- Resolving the symbol instances, blends and clipping groups a 3D effect
builds from counts every object it visits or makes and stops past
262,144 with an error. Nested symbol instances that end in hidden art
are refused instead of being expanded at every level. Each object is
visited once; a group is no longer walked again for each level above it.
- A symbol instance, blend or clipping group inside a 3D group keeps its
appearance, so its geometry effects reshape the art it shows. A nested
group's geometry effects now reshape its members inside a 3D group too,
and inside a clipping group they apply before the clip cuts the art.
- Hidden members and guides of a group inside a clipping group build no
solid.
- Tests cover an empty clipping group, a blend set to no steps, an
instance of an empty symbol, a symbol holding a clipping group, the
paint-copy budget across resolved art, and art past the limits drawing
as it does without the effect.
The check that keeps a live envelope or warped type only where it draws
as the art saved with it renders each on its own, over nothing, and
compared the pixels as seen on white. White art over nothing looks like
nothing on white, so white contents that drew somewhere else passed and
opened live in the wrong place.
Pixels now also differ when they look different seen on black, so such
art keeps its saved art, as colored art does. Opaque colored art is
compared as before.
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With the Linear mode, two problems kept a click on an anchor from
taking it:
- A press on an anchor that moved more than 3 pixels before the release
dragged out the dimension of the segment under the pointer and
committed it almost on top of the art. A press on an anchor now picks
it unless the pointer moves past the anchor's 8-pixel reach; a longer
drag still dimensions the segment.
- A pick linked only an anchor of the segment nearest the pointer. An
anchor of another path near that segment, for example one inside a
group lying just inside another object's edge, was taken at most as a
Smart Guides point with no link, so the dimension did not follow it
when the art changed. A pick now links the nearest anchor of any
visible, unlocked path within reach, in groups and compound paths too.
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.
Each command a script runs keeps a savepoint of the state it may need
to put back if it fails. The savepoint cloned every open document's
whole undo history, so a script that made N edits did O(N^2) work.
- The savepoint now clones each document's state without its history
and keeps a mark: the newest undo and redo steps and the serials of
the steps under them. Until the command ends, the history trims no
step, and a new step sets the redo steps aside instead of dropping
them. A failed command truncates both stacks back to the mark.
- file.close, file.closeAll, document.close and file.revert still keep
a whole copy, since they remove the history or the document.
- When a failed command removed or changed a step under the newest
one, the history cannot be put back exactly, and the run stops with
an error; its rollback restores the documents as they were before
the run.
- run_guarded no longer copies the histories during a script's run,
and a committed run moves the histories from before it back instead
of copying them.
- Symbol editing mode shares its saved redo steps between copies of a
document's state.
- A script cannot run edit.clearHistory. A run keeps each document's
undo steps from before it, so the command reported a clear that the
commit then undid.
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.
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.
A mask, inverted mask or knockout group over type now keeps the region
that covers any artwork. Type is measured by its layout or, on a path,
by the path, and a reader that sets live type in its own font can draw
it wider, so a region sized from that box could cut glyphs off.
A live object (blend, envelope, repeat, mesh, placed document,
intertwine) under a mask is measured as the art the writer writes for
it, expanded on its own with the same limits.
The writer keeps its symbol boxes and symbols' art reach in plain
fields instead of cells.
Opacity masks, inverted and unclipped masks, and knockout groups were
written with mask and filter regions of 200,000 x 200,000 units around
the origin. CairoSVG draws each mask into an image of its region's size
and stops with "out of memory", so a file with any of them did not
open; Firefox drew inverted masks wrong and WebKit drew knockout groups
and inverted masks wrong.
Each region now covers what the masked or knocked-out art paints: its
visual box grown by its raster effects, brush art and members' reach,
the mask art's box, and in a scaled symbol instance its strokes and
effects at their own size. A mask whose art reaches past its object
still comes back whole on import.
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.
A page with a side longer than 14,400 pt (200 in, ISO 32000-1 Annex C.2)
keeps its size only with a UserUnit, which PDF 1.6 added. Exports now
report such pages and handle the versions without a UserUnit:
- Each such page adds a warning with its size and its UserUnit. Apps
that ignore UserUnit show the page that many times smaller.
- A PDF 1.5 file with such a page is written as PDF 1.6, with a warning.
- PDF 1.3 and 1.4 files, PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3 among them, are refused
with an error that names the page and the limit, instead of
"PDF writer error: Limit(TooLargeFloat)".
- PDF/X-4 files at PDF 1.5 or 1.6 keep the page in points, with a
warning that apps that keep to the limit cut it to 200 in.
The warnings and the error have rows in every complete catalog. Docs:
docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md and the document.exportPdf
params.
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.
When any member of a revolved group had an opacity below 100% or a
blending mode, every member's surface was drawn whole in member order,
so the opaque members lost their shared depth sort and a transparent
member drew entirely over or under the others.
Every member's faces are now sorted into one order. Opaque faces go in
that order on their own. A transparent member's faces share one group
with its opacity and blending mode, and its scopes group them further,
unless a face of another member that overlaps them on the page lies
between them in the order; only there is the member split. Faces
overlap when the convex hulls of their outlines come within the 0.75 pt
seam stroke of each other. Faces that paint nothing never split a
member. Past 4,194,304 overlap tests on one group, each further face
of such a member is drawn as a part of its own.
Docs: docs/revolve.md.
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.
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