Threaded type read from a file was flowed through its frames before
the document's composite fonts were registered, so a story set in one
was measured in the fallback font. Frames then held the wrong share of
the story after opening, until a frame was edited. load_with now lends
the document's composite fonts while it lays out its threads.
A dimension selected with the art it measures became a plain group of
paths and text when Object › Expand, Object › Expand Appearance or
Object › Path › Outline Stroke ran, so it no longer redrew when moved
or restyled.
These commands now leave such a dimension's lines and label as they
are, also inside selected groups without fills, strokes or effects of
their own, and change only the other art. The dimension keeps its
export assets and variable bindings. When the new art no longer fits
the dimension's link, for example because the outlined stroke has
other anchors, the dimension stays where it was, no longer linked, as
it does when its art is deleted. Undo links it again.
When the dimension is all the command would change, the command
changes nothing and reports the error it gives for a selection with
nothing to change. Object › Expand… is no longer dimmed for the label
of such a dimension. A dimension selected without the art it measures,
a part of one, and one inside a selected group with an appearance of
its own still become plain groups, and Type › Create Outlines still
outlines the label.
Docs: docs/dimensions.md, docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
With no glyph choice left on the character, text.setGlyphAlternate
returned the font's default glyph for it: 0 for a character the font
lacks, which a fallback font draws, and the lowercase glyph for a
letter under All Caps. It now reports the glyph the character is drawn
with, as text.glyphAlternates does.
A <text> in a <clipPath> was dropped with a warning, so a clip path made
only of text had no content and the art it clipped was hidden. The
clipPath content model in CSS Masking Module Level 1 lists text and use
(https://www.w3.org/TR/css-masking-1/#ClipPathElement).
The importer now clips by the text's glyph outlines, together with any
shapes in the same clip path, and keeps clipPathUnits, the transforms,
clip-rule, visibility, the conditional processing attributes and a clip
path on the text. A <use> in a clip path that shows a text clips the
same way, placed by the <use>; a clip path on the <use> applies in the
<use>'s user space, and a reference goes to the first element with the
id. When the clip path holds only one visible text, with no clip path
of its own and no even-odd clip rule, the clipping path of the clip
group is the text object with no fill or stroke, the same structure
Make Clipping Mask produces for type. A text or a <use> with an id in a
clip path can still be shown by a <use> outside it. Each text's
outlines are laid out once, however many elements use the clip path.
A transform set by a style rule or a style attribute on a text now
places it, as it does a shape. Before, only the transform attribute was
read, inside and outside clip paths.
The bar's text buttons (Edit Path, Duplicate, Type on a Path Options and
the others) were painted labels on a click area with no accessible name,
so a screen reader announced them without one. Each button now reports
its label as a button, as the Home screen's file rows do.
The Dynamic symbols entry still said Edit Symbol expands the symbol's
own art. Since #5064, Edit Symbol opens symbol editing mode: every
instance stays linked and a dynamic symbol's instances keep their
changes for the objects the edited art still has.
A window-close request while a script waits at its alert, confirm or
prompt opens the quit question over that dialog, and Cancel shows the
script's dialog again. When the run then ended another way (script.stop,
or the run finishing), the quit question stayed open, and Cancel showed
a dialog for a script that was no longer running.
The running-script poll now closes the quit question once the run ends,
and forgets the script's dialog under it once the run no longer waits at
that dialog.
path.reshape refused focal with radius only when focal named an anchor.
Since an empty focal list chooses the focal-point rule, a call with
"focal": [] and a radius was accepted and used the radius falloff,
although the params text and docs/mcp.md say the two cannot be used
together. Any focal other than null now goes with radius as an error.
File › Scripts ran an installed script as source text, so the run had no
file: an #include line ended it with "script file read refused", and
$.evalFile was refused too. The menu now checks the script as before and
runs it with script.run {path}, as docs/mcp.md describes, so its
included files and the files $.evalFile runs are read beside it.
After an aligned Remove Item or Duplicate Item, the active row was
re-pointed by the indices of the first object in paint order. When the
first selected object paints above the others, its own rows that changed
are different ones, so the active row could be dropped or land on the
wrong row, and a later paint edit changed that row instead.
The active row now follows the rows removed or copied in the first
selected object's own stack.
Follows #5591.
An out-of-range or non-numeric tint in Character Style Options and New
Character Style gave "Tint must be a number from 0 to 100" for both
fields, so the message did not say which of the two to correct. It now
names "Fill Tint" or "Stroke Tint", the names the two fields carry.
A placed document drawn without a bitmap (renders without progressive
placed art, exports) drew type in the placed document's own composite
font in the fallback font: only the outer document's composite fonts were
lent to the font database. The placed document's composite fonts are now
lent while its art is drawn.
In horizontal type, tracking and manual kerning are now thousandths of
the em as the Horizontal Scale draws it: at 50%, a tracking of 100 adds
0.05 em after each character. They were added at the full em while the
glyph advances took the scale, so narrow tracked type drifted from the
page of users' .ai files letter by letter. That page writes such type's
character spacing as the tracking itself in a text space as wide as the
scale, which PDF scales by it (ISO 32000-1 9.4.4). Vertical type keeps
the full em: its advances down the column don't all take the scale.
vectorcraft_text::spacing_scale gives the factor. Shaping, inline
graphics and the Optical pairs use it, and so do the conversions from
points back to thousandths of an em: the automatic kerning the Character
panel reads and Touch Type's limits (glyph_em), Combine Point Text, and
PDF import, whose tracking is now the file's Tc. Scale Text Attributes
now keeps tracked type where a horizontal stretch drew it.
SVG export writes letter-spacing in thousandths of the font size it
writes (the vertical scale), so uniformly scaled type keeps its spacing
in a viewer.
Type with both a Horizontal Scale other than 100% and tracking or manual
kerning lays out differently than before, in every document.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3 and PDF 1.3 files leave the layers they don't print
out of the flattening. A flattened group no longer takes the place of
art in a layer that doesn't print, so the art of a clipping layer over
such a layer prints, and art of a layer that doesn't print stays out
of the file.
- A flattened group goes into a lower layer only when that layer prints,
shows and is a template as the clipping layer does, the clipping layer
and the groups it leaves have no opacity, blend mode or isolation, and
the clipping path has no fill. Otherwise the group holds only the art
inside the clipping layer, drawn over the clipping path's fill and the
art below, and the art below is flattened on its own. Before, the fill
covered the group, the group lost the layer's opacity, or the clipping
path cut the art below.
- Transparent art that a clipping path hides entirely, such as one of
area type holding only a space, is removed. Before, the export failed
because the art kept its transparency.
Object › Flatten Transparency follows the same rules. Documents without
clipping layers or layers that don't print export the same bytes as
before.
A symbol whose natural size is not 20 x 20 is drawn through its 9-slice
guides by an instance that only moves, so art the guides move can draw
outside the art box moved by the instance. The visual box took that
moved art box alone, and the renderer culled the instance when only the
moved art was in view. The visual box now measures such an instance as
it does a scaled one.
Expand Appearance on a symbol instance with a fill tint and a color
adjustment applied the adjustment to the untinted art, so the expanded
colors differed from the canvas. The expand path now passes the tinted
instance art to adjust_in_document.
A selected segment that path.insertAnchor splits stays selected as its
two halves. The new anchor is the end both halves share, so it moves
with them, and Delete cuts both halves. docs/mcp.md and the comment on
renumber_after_insert called it a direct-selected anchor; they now
describe it as an end of the halves that moves with them.
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