A save as .ai or .ait (file.saveCopy, file.saveAs, document.save and
file.saveAsTemplate) set range to "all" before the file was written.
The one exception was a legacy .ai of version 7 given a range, which
its encoder checks. Every other save accepted an artboard, artboards or
range that names an artboard the document does not have (artboards: [5]
on a document of three artboards) and wrote every artboard.
document.export refuses the same value.
The save now refuses such a value with the export's error, under the
name of the command that was run, and writes no file. A range that is
not text, such as range: 42, was also replaced by "all". The save now
leaves it for the encoder, which refuses it as an export does. An
artboard the document has, or an empty artboards list, is still saved
with every artboard, and a legacy .ai still writes the artboards of its
range.
Option errors and notes for a .ai save called the file a
"PDF-compatible .ai" even when the save wrote a version 7 file
(aiVersion: "7") or a file without PDF content (pdfCompatible: false).
- Option errors: a version 7 .ai is now called a "legacy .ai
(version 7)" in the errors for its artboard, artboards and range
options. A .ai saved without PDF content is called a
"non-PDF-compatible .ai" in every .ai option error (includeLinked and
embedProfiles included), and a "non-PDF-compatible .ait template"
when Save as Template writes it. aiVersion: "7" takes precedence over
pdfCompatible: false, as it does when the file is written.
- The error for encoding a version 7 .ai of several artboards as one
file names the legacy .ai.
- The note for a native option the file does not read (version,
preview, precision) names the same kind of file.
- The error for aiVersion: "7" on a .ait template no longer says that a
.ait template is always PDF-compatible, since Save as Template writes
one without PDF content. It now reads "aiVersion 7 writes legacy .ai
files, not .ait templates", with its rows in the message catalogs
updated.
A PDF-compatible file keeps its name.
A .ai saved with pdfCompatible false warned that other apps show empty
pages, also when the file carries the editing copy of its art. With the
editing copy the warning now says that apps that read its editing data
open it; with editingData false it is unchanged.
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