With Enable Touch Gestures on, a two-finger tap on the canvas undid and a
three-finger tap redid even while a modal dialog was open, and in the Touch
workspace a two-finger tap switched modes behind it. Fingers already down
when a dialog opened could still complete a tap when they lifted, during
the dialog or after it closed.
While a modal is open, from the frame it opens:
- no finger tap runs a command and no multi-finger gesture begins; the
fingers already down are forgotten, so lifting them later runs nothing
- a primary press does not reach the tool, a middle-button press does not
start a pan, and a double-click does nothing
- a long touch does not drop the canvas press
- a click in Presentation Mode does not step to the next artboard
- a pinch, wheel turn or trackpad rotation does not move the view, and the
rest of a wheel turn made under the dialog is dropped after it closes;
a new wheel turn after the dialog closes moves the view at once
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md, docs/mcp.md.
Legacy .ai type (version 7) now reads the operators it used to skip:
- `autoKern kernValue Tk` (and `TK` in overflow text) sets the manual
kerning of the character before the pair, or at the start of a line
the space before the line's first character; autoKern 1 sets the
pair back to automatic. Values are kept to -1000..10000.
- `T+` and `T-` (discretionary hyphens) become soft hyphens.
- `languageID XL` sets the characters' language (ids 0 to 11).
- A visible text object read while a line breaking value (`TG`) or
Japanese layout rules (`Xu`, `Tu`) are set opens with a warning,
once per file for each.
Final-form positions (Tc, Tw, Tm, Td, T*, TR) stay ignored.
Legacy .ai saves now write manual kerning as `0 value Tk` after each
character that has it and before a paragraph's first character with
space before it, and soft hyphens as `T+`; manual kerning is no longer
listed among the attributes left out. The writer's prolog defines Tk
and T+.
Docs: docs/file-format-parity.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The UI chrome rows in target-app-parity.md listed SVG Interactivity and
context menus beyond the canvas as remaining work. The SVG Interactivity
panel ships, and the canvas, Layers rows, artboard rows, libraries,
rulers and toolbar grips have menus, so the rows now name context menus
in the panels that have none. ui-parity.md drops a second checklist row
that listed SVG Interactivity as missing; the row above it already
lists Retype, Comments and Version History.
The gap lists and area tables said Layers rows, panels and type have
no context menu. Layer, sublayer, group and object rows offer Collect
for Export for the row or every highlighted row, and right-clicking
type opens the canvas menu. The docs now list what ships and name the
remaining gaps: other row menu commands, guide and blend spine rows,
and panels without a menu. The Layers panel menu list adds Collect for
Export, and SVG Interactivity leaves the missing list.
docs/target-app-parity.md listed the "Preferences that act" bullet three
times. Two older copies disagreed on Highlight Alternate Glyphs (one said
on by default, the code sets it off in Prefs::default) and still counted
about 14 stored options. The newest copy is kept, now with the Highlight
Alternate Glyphs clause (off by default), and its count names the two
options still stored only: Scratch Disks and the legacy vector clipboard.
The older of the two "Preferences audit (2026-10-30)" bullets, which still
listed five stored-only options, is removed, and the UI chrome summary row
now says 2 options, matching docs/gaps.md G12.
Brushes, Spot Color Objects, Pattern Objects and Gradient Objects left
out a fill or stroke that was hidden or at an opacity of 0, but still
listed an object that was itself hidden or at an opacity of 0, and the
objects inside such a group or layer. They now leave those out, their
characters' paints and colorized images included. With Selection Only,
an object selected inside a hidden group or layer, or one at an
opacity of 0, is left out too. Objects still counts every object.
While the Type tool edits text, holding Space no longer lends the Hand
tool or, with Shift, the Rotate View tool: the canvas does not show the
hand or rotate cursor, and a drag with Space held does not pan or turn
the view. Cmd+Space still lends the Zoom tool. The default keyboard
shortcuts help page lists the Spacebar as the Hand tool when not in
text-edit mode.
Test: canvas::tests::space_types_a_space_while_editing_text_and_does_not_pan
Edit > Edit Colors > Convert to Indexed Color... (edit.colors.toIndexed)
stores the embedded images in the selection as indexed-color PNGs: a
palette of at most 256 RGB colors, each pixel the index of one. The
dialog previews live and OK is one undo step.
- The palette is chosen as for a PNG-8 export (selective, perceptual,
adaptive, web, gray, black and white), as evenly spaced levels of red,
green and blue (uniform), or from the document's swatches. Dithering
is diffusion, pattern, noise or none, with an amount.
- Pixels under half opacity become one transparent entry; the others
become opaque in their own color. Linked images, colorized images and
color glyph images keep their pixels.
- An image that is already an indexed PNG and would show the same pixels
is left as it is, and no undo step is recorded when no image changes.
- An image of more than 134,217,728 pixels (33,554,432 in the web app)
is refused, read from its header before decoding.
- With Select All, locked and hidden objects that hold an image that is
not an indexed PNG yet are counted in notChanged, without converting
them.
- The quantizer gains quantize_to, which maps pixels to a given palette.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
file.newProfiles.edit and file.newProfiles.reset returned the automation
access check and file system errors with the profile file's whole path,
so a client confined to read roots that leave out the preferences folder
learned where the folder is. The errors now go through naming_in_error,
like other paths the client did not give: whole inside the read roots,
otherwise by file name. docs/mcp.md and the params text say so.
The graph compares the paints a command leaves on it with the paints it
stored before the command, not with the value before each mark's
capture. Apply Fill to Stroke on two marks whose strokes already had
their fills stored the back mark's stroke and then the front mark's
again, and recorded an undo step with nothing changed. The same
comparison applies to the opacity and blend mode a series keeps.
docs/mcp.md states that only the topmost visible row's paint is stored,
and the Graphs line of docs/target-app-parity.md states that a series
that draws Filled Lines bands keeps no stroke paint or weight.
A document or brush library file could hold two brushes of one name.
Renaming the first in Brush Options moved every stroke of that name and
left the second brush unreachable, deleting by name removed both, and
the Brushes panel could not select the second row.
Reading a stored brush library now keeps the first brush of a name as
stored and numbers each later one with the first "Name 2", "Name 3" and
so on that the file does not already have. Strokes name their brush,
and a name always found the first brush, so every stroke keeps drawing
the brush it drew before. The rule applies to opened documents and to
brush library files; brushes added to a document that already has the
name keep today's numbering.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
An envelope around type of only spaces and a rectangle mapped from the
union of the rectangle and the type's laid-out box, so the empty type
moved and scaled how the rectangle was distorted. Type that draws
nothing now adds no box while other content in the envelope has one,
in groups and layers and as a clipping path too. When nothing else in
the envelope has a box, the type keeps its laid-out box, so an envelope
of only empty type keeps its frame, Make with Mesh and Reset with Mesh
still work, and Release still gives back the warp shape.
This applies to Make with Warp, Make with Mesh, Make with Top Object,
Reset with Mesh, Edit Contents and the stroke margins. Type that has
not been measured yet keeps its laid-out box as before.
The PDF/.ai import's boxes for envelopes with Distort Appearance
measure each object as the whole contents measure it, so the margins
the import tries match the contents' geometric box. The three import
tests that measure type without registering the glyph measure now
register it first, so another test registering it while they run no
longer changes their result.
With automation read roots in force, svgInteractivity.info and the files
reply of addFile and removeFile returned every linked JavaScript file as
stored, including paths outside the roots. They now name such a file by
its file name alone, as document.json does; a file inside the roots and
a URL are named as they are, and the document keeps every path.
removeFile also unlinks a file outside the roots by that file name. When
the name fits more than one linked file, it returns an error that names
no stored path and unlinks nothing. addFile still treats only the same
text as already linked.
In a frame a request drives, the JavaScript Files dialog lists such a
file by its file name while its selection keeps the file as linked, and
ui.inspect gives the selected file the same way. The person's frames
show full paths.
A file read for Place, for the place cursor or dropped on the canvas,
a bitmap read for Paste, and a paste waiting at its Swatch Conflict
dialog are no longer placed or pasted in a document that File › Revert
replaced while they waited. Revert keeps the document's tab and uid, so
these were placed in the reverted content with the selection, clipboard
and insertion context of the content it discarded.
- DocState::reverts counts the Reverts of a document; replace_document
increments it, and a batch that fails puts it back with the document.
- Reads, deferred swatch pastes and web canvas drops keep the count they
started with and are dropped, with a status message, when it changed.
- A paste given after a Revert starts a chain of its own instead of
following a paste given before it.
The widget's Constrain button was grayed out in Free Distort, and
neither it nor Shift changed a Free Distort corner drag. Constrain is
now available in Free Transform and Free Distort, and stays unavailable
in Perspective Distort.
With Constrain on, or Shift held, a corner dragged in Free Distort
moves only along the line through the opposite corner, in the box's
own proportions, and the other three corners stay in place. On a
turned box the line runs through the box's own corners. A box with no
size leaves the corner where it is. Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+Shift on a corner
still drags in Perspective Distort. The measurement label shows how
far the corner moved.
85 Hindi rows used an unrelated sense of their English word. Desired
read as देसी (local), and the range message dropped or garbled the
desired bound; rulers read as शासक (sovereigns), text characters as
चरित्र (personality), vector points and printer's marks as अंक
(digits), fills as the verb भरता, High Contrast as उच्च न्यायालय
(high court), Hide Thumbnails as हिंदुस्तान, Same as समीर and Even as
शाम (evening). They now use the catalog's terms: वांछित, रूलर,
कैरेक्टर, पॉइंट, मार्क्स, फ़िल्स and the plain words for the rest.
The Hindi glossary test rejects each of these senses in every row whose
English names the word, and the meaning test pins Desired and both
range messages, minimum <= desired <= maximum.
The new Trim at Crossings Tool removes stretches of paths between the
places where they are crossed by another path or by themselves. A click
removes the stretch under the pointer, a drag removes every stretch its
rectangle touches, and an Alt-drag removes every stretch its freehand
line crosses. It works on every path that can be edited, selected or
not, and each gesture is one undo step.
- `addon.pathtools.trim {at, tolerance?}`, `{rect}` or `{points}` is the
command behind the tool. A closed path that loses a stretch becomes
open, an open path that loses a middle stretch becomes two paths with
its appearance in its place in the stacking order, and a path that
nothing crosses is removed whole. The stretches that stay get no new
anchors.
- Hidden and locked paths, guides and clipping paths are not trimmed and
do not count as crossing. Only the paths the gesture reaches are
searched for crossings, and one work limit covers every path the
command trims.
- `crossings_on` and `crossings_on_within` in `vectorcraft-pathops` find
the crossings on one path and compare it only with the segments in
its box.
- The new tool shares the crossing search with Add Points at Crossings
and Split at Crossings, so those change too: two segments of a path
that meet at an anchor, directly or across segments with no length,
now count as crossing where they cross again away from that anchor,
and do not count as crossing at the anchor itself. With Self
Crossings, a curved segment that loops over itself counts as crossing
itself. Before, both crossings were missed.
- The tool is an add-on tool: Object › Plug-ins › Path Precision Tools
and the All Tools drawer list it, it has no shortcut, and neither
shipped toolbar shows it.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/ui-parity.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
A Transform effect whose result would pass the geometry budget (2 million
anchors or 8 million lines drawn) is left out and the art stays where it
was, but the raster effects listed before it still scaled and moved with
it: before a Transform effect that scales the art 1000 times, a Drop
Shadow's offset grew 1000 times and its blur went to the 1000 pt limit
around art that had not moved, and Expand kept those values.
The geometry pass now notes each Transform effect that moves the art once
and that it leaves out, in the Carry it already returns, and
Carry::hide_skipped hides those effects in the list the raster effects
are read from. The canvas (a path's own effects and its fills' and
strokes'), its bounds, bake (SVG and PDF export), shape art, Expand,
Expand Appearance and Outline Stroke use it, and a fill's Transform
effect inside a piece no longer scales the effects before it when the
budget leaves it out. The budget itself is unchanged.
A path drawn as its own art inside a group whose geometry effects run
after its members' own read its object effects whole. The reshaping pass
now notes a Transform effect that no path in the art took past the
budget, and the member's art hides it before its raster effects are read.
The bounds skip the extra geometry pass when no raster effect could
follow a Transform effect, and painted_reach runs it once for both
measurements.
A line in area type of a shape other than a rectangle was measured at five heights of its band, so an edge that pinched in between two of them (a notch tip at y = 47.5 in a 40..60 band) left the line running outside the frame. The frame's intervals over a band are now the intervals at its middle minus the x range of every edge within the band, which is exact for any number of vertices, holes and crossing contours.
Edges that contours meet along do not shorten a line: horizontal ones count by coverage, and collinear ones by overlap, and an edge that only touches the top or bottom of the band is left out. Rectangles keep their fast path.
Text wrap shapes were sampled at the same five heights, so a wrap object whose tip reached into a band between two of them let the line run across it. A line now keeps clear of every x at which a wrap shape, grown by its offset, lies anywhere in the band: the shape's intervals at the middle of the band plus every edge within it. With Invert Wrap, the band is cut into pieces a quarter of the offset tall (64 at most), and a line keeps to the x within the offset of the shape at the heights each piece's offset window holds, so it stays inside the grown shape over the whole band; an offset of 0 takes the shape's intervals over the whole band.
A frame less than 0.0002 pt tall no longer panics when a line is measured in it.
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