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Twelve lines in docs/target-app-parity.md quoted text from the
reference app's public pages: a masks tutorial, a blog post on
artboards, the default keyboard shortcuts, the Contextual Task Bar
announcement and the Brushes page. Each line now links the same page
and describes what it says in the doc's own words. Option, button and
tool names stay as they are, and so do VectorCraft's own labels and
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- **Control bar with the Artboard tool:** while the Artboard tool is in use, the Control bar shows the active artboard's controls in place of the object controls: Preset, Portrait and Landscape, New Artboard, Delete Artboard, the Name field, Artboard Options, Rearrange All Artboards, the Transform link, Move and Scale Artwork with Artboard and, while the bar has room, the reference point with X and Y, and W and H with the Constrain Width and Height Proportions link. Each runs the command its Properties or Transform panel counterpart runs (`artboard.setProps`, `artboard.new`, `artboard.delete`, `tool.options {tool: "artboard"}`), and the reference point is the one the Transform panel uses. In an 800-point window the controls up to the Transform link fit, Move and Scale Artwork with Artboard show as their boxes alone with their names in tooltips, and the link opens the Transform panel with the artboard's position and size. Pointer and key tests in `panels/artboards.rs` cover the controls, W about the reference point, the orientation and the name. Public reference: [Using multiple artboards](https://web.archive.org/web/20210925094818/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/using-multiple-artboards.html) (archived copy).
- **Names of new and renamed artboards, brushes and patterns:** `artboard.new` and `artboard.setProps` trim the white space around the name they are given, as the Artboards panel's rename does, and a blank name gives the artboard its default name, Artboard N for the Nth artboard. `brush.new`, `brush.duplicate`, `brush.options`, `object.pattern.make`, `object.pattern.saveCopy` and `pattern.options` trim the name as the Brush Options dialog and the Pattern Options panel do, and compare the trimmed name with the names there are; a blank name gives the name each command gives when there is none, and Brush Options and Pattern Options keep the name. Tests in `tests_panelcmds.rs`, `tests_brushsym.rs` and `tests_pattern.rs` cover each command. Public references: [Using multiple artboards](https://web.archive.org/web/20210925094818/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/using-multiple-artboards.html), [Brushes](https://web.archive.org/web/20251018101754/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/brushes.html) and [Create and edit patterns](https://web.archive.org/web/20211031180358/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/create-edit-patterns.html) (archived copies).
- **Pattern names and swatch names:** `pattern.options` refuses a new name that another pattern, a swatch or a color group has. It takes a name that only the pattern's own swatches have. The reference page does not say what happens when the new name is taken; the refusal follows VectorCraft's rule that swatches and color groups share one namespace (`Document::swatch_name_taken`), which `swatch.new` and `swatch.edit` also follow. A rename gives the new name only to the pattern's swatches that had the old one; any other swatch with the old name keeps it, and art linked to that swatch stays linked. `object.pattern.make` and `object.pattern.saveCopy` number a color group's name as they number a swatch's. Tests in `tests_pattern.rs` cover each command. Public reference: [Create and edit patterns](https://web.archive.org/web/20211031180358/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/create-edit-patterns.html) (archived copy).
- **A clip group in Properties:** with one clip group selected, the panel has Edit Clipping Path and Edit Contents at its top, under the Clip Group heading, which select the clipping path or the clipped art for the selection tools to transform alone, as Object › Clipping Mask does ("With the clip group selected, click the Edit Clipping Path button at the top of the Properties panel to select and edit the mask, or click the Edit Contents button to select and edit the masked content", <https://www.adobe.com/learn/illustrator/web/crop-using-masks>). Edit Contents shows only when the group clips something. Not checked against the reference app: whether Properties keeps the buttons while the clipping path or the contents is selected; the Control bar has no clip-group buttons here. Evidence: `panels::properties::tests::one_clip_group_has_edit_clipping_path_and_edit_contents_at_the_top`.
- **A clip group in Properties:** with one clip group selected, the panel has Edit Clipping Path and Edit Contents at its top, under the Clip Group heading, which select the clipping path or the clipped art for the selection tools to transform alone, as Object › Clipping Mask does (<https://www.adobe.com/learn/illustrator/web/crop-using-masks>: with a clip group selected, the tutorial uses Edit Clipping Path at the top of the Properties panel to select the mask for editing, and uses Edit Contents to select the masked art). Edit Contents shows only when the group clips something. Not checked against the reference app: whether Properties keeps the buttons while the clipping path or the contents is selected; the Control bar has no clip-group buttons here. Evidence: `panels::properties::tests::one_clip_group_has_edit_clipping_path_and_edit_contents_at_the_top`.
- **Edit Artboards in Properties:** the active artboard's name is a field. Typing a new name and pressing Enter or clicking elsewhere renames that artboard in one undo step, as the Artboards panel's rename does (`artboard.setProps {index, name}`); pressing Escape or leaving the field empty keeps the old name. A click on the Artboard Options icon beside the field opens Artboard Options for the active artboard, as double-clicking the Artboard tool's button does (`tool.options {tool: "artboard"}`). Pointer and key tests in `panels/properties.rs` cover both. Public references: [Resize artboards](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/create-manage-artboards/add-edit-artboards/resize-artboards.html) and [Create and add new artboards](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/create-manage-artboards/add-edit-artboards/add-new-artboards.html).
- **Artboard background colors:** each artboard can have a background color (`artboard.setProps {index, color}`, `color: null` removes it). With the Artboard tool, Properties has a Fill row: its list sets None, White or Black, and its chip and its Color Picker… item open the Color Picker for the artboard. Artboard Options has a Background Color row with a list that sets None, White or Black, and a color button. The canvas draws the artboard's paper in the color, multiplied with the paper color while Simulate Colored Paper is on, and the transparency grid still covers it. The native format saves the color, and a document without colors saves as before. Exports and print do not draw the color. Engine, canvas, Properties, Color Picker and Artboard Options tests cover it. Public reference: [Apply colors to artboards](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/create-manage-artboards/organize-manage-artboards/add-background-color-to-artboards.html).
- **Resizing several artboards:** with several artboards selected with the Artboard tool, a new W or H in Properties, the Transform panel or the Control bar, a preset or an orientation in Properties or the Control bar, and a new Width or Height in Artboard Options resize every selected artboard in one undo step (`artboard.setProps {artboards}`); with Scale Artwork with Artboard on, Properties, the Transform panel and the Control bar scale each object once, with the artboard it was inside before the change. The Transform panel, the Control bar and Artboard Options resize each one about its own reference point, a preset sizes each one in its own orientation, and X and Y still move the active artboard alone. Pointer and key tests in `panels/properties.rs`, dialog tests in `dialogs/tests.rs` and an engine test in `tests_xform.rs` cover them. Public references: [Artboard Enhancements In Illustrator CC](https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2017/11/10/artboard-enhancements-in-illustrator-cc) ("modify them all in bulk by defining the height and width values") and [Using multiple artboards](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/using-multiple-artboards.html) (2019).
- **Resizing several artboards:** with several artboards selected with the Artboard tool, a new W or H in Properties, the Transform panel or the Control bar, a preset or an orientation in Properties or the Control bar, and a new Width or Height in Artboard Options resize every selected artboard in one undo step (`artboard.setProps {artboards}`); with Scale Artwork with Artboard on, Properties, the Transform panel and the Control bar scale each object once, with the artboard it was inside before the change. The Transform panel, the Control bar and Artboard Options resize each one about its own reference point, a preset sizes each one in its own orientation, and X and Y still move the active artboard alone. Pointer and key tests in `panels/properties.rs`, dialog tests in `dialogs/tests.rs` and an engine test in `tests_xform.rs` cover them. Public references: [Artboard Enhancements In Illustrator CC](https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2017/11/10/artboard-enhancements-in-illustrator-cc) (a height and a width entered once resize every selected artboard) and [Using multiple artboards](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/using-multiple-artboards.html) (2019).
- **Artboard Escape routing:** Escape leaves Artboard editing for Selection; during a drag it first cancels the gesture. Headless egui key events cover idle Escape, active-drag cancellation and a subsequent Escape in `tests_distortkeys.rs`.
- **Shift with the Artboard tool:** a Shift-click adds an artboard to the selection or takes it out when the button comes up. A Shift-drag inside an artboard draws a new artboard there, and a Shift-drag on the pasteboard is a marquee that toggles the artboards it touches, as the [default keyboard shortcuts](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) ("Create artboard inside another artboard") and [Using multiple artboards](https://web.archive.org/web/20210925094818/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/using-multiple-artboards.html) (archived copy) describe. Shift no longer keeps an artboard move at 45° steps or a drawn artboard square. Escape during a marquee or while a new artboard is being drawn cancels it and keeps the Artboard tool. Pointer and key tests in `crates/tools/src/xform/artboard.rs` cover the four gestures and Escape.
- **Shift with the Artboard tool:** a Shift-click adds an artboard to the selection or takes it out when the button comes up. A Shift-drag inside an artboard draws a new artboard there, and a Shift-drag on the pasteboard is a marquee that toggles the artboards it touches, as the [default keyboard shortcuts](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) (a Shift-drag draws an artboard within an existing one) and [Using multiple artboards](https://web.archive.org/web/20210925094818/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/using-multiple-artboards.html) (archived copy) describe. Shift no longer keeps an artboard move at 45° steps or a drawn artboard square. Escape during a marquee or while a new artboard is being drawn cancels it and keeps the Artboard tool. Pointer and key tests in `crates/tools/src/xform/artboard.rs` cover the four gestures and Escape.
- **Artboard deletion keys:** Delete/Backspace delete selected boards in one Undo step, retaining the original first board in the current order when all are selected, as in the public [Delete artboards guide](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/create-manage-artboards/add-edit-artboards/delete-artboards.html). The last board and active drags stay protected; neither key clears selected artwork. Headless shortcut regressions in `tests_distortkeys.rs` cover reordered boards, artwork, saved state and Undo/Redo.
- **Locked artboards:** a click in the Artboards panel's lock column locks or unlocks an artboard in one undo step (`artboard.setProps {index, locked}`), and the native format saves the lock. The Artboard tool doesn't move, copy, resize or delete a locked artboard, Rearrange and Fit to Artwork Bounds leave it as it is, and its name isn't edited on the canvas. The art on it (each object whose bounds overlap it, a group as one object) acts as locked art until it is unlocked: clicks, marquees, `select.set`, `select.all` and the tools pass over it, and commands that act on the selection leave it; art drawn or pasted onto it stays selected and editable until the selection leaves it out. Tests in `crates/doc/src/lib.rs`, `tests_panelcmds.rs`, `xform/artboard.rs`, `panels/artboards.rs` and `canvas.rs` cover them. Public references: [Lock artboards](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/create-manage-artboards/organize-manage-artboards/lock-artboards.html) and [Managing Artboards in Illustrator](https://creativepro.com/managing-artboards-in-illustrator/).
- **Linux RPM packaging:** 64-bit runtime capabilities replace Fedora-specific required package names (#1275); glibc 2.35, libm and libgcc_s are declared alongside dynamically loaded xkbcommon and Vulkan/EGL. Generated x86_64/aarch64 metadata and isolated synthetic-provider resolution checked; real-distro install/start-up QA remains pending.
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- Numeric fields keep the pointer's pressed character as the text-drag start when movement exceeds the click threshold (#1326, in part); a completed focus click selects the unit too. Pixel/point, plain and optional fields are regression-tested in both directions, before/after focus, with replacement text; keyboard focus, double-click, arrows and wheel keep their prior behavior. Native egui input confirms partial replacement gives 17 px instead of 700 px, one Undo/Redo, window captures and an exact saved-document read in a separate CLI process. Short movements still counted as clicks can select all; that case remains open.
- Unit fields and length strings take `%` in arithmetic: `3cm*50%` reads as 1.5 cm, and `50pt+25%` reads as 62.5 pt.
- The contextual task bar's handle drags it anywhere on the canvas (kept whole on it as the window resizes); unpinned it keeps that offset as it follows the selection, and its More Options menu hides it, pins its position across selection changes (`window.taskBar.pin`), resets it under the selection (`window.taskBar.reset`) and shows the Properties panel. As in Illustrator the position isn't kept across launches. Not done: the bar's variants for other tools (only the selection tools and the Artboard tool show it).
- With one image selected, the contextual task bar offers Image Trace, which traces the image at once with the Default preset (the Image Trace panel is left as it was), and Crop Image; with an Image Trace object it offers Expand, which keeps only the traced paths. As in Illustrator ("Selecting images displays options like Image Trace, Retype, and Crop Image"; "You can also quickly expand traced artwork from the bar": [Contextual Task Bar announcement](https://community.adobe.com/announcements-651/contextual-task-bar-in-illustrator-2025-quick-actions-when-you-need-them-1546580)). Offset Path and Simplify, which don't apply to an image, aren't offered for one. Not done: Retype, which the app doesn't have.
- With the Artboard tool, the contextual task bar sits under the selected artboards and offers Resize (Artboard Options for the active artboard), Duplicate (each selected artboard, in one undo step, the copies then selected), Rearrange All (with two or more artboards) and Export (Export for Screens with the selected artboards checked). As in Illustrator ("the Contextual Task Bar reveals options to resize, duplicate, and export artboards": the [Contextual Task Bar announcement](https://community.adobe.com/questions-652/contextual-task-bar-in-illustrator-2025-quick-actions-when-you-need-them-1546580); Rearrange and Export on the bar: [Managing Artboards in Illustrator](https://creativepro.com/managing-artboards-in-illustrator/)).
- With one image selected, the contextual task bar offers Image Trace, which traces the image at once with the Default preset (the Image Trace panel is left as it was), and Crop Image; with an Image Trace object it offers Expand, which keeps only the traced paths. This follows Illustrator's bar: for a selected image it includes Image Trace, Retype and Crop Image, and traced artwork can be expanded from it ([Contextual Task Bar announcement](https://community.adobe.com/announcements-651/contextual-task-bar-in-illustrator-2025-quick-actions-when-you-need-them-1546580)). Offset Path and Simplify, which don't apply to an image, aren't offered for one. Not done: Retype, which the app doesn't have.
- With the Artboard tool, the contextual task bar sits under the selected artboards and offers Resize (Artboard Options for the active artboard), Duplicate (each selected artboard, in one undo step, the copies then selected), Rearrange All (with two or more artboards) and Export (Export for Screens with the selected artboards checked). This follows Illustrator's bar: while the Artboard tool is in use, it has options for resizing, duplicating and exporting artboards (the [Contextual Task Bar announcement](https://community.adobe.com/questions-652/contextual-task-bar-in-illustrator-2025-quick-actions-when-you-need-them-1546580); Rearrange and Export on the bar: [Managing Artboards in Illustrator](https://creativepro.com/managing-artboards-in-illustrator/)).
- The contextual task bar offers more next steps by selection (<https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/get-started/learn-the-basics/contextual-task-bar-overview.html>): an open path Join and Edit Path (the Direct Selection tool), a closed path Edit Path, a compound path Edit Path and Release Compound Path, a clipping group Edit Clipping Path and Release Clipping Mask instead of Ungroup and Isolate, an image selected with vector art Make Clipping Mask instead of Unite, and point or area type Convert To Area Type or Convert To Point Type beside Create Outlines. Evidence: `crates/ui-egui/src/tests_taskbar.rs`.
- With anchor points selected with Direct Selection, the contextual task bar offers Remove Anchor Points, Connect (`path.join`), Cut Path, Corner and Smooth (`path.convertAnchors` with `to` set to `corner` or `smooth`), the commands of the Control bar's anchor buttons. As in Illustrator ("Remove selected anchor points, Connect selected end points, Cut path at selected anchor points, Convert selected anchor points to corner, and Convert selected anchor points to smooth": [Contextual Task Bar overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/get-started/learn-the-basics/contextual-task-bar-overview.html)). Not done: Simplify, which the bar offers only while no anchors are selected, and the bar's Smooth item that adjusts a path's curvature, a command the app doesn't have (Object › Path › Smooth).
- Tool flyouts tear off: dragging or clicking the tear-off bar on a flyout's right side (or releasing the long press over it) floats its group as a strip of tool buttons, moved by the same bar and put back in the toolbar by the × at its top (`window.floatTools`). While a group floats, the presses that would open its flyout raise the strip instead. Floating strips are kept with the preferences and in user workspaces. Not done: turning a strip vertical, docking it.
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- Cmd/Ctrl+A follows the keyboard: in a panel, dialog or search field it selects the field's text, while the Type tool edits it selects all of that text (also `select.all` over MCP), and only otherwise every object. On macOS the menu bar's Select All, Cut, Copy and Paste (keys or clicks) act on a focused field too, and elsewhere the in-window menus' do: the field that had the keyboard when the menu opened gets them, with its selection, and the keyboard back (#516). Not yet: Select All across threaded frames (one frame's text is selected).
- While the Type tool edits text, a character typed with AltGr is typed and runs no command. Firefox on Windows reports AltGr as Ctrl and Alt held, so in the web build AltGr+L (ł on a Polish layout) does not also open Layer Options for a new layer, and AltGr+Q (@ on a German layout) does not also run Reset Tracking and Kerning. A Ctrl+Alt chord that types no character runs its command.
- With the Artboard tool, Cmd/Ctrl+A after a click on a row of the Artboards panel selects every artboard, as the macOS menu bar's Select All does then; the active artboard stays active, and the art's selection does not change. After a press outside the panel's list, Cmd/Ctrl+A selects every object again. It used to select every object after a click in the panel too. Public reference: [Select artboards](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/create-manage-artboards/add-edit-artboards/select-artboards.html).
- Cmd/Ctrl+/ (`appearance.addFill`) and Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+/ (`appearance.addStroke`) add a new fill and a new stroke to the selected objects, as the Appearance panel's Add New Fill and Add New Stroke buttons do, on the keys the reference app's [Default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) page lists for "Add new fill" and "Add new stroke". Keyboard Shortcuts lists both under Window › Appearance.
- Cmd/Ctrl+/ (`appearance.addFill`) and Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+/ (`appearance.addStroke`) add a new fill and a new stroke to the selected objects, as the Appearance panel's Add New Fill and Add New Stroke buttons do, on the keys the reference app's [Default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) page lists for adding a new fill and a new stroke. Keyboard Shortcuts lists both under Window › Appearance.
- Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+Shift+. and , (`type.size.increaseByFive`, `type.size.decreaseByFive`) step the font size of the selected type, or of the text the Type tool has selected, by five times the Size/Leading increment (Preferences › Type); Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+. and , still step it by one increment.
- Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+Q (`type.resetTracking`) sets the tracking of the selected type, or of the text the Type tool has selected, to 0 and its kerning to Auto (0 in the Character panel), in one undo step; at a caret it resets the kerning of the character before it.
- Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+L (`ui.newLayer`) opens Layer Options for a new layer, as an Alt-click on the Layers panel's New Layer button does, on the key the reference app's [Default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) page lists for "Add a layer while opening the New Layer dialog box". OK adds the layer above the current layer, and Cancel adds none. Cmd/Ctrl+L still adds a layer without the dialog.
- F8 (`ui.symbolOptions`) opens Symbol Options for a new symbol made from the selection, as the Symbols panel's New Symbol button does, on the key the reference app's [Default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) page lists for "Create new symbol". OK makes the symbol and puts an instance of it in place of the art, and Cancel makes none. With nothing selected, F8 opens no dialog, and the status bar says that nothing is selected. Shift+F8 and Cmd/Ctrl+F8 still show the Transform and Info panels.
- Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+L (`ui.newLayer`) opens Layer Options for a new layer, as an Alt-click on the Layers panel's New Layer button does, on the key the reference app's [Default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) page lists for adding a layer through the New Layer dialog box. OK adds the layer above the current layer, and Cancel adds none. Cmd/Ctrl+L still adds a layer without the dialog.
- F8 (`ui.symbolOptions`) opens Symbol Options for a new symbol made from the selection, as the Symbols panel's New Symbol button does, on the key the reference app's [Default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) page lists for making a new symbol. OK makes the symbol and puts an instance of it in place of the art, and Cancel makes none. With nothing selected, F8 opens no dialog, and the status bar says that nothing is selected. Shift+F8 and Cmd/Ctrl+F8 still show the Transform and Info panels.
- Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+X (`type.resetHorizontalScale`) sets the horizontal scale of the selected type, or of the text the Type tool has selected, to 100% as the Character panel shows it (the object's own stretch included), in one undo step; at a caret it leaves the text as it is.
- Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+N (`file.newWithoutDialog`) makes a document without opening the New Document dialog, on the key the reference app's [Default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) page lists for "Create a document without opening the New Document dialog box". The page does not say which settings the document gets. VectorCraft gives it the settings the dialog opens on (the first Recent entry, or the Print category's Letter while Recent is empty) and the next untitled name.
- Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+N (`file.newWithoutDialog`) makes a document without opening the New Document dialog, on the key the reference app's [Default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) page lists for making a new document with no New Document dialog box. The page does not say which settings the document gets. VectorCraft gives it the settings the dialog opens on (the first Recent entry, or the Print category's Letter while Recent is empty) and the next untitled name.
- Shortcut sets other apps save as text (`.kys`) open in Import Shortcut Set from File › Open, from Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts › Import… in the desktop app, or from a drop on the window. It matches each entry to a tool, command or panel by name and decodes the file's key and modifier codes where VectorCraft's default shortcuts agree on them; the user answers the rest, and Apply fills the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog's working set. The answers are kept with the preferences for the next import (`shortcutSet.read`, `importMatches.*`).
- On Windows and Linux the app bar is the window's title bar (its own minimize, maximize and close buttons, drag to move, edges to resize), with the dragon app icon as the brand mark; dialogs and menus size to their content. As on a native menu bar, once one menu is open, moving the pointer onto another title opens that one.
- **Tools:**
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- **Panel drag and drop:** art dragged off the canvas onto the Symbols panel becomes a symbol, art dragged onto the Swatches panel becomes a pattern swatch, and art dropped on the Brushes panel opens New Brush for that art; a symbol dragged onto the canvas places an instance where it is dropped, and a brush dragged onto a path is applied to it.
New Brush asks for the type of brush first, as the [Brushes](https://web.archive.org/web/20241230205225/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/brushes.html) page (archived copy) describes. The Brushes panel's New Brush button, its menu's New Brush… and art dropped on the panel open the New Brush dialog, where Scatter Brush, Art Brush and Pattern Brush need selected or dropped art. OK opens that type's Brush Options for the new brush, and their OK makes the brush with the name and options set; Cancel in either dialog adds no brush (`ui.newBrush`). The menu's New Calligraphic Brush, New Bristle Brush and New Art, Scatter and Pattern Brush from Selection items still make a brush at once.
- **Panel drag and drop:** art dragged off the canvas onto the Symbols panel becomes a symbol, onto the Swatches panel a pattern swatch and onto the Brushes panel an Art brush; a symbol dragged onto the canvas places an instance where it is dropped, and a brush dragged onto a path is applied to it.
In the Brushes panel, a brush dragged onto another brush of its type goes before or after it, by the half of the tile or row the pointer is over, and a bar marks the slot while the brush is held there (`brush.move`); the move is one undo step. Brushes move only within their type, as the [Brushes](https://web.archive.org/web/20241230205225/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/brushes.html) page states ("You can move brushes only within their type"): a brush dropped on a brush of another type stays where it is, and the status bar shows "brushes move only within their type".
In the Brushes panel, a brush dragged onto another brush of its type goes before or after it, by the half of the tile or row the pointer is over, and a bar marks the slot while the brush is held there (`brush.move`); the move is one undo step. Brushes move only within their type, as the [Brushes](https://web.archive.org/web/20241230205225/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/brushes.html) page states: a brush dropped on a brush of another type stays where it is, and the status bar shows "brushes move only within their type".
In the Swatches panel, Alt-dragging a swatch onto another swatch of its kind (not a tint swatch) replaces that swatch's color, gradient or pattern, and the swatch keeps its name and place.
- **Tool double-clicks:** double-clicking a tool's button opens its options: Hand fits the artboard in the window, Zoom shows 100 %, Rotate, Scale, Reflect and Shear open their Object › Transform dialogs, the Selection, Direct Selection and Group Selection tools the Move dialog (Enter opens these seven tools' dialogs too; Move opens on the offset of the last drag or Move and with the checkboxes it was last confirmed with, so Enter, Enter repeats a move or a copy at the same spacing, as [an Adobe Community thread](https://community.adobe.com/questions-652/move-tool-771221) describes), Gradient, Eyedropper, Blend and the Liquify tools their panels or options, the Pencil, Paintbrush, Smooth, Blob Brush and Eraser tools their Tool Options (Fidelity, fill, Keep selected, the tolerances, the brush size), and (#812) the Flare tool its Flare Tool Options, the Artboard tool the active artboard's Artboard Options, the graph tools Graph Type for the selected graph, the Symbolism tools the Symbolism Tools Options (Diameter, Intensity, Symbol Set Density) and the Magic Wand tool its panel.
In the Pencil and Paintbrush Tool Options, Edit selected paths within 0 px turns editing off, so a stroke that starts exactly on an end of a selected open path draws a new path; Close paths when ends are within 0 px turns closing off, so a stroke that ends exactly where it started stays open.
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- **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. Points in different models mix in display RGB, and a CMYK document stores the result 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.
- **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 or Pressure 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 or Pressure from the first at the lightest pressure to the second at the heaviest; 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) 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. Still to come: the Art brush's Overlap, auto-generated Pattern brush corners, new tile art picked in Pattern Brush Options, Stylus Wheel, Tilt, Bearing and Rotation, and pen pressure on macOS.
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 states that "The colors that a scatter, art, or pattern brush paints depend on the current stroke color and the colorization method of the brush" (<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).
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).
Art Brush Options' Width (1% to 1000%) and Pattern Brush Options' Scale (1% to 10000%) each have a slider beside the field, over the same range in whole percents; screen readers name the slider as its row and read the field's value.
Scatter, Art and Pattern Brush Options have the Tips button for Colorization that the [Brushes](https://web.archive.org/web/20241230205225/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/brushes.html) page (archived copy) describes, beside Method. It opens Colorization Tips, which shows each method's name and what it does beside a sample of the brush, as OK would make it, painted with that method on a blue stroke; Hue Shift's sample uses the dialog's Key Color. `ui.dialog.set {field: "tips", value: true}` opens it. Screen readers name the button, the popover and each sample.
Hue Shift set by `brush.new` or `brush.options` without a key color takes the color the art's fills and strokes use most, as Brush Options already offers it, following the Brushes page: "By default, the key color is the most prominent color in the art" (<https://web.archive.org/web/20241230205225/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/brushes.html>). The page does not state how prominence is measured. Counting the fills and strokes that use each solid color, with the first one found winning a tie and black for art with no solid color, is VectorCraft's own rule. A `brush.options` edit that gives only the method keeps the brush's key color, and one that gives only an art brush's start guide keeps its end guide. Evidence: `tests_brushsym::hue_shift_without_a_key_takes_the_most_used_art_color`, `tests_brushsym::art_brush_options_keep_the_scale_fields_an_edit_leaves_out`.
Hue Shift set by `brush.new` or `brush.options` without a key color takes the color the art's fills and strokes use most, as Brush Options already offers it, following the Brushes page, where the key color defaults to the color that stands out most in the art (<https://web.archive.org/web/20241230205225/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/brushes.html>). The page does not state how prominence is measured. Counting the fills and strokes that use each solid color, with the first one found winning a tie and black for art with no solid color, is VectorCraft's own rule. A `brush.options` edit that gives only the method keeps the brush's key color, and one that gives only an art brush's start guide keeps its end guide. Evidence: `tests_brushsym::hue_shift_without_a_key_takes_the_most_used_art_color`, `tests_brushsym::art_brush_options_keep_the_scale_fields_an_edit_leaves_out`.
Bristle Brush Options and `brush.new` take a bristle brush name of at most 31 characters, as the Brushes page states for the Bristle Brush Options. The Name field stops taking characters at 31, and `brush.new` and `brush.options` refuse a longer new name with an error that names the limit. The page does not say how the limit counts characters or what happens to longer names already saved; counting characters and the number added to a taken name, keeping longer saved names, and leaving `brush.duplicate` unlimited are VectorCraft's own rules. A bristle brush that a document or a saved file already holds under a longer name keeps it, and the other brush types take a name of any length. Test: `bristle_brush_names_have_at_most_31_characters` in `tests_brushsym.rs`. Public reference: [Brushes](https://web.archive.org/web/20241230205225/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/brushes.html) (archived copy).
In the Brushes panel, Shift-click selects a range of brushes and Ctrl/Cmd-click adds or removes one. Delete Brush and Duplicate Brush then act on all of them (`brush.delete {names}`, `brush.duplicate {names}`).
Document Info has a Brushes category after Graphic Styles. It lists the Brushes panel's brushes, or with Selection Only it lists the brushes that the selected objects' strokes use. The Document Info report and Package's report list them too (`document.info {category: "brushes"}`, `brushNames`).