These commands read optional numbers and flags with f64_or and bool_or,
so a value such as "10" or "yes" ran the command with the default. They
now return an error and leave the document, the selection and the undo
history as they were. Omitting a key or giving null behaves as before.
- edit.duplicate, edit.paste, guide.move, object.slice.duplicate: dx, dy
- guide.move: copy
- document.node: summary
- edit.undoGroup.end: cancel
- guide.add: vertical
- guide.select, object.slice.select: toggle
- select.editSaved: delete; newName must be a string
- select.save: name must be a string
- file.close: index must be a non-negative integer
Document Setup gains alignNewObjectsToPixelGrid. When it is on, every
path or compound path drawn in the document (shape tools, Pen,
Curvature, Pencil, Paintbrush, Blob Brush, grids, flares and add-on
shapes) gets the pixel-aligned property and snaps in the same undo
step. Text, paste, duplicate, Place and import are not affected.
- The Transform panel menu has an Align New Objects to Pixel Grid
item for the active document.
- New Document's Advanced Options has the checkbox; the Mobile and Web
presets turn it on, other presets and older saved presets leave it
off, and file.new, Save Preset and Recent keep it.
- The setting is saved with the document only when it is on.
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/get-started/learn-the-basics/pixel-preview-mode-for-web-graphics.html
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md, docs/ui-parity.md.
With the Artboard tool selecting several artboards, Paste in Place, Paste
in Front and Paste in Back put a copy of the copied art on each, where it
was on the artboard it was copied from, in one undo step. The three
commands take `artboards: [index...]`; the app passes the Artboard tool's
selection there, and without it the engine uses that selection while the
tool is chosen and records it in the journal. Art copied from no artboard
keeps its place on the first artboard and its offset to it on the others.
Copied artboards still paste once, where they were.
An `artboard` or `artboards` value that is not an artboard index of the
document, a repeated index or an empty list is now an error, and nothing
is pasted. An out-of-range `artboard` used to paste the art where it was.
A batch keeps the `artboards` a paste step names, and a paste step that
names neither pastes on the Artboard tool's selection while that tool is
chosen with several artboards selected.
Help page: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/create-manage-artboards/organize-manage-artboards/cut-copy-and-paste-artboards.html
With Real-time Drawing off, a tool stores its latest preview and applies
it only when the drag is released. A command that ends the drag first
(Undo, Redo, a filter that calls commands, a plug-in command that calls
commands, and the other callers of settle_interaction) committed the
interaction without that preview, so the drag was dropped: Undo then
took back the step before it, and a calling filter was given the
objects where they were before the drag.
settle_interaction now applies such a preview first, as the tool's own
commit does, and cancels the drag when the preview fails. The re-prepare
of a calling filter's input after settling is now reached, and tests
cover it at both plugin.run and plugin.<plug-in>.<command>.
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.
Follows #6592. Paste now also skips the names that effects in the
document's brush art use when it picks a free name for a pasted SVG
filter. When no free name keeps the filter within the 64 KB limit (a
one-letter name at the limit with every free letter and digit taken),
the paste is refused instead of keeping the name of the document's
filter. Clipboard::import_into and import_text_styles return a Result,
and their callers pass the error on before the document changes.
Make Compound Path leaves each member's graphic style id in place. A
member copied or cut on its own took the compound's appearance but kept
that old id, so the clipboard carried an unrelated style and the pasted
path was linked to a style that did not match its look.
The copied member or piece now takes the compound's link while it has
that style's look, and no link otherwise (no style on the compound, or
a gradient pinned to the compound's bounds). It also takes the
compound's knockout setting with the rest of its transparency.
A compound member copied or cut on its own now keeps the compound's
gradient fitted where it was: an unplaced gradient is pinned to the
compound's bounds, measured once per compound.
Clear that deletes every anchor or segment of every member of a compound
path now removes the compound too, as Cut does, instead of leaving an
empty compound in the layer.
The edit.copy and edit.clear descriptions, docs/mcp.md and the progress
line now say that selecting the compound copies it whole, that isolation
mode takes each member as itself, and how a compound of one and Paste in
Front with the copied member still selected behave.
A compound-path member selected on its own, whole with Direct Selection
or with Group Selection, is now copied as an ordinary path instead of
promoting the selection to its compound. Cut removes the same objects
Copy takes, so the other members stay a compound path, a compound of
one included. The compound is still taken whole when every member is
selected whole, or when the compound itself is selected.
A copied member or piece takes the compound's paint, opacity, blending
mode, opacity mask, pixel alignment and fill rule.
Tests that pinned the earlier rule from #786 now check the new one.
With anchors picked with Direct Selection, Edit > Cut removed only the
segments between them, so the picked anchors stayed in the path. Cut now
removes picked anchors and the segments attached to them from a path or
a compound path's member, as Clear does. Picked segments still lose only
those segments. When a path has picked segments, Copy and Cut leave out
anchors picked on its other contours, as Clear does.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md.
The remembered selection is now tied to the document it was made in, by its
uid, instead of being cleared on every tool reset: another view of the same
document, or closing an inactive tab, kept the anchors picked but made Copy
take the whole path.
A lent gesture that leaves the selection as it found it (a Cmd+Shift marquee
over nothing) is no longer recorded as a pick, so the Pen's last anchor stays
its own and Copy takes the whole path.
Also records #6123 in target-app-parity.md.
With the Pen or Curvature tool, Copy and Cut ignore the anchor selection,
so that the last anchor the Pen leaves selected doesn't make Copy take just
that anchor (#2122). Anchors picked with the Direct Selection that Cmd/Ctrl
lends those tools were ignored too, and the whole path was copied.
The session now remembers the selection the lent tool leaves when it gives
the tool back. While that is still the selection, Copy and Cut take the
picked anchors and segments, as with Direct Selection chosen.
The History panel gets a New Document from State button at its bottom,
which runs the new edit.newDocumentFromState command. The command makes
a new document holding the art of a History panel row ({index?}, the
current state when omitted) and makes it the active document. An index
that names no state is an error and changes nothing.
The new document takes the next Untitled-N name, is marked unsaved, has
nothing selected, no steps to undo or redo and no modified date, and
leaves symbol, opacity-mask and pattern editing; the art drawn in a
pattern's tile is stored in the pattern, as Done stores it. Its links point at the files the
source finds, including files found in the source's folder away from the
links' paths. Those files are looked for only within the folders the
asking caller may read; for a caller without limits, within the folders
the caller that opened the source may read. The source
document, its steps and its saved state stay as they are; typing or a
drag in progress is first kept as a step, as Undo keeps it. While an IME
composes, the command waits, as Undo does.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
edit.copy and edit.cut chose the artboard route by the tool chosen, which
the journal does not record. A replay in a new session acted on the objects
selected there, or stopped with "nothing selected" when there were none.
With the Artboard tool chosen, both now record selectedArtboards and art in
the journal entry. A given selectedArtboards runs the artboard route with
any tool and needs only a document. A recorded action leaves both values
out, so it follows the tool chosen when it plays. Cut and Copy of objects
record nothing new.
With the Artboard tool, the canvas context menu lists the entries of the
public Use the artboard context menu page in its order, in place of the
entries for objects and the view. Lock Artboards and Unlock Artboards are
two submenus. An entry that cannot run is left out, and Undo and Redo stay
dimmed. A right-click on an artboard that is not selected selects it alone
first, and the menu measures the art for Delete Empty Artboards and Fit to
Artwork Bounds once, at the right-click.
Cut, Copy, Duplicate Artboards, Rename, Delete Artboards, Lock Selected,
Unlock Selected, Fit to Artwork Bounds, Switch Orientation and Export act on
the artboards the tool has selected, else the active one. docs/mcp.md lists
what the other entries act on.
- artboard.rename renames in one undo step and numbers several names. The
menu's Rename opens a dialog that runs it, and the Artboards panel's name
field runs it too.
- artboard.switchOrientation swaps width and height and keeps the top-left
corner, skipping square and locked artboards.
- artboard.selectAll chooses the tool and selects every artboard.
- edit.paste takes artboardsAt, and the menu's Paste centers copied
artboards on the right-click's point.
- The menu's Cut and Copy run artboard.cut and artboard.copy. In the desktop
app those commands publish to the system clipboard, and the menu shows the
Cut and Copy shortcuts for them.
- artboard.fitToArt and the panel's name field record no undo step when
nothing changes.
artboard.duplicate, copy, cut, rename and switchOrientation take their
artboards from the tool's selection when a call names none. Each now records
them in the journal as selectedArtboards, which a replay reads and a recorded
action leaves out. The copy commands also record art. switchOrientation
records scaleArt, and it takes patterns and lockedAndHidden and records what
its artboard.setProps step resolved for them.
While the Artboard tool is in use, a command chosen from any menu or the
command palette moves the tool's selection as the Artboards panel does:
artboard.new makes the new artboard active, artboard.duplicate selects the
copies, and artboard.delete and artboard.deleteEmpty make a remaining
artboard active.
The remaining flags under crates/engine/src/cmd that read a boolean with
get(..).and_then(Value::as_bool).unwrap_or(..) now go through switch_or,
so a value such as "false" or 1 is an error instead of the default.
Omitting a flag or giving null keeps the old behavior.
- effect.move: copy
- aligned on the appearance.*, stroke.set, transparency.set and effect.*
commands, checked before any early return
- transparency.viewOpacityMask: on
- view.printTiling: on
- plugin.install: replace and allowHeavy, checked for every plug-in
- edit.clear: guides, and path.deleteAnchors' read of it
- text.create and text.createInPath: vertical (already refused by
check_switches, so their behavior is unchanged)
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
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
With anchors and ruler guides selected, Cut deletes the anchors and the
selected guides in one undo step (edit.clear's guides: true reaches the
anchor-deleting path).
Cut with objects and ruler guides selected now removes both, in one
undo step: edit.clear takes guides: true beside ids to delete the
selected guides with the objects it names.
Edit > Copy and Cut put the selected ruler guides on the clipboard,
with the selected objects or on their own. Pasting puts them on the
layer new art goes to, selected, in the same undo step: with objects
they move as the objects do; alone they keep their places, while Paste
in Place / in Front / in Back put them on the active artboard as they
lay on theirs, and Paste on All Artboards on every artboard.
Undo, Redo and a canceled undo group put back an earlier document but
left the Variables panel highlight as it was. After renaming the
highlighted variable and undoing, the highlight still named the new
name: a variable defined later under that name showed highlighted
without a click, and Delete removed it.
Each of these paths now clears a highlight whose variable the restored
document does not define, as Delete Variables and Load Variable Library
already did.
With the clipping path of a clip group or a clipping layer selected, or a
member of a compound path that is the clipping path, Paste in Back put the
clipboard's objects below it. The bottom pasted object then became the
clipping path. With nothing selected in a clipping layer, Paste in Back did
the same at the bottom of the layer.
Paste in Back now puts the objects right above the clipping path, as Send to
Back keeps art above it.
With a member of a compound path selected, Paste in Front and Paste in Back
put the clipboard's objects next to that member, inside the compound path,
whatever they were. A pasted group, compound path or type object then sat
inside a compound path, which holds only paths. The model-based test
`random_command_sequences` stops on this with "compound #N has a non-path
child".
When the clipboard holds anything other than paths, the objects now go
right above or below the compound path. Paths still go next to the member,
inside the compound path.
The reference app switches the units of measurement with
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+U on Windows and Option+Shift+Command+U on macOS.
VectorCraft could set the document's units with document.setUnits or
a right-click on a ruler, but no command stepped through them and no
key did it.
document.switchUnits (Switch Units, default Cmd+Alt+Shift+U) sets the
document's units to the next one in the order a right-click on a
ruler lists them: Points, Picas, Inches, Millimeters, Centimeters,
Pixels, Feet & Inches, Meters, Yards, Feet, and from Feet back to
Points. Each press is one undo step, and the reply names the new
units. Keyboard Shortcuts lists it under Document.
The precise cursors shortcut-editor test used Cmd+Alt+Shift+U as a
free key; it now uses Cmd+Alt+Shift+Q.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/ui-parity.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
draw_path, draw_shape and object.setProps take opacity in percent (0-100),
but the document.inspect / document.node summary behind doc_inspect,
inspect_document and vectorcraft://object/{id} reported the stored 0-1
fraction under the same name. An agent that read 0.55 and wrote it back
got a nearly invisible object.
The summary now adds opacityPct (0-100, rounded to 1/100 of a percent)
beside the unchanged opacity, and the tool, resource and command
descriptions say which scale each field uses. Round-trip test in the mcp
crate: draw at 55 %, read 55 back from doc_inspect, inspect_document and
the object resource, write it back unchanged.
A paragraph split between two threaded frames took its first-line
indent again at the top of the next frame, and a list paragraph drew
its bullet or number there again. Each frame is laid out on its own,
and its first paragraph kept every paragraph attribute there.
A text object now marks a frame whose first paragraph continues from
the frame before (first_para_continues, not saved). The thread re-flow
sets the mark where each frame's share starts inside a paragraph and
measures each share with it, and a restored document reads the marks
from its saved text. Area type and type on a path set the first line of
such a paragraph as a wrapped line: no first-line indent and no bullet
or number. The paragraph after it takes the next number. Release
Selection, Remove Threading, Convert To Point Type and copies of a
frame clear the mark, so the first paragraph there has its indent and
bullet or number again. When Create Outlines, Expand or Expand
Appearance takes frames out of a thread, a frame that stays keeps the
mark only while it is threaded and the frames before it end inside a
paragraph. A frame whose mark changes lays out its first line again,
and when it is still threaded, its thread re-flows. When the outlined
frame is the last one, the text it has no room for is measured as the
frame lays it out: without the first-line indent when it continues a
paragraph, and with its numbers counted on from the frames before it.
The frame before it now takes exactly the text the last frame has no
room for. Duplicates, copies dragged in the Layers panel, the copies
that Release to Layers (Build), Release Opacity Mask and Edit Opacity
Mask make, and Draw Inside's clipping copy then have their cached
bounds computed again, as paste already does for pasted type.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
A document opened or created between edit.undoGroup.begin and
edit.undoGroup.end opens an undo group of its own with the begun
group's name, so an atomic command_batch that starts with file.new or
document.open is one undo step in the new document. The group opens
after the command that opens the document: when that command also
edits it (a command.batch), those edits stay the command's own undo
step, and a canceled group keeps them, so the journal still replays.
Both commands also run with no document open, and a command.batch that
fails rolls back a begun group. Switching to a document that was
already open does not open a group in it.
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