A selected image offers Remove Background in the Contextual Task Bar, Properties'
Quick Actions and the Control bar, as the reference app does. A click runs it at
once with its defaults, as one undo step; Object > Plug-ins > Image Tools keeps
the dialog with Preview.
- Weed Box and Lines counts the outline points a nested clip group hides when
it tests pieces for being inside a region, and counts the work of every clip
group in the selection together, so a selection cannot run far past the
limit.
- Stencil Bridges refuses art when its measuring budget runs out only while an
island is still unjoined, and a refusal for size or detail says so.
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.
Six tests cover the Direct Selection marquee (anchors and crossed segments), its pointer and anchor highlight, and the Group Selection click, repeated click, marquee (default and E for enclosed objects) and hover over a drop shadow: they reach the object under the shadow or nothing. The selection passes-through line in docs/target-app-parity.md names these gestures.
Adds tests for Select > Object > Not Aligned to Pixel Grid with embedded
images, symbol instances, point, area and path type, gradient meshes,
placed documents, guides and live shapes, with paths on template layers,
hidden and locked sublayers and locked artboards, and with the paths in
clip groups, blends, envelopes, repeats and Intertwine groups. A compound
path is selected by its own property, whatever the property of its paths.
The command's params text and docs/mcp.md now say that it looks into
clip groups, blends, envelopes, repeats and Intertwine groups.
A Warp effect on an image, or on a group that holds one, bent the image's
frame but drew the pixels unbent, cut by the bent frame. The image now
bends with the frame as a raster mesh warp, as an envelope bends it: after
the last effect in the list, the image is cut into 10 x 10 cells of two
triangles, each a clipped piece of the image under its own affine map,
through every Warp it took and the Transform moves between them. Effects
after a Warp reshape only the frame, and a placed gradient on a group
that holds the image follows the group's bounds as the pieces draw them.
The image itself is unchanged, so editing or removing the warp redraws
it. The images stay unbent when their pieces would make the art pass 2
million objects, and an image stays unbent when its clipping frame keeps
its shape because the warp would pass the effects' anchor budget.
- SVG export writes the image once and draws the pieces with <use> when a
group holds pieces of one image clipped by triangles. PDF, EPS, .ai and
PNG exports write the bent pieces.
- Envelopes: a grayscale image's fill color now colorizes the pieces an
envelope cuts. Before, the pieces drew the gray image.
- Geometry effects: an image under any geometry effect keeps its fill
color and its smoothing setting. Before, it drew the gray image,
smoothed.
Docs: Warp params text, docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
On Linux, ui.sampleScreenColor and the Color Picker's eyedropper button
now show the XDG desktop portal's color sampler (Screenshot.PickColor,
https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/doc-org.freedesktop.portal.Screenshot.html).
A thread of its own makes the call and waits for the person, and the
picked sRGB color goes through the same conversion into the working RGB
space as on macOS and the web. A cancel leaves the colors as they were.
A session without a portal that has PickColor, a portal that does not
return from the call within 25 seconds (VectorCraft's own limit) or
leaves the bus before it answers, and a portal that ends the request in
another way each show a status message and end the wait. The two new
messages are translated in every catalog that has the sampler's other
messages. The request token is random, as the Request documentation
asks (https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/doc-org.freedesktop.portal.Request.html).
The window is named for the portal on the UI thread, as for the save
dialog, and the sampler's thread keeps the window and its export until
the portal answers.
Horizontal type keeps both marks, and the legacy .ai writer writes such
type as text, but the marks were dropped without a warning. Version 7
text has operators for both (section 15.3.4 of the published format
specification): Tv for Roman characters upright in vertical writing,
and TY for a Kumi block in horizontal text recorded for later vertical
use. The writer now writes 1 Tv and 0 Tv, and 1 TY and 0 TY, where a
run's mark changes, closes an open Kumi block before the text object
ends, and writes neither operator for type without the marks. The
legacy .ai reader reads both back onto the same characters. The prolog
defines Tv and TY so the file still runs as PostScript.
With automation read roots in force, links.findFiles and text.findFontFiles
replies, including later polls and stops of a search another client started,
leave out the files found outside the caller's read roots, a sought link's
saved path outside them and the folder searched when it is outside them. A
failed search then gives its reason without the path. The rows keep their
names, ids and status, and the counts stay.
image.info gives link: null for a linked file outside the read roots, as
links.info does. text.addFontFiles gives folder: null when the Fonts folder
is outside the read roots and names the copies there by their file names;
the fonts are still copied.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The spotColors category is now titled Spot Color Objects and lists each
object filled or stroked with a spot color, by name with the spot colors
it uses, instead of the spot swatch names. A solid color or a gradient
stop linked to a spot swatch at a tint above 0 counts; process colors
that look the same and Registration do not. Paint that draws nothing is
left out by the rules Pattern Objects and Gradient Objects follow, and
type whose characters use a spot color is listed. Objects counts the
listed objects as Spot Color Objects.
document.info returns spotObjects, spotColorNames and objects.spots;
spotColors now holds the spot colors those objects use. The report that
Document Info > Save... and Package write lists the same rows.
The Spot Color Objects, Pattern Objects and Gradient Objects titles have
a row in each of the 27 complete catalogs, and a test checks that every
complete catalog has the three.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
- After a drag past either end of the range, the first arrow key now
steps back from the value shown instead of doing nothing.
- With the Selection tool, a plain double-click on a blend widget no
longer edits or isolates the artwork under it, or leaves isolation.
Ctrl/Cmd+Shift double-click still releases a guide there.
- docs/mcp.md says the lower widget shows only when the steps follow
the spine, and the G13 blend easing entry in docs/gaps.md no longer
lists on-canvas easing handles as missing.
Window › Swatch Libraries › Patterns and the Swatches panel's library
menu gain Optical Effects (`optical-effects`), a built-in pattern library
of eight black tiles drawn in code: Sine Bands, Ripple Lines,
Interference Rings, Offset Rings, Warped Checks, Pinched Stripes,
Chevron Pulse and Radiating Lenses. The names and designs are
VectorCraft's own. Each tile is 32 to 48 pt, one period of its design,
with fixed sample counts (at most 600 paths and 20,000 segments), so a
band that leaves one edge comes back at the same place on the opposite
edge, and rings and lenses that cross an edge are kept whole for the
tiling to draw on the next tile. Clicking a swatch adds its pattern and
swatch once and applies it, as with Geometric Patterns
(`swatch.library.add`).
The menu label has a row in every catalog; docs/mcp.md, the parity doc
and ROADMAP name the library.
Ahmed Gomaa