A Transform effect on a group reshaped its members' paths but left the
raster effects inside it at their own values: a member's Drop Shadow
kept its 10 pt offset under a 200% Transform effect, and with Scale
Strokes & Effects on, it scaled by the mean scale without turning. The
same held for the raster effects of an object's own fills and strokes
under the object's Transform effect.
- A Transform effect that moves the art once now transforms the raster
effects of a group's members (their own and their fills' and
strokes'), of nested groups, of the art of the linked opacity masks
in it and of an object's fills and strokes, after the members' own
Transform effects: sizes scale by the mean scale and a Drop Shadow's
offset turns, reflects and scales. A raster effect that a member's
own Transform effect with copies or random holds back keeps its value
through that effect and still transforms with the group's. Scale
Strokes & Effects does not scale them a second time. A group's or
object's Transform effect that makes copies or moves at random leaves
them as before.
- The canvas, the redraw region, export, Expand Appearance, Object ›
Expand and Outline Stroke read the same values.
- The Transform effect's params text and docs/target-app-parity.md
describe the rule.
a_shadow_on_each_fill_a_painted_effect_returns_follows_the_transform_after_it
installed test.engine.twofills, which
a_second_painted_effect_on_a_fill_keeps_the_piece_s_other_fills also
installs with a different module. Installed plug-ins are kept for the
whole test process, so running the two tests in parallel could run one
test's effect with the other's module. The test now installs
test.engine.shadowedfills.
A painted live effect on a fill can return a piece with several fills,
each a copy of that fill with its effects. A Transform effect after it
moved the piece, but only the first returned fill's raster effects
followed it: with a Drop Shadow before the painted effect and a 200%
Transform effect after it, the first fill's shadow offset became 20 pt
and the second fill's stayed 10 pt. Each returned fill and stroke now
takes the followed values.
file.new refused a side over 163,830 pt, while artboard.new took larger
artboards. Both now take each side more than 0 and at most 3,999,856 pt:
the 4,000,000 pt the canvas reaches from the origin, less a 72 pt bleed
on both sides. A side outside that range is refused with an error that
names the limit in points and, when the document's units are not points,
in those units, rounded down so the value shown is accepted.
artboard.new now refuses a supplied width or height of 0 or less instead
of making a 1 pt side, and refuses a size taken from a larger artboard.
Saved and Recent presets are read with sides up to the new limit.
Follows #6643.
The Width menu now offers Tilt, Bearing and Rotation beside Fixed and
Pressure, each with the second width. Tilt goes from Width with the pen
lying flat to the second width upright; Bearing and Rotation go from
Width at -180 degrees to the second width at 180 degrees, as Scatter
Brush Options' modes do. A stroke drawn without that input is half way
between the two widths. brush.options takes width_mode tilt, bearing
or rotation.
With one object that Start Global Edit accepts selected with the Selection
tool, the canvas now highlights the other objects a start would take with the
current Global Edit Options, before Global Edit starts. The outlines are kept
per document revision and options, and none are shown during a drag.
Docs: docs/mcp.md (Global Edit), docs/gaps.md (G5).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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