Ruler guides were a list kept beside the layers. Each guide is now an
object of its layer or sublayer, always directly in it and above the
layer's art. These behave as on main:
- Guides draw on screen only. Exports (SVG, PDF, PNG, PSD), Fit All,
Select All, the art bounds, clicks and marquees, and a layer's
Pathfinder and Transform effects leave them out. The Layers panel
lists them as guide rows of their layer, the highest guide.list
index first.
- Deleting a layer deletes its guides, and merging layers keeps their
guides in the merged layer.
- The guide commands number guides as guide.list does, in the order
they were made.
New: each guide takes an id from the document's object ids. An object
command given a guide's id fails with an error, and node.move cannot
put a guide into a group or out of its layers. A guide made while an
opacity mask, a symbol or a pattern is edited moves to the top
visible, unlocked layer when editing ends.
File format: native files still save the guides in the document's
guides list, in every file version, so older builds read them. Each
entry may now also carry the guide's id, name, locked and hidden
flags; older builds ignore those fields. Opening a file puts each
saved guide on its layer (on the top visible, unlocked layer when the
file names none or a layer it does not have), and each saved guide
counts against the object limit for opening a file. A ruler guide node
that a file holds below a layer's art moves up to the layer's guides,
and one anywhere else (in a group or another object, beside the
layers, or in a symbol) is removed. Ruler guides read from an .ai file
become guide objects on the layer they were on, numbered in the order
the file lists them.
Edits refuse to leave anything beyond MAX_COORD (doc_sane checks the
artboards, the guides, the ruler origin and the objects an edit touches),
but the native loader didn't check them. A file with one object, artboard,
guide or ruler origin out there opened without a warning, and then every
move failed with "result would exceed the canvas", in-range objects
included; saving kept it that way.
Document::drop_beyond_canvas removes objects whose geometric bounds aren't
finite or reach past MAX_COORD (a layer or non-clipping group keeps its
children within it), artboards with their artboard guides, and guides out
there, and puts the ruler origin back at the origin. load_file runs it
after the depth limit and reports what it did with the other load notes; a
file whose artboards all lie beyond the canvas is refused.
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