A grayscale or 1-bit image colorized with a spot color now counts as a
Spot Color Object. A gradient whose stops are all at an opacity of 0
draws nothing, so its spot stops no longer list the object.
The spotColors category is now titled Spot Color Objects and lists each
object filled or stroked with a spot color, by name with the spot colors
it uses, instead of the spot swatch names. A solid color or a gradient
stop linked to a spot swatch at a tint above 0 counts; process colors
that look the same and Registration do not. Paint that draws nothing is
left out by the rules Pattern Objects and Gradient Objects follow, and
type whose characters use a spot color is listed. Objects counts the
listed objects as Spot Color Objects.
document.info returns spotObjects, spotColorNames and objects.spots;
spotColors now holds the spot colors those objects use. The report that
Document Info > Save... and Package write lists the same rows.
The Spot Color Objects, Pattern Objects and Gradient Objects titles have
a row in each of the 27 complete catalogs, and a test checks that every
complete catalog has the three.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An approval question that a control request, MCP, injected input, or a
file dialog one of them opened leads to now keeps OK disabled and
refuses every confirm, a person's click included. The dialog says to
choose Object › Plug-ins › Install Plug-in…, and ui.installPlugin answers
approval: "personMustStartInstall". The person's own Install Plug-in…,
File › Open or drop inspects the module again and asks a new question
with its half-second delay.
The origin is fixed when the request is made and goes with a native
file dialog's deferred answer and the web picker's answers, which now
arrive apart from drops and from window.vectorcraft.openFile (always
automation). A question about taking another module's place now opens
in the approval dialog, and automation's replace: true no longer skips
it. A module that needs no approval still installs at once.
Convert To Point Type left Dynamic Text on when it turned Block area
type into point type. Point type has no Dynamic Text, but the flag was
saved, and converting the type back to area type turned Block on again
and fitted the lines to the new frame. The conversion now turns it off;
the point type keeps the sizes and leading Block wrote into the
characters, and the conversion is still one undo step.
- A name may hold \u{...} escapes with any number of hexadecimal digits
up to U+10FFFF. An empty, unclosed, out-of-range or surrogate escape is
not part of a name. Each \u{...} escape read in a name is reported as
syntax newer than ES3, with the escape as written.
- # followed by an escaped name start is one private name, also in the
code of an XML literal, and its escapes are read in the report
(this.#app is #app).
- A # and a name at the start of a line is a private name, not a
directive, when the name starts with an escape, or when the line is
inside braces and the name is not a directive's. A private name whose
decoded name would make the line a directive is reported as written.
- The identifier test against vectorcraft-js also compares braced
escapes.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The hover lists up to 30 notes, fewer when the window is small, and says how many were left out. The docs and command description said it lists them all.
Window › Swatch Libraries › Patterns and the Swatches panel's library
menu gain a second built-in pattern library, Grit Textures, with eight
black textures on square grid tiles of 18 to 36 pt: Fine Grain, Coarse
Grit, Sand, Speckle, Stipple, Scratches, Sparse Flecks and Dense Flecks.
Each is drawn in code from a fixed seed, so it is the same every time.
Marks that reach past a tile edge are drawn on the next tile by the
tiling, so the tiles join without a seam.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md, ROADMAP.
The Blend panel gets a Create Spine menu (Auto, Always, Never) under Make,
and object.blend.createSpine {mode?} sets or reads it. It is kept with the
preferences, is not an undo step and leaves blends already made as they are.
object.blend.make takes createSpine to choose for one new blend.
Auto and Always give every new blend a straight spine, as before. Never
makes a blend without one: its steps sit where a straight spine puts them,
object.blend.info reports hasSpine: false, easing is refused and dimmed,
Reverse Spine and the spine point commands refuse it, Release gives back
no spine path, and Replace Spine gives it a spine. A blend taking more keys
keeps whether it has a spine. Native files save noSpine; older files open
with their spines.
Builds on #5177 by adambelis.
The Graphic Styles library menu lists nine libraries. Painted and
Sketched follows Hand-Drawn and holds Washed Blue, Bristle Ochre,
Pastel Heather, Charcoal Shade, Ink Contour, Wet Ink and Fine Pen. Each
style is a solid fill, two with a 1 pt stroke, under one watercolor,
dry brush, rough pastels, charcoal, ink outlines, sumi-e or graphic pen
effect with every setting given. The library and style names have rows
in all 27 catalogs, and docs/mcp.md describes the library.
DXF Options gets Include Placed Images and Include Fill Hatches, and
document.exportDxf and document.export {format: dxf} take
includeImages and includeHatches. Both are VectorCraft's own options
and default to true, so Custom exports write what they wrote before.
- includeImages: false writes no IMAGE entity, IMAGEDEF, reactor or
linked file for a placed image, and does not decode its pixels.
- includeHatches: false writes each filled area's outlines without the
solid HATCH after them.
- Each adds one note to warnings when it left something out. R12,
which has neither, keeps its own notes.
- The CNC / CAM preset sets both to false, so its drawing holds the
cutting paths alone; the options given still override it, and
changing either checkbox shows Custom.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/control-protocol.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
ui.pointer and the headless pointer call read a pointer event's pressure,
holdMs, tiltX, tiltY and rotation with a default for any value that was not a
number, and treated any space other than screen as document space. Each event
is now checked before the packet runs: those values must be numbers and space
must be doc or screen, with null keeping the default. docs/mcp.md says so.
A save or an export with several notes named only the first of them in
the status bar, with the count, and the others could not be seen. The
status bar now keeps every note of a save or an export for the status
message's hover, as it does for an open's notes since #6752: resting
the pointer on the message lists them in the order the reply gives them
(a save's notes start with what the format loses), and screen readers
receive the list after the message. The status text is unchanged.
This covers Save, Save As, Save a Copy, Save as Template, Save a
Timestamped Copy, Save as PDF, Export As, Export Selection, Export for
Screens, Asset Export, Save for Web, Preview in Browser, Save for Office
Documents, Text Export Options, a print to a file and the CSS Properties
panel's export. The open, the saves and the exports read a reply's notes
through one helper.
Docs: docs/mcp.md and the css.exportFile params text,
docs/control-protocol.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
A client confined with --automation-read-root could learn paths it was
not given and may not read from the replies of several commands. Each
one now names such a path only when no read roots are in force or the
path is inside them:
- document.save and file.save, file.saveAs, file.saveCopy and
file.saveAsTemplate (app.save and engine.execute) without a path:
the document's own file, the files of separate artboards and linked
files are left out or named by file name, and the folder a save
suggests is left out.
- document.exportForScreens with the folder of an exportPreset: the
ZIP path is left out and files are relative to that folder.
- document.exportSettings, document.exportPresets.list and
document.exportPresets.export: a kept folder outside the read roots
is left out of the reply and of the presets file the export writes.
- file.package: warnings, missingLinks and the report name a file
outside the read roots by its file name. A link's stored path, read
from the document's folder when it is relative, decides, also when
its file was found under another path.
- document.info: an image linked to a file outside the read roots has
link null, and its Linked Images row names the file alone.
docs/mcp.md and the params text describe the rule.
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