The clipping path around a transparent image flattened for a version 7
.ai followed 2 pt cells, a visible staircase. It now follows the rendered
pixels (in blocks only past 4 million), grown by one pixel so the whole
anti-aliased edge is inside, through the middle of each pixel edge and
simplified with Douglas-Peucker, so slopes and curves are sloped lines.
Comments only. A saved Soft Mix holds Command 11 and a Mix of the Mixing
Rate divided by 100, and a saved Mix can fall outside the 0.01 to 1 the
reader takes, which keeps the drawn look.
A group whose style holds Effect › Pathfinder › Intersect, Exclude, Subtract,
Minus Back, Divide, Outline, Trim, Merge, Crop, Hard Mix or Soft Mix now opens
with its members editable and the effect live, as Add already did
(https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/reshape-transform-objects/combine-objects-using-pathfinder-effects.html).
The Command numbers 1 to 10 are VectorCraft's own reader rules, learned from
saved files. Soft Mix's number 11, and reading its Mix from 0.01 to 1 as a
Mixing Rate of Mix times 100, are also VectorCraft's own reader rules.
These still open as the drawn look:
- Trap, and the effect on a path, on type, on a layer or on a fill or stroke.
- Any operation whose saved Pathfinder Options (Precision, Remove Redundant
Points, Divide and Outline Will Remove Unpainted Artwork), ConvertCustom,
Mix or Trap settings differ from the values the reader accepts, although
only Soft Mix uses Mix and none of these operations uses the Trap settings.
The import fuzz test now also gives the style every option with any Mix, and
checks that a live Soft Mix's rate is from 1 to 100.
Export All Open Documents read the active artboard recorded for each
document, which was kept current only for the active one. A document
whose artboard changed in its view while another tab was active wrote
that stale artboard as the file's active one. Before each command the
app now records every open document's active artboard from that
document's own view.
A .ai file that File > Export As, its dialog or a control request writes
to a path now names the view's active artboard, as document.export and
document.serialize do. The UI export records the view's artboard and
takes its document from fileio::export_doc, which applies
DocState::active_artboard to the export's copy; document.export and
document.serialize use the same function.
The app now records the view's active artboard before every command,
including the commands the UI handles itself, so a .ai copy from Save a
Timestamped Copy or Export All Open Documents names it too. Before,
these files named the artboard the document opened on, or the first.
The open document is unchanged.
A file that takes longer than 0.4 s to open shows a modal progress window
with its name, a moving bar (reading reports no steps), how many more
files wait, Cancel (file.cancelOpen: the file doesn't open) and Continue
in Background (file.openInBackground). It never opens over another dialog
or progress window.
The editing copy of a .ai or .ait file that VectorCraft saves or exports
now has `%_<n> /Int (CropAreaActive) ,` after the ArtboardArray in its
recorded part, and marks that artboard as the selected one. The app
records its view's active artboard before each command
(DocState::active_artboard; an index past the last artboard is the last,
as in the Artboards panel); without a view, the artboard the document
opened on (Document::opened_artboard) is written, else the first. A .ai
file read from its editing copy opens on that artboard. Before, the copy
named no active artboard and always marked the first as selected.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/file-format-parity.md, the editingData option text.
Bulgarian was not among the text languages, so Bulgarian text could not
be tagged and fonts drew their Russian-style Cyrillic. Bulgarian (bg)
is now in the language list (Character panel, character styles,
text.setFormat by name or tag, the Hyphenation preference's default
language), with CLDR's quotes, „…“ at either level. Shaped as bg, the
fonts' locl forms for BGR apply: in the bundled Source Sans 3 Italic,
в, д, ж, з, к, л and ю take their Bulgarian forms.
Fixes#5945
A straight segment dragged with Direct Selection or Group Selection snapped the
point it was pressed at to a grid intersection, leaving both of its anchors off
the grid. With Snap to Grid or Snap to Pixel on, the box round the moved anchors
now lands an edge on a gridline on each axis, as a moved object's does; Shift
keeps the move on its line. A dragged anchor still lands on an intersection.
Tab-separated rows with the same number of cells (quoted cells too)
become a group of point type, one per cell, in columns and rows over
0.5 pt gridlines; other text pastes as before. Fixes#5296.
The Eyedropper, the Live Paint check for paint to sample, the Appearance
panel's Characters chips and the colors the Libraries panel adds from
the selection found the paint behind the Fill or Stroke proxy through
Node::proxy_paint, which measures the object's geometric bounds. They
now read it with Node::proxy_paint_only.
- Eyedropper: the test for an empty fill reads the paint without
measuring. A sample measures the object only for a gradient or a
pattern, whose color depends on the point; a solid color gives its
color at once.
- Live Paint: the check for paint to sample reads the paint without
measuring.
- Appearance panel: the Characters row's two chips read the paint
without measuring.
- Libraries: adding a color or a pattern from the selection reads the
paint without measuring; a gradient is still measured for its
placement.
The paints and colors are the same as before. On an open path of
200,000 anchors, the Live Paint check and the Eyedropper's sample for a
point inside it take 0.004 ms together instead of 26.0 ms in a release
build.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md.
A 3D effect on a group or layer builds a solid from every path,
compound path and type in it, all turned about one shared axis, as the
public docs describe for groups. Fixes#4506.
#5929 reports that a styled word copied with the Type tool loses its
formatting when pasted into a new point type object made by a Type
tool click (placeholder text selected): on 0.21.1 the Copy left plain
text on the system clipboard, so the paste could not match it with the
copied runs. #5636 (on main since 0.21.1) publishes the copy through
the clipboard publisher, and the paste keeps the runs. This test pins
that case end to end through the app: copy, two clicks (end editing,
place new type), paste, then font, size and colour of the new text.
Closes#5929
perspective.grid.get reports define.name only while the grid still has
the preset's fields, as Define Grid's Preset menu shows [Custom]. Part of #5248.
The name remembered for a user library file stays only while the file still
holds the bytes that were written. A file a device name could make, which can
no longer be read, is kept too, and the save goes to a new file.
Co-authored-by: Adithya Shankaran <adikshan11@users.noreply.github.com>
After a restart an .ase file called COM¹- could have been saved as COM¹ or as
COM¹-, and the same goes for its numbered files. Such a file is kept until it is
saved here, so a library named like that gets a new file, once per run. Other
names go on replacing their own file.
An .ase file can't say whose it is, so without this COM¹ saved after COM¹- wrote
over it. The app now remembers while it runs. After a restart COM¹ gets a new
file, which costs a copy and loses nothing.
A path whose fills and strokes stack (a fill and a stroke, several of
either, an even-odd fill, or a partly transparent or blended one) drew
its Transform effect's copies as one path, so every copy's stroke lay on
top of every copy's fill. It now draws each copy as an object of its own
above the one before, as Expand Appearance makes them.
Fixes#5920
Past a gutter of 1e300 a step no longer moves the baseline, so every cell of
a 100 x 100 frame was searched for all MAX_STEPS steps: over 40 s per layout.
AreaOptions::gutter has no limit, so a saved file can do this.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Find and Replace matched each style run on its own, and the whole-word
test looked only at the characters inside the run, so a run's end read
as a word boundary: with cat coloured red in catfish, a Whole Word
search for cat replaced it. The test now looks past the run's ends at
the characters next to it in the neighbouring runs. Matches still stay
inside one run, as the command documents.
Fixes#5901
all_texts walked every node of a visible, unlocked layer and checked
only each text object's own lock and visibility, so a text object that
was itself shown and unlocked inside a locked or hidden group was found
and replaced. It now stops at a hidden or locked group, as it stops at
a hidden or locked layer: Find and Replace and Find Next with no ids
leave that type alone, however deep the group is.
Fixes#5900
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