addon.select.byArtboards {artboards, relation} in a new Selection Tools
add-on. Overlapping is All on Active Artboard's test, now one shared
helper (select::on_artboard); Fully inside is within one artboard, edges
included; Fully outside is on none. Objects are those Select All takes.
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The editing copy of the art that a PDF-compatible .ai carries now holds:
- Transparency: `mode opacity isolate knockout shape Xy` (the blending
mode's number, Knockout Group 0 off, 1 on, 2 neutral), written when it
changes: in a path's paint after its colors, before a guide, and after
a group's end followed by `0 0 Xd` and `6 () XW`. A group without
transparency of its own ends `9 () XW`, and a group's name comes
before its state block. A layer's transparency follows its art: `Xy`,
`0 0 Xd`, `7 () XW`, `LB`.
- Clipping groups as `q`, the art, the clipping path or compound path last
with `h` (or `H`) and `W` before its painting operator, `Q`, as section
5.6.2 of the version 7 specification shows them
(http://mercator.elte.hu/~saman/hu/okt/AI7FileFormat.pdf). A clipping
layer whose clipping object is a path or compound path sets the last
`Lb` flag and writes its clipping path last.
- Opacity masks as an `AI9_Mask` entry in the object's dictionary: the
mask's art between `X=` and `X+`, and Clipping, Inverted, Disabled and
Linked.
Before, clipping groups were written as their art cut to the clipping
path, and transparency and opacity masks were left out. Still left out,
with a warning: the opacity and blending mode of single fills and
strokes, opacity masks on layers (disabled ones too), and opacity masks
nested more than 8 deep. A clipping group or layer whose clipping object
isn't a path or compound path is written as a group of the art cut to
that object, in a layer that doesn't clip, and so are the clipping
groups inside that art. A clipping path's paint that a plain fill and
line can't draw is written as paths inside the clipping, fills under the
art and strokes over it, each side in a group of its own when it has
several, with the clipping path's transparency, lock and hidden state;
the clipping path's opacity mask stays on the clipping path, with a
warning. A clipping group without members is an empty group, and an
empty clipping layer is an empty layer.
Each of these is written in the form VectorCraft's .ai reader reads, and
the tests read the written data back through that reader.
Reading .ai editing data: an `Xy` after a layer's last group or compound
path, followed by the layer's `7 () XW`, is the layer's (a following
`6 () XW` keeps it the group's); groups, compound paths and layers keep
Opacity & Mask Define Knockout Shape.
The `.ai` option `editingData` and docs/file-format-parity.md describe
what the copy now holds.
A blend's record in the editing data holds its Blend Options spacing.
Word 1 is the spacing: 0 is Smooth Color, 1 is Specified Steps and 2 is
Specified Distance. For Specified Distance, word 2 is the distance in
points as a 32-bit float. The reader took only records whose word 1 is
1, so every Smooth Color and Specified Distance blend came in as its
drawn steps.
A Smooth Color or Specified Distance blend now opens live with that
spacing where VectorCraft lays out as many steps between each pair of
keys as the file draws, in the same places and colors. Otherwise it
keeps its drawn steps with the existing note. The distance is read as
the shortest decimal that reads back as the stored float. The steps are
counted before anything is laid out, and a blend takes from the
import's budget only when its count matches. Specified Steps blends
are read as before, with the steps counted from the drawn ones.
Tests: import::ai::tests::a_blend_keeps_its_spacing,
a_blend_of_three_keys_keeps_its_distance_between_each_pair,
a_blend_whose_spacing_doesnt_lay_out_its_steps_keeps_them,
import::ai::blend::tests::records_say_their_spacing,
a_blend_takes_from_the_budget_only_when_it_is_laid_out,
a_distance_past_the_keys_lays_out_no_steps, and the fuzz case
ai_blend_spacing_never_panics.
A built-in Type Tools add-on (Object › Plug-ins › Type Tools › Text Tweaker…,
`addon.type.textTweaker`): size, baseline shift, rotation, horizontal or vertical
scale, tracking, leading or stroke weight go from a start value to an end value
along a straight ramp, an ease, a bow, a spike or at random with a seed, set as
the Character panel sets them, while the text stays live. One undo step, a
dialog with Preview, catalog rows in all 26 languages, docs/mcp.md and the
parity docs.
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- Drag strokes, fills, characters and effects to move them, or drop them
on the Duplicate or Delete button
- Select several rows with Shift/Cmd-click and move them as one block
- Delete and Backspace remove the highlighted rows, not the selected art
- Row links open their panel (Stroke, Character…) as a flyout
- Stroke weight spinner follows Units > Stroke
- Transparency panel edits the active fill's or stroke's opacity
A graph in a legacy .ai, or in a current file's editing data, is written
as `%_Gs`, its data and settings on `%_` lines, its drawn art in a group
with a `%_... Go` tag after each object, and `%_GS`. The reader stopped
on the graph operators as ones it doesn't know, so such a file did not
open through its layers.
The reader now leaves the graph's records out with their operands and
reads the drawn art as usual: the bars, lines and labels come in as the
groups, paths and type they are written as. Paint operators on `%_`
lines between `Gt` and `GT` set nothing. One note per file says the
graphs came in as plain art without their data or settings. A graph
that starts inside another, or doesn't end before its layer does, keeps
the art read so far with a second note. Graph operators outside a graph
stay unknown.
In editing data and legacy .ai files, a lower-case l, c, v or y makes the
anchor the segment ends on smooth and an upper-case L, C, V or Y makes it a
corner. The reader used to guess each anchor's kind from whether its
handles are in line, so a lower-case l always read as a corner and an
upper-case C with handles in line read as smooth. A closed path's first
anchor takes the case of the segment back to it. Points and handles do not
move. Paths, compound paths, clipping paths, guide paths, area type frames
and type-on-a-path paths all keep the kinds.
Area type made from the editing data's text document came in with one
row, one column, the 18 pt gutter and the Ascent first baseline,
whatever its frame kept. Each area frame now keeps its rows and columns,
the gutter between rows and the gutter between columns, and its first
baseline (Fixed, Cap Height, Leading or x Height) with its minimum,
scaled with the art's units. Each frame of a thread keeps its own, and a
key that is missing or can't be read leaves that option as it was. A
first baseline the frame keeps is no longer replaced by the fixed one
that matches the file's first line.
AreaOptions gets row_gutter (rowGutter, left out while unset), which
layout spaces rows by; text.areaOptions takes and reports rowGutter, a
gutter given alone sets both, and the Area Type Options dialog shows
Row Gutter.
Fixes#2763. An object whose editing-data dictionary holds the text wrap
options keeps them (offset in points, 6 pt by default, clamped to
±1000 pt; Invert Wrap), and the objects after the text in a version 7
wraparound group (`*w` … `*W`) are wrap objects at the default options.
Area type below a wrap object in its layer flows around it before the
layers are compared with the page, and threaded type flows on into its
next frames. A Large Canvas file's offset is scaled with its art.
The wrap resolver moves into `vectorcraft_doc::text::resolve_wrap` for
the import and the edit-time refresh, and builds each wrap object's
outline once per layer. A file whose wrap shapes would copy more than
2,000,000 anchors is not read from its editing data.
Docs: docs/file-format-parity.md.
An object whose art style holds Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow,
Feather, Round Corners or Scribble now opens as itself with those
effects live, in their order. Feather is read under the name and key
the files use (`Adobe Fuzzy Mask`, `Radius`).
Each setting is read only when it is written as its kind (`/Int`,
`/Real`, a fill style for a color) with a value in range. An unknown
key or choice, a missing setting, or a Scribble with a color of its own
keeps the drawn look, where the reader used to cast, clamp or default
the value.
Legacy type (`To` ... `TO`) now reads `min opt max TC` and `min opt max TW`
into the paragraph's letter and word spacing, `hangingQuotes Tq` into Roman
hanging punctuation, and `hyphenate limit lead tail max Th` into hyphenation
on or off, After First, Before Last and the Hyphen Limit (0 when the limit
flag is 0). Values are kept to the ranges the Justification and Hyphenation
options take, and a spacing triple out of order goes back to its default.
Operands of the legacy type attributes are read by their place: an attribute
whose operands are missing, are not numbers, or are flags other than 0 and 1
stays as it was. Before, a value that was not a number shifted the later
operands (`5 /x 7 Ti` set indents of 5, 7 and 0), and a bad `TA` or `Ta`
turned kerning on or set the alignment to left. One long `Tx` no longer goes
past the reader's limit on characters.
Version 7 files write each palette swatch as its paint and `Pc`, with no
name. The reader only kept a swatch with a name before `Pc`, so such a
palette gave no swatches and the document got the default set.
A swatch without a name is now named by its spot color, gradient or
pattern, or by its values in the format the swatch import already uses
for unnamed colors ("Gray K=25", "C=25 M=0 Y=0 K=0"). `Pn` and a `Pc`
with no paint before it add nothing. Named swatches keep their names.
An operator the reader does not know, or a `Pg`, now ends the paint
before it, so a later `(name) Pc` no longer takes that paint. The
swatch limit is kept with a running count instead of summing every
group at each `Pc`.
Object > Plug-ins > Color Effects > Find Nearest Swatch... picks a
library (the document's swatches, a built-in library, or a library or
colour book the user saved or loaded) and Fill and Stroke, and lists
each colour of the selection with its three closest swatches and their
CIEDE2000 difference. Apply gives each colour its nearest swatch as one
undo step.
- addon.color.nearestSwatch (a query): the closest swatches of a
library to each colour of the selection's fills and strokes (solid
colours and gradient stops, inside groups and type), or to a colour
given, with deltaE; count 1..50.
- addon.color.applyNearestSwatch: recolours those paints (and gradient
meshes) to their nearest swatch; global and spot swatches link, and a
library's swatches the colours take are added to the document first
(as swatch.library.add adds them), so a spot colour stays spot.
- The library picker Image Trace's Document Library uses moves to the
Swatches panel module and is shared.
- No colour book data ships: only libraries VectorCraft computes or the
user loads are searched.
An envelope in a .ai's editing data opened as its distorted art, with
its mesh and contents dropped. It now opens as a live envelope of its
contents: a warp with its style, bend, distortions and orientation, a
mesh with its points and handles, or a top object with its outline,
with Envelope Options, Fidelity and Edit Contents.
The envelope replaces its drawn art only when VectorCraft draws it like
that art, with a budget so that live envelopes don't make the file open
from its PDF part. When the layers still differ too much from the page,
the drawn art is put back. An envelope that can't be read, or that
draws differently, keeps its drawn art with a note. Envelopes of type
keep their drawn art and hidden type as before.
The editing data's layer options set a template layer from the flag four
places after the colour index. The colour index of nine-operand options,
and the colour index and dimming percentage of eleven and twelve operand
options, are read from their own places (they were read one place later).
A straight (N) * guide path directly on a layer that runs across the
whole canvas, or from edge to edge of one artboard, opens as a ruler
guide on that layer (an artboard guide of that artboard); other guide
paths stay guide paths. Guides scale with the document when its editing
data is in the units of a UserUnit page, and an EPS that keeps only its
first artboard keeps only that artboard's guides.
Fixes#779
A new text_import_fuzz case builds a valid Word 97-2003 document (version
3 or 4 compound file, its streams in the mini stream or in FAT sectors),
checks that it places, and then damages the container itself: header
fields, the sector and mini sector shifts, FAT and mini FAT entries,
directory entry fields and stream sizes, single bytes, and truncation.
Session::execute turns a panic into EngineError::Internal, so the cases
in this file did not fail when an import panicked. They now go through
no_panic, as import_fuzz.rs does.
File > Place reads a Word 97-2003 document (a compound file named .doc,
or one that holds a WordDocument stream) and sets its main text as area
type, as it does for .rtf and .docx files. The text comes from the
piece table, in 16-bit Unicode or compressed 8-bit pieces. Formatting
is resolved from the style sheet's default font, the paragraph style,
the character style and the direct character and paragraph properties,
and keeps the same properties the .docx reader maps.
Table cells are separated by tabs and each row is a paragraph, and a
field places as its result. Hidden and deleted text, pictures, headers,
footers, notes, comments and text boxes are left out, and the reply's
warnings name each kind of content left out or changed once. Word 6.0
and Word 95 documents, encrypted documents and documents last saved
with fast save are refused, and so are structures that lie outside
their streams.
The compound file is read with the cfb crate (MIT), which adds one
package to Cargo.lock.
addon.pathtools.divideDashes cuts the selected paths (or only their
direct-selected segments) into separate open paths of a dash length
measured along the curve, with an optional gap (gap pieces dropped
unless removeGaps is false) and Fit to Corners and Ends; pieces keep
the path's appearance, one undo step, at most 100000 pieces. Geometry
in vectorcraft-pathops; dialog with unit fields and Preview; tests,
sweep cases, catalog rows and docs.
addon.arrange.groupOverlapping groups the selected top-level objects
whose visual bounds overlap or touch, chains included (union-find over a
sweep along x, at most 20000 objects), only within one layer or group.
Each group takes its frontmost member's stacking place; one undo step,
all groups made in one pass over the tree. Menu item, tests, sweep case,
catalog rows and docs.
