Session::replace_document on a tab other than the current one cleared
the bounds of type set in a font named like a composite font and left
that type with estimated bounds until the document came to the front.
- The replacement's type without bounds is measured at once, in the
document's own composite fonts, lent for the measuring. The front
document stays the one whose composite fonts are registered.
- When the document then comes to the front unchanged, its type in its
own composite fonts is not measured again. Type set in a composite
font only another document defines is still measured again, as
missing, and so is type set in a composite font name that another
thread's loan held with a different definition.
addon.shapes.polygon and addon.shapes.star rounded a fractional side or
point count and clamped it to 3..1000, so 2.5, 2 or 5000 drew a shape
with a different count than asked for. addon.shapes.configure read
sides only as an unsigned integer, ignored a fraction and cut a large
value to 32 bits before clamping it, so 4294967299 gave a triangle.
The commands now refuse a supplied value outside its range with an
error that names the parameter and the range, and draw or change
nothing; an omitted or null value still takes its default:
- sides and points: a whole number from 3 to 1000
- rounded and randomized: -10 to 10; spokeRatio: 0.01 to 1
- turns: 0.01 to 1024; divergence: 0 to 1000; innerRadius: 0 to 0.999
- width, height, radius and radius1: 0 or more (a negative size was
made positive before, and a negative corner radius became 0)
- radius2: 0.01 to 1 times radius1 (the ratio was clamped before)
- radii: four numbers, each 0 or more (a malformed array was ignored)
- arcMode: whole, pie (slice), chord or arc (open); any other value
drew a whole shape before
addon.shapes.configure checks every value before it changes any of the
selected shapes, keeps fitting a corner radius to half each rectangle's
shorter side, and records no undo step when no shape changes.
Docs: docs/mcp.md (3D Box and shapes add-on), docs/target-app-parity.md.
A legacy .ai graph (%_Gs ... %_GS) opened as plain art, with its table,
type, axes and settings left out. A grouped column, stacked column, line
or area graph now keeps them on its group when every record has the
shape and values the version 7 specification's appendix A gives, the
table holds at least one number, the drawn art strokes the plot's left
and bottom edges, and each series group is tagged once as a whole
column, holds only paths and paints them with one fill and one stroke.
The saved art stays as it is on open; Graph Data redraws the graph from
its data afterward, with each series' fill and stroke kept.
Any other graph (pie and scatter graphs, designs, customizations, record
shapes of later versions, tables past 10,000 categories, 256 series or
2,600,000 cells) keeps its art as plain objects with the existing note.
Saving a graph to .ai, in either form, now warns that its data and
settings are not written.
A path directly in a graph series lost what these commands gave it when
the graph was drawn again, for example after graph.setData:
- While Global Edit is on in an isolated graph, a match that is a series
path, or a series group whose paths take the edit, now has what
changed on its paths stored for their series: the paint, weight,
opacity and blend mode of the topmost visible fill and stroke, and the
object's opacity and blend mode. The edited match is stored by its own
command as before.
- addon.arrange.randomizeOpacity and addon.arrange.sort with apply
"opacity" now store the object opacity, with the blend mode, of the
series paths whose opacity they change. When they change several
paths of one series, the frontmost of them sets what the graph
stores, as for the other commands.
The graph stores them in the same undo step as the edit. The params
text of addon.arrange.randomizeOpacity and addon.arrange.sort,
docs/mcp.md and docs/target-app-parity.md describe the new behavior.
The check after each edit that the selected objects stay within the
canvas measured the whole of every selected path. Moving one anchor of
a 10,000-anchor path measured all 9,999 segments. A path or compound
path whose anchors and handles are all finite and inside the canvas
range now passes without being measured, because its curves stay inside
their control points. A path with a point outside that range is still
measured, so the check accepts and refuses the same edits as before.
path.moveAnchor to the point the anchor is already at, and
path.setHandle to the point the handle is already at, now leave the
document as it is and record no undo step.
vectorcraft_geom::path::measured_segments counts the segments that
PathData::bounds measures, and the new engine tests use it.
The continuation cursor (a short rising line) shows over an open end of a
selected path before any press, freehand too, and while a continuing stroke
nears an open end of another selected path it connects to. The straight-line
cursor becomes a short level line. A stroke continuing a path, a straight line
too, shows the closing ring within Close Paths When Ends Are Within of the
path's other end, and the release closes it; path.freehand takes the tool's
closed for extend instead of its own four-Fidelity distance.
Dynamic Text, Dynamic Text Presets, Center on Top and Center on
Bottom, and Area Type Options with Block on checked each object for a
thread with its own search of the document's threads. A selection of
many objects in a document with many threads repeated that search for
each object, in the commands' enabled checks as well as when they ran.
The checks now build one lookup from frame to thread for the whole
selection. An object counts as threaded by the first thread that lists
it, as before, so the commands refuse the same frames, list them in the
same order and leave the document and the undo history as they were.
Select > Start Global Edit was enabled for any plain group, so a group
holding type, an image or nothing was offered in the Select menu and the
Properties panel's Quick Actions, the Control bar showed its Global Edit
Options, and starting then refused it. The enabled check now applies the
same support check as starting to every selected object, a group's
contents included.
The answer is kept per document revision and selected object, so the
Control bar, which asks every frame, walks a group once per change.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md (a new line; the existing
Global Edit line no longer says the menu item checks only for a group).
Delete Artboards, Delete Empty Artboards and Cut Artboard removed the
chosen artboards one at a time, walking every ruler guide and the layer
tree once per artboard. They now share one helper that removes the
artboards in one walk and their guides in one more, leaving the same
artboards, guides and selected guides as before.
Empty Artboards in Artwork Cleanup had its own copy of the one-pass
removal. It now calls the same helper, and its test reads that helper's
walk counter.
The help page says a wrap object's Offset may be positive or negative
(https://help.adobe.com/archive/en_US/illustrator/cs4/illustrator_cs4_help.pdf#page=307).
Text Wrap Options, the commands, the MCP tool and .ai import already
kept a negative value, but layout set it to 0.
- Layout keeps the signed offset, within -1000 to 1000 pt like the
commands and .ai import (a value that is not a number counts as 0).
- Around a wrap object, a negative offset shrinks the object by that
distance from each edge, holes included, so lines beside, above and
below it run that far into it. A shape narrower than twice the
distance no longer moves text aside. A line may get less room than
the exact shrunk shape leaves, for example where several edges come
close to one piece of the band, or where a band holds more than 64
anchor heights. It never gets less room than an offset of 0 leaves.
- With Invert Wrap, a negative offset keeps the text that far inside
the object.
- Zero and positive offsets up to 1000 pt lay out as before. A larger
positive offset lays out as 1000 pt.
- The params text of object.textWrap.make and object.textWrap.options
and the MCP text_wrap offset description give the range and what a
negative value does.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md.
With the Live Paint Bucket, a double-click on a face fills it and every
face reached across edges that are hidden or draw no stroke; a stroked
edge, a hidden face and a Gap Detection gap stop it. On an edge, a
double-click paints the edges joined to it end to end with the same
stroke paint. A triple-click fills every face of the group with the
clicked face's fill, or paints every edge with the clicked edge's
stroke. Shift and the Paint Fills and Paint Strokes options choose a
face or an edge as for a click; Alt held paints nothing.
- livePaint.fill and livePaint.strokeEdge take scope ("one", the
default, "connected" or "samePaint") and match, the paint compared,
and reply with count. A bad scope or match is an error, and scope
with a drag's points is refused.
- Each click of a double-click or triple-click paints as it arrives,
as its own undo step. For a triple-click, and for a double-click on
an edge, the tool sends as match the paint the face or edge had
before the first of those clicks, including a first click that makes
the Live Paint group from the selected paths. A double-click on a
face sends no match.
- PointerKind::TripleClick is new: the canvas sends it on egui's
triple-click unless a modal dialog is open, as for a double-click,
and ui.pointer and pointer_gesture take "tripleclick".
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/control-protocol.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
When a recovery copy could not be written, the status bar said only
"Couldn't save recovery data: <error>", and a copy that failed on the
background worker showed as "Saving recovery data for <title> failed:
<error>". Neither said which folder was in use or how to pick another.
The message keeps the error text (and the document's title when one
copy fails), then names the folder copies go to, says whether it is
the default recovery folder or the folder set in Preferences, and
names the setting that picks another folder: Preferences → File
Handling → Data Recovery → Folder (recoveryFolder). The recovery code
writes the same line to the log. The folder is the one in use when the
round started, so a preference changed while a copy runs does not
change the folder the message names.
A copy that fails now reports its own message, so the job's result is
Ok rather than an error, and the job no longer adds "<label> failed:
<error>" over it. A store the host installed (browser storage) has no
folder to name: its failed copy shows "Saving recovery data for
<title> failed: <error>", as a copy on the worker did before, also
when the copy was written without the worker.
- engine: recovery::folder returns the folder in use and whether the
recoveryFolder preference names it; recovery::store uses it.
- Four @msg rows in each complete-message catalog, and in the bg, bs,
da and id catalogs, which translate the old message.
- Control replies to a client confined to read roots show a recovery
folder outside them, and the paths under it, by the folder's name, as
they already show other paths outside the roots. That covers the
folder in use and the last eight folders a failure message named.
- docs/target-app-parity.md: a line next to the Data Recovery Folder
preference.
Object › Plug-ins › Cutting Tools › Banner Hems and Grommets…
(`addon.cutting.banner`) marks where a printed banner is hemmed and where
its grommets go. The banner is the bounds of the selected art, or each
artboard when nothing is selected. On each chosen side the command adds a
hem line a set depth inside the edge (1 in by default) and grommet marks a
set inset inside it (0.5 in): one at each end of the side and the rest
spread evenly, as few as keep them at most a set spacing apart (24 in). A
corner that two chosen sides share gets one grommet. Each grommet mark is a
circle (27 pt by default) with a cross through its center. The marks are
stroked in a chosen swatch ([Registration] by default) with no fill, in one
group named Banner Marks per banner on top of the current layer, selected,
as one undo step. While a clip group is edited in isolation, the group goes
outside the outermost clip group, as Weed Box and Lines does.
The command refuses every side off, no hem and no grommets, and bad params
with a message. It also refuses a hem or inset that reaches the far edge of
the banner when one of two opposite sides is chosen, or that meets the marks
of the opposite side when both are chosen, an inset of more than half a
chosen side's length, and more than 100000 grommets. The dialog has Preview.
The grommets' distance from the edge is `grommetInset`, so the dialog shows
it as Grommet Inset with its own catalog rows. The new Diameter catalog
rows also translate the Diameter field of the `shape.flare` command dialog,
which had no rows.
Docs: docs/mcp.md (Cutting Tools add-on), docs/target-app-parity.md and
ROADMAP.
object.setLiveShape was in params::UNCHECKED, so a key it does not read,
such as `path`, ran the command with the key ignored. Its description
names every key it reads, so it now goes through check_keys like other
commands, for MCP, scripts and command.batch steps. Each of `items` takes
`id` and `corners` alone; another key is refused as
`items[0].corner`, with the nearest accepted key. Saved steps still
replay leniently.
A `sides` that is not a whole number from 3 to 1000 (2.5, -1, 2, 1001)
and a negative `radius` are now errors naming the key, and leave the
document and its undo history as they were; a radius of 0 still
removes rounding. The Transform panel's Sides field takes 3 to 1000,
the Corners dialog's radius field stops at 0, and the panels' corner
radius fields send 0 for a negative value typed in.
Break Text checked every thread of the document for each selected type
object to skip threaded frames, and Remove Breaks searched every thread
for each selected object to find its story, so the work grew with the
number of selected objects times the number of threaded frames.
Both commands now index the document's threads once per command: Break
Text tests membership in that index, and Remove Breaks takes the story
from the indexed thread through threads::story_in, the second half of
story_of. Split Text at Cursor, which takes one object, checks it once
as before. The results are unchanged.
Tests: Break Text on two threaded frames and six point type objects
skips the frames unchanged, breaks the rest in place as one undo step
and goes through the threads once; Remove Breaks reads the selected
story as one text and the other objects on their own, going through
the threads once; Split Text at Cursor refuses a threaded frame.
Offset Path took each selected path in turn, so offsetting many paths, or a
group of many paths, used one CPU. It now reads the selected paths first,
works out their offsets on as many threads as the computer has logical CPUs
(one thread on the web and for a single path), and then makes the new
objects one after another in the selection's order on the editing thread.
The new objects, their ids, their stacking, the selection, the messages and
the undo step are the same as before. When several paths fail, the error is
the one for the first of them in the selection's order, and the paths after
a failure that have not started yet are skipped.
Add Points and Divide into Dashes read each subpath's selected segments
with a range lookup in the path's ordered segment set instead of
filtering the whole set once per subpath. Add Points at Crossings and
Split at Crossings sort a path's crossing places into a list per
subpath once, in the order they come, instead of filtering the whole
list for every subpath. Places on a subpath that no longer exists are
still left out. The results are unchanged.
Tests cover paths with several subpaths, an empty subpath, an
untouched subpath and selection on the last subpath, for all four
commands, plus the anchor fallback and the grouping of out-of-order
crossing places.
Under a light that is not white, an opaque Inflate fill or stroke in a
solid color was drawn as one composite of all its facets, so the
object's solids were drawn whole, one after another: the stroke's faces
covered every face of the fill, nearer or not.
When an object's solids share one order (all opaque with Normal
blending, or one member's under its opacity mask), each facet of such a
solid is now drawn on its own, with the composite's paint, channel
light ramps and seam width, and takes its place in that order as the
faces of a gradient already do. A lone solid, and the solids of an
object with a translucent or blended fill or stroke, keep the one
composite.
A face drawn on its own is about 16 nodes, against about 6 per facet
in the composite of a whole surface. These faces go in one order while
they number at most 30,720 together, counted again after the cuts.
Past that, each such solid is drawn as one composite.
Docs: docs/three-d.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
A knockout group was written as a chain of soft masks, one inside the
next for each element, so a group of about 200 elements made a PDF that
VectorCraft's own PDF import refused (form nesting past 50) and an SVG
that the web build refused as too deep.
- PDF writes a knockout group as one transparency group with /K true,
with /I true when the group isolates, and PDF import reads it back as
a knockout group. An element with several paints is drawn as one
group inside it, so its own fills and strokes do not knock each other
out.
- Where an element knocks out less than the area it paints (its opacity
or mask defines its knockout shape, or it paints translucently), each
element is drawn through one soft mask of the overlapping elements
above it. Past 65,536 objects in a group's masks, or 2,048 elements,
the group is a PDF knockout group, with a warning.
- SVG draws each element through one mask of the overlapping elements
above it, built from one shared copy of each element's shape, so the
elements stay siblings. Past 65,536 shapes in a group's masks, or
2,048 elements, the group is written as a plain group, with a warning.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Spot Color Objects listed every spot color linked from a gradient's stops
once any stop was above opacity 0. A spot stop at opacity 0 between other
clear stops, at the end of the ramp after a clear stop, or meeting an
opaque stop only at one offset was listed though it prints no ink, and so
was an opaque stop out of order whose pairs have no width.
A stop now counts when it bounds a stretch of some width that the
gradient sampler mixes and either stop of that stretch is above opacity
0, or when it is the first or last stop and above opacity 0, since those
color the offsets before and after the others. Stops in any order are
judged by the stretches the sampler uses. A freeform gradient keeps the
old rule, since it draws from its points. Type runs follow the same rule.
The document.info params text, docs/mcp.md and the progress line
describe it.
Live Paint Bucket Options gets a Cursor Swatch Preview checkbox (on at
first, saved with the other options). With the Bucket selected, Left and
Right set the active fill, or the stroke when the Stroke proxy is in
front, to the color swatch before or after it in the Swatches panel,
wrapping around at the ends, with the preview on or off. The selected art
keeps its paint. The preview shows the active paint above the pointer
between the swatches before and after it; a color that is no swatch shows
alone until Right picks the first swatch or Left the last, and a paint
that is not a solid color shows no chip. The chips hide during a fill
drag and while Alt samples with the eyedropper. The fill and the stroke
each remember the swatch picked for them, so swatches of the same color
are each reached in turn.
The Bucket and the Shape Builder now take the arrows for swatches only
without Shift, Alt or Cmd/Ctrl, judged by the modifiers held when the key
went down, so modified arrows keep their shortcuts
(Tool::claims_key_with, Session::tool_claims_key_with).
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md, tool.options params text.
In a PDF without a standard, the warning for a page longer than 14,400 pt
written with a UserUnit above 1 now ends with "turn on Write pages longer
than 200 in at full size in points". The warning already said that apps
ignoring UserUnit show such a page smaller; it now names the Save PDF
option that writes the page at its size in points instead. PDF/A files,
which keep the UserUnit with the option on, and .ai saves, whose options
do not have it, keep the warning as it was.
The longer message has a row in every complete-message catalog. The
params text of document.exportPdf, docs/mcp.md and the evidence line in
docs/target-app-parity.md describe it.
object.distort warped the anchors of paths, groups, compound paths and
clip groups but left their bounding-box angle as it was, so a rotated
path kept its old box after a warp and an upright one stayed square to
the page however far the warp tilted it. Text, images and symbol
instances already took the angle of the warp's affine approximation.
- Each path, group, compound path and clip group now takes the angle
the warp turns its x axis to at its own center before the warp, the
members of a warped group and the art of a linked opacity mask each
at their own. An unlinked mask's art keeps its angle. Mirroring keeps
the nearer angle and a collapsing warp keeps the old one. Reset
Bounding Box squares the boxes again.
- Each subtree's bounds are measured once while it is warped.
- Corners that equal the corners of the box being warped change
nothing and add no undo step.
Docs: object.distort params text, docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
When a Smooth tool drag refits the stretch at the first or last anchor
of an open path, the curve there now leaves or arrives along the
smoothed path within the tool's reach instead of along the first or
last segment, so a jagged end no longer keeps its jag. The end point
stays where it is. An end where the smoothed path turns back by 90
degrees or more keeps its segment's direction, and a stretch that ends
inside the path keeps the direction of the part outside the drag.
- pathops: SimplifyOptions gains free_start and free_end, off by
default; closed subpaths and simplify_part ignore them, so Simplify
and Object > Path > Smooth give the same output as before.
- engine: path.smoothRegion sets them for the ends of an open path
that a run's refit reaches.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
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