A dictionary's state starts afresh, with a black fill. Mask art is written
going on from the paint before the mask's dictionary, which the writer leaves
out when it doesn't change, so a mask rectangle with no colour of its own
came in black and hid the white letters it masks. Mask art now starts from
the paint (fill, stroke, line style, fill rule, overprint) before the
dictionaries it is in; lock, visibility and transparency still start afresh.
A pattern's definition (in either form) and a brush's art were read
without the file's art styles, so an object there with a style came in
as the look it draws, with a "drawn look" note, while the same object on
a layer or in a symbol came in as itself with its effects live. The
three definition readers now take the art styles as the symbol reader
does, and an object in a pattern's art with a style in the file's style
list keeps that graphic style's id.
An art styles section inside a symbol's, a pattern's or a brush's art
is now skipped, so it no longer replaces the file's own art styles.
The editing-data writer wrote a run's key 35 only for Tate-chu-yoko (3).
Type with Standard Vertical Roman Alignment, on or off, was saved with no
key, so the setting was lost from the editing data. Every run now carries
key 35 in the form the reader reads it (crates/eps/src/import/ate.rs,
Texts::style, lines 669-670): 1 when the setting is on, 2 when it is off
and 3 for Tate-chu-yoko. The document's defaults and the normal character
style carry 1.
Key 35 holds one value, so a run with both Tate-chu-yoko and the setting
is written as Tate-chu-yoko, and the save reports the type attributes
warning for it.
- writer/texts.rs: baseline_direction() gives each run's value;
normal_char() writes 1; loses() and TYPE_ATTRIBUTES name the setting.
- tests.rs: a vertical and a horizontal object with the setting on, off
and Tate-chu-yoko come back the same through the reader, lay out as
before, and carry the expected keys; a run with both is reported.
- docs/file-format-parity.md: the .ai save section lists the written
values.
The modern type reader read key 35 of a character style only for
Tate-chu-yoko (3). A run whose key 35 is 1 (Standard), in the run, its
character style or the document's defaults, now opens with Standard
Vertical Roman Alignment on, so its half-width characters stand upright
in vertical type. Horizontal type keeps the mark with no change to its
layout. A value of 2 (rotated), 3, any other value and no key at all
leave it off, VectorCraft's default.
- ate.rs: Style reads the flag and passes it to CharStyle, with a unit
test over defaults, character styles, run overrides and bad values.
- tests_native.rs: a vertical and a horizontal story with Standard,
rotated and unset runs; the test of values the reader ignores also
checks the flag.
- import_fuzz.rs: the vertical fixture also checks the flag.
- docs/file-format-parity.md: one line on the mapping.
docs/file-format-parity.md held 17 copies of the paragraph under
"Illustrator's private editing data", and they disagreed about what
import reads. The section now holds one copy with every clause from
the others: a filled clipping path keeps its fill, with the exceptions
for multi-layer masks and compound clipping paths whose subpaths paint
differently; paths with an Art brush; the spot colors in brush art and
their limits; symbols defined before the art styles section; and the
Type on a Path options of type on a path. Each clause was checked
against crates/eps/src/import.
File › Open and File › Place read HEIC and HEIF still images (.heic,
.heif) through heic-rs 0.1.4, the pure-Rust decoder photocraft-heif
uses, and store the pixels as PNG. Single pictures and grids of tiles,
8 to 10 bits, with or without an alpha image, are read with the
container's rotation, mirror and crop applied. A grid without a color
box of its own takes its tiles'. When neither the image nor its tiles
have an nclx box, the HEVC stream's video signal type gives the
samples' matrix and range. An RGB ICC profile, or Display P3 with the
sRGB curve named by an nclx box or, without a color box, by the
stream, is converted to sRGB. The EXIF resolution tags size the image;
without them it is 72 ppi. When the container's rotations turn the
image an odd number of quarter turns, the resolution's axes swap with
the pixels'.
Image sequences, images that aren't HEVC-coded, grids of cropped tiles
and images past the pixel allowance are refused with a message before
the pixels are decoded. The allowance counts each coded picture at the
size its sequence parameter sets give it.
The decoder is in the engine's `heif` feature, which is on by default
and listed by the desktop, CLI and web apps. A build without it still
recognizes the files and refuses them with a message.
A Scatter brush in a .ai or EPS file's editing data always came into
the Brushes panel keeping its art's colors. A Scatter brush whose last
15 numbers start with 1 now opens in Tints, and one whose numbers start
with 0 keeps its art's colors. Other values are not read and keep the
art's colors. The field before the art's name does not decide it: an
object whose first field is 1 is read by its 15 numbers, and a Scatter
object with 8 numbers is still left out.
A brush's art usually comes in a group after its frame, an unpainted
rectangle around the art. The reader kept that rectangle as part of
the brush's art. It now leaves out a frame at the art's bounds (within
1/1000 pt): an unnamed, unpainted rectangle with its four corners in
order, closed, or open with its first corner again at the end, and no
settings of its own (shown, unlocked, at full opacity in Normal, with
no effects, note or other attributes). A wider frame stays in the art,
and so do a path that crosses the corners, an open path along three
sides and a rectangle with settings of its own. A group left with one
object becomes that object, unless it has a state or look of its own
(hidden, locked, isolated, knockout, an opacity, a blend mode, a name,
a mask, a note or another setting, or an appearance); then it stays a
group without the frame. The rule applies to every brush art section.
Existing files with such brushes now open with Tints and without the
extra frame path in the brush's art. With an exact frame, the pieces
that a Scatter or Art brush draws along a path stay where they were.
The Scatter, Art and Pattern brush colorization options, Tints among
them, are described on pages 281-282 of
https://web.archive.org/web/20210601162814/https://helpx.adobe.com/pdf/illustrator_reference.pdf#page=281
Tests cover Scatter brushes whose numbers start with 1 and 0, with a
first field of 1 and 2, and an 8-number object. They cover frames kept
or left out (exact, wider, open, filled, named, crossing the corners,
along three sides, with a note, Show Center or hidden), a group's own
state and note kept, and the pieces a Scatter and an Art brush draw
along a path with and without the frame. The import fuzz test reads
brush art after frames of any corners and paint.
The legacy reader skipped `bindrepeat Tg` (section 15.3.4 of the version 7
file format specification). It now reads the binding punctuation bit:
1 and 3 set the paragraph's Burasagari to Force, and 0 and 2 set it to
none, which is VectorCraft's own mapping. The value is modal, lasts into
the next text object, and an operand other than 0 to 3 leaves it as it
was. The repeat character, `TG`, `Xu` and `Tu` are still skipped.
docs/mcp.md and the `ParaStyle::burasagari` doc comment name the legacy
`.ai` case as the exception to imported text keeping `none`.
Warped type that a text variable binds stays type with the effect live,
so it keeps its binding. Before, a failed comparison replaced it with
its drawn art and the binding was skipped.
When drawn art replaces warped type with a wrap setting, the wrap shapes
are checked against the file's limit on wrap work again, so a file whose
drawn art would go past it opens from its page, as one with too many
text objects does.
A Warp on type, on the object or on one of its fills or strokes, opened
as a live effect with no check. Where the live warp draws a different
shape from the art saved in the file, the type moved and changed size.
Warped type is now compared with its saved art once it is laid out,
with the comparison and the per-file budget that envelopes use. Type
that draws as its saved art stays editable with the effect live. Other
warped type opens as that art, not as editable type, with one note that
counts them, and saving over the file asks first. The art's box goes
back into the comparison with the page. Type stays live without a
comparison when its saved art paints nothing or draws type of its own,
and in frames of threaded type.
Legacy type in a composite font such as HeiseiMin-W3-83pv-RKSJ-H was
decoded one byte to a character, so Japanese, Chinese and Korean type
opened as unrelated single-byte characters, and the font name kept the
CMap.
Tf now finds a predefined CMap at the end of the font name, unless a TZ
gives the font encoding pairs, and the font is the name without it.
Strings in that font are read by the CMap's code space, mapped to CIDs
with the predefined CMaps craft-pdf carries, then to Unicode by the
character collection's CID-to-Unicode CMap. Codes the CMap doesn't map
are dropped. A -V CMap is read with its -H form's codes. Codes in the
Unicode CMaps (UCS2, UTF8, UTF16, UTF32) are read as Unicode; those
helpers follow mockydevs' #6067. A 0x0D byte ends a paragraph and a 0x09
byte is a tab in these fonts too.
The predefined CMaps craft-pdf doesn't carry (RKSJ, 78-RKSJ, 78ms-RKSJ,
78-EUC, 78, Add, Ext, NWP, GB, CNS1, KSC, B5 and the Hong Kong B5 sets
other than HKscs-B5) are read with the nearest
carried CMap, which can give a different character for some codes.
GBT, GBT-EUC, GBTpc-EUC, CNS2 and KSC-Johab type still decodes byte by
byte, with the CMap removed from the font name.
Docs: docs/file-format-parity.md.
A PDF saved with some of its artboards has a page for each of them, while
the editing data keeps them all. The importer took the pages after the
first to show the artboards right after the first page's artboard. In a
PDF of artboards 2 and 4 of 4, the second page's type went to artboard 3.
In a PDF of artboards 1 and 3 of 4, the second page's type went to the
left edge of artboard 2.
Each page after the first now goes to an artboard of its size that comes
after the previous page's artboard and leaves an artboard for each later
page. The artboard chosen for the first page also leaves one for each
later page. When several artboards fit a later page, the importer
compares their art with the page and takes the closest one, or the first
of them on a tie. It compares at most 16 artboards for all the later
pages together, the same limit it uses for the first page. A later page
with no comparisons left takes the first artboard that fits it.
When the PDF has fewer pages than artboards and its first page shows the
first artboard, the first page's type and page art still go to the art's
box or to the editing data's artboard.
The fill read apart from a clipping path that was read on %_ lines, and
the copies of its subpaths, are recorded as read on those lines too, so
the copy of a look's art that is removed takes them along. The file
format notes list a compound clipping path whose subpaths paint
differently among the exceptions to a clipping path keeping its fill.
Each layer a multi-layer mask covers gets a copy of the mask's path, so
a fill kept on that path painted in every layer, over the art the mask
covers in the layers before. The mask's fill is read as a path of its
own again, where the mask's path is, and the copies have no fill. A
fill read apart from a compound clipping path is a compound path whose
subpaths do not clip and have ids of their own. A fill read apart, its
subpaths and their points count toward the importer's object limit.
Docs: docs/file-format-parity.md.
The reader took the fill off a clipping path in a file's editing data and
added a copy of the path, holding only that fill, under the art it clips.
A clipping path paints its own fill under the clipped art and its stroke
over it, so the reader now keeps the fill on the clipping path. A filled
clipping path opens as one path instead of two, in a clipping group, a
clipping layer and each level of nested clipping paths. Its note, tags and
gradient stroke (`1 BB`) are on that path as before.
A compound clipping path whose subpaths all paint alike keeps their fill.
When its subpaths paint differently, the fills of the filled subpaths are
still a compound path of their own under the clipped art, so a subpath
the file does not fill stays unfilled. Clipping paths in a compound path
that holds its drawn look still have their fills read as paths of their
own under the art, each with its clipping path's opacity mask.
Docs: docs/file-format-parity.md.
The file-format entry states the 20,000-name limit across brush art and per section, the first-definition rule, and that colors past the limit still count toward the color mode.
The reader kept a brush's art but dropped the colors it read from it, so
a spot color that only a Scatter or Art brush's art used made no swatch,
and the art's process colors did not count toward the document's color
mode.
The reader now keeps each brush art section's colors with its art. When
the document is finished, the colors of the art that a kept brush uses
are added after the rest of the file's, in the order the art was read:
its spot colors make swatches and its colors count toward the color
mode. Art that no kept brush uses (a pattern brush's tiles, a section
that a later one of the same name replaced, a section inside a symbol's
definition) brings none of its colors, and a spot color that the page's
art, a pattern or a symbol also defines keeps the value defined there.
Part of #637.
The spacing fitted from a type-on-a-path layout measured each turn against
the glyph's own foot. Skew's feet stay upright, so on a tilted or leftward
path the turn picked up a false angle and the fitted spacing was wrong (a
straight path at 30 degrees gave -9.7 instead of 0). Effects other than
Rainbow and 3D Ribbon now measure the turn against the baseline turned a
right angle.
The file-format doc states that a frame whose options set key 6 to true
keeps the default effect, alignment and Flip.
Type on a path from a file's text document opened as Rainbow on its
baseline, not flipped, whatever Type on a Path Options the frame kept.
Each frame now keeps its effect (Rainbow, Skew, 3D Ribbon, Stair Step,
Gravity), Align to Path (Ascender, Descender, Center, Baseline) and Flip.
A code or flag that can't be read leaves that option at its default.
Flipped type opens with the frame's path reversed once, after a copied
object takes its own art path, and an open path's end bracket stays so
the type starts where the file's range ends.
Spacing is still fitted from the file's layout. The fit now measures along
the path when Align to Path moves the baselines off it, and it follows the
glyphs' feet under 3D Ribbon, whose baselines stay level.
The legacy reader skipped `TV`, `Tv`, `Ty` and `TY` of section 15.3.4 of
the version 7 file format specification, so type set with `1 TV` opened
horizontal.
- `TV` sets a text object's writing direction. VectorCraft keeps one
direction for each text object, the one in force at its first
character, with a warning when a later character has another.
- `Ty` marks a Kumi block as a Tate-chu-yoko run, which is VectorCraft's
own mapping, and `TY` does the same in horizontal type. A `TY` block in
vertical type opens unmarked. Two blocks with nothing between them open
as one block.
- `Tv` sets Standard Vertical Roman Alignment.
All four are modal, and an operand other than 0 or 1 leaves the value as
it was.
Docs: docs/file-format-parity.md.
Q restores the painting state but not the transparency (Xy): the writer
sets Xy only when the next object's state differs from the last one it
wrote. Restored at Q, type after a clipping group following a Screen glow
drew in Screen and nearly vanished on a light background.
A blend whose spine was never edited has only its keys in the editing
data, no spine part. Its spine is the straight lines between the keys'
centres in the record's order; read as such, the blend comes in live
instead of as its drawn steps.
Illustrator 24 writes its symbol definitions ahead of %AI9_BeginArtStyles,
so a styled object inside a symbol found no style and came in as its drawn
look. The pre-pass that finds swatch names now also keeps the first
top-level art styles section, which the reader parses before the art.
The reader put an opacity mask's art in a group every time, so a mask
made from one path came back from a saved .ai as a group holding the
path, while Make Opacity Mask keeps one object as the art. This also
changes how existing files with single-object masks open, because
the editing data of a .ai, an EPS and a PDF goes through this reader:
the art is the object.
A hidden object or a guide stays in a group, because the canvas draws
the art's root whether it is shown or not and whether guides show. A
clipping path alone stays a clipping group.
The editing copy writes a plain group of one object as a group (u, the
object, U), so it reads back as a group. Its other plain groups are
still written as their members. Hidden mask art is written shown,
because the canvas draws it and a group read back would not.
The reader gives an Xy right after a compound path or a text object to
that object. The writer now writes XR before the Xy of type, images and
guides, so type next to type, a compound path before type, image or
guide, and type before an image or guide keep their own opacity, blend
mode and knockout shape flag.
- Type keeps its Isolate Blending and Knockout Group state in a state
block after its text object, as its outlines did on their group.
- The reader no longer gives a layer the Xy before its last text object.
- The ASCII85 end marker of the text document stays on one line.
- The warning and docs/file-format-parity.md also list area type in an
open frame, type on an open path whose ends meet, type of only white
space and threads of type on a path as written as outlines.
- README.md, ROADMAP.md, docs/gaps.md, docs/roadmap.md and
docs/target-app-parity.md describe the editing copy a saved .ai holds.
- clip_path's doc comment is back on clip_path.
- import_fuzz reaches threaded area type and vertical type.
The editing copy of a PDF-compatible .ai wrote every text object as its
outlines. Point type, area type and type on a path are now written as
text: a text object in the layers that names its story, and the text
document after the document data (%AI11_BeginTextDocument) holding the
stories.
- Each story holds its characters (a paragraph ends in \r, a forced line
break is \x03), its character runs (font, size, leading, tracking,
baseline shift, horizontal and vertical scale, solid fill and stroke
with its weight, capitals, Tate-chu-yoko) and its paragraph runs
(alignment, indents, space before and after, hyphenation, right-to-left
direction).
- Point type keeps its point and, when it is turned, its matrix. Type
scaled by one factor, such as all type on a large canvas, has its scale
in its sizes, frame and path. Area type keeps its frame, rows,
columns, gutters and first baseline, type on a path its path and where
it starts and ends, and vertical type its orientation. A threaded story
is one story through its frames in order. Area type and type on a path
carry their frame's path in the layers as well.
- Type the text document can't hold is written as its outlines, with a
warning: type in opacity masks, pattern tiles and art cut to a clipping
object, mirrored type, turned or unevenly scaled area type and type on
a path, frames of several parts, area type that flows around a text wrap,
threads whose frames differ in orientation or include a frame written
as outlines, type and stories past the sizes the reader reads, and type
with inline graphics, ruby, gradient or pattern paint or an appearance
or opacity mask of its own. Other character and paragraph attributes are left out, with
a warning.
Tracking is written as a whole number of thousandths of an em, and
solid paints as simple paints; tracking that isn't a whole number is
rounded, with the warning.
Each construct is written in the form VectorCraft's .ai reader reads
(crates/eps/src/import/ate.rs at 36ef34dfdd: Texts::read :407, story
:501, frame :456, para :562, style :588, paint :622, AreaFrame::read
:284; the text object in import/ai/read/art.rs:15 and its path in
import/ai/frames.rs:26), and the tests read the written data back
through that reader. The scripting
reference documents the same attributes on the reading side (text frame
kinds, columnCount, columnGutter, rowCount, startTValue, endTValue,
orientation, and the character attributes):
https://web.archive.org/web/20160410101607/https://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/illustrator/sdk/CC2014/Illustrator%20Scripting%20Reference%20-%20JavaScript.pdf
The reader now closes a text object's frame path painted with a closing
operator (n, f, s, b, h), so area type's frame comes back closed; places
point type whose story keeps no composed lines at its frame's point;
keeps a story's last empty paragraph (only the \r that ends the story is
dropped); gives type made from the text document its text object's lock,
as it gives it its visibility; and gives type its text object's knockout
shape flag, as it gives it its opacity and blend mode.
Tests: the round trip of every kind of type and its state, a second
write of what is read back giving the same bytes, the text document and
stubs, scaled point type, a story split between threaded frames, the
fallbacks and the warnings, and the engine's editing copy with every save
option; a fuzz case for damaged text documents and stubs.
Docs: docs/file-format-parity.md.
A path with an Art brush comes in as the path, with the brush on its
stroke at its weight, instead of as its drawn look, when the brush
stretches art of solid-filled paths along the path, unflipped, at 100% in
Tints. The art runs on the side of the path the file draws it.
The drawn look stays for other colorizations and widths; Proportional,
between-guides and flipped brushes; type; a path with settings of its own,
a variable width, effects, a swatch stroke or an entry that isn't read;
and art with strokes, gradients, patterns, masks or effects, or no length.
A brushed stroke, Calligraphic ones too, takes the brush the Brushes panel
keeps under its name, and an image with a brush keeps its drawn look.
In every document, Tints and Tints and Shades take art in black ink alone
by its ink amount, and a process or gray stroke color's tints and shades
stay in that color's model.
Place and Expand bring the brushes the art uses, renaming on conflict.
Part of #637.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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