With Scale Strokes & Effects or Transform Patterns on, the path and each copy are moved by Node::transform, which fixed a fitted gradient to its fit before a scale of 0 flattened it to one color. Scaling::keep_fit_when_flat keeps the gradient fitted under a map that flattens the object (node::flattens, the gate fixes_fit already used), and the Transform effect's path transforms set it.
docs/target-app-parity.md also says that the Gradient tool still shows a fitted gradient's vector at its unturned fit.
The symbol test now requires a warning and at most the given number of
objects at every limit below what the reader reads. The mask test takes
its limits from the objects the reader reads and finds where the mask
first fits.
A pattern's or a brush's art was copied into the document with new ids,
but the art of an opacity mask inside it kept the ids of the reader that
read the definition. Those ids could repeat ids of objects in the
layers. The mask art now takes document ids, as a symbol's art already
does.
Align to Path moved the whole line by the largest ascent and descent
among its characters. Each character now moves by its own font, size
and vertical scale. Ascender runs the top of the font's em box along
the path: the ideographic em box that the font's BASE table gives, or
in a Chinese, Japanese or Korean font the one that its typographic or
hhea box, a one-em box-drawing cross or its ideographs give; else an
em box centered on the cap height. Descender runs the bottom of the font's
bounding box along the path, and Center runs a line at half the height
of the top of the font's H along it. In vertical type, Ascender and
Descender move the characters half an em, and Center leaves them on
the path.
Existing documents with Align to Path set to Ascender, Descender or
Center lay their type out at a new distance from the path.
Joining a Type 42 font's strings is charged per byte (as other bulk
copies are) before it runs, so data that turns out unreadable, read
again after leaving the cache, no longer copies for free.
widthshow matches a composite character by font number times 256 plus
its code; measuring Type 42 glyphs counts against the operation budget;
the Type 42 data cache keeps the least recently used order, remembers
fonts whose data can't be read and counts each font's data against the
memory budget once; composite font arrays are borrowed, not copied.
A composite (Type 0) font with the 8/8 mapping picks a descendant font
and a code in it with each pair of bytes (PLRM 3rd ed., 5.10). The reader
set its strings as type in a font of the composite font's name, the
bytes read as Latin-1 and at a thousand times the size, so EPS from
pdftops of a PDF with embedded TrueType fonts showed nothing, or one
black shape, where its type was.
Characters now go to their descendants: a Type 42 font's glyphs are drawn
from the TrueType outlines its sfnts strings carry (Adobe Technical Note
5012), by the glyph index CharStrings gives their names, spaced by their
own widths or the show operator's numbers; charpath and stringwidth read
them too. A Type 3 descendant runs its procedures, and a descendant found
by name sets its character as type at the composite font's size.
Resolve missing Registration (Xs, XS, Xz, XZ) and named color (Xx, XX)
operators in AI ArtStyle filter definitions so objects styled with
Registration swatches correctly resolve their paint instead of falling
back to the previously set graphics state color.
Also exclude Registration paints from color-model inference when read via
Xx/XX, and correctly extract tint (penultimate operand) for name-free Xz.
The mask test now checks the whole fill and stroke (colour, overprint,
width, cap, join, miter, dash) and the fill rule against the owner's,
and that an object after the mask's dictionary paints with the owner's
paint, not the paint the mask's art set. open_mask_object gets a doc
comment.
A dictionary's state starts afresh, with a black fill. Mask art is written
going on from the paint before the mask's dictionary, which the writer leaves
out when it doesn't change, so a mask rectangle with no colour of its own
came in black and hid the white letters it masks. Mask art now starts from
the paint (fill, stroke, line style, fill rule, overprint) before the
dictionaries it is in; lock, visibility and transparency still start afresh.
A pattern's definition (in either form) and a brush's art were read
without the file's art styles, so an object there with a style came in
as the look it draws, with a "drawn look" note, while the same object on
a layer or in a symbol came in as itself with its effects live. The
three definition readers now take the art styles as the symbol reader
does, and an object in a pattern's art with a style in the file's style
list keeps that graphic style's id.
An art styles section inside a symbol's, a pattern's or a brush's art
is now skipped, so it no longer replaces the file's own art styles.
The editing-data writer wrote a run's key 35 only for Tate-chu-yoko (3).
Type with Standard Vertical Roman Alignment, on or off, was saved with no
key, so the setting was lost from the editing data. Every run now carries
key 35 in the form the reader reads it (crates/eps/src/import/ate.rs,
Texts::style, lines 669-670): 1 when the setting is on, 2 when it is off
and 3 for Tate-chu-yoko. The document's defaults and the normal character
style carry 1.
Key 35 holds one value, so a run with both Tate-chu-yoko and the setting
is written as Tate-chu-yoko, and the save reports the type attributes
warning for it.
- writer/texts.rs: baseline_direction() gives each run's value;
normal_char() writes 1; loses() and TYPE_ATTRIBUTES name the setting.
- tests.rs: a vertical and a horizontal object with the setting on, off
and Tate-chu-yoko come back the same through the reader, lay out as
before, and carry the expected keys; a run with both is reported.
- docs/file-format-parity.md: the .ai save section lists the written
values.
The editing-data reader set the paint of each gradient swatch in the
palette to link to the swatch's own name. The default gradient swatches
and a gradient swatch given a new gradient with swatch.edit hold their
gradient without a link, so a document saved as .ai and opened again
had swatches that differed from the ones it was saved with. The swatch
now holds the gradient alone. Art filled with the gradient is not
changed: it still links to a swatch by the gradient's name.
The fix also applies to a .ai whose layers are not read, such as a
gradient library, where only the palette comes in.
Three tests cover a hand-written palette with a gradient swatch named
by its gradient and one with a name of its own, a new document's four
gradient swatches written by the editing-data writer and read back, and
a gradient library without layers.
The modern type reader read key 35 of a character style only for
Tate-chu-yoko (3). A run whose key 35 is 1 (Standard), in the run, its
character style or the document's defaults, now opens with Standard
Vertical Roman Alignment on, so its half-width characters stand upright
in vertical type. Horizontal type keeps the mark with no change to its
layout. A value of 2 (rotated), 3, any other value and no key at all
leave it off, VectorCraft's default.
- ate.rs: Style reads the flag and passes it to CharStyle, with a unit
test over defaults, character styles, run overrides and bad values.
- tests_native.rs: a vertical and a horizontal story with Standard,
rotated and unset runs; the test of values the reader ignores also
checks the flag.
- import_fuzz.rs: the vertical fixture also checks the flag.
- docs/file-format-parity.md: one line on the mapping.
The legacy .ai writer gives the type attributes warning when a text
object loses something it cannot hold. It did not give it for several
attributes that it does not write:
- Align to Path set to Ascender, Descender or Center.
- An end bracket before the end of an open path, or short of once
around a closed path. A legacy text path holds the path and the start
point only (AI7 File Format Specification, section 15).
- Manual kerning other than 0, which is written as kerning off, and
optical kerning.
- Optical Margin Alignment, System Layout and fractional widths off.
- A second subpath in an area type frame or a type path. The writer
writes the first subpath only.
The warning now names each of these.
A top-object envelope splits its outline into four sides at four corners
and maps the content onto the Coons patch of those sides. The sides
shared out the content by length, and the corners were the anchors or
curve points nearest the bounding box corners.
Each piece of a side between anchors and corners now takes a share of the
content's width or height in proportion to the length of its control
polygon, spread along the piece by its curve parameter. A straight
segment spreads it evenly by length. A rounded rectangle stays close to
the identity, and the content follows the curves of a side whose segments
differ in size.
Each corner is now the nearest anchor to its bounding box corner among
the sharp anchors that point out of the outline and lie within 47.5% of
the box's width and height from that corner. A handle shorter than
0.01 pt, or tangent unit vectors that differ by 0.01 or more in x or y,
makes an anchor sharp, and the first one along the outline wins a tie.
Without such an anchor, the corner is the outline's nearest point to the
box corner, moved onto the end anchor of its segment within 0.5% of the
segment's parameter. Envelopes opened from .ai files keep the corners the
file saves.
These are VectorCraft's own rules. Existing top-object envelopes redraw by
them. Gradient meshes made from a path keep their sides measured by length.
- crates/doc/src/live/mesh.rs: Coons::from_top_object and the corner
search, used for top-object envelopes.
- EnvelopeKind::TopObject gains an optional `corners` field (anchor
indices); the .ai importer fills it from the mesh's corners.
- Params text of object.envelope.makeWithTopObject, docs/mcp.md
(Envelopes) and a progress line in docs/target-app-parity.md.
The reader stops a whole file past 4,000,000 objects (MAX_NODES), and
the writer had no limit of its own. The writer now counts the objects
it writes as the reader counts them, across layers, symbol and pattern
definitions, opacity masks and art styles, and leaves out art past the
limit with a warning. Art that does not fit is given back as a whole:
a mask, a pattern or a symbol definition is left out with all its art,
and a symbol's definition is written only with room for its instance.
The limit is the reader's own constant, re-exported as
MAX_EDITING_OBJECTS.
A global or spot color that a symbol library's art links to and whose
name a color group of the document has now comes in under a free variant
of the name, which the art then names, as for a name another swatch has.
Swatches and color groups share one set of names.
A Pattern brush reads its scale from 3 or more numbers (the older form's
8 too) and isn't read with fewer; an 8-number Art brush is the older form
whatever its first number. The module notes say the count tells the form.
A Scatter brush in a .ai or EPS file's editing data always came into
the Brushes panel keeping its art's colors. A Scatter brush whose last
15 numbers start with 1 now opens in Tints, and one whose numbers start
with 0 keeps its art's colors. Other values are not read and keep the
art's colors. The field before the art's name does not decide it: an
object whose first field is 1 is read by its 15 numbers, and a Scatter
object with 8 numbers is still left out.
A brush's art usually comes in a group after its frame, an unpainted
rectangle around the art. The reader kept that rectangle as part of
the brush's art. It now leaves out a frame at the art's bounds (within
1/1000 pt): an unnamed, unpainted rectangle with its four corners in
order, closed, or open with its first corner again at the end, and no
settings of its own (shown, unlocked, at full opacity in Normal, with
no effects, note or other attributes). A wider frame stays in the art,
and so do a path that crosses the corners, an open path along three
sides and a rectangle with settings of its own. A group left with one
object becomes that object, unless it has a state or look of its own
(hidden, locked, isolated, knockout, an opacity, a blend mode, a name,
a mask, a note or another setting, or an appearance); then it stays a
group without the frame. The rule applies to every brush art section.
Existing files with such brushes now open with Tints and without the
extra frame path in the brush's art. With an exact frame, the pieces
that a Scatter or Art brush draws along a path stay where they were.
The Scatter, Art and Pattern brush colorization options, Tints among
them, are described on pages 281-282 of
https://web.archive.org/web/20210601162814/https://helpx.adobe.com/pdf/illustrator_reference.pdf#page=281
Tests cover Scatter brushes whose numbers start with 1 and 0, with a
first field of 1 and 2, and an 8-number object. They cover frames kept
or left out (exact, wider, open, filled, named, crossing the corners,
along three sides, with a note, Show Center or hidden), a group's own
state and note kept, and the pieces a Scatter and an Art brush draw
along a path with and without the frame. The import fuzz test reads
brush art after frames of any corners and paint.
The legacy reader skipped `bindrepeat Tg` (section 15.3.4 of the version 7
file format specification). It now reads the binding punctuation bit:
1 and 3 set the paragraph's Burasagari to Force, and 0 and 2 set it to
none, which is VectorCraft's own mapping. The value is modal, lasts into
the next text object, and an operand other than 0 to 3 leaves it as it
was. The repeat character, `TG`, `Xu` and `Tu` are still skipped.
docs/mcp.md and the `ParaStyle::burasagari` doc comment name the legacy
`.ai` case as the exception to imported text keeping `none`.
An envelope mapped type from its laid-out box: ascent to descent for
point type, the frame for area type. The distorted glyphs then filled
less of the envelope than other art does, with room above the capitals
and below the baseline.
The envelope now maps type from the bounds of its glyph outlines,
underlines and strikethroughs when the type is on its own, in groups
and layers, or used as a clipping path. Inline graphics count by their
boxes. Rotated type and type in perspective map from their outlines as
they are drawn. Make with Mesh,
Make with Top Object and Reset with Mesh without Maintain Shape use
those bounds. Type that draws nothing keeps its laid-out box, and so
does type inside any other object, such as a blend, a repeat or a
symbol instance. Shrink Text to Fit type is measured as it is laid out
on the page.
vectorcraft-text's envelope_ink measures the type, and
register_envelope_ink registers it with the document crate. The engine
session, Renderer::new, live evaluation in vectorcraft-effects and the
.ai reader register it. The document crate keeps the measured boxes per
thread, by object and by a hash of the content, and measures again when
the type, the fonts, the hyphenation exceptions or the transform's
scale or rotation change.
This is VectorCraft's own rule. Envelopes of type made in VectorCraft
and in saved files map from the glyph outline bounds instead of the
type's laid-out box, so they redraw differently.