A blend between two strokes drawn with a pressure-sensitive brush gave
every step the pen recording of the nearer key, so the brush jumped at
the middle step. The steps now interpolate the pressure, tilt, bearing
and rotation at every position either key has a sample. A key without a
recording counts as half pressure, half tilt and 0 degrees, as brushes
read it. Angles turn the shorter way round, and steps and whole turns in
a recording stay in the steps. Different brushes still switch halfway.
A linear, radial, conic or diamond gradient has a spread: Pad (the
default, as before), Repeat or Reflect, with a count of 1 to 100
(VectorCraft's own limit). Repeat and Reflect run the stops that many
times along the vector (around the turn for a conic) and keep going past
both ends, Reflect running every other run backwards, as SVG's
spreadMethod does.
The Gradient panel has a Spread menu and a Repeats field, and the
Gradient tool marks where the runs meet. paint.setFill and
paint.editGradient take `spread` and `repeats`; bad values are errors.
Presets, swatches, blends, strokes along or across a path, Outline
Stroke and Object › Expand follow the spread; Expand gives each run the
same whole number of objects, and Outline Stroke's mesh keeps the color
on each side of a sharp step between two stops at one offset.
SVG writes and reads spreadMethod: SVG import now reads a repeating or
reflecting gradient as one that repeats or reflects once, instead of
expanding its stops over the shape. CSS writes repeating gradients.
PDF writes a conic's sweep shading over one run. PDF, EPS, legacy .ai
and the .ai editing data write the other kinds with their stops
repeated across the shape: at most 256 runs and 16,384 stops (256 stops
in .ai files), and for a radial or diamond no farther than 65,536 runs
from its center, with a warning past those. PDF import now finds sharp
steps in any axial or radial shading instead of blurring them.
Docs: docs/mcp.md (Spread), docs/target-app-parity.md, docs/gaps.md.
A four-component JPEG whose EXIF orientation turns or flips it went
through the image decoder, which reads CMYK JPEGs as RGB, and was
stored as an RGB PNG without its inks. It is now stored the way a
turned CMYK TIFF is: its inks, 8 bits each, turned and written as a
CMYK TIFF with the turned resolution.
- vectorcraft_doc::cmyk::turned_cmyk turns the inks of a CMYK JPEG or
TIFF, next to stored_cmyk_tiff; tiff_inks is private again.
- raster_image swaps the resolution axes inline, as its HEIF branch
does.
- The links comment and the docs/target-app-parity.md line on EXIF
orientation now describe the turned CMYK TIFF.
A linked opacity mask moves with the art it masks, and an unlinked one
stays in place. Geometry effects on a group or layer reshaped its
members but left their linked masks where they were, Free Distort left
a linked mask behind, and an envelope bent unlinked masks too.
- Geometry effects on a group or layer run over the art of the linked
masks of the paths, compound paths and groups inside it, nested and
inverted masks included. Each Transform copy of a masked path carries
its own mask, and an image or symbol instance moved by a Transform
effect carries its linked mask. The effects on an object do not move
that object's own mask.
- When a mask can't take an effect as the art it masks does (a path in
either would pass the geometry budget, or the mask would get fewer
Transform copies), the art and its masks keep their shape under that
effect. Mask art counts toward the budget.
- Free Distort (`object.distort`) warps a linked mask with its object;
the params text says so.
- An envelope bends only a linked mask.
Docs: a line in docs/target-app-parity.md.
Opening or placing an image whose orientation turns it a quarter
(EXIF or TIFF Orientation 5 to 8) stored the pixels turned but kept
the resolution as stored, so a photo at 300 x 150 ppi came in at the
wrong width and height. XResolution counts pixels in the ImageWidth
direction of the stored image (TIFF 6.0,
https://www.itu.int/itudoc/itu-t/com16/tiff-fx/docs/tiff6.pdf; EXIF
uses the same tag, CIPA DC-008-2012,
https://www.cipa.jp/std/documents/e/DC-008-2012_E.pdf), so a quarter
turn now swaps the axes, in the size Open and Place use and in the
stored image, with jxlread::oriented_resolution as JPEG XL does.
Three kinds of TIFF did not follow their Orientation tag:
- grayscale TIFFs with extra samples and 1-bit CCITT Group 3 TIFFs
were not turned;
- a CMYK TIFF with its inks together was turned but stored as RGB,
losing its inks, and one with a plane per ink did not open
("Planar TIFF with CMYK color type is not supported").
They now turn as the other images do, and a CMYK TIFF keeps its inks,
8 bits each, written again with the turned resolution.
With one Objects on Path group selected, the Selection and Objects on Path
tools show a ring on each object's attachment point. A click chooses that
object while the group stays selected; dragging a ring along the path moves
its object to the nearest object's place, and the objects between move one
place toward where it was, in one undo step. Hidden and locked objects have
no ring and keep their places. On a closed path the drag goes on round
across the first anchor, and Escape cancels it.
- object.objectsOnPath.selectMember {member} chooses an object.
- object.objectsOnPath.moveMember {member, target, group?} moves an object
to another object's place; only the order along the path changes.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md. Not yet: Detach.
A Warp effect on an image, or on a group that holds one, bent the image's
frame but drew the pixels unbent, cut by the bent frame. The image now
bends with the frame as a raster mesh warp, as an envelope bends it: after
the last effect in the list, the image is cut into 10 x 10 cells of two
triangles, each a clipped piece of the image under its own affine map,
through every Warp it took and the Transform moves between them. Effects
after a Warp reshape only the frame, and a placed gradient on a group
that holds the image follows the group's bounds as the pieces draw them.
The image itself is unchanged, so editing or removing the warp redraws
it. The images stay unbent when their pieces would make the art pass 2
million objects, and an image stays unbent when its clipping frame keeps
its shape because the warp would pass the effects' anchor budget.
- SVG export writes the image once and draws the pieces with <use> when a
group holds pieces of one image clipped by triangles. PDF, EPS, .ai and
PNG exports write the bent pieces.
- Envelopes: a grayscale image's fill color now colorizes the pieces an
envelope cuts. Before, the pieces drew the gray image.
- Geometry effects: an image under any geometry effect keeps its fill
color and its smoothing setting. Before, it drew the gray image,
smoothed.
Docs: Warp params text, docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Pinning a closed spine from Replace Spine (a spine edit, Reverse Spine)
stored it closed with both end keys on its first point, so moving the
first key afterwards landed it on the last. Pinning now opens the spine
there as the layout of a moved key does.
On a closed spine from Replace Spine both end keys sit on its first
point, so moving one moved that point onto it and then back onto the
other. Once a key is moved off, the spine is now opened at its first
point, with a copy of it at the end taking the closing segment and the
last key.
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.
After Replace Spine the keys are not pinned to spine anchors, so the
steps spread them evenly along the spine by arc length and put a moved
key straight back where it was. Once a key is moved off its place, the
spine is laid out pinned at the anchors where the keys were spread, and
the moved key takes its point of the spine along, as on a pinned spine.
Korean text broke after every Hangul syllable. A paragraph now has
Korean Line Break Anywhere, set from the Paragraph panel menu (with the
East Asian options), from the East Asian Composition Settings section of
Paragraph Style Options, and with `text.setFormat {koreanLineBreakAnywhere}`.
- Off, a word that contains Hangul (the characters between spaces) breaks
only at its spaces and after East Asian punctuation, or where the word
is wider than the line. Both composers follow it, and the word takes no
hyphen. On, a line may break between any two syllables, as before.
- New type has it off. Paragraphs and text objects saved before the
option read as on, so their lines do not move; the value is saved only
when it is off.
- Paragraph styles carry it, Reset Panel turns it off, and the .ai writer
reports it as lost for Korean paragraphs.
The help page: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/fonts-and-scripts/set-line-breaks-korean-text.html
The command is described in docs/mcp.md, and docs/target-app-parity.md
lists the option.
Paragraph Style Options and New Paragraph Style gain a Tabs section. It
lists the style's stops and edits the selected stop's Alignment, position
(X:, or Y: for vertical type), Leader and Align On character. Add puts a
left stop 36 pt past the furthest one, Delete Tab removes the selected
stop, and Clear All Tabs leaves the style with no stops. OK sorts the
stops by position and keeps the stop edited last when two share one
position. Reset Panel removes the style's tabs.
paraStyle.new, paraStyle.setAttrs and paraStyle.edit check changed tabs
stop by stop: at most 256 stops, and each changed stop's position from 0
to 100000 pt and leader of at most 8 characters. Stops the style already
has are kept as they are. Changed tabs are sorted by position, keeping
the first of stops at one position. text.tabs.set rejects a leader longer
than 8 characters, an Align On value of more than one character and more
than 256 stops. Loading paragraph styles skips a style whose indents,
spacing, hyphenation, justification or tabs are out of range.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
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