The roadmap's status line and revision history now record the shape tools'
centre-point move and corner rotate (#5477), and the parity status line no
longer names the Transform tab-order fix, which is its own pull request.
A press on the centre point of the selected shape now moves the selection, as
asked (#5477), so the Constrain Angle test's repeated draws from the same point
moved the polygon drawn before them. It deselects first: nothing selected, the
press draws.
A shape just drawn keeps its bounding box with the Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle,
Ellipse, Polygon and Star tools, but its centre point (Attributes › Show Center)
did nothing and the box's handles only drew: a press anywhere started a new
shape, and with the Selection tool a press on the centre of an unfilled shape
started a marquee.
- The Selection tool now takes a press on a selected object's centre point as
the start of a move (held by that point, so it snaps and Alt copies), as
Direct Selection has since #4891. A click there still makes the object the
key object of a multi-selection.
- The shape tools take it too, and take a press in the rotate zone just outside
a bounding-box corner (the Selection tool's own zone and cursor) as the start
of a rotation about the box's centre. Live Corners widgets keep the corners
themselves, so a press on a corner still rounds it; every other press still
draws a new shape. Escape cancels, as for the Selection tool's drags.
`hit_center` moves from direct.rs to select.rs, shared by the three tools.
A review found the link lost its keyboard focus when it stopped being a tab
stop. It is focusable again, and the Control bar now keeps the link's place
between W and H but makes the button after the H field, so Tab still goes from
W straight to H and finds the link after it (as the Transform and Properties
panels already draw it). Tests: Shift+Tab goes back one field too, and a click
on the Control bar's link still toggles the preference.
The Blob Brush Tool Options test that expected two Tabs between the Roundness
field and the tip preview now expects one, as every field does. Docs: the Tab
entry in target-app-parity.md, both revision histories and the M1 milestone.
Part of #4684 (unify the UI with PhotoCraft). The Home screen's welcome,
New / Open buttons and Community block are centred, as PhotoCraft's
Home screen is, and the large Discord button takes the theme's accent
instead of Discord's own colour. Preset cards, Recent Files and the
wording are unchanged.
Still open from #4684: shortcut hints on the Home buttons, PhotoCraft's
PRO and STUDIO themes, the Preferences layout and the title bar.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0113uEh3VQ6et4zDMZ9cqzkf
A file that takes longer than 0.4 s to open shows a modal progress window
with its name, a moving bar (reading reports no steps), how many more
files wait, Cancel (file.cancelOpen: the file doesn't open) and Continue
in Background (file.openInBackground). It never opens over another dialog
or progress window.
A straight segment dragged with Direct Selection or Group Selection snapped the
point it was pressed at to a grid intersection, leaving both of its anchors off
the grid. With Snap to Grid or Snap to Pixel on, the box round the moved anchors
now lands an edge on a gridline on each axis, as a moved object's does; Shift
keeps the move on its line. A dragged anchor still lands on an intersection.
With the Artboard tool, the Properties panel now starts with a Transform
section: the reference point shared with the Transform panel and the
Control bar, the active artboard's X and Y (of that point), W and H with
the Constrain Width and Height Proportions link, its preset and
orientation, and Move and Scale Artwork with Artboard. The Artboards
section follows with the name, Artboard Options and Fill. A new W or H
now keeps the reference point in place, as in the Transform panel.
The Control bar's Stroke: and Opacity: and the Properties panel's Stroke
are links to their panels, so a drag on them did nothing while every
other field label scrubbed its field. A drag on such a link now scrubs
the field after it (same steps and modifiers, one undo step, Escape
cancels); a click still opens the panel, and the link's text is not
selected by the drag.
Inner Glow clipped to the art's outline and bled in from outside it; for a
placed image that outline is the frame, so a PNG with transparent areas
glowed along the frame's edge, over pixels that don't show. For an image the
glow is now cast by its pixels' alpha (everything around them, blurred, or
the pixels themselves with Center) and kept to where the image shows, as
much as it shows.
One selected radial, grid or mirror repeat (or one object of its source
art in isolation mode) shows a Repeat Options button in the Properties
panel's Quick Actions. It runs Object › Repeat › Options, opening the
Repeat Options dialog with the repeat's current values.
Direct Selection kept only one picked point of a blend's spine. Shift-click
now adds a point of the same spine or takes it away, and dragging any picked
point moves them all. object.blend.spine.moveAnchor takes `with`, the other
points to move by as much, with the key objects on them, in one undo step.
The Join tool drew a segment between the open ends of two crossing paths
instead of trimming what overhangs the crossing. path.joinScrub now looks for
two crossing open subpaths whose overhanging ends the scrub runs over, cuts
both at the crossing and joins the kept parts there with a corner, in one undo
step. Without a crossing the endpoint join is unchanged.
With type selected the Control bar now shows a "Paragraph:" link, which
opens the Paragraph panel in a popover as Character: does, and Align
left/center/right. The bar now trims strictly from its right end as it
narrows: X/Y/W/H, Distribute, object Align, area type's vertical alignment,
then the Paragraph buttons, then the link, each group measured. That also
stops Align and Distribute running past the bar's edge for other
selections. On a 1440 pt bar with one point type object the buttons show.
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Roadmap, target-app-parity (revision row, status line, evidence bullet and the UI chrome
area row) and ui-parity (revision row and a checklist row) record the swatch beside a hex
colour field, its Color Picker and the test that covers both.
The Snap to Glyph section is drawn after every character attribute, so
in a short panel it appeared out of sight and the menu item seemed to do
nothing; its checkboxes were also dimmed with no way to turn Snap to
Glyph on from there. Choosing Show Snap to Glyph Options now scrolls the
panel to the section, which starts with a Snap to Glyph checkbox
(View > Snap to Glyph) that undims the guide options.
Selecting the object's Opacity row, or a fill's or stroke's, and clicking
Delete Selected Item (or pressing Delete/Backspace, or Remove Item in the
panel menu) now sets that opacity back to Default (100%, Normal) in one
undo step. The button used to be dimmed for these rows.
Drawing a new Pencil or Paintbrush stroke kept the earlier selection: the engine's
`insert_look` selects the new path only when `keepSelected` is on, and with it off left the
selection as it was. Illustrator starts such a stroke by dropping the selection, and the new
stroke is not selected with Keep selected off, so the command now clears the selection after
inserting a new path.
What stays as before: with Keep selected on a stroke selects only the path it draws (the
earlier selection is replaced); a stroke that continues or redraws a selected path with Keep
selected off deselects that path and keeps the rest of the selection. The Blob Brush keeps its
own Keep selected and Merge only with selection options.
`path.freehand`'s documentation, the engine test
`pencil_with_keep_selected_off_leaves_nothing_selected` and the Tool Options test
`the_new_path_is_selected_only_with_keep_selected_on` cover the three cases. Docs: roadmap,
target-app-parity and ui-parity carry the change.
Layer Options › Print off means the layer's art does not print. The Layers panel now paints
that layer's name italic, as Illustrator shows non-printing layers, and the ghost of a row
being dragged keeps the italic. A printing layer's name stays upright, and ticking Print
again restores it.
Row names are painted rather than widgets, so the italics come from a layout job's text
format (egui slants the glyphs itself; no italic face is needed).
Tests: panels::layers::tests::a_layer_that_does_not_print_has_its_name_italic covers Print
off, Print on again, and a plain printing layer; the layers suite (64 tests) passes.
Docs: roadmap, target-app-parity and ui-parity carry the change.
Selection Tools add-on: addon.select.byLinkStatus selects the image
objects and placed documents whose link is linked, embedded, missing or
modified (one status or several), as links.list reports it. Optional ids
limit the search, add adds to the selection, and zoom runs the existing
Zoom to Selection in the desktop app. Objects that are hidden, locked, on
a template layer or outside the isolated group are left out and returned
with the reason. Only the selection changes.
Select Linked / Embedded / Missing / Modified are in Object > Plug-ins >
Selection Tools and the Links panel menu. Each is off when no image has
that status, and Shift adds to the selection. Select by Link Status...
lists the images with name, status and format, with a name search, a
status filter, checkboxes with All / None and Zoom to Selection. The
status bar says what was selected and how many were left out, with
plural rows in every catalog.
Tests: engine (statuses, ids, add, zoom, skip reasons, bad params),
command sweep, and UI (message, list filtering, menu items, Links panel
menu, headless dialog frame). Docs: mcp, target-app-parity, ui-parity,
roadmap.
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Review of #5694 asked for two changes.
Add-on, not a core tool, as Enclosing Lasso is:
- The command is addon.contour.set, in an add-on module of its own
(crates/engine/src/cmd/addons/contour.rs) with its tests beside it.
- The tool is listed under Object > Plug-ins > Contour and under its own
"Contour" heading in All Tools. It has no Basic or Advanced toolbar
slot and no default shortcut. The Contour bar is unchanged.
- The add-on drawer test lists Contour with the other add-on tools.
- Docs (mcp.md, the parity documents, ROADMAP) say add-on and use the
new command name; mcp.md gains a Contour add-on section.
Translations: rows for "Contour", "Contour Tool", "Sharp", "Bake" and
"Turn the Contour into plain paths" in all 26 catalogs ("Round" and
"Square" already had them). Drafted from each catalog's own vocabulary
(for Bake, the verb it uses for Expand Appearance; a word other than the
catalog's Stroke or Path word for the tool's name where they collide);
they are not native-speaker reviewed.
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Add a Contour tool (Modify group). Dragging away from a selected path or
shape's edge makes a copy of it that carries a live Offset Path effect,
grown by the drag; dragging toward the inside shrinks it. The result is
one undo step and stays editable until baked with Expand Appearance. A
second drag on a selected Contour changes its distance instead of
nesting another effect.
- object.contour: the command behind it (offset, sharp/round/square
corners, miter limit), usable over MCP and the control channel too.
- Contour tool: live preview, Shift rounds to whole points, Escape
cancels, a dashed guide with a white halo shows the outline the shape
had, and a pill shows the distance.
- Contour bar: a floating bar above the selection with the offset box,
Sharp / Round / Square and Bake (Expand Appearance).
- Toolbar slot under Modify (Basic and Advanced) and dc-contour.svg, an
original icon with its ASSETS.md row.
- Tests for the command, the tool's pointer gestures and the bar; the
border-with-a-gap recipe (two Contours, bake, Minus Front) is covered
end to end.
- Docs: beyond-Illustrator row, revision histories and the ROADMAP log.
Beyond Illustrator: a VectorCraft design built on Offset Path. Scores and
estimates unchanged.
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A document tab dragged sideways along the tab strip moves its document to the
place an insertion line marks; the current document stays current. Dragged
above or below the strip, the tab still tears off into a floating window. The
views Window > New Window opened move with their document, and each document
keeps its own zoom, centre and artboard.
The move is the engine command `document.move {from?, to}`, so the control
channel, MCP and recordings reach it, and a replay moves the document before
the steps recorded after it. `sync_views` keeps the views with their documents
by uid when the documents change order.
Behaviour: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/customizing-workspace.html
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The Delete Stop button sat at the end of the Opacity/Location row, below
the selected stop's Color row. In the default docked panel height that
row is cut off as soon as a stop is selected, so the button looked
missing. It now sits at the right end of the ramp, level with it, and
shows whenever the ramp does (with options hidden too). It deletes the
selected stop, never below two, as before.
Adds a headless panel test for deleting a stop by dragging it off the
ramp and with the button beside it, one undo step each, and for a
two-stop gradient keeping both.
addon.pathtools.cornerSet takes `every` ("all", "odd" or "even"; default
"all"), which keeps, of the anchors already chosen (named, direct-selected
or all), only the odd- or even-numbered ones, counted along each path from
its first anchor as number 1. Anchors that take no corner still count, so
the pattern follows the path's anchor order on open and closed paths; when
nothing is left the command says so. Unknown values are refused.
Object › Plug-ins › Path Precision Tools › Set Corners… (also a button in
the Anchor Inspector's Corners section) opens a dialog with Radius, Corner
kind and Anchors (All / Odd-Numbered / Even-Numbered) that previews on the
canvas and commits as one undo step.
Locking or hiding the layer (or a group) around the isolated object left
its art selectable with the Selection tool: the isolation branch of the
hit test only checked for a locked artboard, and the marquee's checked
nothing. Both now pass over isolated art that isn't editable.
Space pressed after a tool's press has begun (Pencil, a brush, a shape, a
selection drag) switched the cursor to the hand but panned nothing: the pan
starts only with Space down at the press. It is ignored now, so the cursor keeps
the tool's own.
Test: space_during_a_pencil_drag_keeps_the_pencil_cursor (fails without the fix:
Grab instead of the pencil's crosshair).
A double-click makes the row's artboard active and fits it in the
window (view.goToArtboard, as the Artboards panel does), keeping the
dialog open and the artboards chosen before it. Parity docs record the
Selection Tools add-on.
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File > Export > Export As PNG... opened PNG Options with no artboard
chosen, and a single-image export without one writes the first
artboard, whichever was in use. With no artboard choice given, it now
takes the active artboard, or each artboard the Artboard tool has
selected (one file each). A choice the caller gives is kept.
Choosing units in Preset Details restyled every preset card in the Recent
and Saved tabs, so switching between inches and millimetres rewrote all the
user's templates at once. The pane's options apply to the selected preset
(helpx, "Create and save custom document presets"), so only the chosen card
follows the chosen units now; the others keep the units their document or
preset was made in, and clicking one brings its units back. The built-in
category tabs still show the chosen units (#2078).
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The Actions panel menu's Playback Options... sets how actions play (ui.action.playbackOptions {speed?, seconds?}). Accelerated, the default, plays every step at once as one undo step, as before. Step by Step plays one step per frame so the canvas draws each step's result, and Pause For waits 1 to 60 seconds between steps; each paced step is its own undo step. Stop Playing/Recording ends a paced playback, and another action does not play while one is paced. The setting is kept with the UI preferences. Batch... plays at full speed.
Batch Trace Folder replaces a script, so it is now a Document Tools
add-on command, addon.document.batchTraceFolder, under Object ›
Plug-ins › Document Tools (as Export All Open Documents is), and no
longer in Object › Image Trace. Behaviour, caps and the refusal of a
folder too big to list in full are unchanged; the tests move with it.
The status messages have @msgplural rows in every catalog, as does the
menu label. When some images trace and some don't, the status is one
counted message ("Traced {n} images; not traced: {failed}") so it
translates as a whole.
imageTrace.batchFolder opens each image in a folder, traces it with a
preset (optionally expanded), saves it into a destination folder under
its own name (vectorcraft, svg, pdf, ai or eps; taken names numbered so
nothing is replaced) and closes it again whether it traced or not; the
active document stays active. Object > Image Trace > Batch Trace Folder
asks for both folders. Not on the web.
A Copy of ruler guides alone left the system clipboard as it was, so the
next Paste took whatever another app had copied before instead of the
guides. The guides-only Copy now empties the system clipboard (on the
web, empty text through egui with Copy As SVG on), as any Copy replaces
what the clipboard held, and drops an earlier Copy's formats not written
yet. What another app copies afterwards still pastes.
Edit > Copy and Cut put the selected ruler guides on the clipboard,
with the selected objects or on their own. Pasting puts them on the
layer new art goes to, selected, in the same undo step: with objects
they move as the objects do; alone they keep their places, while Paste
in Place / in Front / in Back put them on the active artboard as they
lay on theirs, and Paste on All Artboards on every artboard.
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