A legacy .ai graph (%_Gs ... %_GS) opened as plain art, with its table,
type, axes and settings left out. A grouped column, stacked column, line
or area graph now keeps them on its group when every record has the
shape and values the version 7 specification's appendix A gives, the
table holds at least one number, the drawn art strokes the plot's left
and bottom edges, and each series group is tagged once as a whole
column, holds only paths and paints them with one fill and one stroke.
The saved art stays as it is on open; Graph Data redraws the graph from
its data afterward, with each series' fill and stroke kept.
Any other graph (pie and scatter graphs, designs, customizations, record
shapes of later versions, tables past 10,000 categories, 256 series or
2,600,000 cells) keeps its art as plain objects with the existing note.
Saving a graph to .ai, in either form, now warns that its data and
settings are not written.
Select > Start Global Edit was enabled for any plain group, so a group
holding type, an image or nothing was offered in the Select menu and the
Properties panel's Quick Actions, the Control bar showed its Global Edit
Options, and starting then refused it. The enabled check now applies the
same support check as starting to every selected object, a group's
contents included.
The answer is kept per document revision and selected object, so the
Control bar, which asks every frame, walks a group once per change.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md (a new line; the existing
Global Edit line no longer says the menu item checks only for a group).
Delete Artboards, Delete Empty Artboards and Cut Artboard removed the
chosen artboards one at a time, walking every ruler guide and the layer
tree once per artboard. They now share one helper that removes the
artboards in one walk and their guides in one more, leaving the same
artboards, guides and selected guides as before.
Empty Artboards in Artwork Cleanup had its own copy of the one-pass
removal. It now calls the same helper, and its test reads that helper's
walk counter.
When a recovery copy could not be written, the status bar said only
"Couldn't save recovery data: <error>", and a copy that failed on the
background worker showed as "Saving recovery data for <title> failed:
<error>". Neither said which folder was in use or how to pick another.
The message keeps the error text (and the document's title when one
copy fails), then names the folder copies go to, says whether it is
the default recovery folder or the folder set in Preferences, and
names the setting that picks another folder: Preferences → File
Handling → Data Recovery → Folder (recoveryFolder). The recovery code
writes the same line to the log. The folder is the one in use when the
round started, so a preference changed while a copy runs does not
change the folder the message names.
A copy that fails now reports its own message, so the job's result is
Ok rather than an error, and the job no longer adds "<label> failed:
<error>" over it. A store the host installed (browser storage) has no
folder to name: its failed copy shows "Saving recovery data for
<title> failed: <error>", as a copy on the worker did before, also
when the copy was written without the worker.
- engine: recovery::folder returns the folder in use and whether the
recoveryFolder preference names it; recovery::store uses it.
- Four @msg rows in each complete-message catalog, and in the bg, bs,
da and id catalogs, which translate the old message.
- Control replies to a client confined to read roots show a recovery
folder outside them, and the paths under it, by the folder's name, as
they already show other paths outside the roots. That covers the
folder in use and the last eight folders a failure message named.
- docs/target-app-parity.md: a line next to the Data Recovery Folder
preference.
Object › Plug-ins › Cutting Tools › Banner Hems and Grommets…
(`addon.cutting.banner`) marks where a printed banner is hemmed and where
its grommets go. The banner is the bounds of the selected art, or each
artboard when nothing is selected. On each chosen side the command adds a
hem line a set depth inside the edge (1 in by default) and grommet marks a
set inset inside it (0.5 in): one at each end of the side and the rest
spread evenly, as few as keep them at most a set spacing apart (24 in). A
corner that two chosen sides share gets one grommet. Each grommet mark is a
circle (27 pt by default) with a cross through its center. The marks are
stroked in a chosen swatch ([Registration] by default) with no fill, in one
group named Banner Marks per banner on top of the current layer, selected,
as one undo step. While a clip group is edited in isolation, the group goes
outside the outermost clip group, as Weed Box and Lines does.
The command refuses every side off, no hem and no grommets, and bad params
with a message. It also refuses a hem or inset that reaches the far edge of
the banner when one of two opposite sides is chosen, or that meets the marks
of the opposite side when both are chosen, an inset of more than half a
chosen side's length, and more than 100000 grommets. The dialog has Preview.
The grommets' distance from the edge is `grommetInset`, so the dialog shows
it as Grommet Inset with its own catalog rows. The new Diameter catalog
rows also translate the Diameter field of the `shape.flare` command dialog,
which had no rows.
Docs: docs/mcp.md (Cutting Tools add-on), docs/target-app-parity.md and
ROADMAP.
object.setLiveShape was in params::UNCHECKED, so a key it does not read,
such as `path`, ran the command with the key ignored. Its description
names every key it reads, so it now goes through check_keys like other
commands, for MCP, scripts and command.batch steps. Each of `items` takes
`id` and `corners` alone; another key is refused as
`items[0].corner`, with the nearest accepted key. Saved steps still
replay leniently.
A `sides` that is not a whole number from 3 to 1000 (2.5, -1, 2, 1001)
and a negative `radius` are now errors naming the key, and leave the
document and its undo history as they were; a radius of 0 still
removes rounding. The Transform panel's Sides field takes 3 to 1000,
the Corners dialog's radius field stops at 0, and the panels' corner
radius fields send 0 for a negative value typed in.
Break Text checked every thread of the document for each selected type
object to skip threaded frames, and Remove Breaks searched every thread
for each selected object to find its story, so the work grew with the
number of selected objects times the number of threaded frames.
Both commands now index the document's threads once per command: Break
Text tests membership in that index, and Remove Breaks takes the story
from the indexed thread through threads::story_in, the second half of
story_of. Split Text at Cursor, which takes one object, checks it once
as before. The results are unchanged.
Tests: Break Text on two threaded frames and six point type objects
skips the frames unchanged, breaks the rest in place as one undo step
and goes through the threads once; Remove Breaks reads the selected
story as one text and the other objects on their own, going through
the threads once; Split Text at Cursor refuses a threaded frame.
Offset Path took each selected path in turn, so offsetting many paths, or a
group of many paths, used one CPU. It now reads the selected paths first,
works out their offsets on as many threads as the computer has logical CPUs
(one thread on the web and for a single path), and then makes the new
objects one after another in the selection's order on the editing thread.
The new objects, their ids, their stacking, the selection, the messages and
the undo step are the same as before. When several paths fail, the error is
the one for the first of them in the selection's order, and the paths after
a failure that have not started yet are skipped.
Add Points and Divide into Dashes read each subpath's selected segments
with a range lookup in the path's ordered segment set instead of
filtering the whole set once per subpath. Add Points at Crossings and
Split at Crossings sort a path's crossing places into a list per
subpath once, in the order they come, instead of filtering the whole
list for every subpath. Places on a subpath that no longer exists are
still left out. The results are unchanged.
Tests cover paths with several subpaths, an empty subpath, an
untouched subpath and selection on the last subpath, for all four
commands, plus the anchor fallback and the grouping of out-of-order
crossing places.
Spot Color Objects listed every spot color linked from a gradient's stops
once any stop was above opacity 0. A spot stop at opacity 0 between other
clear stops, at the end of the ramp after a clear stop, or meeting an
opaque stop only at one offset was listed though it prints no ink, and so
was an opaque stop out of order whose pairs have no width.
A stop now counts when it bounds a stretch of some width that the
gradient sampler mixes and either stop of that stretch is above opacity
0, or when it is the first or last stop and above opacity 0, since those
color the offsets before and after the others. Stops in any order are
judged by the stretches the sampler uses. A freeform gradient keeps the
old rule, since it draws from its points. Type runs follow the same rule.
The document.info params text, docs/mcp.md and the progress line
describe it.
In a PDF without a standard, the warning for a page longer than 14,400 pt
written with a UserUnit above 1 now ends with "turn on Write pages longer
than 200 in at full size in points". The warning already said that apps
ignoring UserUnit show such a page smaller; it now names the Save PDF
option that writes the page at its size in points instead. PDF/A files,
which keep the UserUnit with the option on, and .ai saves, whose options
do not have it, keep the warning as it was.
The longer message has a row in every complete-message catalog. The
params text of document.exportPdf, docs/mcp.md and the evidence line in
docs/target-app-parity.md describe it.
object.distort warped the anchors of paths, groups, compound paths and
clip groups but left their bounding-box angle as it was, so a rotated
path kept its old box after a warp and an upright one stayed square to
the page however far the warp tilted it. Text, images and symbol
instances already took the angle of the warp's affine approximation.
- Each path, group, compound path and clip group now takes the angle
the warp turns its x axis to at its own center before the warp, the
members of a warped group and the art of a linked opacity mask each
at their own. An unlinked mask's art keeps its angle. Mirroring keeps
the nearer angle and a collapsing warp keeps the old one. Reset
Bounding Box squares the boxes again.
- Each subtree's bounds are measured once while it is warped.
- Corners that equal the corners of the box being warped change
nothing and add no undo step.
Docs: object.distort params text, docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Several threaded-text paths in threads.rs searched a list once for each
frame, so their work grew with the product of the frame count and the
list length:
- leave_threads (Create Outlines, Expand Appearance, Rasterize, Flatten
Transparency, symbol replacement, opening with text as outlines)
searched the threads for each frame that stayed and ran continued over
that frame's whole thread again, about n^2 frame visits for a thread of
n frames. It now marks each changed thread with one continued call,
and keeps the frames that left in a map instead of a list.
- has_thread_selection (the availability of Release Selection and Remove
Threading), with_threads, keep_shown_text and cut_to_shown, release and
remove test ids against a hash set instead of a list.
- create finds the thread of each selected frame from a table built
once, and each frame still takes in the first thread not yet merged
that lists it.
- release writes each thread back at its own index instead of searching
the thread list for an equal thread.
Marks, thread membership, frame order, text and overflow are unchanged.
A 256-frame thread that loses one frame visited 65,025 frames before
this change and at most 256 now. Six tests on many threads count the set
lookups: with a list in place of the set they make 67,650 to 258,226.
Another test compares the marks with a scan of the frames before each
one.
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