A right-click on a selection that holds a path (a path, a group of
paths, a compound path, or anchors selected with Direct Selection) lists
Smooth…, after Join and Average… and the anchor entries when those are
listed. It opens the slider that Object › Path › Smooth opens, which
previews the result until OK keeps it as one undo step. With nothing,
only type or a group of type selected, Smooth… is not listed.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
object.expand.info reported a gradient (and a fill) to expand for any
type whose characters have a gradient fill. Expand outlines type first,
and each outline then holds the run's gradient on its own box, so a
gradient that repeats or reflects in more than 256 runs across every
outline stays a gradient: the dialog enabled options that changed
nothing.
- The query now measures the paths type.createOutlines makes of the
glyphs, ruby glyphs and underline and strikethrough bars, each with
its run's paint, and reports a gradient when one of them expands. It
lays the text out only when a run has a gradient fill, stops at the
first outline that expands, and does not change the document. Type in
symbol art, blends and repeats goes through the same check.
- docs/mcp.md says when gradient is false; docs/target-app-parity.md
gets an evidence line.
An app that does not send the image back wrote the window capture to
vectorcraft-window-<pid>.png directly in the system's temporary folder.
On a shared Unix temporary folder another user could put a link at
that name, and the app would then overwrite the file it points to. A
failed read also left the file behind.
The capture now goes to window.png in a new folder made for it inside
the temporary folder (owner-only on Unix; a name that is taken is
skipped). The folder is removed after the read, also when the app or
the read fails.
PDF export without a PDF/X or PDF/A standard writes pages longer than
200 in at full size in points instead of with a UserUnit scale.
longPagesInPoints is now on by default in PdfSettings, the built-in
presets and the Save PDF dialog. Turning it off writes such a page with a
UserUnit from PDF 1.6 on, as before. PDF/A-2b files keep the UserUnit,
and .ai saves keep it unless longPagesInPoints: true is passed.
Docs: params text, docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
With one Objects on Path group selected and an object chosen with its
Select/Move widget, Detach in the Properties panel's Objects on Path
Options section takes that object out of the group
(`object.objectsOnPath.detach {member?}`). The object goes just above
the group in the Layers panel, stays where it is drawn and is selected
alone. The other objects move up the path in their order: Auto Space
spreads them evenly again, and a Space value and the start are kept.
The group and its path stay with one object or none left. Hidden or
locked objects and groups are refused, and Detach is one undo step.
When the group is itself on another group's path, the object goes
above the outer group so it does not join that path.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md. Detach and its undo name
have rows in every catalog, and the new message in the complete-message
catalogs.
The profiles Edit > Assign Profile gives a document stayed the active
color settings after another document came to the front, so a new,
opened or switched-to document drew and converted its colors through the
previous document's profile, and closing the last document left it in
use.
The session now puts the front document's profiles in use (the working
spaces where it has none, or no document is open) after a new or opened
document, a tab switch, a close, File > Revert, every command including
each batch step and Undo or Redo of Assign Profile, a failed batch or
plug-in call, a script's rollback and slice boundaries, a canceled
preview, undo group or undo scope, and for each document Export All Open
and the update of placed documents work in. The active settings are
rebuilt, and the documents redrawn, only when they change.
document.export and document.serialize to .ai with useArtboards: false
wrote the one page of the visible art, but embedded the one-artboard
stand-in as the native document and as the editing copy for other apps.
Reopened, the file replaced the document's artboards with one artboard
around the art.
- The .ai of the art's bounds now leaves out both editing copies and
returns the warning "Preserve editing was left out: an .ai file of the
art's bounds would replace the document's artboards when reopened",
as the PDF of the art's bounds does.
- useArtboards: false with pdfCompatible: false is refused, with or
without editingData, since the file would have blank pages and no
editing copy.
- Save, Save As, Save a Copy and exports of the artboards keep both
copies. Legacy version 7 .ai files are written as before.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md, document.export params.
A graph draws its series groups again with no rows of their own, so a
fill, stroke, opacity or graphic style that a command put on a series
group was lost the next time the graph's data, type or size changed,
and the graph stored nothing. paint.setFill and paint.setStroke already
pass a series group's id on to the paths directly inside it.
- appearance.addFill, addStroke, setItem, removeItem, duplicateItem and
moveItem, graphicStyle.apply and transparency.set with a fill or
stroke item now edit the paths directly in a series group given by id
or picked with Group Selection, and the graph stores what they change.
A series group with no such path, or with a fill or stroke row of its
own, is still edited itself, and appearance.moveItem from "contents"
still moves the group's own Contents row.
- appearance.clear, appearance.reduceToBasic, appearance.showAllHidden
and graphicStyle.breakLink edit the group as well as its paths.
- graphicStyle.apply without add and appearance.transfer onto a series
group clear the group's own opacity, blend mode, isolation, knockout,
effects and style link, and graphicStyle.apply with add unlinks the
group. A transfer source that is one of the group's paths keeps its
look, and a source that is the group's only path is an error.
- graphicStyle.redefine passes the style to the paths of a linked series
group, other than the source and the linked paths whose look was
edited, and clears and unlinks the group.
- graphicStyle.new, graphicStyle.redefine and appearance.transfer read a
series group that holds no row, effect, opacity, blend mode,
isolation, knockout or style link of its own through the topmost path
directly in it, and a move clears each of those paths. A series group
that holds one of them is read itself, as before.
- The Graphic Styles panel reads the style link of such a selected
series group from that path.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md. Not yet: the Appearance
panel and appearance.setActiveItem still read the selected group's own
rows, and the effect commands and the paint, stroke and gradient
commands with an item still edit the group itself.
Follows #5501.
While an action records, a script run, a tool's drag or a panel's or
dialog's commit could journal steps past the 10,000-step or 8 MiB limit
of an action set file without any check: the limit showed only when
Stop Playing/Recording left the steps out, and a finished script then
showed "Ran <name>".
The recording is now checked whenever the journal changed: after every
engine command the app runs (a synchronous script.run and a batch
included), when a script run ends, after a tool's result, and on the
next frame for edits committed directly. The edit and the journal
stay, the status bar names the limit at once, later recorded commands
are refused as before, and Stop keeps only the steps that fit. A
journal rewrite is checked again.
$.line and $.stack counted lines in the run's expanded source. In code
that comes after an #include they gave lines that match no file, and
this included code in a file $.evalFile ran and code a named engine
kept from an earlier run.
Both now map each frame through the run's source maps, as uncaught
errors already were. $.stack writes each frame as name@file:line,
outermost first, with the run's name as the file of a script given as
source. Code that eval or Function compiled keeps the line of the
source they compiled, in [eval]; code whose place a named engine no
longer keeps is at line 0 of [unknown]. The 64-frame limit, [global]
and [anonymous] are unchanged.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
$.fileName gave the file being run, so a function defined in a file
that #include inserted, in a file $.evalFile ran, or in an earlier run
of a named engine reported the calling file instead of its own.
- vectorcraft_js: HostItem::SiteGetter gives a getter the CallSite
(source tag, line, column) of the code that reads it.
- $.fileName maps that place through the run's source maps, or the
maps a named engine kept, to the file the code is in. It is empty in
code from a script given as source and in kept code whose map was
dropped. Code that eval or Function compiled still gets the file
being run.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
A blend made with Create Spine set to Never now shows the Appearance
widget with the Selection and Blend tools, so its color Shift can be
dragged on the canvas as on a blend with a spine. The Easing widget
stays hidden, since easing needs a spine.
The widget sits 16 px above the halfway point, by length, of the
straight lines between the key centers that the steps are laid out
along, and a drag follows those lines' direction there. The lines are
not drawn. `blend_layout_line` exposes that line; `blend_spine` still
returns `None` for such a blend.
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