With Transform Objects off, a group's Transform effect scales the
strokes and moves the patterns of a member's linked mask as it does
the member's, instead of leaving the mask as it was.
Type and live objects in the art of a linked opacity mask are outlined
and evaluated before a group's or layer's geometry effects run over it,
so the mask moves and bends with the art it masks. Before, the effects
reached only the paths in a mask's art.
- With Scale Strokes & Effects on, a Transform effect scales the strokes
of an image's or symbol instance's linked mask as it scales those of a
path's mask.
- A mask's art takes Transform copies in the form it had before the
first effect, as the art it masks does.
- A linked mask whose art is one image or symbol instance takes a
Transform effect's move and copies with the art it masks. Under any
other geometry effect, which images and symbol instances do not take,
art whose masks hold one keeps its shape.
- A symbol instance in perspective projects the linked masks in its art
with that art.
- A live-effect plug-in that paints its pieces leaves art with linked
masks as it is, since a mask can't take the pieces.
Docs: the docs/target-app-parity.md line moves next to the Transparency
entry and lists the cases where existing documents draw differently.
Rewrap the prose in docs/plugins.md whose lines broke well short of
the file's 120-column width or ran past it, including the Safe Mode
sentence, the permission-name and install-confirmation sentences, and
the grants.json paragraph. Each rewrapped line is at most 120 columns.
No words, punctuation, code blocks or tables change.
A linked opacity mask moves with the art it masks, and an unlinked one
stays in place. Geometry effects on a group or layer reshaped its
members but left their linked masks where they were, Free Distort left
a linked mask behind, and an envelope bent unlinked masks too.
- Geometry effects on a group or layer run over the art of the linked
masks of the paths, compound paths and groups inside it, nested and
inverted masks included. Each Transform copy of a masked path carries
its own mask, and an image or symbol instance moved by a Transform
effect carries its linked mask. The effects on an object do not move
that object's own mask.
- When a mask can't take an effect as the art it masks does (a path in
either would pass the geometry budget, or the mask would get fewer
Transform copies), the art and its masks keep their shape under that
effect. Mask art counts toward the budget.
- Free Distort (`object.distort`) warps a linked mask with its object;
the params text says so.
- An envelope bends only a linked mask.
Docs: a line in docs/target-app-parity.md.
A selected image offers Remove Background in the Contextual Task Bar, Properties'
Quick Actions and the Control bar, as the reference app does. A click runs it at
once with its defaults, as one undo step; Object > Plug-ins > Image Tools keeps
the dialog with Preview.
Six tests cover the Direct Selection marquee (anchors and crossed segments), its pointer and anchor highlight, and the Group Selection click, repeated click, marquee (default and E for enclosed objects) and hover over a drop shadow: they reach the object under the shadow or nothing. The selection passes-through line in docs/target-app-parity.md names these gestures.
A Warp effect on an image, or on a group that holds one, bent the image's
frame but drew the pixels unbent, cut by the bent frame. The image now
bends with the frame as a raster mesh warp, as an envelope bends it: after
the last effect in the list, the image is cut into 10 x 10 cells of two
triangles, each a clipped piece of the image under its own affine map,
through every Warp it took and the Transform moves between them. Effects
after a Warp reshape only the frame, and a placed gradient on a group
that holds the image follows the group's bounds as the pieces draw them.
The image itself is unchanged, so editing or removing the warp redraws
it. The images stay unbent when their pieces would make the art pass 2
million objects, and an image stays unbent when its clipping frame keeps
its shape because the warp would pass the effects' anchor budget.
- SVG export writes the image once and draws the pieces with <use> when a
group holds pieces of one image clipped by triangles. PDF, EPS, .ai and
PNG exports write the bent pieces.
- Envelopes: a grayscale image's fill color now colorizes the pieces an
envelope cuts. Before, the pieces drew the gray image.
- Geometry effects: an image under any geometry effect keeps its fill
color and its smoothing setting. Before, it drew the gray image,
smoothed.
Docs: Warp params text, docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Horizontal type keeps both marks, and the legacy .ai writer writes such
type as text, but the marks were dropped without a warning. Version 7
text has operators for both (section 15.3.4 of the published format
specification): Tv for Roman characters upright in vertical writing,
and TY for a Kumi block in horizontal text recorded for later vertical
use. The writer now writes 1 Tv and 0 Tv, and 1 TY and 0 TY, where a
run's mark changes, closes an open Kumi block before the text object
ends, and writes neither operator for type without the marks. The
legacy .ai reader reads both back onto the same characters. The prolog
defines Tv and TY so the file still runs as PostScript.
With automation read roots in force, links.findFiles and text.findFontFiles
replies, including later polls and stops of a search another client started,
leave out the files found outside the caller's read roots, a sought link's
saved path outside them and the folder searched when it is outside them. A
failed search then gives its reason without the path. The rows keep their
names, ids and status, and the counts stay.
image.info gives link: null for a linked file outside the read roots, as
links.info does. text.addFontFiles gives folder: null when the Fonts folder
is outside the read roots and names the copies there by their file names;
the fonts are still copied.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
dotCooCoo