Ruler guides were a list kept beside the layers. Each guide is now an
object of its layer or sublayer, always directly in it and above the
layer's art. These behave as on main:
- Guides draw on screen only. Exports (SVG, PDF, PNG, PSD), Fit All,
Select All, the art bounds, clicks and marquees, and a layer's
Pathfinder and Transform effects leave them out. The Layers panel
lists them as guide rows of their layer, the highest guide.list
index first.
- Deleting a layer deletes its guides, and merging layers keeps their
guides in the merged layer.
- The guide commands number guides as guide.list does, in the order
they were made.
New: each guide takes an id from the document's object ids. An object
command given a guide's id fails with an error, and node.move cannot
put a guide into a group or out of its layers. A guide made while an
opacity mask, a symbol or a pattern is edited moves to the top
visible, unlocked layer when editing ends.
File format: native files still save the guides in the document's
guides list, in every file version, so older builds read them. Each
entry may now also carry the guide's id, name, locked and hidden
flags; older builds ignore those fields. Opening a file puts each
saved guide on its layer (on the top visible, unlocked layer when the
file names none or a layer it does not have), and each saved guide
counts against the object limit for opening a file. A ruler guide node
that a file holds below a layer's art moves up to the layer's guides,
and one anywhere else (in a group or another object, beside the
layers, or in a symbol) is removed. Ruler guides read from an .ai file
become guide objects on the layer they were on, numbered in the order
the file lists them.
The params docs now state the direction (and the zero) of each angle or
rotation a command takes; behaviour is unchanged. Shape creation, text.create,
the grids, add-on shapes, saved views, Liquify, Puppet Warp pins, Mirror and
Radial Repeat and Vector Halftone turn clockwise; text character rotation,
gradients, the eraser tip and print screen angles turn counter-clockwise.
view.saved.new's rotation note changes its schema, so the API level goes to 3.
A test walks every command's params doc and fails when a param named like an
angle or rotation doesn't say clockwise or counter-clockwise.
A centred or right-aligned line of tracked type was measured with the
tracking after its last character, so it sat half that tracking
(centred) or the whole tracking (right-aligned) left of where the page
of users' .ai files draws it. That page aligns a line as wide as its
characters without that tracking.
Shaping now records the tracking each glyph's advance holds
(SGlyph::tracking), and a line that isn't justified leaves its last
character's out of the width it is aligned by. The last character is
the last one the line draws before a paragraph's end, a forced line
break or the spaces a wrap leaves; spaces or a tab typed before a
paragraph's end or a forced line break keep the letter's tracking, as
the page does. Forced line breaks and wraps aren't in the files: they
follow the rule so that turning a wrap into a paragraph or a forced line
break keeps the line in place. Hyphenated lines, lines whose last
character hangs, vertical and right-to-left lines and type on a path
keep it. The tracking stays in the glyph's advance, so the caret,
selections, line breaking and Fit Headline are unchanged.
LineInfo::trailing gives the amount. Right-aligned area type sets the
text after its last tab the same way.
What aligns by line widths follows. Convert To Area Type makes its
frame end where the lines are aligned, with room for the tracking, so
tracked type converted either way stays in place. Affinity import lines
up differently aligned paragraphs of artistic text by the aligned
widths. SVG import moves a centred or right-aligned letter-spaced line
back by its share of the last letter spacing, so it stays where a reader
draws it and SVG export, which anchors lines at the end of their
advances, reads back unchanged.
Centred and right-aligned tracked type lays out differently than before
in every document.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Clearing Preferences > Plug-ins & Scratch Disks > Additional Plug-ins Folder
left the folder recorded as the one last loaded. Setting the same folder
again then matched that record, and nothing in it was installed, so a
plug-in removed in the meantime stayed removed. Clearing the preference now
forgets the folder when it is the one last loaded.
A stop selected on a whole dynamic symbol instance's gradient stayed
selected after Direct Selection picked an object of that instance's art,
because the instance stayed the first selected object. The Gradient panel
kept the stop highlighted and the Gradient tool took Delete and the arrow
keys for it, while every gradient edit is refused for a picked object.
The stop's owner now records whether a part is picked, so the stop is not
selected while one is, and is selected again when the whole instance is.
A filter's id can be any character, so when every letter and digit is in
use a pasted filter at the size limit with a one-letter name now tries the
other printable ASCII characters (`!` to `~`) before the paste is refused.
Filter names are case-sensitive, but a pasted filter at the size limit with a
one-letter name only tried the letters a to z and the digits 0 to 9 as a new
name. A paste was refused while every capital letter was still free. It now
also tries A to Z.
Follows #6592. Paste now also skips the names that effects in the
document's brush art use when it picks a free name for a pasted SVG
filter. When no free name keeps the filter within the 64 KB limit (a
one-letter name at the limit with every free letter and digit taken),
the paste is refused instead of keeping the name of the document's
filter. Clipboard::import_into and import_text_styles return a Result,
and their callers pass the error on before the document changes.
An exception that a finally block passes on, or one that leaves a
built-in's callback, no longer becomes $.error again over an error thrown
after it; throwing a caught error again still makes it the last one.
$.sleep with more than 0 inside a getter, a conversion or a built-in's
callback now throws whether or not the platform has a clock, so the web
build throws there as the other builds do.
Paste renamed a pasted SVG filter to a name no filter of the document
held, but an effect could still use that name, for example after its
filter was deleted. Defining a filter of that name later changed both
effects. Paste now also skips the names the document's effects use,
read only when a pasted filter needs a new name.
A new name with a tab, line feed or carriage return was written into
the filter's id as is, which XML reads as a space, so the id no longer
matched the effect's name. svg_filter::with_id now writes those
characters as character references, and paste takes a name only when
the filter's id reads back as that name.
`leading: "12abc"` set 12 pt leading and returned success, while `size`
and `tracking` in the same command refused trailing text. `leading` now
reads its value with `length_given`, so a string must be a whole number
or a length with a unit. The error message is unchanged.
The compiler now keeps a function declaration's name with its code, so
$.stack no longer shows [anonymous] for a declared function that is
called after the function that declared it has returned. The member test
expects "Web" for $.os in the wasm build, as the engine gives there.
The side limit compared the region's height in points times the scale
with 32,768. Far from the origin the snapped region can come back a
fraction of a pixel over, so art that the renderer draws at exactly
32,768 pixels was refused (a rectangle at y = 100,000 rasterized at
400 ppi). The check now uses the renderer's own rounded pixel width and
height.
Saving a legacy .ai of version 7 flattens each transparent image at its own
resolution, limited only by total pixels. The renderer draws at most 32,768
pixels a side, so an image that came out longer than that at its resolution
was cut off and placed as if whole: the part past that length showed the art
under it without the image. The resolution is now lowered until the longest
side fits.
Print as Bitmap limited each page's image to 65,535 pixels a side, but the
renderer draws at most 32,768. A 9000 x 100 pt artboard at a 300 ppi raster
effects resolution printed as an image that stopped at 7,864 pt and was
placed as if whole. The resolution is now lowered until the longest side
fits.
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