The text fields and menus of the Basic Character Formats, Advanced
Character Formats, Character Color and OpenType Features sections, and
the Style Name field of Character Style Options, are now named by the
label beside them, so screen readers announce them. This covers both
Character Style Options and New Character Style, which share the
sections. The New Character Style UI test runs with the accessibility
check on again, and a new test opens every section of both dialogs and
checks that no input is unnamed.
A popup measures its list on the first frame, when the scroll area does
not yet show its bar. When the bar then appeared, its column took its
width from the items, and the widest label wrapped onto two lines:
Distort & Transform in the Add New Effect menu, and Black and White Logo
in the Image Trace presets, in short windows.
menu_scroll now lays the items out at least as wide as on the popup's
first frame, so the bar's column widens the popup instead. That width
is kept until the popup closes and is never wider than the window has
room for. The items are laid out in the same child Ui on every frame,
so their ids do not change when the width does.
Each artboard can carry a guide label: one of the layer colors or a
custom RGB. Guides that belong to an artboard draw in its label color,
and guides without an artboard, or on an artboard without a label, keep
the guide color from the preferences. Selected guides still draw in the
selection color.
- Artboard Options has a Guide Label row (None, the layer colors with
swatches, or Custom with a color swatch).
- artboard.new and artboard.setProps take guideLabel: null, a layer
color's name, or #rrggbb. Any other value is an error. The inspect
summary lists guideLabel when one is set.
- The native format saves the label and skips it when unset; a preset
index outside the layer colors reads as no label.
- artboard.setProps no longer adds an undo step when nothing changes.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The panel's note and the doc comment on ui.copyScriptConsole now say the
count of dropped and cut lines appears only when there are any, and the
returned lines count leaves that line out.
A copy of every Script Console line starts with the count of dropped and
cut lines only when there are any, and the returned lines count leaves
that line out. The end-line text is described without a code span that
ends in a space.
A scrolling menu list took its height from its own top down to the
window's bottom bars. egui picks a popup's side from its size on the
previous frame and moves a popup that does not fit back into the
window, so the list's height changed with where the popup was drawn.
In a short window the Add New Effect menu and other long menus moved
between two places while open, and a menu that did not fit crept a
few points per frame.
The list now takes its height from the room below and above the
button, row or point it opens from: below while that side leaves the
120 pt minimum, otherwise on the side with more room. A submenu
measures down from its row's top or up from its row's bottom. The
change is in menu_scroll, so it applies to every menu built on it.
Part of #6435. An optional VectorCraft feature: the Preferences dialog's
Export Preferences... saves the applied preferences to a JSON file (the
web build downloads it), and Import Preferences... applies such a file and
shows the imported values. They run the new commands prefs.export {path?}
and prefs.import {path | data}.
The file holds every preference prefs.list lists and the eyedropper,
perspectiveWidget, pathfinder and glyphSnap groups, without the four
folder preferences and saved presets. prefs.import reads at most 1 MB and
checks every value first: another format, a newer version, an unknown
preference, a bad value or a folder preference is an error, and nothing
changes. It keeps the open document's units, records no undo step, and is
refused as a command.batch step. prefs.set now rejects a group value that
is not an object.
With View > Pixel Preview on, the tools still snapped to Smart Guides
and showed their guides; only the Object Highlighting outline was
hidden. Work with Smart Guides says Smart Guides cannot be used while
Snap to Grid or Pixel Preview is on.
ViewInfo has a pixel_preview field, and Session::with_tool_cx turns
Smart Guides (and Snap to Glyph, which needs them) off in the tools'
context while it is set. VectorcraftApp::view_info passes View > Pixel
Preview. View > Smart Guides keeps its setting.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md.
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.
The canvas key did not change when a plug-in was installed, replaced or
removed, so the canvas kept showing the frame drawn with the old plug-in,
and a pan by whole pixels copied that frame's pixels next to strips drawn
with the new one.
The key now carries the plug-in revision of the last install or removal
after which the document draws a plug-in effect, in its layers, in a
symbol's or pattern's art, or in a brush's art. The canvas looks through a
document once after each install or removal; a document without a plug-in
effect keeps its key.
A linear dimension between two clicked points, or dragged out from a
segment, always measured the straight distance between its points and
drew its line parallel to them, so two points at different heights gave
only a slanted dimension. The linear dimensions help describes aligned,
horizontal and vertical linear dimensions: after the second click,
clicking again gives an aligned one and moving the pointer gives a
horizontal or vertical one.
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/measure-and-align/plot-and-measure/plot-linear-dimensions-of-objects.html
While a linear dimension is being placed, the pointer's position sets
whether it is aligned, horizontal or vertical. The rule is VectorCraft's
own. With the pointer beside the two points (the nearest point of the
line through them lies between them) or on that line, the dimension is
aligned. Past either point, the line through the points and the
perpendicular through that point bound a quarter on each side of the
line. The quarter that holds the direction straight up or down gives
the horizontal distance, and the quarter that holds the direction
straight left or right gives the vertical distance. A click within
reach of the second point, or of where the pointer was for the second
click, places it aligned. Points on one horizontal or vertical line
give an aligned dimension. The dimension stays linked to the anchors it
measures.
- Dimension recipes carry an orientation (aligned by default; files
without it open as before). The line runs along the axis, and each
extension line runs from its point to it.
- dimension.create and dimension.update take orientation: aligned,
horizontal or vertical, for linear dimensions only. Any other value
is an error. A new orientation keeps the line on the side of the
points it was on, and an update that changes nothing records no
undo step.
- A horizontal or vertical dimension keeps its orientation when it or
the art it measures turns, and shows 0 when its points come into line
across its axis. A line that lay outside the points stays outside
them after a turn.
- The hint bar names the two-click placement.
Docs: docs/dimensions.md, the Evidence list in docs/target-app-parity.md.
Preferences > Guides & Grid gets Artboard Guides with Cmd/Ctrl + Ruler
Drag (cmdRulerDragArtboardGuides), off by default. With it on, Cmd/Ctrl
held when a drag leaves a ruler makes a guide of the active artboard,
with any tool but the Artboard tool; with the Artboard tool it makes a
canvas guide instead. The key is read when the drag starts, so letting
it go during the drag keeps the kind of guide. Such a guide shows and is
made only where it lies within the active artboard; released elsewhere,
it makes no guide and no undo step. A ruler click still makes no guide.
This is VectorCraft's own option. The documented way to limit a guide
to one artboard, dragging it out with the Artboard tool, is unchanged.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Part of #6435.
Reset Preferences in the Preferences dialog now opens a question over
the dialog (`resetPreferences`). Cancel or Escape goes back to
Preferences as it was, with its edits, category and search kept. OK goes
back with every preference at its default value; OK in Preferences
applies them and Cancel there discards them, as before. `prefs.reset`
still resets at once.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Reset Preferences put Points in Units > General, and OK sent it to
prefs.set, which also set the open document's units as an undo step.
OK after Reset now resets the General preference and leaves the
document's units as they are. Choosing a General unit after Reset, in
the dialog or with ui.dialog.set, still sets the document's units.
prefs.set takes documentUnits (default true); false makes unitsGeneral
set only the preference. Docs: params text, docs/mcp.md.
Part of #6435
answer_dialog sent ui.dialog.set and then ui.dialog.confirm or
ui.dialog.cancel as two requests. A dialog another control connection
opened between them was confirmed or canceled without the fields.
ui.dialog.set takes `action: confirm | cancel`, checked before any field
is set, and confirms or cancels the dialog the fields were set in within
the same request, replying {dialog, result}. answer_dialog sends set and
action together; an app whose reply has no `dialog` key did not answer
it, and the dialog is then confirmed or canceled with its own request.
Three Extrude & Bevel dialog tests used a clipping group as their example
of an object a 3D effect refuses, and clipping groups now apply. Their
helper now places an image, and they check for the image message ("can't
build a solid from an image") in place of "requires a path".
- PDF 1.3 and 1.4 files, PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4 and PDF/A-2b at
PDF 1.4 among them, write a page longer than 14,400 pt in points
again, now with a warning that apps that keep to the limit cut it to
200 in. Only a page that failed with
"PDF writer error: Limit(TooLargeFloat)" gets the new error: one
whose size or art needs a real number past 32,767, the most PDF 1.4
holds. Whole numbers are written as integers, so a page of whole
points past 32,767 is written as before.
- A page whose side is past 32,767 pt and not a whole number of points
is refused before the thumbnails are drawn and the transparency is
flattened.
- A PDF 1.5 file written as PDF 1.6 for a long page keeps PDF 1.5's
encryption (128-bit RC4), which the Save PDF dialog shows.
- A long page whose short side would be under 3 units at its UserUnit
(ISO 32000-1, Annex C.2), such as 50 m x 4 mm, gets a smaller
UserUnit that keeps the short side at 3 units, with a warning.
- The warnings give a page's size rounded up, as the error does.
A page of 14,400 pt or less is written as before. The new warning has
rows in every complete catalog. Docs: docs/mcp.md,
docs/target-app-parity.md and the document.exportPdf params.
A drop guard restores egui's app-wide option, so a panic in the popup's panel
(caught by the app's guard) no longer leaves presses ending every field's edit.
The Properties panel's Stroke link and the Appearance panel's Stroke: row open
the Stroke panel as a popup. A click outside closed it without drawing it
again, so the dash field (or any other field in it) never saw itself lose the
keyboard, and what was typed went back. A popup closing while one of its
fields has the keyboard now draws once more first: the field lets go of the
keyboard to the click and commits, as it does in a panel. The Appearance
popup closes on the press, before it is a click, so for that last frame a
press is what lets go of the keyboard. Escape still drops what was typed.
A filter at plug-in API level 2 with the new `commands` permission names
the commands it may run in its manifest's `commandAllowlist` and runs
them with `env.vc_call`, reading each result with `env.vc_call_result`.
Each call runs through Session::execute on the run's document and sees
what earlier calls changed; the calls and the filter's output are one
undo step, and a run that fails, is cancelled or makes a failed call
leaves the documents, their history and the session state the commands
change as they were.
Commands that touch files, the clipboard, preferences, the view,
scripts, actions, plug-ins, open documents or the undo history are never
callable, and every other command must be listed as allowed in
cmd/plugin_call/reviewed.rs, so a new command is refused until placed.
Calls are capped at 1,000 a run, 8 MiB a call and 64 MiB a run, and each
costs instructions from the run's budget. plugin.install refuses a
manifest that lists a refused command and reports unknown ids;
plugin.inspect lists both, and the approval dialog lists the commands.
Refs #2186
Both commands show the Separations Preview panel (#4542), whose Color Settings
section, with the Assign row, comes after the plates and Proof Setup. A
floated panel fits its content only up to 320 points, so the section opened
out of sight and the panel looked like the wrong one. The commands now leave a
one-shot flag that scrolls the section into view, without animation, the next
time the panel draws. Window › Separations Preview and edits made in the panel
leave the scroll alone.
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