A raster effect (Drop Shadow, Outer Glow, Gaussian Blur and the other
effects that paint pixels) on a symbol instance's topmost fill now draws
on each filled shape of the symbol's art, and one on its topmost stroke
draws on each stroked shape, after any geometry effects listed before
it. The same rules as for geometry effects apply: only a visible fill or
stroke with an opacity above 0 counts, a group's own fills and strokes
in the art take the effect, and an instance inside the art passes it on.
The canvas, Use Preview Bounds and the drawn bounds, SVG and PDF export
draw it, and Object > Expand Appearance is enabled for such an instance:
a shadow or glow becomes an image under the instance, and a blur,
feather or inner glow replaces it with the image, in one undo step.
Existing documents with a raster effect on a symbol instance's fill or
stroke draw differently: before, the effect drew nothing.
A Transform effect whose result would pass the geometry budget (2 million
anchors or 8 million lines drawn) is left out and the art stays where it
was, but the raster effects listed before it still scaled and moved with
it: before a Transform effect that scales the art 1000 times, a Drop
Shadow's offset grew 1000 times and its blur went to the 1000 pt limit
around art that had not moved, and Expand kept those values.
The geometry pass now notes each Transform effect that moves the art once
and that it leaves out, in the Carry it already returns, and
Carry::hide_skipped hides those effects in the list the raster effects
are read from. The canvas (a path's own effects and its fills' and
strokes'), its bounds, bake (SVG and PDF export), shape art, Expand,
Expand Appearance and Outline Stroke use it, and a fill's Transform
effect inside a piece no longer scales the effects before it when the
budget leaves it out. The budget itself is unchanged.
A path drawn as its own art inside a group whose geometry effects run
after its members' own read its object effects whole. The reshaping pass
now notes a Transform effect that no path in the art took past the
budget, and the member's art hides it before its raster effects are read.
The bounds skip the extra geometry pass when no raster effect could
follow a Transform effect, and painted_reach runs it once for both
measurements.
A live-effect plug-in that paints its pieces draws each piece's brushed
stroke along the piece's path at the piece's stroke width. Culling left
room for brush art from the object's own stroke width around the
pieces, so brush art of a moved or wider piece was cut off at the edge
of the view. Culling now leaves 16 x the piece's stroke width + 8 pt
past each brushed piece, and does so for a symbol instance whose art
holds such a path (measured once per symbol) and for a blend, envelope
or repeat that holds one. Object > Rasterize measures the brush art
drawn along each piece and leaves out the object's own brush art, which
is not drawn.
Groups and layers now leave room for their members' brush art. The
cull bounds of a group or layer united its members' bounds without the
room each brushed member leaves, so the painted bounds of a group, and
the area redrawn when it changes, left out brush art past its members'
strokes. That applied to plain brushed paths as well as painted pieces.
Each member is now measured as the renderer measures it when it draws
the group, in the members of a group with a fill, stroke or adjustment
of its own and in a group with crop marks or Vector Halftone too.
A geometry effect on a symbol instance's topmost fill now reshapes the
filled shapes of the symbol's art, and one on its topmost stroke reshapes
the stroked shapes, keeping their colors, strokes and other detail. Only
a visible topmost fill or stroke with an opacity above 0 counts. Clipping
paths, guides and opacity-mask art keep their shapes; a group's own fills
and strokes in the art take the effects; a nested instance passes them on
to its own art, except one whose symbol holds the outer symbol.
The canvas, Use Preview Bounds and the drawn bounds, SVG and PDF export
and Object > Expand Appearance use the same art. Expand Appearance is
enabled for such an instance and turns it into an editable group in one
undo step. Bounds measure the art with a dynamic symbol's overrides, as
the canvas draws it.
Existing documents with a geometry effect on a symbol instance's fill or
stroke draw differently: before, the effect drew nothing.
A Transform effect on a group reshaped its members' paths but left the
raster effects inside it at their own values: a member's Drop Shadow
kept its 10 pt offset under a 200% Transform effect, and with Scale
Strokes & Effects on, it scaled by the mean scale without turning. The
same held for the raster effects of an object's own fills and strokes
under the object's Transform effect.
- A Transform effect that moves the art once now transforms the raster
effects of a group's members (their own and their fills' and
strokes'), of nested groups, of the art of the linked opacity masks
in it and of an object's fills and strokes, after the members' own
Transform effects: sizes scale by the mean scale and a Drop Shadow's
offset turns, reflects and scales. A raster effect that a member's
own Transform effect with copies or random holds back keeps its value
through that effect and still transforms with the group's. Scale
Strokes & Effects does not scale them a second time. A group's or
object's Transform effect that makes copies or moves at random leaves
them as before.
- The canvas, the redraw region, export, Expand Appearance, Object ›
Expand and Outline Stroke read the same values.
- The Transform effect's params text and docs/target-app-parity.md
describe the rule.
An object with an opacity mask draws offscreen over the bounds the
renderer gives it. For a live object (a blend, envelope or repeat) those
bounds took in effects in symbol art and brush art inside it, but not a
path's own effects, so with Clip off the drop shadows of a blend's steps
were cut off at the steps' bounds and did not draw where the mask art
leaves them uncovered. The bounds now also take in how far each path's
own effects paint past it.
Extrude & Bevel, Extrude & Bevel (Classic), Inflate, Rotate and Revolve
now apply to a clipping group (or a layer with a clipping mask), a blend
or a symbol instance, alone or inside a group or layer. The solid is
built from the art the object shows: the art inside the clipping path
(fills cut to the clip, strokes as their outlines cut to the clip), the
blend's keys and steps, and the symbol's art where the instance places
it. Validation, the canvas, bounds, Expand Appearance, Rasterize and
assets.add3D read the same art from the document.
An image is refused, alone or in a group, with a message to trace it
first with Object > Image Trace > Make. A missing symbol, a symbol that
holds an instance of itself, art nested more than 64 levels deep and
more than 4,096 objects are refused. The refusal messages change, and
their rows change in every catalog.
Docs: docs/three-d.md, docs/revolve.md, docs/mcp.md,
docs/target-app-parity.md.
When an edit changes an object, the canvas draws again only the area
the object painted before and after it, measured by its cull bounds.
Type and groups with Extrude & Bevel, Inflate or Rotate were measured by
their letters or members, not by the solid the effect draws, which
reaches well past them. Making the solid shallower or turning it left
pieces of the old solid on the canvas outside that area until the view
was drawn again.
An object with a 3D effect is now measured by the effect's art, as the
renderer draws it: with its geometry effects, each object in it with
the raster effects of its own fills and strokes and the art its brushed
strokes draw, grown by the reach of the object's own raster effects.
One function measures that art for every bounds the renderer and
exports take, where three copies of it disagreed.
- The renderer measures the art it draws. What it makes to measure an
object it holds until the frame ends, with what the art read from
outside the object (fonts, symbols, color settings), and keeps it
with the art it draws if it draws the object while that is
unchanged. Art measured but not drawn (culled, off the view) isn't
kept. It holds at most as much as it keeps for the art it draws
(64 MB); past that, an object is made again to draw it. An object
whose 3D effect builds nothing (Revolve on a group, a solid too
complex) is measured as it is drawn otherwise, as without a renderer.
FrameStats::three_d_built counts the 3D art the renderer makes.
- The canvas measures what an edit changed through the renderer that
drew the frame shown (Renderer::changed). When it draws the part on
its own thread, it draws it with the art it made to measure it; when
the render worker draws the frame, or nothing in view changed, that
art is let go. Under Overprint Preview or Separations Preview, which
draw copies of the objects, the edit is measured afresh. An object
the frame doesn't draw (hidden, in a hidden group or layer, or
hidden by the view) is measured as nothing, before and after, so an
edit to it builds no solid: changed() without a renderer counts it as
nothing too, where it measured it. The canvas measures the edit
before it knows where the frame is drawn: when the worker draws it,
the solids it built to measure it are built again there.
- Fit to Artwork Bounds, the Artboards panel's check for it and
per-artboard SVG export measure every artboard through one renderer
(Renderer::art_bounds_on, Renderer::effect_bounds), which keeps each
object's bounds for the pass, a group holding 3D art or a hidden
member included, so each solid is built once: 30 extruded type
objects over 30 artboards take about 2 ms, where measuring their
letters took under 1 ms and building each solid for each artboard
would take 70 ms. Objects with brushed strokes, which culling leaves
room for and exports don't, are measured on each artboard. The
Artboard tool's canvas menu keeps whether Fit to Artwork Bounds has
art to fit for the document's revision, where it measured it on
every frame it was open.
- Other exports, Object › Rasterize and changed() without a renderer
build the art on each call, as 3D paths and groups already did.
Exports and Rasterize now take the solid of 3D type, where they
cropped it to the letters, and the art its brushed strokes draw, not
the room culling leaves for it. Rasterize on drawn 3D art measures it
once while the art is kept.
- A shadow after a 3D effect, on the object or on a fill after the
fill's own 3D effect, reaches past the solid once; it was counted
twice.
- With Crop Marks or Vector Halftone, which draw other art, the object
is measured by that art, as before.
- Culling leaves room for a 3D object's brushed strokes as for any
object's, and the renderer measures a 3D object again when the brush
library changes: a brush widened past that room would leave the
object culled.
A document's first frame builds the solid of every 3D object, those off
the view too, to know whether it reaches into the view: 200 extruded
words with 150 off the view take about 12 ms, where measuring their
letters took 6 ms.
Type whose object effects leave it as it is (Revolve builds no art from
type) is measured by its own box grown to hold its glyphs, as plain
type is; it was measured by its box alone, which needn't hold them.
A path whose live effect paints its pieces was measured with the
flattened output and the source appearance's strokes, so a piece with a
wider stroke of its own could be culled while the stroke was on screen,
and Rasterize and raster effects worked over bounds that were too small.
visual_bounds and shape_bounds now measure the art reshape returns, each
piece with its own appearance, and a raster effect on a fill or stroke
spreads that art.
A gradient placed with the Gradient tool stayed where it was when the
object's Transform or Free Distort effect moved, turned or scaled the
outline, so the shape slid across its own gradient.
The Transform effect now maps placed gradients by its own transform,
and each of its copies takes them as many times as it takes the
transform. Under Free Distort, each path's placed gradients move and
scale from the path's bounds before the effect to its bounds after it.
This change does not alter gradients fitted to the object.
The canvas, Expand Appearance and export, Pathfinder and compound
shapes, groups, a fill's or stroke's own effects, and Object › Expand
of a gradient fill apply the same rule. In a group, the own fills and
strokes of the group, of the groups inside it and of a symbol's art
follow it too, and images and symbol instances that a group's
Transform effect moves take the placed gradients of their own fills
and strokes along. A group whose path keeps its shape because the
effect would pass the geometry budget keeps its own gradients in
place.
This changes how existing documents draw: a gradient placed on a path,
or on an image's or symbol instance's own fill, inside a group with a
Transform effect now moves with it. Before, only the gradients of type
moved (#2214).
How gradients follow each effect is VectorCraft's own rule. The
Distort & Transform help page describes what the effects do to the
object:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/reshape-transform-objects/distort-and-transform-effects-in-illustrator.html
The reference check now applies wherever a painted effect's geometry is
used: a result whose swatch or pattern is refused keeps its input instead
of giving its geometry. Pathfinder art of type, reshaped groups, compound
shapes, image fills, the renderer's bounds and Object > Expand look the
references up in the document, and the renderer drops its kept bounds and
geometry when the names of the swatches or patterns change.
With Real-time Drawing and Editing off, each pointer move of a drag ran one
boolean union of a group's members to draw its outline. A group of 256
overlapping ellipses took seconds per move, and at 1,024 overlapping ellipses
the union went over its budget and no outline showed.
A move or handle drag now draws the outline of each visible member of a group
or intertwine, and of each object a blend, envelope, repeat, Pathfinder effect
or object effect evaluates to, without uniting them. A gradient mesh draws its
mesh lines and a symbol instance its bounds, as their selection highlights do.
The limit of 100,000 counts outline points and evaluated objects, so a
selection past it shows its moved bounds.
A compound shape or Pathfinder effect still evaluates its boolean on each move,
and so does a clip group whose clipping path is a group.
A 3D effect on a group or layer builds a solid from every path,
compound path and type in it, all turned about one shared axis, as the
public docs describe for groups. Fixes#4506.
The renderer keeps the path of a path or compound path of 1,024 anchors
or more by object id, with the bounds of its segments and of its miter
spikes in runs of 128 segments. When anchors move and the subpaths and
anchor counts stay the same, the next frame rewrites only the path
elements of the segments that start or end at a moved anchor, and
measures again only the runs that hold them and the runs of the
segments with length before them. Other edits make the path again as
before. The pixels and the cull bounds are the same.
- StrokeLayer::bounds_on is unchanged. The miter tip of one joint
(miter_tip) and the stroke box with given tips (bounds_with_tips) are
new functions beside it, and Appearance::stroked_bounds_by takes the
box of each shaped stroke, so the cull bounds of a kept path use the
kept tips.
- geom::bez::has_length is the predicate reach.rs used for segments
that draw, made public.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md.
Effect › Color Effects › Vector Halftone… (addon.color.halftone, also in
Object › Plug-ins › Color Effects) draws its object as the halftone dots
Object › Vector Halftone makes, live: mono (one dot colour, or each dot in
the art's colour under it) or CMYK screens, the five dot shapes,
frequency, angle, invert and clip to the art's outline.
- The screens, dots and caps move to vectorcraft_effects::addons::halftone,
shared by the command (its behaviour and tests unchanged) and the effect.
- The renderer samples the art (vectorcraft_render::addons::halftone) and
keeps the dots by the object's content and what it reads from the
document, so unchanged art isn't sampled again; past 100000 cells per
screen the object draws as it is.
- Expand Appearance turns the object into its dots, and the SVG, PDF, EPS
and AI exporters write them as paths.
- Its dialog reuses the command's fields, without Keep Original.
Deferred: stochastic and radial patterns, a dot-gain curve, per-screen
separation settings, type or symbols as dots.
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