A linear dimension between two clicked points, or dragged out from a
segment, always measured the straight distance between its points and
drew its line parallel to them, so two points at different heights gave
only a slanted dimension. The linear dimensions help describes aligned,
horizontal and vertical linear dimensions: after the second click,
clicking again gives an aligned one and moving the pointer gives a
horizontal or vertical one.
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/measure-and-align/plot-and-measure/plot-linear-dimensions-of-objects.html
While a linear dimension is being placed, the pointer's position sets
whether it is aligned, horizontal or vertical. The rule is VectorCraft's
own. With the pointer beside the two points (the nearest point of the
line through them lies between them) or on that line, the dimension is
aligned. Past either point, the line through the points and the
perpendicular through that point bound a quarter on each side of the
line. The quarter that holds the direction straight up or down gives
the horizontal distance, and the quarter that holds the direction
straight left or right gives the vertical distance. A click within
reach of the second point, or of where the pointer was for the second
click, places it aligned. Points on one horizontal or vertical line
give an aligned dimension. The dimension stays linked to the anchors it
measures.
- Dimension recipes carry an orientation (aligned by default; files
without it open as before). The line runs along the axis, and each
extension line runs from its point to it.
- dimension.create and dimension.update take orientation: aligned,
horizontal or vertical, for linear dimensions only. Any other value
is an error. A new orientation keeps the line on the side of the
points it was on, and an update that changes nothing records no
undo step.
- A horizontal or vertical dimension keeps its orientation when it or
the art it measures turns, and shows 0 when its points come into line
across its axis. A line that lay outside the points stays outside
them after a turn.
- The hint bar names the two-click placement.
Docs: docs/dimensions.md, the Evidence list in docs/target-app-parity.md.
Object > Expand left a dimension's recipe on its group, so the next move
redrew the live dimension and discarded the expanded art. Expand now ends
the live link of a dimension whose art it changes, in the same undo step.
Moving or scaling the group leaves its art as it is, the art no longer
follows what it measured, and undo gives the live dimension back.
Expand Appearance, Create Outlines and Outline Stroke had the same fault
and now do the same, also when they reach only a part of a dimension. A
dimension whose art a command leaves as it was stays live. A dimension
selected with the art it measures becomes a plain group when Expand,
Expand Appearance or Outline Stroke replaces only that art.
Picking the two points of a Linear dimension snapped to anchors and to the
line under the pointer, but showed no guides and ignored the art around it.
The picks now go through the drawing tools' Smart Guides (DrawSnap), hovering
too, so the guides show before each click: a point slides into line with other
objects' anchors and centres, and the second onto the construction guides
through the first. An anchor of the line under the pointer still wins (it
links the dimension to that path), then a guide, then the closest point of the
line (#2432). The guides go once the dimension is being placed.
Test: linear_picks_show_and_snap_to_smart_guides (fails on the old tool, which
showed no overlays while hovering). docs/dimensions.md updated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* CI: line tables only for workspace crates, no debug info for dependencies
* CI: one integration-test binary per crate
Each crate's tests/*.rs files become modules of tests/it/main.rs. Files that change
process-wide state (Color Settings, the font database, installed plug-ins, the working
directory), the fuzz sweeps and the test targets the Affinity corpus workflow names stay
their own binaries.
* Docs: name the integration tests' new paths
* CI: xtask test with nextest and doctests, one wasm check, clippy --keep-going
cargo xtask ci runs the tests with cargo nextest (cargo test when it is not installed),
builds them with --lib --bins --tests, runs the doctests as their own step, and checks
the wasm crates in one cargo check --keep-going call.
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