In Outline the canvas kept the Preview pasteboard color and filled each
artboard with white paper. Paths and type draw as black hairlines, so
art on the pasteboard was close to invisible in the dark interface
brightnesses.
In Outline the whole canvas is now white in every interface brightness
and Canvas Color, pasteboard included. The artboards draw no paper and
show as their edges, so Simulate Colored Paper, an artboard's background
color and the paper of View > Hide Artboards no longer show in Outline.
The artboard names and the ruler origin's crosshair draw in dark gray
there. In split views and floating windows the artboard names follow
that window's own Outline setting, as the canvas already did.
A right-click on type has a Spelling submenu with Auto Spell Check, as the
public Check and correct spelling page describes. A submenu that holds only
toggles shows their check marks, even in the context menu.
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.
With Measure Type by Glyph Bounds on, point type is measured by its
glyph outlines and its underline and strikethrough bars, as the canvas
draws them. A typed W or H gives what is drawn that size, and underlined
or struck-through spaces are measured by their bars instead of the em
box.
The texts now say that each point type object selected as an object
(not inside a selected group) is measured this way, that moved type
snaps by its ink box, and which Arrange Tools commands follow the
option: Swap Objects, Replace with Top Object, Set Size of Each and
Sort Objects. Arrange in Grid and Group Overlapping Objects keep
measuring visual bounds.
engine.apiReference {} -> {markdown} writes a reference from the built-in
commands' parameter schemas each time it runs: a section per command that
has a schema, in registry order, with its label, menu path, API levels,
what it writes, cost, summary and return, and a table of its parameters
(type, range with included or excluded ends, unit, JSON or worked-out
default, required, levels and description; object members as dotted
rows). Commands without a schema, plug-in commands included, are left
out. Schema text is escaped so it stays plain text in its cell, control
characters become spaces, and a reference past 1 MiB is an error rather
than a cut-short text. The command needs no document.
MCP serves the same text as the fixed resource
vectorcraft://commands/reference (text/markdown; charset=utf-8); the
other resources still read as JSON.
The command's own schema raises the schema API level to 2. Its label and
its size error have rows in every catalog that needs them.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Export Selection, Export for Screens by selection or by layer, Asset
Export and CSS Properties' rasterized pictures put the objects on a new
plain layer. An object inside a clip group, or on a clipping layer, was
written without its clip, in SVG, PNG and the other formats, and the
opacity masks, effects, opacity and blend modes of the groups and
layers that held it were dropped too.
These exports now keep each object in the layers and groups that hold
it, and crop the file to the bounds the renderer measures for that art
(a clip group by its clip). Those layers are drawn even when they are
hidden, template or non-printing layers, as the objects were before. A
PSD of the export names its layers after the document's layers instead
of one layer named Selection or after the asset.
document.export with selectedOnly uses the same code: an object of a
blend, envelope, repeat or intertwine is now written on its own instead
of inside a blend of one object, and a Shaper group keeps its source
art. A text export of the selection still holds only the selected type,
not that of a type clipping path around it.
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.
With Use Preview Bounds on, a curve piece that bends more tightly than
half the stroke weight after the last split had its box grown by half
the weight on every side. A handle on an end point makes the curve's
first or last control difference zero, so such a curve always reached
that fallback and measured past its butt end: a vertical 2 pt curve
from (50,10) to (50,60) with its first handle on (50,10) measured
Rect(49, 9, 51, 60) instead of Rect(49, 10, 51, 60).
The fallback now measures the piece from the directions its tangent can
take, the nonzero control differences, when they all lie within a
quarter turn of their sum. Pieces whose tangent turns further are still
grown on every side.
engine.commands, command_list and list_commands now list an inputSchema
next to schema for each command with a parameter schema. It is the same
JSON Schema 2020-12 schema with the root type "object", the form an MCP
tool's inputSchema takes
(https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2026-07-28/schema);
schema keeps the root type ["object", "null"] when no parameter is
required. A command without a schema lists neither field. tools/list is
unchanged, and the commands are still run with command_run or
run_command.
brief now leaves out schema and inputSchema as well as the params text;
a listing filtered to the command's id gives them.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
A number field took every wheel turn that came while the pointer was
over it. When a panel scrolled a field under a still pointer, the field
stepped its value with each turn that reached it.
Number fields now follow the rule #6375 gave the closed font family
field. A field takes the wheel only when the wheel stream began over
it and the pointer was moved onto it, or pressed on it, after the field
last moved or was covered by a window or overlay. A stream that began
anywhere else stays there until 0.5 s pass with no wheel input or the
pointer is pressed on a field. A stream that leaves its field does not
return to it. It leaves when the pointer moves off the field or out of
the window, and when the field moves or misses a layout pass. Trackpad
momentum never starts a stream on a field. When some of a frame's wheel
turns land on the field and some land elsewhere, the field takes none
of them and the panel scrolls with all of them. The rule and its 0.5 s
are VectorCraft's own.
Moving the pointer from one number field to another within 0.5 s of
the last wheel turn now scrolls the panel until the wheel pauses or the
pointer is pressed on the new field.
The stream state and the 0.5 s gap move to widgets/wheel_stream.rs,
which both kinds of field use.
An envelope of type keeps its drawn art with its type hidden, but nothing
in the import notes said so, while the other envelopes that keep their
drawn art do. Opening such a file now notes that the type in an envelope
comes in as the envelope's drawn art, not as editable type, and that the
type is kept hidden. The type is still not editable in the envelope.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
File › Scripts › Other Script… picks a .js or .jsx file, shows a warning
that can be turned off in Preferences › General, and runs the script
against the open documents through the `vc` object. The new
`script.run` and `script.stop` commands run and stop a script over MCP.
- A run is one transaction. Each document it changed gets one undo step
named Run Script. An uncaught error, a limit or a stop puts every
document, the paint, the clipboard, menu state and preferences back.
- A command that fails inside a run, or whose result is too large to
reach the script, is undone and throws an error the script can catch.
- Files a command wrote stay on disk and the report names them, also
when the run is stopped from the quit question.
- While a script runs, other commands that change anything fail with a
busy error; MCP reports it as JSON-RPC error -32003.
- In the app the run advances one slice per frame with a Stop button in
the status bar. A run that adds a great many objects asks whether to
continue; Stop and Escape end it.
- Commands that change state outside the documents, such as prefs.*,
plugin.* and file.place.queue, are refused to scripts.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/gaps.md, docs/roadmap.md,
docs/target-app-parity.md.
With Use Preview Bounds on, the visual box of a butt-capped stroke on an
open path grew by half the stroke weight past each end of the path, where
a butt cap paints nothing. A 2 pt vertical line set to H: 10 mm in the
Transform panel drew about 9.3 mm long.
The box of an open subpath with butt caps no longer reaches past its
ends. A straight segment's box comes from the four corners of its stroked
rectangle, and a curve's box comes from the stroke at its ends and where
its tangent is square to an axis. Bevel joins, and miter joins the limit
bevels, are measured by the stroked corners, and round joins by the arc
they paint outside the turn, instead of half the weight all round. Round
and projecting caps, arrowheads, closed paths and miter tips measure as
before. Two cases can still measure larger than the stroke paints: a
curve that bends more tightly than half the weight, and a butt-dashed
path whose first or last dash is a gap, which is measured to the path's
ends.
A horizontal or vertical butt line now measures one stroke weight less
along its length in W or H, and Align places it by its end points. A
slanted line's box shrinks by less: the stroke's corners still reach
past the end points across the line. object.setBounds measures as drawn,
after each scale it tries, a butt-capped open path with a segment at a
slant, symbol instances' art included.
More Settings no longer replaces the dialog with a form that repeats Preset
Details. It opens a pop-up over New Document with only Number of Artboards,
the four layout buttons, Change to Right-to-Left Layout, Spacing and
Columns, editing the same fields live. Done, Escape and a click outside
close it and keep the values; the click outside does not reach the dialog
under it. Enter in a field applies it and closes the pop-up. The old form's
Templates… button is removed with it; File > New from Template opens
templates.
Save Preset no longer adds a Preset Name row under the document's name. It
replaces the top of Preset Details with a Save Document Preset heading, the
preset's name (focused, text selected), Cancel and Save, and hides the
document's name, Close and Create. The rows under it stay where they are
and editable, and Save stores them. Enter in the name saves; Escape is
Cancel and keeps the edits. Nothing creates a document in this mode: a
double-clicked preset card, Enter elsewhere and ui.dialog.confirm (which
saves). A single click on a card fills the fields, as outside the mode.
Save Preset's default name is now the first "Preset N" that no saved
preset has, and it is offered again after each save. Before, it was
"Preset <count + 1>", and after a save the field kept the saved name, so
pressing Save could replace an existing preset. A name typed by hand still
replaces a preset of the same name, as before.
Enter creates the document on a new press only, so a held Enter's repeats
after a save do not create one.
The newDocumentMore dialog kind, presetName and __saving keep working for
the control protocol (ui.click on More Settings opens the pop-up);
docs/control-protocol.md describes them. The catalog rows of the removed
form's strings are removed.
