Outside Windows, a path that starts with a drive (`C:`) or a `\` is read
as a name in the working folder, so with the working folder inside a
read root it passed the read check. ui.inspect then kept it in recorded
action steps and replies did not hide it when a request sent it. The
check now counts such a path as outside the read roots wherever the
control channel and the library commands check a path.
A new built-in add-on, Image Tools (Object › Plug-ins › Image Tools),
adds Remove Background… (`addon.image.removeBackground`). It makes the
background of the selected images transparent by lowering the alpha of
their own pixels, in one undo step, with no service or model. The
background is the most common color along the image's edges, the
average of the image's corners, or colors the user picks. Contiguous
(on by default) clears it only where it reaches in from an edge; off,
it is cleared wherever it is. Tolerance and Softness (0 to 100, 10 by
default) set how near a color must be to be cleared and the band over
which pixels fade out. Match measures that nearness as the RGB
distance or as the largest difference on one channel. It is a
VectorCraft addition.
- The image stays an image: an embedded PNG with alpha, the source's
ICC profile and resolution, and 16 bits or gray when the source is.
A linked image is embedded and keeps its Placement Options.
- When the edges hold at least as many clear pixels as pixels of their
most common color, edge mode clears nothing, so a second run leaves
the subject alone. Corner mode leaves clear corners out of the
average and clears nothing when all four are clear.
- With Match set to Each Channel, a tolerance of t / 255 × 100 clears
the colors within t 8-bit steps on every channel.
- A CMYK image, a linked image that shows its preview, an image that
would need more than the decode allowance (checked from its header)
and a result with no pixel left are refused, and the document stays
as it was. When no pixel changes, no undo step is added. The result
reports `cleared`, the pixels made fully clear.
- Picked colors are hex colors, with or without `#`, or black, white,
red, green or blue.
- The dialog opens with Preview off; with Preview on, the canvas shows
the result, and Cancel puts the image back. While the dialog
previews, the session keeps the images' decoded pixels (at most
128 MiB, 32 MiB in the web app) so each preview step does not decode
them again, and releases them when the dialog closes with OK or
Cancel. A run that is not a preview step keeps nothing.
Docs: docs/mcp.md (Image Tools add-on), docs/target-app-parity.md.
Grouping for flattening joined every pair of objects whose 1 pt reach
boxes touched, transitively, so a row or grid of opaque objects next to
one see-through object became one group and was flattened with it.
Now a group holds each see-through object and every object its reach
touches. An object without transparency joins only where its reach
touches a member and it lies above that member but below the group's
topmost object, whose place the group takes, so the stacking order
stays the same. In files without transparency with Clip Complex Regions
on, art under a group within one image pixel of a member joins it too,
with the pixel size taken from the image's actual resolution. Objects in
an overlap set that includes one inside a clip group or clipping layer
keep the previous grouping.
The 1 pt antialiasing margin now goes around a group's art once instead
of once per nested group (a stroked path's plain art is a group, so it
had 2 pt).
On 3,000 stroked rectangles, 60 with a drop shadow, the Flattener Preview
counts 180 affected objects where it counted 3,000, and Flatten
Transparency with the Medium preset makes 240 flat regions and 2 images
where it made one image of the whole grid.
A library loaded from outside a confined client's read roots keeps its
`loaded/<file name>` id for the session, in ui.inspect, ui.docking and
the library commands, so an id taken from an earlier reply still finds
the same library after another library with the same file name is
loaded. swatch.library.copyToUser leaves out `path` when the file is
outside the read roots, as the saves do.
The ids come from the engine's concealed_library_ids, which now reads a
path written with either separator, counts another platform's absolute
path as outside the roots, and keeps each id in the session.
While an app runs, its Data Recovery area's .lock file, or the whole area
folder, can be removed by the user, a cleaner or another program. The app
kept writing copies into an area that no lock held, and another app could
lock that area and offer the copies as a crash's copies.
Each recovery save and heartbeat now checks that the file at the area's
.lock path is still the file the app locked. When the lock file or the
folder is gone, or another file is in its place, the app makes the area
again if it is gone, locks it again, and writes again the copies that went
with the folder. A lock file that can't be read for another reason still
counts as held. When another app holds the area by then, the app takes a
new area and writes every copy there. The app does not offer or discard
its own copies in the old area as a crash's copies. It removes each one
when its document has a copy in the new area, or is saved, reverted or
closed, and removes all of them when it quits with nothing unsaved. The
app that holds the old area also removes them when it quits with nothing
unsaved.
A copy that was being written when the Data Recovery folder preference
changed is now removed from the folder it was written to. Before, the
document took that copy as its current one, and the copy stayed in the old
folder after the document was saved or closed.
Paragraph justification can move point text past the canvas limit even when character copying is disabled. Check those targets before keeping the edit or remembered sample, and cover the explicit-target case with a regression.
Type › Dynamic Text Presets › Circle, Arch and Bow
(`type.dynamicTextPreset {preset, position?, flip?, ids?}`) put the
selected point type and type on a path on a new path of that shape and
turn Dynamic Text on, so the text is sized to fill it.
- Circle is a circle as wide as the text, the text running clockwise
from its bottom; Arch and Bow are a 120° arc whose chord is as wide as
the text, bulging up or down. The shape is upright on the page when
the object is rotated or scaled.
- `position` above, center or below sets Align to Path to Descender,
Center or Ascender; `flip` turns the text to the other side of its
path. Effect and Spacing stay.
- Area type is left as it is, threaded type on a path is refused, and a
preset that changes nothing records no undo step.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Part of #4134.
Clicks, the hover pointer and marquees with the selection tools already
leave out the area that raster effects paint beyond an object. New tests
in crates/engine/src/tests/select_effects.rs hold that in place for drop
shadows, Outer Glow and Gaussian Blur on paths, groups, point type,
symbol art and images, for Shift-click, Direct Selection, the hover
pointer, a drag from a selected object's shadow and a marquee. hit_leaf
gets a doc comment, and docs/target-app-parity.md gets a line citing
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/selecting-objects.html.
Window › Graphic Style Libraries › Textures, after Hand-Drawn, holds eight
styles that paint their fills and strokes with the texture effects: Fine
Grain (Grain), Canvas Weave and Burlap Sack (Texturizer), Cracked Glaze
(Craquelure), Mosaic Floor (Mosaic Tiles), Quilted Squares (Patchwork),
Leaded Glass (Stained Glass) and Damp Paper (Water Paper). The styles,
their names and their settings are VectorCraft's own.
Each catalog has rows for the library and style names. Docs: docs/mcp.md,
docs/gaps.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
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