- Expanding a layer removed its ruler guides with its members. The guides
of the layer and of its sublayers now stay on the layer, after the edges.
- Geometry effects after a 3D effect reshaped all the faces as one path, so
Offset Path merged faces that touch. Each effect now reshapes each face on
its own, about the bounds of all the faces, within one shared budget of
anchors, as it reshapes the drawn surface.
Docs: docs/mcp.md.
With Background Export on, an Export for Screens call that gives only an
`exportPreset` whose preset keeps a folder ran at once on the UI thread,
because the background route looked at the call's own `folder` only. It
now takes the preset's folder as well and writes in the background with
the progress dialog and Cancel, as an export into a folder it names.
When that folder is outside an MCP client's read roots, the prepared
export carries the folder's shown name, so the reply written later lists
the files relative to the folder with no ZIP `path`, a refused write names
the folder by its name, and the status bar does the same, as for an
export made at once.
The status of a preset-only export made at once named an empty folder
("Exported 1 file to "); it now names the preset's folder.
- `Session::screen_export_folder` returns the folder an export writes
into and its shown name when the reply leaves it out.
- `ScreenExport::write` applies the read-root rule decided when the
export was prepared.
- docs/mcp.md and docs/target-app-parity.md describe the change.
effect.expandAsWireframes returned "draws no faces" for an object with
Revolve (Classic). It now takes the faces of Revolve (Classic) with that
effect's own options, and Rotate (Classic) is expanded as Rotate is: every
fill and stroke turned as one plane.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/three-d.md.
The Dynamic Text: Block entry says the Contextual Task Bar offers the
item for point type too, and that turning it on makes point type area
type with Block on. The Dynamic Text entry no longer says point type in
the selection is left as it is.
A run whose script fails to compile defines no code, so its source map
is not kept and the places of earlier runs stay within the engine's
budget. docs/mcp.md and the progress line say so, and the progress line
names the errors that are reported without a line and column.
Object › Plug-ins › Image Tools gains Color Mask… (`addon.image.colorMask`),
Remove Color Mask and Apply Color Mask. Color Mask hides colors of the
selected images without changing their pixels. It matches colors as Remove
Background does: the edge color, the corner color or picked colors, with
Contiguous, Match, Tolerance and Softness. The mask is kept with the image
object and saved with the document: its settings, and a PNG of the image's
pixels with the hidden colors made clear, at the source's depth with its
color profile and resolution. It is a VectorCraft addition.
- The canvas (clip groups and white-shape opacity masks included),
printing and separations, PDF (soft masks of CMYK images included), SVG,
EPS, the raster formats, the legacy .ai and .ai editing data, EMF/WMF,
DXF and the flattener draw the masked pixels. A linked image stays
linked, and an output that would refer to its file writes the masked
pixels instead.
- Copy and paste, placing a document and placed documents carry the masked
pixels with the image, under the names they are given there.
- The dialog opens on the selected image's mask settings, with a Preview.
Without settings, the command returns them and changes nothing.
- Setting, removing and applying a mask are each one undo step, and no
step is added when nothing changes. Apply makes the masked pixels the
image's own and embeds a linked image. A mask that hides nothing is only
taken off, and the image keeps its pixels and its link.
- When an image's own pixels are replaced (Update Link, Relink, Crop
Image, a recolor, a linked file read again on open), its mask is made
again for the new pixels, in every art tree and in opacity-mask art.
Crop Image cuts the image's own pixels. When the new pixels can't be
masked, the mask keeps its settings and hides nothing.
- Objects in `ids` that are not images, CMYK images, linked images that
show their preview, images past the decode allowance, masks that would
hide every pixel, and grayscale images colorized with a process color
are refused. The Eyedropper, Object Mosaic, Create Gradient Mesh, Crop
Image's trim and Image Trace read the image's own pixels.
- An image is selected by a click anywhere in its frame, as before.
Remove Background now also refuses a grayscale image colorized with a
process color. Its result has an alpha channel, and a process color is
refused on a grayscale image with transparency.
Docs: docs/mcp.md (Image Tools add-on › Color Mask),
docs/target-app-parity.md.
The Window menu checked a panel whenever it was in front in the layout,
even while Tab, Shift+Tab or Presentation Mode hid every panel, so
choosing it, or pressing its function key, closed the panel it was
meant to show.
- A new panel_docking::visible adds the dock and Presentation Mode to
showing. The Window menu's check marks and the toggle use it, and
window.panel puts a flyout or floating panel away only while it can
be seen. With the dock hidden, the dock shows again with the panel in
its earlier place; the toolbar and the Control bar stay as they are.
- In Presentation Mode window.panel fails with "panels can't be shown
in Presentation Mode" and changes nothing.
- reveal_panel, the Gradient and Magic Wand tool double-click, the
Character field shortcuts and the Corner and Shared Edge Merge tool
items show a panel the dock hid instead of reporting it open or
closing a floating Anchor Inspector.
Docs: window.panel params text, docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
A grayscale or 1-bit image colorized with a spot color now counts as a
Spot Color Object. A gradient whose stops are all at an opacity of 0
draws nothing, so its spot stops no longer list the object.
- A custom arrowhead path allows at most 4,096 subpaths; stroke.set
refuses a longer one and reading drops it.
- A symbol whose shapes cannot be united or clipped is listed in
skipped instead of becoming a head that misses part of its art.
- The arrowheads file is refused when its document unpacks to more
than 64 MB.
- Edit Arrowheads creates the starter file only when none exists and
otherwise opens the file unchanged.
- After a save to the arrowheads file, the heads are read back from
the written file.
- The plug-in argument check accepts path under startArrow.Custom and
endArrow.Custom in stroke.set.
- A custom head's menu preview is scaled to fit its box, and rows
outside the visible part of the menu do not render previews.
An image's own fill or stroke with Outline Object now follows the outline of
the image's pixels that are at least 50% opaque, traced from the alpha and
fitted with curves, instead of the image's frame. An image without
transparency, one whose pixels can't be read, one of more than 64 megapixels
or whose decoded pixels take more than 256 MB, and one whose outline would
need more than 100,000 anchor points keep the frame. An image with no pixel
at least half opaque gives nothing to paint. Images of more than 4 megapixels
are traced from their alpha averaged down to 4 megapixels, and an averaged
pixel that covers a pixel at least half opaque stays at least half opaque, so
thin opaque lines stay in the outline. Each outline is traced once for its
pixels, kept for the next redraw while those pixels are loaded, and dropped
after them; a second thread that needs the same outline waits for the trace.
- vectorcraft-trace: `decode_alpha` reads an image's alpha, and
`opaque_outline` traces it as Black and White mode at threshold 128.
- vectorcraft-effects: the reshaped image art uses it for rows whose first
effect is Outline Object; Convert to Shape rows keep the frame.
- Docs: docs/mcp.md, the Outline Object params text and an evidence line in
docs/target-app-parity.md. docs/mcp.md also says that Use Preview Bounds
takes in the shapes an image's fills and strokes paint.
- Weed Box and Lines counts the outline points a nested clip group hides when
it tests pieces for being inside a region, and counts the work of every clip
group in the selection together, so a selection cannot run far past the
limit.
- Stencil Bridges refuses art when its measuring budget runs out only while an
island is still unjoined, and a refusal for size or detail says so.
With one Objects on Path group selected, the Selection and Objects on Path
tools show a ring on each object's attachment point. A click chooses that
object while the group stays selected; dragging a ring along the path moves
its object to the nearest object's place, and the objects between move one
place toward where it was, in one undo step. Hidden and locked objects have
no ring and keep their places. On a closed path the drag goes on round
across the first anchor, and Escape cancels it.
- object.objectsOnPath.selectMember {member} chooses an object.
- object.objectsOnPath.moveMember {member, target, group?} moves an object
to another object's place; only the order along the path changes.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md. Not yet: Detach.
Adds tests for Select > Object > Not Aligned to Pixel Grid with embedded
images, symbol instances, point, area and path type, gradient meshes,
placed documents, guides and live shapes, with paths on template layers,
hidden and locked sublayers and locked artboards, and with the paths in
clip groups, blends, envelopes, repeats and Intertwine groups. A compound
path is selected by its own property, whatever the property of its paths.
The command's params text and docs/mcp.md now say that it looks into
clip groups, blends, envelopes, repeats and Intertwine groups.
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.
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