With something selected, the Control bar shows a Select Similar Objects
button and, beside it, the Select Similar Options menu. The button
selects the objects like the first selected one by the attribute kept
for the session; a menu item selects by its attribute and keeps it,
and the kept item is checked. The items are All, Fill Color, Fill &
Stroke, Stroke Color, Stroke Weight, Opacity, Blending Mode,
Appearance, Graphic Style, Shape and Symbol Instance.
- select.similar {by?} runs the select.same command of that name, or
for "all" matches fill and stroke colors, stroke weight, opacity and
blending mode together. An unknown by is an error that keeps the
selection and the kept attribute. The journal records the attribute
used, so a recorded action repeats it, and a failed script or plug-in
call puts the kept attribute back.
- The button and menu belong to the Object Options group and sit at
the right end of the bar, after the X, Y, W and H fields. They take
only the room the other controls leave, so the bar leaves them out
before any other control.
- The Paragraph tests' control_bar_node looks for a label before a
value, so a link's text run listed first no longer stands in for
the link.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
- Outline Stroke on a graph's strokes, including Object > Expand with
Stroke on, adjusts the bounds the graph keeps, the same way
Create Outlines on its labels does. Before, the stroke outlines
changed the bounds of the art without type, and the next redraw
stretched the plot by the width the outlines added.
- A graph that keeps `placedArt` and has no art other than type left
is no longer measured on the bounds of all its art. A label edit on
such a graph moved and stretched the plot at the next redraw; the
plot now stays where it is.
- A redraw no longer measures a move or scale on art that has no width
or no height now, such as a graph left with one axis line. Before,
the plot collapsed to no width.
- A clipping group in a graph that holds type is measured on its clip
when the clip does not depend on type, so moving art outside the clip
does not change the bounds. Blends, envelopes and repeats are
measured whole, as they are drawn.
- The doc crate's helper is named `graph_art_without_type` and sits
with the file's other free functions.
- docs/mcp.md lists Outline Stroke and states that moving an outlined
label, a swatch, an axis or a tick mark on its own can move or scale
the plot, and that a graph left with only labels, or with art that
has no width or height, does not follow a move.
- Tests: a scale of the graph made before outlining a label, a move of
a graph opened from `.ai` after its label is restyled and moved,
Outline Stroke after a move, a graph left with only its labels or
with one line, and clipping groups holding type.
A plot of the art's bounds now leaves placed images, objects at 0%
opacity and unpainted paths out of the art of a dynamic symbol, as it
does for other symbols. An object that an instance's fill, stroke or
opacity makes the plot draw is measured for that instance only, and an
instance whose symbol holds nothing else is left out, so a document
with only such instances is refused.
With Show East Asian Options on, the Glyphs panel menu lists Traditional
Forms, Expert Forms, JIS 04, JIS 90, JIS 78 and JIS 83 Forms, Monospaced
Full-Width, Half-Width, Third-Width and Quarter-Width Forms, and Revert
To Default Forms. Each form draws the selected characters with the
font's OpenType feature for it (trad, expt, jp04, jp90, jp78, jp83,
fwid, hwid, twid or qwid). A form is checked when every selected
character has it and disabled when none of the faces that draw the
selected text, fallback faces included, has the feature.
The form is a new character attribute, glyphForm, one form at a time
(text.setFormat, text.setRangeStyle). It is saved only when set,
character styles carry it, and runs that differ only in their form
shape as one piece of text. SVG writes it in font-feature-settings;
PDF draws the glyphs from the layout.
Each run is rewritten in pieces between the ruby spans' ends, so no
replacement joins characters across one, and each span is moved to where
its characters land in the new text. Expert Fractions treats a digit of
any script next to a fraction as part of a larger number.
File › Open's Import PDF dialog gets Import PDF pages as links. With it on,
each page picked opens as a placed document linked to that page of the
file, on an artboard of its Crop To box and a layer named after the page,
in place of editable art. The Links panel lists each page, and Embed makes
a page editable.
document.open takes the matching linkPages param. It is refused for a
file that is not a PDF or a PDF-compatible .ai, for bytes without a path,
with a password and with textAs: outlines. The pages share one copy of
the file, and the document opens in CMYK when most of its pages do.
Save asks for a name, as for other partly read PDFs.
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