedropper, Object Mosaic, Create Gradient Mesh, Crop
Image's trim and Image Trace read the image's own pixels.
- An image is selected by a click anywhere in its frame, as before.
Remove Background now also refuses a grayscale image colorized with a
process color. Its result has an alpha channel, and a process color is
refused on a grayscale image with transparency.
Docs: docs/mcp.md (Image Tools add-on › Color Mask),
docs/target-app-parity.md.
CodeRabbit findings #58, #75, #82, #113, #159, #175, #187:
- Live evaluation (expansion, envelope mapping and everything inside) makes at most 4M
objects (`MAX_GENERATED`); deep expansion counts what each live object makes, and envelope
image pieces count before they are cut.
- Clipping runs copy at most 8M clip path elements together; past it runs are plain groups.
- Exports read at most 256 placed documents; the rest show their previews.
- Graph design and marker budgets count opacity-mask art (`Node::count_with_masks`).
- Native files read at most 32M anchors (4M on wasm) of paths; the web build allows 1 GiB of
entries after the JSON.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- copied_file: check the read policy on the real path when it is
valid UTF-8; skip non-UTF-8 paths while automation roots are
active instead of checking a lossy name (path traversal via
symlink, CodeRabbit #3872 thread 1).
- full_bytes_cached: collect matching cache candidates under the
FULL lock, then run the read checks after releasing it, so
filesystem walks no longer stall other FULL users (thread 2).
File › Place with Link kept a link only to raster images and VectorCraft
documents. A PDF, .ai or .ait page was always embedded as a group, so
Update Links never saw a newer version of the file.
A new preference, File Handling › Link Placed PDF and .ai Files
(linkPlacedPdf), is off by default. With it on, Link places the page as
a placed document, as it places a VectorCraft document: the object
keeps the file's bytes, a preview, the page number and the page's box
(crop, art, trim, bleed or media, stored as page_box). Links check,
update and relink it, Break Link and Object › Expand give the group
placing it without Link gives, every output draws the page's vectors,
and saving and reopening keep the link. With the preference off, or
with a password or textAs: "outlines", the page is embedded as before.
EPS and PostScript .ai files are still embedded.
Package copies a placed PDF or .ai file as it is. The Place dialog's
Link tooltip describes a PDF or .ai file as a document while the
preference is on. Relinking a placed document to a file that is not a
VectorCraft document, a PDF or a PDF-compatible .ai file says so.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
document.setup accepts a superscript and subscript size of 1 to 500%
and a position of -500 to 500%, and a small caps size of 1 to 200%.
text.setFormat copies these proportions into the characters it
formats. A .vectorcraft file's characters, character styles and graph
label styles opened with the proportions they held. With a superscript
size of 0, the superscript characters were not drawn, and with a
superscript or small caps size of 1.797e308, moving the type failed
with "result would exceed the canvas".
These proportions are now read as the nearer end of each range when a
file opens: in the type of the layers, symbols, graph designs, patterns
and the pattern definition that Cancel puts back in pattern editing
mode, in graph label styles and in character styles. Proportions in
range and the other character attributes open as saved.
Docs: docs/mcp.md (Small Caps, Superscript and Subscript).
Rarely set fields move into one optional boxed NodeExtras, and large NodeKind payloads (images,
live shapes, blends, envelopes) are boxed. Every object, and every undo step that copies it,
shrinks: a 50k-path move keeps ~24.5 MB per step instead of ~40 MB. Files stay byte-identical
(Node keeps its flat JSON through a borrowed Serialize and a from-wire Deserialize, no flatten),
and loading is slightly faster. Undo and redo reuse their step's size estimate instead of
walking the document again (8.3 -> 5.6 ms for a 50k-path move).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VmMmc1J8XeNLxhRihWv9cc
# Conflicts:
# crates/engine/src/cmd/graph.rs
# crates/svg/src/export.rs
Graph designs are named art a graph draws in place of its default
marks. Marker designs follow
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/visualize-data/apply-marker-designs-to-graphs.html
and the Graph Design dialog
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/visualize-data/reuse-graph-designs.html
- graph.design saves the selected art as a named design (Save Design),
pastes a copy of a design into the document, selected, to edit and
save again (Paste Design), and deletes one; graphs drawing a deleted
design go back to their default marks.
- graph.marker draws the data points and legend swatches of the series
picked with Group Selection (or listed, or every series) with a
design: its backmost object is scaled to fill the default marker's
square, strokes, effects and pattern tiles scaling with it. Line,
scatter and radar series; null goes back to the default square.
- Object › Graph › Design… and Marker… open dialogs listing the
document's designs.
Own choices, as the pages don't say: the backmost object's bounds, not
only a rectangle's, set the size (a single object uses its own bounds);
Delete Design manages the list; a design keeps its own paint, so
painting a series doesn't recolour it.
Designs are stored in a new `graphDesigns` list and series designs in
`seriesMarkers`, written only when present. A graph saved as a design is
kept as the plain art it draws. A design holds at most 2,000 objects, a
document 1,000 designs, and a graph whose designs would draw more than
200,000 objects draws default squares; a file's designs are tidied the
same way on open. Global swatch edits, image relinking and placed
documents see design art like symbol art. Graphs without marker designs
draw the same art as before.