A PDF, an EPS or .ai without ruler units, a raster image, a metafile, an
Affinity file or an importer plug-in's document opened (and reverted) in
points whatever the General unit was. They now open in the General unit,
as the reference app opens files that record no unit. Native, SVG and DXF
files and a .ai or EPS with %AI5_RulerUnits keep their own units. Only the
displayed units change, not the art.
Break Link to Symbol on a selected group, and Delete Symbol with its
instances expanded, turned a hidden or locked instance into visible,
unlocked art. The art now keeps the instance's hidden and locked state,
as Object > Expand does, and Break Link leaves hidden or locked art out of
the selection.
Each artboard can carry a guide label: one of the layer colors or a
custom RGB. Guides that belong to an artboard draw in its label color,
and guides without an artboard, or on an artboard without a label, keep
the guide color from the preferences. Selected guides still draw in the
selection color.
- Artboard Options has a Guide Label row (None, the layer colors with
swatches, or Custom with a color swatch).
- artboard.new and artboard.setProps take guideLabel: null, a layer
color's name, or #rrggbb. Any other value is an error. The inspect
summary lists guideLabel when one is set.
- The native format saves the label and skips it when unset; a preset
index outside the layer colors reads as no label.
- artboard.setProps no longer adds an undo step when nothing changes.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The panel's note and the doc comment on ui.copyScriptConsole now say the
count of dropped and cut lines appears only when there are any, and the
returned lines count leaves that line out.
A copy of every Script Console line starts with the count of dropped and
cut lines only when there are any, and the returned lines count leaves
that line out. The end-line text is described without a code span that
ends in a space.
The text document reader set a type stroke's paint and weight but never
its cap, join or miter limit, so every stroked text object imported from
a .ai or EPS editing copy drew with a miter join at a limit of 10. Type
the file strokes with round joins, or with a miter limit of 4 or less,
drew long spikes at its sharp corners.
Keys 61, 62 and 64 of a run's character attributes (the run, its
character style, then the document defaults) are now read as the
stroke's cap (0 butt, 1 round, 2 projecting), join (0 miter, 1 round,
2 bevel) and miter limit, as PostScript numbers caps and joins. In the
users' files the page strokes type with exactly these settings. Other
values keep the defaults, a miter limit is capped at 500, and type
without a stroke keeps the defaults.
- ate.rs: Style reads the three keys and char_style passes them on,
with a unit test over defaults, character styles, run overrides,
hostile values and unstroked type.
- tests_native.rs: an imported story with round, bevel, default and
unstroked runs.
- docs/file-format-parity.md: revision row, status line, one line on
the mapping.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Part of #6435. An optional VectorCraft feature: the Preferences dialog's
Export Preferences... saves the applied preferences to a JSON file (the
web build downloads it), and Import Preferences... applies such a file and
shows the imported values. They run the new commands prefs.export {path?}
and prefs.import {path | data}.
The file holds every preference prefs.list lists and the eyedropper,
perspectiveWidget, pathfinder and glyphSnap groups, without the four
folder preferences and saved presets. prefs.import reads at most 1 MB and
checks every value first: another format, a newer version, an unknown
preference, a bad value or a folder preference is an error, and nothing
changes. It keeps the open document's units, records no undo step, and is
refused as a command.batch step. prefs.set now rejects a group value that
is not an object.
With sizeTileToArt on, pattern.options ignores width and height for sizing but
still rejects a value that is not a positive number, such as width 0, and
changes nothing.
With View > Pixel Preview on, the tools still snapped to Smart Guides
and showed their guides; only the Object Highlighting outline was
hidden. Work with Smart Guides says Smart Guides cannot be used while
Snap to Grid or Pixel Preview is on.
ViewInfo has a pixel_preview field, and Session::with_tool_cx turns
Smart Guides (and Snap to Glyph, which needs them) off in the tools'
context while it is set. VectorcraftApp::view_info passes View > Pixel
Preview. View > Smart Guides keeps its setting.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md.
A brick tileType or gridType with brickOffset omitted or null sets the
offset to 0.5. While sizeTileToArt is on, every pattern.options call
sizes the tile to the art plus hSpacing and vSpacing again and ignores
width and height, so a new hSpacing changes the tile's width.
Scripts write to a new Script Console with $.write(...values) and
$.writeln(...values), each value as String(value) gives it. vc.log
entries, a run's uncaught error as name:line:column: message, and a
start, end and report line for each run go there too. The report line
gives the run's time, host calls and slowest commands.
- The console keeps at most 2,048 lines and 1 MiB of text, dropping the
oldest and counting what it dropped. A line is cut at 4,096 bytes and
a script's name at 256 bytes, with a count of cut lines. Line feeds,
carriage returns and CRLF break lines; other control characters show
as Unicode Control Pictures.
- script.run's result and scriptReport gain runTimeMs, timingAvailable,
hostCallCounts, slowestCommands and the run's own console. A failed
run's report has them too.
- script.console and script.console.clear read and empty the console;
ui.copyScriptConsole {first?, last?} copies lines as the panel shows
them.
- The panel lays out only the rows in view, selects with click and
Shift-click, and has Clear, Copy Selected and Copy All. Output goes on
while it is closed, and Clear works during a run.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/gaps.md, docs/roadmap.md,
docs/target-app-parity.md.
The pattern and Repeat paragraph in docs/mcp.md said that every omitted
or null param keeps its default. pattern.options and
object.repeat.options keep the pattern's or the repeat's current value
instead (except the brick offset, which a brick tileType or gridType
without brickOffset sets to 0.5), object.pattern.edit and
pattern.options fall back to the selected object's pattern and the
pattern being edited when name is omitted, and pattern.delete requires
name.
A linear dimension between two clicked points, or dragged out from a
segment, always measured the straight distance between its points and
drew its line parallel to them, so two points at different heights gave
only a slanted dimension. The linear dimensions help describes aligned,
horizontal and vertical linear dimensions: after the second click,
clicking again gives an aligned one and moving the pointer gives a
horizontal or vertical one.
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/measure-and-align/plot-and-measure/plot-linear-dimensions-of-objects.html
While a linear dimension is being placed, the pointer's position sets
whether it is aligned, horizontal or vertical. The rule is VectorCraft's
own. With the pointer beside the two points (the nearest point of the
line through them lies between them) or on that line, the dimension is
aligned. Past either point, the line through the points and the
perpendicular through that point bound a quarter on each side of the
line. The quarter that holds the direction straight up or down gives
the horizontal distance, and the quarter that holds the direction
straight left or right gives the vertical distance. A click within
reach of the second point, or of where the pointer was for the second
click, places it aligned. Points on one horizontal or vertical line
give an aligned dimension. The dimension stays linked to the anchors it
measures.
- Dimension recipes carry an orientation (aligned by default; files
without it open as before). The line runs along the axis, and each
extension line runs from its point to it.
- dimension.create and dimension.update take orientation: aligned,
horizontal or vertical, for linear dimensions only. Any other value
is an error. A new orientation keeps the line on the side of the
points it was on, and an update that changes nothing records no
undo step.
- A horizontal or vertical dimension keeps its orientation when it or
the art it measures turns, and shows 0 when its points come into line
across its axis. A line that lay outside the points stays outside
them after a turn.
- The hint bar names the two-click placement.
Docs: docs/dimensions.md, the Evidence list in docs/target-app-parity.md.
A constrained move keeps only the snap correction along its direction, and that correction exists only when an edge ends within a quarter cell of a gridline. When no edge on those axes is that close, the move does not snap.
Preferences > Guides & Grid gets Artboard Guides with Cmd/Ctrl + Ruler
Drag (cmdRulerDragArtboardGuides), off by default. With it on, Cmd/Ctrl
held when a drag leaves a ruler makes a guide of the active artboard,
with any tool but the Artboard tool; with the Artboard tool it makes a
canvas guide instead. The key is read when the drag starts, so letting
it go during the drag keeps the kind of guide. Such a guide shows and is
made only where it lies within the active artboard; released elsewhere,
it makes no guide and no undo step. A ruler click still makes no guide.
This is VectorCraft's own option. The documented way to limit a guide
to one artboard, dragging it out with the Artboard tool, is unchanged.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
A Reshape drag on an open path moved only the anchors within half the
diagonal of the path's bounding box, measured along the path. On a
zigzag, a wave or a spiral that is one or two anchors, so dragging an
end moved the end and left the rest of the path where it was (#2723).
path.reshape now stretches an open path from the grabbed point to both
ends. The end anchors stay in place. Each anchor between an end and the
grabbed point takes u² (3 - 2u) of the drag, where u is its distance
from that end along the control polygon divided by the grabbed point's
distance from that end. A handle takes the share on the tangent line of
that curve at its anchor, so the handles of a smooth anchor stay in
line with it. A handle that is long beside the span takes a share below
0 or above 1.
This changes the default for every caller that leaves radius out on an
open path. A closed path still moves the anchors within half the
diagonal of its bounding box, and a call that gives radius uses that
radius on open and closed paths.
- A negative radius is refused ("`radius` must be 0 or more"). It gave
anchors beyond the radius a share above 1.
- A drag of no length on an anchor no longer records an undo step.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Part of #6435.
Reset Preferences in the Preferences dialog now opens a question over
the dialog (`resetPreferences`). Cancel or Escape goes back to
Preferences as it was, with its edits, category and search kept. OK goes
back with every preference at its default value; OK in Preferences
applies them and Cancel there discards them, as before. `prefs.reset`
still resets at once.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
A constrained move keeps only the snap correction along its direction: a horizontal or vertical move lands the edge on its own axis, and a 45° move lands the edge on the axis whose nonzero correction is smaller. The per-axis rule now applies to unconstrained moves only.
docs/mcp.md and docs/target-app-parity.md now state that a move in
perspective snaps an edge of the joint bounds only when it ends within
a quarter cell of a gridline (PerspectiveGrid::snap_offset), and that a
move perpendicular to the plane does not snap (perspective.move skips
snap_fix when perpendicular is true).
Two PDF export passages in docs/target-app-parity.md said a gradient
that mixes a spot color with RGB or Lab stops is always written without
the spot ink, or as an image when Perceptual. A CMYK document, or an
export that converts colors to a CMYK destination profile, writes those
stops in CMYK first, so the gradient is a DeviceN shading that keeps the
ink; an RGB destination profile keeps them in RGB. The passages now say
so, as docs/mcp.md and the paint.editGradient params text already do.
A new test checks the Classic case in an RGB document, a CMYK document,
with a CMYK destination and with an RGB destination.
BFlat