Problem: After Effects 26.3 pastes copied vector artwork as shape layers. Edit ▸ Paste only
knew the app's own clipboard, so SVG markup on the system clipboard was ignored; turning SVG
into shapes needed an imported footage file and Create Shapes from Vector Layer.
Fix: a new `edit.pasteSvg {svg, name?, comp?}` command builds a shape layer from SVG text with
the same conversion as Create Shapes from Vector Layer (paths, fills, strokes, gradients, clip
masks), above the selected layer with the SVG canvas centred in the comp, as one undo step;
oversized, non-SVG or shapeless text is rejected. In the UI, Ctrl/Cmd+V (and the native Edit ▸
Paste) run it when the system clipboard holds SVG. Copying in the app already replaces the
system clipboard with a note, so SVG there is newer than the app's clipboard.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Text with embedded TrueType, CFF (Type1C / CIDFontType0C / OpenType), Type 1 and Type 3 fonts,
standard-14 fallback to the bundled OFL fonts; Flate / DCT / inline / stencil images with SMask,
Indexed and ICC alternates; luminosity / alpha soft masks and the 16 blend modes in the SVG
render tree; tiling patterns; calculator functions; file.import page and Footage::page;
Create Shapes from Vector Layer keeps clips (page clips as layer masks, nested clips as Merge
Paths Intersect).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>