With a Constrain Angle other than 0, the grid point a Shift-drag's end
rounds to can lie nearer another 45-degree step, and the measurement then
reported that step. A Shift-drag from (0, 0) to (5, -3) with a 30-degree
Constrain Angle and a 9 pt grid measured -15 degrees instead of 30. The
end is now turned back onto the step nearest the pointer's direction,
keeping its length.
docs/mcp.md (dataset.import) and docs/gaps.md (Recolor Artwork ›
Assign, Average & Join) quoted sentences from the reference app's help
pages. Each quote is replaced by a plain statement of the behavior, and
each help-page link stays as the source.
With SCALED_COMPONENT_OFFSET, a component's offset now scales each axis
by the length of that axis's basis vector, as the outline loader does,
instead of going through the whole matrix. A rotated or skewed
component's caret no longer lands away from its drawn point.
UNSCALED_COMPONENT_OFFSET now turns the scaling off when both flags are
set.
A composite glyph whose components expand into glyphs with no points
could make the contour-point caret lookup read billions of glyphs. The
whole lookup now shares a budget of 65,536 glyph reads and gives no
caret when it runs out, so the caret falls back to dividing the advance.
On a path, vertical type turns an upright glyph about its pen, so its cell
runs from 0.12 em before the pen to 0.88 em after it without the font's
vertical metrics. The ligature caret, a click and the selection measured
the cell from the pen instead. They now take the cell where the glyph's
transform draws it, with its placement, baseline shift, Horizontal Scale
and Skew.
Each artboard's DisplayMark was written as 0. It now holds the center
mark (1), cross hairs (2) and video safe areas (4), as the reader reads
them.
A pattern fill that would place more tiles than a fill places came back
with no tiles and was written as an empty group, so the shape was
missing from the editing copy. Such a shape is now filled gray, as a
pattern that isn't found is, with a warning.
Artboards that together did not fit on the 16,383 pt canvas were
written with %AI24_LargeCanvasScale: 1, so part of them lay outside
the canvas. The editing data now declares a scale of 10 for them and
writes the art, boxes, artboards, strokes and effects at 1/10 of their
size, symbol and pattern art included.
Reading such a .ai, the editing data comes in at its declared scale
when it matches the page that way rather than in the units of the
page's UserUnit, also when the PDF part can't be read, and a file saved
without its PDF part applies the declared scale too.
A double-click on the top ruler adds a vertical guide at the pointer's x, one on the left ruler a horizontal guide at its y, through guide.add (one undo step, shown even with guides hidden, an artboard guide with the Artboard tool as a drag from a ruler makes one).
An SVG's root <title> and a PDF's XMP dc:title (else Info Title) title the imported document; a file that gives none, or only the Untitled-N name, takes its file name without the extension. Native files and documents restored from editing data keep their own title.
A folder source's stem is picked once the file is open, so the files a
save or export writes for each artboard count, as they do for data sets.
With the destination folder the same as the source folder, saving
a.vectorcraft with separateArtboards wrote a-Artboard-1.vectorcraft over
the source file of that name; a.vectorcraft is now saved as a-2.
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