The Links panel's Relink... button and menu item open a Relink dialog
(ui.relinkDialog) with a Replace menu. Selected Instances relinks the
selected images and placed documents, as Relink did before. All
Instances also relinks every other object in the layers linked to the
same file. Missing Links from This Folder relinks the selection to the
chosen file, then every other missing link to the file of its name in
that file's folder, and the status bar names the files not there. Each
Link Separately asks for a file for each selected link in turn, one OK
each, and relinks them all at the last one: the dialog has one row per
linked file, and each selected embedded image gets a row of its own.
Every choice is one undo step.
links.relink takes scope: selected (default), all, missingInFolder
(with path) or each (with paths: [{ids, path}] in place of ids, path
and folder). A scope or paths that doesn't fit is an error and relinks
nothing. With copy, every file is read and checked before any is
copied, copies made before a failed copy are removed, and
missingInFolder looks for missing images only.
Docs: params text, docs/mcp.md, docs/control-protocol.md,
docs/target-app-parity.md. Catalog rows for the new labels and messages
in every catalog.
On open, a link found away from its path was passed to the same file's links in symbols, graph designs, patterns and opacity masks only when the nested link equaled the layers' link field for field. A nested link without a relative path, as documents saved before kept them, then kept the old path. The new path now goes to every nested object that shows the same file and content.
Update Links, and opening a document with Update Links: Automatically,
now read a modified file again for the images and placed documents in
symbols, graph designs, patterns and opacity masks that show the same
content as the objects read in the layers. By default Update Links also
reads the files that only that art shows. Each nested object takes the
file's place as its own Placement Options say, including the clip, and
its link takes the new path, size, modification time and hash.
Saving a document also refreshes the placed copies of it inside symbols,
graph designs, patterns and opacity masks of the other open documents,
not only those in the layers.
Relink, Embed and Unembed still change only the objects they are given.
A save wrote the path relative to the document only for linked images and
placed documents in the layers. Links inside symbols, graph designs,
patterns and opacity masks kept only their absolute path, so after the
document and its files moved to another folder together, those files were
not found.
- The save sets the relative path of every link the document holds.
- On open, a link inside that art whose file was found away from its path
takes the new path, as a link in the layers does, so the next save
writes the right relative path.
- Document::update_links_where changes only the links it picks and copies
only the nodes on the way to them.
Docs: docs/mcp.md (Linked images), docs/target-app-parity.md.
Images were keyed by their bytes alone, so two <image> elements that
link different files with the same bytes shared one image key. Every
missing file shows the same placeholder, and files can also be copies
of each other. Export reads a linked file's pixels into the image key
when the document holds only a preview, so once one of the files was
found or changed, the images of the other file exported and printed
that file's pixels.
A linked image's key now also holds a hash of its link's path, as the
.ai reader's linked images do. Images of one file still share a key.
The missing-file placeholder comes from
vectorcraft_doc::links::missing_placeholder instead of a copy in the
SVG importer.
A new test binary opens a document of 13 type objects with the plans a
font face keeps and again while every shaped segment makes its own plan.
The document, its cached bounds and baselines included, and the first
frame's pixels must be the same. `test_fonts::keep_shape_plans` switches
the plans off; it exists only in tests and with the `test-fonts` feature.
The engine's open test now builds objects of one script and direction
that differ in kerning and language, and lays each one out in a font
database of its own, so a plan used for the wrong features fails its
comparison. It no longer sets Arabic, which could fall back to a system
font in one database and not the other.
Every shaped segment built its own harfrust shaping plan, although a
plan depends only on the face, direction, script, language and features.
Opening a document lays out each type object once, so a document of many
short objects built thousands of identical plans.
A font face now keeps up to 32 plans, oldest dropped first, and shapes
with the one that matches. Feature ranges still come from the shape
call, so text with the same features over other ranges shares a plan.
The glyphs, bounds and baselines do not change.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md.
A linked image read from a version 7 `.ai` file can keep its path in
the classic Mac OS form, with colons between folders
(`Macintosh HD:Images:photo.tif`). The link's name was the whole path,
so the Links panel showed it as one long name, and Relink to Folder,
the search of the document's folder and Find Linked Files looked for a
file with that whole string as its name.
A path with a colon and no `/` or `\` is now read as a classic Mac OS
path. Its name is the part after the last colon, and `links.info` gives
the rest as `location`. Relink to Folder, the document-folder search and
`links.findFiles` look for that name, and Find Linked Files compares the
path's folders with the folders of the files it finds. The link keeps
the path as stored. Paths with a `/` or `\` keep those as separators,
so a file name may still hold a colon (`/Users/a/x:y.png`).
Docs: docs/mcp.md (Links), docs/file-format-parity.md (version 7
linked images).
File > Open and File > Place read BMP files named .dib or .rle (run-length
encoded bitmaps included), Photoshop files named .pdd and PNG files named
.pns, in any letter case. The Open and Place dialogs list them in "All
readable files", "All placeable files" and their format's own filter, and
Glass's Load Texture lists them too. Linked files with these names update
and relink, the Links panel shows their format, and Edit Original opens
them.
The extensions are read-only: exports still write .bmp, .psd and .png, and
an export to a path with one of the new extensions is refused as before.
The desktop packaging does not associate them with the app.
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