While painting, a round Blob Brush showed a line as wide as the brush, which ends
square, though the stroke it adds is round at both ends. Only an angled or flattened
tip showed the outline of the area. The Blob Brush now shows that outline whatever
its roundness (blob_area, which path.blob's stroke matches).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The web build had no clock for plug-in runs, so its first view deferred
every plug-in live effect until Effect > Refresh Deferred Effects, and a
run's wall-clock limit was not enforced there. The deferrals clock and
the run deadline now read `web_time::Instant`, which is the system's
monotonic clock on the desktop and the page's `performance.now()` in the
web build. The web's first view now shares the same 2,000 ms budget, and
its runs stop at the 5 s, 60 s and 300 s limits as on the desktop.
Docs: docs/plugins.md, docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The text document writer wrote a type stroke's paint and weight but not
its cap, join or miter limit, which .ai import reads since #6500 (keys
61, 62 and 64). A file saved here and opened again came back with butt
caps, miter joins and a miter limit of 10, and the save reported those
attributes as left out. A stroked run now writes the three keys,
numbered as PostScript numbers caps and joins, with the miter limit as
import takes it back (1 to 500, else 10), and they no longer count as
lost. A run without a stroke no longer counts them as lost either: they
draw nothing.
Follow-up to #6472.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Print as Bitmap limited each page's image to 65,535 pixels a side, but the
renderer draws at most 32,768. A 9000 x 100 pt artboard at a 300 ppi raster
effects resolution printed as an image that stopped at 7,864 pt and was
placed as if whole. The resolution is now lowered until the longest side
fits.
Under --automation-read-root, a control client's ui.menu.list (and
ui.contextMenu.list, which shares the listing) left every File › Open
Recent Files row in, so the client saw the names of recent files it may
not read. file.recentFiles returned their full paths, and
file.openRecentN for such a file answered with a refusal naming the path.
Now the listing leaves out a recent file outside the read roots, as it
already leaves out listed scripts outside them. The other rows keep their
ids, so file.openRecent3 still opens the third file. file.recentFiles
returns only the files inside the roots, in order, and file.openRecentN
for a file outside them ends with "no such recent file", as an empty slot
does. The person's own menus and Home screen are unchanged.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/control-protocol.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Object > Rasterize and the redrawn path of Crop Image allowed images up to
65,535 pixels a side, but the renderer draws at most 32,768. A 100 x 5569 pt
rectangle rasterized at 600 ppi came back 32,768 pixels tall, and the bottom
29% of the art was gone. Such an image is now refused like one over the
64 megapixel limit, and the art stays as it was.
The flattener limited an image's resolution only by its total pixels, while
the renderer draws at most 32,768 pixels a side. A long area, such as a narrow
see-through gradient strip down a 2 m banner at 1200 ppi, came back cut off
at that length and was placed as if whole, so the rest of the strip was lost
in Flatten Transparency and in PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3 and PDF 1.3 exports. The
resolution is now also limited by the longest side, as raster effects are.
A merge left a second copy of the G9 `.ai`/EPS Missing bullet's opening inside the bullet. That copy says
writing the editing data is out of scope, while the same bullet and file-format-parity.md say a
PDF-compatible `.ai` carries an editing copy of the art. The bullet now has one copy, with the newer
brush wording that matches the 2026-11-05 entry above it.
The graph still stores an opacity or blend mode set on a series mark's row
that has no paint, as it does for transparency.set. The sentence now says
that such a row leaves only the stored paint unchanged.
`#strict on` and `//@strict on` no longer end the run as unsupported. They
turn on the checks the dollar-object help page gives for `$.strict`
(https://extendscript.docsforadobe.dev/extendscript-tools-features/dollar-object/):
an assignment to a read-only property throws a TypeError, and so does a new
property on an object that takes none.
VectorCraft's own rules: a getter-only property counts as read-only; the
objects that take no new properties are the non-extensible ones
(preventExtensions, seal, freeze, and the frozen vc and $ objects); the last
`#strict` line of the script and its includes sets the whole run, and runs
without one are unchanged; eval and Function take the checks of the code
that compiles them; a file $.evalFile runs keeps its own line's checks for
its code and functions, or takes the caller's without one. The rest of ES5
strict mode stays with 'use strict'.
The js crate carries the setting per compiled source
(Realm::set_strict_writes, and a strict_writes callback on
HostItem::Evaluator), and applies it only to property assignments.
Pasted art whose svg.filter effect named one of the document's SVG filters
but drew another definition kept that name, so editing or deleting the
document's filter rewrote the pasted art's filter. Paste now renames such
a filter to a free name ("Soft 2") when the art comes from another
document or from SVG, and takes the document's filter when the art is
pasted back into the document it was copied from. Symbols, patterns,
brushes and graphic styles on the clipboard follow the same rule.
#6090 moved the pinned window width in
the_control_bar_shows_the_paragraph_alignment_of_the_selected_type from
1440 to 1536 pt, since the bar's right end now keeps room for the panel
menu button. The progress line still named 1440 pt.
A dimension selected with the art it measures became a plain group of
paths and text when Object › Expand, Object › Expand Appearance or
Object › Path › Outline Stroke ran, so it no longer redrew when moved
or restyled.
These commands now leave such a dimension's lines and label as they
are, also inside selected groups without fills, strokes or effects of
their own, and change only the other art. The dimension keeps its
export assets and variable bindings. When the new art no longer fits
the dimension's link, for example because the outlined stroke has
other anchors, the dimension stays where it was, no longer linked, as
it does when its art is deleted. Undo links it again.
When the dimension is all the command would change, the command
changes nothing and reports the error it gives for a selection with
nothing to change. Object › Expand… is no longer dimmed for the label
of such a dimension. A dimension selected without the art it measures,
a part of one, and one inside a selected group with an appearance of
its own still become plain groups, and Type › Create Outlines still
outlines the label.
Docs: docs/dimensions.md, docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The Dynamic symbols entry still said Edit Symbol expands the symbol's
own art. Since #5064, Edit Symbol opens symbol editing mode: every
instance stays linked and a dynamic symbol's instances keep their
changes for the objects the edited art still has.
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