Coordinates outside -32,768 to 32,767 plotter units (about 82 cm from the origin) are written as they are, with a warning that older devices may not read them. HP-GL/2 plots are not checked against this range.
With one whole blend selected, the Selection and Blend tools show two
widgets at the halfway point of its spine. Dragging the upper widget
along the spine sets the color shift (-100 to 100), and dragging the
lower one sets the easing strength (0 to 100). The lower widget shows
only when the steps follow a spine (a replaced spine or Align to Path),
the rule the step placement uses; a blend made without a spine shows
neither. When the boxes of three or more other visible objects hold a
widget's spot, the widget moves out in 16 px steps, up to 144 px, and
its line to the halfway point grows with it. While a widget is held,
the arrow keys step its value by 1 (Shift: by 10), and Escape or a
switch to another tool cancels the drag. A drag is one undo step; a
click or a drag that ends where it started records none.
- object.blend.setEasing sets easingType, ramp and colorShift on one
blend, refuses a hidden or locked blend and easing on a blend without
a spine, and records no undo step when nothing changes.
- BlendSpec::eases_along_spine holds the rule the step placement and
the widget share.
- While a tool is busy, an arrow it claims arrives with the press's
Shift and Alt; before, it always arrived plain.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
ui.dialog.set took every field whose name starts with `__`, so a control
request (or MCP's answer_dialog, which goes through it) could rewrite the
`__command` and `__params` of a confirmation or the generic parameter
dialog, a plug-in command dialog's `__command`, or the paste a swatch
conflict waits to finish, after a person opened the dialog. The person's
OK then ran something else.
A `__` field is now settable only when it is a control of that kind of
dialog: a section or tab shown, a link between two fields, a name or
search being typed (for example Save PDF's `__section`, Transform Each's
`__constrain`, the Preferences `__search`). Every other `__` field, held
or not, is refused with "the `<kind>` dialog cannot set protected field
`<field>`". The request sets no field, and with `action: "confirm"` OK
does not run. Flags a button sets together with other fields are refused
too: the style dialogs' `__reset*`, Artboard Options' `__fit`,
`__sizeChoice`, `__refx` and `__refy`, and Scribble's `__scribbleSetting`.
Recolor's Merge takes a row listed twice in the selection once, and
Randomize keeps a seed at u64::MAX instead of overflowing it.
Docs: docs/control-protocol.md, docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Effect > Refresh Deferred Effects looked up the objects asked for, the
stages reached, the objects drawn whole and the inputs that ran with
Vec::contains, and counted each target stage by scanning every deferred
record. Asking whether a stage stays deferred and replacing a stage's
records when it runs also scanned every record.
Deferrals::refresh now keeps the objects asked for and the objects drawn
whole in sets, and Refresh's ids, retried, visited and touched and
Pass.ran and seen are sets. The deferred records are kept in a BTreeMap
by the order they were made in, with an index by stage and input key, so
holds, State::remove, settle and the refresh's reconciliation and count
look at the records of the stages concerned only. The targets, counts,
records kept and their order, marks and revision are unchanged.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md.
Effect › 3D and Materials › 3D (Classic) › Rotate (Classic)… turns every
fill and stroke as one flat plane, as Rotate does, and shades it with the
classic No Shading or Diffuse surface.
- `effect.apply` with `threeD.classicRotate`: the Position rotation and
Perspective, `surface` (`none` or `diffuse`), the classic lights,
Ambient Light, Blend Steps and Shading Color. It has no highlight, no
Draw Hidden Faces and no shadow.
- The dialog shows Position on the Rotation tab and the surface and
lights on the Lighting tab, with no Object tab.
- Groups and layers turn about one shared center, and the effect also
goes on a fill or stroke, as Rotate's does.
- `effect.lightingPreset` refuses it, as it refuses the other classic
3D effects.
- Unknown parameters, numbers out of range, bad flags, a surface other
than No Shading or Diffuse and bad shading colors are refused with an
error.
The 3D and Materials rows of target-app-parity.md's area tables now name
Rotate (Classic) and Map Art as the 3D (Classic) work that remains, as
effects-parity.md and gaps.md do.
A save or export that writes a file per artboard, linked images or image
maps names them after the file picked in the save panel, which asked only
about that name. A file already there under one of the other names was
replaced without a question.
Save As, Save a Copy, Save as Template, Save and Export now check those
files before writing anything. When any is there, nothing is written and
a replaceFiles question names it (and lists all of them when there are
several). OK runs the save or export again on the document that asked and
replaces the named files; a file it would now write that the question did
not name is asked about again. Cancel writes nothing. A background save
or export checks from its worker and asks once it ends, after a dialog
open then. Files the document's last Save or Save As wrote are replaced
without asking.
Services::exists is now an Arc<dyn Fn(&str) -> bool + Send + Sync>.
Under --automation-read-root, document.inspect gives `path` as null when
the document's file is outside the read roots. document.json names a
linked image or placed file outside them by its file name alone, without
its relative path, size or date, in the layers, symbols, graph designs,
patterns, the pattern being edited and opacity masks. It also names a
data set's image value outside them by its file name, and leaves the
Export for Screens folder outside them out of export_settings. The
document is not changed, and unconfined callers see the same replies as
before.
Type > Dynamic Text and the Contextual Task Bar now also take point
type. Turning it on makes the point type area type with Block on, in
the same undo step:
- Along the lines, the frame is as wide as the widest line as typed
with its paragraph's indents, measured with the word gap, so that
line keeps its size and stays where it was across the page by its
own alignment. The other lines are set to that width. When negative
indents take more than that line's width, the frame is as wide as
the line, placed so the line keeps its aligned point, and Block makes
the line larger.
- The frame starts at the top of the text and grows down (to the left
for vertical type) to hold every fitted line, around any Text Wrap
objects above it, so nothing overflows.
- The new frame takes the default Area Type Options and keeps only the
gaps; options kept from an earlier frame do not carry over.
- Point type with no line to fit (empty, or only spaces and breaks) is
left as it is, and so is point type when `on` is false. Without `on`,
point type counts as off, and the Type menu item is unchecked when
point type comes first in the selection. A gap given with nothing it
can apply to is an error.
Block now subtracts a list level's indent from the room it sets each
line to, as the layout does. Before, a nested list item was first set
too large for its line and then made smaller on a later pass.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
A {Custom: {name, path}} head is refused when its path fills no area under the
non-zero rule: a single anchor, points on one line, or contours that cancel out.
A bow tie and a thin bar are taken. The params text and docs/mcp.md state the rule.
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.
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