A knockout group was written as a chain of soft masks, one inside the
next for each element, so a group of about 200 elements made a PDF that
VectorCraft's own PDF import refused (form nesting past 50) and an SVG
that the web build refused as too deep.
- PDF writes a knockout group as one transparency group with /K true,
with /I true when the group isolates, and PDF import reads it back as
a knockout group. An element with several paints is drawn as one
group inside it, so its own fills and strokes do not knock each other
out.
- Where an element knocks out less than the area it paints (its opacity
or mask defines its knockout shape, or it paints translucently), each
element is drawn through one soft mask of the overlapping elements
above it. Past 65,536 objects in a group's masks, or 2,048 elements,
the group is a PDF knockout group, with a warning.
- SVG draws each element through one mask of the overlapping elements
above it, built from one shared copy of each element's shape, so the
elements stay siblings. Past 65,536 shapes in a group's masks, or
2,048 elements, the group is written as a plain group, with a warning.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
While the Smooth tool drags with a path selected that it can smooth, a
dashed outline shows the band its release smooths: every point within
the tool's radius (12 screen pixels) of the drag, round at both ends.
Alt smoothing with the Pencil, Paintbrush and Blob Brush shows the same
band. A selection with no path the tool can change shows none.
- The band is kept in squares eight radii wide, and each step of the
drag adds its area only to the squares it reaches. A piece of a
square's outline along a side is left out only where the square
across holds band area.
- A drag segment too long for the squares (a jump drawn zoomed out and
viewed zoomed in) keeps its band near each end in the squares and
shows the rest as the two sides of its band. A step that cannot be
added whole is added one segment at a time.
- A coarser grid of cells lists the squares and long segments, so a new
one is checked only against those near it, and an outline is made
again only where the band near it changed.
- After a zoom change mid-drag the band is outlined again a few hundred
points per frame, and the work on long segments stops for the frame
after a fixed budget. Tools report unfinished overlays with
Tool::overlays_pending, and the canvas then draws again on the next
frame, so the band covers the whole drag even while the pointer holds
still.
Brushes, Spot Color Objects, Pattern Objects and Gradient Objects left
out a fill or stroke that was hidden or at an opacity of 0, but still
listed an object that was itself hidden or at an opacity of 0, and the
objects inside such a group or layer. They now leave those out, their
characters' paints and colorized images included. With Selection Only,
an object selected inside a hidden group or layer, or one at an
opacity of 0, is left out too. Objects still counts every object.
Edit > Edit Colors > Convert to Indexed Color... (edit.colors.toIndexed)
stores the embedded images in the selection as indexed-color PNGs: a
palette of at most 256 RGB colors, each pixel the index of one. The
dialog previews live and OK is one undo step.
- The palette is chosen as for a PNG-8 export (selective, perceptual,
adaptive, web, gray, black and white), as evenly spaced levels of red,
green and blue (uniform), or from the document's swatches. Dithering
is diffusion, pattern, noise or none, with an amount.
- Pixels under half opacity become one transparent entry; the others
become opaque in their own color. Linked images, colorized images and
color glyph images keep their pixels.
- An image that is already an indexed PNG and would show the same pixels
is left as it is, and no undo step is recorded when no image changes.
- An image of more than 134,217,728 pixels (33,554,432 in the web app)
is refused, read from its header before decoding.
- With Select All, locked and hidden objects that hold an image that is
not an indexed PNG yet are counted in notChanged, without converting
them.
- The quantizer gains quantize_to, which maps pixels to a given palette.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
file.newProfiles.edit and file.newProfiles.reset returned the automation
access check and file system errors with the profile file's whole path,
so a client confined to read roots that leave out the preferences folder
learned where the folder is. The errors now go through naming_in_error,
like other paths the client did not give: whole inside the read roots,
otherwise by file name. docs/mcp.md and the params text say so.
An envelope around type of only spaces and a rectangle mapped from the
union of the rectangle and the type's laid-out box, so the empty type
moved and scaled how the rectangle was distorted. Type that draws
nothing now adds no box while other content in the envelope has one,
in groups and layers and as a clipping path too. When nothing else in
the envelope has a box, the type keeps its laid-out box, so an envelope
of only empty type keeps its frame, Make with Mesh and Reset with Mesh
still work, and Release still gives back the warp shape.
This applies to Make with Warp, Make with Mesh, Make with Top Object,
Reset with Mesh, Edit Contents and the stroke margins. Type that has
not been measured yet keeps its laid-out box as before.
The PDF/.ai import's boxes for envelopes with Distort Appearance
measure each object as the whole contents measure it, so the margins
the import tries match the contents' geometric box. The three import
tests that measure type without registering the glyph measure now
register it first, so another test registering it while they run no
longer changes their result.
vectorcraft_testkit::temp_dir returns a bare path, so every engine test
that wrote into one left the folder in the system temporary folder.
- testkit: TempDir, a test's own folder made through temp_dir (same
private creation and ownership checks) under a tag no other TempDir in
the process uses, removed with its contents when dropped, also when
the test panics.
- Engine unit and integration tests hold a TempDir for the whole test
instead of calling temp_dir: graph, fileio, compare, journal, library,
shortcut set, spelling, store, web export, cancel, containers, build,
color settings, command sweep, font folder, removed font, model-based
and the font search fuzz.
- The DCS and swatch library tests' own helpers and the PDF editing
tests' shared vc-pdfedit-<pid> folder use a TempDir per test too.
- The font and link file search, store, color settings and font folder
helpers no longer delete the private folder temp_dir checked and make
it again with default permissions.
With automation read roots in force, svgInteractivity.info and the files
reply of addFile and removeFile returned every linked JavaScript file as
stored, including paths outside the roots. They now name such a file by
its file name alone, as document.json does; a file inside the roots and
a URL are named as they are, and the document keeps every path.
removeFile also unlinks a file outside the roots by that file name. When
the name fits more than one linked file, it returns an error that names
no stored path and unlinks nothing. addFile still treats only the same
text as already linked.
In a frame a request drives, the JavaScript Files dialog lists such a
file by its file name while its selection keeps the file as linked, and
ui.inspect gives the selected file the same way. The person's frames
show full paths.
A file read for Place, for the place cursor or dropped on the canvas,
a bitmap read for Paste, and a paste waiting at its Swatch Conflict
dialog are no longer placed or pasted in a document that File › Revert
replaced while they waited. Revert keeps the document's tab and uid, so
these were placed in the reverted content with the selection, clipboard
and insertion context of the content it discarded.
- DocState::reverts counts the Reverts of a document; replace_document
increments it, and a batch that fails puts it back with the document.
- Reads, deferred swatch pastes and web canvas drops keep the count they
started with and are dropped, with a status message, when it changed.
- A paste given after a Revert starts a chain of its own instead of
following a paste given before it.
The widget's Constrain button was grayed out in Free Distort, and
neither it nor Shift changed a Free Distort corner drag. Constrain is
now available in Free Transform and Free Distort, and stays unavailable
in Perspective Distort.
With Constrain on, or Shift held, a corner dragged in Free Distort
moves only along the line through the opposite corner, in the box's
own proportions, and the other three corners stay in place. On a
turned box the line runs through the box's own corners. A box with no
size leaves the corner where it is. Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+Shift on a corner
still drags in Perspective Distort. The measurement label shows how
far the corner moved.
A Transform effect whose result would pass the geometry budget (2 million
anchors or 8 million lines drawn) is left out and the art stays where it
was, but the raster effects listed before it still scaled and moved with
it: before a Transform effect that scales the art 1000 times, a Drop
Shadow's offset grew 1000 times and its blur went to the 1000 pt limit
around art that had not moved, and Expand kept those values.
The geometry pass now notes each Transform effect that moves the art once
and that it leaves out, in the Carry it already returns, and
Carry::hide_skipped hides those effects in the list the raster effects
are read from. The canvas (a path's own effects and its fills' and
strokes'), its bounds, bake (SVG and PDF export), shape art, Expand,
Expand Appearance and Outline Stroke use it, and a fill's Transform
effect inside a piece no longer scales the effects before it when the
budget leaves it out. The budget itself is unchanged.
A path drawn as its own art inside a group whose geometry effects run
after its members' own read its object effects whole. The reshaping pass
now notes a Transform effect that no path in the art took past the
budget, and the member's art hides it before its raster effects are read.
The bounds skip the extra geometry pass when no raster effect could
follow a Transform effect, and painted_reach runs it once for both
measurements.
A Fit to Artwork Bounds step of `command.batch` that gets no artboards from
the Artboard tool or the batch fits the first artboard, as the command does
by default, and its journal entry now records that `index`. Before, the
entry kept the step without it, so a replay with the Artboard tool choosing
two or more artboards fitted those instead.
A `command.batch` step with `"params": null` now reads as a step without
params. Before, it got neither the Artboard tool's selected artboards nor
the batch's `artboard`, so a Fit to Artwork Bounds step fitted the first
artboard and its journal entry recorded `null`.
When a Fit to Artwork Bounds step of `command.batch` takes the batch's
`artboard` as its `index`, the batch's journal entry now records that
`index`. Before, the entry kept the step without it, so a replay with the
Artboard tool choosing two or more artboards fitted those instead.
The params text, docs/mcp.md and docs/target-app-parity.md state that the
step uses the Artboard tool's selection only when two or more artboards
are selected, and the active artboard otherwise.
The Live Paint Selection tool always showed the plain arrow. Its cursor
now says what a click at the pointer selects, by the same rules as the
click (Alt, Select Fills, Select Strokes, locked, hidden and isolated
groups): the arrow with a filled square over a face, with a short line
between two anchor marks over an edge, and with an x where a click
selects no face or edge. From a press to the release the cursor keeps
the look it had at the press. Use Precise Cursors shows the crosshair.
- Cursor: LivePaintSelectFace, LivePaintSelectEdge and
LivePaintSelectOutside, with cursors.toml entries and drawn glyphs.
- Tests: live_paint_selection_cursor_shows_what_a_click_selects,
live_paint_selection_shows_the_arrow_with_a_face_edge_or_x_badge, and
the precise-cursor list.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
file.close {index} on a tab other than the current one made the
document now at the closed index current and reset the tool, so the
document the user was working in went to the back. The current
document now stays current, found by its id as document.move does, and
its tool keeps its state. Closing the current tab still makes its
neighbor current.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
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