Export As starts with Use Artboards off. For a PDF it then wrote one
page of the art's bounds straight away with the default preset, so the
Save PDF dialog never showed and none of its options applied there,
"Write pages longer than 200 in at full size in points" included.
Export As now opens Save PDF with Use Artboards on or off. With it off,
the dialog has no Artboards section, and OK writes one page of the
visible art's bounds the way Export As writes its other formats: with
Background Export, the progress dialog and its Cancel, and the question
before replacing the file the document was opened from. View PDF after
Saving opens that file too.
document.exportPdf listed useArtboards among its options but did not
read it. false now writes the page that document.export writes, and
ignores artboard, artboards and range; both commands use one helper
for it. document.pdfSettings refuses a useArtboards that isn't true or
false, and with includeDocument it exports that page, so the Summary's
warnings are about it.
While an opacity mask or symbol is being edited, document.exportPdf
and document.pdfSettings leave out the editing layer, from the drawn
pages and from the Preserve Editing data, as document.export does.
With the artboards as pages too, Save PDF's OK over the file the
document was opened from, when opening it left things out, now asks
first (file.export.pdf), and the question stays open when the dialog
closes.
The new General preference Show Bounding Box While Moving and Drawing
(`boundingBoxWhileMovingAndDrawing`, off by default) keeps the bounding
box and its handles visible during two kinds of drag, with View › Show
Bounding Box on. While a drag moves the selection (a Selection tool
move, an Alt-drag copy, or a shape tool's move by the center point),
the box is drawn where the drag has moved the selection. The box is
measured once when the drag starts and offset by each step's move.
While the Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse, Polygon and Star tools
draw a shape, the box is drawn around the shape. A rotation and a
widget drag still hide the box until the release. The Line Segment
tool, the Pen, the Pencil and the Paintbrush draw no box.
With the preference off, the box hides during a move (#737, for #712)
and while a shape is drawn (#5839), as before. A Selection tool move
with Real-time Drawing off still moves the box with the pointer, and a
shape tool's move by the center point hides it in both modes.
With Real-time Drawing off, the box of a shape being drawn is measured
from the pending preview, in the color of the layer the shape goes on.
A shape being drawn shows no box until a preview step has succeeded,
so a failed preview does not show the box of the selection from before
the drag. The preference's label has a row in every catalog.
Session::deferred_move() is replaced by Session::move_drag_box(), which
returns the moved box, and Session::deferred_transform_box() now also
returns the layer color of the box.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
file.new refused a side over 163,830 pt, while artboard.new took larger
artboards. Both now take each side more than 0 and at most 3,999,856 pt:
the 4,000,000 pt the canvas reaches from the origin, less a 72 pt bleed
on both sides. A side outside that range is refused with an error that
names the limit in points and, when the document's units are not points,
in those units, rounded down so the value shown is accepted.
artboard.new now refuses a supplied width or height of 0 or less instead
of making a 1 pt side, and refuses a size taken from a larger artboard.
Saved and Recent presets are read with sides up to the new limit.
Follows #6643.
edit.assignProfile replaced the active color context whenever it tagged a
document, even when the profiles it assigned were the working spaces
already in use. The new context has the same settings, but renderers key
their cached effect images on it, so every open document was redrawn and
every cached blur, shadow or glow image was drawn again.
The command now sets the active settings, and raises the open documents'
revisions so they redraw, only when the working spaces it assigns differ
from the active ones, as edit.colorSettings already does.
This also fixes an intermittent failure of the test
canvas::tests::a_drag_over_a_wide_blur_draws_the_blur_from_the_still_frame.
The Document Setup tests assign the working profiles while it runs, and
its drag frames then drew the blur again instead of reusing the still
frame's image.
The Width menu now offers Tilt, Bearing and Rotation beside Fixed and
Pressure, each with the second width. Tilt goes from Width with the pen
lying flat to the second width upright; Bearing and Rotation go from
Width at -180 degrees to the second width at 180 degrees, as Scatter
Brush Options' modes do. A stroke drawn without that input is half way
between the two widths. brush.options takes width_mode tilt, bearing
or rotation.
Load Actions refuses an action set file over 8 MiB, with more than 1,000
actions, or with an action of more than 10,000 steps. Several ways of
changing a set could pass those limits, leaving a set that Save Actions
refuses to write.
- While an action records, a command (a batch and Find Objects that
selects included) whose step would give the action more than 10,000
steps or its set's file more than 8 MiB does not run, and the recording
goes on. A stop that playback reaches is left out then. A command whose
step grows past a limit only as it runs keeps its edit; the status bar
names the limit and Stop leaves the step out. Stop also leaves out any
recorded step still past a limit. Steps recorded after an exclusion
past an action's last step are included.
- An exclusion that would make the set's file larger than 8 MiB changes
no checkmark; one that keeps the size or shrinks it always works.
- Begin Recording, New Action, Duplicate, renaming an action, Action
Options, Set Options and New Set refuse a change that would give a set
more than 1,000 actions or a file larger than 8 MiB. A change that
leaves a set no further past a limit than it is now is allowed.
- Load Actions refuses a set, .aia sets included, that Save Actions would
write larger than 8 MiB (a file with less white space, or a set name
that gets a number added).
The limits are the existing ones from files.rs, and the errors reuse the
existing messages. docs/mcp.md and the commands' params text describe the
new errors.
With one object that Start Global Edit accepts selected with the Selection
tool, the canvas now highlights the other objects a start would take with the
current Global Edit Options, before Global Edit starts. The outlines are kept
per document revision and options, and none are shown during a drag.
Docs: docs/mcp.md (Global Edit), docs/gaps.md (G5).
A linear, radial, conic or diamond gradient has a spread: Pad (the
default, as before), Repeat or Reflect, with a count of 1 to 100
(VectorCraft's own limit). Repeat and Reflect run the stops that many
times along the vector (around the turn for a conic) and keep going past
both ends, Reflect running every other run backwards, as SVG's
spreadMethod does.
The Gradient panel has a Spread menu and a Repeats field, and the
Gradient tool marks where the runs meet. paint.setFill and
paint.editGradient take `spread` and `repeats`; bad values are errors.
Presets, swatches, blends, strokes along or across a path, Outline
Stroke and Object › Expand follow the spread; Expand gives each run the
same whole number of objects, and Outline Stroke's mesh keeps the color
on each side of a sharp step between two stops at one offset.
SVG writes and reads spreadMethod: SVG import now reads a repeating or
reflecting gradient as one that repeats or reflects once, instead of
expanding its stops over the shape. CSS writes repeating gradients.
PDF writes a conic's sweep shading over one run. PDF, EPS, legacy .ai
and the .ai editing data write the other kinds with their stops
repeated across the shape: at most 256 runs and 16,384 stops (256 stops
in .ai files), and for a radial or diamond no farther than 65,536 runs
from its center, with a warning past those. PDF import now finds sharp
steps in any axial or radial shading instead of blurring them.
Docs: docs/mcp.md (Spread), docs/target-app-parity.md, docs/gaps.md.
The editing copy of a PDF-compatible .ai now holds the Brushes panel's
Calligraphic, Scatter and Art brushes in the panel's order, with the art
of Scatter and Art brushes. A path or compound path with a Calligraphic
brush, or with an Art brush in Tints whose art bends along the path,
keeps the brush on its stroke. Other brushed strokes are still written
as their brush's art.
The writer reads each brush back with the reader's code before writing
it. Brushes that would not come back with their settings, brushes past
the reader's limits and every brush on a large canvas are left out with
a warning. A brush that has the name of an earlier brush that was left
out is written, and no path is written with it on its stroke.
An object linked to a graphic style that is left out at the object
limit now also raises the warning about links left out.
Brushes and their options:
https://web.archive.org/web/20241230205225/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/brushes.html
Docs: docs/file-format-parity.md.
The sweeps in command_sweep.rs kept their own list of file and folder
keys (path, diffPath, folder, destinationFolder) in testkit's
safe_value and again in the temp-folder test, so a command whose file
key was not on the list was sent raw junk strings, and a key written as
`{path | name ...}` (document.open) was never swept.
- The engine exports the plug-in call rules' file keys as
`cmd::key_location`, `cmd::location_in` and `cmd::location_keys`,
which read every key a params description names, the keys of the
commands its `...` entries name, and the schema. `diffPath` is a file
key, so a plug-in call that carries it is refused; Slice Options'
`url` and Export for Screens' `folders` name part of the document, so
a call to object.slice.options with a top-level `url` is accepted.
- testkit's `param_keys` reads the keys the engine reads, and
`junk_params_for_command` and `safe_value_for_command` send every
string under a file or folder key, in arrays and in objects inside
them, as a location in the sweep's temp folder. Each such key also
gets a list of paths and a list of `{ids, path}` objects.
- Every catalog sweep, the serializability sweep included, uses them,
and the temp-folder test checks every key the catalog names, at any
depth.
Type and live objects in the art of a linked opacity mask are outlined
and evaluated before a group's or layer's geometry effects run over it,
so the mask moves and bends with the art it masks. Before, the effects
reached only the paths in a mask's art.
- With Scale Strokes & Effects on, a Transform effect scales the strokes
of an image's or symbol instance's linked mask as it scales those of a
path's mask.
- A mask's art takes Transform copies in the form it had before the
first effect, as the art it masks does.
- A linked mask whose art is one image or symbol instance takes a
Transform effect's move and copies with the art it masks. Under any
other geometry effect, which images and symbol instances do not take,
art whose masks hold one keeps its shape.
- A symbol instance in perspective projects the linked masks in its art
with that art.
- A live-effect plug-in that paints its pieces leaves art with linked
masks as it is, since a mask can't take the pieces.
Docs: the docs/target-app-parity.md line moves next to the Transparency
entry and lists the cases where existing documents draw differently.
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