Under --automation-read-root, an error about a file or folder the client
did not give now names it whole only when it is inside the read roots.
Outside them it names the file or folder by its file name, or as "a file
or folder outside the read roots" when it has none, and keeps the roots
and the reason. A path the client gives stays whole.
This covers a save without a path (the document's own file and the files
written beside it, also inside action.batch, and the refusal to write
over a file read with losses), file.revert, script.listInstalled,
plugin.reload without a path and plugin.list's folder report, and
links.relink with copy (the document's folder, its error when the
document's path has no folder, and the copies in the reply). Export for
Screens' refusal for an export preset's folder uses the same helper.
The canvas kept the art of an image whose own fill or stroke follows the
outline of its pixels for as long as the image object stayed the same. When
the document's pixels for the image changed under the same key (Update Link
replacing a preview with the linked file's pixels), the stroke kept the old
outline while hit testing and Use Preview Bounds used the new one. The
renderer now keys that art by the document's pixels for the image too.
- vectorcraft-effects: `follows_image_pixels` names such images.
- vectorcraft-render: `reads_outside` counts them, and the resources key
hashes the address of the document's pixels for them; their walk is not
kept between frames.
- A test places an off-center opaque area in a smaller copy of the pixels
under a turned and reflected placement.
- Docs: the Outline Object params text names every case that keeps the frame
and the 50% cutoff as VectorCraft's own; docs/mcp.md's `effect.apply` entry
for Outline Object, how long an outline is kept and the 16-bit RGBA limit;
docs/target-app-parity.md's evidence lines.
A client confined by --automation-read-root saw paths outside its read
roots that the person or an earlier request had put in the session:
- plugin.list: the plug-in folder last loaded and its failed files;
plugin.list and plugin.info: a plug-in's source file; plugin.list,
plugin.safeMode and plugin.setEnabled: the file of a plug-in turned
off for the next launch.
- file.recovery.list and file.recovery.restore: a document's original
file; file.recovery.list and file.recovery.save: the recovery folder.
- ui.inspect's scriptReport: the files a run wrote and the included
file a failed run stopped in.
A folder outside the read roots is now null, and a file outside them is
named by its file name. plugin.setEnabled {file} takes that name. The
restored documents keep their files, and unconfined clients and the
app's own UI see the same replies as before.
docs/mcp.md lists the four easingType values. It and the
object.blend.setEasing params text say that a blend made without a
spine takes easingType and ramp once Replace Spine has given it one,
which the set_easing test now checks.
Each built-in category (Mobile, Web, Print, Film & Video, Art &
Illustration, Branding, Social) has a New Document profile, a native
document in the New Document Profiles folder next to the preferences.
file.new copies the profile's swatches, graphic styles, brushes, symbols,
patterns, character and paragraph styles, rulers, Document Setup options,
assigned color profiles and print settings into the new document. The
preset's size, units, artboards, bleed, background, color mode and
resolution still apply, and the profile's art and layers are not copied.
- file.newProfiles lists the profiles, file.newProfiles.edit opens one
as a document (writing the shipped profile first), and
file.newProfiles.reset deletes its file. file.new takes `profile`.
- Saved and Recent presets keep the profile of the preset they came from.
- A profile that cannot be read, is larger than 64 MiB or is not a native
document leaves the defaults, and file.new reports it in profileError.
- New Document has a Manage Profiles pop-up with Edit and Reset.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
- 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.
A four-component JPEG whose EXIF orientation turns or flips it went
through the image decoder, which reads CMYK JPEGs as RGB, and was
stored as an RGB PNG without its inks. It is now stored the way a
turned CMYK TIFF is: its inks, 8 bits each, turned and written as a
CMYK TIFF with the turned resolution.
- vectorcraft_doc::cmyk::turned_cmyk turns the inks of a CMYK JPEG or
TIFF, next to stored_cmyk_tiff; tiff_inks is private again.
- raster_image swaps the resolution axes inline, as its HEIF branch
does.
- The links comment and the docs/target-app-parity.md line on EXIF
orientation now describe the turned CMYK TIFF.
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.
The plug-in host's manifest, module and run errors, the errors about an
importer's, exporter's or effect's output and the approval error had no
@msg row in most complete-message catalogs, and the reasons its error
helpers put inside them (bad(), wrong(), out_err(), in_range(), unit(),
read_packed()) were never scanned, so the status bar showed them in
English or mixed two languages.
- Every complete-message catalog gets the rows in a "Plug-in host
messages" section, and the Hindi rows for these messages are fixed.
- The message scan reads the plug-in host's error helpers, and
objects.rs writes its two duplicate-id errors as whole strings.
- message() leaves a captured JSON object or array as written.
- Templates that start with text match before templates that start
with a placeholder, so a wrapping message uses its own row.
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.
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.
Effects apply in the order they are listed, so a Drop Shadow, glow, blur,
Feather or pixel filter listed before a Transform effect paints art that
the Transform effect then transforms. VectorCraft drew such an
effect at its own distances around the transformed art: a square scaled
to 200% kept a 10 pt shadow offset. Now the effect follows the Transform
effects after it, with Scale Strokes & Effects on or off: its sizes scale
by the mean scale, and a Drop Shadow's offset turns, reflects and scales
with the art. Effects listed after the Transform effect keep their values,
and Transform Objects off changes nothing.
- raster_effects reads each raster effect through the Transform effects
after it, so the canvas, export and the redraw region use the followed
values.
- Where the geometry effects are applied and removed (Expand Appearance,
baking for export, evaluated groups), the raster effects that remain
carry the same transformation, hidden ones included.
- A Transform effect that makes copies or moves at random leaves the
raster effects before it as they are. Rasterize and SVG filters keep
their options.
Docs: the Transform effect's params text, 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.
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