Object > Path > Remove Anchor Points removed each selected anchor with
its own Vec::remove, shifting the rest of the subpath every time, so
removing k anchors from an n-anchor subpath took O(k*n) moves.
- pathops: remove_anchors removes a subpath's anchors the last first,
reading each anchor's current neighbors, handles, length and closed
state as removing them one at a time does, and compacts the anchor
list once. remove_anchor and remove_anchors share one refit, so the
result is bit for bit the same.
- engine: the command groups the selected anchors by subpath, works out
the next selected anchor with each subpath reading only its own
selected anchors, and takes emptied paths out of the selection
together (Selection::remove_all).
- Tests compare remove_anchors bit for bit with remove_anchor over 600
generated subpaths and focused cases, count the anchors moved (2001
anchors, every other one removed: at most one move per anchor left,
500,500 one at a time), and compare the next-anchor selection and
the command on many paths and subpaths with removing one at a time.
With one Objects on Path group selected, the Selection and Objects on Path
tools show a ring on each object's attachment point. A click chooses that
object while the group stays selected; dragging a ring along the path moves
its object to the nearest object's place, and the objects between move one
place toward where it was, in one undo step. Hidden and locked objects have
no ring and keep their places. On a closed path the drag goes on round
across the first anchor, and Escape cancels it.
- object.objectsOnPath.selectMember {member} chooses an object.
- object.objectsOnPath.moveMember {member, target, group?} moves an object
to another object's place; only the order along the path changes.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md. Not yet: Detach.
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.
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