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.
With Enable Touch Gestures on, a two-finger tap on the canvas undid and a
three-finger tap redid even while a modal dialog was open, and in the Touch
workspace a two-finger tap switched modes behind it. Fingers already down
when a dialog opened could still complete a tap when they lifted, during
the dialog or after it closed.
While a modal is open, from the frame it opens:
- no finger tap runs a command and no multi-finger gesture begins; the
fingers already down are forgotten, so lifting them later runs nothing
- a primary press does not reach the tool, a middle-button press does not
start a pan, and a double-click does nothing
- a long touch does not drop the canvas press
- a click in Presentation Mode does not step to the next artboard
- a pinch, wheel turn or trackpad rotation does not move the view, and the
rest of a wheel turn made under the dialog is dropped after it closes;
a new wheel turn after the dialog closes moves the view at once
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md, docs/mcp.md.
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.
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.
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.
Under automation read roots, stroke.arrowheads.list gives `file` as
null for an arrowheads file outside them and names it by its file name
in `error`. stroke.arrowheads.edit and stroke.arrowheads.reload refuse
such a file with the root-check error, naming it by its file name:
edit makes no folder or file and neither opens nor activates the file,
and reload does not read it. Inside the roots, edit opens the file
under the client's roots. The Stroke panel menu is not confined.
A right-click on a selection that holds a path (a path, a group of
paths, a compound path, or anchors selected with Direct Selection) lists
Smooth…, after Join and Average… and the anchor entries when those are
listed. It opens the slider that Object › Path › Smooth opens, which
previews the result until OK keeps it as one undo step. With nothing,
only type or a group of type selected, Smooth… is not listed.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The Color panel and Color Picker cached their out-of-gamut warning and
correction for the last color only. Assigning the document another CMYK
profile, removing it, or changing the working CMYK space in Color
Settings left the old warning showing until the color changed.
The cache entry now also holds the active color settings and the
registered profiles' generation, so the warning is checked again when
either changes. The comments and the color.gamutCheck params text name
the CMYK space actually used: the document's assigned CMYK profile, else
the working CMYK space.
object.expand.info reported a gradient (and a fill) to expand for any
type whose characters have a gradient fill. Expand outlines type first,
and each outline then holds the run's gradient on its own box, so a
gradient that repeats or reflects in more than 256 runs across every
outline stays a gradient: the dialog enabled options that changed
nothing.
- The query now measures the paths type.createOutlines makes of the
glyphs, ruby glyphs and underline and strikethrough bars, each with
its run's paint, and reports a gradient when one of them expands. It
lays the text out only when a run has a gradient fill, stops at the
first outline that expands, and does not change the document. Type in
symbol art, blends and repeats goes through the same check.
- docs/mcp.md says when gradient is false; docs/target-app-parity.md
gets an evidence line.
The Gradient panel's Method menu gets two methods of VectorCraft's own
beside Classic and Perceptual. They mix a linear, radial, conic or
diamond gradient's colors around the hue wheel: hue, saturation and
brightness each change evenly from one stop to the next, and the hue
angle keeps one direction, as the fixed-direction rules of
https://www.w3.org/TR/css-color-4/#hue-interpolation do. Hue Clockwise
lowers the angle (red, magenta, blue), which is clockwise on the color
wheels, and Hue Counterclockwise raises it (red, yellow, green).
Two stops whose hues are less than half a color level apart count as
one hue and keep it, so a color and a tint or shade of it do not turn
the whole wheel. A stop whose RGB numbers are less than half a color
level apart is gray and takes the hue of the stop it mixes with, and
black takes that stop's saturation too.
- `paint.editGradient` and `paint.setFill` take `method: hue-clockwise`
or `hue-counterclockwise`, in any case, with a space or an underscore
for the hyphen or without it; other spellings are an error. The native
file writes `HueClockwise` and `HueCounterclockwise`.
- The canvas and raster exports draw the gradient through stops on its
curve, within half a color level.
- Reverse turns the method the other way with the stops, and a Reflect
spread is repeated from the curve's stops, so both keep the colors.
- SVG and PDF write the gradient as an RGB image, CMYK and spot color
stops included, with the spot warning. EPS writes a shading in process
colors with a warning for spot stops. A legacy .ai file and the .ai
editing data get the colors between the stops as stops of their own,
in process colors, at most 256, with a warning. CSS gets those stops
too.
- The `method` error names the four values, in every catalog.
- The Method menu is as wide as its longest name in the interface
language, within the panel.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/plugins.md, docs/target-app-parity.md, ROADMAP.
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