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.
When an edit changes an object, the canvas draws again only the area
the object painted before and after it, measured by its cull bounds.
Type and groups with Extrude & Bevel, Inflate or Rotate were measured by
their letters or members, not by the solid the effect draws, which
reaches well past them. Making the solid shallower or turning it left
pieces of the old solid on the canvas outside that area until the view
was drawn again.
An object with a 3D effect is now measured by the effect's art, as the
renderer draws it: with its geometry effects, each object in it with
the raster effects of its own fills and strokes and the art its brushed
strokes draw, grown by the reach of the object's own raster effects.
One function measures that art for every bounds the renderer and
exports take, where three copies of it disagreed.
- The renderer measures the art it draws. What it makes to measure an
object it holds until the frame ends, with what the art read from
outside the object (fonts, symbols, color settings), and keeps it
with the art it draws if it draws the object while that is
unchanged. Art measured but not drawn (culled, off the view) isn't
kept. It holds at most as much as it keeps for the art it draws
(64 MB); past that, an object is made again to draw it. An object
whose 3D effect builds nothing (Revolve on a group, a solid too
complex) is measured as it is drawn otherwise, as without a renderer.
FrameStats::three_d_built counts the 3D art the renderer makes.
- The canvas measures what an edit changed through the renderer that
drew the frame shown (Renderer::changed). When it draws the part on
its own thread, it draws it with the art it made to measure it; when
the render worker draws the frame, or nothing in view changed, that
art is let go. Under Overprint Preview or Separations Preview, which
draw copies of the objects, the edit is measured afresh. An object
the frame doesn't draw (hidden, in a hidden group or layer, or
hidden by the view) is measured as nothing, before and after, so an
edit to it builds no solid: changed() without a renderer counts it as
nothing too, where it measured it. The canvas measures the edit
before it knows where the frame is drawn: when the worker draws it,
the solids it built to measure it are built again there.
- Fit to Artwork Bounds, the Artboards panel's check for it and
per-artboard SVG export measure every artboard through one renderer
(Renderer::art_bounds_on, Renderer::effect_bounds), which keeps each
object's bounds for the pass, a group holding 3D art or a hidden
member included, so each solid is built once: 30 extruded type
objects over 30 artboards take about 2 ms, where measuring their
letters took under 1 ms and building each solid for each artboard
would take 70 ms. Objects with brushed strokes, which culling leaves
room for and exports don't, are measured on each artboard. The
Artboard tool's canvas menu keeps whether Fit to Artwork Bounds has
art to fit for the document's revision, where it measured it on
every frame it was open.
- Other exports, Object › Rasterize and changed() without a renderer
build the art on each call, as 3D paths and groups already did.
Exports and Rasterize now take the solid of 3D type, where they
cropped it to the letters, and the art its brushed strokes draw, not
the room culling leaves for it. Rasterize on drawn 3D art measures it
once while the art is kept.
- A shadow after a 3D effect, on the object or on a fill after the
fill's own 3D effect, reaches past the solid once; it was counted
twice.
- With Crop Marks or Vector Halftone, which draw other art, the object
is measured by that art, as before.
- Culling leaves room for a 3D object's brushed strokes as for any
object's, and the renderer measures a 3D object again when the brush
library changes: a brush widened past that room would leave the
object culled.
A document's first frame builds the solid of every 3D object, those off
the view too, to know whether it reaches into the view: 200 extruded
words with 150 off the view take about 12 ms, where measuring their
letters took 6 ms.
Type whose object effects leave it as it is (Revolve builds no art from
type) is measured by its own box grown to hold its glyphs, as plain
type is; it was measured by its box alone, which needn't hold them.
The outlines of a run's character stroke are kept with the glyph geometry the renderer keeps for the type, in a byte-limited cache swept by frame, so type that changes in every frame (an animation) frees them within a few frames.
To check what it kept for a live object, or for effect art made from
live objects, type or symbols, the renderer walked the object in every
frame to hash the symbols, patterns and placed files it shows, and it
looked up each symbol instance it found by name in the list of every
symbol. At 1000 x 1000 pixels, the walk took most of the frame on a
page of 2,000 envelopes around instances of the last 2,000 of 10,000
symbols: 83 ms a frame when every frame walked them.
The renderer now keeps what the walk found with the node, which it
holds weakly, and with the document's symbols and patterns as the walk
read them. A later frame makes the key from what was kept while the
node and the document's symbols and patterns stay the same, and walks
the node again when any of them changes. A walk that finds a placed
file is not kept. An evaluation that the live cache does not keep, such
as a thumbnail's copy, is no longer walked. The same page now takes
30 ms a frame, with the same pixels.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md
Illustrator 30.0's gradient Dither, from the public documentation
(https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/create-and-edit-gradients/control-dither-in-gradients.html):
a Dither checkbox in the Gradient panel; dither converts the gradient into
pixels with subtle noise, works with gradient fills only, and follows the
Document Raster Effects resolution.
- Gradient gains `dither` (serde default false, written only when on, so
older files open unchanged and new files keep it).
- The renderer draws a dithered linear or radial fill as an image paint: the
gradient sampled a cell per device pixel or finer (quarter-octave steps,
cached per thread), each channel given seeded triangular noise of up to a
level before rounding. Same pixels every run; strokes and undithered fills
draw exactly as before. PNG and other raster exports go through it.
- SVG and PDF write a dithered fill as an image at the document's raster
effects resolution, clipped to the shape (the freeform-gradient path);
characters' fills stay vector gradients in SVG, with a warning.
- paint.editGradient and paint.setFill take `dither`; strokes refuse it.
The Gradient panel's Dither box is dimmed behind the Stroke proxy.
- i18n rows in all 24 catalogs; docs: G13, target-app-parity, ui-parity,
mcp.md, plugins.md.
Crisp and Strong type was drawn offscreen twice in every frame, and
None type once, with no cache, so a pan or a drag drew the type
offscreen again.
The renderer now keeps those pixels per object and ink plane, within a
128 MiB budget. It places the kept pixels in a frame, without drawing
the type offscreen, while the object, the output's zoom and rotation,
the method, the edge smoothing and what the type reads are unchanged,
the output has moved by whole pixels, and the kept pixels hold every
pixel the frame needs. After a pan that brings more of the type into
view, the renderer draws the type offscreen again.
The renderer kept the shapes it drew for plug-in effects while the
object stayed the same. When a plug-in was installed for the first
time, installed again or removed, a renderer that had drawn the object
went on drawing the shapes from before the change.
When the plug-in registry's revision changes, the renderer now drops
the effect geometry and the effect art of objects with a plug-in
effect, and the cull bounds of every object that is or holds a symbol
instance or an object with a plug-in effect. Each thread then drops the
pattern tiles whose art has a plug-in effect or shows symbols or
patterns. The renderer adds the revision to the inputs of a raster
when its content has a plug-in effect, or shows symbols or patterns
while the document's symbol or pattern art has one, and to the key of
a live object's evaluation when the object, or an object it shows, has
a plug-in effect.
With other builds running, a temporary release test timed that key for
the 400 live objects in each of three documents at 11 to 609
microseconds a frame, against 9 to 433 before.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md, docs/gaps.md.
The renderer drew each symbol instance by copying its symbol's art,
staining the copy for a stained instance and moving every object in it
by the instance's transform, in every frame. The copies were new
nodes, so the caches the renderer keys by a node's address (cull
bounds, path geometry, glyph layouts, live-effect geometry) missed for
every object of every instance, and the copies stayed in those caches
until they were pruned. Stroke outlines missed as well, because their
cache uses an entry only when the entry holds the node being drawn.
The renderer copied and moved the art of inline graphics in type the
same way.
The renderer now keeps the art it places in a frame cache with a
64 MiB budget, under the address of the symbol's art, the transform,
whether strokes scale with it, and the instance's stain. When the art
is a group or a layer without an appearance of its own, the renderer
copies none of it in a frame whose instances and symbols did not
change, and the objects in it hit the caches keyed by their own
address (cull bounds and paths, glyph layouts, live-effect geometry).
The stroke-outline cache keys a stroke by its address in the
appearance. In the art placed for an unstained instance, each object
without a gradient fill or stroke shares its appearance with the same
object in the symbol's art. When a symbol has two or more unstained
instances, the renderer therefore still outlines the strokes of those
objects again for each instance in every frame. Moving or restaining
an instance, or editing its symbol's art, places that art again, and
the other instances keep theirs. Other art is placed again in every
frame, as before, and so is art that holds a symbol instance, type
with an inline graphic, an image, a placed document, a blend, an
envelope, a repeat or a raster effect. Art that holds type is placed
again when the fonts change.
vectorcraft-cli bench of a symbol of eight paths (three filled and
stroked, two only filled, three only stroked) shown by 2,000
unstained instances took 51.6 ms a frame on main and 32.3 ms with
this change, at 2880x1800 on 8 threads; the same paths in 2,000
groups took 26.0 ms. The peak working set of a bench run at that size
went from 150 MiB to 83 MiB. In the tests, a renderer that keeps
placed art draws the same pixels as a new renderer, and instances
draw the same pixels as groups of their placed art.
Text geometry, clips, clip paints, effect art, brushes, live effects, pattern tiles and freeform
grids were capped by entry count and cleared wholesale on overflow, so a document past the cap
(e.g. more than 4,096 type objects) recomputed every entry on every frame. A FrameCache keeps
per-entry byte sizes and last-used frames, drops the least recently used entries of earlier
frames, and sweeps stale ones. Text geometry keeps its glyph outlines once instead of twice.
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