main lines a moved selection's edges and centre up with ruler guides
(snap_moved_to_rulers, #5746) but not when Shift keeps the move to its line. The
bounds now slide along that line onto a ruler guide the same way
(snap_moved_along_to_rulers), when nothing else lined up and the grabbed point is
not on a guide, within twice the Snap to Point distance along the line.
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While painting, a round Blob Brush showed a line as wide as the brush, which ends
square, though the stroke it adds is round at both ends. Only an angled or flattened
tip showed the outline of the area. The Blob Brush now shows that outline whatever
its roundness (blob_area, which path.blob's stroke matches).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Pen and the Smart Pen reported a path being drawn to Escape for as
long as they remembered the path, even after Deselect or Undo left it
unselected. That Escape then ended nothing, and isolation mode or a
rotated view needed a second press. Both tools now report the path only
while they would go on drawing it, as the Curvature tool does.
Follows #6405
In Outline view an image was still hit anywhere inside its box and a
gradient mesh inside its fill, though Outline draws only the image's
frame and the mesh lines. A path behind them could not be picked there.
Now an image is hit on its frame (unless Show Images in Outline Mode
draws its pixels) and a mesh on its edge and mesh lines. Preview is
unchanged.
Before the Reshape tool had focal points it sent path.reshape without
focal or radius, and the command stretched an open path from the grabbed
point to its ends whatever the selection, and moved the anchors of a
closed path within half the diagonal of its bounding box with a
falloff. Such a step, in a saved action or a script, now moved a closed
path whole. A step without focal (or with focal null) and without
radius now plays by that earlier rule. The Reshape tool always sends
focal, an empty list included, so its drags keep the focal-point rule.
A linear dimension clicked from an anchor to a point that is not an
anchor (a point on a segment, or a point a Smart Guide gave) followed
the art at the anchor end only, so scaling the art turned it into a
long slanted dimension.
- A point on a segment is stored by its curve parameter on that
segment, and stays on it when the segment's anchors or handles are
edited.
- Any other point is stored against anchors (and, for a path whose
anchors lie on one line, handles) of the path under it, or of the
path at the other end, and moves, scales, turns and reflects with
that path. Beside a path whose anchors and handles all lie on one
line, such as a straight line, it keeps its distance along and
across the path: a reflection moves it as a half turn does, and a
scale that is not uniform moves it as a uniform scale does.
- When linked art is reflected, a linear dimension's line goes to the
reflected side, except for art whose anchors and handles lie on one
line.
- Deleting the art, changing its anchor count or whether it is closed,
turning an angle's arm into a curve, or making a measured circle or
arc no longer circular leaves the dimension where it was, no longer
linked, instead of removing it. Undo links it again.
Docs: docs/dimensions.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
A click with the Reshape tool on an anchor of a selected path makes it
the focal point, and a click on a segment adds an anchor there that
becomes the focal point. Shift-click adds an anchor or a point on a
segment to the focal points, or removes an anchor that is one already.
Each focal point shows a filled anchor square in a larger hollow one.
A drag from a focal point moves all of them; a drag from another point
moves that point alone, and Shift only keeps the drag's angle.
path.reshape takes the other focal points as focal: [[subpath,
anchor]...]. Anchors that are not direct-selected stay in place, and so
do the ends of an open path unless they are focal points. A selected
anchor between two focal points moves by the whole drag, and one
between a focal point and an anchor that stays takes u² (3 - 2u) of
the drag, as before. A closed subpath with every anchor selected moves
whole: a Reshape drag on a fully selected closed path, and path.reshape
without radius on a closed path selected whole or not selected, move
the whole path instead of a local area. With radius, only the grabbed
point's subpath changes, with the falloff as before.
- An anchor added on a segment of a partly selected path is selected,
and the selected anchors and segments after it keep their points.
- A focal pair that names no anchor is refused ("`focal` names [0, 7],
which is not an anchor of the path"), and so is focal with radius.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
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.
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.
A Reshape drag on an open path moved only the anchors within half the
diagonal of the path's bounding box, measured along the path. On a
zigzag, a wave or a spiral that is one or two anchors, so dragging an
end moved the end and left the rest of the path where it was (#2723).
path.reshape now stretches an open path from the grabbed point to both
ends. The end anchors stay in place. Each anchor between an end and the
grabbed point takes u² (3 - 2u) of the drag, where u is its distance
from that end along the control polygon divided by the grabbed point's
distance from that end. A handle takes the share on the tangent line of
that curve at its anchor, so the handles of a smooth anchor stay in
line with it. A handle that is long beside the span takes a share below
0 or above 1.
This changes the default for every caller that leaves radius out on an
open path. A closed path still moves the anchors within half the
diagonal of its bounding box, and a call that gives radius uses that
radius on open and closed paths.
- A negative radius is refused ("`radius` must be 0 or more"). It gave
anchors beyond the radius a share above 1.
- A drag of no length on an anchor no longer records an undo step.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
After a Scissors cut (`path.split`) the whole path stayed selected: both
pieces of an open path, or the opened path of a closed one. A Direct
Selection drag from the cut then moved every anchor, so an ellipse cut
at an anchor could not be pulled open by dragging its end.
- `path.split` selects the first anchor of the piece after the cut and
nothing else, as `path.cutAtAnchors` does: anchor 0 of an opened
closed subpath, of the new path when an open path becomes two, or of
the subpath added to a path of several subpaths.
- A Direct Selection press on anchors of a selected path that lie on top
of each other takes the selected one. It took the first in path order,
which in a path of several subpaths was the unselected end.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md, the `path.split` params
text.
Direct Selection showed and dragged the anchors of type on a path's path
(#3980) but not their direction handles: handle_anchors read only a
path's own data, and the canvas draws only a path's handles.
- text.setPathHandle moves a handle of type on a path's path, in
document space, as path.setHandle moves a path's; the brackets keep
their fractions and the text reflows. One undo step.
- Direct Selection draws the handles of selected type on a path and
drags them with it (Alt: one side, Shift: 45 degree steps).
With the Linear mode, two problems kept a click on an anchor from
taking it:
- A press on an anchor that moved more than 3 pixels before the release
dragged out the dimension of the segment under the pointer and
committed it almost on top of the art. A press on an anchor now picks
it unless the pointer moves past the anchor's 8-pixel reach; a longer
drag still dimensions the segment.
- A pick linked only an anchor of the segment nearest the pointer. An
anchor of another path near that segment, for example one inside a
group lying just inside another object's edge, was taken at most as a
Smart Guides point with no link, so the dimension did not follow it
when the art changed. A pick now links the nearest anchor of any
visible, unlocked path within reach, in groups and compound paths too.
Escape reset a rotated view only as the second of two presses less than
a second apart, and a click or another key between them started the
count again. With the Rotate View tool one press reset it.
Now an Escape that has nothing else to end resets the rotation. An
Escape that ends something else (isolation mode, a path being drawn, a
full screen mode, a dialog and the others listed in
docs/target-app-parity.md) ends only that, and the next Escape resets
the view, however long after it comes. Tools report a path or pick that
Escape ends with `Tool::ends_on_escape`.
The rotate view tests that needed two presses now check one press, and
the screen mode test that named the old pair is renamed.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md.
With Measure Type by Glyph Bounds on, point type is measured by its
glyph outlines and its underline and strikethrough bars, as the canvas
draws them. A typed W or H gives what is drawn that size, and underlined
or struck-through spaces are measured by their bars instead of the em
box.
The texts now say that each point type object selected as an object
(not inside a selected group) is measured this way, that moved type
snaps by its ink box, and which Arrange Tools commands follow the
option: Swap Objects, Replace with Top Object, Set Size of Each and
Sort Objects. Arrange in Grid and Group Overlapping Objects keep
measuring visual bounds.
Measure Type by Glyph Bounds (`typeGlyphBounds`, off by default) is in
Preferences > Type > Glyph Bounds and the Transform panel menu. With it
on, the bounding box, the Transform, Control bar and Properties X, Y, W
and H, `object.setBounds`, the transform tools' reference point and the
Arrange commands measure point type selected on its own by the ink of
its glyphs instead of its em box. A typed W or H scales the live type
until its ink has that size.
- The engine caches each type object's ink in text space with its
layout bounds; the cache is not saved.
- Use Preview Bounds adds the characters' strokes, and type with
geometry effects is measured as drawn. Skewed type is measured by its
outlines.
- Type that draws nothing, area type, type on a path and type inside a
selected group are measured as before. Align and Distribute keep
following Align to Glyph Bounds.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/control-protocol.md, docs/target-app-parity.md,
object.setBounds params text.
The Measure and Measure & Inspect tools ignored View › Snap to Glyph:
their press and end points snapped only to targets that hold no glyph
guides.
With Snap to Glyph, Smart Guides and Alignment Guides on, and Snap to
Grid and Snap to Pixel off, a drag's press and end land within the
snapping tolerance on the guides of live type that the Character
panel's options allow, except Anchor Point. A Shift-drag's end slides
along its 45° step to them, and the guide shows during the drag. With
Snap to Glyph off, the tools snap to the same targets as before and
show no guide. The targets are kept while the document, the window and
the snapping options stay the same, so a drag lays out the type once.
Switching documents, or windows of a document, deactivates the Type tool, which clears the tool its double-click came from, so Escape after a later edit goes to the Selection tool. The field's comment and the two checklist rows now say so.
Only a double-click on type from another tool records the tool Escape and
Cmd+Enter return to, and the Type tool keeps it until another tool is
chosen. Choosing the Type tool from the toolbar records none, so Escape
goes to the Selection tool. The type and UI checklists and the doc
comments on prev_tool, end_editing and claims_key now say so.
docs/type-parity.md held four copies of the point, area and path type
row, three of them with older Escape wording. They are one row again,
with the Type Orientation sentence that only one copy had.
With Direct Selection, a Shift-click on a corner widget toggled its
corner. With the path selected whole every corner already is, so the
first Shift-click deselected the corner clicked and hid its widget,
leaving the others. While every corner is selected, a Shift-click now
picks that corner alone, as the first click of "click one widget, then
Shift-click the others" does; with some corners picked it still toggles.
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