When PDF, print, EPS and DXF export place a symbol's art to bake its
effects, the art now carries the stain the instance's fill gives it, as
it did before the art was placed. The art is stained first and its
effects apply to the stained colors.
PDF, print, EPS and DXF exports now check the art of each placed symbol
instance after its effects are baked. The objects it holds, including
the copies a Transform effect makes, opacity mask art and the art of
instances placed inside it (counted once), count against the export's
16,000,000-object budget. An instance whose baked art passes the budget,
or would draw deeper than the 128 levels a document may draw, stays an
instance.
- doc: DrawnHeights measures how deep an object outside the layers
draws, symbols and patterns it uses included.
- effects: the bake tracks how deep each baked object sits, and a
rejected candidate releases what it and the instances in it charged.
A freeform gradient's image was sampled, encoded and written inline at
every fill, outside the reuse placed images have. Fields now go through
the same codes and placements: a fill whose encoded image (color setup,
image dictionary, filter, operator and samples) matches one already
kept draws from it, so its samples are written once in the setup as
VCim<i>. A field drawn once is still written where it is drawn.
A fill whose placement can't be drawn, or that arrives when the page is
already at the 256 MB limit, is no longer sampled first, and a field
image taken back with art that passed the limit is forgotten.
PDF, print, EPS and DXF wrote a symbol instance by placing its symbol's
art as stored, so live effects inside that art were missing: a square
moved 100 pt by a Transform effect stayed in place in the file while the
canvas drew it moved.
bake_document_placing_symbols replaces each instance of a symbol whose
art (or the art of a symbol nested in it) needs baking by that art
placed as the instance places it, then baked. The art is placed before
its effects apply, as on the canvas, so an instance that scales its art
does not scale what its effects do. A dynamic instance's own paint
changes apply before baking. Nesting stops at 32 levels and the placed
art at 16,000,000 objects per export; past them an instance stays an
instance. DXF places 9-slice cells unclipped, as its scene does. The
symbols' own art, SVG and the .ai editing data are unchanged, and HPGL
already baked each placed instance.
A gradient vector drawn on the art, a click that applies one, and the
dragged start and end handles snapped through snap_draw, which gathers
the bounds and anchors of the art only. Path segments, View › Snap to
Glyph's guides and the construction guides through the vector's start
did not pull them, and a click applied the gradient from the pointer
rather than from the snapped point. They now snap through DrawSnap, as
the Pen and Line Segment tools do:
- The press gathers the targets, for a vector drawn on the art and the
start and end handles only, and the drag keeps them. A click applies
the gradient from the snapped press.
- A dragged end or handle leaves its start as a Line Segment's end does:
it lands on the construction guides through the start, and with Shift
it keeps to 45° steps from the Constrain Angle and snaps along them.
- The pointer hovering where a press would draw a vector (anywhere with
art selected, over art with nothing selected), and not over the
annotator, shows the guides of the point the vector would start on.
A press that snaps onto a nearby target no longer starts the drag
early: the 3 px drag threshold counts from where the pointer was
pressed, not from the snapped start.
The palette listed the Layers panel's Delete Selection twice: as
Window › Layers › Delete Selection, which ran layer.delete and deleted a
layer holding art without asking, and as a bare Delete Selection, which
ran ui.layerDelete and asked first.
- The palette now lists one Window › Layers › Delete Selection result,
which runs ui.layerDelete, so a pick asks before deleting a layer or
sublayer that holds art. Scripts and the control channel still run
layer.delete at once.
- New Brush…, Brush Options…, Symbol Options…, Import SVG Filter… and
Convert to Text were also listed twice under the same name, once as
the engine command, which the palette ran with no params. Each is now
listed once, as the UI command that opens its dialog or file chooser
or acts on the edited paragraphs.
- A search for a wrapped engine command's id or menu path still finds
the one result.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md (Layers panel deletion).
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