File › Scripts now lists the .js and .jsx files of the Scripts folder next
to the preferences, each named after its file without the extension, with
each subfolder as a submenu, above Check Script… and Other Script…. The
help page describes this listing:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/install-and-run-scripts.html
Choosing a listed script runs it through script.run without the warning
Other Script… shows. script.listInstalled returns the same listing, and
ui.runInstalledScript {path} runs one entry.
VectorCraft's own rules: the folder is read off the UI thread when the
app starts, when its window becomes active and when the File menu of the
window's menu bar opens; only names are read; links, junctions, hidden
and system entries are left out and checked again before a run; one read
stops at 2,048 entries, 512 scripts, 128 subfolders, 4 levels or 250 ms
and the menu then notes that some scripts were not listed. Under an
automation read root, script.listInstalled and ui.menu.list leave out a
folder outside the root.
#1183 (LloydNicholson) also proposed a Scripts menu listing a folder.
Scripts write to a new Script Console with $.write(...values) and
$.writeln(...values), each value as String(value) gives it. vc.log
entries, a run's uncaught error as name:line:column: message, and a
start, end and report line for each run go there too. The report line
gives the run's time, host calls and slowest commands.
- The console keeps at most 2,048 lines and 1 MiB of text, dropping the
oldest and counting what it dropped. A line is cut at 4,096 bytes and
a script's name at 256 bytes, with a count of cut lines. Line feeds,
carriage returns and CRLF break lines; other control characters show
as Unicode Control Pictures.
- script.run's result and scriptReport gain runTimeMs, timingAvailable,
hostCallCounts, slowestCommands and the run's own console. A failed
run's report has them too.
- script.console and script.console.clear read and empty the console;
ui.copyScriptConsole {first?, last?} copies lines as the panel shows
them.
- The panel lays out only the rows in view, selects with click and
Shift-click, and has Clear, Copy Selected and Copy All. Output goes on
while it is closed, and Clear works during a run.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/gaps.md, docs/roadmap.md,
docs/target-app-parity.md.
`Session::history_budget` (default `default_history_budget()`) caps the
memory the undo steps of all open documents keep together. After each
command, tool edit, interaction commit, direct edit, framed script run
and closed undo group, `Session::trim_histories` drops the oldest steps
of any document first, undo steps before redo steps. Each document keeps
its last eight undo steps and next eight redo steps, and a held history
keeps all of its steps. While a script runs or an undo group is open,
no steps are dropped, so a canceled group leaves the other documents'
steps in place. Closing a document frees its share. The steps are not
counted again while neither the budget nor any history changed. Each
document's own `byte_budget` stays as its ceiling.
edit.colorSettings set only the process-wide colour settings, so the RGB and
CMYK working spaces, intent and black point compensation went back to the
defaults at every start, although the profiles color.loadProfile loads are
kept (#2168, #2174). The engine now writes them to a settings file when they
change (Session::attach_color_settings), and the desktop app and
vectorcraft-cli keep that file as `Color Settings.json` next to the
preferences, attached right after the profile store so a saved working space
may be a loaded profile. Saved settings that can't be used (a profile that is
gone, a damaged or oversized file) leave the defaults with a log record, and
the next change writes over them. Nothing is read or written with
VECTORCRAFT_NO_PREFS.
Each command a script runs keeps a savepoint of the state it may need
to put back if it fails. The savepoint cloned every open document's
whole undo history, so a script that made N edits did O(N^2) work.
- The savepoint now clones each document's state without its history
and keeps a mark: the newest undo and redo steps and the serials of
the steps under them. Until the command ends, the history trims no
step, and a new step sets the redo steps aside instead of dropping
them. A failed command truncates both stacks back to the mark.
- file.close, file.closeAll, document.close and file.revert still keep
a whole copy, since they remove the history or the document.
- When a failed command removed or changed a step under the newest
one, the history cannot be put back exactly, and the run stops with
an error; its rollback restores the documents as they were before
the run.
- run_guarded no longer copies the histories during a script's run,
and a committed run moves the histories from before it back instead
of copying them.
- Symbol editing mode shares its saved redo steps between copies of a
document's state.
- A script cannot run edit.clearHistory. A run keeps each document's
undo steps from before it, so the command reported a clear that the
commit then undid.
File › Scripts › Other Script… picks a .js or .jsx file, shows a warning
that can be turned off in Preferences › General, and runs the script
against the open documents through the `vc` object. The new
`script.run` and `script.stop` commands run and stop a script over MCP.
- A run is one transaction. Each document it changed gets one undo step
named Run Script. An uncaught error, a limit or a stop puts every
document, the paint, the clipboard, menu state and preferences back.
- A command that fails inside a run, or whose result is too large to
reach the script, is undone and throws an error the script can catch.
- Files a command wrote stay on disk and the report names them, also
when the run is stopped from the quit question.
- While a script runs, other commands that change anything fail with a
busy error; MCP reports it as JSON-RPC error -32003.
- In the app the run advances one slice per frame with a Stop button in
the status bar. A run that adds a great many objects asks whether to
continue; Stop and Escape end it.
- Commands that change state outside the documents, such as prefs.*,
plugin.* and file.place.queue, are refused to scripts.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/gaps.md, docs/roadmap.md,
docs/target-app-parity.md.
Check a new call's params against the schema in execute_spec, after the
key check and before the parser, and check every command.batch step
before the first one runs. menucmds::run_raw and the two other direct
runs go through the same check. Saved steps keep keys the schema does
not name and have the values it names checked.
Limit nesting to 16 levels, cut error text and paths to a fixed length,
and copy nothing before it has passed. Treat a whole number written
with a fraction as an integer. Check declared defaults and duplicate
names once at first use.
Give the five schema errors rows in the 22 complete-message catalogs.
text.spelling.addWord, removeWord and changeWord are Check Spelling's Add
and Edit Custom Dictionary's Add, Delete and Change; text.spelling.dictionary
lists the words. They live in craft-proof, which every language's check
reads. The desktop app and vectorcraft-cli keep them in
`Custom Dictionary.txt` next to the preferences (none without preferences);
elsewhere they last until the app closes.
text.spelling.ignoreAll is Ignore All: the active document's checks skip the
word while it is open; not saved, not undoable, and not a change to the
document's revision.
Behaviour: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/edit-format-text/check-and-correct-spelling.html
When loading the plug-in store can't remove the grant of an id whose stored
module lists no permissions, or can't read grants.json, the entry stays on
disk and still approved the bytes it covers. plugin.install has the same case
when the grant can't be removed and no earlier module can be put back.
The session now keeps those ids and does not count their grants in
plugin.inspect, plugin.install, plugin.reload or a later load of the store. A
successful update of the grant for the id ends that, and so does attaching a
different store.
With New Art Has Basic Appearance on (the default), the selection never
reached the fill and stroke proxies, so new art kept the colours set last.
A select.* command or layer.target that changes the selection now loads
the proxies and the weight from what the selection shows in them.
A paint or weight the selected objects don't share stays as it was, and
art without paint (a placed image) changes nothing. The template is left
alone, and only a changed selection loads, so a sampled paint stays.
- A file read for opening is laid out in the composite fonts registered
then. Opening a document and reverting the front one now measure again
the type set in a font named like a composite font that an open document
defines, the font database holds or the session registered earlier. Type
in other fonts, missing ones included, keeps the bounds it was read with.
- Switching to a document or closing the front one measures again the type
set in a composite font whose definition changed, and any type without
bounds.
- A document reverted while in the back measures its type in composite
fonts when it comes to the front, not in the front document's.
- Text holding an inline graphic whose symbol's type was measured again
takes the graphic's new size.
- A failed or panicked command puts the font database's composite fonts
back with the documents.
- Setting a composite font to the definition an export lends keeps it after
the export ends.
`plugin.install` accepted `grant` and `allowHeavy` from any client, so
the program installing a plug-in could answer its own permission
prompt.
The desktop app now shows an approval dialog that names the module,
its hash and what it asks for. Confirming it gives the engine a
one-use approval tied to that module id, hash and permission list. A
control or MCP request and a frame of synthetic input cannot confirm
the dialog, and Enter does not confirm it.
Without such an approval, `grant` and `allowHeavy` are refused. The
new `--allow-plugin-grants` flag on `mcp` and `run` lets a person who
starts a headless session accept them from requests. The flag cannot
be combined with `--connect`. A module already approved in the desktop
app still installs through its stored grant.
The remembered selection is now tied to the document it was made in, by its
uid, instead of being cleared on every tool reset: another view of the same
document, or closing an inactive tab, kept the anchors picked but made Copy
take the whole path.
A lent gesture that leaves the selection as it found it (a Cmd+Shift marquee
over nothing) is no longer recorded as a pick, so the Pen's last anchor stays
its own and Copy takes the whole path.
Also records #6123 in target-app-parity.md.
With the Pen or Curvature tool, Copy and Cut ignore the anchor selection,
so that the last anchor the Pen leaves selected doesn't make Copy take just
that anchor (#2122). Anchors picked with the Direct Selection that Cmd/Ctrl
lends those tools were ignored too, and the whole path was copied.
The session now remembers the selection the lent tool leaves when it gives
the tool back. While that is still the selection, Copy and Cut take the
picked anchors and segments, as with Direct Selection chosen.
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.
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