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.
Window › Swatch Libraries › Gradients gains Organic Fades, a gradient
library of fifteen fades (ten linear, five radial). Each runs through
three to five unevenly spaced stops with off-center midpoints, mixes
with the Perceptual method, and thins out to transparent at the end of
a linear fade or at the edge of a radial one. The colors are computed
from VectorCraft's own OKLCH anchors.
The library also lists in the Swatches panel's library menu, in
swatch.library.list (category "gradients") and in the Gradient panel's
Presets. swatch.library.add keeps each fade's stops, opacities,
midpoints and method in RGB and CMYK documents.
The other built-in libraries are unchanged: their gradients still mix
with Classic and keep centered midpoints, and a test checks it.
- Gradient previews in the Swatch Libraries panel, the Gradient
panel's Presets menu, swatch tiles and the toolbar drew every stop
opaque. Each chip vertex now takes the sampled opacity as its alpha
(freeform points too), and a chip with any translucent vertex draws
a white and gray checkerboard under the gradient. Opaque gradients
draw as before.
- When the preferences are applied, a saved gradient preset whose name
matches a built-in preset, or an earlier saved preset, in any case,
is renamed to the first free "<name> N" (N from 2), so a saved
preset named like a new built-in fade stays listed and can be
applied and deleted.
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.
A new gradient kind, `diamond`, runs its stops from the center (the
start) out to a square with a corner at the end of the vector; the
aspect stretches the square across the vector into a rhombus. The
Gradient panel's Type row has a Diamond button, the Gradient tool draws
the square with the aspect handle and center ring, and a gradient
fitted to an object covers its box.
- Model and canvas: the level is |x| + |y| in the square's frame; a
square with no area (no vector, an aspect of 0, numbers out of range)
paints the last stop. The canvas draws it as pixels, out to a
stroke's miters, caps and arrowheads. Transforms keep the vector and
take the mapped size across it as the aspect.
- Commands: `paint.setFill`, `paint.editGradient` and
`paint.setGradientGeom` take `kind: "diamond"`; a negative aspect or
a focal point is an error. A conic or diamond gradient that a plug-in
returns with a focal point loses the focal point.
- Gradient tool: dragging the aspect handle of a radial or diamond
gradient whose file gave it a negative aspect now sets a positive
aspect; only a conic's negative aspect mirrors it.
- Export: PDF, SVG, EPS and legacy .ai write four linear gradients, one
for each quarter of the square, clipped to the shape (PDF as axial
shadings). PDF and SVG write an image for translucent stops, a
dithered fill or a flat square, and for the Perceptual method unless
PDF writes the stops as spot color shadings. SVG writes a diamond on
type characters as a radial gradient through the corners, and so
does CSS. A swatch library saved as CSS gets four corner layers, a
value for the `background` property (a circle when the swatch is
turned by an angle that is not a multiple of 90 degrees). The .ai
editing data holds a radial gradient through the corners. The
document exports give a warning.
- SVG export: a stroke drawn as an image, as conic wedges or as diamond
quarters now covers the miters, caps and arrowheads that reach past
its paint box.
- PDF import reads a function-based shading whose color is the same
along each square about the origin of its space as a diamond.
- Object > Expand gives nested squares or a mesh of rings.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
action.batch read its true/false options with a fallback, so
{"stopOnError": "false"} kept stopping on the first error, and a
number for a string option such as label or datasetFileNaming was
dropped or turned into an empty string. The source check also ran
after the destination folder was made.
includeSubdirs, overrideOpen, overrideSave, overrideExport and
stopOnError now take only true or false, and source, folder,
destination, destinationFolder, datasetFileNaming and label take only
a string. Any other value is an error naming the key, given before the
destination folder is made or a file is opened. A null reads as a key
left out. The params text and docs/mcp.md say so.
script_pump read vectorcraft_doc::cancel only after the guard that keeps
a run waiting, so a run asleep in $.sleep went on waiting until its wake
time (up to 1,000 ms), and a run waiting at a dialog or for approval to
grow waited until someone answered. The check now runs before that
guard, after the dialog-failure check, so a canceled request ends the
run at the next slice and every document goes back.
A headless or control channel pointer packet now checks every event's kind,
coordinates and mods before it sends any of them, so a malformed later event
no longer leaves the earlier ones applied. A mods value that is not an object,
such as an array, is refused. Rotate View takes null mods as omitted. The MCP
docs name the params that refuse null.
Direct and indirect eval, Function and host evaluators parsed and compiled
their source before taking any fuel or checking the heap, so a script with a
small fuel limit could make the interpreter parse megabytes of source in a
handful of instructions. Interp::prepare_source now takes one unit of fuel for
each UTF-16 code unit and checks that the source text fits in the heap before
the source is flattened, parsed or compiled. A host evaluator's string takes
the fuel for a third of its bytes before it is encoded, and the rest after.
Limits::fuel and the maxFuel row in docs/mcp.md say so.
A new built-in add-on, Image Tools (Object › Plug-ins › Image Tools),
adds Remove Background… (`addon.image.removeBackground`). It makes the
background of the selected images transparent by lowering the alpha of
their own pixels, in one undo step, with no service or model. The
background is the most common color along the image's edges, the
average of the image's corners, or colors the user picks. Contiguous
(on by default) clears it only where it reaches in from an edge; off,
it is cleared wherever it is. Tolerance and Softness (0 to 100, 10 by
default) set how near a color must be to be cleared and the band over
which pixels fade out. Match measures that nearness as the RGB
distance or as the largest difference on one channel. It is a
VectorCraft addition.
- The image stays an image: an embedded PNG with alpha, the source's
ICC profile and resolution, and 16 bits or gray when the source is.
A linked image is embedded and keeps its Placement Options.
- When the edges hold at least as many clear pixels as pixels of their
most common color, edge mode clears nothing, so a second run leaves
the subject alone. Corner mode leaves clear corners out of the
average and clears nothing when all four are clear.
- With Match set to Each Channel, a tolerance of t / 255 × 100 clears
the colors within t 8-bit steps on every channel.
- A CMYK image, a linked image that shows its preview, an image that
would need more than the decode allowance (checked from its header)
and a result with no pixel left are refused, and the document stays
as it was. When no pixel changes, no undo step is added. The result
reports `cleared`, the pixels made fully clear.
- Picked colors are hex colors, with or without `#`, or black, white,
red, green or blue.
- The dialog opens with Preview off; with Preview on, the canvas shows
the result, and Cancel puts the image back. While the dialog
previews, the session keeps the images' decoded pixels (at most
128 MiB, 32 MiB in the web app) so each preview step does not decode
them again, and releases them when the dialog closes with OK or
Cancel. A run that is not a preview step keeps nothing.
Docs: docs/mcp.md (Image Tools add-on), docs/target-app-parity.md.
With Options::e4x set, an E4X name standing alone (@a, @ns::a, @[expr],
ns::a, *) is now a valid target for =, compound assignment, ++, --,
delete and for/for each loops, as well as a read. The target is the
nearest XML or XMLList value in scope whose [[HasProperty]] accepts the
name (ECMA-357 section 11.1). The name is evaluated once, and the
target resolves before the right-hand side runs.
When no XML value in scope holds the name, a read or write throws a
ReferenceError and creates no child or attribute. A read no longer
falls back to the first XML value in scope, so a filter such as
list.(@id == '1') throws when an item has no @id and no outer XML
value holds one, instead of treating that item as not matching.
An XML declaration at the start of XML or XMLList text was skipped up to
the next "?>" without being read. It is now checked against XML 1.0's
grammar (https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#NT-XMLDecl): a version of "1." and
digits, then an optional encoding name and an optional standalone "yes"
or "no", in that order, with optional white space before "?>". Any other
declaration gives "SyntaxError: invalid XML declaration", and a character
XML does not allow gives "invalid character in XML text". White space
before the declaration is still accepted.
The parser now takes fuel for the length of the declaration and the
white space before it, element and attribute names, white space in open
and closing tags, and the text it searched when an attribute value, CDATA
section, comment or processing instruction is not closed, or when "]]>"
or "<" stops a text run or attribute value. A long run in any of these
used the same fuel as a short one.
Grouping for flattening joined every pair of objects whose 1 pt reach
boxes touched, transitively, so a row or grid of opaque objects next to
one see-through object became one group and was flattened with it.
Now a group holds each see-through object and every object its reach
touches. An object without transparency joins only where its reach
touches a member and it lies above that member but below the group's
topmost object, whose place the group takes, so the stacking order
stays the same. In files without transparency with Clip Complex Regions
on, art under a group within one image pixel of a member joins it too,
with the pixel size taken from the image's actual resolution. Objects in
an overlap set that includes one inside a clip group or clipping layer
keep the previous grouping.
The 1 pt antialiasing margin now goes around a group's art once instead
of once per nested group (a stroked path's plain art is a group, so it
had 2 pt).
On 3,000 stroked rectangles, 60 with a drop shadow, the Flattener Preview
counts 180 affected objects where it counted 3,000, and Flatten
Transparency with the Medium preset makes 240 flat regions and 2 images
where it made one image of the whole grid.
A finally block that break or continue leaves no longer keeps the saved
site of the exception it ran for. A Jump now removes the sites at or
above the stack's length, as a return already does, so a collection
after the stack grows back over that slot does not root and count the
old code.
New tests in crates/js/src/host_tests.rs: an error passed on by a
finally block that collects garbage under a 1 MiB heap is reported at
its throw; the saved site keeps direct eval code live through a
collection; a host abort inside a finally block leaves no saved site;
and break, continue and return out of a finally block drop the site.
Document Setup gets a Color tab with the document color mode (RGB Color
or CMYK Color), a Convert to CMYK or Convert to RGB box for a mode
change (cleared, the colors keep their numbers), and the RGB and CMYK
profiles assigned to the document, with a working-space entry for none.
When the tab changes something, OK runs document.setup, then
edit.assignProfile, then file.documentColorMode in one command.batch,
and the document's changes are one undo step. Assign Profile runs first,
so a mode change converts through the profile picked with it. An
unchanged Color tab adds no color commands, and Cancel, or OK with
nothing changed, records no undo step. A Color tab field with a value of
the wrong kind is an error, and the dialog stays open with nothing
changed. File › Document Color Mode and Edit › Assign Profile… stay
where they are.
Catalogs: "Working RGB (don't tag)" and "Assign Profile" rows in every
complete catalog, and the "`{key}` must be a profile name or null"
message in every complete-message catalog. Docs: docs/mcp.md,
docs/control-protocol.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Save As to an EPS file showed Preview Format, Overprints and Flattener
Preset as text fields holding their ids (tiffColor, preserve, medium),
the PostScript level as a number field, and labeled every EPS option
except Use Artboards from its name ("Cmyk Post Script", "Thumbnails").
The dialog now shows the options Export's EPS Options shows. Preview,
Overprints, Flattener preset (the built-in presets, then saved ones) and
PostScript are menus of readable names. Transparent and Opaque apply to
the color TIFF preview only. Embed Fonts shows checked and disabled. The
PostScript level comes last. A pick writes the same values as before
(previewFormat "tiffColor", a built-in preset's id, a saved preset's
name, the level as a number). A value that the save would reject shows
as it is.
Every option the dialog shows has a written label. "Preview:" has a row
in every catalog, and the de, it, ja, ko, uk, vi and zh-hant catalogs
gain the menu names, which Export's EPS Options also showed in English.
Export As's Range field shows the "1-3, 5" example when emptied, as
Save As's does.
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