With one whole blend selected, the Selection and Blend tools show two
widgets at the halfway point of its spine. Dragging the upper widget
along the spine sets the color shift (-100 to 100), and dragging the
lower one sets the easing strength (0 to 100). The lower widget shows
only when the steps follow a spine (a replaced spine or Align to Path),
the rule the step placement uses; a blend made without a spine shows
neither. When the boxes of three or more other visible objects hold a
widget's spot, the widget moves out in 16 px steps, up to 144 px, and
its line to the halfway point grows with it. While a widget is held,
the arrow keys step its value by 1 (Shift: by 10), and Escape or a
switch to another tool cancels the drag. A drag is one undo step; a
click or a drag that ends where it started records none.
- object.blend.setEasing sets easingType, ramp and colorShift on one
blend, refuses a hidden or locked blend and easing on a blend without
a spine, and records no undo step when nothing changes.
- BlendSpec::eases_along_spine holds the rule the step placement and
the widget share.
- While a tool is busy, an arrow it claims arrives with the press's
Shift and Alt; before, it always arrived plain.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
After Replace Spine the keys are not pinned to spine anchors, so the
steps spread them evenly along the spine by arc length and put a moved
key straight back where it was. Once a key is moved off its place, the
spine is laid out pinned at the anchors where the keys were spread, and
the moved key takes its point of the spine along, as on a pinned spine.
Korean text broke after every Hangul syllable. A paragraph now has
Korean Line Break Anywhere, set from the Paragraph panel menu (with the
East Asian options), from the East Asian Composition Settings section of
Paragraph Style Options, and with `text.setFormat {koreanLineBreakAnywhere}`.
- Off, a word that contains Hangul (the characters between spaces) breaks
only at its spaces and after East Asian punctuation, or where the word
is wider than the line. Both composers follow it, and the word takes no
hyphen. On, a line may break between any two syllables, as before.
- New type has it off. Paragraphs and text objects saved before the
option read as on, so their lines do not move; the value is saved only
when it is off.
- Paragraph styles carry it, Reset Panel turns it off, and the .ai writer
reports it as lost for Korean paragraphs.
The help page: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/fonts-and-scripts/set-line-breaks-korean-text.html
The command is described in docs/mcp.md, and docs/target-app-parity.md
lists the option.
Paragraph Style Options and New Paragraph Style gain a Tabs section. It
lists the style's stops and edits the selected stop's Alignment, position
(X:, or Y: for vertical type), Leader and Align On character. Add puts a
left stop 36 pt past the furthest one, Delete Tab removes the selected
stop, and Clear All Tabs leaves the style with no stops. OK sorts the
stops by position and keeps the stop edited last when two share one
position. Reset Panel removes the style's tabs.
paraStyle.new, paraStyle.setAttrs and paraStyle.edit check changed tabs
stop by stop: at most 256 stops, and each changed stop's position from 0
to 100000 pt and leader of at most 8 characters. Stops the style already
has are kept as they are. Changed tabs are sorted by position, keeping
the first of stops at one position. text.tabs.set rejects a leader longer
than 8 characters, an Align On value of more than one character and more
than 256 stops. Loading paragraph styles skips a style whose indents,
spacing, hyphenation, justification or tabs are out of range.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The Stroke panel menu's Edit Arrowheads… (stroke.arrowheads.edit) opens
Arrowheads.vectorcraft next to the preferences, creating it with one
example head when it is missing. Each symbol in the file is one head,
listed by name after the built-in heads in both arrowhead menus: it
points right, its registration point is the tip, and its height is drawn
as wide as the built-in heads. The file is read at startup and again
each time VectorCraft saves it; stroke.arrowheads.reload and
stroke.arrowheads.list read and list it.
Arrowhead gets a Custom variant, appended after the built-in names, that
carries the head's name and outline, so a document that uses one draws,
saves, reopens and exports it without the arrowheads file. stroke.set
takes {"custom": name} or the {"Custom": {name, path}} form that
document.inspect reports.
Part of #5421.
The Blend panel gets a Create Spine menu (Auto, Always, Never) under Make,
and object.blend.createSpine {mode?} sets or reads it. It is kept with the
preferences, is not an undo step and leaves blends already made as they are.
object.blend.make takes createSpine to choose for one new blend.
Auto and Always give every new blend a straight spine, as before. Never
makes a blend without one: its steps sit where a straight spine puts them,
object.blend.info reports hasSpine: false, easing is refused and dimmed,
Reverse Spine and the spine point commands refuse it, Release gives back
no spine path, and Replace Spine gives it a spine. A blend taking more keys
keeps whether it has a spine. Native files save noSpine; older files open
with their spines.
Builds on #5177 by adambelis.
The Graphic Styles library menu lists nine libraries. Painted and
Sketched follows Hand-Drawn and holds Washed Blue, Bristle Ochre,
Pastel Heather, Charcoal Shade, Ink Contour, Wet Ink and Fine Pen. Each
style is a solid fill, two with a 1 pt stroke, under one watercolor,
dry brush, rough pastels, charcoal, ink outlines, sumi-e or graphic pen
effect with every setting given. The library and style names have rows
in all 27 catalogs, and docs/mcp.md describes the library.
Convert to Artboards found the highest artboard id twice for each object it
converted: once for the new artboard's name and once in
Document::next_artboard_id. Converting N objects read about N^2 artboards.
The command now keeps the highest id as it adds artboards, and
Document::next_artboard_id_above gives the next id from it. When an artboard
has id u32::MAX, it falls back to next_artboard_id, which takes the smallest
free id. The ids and names it gives are unchanged.
A new gradient kind, `diamond`, runs its stops from the center (the
start) out to a square with a corner at the end of the vector; the
aspect stretches the square across the vector into a rhombus. The
Gradient panel's Type row has a Diamond button, the Gradient tool draws
the square with the aspect handle and center ring, and a gradient
fitted to an object covers its box.
- Model and canvas: the level is |x| + |y| in the square's frame; a
square with no area (no vector, an aspect of 0, numbers out of range)
paints the last stop. The canvas draws it as pixels, out to a
stroke's miters, caps and arrowheads. Transforms keep the vector and
take the mapped size across it as the aspect.
- Commands: `paint.setFill`, `paint.editGradient` and
`paint.setGradientGeom` take `kind: "diamond"`; a negative aspect or
a focal point is an error. A conic or diamond gradient that a plug-in
returns with a focal point loses the focal point.
- Gradient tool: dragging the aspect handle of a radial or diamond
gradient whose file gave it a negative aspect now sets a positive
aspect; only a conic's negative aspect mirrors it.
- Export: PDF, SVG, EPS and legacy .ai write four linear gradients, one
for each quarter of the square, clipped to the shape (PDF as axial
shadings). PDF and SVG write an image for translucent stops, a
dithered fill or a flat square, and for the Perceptual method unless
PDF writes the stops as spot color shadings. SVG writes a diamond on
type characters as a radial gradient through the corners, and so
does CSS. A swatch library saved as CSS gets four corner layers, a
value for the `background` property (a circle when the swatch is
turned by an angle that is not a multiple of 90 degrees). The .ai
editing data holds a radial gradient through the corners. The
document exports give a warning.
- SVG export: a stroke drawn as an image, as conic wedges or as diamond
quarters now covers the miters, caps and arrowheads that reach past
its paint box.
- PDF import reads a function-based shading whose color is the same
along each square about the origin of its space as a diamond.
- Object > Expand gives nested squares or a mesh of rings.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Each of the fifteen Warp styles now bends the bounds as one Bézier patch.
The style sets the patch's control points from the bend and the size of
the bounds, the horizontal distortion scales each column of control
points about its middle, and the vertical distortion scales each row.
The Warp effects and warp envelopes share the map (`WarpNet`). Content
with no width or no height takes the middle of the patch along that
side.
A warp carries the map it draws with as `version`. New warps, the
built-in graphic styles' Warps and warps opened from .ai files get 1.
Warps in .vectorcraft documents saved before the version existed read
as 0 and keep the earlier map, so those documents keep their look.
Edits keep a warp's version, and Warp Options editing several objects
keeps each one's own. effect.apply, effect.setParams and the warp
envelope commands take `version` 0 or 1 (`1.0` counts as 1) and refuse
any other value. An .ai file holds a warp's settings and not its
version, so a version 0 warp saved to .ai opens again with version 1.
The .ai writer compares a style's settings without the version, so
saved warps still export as editable effects.
Docs: docs/mcp.md (Envelopes), docs/effects-parity.md (Warp),
docs/target-app-parity.md.
Clicks, the hover pointer and marquees with the selection tools already
leave out the area that raster effects paint beyond an object. New tests
in crates/engine/src/tests/select_effects.rs hold that in place for drop
shadows, Outer Glow and Gaussian Blur on paths, groups, point type,
symbol art and images, for Shift-click, Direct Selection, the hover
pointer, a drag from a selected object's shadow and a marquee. hit_leaf
gets a doc comment, and docs/target-app-parity.md gets a line citing
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/selecting-objects.html.
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.
Document Setup gains alignNewObjectsToPixelGrid. When it is on, every
path or compound path drawn in the document (shape tools, Pen,
Curvature, Pencil, Paintbrush, Blob Brush, grids, flares and add-on
shapes) gets the pixel-aligned property and snaps in the same undo
step. Text, paste, duplicate, Place and import are not affected.
- The Transform panel menu has an Align New Objects to Pixel Grid
item for the active document.
- New Document's Advanced Options has the checkbox; the Mobile and Web
presets turn it on, other presets and older saved presets leave it
off, and file.new, Save Preset and Recent keep it.
- The setting is saved with the document only when it is on.
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/get-started/learn-the-basics/pixel-preview-mode-for-web-graphics.html
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md, docs/ui-parity.md.
graphicStyle.apply and graphicStyle.redefine copied the style's whole
appearance into a new allocation for every target. Targets that take
the style's appearance as stored now share one copy-on-write handle; a
target whose placed gradients are fitted to its own bounds still gets
its own. Editing one object later gives it its own copy. Saved files
and undo values are unchanged.
The undo history's memory estimate counted a shared appearance once
per object; it now counts each appearance allocation once per side.
A fourth gradient kind, conic (also accepted as `angle` or `conical`),
sweeps the stops once around the center (the gradient's start),
clockwise on the page from the vector, with a seam where the last stop
meets the first. A negative aspect mirrors the sweep, and reflecting an
object turns its sweep the other way, also for a conic without a
vector or with a flat extent.
- Gradient panel: a Conic button in the Type row; the Aspect Ratio
field works for conic gradients and keeps a mirrored sweep mirrored.
- Gradient tool: the extent ellipse, aspect handle and center ring of a
radial gradient, without a focal point.
- Rendering, swatch chips, transforms, warps, plug-in round trips, and
Object > Expand into wedges or a mesh of columns around the center.
- Commands: a negative `aspect` is an error for linear and radial
gradients, and so is a `focal` point for a conic gradient.
- PDF export writes a function-based shading whose calculator function
turns the angle into the ramp, and PDF import reads a function-based
shading that turns around the origin of its space back as a conic
gradient, also when that origin lies outside the painted area. A
PDF/A file, or a conic with more than 97 stops, gets an image
instead.
- SVG export writes 360 solid wedges clipped to the shape for opaque
stops and an image otherwise, and a linear gradient on characters.
- CSS export writes `conic-gradient(from ...)`, with the stops mirrored
for a mirrored sweep.
- EPS and legacy .ai export write 360 solid wedges; the .ai editing data
holds a linear gradient along the vector with the same stops.
- .af files: conical gradients open as conic gradients.
- An export that writes the gradient in another form gives a warning.
Supersedes #2326 and includes switch87's code from it.
Co-authored-by: Gert Pellin <gert@pellin.be>
The word gap is now the Desired word spacing the layout uses for area type
with Block on (TextObject::layout_justification), with Minimum and Maximum
moved out to it when it lies outside them. The paragraphs keep their own
Justification values, so a wide gap no longer leaves a 1,000 % Maximum
behind, and turning Block off brings back the paragraph's own Desired
value. The SVG writer reads the same values.
- The Contextual Task Bar offers Dynamic Text for area type outside a
thread, beside Convert To Point Type.
- type.dynamicText with wordGap or lineGap and no area type in the
selection is an error instead of being ignored.
- Docs: docs/mcp.md, params text, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Type > Dynamic Text (type.dynamicText) now also works on area type as
Block. Each line as typed (each paragraph, and each forced line break in
one) is set to the frame's width, less the inset, the column gutters and
the paragraph's indents, by changing its font size only. Lines are not
broken again. The first character's size moves in 0.1 pt steps within
0.1 to 1,296 pt, and the line's other characters keep their proportions.
The sizes are written into the characters and fitted again after every
edit to the text or the frame, in the same undo step.
- Word Gap (0 to 1,000 % of a word space, default 100) sets every
paragraph's Desired word spacing; Line Gap (-1,296 to 1,296 pt,
default 0) is added to each character's size for its leading. Both are
VectorCraft's own ranges and defaults, saved in the area options only
when they differ from the defaults.
- Area Type Options gains a Block fit (text.areaOptions fit "block",
with wordGap and lineGap), and the Properties panel's Paragraph section
shows a Dynamic Text checkbox with Word Gap and Line Gap rows.
- Block replaces Auto Size and Shrink Text to Fit. Off keeps the sizes.
Threaded area type is refused, as for type on a path.
- Empty lines keep their size, a frame with no width changes nothing,
vertical type fits each line to the frame's height, and right-to-left
lines and list markers are fitted like other lines. A refit runs at
most four extra layouts.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
- A layer with a Pathfinder effect, or a Transform effect that copies its
art, keeps the ruler guides of its sublayers on the layer, hidden and
locked as their sublayers were, instead of losing them with the art.
- Opening a file counts the ruler guides of sublayers removed beyond the
canvas.
- Opening a file moves misplaced ruler guides above the art before the
canvas check, so a guide saved before a clipping path beyond the canvas
no longer makes other art the clipping path.
Follows #6632.
With Envelope Options > Distort Appearance on, VectorCraft turned the strokes
of type in an envelope into filled outlines and bent them with the art, so a
stroke got thinner where the grid squeezes the type and thicker where it
stretches it. The drawn art of users' .ai files keeps those strokes as stroked
paths at the type's own weights, and the ring they paint is as wide wherever
the grid squeezes or stretches the type. An envelope of stroked type in such a
grid therefore didn't draw as its drawn art and kept it instead of opening live.
Type's strokes (its characters' and those on its own appearance) now paint
along the bent glyph outlines at their own weight, with Distort Appearance on
or off, also in an envelope inside an envelope:
- doc: `map_node` maps the groups that hold type's glyph outlines with
`Hooks::type_appearance` in place of `Hooks::appearance`, for type in the
envelope's contents and for type that a live object in them (an inner
envelope) outlined (`Warper::type_outlines`). Such a group's opacity mask
is mapped with the ordinary hooks, so it bends as other art does. Groups
marked as type's outlines in the contents themselves (art an earlier Expand
made) stay plain art.
- effects: `bake_type_appearance`, `bake_appearance` with strokes kept as
strokes: geometry effects on type's fills and strokes still bake in and bend.
- doc: `max_outset` counts type's character strokes as type's own visual
bounds do (`char_stroke_outset`). It left them out, though they already
painted past an envelope's grid where the glyphs reach its edge; this also
grows the visual bounds of blends and repeats of stroked type and the reach
of symbol art holding it.
Paths' strokes, geometry effects, opacity masks, linear gradients and pattern
fills bend as before. The canvas, hit testing, effect bounds, Expand, every
export and the .ai save take the evaluation from the same hooks. Expand of an
envelope of stroked type gives the bent outlines with the strokes on them.
This changes how VectorCraft's own envelopes of stroked type draw.
Tests: envelope_distort::type_strokes_paint_at_their_own_weight_in_a_squeezed_envelope,
a_stroke_on_types_appearance_paints_at_its_own_weight_in_a_squeezed_envelope,
type_strokes_paint_at_their_own_weight_in_an_envelope_inside_an_envelope,
a_paths_stroke_still_bends_in_a_squeezed_envelope,
an_opacity_mask_on_type_bends_as_other_art,
the_visual_bounds_of_an_envelope_hold_its_types_strokes,
the_visual_bounds_of_a_repeat_of_stroked_type_grow_by_half_the_stroke,
expanding_an_envelope_of_stroked_type_keeps_the_stroke_at_its_weight,
bake::tests::type_pieces_bake_their_geometry_effects_and_keep_their_strokes and
tests_native::an_envelope_of_stroked_type_whose_drawn_art_strokes_the_bent_outlines_at_the_weight_opens_live.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
At the Type tool's caret, kerning goes on the character before the caret.
At the start of the text there is none, so Alt+arrows, the Kerning field
and Reset Tracking and Kerning did nothing; at a later paragraph's start
the kerning landed on the invisible line break.
CharStyle::kerning_before (kerningBefore) is the space before a character
that starts a line by itself: the first character of the text, of a
paragraph, or after a forced line break. Shaping gives its cluster the
space and draws it that much later along the line (right to left the
space is at its right; in vertical type it moves down the column). The
caret at such a line's start sets it (edit::caret_kerning_target), in
type.step, type.resetTracking and the Character panel; text.setRangeStyle
takes it. SVG export starts the line where the character is drawn. The
Eyedropper and character styles leave it alone.
Type › Dynamic Text (`type.dynamicText`, also on the Contextual Task Bar
for type on a path) scales the text by one factor so it fills the span
between its start and end brackets, and the layout fits it again after
each edit to the text, the path or a bracket. The first character's
size moves in 0.1 pt steps within 0.1 to 1,296 pt. Turning it off, or
threading the type, keeps the sizes it was drawn at.
- The model saves `dynamicText` only when on.
- SVG, the legacy .ai writer and the .ai editing data write the drawn
sizes through `vectorcraft_text::drawn`; the editing data warns that
the setting is not written.
- Shrink Text to Fit and Dynamic Text step the size the Character panel
shows when a size measures the cap height, x-height or ICF box.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/type-parity.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Part of #4134.
Ruler guides were a list kept beside the layers. Each guide is now an
object of its layer or sublayer, always directly in it and above the
layer's art. These behave as on main:
- Guides draw on screen only. Exports (SVG, PDF, PNG, PSD), Fit All,
Select All, the art bounds, clicks and marquees, and a layer's
Pathfinder and Transform effects leave them out. The Layers panel
lists them as guide rows of their layer, the highest guide.list
index first.
- Deleting a layer deletes its guides, and merging layers keeps their
guides in the merged layer.
- The guide commands number guides as guide.list does, in the order
they were made.
New: each guide takes an id from the document's object ids. An object
command given a guide's id fails with an error, and node.move cannot
put a guide into a group or out of its layers. A guide made while an
opacity mask, a symbol or a pattern is edited moves to the top
visible, unlocked layer when editing ends.
File format: native files still save the guides in the document's
guides list, in every file version, so older builds read them. Each
entry may now also carry the guide's id, name, locked and hidden
flags; older builds ignore those fields. Opening a file puts each
saved guide on its layer (on the top visible, unlocked layer when the
file names none or a layer it does not have), and each saved guide
counts against the object limit for opening a file. A ruler guide node
that a file holds below a layer's art moves up to the layer's guides,
and one anywhere else (in a group or another object, beside the
layers, or in a symbol) is removed. Ruler guides read from an .ai file
become guide objects on the layer they were on, numbered in the order
the file lists them.
`color_name` clamps each component before rounding, but `clamp` keeps a
-0.0, so a color with a -0.0 component was named "R=-0 G=128 B=-0" (and
"K=-0", "Gray K=-0" in CMYK and Gray). Adding 0.0 after rounding turns
it into 0, as the Lab branch already does.
BFlat