A selected image offers Remove Background in the Contextual Task Bar, Properties'
Quick Actions and the Control bar, as the reference app does. A click runs it at
once with its defaults, as one undo step; Object > Plug-ins > Image Tools keeps
the dialog with Preview.
The zero point dragged out of the box where the rulers meet snaps as a
Pen or shape tool's point does: with Smart Guides onto the anchors,
centres, edges and paths of the art and the artboards or into line with
them, with Snap to Point onto the anchors and along the ruler guides,
else onto whole pixels or the grid. The guides showing what it snapped
to show during the drag and go when it is released or cancelled
(Escape, focus loss, another document). The origin is still set once,
on release (document.setRulerOrigin, one undo step).
The engine snaps it (Session::ruler_origin_drag, with the tools crate's
rulerguide::OriginDrag over PointSnap::drawn), as it does a guide
dragged out of a ruler.
docs/gaps.md, docs/file-format-parity.md and docs/ui-parity.md still
listed the CNC preset as open after #5500 added it. They now name DXF
Options' Preset menu and dxfPreset: "cnc" on document.exportDxf; VCarve
QA stays open. The ui-parity row also no longer lists native CIRCLE/ARC
export as pending.
Window › Learn and a new Explore tutorials button beside the search icon on
the app bar show and hide the Learn panel. Its For you tab holds a Get started
section with a Quick skill guide card that opens the Skills tab. The Skills tab
lists VectorCraft's own skills with their tutorial counts and empty progress
rings; a skill lists its tutorials, a tutorial shows its numbered steps, and
Back goes up one level. The tutorials live in a data catalog whose test checks
unique ids, that every named tool and command exists and that no skill is
empty.
- window.learn {show?} shows, hides or toggles the panel; showing it also
shows a hidden dock, and the panel counts as hidden while the dock is hidden
or a full screen mode hides the panels.
- learn.list lists the skills and tutorials; learn.show {tutorial} opens one.
A missing, non-string or unknown id is an error and changes nothing.
- New labels and messages have rows in every catalog. The tutorial text is
English.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md, docs/ui-parity.md.
Document Setup gains alignNewObjectsToPixelGrid. When it is on, every
path or compound path drawn in the document (shape tools, Pen,
Curvature, Pencil, Paintbrush, Blob Brush, grids, flares and add-on
shapes) gets the pixel-aligned property and snaps in the same undo
step. Text, paste, duplicate, Place and import are not affected.
- The Transform panel menu has an Align New Objects to Pixel Grid
item for the active document.
- New Document's Advanced Options has the checkbox; the Mobile and Web
presets turn it on, other presets and older saved presets leave it
off, and file.new, Save Preset and Recent keep it.
- The setting is saved with the document only when it is on.
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/get-started/learn-the-basics/pixel-preview-mode-for-web-graphics.html
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md, docs/ui-parity.md.
When the read-only fallback's Save As panel returns a different format, drop the options captured for the original format and open the picked format's normal Save options; an unchanged format keeps its options. Regenerate the file.save entry in the MCP command catalogue.
A plain Save that the location refuses (read-only filesystem or permission denied) now opens Save As with the name filled in, instead of ending in an error dialog. The refusal travels as a typed engine error (READ_ONLY_LOCATION), so the control protocol and MCP still return an error and never open a panel. Recovery failures, explicit destinations, a busy picker and Close/Quit keep their existing flow.
Closes#6146
While painting, a round Blob Brush showed a line as wide as the brush, which ends
square, though the stroke it adds is round at both ends. Only an angled or flattened
tip showed the outline of the area. The Blob Brush now shows that outline whatever
its roundness (blob_area, which path.blob's stroke matches).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
In Outline view an image was still hit anywhere inside its box and a
gradient mesh inside its fill, though Outline draws only the image's
frame and the mesh lines. A path behind them could not be picked there.
Now an image is hit on its frame (unless Show Images in Outline Mode
draws its pixels) and a mesh on its edge and mesh lines. Preview is
unchanged.
A PDF, an EPS or .ai without ruler units, a raster image, a metafile, an
Affinity file or an importer plug-in's document opened (and reverted) in
points whatever the General unit was. They now open in the General unit,
as the reference app opens files that record no unit. Native, SVG and DXF
files and a .ai or EPS with %AI5_RulerUnits keep their own units. Only the
displayed units change, not the art.
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 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.
A closed font family field stayed ready for the wheel as long as it kept
its place and drew in each pass. Coverage was checked only when a pointer
move or wheel turn arrived. When a window, modal or popup covered a still
pointer and went away with no input in between, the next plain wheel
turn changed the selected type's font.
The field now stops being ready, and a wheel stream it held ends, in any
pass where the last pointer position is over the field but on another
layer. The pointer has to move onto the field again before the wheel
steps the font.
Since #5331, a closed font family field in Character, Properties or the
Control bar took every plain vertical wheel turn while the pointer was
over it. When a panel scrolled the field under a still pointer, the
field took the rest of the turns: the panel stopped scrolling and each
turn changed the selected type's font.
The field now takes the wheel only when the pointer was moved onto it
after the field last moved, and the wheel stream began there. A stream
that began anywhere else, a sideways scroll included, stays there until
0.5 s pass with no wheel input. 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, when the field moves or misses a layout pass, and when a
turn arrives while an overlay covers the field. Trackpad momentum stays
with the stream it follows and never starts one on a field. The rule and
its 0.5 s are VectorCraft's own.
Wheel turns the field does not take stay in the input in their order.
Moving the pointer onto the field and turning the wheel still steps the
font, as #5253 asks, in floating panel windows too. When the pointer was
moved onto the field while a window or overlay covered it, the pointer
has to move again after the cover goes away before the wheel steps the
font.
The Measure and Measure & Inspect tools ignored View › Snap to Glyph:
their press and end points snapped only to targets that hold no glyph
guides.
With Snap to Glyph, Smart Guides and Alignment Guides on, and Snap to
Grid and Snap to Pixel off, a drag's press and end land within the
snapping tolerance on the guides of live type that the Character
panel's options allow, except Anchor Point. A Shift-drag's end slides
along its 45° step to them, and the guide shows during the drag. With
Snap to Glyph off, the tools snap to the same targets as before and
show no guide. The targets are kept while the document, the window and
the snapping options stay the same, so a drag lays out the type once.
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