edit.copy and edit.cut chose the artboard route by the tool chosen, which
the journal does not record. A replay in a new session acted on the objects
selected there, or stopped with "nothing selected" when there were none.
With the Artboard tool chosen, both now record selectedArtboards and art in
the journal entry. A given selectedArtboards runs the artboard route with
any tool and needs only a document. A recorded action leaves both values
out, so it follows the tool chosen when it plays. Cut and Copy of objects
record nothing new.
With the Artboard tool, the canvas context menu lists the entries of the
public Use the artboard context menu page in its order, in place of the
entries for objects and the view. Lock Artboards and Unlock Artboards are
two submenus. An entry that cannot run is left out, and Undo and Redo stay
dimmed. A right-click on an artboard that is not selected selects it alone
first, and the menu measures the art for Delete Empty Artboards and Fit to
Artwork Bounds once, at the right-click.
Cut, Copy, Duplicate Artboards, Rename, Delete Artboards, Lock Selected,
Unlock Selected, Fit to Artwork Bounds, Switch Orientation and Export act on
the artboards the tool has selected, else the active one. docs/mcp.md lists
what the other entries act on.
- artboard.rename renames in one undo step and numbers several names. The
menu's Rename opens a dialog that runs it, and the Artboards panel's name
field runs it too.
- artboard.switchOrientation swaps width and height and keeps the top-left
corner, skipping square and locked artboards.
- artboard.selectAll chooses the tool and selects every artboard.
- edit.paste takes artboardsAt, and the menu's Paste centers copied
artboards on the right-click's point.
- The menu's Cut and Copy run artboard.cut and artboard.copy. In the desktop
app those commands publish to the system clipboard, and the menu shows the
Cut and Copy shortcuts for them.
- artboard.fitToArt and the panel's name field record no undo step when
nothing changes.
artboard.duplicate, copy, cut, rename and switchOrientation take their
artboards from the tool's selection when a call names none. Each now records
them in the journal as selectedArtboards, which a replay reads and a recorded
action leaves out. The copy commands also record art. switchOrientation
records scaleArt, and it takes patterns and lockedAndHidden and records what
its artboard.setProps step resolved for them.
While the Artboard tool is in use, a command chosen from any menu or the
command palette moves the tool's selection as the Artboards panel does:
artboard.new makes the new artboard active, artboard.duplicate selects the
copies, and artboard.delete and artboard.deleteEmpty make a remaining
artboard active.
While Select All holds a threaded story, a paragraph whose text starts in one of the
story's locked or hidden frames is no longer converted, and the empty parts of a converted
paragraph in such a frame are no longer restyled. Before, a locked frame whose first
paragraph took in the previous frame's empty last part was converted, and so was a
paragraph that ran on from a locked first frame into an editable one.
After Select All in a frame of threaded text, Remove Line Breaks and
Remove Paragraph Breaks changed only the edited frame, and Convert to
Text over MCP converted only the selected frame. Both now act on the
text of every frame of the story as one undo step.
- addon.cleanup.removeBreaks reads the frames of the story as one text,
so a break at the end of a frame before a word in the next one becomes
a space. The same applies when every frame of a story is selected as
objects.
- text.convertListToText without ids, id or a range converts every
paragraph of the story. Locked and hidden frames of the selected story
are not converted, even when ids names them. When the call converts
the whole story, the story stays selected; before, the call reset the
Type tool's selection to the edited frame.
- A selection inside one frame, and unthreaded type, behave as before.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The Character panel's All Caps, Underline and Strikethrough buttons, and
its menu's All Caps, Underline, Strikethrough, Proportional Metrics,
Tate-chu-yoko and No Break, read the first selected character's style.
With only some characters marked they could show on, and choosing one
turned the attribute off for every character. They now show on only
when every selected character has the attribute, and a click on a mixed
selection turns it on for all, as Small Caps and Standard Vertical Roman
Alignment do. type.underline (Cmd+Shift+U) underlines a mixed selection
the same way. The Character Alignment and Digits submenus check no item
while the selected characters differ.
text.setFormat ignored a value that was not true or false for underline,
strikethrough, allCaps, proportionalMetrics, tateChuYoko,
standardVerticalRoman, noBreak, hyphenate, hyphenateCapitalized and
romanHangingPunctuation. It now refuses it with "`<key>` must be true or
false" and changes nothing, as text.setRangeStyle does.
Character panel menu > Standard Vertical Roman Alignment, with Show East
Asian Options, is now a check item. It sets a new character attribute,
`standardVerticalRoman` (text.setFormat, text.setRangeStyle), off by
default and saved only when on. In vertical type the marked Latin
letters, digits and other characters that would lie on their side stand
upright one below the other, each in its upright cell. Spaces keep their
width and tate-chu-yoko blocks stay across the column. Horizontal type
keeps the mark and does not change. A combining mark shaped as its own
glyph turns with its letter, in Latin and CJK upright type alike.
Character Style Options labels the Character Alignment row "Character
Alignment" and gives Standard Vertical Roman Alignment its own checkbox.
Reset Panel turns the attribute off. PDF and SVG export place the glyphs
from the layout and need no change.
Character panel > Language sets the selected characters' language;
text.setFormat and text.setRangeStyle take `language` by name or tag
(unknown: an error), and character styles carry it. Document Setup's
language list gains Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil,
Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia and Urdu, with catalog rows; the
Digits menu's numeral names move to a digits context, as Hindi is now
also a language name.
text.setFormat {antiAlias} and the Character panel set the method of the
targeted type objects only. Threading frames, reflowing a thread and
opening a file no longer give every frame of a thread the first frame's
method.
The Type tool's anchor and caret were moved past the inserted markers
only by the menu item in the desktop app. When text.convertListToText
came over MCP or the control channel while the Type tool was editing,
they kept their old byte offsets, and the inserted characters (a bullet
is 3 bytes) could leave an offset inside a character.
The command now ends the Type tool's typing, then moves its anchor and
caret past the characters inserted at or before them. In threaded type,
when the caret's character moved to another frame, the tool edits that
frame, which becomes the selection when it was not selected. The menu
item runs the command without adjusting the selection itself.
Docs: docs/mcp.md.
The reference app's Type › Bullets and Numbering › Convert to Text turns
the bullets and numbers of the selected list paragraphs into editable
text. VectorCraft drew list markers but could not convert them.
Type › Bullets and Numbering › Convert to Text (type.convertListToText,
text.convertListToText) puts each list paragraph's marker at the start
of the paragraph as characters: the bullet, or the number and its
period as the paragraph showed it, then a tab, in the marker's font,
size and color. The paragraph leaves its list. Where the marker's tab
went to the left indent, the paragraph gets a plain left tab stop
there, so the text after the tab starts where it did. Where the
marker's tab went to a stop with a leader, or to a right, center or
decimal stop, a plain stop where the tab ended keeps the converted tab
there without the leader; right, center and decimal stops between the
marker and that place are removed. Past the left indent this applies
only to a paragraph with no tab of its own. In threaded type the
numbers are those the story counted, and a paragraph that goes on into
the next frame is converted once, where it starts. A right-to-left
paragraph with no direction set gets the Right to Left direction when a
letter or roman numeral in front of it would make it run left to right.
The change is one undo step. The Type tool's caret stays next to the
character it was next to, and in threaded type it goes with that
character to the frame it moved to, which becomes the selection when it
was not selected.
With the Every-line Composer a paragraph that holds a tab is broken
line by line, so a converted paragraph can break its lines at other
places than the list paragraph did.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
i18n: Convert to Text in the 24 catalogs.
A save without options reuses the options the document was last saved
with in that format. Their artboard, artboards and range name artboards
by number, so once artboards were deleted or moved, the save wrote
other artboards or was refused: with three artboards, a PDF saved with
range "2" wrote the third artboard after the first was deleted, and one
saved with range "1, 3" was refused after the third was deleted. The
same held for SVG saves, a legacy .ai, and .ai and native files saved
with separateArtboards. file.formatOptions and SVG Options showed the
same numbers.
The document now keeps the ids of the artboards it had when it was
saved, and the remembered pick follows them: an artboard deleted since
is left out, one that moved is named by its new number, and the rest of
the pick is kept. A range open at its end ("2-") is written out as the
artboards it named once artboards are added. When none of the artboards
the save used is left, the pick is left out, and the save writes the
artboards it writes when none is named. A range of "all" stays as it
is. An artboard given to the save is still refused when the document
does not have it.
A new artboard no longer takes the id of an artboard deleted earlier in
the same document (Document::retire_artboard_id), or of one an undo took
away: the highest id given out is shared with the undo history, so a
new artboard is not taken for an earlier one.
file.revert keeps the pick only when the file read back has the
artboards the document had at the save, with the same ids in the same
order. A PDF saved with a range holds only those pages, and one saved
without preserveEditing reads back with new ids in page order, so their
picks are left out.
VectorCraft had no lists. A bullet could only be typed as a character,
and the tab after it did not stop at the left indent. The reference app
turns paragraphs into a bulleted list from the Paragraph panel, the
context menu and Type › Bullets and Numbering › Apply Bullets.
text.setFormat takes list ("none" or "bullet") and bullet ("none",
"dot", "dash", "circle" or "square"). The layout draws the bullet before
the first line of each list paragraph that has text, in the font, size
and color of its first character, and starts the text at the next tab
stop, with the left indent counted as a stop. Wrapped lines start at
the left indent, and type on a path draws the bullet too. In a
horizontal right-to-left list paragraph the indents are mirrored: the
bullet hangs at the right, and the wrapped lines start at the right
where the first line's text starts after the bullet. The bullet is not
a character of the text. A paragraph whose left and first-line indents
are both 0 gets 18 pt and -18 pt when it joins a list. Return continues
the list, paragraph styles carry it, Reset Panel turns it off, and the
native file saves it only when it is set.
The Paragraph panel has a Bullets button with a list of the five
presets, and Type › Bullets and Numbering › Apply Bullets and the
context menu run type.applyBullets. Live SVG text writes the bullet's
character, and SVG writes type on a path with bullets as outlines. DXF
writes the bullet as a TEXT entity of its own, and legacy .ai export
warns that bulleted lists are left out. The caret, selections, Touch
Type and Show Hidden Characters skip the bullet.
Live SVG text of horizontally scaled type now writes each tab in a
tspan of its own. Before, the characters before a tab shared its tspan,
and its textLength made a viewer stretch them across the tab's gap.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
object.transformEach refused reflectX, reflectY, random and copy given
as text, but read strokes, corners, objects and patterns given as text
as the key left out. With Scale Strokes & Effects on,
{"scaleH": 200, "scaleV": 200, "strokes": "false"} scaled the stroke,
recorded an undo step and kept the params for Transform Again, which
repeated the call. artboard.rearrange, artboard.move and
artboard.duplicate read their patterns option the same way, and
artboard.setProps reads its patterns, strokes and corners options the
same way.
These commands now refuse such a value with "`<key>` must be true or
false" before they change anything. So do the other options and
numbers of artboard.setProps and artboard.move, the art of Duplicate,
Copy and Cut Artboard, the shape commands and path.create, path.close,
path.setHandle, path.moveAnchors, the Pencil, Curvature, Reshape
Segment and Blob Brush options, text.create, text.createInPath,
text.setRangeStyle, text.editRange, text.getRange, text.touchType,
text.areaOptions, type.step, the font size steps,
type.opticalMarginAlignment, type.systemLayout, type.fractionalWidths,
type.ruby, the symbol and swatch commands, the Appearance panel's
commands, the gradient and freeform gradient commands, Shape Builder,
Live Paint, Image Trace, the opacity of object.setProps, the radius,
sides and relativeRadii of object.setLiveShape, the reference point of
object.setBounds and the artboard of Align, Distribute and Distribute
Spacing. They refuse a number given as text with "`<key>` must be a
number, not <value>", and a gradient stop's tint with "stop <n>:
`tint` must be a number". A null still reads as the key left out.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The reference app justifies Arabic text with kashidas, set per paragraph
with the Paragraph panel's Insert Kashidas list (None, Short, Medium,
Long, Stylistic). VectorCraft had no kashidas, so a justified Arabic
line was spaced out at its word spaces like a Latin one.
The Paragraph panel, with the Indic options shown, now has Insert
Kashidas. On a justified horizontal area type line that is shorter
than its measure, each Arabic word with joined letters gets one kashida
between its last pair of them, drawn as tatweels (U+0640) in the font
of the letter after it. The kashidas share the line's room equally,
each at most a quarter of an em (Short), half an em (Medium) or an em
(Long); a Stylistic kashida is a row of the font's own tatweels, up to
an em. The word spaces take the room the kashidas leave, so the line
keeps its width, and line breaks do not change. The letter after a
kashida advances over it, so the caret before that letter, a selection
of it and a click on it take the kashida in. None, the default, leaves
lines as they were.
In horizontal type that is not on a path, the caret in a letter drawn
with several glyphs (a letter with a vowel mark) is now placed by the
whole letter, as hit testing already measured it, instead of by its
first glyph.
text.setFormat takes kashida. The setting is saved with the paragraph
only when it is not None, paragraph styles carry it, and Reset Panel
sets it back to None.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The merge resolves the conflict in crates/engine/src/cmd/panelcmds.rs:
the params line of text.setFormat keeps main's Justification… params
and this branch's antiAlias param.
In crates/render/src/lib.rs, main measures the alternate-glyph
highlight only when it is shown (g.alternate_glyphs(t)). The
Anti-aliasing Method's check for a substitution highlight now calls it
the same way, and a new test covers it.
The Paragraph panel menu's Justification… was a disabled stub, and justified
lines stretched word spaces between fixed limits (80% to 150%).
Each paragraph now has Justification options: Word Spacing, Letter Spacing
and Glyph Scaling (Minimum, Desired, Maximum, in percent), Auto Leading and
Single Word Justification. Desired applies to every line; a justified line
fills its measure with word spacing first, then letter spacing, then glyph
scaling, each within its range, and past them its word spaces take the
rest. The Every-line Composer scores lines by that flexibility. Auto
Leading sets the leading of characters whose leading is Auto. A justified
line holding one word is spread between its letters (Full Justify) or
aligned left, centre or right.
The defaults are the documented ones (80/100/133, 0/0/0, 100/100/100, 120,
Full Justify), saved only when they differ. Because the default maximum
word spacing is 133%, justified paragraphs break differently than before;
the Every-line Composer's second pass is now unbounded for justified text
(it used to give up past four times the stretch and fall back to the
Single-line Composer, which the narrower default range would make common),
and lines that can't stretch at all are still refused.
text.setFormat takes wordSpacing, letterSpacing, glyphScaling ([min,
desired, max] or {min?, desired?, max?}), autoLeading and
singleWordJustification; Minimum ≤ Desired ≤ Maximum must hold or nothing
changes. Paragraph styles carry the options (New and Redefine capture
them), and Reset Panel resets them. Justification… opens a dialog
(ui.justification) with Preview; OK is disabled while a row is out of
order. Live SVG text places characters the options move, and a glyph that
Glyph Scaling scales is stretched to its width; PDF uses the glyphs'
transforms. Vertical type isn't glyph scaled; type on a path doesn't use
the options.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/type-parity.md, docs/gaps.md.
Closes#2755.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The reference app's Character panel has an anti-aliasing method for
type, with the options None, Sharp, Crisp and Strong. VectorCraft had no
such control or attribute.
The Character panel has an Anti-aliasing Method dropdown under
Character Rotation, and text.setFormat takes antiAlias. The method
belongs to the whole type object and to every frame of its thread. It
sets how the edges of the characters are drawn as pixels: on the
canvas, in raster exports and when the type is rasterized.
VectorCraft defines the methods. Sharp, the default, draws the edges as
before. None paints a pixel only where the type covers at least half of
it. Crisp shows a pixel that the type covers by a share c at 2c - 0.5,
and Strong shows it at 2c, each kept between 0 and 1. The opacity of
the type's paints is kept. In an export that supersamples its art, the
type is drawn at the export's own resolution, and the averaging keeps
its edges as the method draws them.
Type is drawn as Sharp when it holds inline graphics, when its own
fills or strokes include a brush stroke or a blend mode other than
Normal, when it overprints while Overprint Preview is on, and on the
canvas while it shows a substitution highlight. SVG, PDF and EPS export
are unchanged. The method is saved only when it is not Sharp. Reset
Panel sets Sharp, and it is now one undo step (it was two).
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
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