The Edit Colors commands read `fill`, `stroke`, `includeImages` and
`includePatterns` with a reader that fell back to the default for any
value that is not true or false, so `edit.colors.toGrayscale
{"fill": "false"}` converted the fills it was asked to leave alone.
These keys, and `convert` and `mode` in `edit.colors.adjustBalance`,
are now read with `switch_or` and `text_param`, and a wrong type is an
error that changes nothing. The same applies to `addon.color.filter`,
which shares the scope.
`edit.colors.overprintBlack` now refuses a `remove`, `fill`, `stroke`,
`includeCmyBlacks` or `includeSpotBlacks` that is not true or false
and a `percentage` that is not a number. `color.harmony` refuses a
`rule` or `variation` that is not a string; a `variation` such as 5
was dropped before.
A null still counts as a key left out. docs/mcp.md describes the
errors.
With the Artboard tool selecting several artboards, Paste in Place, Paste
in Front and Paste in Back put a copy of the copied art on each, where it
was on the artboard it was copied from, in one undo step. The three
commands take `artboards: [index...]`; the app passes the Artboard tool's
selection there, and without it the engine uses that selection while the
tool is chosen and records it in the journal. Art copied from no artboard
keeps its place on the first artboard and its offset to it on the others.
Copied artboards still paste once, where they were.
An `artboard` or `artboards` value that is not an artboard index of the
document, a repeated index or an empty list is now an error, and nothing
is pasted. An out-of-range `artboard` used to paste the art where it was.
A batch keeps the `artboards` a paste step names, and a paste step that
names neither pastes on the Artboard tool's selection while that tool is
chosen with several artboards selected.
Help page: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/create-manage-artboards/organize-manage-artboards/cut-copy-and-paste-artboards.html
select.object.notAlignedToPixelGrid selects the paths (not guides) and
compound paths whose pixel-aligned property is off, whatever their
coordinates, and returns {count}. It looks into groups but not into
compound paths, which take the property as one object, and leaves out
hidden, locked and template art and, in isolation mode, everything
outside the isolated object. It replaces the selection, clears it when
nothing matches, and records no undo step.
The menu item goes under Select › Object with rows in every complete
catalog, and plug-ins may call the command like the other Select ›
Object filters. Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The Symbols panel menu gains Sort by Name, which puts the document's
symbols in name order, ignoring case, as one undo step
(`symbol.sortByName`). Symbols whose names differ only in case keep their
order, the current symbol stays current, and no undo step is added when
the symbols are already in order.
The menu's Thumbnail View and List View become Thumbnail View, Small List
View (18-point rows, 14-point thumbnails) and Large List View (the former
List View's 26-point rows and 22-point thumbnails), as in the Graphic
Styles panel. Clicking, double-clicking and dragging a symbol work the
same in every view.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
file.package, file.place, file.place.queue, file.place.info,
document.serialize, document.export, document.exportSelection and
document.exportForOffice read their switches, strings and numbers with
helpers that fell back to the default for a value of the wrong type.
file.package {"copyFonts": "false"} copied the fonts, and
document.exportForOffice {"path": 5} returned the bytes instead of
writing a file. Each such value is now an error naming the key, and
nothing is placed or written. Null still means the key was left out.
A fourth gradient kind, conic (also accepted as `angle` or `conical`),
sweeps the stops once around the center (the gradient's start),
clockwise on the page from the vector, with a seam where the last stop
meets the first. A negative aspect mirrors the sweep, and reflecting an
object turns its sweep the other way, also for a conic without a
vector or with a flat extent.
- Gradient panel: a Conic button in the Type row; the Aspect Ratio
field works for conic gradients and keeps a mirrored sweep mirrored.
- Gradient tool: the extent ellipse, aspect handle and center ring of a
radial gradient, without a focal point.
- Rendering, swatch chips, transforms, warps, plug-in round trips, and
Object > Expand into wedges or a mesh of columns around the center.
- Commands: a negative `aspect` is an error for linear and radial
gradients, and so is a `focal` point for a conic gradient.
- PDF export writes a function-based shading whose calculator function
turns the angle into the ramp, and PDF import reads a function-based
shading that turns around the origin of its space back as a conic
gradient, also when that origin lies outside the painted area. A
PDF/A file, or a conic with more than 97 stops, gets an image
instead.
- SVG export writes 360 solid wedges clipped to the shape for opaque
stops and an image otherwise, and a linear gradient on characters.
- CSS export writes `conic-gradient(from ...)`, with the stops mirrored
for a mirrored sweep.
- EPS and legacy .ai export write 360 solid wedges; the .ai editing data
holds a linear gradient along the vector with the same stops.
- .af files: conical gradients open as conic gradients.
- An export that writes the gradient in another form gives a warning.
Supersedes #2326 and includes switch87's code from it.
Co-authored-by: Gert Pellin <gert@pellin.be>
When plugin.remove could not remove the grant and then could not rename
the plug-in's settings folder back from <folder>.removed, the failure was
only logged: the plug-in got empty settings, and the next removal deleted
the .removed folder with the settings in it.
- The error now names the .removed folder, the plug-in folder and the
reason, and the plug-in gets no storage until the settings are back.
- The next load, install or plugin.remove of the plug-in renames a kept
folder back while the plug-in has no folder of its own. When it has one,
that folder is used and the kept one stays until plugin.remove deletes
both. A removal while a kept .removed folder exists renames the plug-in
folder to <folder>.removing.
- Before deleting a renamed folder, the store writes an empty
<folder>.removed.delete file and removes it once the folder is gone, so
what a failed deletion leaves is not moved back. When that file can't
be written, nothing is deleted.
- A .removed folder without a .delete file, including one an earlier
version left, counts as kept settings: a new install of the id needs
replace: true, and plugin.remove of the id deletes it.
Closing a path by dragging on its first anchor made that anchor smooth
with symmetric handles, so the first segment bent along with the closing
one. The drag now sets the first anchor's incoming handle to the mirror
of the pointer. Its outgoing handle stays where it is on a corner, so
the first segment keeps its shape, and on a smooth anchor it turns to
stay in line at its own length. Alt makes the anchor a corner and leaves
the outgoing handle where it was when Alt went down. A click on the
first anchor closes the path with the incoming handle retracted and the
anchor a corner, so the closing segment comes in straight.
The Smart Pen's closing drag follows the same rule.
path.close's `in` now places the handle as path.setHandle does, and a
new `out` param places the outgoing handle and makes the anchor a
corner.
Type > Dynamic Text (type.dynamicText) now also works on area type as
Block. Each line as typed (each paragraph, and each forced line break in
one) is set to the frame's width, less the inset, the column gutters and
the paragraph's indents, by changing its font size only. Lines are not
broken again. The first character's size moves in 0.1 pt steps within
0.1 to 1,296 pt, and the line's other characters keep their proportions.
The sizes are written into the characters and fitted again after every
edit to the text or the frame, in the same undo step.
- Word Gap (0 to 1,000 % of a word space, default 100) sets every
paragraph's Desired word spacing; Line Gap (-1,296 to 1,296 pt,
default 0) is added to each character's size for its leading. Both are
VectorCraft's own ranges and defaults, saved in the area options only
when they differ from the defaults.
- Area Type Options gains a Block fit (text.areaOptions fit "block",
with wordGap and lineGap), and the Properties panel's Paragraph section
shows a Dynamic Text checkbox with Word Gap and Line Gap rows.
- Block replaces Auto Size and Shrink Text to Fit. Off keeps the sizes.
Threaded area type is refused, as for type on a path.
- Empty lines keep their size, a frame with no width changes nothing,
vertical type fits each line to the frame's height, and right-to-left
lines and list markers are fitted like other lines. A refit runs at
most four extra layouts.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
An error a finally block passed on unchanged was reported at the end of
that block, in script.run's report and in the Script Console, because the
block's end raised the error again at a new site. The interpreter now keeps
the site of the exception each finally block runs for, keyed by the stack
slot that holds it, and the block's end throws the exception on from that
site. This holds through nested finally blocks, called functions, resumed
runs and marked host errors. An error the finally block throws is reported
at that throw, and one its return, break or continue discards is not
reported.
Type › Dynamic Text (`type.dynamicText`, also on the Contextual Task Bar
for type on a path) scales the text by one factor so it fills the span
between its start and end brackets, and the layout fits it again after
each edit to the text, the path or a bracket. The first character's
size moves in 0.1 pt steps within 0.1 to 1,296 pt. Turning it off, or
threading the type, keeps the sizes it was drawn at.
- The model saves `dynamicText` only when on.
- SVG, the legacy .ai writer and the .ai editing data write the drawn
sizes through `vectorcraft_text::drawn`; the editing data warns that
the setting is not written.
- Shrink Text to Fit and Dynamic Text step the size the Character panel
shows when a size measures the cap height, x-height or ICF box.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/type-parity.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Part of #4134.
The Save PDF dialog's General section gets "Write pages longer than 200 in
at full size in points" (longPagesInPoints in document.exportPdf,
document.export, presets and document.pdfSettings), off by default. When it
is on, a page with a side longer than 14,400 pt is written with its media
box in points and no /UserUnit at every PDF version, and a PDF 1.5 file
stays PDF 1.5. The export's warning for such a page then says it is written
in points. With the option off, and for pages of 14,400 pt or less, the
file is the same as before.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md. The new label has a row in
every catalog that lists the dialog's other options.
The 27 commands that act on `ids` or else the selection (Apply as
Filter, Print Ink Fixes, the Arrange, Cleanup and Path Tools plug-in
commands, Smooth, Text Wrap, variable.bind and variable.unbind among them)
refused `ids: null` with "ids must be an array of non-negative integer
object ids". They now read null as `ids` left out, as the other commands
that take `ids` do. Remove Breaks also reads null as left out when it
decides whether to act on the characters the Type tool selected.
Ruler guides were a list kept beside the layers. Each guide is now an
object of its layer or sublayer, always directly in it and above the
layer's art. These behave as on main:
- Guides draw on screen only. Exports (SVG, PDF, PNG, PSD), Fit All,
Select All, the art bounds, clicks and marquees, and a layer's
Pathfinder and Transform effects leave them out. The Layers panel
lists them as guide rows of their layer, the highest guide.list
index first.
- Deleting a layer deletes its guides, and merging layers keeps their
guides in the merged layer.
- The guide commands number guides as guide.list does, in the order
they were made.
New: each guide takes an id from the document's object ids. An object
command given a guide's id fails with an error, and node.move cannot
put a guide into a group or out of its layers. A guide made while an
opacity mask, a symbol or a pattern is edited moves to the top
visible, unlocked layer when editing ends.
File format: native files still save the guides in the document's
guides list, in every file version, so older builds read them. Each
entry may now also carry the guide's id, name, locked and hidden
flags; older builds ignore those fields. Opening a file puts each
saved guide on its layer (on the top visible, unlocked layer when the
file names none or a layer it does not have), and each saved guide
counts against the object limit for opening a file. A ruler guide node
that a file holds below a layer's art moves up to the layer's guides,
and one anywhere else (in a group or another object, beside the
layers, or in a symbol) is removed. Ruler guides read from an .ai file
become guide objects on the layer they were on, numbered in the order
the file lists them.
Outside Windows, `\\host\s\x.txt`, `\\?\C:\x.txt` and `\\.\pipe\x` are
relative file names in the script's folder, so `exists`, `open` and
`getFiles` look them up. The test now expects no lookups for them on
Windows only, and on macOS and Linux checks `//host/s/x.txt`, an absolute
path outside the folder, alone. The returned values are the same on every
platform.
The folder the Additional Plug-ins Folder preference or plugin.reload last loaded is kept for the
whole process. The six engine tests that set the preference or run plugin.reload now hold one lock,
so another test loading its own folder between two steps cannot change what the next step loads or
lists.
The params docs now state the direction (and the zero) of each angle or
rotation a command takes; behaviour is unchanged. Shape creation, text.create,
the grids, add-on shapes, saved views, Liquify, Puppet Warp pins, Mirror and
Radial Repeat and Vector Halftone turn clockwise; text character rotation,
gradients, the eraser tip and print screen angles turn counter-clockwise.
view.saved.new's rotation note changes its schema, so the API level goes to 3.
A test walks every command's params doc and fails when a param named like an
angle or rotation doesn't say clockwise or counter-clockwise.
A centred or right-aligned line of tracked type was measured with the
tracking after its last character, so it sat half that tracking
(centred) or the whole tracking (right-aligned) left of where the page
of users' .ai files draws it. That page aligns a line as wide as its
characters without that tracking.
Shaping now records the tracking each glyph's advance holds
(SGlyph::tracking), and a line that isn't justified leaves its last
character's out of the width it is aligned by. The last character is
the last one the line draws before a paragraph's end, a forced line
break or the spaces a wrap leaves; spaces or a tab typed before a
paragraph's end or a forced line break keep the letter's tracking, as
the page does. Forced line breaks and wraps aren't in the files: they
follow the rule so that turning a wrap into a paragraph or a forced line
break keeps the line in place. Hyphenated lines, lines whose last
character hangs, vertical and right-to-left lines and type on a path
keep it. The tracking stays in the glyph's advance, so the caret,
selections, line breaking and Fit Headline are unchanged.
LineInfo::trailing gives the amount. Right-aligned area type sets the
text after its last tab the same way.
What aligns by line widths follows. Convert To Area Type makes its
frame end where the lines are aligned, with room for the tracking, so
tracked type converted either way stays in place. Affinity import lines
up differently aligned paragraphs of artistic text by the aligned
widths. SVG import moves a centred or right-aligned letter-spaced line
back by its share of the last letter spacing, so it stays where a reader
draws it and SVG export, which anchors lines at the end of their
advances, reads back unchanged.
Centred and right-aligned tracked type lays out differently than before
in every document.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Clearing Preferences > Plug-ins & Scratch Disks > Additional Plug-ins Folder
left the folder recorded as the one last loaded. Setting the same folder
again then matched that record, and nothing in it was installed, so a
plug-in removed in the meantime stayed removed. Clearing the preference now
forgets the folder when it is the one last loaded.
Scripts get the File and Folder classes as built-ins of the script
engine. A script run from a file can test whether files exist, read
their properties, list folders with getFiles (a mask or a function),
and open files to read them with read, readln, readch, seek and tell.
- Reads stay inside the script's folder and, when automation read
roots are set, inside them too. A script given as text reads no
files. Network and device paths, and paths outside the folder by
their names, are refused before anything is looked up. Links and
junctions that lead out are refused, and getFiles leaves them out.
- The encoding comes from the byte order mark, then the encoding the
script set, then UTF-8 when the bytes are valid, then CP1252.
- Limits: 8 MiB a file, 32 MiB a run, 256 files open at once, 2,048
getFiles entries and 65,536 names looked at, and paths of at most
32,767 characters.
- Writing, the file dialogs and execute are not available yet: they
return false or null and set error.
The report's hostCallCounts gains fileCalls and fileExecutes.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
A stop selected on a whole dynamic symbol instance's gradient stayed
selected after Direct Selection picked an object of that instance's art,
because the instance stayed the first selected object. The Gradient panel
kept the stop highlighted and the Gradient tool took Delete and the arrow
keys for it, while every gradient edit is refused for a picked object.
The stop's owner now records whether a part is picked, so the stop is not
selected while one is, and is selected again when the whole instance is.
A filter's id can be any character, so when every letter and digit is in
use a pasted filter at the size limit with a one-letter name now tries the
other printable ASCII characters (`!` to `~`) before the paste is refused.
Filter names are case-sensitive, but a pasted filter at the size limit with a
one-letter name only tried the letters a to z and the digits 0 to 9 as a new
name. A paste was refused while every capital letter was still free. It now
also tries A to Z.
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