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dotCooCoo d5473acb09 .ai import: 1-bit image masks open colorized by their fill color
The version 7 file format specification gives `XI` and `XF` an
ImageMask operand: 0 is an opaque image, 1 is an image that is
transparent and can be colorized (sections 8.1, 8.2 and the 1-bit
examples in 8.4,
https://13thmonkey.org/documentation/fonts/AI7FileFormat.pdf). The
reader ignored the operand, so a 1-bit image mask opened as an opaque
black-and-white image.

A 1-bit gray image with ImageMask 1 now opens with the fill color set
before it as the color that colorizes it. A spot or global color keeps
its swatch and tint. When the fill is a pattern, a gradient or none,
the image is colorized black. VectorCraft's own rule is that the pixels
that open black with ImageMask 0 take the color and the others are
transparent. A linked image (`XF`) keeps the same color for when its
file is relinked. 8-bit gray, RGB and CMYK images, and images with
ImageMask 0, open as before.
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