A path or compound path with straight segments and nothing stroked was
read with its Twist live at any angle. It is now read live up to 180°
either way, a limit VectorCraft sets, and one twisted further keeps the
file's drawn look, as curves and groups already do past 90°.
The .ai writer keeps a graphic-style link only where the reader reads the
style live, so a straight object twisted past 180° is now written without
the link, with the existing style-link warning.
Docs: docs/file-format-parity.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
With the selection as its scope, a fix that removes or unwraps objects
(Needless Groups, Stray Points, Empty Text and the others) kept the list
of selected objects current by searching it and splicing it once for each
object it changed. Removing many selected objects above a long run of
others took time that grew with the square of their number.
The list is now rebuilt in one walk after each pass: each changed object
gives way to what replaces it, in its place, and the others keep their
order. The objects found, the counts, the document and the undo step are
the same as before.
Empty Artboards deleted each empty artboard with its own Vec::remove and
walked every ruler guide again for each one. It now drops the empty
artboards in one walk and deletes their guides in one more. The same
artboards and guides are deleted as before.
Tests cover the order after unwrapping nested and empty groups, Fix All
reaching an unwrapped member on a later round, the rebuild itself, the
number of objects looked at for 150 and 300 removals, and the number of
walks over the artboards and guides when 40 empty artboards are deleted.
A pair with manual kerning of 0 was saved with no Tk and opened with automatic kerning. It is now written as 0 0 Tk and reads back as manual kerning of 0.
A line breaking value (TG) or Japanese layout rules (Xu, Tu) with missing or non-numeric operands no longer mark the setting as set, so the next visible text object gives no warning about a setting the file did not specify.
`span_at` read the end of a closed subpath's closing segment as past
every stretch, so a click that landed there could leave the path
unchanged. It now reads that place as the first anchor.
A command now counts as taking a file or folder when its params
description (with the commands its `…` entries name) or its schema takes
a file key as a param. A word in the description's prose or result no
longer counts; a description whose keys are not known keeps the text
scan. The code of the call-time scan of arguments is unchanged, but it
reads the changed exemption tables. The confined run is unchanged.
- NOT_FILES drops seven entries that named no param of their command
(object.setLiveShape path, path.reverse paths, object.pathfinder.options
paths, object.maskImage path, imageTrace.make paths,
svgInteractivity.info files, addon.cleanup.rejoin paths). A top-level
`path` to object.setLiveShape or object.maskImage, `paths` to
path.reverse, imageTrace.make or addon.cleanup.rejoin, and `files` to
svgInteractivity.info are now refused.
- Image Trace's path fidelity setting is exempt only inside `params` and
`savedPreset` of imageTrace.make and imageTrace.makeAndExpand, so a
call with it is no longer refused.
- every_command_is_sorted checks that each exemption names a param its
command takes, and that each nested exemption starts at one.
- effect.expandAsWireframes is reviewed as allowed and
stroke.arrowheads.list as refused.
stops and stop flattened the path twice, once for the points and once
for its length, and stop did both before rejecting an index past the
last object. place validated the path with attachable_path first, and
transform measured the old and new paths up to three times each.
A private Measured value now holds the flattened first subpath with its
length and closed flag, and path_length, stops, stop and transform use
it. stop returns None for an out-of-range index without measuring, and
a move of the group measures no path.
attachable_path now uses path_length, so a path whose length overflows
to infinity is no longer offered as one objects can attach to when
placement cannot measure it.
A Smooth drag along the middle of a curved segment smoothed nothing when
neither of the segment's anchors was within the reach, and paths of two
anchors were never smoothed.
- path.smoothRegion searches each curved segment where it can come
within the reach, halving it down to pieces no longer than half the
reach, and adds an anchor in the middle of each stretch in reach; the
existing reach split then cuts the segment where the drag enters and
leaves the reach. A drag that only grazes a curve finds the place on
it nearest the drag. The search is bounded per drag and shared
equally by the segments in reach.
- Paths of two anchors are smoothed, open or closed.
- Alt with the Paintbrush smooths a selected two-anchor curve; a
two-anchor straight line still gets the closed stroke. Both sides use
one segment_is_straight test.
Part of #2224
- The clipping path of a clip group or a clipped layer takes no part,
the members of a compound clipping path included. Before, only a
plain clipping path was left out.
- In isolation mode only paths inside the isolated object are trimmed;
paths outside it still count as crossing.
- A rectangle or line that reaches so many paths that comparing their
boxes would take more than 50,000,000 tests is refused before any
work starts.
- A tool drag that goes 3 screen pixels or more from the press stays a
rectangle or line when it ends near the press. Before, it ran as a
click and could remove a whole path the final rectangle did not
touch.
Docs: docs/mcp.md.
The current File formats rows of docs/target-app-parity.md now name the legacy .ai manual kerning, discretionary hyphen and hyphenation language reading and writing, with their tests. Score, gaps and hours are unchanged.
While the Smooth tool drags with a path selected that it can smooth, a
dashed outline shows the band its release smooths: every point within
the tool's radius (12 screen pixels) of the drag, round at both ends.
Alt smoothing with the Pencil, Paintbrush and Blob Brush shows the same
band. A selection with no path the tool can change shows none.
- The band is kept in squares eight radii wide, and each step of the
drag adds its area only to the squares it reaches. A piece of a
square's outline along a side is left out only where the square
across holds band area.
- A drag segment too long for the squares (a jump drawn zoomed out and
viewed zoomed in) keeps its band near each end in the squares and
shows the rest as the two sides of its band. A step that cannot be
added whole is added one segment at a time.
- A coarser grid of cells lists the squares and long segments, so a new
one is checked only against those near it, and an outline is made
again only where the band near it changed.
- After a zoom change mid-drag the band is outlined again a few hundred
points per frame, and the work on long segments stops for the frame
after a fixed budget. Tools report unfinished overlays with
Tool::overlays_pending, and the canvas then draws again on the next
frame, so the band covers the whole drag even while the pointer holds
still.
In SVG and PDF output, each piece of a warped image whose pieces can show
through was drawn through a mask of every later piece that reaches it. On a
later piece's antialiased edge the viewer multiplies the earlier piece's
coverage by the mask and draws the later piece over it, so an image with
both opaque and partly transparent pixels came out lighter at its opaque
pixels along the triangles' edges (alpha 184 of 255 in the new SVG test).
A later piece now goes into an earlier piece's mask only when a pixel of
either piece's image within 2 pixels of their overlap is less than opaque
(vectorcraft_effects::WarpSeams). Where two pieces overlap over opaque
pixels, the later one is drawn over the earlier one without a mask.
A threaded story measured each type-on-a-path frame, and each area frame
whose lines align to the center, the bottom or justify vertically, with
the whole rest of the story. A story of 1,500 one-line paragraphs through
40 such frames was laid out over about 2.1 million bytes while the frames
were measured.
- Area type without Shrink Text to Fit now takes the paragraph probe for
every vertical alignment. A reflow pass that places less text is
undone, so when the final layout stops before the last paragraph break
measured, every pass placed the same lines as with the whole rest.
- Type on a path takes it when its line starts at the start bracket: no
Dynamic Text, Optical Margin Alignment or Roman Hanging Punctuation,
the first paragraph aligned Left, Justify Left or Auto, and vertical
type or no right-to-left text in the rest of the story. The story is
scanned for right-to-left text once per distribution.
- Shrink Text to Fit, the other path settings and a share that ends in
the story's last paragraph are still measured with the whole rest.
The same 40 frames are now measured over 21,035 bytes (aligned to the
center) and 20,583 bytes (paths aligned Left). Each frame's share is
unchanged: the tests compare every slice with the whole-rest result for
both distribution entry points, across alignments, frame shapes, wraps,
path settings, right-to-left text, styles, lists and seeded stories.
The Hindi catalog called a variable चर, परिवर्तनीय, वैरिएबल or
वेरिएबल from one row to the next: the Variables panel, Load and Save
Variable Library, Variable Options and the data-merge messages mixed
them, and so did variable widths, the font technology label and
environment variables. Every such row now says वेरिएबल (plural
वेरिएबल्स).
Close or Join, Join Point Text, Join the lines of each paragraph and
most of the path join messages said शामिल हों, which means joining a
group; the other join messages used जुड़ना, जॉइन or the English word.
They now say जोड़ें, as the Join command already did. The Discord rows
keep शामिल हों, and the stroke corner names and the Join tool keep
जॉइन.
hindi_rows_use_one_term_for_a_variable_and_for_joining_paths checks
both terms in every row. docs/localization-hi.md lists the terms, and
the Hindi row counts in it and in docs/localization-parity.md are
current (8,782 rows, 3,014 @msg).
Global Edit does not take images or text, so a group holding type or an
image is not a missing case. docs/gaps.md drops it from G5's Missing
line and states the exclusion next to the similar-groups entry, with
the help page. docs/ui-parity.md states the same exclusion and no longer
lists highlighting the matches before the start as remaining, since it
ships with a regression test. docs/target-app-parity.md gains an
Evidence line.
Closing a modified tab that is not in front shows it while the Save
Changes dialog asks about it. After Save or Don't Save, the closed tab's
neighbor became the current document instead of the document that was in
front before the question.
Closing a background tab with its close button, or `file.close` with its
`index`, now remembers the uid of the document in front in the dialog's
protected `__front` field, and once the asked document closes, that
document is made current again while it is still open. The field
survives a Save dialog shown off the UI thread. Cancel keeps the asked
document in front, closing the document in front still brings its
neighbor forward, and Close All and Quit are unchanged.
The two brush art tests in render's memory tests added a scatter brush
named Dots next to the default library's own Dots. Strokes now draw with
the first brush of a name, so the stroke drew the default brush and the
edits to the symbols and patterns its art shows no longer changed the
frame. The tests now remove the default Dots before adding their own.
Type with an inline graphic was resolved only in the layers, so type in
the art of another symbol, a graph design, a pattern tile or an opacity
mask kept the size its graphic had when it was made. The symbol holding
that type, its instances and the inline graphics that show it were
measured from the stale layout.
- Inline graphics are resolved in every tree that holds type. Symbols
are resolved in dependency order, so a symbol's type is laid out
before the type that shows that symbol inline. Edits, opening,
reverting and Refresh Font List use the same pass.
- The pass visits each object once: it resolves the children first and
copies a node only when something below it changed. It measures each
symbol's art once per pass.
- An inline graphic of a symbol whose art shows that symbol inline,
directly or through other symbols, is an empty slot. The symbols on
such a cycle are found once and cached until the symbols change.
- A changed inline graphic also clears the text's cached baselines.
A band whose top and bottom are equal lost its only piece when the repeated cut was removed, so the line kept the frame's whole width. Anchor cuts now apply only to a band with height.
With Enable Touch Gestures on, a two-finger tap on the canvas undid and a
three-finger tap redid even while a modal dialog was open, and in the Touch
workspace a two-finger tap switched modes behind it. Fingers already down
when a dialog opened could still complete a tap when they lifted, during
the dialog or after it closed.
While a modal is open, from the frame it opens:
- no finger tap runs a command and no multi-finger gesture begins; the
fingers already down are forgotten, so lifting them later runs nothing
- a primary press does not reach the tool, a middle-button press does not
start a pan, and a double-click does nothing
- a long touch does not drop the canvas press
- a click in Presentation Mode does not step to the next artboard
- a pinch, wheel turn or trackpad rotation does not move the view, and the
rest of a wheel turn made under the dialog is dropped after it closes;
a new wheel turn after the dialog closes moves the view at once
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md, docs/mcp.md.
Legacy .ai type (version 7) now reads the operators it used to skip:
- `autoKern kernValue Tk` (and `TK` in overflow text) sets the manual
kerning of the character before the pair, or at the start of a line
the space before the line's first character; autoKern 1 sets the
pair back to automatic. Values are kept to -1000..10000.
- `T+` and `T-` (discretionary hyphens) become soft hyphens.
- `languageID XL` sets the characters' language (ids 0 to 11).
- A visible text object read while a line breaking value (`TG`) or
Japanese layout rules (`Xu`, `Tu`) are set opens with a warning,
once per file for each.
Final-form positions (Tc, Tw, Tm, Td, T*, TR) stay ignored.
Legacy .ai saves now write manual kerning as `0 value Tk` after each
character that has it and before a paragraph's first character with
space before it, and soft hyphens as `T+`; manual kerning is no longer
listed among the attributes left out. The writer's prolog defines Tk
and T+.
Docs: docs/file-format-parity.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The UI chrome rows in target-app-parity.md listed SVG Interactivity and
context menus beyond the canvas as remaining work. The SVG Interactivity
panel ships, and the canvas, Layers rows, artboard rows, libraries,
rulers and toolbar grips have menus, so the rows now name context menus
in the panels that have none. ui-parity.md drops a second checklist row
that listed SVG Interactivity as missing; the row above it already
lists Retype, Comments and Version History.
The runs of transparent and left-out pixels that the first round checks
holes against were kept in a list for each row. A tall, narrow image paid
a list header for every row: 1.1 MB for a 3 x 20,000 pixel image with
two runs. The runs are now one list over the whole image, so they take
at most four bytes a pixel, as the half-gigabyte bound counts them.
The gap lists and area tables said Layers rows, panels and type have
no context menu. Layer, sublayer, group and object rows offer Collect
for Export for the row or every highlighted row, and right-clicking
type opens the canvas menu. The docs now list what ships and name the
remaining gaps: other row menu commands, guide and blend spine rows,
and panels without a menu. The Layers panel menu list adds Collect for
Export, and SVG Interactivity leaves the missing list.
docs/target-app-parity.md listed the "Preferences that act" bullet three
times. Two older copies disagreed on Highlight Alternate Glyphs (one said
on by default, the code sets it off in Prefs::default) and still counted
about 14 stored options. The newest copy is kept, now with the Highlight
Alternate Glyphs clause (off by default), and its count names the two
options still stored only: Scratch Disks and the legacy vector clipboard.
The older of the two "Preferences audit (2026-10-30)" bullets, which still
listed five stored-only options, is removed, and the UI chrome summary row
now says 2 options, matching docs/gaps.md G12.
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