The AppKit cursor delivery's evidence in docs/ui-parity.md and
docs/target-app-parity.md says the host sets its cursor again on every
pass while it owns it, so the tool's cursor stays when the pointer moves
(#6362). Status lines and history updated; scores and estimates
unchanged.
The AppKit cursor adapter set its cursor again only when
NSCursor.currentCursor differed from it. But that is the app's last set
cursor, not the one on screen: when the pointer moves, AppKit can put
the system arrow back while currentCursor still reads as ours, so the
adapter kept the arrow. Pressing V over the canvas showed the Selection
tool's arrow, and the first move replaced it with the system pointer.
While it owns the cursor, the adapter now sets it on every pass. That
costs nothing when it is already showing.
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.
- `charpath` in a CIDFont only named, over a predefined CMap, adds the
outlines of the characters its codes stand for, placed as `show` sets
them, and moves the point as `show` does. It added no outlines.
- `cshow` gives its procedure each code of such type, two bytes for a
two-byte code, with the code's width. It split two-byte codes into
single bytes.
- `glyphshow` sets the named character itself. It set the character's
UTF-8 bytes as Latin-1 letters.
- `kshow` runs its procedure between each two codes of such type, with
the two codes' values. It didn't run it. The procedure sees the font
the file set as current, and a font it sets stays current.
- A name that ends in the row-and-cell CMap `H` or `V` splits off the
CMap only when the file defines the CIDFont of that name (as a
resource or with `definefont`), or the name has a hyphen and an
installed face that covers Japanese has it. `Foo-Bold-H` stays a font
of the whole name.
- In a CMap that can't be read (`GBT-H`), each code moves the point one
em, along the line or down the column; a tab or carriage return byte
is a code of its own.
- One parser reads the names of the predefined Unicode CMaps, for EPS
and legacy `.ai` type.
- Outlines added to a path by `charpath` stop at the path's point limit.
- docs/file-format-parity.md, docs/gaps.md and docs/mcp.md describe type
in named CIDFonts over the predefined CMaps.
- A Transform effect that makes copies or moves at random, listed after
an Extrude or Revolve effect, now keeps the raster effects before the
3D effect at their own values, as it does without the 3D effect.
Before, the 3D art kept a Drop Shadow scaled by a Transform effect
between them.
- In a fill's or stroke's own effects, such a Transform effect also
keeps the raster effects before it from following an earlier
Transform effect with Transform Patterns on, and the Transform
effects between them.
- Colored Pencil's pencilWidth and Paint Daubs' brushSize are distances
in document units, so a Transform effect after them and Scale Strokes
& Effects scale them as they scale Palette Knife's strokeSize. The
Paint Daubs params text names the unit.
Single Word Justification's Full Justify counted and placed a gap after
every drawn glyph, so a combining mark or the vowel sign of a Devanagari
syllable moved away from its letter. Desired Letter Spacing and the
letter spacing range of a justified line did the same between two glyphs
of one cluster.
- The Full Justify gap count and placement share one check that skips
glyphs with the same cluster byte as the glyph drawn after them.
- Letter spacing goes after the last glyph of a cluster only.
- Letter spacing, Full Justify and CJK inter-character gaps pass over
every default-ignorable character drawn with no width (soft hyphens,
bidi marks, embeddings, overrides and isolates, joiners, word joiners,
variation selectors, tags, the byte order mark) and put the space
between the visible characters on either side. The Hangul fillers stay
letters.
- A zero-width space takes no word-space room on a justified line and
stays a line break opportunity. Letter spacing before it is set after
it, so a line broken there ends at its last letter.
- A single word that Full Justify spreads and that breaks at a hyphen
has the same gap before the drawn hyphen as between its letters.
- Kinsoku push-in counts the gaps it can close past format controls, as
the layout closes them.
Tests cover horizontal, right-to-left and vertical type, Desired and
fitted letter spacing, format controls, zero-width spaces, the drawn
hyphen, push-in, and a Devanagari syllable when a Devanagari face is
installed.
A linear, radial, conic or diamond gradient has a spread: Pad (the
default, as before), Repeat or Reflect, with a count of 1 to 100
(VectorCraft's own limit). Repeat and Reflect run the stops that many
times along the vector (around the turn for a conic) and keep going past
both ends, Reflect running every other run backwards, as SVG's
spreadMethod does.
The Gradient panel has a Spread menu and a Repeats field, and the
Gradient tool marks where the runs meet. paint.setFill and
paint.editGradient take `spread` and `repeats`; bad values are errors.
Presets, swatches, blends, strokes along or across a path, Outline
Stroke and Object › Expand follow the spread; Expand gives each run the
same whole number of objects, and Outline Stroke's mesh keeps the color
on each side of a sharp step between two stops at one offset.
SVG writes and reads spreadMethod: SVG import now reads a repeating or
reflecting gradient as one that repeats or reflects once, instead of
expanding its stops over the shape. CSS writes repeating gradients.
PDF writes a conic's sweep shading over one run. PDF, EPS, legacy .ai
and the .ai editing data write the other kinds with their stops
repeated across the shape: at most 256 runs and 16,384 stops (256 stops
in .ai files), and for a radial or diamond no farther than 65,536 runs
from its center, with a warning past those. PDF import now finds sharp
steps in any axial or radial shading instead of blurring them.
Docs: docs/mcp.md (Spread), docs/target-app-parity.md, docs/gaps.md.
The editing copy of a PDF-compatible .ai now holds the Brushes panel's
Calligraphic, Scatter and Art brushes in the panel's order, with the art
of Scatter and Art brushes. A path or compound path with a Calligraphic
brush, or with an Art brush in Tints whose art bends along the path,
keeps the brush on its stroke. Other brushed strokes are still written
as their brush's art.
The writer reads each brush back with the reader's code before writing
it. Brushes that would not come back with their settings, brushes past
the reader's limits and every brush on a large canvas are left out with
a warning. A brush that has the name of an earlier brush that was left
out is written, and no path is written with it on its stroke.
An object linked to a graphic style that is left out at the object
limit now also raises the warning about links left out.
Brushes and their options:
https://web.archive.org/web/20241230205225/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/brushes.html
Docs: docs/file-format-parity.md.
egui spreads a wheel notch over the next frames. When a number field took
a notch and the pointer then left the field, the rest of that notch
scrolled the panel under the pointer, or a panel drawn before the field.
- A begin-pass plugin (`WheelTailPlugin`) keeps, per viewport, how much of
the notches number fields took egui has not let out yet, and takes what
egui lets out of them out of each pass's scrolling before any panel
scrolls.
- It reads each pass's wheel events in order with egui's touch rules
(start, end, cancel, and the timeout of a touch that never ends), so a
turn inside a touch, or one ended in the same pass, leaves nothing owed.
- A turn the other way on the panel while the rest runs out scrolls the
panel by its whole size.
The sweeps in command_sweep.rs kept their own list of file and folder
keys (path, diffPath, folder, destinationFolder) in testkit's
safe_value and again in the temp-folder test, so a command whose file
key was not on the list was sent raw junk strings, and a key written as
`{path | name ...}` (document.open) was never swept.
- The engine exports the plug-in call rules' file keys as
`cmd::key_location`, `cmd::location_in` and `cmd::location_keys`,
which read every key a params description names, the keys of the
commands its `...` entries name, and the schema. `diffPath` is a file
key, so a plug-in call that carries it is refused; Slice Options'
`url` and Export for Screens' `folders` name part of the document, so
a call to object.slice.options with a top-level `url` is accepted.
- testkit's `param_keys` reads the keys the engine reads, and
`junk_params_for_command` and `safe_value_for_command` send every
string under a file or folder key, in arrays and in objects inside
them, as a location in the sweep's temp folder. Each such key also
gets a list of paths and a list of `{ids, path}` objects.
- Every catalog sweep, the serializability sweep included, uses them,
and the temp-folder test checks every key the catalog names, at any
depth.
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.
- The legacy .ai and the check for see-through images in pattern tiles
read a color-masked image's masked pixels, as the flattener does. A
legacy .ai flattens a masked opaque image with the art under it, or
leaves it out with `transparentImages: "omit"`, and a pattern tile that
holds one is expanded before PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3 and legacy .ai output
flatten it.
- Printed separations check whether a colorize paint shows on the masked
pixels, as the canvas does, rather than on the image's own pixels.
- A saved mask that leaves out `contiguous`, `tolerance` or `softness`
reads them as the command's defaults: true, 10 and 10.
- Remove Background is unchanged on this branch. Its refusal of a
grayscale image colorized with a process color is left for a separate
pull request.
Tests: legacy_ai_flattens_a_masked_image_as_a_see_through_one,
a_pattern_tile_with_a_masked_image_counts_as_see_through,
pdf_x1a_and_x3_flatten_the_hidden_pixels (PDF/X-3 added),
separations_colorize_masked_pixels_whose_own_pixels_are_a_preview,
a_record_without_settings_reads_the_defaults, and the dialog's query on a
linked image at its preview.
The merge of main kept main's calls to write_plan, which plan the save
with acknowledgeLoss set, so a save in the app no longer refused to
replace the file the document was read from when that file was one
written beside the path (an EPS artboard file). The save is planned
again without it before it is written, as before the merge.
The files a save writes beside the path still ask before replacing a
file that is there, except those the document's last save wrote. A new
test covers an EPS save with Use Artboards meeting artboard files from
another document: it asks, Cancel writes nothing, OK writes every file,
and the next Save does not ask.
A raster effect listed before a Transform effect follows that Transform
effect on the canvas. Several commands apply and remove the geometry
effects, and they dropped the Transform effect while the raster effect
kept its old values: Object › Expand of a gradient or pattern fill,
Outline Stroke (also Expand's Stroke option and Flatten Transparency's
Convert All Strokes to Outlines) and the 3D effects. For a square with a
Drop Shadow and a 200% Transform effect, the canvas drew a 20 pt offset
and these commands gave a 10 pt one.
- These commands now keep the raster effects at the values the canvas
uses (without_geometry).
- A fill's or stroke's own Transform effect with Transform Patterns or
Scale Strokes & Effects on now transforms the raster effects listed
before it, as one without these options does. Before, Scale Strokes &
Effects only scaled them, and Transform Patterns left them as they
were.
- In a fill's or stroke's own effects, a Transform effect that makes
copies or moves at random keeps the raster effects before it from
following the Transform effects after it, as in an object's effects.
- The params text and docs/target-app-parity.md say that pixel filters
keep their angles and light directions.
The continuous-tone test asked whether 8 colors leave more than a tenth
of the error of one color. A gray picture's tones lie along one line,
where 8 colors come nearer to them, so some gray photos scored 0.078 to
0.093 and were traced as flat art, without the smoothing color photos
get. Their noise then mixed neighboring tones (a 16 Colors trace could
keep 10 or 12 colors) and stepped the edges.
A picture with at least 95% of its opaque pixels within 8 levels across
their channels now also counts as continuous tone when 8 colors leave
more than 0.065 of the error of one color, unless 16 colors leave at
most a fifth of the error of 8. These are VectorCraft's own values. The
exception keeps gray flat art of up to 16 clean levels on its old
route. Pictures with more than 5% of their opaque pixels outside that
8-level range are unchanged.
Anti-aliased or noisy gray flat art can now take the smoothed route as
well. Very noisy gray scans of flat art get fewer specks and staircase
edges; some gray illustrations and sketches get more anchors and
staircase edges at 16 Colors and High Fidelity Photo. Some 16 Colors
and High Fidelity Photo palettes of gray photos grow toward the
requested count, with more anchors and regions, and some 6 Colors
traces get more staircase edges.
The menu items that a pick or a shortcut reads are read once. Rows that
show a name that is user data (a custom toolbar under Window › Toolbars,
a script under File › Scripts, a recent file, a saved selection) are now
left out of them, as rows that list a plug-in already are, so a pick of
Show Toolbar no longer runs with the name of a toolbar that existed when
the items were read.
While a menu item is dimmed and the engine gives no reason (a UI
command, or an Appearance command with nothing targeted), a pick or a
shortcut now opens no dialog and shows "command `<id>` is not available
right now". The message has a row in every catalog that has the
engine's longer "not available right now" message.
Review feedback: with no tolerance, pen or trackpad jitter turned a tap
into a drag and the value was no longer selected. A release within 1 pt
of the press is a tap; anything further keeps the caret.
Regression test: a_tap_with_a_pixel_of_jitter_still_selects_all_on_release.
A shortcut given to Set Corners… (`addon.pathtools.cornerSet`) ran nothing,
on a single key or a chord. The keymap is built from the list in Edit ›
Keyboard Shortcuts, and that list left the command out. An engine command
without a menu path of its own was listed only when it had a default key,
or when it was an undoable command, not an alias, whose params doc ends
each field with `?`. A UI command was listed only when it had a default
key or a params doc of `{}` or `{path…}`, or was Rename. Set Corners…
needs a radius, so it was left out. The same rules left out other
commands that items of the menu bar run:
- View › Perspective Grid's Lock Grid, Lock Station Point, Show Rulers and
Snap to Grid, and Object › Perspective's Attach to Active Plane, Move
Plane to Match Object and Edit Text.
- Edit › Edit Custom Dictionary…, a query.
- UI commands: Recolor Artwork…, the Edit menu's four preset dialogs,
Apply SVG Filter…, Export As…, Export Selection…, Edit Original, Apply
Bullets, Apply Numbers, the four library saves, and the Window menu's
New Toolbar…, Double Column, Keep Tools Beside the Canvas, New
Workspace…, Float in Window and Consolidate All Windows.
Such a command is now listed when an item of the menu bar runs it as a key
press would: with no params, or with the one set of params all its items
give. `needs_a_value` already used this check, and it moves into
`a_menu_bar_item_runs` so that both use it. The command is listed in the
group named by the first part of its id, next to the commands of its
family that were listed before (Set Corners… under Addon with Corner
Tool, the grid toggles under Perspective).
File › Export Selection… was the row of `document.exportSelection`, which
no item of the menu bar runs. That row now runs `file.exportSelection`, as
the menu item does, and `document.exportSelection` is listed as Document ›
Export Selection…. A shortcut already given to it keeps running it. The
Window menu's Learn item gets no row, because the Learn panel's row
already has its name.
Tests: on F and on a chord, Set Corners…, Edit Custom Dictionary…, Recolor
Artwork…, the four preset dialogs and Apply SVG Filter… open the dialog a
click on their menu item opens. Snap to Grid turns off and on from F, and
Export Selection… on F opens Export for Screens. Every command the menu
bar runs this way is listed, none of them shares its group and label with
another entry, and a shortcut on four of them is kept through a saved
set's export and import. The other Object › Plug-ins dialogs, Select by
Link Status… and Composite Fonts… already opened from a shortcut and are
checked the same way.
A compressed arrowheads file is refused when the data after its document, the preview included, unpacks to more than 64 MB, so the whole stream is read and its checksum checked. Other files are read as before.
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.
object.objectsOnPath.selectMember and object.objectsOnPath.moveMember
change only the document and its selection, as the other Objects on
Path commands do, so both join the commands a plug-in may call when its
manifest lists them.
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.
The dialog sent the Count instead of a Spacing that was not above 0, so a Spacing below 0 ran with the Count. Now only a Spacing of 0, or none, leaves the Count in use, and any other Spacing goes to the command, which refuses one below 0.
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