The Parametric Shape tool's center and the Slice tool's corners snapped
with Smart Guides to the bounds of the art only, so View › Snap to Glyph
had no effect on them, and neither did the anchors and segments of
paths that the other drawing tools snap to. The point dragged out from a
Parametric Shape's center did not snap at all, and neither tool showed
Smart Guides while hovering before a press.
Both tools now snap through the drawing tools' shared snapping
(DrawSnap). A Parametric Shape's center (from a drag or a double-click),
the point dragged out from it, and a slice's corners land on glyph
guides and on path anchors and segments. The guides show while hovering
and during the drag. When a ruler guide then takes a slice corner, the
Smart Guides are no longer shown. A click with the Parametric Shape tool
still draws nothing when its center snaps a few pixels from the pointer.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
After Reset Bounding Box on a turned symbol instance, Break Link to
Symbol and Object > Expand gave the art a box turned with the instance's
transform again. The art's boxes now turn with the instance's own box,
so they stand square when the instance's box did, and the angles the
art has inside the symbol are kept relative to it. The group that an
instance's opacity, blending mode or opacity mask adds around the art
takes the instance's box angle instead of standing square to the page.
A reflected instance can hold a box 180 degrees from the box its
transform gives in one step; the art now takes the instance's box
there too, the same rectangle with its handles where the instance had
them.
Compound shapes and Pathfinder receive an instance's art through the
same rule.
The clip groups and clip paths that 9-slice guides make for gradient
and pattern art take the angle of the cell that places them, and the
outer group keeps the object's angle turned by the instance, instead
of standing square to the page. This also changes the result for an
instance that was never reset: a 20 degree sliced instance gave clip
groups at 0 degrees and now gives them at 20.
Docs: params text, docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The Home screen gets a Learn section between Recent Files and the new-file
presets: the Quick skill guide card, which shows the Learn panel's list of
skills (learn.skills), and each tutorial under its skill, which shows the
panel at its steps (learn.show). It works with no document open and over
open documents, opens no document and never hides the panel.
The card is shared with the panel's For you tab and now shows an outline
while it has the keyboard focus.
A command that needs a whole number of 0 or more, such as `index` of
`appearance.setItem`, `anchor` of `path.removeAnchor` and
`addon.pen.removePoint`, `sourceDocument` of `edit.dropSelection`, `index`
of `document.activate` and `to` of `document.move`, answered "missing
integer `index`" (or "missing index") both when the key was left out and
when it was given as a value that is not a whole number of 0 or more, such
as "3", 2.5, -1 or true. A value that is given but is not one is now
refused with "`index` must be a whole number", the message object ids
already use. A key left out or given as null is still missing, and an
optional index such as `subpath` keeps its default. Neither error changes
the document or records an undo step.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The Actions panel menu has a Button Mode item with a check mark. While it
is on, the panel shows every action of every set by name as a button in
its Action Options color, without set names, steps or checkmarks, and a
click on a button plays that action without its excluded steps. Choosing
Button Mode again shows the list.
- ui.action.buttonMode {enabled?} switches the view (left out: the
other view) and is kept with the UI preferences; it cannot be turned
on while an action records.
- ui.action.playAt {set, action} plays an action by its place, as the
buttons do.
- An action without a color is an ordinary button. The bottom bar shows
only Stop Playing/Recording while an action plays or records, and Play
Current Selection while one waits at a stop. Menu items for a selected
action or the current set are off in Button Mode.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/ui-parity.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
craft_dxf::parse_recovering reads the tags (ASCII and binary, any code
page), model::Document::read the sections, tables, blocks, layouts and
entity followers, and Entity::read each entity. The pair parser, the
records, the header, layer, block and layout readers and the colour
palette are gone; what stays is the mapping onto VectorCraft art.
Binary DXF files now open instead of being refused. A damaged binary
file says so.
A CSV file that holds NUL bytes and has no byte-order mark was refused.
It is now read as UTF-16 when at least half of its two-byte units hold
a NUL byte, in the byte order that reads a line break. A file with fewer
NUL bytes (UTF-8 or Windows-1252 text with stray NUL bytes, or UTF-16
text made mostly of characters above U+00FF) is still refused, and so is
a file that reads a line break in both byte orders, has an odd length,
isn't valid UTF-16 in that order or holds a NUL character. Refused files
get the same message as before.
addon.pathtools.cornerSet and cornerRemove now refuse a key other than
id and anchors in an `items` member, with the standard unknown-parameter
error, instead of ignoring it. A misspelled `anchor` used to fall back
to the request's `anchors`, else the path's direct-selected anchors,
else every corner of the path. They also refuse `items` given together
with `ids`, which `items` replaces. Saved steps played with replay
still run as recorded.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
A Live Paint Bucket click or drag over faces that already have the
fill, a stroke on an edge that already has the paint and width, Gap
Options with the options the groups have and no gap to close, and Make
or Merge given one Live Paint group alone now leave the document, the
undo and redo steps and the saved state as they are, and reply as
usual. Such a fill or stroke also leaves the recent colors as they are.
Gap Options with Close Gaps With Paths makes a group's faces again only
when it adds a path or what paint stops at changes, so the faces keep
their ids otherwise.
Type > Create Outlines dropped the fills and strokes of the type object
itself (the items around the Appearance panel's Characters row), so the
outlines no longer drew what the type drew. On type without effects of
its own, Object > Expand outlines the type with the same command, so it
lost them before Fill or Stroke could expand them.
- Create Outlines puts those items on paths of the type's whole outline:
the items below the Characters row on one path under the glyph paths,
the others on one path over them, in their order. Unplaced gradients
are fixed to the type's layout box, as the canvas paints them.
- object.expand.info reports the type object's own strokes, pattern
fills and gradient fills, measuring a gradient on the whole outline.
It counts them only when the type has an outline: type of only spaces
reports none of them.
- The stroke flag of object.expand.info counts every stroke Outline
Stroke outlines, not only the topmost one, for paths as well as type.
Expand skipped Stroke for a visible stroke under a stroke with no
paint.
Create Outlines still does not carry over the type object's own effects.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The save commands' warnings now follow an export's .ai rules: a legacy
.ai file (aiVersion "7") reads only its own options, and the other .ai
and .ait files don't read outlineText, hiddenObjects, transparentImages
or preserveEditing. They name any option given beside the path that the
file doesn't read, not only compress, version, preview and precision,
and any such key in options. The bytes a save writes don't change.
The Save Options dialog sends a .ai save only the options the chosen
version reads, so a save from the dialog gets none of these warnings.
When the document's own file is already a .ai, the .ai options that a
save doesn't give and its file doesn't read keep their remembered
values, so the dialog still shows them; the save doesn't write them, and
a retry in another folder doesn't send them.
Export for Screens and Export Assets already accepted a key in a format
row or in a format's settings that only another format takes. Their
warnings now name it as given (formats[0].quality, settings.png.quality).
A key in a format's settings is named only when no row of that format,
as the export writes it, reads it. The options of an exportPreset, and
for assets.export the settings the document keeps, get no warning.
Docs: params text of document.save, document.exportForScreens and
assets.export; docs/mcp.md; docs/target-app-parity.md.
Invert Colors, the Convert to commands, Saturate, Adjust Color Balance,
the Blend commands and Recolor Artwork recorded an undo step even when
they changed no color, for example Invert Colors with fills and strokes
off, Saturate at 0 or a second Blend Front to Back. The empty step also
cleared the redo steps. paint.invert and paint.complement on whole
objects, Apply as Filter (addon.color.filter) and Apply Nearest Swatch
run the same pass and did the same.
These commands now run on a copy of the document and record the step
only when something changed. Convert to Indexed Color uses the same
helper. Recolor Artwork also compares the documents when it counted no
recolored paint, so rewriting a color group's swatches still records
its step.
A graph draws the art of a column or marker design inside a series again
from the stored design. Rows, effects and graphic styles that a command
gave that art were lost the next time the graph's data, type or size
changed. The paint commands already left the art out.
- The appearance.* row and whole-appearance commands, effect.apply,
appearance.addEffect and the effect.* commands that edit, move or
remove an effect, threeD.mapGraphic, graphicStyle.apply,
graphicStyle.addFromLibrary with apply, transparency.set with a fill
or stroke item, and appearance.copyFrom (as the target) leave out any
object inside a series group other than a path directly in it, given
by id, selected or reached through target: "contents". They edit the
other objects given, and a command whose objects are all design art
is an error.
- appearance.transfer with design art as its target, or as its source
without copy, is an error.
- A Pathfinder effect no longer groups selected design art.
- The paint commands given a design's copy with a fill or stroke item
leave it out as well.
docs/mcp.md states the rule, and the Graphs line in
docs/target-app-parity.md names it.
A path directly in a graph series lost what these commands gave it when
the graph was drawn again, for example after graph.setData:
- While Global Edit is on in an isolated graph, a match that is a series
path, or a series group whose paths take the edit, now has what
changed on its paths stored for their series: the paint, weight,
opacity and blend mode of the topmost visible fill and stroke, and the
object's opacity and blend mode. The edited match is stored by its own
command as before.
- addon.arrange.randomizeOpacity and addon.arrange.sort with apply
"opacity" now store the object opacity, with the blend mode, of the
series paths whose opacity they change. When they change several
paths of one series, the frontmost of them sets what the graph
stores, as for the other commands.
The graph stores them in the same undo step as the edit. The params
text of addon.arrange.randomizeOpacity and addon.arrange.sort,
docs/mcp.md and docs/target-app-parity.md describe the new behavior.
The check after each edit that the selected objects stay within the
canvas measured the whole of every selected path. Moving one anchor of
a 10,000-anchor path measured all 9,999 segments. A path or compound
path whose anchors and handles are all finite and inside the canvas
range now passes without being measured, because its curves stay inside
their control points. A path with a point outside that range is still
measured, so the check accepts and refuses the same edits as before.
path.moveAnchor to the point the anchor is already at, and
path.setHandle to the point the handle is already at, now leave the
document as it is and record no undo step.
vectorcraft_geom::path::measured_segments counts the segments that
PathData::bounds measures, and the new engine tests use it.
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