Art Alt-dragged (Option-dragged on macOS) from the canvas onto a
scatter, art or pattern brush in the Brushes panel becomes its art
(brush.replaceArt). When strokes use the brush, the app checks the art
first, then a dialog offers Apply to Strokes, which redraws them with
the new art, Leave Strokes, which keeps the brush and its strokes as
they were and adds "<name> copy" with the new art as the current brush,
and Cancel. Each change is one undo step.
A pattern brush takes back the tile groups brush.placeArt places, frames
included, and takes other art as its side tile. Calligraphic and
bristle brushes, an empty selection and art with no width are refused.
Art Alt-dragged off the canvas now reaches the panels as the art the
drag started with. Before, the panels got the ids of the copy the drag
previews, which no longer exist once the release over a panel ends the
move.
brush.new now also measures a symbol instance in the selected art by its
symbol's art when it checks that the art has width.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
A scatter, art or pattern brush dragged from the Brushes panel onto an
empty part of the canvas places a copy of its art there to edit,
centered where it is dropped (brush.placeArt). Dropped on a path, a
brush is still applied to it. A pattern brush is placed as its tiles in
a row, 10 pt apart, each in a group named for its tile, with an
unpainted rectangle at the back of a tile that has a repeat frame.
Calligraphic and bristle brushes have no art and are refused. A symbol
instance in the art is measured by its symbol's art.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
A new built-in add-on, Image Tools (Object › Plug-ins › Image Tools),
adds Remove Background… (`addon.image.removeBackground`). It makes the
background of the selected images transparent by lowering the alpha of
their own pixels, in one undo step, with no service or model. The
background is the most common color along the image's edges, the
average of the image's corners, or colors the user picks. Contiguous
(on by default) clears it only where it reaches in from an edge; off,
it is cleared wherever it is. Tolerance and Softness (0 to 100, 10 by
default) set how near a color must be to be cleared and the band over
which pixels fade out. Match measures that nearness as the RGB
distance or as the largest difference on one channel. It is a
VectorCraft addition.
- The image stays an image: an embedded PNG with alpha, the source's
ICC profile and resolution, and 16 bits or gray when the source is.
A linked image is embedded and keeps its Placement Options.
- When the edges hold at least as many clear pixels as pixels of their
most common color, edge mode clears nothing, so a second run leaves
the subject alone. Corner mode leaves clear corners out of the
average and clears nothing when all four are clear.
- With Match set to Each Channel, a tolerance of t / 255 × 100 clears
the colors within t 8-bit steps on every channel.
- A CMYK image, a linked image that shows its preview, an image that
would need more than the decode allowance (checked from its header)
and a result with no pixel left are refused, and the document stays
as it was. When no pixel changes, no undo step is added. The result
reports `cleared`, the pixels made fully clear.
- Picked colors are hex colors, with or without `#`, or black, white,
red, green or blue.
- The dialog opens with Preview off; with Preview on, the canvas shows
the result, and Cancel puts the image back. While the dialog
previews, the session keeps the images' decoded pixels (at most
128 MiB, 32 MiB in the web app) so each preview step does not decode
them again, and releases them when the dialog closes with OK or
Cancel. A run that is not a preview step keeps nothing.
Docs: docs/mcp.md (Image Tools add-on), docs/target-app-parity.md.
A literal makes an extensible object whose properties are writable and
configurable, and an array whose length is writable. toSource wrote a
property defined with writable or configurable false, a sealed, frozen or
non-extensible object or array, and an array with a read-only length as an
ordinary literal, so evaluating the text gave an open value.
toSource now throws a TypeError for each of these, at any depth, as it
already does for getters, hidden properties and other prototypes.
Properties defined with every flag on are written as before.
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