The Links panel menu gets Copy Info, which runs the new UI command
links.copyInfo {ids?}: the file names of the selected rows (or of ids),
one per line in the order the panel shows them, go to the clipboard.
The item is off with no row selected. An id that is not an image or a
placed document, or a malformed ids, is an error and leaves the
clipboard as it was.
Effect › SVG Filters and Apply SVG Filter list 14 default filters in
every document, before the document's own. The set, the names and the
values are VectorCraft's own, written with SVG 1.1 filter primitives
(crates/effects/src/svg_filter/defaults.rs).
A document holds none of the defaults until one is applied or edited
there. svgFilter.apply with a default's name copies it into the document
in the same undo step, and svgFilter.define with replace naming a default
adds the edited copy under that name. The copy is listed in the default's
place. svgFilter.delete refuses a default the document holds no copy of,
and deleting the copy lists the default again.
svgFilter.list also returns the defaults. svgFilter.apply takes index and
item to put the filter in the place of an applied SVG filter, which the
dialog's OK uses when it is opened for an applied effect; an index that
is not an applied SVG filter, null included, is an error.
object.textWrap.make and object.textWrap.options kept an offset outside
-1000 to 1000 pt at the nearer end of the range, and read an offset that
is not a number, or an invert that is not true or false, as if it had
been left out. Both commands now return an error for such a value and
leave the wrap options and the undo history unchanged. An omitted or
null value still takes the default (6 pt and no invert for Make, the
current options for Text Wrap Options), and Text Wrap Options with only
null values reads the current options. A stored offset outside the range
is kept when only Invert Wrap changes.
The MCP text_wrap tool checks offset, invert and release before it
changes the selection, so a refused call changes nothing, and a release
that is not true or false is an error instead of making a wrap.
The image crate's filtered resize filters each channel on its own, which
is correct only for premultiplied pixels, and its thumbnail averages each
channel on its own too. Placed images, linked-image previews, MCP
captures and previews, metafile bitmaps, PDF downsampling and library
thumbnails passed straight RGBA to them, so the color under clear pixels
(usually black) bled into the opaque pixels beside them and darkened
cut-out edges.
vectorcraft_doc::resample scales such images with each pixel's color
weighted by its alpha: filtered resampling premultiplies the pixels in
place and divides them back after, and averaging takes the area-weighted
mean of the pixels each new one covers. Opaque and alpha-free images are
scaled as before. PDF export also multiplies the inks of a CMYK image
with alpha by that alpha before resampling them, and divides them by the
resampled alpha after.
document.exportSelection run with no params or {} (a shortcut, or an
automation call) wrote the picked file straight away with each format's
defaults: a PDF used the default preset, so Save PDF's options, such as
writing long pages in points, could not be chosen. It now takes Export
As's route after the save panel: Save PDF without its Artboards
section, SVG Options without its artboards, the raster options, EPS
Options, DXF Options, Text Export Options with Selection Only on, or an
exporter plug-in's parameters. OK writes the selection alone, cropped
to it, with the chosen options. While a dialog is open the call returns
null, and OK returns what file.exportAs returns, without format or
bounds.
With a path or any option it still writes straight away.
- file.exportAs takes exportSelection: true and then writes the
document that document.exportSelection writes
(fileio::selection_doc), without artboard choices. The options
dialogs and the replace-file questions pass it on.
- Nothing selected stops before the save panel.
- SVG Options opened by Export Selection leaves the remembered Use
Artboards as it was.
- Exports through file.exportAs (Export As and the options dialogs)
apply Appearance of Black's rich black, as document.export does.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/control-protocol.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The For you and Skills tab buttons, a skill's row, a tutorial's row and
Back changed the Learn panel's view directly, so the control channel and
MCP could not choose a tab, open a skill's tutorials or go back.
- learn.tab {tab: forYou|skills} shows the panel on that tab; the Skills
tab keeps the skill and tutorial it had open.
- learn.skill {skill} shows the panel on the Skills tab with that skill's
tutorials and returns the skill as learn.list lists it.
- learn.back {} goes up one level, as Back does.
- A tutorial's row runs learn.show.
- The commands are listed in both UI command catalogs, and their labels
have a row in every catalog.
- Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md, docs/ui-parity.md.
With the Selection tool, the Justification dialog, the OpenType panel, a
Character or Paragraph Styles row (Alt-click and Clear Overrides
included) and Type > Bullets and Numbering > Convert to Text now change
every frame of each selected threaded story, locked and hidden frames
included, in one undo step. Before, they changed only the selected
frames.
- The Justification dialog keeps the frames of the stories selected when
it opened for its preview and OK.
- The OpenType panel's Figure menu shows Mixed and its checkboxes show a
dash when the characters differ; a click on a dash turns the feature
on everywhere.
- The style panels highlight a style only when all of the text has it,
and show "+" when any of it overrides the style.
- Convert to Text takes the same stories as Apply Bullets and Apply
Numbers.
A triple-click whose clicks land on a face, another face, then the first
face again matched the fill the first click gave that face. It now
matches the fill the face had before the first click that painted it, as
the tool's doc comment and docs/mcp.md say.
- With Space held for the view tools, the Live Paint Bucket outlines no
face or edge, as a press there paints nothing.
- A scoped livePaint.fill or livePaint.strokeEdge where every face or
edge reached already has the paint records no undo step; a test covers
it, and one where only some faces need the paint.
- An MCP test drives the bucket through ui.pointer with mods.space.
- The tool's doc comment and the progress line state the rule.
Each step of a Learn tutorial now has a check box that marks it done
once the tutorial's practice sample is open, and Finish tutorial marks
every step done. A skill's ring fills by the share of its tutorials
finished, its count shows tutorials finished of all, and a finished
tutorial has a check mark in its skill's list. Screen readers get the
count and the finished state as the rows' values.
The progress is saved with the UI preferences and read leniently: an
unknown tutorial, a step a tutorial does not have, a repeated entry or a
value of the wrong kind is skipped without resetting other preferences.
Reset progress under the list of skills clears it. A finished tutorial
can be finished again after a restart without reopening its sample.
- learn.markStep marks or clears one step; learn.resetProgress clears
the progress; learn.list adds done and total per skill and finished
and completedSteps per tutorial. Both new commands are in the UI
command catalogs, and bad params are errors that change nothing.
- New labels and messages have rows in every catalog.
- Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md and docs/ui-parity.md.
The Actions panel menu has a Button Mode item with a check mark. While it
is on, the panel shows every action of every set by name as a button in
its Action Options color, without set names, steps or checkmarks, and a
click on a button plays that action without its excluded steps. Choosing
Button Mode again shows the list.
- ui.action.buttonMode {enabled?} switches the view (left out: the
other view) and is kept with the UI preferences; it cannot be turned
on while an action records.
- ui.action.playAt {set, action} plays an action by its place, as the
buttons do.
- An action without a color is an ordinary button. The bottom bar shows
only Stop Playing/Recording while an action plays or records, and Play
Current Selection while one waits at a stop. Menu items for a selected
action or the current set are off in Button Mode.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/ui-parity.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The save commands' warnings now follow an export's .ai rules: a legacy
.ai file (aiVersion "7") reads only its own options, and the other .ai
and .ait files don't read outlineText, hiddenObjects, transparentImages
or preserveEditing. They name any option given beside the path that the
file doesn't read, not only compress, version, preview and precision,
and any such key in options. The bytes a save writes don't change.
The Save Options dialog sends a .ai save only the options the chosen
version reads, so a save from the dialog gets none of these warnings.
When the document's own file is already a .ai, the .ai options that a
save doesn't give and its file doesn't read keep their remembered
values, so the dialog still shows them; the save doesn't write them, and
a retry in another folder doesn't send them.
Export for Screens and Export Assets already accepted a key in a format
row or in a format's settings that only another format takes. Their
warnings now name it as given (formats[0].quality, settings.png.quality).
A key in a format's settings is named only when no row of that format,
as the export writes it, reads it. The options of an exportPreset, and
for assets.export the settings the document keeps, get no warning.
Docs: params text of document.save, document.exportForScreens and
assets.export; docs/mcp.md; docs/target-app-parity.md.
crates/mcp/src/ui_catalog.rs now carries the ui.actionSet.save params
text from crates/ui-egui/src/menus/ui_commands.rs, so `cargo xtask
ui-commands --check` passes.
crates/mcp/src/ui_catalog.rs now carries the file.exportAs params text
from crates/ui-egui/src/menus/ui_commands.rs, so `cargo xtask
ui-commands --check` passes.
The help page says a wrap object's Offset may be positive or negative
(https://help.adobe.com/archive/en_US/illustrator/cs4/illustrator_cs4_help.pdf#page=307).
Text Wrap Options, the commands, the MCP tool and .ai import already
kept a negative value, but layout set it to 0.
- Layout keeps the signed offset, within -1000 to 1000 pt like the
commands and .ai import (a value that is not a number counts as 0).
- Around a wrap object, a negative offset shrinks the object by that
distance from each edge, holes included, so lines beside, above and
below it run that far into it. A shape narrower than twice the
distance no longer moves text aside. A line may get less room than
the exact shrunk shape leaves, for example where several edges come
close to one piece of the band, or where a band holds more than 64
anchor heights. It never gets less room than an offset of 0 leaves.
- With Invert Wrap, a negative offset keeps the text that far inside
the object.
- Zero and positive offsets up to 1000 pt lay out as before. A larger
positive offset lays out as 1000 pt.
- The params text of object.textWrap.make and object.textWrap.options
and the MCP text_wrap offset description give the range and what a
negative value does.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md.
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