File › Open's Import PDF dialog gets Import PDF pages as links. With it on,
each page picked opens as a placed document linked to that page of the
file, on an artboard of its Crop To box and a layer named after the page,
in place of editable art. The Links panel lists each page, and Embed makes
a page editable.
document.open takes the matching linkPages param. It is refused for a
file that is not a PDF or a PDF-compatible .ai, for bytes without a path,
with a password and with textAs: outlines. The pages share one copy of
the file, and the document opens in CMYK when most of its pages do.
Save asks for a name, as for other partly read PDFs.
Perspective Grid Options gets the two Automatic Plane Positioning
checkboxes, Anchor Point of Perspective Artwork and Intersection of
Gridlines. With the Perspective Selection tool, Shift held over an
anchor point of art in perspective, or over a gridline intersection,
with no button down, moves the active plane through that point and
hides the other planes. A plane made active then passes through the
same point. The plane goes back to its place once an object is drawn
on it or attached to it, when the grid hides or no plane is active,
when the file is opened again, and with Escape.
- perspective.plane.infer {at?, tolerance?, clear?} positions, reads
and clears the held point, which is view state, not an undo step.
- perspective.widget.options takes anchorPoint and gridlineIntersection,
both on by default and kept with the preferences.
- perspective.plane.move moves a held plane from where it is held.
The Links panel menu gets Sort by Size beside Sort by Name, Kind and
Status, and links.list takes sort: "size". A row's size is the file size
Link Info shows: the file's size now, else the size the document keeps
of it. Rows without a size (embedded images, a missing file whose size
is not kept) come last, and equal sizes go by name. The size is read
only when sorting by it, and under automation read roots a file outside
them is not read.
Every catalog with Sort by Status gets a Sort by Size row; the Ukrainian
Sort by Status row, which read "Sort by:", now says "Sort by Status".
Create Sub-folders and Open Location after Export are check items that set
the settings the panel shares with Export for Screens, and the panel's
Export follows them. Create Sub-folders is checked as the dialog opens on
it: on for a document without export settings, and on for remembered
folders per row, format or item, which the panel's Export now uses too.
Format Settings... opens Export for Screens on the Assets tab showing the
first row's format settings.
assets.settings.set takes openLocation (kept in document.exportSettings,
not in presets), refuses a subfolders or openLocation value that is not
true, false or null, and with subfolders false given alone also ends a
remembered folder per format or item. Export for Screens reads remembered
empty folders as none, as an export does.
A visible, unlocked Live Paint face or edge whose own opacity is 0 draws
nothing, as Expand and the edge stroke check already treat it, but the
Shape Builder still took it as an input. It now leaves such faces and
edges out; hidden and locked parts keep their current handling.
Type > Smart Punctuation... now opens its own dialog in place of the
generic parameter form. It has the seven replacement options, Replace In
(Selected Text Only or Entire Document) and Report Results, which lists
how many of each chosen replacement were made after OK. The dialog opens
on the options confirmed last.
- type.smartPunctuation takes fiLigatures, flLigatures, spaces and
fractions, all off by default, so existing calls behave as before.
- Ligatures write U+FB00 to U+FB04, longest match first. Expert
Fractions writes the one-character fractions Unicode encodes, and
skips one with a digit, a slash or a decimal point next to it, across
a change of style too. Either is written only where the run's font
has a glyph for it.
- Smart Spaces keeps one space after a period, across runs. An inline
graphic separates the text on either side of it.
- The reply adds a replaced object with a count per kind. Nothing to
replace still records no undo step.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/type-parity.md.
usvg copies the element a <use> shows, and every copy gets its own copy of
the declarations its style attribute and matching style sheet rules give
it. A chain of <use>s that doubles at each level made usvg build those
copies before the import's object limit was checked: a 101 kB file whose
rectangle has a 100 kB style took 4.7 GB at 14 levels, and one 100 kB
style sheet rule on 16,000 groups took 1.5 GB without any <use>. A plain
chain stopped at usvg's own 1,000,000-node limit with a parse error.
The import now measures, before usvg reads the SVG, how many elements it
expands to and how many bytes of style values those elements copy, each
element measured once and each <use> counted as one addition. References
follow usvg's rules: first element of an id, href before xlink:href, and
the self and back references usvg leaves out. An SVG past 999,999
elements (500,000 on the web) is refused as too large, a loop of <use>
references usvg would copy without end is refused too, and one past 64 MB
of copied style values is refused with the new SvgError::StylesTooLarge.
SVG images count toward the same 64 MB as the SVG showing them, an image
past either limit refuses the whole import, and an image that doesn't
decode does not count.
The progress-doc line for gray and RGB image profiles in PDF export now
states that PDF/X-1a, which allows no ICC-based color spaces, writes a
gray image with a gray profile in DeviceGray without the profile, and
converts RGB images to CMYK as before.
With a Type tool and exactly one character selected, the canvas shows up
to five of that character's alternate glyphs in a row beside it. A click
runs the command the Glyphs panel's double-click runs, as one undo step;
an arrow at the end opens the Glyphs panel on Alternates for Current
Selection when the character has more. Preferences > Type > Show
Character Alternates (showCharacterAlternates, on by default) turns the
row off.
An image or a gradient mesh with a visible Crop Marks effect, or with a
Vector Halftone effect that makes dots, is measured in a plot of the art's
bounds. A halftone that makes no dots, such as one past the effect's cell
limit, leaves the image out as before.
Select > Start Global Edit now also takes rotated copies of the selected
object or group, in the highlights before the start, in the Global Edit
Options' Results count and in the started edit. An edit reaches each copy
turned by that copy's angle, so an anchor moved to the right on the
selected object moves downward on a copy turned a quarter turn clockwise.
The copy's angle is the one that lays the selected object's anchors and
handles on the copy's in order (a least-squares fit in the unit box),
and the copy is the same shape when each point then lies within a
millionth of the larger side of the copy's box. Reflected copies and
copies stretched along one direction stay unmatched. With Size, a rotated
copy matches when it is the object rotated without scaling. The no-match
message now names only reflected copies, in every catalog that has it.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/gaps.md, docs/ui-parity.md and the evidence list
in docs/target-app-parity.md.
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