A document tab dragged sideways along the tab strip moves its document to the
place an insertion line marks; the current document stays current. Dragged
above or below the strip, the tab still tears off into a floating window. The
views Window > New Window opened move with their document, and each document
keeps its own zoom, centre and artboard.
The move is the engine command `document.move {from?, to}`, so the control
channel, MCP and recordings reach it, and a replay moves the document before
the steps recorded after it. `sync_views` keeps the views with their documents
by uid when the documents change order.
Behaviour: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/customizing-workspace.html
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The progress line for the folder preferences now cites the preferences
help for Plug-ins & Scratch Disks as the place where additional plug-ins
folders are set, and names the plug-ins Choose… button and the check of
a typed folder on OK as VectorCraft's own rules.
Additional Plug-ins Folder (Plug-ins & Scratch Disks) gets the Choose…
button that Data Recovery's Folder has, on hosts with a folder picker.
A picked plug-ins folder must be a folder whose contents can be listed;
otherwise the status bar says why and the field keeps its value.
OK now gives a folder typed into either field the same check as a
picked one. When it fails, the dialog stays open, the status bar says
why and no preference is set. An empty field and the folder already
saved are not checked. Under automation roots, a folder outside them is
refused before it is looked at.
Additional Fonts Folder and Templates Folder stay typed only.
A Type Tools add-on command (Object › Plug-ins › Type Tools › Release Type on a
Path…, `addon.type.releasePath`): each selected type on a path becomes point
type with the same runs, character and paragraph attributes, on one straight
line whose baseline starts where its first character sat, and the plain path
it was set on, with its exact shape and transform, in its layer and stacking
place, with no fill or stroke. `mode` keeps both, the path only or the text
only; `keepOriginal` leaves the type on a path and adds the released objects
above it. Other objects are left alone, nothing to release makes no undo step,
the run is one undo step and the released objects are selected. The command
dialog previews it as Type on a Path Options does (#5360): Cancel leaves no
history, OK is one step. Tests, command_sweep cases, catalog rows in all 26
languages, docs/mcp.md and the parity docs (beyond Illustrator: scores
unchanged).
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The Delete Stop button sat at the end of the Opacity/Location row, below
the selected stop's Color row. In the default docked panel height that
row is cut off as soon as a stop is selected, so the button looked
missing. It now sits at the right end of the ramp, level with it, and
shows whenever the ramp does (with options hidden too). It deletes the
selected stop, never below two, as before.
Adds a headless panel test for deleting a stop by dragging it off the
ramp and with the button beside it, one undo step each, and for a
two-stop gradient keeping both.
The task bar drops Join once the selected open path is closed and offers it
again after Undo, and Shape Properties shows a rectangle's corner radius as
it is after object.setLiveShape and after Undo. The progress line names the
new test.
The Control bar and the contextual task bar copied the first selected
object every frame (the task bar twice), which on a path of 200,000
anchors costs about 1.4 ms per copy. Both bars now borrow it; the task
bar copies it only when it is a basic shape, for Shape Properties.
With one selected open path of 200,000 anchors, an idle frame with both
bars shown takes 3.8 ms instead of 8.0 ms in a release build.
addon.pathtools.cornerSet takes `every` ("all", "odd" or "even"; default
"all"), which keeps, of the anchors already chosen (named, direct-selected
or all), only the odd- or even-numbered ones, counted along each path from
its first anchor as number 1. Anchors that take no corner still count, so
the pattern follows the path's anchor order on open and closed paths; when
nothing is left the command says so. Unknown values are refused.
Object › Plug-ins › Path Precision Tools › Set Corners… (also a button in
the Anchor Inspector's Corners section) opens a dialog with Radius, Corner
kind and Anchors (All / Odd-Numbered / Even-Numbered) that previews on the
canvas and commits as one undo step.
A path object that moves without changing shape drew its stroke by
outlining the whole line again, because the stroke outline cache is
keyed by the node. The renderer now keeps, per object, stroke and
outline width, the latest outline with the line it was made from. When
the new line is that line moved, it draws the kept outline moved by the
same offset, and moves the region a long path was outlined in with it.
Scaling, rotating or editing the path, changing the stroke's width,
join, cap, dashes or profile, a zoom that changes the outline's
tolerance, and a move that takes the view past the outlined region
still outline the stroke again. Only the latest outline of each stroke
keeps its line.
A row drawn before was counted with no limit on its objects, so symbols
that each hold many instances of the next made the count grow with the
product of the instances, and the Layers panel could stall on such a file.
- Counting stops after 20,000 steps: each object, subpath, text run and
symbol looked at is one step, and every 64 bytes of a symbol or placed
file name looked up is one more. A row that needs more gets its
thumbnail on the thumbnail thread, and the painted thumbnail draws
nothing for it.
- A row drawn before counts at most 20,000 objects.
The Layers panel decided whether to make a row's first thumbnail on the
UI thread by counting path anchors and type frames only, so point type,
symbol instances, gradient meshes, images and placed documents counted
as one object with no anchors, and a heavy one was rendered on the UI
thread.
- small_node takes the row's document. Each glyph of type counts as 4
anchors, each mesh point as 1 and every 100 image pixels as 1, against
the same 2,000-anchor limit; glyphs are counted only up to the limit.
- A symbol instance and an inline graphic count their symbol's art, and
a placed document counts its file's art once the file has been read;
one not read yet goes to the thumbnail thread.
- Symbols and placed documents nested more than 8 deep go to the
thumbnail thread, so a symbol holding an instance of itself is counted
to an end.
- The painted fallback thumbnail counts as before.
A path or compound path whose Transform effect made copies expanded to
one compound path of every copy. It now expands to a group of one object
per copy, each painted as the path, as gradient copies already did; a
second Transform effect's copies nest in a group per copy of the first.
Drawing is unchanged.
# Conflicts:
# docs/effects-parity.md
Locking or hiding the layer (or a group) around the isolated object left
its art selectable with the Selection tool: the isolation branch of the
hit test only checked for a locked artboard, and the marquee's checked
nothing. Both now pass over isolated art that isn't editable.
To find the characters that justification or Mojikumi moves, SVG export
without Fewer <tspan> Elements laid out every live type object a second
time, as point type with
Mojikumi None and default Justification options, whenever its paragraph
had Mojikumi on. New type gets Line-end Punctuation Half Width, so every
new type object was laid out twice. Mojikumi only spaces Japanese
punctuation and Japanese letters, so type without them lays out the same
either way.
- TextLayout::mojikumi_applies says whether the text or a list marker
holds a character Mojikumi spaces.
- reader_advances keeps such a paragraph's Mojikumi, and reads the glyphs
from the layout it was given when the object it would lay out is the
same; otherwise it lays the object out again as before.
The SVG is unchanged. Exporting 5,000 point type objects takes a median
of 109.4 ms instead of 171.5 ms on Windows 11.
A row sent to the thumbnail thread because its opacity masks pass the
2,000-anchor limit still paints the boxes of its own paths until the
thumbnail is ready. The progress line said such a row shows no picture.
Follows #5705.
The enabled check of artboard.deleteEmpty built the full list of empty
artboards, measuring the visual bounds of the art against every
artboard, each time the Artboards panel menu was drawn. It now returns
false at once in a document with one artboard (that artboard is never
deleted). With two or more, it asks the new
Document::any_artboard_without_art whether any unlocked artboard has no
art, which is the same answer as a non-empty list.
Document::any_artboard_without_art builds the symbol boxes once for all
the artboards and first tests each path and compound path by a quick
box: its control points' box grown by the farthest its strokes reach
(Appearance::outset), with a margin for rounding. An artboard that no
quick box meets is reported empty without measuring along any path.
Only when every artboard may hold art is each one measured.
Document::artboard_has_art also skips measuring an object whose quick
box misses the artboard; its answers are unchanged.
The check of gradient.presets.save found the proxy paints through
Node::proxy_paint, which measures the object's geometric bounds for a
gradient box the check does not use. Node::proxy_paint_only picks the
same paint without measuring, and the engine's proxy_paint uses it, so
the Fill and Stroke proxies and the mixed-paint test no longer measure
each object either.
With an open stroked path of 200,000 anchors selected, the two checks
take under 0.01 ms instead of 21.9 ms and 17.2 ms in a release build, and
Delete Empty Artboards' check takes 0.85 ms instead of 42.1 ms with a
second, empty artboard.
Tests compare each check with what its command does (one artboard, all
empty, one empty, locked empty, nested art; with and without a
gradient), compare any_empty_artboards with the previous check and with
measuring every object on 120 seeded documents, compare the quick boxes
with the visual bounds on seeded strokes, and compare proxy_paint_only
with proxy_paint on seeded objects.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md, one line under Delete Empty Artboards.
The renderer keeps the path of a path or compound path of 1,024 anchors
or more by object id, with the bounds of its segments and of its miter
spikes in runs of 128 segments. When anchors move and the subpaths and
anchor counts stay the same, the next frame rewrites only the path
elements of the segments that start or end at a moved anchor, and
measures again only the runs that hold them and the runs of the
segments with length before them. Other edits make the path again as
before. The pixels and the cull bounds are the same.
- StrokeLayer::bounds_on is unchanged. The miter tip of one joint
(miter_tip) and the stroke box with given tips (bounds_with_tips) are
new functions beside it, and Appearance::stroked_bounds_by takes the
box of each shaped stroke, so the cull bounds of a kept path use the
kept tips.
- geom::bez::has_length is the predicate reach.rs used for segments
that draw, made public.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md.
The anchor count that sends a row's thumbnail to the thumbnail thread now
includes the art of opacity masks that are not disabled, since the
thumbnail draws that art. A row drawn before was rendered on the UI thread
whenever its last thumbnail had been quick, even when its object had since
become a long path; it now goes to the thumbnail thread when the object
has more than 2,000 anchors.
The Layers panel chose between the UI thread and the thumbnail thread
for a row's first thumbnail by counting objects only, so one path of
200,000 anchors was rendered on the UI thread. A row whose paths hold
more than 2,000 anchors in all now goes to the thumbnail thread, as a
row of more than 200 objects already did.
While such a row waits, the painted fallback thumbnail draws nothing
for it instead of measuring the path's bounds on every frame.
Opening the panel on one path of 200,000 anchors: the first frame takes
2.4 ms instead of 393 ms (release build, median of three runs).
Choosing a replacement meant picking the family from one drop-down and its style
from another, and only then seeing what the style would be. Replace With Font now
lists rows of a family and one of its styles - the family's closest style first,
then each style it has - and one click sets both. A search above the list filters
the rows by family and style, as the Character panel's font menu searches.
Each list scrolls on its own: the document's fonts and the replacement rows keep
separate scroll states and scrollbars, and the replacement list is ten rows tall
at most, no taller than the rows it lists.
Review: the rows are rebuilt after a replacement, the search clears when the
dialog closes, and a double-click respects the same guard as the Change buttons;
the type-parity checklist has its status line and revision row.
Closes#4972.
The `method` text of `paint.editGradient` and two passages of
docs/mcp.md said a CMYK document writes RGB and Lab gradient stops in
CMYK. An export that converts colors to an RGB destination profile
converts them to that profile first, so in a CMYK document they stay
RGB and a Perceptual spot gradient with such stops is written as an
image with the spot warning. The texts now say so, and the test of RGB
stops in a CMYK document also checks the RGB destination case.
A dashed stroke of a path with more than 1,024 path elements was outlined
whole in every frame after an edit. It is now outlined in and around the
view like a solid stroke. dash_kept runs the pattern along every segment
and keeps only the dashes and dots on the segments near the view, so they
sit where dashing the whole path puts them and the pixels are the same.
A pattern too fine to draw is still drawn solid, and that solid stroke is
cropped too.
At 1600 x 1200 the frame after one anchor moves takes 14 ms instead of
102 ms on a filled closed path of 50,000 anchors with 6 pt dashes and
4 pt gaps. anchor_bench now includes that document.
Optical moved every pair all the way to a fixed 0.08 em ink gap, tighter
than most text faces' own stem spacing, so ordinary text was squeezed
(at 100 pt, Source Sans 3 `nn` closed from 54.7 to 46.9 pt).
Each pair now moves 0.6 of the way toward the face's reference gap (the
median ink gap of `nn`, else `HH` or `oo`; 0.08 em when it has none),
keeps at least 0.3 of it at its narrowest, and changes by at most
0.12 em tighter or 0.06 em looser. Ideographs, kana, hangul, fullwidth
and CJK punctuation forms and dashes keep the font's spacing.
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Data Recovery lists the folders in its recovery folder before it starts, so a
folder that can be written but not listed (a Unix folder with mode 0333) left
it unable to start. Choose... now lists the picked folder as well as making a
folder in it, and refuses it with a status message when either fails. The
progress line says what is checked.
File Handling > Data Recovery > Folder has a Choose... button on the
desktop that opens the folder picker and puts the chosen folder in the
field. Cancel leaves the field as it was, and the field stays editable.
A chosen folder that no file can be created in is refused with a status
message. The web build has no folder picker, so the button is not shown
there.
The method help of paint.editGradient and docs/mcp.md said a Perceptual
gradient with spot stops becomes an image in PDF unless every other stop
is paper white, CMYK or gray. PDF export checks each stop's color as it is
written: a CMYK document, or an export that converts colors to a CMYK
destination profile, writes RGB and Lab stops in CMYK, so the gradient
becomes a DeviceN shading. Both texts now say so, and a test covers the
CMYK document and CMYK destination cases.
A compound path a filter made a guide was still given to later filters, which
could change or delete it; compound paths of guide paths are now left out as
guide paths are. Hex colors and the color button's choice are display sRGB and
are now converted into the working RGB space, so they show as given whatever
the working profile; a color default is kept as written and read when used.
Follow-up to #5630.
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Follows #5442.
- text.setGlyphAlternate keeps the default glyph as a choice when a
feature of the character's style (salt, a stylistic set) draws another
glyph for it, so the default glyph is drawn. A character that is not
laid out (overflowing text) is shaped alone in its style to decide.
gid: null reports the glyph the style draws.
- The Glyphs panel's alternates grid shows the default glyph first when
the font does not list it, so a chosen alternate can be put back.
- A test for a chosen character that starts a longer grapheme (f with a
combining acute), which is not split from its mark.
- The alternates tests in the engine hold the shared font lock while
they add fonts to the global font database.
The bar decided to show the inline fields against a fixed 440-point
width, smaller than the room the fields take, so just above that width
the H field ran past the bar's right margin and was clipped. The bar
now adds up the room from the values that draw the fields: the label
widths in the current language, the four 80-point fields, the W/H link
and the item spacing ahead of each. With less room it shows the
Transform link alone, as before.
Space pressed after a tool's press has begun (Pencil, a brush, a shape, a
selection drag) switched the cursor to the hand but panned nothing: the pan
starts only with Space down at the press. It is ignored now, so the cursor keeps
the tool's own.
Test: space_during_a_pencil_drag_keeps_the_pencil_cursor (fails without the fix:
Grab instead of the pencil's crosshair).
The type.size.* commands, type.resetTracking and type.resetHorizontalScale
do not take `id`, `start` or `end`, so they refuse those keys as unknown
parameters. The list in docs/mcp.md now leaves them out.
A double-click makes the row's artboard active and fits it in the
window (view.goToArtboard, as the Artboards panel does), keeping the
dialog open and the artboards chosen before it. Parity docs record the
Selection Tools add-on.
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addon.select.byArtboards {artboards, relation} in a new Selection Tools
add-on. Overlapping is All on Active Artboard's test, now one shared
helper (select::on_artboard); Fully inside is within one artboard, edges
included; Fully outside is on none. Objects are those Select All takes.
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PathData::nearest, which the Direct Selection cursor runs to find the
segment under the pointer, projected the pointer onto every segment of
the path.
It now projects the pointer first onto a segment at the anchor nearest
to it, then skips each segment whose control-point box lies farther
away than that distance or the nearest point found so far. Each box is
measured once and the search allocates no memory. The result is the
same, including which of equal distances wins. A segment is never
skipped when the pointer or one of its control points is past 1e100 or
not finite.
Over a segment of an open path of 200,000 anchors, the cursor takes
51 ms instead of 59 ms in a release build (anchor_bench). The progress
line in docs/target-app-parity.md gives the timing.
Tests compare nearest with every segment projected over 400 random
paths, each probed at 30 points on a coarse grid (ties included), and
on open, closed, compound, one-anchor, empty, huge and non-finite
paths.
OK in Tate-chu-yoko Settings read an Up/Down or Left/Right that is not a
length as 0 and applied it. It now returns "Up/Down must be a number" or
"Left/Right must be a number" and keeps the dialog open, and a blank
field leaves its value alone.
The editing copy of the art that a PDF-compatible .ai carries now holds:
- Transparency: `mode opacity isolate knockout shape Xy` (the blending
mode's number, Knockout Group 0 off, 1 on, 2 neutral), written when it
changes: in a path's paint after its colors, before a guide, and after
a group's end followed by `0 0 Xd` and `6 () XW`. A group without
transparency of its own ends `9 () XW`, and a group's name comes
before its state block. A layer's transparency follows its art: `Xy`,
`0 0 Xd`, `7 () XW`, `LB`.
- Clipping groups as `q`, the art, the clipping path or compound path last
with `h` (or `H`) and `W` before its painting operator, `Q`, as section
5.6.2 of the version 7 specification shows them
(http://mercator.elte.hu/~saman/hu/okt/AI7FileFormat.pdf). A clipping
layer whose clipping object is a path or compound path sets the last
`Lb` flag and writes its clipping path last.
- Opacity masks as an `AI9_Mask` entry in the object's dictionary: the
mask's art between `X=` and `X+`, and Clipping, Inverted, Disabled and
Linked.
Before, clipping groups were written as their art cut to the clipping
path, and transparency and opacity masks were left out. Still left out,
with a warning: the opacity and blending mode of single fills and
strokes, opacity masks on layers (disabled ones too), and opacity masks
nested more than 8 deep. A clipping group or layer whose clipping object
isn't a path or compound path is written as a group of the art cut to
that object, in a layer that doesn't clip, and so are the clipping
groups inside that art. A clipping path's paint that a plain fill and
line can't draw is written as paths inside the clipping, fills under the
art and strokes over it, each side in a group of its own when it has
several, with the clipping path's transparency, lock and hidden state;
the clipping path's opacity mask stays on the clipping path, with a
warning. A clipping group without members is an empty group, and an
empty clipping layer is an empty layer.
Each of these is written in the form VectorCraft's .ai reader reads, and
the tests read the written data back through that reader.
Reading .ai editing data: an `Xy` after a layer's last group or compound
path, followed by the layer's `7 () XW`, is the layer's (a following
`6 () XW` keeps it the group's); groups, compound paths and layers keep
Opacity & Mask Define Knockout Shape.
The `.ai` option `editingData` and docs/file-format-parity.md describe
what the copy now holds.
A `color` parameter shows a color button that opens the color picker in plug-in
dialogs and the Appearance panel's effect editor; its default and values may be
a color object or a hex string, and the plug-in gets a color object. A filter's
returned objects may set `guide` and `locked`; objects it locked or made guides
are left out of the selection after the run.
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