The new General preference Show Bounding Box While Moving and Drawing
(`boundingBoxWhileMovingAndDrawing`, off by default) keeps the bounding
box and its handles visible during two kinds of drag, with View › Show
Bounding Box on. While a drag moves the selection (a Selection tool
move, an Alt-drag copy, or a shape tool's move by the center point),
the box is drawn where the drag has moved the selection. The box is
measured once when the drag starts and offset by each step's move.
While the Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse, Polygon and Star tools
draw a shape, the box is drawn around the shape. A rotation and a
widget drag still hide the box until the release. The Line Segment
tool, the Pen, the Pencil and the Paintbrush draw no box.
With the preference off, the box hides during a move (#737, for #712)
and while a shape is drawn (#5839), as before. A Selection tool move
with Real-time Drawing off still moves the box with the pointer, and a
shape tool's move by the center point hides it in both modes.
With Real-time Drawing off, the box of a shape being drawn is measured
from the pending preview, in the color of the layer the shape goes on.
A shape being drawn shows no box until a preview step has succeeded,
so a failed preview does not show the box of the selection from before
the drag. The preference's label has a row in every catalog.
Session::deferred_move() is replaced by Session::move_drag_box(), which
returns the moved box, and Session::deferred_transform_box() now also
returns the layer color of the box.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
With one whole blend selected, the Selection and Blend tools show two
widgets at the halfway point of its spine. Dragging the upper widget
along the spine sets the color shift (-100 to 100), and dragging the
lower one sets the easing strength (0 to 100). The lower widget shows
only when the steps follow a spine (a replaced spine or Align to Path),
the rule the step placement uses; a blend made without a spine shows
neither. When the boxes of three or more other visible objects hold a
widget's spot, the widget moves out in 16 px steps, up to 144 px, and
its line to the halfway point grows with it. While a widget is held,
the arrow keys step its value by 1 (Shift: by 10), and Escape or a
switch to another tool cancels the drag. A drag is one undo step; a
click or a drag that ends where it started records none.
- object.blend.setEasing sets easingType, ramp and colorShift on one
blend, refuses a hidden or locked blend and easing on a blend without
a spine, and records no undo step when nothing changes.
- BlendSpec::eases_along_spine holds the rule the step placement and
the widget share.
- While a tool is busy, an arrow it claims arrives with the press's
Shift and Alt; before, it always arrived plain.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Escape reset a rotated view only as the second of two presses less than
a second apart, and a click or another key between them started the
count again. With the Rotate View tool one press reset it.
Now an Escape that has nothing else to end resets the rotation. An
Escape that ends something else (isolation mode, a path being drawn, a
full screen mode, a dialog and the others listed in
docs/target-app-parity.md) ends only that, and the next Escape resets
the view, however long after it comes. Tools report a path or pick that
Escape ends with `Tool::ends_on_escape`.
The rotate view tests that needed two presses now check one press, and
the screen mode test that named the old pair is renamed.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md.
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.
Preferences > Type gets Start Lists From Typed Markers (`typedLists`, on
by default). With it off, a list marker and a space typed with the Type
tool at the start of a paragraph (`1. `, `1) `, `A. `, `A) `, `* `,
`# `, `> `, `+ `) stay as text and start no list. `text.startList`,
`text.setFormat {list}` and the Bullets and Numbered List buttons work
as before.
The preference reaches the Type tool through `ToolContext::typed_lists`.
The label has a row in every catalog.
Preferences > Smart Guides gets Snap to Last Location (`snapToLastLocation`,
off by default). With it and Smart Guides on, a selection moved by dragging
with the Selection, Group Selection or Direct Selection tool, Shift too, goes
back to where the move began while the move is within Snapping Tolerance,
labeled "last location". An Alt copy is not pulled back onto its original.
Source: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/measure-and-align/grids-and-guides/smart-guides-options.html
The distance, the label and the copy rule are VectorCraft's own.
A shape just drawn keeps its bounding box with the Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle,
Ellipse, Polygon and Star tools, but its centre point (Attributes › Show Center)
did nothing and the box's handles only drew: a press anywhere started a new
shape, and with the Selection tool a press on the centre of an unfilled shape
started a marquee.
- The Selection tool now takes a press on a selected object's centre point as
the start of a move (held by that point, so it snaps and Alt copies), as
Direct Selection has since #4891. A click there still makes the object the
key object of a multi-selection.
- The shape tools take it too, and take a press in the rotate zone just outside
a bounding-box corner (the Selection tool's own zone and cursor) as the start
of a rotation about the box's centre. Live Corners widgets keep the corners
themselves, so a press on a corner still rounds it; every other press still
draws a new shape. Escape cancels, as for the Selection tool's drags.
`hit_center` moves from direct.rs to select.rs, shared by the three tools.
Add Anchor Points builds the new anchor list in one pass, Swatch Library add looks names up in sets, full_documents dedups placed keys with a set, width profile lookups and mark insertion use binary search, and the symbolism tools cap and thin the previews of a long drag as Liquify does.
A dropped press (a long touch, a canceled touch, a second finger) now
goes to the tool through Tool::drop_press, which takes Escape as during
a drag by default. The Pen, Smart Pen and Curvature tools override it
so the path being drawn goes on: they forget the press, and a Curvature
point the press dragged goes back where it was.
The release that follows runs only the tool's Cancel and Notify actions,
so a Selection marquee selects nothing and a Shift-drag Artboard marquee
toggles nothing. The engine puts back the persistent options the tool
had at the press (the Polygon tool's sides changed with the arrow keys),
and stores none of them.
While a symbol with Enable Guides for 9-Slice Scaling on is edited in
symbol editing mode, the canvas draws its two horizontal and two vertical
guides as dotted lines across its art, with any tool and with ruler guides
hidden. With the Selection tool the pointer near a guide shows the Move
cursor, and dragging the guide sets it through `symbol.options`'s
`nineSliceGuides` as one undo step; Escape during the drag puts it back.
A guide within 4 screen pixels takes the press before the art and the
bounding box. A dragged guide stays within the art's box and stops short
of the opposite guide; positions outside the art are not supported yet.
While Global Edit is on, a Shift-click (not a Shift-drag) with the
Selection tool on a highlighted match, or on an object inside a matched
group, leaves that match out: it is no longer highlighted and later
edits leave it as it is. The object the edit started from stays in, and
Global Edit ends when fewer than two matches are left. Leaving a match
out is not an undo step.
- New command `select.globalEditExclude {id}` returns `{active, count,
ids}`; the Selection tool calls it on the release of a Shift-click.
- `ToolContext::global_edit` gives the tools the Global Edit's objects.
- Label and messages in the i18n catalogs; docs/mcp.md,
docs/ui-parity.md and docs/target-app-parity.md updated.
Source: https://helpx.adobe.com/ph_fil/illustrator/how-to/global-editing-sensei.html
With View > Show Bounding Box on, a resize by a bounding-box handle
keeps the box and its handles drawn at the bounds the drag gives. A
move, a rotation and a corner-radius drag still hide the box until the
release (#712).
With Real-time Drawing off the document stays at the drag's snapshot,
so the box is measured from the drag's pending preview, through the
same cache as the deferred outlines.
A built-in add-on under Object › Plug-ins › Path Precision Tools:
- Anchor Eraser Brush: painting over selected paths removes the anchors
under the brush that the outline can do without within a tolerance,
refitting the handles beside them (Alt ignores the tolerance, Cmd/Ctrl
deletes without refitting, pen pressure can scale the brush); one undo
step per stroke.
- Extend Path tool: dragging an end of an open path carries it on
straight, by stretching its last curve or along the circle it curves
on, or shortens it back along itself.
- Measure & Inspect tool: drag to measure distance and angle; hover a
path to read segment and path length, area, curvature, tangent and
anchor angles and handles, in the document's units.
- Anchor Inspector panel: the selected anchor's position and handles as
numbers, with Make Smooth (auto-smooth rule), Make Corner, Equalize
Handles, Remove Points Keep Shape, Add Points and three ways to close.
- Add Points at Crossings and Split at Crossings.
The tools stay out of both toolbars as shipped; the All Tools drawer
lists them under the add-on's heading. Commands are addon.pathtools.*;
the existing commands, tools and menus are unchanged.
The Blend tool kept its first pick, its clicked anchor and the blend it
was adding to through edits made outside the tool. Picking A, recoloring
other art and clicking B made a blend of A and B; undoing A's creation
left the next click doing nothing.
History::step names the current step by the serial numbers of the newest
undo step and the next redo step. The session keeps the active document's
uid and step from the tool's last pointer event and calls the new
Tool::history_moved at the next pointer event, or before drawing
overlays, when they differ. The tool's own edits are recorded after its
actions; a selection tool lent by Cmd is not told. BlendTool clears its
pick and chain there, as Escape does. A selection change keeps them.
A Shape Builder click or drag over a selection of more than 128
segments merged on the UI thread, so the app stopped drawing and
answering until the merge was done. The tool now computes such a
merge on another thread from the map it built for the hover.
Meanwhile the canvas keeps drawing, the touched regions stay
highlighted and the pointer is the busy pointer. When the merge is
done, the tool runs shapeBuilder.merge with the gesture's params as
one undo step, and the command takes the computed shapes when it
would compute the same ones. The web build merges in the command, as
before.
A press while the map is still being built no longer waits for it on
the UI thread: the tool records the gesture and makes it once the map
is there.
Clicks, drags and the Shape Builder's arrow keys made during the
merge, and commands, menu items, the app's own dialogs, saves and tool
or document switches, run after it on the merged art; engine queries
that only read run at once. A change to the selected paths made
outside a command drops the merge. The headless host and ui.pointer
reply once the merge is applied.
The Shape Builder and the Live Paint Bucket keep their map of the
selection over a new revision of the document when the selected paths
and their outlines are unchanged, instead of building it again.
With the Selection tool, a single selected grid repeat shows a handle below the grid (rows), one right of it (columns), one past its bottom-right corner (both) and sliders between its first two columns and rows (horizontal and vertical spacing), as the public Set grid repeat options page describes. Each drag previews object.repeat.options and commits as one Repeat Options undo step; Escape cancels, and a drag that ends where it began leaves no step. Bounding-box handles keep priority where they overlap, and the controls hide with the edges or the bounding box. Before, a drag there scaled the source or started a marquee.
Part of #2691.
Every pointer move of a frame went to whatever tool was active, so with
a fast mouse (or a pen) a tool whose drag preview is costly (the
Selection tool moving a large selection, Free Distort, the Width tool)
redid it for each, up to 64 times a frame.
Tool::wants_samples (default false) says a tool builds a stroke from
the drag's samples: the Pencil, Paintbrush, Blob Brush, Eraser, Knife,
Smooth and Path Eraser answer true (the Paintbrush through its wrapper),
the Join tool doesn't. The canvas still reads the frame's moves every
frame, so the macOS feed's pressures stay paired, but replays them only
to such a tool; every other tool gets one drag a frame at the latest
position. A frame whose moves end where the last frame's did still
reaches the tool.
Tests: only_the_freehand_tools_get_every_move_of_a_frame (Pencil,
Paintbrush and Blob Brush get the 19 moves before the last, Selection,
Direct Selection and Width none),
a_mouse_stroke_keeps_a_frame_that_ends_where_it_started,
the_freehand_tools_want_every_sample, and
a_mouse_stroke_keeps_every_move_of_a_frame now checks every position in
order, not only the count.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Draw freeform paths with the Pencil tool says a small star appears on
the Pencil when it is ready to draw a freeform path, and Reshape paths
with the Pencil tool says the star disappears over a selected path the
drag reshapes. The Pencil cursor had no star.
- New Cursor::PencilNew: the Pencil's crosshair with a small star where
the closing cursor has its ring. It becomes the crosshair with Use
Precise Cursors and as a system cursor.
- The Pencil shows it before a press when neither find_extend nor
find_redraw (the lookups the press uses, within Edit Selected Paths)
finds a selected path under the pointer. Over such a path and while a
stroke is drawn, the cursor has no star.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md.
shapeBuilder.merge built the planar map of the selection again, on the
thread that runs the command, although the Shape Builder tool had just
built the same map for its hover. The tool now returns its map from a
new Tool::shape_builder_map, and the command uses that map when its
inputs are the merge's inputs and its gap is the merge's gap; otherwise
it builds its own as before. The tool's map has the outline edges, so
erasing and splitting a stroke use it too.
With Shift or Alt held (Alt only while Alt key toggles to Smooth Tool
is off), a Pencil press on an end of a selected open path draws a
straight line that continues the path, but before the press the cursor
was the plain straight-line cursor. Draw straight lines with the Pencil
tool says a path-continuation icon appears on the Pencil over that end:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/draw-shapes-and-paths/draw-shapes/draw-straight-lines-with-the-pencil-tool.html
Over such an end the cursor is now PencilContinue, the straight-line
cursor's line leaving a small filled square.
The check is the one the press makes (Edit Selected Paths, the same
end lookup). Away from the ends, with Edit Selected Paths at 0 pixels,
with nothing selected and while the line is drawn, the cursor is as
before.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md and docs/ui-parity.md, where the
duplicate Pencil lines and rows left by earlier merges are cut to one.
Holding Alt over a selection the Shape Builder had already mapped built
the planar map a second time, to add the outline edges that erasing
hits. A merge, and a Live Paint Bucket fill of a plain selection, also
dropped the map, so a gesture that left the document unchanged was
followed by another full build.
The Shape Builder now builds its map with the outline edges the first
time, and both tools keep the map until the document, its revision or
the selection changes.
When the inputs have more than 128 segments, a hover with the Shape
Builder or the Live Paint Bucket now builds the map on another thread
and highlights no region until it arrives, instead of holding up the
frame; the canvas checks for it each frame. A press waits for the map,
and the headless MCP host waits for it after a move. The web build has
no threads and builds the map at once. The Live Paint Selection tool's
hover no longer builds a map of the selection, which it did not use.
A Pencil or Paintbrush stroke released within Close Paths When Ends Are
Within of its start closes, but the cursor gave no sign of it. While the
pointer is where a release would close the stroke, the cursor is now
PencilClose (PaintbrushClose for the Paintbrush), the crosshair with a
ring, as Draw straight lines with the Pencil tool describes:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/draw-shapes-and-paths/draw-shapes/draw-straight-lines-with-the-pencil-tool.html
The check is the one the release makes, on the end the stroke would
take (snapped for the Pencil). A straight line (Shift or Alt held at the
press), a stroke that continues a selected path, a stroke that redraws
one and a smoothing drag show no ring.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md, docs/ui-parity.md.
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