An action or journal entry recorded before Scale and Reflect followed the
turned bounding box has no basis value. Replayed, such a step now acts along
the page's axes, as it did when it was recorded; steps recorded now carry
basis "box" and replay along the box. The built-in Reflect Horizontal action
names basis "box", so it keeps reflecting across the box's own axis.
The symbol test that reflects a turned instance names basis "page", which
is the reflection it was written for.
With anchors selected and Transform Objects off (objects: false, or the
backquote key during a Scale or Reflect drag), the transform moves the
whole objects' pattern tiles, so it now acts along the turned bounding
box instead of the page axes that apply to the anchors alone.
The Scale and Reflect tools, object.scale, object.reflect and the
Transform panel flips act along a rotated bounding box instead of the
page axes, until Object > Transform > Reset Bounding Box, as Free
Transform does. The Scale and Reflect dialogs and the Properties panel
flips run the same commands and follow the box too.
- object.scale and object.reflect with a named axis take
basis?: "box"|"page" ("box" by default; "page" keeps the page axes;
any other value is an error before anything changes). The journal
records the basis, so recorded actions replay in the same frame; an
older recording without it acts along the box.
- A numeric Reflect axis and a Reflect axis drawn with the tool stay
lines on the page. While a Reflect drag has not drawn an axis away
from the reference point, the tool uses the box's vertical axis, and
Shift steps 45 degrees from the box.
- Mixed-angle selections and anchors selected with Direct Selection use
the page axes; an Alt-drag copy of such anchors scales the whole
objects along their box. Transform Again repeats the page matrix.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md, docs/ui-parity.md.
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.
Measure Type by Glyph Bounds (`typeGlyphBounds`, off by default) is in
Preferences > Type > Glyph Bounds and the Transform panel menu. With it
on, the bounding box, the Transform, Control bar and Properties X, Y, W
and H, `object.setBounds`, the transform tools' reference point and the
Arrange commands measure point type selected on its own by the ink of
its glyphs instead of its em box. A typed W or H scales the live type
until its ink has that size.
- The engine caches each type object's ink in text space with its
layout bounds; the cache is not saved.
- Use Preview Bounds adds the characters' strokes, and type with
geometry effects is measured as drawn. Skewed type is measured by its
outlines.
- Type that draws nothing, area type, type on a path and type inside a
selected group are measured as before. Align and Distribute keep
following Align to Glyph Bounds.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/control-protocol.md, docs/target-app-parity.md,
object.setBounds params text.
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