While Select All holds a threaded story, a paragraph whose text starts in one of the
story's locked or hidden frames is no longer converted, and the empty parts of a converted
paragraph in such a frame are no longer restyled. Before, a locked frame whose first
paragraph took in the previous frame's empty last part was converted, and so was a
paragraph that ran on from a locked first frame into an editable one.
After Select All in a frame of threaded text, Remove Line Breaks and
Remove Paragraph Breaks changed only the edited frame, and Convert to
Text over MCP converted only the selected frame. Both now act on the
text of every frame of the story as one undo step.
- addon.cleanup.removeBreaks reads the frames of the story as one text,
so a break at the end of a frame before a word in the next one becomes
a space. The same applies when every frame of a story is selected as
objects.
- text.convertListToText without ids, id or a range converts every
paragraph of the story. Locked and hidden frames of the selected story
are not converted, even when ids names them. When the call converts
the whole story, the story stays selected; before, the call reset the
Type tool's selection to the edited frame.
- A selection inside one frame, and unthreaded type, behave as before.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
A `backquote` given as a string or a number, on the request or on an
event, was read as absent, so `"true"` moved the object's geometry
instead of its pattern. `pointer_gesture` and `ui.pointer`, headless
and desktop, now answer with an error before any event runs.
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
docs/mcp.md said that with nothing being dragged, remote press_key c
chose the tool bound to C and f ran the shortcut bound to F. Remote
press_key sends the key event without the letter it types, and the app
runs single-key shortcuts only from the typed letter, so neither runs.
The Arc tool, Selection marquee and grid paragraphs now say what
headless press_key does with these letters and point remote callers to
select_tool or invoke_menu.
In remote mode, press_key queues its key for the next UI pass, while
pointer_gesture drives the tool as soon as the app reads the request. A
release sent right after a key could commit the drag before the key
reached the tool, so C pressed while dragging out an arc left it open.
A ui.pointer request now waits, ahead of the requests after it, until
the synthetic input sent before it has been applied.
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A Type Tools add-on command (Object › Plug-ins › Type Tools › Release Type on a
Path…, `addon.type.releasePath`): each selected type on a path becomes point
type with the same runs, character and paragraph attributes, on one straight
line whose baseline starts where its first character sat, and the plain path
it was set on, with its exact shape and transform, in its layer and stacking
place, with no fill or stroke. `mode` keeps both, the path only or the text
only; `keepOriginal` leaves the type on a path and adds the released objects
above it. Other objects are left alone, nothing to release makes no undo step,
the run is one undo step and the released objects are selected. The command
dialog previews it as Type on a Path Options does (#5360): Cancel leaves no
history, OK is one step. Tests, command_sweep cases, catalog rows in all 26
languages, docs/mcp.md and the parity docs (beyond Illustrator: scores
unchanged).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
The `method` text of `paint.editGradient` and two passages of
docs/mcp.md said a CMYK document writes RGB and Lab gradient stops in
CMYK. An export that converts colors to an RGB destination profile
converts them to that profile first, so in a CMYK document they stay
RGB and a Perceptual spot gradient with such stops is written as an
image with the spot warning. The texts now say so, and the test of RGB
stops in a CMYK document also checks the RGB destination case.
Optical moved every pair all the way to a fixed 0.08 em ink gap, tighter
than most text faces' own stem spacing, so ordinary text was squeezed
(at 100 pt, Source Sans 3 `nn` closed from 54.7 to 46.9 pt).
Each pair now moves 0.6 of the way toward the face's reference gap (the
median ink gap of `nn`, else `HH` or `oo`; 0.08 em when it has none),
keeps at least 0.3 of it at its narrowest, and changes by at most
0.12 em tighter or 0.06 em looser. Ideographs, kana, hangul, fullwidth
and CJK punctuation forms and dashes keep the font's spacing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The method help of paint.editGradient and docs/mcp.md said a Perceptual
gradient with spot stops becomes an image in PDF unless every other stop
is paper white, CMYK or gray. PDF export checks each stop's color as it is
written: a CMYK document, or an export that converts colors to a CMYK
destination profile, writes RGB and Lab stops in CMYK, so the gradient
becomes a DeviceN shading. Both texts now say so, and a test covers the
CMYK document and CMYK destination cases.
Follows #5442.
- text.setGlyphAlternate keeps the default glyph as a choice when a
feature of the character's style (salt, a stylistic set) draws another
glyph for it, so the default glyph is drawn. A character that is not
laid out (overflowing text) is shaped alone in its style to decide.
gid: null reports the glyph the style draws.
- The Glyphs panel's alternates grid shows the default glyph first when
the font does not list it, so a chosen alternate can be put back.
- A test for a chosen character that starts a longer grapheme (f with a
combining acute), which is not split from its mark.
- The alternates tests in the engine hold the shared font lock while
they add fonts to the global font database.
The type.size.* commands, type.resetTracking and type.resetHorizontalScale
do not take `id`, `start` or `end`, so they refuse those keys as unknown
parameters. The list in docs/mcp.md now leaves them out.
addon.select.byArtboards {artboards, relation} in a new Selection Tools
add-on. Overlapping is All on Active Artboard's test, now one shared
helper (select::on_artboard); Fully inside is within one artboard, edges
included; Fully outside is on none. Objects are those Select All takes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
OK in Tate-chu-yoko Settings read an Up/Down or Left/Right that is not a
length as 0 and applied it. It now returns "Up/Down must be a number" or
"Left/Right must be a number" and keeps the dialog open, and a blank
field leaves its value alone.
Select > Object > All on Same Layers took the layer of every selected
object, including one that select.set had kept while it is hidden or
locked, on a template layer, on a locked artboard, or outside the
isolated group. That object's layer then decided which art was
selected. The command now takes the layers only of the selected
objects that the Select commands could select. When the selection
holds no such object, it clears the selection.
The PDF writer writes a spot gradient as a Separation or DeviceN shading
only when it is linear or radial; freeform gradients and dithered fills
are written as images in process colors.
- `paint.editGradient`'s method help and the Method paragraph in
docs/mcp.md limit the Perceptual exception to linear and radial
gradients.
- The Linked gradient stops paragraph in docs/mcp.md no longer says the
writer has no DeviceN: a gradient mixing spot inks with other spot,
CMYK or gray inks exports as a DeviceN shading, and only a mix with RGB
or Lab colors is written in process colors, with a warning.
text.tabs.set and text.tabs.clear return without an edit when every
targeted paragraph already holds the stops. A Ctrl-drag that the 0 pt
bound keeps from moving, or a drag released where it started, no longer
adds an undo step that changes nothing. When one targeted paragraph
holds other stops, the command still sets them all.
OK in Shape Builder Tool Options sent highlightColor to tool.setOption,
which keeps only #rrggbb, so #ff000080 was applied as #ff0000 with no
error. OK now gives the same error as the Live Paint tool options for a
hex color with an alpha part (#rrggbbaa or #rgba), the dialog stays open
and the tool's options do not change. The tool.options params text,
docs/mcp.md and the progress doc say so.
Step by Step and Pause For remember the document that was active after each step. When the next step is due and a different document is active (another one was made active, or that one was closed), the playback ends with a status and the rest of the steps do not run. A step that makes another document active itself does not end the playback.
Step by Step holds the frame after Play, so the first step's result is drawn before the
second step runs, also when the panel's Play button runs after the canvas drew.
An action step recorded as command.batch (an action played while recording, including one
playing at Step by Step or Pause For, or a panel operation that runs as one batch) now plays
as its own steps in Play and Batch..., instead of failing with "batches cannot nest".
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.
list_dir cuts its listing before sorting, so a cut listing could skip any image. The batch now
stops with an error instead of tracing part of the folder.
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.
text.areaOptions given for several area type frames (ids, or a selection of
several) copied the first frame's options onto all of them, so setting one
option (say the vertical alignment) also replaced the others' columns, gutter,
inset and fit. Each frame now takes only the options given over its own, and
fit resolves against each frame's own setting, so fitMinPercent alone changes
only frames that already shrink text to fit. Options that change nothing add
no undo step and keep redo.
The `method` text of `paint.editGradient` and the Method paragraph in
docs/mcp.md said SVG and PDF exports draw a Perceptual gradient as an
image. PDF writes an eligible one natively: tints of one spot ink as a
Separation shading in that ink, and spot inks mixed with other spot,
CMYK or gray inks as a DeviceN shading. Gradients without spot stops,
with RGB or Lab stops, dithered fills and curves with too many stops
still become images there. Both texts now say so.
The Navigator panel menu's Panel Options… is enabled and opens a dialog with
the view box color (a preset or a custom color; Light Red, today's color, is
the default) and Draw Dashed Lines as Solid Lines, off by default, which draws
dashed strokes without their dashes in the panel's thumbnail only. The
options are kept with the UI state, and ui.navigatorPanelOptions sets them.
RenderOptions::solid_dashes draws dashed strokes as solid lines, including
type strokes and the silhouettes of stroke effects.
layer.setProps, layer.new, layer.newSublayer and livePaint.gapOptions read
an 8-digit hex color such as #ff000080 as #ff0000 and set it without its
alpha. They now refuse it with the error a bad color already gets, and
change nothing. #rgba was already refused. #rrggbb, #rgb, a preset index
and a preset name are read as before.
`Color::from_hex` reads `#rrggbbaa` and keeps only its first six digits, so
a `color` set to `#ff000080` through `ui.dialog.set` was applied as
`#ff0000` without an error by Tile Edge Color, Live Paint Selection Tool
Options, Live Paint Bucket Options and Gap Options.
- A new `checked` next to `resolve` in `dialogs/tile_edge_color.rs` gives
the existing "is not a colour" error for an 8-digit hex color, and
otherwise reads the color as `resolve` does. `resolve` is unchanged, so
the swatches the dialogs draw with it show such a color by its RGB as
before.
- Each of the four dialogs' OK checks the color with `checked` first, and
leaves the dialog open with nothing changed. Tile Edge Color and Gap
Options already refused `#rgba`, which `from_hex` does not read. Live
Paint Selection and Live Paint Bucket used to ignore a color they could
not read, such as `#f008`, and apply their other fields; their OK now
refuses it.
- With Preview on, Gap Options sends no color for a `#rrggbbaa` value, so
the groups keep their own color, and the previewed gaps draw in black.
Docs: the params text, docs/mcp.md, docs/control-protocol.md and
docs/target-app-parity.md.
The params text of select.same.symbolInstance, docs/mcp.md and
docs/target-app-parity.md now say that the object compared with can be
of any kind (a group member selected on its own, or an object that is
not a symbol instance, which leaves the selection empty), and that new
art on a locked artboard is not passed over while it stays selected.
A test covers the three cases.
Remove Text Tweaker's own start and end check: range_of already refuses
a bad offset given with an id, and like the other type commands Text
Tweaker now ignores start and end without one. The test's "2" case
gets an id so it still reaches the check, and docs/mcp.md lists
addon.type.textTweaker with the commands that refuse such offsets.
text.startList read a negative or fractional `at` as the end of the
text, so it could remove a typed list marker there and start a list.
The `start` and `end` of text.editRange, text.getRange,
text.setRangeStyle and the type shortcut commands given an `id` read
such values as the start or end of the text.
These now return "`at` must be a whole number" (naming the key) and
change nothing. Omitted or null keys keep their defaults, and 2.0 is
read as 2.
Object > Expand with Object on now turns each symbol instance in the
selection, including one in a selected group or in a placed document's
art, into its art, as Break Link to Symbol places it. It goes one level
deep: the instances in that art stay instances. The art keeps the
instance's id and place in the stacking order, and Expand stays one
undo step.
- Instances with effects stay instances, and Expand Appearance bakes
them as before. Instances with an effect on a fill or stroke,
instances in perspective, and those in blends, repeats and Intertwine
groups stay instances.
- The art keeps the instance's opacity mask, as Break Link gives it.
- A hidden or locked instance's art stays hidden or locked.
- A placed document in an instance's art is expanded too.
- When the instances' art would make more than 1,000,000 objects, they
stay instances, the limit Break Link uses.
- The Fill and Stroke options (object.expand.info, and the Expand
dialog) count the fills, strokes and gradients in the art of those
instances, with a dynamic instance's own changes applied. The info
reports under symbolArt which of them only that art holds, and the
dialog enables those options only while Object is on.
While the Type tool edits a frame of threaded text, Select All selects
the text of every frame of the story, highlighted in each frame. The
tool edits the first frame that holds text.
- Typing, Delete and Cut replace the whole story as one undo step
(`text.editRange` takes `clear`, the other frames whose text goes).
- Copy and Cut take the whole story (`text.getRange {id, story: true}`).
- Fills and strokes, `type.step`, `appearance.copyFrom`, the Character,
Paragraph, OpenType and text style panels, the Tabs panel's tab
stops, the font menus and the Justification dialog act on every
frame's text (`text.setRangeStyle {id, story: true}` styles them in
one edit).
- A caret move, a click or a word or paragraph selection ends it.
Select All in unthreaded type is unchanged.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Template sets Lock again even when Lock was set in the dialog before it,
so a template layer is always locked. Only a Dim Images set before
Template keeps its value.
Setting Template in the dialog (the checkbox, or ui.dialog.set of template)
also set Lock and Dim Images, replacing a value set in the dialog earlier.
That value was then sent to every selected row, and ui.dialog.set gave
different results depending on the order of its fields. A Lock or Dim Images
set in the dialog now keeps its value when Template changes.
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