docs/file-format-parity.md held 36 copies of the paragraph on the
editing copy of a file. #6202 and #6249 each added a combined copy
without removing the copies it replaced, so the count went from 34 to
35 and then to 36. The section now holds one copy: #6249's combined
copy, with the Align to Path distance clause that seven of the other
copies carry from #6247. Every other clause of the removed copies is in
the kept one, word for word or in the newer, longer form another copy
wrote. The older Align to Path clause, with its measurements for one
font at 24 pt, is removed because #6247's wording replaces it. The
paragraph now starts with a capital letter.
The summary table also repeated its "Formats opened or placed" and
"Formats saved (Save As)" rows. The older row of each is removed: the
one that still lists HEIC/HEIF as missing, and the one that lists fewer
contents of the editing copy that `.ai` saves write.
The new General preference Show Bounding Box While Moving and Drawing
(`boundingBoxWhileMovingAndDrawing`, off by default) keeps the bounding
box and its handles visible during two kinds of drag, with View › Show
Bounding Box on. While a drag moves the selection (a Selection tool
move, an Alt-drag copy, or a shape tool's move by the center point),
the box is drawn where the drag has moved the selection. The box is
measured once when the drag starts and offset by each step's move.
While the Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse, Polygon and Star tools
draw a shape, the box is drawn around the shape. A rotation and a
widget drag still hide the box until the release. The Line Segment
tool, the Pen, the Pencil and the Paintbrush draw no box.
With the preference off, the box hides during a move (#737, for #712)
and while a shape is drawn (#5839), as before. A Selection tool move
with Real-time Drawing off still moves the box with the pointer, and a
shape tool's move by the center point hides it in both modes.
With Real-time Drawing off, the box of a shape being drawn is measured
from the pending preview, in the color of the layer the shape goes on.
A shape being drawn shows no box until a preview step has succeeded,
so a failed preview does not show the box of the selection from before
the drag. The preference's label has a row in every catalog.
Session::deferred_move() is replaced by Session::move_drag_box(), which
returns the moved box, and Session::deferred_transform_box() now also
returns the layer color of the box.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
A blend between two strokes drawn with a pressure-sensitive brush gave
every step the pen recording of the nearer key, so the brush jumped at
the middle step. The steps now interpolate the pressure, tilt, bearing
and rotation at every position either key has a sample. A key without a
recording counts as half pressure, half tilt and 0 degrees, as brushes
read it. Angles turn the shorter way round, and steps and whole turns in
a recording stay in the steps. Different brushes still switch halfway.
A recorded command whose step passes a limit only from the values it adds
as it runs keeps its edit. The status bar names the limit, later recorded
commands do not run, and Stop Playing/Recording leaves its step out.
file.new refused a side over 163,830 pt, while artboard.new took larger
artboards. Both now take each side more than 0 and at most 3,999,856 pt:
the 4,000,000 pt the canvas reaches from the origin, less a 72 pt bleed
on both sides. A side outside that range is refused with an error that
names the limit in points and, when the document's units are not points,
in those units, rounded down so the value shown is accepted.
artboard.new now refuses a supplied width or height of 0 or less instead
of making a 1 pt side, and refuses a size taken from a larger artboard.
Saved and Recent presets are read with sides up to the new limit.
Follows #6643.
The Width menu now offers Tilt, Bearing and Rotation beside Fixed and
Pressure, each with the second width. Tilt goes from Width with the pen
lying flat to the second width upright; Bearing and Rotation go from
Width at -180 degrees to the second width at 180 degrees, as Scatter
Brush Options' modes do. A stroke drawn without that input is half way
between the two widths. brush.options takes width_mode tilt, bearing
or rotation.
Gujarati text from a PDF came in jumbled even with its fonts installed:
- A glyph with no advance (a vowel sign or anusvara set over its letter)
was taken for vertical type and opened as an object of its own, which
type then drew on a dotted circle. In a font the file writes
horizontally it now stays on its line.
- A line read glyph by glyph is not always the text that was set: the
file draws a vowel sign before the consonant it follows, and may not
name a conjunct. A line with characters of U+0900 to U+0DFF is now set
again and its glyphs compared with the ink the file drew; when they
differ the line keeps the file's glyphs as outlines, with a note.
Tests: crates/pdf/src/tests/reshaped.rs (two fail without the change).
Preferences > User Interface > UI Scaling sets egui's zoom factor, and the
canvas mapped one document point to one of the interface's points at
100%. A document point then covered UI Scaling times as many device pixels,
so the art grew and shrank with the interface.
The canvas now maps the document at the view's zoom divided by the UI
zoom (View::screen_zoom, Xf::at). The rendered frame, the pointer, rulers,
grids, Fit and Actual Size, pan, scroll, zoom and turn about a point, the
Zoom tool's marquee, Pixel Preview's check, tiled panes, the Navigator's
view box and the tools' tolerances use that mapping. The zoom value means
the same at every UI Scaling, and the interface still follows UI Scaling.
fit_zoom, zoom_about, rotate_about, pan_pixels and scroll_by take the UI
zoom, and Xf::new is now test-only.
Found while looking into a report by bortek about the art's size at 100%.
In a gradient or a shaded area the palette colors on either side of a band
border differ by more than the image changes across it, so pixel noise
decided where the border ran, and it was smoothed over 0.5 px like a real
edge: borders wobbled, kept stair steps and took many anchors.
Each crack between two colors now records how much of the step between
them the image makes next to it and a few pixels further out, how much the
image changes there along the line between the two colors and in any
direction, and how much it changes within each side (RGB distances, 0 to
255 a channel). A piece of outline is the contour of a smooth area when its
cracks show less than half of the step; either more of it further out, a
change along the line under 12, or no opaque pixels further out; some change
within the sides, at least 1/32 of the change along the line; and a whole change
under twice the change along the line, or under 24. Such a piece is
smoothed over 4 px (a closed one over at most an eighth of its smaller
width or height), keeps no corners, is fitted to at least 0.5 px and is
checked against its smoothed points. The values are the same from either
side of the crack.
Grayscale reads each pixel as its gray, for this rule and for every edge's
sub-pixel shift, which compared the pixels' colors with gray palette
entries.
Color traces of clean flat-color art and Black and White traces are
unchanged. Specks rise by up to 0.8 per image on gradient and photo
inputs, and Auto Color with Shapes leaves a 0.3 px gap there.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md, docs/image-trace-quality.md.
Load Actions refuses an action set file over 8 MiB, with more than 1,000
actions, or with an action of more than 10,000 steps. Several ways of
changing a set could pass those limits, leaving a set that Save Actions
refuses to write.
- While an action records, a command (a batch and Find Objects that
selects included) whose step would give the action more than 10,000
steps or its set's file more than 8 MiB does not run, and the recording
goes on. A stop that playback reaches is left out then. A command whose
step grows past a limit only as it runs keeps its edit; the status bar
names the limit and Stop leaves the step out. Stop also leaves out any
recorded step still past a limit. Steps recorded after an exclusion
past an action's last step are included.
- An exclusion that would make the set's file larger than 8 MiB changes
no checkmark; one that keeps the size or shrinks it always works.
- Begin Recording, New Action, Duplicate, renaming an action, Action
Options, Set Options and New Set refuse a change that would give a set
more than 1,000 actions or a file larger than 8 MiB. A change that
leaves a set no further past a limit than it is now is allowed.
- Load Actions refuses a set, .aia sets included, that Save Actions would
write larger than 8 MiB (a file with less white space, or a set name
that gets a number added).
The limits are the existing ones from files.rs, and the errors reuse the
existing messages. docs/mcp.md and the commands' params text describe the
new errors.
With one object that Start Global Edit accepts selected with the Selection
tool, the canvas now highlights the other objects a start would take with the
current Global Edit Options, before Global Edit starts. The outlines are kept
per document revision and options, and none are shown during a drag.
Docs: docs/mcp.md (Global Edit), docs/gaps.md (G5).
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