Window › Swatch Libraries › Gradients gains Holographic, after Organic
Fades: seven foils (opaque linear gradients of six narrow pastel and
pearl bands with off-center midpoints) and seven glows (radial
gradients from a bright center out to a clear edge), all mixed with the
Perceptual method. They also list in the Swatches panel's library menu,
swatch.library.list/get/add and the Gradient panel's Presets.
The names, colors and stops are VectorCraft's own. A saved preset that
already uses one of the new names is renamed with the first free number
when the preferences load.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md Swatches line, ROADMAP.
Window › Brush Libraries gains Ink and Wash after Art Ribbons: Tapered Ink, an art brush broad near its start that thins to a fine tip; Brush Pen, a calligraphic brush whose size follows the pen pressure; and Soft Wash and Pooling Wash, art brushes of translucent gray layers. The art brushes take the stroke color as tints. The names, shapes and opacities are VectorCraft's own.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/gaps.md, docs/roadmap.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Korean text broke after every Hangul syllable. A paragraph now has
Korean Line Break Anywhere, set from the Paragraph panel menu (with the
East Asian options), from the East Asian Composition Settings section of
Paragraph Style Options, and with `text.setFormat {koreanLineBreakAnywhere}`.
- Off, a word that contains Hangul (the characters between spaces) breaks
only at its spaces and after East Asian punctuation, or where the word
is wider than the line. Both composers follow it, and the word takes no
hyphen. On, a line may break between any two syllables, as before.
- New type has it off. Paragraphs and text objects saved before the
option read as on, so their lines do not move; the value is saved only
when it is off.
- Paragraph styles carry it, Reset Panel turns it off, and the .ai writer
reports it as lost for Korean paragraphs.
The help page: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/fonts-and-scripts/set-line-breaks-korean-text.html
The command is described in docs/mcp.md, and docs/target-app-parity.md
lists the option.
Effect › 3D and Materials › 3D (Classic) › Revolve (Classic)… sweeps the
profile round a vertical axis, as Revolve does, and draws every face with
the Wireframe, No Shading, Diffuse and Plastic surfaces of Extrude & Bevel
(Classic).
- `effect.apply` with `threeD.classicRevolve`: Angle (0 to 360), Cap,
Offset (0 to 1000 pt) from the left or right edge of the profile's
bounds, the Position rotation and Perspective, and the classic lights,
Ambient Light, highlight, Blend Steps and Shading Color.
- Groups and layers revolve about one shared axis, and the effect also
goes on a fill or stroke, as Revolve's does.
- `effect.lightingPreset` refuses it, as it refuses Extrude & Bevel
(Classic).
- Revolve faces carry their view-space normal, and
`three_d::revolve_facets` hands them to the classic surface code.
- Unknown parameters, numbers out of range and bad flags, edges,
surfaces and colors are refused with an error.
Paragraph Style Options and New Paragraph Style gain a Tabs section. It
lists the style's stops and edits the selected stop's Alignment, position
(X:, or Y: for vertical type), Leader and Align On character. Add puts a
left stop 36 pt past the furthest one, Delete Tab removes the selected
stop, and Clear All Tabs leaves the style with no stops. OK sorts the
stops by position and keeps the stop edited last when two share one
position. Reset Panel removes the style's tabs.
paraStyle.new, paraStyle.setAttrs and paraStyle.edit check changed tabs
stop by stop: at most 256 stops, and each changed stop's position from 0
to 100000 pt and leader of at most 8 characters. Stops the style already
has are kept as they are. Changed tabs are sorted by position, keeping
the first of stops at one position. text.tabs.set rejects a leader longer
than 8 characters, an Align On value of more than one character and more
than 256 stops. Loading paragraph styles skips a style whose indents,
spacing, hyphenation, justification or tabs are out of range.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
A Cutting Tools add-on command (Object › Plug-ins › Cutting Tools › Weed Box
and Lines…, `addon.cutting.weed`) for vinyl cutting: around the selected art
it adds a weed box, a rectangle at a margin outside the art's bounds, and
weeding lines across the box, horizontal, vertical or both, by count or by
spacing. Each line runs from one side of the box to the other and is left out
over the art and within a gap of its outlines, so it stops at the art and the
waste lifts off in pieces. The lines and the box are straight paths stroked
in a chosen color swatch ([Registration] by default) with no fill, in one
group named Weeding on top of the current layer, selected, as one undo step.
While a clip group, or a group inside one, is edited in isolation, the
group goes on top of the container that holds the outermost clip group
around it.
The art is measured by the outlines a cutter cuts: closed paths by their fill
rule (the hole of an even-odd compound path gets lines too), open paths as
lines, type by its glyph outlines, images by their frames, placed files by
the art they show (by their boxes when the file can't be read), symbol
instances by their art, and blends and other live objects by the art they
draw. A clip group, and an object selected inside one, is measured by what
shows inside the region its clipping paths clip to, and a clipping path
selected on its own as its clip group. Art in a hidden group or layer is
left out. The command refuses an empty selection, art with no outlines, bad
params, and art or lines too complex to measure, with a message.
The dialog has Preview; a Spacing above 0 is used instead of the Count.
Docs: docs/mcp.md (Cutting Tools add-on) and docs/target-app-parity.md.
`insideFirst: true` (default false) draws each pen's path only after
the pen's paths that lie inside it: a letter's counter before the
letter, a part's holes before the part. Without `sortPaths` the paths
otherwise keep paint order; with it, the next path is the nearest of
those free to draw.
Touching outlines count as inside; crossing ones, and copies of one
outline, do not. Finding which paths lie inside which shares the plot's
work budget with sorting, and each case that runs out of it adds a
warning.
Docs: docs/mcp.md (HP-GL export), docs/target-app-parity.md.
effect.deferredStatus lists a stage in the art of a symbol, pattern, brush
or opacity mask by the id of the object in that art. effect.refreshDeferred
took such an id only while the object still had a deferred stage; an
existing object there without one was refused as no such object, while a
layer object without a stage was accepted. An id is now valid when it names
an object in the layers or in that art, an object without a stage adds
nothing to the counts, and an id of no object is an error.
The params text and docs/mcp.md said `id` names one object, but the params
text did not list the key, so `{id: N}` was refused as an unknown
parameter. It is now `{ids?|id?}`, and the command checks only the form of
the ids before it looks them up itself.
The requested ids are held in a set while the art is walked, and only those
with a stage are handed to the refresh.
- ui.dock's move takes a hidden panel's shown id in target, as the other
docking destinations do.
- Shortcut overrides keyed panel:<panel id>, saved and in an open
Keyboard Shortcuts dialog, show the panel id shown for a library
outside the read roots, also when nothing else refers to it.
- Outside Windows, a native path is matched only as written: a sent
/out/weird/name.svg no longer renames a hidden library at
/out/weird\name.svg, and a reply does not read one as a spelling of the
other. Windows paths are still matched with either separator.
The zero point dragged out of the box where the rulers meet snaps as a
Pen or shape tool's point does: with Smart Guides onto the anchors,
centres, edges and paths of the art and the artboards or into line with
them, with Snap to Point onto the anchors and along the ruler guides,
else onto whole pixels or the grid. The guides showing what it snapped
to show during the drag and go when it is released or cancelled
(Escape, focus loss, another document). The origin is still set once,
on release (document.setRulerOrigin, one undo step).
The engine snaps it (Session::ruler_origin_drag, with the tools crate's
rulerguide::OriginDrag over PointSnap::drawn), as it does a guide
dragged out of a ruler.
Object › Plug-ins › Cutting Tools › Stencil Bridges… (`addon.cutting.bridges`)
cuts strips of a set width out of the selected art so that a stencil cut
from it holds together: every island (the inside of an O, A or 8, a hole in
a shape) stays joined to the sheet, directly or through another island.
Bridges take the shortest crossings that fit first, then spread around each
island up to the count asked for, at least two widths apart. They run
vertically, horizontally or along the shortest crossing among 12
directions 15° apart.
- The art is measured by the area its outlines enclose, whatever their
paint, with hidden objects left out; type by its glyph outlines, without
converting the type. The result is one compound path with the strips cut
out, painted as the topmost selected shape with outlines, in the place of
the topmost selected object with outlines. Selected objects with no
outlines in the art stay where they are.
- Keep Original (on by default) moves the selected objects that make up the
art to a new hidden layer, Stencil Original; off replaces them.
- Art with no islands, or none a bridge of the width fits, is left as it is
with a message and no undo step. Islands the cut result still encloses
are counted in `unbridged`, with a message. Otherwise the run is one undo
step.
- Curves are followed within a twentieth of the width (0.002 to 0.25 pt).
Art that reaches more than 10000000 pt from the origin or has more than
200000 anchors is refused before it is combined. Art is also refused when
its combined area has more than 4000 outlines, when its outlines need
more than 200000 straight segments, or when placing the outlines or
joining every island takes more work than a fixed budget allows; when
the budget runs out while extra bridges are added, the bridges found so
far are kept.
Tests in vectorcraft-pathops, vectorcraft-engine and vectorcraft-ui-egui,
command_sweep cases, catalog rows in all 27 languages, docs/mcp.md, the
evidence list in docs/target-app-parity.md and the ROADMAP progress log.
Under --automation-read-root, prefs.get, prefs.list, prefs.set and
prefs.reset returned the folder preferences (fontsFolder, pluginsFolder,
scratchPrimary, scratchSecondary, recoveryFolder, templatesFolder) and
the export presets' folder even when they were outside the read roots.
Such a folder preference is now null, as ui.inspect leaves it out, and
such a preset's folder is left out. An empty folder and the scratch disk
choices stay; without roots the replies are unchanged.
Art Alt-dragged (Option-dragged on macOS) from the canvas onto a
scatter, art or pattern brush in the Brushes panel becomes its art
(brush.replaceArt). When strokes use the brush, the app checks the art
first, then a dialog offers Apply to Strokes, which redraws them with
the new art, Leave Strokes, which keeps the brush and its strokes as
they were and adds "<name> copy" with the new art as the current brush,
and Cancel. Each change is one undo step.
A pattern brush takes back the tile groups brush.placeArt places, frames
included, and takes other art as its side tile. Calligraphic and
bristle brushes, an empty selection and art with no width are refused.
Art Alt-dragged off the canvas now reaches the panels as the art the
drag started with. Before, the panels got the ids of the copy the drag
previews, which no longer exist once the release over a panel ends the
move.
brush.new now also measures a symbol instance in the selected art by its
symbol's art when it checks that the art has width.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
A scatter, art or pattern brush dragged from the Brushes panel onto an
empty part of the canvas places a copy of its art there to edit,
centered where it is dropped (brush.placeArt). Dropped on a path, a
brush is still applied to it. A pattern brush is placed as its tiles in
a row, 10 pt apart, each in a group named for its tile, with an
unpainted rectangle at the back of a tile that has a repeat frame.
Calligraphic and bristle brushes have no art and are refused. A symbol
instance in the art is measured by its symbol's art.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
A filled open path wrote its outline as an open polyline, so with fill
hatches left out (and in R12, and in CNC / CAM) the area lost its closing
edge. Fill outlines now close each open subpath that can enclose an area;
strokes of the same path stay open.
document.exportForScreens without a folder writes into the folder its
exportPreset keeps. When that folder is outside the client's read roots
and the export fails, for example because the folder is also outside the
write roots, the error now names the folder by its name, as the reply of
a successful export leaves it out. A granted root in the same message
stays whole, and a folder the client gives stays whole in the error.
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