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- Vector illustration; an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Illustrator, rebuilt in pure Rust. + Vector illustration; an open-source, modern vector art application, built in pure Rust.
- A fast, open-source, clean-room take on the Adobe Illustrator workflow. It runs natively on + A fast, open-source vector illustration workflow. It runs natively on macOS, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD, and in the browser via WebAssembly. Built by the ArtCraft team.
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ exposes to agents, and exported by VectorCraft's own renderer. The source files ## Why VectorCraft -- **Familiar.** Illustrator's layout, tools, menus, panels and shortcuts: the Pen, Direct Selection, +- **Familiar.** A familiar layout, tools, menus, panels and shortcuts: the Pen, Direct Selection, Pathfinder, Smart Guides, Appearance, Swatches, Layers and more. You already know how to use it. - **Fast.** Multithreaded SIMD rendering off the UI thread. 20,000 shapes render in about 27 ms at full retina resolution while the interface stays at 120 fps. @@ -224,9 +224,8 @@ VectorCraft is under active development. [**ROADMAP.md**](ROADMAP.md) has the st and what's next; [`docs/target-app-parity.md`](docs/target-app-parity.md) the full parity assessment and [`docs/gaps.md`](docs/gaps.md) the ranked list of what's missing. -**Where we are (2026-10-10): alpha.** About 88% of Illustrator 2026's menu items, tools, effects and formats exist -(92.5% of menu items do something), feature depth is ~75%, and we estimate ~65% "ready for real work" for a mainstream illustrator (~62% against -all of Illustrator): everyday +**Where we are (2026-10-10): alpha.** About 88% of core menu items, tools, effects and formats exist +(92.5% of menu items do something), feature depth is ~75%, and we estimate ~65% ready for real work for a mainstream illustrator (~62% across all tracked features): everyday vector illustration is close to usable: drawing and path tools, Pathfinder and Shape Builder, paint, gradients, appearance and transparency, type with styles, threading and Hebrew/Arabic bidirectional layout, and files (SVG, PDF and PDF-compatible `.ai` with PDF/X, legacy version 7 `.ai` keeping layers, groups and type, EPS, DXF, EMF/WMF, raster formats, PSD out and PSD/PSB in as their merged image, Print, Package). @@ -240,20 +239,20 @@ and every-board SVG/PDF/PSD export, with fixes for Affinity 3 artboards, source- The interface speaks English, German, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Finnish, Bulgarian, Greek, Czech and Georgian; [localization-parity.md](docs/localization-parity.md) has the details. -The scores are self-assessed from our code against Illustrator's public documentation; +The scores are self-assessed from our code against public documentation; [target-app-parity.md](docs/target-app-parity.md#how-this-was-measured-2026-10-10) explains how far to trust them. **What's missing:** -- reliable exchange of Illustrator's own `.ai` files (layer structure in real files; Illustrator's editing data isn't written); +- reliable exchange of .ai files (layer structure in real files; proprietary editing data isn't written); - an interaction-fidelity pass covering every tool's modifiers and small behaviours; - 3D and Materials beyond the initial live Revolve (Extrude & Bevel, Inflate, Rotate, materials); -- about half of the Photoshop-style raster effects (24 of 57 still missing; Cutout, Film Grain, Neon Glow and Poster Edges are available under Artistic, Halftone Pattern under Sketch) and the Effect Gallery; +- about half of the raster effects (24 of 57 still missing; Cutout, Film Grain, Neon Glow and Poster Edges are available under Artistic, Halftone Pattern under Sketch) and the Effect Gallery; - CJK composition for vertical type (vertical type itself has initial support, with a Japanese interface); - scripting, and the rest of Variables (image and graph kinds, dataset import); - generative AI features. **Where we're going:** next is the interaction-fidelity pass, `.ai` files from real users and start-up stability, -alongside the raster-effects package; then type, the Illustrator 2026 additions and 3D. The ranked list is in +alongside the raster-effects package; then type, recent additions and 3D. The ranked list is in [`docs/gaps.md`](docs/gaps.md). **Workspace:** `crates/{geom, color, doc, pathops, text, effects, three-d, trace, brush, render, svg, pdf, eps, cad, metafile, format, tools, engine, ui-egui, mcp, testkit}` @@ -372,8 +371,6 @@ ArtCraft Team and are not covered by this license. They may be used only unmodif part of this repository and VectorCraft, under [`docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt`](docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt). Forks and modified versions must remove them. -Adobe, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Lightroom, Acrobat, After Effects and InDesign are trademarks or registered trademarks of Adobe Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. VectorCraft is an independent, open-source project and is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by Adobe Inc.; these names are used only to describe the workflows it is compatible with. -
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