In the text document of a .ai's editing copy, a character's fill (key
53) or stroke (key 54) is a paint with a colour under key 0 and, under
key 5, the name of an art style of the editing data. For a pattern
swatch, key 0 is black and the pattern is only in that style: a style
of one paint (/SimpleStyle) that paints with `(name) ... [matrix] p`.
The reader took key 0 alone, so type painted with a pattern came in
black.
The art style reader now keeps the pattern of a style that is one
paint, and the import places it as a path's pattern fill would be (its
matrix in art space; the files' own pages tile such type with it), by
the style's name. A run whose fill or stroke is on and names such a
style takes the pattern, in the type's text space, so its tiles stay
where the document has them. A pattern the file doesn't define or can't
place, a key 5 that isn't a string, and a style of any other paint keep
the colour as before.
A style that also has filters gives no pattern for type, and a pattern that
can't be placed in the type's text space keeps the colour. A .ai saved
again writes such type as outlines with a warning, as it already does for
any type with pattern paint (#5965).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
- 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.
Exporting the window for the portal waits for the compositor to answer. The
sampler now does it on its worker thread, as the portal's save dialog does,
so a slow compositor does not hold up the UI.
Pinning a closed replaced spine opens it with a copy of its first point
at its end, so a two-point ring became three points and Delete Spine
Point could leave a spine of two points in one place. The two-point
check now counts the points left that are apart.
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.
Restore and discard hold each crashed app's area until they finish. When
a later area's copies were kept by an entry in an area already held, the
check took a second lock on that area, found it taken, and counted the
area as running, so its copies were listed but neither restored nor
discarded. Areas the command already holds now count as gone in that
check.
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.
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.
On Linux, ui.sampleScreenColor and the Color Picker's eyedropper button
now show the XDG desktop portal's color sampler (Screenshot.PickColor,
https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/doc-org.freedesktop.portal.Screenshot.html).
A thread of its own makes the call and waits for the person, and the
picked sRGB color goes through the same conversion into the working RGB
space as on macOS and the web. A cancel leaves the colors as they were.
A session without a portal that has PickColor, a portal that does not
return from the call within 25 seconds (VectorCraft's own limit) or
leaves the bus before it answers, and a portal that ends the request in
another way each show a status message and end the wait. The two new
messages are translated in every catalog that has the sampler's other
messages. The request token is random, as the Request documentation
asks (https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/doc-org.freedesktop.portal.Request.html).
The window is named for the portal on the UI thread, as for the save
dialog, and the sampler's thread keeps the window and its export until
the portal answers.
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.
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