Type > Composite Fonts... has Custom: named character sets, each setting
the characters it lists in its own font, style, size, baseline and
scales ahead of their class. The later of two sets that list a character
sets it. Characters are added by Direct Entry or by Unicode code and
deleted one at a time, and the parts table scrolls when it grows.
- type.compositeFonts.set takes `custom`; part keys left out take the
Kanji part's values. Sets are saved with the document and in
.vccomposite files, and Export refuses a file over 4 MB.
- VectorCraft's own limits: 64 sets per font, 8,192 characters per set,
each character once per set, up to U+FFFF and no control characters.
- The font database caches each font's character lookup.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/type-parity.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
- A form other than the default, set with text.setRangeStyle or
text.setFormat, takes away the characters' glyph choice, which would
otherwise keep drawing its own glyph. "default" keeps it.
- With a width form (fwid, hwid, twid, qwid), shaping leaves out palt and
turns kern and apkn off, and SVG output writes font-kerning: none and no
palt, as the OpenType feature list asks. proportionalMetrics and kerning
keep their values.
- The Glyphs panel menu counts a width form as available when a face has
the feature in GSUB or GPOS.
- At a caret, the menu's check marks and its no-op check read all the
text of the object, which is what the command formats. Choosing the
current form again is not skipped when a character has a glyph choice.
With Show East Asian Options on, the OpenType panel menu has H or V
Style and Roman Italics. H or V Style is the character feature tag
`hkna`: kana take the forms the font draws for horizontal type, and in
vertical type the shaper applies `vkna` in its place. Roman Italics is
`ital`, the font's italic half-width alphanumerics. Both are on or off
only (`hkna=2` is refused), set through `features` and
`featureChanges`, cleared by Reset OpenType Features, and are switches
in Character Style Options > OpenType Features.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/type-parity.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
With Show East Asian Options on, the Glyphs panel menu lists Traditional
Forms, Expert Forms, JIS 04, JIS 90, JIS 78 and JIS 83 Forms, Monospaced
Full-Width, Half-Width, Third-Width and Quarter-Width Forms, and Revert
To Default Forms. Each form draws the selected characters with the
font's OpenType feature for it (trad, expt, jp04, jp90, jp78, jp83,
fwid, hwid, twid or qwid). A form is checked when every selected
character has it and disabled when none of the faces that draw the
selected text, fallback faces included, has the feature.
The form is a new character attribute, glyphForm, one form at a time
(text.setFormat, text.setRangeStyle). It is saved only when set,
character styles carry it, and runs that differ only in their form
shape as one piece of text. SVG writes it in font-feature-settings;
PDF draws the glyphs from the layout.
Type > Smart Punctuation... now opens its own dialog in place of the
generic parameter form. It has the seven replacement options, Replace In
(Selected Text Only or Entire Document) and Report Results, which lists
how many of each chosen replacement were made after OK. The dialog opens
on the options confirmed last.
- type.smartPunctuation takes fiLigatures, flLigatures, spaces and
fractions, all off by default, so existing calls behave as before.
- Ligatures write U+FB00 to U+FB04, longest match first. Expert
Fractions writes the one-character fractions Unicode encodes, and
skips one with a digit, a slash or a decimal point next to it, across
a change of style too. Either is written only where the run's font
has a glyph for it.
- Smart Spaces keeps one space after a period, across runs. An inline
graphic separates the text on either side of it.
- The reply adds a replaced object with a count per kind. Nothing to
replace still records no undo step.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/type-parity.md.
Type whose color bitmap glyphs fit under the page limit, but whose run
fill passes it, is left out together with the image placements of its
glyphs. The new test builds the color font in memory and checks that
the page then equals the page without that type: no reference or shared
resource is left for the glyph image, a glyph drawn once elsewhere is
written inline again, and an image drawn twice keeps its shared samples.
A COLRv1 linear or radial gradient whose color line repeats or reflects
made the whole glyph an image. Such a gradient now reads into a vector
gradient with the same spread. The COLR specification repeats the
interval from the first color stop to the last, so one run of the stops
spans the gradient's vector:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/colr
A repeating or reflecting radial gradient that starts at a circle stays
an image, and so does a repeating or reflecting gradient with a stop
whose palette index is outside the palette. A color line with an extend
value the specification does not define now pads, as the specification
says, instead of making the glyph an image.
A justified area type line counted a tab as a word space, so it gave
the tab a share of its room that no glyph drew, and the line ended
short of its measure. A word-tab-word line ended short too.
- The text up to a line's last tab keeps its spacing, each tab keeps
its stop and its leader stays in its gap. The text after the last
tab takes the line's room: word spacing, letter spacing and glyph
scaling within their ranges, then its word spaces, or the gaps
between its letters when it has none. Kashidas go in that text when
it is one run.
- A tab separates two words, so Single Word Justification does not
align a word-tab-word line.
- Right-to-left lines take the text drawn after the last tab drawn,
measured as the line is drawn, and vertical lines work down the
column. Point type keeps its natural width.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md, docs/type-parity.md.
A double-click on a paragraph style's row and the panel menu both open
Paragraph Style Options (ui.paraStyleOptions, paraStyle.edit) with its
seven sections. The type-parity and ui-parity rows still called it the
rename dialog and named ui.paramDialog with paraStyle.rename; they now
name the dialog, its sections and its tests.
The target-app-parity entry said each section has a Reset Panel. Reset
Panel is unavailable in General, and the entry now states that.
A paragraph format given to the empty paragraph after a frame's last
paragraph break was lost when the story flowed again: the paragraph is
shared with the next frame's first paragraph, and the next frame's old
style replaced it, in that frame and in the frames after it.
- The thread reflow also notes which frames' last paragraph changed
style, and story_paras_restyled keeps that style against the next
frame's unedited first paragraph, across unedited empty frames too.
When the same edit formats the next frame's first paragraph, that
format applies, as before.
- story_paras keeps its behavior for its other callers.
- Tests cover area type and type on a path on either side, a next frame
holding text, three frames, undo and redo, a format that changes
nothing, and numbered list counts.
The Character panel menu has Warichu and Warichu Settings… with Show East
Asian Options. Warichu characters are set at a percentage of their size
and stacked on 1 to 6 lines inside their line: one above the other in
horizontal type and side by side in vertical type. Warichu Settings sets
Lines, Line Gap, Scale and Alignment.
- text.setFormat and text.setRangeStyle take warichu, warichuLines,
warichuGap, warichuScale and warichuAlign; ui.warichuSettings opens
the dialog.
- A stretch of warichu characters is one block that stays whole on one
line. The canvas and every export draw the stacked lines; SVG, PDF and
the .ai writers write such type as outlines, as they do ruby. Type on a
path sets the characters at their own size.
- The attributes are saved natively, carried by character styles and
translated in every complete catalog.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/type-parity.md.
The Paragraph panel's Mojikumi Set lists None, YakumonoHankaku,
GyomatsuYakumonoHankaku, GyomatsuYakumonoZenkaku and YakumonoZenkaku,
then Line-end Punctuation Half Width, and text.setFormat {mojikumi}
takes yakumonoHankaku, gyomatsuYakumonoHankaku, gyomatsuYakumonoZenkaku
and yakumonoZenkaku besides none and lineEndHalf.
The spacing of each set is VectorCraft's own rule, built on the help
page's one-line description of each set:
- YakumonoHankaku sets every bracket, comma and full stop half width,
takes a quarter em off each side of a middle dot, and puts a quarter
em between Japanese and Latin letters or digits.
- GyomatsuYakumonoHankaku keeps punctuation full width inside a line,
sets an opening bracket starting a line flush and a closing mark
ending it half width, and takes the quarter em after a middle dot
ending a line off.
- GyomatsuYakumonoZenkaku keeps punctuation full width and adds the
quarter em between Japanese and Latin text.
- YakumonoZenkaku sets characters as None does.
Both composers and vertical type measure each line as it is set. A
right-to-left paragraph, whose line ends are measured untrimmed, also
draws them untrimmed, and a right-to-left line that ends between a
Japanese and a Latin character is measured without the quarter em the
set adds there. With a Desired glyph scaling other than 100%, the
space a set takes off before an opening bracket or middle dot, and the
Japanese-Latin space recorded at a line's end, scale with the glyph.
The sets save with the document and paragraph styles; new type and
Reset Panel keep Line-end Punctuation Half Width. SVG export lays type
with middle dots out again for its positioned spans. A .ai save
reports a paragraph with one of the new sets as left out.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md, docs/type-parity.md,
docs/gaps.md.
Each font menu kept its own script, kind, Variable and favorites
filters, so a filter chosen in the Character panel's menu was off in
the Control bar's, the Properties panel's, the Glyphs panel's and the
dialogs' menus. The filters now live in one place that every font menu
reads when it is drawn and writes back afterward. A filter chosen in one
menu is on in the others, and their rows are listed by it. The mouse
wheel over a closed family field steps through the families those
shared filters list. The search, highlight and expanded families stay
with each menu. The filters last for the session, as before.
Docs: docs/type-parity.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The font menu opened at its field's width, so from the Control bar's narrow
Character field the filters wrapped one chip per line and family names were
cut off after a few letters.
- The filters keep the same four rows wherever the menu opens: the scripts;
the star, Any Kind, Serif / Mincho, Sans Serif / Gothic and Rounded;
Script / Brush, Monospaced and Decorative; Font Technology with Variable.
- The menu opens at least wide enough for those rows and for a family name
up to 220 points wide with room for its sample, up to 60% of the window,
and stays in the window. A field wider than that keeps its width.
- Where the row has room, the sample starts after the widest name instead of
halfway along the row. It takes the row's whole height instead of 4 points
less, so samples draw larger at every Font Preview Size.
Requested by POGO.
With Envelope Options > Distort Appearance on, VectorCraft turned the strokes
of type in an envelope into filled outlines and bent them with the art, so a
stroke got thinner where the grid squeezes the type and thicker where it
stretches it. The drawn art of users' .ai files keeps those strokes as stroked
paths at the type's own weights, and the ring they paint is as wide wherever
the grid squeezes or stretches the type. An envelope of stroked type in such a
grid therefore didn't draw as its drawn art and kept it instead of opening live.
Type's strokes (its characters' and those on its own appearance) now paint
along the bent glyph outlines at their own weight, with Distort Appearance on
or off, also in an envelope inside an envelope:
- doc: `map_node` maps the groups that hold type's glyph outlines with
`Hooks::type_appearance` in place of `Hooks::appearance`, for type in the
envelope's contents and for type that a live object in them (an inner
envelope) outlined (`Warper::type_outlines`). Such a group's opacity mask
is mapped with the ordinary hooks, so it bends as other art does. Groups
marked as type's outlines in the contents themselves (art an earlier Expand
made) stay plain art.
- effects: `bake_type_appearance`, `bake_appearance` with strokes kept as
strokes: geometry effects on type's fills and strokes still bake in and bend.
- doc: `max_outset` counts type's character strokes as type's own visual
bounds do (`char_stroke_outset`). It left them out, though they already
painted past an envelope's grid where the glyphs reach its edge; this also
grows the visual bounds of blends and repeats of stroked type and the reach
of symbol art holding it.
Paths' strokes, geometry effects, opacity masks, linear gradients and pattern
fills bend as before. The canvas, hit testing, effect bounds, Expand, every
export and the .ai save take the evaluation from the same hooks. Expand of an
envelope of stroked type gives the bent outlines with the strokes on them.
This changes how VectorCraft's own envelopes of stroked type draw.
Tests: envelope_distort::type_strokes_paint_at_their_own_weight_in_a_squeezed_envelope,
a_stroke_on_types_appearance_paints_at_its_own_weight_in_a_squeezed_envelope,
type_strokes_paint_at_their_own_weight_in_an_envelope_inside_an_envelope,
a_paths_stroke_still_bends_in_a_squeezed_envelope,
an_opacity_mask_on_type_bends_as_other_art,
the_visual_bounds_of_an_envelope_hold_its_types_strokes,
the_visual_bounds_of_a_repeat_of_stroked_type_grow_by_half_the_stroke,
expanding_an_envelope_of_stroked_type_keeps_the_stroke_at_its_weight,
bake::tests::type_pieces_bake_their_geometry_effects_and_keep_their_strokes and
tests_native::an_envelope_of_stroked_type_whose_drawn_art_strokes_the_bent_outlines_at_the_weight_opens_live.
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At the Type tool's caret, kerning goes on the character before the caret.
At the start of the text there is none, so Alt+arrows, the Kerning field
and Reset Tracking and Kerning did nothing; at a later paragraph's start
the kerning landed on the invisible line break.
CharStyle::kerning_before (kerningBefore) is the space before a character
that starts a line by itself: the first character of the text, of a
paragraph, or after a forced line break. Shaping gives its cluster the
space and draws it that much later along the line (right to left the
space is at its right; in vertical type it moves down the column). The
caret at such a line's start sets it (edit::caret_kerning_target), in
type.step, type.resetTracking and the Character panel; text.setRangeStyle
takes it. SVG export starts the line where the character is drawn. The
Eyedropper and character styles leave it alone.
Type › Dynamic Text (`type.dynamicText`, also on the Contextual Task Bar
for type on a path) scales the text by one factor so it fills the span
between its start and end brackets, and the layout fits it again after
each edit to the text, the path or a bracket. The first character's
size moves in 0.1 pt steps within 0.1 to 1,296 pt. Turning it off, or
threading the type, keeps the sizes it was drawn at.
- The model saves `dynamicText` only when on.
- SVG, the legacy .ai writer and the .ai editing data write the drawn
sizes through `vectorcraft_text::drawn`; the editing data warns that
the setting is not written.
- Shrink Text to Fit and Dynamic Text step the size the Character panel
shows when a size measures the cap height, x-height or ICF box.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/type-parity.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Part of #4134.
A centred or right-aligned line of tracked type was measured with the
tracking after its last character, so it sat half that tracking
(centred) or the whole tracking (right-aligned) left of where the page
of users' .ai files draws it. That page aligns a line as wide as its
characters without that tracking.
Shaping now records the tracking each glyph's advance holds
(SGlyph::tracking), and a line that isn't justified leaves its last
character's out of the width it is aligned by. The last character is
the last one the line draws before a paragraph's end, a forced line
break or the spaces a wrap leaves; spaces or a tab typed before a
paragraph's end or a forced line break keep the letter's tracking, as
the page does. Forced line breaks and wraps aren't in the files: they
follow the rule so that turning a wrap into a paragraph or a forced line
break keeps the line in place. Hyphenated lines, lines whose last
character hangs, vertical and right-to-left lines and type on a path
keep it. The tracking stays in the glyph's advance, so the caret,
selections, line breaking and Fit Headline are unchanged.
LineInfo::trailing gives the amount. Right-aligned area type sets the
text after its last tab the same way.
What aligns by line widths follows. Convert To Area Type makes its
frame end where the lines are aligned, with room for the tracking, so
tracked type converted either way stays in place. Affinity import lines
up differently aligned paragraphs of artistic text by the aligned
widths. SVG import moves a centred or right-aligned letter-spaced line
back by its share of the last letter spacing, so it stays where a reader
draws it and SVG export, which anchors lines at the end of their
advances, reads back unchanged.
Centred and right-aligned tracked type lays out differently than before
in every document.
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In horizontal type, tracking and manual kerning are now thousandths of
the em as the Horizontal Scale draws it: at 50%, a tracking of 100 adds
0.05 em after each character. They were added at the full em while the
glyph advances took the scale, so narrow tracked type drifted from the
page of users' .ai files letter by letter. That page writes such type's
character spacing as the tracking itself in a text space as wide as the
scale, which PDF scales by it (ISO 32000-1 9.4.4). Vertical type keeps
the full em: its advances down the column don't all take the scale.
vectorcraft_text::spacing_scale gives the factor. Shaping, inline
graphics and the Optical pairs use it, and so do the conversions from
points back to thousandths of an em: the automatic kerning the Character
panel reads and Touch Type's limits (glyph_em), Combine Point Text, and
PDF import, whose tracking is now the file's Tc. Scale Text Attributes
now keeps tracked type where a horizontal stretch drew it.
SVG export writes letter-spacing in thousandths of the font size it
writes (the vertical scale), so uniformly scaled type keeps its spacing
in a viewer.
Type with both a Horizontal Scale other than 100% and tracking or manual
kerning lays out differently than before, in every document.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Direct Selection showed and dragged the anchors of type on a path's path
(#3980) but not their direction handles: handle_anchors read only a
path's own data, and the canvas draws only a path's handles.
- text.setPathHandle moves a handle of type on a path's path, in
document space, as path.setHandle moves a path's; the brackets keep
their fractions and the text reflows. One undo step.
- Direct Selection draws the handles of selected type on a path and
drags them with it (Alt: one side, Shift: 45 degree steps).
The custom dictionary's words in a list, with an Entry field and Add, Delete
and Change, applied on Done, as the public Check and correct spelling page
describes it. The menu item moves from the Spelling submenu to the Edit menu,
where the page puts it.
A right-click on type has a Spelling submenu with Auto Spell Check, as the
public Check and correct spelling page describes. A submenu that holds only
toggles shows their check marks, even in the context menu.
A closed font family field stayed ready for the wheel as long as it kept
its place and drew in each pass. Coverage was checked only when a pointer
move or wheel turn arrived. When a window, modal or popup covered a still
pointer and went away with no input in between, the next plain wheel
turn changed the selected type's font.
The field now stops being ready, and a wheel stream it held ends, in any
pass where the last pointer position is over the field but on another
layer. The pointer has to move onto the field again before the wheel
steps the font.
Since #5331, a closed font family field in Character, Properties or the
Control bar took every plain vertical wheel turn while the pointer was
over it. When a panel scrolled the field under a still pointer, the
field took the rest of the turns: the panel stopped scrolling and each
turn changed the selected type's font.
The field now takes the wheel only when the pointer was moved onto it
after the field last moved, and the wheel stream began there. A stream
that began anywhere else, a sideways scroll included, stays there until
0.5 s pass with no wheel input. A stream that leaves its field does not
return to it. It leaves when the pointer moves off the field or out of
the window, when the field moves or misses a layout pass, and when a
turn arrives while an overlay covers the field. Trackpad momentum stays
with the stream it follows and never starts one on a field. The rule and
its 0.5 s are VectorCraft's own.
Wheel turns the field does not take stay in the input in their order.
Moving the pointer onto the field and turning the wheel still steps the
font, as #5253 asks, in floating panel windows too. When the pointer was
moved onto the field while a window or overlay covered it, the pointer
has to move again after the cover goes away before the wheel steps the
font.
The Measure and Measure & Inspect tools ignored View › Snap to Glyph:
their press and end points snapped only to targets that hold no glyph
guides.
With Snap to Glyph, Smart Guides and Alignment Guides on, and Snap to
Grid and Snap to Pixel off, a drag's press and end land within the
snapping tolerance on the guides of live type that the Character
panel's options allow, except Anchor Point. A Shift-drag's end slides
along its 45° step to them, and the guide shows during the drag. With
Snap to Glyph off, the tools snap to the same targets as before and
show no guide. The targets are kept while the document, the window and
the snapping options stay the same, so a drag lays out the type once.
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