Outline Stroke put a stroke's geometry effects, such as Offset Path or
Zig Zag, on the filled outline it made, and it put the object's
geometry effects on the result: the outline, or the group that holds
the outlines and the fill copies. The effects then reshaped the
outline: an Offset Path of 10 pt on a 4 pt stroke gave a band 24 pt
wide, while the canvas offsets the path and strokes it 4 pt wide.
Outline Stroke now applies the object's visible geometry effects to
the path first, and then applies each stroke's own geometry effects to
the path that stroke outlines, as the canvas does. A brushed stroke's
art follows that path too. The filled outline of a stroke without a
brush keeps the stroke's other effects, and the result keeps the
object's other effects.
Expand's Stroke option and Flatten Transparency's Convert All Strokes
to Outlines outline strokes the same way.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md.
Node editing as the public manual describes it: Direct Selection's anchor squares (hollow
or filled), Reshape Segment over a curved segment, Group Selection's plus (also Direct
Selection with Alt), the arrow hollow while a drag snaps, and Alt-copy arrowheads. The
Anchor Point caret, the Curvature pen and Free Transform's side-shear arrows (ShearH,
ShearV) are drawn in code. Lasso, the freehand, symbolism and other tools return cursors
of their own that borrow their old look until drawn (Cursor::stand_in).
crates/tools/src/cursors.toml lists every Cursor value, when it shows and its hotspot,
for whoever draws them; `cargo xtask cursors` (in ci) warns about a missing, unknown,
repeated or incomplete entry and never fails. The busy cursor is listed as missing (G1).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Complete catalogs for nl, da and id, registered with their locales. Hindi from the same PR waits for a Devanagari UI font decision (with Lao and Georgian), and the strings main gained since the catalogs were written are added.
On macOS, the save sheets of Save As, Save a Copy and the first Save of
a new document have a Format menu again, and the Save as Template sheet
now has one too. The panel is an NSSavePanel built in
apps/vectorcraft/src/mac_save_format.rs, and the menu is its accessory
view, set before beginSheetModalForWindow:completionHandler: shows the
sheet. The menu from #1235 was added after rfd had begun the sheet, and
recent macOS versions dismissed the sheet at once (#1800, #1831,
#1518); #1855 removed it.
Choosing a format changes the extension in the name field and puts
that format's extension first in the allowed file types, which AppKit
adds to a name typed without one. A name typed with another listed
extension is saved in that format. Save panels with one file type and
the open and folder panels are still shown by rfd.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md, docs/ui-parity.md.
File › Open and File › Place refused a JPEG XL file: Open said it was
not a format VectorCraft reads, and the dialogs did not list .jxl.
A read-only JPEG XL format joins the format table. Open, Place, drops,
copied files and Glass's Load Texture tell it by its first bytes (a bare
codestream or the ISOBMFF container). jxl-oxide 0.12.6 (pure Rust, MIT
OR Apache-2.0, without its default rayon feature) decodes the first
frame, which is stored as a PNG. Orientation is applied, and 16-bit
and floating-point samples become 8 bits. Colors are converted to sRGB
in XYB-encoded images and when the header names the color space or the
ICC profile describes one jxl-oxide knows; other images with an ICC
profile keep their samples. Premultiplied colors are divided by alpha
before that conversion. CMYK files are refused.
The decoder gets only a container's image boxes. It reads the header
first, and an image past MAX_RASTER_ALLOC gets the existing "too large
to draw" error before any pixels are decoded. Its image buffers are
capped at 16 times the image's RGBA size plus 16 MiB, and at most
MAX_RASTER_ALLOC. VectorCraft doesn't write JPEG XL yet.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/file-format-parity.md, docs/target-app-parity.md,
README.
Paths stored with linked images and placed documents, and the hrefs of
SVG images, go through fileio::document_path (craft-docpath): a relative
path is taken from the document's folder, and only local files or files
on the document's own network share are looked at. Opening a document,
Link Info, Package, the linked-file watch and SVG import all use it; the
watch stats files through fileio, so automation roots apply to it too.
A path that is not followed counts as missing; document.open,
links.check and links.info say why in `refused`.
attributes.openUrl refuses other URL schemes with a message. It and
links.editOriginal hand a URL or file to another app, so they answer a
control or MCP request (and synthetic input) with an error; a placed
document still opens in a tab.
A folder or app bundle, a link to another kind of file, or a file with
any other extension is refused with a message instead of being handed to
the system's default app. On Windows, a path containing a quotation mark
is refused before it reaches Explorer.
The Effect menu had no Rasterize. Object › Rasterize replaces the
object with an image, so its paths can no longer be edited.
Effect › Rasterize… (`rasterize`) is a live effect with Object ›
Rasterize's options: color model, resolution (the document's raster
effects resolution by default), white or transparent background,
anti-aliasing, Create Clipping Mask and Add Around Object. The canvas
draws the object as square pixels over its bounds, and its paths, type
and other art stay as they are. The effects above it in the stack,
shadows included, are part of its image, and shadows below it are cast
by the image. When Rasterize is an object's only raster effect, Expand
Appearance and PDF and SVG export give the image Object › Rasterize
gives with the same options.
Object › Rasterize now measures the art as drawn, with its geometry
effects, brush art and raster effects, so a Transform effect that moves
the art no longer leaves the image empty. Its Create Clipping Mask
clips the image to the art as drawn. The canvas no longer panics
drawing a pixel effect such as Gaussian Blur on an object about 65,500
screen pixels wide: the raster of such an object is at most 32,768
pixels a side, and the object is drawn into it at a lower resolution.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/effects-parity.md, docs/target-app-parity.md,
ROADMAP.
What's new for users since v0.11.0:
- A restyled interface: Medium Dark with a coral accent by default, a choice
of accent colours, and a Classic colour scheme (User Interface › Color
Scheme) with the neutral greys of earlier versions.
- New tools and commands: Object › Intertwine and the Intertwine tool, the
Dimension tool, Export for Screens name patterns, folders and presets,
File › Automate › Batch, Sample Color from Screen, Release Guides into
paths, Update Selection, Rotate View to Selection and Rotate View presets,
Outline Object, the Halftone Pattern effect, canvas scroll bars, the
Hyphenation dialog, Legacy .ai export and portable mode on Windows.
- Canvas editing: the ellipse pie widget, the Shaper Group arrow, E for an
enclosed marquee, Unlock from a right-click on locked objects, Blob Brush
Keep Selected and Merge Only with Selection, Simplify's angle threshold and
straight lines, Distribute with a spacing from a key object, and Ctrl/Cmd+
Enter for proportional W and H.
- Type: font size steps of five, reset horizontal scale, reset tracking and
kerning, Align Stroke on live type, and Find and Replace that keeps
paragraph styles.
- Variables: image and graph variables, data set CSV import and export.
- Import: many .ai, EPS and PDF fidelity fixes (images, gradients, meshes,
patterns, layers, File Info), damaged PDFs no longer crash the importer,
and .ai, .ait and .svgz files copied in a file manager paste as art.
- Image Trace keeps tiny parts, thin outlines, shared corners and junctions,
and Noise no longer splits merged regions.
- MCP: draw_path and draw_shape as batch steps with dashes, caps and effects,
and command listings filtered by query and menu.
- Languages: Swedish, Finnish, Greek and Bulgarian, and Brazilian Portuguese
completed.
- Windows: a graphics driver crash leaves that adapter out at the next start,
and a maximized window stays clear of the taskbar.
With View › Hide Edges on, the canvas does not draw the bounding box,
the type widget beside it or the Live Corners widgets, but the
selection tools still answered the pointer on them. A press on a hidden
corner widget rounded the corners, a drag from a hidden handle scaled
the selection, a double-click on the hidden type widget converted the
type, and the cursor changed over each of them.
While edges are hidden, the app now tells the tools that the bounding
box and the corner widgets are off. A press at their places reaches the
art or the canvas under them.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md.
View › Guides › Release Guides only cleared the guide flag on paths
made with Make Guides. Ruler guides could not become paths by any
route, and with only ruler guides selected the command released every
guide path in the document instead.
Release Guides now also releases the selected ruler guides. Each one
becomes an open straight path with no fill or stroke at the top of the
guide's layer: an artboard guide runs across its artboard, and a
canvas guide runs across the bounds of all the artboards. The ruler
guide is deleted, the released paths are selected, and the release is
one undo step. With no guide selected, every guide path is released,
as before.
view.guides.release takes index (a ruler guide) and ids (guide paths,
and the guide paths inside them). Both are refused while guides are
locked, and index takes only a guide on a shown, unlocked layer.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
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