#6369: Merge main and preserve halftone preview notes

docs/file-format-parity.md

@@ -311,6 +311,15 @@ Names in the editing data that aren't UTF-8 (layers, objects, artboards, colors,
 | Affinity `.af`, `.afdesign`, `.afpub` | no | yes (beyond Illustrator) | no (#665) | 51 pinned files, [affinity-validation.md](affinity-validation.md) |
 | Clipboard: PDF, SVG, PNG, EMF, text | yes | yes | yes | copied files paste as art; cells copied from a spreadsheet (tab-separated text) paste as a table of point type over gridlines, at most 1000 rows, 256 columns and 20,000 cells (#5296) |
 
+## PDF form gradients
+
+PDF export's linear and radial gradients stay aligned inside transparency groups, opacity masks,
+PDF layers and overprinting art. The original synthetic tests in
+`crates/pdf/tests/gradient_forms.rs` check the output with macOS Quartz and an import/render
+round trip. The three Quartz checks fail on main `65adb7b21` and pass with the form-space fix;
+translated layer bounds also have a regression for the current writer's layer-box repair.
+Stop opacity on translated artboards remains outside this regression coverage.
+
 ## PDF editable imports
 
 - [x] Explicit `/ActualText` replaces covered glyph text once, including empty strings and nested spans (outer owner wins), while later glyphs retain pen geometry. Synthetic regressions in `crates/pdf/src/tests/actual_text.rs`; no added fonts/assets. UTF-16BE, BOM UTF-8 and PDFDocEncoding reuse the reader's text-string decoder.

docs/mcp.md

@@ -3324,11 +3324,13 @@ and `stroke.widthProfile.reset` removes every saved one. `stroke.set {profile}`
 
 ## Arrowheads
 
-`stroke.set {startArrow, endArrow}` takes any of 40 generated heads by name (the params doc lists them; `null` for
-none): arrows (`Arrow`, `Barbed`, `Concave`, `DoubleArrow`, `HalfArrowLeft`/`Right`, `Chevron`, `Feather`,
+`stroke.set {startArrow, endArrow}` takes any of 41 generated heads by name (the params doc lists them; `null` for
+none): arrows (`Arrow`, `LineArrow`, `Barbed`, `Concave`, `DoubleArrow`, `HalfArrowLeft`/`Right`, `Chevron`, `Feather`,
 `Swallowtail`…), filled and open shapes (`Triangle`, `Circle`, `Oval`, `Target`, `Tag`, `Diamond`, `Hexagon`, `Star`,
 the `…Open` rings…) and marks (`Bar`, `DoubleBar`, `DotOnBar`, `Slash`, `DoubleSlash`, `Bracket`, `Fork`, `Cross`,
-`Plus`). Each head fits a box about four times its weight (stroke weight × `arrowScale`) long and wide.
+`Plus`). Each head fits a box about four times its weight long and wide. A head's weight is the stroke weight scaled by
+`arrowScale`, at least 0.25 pt. `LineArrow` has two arms of the head's weight (the line's weight at 100 % for lines of
+0.25 pt or more) at right angles and spreads twice as wide.
 
 ## Stroke bounds and clicks
 
@@ -4191,7 +4193,21 @@ every document they read except a native file and the native document that an SV
 
 `view.rotate {angle}` (desktop app) turns the view to `angle` degrees about the center of the canvas; a positive angle
 turns the art clockwise on screen. View › Rotate View and the status bar's angle menu run it. It returns `{angle}`, the
-angle it set, normalized to (-180, 180], and `view.rotateReset` turns the view back to 0.
+angle it set, normalized to (-180, 180], and `view.rotateReset` turns the view back to 0, returning `null` on success.
+
+Select the Rotate View Tool with `select_tool` and the tool id `rotateView`. Its `pointer_gesture`
+drags turn the canvas about its center; Shift snaps to 15°. Document coordinates for a rotation
+gesture use the view at the initial down event, including when the gesture spans several calls.
+The control channel rejects malformed rotation packets without changing the angle and cancels
+the current press. Start a new down event after an error.
+Reset Rotate View is the command `view.rotateReset`:
+
+```json
+{"name":"select_tool","arguments":{"tool":"rotateView"}}
+{"name":"pointer_gesture","arguments":{"events":[{"kind":"down","x":300,"y":150},{"kind":"drag","x":200,"y":250},{"kind":"up","x":200,"y":250}]}}
+{"name":"command_run","arguments":{"id":"view.rotateReset","params":{}}}
+```
+
 `view.rotateToSelection` (desktop app, View › Rotate View to Selection) turns the view about the center of the canvas to
 the angle the selected objects share (`selectionRotation` in `document.inspect`, 0 when their angles differ), so their
 bounding box is square to the window. It returns `{angle}`, and with nothing selected it returns "nothing selected".

docs/target-app-parity.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Parity with Adobe Illustrator
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-10 · **Change:** minor (G5: Map Markers built-in symbol library; bundled content ~32% → ~34%; previously minor: right-click on type: Spelling › Auto Spell Check, with its check mark, #4936; previously minor: right-click on a word Auto Spell Check underlined: its suggestions, Ignore All and Add to Dictionary, #4936; previously minor: Canvas: a 3D effect changed on type or a group redraws where its solid was; Fit to Artwork Bounds and per-artboard SVG export build each solid once for all artboards; previously minor: Effect Gallery: a thumbnail for each filter and a preview area inside the dialog, on an original drawing; Raster effects 52% → 55%, hours 1–2 → none; headline numbers unchanged; Auto Spell Check: `edit.autoSpellCheck` underlines the unknown words, #4936; previously minor: PDF editable import preserves authored ActualText once, including empty/nested spans and authored ordering (#6165); cross-line/style layout remains approximate; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF marked-text export (#6309): compatible glyphs stay on one layout line with per-glyph offsets; scores and estimates unchanged; G5: UI Frames built-in symbol library with default 9-slice; bundled content ~32%; previously minor: G5: dynamic symbol part on-canvas opacity/blend/gradient/pattern; strokes remaining no longer lists Overlap/auto corners; symbols ~88%; previously minor: interim macOS cursor delivery, #2292; native validation pending; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: harakat paint fallback clarified; previously minor: current Guides feature-area rows consolidated using existing ruler evidence; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: G5 docs: Art brush Overlap and Pattern brush auto corners removed from strokes remaining; symbols remaining lists dynamic on-canvas beyond solid and guides outside the art; previously minor: custom dictionary and Ignore All: `text.spelling.addWord`, `removeWord`, `changeWord`, `dictionary` and `ignoreAll`, #4936; previously minor: EPS import: embedded fonts (composite, Type 42, CID-keyed, Type 1, CFF FontSet) draw their glyphs; spell check engine: `text.spelling.check` and `text.spelling.suggest` on craft-proof, #4936; previously minor: floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it, #5925 in part; `.ai`/EPS type keeps its tab stops, and right-aligned lines with tabs lay out as the file's page, #6147; `.ai`/EPS type from the text document lays its lines out closer to the file's page, within limits, #6137; `.ai` and EPS import: older Art brush objects read; numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking keyboard focus, and a panel wheel turn cannot seed a canvas zoom glide, #5949; Character Styles panel: a double-click on a style's row opens its Character Style Options; the dialog keeps a fixed width and scrolls its sections, so its buttons stay on screen; Tools stays beside the canvas with left-side panels; new gradients follow document color mode; Selection QoL: marquee modes and visible feedback, #5313; SVG CSS classes survive export and repeated import in all four styling modes (#2480); current-main integration retains event attributes and scripts; #3380 deletion-only review follow-up: independent survivors keep gradient placement, owned subpaths avoid discarded copies, and contracts/status/evidence are clarified; endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged; the canvas keeps selection outlines and anchors between frames; Indian-language hyphenation review and license allowlist, #4947; Stroke gradients: an arrowhead aligned to the tip is painted to the corners of its base, #5964; Drop Shadow and glow dialogs: spinner arrows, #5367, #5368; Stroke Weight Up and Down shortcuts, #5797; Hindi catalog and contributor loanword preferences; full wording review in progress; Properties in Edit Artboards: a Transform section with the reference point above the Artboards section, #5219; the Control bar's Stroke: and Opacity: links scrub their fields, #4088; an image zoomed in on is separated, colorized or proofed only where it shows (#4155); a document's first frame renders on the render worker, so opening a heavy file no longer freezes the window, #4155; Control bar Paragraph section with type selected, #5372; translating unchanged type reuses its glyph and character-stroke outlines; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; public release notes through 30.7, August 2026; Units › East Asian Type acts, with Q and Ha units; scores unchanged)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-10 · **Change:** minor (Line Arrow arrowhead (#5421; scores and estimates unchanged); G5: Map Markers built-in symbol library; bundled content ~32% → ~34%; previously minor: right-click on type: Spelling › Auto Spell Check, with its check mark, #4936; previously minor: right-click on a word Auto Spell Check underlined: its suggestions, Ignore All and Add to Dictionary, #4936; previously minor: Canvas: a 3D effect changed on type or a group redraws where its solid was; Fit to Artwork Bounds and per-artboard SVG export build each solid once for all artboards; previously minor: Effect Gallery: a thumbnail for each filter and a preview area inside the dialog, on an original drawing; Raster effects 52% → 55%, hours 1–2 → none; headline numbers unchanged; Auto Spell Check: `edit.autoSpellCheck` underlines the unknown words, #4936; previously minor: PDF editable import preserves authored ActualText once, including empty/nested spans and authored ordering (#6165); cross-line/style layout remains approximate; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF marked-text export (#6309): compatible glyphs stay on one layout line with per-glyph offsets; scores and estimates unchanged; G5: UI Frames built-in symbol library with default 9-slice; bundled content ~32%; previously minor: G5: dynamic symbol part on-canvas opacity/blend/gradient/pattern; strokes remaining no longer lists Overlap/auto corners; symbols ~88%; previously minor: interim macOS cursor delivery, #2292; native validation pending; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: harakat paint fallback clarified; previously minor: current Guides feature-area rows consolidated using existing ruler evidence; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: G5 docs: Art brush Overlap and Pattern brush auto corners removed from strokes remaining; symbols remaining lists dynamic on-canvas beyond solid and guides outside the art; previously minor: custom dictionary and Ignore All: `text.spelling.addWord`, `removeWord`, `changeWord`, `dictionary` and `ignoreAll`, #4936; previously minor: EPS import: embedded fonts (composite, Type 42, CID-keyed, Type 1, CFF FontSet) draw their glyphs; spell check engine: `text.spelling.check` and `text.spelling.suggest` on craft-proof, #4936; previously minor: floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it, #5925 in part; `.ai`/EPS type keeps its tab stops, and right-aligned lines with tabs lay out as the file's page, #6147; `.ai`/EPS type from the text document lays its lines out closer to the file's page, within limits, #6137; `.ai` and EPS import: older Art brush objects read; numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking keyboard focus, and a panel wheel turn cannot seed a canvas zoom glide, #5949; Character Styles panel: a double-click on a style's row opens its Character Style Options; the dialog keeps a fixed width and scrolls its sections, so its buttons stay on screen; Tools stays beside the canvas with left-side panels; new gradients follow document color mode; Selection QoL: marquee modes and visible feedback, #5313; SVG CSS classes survive export and repeated import in all four styling modes (#2480); current-main integration retains event attributes and scripts; #3380 deletion-only review follow-up: independent survivors keep gradient placement, owned subpaths avoid discarded copies, and contracts/status/evidence are clarified; endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged; the canvas keeps selection outlines and anchors between frames; Indian-language hyphenation review and license allowlist, #4947; Stroke gradients: an arrowhead aligned to the tip is painted to the corners of its base, #5964; Drop Shadow and glow dialogs: spinner arrows, #5367, #5368; Stroke Weight Up and Down shortcuts, #5797; Hindi catalog and contributor loanword preferences; full wording review in progress; Properties in Edit Artboards: a Transform section with the reference point above the Artboards section, #5219; the Control bar's Stroke: and Opacity: links scrub their fields, #4088; an image zoomed in on is separated, colorized or proofed only where it shows (#4155); a document's first frame renders on the render worker, so opening a heavy file no longer freezes the window, #4155; Control bar Paragraph section with type selected, #5372; translating unchanged type reuses its glyph and character-stroke outlines; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; public release notes through 30.7, August 2026; Units › East Asian Type acts, with Q and Ha units; scores unchanged)
 >
 > Vector Halftone preview update (2026-11-10): temporary dot selection marks are hidden, and the bounding box stays available (#6369).
 >
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ Artboard Options forwards the active Artboard tool's Scale Artwork with Artboard
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-09 | minor | Stroke panel: Line Arrow, a 41st generated arrowhead: two arms of the head's weight (stroke weight × arrowhead scale, at least 0.25 pt: the line's weight at 100 % for lines of 0.25 pt or more) at right angles, a sharp tip and square-cut ends, twice as wide as the other heads; bounds and clicks follow each head's own reach (`stroke.set` `LineArrow`, #5421); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-09 | minor | Canvas: a 3D effect (Extrude & Bevel, Inflate, Rotate, Revolve) changed on type or a group draws again where its art was and is, measured by that art; the canvas measures through its renderer and draws the part with the art it made to measure it. Exports and Object › Rasterize take the solid of 3D type. Fit to Artwork Bounds and per-artboard SVG export measure every artboard through one renderer, building each solid once. A 3D effect on a fill or stroke that builds nothing (Revolve after Roughen) no longer overflows the stack on the canvas, in Object › Rasterize and in raster and EPS exports: the fill or stroke draws as without it. Tests `tests::changed::a_3d_effect_changed_on_type_or_a_group_changes_where_its_solid_was`, `fx::tests::a_renderer_measures_the_art_on_each_artboard_building_each_solid_once`, `canvas::tests::an_edit_to_a_3d_effect_redraws_with_the_art_measured`, `fx::tests::a_3d_effect_that_builds_nothing_draws_the_item_as_without_it`. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-07 | minor | File formats and Type core (#6147): `.ai`/EPS type keeps its paragraphs' tab stops (positions and alignments; leaders aren't read; at most 1,024 a paragraph and 2^20 a story), and right-aligned area type sets the text after a line's last tab against the right edge, the text before it at its stops; centred and justified lines are aligned as a whole as before; evidence added. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-07 | minor | File formats and Type core (#6137): `.ai`/EPS type from the text document keeps auto leading per line, its hyphenation options, may show more of the last lines the file sets in an area frame of its own, when growing the frame by its lines' deepest descent plus 0.05 pt shows them, and a line a soft return ends is justified; evidence added. Limits: frames grow only for area type of one frame, horizontal, by its lines' deepest descent plus 0.05 pt; type in a font that isn't installed, and hyphenation in a language that isn't imported, still lay out differently. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
@@ -1259,7 +1260,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
     Cmd/Ctrl-click on the Gradient panel's Gradient Fill box or on the Tools panel's Gradient button resets the gradient of the active Fill or Stroke to the linear White, Black gradient, as one undo step ([Default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html)).
     With a gradient stop or a freeform gradient point selected, Alt-clicking a color swatch in the Swatches panel recolors it instead of the inactive Fill or Stroke.
   - **Freeform gradient colors in their own model:** Object ▸ Expand and Object ▸ Create Gradient Mesh (`object.mesh.create`) mix a freeform gradient's points in the color model they share: points of C50 M20 Y0 K10 give mesh points of C50 M20 Y0 K10, and RGB points keep their values in a working RGB space other than sRGB. The canvas, the gradient chips and the SVG, PDF, EPS and EMF writers mix the points in that model too. PDF and EPS write a gradient whose points are all CMYK, or all Gray in a CMYK file, as a CMYK image, which PDF's Output settings convert as they convert any CMYK image. Points in different models mix in display RGB (on the canvas in a CMYK document that shows transparency, as the inks of each point), and a CMYK document stores the result of Expand as CMYK through the color settings. Points colored along CMYK stops (`paint.editGradient {stops}`, or a CMYK gradient switched to freeform) are CMYK, and so are a point `paint.freeform.splitLine` adds between CMYK points and a point `paint.freeform.addPoint` adds without `color` to CMYK points. Public reference: [Gradients](https://web.archive.org/web/20250714042311/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/gradients.html) and [Meshes](https://web.archive.org/web/20250812201019/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/meshes.html), which do not state how colors in different models mix; the rule is VectorCraft's own.
-  - **Strokes:** one stroke-geometry module shared by the canvas, SVG, PDF and Outline Stroke; dotted lines (zero-length dashes draw dots or squares); arrowheads with hollow outlines, tip-on-end or extend-past-end alignment and one opacity for line and head. SVG and PDF export arrowheads, width profiles, brushes and aligned strokes exactly as the canvas draws them; Outline Stroke and the live Outline Stroke effect outline every stroke item as drawn (dashes, heads, profiles, alignment); dashes can be fitted to corners and path ends; width profiles carry through dashes, and their corners take the join. The Stroke panel edits type's character strokes, follows the stroke units (its weight presets are round values in that unit: `0.25 mm`, `0.0625 in`, `1 px`, #426; fields show four decimals in mm, cm and inches, three in points), shows mixed values blank and opens from the Control bar. A width profile library, thirty more arrowheads, and Width Point Edit with multi-select and discontinuous points. Visual bounds and clicks cover the whole painted stroke. Scale Strokes & Effects, Scale Corners and Use Preview Bounds work everywhere, and new art inherits stroke options, a graphic style or the whole last appearance.
+  - **Strokes:** one stroke-geometry module shared by the canvas, SVG, PDF and Outline Stroke; dotted lines (zero-length dashes draw dots or squares); arrowheads with hollow outlines, tip-on-end or extend-past-end alignment and one opacity for line and head. SVG and PDF export arrowheads, width profiles, brushes and aligned strokes exactly as the canvas draws them; Outline Stroke and the live Outline Stroke effect outline every stroke item as drawn (dashes, heads, profiles, alignment); dashes can be fitted to corners and path ends; width profiles carry through dashes, and their corners take the join. The Stroke panel edits type's character strokes, follows the stroke units (its weight presets are round values in that unit: `0.25 mm`, `0.0625 in`, `1 px`, #426; fields show four decimals in mm, cm and inches, three in points), shows mixed values blank and opens from the Control bar. A width profile library, thirty-one more arrowheads (among them Line Arrow: two arms of the head's weight (stroke weight × arrowhead scale, at least 0.25 pt: the line's weight at 100 % for lines of 0.25 pt or more) at right angles, cut square, #5421), and Width Point Edit with multi-select and discontinuous points. Visual bounds and clicks cover the whole painted stroke. Scale Strokes & Effects, Scale Corners and Use Preview Bounds work everywhere, and new art inherits stroke options, a graphic style or the whole last appearance.
   - **Brushes (part of #852):** double-clicking a brush in the Brushes panel (or the panel menu's Brush Options…) opens Calligraphic Brush Options (Name; Angle, Roundness and Size, each Fixed, Random, Pressure, Tilt, Bearing or Rotation with its Variation; live previews of the nib and of a light–heavy–light stroke) or Bristle Brush Options (Shape and the bristle sliders); OK edits the brush and every stroke painted with it. The Paintbrush records the pen pressure along each stroke (kept with the path, saved, and joined when a stroke continues a path); a Calligraphic value on Pressure goes from value − variation at the lightest pressure to value + variation at the heaviest, on the canvas and in SVG, PDF and the other exports. Brushes saved before keep their look. Scatter Brush Options (Size, Spacing, Scatter and Rotation, each Fixed, Random between two values, Pressure from the first at the lightest pressure to the second at the heaviest, Tilt, Bearing or Rotation; Rotation relative to Page or Path), Art Brush Options (Width, Scale Proportionately, Stretch to Fit Stroke Length or Stretch Between Guides with the guides' start and end, the four Directions, Flip Along and Across, Overlap) and Pattern Brush Options (Scale, Spacing, the five tiles shown, Flip Along and Across, Stretch to fit, Add space to fit or Approximate path) each have Colorization (None, Tints, Tints and Shades, Hue Shift with its Key Color picked from the art's colours) and a live stroke preview; values from files and commands are clamped to their ranges. Art Brush Options › Overlap places art on each run between sharp corners so folds do not overlap (`ArtBrush.overlap`; `art_brush_overlap_splits_at_corners`). Still to come: Stylus Wheel, pen pressure on macOS where the windowing layer reports none, and tilt, bearing and rotation for Art, Pattern and Bristle brushes and on native Wayland and the web.
     Under Tints and Tints and Shades, art in black ink alone goes by its ink amount, and a process or gray stroke color's tints and shades stay in that color's model; these are VectorCraft's own rules.
     Type in a scatter brush's art takes the brush's colorization as its paths do: Tints, Tints and Shades and Hue Shift recolor the characters' solid fills and strokes in each copy the brush draws, and Brush Options' Key Color list, whose first color is Hue Shift's default key, counts the characters' fills and their strokes wider than 0. The Brushes page says that a scatter, art or pattern brush takes its colors from the current stroke color and the brush's colorization method (<https://web.archive.org/web/20241230205225/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/brushes.html>) and does not mention type there; recoloring the characters' paints like the art's fills and strokes is VectorCraft's own rule. The Symbol Stainer mixes the characters' strokes of type toward the stain as it mixes their fills. Evidence: `tests::scatter_colorization_recolors_type`, `tests::art_colors_list_the_most_used_first`, `tests::stain_mixes_type_strokes_too` (vectorcraft-brush).