The roadmap's status line and revision history now record the shape tools'
centre-point move and corner rotate (#5477), and the parity status line no
longer names the Transform tab-order fix, which is its own pull request.
- The Selection tool takes a Shift-press on a selected object's centre point
too: a Shift-drag moves the selection held to 45° steps, and a Shift-click
there takes the object out of the selection, as a Shift-press on the object
does.
- One rotate zone for the Selection tool and the shape tools
(`select::rotate_zone`): a press on a bounding-box handle is not a turn, so
the shape tools' zone matches the Selection tool's classification exactly.
- The shape tools' hover cursor follows the press order (corner and pie widgets,
then the centre point, then the rotate zone), and a move of the selection
shows the Selection tool's feedback: SelectionCopy with Alt, ArrowHollow while
it snaps.
- Engine-level tests for the whole gesture (`crates/engine/src/tests/shapetools.rs`):
repeated previews and one undo step, Alt copy, Escape then release, a turn
about the centre, the corner widget still rounding, and an unfilled shape
moved by the Selection tool.
- docs: evidence in target-app-parity.md's Shapes bullet and the M2 milestone,
and the Move cursor's entry names the copy and snap cursors.
A press on the centre point of the selected shape now moves the selection, as
asked (#5477), so the Constrain Angle test's repeated draws from the same point
moved the polygon drawn before them. It deselects first: nothing selected, the
press draws.
A shape just drawn keeps its bounding box with the Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle,
Ellipse, Polygon and Star tools, but its centre point (Attributes › Show Center)
did nothing and the box's handles only drew: a press anywhere started a new
shape, and with the Selection tool a press on the centre of an unfilled shape
started a marquee.
- The Selection tool now takes a press on a selected object's centre point as
the start of a move (held by that point, so it snaps and Alt copies), as
Direct Selection has since #4891. A click there still makes the object the
key object of a multi-selection.
- The shape tools take it too, and take a press in the rotate zone just outside
a bounding-box corner (the Selection tool's own zone and cursor) as the start
of a rotation about the box's centre. Live Corners widgets keep the corners
themselves, so a press on a corner still rounds it; every other press still
draws a new shape. Escape cancels, as for the Selection tool's drags.
`hit_center` moves from direct.rs to select.rs, shared by the three tools.
A review found the link lost its keyboard focus when it stopped being a tab
stop. It is focusable again, and the Control bar now keeps the link's place
between W and H but makes the button after the H field, so Tab still goes from
W straight to H and finds the link after it (as the Transform and Properties
panels already draw it). Tests: Shift+Tab goes back one field too, and a click
on the Control bar's link still toggles the preference.
The Blob Brush Tool Options test that expected two Tabs between the Roundness
field and the tip preview now expects one, as every field does. Docs: the Tab
entry in target-app-parity.md, both revision histories and the M1 milestone.
Part of #4684 (unify the UI with PhotoCraft). The Home screen's welcome,
New / Open buttons and Community block are centred, as PhotoCraft's
Home screen is, and the large Discord button takes the theme's accent
instead of Discord's own colour. Preset cards, Recent Files and the
wording are unchanged.
Still open from #4684: shortcut hints on the Home buttons, PhotoCraft's
PRO and STUDIO themes, the Preferences layout and the title bar.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0113uEh3VQ6et4zDMZ9cqzkf
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.
The clipping path around a transparent image flattened for a version 7
.ai followed 2 pt cells, a visible staircase. It now follows the rendered
pixels (in blocks only past 4 million), grown by one pixel so the whole
anti-aliased edge is inside, through the middle of each pixel edge and
simplified with Douglas-Peucker, so slopes and curves are sloped lines.
A group whose style holds Effect › Pathfinder › Intersect, Exclude, Subtract,
Minus Back, Divide, Outline, Trim, Merge, Crop, Hard Mix or Soft Mix now opens
with its members editable and the effect live, as Add already did
(https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/reshape-transform-objects/combine-objects-using-pathfinder-effects.html).
The Command numbers 1 to 10 are VectorCraft's own reader rules, learned from
saved files. Soft Mix's number 11, and reading its Mix from 0.01 to 1 as a
Mixing Rate of Mix times 100, are also VectorCraft's own reader rules.
These still open as the drawn look:
- Trap, and the effect on a path, on type, on a layer or on a fill or stroke.
- Any operation whose saved Pathfinder Options (Precision, Remove Redundant
Points, Divide and Outline Will Remove Unpainted Artwork), ConvertCustom,
Mix or Trap settings differ from the values the reader accepts, although
only Soft Mix uses Mix and none of these operations uses the Trap settings.
The import fuzz test now also gives the style every option with any Mix, and
checks that a live Soft Mix's rate is from 1 to 100.
The editing copy of a .ai or .ait file that VectorCraft saves or exports
now has `%_<n> /Int (CropAreaActive) ,` after the ArtboardArray in its
recorded part, and marks that artboard as the selected one. The app
records its view's active artboard before each command
(DocState::active_artboard; an index past the last artboard is the last,
as in the Artboards panel); without a view, the artboard the document
opened on (Document::opened_artboard) is written, else the first. A .ai
file read from its editing copy opens on that artboard. Before, the copy
named no active artboard and always marked the first as selected.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/file-format-parity.md, the editingData option text.
A file that takes longer than 0.4 s to open shows a modal progress window
with its name, a moving bar (reading reports no steps), how many more
files wait, Cancel (file.cancelOpen: the file doesn't open) and Continue
in Background (file.openInBackground). It never opens over another dialog
or progress window.
Bulgarian was not among the text languages, so Bulgarian text could not
be tagged and fonts drew their Russian-style Cyrillic. Bulgarian (bg)
is now in the language list (Character panel, character styles,
text.setFormat by name or tag, the Hyphenation preference's default
language), with CLDR's quotes, „…“ at either level. Shaped as bg, the
fonts' locl forms for BGR apply: in the bundled Source Sans 3 Italic,
в, д, ж, з, к, л and ю take their Bulgarian forms.
Fixes#5945
A straight segment dragged with Direct Selection or Group Selection snapped the
point it was pressed at to a grid intersection, leaving both of its anchors off
the grid. With Snap to Grid or Snap to Pixel on, the box round the moved anchors
now lands an edge on a gridline on each axis, as a moved object's does; Shift
keeps the move on its line. A dragged anchor still lands on an intersection.
Tab-separated rows with the same number of cells (quoted cells too)
become a group of point type, one per cell, in columns and rows over
0.5 pt gridlines; other text pastes as before. Fixes#5296.
The Eyedropper, the Live Paint check for paint to sample, the Appearance
panel's Characters chips and the colors the Libraries panel adds from
the selection found the paint behind the Fill or Stroke proxy through
Node::proxy_paint, which measures the object's geometric bounds. They
now read it with Node::proxy_paint_only.
- Eyedropper: the test for an empty fill reads the paint without
measuring. A sample measures the object only for a gradient or a
pattern, whose color depends on the point; a solid color gives its
color at once.
- Live Paint: the check for paint to sample reads the paint without
measuring.
- Appearance panel: the Characters row's two chips read the paint
without measuring.
- Libraries: adding a color or a pattern from the selection reads the
paint without measuring; a gradient is still measured for its
placement.
The paints and colors are the same as before. On an open path of
200,000 anchors, the Live Paint check and the Eyedropper's sample for a
point inside it take 0.004 ms together instead of 26.0 ms in a release
build.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md.
A 3D effect on a group or layer builds a solid from every path,
compound path and type in it, all turned about one shared axis, as the
public docs describe for groups. Fixes#4506.
perspective.grid.get reports define.name only while the grid still has
the preset's fields, as Define Grid's Preset menu shows [Custom]. Part of #5248.
A path whose fills and strokes stack (a fill and a stroke, several of
either, an even-odd fill, or a partly transparent or blended one) drew
its Transform effect's copies as one path, so every copy's stroke lay on
top of every copy's fill. It now draws each copy as an object of its own
above the one before, as Expand Appearance makes them.
Fixes#5920
Each visible object with a URL (Attributes panel) is written as a Link
annotation with a URI action over its bounds on the page, trimmed to its
clipping groups. Hidden objects, non-printing layers and printed sheets get
none; PDF/X files leave them out with a warning. URIs are percent-encoded
to 7-bit ASCII.
A colorized image whose pixels are all black or white (or clear) is
written as a 1-bit image mask (ImageMask 1): its color as the fill, a 0
bit for each black pixel and a 1 bit for each white or clear one. The
legacy reader opens it colorized again with the same clear pixels, so
the engine no longer flattens or omits it. Other colorized images are
written with their color in their pixels, over white, with the note
for transparent images.
A .ai that comes in as its page or PDF part (editing data with no layers, layers that can't be read, or a page fallback) gets none of the editing data's symbols: layered_ai_from fills symbols only from build_from. The editing-data paragraph now says so.
The remaining flags under crates/engine/src/cmd that read a boolean with
get(..).and_then(Value::as_bool).unwrap_or(..) now go through switch_or,
so a value such as "false" or 1 is an error instead of the default.
Omitting a flag or giving null keeps the old behavior.
- effect.move: copy
- aligned on the appearance.*, stroke.set, transparency.set and effect.*
commands, checked before any early return
- transparency.viewOpacityMask: on
- view.printTiling: on
- plugin.install: replace and allowHeavy, checked for every plug-in
- edit.clear: guides, and path.deleteAnchors' read of it
- text.create and text.createInPath: vertical (already refused by
check_switches, so their behavior is unchanged)
The Known failures bullet in docs/file-format-parity.md kept stale copies
of its earlier wording after several merges: guides were still listed as
lost although they open as ruler guides since #5057, and the same clauses
about #868, #1027 and #758 repeated several times. The bullet now states
each fact once, and keeps every legacy .ai reading note it carried.
Each definition's reader started with fresh blend layout and envelope
check budgets, so a file with many symbols, patterns or brush art
sections got those limits again for every definition. The reader of a
definition now takes the import's remaining budgets and hands back what
is left after reading, whether the definition is kept or not.
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