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# Parity with Adobe Illustrator
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> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-08 · **Change:** minor (`.ai` and EPS import: older Art brush objects read; 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) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; public release notes through 30.7, August 2026)
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> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-09 · **Change:** minor (`.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) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; public release notes through 30.7, August 2026)
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## Feature submission evidence
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Numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking keyboard focus (#5949). Arrow keys still require focus; modifiers, units, limits, mixed values and existing rounding stay in the shared stepping path. Headless regressions in `tests/numfields.rs` cover hovered unfocused fields, focused fields, trackpad accumulation and panel scroll exclusion. A canvas-first/panel-second regression also checks that a field turn cannot start a canvas zoom glide when the pointer enters the canvas on the next frame. Scores and estimates unchanged.
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Raster rendering fits and preflattens curved stroke outlines more tightly only below four times the raster tolerance, retaining thin-band coverage without changing stroke weight or vector export geometry. Current cached character/object outlines, cropped long strokes, gradient clips and effect rasters share the helper; cropped-region reuse and guarded flattening remain. The unchanged `fractional_curved_strokes_retain_coverage_between_notches` regression covers fractional weights, rotation, phase, opacity and f32-rounded endpoints. This is a quality/cost tradeoff, not a speed claim. Scores and estimates unchanged.
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**PR #3273 revision — 2026-11-04:** Thin curved stroke coverage ported to the current raster-only cache, cropped-long-stroke and effect paths with guarded flattening; vector export geometry unchanged. Scores and estimates unchanged.
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Ligature caret stops use a font's GDEF contour-point positions in horizontal and vertical text. They use unhinted outlines at the default variation location; invalid point indices use the existing evenly divided fallback. Scores and estimates are unchanged.
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Spiral decay now applies after each full wind of four segments. A newly drawn spiral at 80% decay keeps 80% of its radius after one wind. Existing saved paths retain their geometry; newly drawn paths with the same settings differ from earlier VectorCraft builds. Scores and estimates are unchanged.
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Creating a gradient from solid or empty paint uses the document's color model for its default stops, including drawing its vector with the Gradient tool. Explicit `keepModel: true` retains RGB defaults, and existing gradients keep their own colors. Scores and estimates are unchanged.
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**Feature evidence last updated:** 2026-11-05.
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Window → Help Bar toggles the bottom tool-help strip independently of the status bar. Its visibility is saved with workspaces and UI preferences; Presentation Mode hides both bars. Scores and estimates are unchanged.
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The shared assessment status line and revision history are current upstream; this dated section records the submission's feature evidence and revisions without rescoring upstream or claiming a new combined build or runtime measurement.
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- Current-main conflict reconciliation retains upstream and feature behavior; scores and estimates unchanged
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| 2026-11-03 | minor | Correct the Type core missing list: Hyphenation and Justification options are complete; the remaining Every-line Composer fidelity limits stay listed. Record the Kashidas paragraph lengths and per-character switch in the feature history (#5404). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
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| 2026-11-03 | minor | Ligature caret stops use GDEF contour-point positions in horizontal and vertical type at the font's default variation location; invalid point indices keep the evenly divided fallback. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
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| 2026-11-04 | minor | Record Find Font's replacement rows: family and style together, a search over them, and a scroll state of their own (#4972); scores and estimates unchanged. |
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| 2026-11-03 | minor | Spiral decay applies once per full wind of four segments; newly drawn spirals with the same settings wind more broadly than earlier builds. Existing paths are unchanged. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
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| 2026-11-03 | minor | New gradients use CMYK default stops in CMYK documents, including Gradient tool creation. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
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| 2026-11-03 | minor | Type Tools add-on: Text Tweaker (a VectorCraft addition, #4924): evidence added; scores unchanged. |
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| 2026-11-03 | minor | Transform previews valid typed values while numeric fields remain focused. Effect dialogs use the object, group, or layer targeted in Appearance. |
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| 2026-11-03 | minor | Help Bar has its own Window menu toggle and workspace visibility setting. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
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| 2026-11-02 | minor | Legacy `.ai` saves (version 7) write type with rotated characters as outlines that keep each character's rotation, with a warning unless `outlineText` is on (#5186); scores unchanged. |
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| 2026-11-03 | minor | Record shipped Find Font replacement sources: Document, Recent and System (#5217); scores and estimates unchanged. |
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| 2026-10-31 | minor | Object › Path › Smooth smooths a path along its length before refitting it, so Auto-Smooth takes a shaky line to one smooth curve instead of leaving its jags, and with anchor points direct-selected it smooths only that section; scores unchanged. |
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- **Selected Mirror Repeat handles:** a headless canvas regression creates the default mirror repeat and drags its Top bounding-box handle where the axis crosses it; the repeat grows vertically while its width stays fixed. Existing mirror-axis checks cover center movement and end-handle hit priority. The focused UI mirror tests pass. Scores and hours unchanged.
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- **Transform effect options (#885):** Effect › Distort & Transform › Transform… has visible Transform Objects, Transform Patterns and Scale Strokes & Effects checkboxes (`distort.transform` params `objects`, `patterns`, `strokes`; files without them draw as before). With Transform Objects off the geometry stays and makes no copies; Scale Strokes & Effects scales stroke weights, dashes and the fills' and strokes' effect distances by the mean scale, and Transform Patterns moves pattern tiles, each copy `k` by the transformation `k` times. Such objects draw, export and expand through the same per-copy art, so the canvas and Expand Appearance agree (engine `tests_transformfx`, effects `tests_transformfx`, the dialog test). A Transform effect in a fill's or stroke's own effects applies the same options to that fill or stroke: its weight and dashes, the distances of its later effects and its pattern follow the transformation, and with copies each copy is an object of its own; the canvas, export, Expand Appearance and Use Preview Bounds use the same art (effects `tests_transformfx`). Not yet: object effects after a Transform effect keep their distances. Public reference: [Scale objects](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/reshape-transform-objects/scale-objects.html), [How to apply effects](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/effects.html), [Distort and transform effects](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/reshape-transform-objects/distort-and-transform-effects-in-illustrator.html). Scores and hours unchanged.
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- **Warp Options (#1760):** Effect > Warp and existing Appearance effect links share the fifteen existing styles, original schematic previews, orientation choices and percent Bend/Distortion controls. Focused tests passed for real numeric entry and slider input, Preview/Cancel, immediate Enter/OK, mixed-style edits, target/slot/visibility preservation and Undo/Redo. Each applied style stays unchanged until an explicit Style choice. Original style-menu and live-preview captures were reviewed; their numeric values were supplied programmatically. Public references: [Reshaping with effects](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/reshaping-objects-effects.html) and [Using effects](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/effects.html). Warp geometry, optional Properties integration and remembered defaults are unchanged; no broader parity claim.
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- **Placed gradients follow the Warp effects:** under each of the fifteen Warp styles with a bend or a distortion, a gradient placed with the Gradient tool moves and scales from the object's bounds before the warp to its bounds after it, as under Free Distort; a stroke's gradient uses those bounds inflated by the stroke. This holds for an object's own Warp and for a fill's or stroke's own, on the canvas and in Object › Expand of the fill. In a group with a Warp effect, each path's and compound path's gradients follow its own bounds, a nested group's own fills and strokes follow the nested group's bounds, and the group's own fills and strokes follow the group's bounds. In the art Pathfinder and compound shapes take, a symbol instance's Warp moves the gradients of its symbol's art by the art's bounds, and a compound shape's Warp moves its gradients by the bounds of its area. A gradient fitted to the object still fits the warped outline, and a warp with no bend and no distortion leaves the gradient exactly in place. Existing documents with a Warp effect on art with a placed gradient draw differently: before, the gradient stayed where it was while the outline changed. How gradients follow the warp is VectorCraft's own rule; what the Warp effects do to the object is described in [Reshaping with effects](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/reshaping-objects-effects.html) (effects `tests::warp_bends_when_the_warp_moves_the_outline`, `bake::tests::baked_warps_move_placed_gradients_from_the_bounds_to_the_warped_bounds`, `bake::tests::a_warp_with_no_bend_leaves_a_placed_gradient_exactly_in_place`, `bake::tests::a_fills_and_a_strokes_own_warp_move_its_placed_gradient_with_the_bounds`, `group::tests::a_groups_warp_moves_the_gradients_placed_on_its_paths_by_each_paths_bounds`, `group::tests::a_groups_warp_moves_its_own_a_nested_groups_and_a_compound_paths_gradients_by_their_bounds`, `group::tests::shape_art_moves_the_gradients_of_a_symbol_instances_art_and_a_compound_shape_with_a_warp`; render `objectfx::a_paths_gradient_moves_and_scales_with_its_warped_bounds`; engine `objexpand::a_placed_gradient_moved_by_a_warp_expands_as_the_canvas_draws_it`). Scores and hours unchanged.
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- **Distort Appearance with Transform effect options:** with Envelope Options › Distort Appearance on, a path whose Transform effect has Scale Strokes & Effects or Transform Patterns on, or copies it with a gradient, is bent as the same per-copy art it draws and expands as outside the envelope: each copy's own stroke weight, dashes, pattern placement and gradient (effects `bake::tests`). Scores and hours unchanged.
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- **Placed gradients follow Transform and Free Distort effects:** a gradient placed with the Gradient tool moves, turns and scales with the object when the object's Transform effect moves its outline, and each copy of the Transform effect takes it as many times as it takes the transform. Under Free Distort it moves and scales from the path's bounds before the effect to its bounds after it. This holds on the canvas, in export, in Expand Appearance, in Pathfinder and compound shapes, and in Object › Expand of the fill, for an object's own effects, a group's (the own fills of the group, of the groups inside it, of a symbol's art, and of the images and symbol instances it moves, included) and a fill's or stroke's own. A gradient on a path inside a group with a Transform effect now moves with the path (#2214 moved only the gradients of type), and so does a gradient on an image's or symbol instance's own fill. When a path keeps its shape because the effect would pass the geometry budget, the group's own gradients stay in place; a hidden path in a layer, which the layer's bounds leave out, does not hold them. A freeform gradient whose points were edited moves its points in the same way. How gradients follow each effect is VectorCraft's own rule; what each effect does to the object is described in [Distort and transform effects](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/reshape-transform-objects/distort-and-transform-effects-in-illustrator.html) (effects `bake::tests::a_baked_transform_moves_a_placed_gradient_with_the_path`, `bake::tests::a_strokes_own_transform_and_free_distort_move_its_placed_gradient`, `bake::tests::a_fills_gradient_follows_the_effects_around_its_transform_with_options`, `bake::tests::baked_free_distort_moves_placed_gradients_from_the_bounds_to_the_distorted_bounds`, `group::tests::a_groups_transform_and_free_distort_move_the_gradients_placed_on_its_paths`, `group::tests::a_groups_transform_moves_the_gradient_of_its_own_fill`, `group::tests::a_nested_groups_own_gradient_follows_the_outer_groups_transform_and_free_distort`, `group::tests::a_groups_transform_moves_the_gradients_placed_on_an_images_own_fills`, `group::tests::shape_art_moves_gradients_with_a_transform_effect`, `group::tests::shape_art_moves_the_gradient_of_a_symbol_instances_art_with_its_transform`, `tests::art_past_the_budget_keeps_its_own_gradients_in_place`, `tests::a_hidden_path_past_the_budget_leaves_a_layers_gradients_free_to_move`, `tests::edited_freeform_points_follow_a_transform_effect_and_free_distort`; render `objectfx::a_paths_gradient_moves_with_its_transform_and_free_distort`; engine `objexpand::a_placed_gradient_moved_by_a_transform_or_free_distort_expands_as_the_canvas_draws_it`). Scores and hours unchanged.
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- **Constrain Angle (#394):** General › Constrain Angle turns the arrow keys' axes (guides stay on the page's), holds Shift drags of the Selection, Direct Selection, Free Transform, Slice Selection, Reshape and Measure tools and the Pen's handles to the turned axes, and new rectangles, rounded rectangles, ellipses, grids, point and area type, Shift-drawn polygons and stars and the shape size dialogs are drawn along it with their bounding box turned; 0° and whole turns are exactly as before, quarter turns exact (<https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/arrange-objects/rotate-objects-by-specific-angles.html>). Tests: `tests_constrain_tools`, `tests_constrain_new` (engine), `geom` `constrain_axes` / `rotate_deg`, the shape, grid and type tool tests.
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- Variables: when no object is bound to a variable that the data set has a value for, for example after Import Data Sets… defines new variables without binding them, choosing the data set in the Variables panel or stepping to it with the panel's arrows shows a status message, and `dataset.select`, `dataset.next` and `dataset.prev` add the message to the reply as `warning`.
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- Variables: Lock Variables (`variable.lock`, in the Variables panel's bottom bar and menu) stops variables from being defined, deleted or renamed until they are unlocked, while objects can still be bound and unbound and data sets still change and apply; the lock is saved with the document.
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- Batch…: Override Save and Override Export name each file with the extension of the format the step writes, however the step spells the format (`.svg` and `SVG` give `.svg`, `png8` gives `.png`), in `action.batch`.
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- Batch…: Override Export writes the files of an Export for Screens or Export Assets step into a folder for each source file or data set inside the destination folder, under the names the export gives them (`action.batch`). The folder and file names drop trailing periods and spaces (`a..svg` gives `a`). When two source files would get the same name that way (compared without case), or a later file's folder or file would take the name of an output an earlier file wrote, of a source file in the destination folder or, for data sets, of a file already there, Batch adds `-2`, `-3`… to the later one's name.
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- Actions panel menu: Save Actions… writes the current action set with all its actions to a file, and Load Actions… adds the set from such a file to the panel ([Manage a set of actions](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/manage-a-set-of-actions.html); `ui.actionSet.save`, `ui.actionSet.load`). The file is VectorCraft's own action set file (`.vcactions`); a loaded set named like one in the panel gets the next free number.
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- Actions panel menu: Load Actions… also reads action sets saved as `.aia` files ([Actions panel overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/actions-panel-overview.html); `actionSet.read`, `ui.actionSet.load`). VectorCraft's own rules: the set comes in with all its actions. A step with a label and no recorded values comes in as the one menu command with the step's label, when that command is directly in a top menu, is what its menu bar item runs with no values and opens no dialog. A step that is off in the file stays excluded from playback. The other steps, recorded menu items included, are left out, and the status bar says how many.
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- Actions panel: the panel menu's Action Options… renames the selected action and keeps its steps ([Actions panel overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/actions-panel-overview.html): the menu item opens a dialog that renames the action or gives it a function key and color; `ui.action.options`). It also sets the action's function key and color.
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- File › Scripts › Check Script… reads a script written for Illustrator (`.jsx`, `.jsxinc` or a compiled `.jsxbin`) without running any of it and reports what it needs (the document model, files, dialogs, menu commands, features only Illustrator has), what it would do outside the document, the menu commands and document-model members it uses, its directives and included files, and the problems that would stop it loading (`script.check`, which also reads `.js` files); File › Open and drag-and-drop show the report for `.jsx`, `.jsxinc` and `.jsxbin` files.
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- `vectorcraft-js` parses JavaScript as ECMAScript 5.1 defines it, with the legacy octal forms, block functions and lenient regular expressions of Annex B, into a syntax tree with source spans; it reads the `#target`, `#include` and other preprocessor lines as directives without running them, and a script that breaks the grammar or an early-error rule gives a `SyntaxError` with its line and column. Nesting past the parser's depth limit (`Options::max_depth`, 200 by default) gives a `SyntaxError` instead of exhausting the stack. `cargo xtask test262` fetches the conformance suite at a pinned commit and parses its ES5 tests: 5,411 of 5,418 runs pass (the 7 others use `let` and `const`). This entry covers parsing; the next entry covers running scripts. Tests: `crates/js/src/tests.rs`, `crates/engine/tests/it/js_lexer_vs_scriptcheck.rs`.
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- `vectorcraft-js`'s `Realm` runs ECMAScript 5.1 scripts: the parsed script compiles to verified bytecode that a non-recursive interpreter runs, with closures, `this`, `arguments`, `with`, direct and indirect `eval`, `new Function`, `try`/`catch`/`finally`, labeled `break` and `continue`, and `for`-`in` in insertion order, over a mark-and-sweep heap. Built-ins are limited to `Object`, `Function` with `call` and `apply`, `eval` and the error types. Every run is bounded by fuel, heap bytes, frames, nested host calls and an interrupt flag (smaller defaults in the wasm build), and a run that reaches a limit stops with a limit error that `try` cannot catch. `cargo xtask test262` also runs the suite's ES5 language tests that need only these built-ins: 3,074 of 3,078 runs pass (the 4 others expect the completion values of later editions). The app does not call it yet. Tests: `crates/js/src/interp_tests.rs`, `crates/js/tests/test262.rs`.
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- `vectorcraft-js` has `String`, `Number`, `RegExp` and `Date` as ECMAScript 5.1 defines them (sections 15.5, 15.7, 15.9 and 15.10, https://262.ecma-international.org/5.1/), with Annex B's `substr`, `getYear`, `setYear` and `toGMTString`. `toFixed`, `toExponential` and `toPrecision` format a number from its exact decimal value, and `toString(radix)` writes any base from 2 to 36. Regular expressions (flags `g`, `i` and `m`) run on a backtracking matcher whose choice points and capture state count against the heap limit and which takes fuel for every step, so a catastrophic pattern stops at the fuel limit and 50,000 nested groups give a `SyntaxError` at the default depth limit. A string method that would build a string past the heap limit stops before it allocates. `Date` reads the clock and time zone the host sets (`Realm::set_clock`, `Realm::set_time_zone`; local time is UTC by default). `cargo xtask test262` runs the suite's `built-ins` tests for the four (https://github.com/tc39/test262): of the runs of the ES5 tests that need only the built-ins present, 1,113 of 1,169 pass for `String`, 262 of 262 for `Number`, 878 of 908 for `RegExp` and 6 of 6 for `Date`. The others need `Array` and `Boolean` methods, or expect later editions' rules (built-in functions whose `length` can be deleted, flags given with a RegExp object, a negative `lastIndex`, `RegExp.prototype` as a plain object, and `RegExp.prototype`'s `global`, `ignoreCase` and `multiline` properties that can be deleted). The ES5 language tests that can now run give 3,742 of 3,746 passing runs. Tests: `crates/js/src/text_tests.rs`, `crates/js/tests/test262.rs`.
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- **UI:** Illustrator 2026 layout restyled to measured values:
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- Medium Dark theme, categorized and Advanced toolbars (a tool group's flyout opens on a right press, a long press or a press on its corner triangle), 35 pt document tabs, 33 pt panel tabs.
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- Hint bar, contextual task bar, 19 dock panels with ≡ menus.
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- Window › Toolbars › Manage Toolbars… and Manage Toolbars… in the All Tools drawer's menu open a dialog that lists the toolbars made with New Toolbar: a new name typed for the selected toolbar renames it, + copies it with its tools (with none selected, + makes a blank toolbar), and the trash can deletes it. Each change shows under Window › Toolbars and stays in the workspace (<https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/tools.html>; `window.toolbar.manage`, `window.toolbar.rename`, `window.toolbar.duplicate`, `window.toolbar.delete`; `manage_toolbars_renames_duplicates_and_deletes`).
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- Window › Toolbars › Keep Tools Beside the Canvas, a VectorCraft layout option that is off by default, docks the Tools panel between left-side panels and the canvas instead of at the window's left edge; the canvas's left edge then also docks a floating Tools panel, and workspaces keep the setting. Scores are unchanged (`window.toolsBesideCanvas`; `docked_tools_keep_the_window_edge_unless_kept_beside_the_canvas`, `tools_redock_at_the_targets_of_the_chosen_placement`).
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- Hindi (2026-11-06): Hindi (`hi`): 7,877-row machine-assisted catalog, zero/one singular plurals, desktop font fallback and optional Devanagari craft-fonts fallback; all 55 translation tests pass; native review and a web font remain; scores and estimates unchanged. [Terminology and limitations](localization-hi.md).
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- Window › Help Bar shows or hides the tool-help strip at the bottom of the window apart from the status bar (`window.helpBar`). Each setting is kept with the UI preferences and in saved workspaces, and Presentation Mode hides both bars. Layouts saved before the setting existed show the Help Bar where they show the status bar (`help_bar_toggle_is_independent_and_saved_in_workspaces`, `help_bar_and_status_bar_render_independently`, `legacy_help_bar_visibility_follows_each_layouts_status_bar`, `a_help_bar_setting_the_file_lacks_is_saved`).
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- Czech render-site labels: desktop/web file filters, diagnostics, suggested preset names and contributor tooltips/plurals now use catalog lookups; gradients have Czech adjective agreement and printer marks have a separate context (PDF/Print and Summary). Search, Home, toolbar/panel tooltips and Preferences already look up their labels. Every complete catalog has rows for these labels and for the Roman and Japanese printer mark styles. Evidence: `i18n::tests::czech_render_site_follow_up`, `i18n::tests::complete_catalogs_translate_render_site_labels`, `dialogs::tests_modal::printer_mark_labels_are_distinct_from_language_names`; see [localization-parity.md](localization-parity.md).
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- The History panel, Edit › Undo and Edit › Redo translate the names of the steps that apply or redefine a character or paragraph style and of the step that redefines a graphic style: each such step keeps its template (`Apply {name}`, `Redefine {name}`, `Redefine Graphic Style “{name}”`) and the style's name, every complete catalog has a row for each template, and the panel and the menu show the style's name as the document holds it, except the Normal styles' names, which they show in the interface language (`steps_named_after_a_style_list_the_template_around_the_name`, `undo_and_redo_name_a_style_step_around_the_style_name`).
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- Localised UI: menus (in-window and native), panels, dialogs, toolbar and Preferences read from per-language catalogs (`crates/ui-egui/src/i18n`, see `docs/development.md`); Traditional Chinese (Taiwan), Simplified Chinese (mainland), Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, Georgian and Catalan ship complete, and Czech covers every menu label (and more), with system-locale detection on macOS, Windows, Linux and the web (the browser's languages, or `?lang=`), a Language preference and, on macOS, a VectorCraft ▸ Language menu. Names are never translated (fonts and their styles, layers, artboards, saved presets, user libraries, custom workspaces, recent files, plug-ins).
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- Native macOS menu bar, vector tool cursors, a ⌘K command palette, middle-button panning with any tool. Native menus explicitly end tracking on command selection, outside window presses and Escape; menu updates wait until tracking ends, and a dismissing press never starts a canvas gesture (M14.8).
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- The errors of the blend spine commands (Move Spine Point, Reshape Spine Segment, Add Spine Point and Delete Spine Point) show in the status bar in the interface language: each has a row in every catalog that translates all status and error messages and in Bulgarian (`blend_spine_param_errors_are_translated`).
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- The errors of the parameter checks that many commands share show in the status bar in the interface language: a value that is not a number where a number goes (`object.move` with `"dx": "60 mm"`, and `object.rotate`, `object.setBounds` and the other commands that call `check_numbers`), a missing number or index, `ids` that are not a list of object ids, an object id that is not a non-negative integer or names no object, and a date that is not Unix seconds. Each has a row in every catalog that translates all status and error messages, and in Bulgarian, Danish, Indonesian and Dutch (`shared_param_check_errors_are_translated`).
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- Export commands run through MCP, the control channel or the CLI refuse a key that no format takes, and a command that writes one format (`document.exportPdf`, `document.exportEps`, `document.exportDxf`) or takes one format's options (`document.pdfSettings`, `pdf.preset.save`) refuses a key that format doesn't take. An unknown key inside `marks`, `bleed`, `compression`, `output`, `advanced`, `security` or `flattener` is refused by its path.
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- Commands that read their `ids` (or `slices`) list themselves refuse a list with an entry that is not a non-negative integer, and a value that is not a list, and change nothing; they no longer drop the entry and act on the rest (Copy Appearance From, the Edit Colors commands and Overprint Black, Find and Replace, `layer.highlight`, `layer.move`, `library.add`, the Links panel commands, `object.transform`, Make Pattern, the Repeat commands, the slice commands, Join, Average and Join, `plugin.run`, `symbol.edit`, Make Opacity Mask; `tests::ids_without_selection::an_ids_entry_that_is_not_an_id_is_refused_and_changes_nothing`). The error for an entry of an object id list names the key, the entry and its value ("`ids` entry 1 is true, not a non-negative integer object id"), with a row in every catalog that has the other object id errors.
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- The errors of Enter Isolation Mode (`object.isolate`) for a type object, for hidden or locked art and for a call with no `id` while nothing is selected ("missing id", which other commands that take an `id` also give), and the error of the Layers panel's target circle (`layer.target`) for an object outside the isolated group, show in the status bar in the interface language: each has a row in every catalog that translates all status and error messages, and in Bulgarian, Danish, Indonesian and Dutch.
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- An EPS or PostScript file that stops on a PostScript error gives the error's name as PostScript spells it (`typecheck`, `rangecheck` and the other names the reader raises, except `undefined`, whose message names the unknown name) followed by what it means, in the warning after opening and in the error when the file can't be opened. The status bar and the open-error dialog show the meaning in the interface language: each meaning has a row in every catalog (`postscript_error_meanings_are_translated`).
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- With Real-time Drawing and Editing off, a dragged selection whose outline points and evaluated objects come to more than 100,000 shows its moved bounds instead, as the selection at rest does (#525, #2460; `real_time_drawing_off_draws_the_bounds_of_a_selection_too_big_to_outline`, `real_time_drawing_off_draws_the_bounds_of_a_group_too_big_to_outline`, `real_time_drawing_off_draws_the_bounds_of_a_repeat_with_too_many_objects`).
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- With Real-time Drawing and Editing off, a move or handle drag of a group, blend, envelope, repeat or intertwine draws the outline of each of its objects instead of one union of them, as VectorCraft's own rule (`real_time_drawing_off_outlines_a_dragged_group_member_by_member`, `real_time_drawing_off_outlines_a_resized_group_member_by_member`, `real_time_drawing_off_outlines_a_dragged_blend_step_by_step`, `real_time_drawing_off_outlines_a_dragged_envelope_object_by_object`). A group with a Pathfinder effect draws the area the effect makes, a gradient mesh draws its mesh lines, and a symbol instance draws its bounds (`real_time_drawing_off_outlines_a_dragged_pathfinder_group_by_its_area`, `real_time_drawing_off_outlines_each_mesh_of_a_dragged_repeat_once`, `real_time_drawing_off_outlines_a_dragged_symbol_instance_by_its_bounds`).
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- Dialogs move by dragging their heading (the band down from the top edge, as a title bar), stay on screen and keep where they were moved for the session; the form dialogs' choices are dropdowns (Offset Path's Joins, Average's and Shear's and Reflect's axis), and Offset Path lists Offset, Joins, Miter Limit and previews (#423).
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- Dialogs open with their first field focused and its value selected: type a value and press Enter (Move, Rotate, Scale…). A dialog opened from a menu takes the keyboard focus every time it opens, not only the first (#1367), and one whose first field starts greyed out (Blend Options on Smooth Color, Layers Panel Options) gives the focus to that field once it is enabled (#1395). Number fields in panels, the Control bar and dialogs (preferences too) step with Up/Down, or with the mouse wheel over the focused field (#485: a notch a step; the panel under it then stays put, and an unfocused field leaves the wheel to scrolling) (Shift: ten, Ctrl/Cmd: a tenth of their unit), applied at once.
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- Dialogs open with their first field focused and its value selected: type a value and press Enter (Move, Rotate, Scale…). A dialog opened from a menu takes the keyboard focus every time it opens, not only the first (#1367), and one whose first field starts greyed out (Blend Options on Smooth Color, Layers Panel Options) gives the focus to that field once it is enabled (#1395). Number fields in panels, the Control bar and dialogs (preferences too) step with Up/Down, or with the mouse wheel over the hovered field without requiring focus (#485, #5949: a notch a step; the panel under it then stays put, and a disabled field leaves the wheel to scrolling) (Shift: ten, Ctrl/Cmd: a tenth of their unit), applied at once.
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- While Alt (Option on macOS) is held, the Flare Tool Options' Cancel button reads Reset, which puts every option back to the Flare tool's default and leaves the dialog open (`ui.dialogReset`).
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- A plain step of a number field (Up/Down or a wheel notch) goes to the next whole unit in its direction and a Ctrl/Cmd step goes to the next tenth, so 5.1 mm steps up to 6 mm and down to 5 mm (#2881). A Shift step adds or takes ten and keeps the fraction.
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- In the number, text and color fields of the panels and the Control bar, Shift+Enter (Shift+Return) applies the value and keeps the field active with its value selected; a text box of several lines takes it as a line break. In a dialog, Shift+Enter applies the value and confirms the dialog, as Enter does.
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Select by Artboards (Object › Plug-ins › Selection Tools, a VectorCraft addition: #5525, #5548, #5549) selects the objects overlapping, fully inside or fully outside one or more chosen artboards (`addon.select.byArtboards {artboards, relation}`). Overlapping is All on Active Artboard's test, shared as `select::on_artboard`; Fully inside means within one artboard, edges included; Fully outside means on none. It looks at what Select All takes, so hidden, locked and locked-artboard art stays out. Its dialog lists each artboard's number, name and size in the document's units, filters by name, chooses rows with click, Shift-click and Cmd/Ctrl-click, and fits a row's artboard in the window on double-click (`view.goToArtboard`). Tests: `crates/engine/src/cmd/addons/select/tests.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/select/tests.rs`, `crates/engine/tests/command_sweep.rs`.
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Select by Link Status (Object › Plug-ins › Selection Tools and the Links panel menu, a VectorCraft addition: #5526) selects the image objects and placed documents whose link is linked (its file found unchanged), embedded, missing or modified, as `links.list` reports it (`addon.select.byLinkStatus {status, ids?, add?, zoom?}`); Select Linked, Embedded, Missing and Modified are off when no image has that status and add to the selection with Shift. Objects that are hidden or locked, inside a hidden or locked object or layer, on a template layer, on a locked artboard, or outside the isolated group are left out (the `select::is_selectable` test) and returned with the reason, and the status bar says how many, in plural forms of every catalog. Select by Link Status… lists each image and placed document with its name, status and format, searches by name, filters by status, picks rows with checkboxes and All / None, and zooms to the selection with the existing Zoom to Selection (`addon.arrange.zoomSelection`). Missing-link markers on the canvas are #5547. Tests: `crates/engine/src/cmd/addons/select/tests.rs` (`by_link_status`), `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/select/link_status/tests.rs`, `crates/engine/tests/command_sweep.rs`.
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A marquee selects a clip group, or an object on a layer with a clipping mask, only when it reaches the area inside the clipping path, and it measures the art only within that path's bounds. Within the bounds of a mask that is not a rectangle, it can still select art that the mask hides. Direct Selection's marquee still selects the hidden anchor points inside it (#2345).
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When a clip group, a layer with a clipping mask or a single object in one is isolated, the Selection, Direct Selection and Group Selection tools also select the art that the mask hides, by a click or a marquee, and a drag from that art moves it (#3748). In isolation mode the canvas Unlock submenu also lists that art when it is locked. Outside isolation mode a click selects clipped art only inside the mask.
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A marquee selects a Shaper Group only when it reaches the art the group shows, not the original shapes kept under it, and Direct Selection's clicks and marquee do not select those shapes' anchor points. In Construction mode a marquee selects the original shapes, and Direct Selection selects their anchor points.
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While an opacity mask or a pattern is edited, a Shaper double-click on a Shaper Group in the mask or pattern art selects the original shape under the pointer without entering Construction mode, the Shaper Group's mode widget does not show, and a Shaper scribble, Release and Expand keep the editing layer isolated.
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A marquee selects an Intertwine group only when it reaches one of the group's members, as for a plain group, and it selects a repeat only when it reaches one of the copies the repeat draws. Direct and Group Selection's marquees select the anchor points of an Intertwine group's members, not the group, and Group Selection's E marquee selects the members inside it.
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- **Shapes:** all shape tools (including Flare) and the line, arc, spiral and grid tools. Space held while dragging out a shape, line, arc, spiral or grid moves it at its current size. The Flare tool's center drag turns the rays with the pointer, Shift keeps them in their original orientation, and Space held during either of its drags moves the flare. While a grid is dragged out, Up/Down change its rows (concentric dividers) and Left/Right its columns (radial dividers). A click with a grid tool asks for the size, the divider counts and the grid options (#1377, in part): a skew for each set of dividers, Use Outside Rectangle As Frame or Create Compound Path From Ellipses, and Fill Grid; they are parameters of `shape.rectangularGrid` and `shape.polarGrid`, stay as the tool's options and apply to drags too. The curve a skew percentage follows and the direction of the radial skew are our own (the public documentation gives neither), and the dialogs have no reference point locator. An ellipse's Pie Start and End Angle and Invert Pie (Transform and Properties panels' Ellipse Properties, `object.setLiveShape {pieStart, pieEnd, invertPie}`) cut it as a pie (#812). With the bounding box showing, the Selection tool shows a selected ellipse's two pie widgets just outside it; dragging one sets its angle in one undo step and double-clicking one makes the ellipse whole again. A live polygon's Polygon Properties there: side count, angle, corner type and radius, radius, side length and Make Sides Equal once an uneven scale has made its sides differ (`object.setLiveShape {sides, polygonAngle, polygonRadius, sideLength, makeSidesEqual}`, part of #812); a star is a plain path, as in Illustrator. The Flare Tool Options last as the tool's options: the next flare dragged out uses them, a click's dialog shows them and double-clicking the tool opens them (part of #812).
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While a grid is dragged out, F lowers `rowSkew` (rectangular) or `radialSkew` (polar) by 10 percentage points and V raises it by 10; X lowers `columnSkew` (rectangular) or `concentricSkew` (polar) by 10 and C raises it by 10. Plain and Shift presses work; with Alt, Ctrl or Cmd held they do not, as for the other letters a tool takes while dragging. Each press changes the skew once and updates the preview; values stay within ±500% and remain in the tool options after release. The [default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) (archived copy) list the four drag keys and a 10% change. The signs (positive values follow VectorCraft's existing skew convention, so F and X lower the stored value) and one change per press with key repeat ignored are our own rules.
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While an arc is dragged out, C switches it between open and closed, F switches its base between the X and Y axes in the same box, and Up/Down raise and lower its slope by 10 within −100…100; each press switches once, and the values stay as the Arc tool's options. The [default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) (archived copy) list C, F and Up/Down for an arc being dragged out. F as the base switch, the arrows changing the slope, the step of 10 and one switch per press are our own rules.
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While a spiral is dragged out, Alt adds or removes whole winds of four segments and Ctrl/Cmd changes the decay. The spiral's inner end keeps the distance from the center it had on the first modified drag event, while the outer end follows the pointer. The [default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) (archived copy) list Alt-drag to add or subtract winds and Ctrl-drag to change the decay rate; [Draw spirals](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/draw-shapes-and-paths/draw-shapes/draw-spirals.html) defines four segments per full wind. Rounding the fitted count to whole winds from the count on the first Alt-only drag event, the held inner radius, the ranges (2…1000 segments, 5…99.99 % decay), Ctrl/Cmd taking precedence when both are held, and the new values staying as Spiral tool options are our own rules. Switching back to Alt uses the current count as its new base while keeping the held inner end.
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While a spiral is dragged out, Alt adds or removes whole winds of four segments and Ctrl/Cmd changes the decay. The spiral's inner end keeps the distance from the center it had on the first modified drag event, while the outer end follows the pointer. The [default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html) (archived copy) list Alt-drag to add or subtract winds and Ctrl-drag to change the decay rate; [Draw spirals](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/draw-shapes-and-paths/draw-shapes/draw-spirals.html) defines four segments per full wind and Decay as the amount each wind decreases. An 80% spiral has 80% of its outer radius after four segments; newly drawn spirals with the same settings wind more broadly than in earlier VectorCraft builds. Rounding the fitted count to whole winds from the count on the first Alt-only drag event, the held inner radius, the ranges (2…1000 segments, 5…99.99 % decay), Ctrl/Cmd taking precedence when both are held, and the new values staying as Spiral tool options are our own rules. Switching back to Alt uses the current count as its new base while keeping the held inner end.
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Escape while an arc, spiral or grid is dragged out cancels it and puts back the options its keys, Alt and Ctrl/Cmd changed (slope, open or closed, base axis, segments, decay, dividers and skews), so the next drag and the tool's options start from the values before the canceled drag; a drag that is let go keeps them, and an option set with `tool.setOption` during the drag stays. This is VectorCraft's own rule.
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- **Cutting:** Eraser, Scissors, Knife, Mirror & Cut, Line Cut and Rectangle Cut (real geometry, compound paths keep their holes).
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While Alt is held, the Scissors tool works as the Add Anchor Point tool ([Default keyboard shortcuts](https://web.archive.org/web/20260726060015/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html)): a click on a segment adds an anchor point without cutting (`path.insertAnchor`), and the pointer shows the Add Anchor Point cursor. When Alt is let go, a click cuts again.
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View › Hide Edges hides the Live Corners widgets, the bounding box and the type widget, and the selection tools then do not answer a press on them or change the cursor over them.
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- **Blend spine Anchor Point tool (#2544):** on a selected blend, dragging a spine corner makes symmetric Smooth handles; the tool displays and picks existing spine handles when switched to, drags one independently or retracts it on click, and clicking a point with handles retracts both. The spine is edited live without moving its key objects. Windows native canvas checks and screenshots reviewed: symmetric and independent handles, corner/retraction, Shift constraints and perpendicular reshaping, tool switching, key preservation, Undo/Redo, save/reopen, hidden handles and overlapping Path/Blend priority (PR #2643). Behaviour reference: [public path-editing documentation](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/adjust-path-segments.html).
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- **Path editing (#494):** the handles shown are the handles that drag: Direct Selection drags those of a path selected as a whole (as the Pen leaves it), the Anchor Point tool and Pen+Alt no longer grab handles that Show handles when multiple anchors are selected hides, a handle shorter than the tolerance leaves its anchor to be picked, and the anchor tools pick within Selection & Anchor Display › Tolerance. A dragged segment keeps a smooth anchor at either end smooth. With Direct Selection, the Pen, the Curvature and the anchor tools, a path selected as a whole shows all its anchors selected, and the Control bar and the Properties panel offer Convert (corner, smooth) for them too; Remove and Cut wait for anchors direct-selected (#504). A handle drag gathers its snap targets once per drag (it took 21 ms per pointer move on a 20,000-path document, now 1 ms; `vectorcraft-cli perf` measures handle and segment drags on a 5,000-anchor path). Join merges the selected anchor points that lie on one another, as after Average, into one anchor (#1582, fixes #1533); Object › Path › Average & Join… (`path.averageJoin`, Cmd+Alt+Shift+J, the "Create corner or smooth join" shortcut of [Default keyboard shortcuts](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html)) moves two open path ends to their midpoint and joins them there, a corner or smooth point as its dialog's Points choice asks, in one undo step.
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- **Graphs:** Column, Stacked Column, Bar, Stacked Bar, Line, Area, Scatter, Pie and Radar graph tools with Graph Data and Graph Type. A series starts in greyscale; Group Selection's fill and stroke, and the paint, weight and opacity of a mark's top visible fill or stroke row after an Appearance command, the Eyedropper, a graphic style, Default Fill and Stroke or Swap Fill and Stroke, are kept separately on the graph and reapplied when its data, type or size changes, and through save, open and undo. Graph Type's Override Calculated Values (both `axisMin` and `axisMax`) uses exactly that value-axis range, split into the tick count (5 when automatic). Line graphs take Edge-to-Edge Lines (off by default: the points sit at the centres of their categories; graphs saved before the option keep their edge-to-edge lines), and radar graphs follow Mark Data Points and Connect Data Points. Blank cells (an empty CSV cell or `null`) are values left out, not zeros: columns, bars and stacked segments skip them, lines and scatter lines break around them and the value axis ignores them, while area, pie and radar draw them as 0; a number in straight quotes is a label, and the data window writes it back quoted. Graph types combine: Graph Type on series picked with Group Selection (or `series` indexes) draws them as their own type, with column, stacked column, line and area mixing on the vertical value axis and bar and stacked bar on the horizontal one; stacked columns take one slot of the cluster, lines draw in front of columns and areas behind. The value axis goes on the left, the right or both sides (column, stacked column, line, area and scatter graphs; bar graphs keep theirs along the bottom), and Separate Scales gives the series assigned to the right axis a scale of their own with its own tick values. Each value axis takes tick marks of no, short or full (across the plot) length and a count per division, and a prefix and suffix for its numbers; the category axis takes tick marks too (none by default), at or between its labels. Graph designs: Object › Graph › Design lists the designs with a preview of the selected one, and New Design (the selected art), Rename, Delete Design, Paste Design (a copy back to edit) and Select Unused, and Marker draws the data points and legend swatches of line, scatter and radar series with a design, scaled so its backmost object fills the default marker's square. Graph Data transposes rows and columns and switches a scatter graph's x and y, and a `|` in a category or series label starts a new line. Pie graphs take Legends in Wedges, Position (Even, Ratio sized by area, Stacked on one centre) and Sort (None, All, First). Graph Type takes column and cluster widths up to 1000% (overlapping past 100%) with First Row and First Column in Front (First Row orders each series' categories; across series the series order decides, so series stay one group each for Group Selection), draws filled lines, adds drop shadows behind columns, bars, lines and wedges, and puts the legend in rows across the top. Text formatted with the Character or Appearance controls, on the whole graph or on labels picked with Group Selection, is kept per kind of label (value axis numbers, category labels, legend labels) through the graph being drawn again. Object › Graph › Data opens a worksheet: cells picked with a click and edited above the sheet (Tab moves right, Enter down, the arrows between cells), Import Data from a tab-separated text file, Transpose, Switch x/y, Cell Style (decimals shown, column width), Revert and Apply. `graph.setData` returns and takes the data as CSV with each value written exactly, not rounded to two decimals, so applying the returned CSV changes nothing (#1485).
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- **Graphs:** Column, Stacked Column, Bar, Stacked Bar, Line, Area, Scatter, Pie and Radar graph tools with Graph Data and Graph Type. A series starts in greyscale; Group Selection's fill and stroke, the paint, weight, opacity and blend mode of a mark's top visible fill or stroke row after an Appearance command, the Eyedropper, a graphic style, Default Fill and Stroke or Swap Fill and Stroke, and a mark's object opacity and blend mode, are kept separately on the graph and reapplied when its data, type or size changes, and through save, open and undo. Graph Type's Override Calculated Values (both `axisMin` and `axisMax`) uses exactly that value-axis range, split into the tick count (5 when automatic). Line graphs take Edge-to-Edge Lines (off by default: the points sit at the centres of their categories; graphs saved before the option keep their edge-to-edge lines), and radar graphs follow Mark Data Points and Connect Data Points. Blank cells (an empty CSV cell or `null`) are values left out, not zeros: columns, bars and stacked segments skip them, lines and scatter lines break around them and the value axis ignores them, while area, pie and radar draw them as 0; a number in straight quotes is a label, and the data window writes it back quoted. Graph types combine: Graph Type on series picked with Group Selection (or `series` indexes) draws them as their own type, with column, stacked column, line and area mixing on the vertical value axis and bar and stacked bar on the horizontal one; stacked columns take one slot of the cluster, lines draw in front of columns and areas behind. The value axis goes on the left, the right or both sides (column, stacked column, line, area and scatter graphs; bar graphs keep theirs along the bottom), and Separate Scales gives the series assigned to the right axis a scale of their own with its own tick values. Each value axis takes tick marks of no, short or full (across the plot) length and a count per division, and a prefix and suffix for its numbers; the category axis takes tick marks too (none by default), at or between its labels. Graph designs: Object › Graph › Design lists the designs with a preview of the selected one, and New Design (the selected art), Rename, Delete Design, Paste Design (a copy back to edit) and Select Unused, and Marker draws the data points and legend swatches of line, scatter and radar series with a design, scaled so its backmost object fills the default marker's square. Graph Data transposes rows and columns and switches a scatter graph's x and y, and a `|` in a category or series label starts a new line. Pie graphs take Legends in Wedges, Position (Even, Ratio sized by area, Stacked on one centre) and Sort (None, All, First). Graph Type takes column and cluster widths up to 1000% (overlapping past 100%) with First Row and First Column in Front (First Row orders each series' categories; across series the series order decides, so series stay one group each for Group Selection), draws filled lines, adds drop shadows behind columns, bars, lines and wedges, and puts the legend in rows across the top. Text formatted with the Character or Appearance controls, on the whole graph or on labels picked with Group Selection, is kept per kind of label (value axis numbers, category labels, legend labels) through the graph being drawn again. Object › Graph › Data opens a worksheet: cells picked with a click and edited above the sheet (Tab moves right, Enter down, the arrows between cells), Import Data from a tab-separated text file, Transpose, Switch x/y, Cell Style (decimals shown, column width), Revert and Apply. `graph.setData` returns and takes the data as CSV with each value written exactly, not rounded to two decimals, so applying the returned CSV changes nothing (#1485).
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- **Graph column designs:** Object › Graph › Column (`graph.column`) draws the columns, bars or stacked segments and the legend swatch of the series picked with Group Selection with a graph design: Vertically Scaled stretches it to each column's length, Uniformly Scaled scales it both ways and centers it, Repeating stacks a copy for each Each Design Represents value and chops or scales the last one (For Fractions), and Sliding keeps the part above the design's guide line in proportion and stretches the part below. The dialog lists the designs with a preview; the choice is saved with the graph and follows the design's rename and delete.
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Type in a column design that holds a `%` followed by two digits shows each column's value in place of the `%` and the digits: the first digit is the least number of places before the decimal point (zeros are added in front; 0 gives as many as the value needs), and the second digit sets the places after it, rounded. Unless it is inside a group that clips or has its own opacity or appearance, or inside a blend, compound shape, envelope, repeat or intertwined objects, the type keeps its size and is drawn once per column in a repeating design. The legend swatch leaves it out.
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- **Other:** Eyedropper, Gradient annotator, Artboard (Alt-drag duplicates an artboard, and its art with Move/Copy Artwork with Artboard on; Copy, Cut and Paste take the artboard with its art, Paste right of the last artboard, Paste in Place where it was, into this or another document, #446; Object › Artboards › Rearrange All Artboards lays them out in a grid by row or by column, in one row or one column, left to right or right to left, from the menu, the Artboards panel or Properties' Rearrange All, #681; Scale Artwork with Artboard, in the Control bar and Properties beside Move Artwork with Artboard, resizes the artboard proportionally with the art fully inside it and its guides, strokes and corners per the Scale preferences, #602), Measure, Type, Hand, Zoom, Rotate View.
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Object › Artboards › Fit to Selected Art resizes the active artboard (`artboard.fitToSelection {index}`). It used to resize artboard 1 whichever artboard was active. When an action plays, its Fit to Artwork Bounds and Fit to Selected Art steps that name no artboard resize the artboard that is active then.
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Object › Artboards › Fit to Artwork Bounds and the Artboards panel menu's Fit to Artwork Bounds fit each selected artboard (those the Artboard tool has selected, else the active one) to the art on it, as the public [Use the artboard context menu](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/create-manage-artboards/organize-manage-artboards/use-artboard-context-menu.html) page describes (`artboard.fitToArt {indices}`). An object partly on an artboard counts for each artboard it overlaps, and an artboard with no art on it keeps its size and place. They used to fit the active artboard to all the art in the document.
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The Artboards panel menu's Duplicate Artboards copies each selected artboard (those the Artboard tool has selected, else the active one) with its art, in one undo step, and the copies are then selected, as the public [Use the artboard context menu](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/create-manage-artboards/organize-manage-artboards/use-artboard-context-menu.html) page describes. With the Artboard tool, Copy and Cut take every selected artboard with its art, as the public [Cut, copy, and paste artboards](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/create-manage-artboards/organize-manage-artboards/cut-copy-and-paste-artboards.html) page describes, and Paste brings them all back in one undo step (`artboard.duplicate`, `artboard.copy` and `artboard.cut` with `indices`). The copies keep their places relative to each other, together right of the last artboard. All three used to act on the active artboard only.
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A replay of the journal repeats a Cut or Copy made with the Artboard tool on the artboards it took (`edit.cut` and `edit.copy` record `selectedArtboards` and `art`), whichever tool is chosen in the new session and whatever is selected there. A recorded action follows the tool chosen when it plays. The replay used to act on the objects selected then, or stop with nothing selected. This rule is VectorCraft's own.
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With the Artboard tool, the canvas context menu lists the entries of the public [Use the artboard context menu](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/create-manage-artboards/organize-manage-artboards/use-artboard-context-menu.html) page in its order: Cut, Copy, Paste at the pointer, Undo, Redo, New Artboard, Duplicate Artboards, Rename (`artboard.rename`), Delete Artboards, Delete Empty Artboards, Select All Artboards (`artboard.selectAll`), Lock Artboards and Unlock Artboards, Rearrange, Fit to Artwork Bounds, Switch Orientation (`artboard.switchOrientation`), Artboard Options and Export. A right-click on an artboard that is not selected selects it first.
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The Artboards panel menu's New Artboard adds the artboard in one undo step and makes it the active one, as the panel's button, the Control bar and Properties do; with the Artboard tool it is then the only one selected. This is VectorCraft's own rule. The menu item used to leave the active artboard where it was.
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With the Artboard tool, Paste and Paste in Place make the first pasted artboard the active one (the navigator's and the Artboards panel's), and Cut makes the artboard before the first cut one active (the new first artboard when artboard 1 was cut). A command that chooses another document (`document.activate`) starts the tool on that document's active artboard, as choosing its tab does, and File › Revert keeps the active artboard and starts the tool on it. Paste used to leave the active artboard where it was while the tool had the pasted artboard active, and Cut left the active artboard on the artboard after the cut one while the tool had the one before it.
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- **Geometry and effects:**
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- **Open-path anchor Delete:** Delete/Backspace removes selected anchors and their adjoining segments, leaving drawable runs as separate open subpaths of the original object. Surviving curves and appearance stay intact; one Undo restores the document and selection, and a second Delete removes the selected remainder. Explicit Remove Anchor Points still reconnects/refits. Four core regressions, one full-frame Delete/Backspace regression and three existing removal/segment controls pass, covering these distinctions, multiple deletions, transformed geometry and mixed whole-object selection. Behaviour references: the legacy public [Illustrator reference guide, Add or delete an anchor point](https://helpx.adobe.com/content/dam/help/en/pdf/illustrator_reference.pdf) distinguishes keyboard deletion from dedicated removal; the current [Add or remove anchor points](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/draw-shapes-and-paths/modify-paths/add-or-remove-anchor-points.html) describes the dedicated tools. Other G11 gaps and scores/hours remain unchanged.
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- Pathfinder (10 exact curve booleans; single-result shape operations retain source names and SVG IDs, #1293), Offset, Outline Stroke, Simplify, Clean Up, Split Into Grid, Divide Objects Below. With one group selected alone, the Pathfinder panel's buttons work on its members (among other selected objects a group still acts as one shape), and a greyed-out button says what it needs (#1450; behaviour reference: [combine objects using Pathfinder effects](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/reshape-transform-objects/combine-objects-using-pathfinder-effects.html); one plain path selected alone stays disabled, which the documentation doesn't settle). Split Into Grid takes the number, height or width, gutter and total of the rows and of the columns, Add Guides and Preview, and several selected paths become one grid painted as the topmost one (#1462, `object.path.splitIntoGrid`; behaviour reference: [divide or split objects](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/edit-objects/divide-or-split-objects.html); a typed height or width keeps the gutter and changes the total, our choice). Object › Path › Remove Anchor Points (`path.removeAnchors`) removes the direct-selected anchors without opening their paths (the Delete key still deletes them with their segments): the neighbours keep their handle directions and their facing handles are refitted so one cubic follows the two old segments, and straight sides stay straight. The Delete Anchor Point tool uses the same refit. The Control bar, the contextual task bar, the Properties quick actions and the canvas context menu offer it when anchors are selected. With anchors selected, the Control bar and the Properties panel also convert them to corner or smooth (`path.convertAnchors`), connect end points (Join) and cut the path at them (`path.cutAtAnchors`, also on the task bar and the context menu): a closed path opens there and an open one becomes one path per piece, each cut leaving one of its two coincident anchors selected so a drag pulls the path apart. In the Pathfinder panel a group selected alone counts its nested shapes, so an expanded stroked object keeps the Shape Modes enabled (#1642, #1635).
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Outline Stroke, Expand's Stroke option and Flatten Transparency's Convert All Strokes to Outlines apply the object's visible geometry effects (Offset Path, Zig Zag and the others) to the path, and then apply each stroke's own geometry effects before outlining that stroke, as the canvas draws it. The filled outline of a stroke without a brush keeps the stroke's other effects, such as a drop shadow.
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Outline Stroke and Unite remove the overlaps of a long, low path with the sweep turned along it: when the estimated number of segments the sweep holds at once is under two thirds as large for the path turned a quarter turn (paths of 2,048 segments or more), the overlaps are removed on the turned path and the result is turned back, which moves no point by rounding. The lookups of the input curve that a piece of the result lies on, and of the input anchors that are kept, can search along y instead of x: once lookups with more than 64 candidates along x have counted 16 for each input curve or anchor, a lookup searches along y when it finds fewer candidates there (under a quarter as many for curves), and where that has rarely happened it measures along y in only one lookup of 32. On one open path of 200,000 anchors in rows of 1,000, Outline Stroke takes 17.3 s of processor time instead of 31.3 s and Unite 2.9 s instead of 6.5 s in a release build. A turned result has as many subpaths as the result without the turn, and the area where the two differ is no larger than the refit precision times the outline's length (`crates/pathops/src/sweep_axis.rs` tests).
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- Divide uses open lines, bent paths and curves as cutting edges (#1307), preserving the frontmost filled face's appearance and holes. Engine tests cover implicit closure of filled open contours and unrelated objects; native automation confirms independent piece movement, one Undo/Redo, canvas/window captures and an exact saved-document read by a separate CLI process. The shared planar map keeps a segment cap (65,536 since #937, was 4,096) and its filled-area fallback; other Pathfinder operations are unchanged.
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- Type that Transform effects only move and copy (no scale, rotation, reflection or Random) exports as type in each place, and PDF export writes every copy as selectable, searchable text, when its characters are in solid colors without underline or strikethrough, the type object has no fills or strokes of its own, no inline graphics and no perspective, its transform does not scale or shear stroked characters, and the copies do not overlap. When the effect is on the type itself, the type can also have transparency, an opacity mask and raster effects. When the effect is on the group or layer holding the type, the type has no transparency or effects of its own and is not in a clipping path, the group or layer has no fill, stroke or Pathfinder effect of its own, and no group between them has a fill, stroke, Pathfinder or geometry effect. Type still exports as outlines when the effect stops its copies early, or when the copies would number more than 10,000 or take more than 20,000,000 bytes of document data, and so does other type under a geometry effect.
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The Character panel menu's Show Font Height Options shows a Set Font Height Reference dropdown under Font Size (`text.setFormat` or `text.setRangeStyle` `{fontHeightReference}`). With Em Box, the default, the font size is the size of the em square; with Cap Height, x-Height or ICF Box, the characters are set at the em size at which the font's OS/2 cap height, its x height or the height of its ideographic character face equals the font size. With a font that has no such value, or one outside 0.1 to 2 em, the size measures the em box. SVG, PDF and legacy `.ai` export and the CSS Properties rules write the em size the characters are drawn at, and DXF export writes 0.7 times that em size as each TEXT entity's height (group 40, the height of its capitals). Behavior reference: [Vary font height](https://web.archive.org/web/20251118174722/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/edit-format-text/vary-font-height.html).
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The Every-line Composer composes a paragraph whose characters differ in line metrics (type size, font, leading or vertical scale, or an inline graphic taller than the text) in rectangular area type, rows and columns included. In area type of another shape, or with text wrap, such a paragraph is broken with the Single-line Composer.
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The Character panel's Small Caps, Superscript and Subscript buttons and the panel menu's items of the same names turn small caps and the superscript or subscript position on and off for the selected type, or for the text the Type tool has selected (`text.setFormat` or `text.setRangeStyle` `{smallCaps, position}`), in Document Setup's proportions. Turning Superscript on turns Subscript off, and turning Subscript on turns Superscript off. A button or item shows as on when the first selected character (at a caret, the character before it) has its attribute.
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The Character panel's Anti-aliasing Method dropdown, under Character Rotation, sets how the edges of the selected type objects are drawn as pixels (`text.setFormat {antiAlias}`), for the whole object, with each frame of a thread keeping its own method, on the canvas, in raster exports and when the type is rasterized. VectorCraft defines the methods: Sharp, the default, draws edges as before; None paints a pixel only where the type covers at least half of it; Crisp shows a pixel covered by a share c at `2c - 0.5`, and Strong shows it at `2c`, each kept between 0 and 1. SVG, PDF and EPS export are unchanged. Scores and hours unchanged.
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The OpenType panel's Stylistic Alternates and Titling Alternates checkboxes turn `salt` and `titl` on and off for the selected type, and its Figure menu lists Default Figure, Tabular Lining, Proportional Lining, Proportional Oldstyle and Tabular Oldstyle; Proportional Lining sets `pnum` and `lnum` and turns `tnum` and `onum` off, Tabular Lining turns `pnum` off and keeps `lnum`, Proportional Oldstyle turns `lnum` off and keeps `pnum`, and Default Figure and Tabular Oldstyle turn `pnum` and `lnum` off. Behavior reference: [Format text with OpenType features](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/special-characters-glyphs/format-text-with-opentype-features.html) and [Use swashes, titling alternates, or stylistic alternates](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/special-characters-glyphs/use-swashes-titling-alternates-or-stylistic-alternates.html) (public documentation). Tests: `panels::opentype::tests`.
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The OpenType panel's Position menu lists Default Position, Superscript, Subscript, Numerator and Denominator, as [Format text with OpenType features](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/special-characters-glyphs/format-text-with-opentype-features.html) describes; Superscript, Subscript, Numerator and Denominator set `sups`, `subs`, `numr` and `dnom` for the selected type and turn the other three off, and Default Position turns all four off. The menu shows Mixed when the characters it acts on differ, and an entry chosen then applies to all of them. These two rules are VectorCraft's own, as is setting the feature on type whose font lacks the glyphs, which then draws unchanged. The panel's menus and checkboxes change only their own features on each selected character, so characters keep their other OpenType features (`text.setStyle` and `text.setRangeStyle` `{featureChanges}`). Tests: `panels::opentype::tests`, `features::tests::numerators_and_denominators_are_kept_and_shaped`.
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The Glyphs panel's Show menu and panel menu have Alternates for Current Selection, as [Replace characters with alternate glyphs](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/special-characters-glyphs/replace-characters-with-alternate-glyphs.html) describes: the grid lists the alternate glyphs of the character selected with the Type tool, and a double-click draws that character with the glyph as one undo step (`text.glyphAlternates`, `text.setGlyphAlternate`). The alternates come from the font's `GSUB` single and alternate substitutions of `aalt`, then `salt`, `ss01` to `ss20`, `swsh`, `cv01` to `cv99` and a few other alternate features, each glyph once. The text keeps the character, native files keep the choice with the face it was made in, and type set in another font or version draws the default glyph. The list uses the font of the character's text even when the panel browses another font, and the panel shows a note when the character has no alternates, its font is missing or no character is selected; these rules are VectorCraft's own. Tests: `panels::glyphs::tests`, `tests::alternates`, `tests::textedit::a_glyph_alternate_replaces_one_character_through_undo_and_reopen`.
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- **Several mesh points at once (#4207, #4208, #4170):** the Mesh tool and Direct Selection pick several points of a gradient mesh or mesh envelope: Shift-click adds a point or takes a picked one away, Direct Selection's marquee picks the points inside it (Shift toggles them) and selects their meshes, and its click on a mesh line picks the line's two ends and one inside a patch the four points around it. The picked points show filled; dragging one moves them all as one undo step and the arrow keys nudge them (`object.mesh.movePoints {id, points, dx, dy}` or `{items, dx, dy}`), and a click on one of several picked points picks it alone. A solid fill colour (`paint.setFill`: Color panel, Swatches, Eyedropper) recolours every picked point, and the Transparency panel's Opacity fades them instead of the object, the panel showing their opacity (blank when it differs); `object.mesh.setPointColor` takes `points` or `items`. Public reference: [Edit mesh objects](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/create-and-edit-meshes/edit-mesh-objects.html) (Shift selects multiple mesh points; a fill colour colours the selected point), [Macworld, gradient mesh](https://www.macworld.com/article/202693/gmesh2.html) (Direct Selection: a mesh line selects the points at both ends, a patch the points around it, Shift-click adds or removes points), [Peachpit](https://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1638270) (each mesh point can have its own colour or transparency). Tests: `shift_clicks_pick_mesh_points_that_drag_and_nudge_together` and `direct_selection_picks_mesh_points_by_marquee_line_and_patch` in `crates/tools/src/meshedit.rs`, `picked_mesh_points_take_the_fill_opacity_and_drag_together` in `crates/engine/src/tests/editcolors.rs`, `mesh_points_move_and_colour_together` in `crates/engine/src/tests/live.rs`. Scores and hours unchanged.
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- **Image Trace Flat Logo mode:** a fourth mode beside Black and White, Grayscale and Color, for flat-colour logos. Each pixel is read as a blend of the logo's colours (found automatically or named), the blend is interpolated smoothly and every outline is placed where two colours are equally present, so edges are accurate to a fraction of a pixel. Outlines are then cleaned: corners the blur rounded are put back, near-straight runs and near-circular arcs become exact lines and arcs, the rest is fitted with as few Béziers as the tolerance allows, touching colours overlap by a hair so no gap opens, and an outline that strays from the raw contour is fitted plainly instead. Gradients and photos are refused with advice to use Color. Line art whose only solid area is white paper (strokes a pixel or two wide) takes its colours from the strokes' cores, with the lighter shades along a stroke's anti-aliased edge folded into its ink; a page whose ink (a channel at least 48 below white) covers under 1% of it traces to nothing, as blank paper does. *Measured* (a local experiment, not run in CI): a flat-colour logo's vector original was rendered down to a soft 199 × 100 px transparent PNG, traced, and the result compared with the original at 1600 px wide. The built-in colour presets (6 Colors, 16 Colors, High Fidelity Photo, Low Fidelity Photo) had a mean edge error of 2.5 to 3.4 px and region overlap of 0.88 to 0.91; Flat Logo had 0.78 px and 0.966 (0.48 px and 0.975 from a crisp source), in about 0.1 s. Limits: flat-colour art only; needle-thin sharp tips are shortened by about 1.7 source pixels because the blur erases them; it works at no more than 1024 px on the long side (larger images are averaged down first); only one logo family has been scored against a vector original.
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- **Image Trace, Flat Logo named colors only:** with `logoColors` named, `"logoWhite": false` traces those colors only, so white areas take the nearest of them and no white is added; a named white is kept, and enclosed transparent areas stay holes; code-drawn tests in `crates/trace` and `crates/engine`.
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- **Image Trace, Keep Colors:** `"keepColors": ["#rrggbb", …]` traces only the palette colors near a listed color (Abutting: each with the paths the trace of every color gives it; Overlapping: not reaching under the colors left out), in Black and White, Grayscale and Color; code-drawn tests in `crates/trace` and `crates/engine`.
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- **Advanced art:** live Blends (steps/distance/smooth colour, editable spine, anchor-targeted Blend tool, faithful interpolation, knockout), Envelope Distort (warp/mesh/top object, Reset, full Envelope Options, mesh handles, Edit Contents; type, images, symbols, gradients, patterns and appearance distorted everywhere), Liquify tools with options and pen pressure, Puppet Warp with rotating pins, Perspective Grid with presets, movable planes and projected type (choosing a perspective tool shows the grid; Hide Grid hides it with the tool still chosen), Gradient Mesh, Shape Builder (stroke-only open paths and lines cut the regions they cross and enclose regions of their own, and regions they bound merge without seams where the lines cross at rounded coordinates (#893); filled open paths count as closed; erase mode while Alt/Option is held: a minus pointer, red highlights of what will go, a click or drag deletes the regions touched, the pieces of open lines and the edges (outline pieces between the points where paths meet, opening their paths there) it passes over, one undo step, `shapeBuilder.merge {erase}` and `shapeBuilder.regions` edges over MCP), Live Paint (every path an edge, open lines included), Image Trace (12 presets, colour layers traced in parallel; a trace past two million anchor points is refused with advice rather than running out of memory, an image over 64 megapixels is traced scaled down to that size (aspect kept, paths at the image's own size) and one over 192 megapixels is refused, and a selection too large to outline shows its bounds (#525); Object › Image Trace › Make and Make and Expand trace at once with the Default preset, #543; with an image selected the Control bar and the Properties panel show Image Trace, whose arrow traces with any preset, Mask (`object.maskImage`: a clipping path on the image's outline, selected so its handles crop), Crop Image (a crop box on the image, starting on its part over the artboard, dragged by its handles or inside it, the outside dimmed, with X/Y/W/H, Apply and Cancel in the Control bar, Enter and Escape, #734; `object.cropImage {rect}` for agents, `{trim: true}` cuts an image to its pixels that aren't fully transparent, pixel for pixel) and Embed or Unembed in place of Fill and Stroke; with an Image Trace object selected, its Preset (choosing another traces again), View, the Image Trace panel and Expand, plus Release in Properties; the five View modes (Tracing Result, with Outlines, Outlines, Outlines with Source Image, Source Image) redraw a trace on screen without tracing again, are saved with it and `imageTrace.setView` sets them, while exports and Expand keep the result; the panel's Advanced section is a header that stays open or closed as it was left (part of #641); Color mode's Palette: Limited, Full Tone (as many colours as the tones need, Less … More), Automatic (flat art with its own colours, else Full Tone; a heuristic) and Document Library (the most used colours of the document's swatches or a swatch library, filled with the swatch colours as they are), part of #641; Advanced › Create: Fills and/or Strokes, where lines up to the Stroke width trace as stroked centre lines (distance transform, thinning, a skeleton graph with spurs pruned, curve fitting; one width per line; without Fills, wider areas become stroked outlines), part of #641), pattern swatches with pattern editing mode, live Repeat (radial/grid/mirror). A single selected mirror repeat shows a prominent axis with a center move handle and two rotation handles. Drag the line or center to change spacing, or an end to change angle; Shift snaps rotation to 45°. The original artwork stays in place, the reflected copy previews live, Escape cancels and each drag takes one undo step through `object.repeat.options`. Controls follow zoom/view rotation and hide with edges or the bounding box. Engine and headless canvas regressions passed for gestures, history and visibility; native move, rotation and Escape screenshots were reviewed. [Public mirror-repeat reference](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/create-and-edit-patterns/set-mirror-repeat-options.html). A single selected grid repeat shows a handle below the grid for rows, one right of it for columns and one past its bottom-right corner for both, and sliders between its first two columns and rows for the horizontal and vertical spacing; the source keeps its size, each drag is one undo step and Escape cancels it ([public grid-repeat reference](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/create-and-edit-patterns/set-grid-repeat-options.html), #2691). Object › Expand turns radial, grid and mirror repeats into groups of their instances (#1765, #1756).
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Choosing the Blend tool again while it is active (its toolbar button, W or `tool.select`) finishes the blend: the object clicked first is dropped and the next click no longer adds to the blend just made, so the click after it starts a new blend ([Blending objects](https://web.archive.org/web/20241217212108/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/blending-objects.html)).
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Window › Blend exposes easing Type, Ramp and independent color Shift through `object.blend.options`.
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In a `.ai` or EPS opened from its editing data, type has its text object's opacity, blend mode and knockout shape flag, whether it is made from the file's text document or taken from the page, and type made from the text document takes its text object's lock. Where such type has transparency and comes in with other art (the rest of its look, or page type and strokes that go with it), a group of them has it. Where the page draws its type, or the strokes around it, with transparency that is neither its text object's nor its text object's combined with that of the objects around it, the page's type and strokes keep their own instead (`crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs`). Where the page draws type of no text object over text objects made from the text document, with their words in any case, that type is theirs as the page draws it and is left out; the page's other type of no text object goes only to text objects whose type the text document can't make, or else is left out with a warning.
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`.ai` editing-data import restores the document's listed graphic styles in panel order and links objects that use a listed style; unsupported appearances keep their drawn look (`crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs`).
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A `.ai` or EPS graphic style library, whose editing data holds the styles and their list but no layers, opens with those styles in list order. Other Library… loads another document's graphic styles ([Apply graphic styles](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/special-effects-styles/apply-graphic-styles/apply-graphic-styles.html)) and lists such a library's styles in a library panel. A `.ai` or EPS read as its PDF part or page because its layers can't be used also gets the styles of its list in place of the default ones (`crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs`, `cmd::fileio::tests_aiimport::a_graphic_style_library_in_a_ai_file_without_layers_loads_its_styles`).
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A `.ai` or EPS symbol library, whose editing data holds symbol definitions and their list but no layers, opens with those symbols in list order, each with its registration point. Other Library… in the Symbols panel's Symbol Libraries Menu imports the symbols of the file you pick ([Create or import symbol libraries](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/create-or-import-symbol-libraries.html)) and lists such a library's symbols in a library panel. A `.ai` or EPS read as its PDF part or page because its layers can't be used also gets the symbols defined before its layers (`crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs`, `crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs`, `cmd::fileio::tests_aiimport::a_symbol_library_in_a_ai_file_without_layers_loads_its_symbols`).
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A `.ai` or EPS opened from its editing data whose text document makes the type of every text object that shows takes all its type from the text document: each text object stays in its own group, frame and layer, the page's type isn't matched with them, a file of more than 5,000 text objects still opens with its layers, and type the page draws differently (in another font) keeps the layers, with a warning. A line break inside a paragraph stays a line break in it (`crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs`, `crates/eps/src/import/ate.rs`).
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In SVG export without Fewer `<tspan>` Elements, each character of live type that justification or Mojikumi moves (the letter gaps of a Justify All line without word spaces, the gaps between the characters of a justified Japanese line, closed-up punctuation, the space between Japanese and Latin letters) starts its own positioned `<tspan>`, and type scaled horizontally on a justified line is stretched to its own width (`crates/svg/tests/it/text_layout.rs`).
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To find those characters, SVG export lays a type object out a second time only when the second layout can differ from the first: point type with Line-end Punctuation Half Width and no Japanese punctuation or letters, the setting new type gets, is laid out once. Exporting 5,000 such objects takes a median of 109.4 ms instead of 171.5 ms on Windows 11, with the same SVG (`crates/svg/src/export/text/tests.rs`).
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The Pathfinder panel, Offset Path, Clean Up, Divide Objects Below, Make and Release Blend, Envelope Distort's Make and Release, Repeat (Radial, Grid, Mirror and Release), Vector Halftone, New and Redefine Symbol, Delete Symbol, erasing with the Symbol Sprayer, Rasterize, Convert to Artboards, Flatten Transparency, Clear Guides, Shape Builder, Live Paint, Release Image Trace, Make and Release Opacity Mask, Delete with direct-selected anchor points, Remove Anchor Points, Cut Path, and the Shaper, Knife, Eraser, Path Eraser, Line Cut, Rectangle Cut, Mirror & Cut and Blob Brush tools add and remove objects in one pass over each layer or group they change, and Outline Stroke and Expand write each new object in the place of the object it replaces (#1429).
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Offset Path looks up the segments near each candidate hole or island in a tree of the source path's segment bounds when it decides whether to drop that contour, instead of testing the bounds of every segment. The output paths are the same. On compound and open paths of 25,000 to 40,000 anchors with 6,400 to 11,976 candidate contours, that check takes 11 to 13 ms instead of 140 to 649 ms (medians of five interleaved runs). The limit on overlapping segment pairs is the same, so a path that stops with "Offset Path: the path is too complex to offset" still stops there.
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Finding the distinct regions of an arrangement lists the shapes that cover each region instead of keeping a flag for every shape, so that step's time follows how many shapes cover each region rather than how many shapes there are. Divide, Hard Mix, Soft Mix, Shape Builder, Flatten Transparency, trapping, Intertwine and the Pathfinder effects are among the commands that use that step. The regions, their order and the output are the same. Divide on 3,000 overlapping rectangles takes 0.84 to 1.13 billion CPU cycles on its thread instead of 1.25 to 1.46 billion (dev build, six runs of each, alternating, while other builds were running).
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The contour passes of the two-path boolean operations, Offset Path, compound shapes and Intertwine test the list of shapes that cover each face instead of a flag for every shape, so each test's time follows how many shapes cover the face rather than how many shapes there are. The contours, their order and the output are the same. The many-shape boolean that compound shapes use takes 0.75 to 0.83 billion CPU cycles on its thread instead of 1.28 to 1.33 billion to unite 10,000 squares that do not touch, and 2.27 to 2.30 billion instead of 2.43 to 2.47 billion for 1,500 members of two squares each over 3,000 overlapping squares (dev build, six runs of each, alternating, while other builds were running).
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With more than 10,000 type on a path objects selected, the Selection and Direct Selection tools neither draw nor hit-test the objects' brackets.
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The renderer outlines the stroke of a path object with more than 1,024 path elements, without dashes or a width profile, only in and around the view, with a margin of the view's size on each side, and outlines it again when the view moves past that margin. The pixels are the same. At 1600 × 1200, the frame after one anchor of an open path of 200,000 anchors moves takes 28 to 30 ms instead of 103 ms, and with a closed path of 50,000 anchors 10 ms instead of 30 ms (`cargo run --release -p vectorcraft-engine --example anchor_bench`).
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The renderer outlines a dashed stroke of such a path the same way, without a width profile, and draws its dashes and dots in the same places as when the whole path is dashed, so the pixels are the same. A pattern too fine to draw is drawn solid, as before, and its stroke is outlined near the view too. At 1600 × 1200, the frame after one anchor moves takes 14 ms instead of 102 ms with a filled closed path of 50,000 anchors and a stroke of 6 pt dashes and 4 pt gaps (`cargo run --release -p vectorcraft-engine --example anchor_bench`, which now includes that document).
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- **Safe Mode for plug-ins (G17):** `vectorcraft --safe-mode` and `vectorcraft-cli --safe-mode <subcommand>` start without plug-ins. When a launch stopped while a plug-in was loading or drawing its first live effect, the next launch names that plug-in, without saying it caused the stop, and offers Disable and Continue, Start Normally or Start in Safe Mode. Help › Safe Mode lists the disabled plug-ins with Enable on Re-launch, which takes effect at the next launch, and the app bar and the window title show Safe Mode. The help page (https://web.archive.org/web/20210601162814/https://helpx.adobe.com/pdf/illustrator_reference.pdf, pages 65 to 69) describes the same choice between diagnosing and starting normally, a Safe Mode with the problem item off and the rest of the app working, and turning the item back on at the next launch. In Safe Mode no plug-in loads or runs, and a live-effect plug-in draws its object's geometry unchanged while the object keeps the effect, which the Appearance panel marks "(Safe Mode)" with the plug-in's id in its tooltip and `effect.list` marks `skipped`; Expand Appearance refuses such an object. The web build keeps no plug-ins between page loads and has no marker. Each desktop launch with preferences keeps a marker in the `Launch` folder next to them; `vectorcraft-cli` and a desktop launch without preferences keep none, so a stop there leads to no choice at the next launch. Disabled plug-ins are listed in `Plug-ins/disabled.json`. `plugin.safeMode` reports Safe Mode and the disabled plug-ins, and `plugin.setEnabled` changes the list. Regressions: `crates/plugins/src/safe_mode.rs`, `crates/plugins/tests/safe_mode.rs`, `crates/engine/tests/plugin_safe_mode.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/tests/safe_mode.rs`. Scores and hours unchanged.
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- **Plug-in instruction budget at a bulk memory instruction:** a run that pauses where one slice of its instruction budget ends keeps the instructions the slice still held. A `memory.fill` or `memory.copy` that the slice can't pay for in full runs on the next slice, so a run whose budget covers its work finishes; a run ends with `Limit("instruction budget")` only when the instructions it has left can't pay for the next instruction. Regressions: `crates/plugins/tests/abi.rs`. Scores and hours unchanged.
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- **Plug-in permissions (G17):** a manifest may list `permissions` (`doc.read`, `doc.write`, `state`, `effect.render`, `export.write`; the first three follow storytold/photocraft#662) and an `api` level; without the list a plug-in gets what its kind implies and installs as before. Install Plug-in… and File › Open show the name, id, version, file SHA-256 and each permission in plain words, with control and bidirectional characters escaped, and install nothing on Cancel; `plugin.install` needs `grant`, and folders install only granted plug-ins. The grant is kept with the module's hash, a module asking for more asks again, and a filter run refuses output its permissions don't allow. Regressions: `crates/plugins/src/permissions.rs`, `crates/plugins/src/manifest.rs`, `crates/engine/src/tests/plugins.rs`, `crates/engine/tests/plugin_fuzz.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/tests/plugins.rs`. Scores and hours unchanged.
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- **Plug-in commands (G17):** a filter or live effect may declare up to 32 `commands` (`{id, label, params?}`); each is the command `plugin.<id>.<command>` while the plug-in is installed, in a submenu named after the plug-in under Object › Plug-ins (Effect › Plug-ins for a live effect) whatever menu the manifest names, with its label escaped. Commands are recorded in actions, listed in Keyboard Shortcuts for the user to give a shortcut, and run through `run` and MCP with their parameters checked first (a command with parameters opens a dialog from its menu item or shortcut). A run uses the plug-in's permissions (a live effect with commands may also hold `doc.write` and `state`, and gets them without a `permissions` list), is one undo step named after the command, and on failure (a trap or an exhausted instruction budget) leaves the document and the undo history as they were with an error naming the plug-in and the command. For a command and for `plugin.run`, an `ids` that is not a list of object ids is an error rather than the selection. A malformed entry is refused by name when the module is installed. Regressions: `crates/plugins/src/manifest.rs`, `crates/plugins/src/permissions.rs`, `crates/engine/src/tests/plugins.rs`, `crates/engine/tests/plugin_fuzz.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/tests/plugins.rs`. Scores and hours unchanged.
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- **Plug-in progress, Cancel and log lines (G17):** at plug-in API level 2 a plug-in with the `progress` permission imports `env.vc_progress`, `env.vc_cancelled` and `env.vc_log`. A heavy filter's and an export's progress windows show its progress as a percentage bar, their Cancel reaches it through `vc_cancelled`, and its log lines go to the app's log with its id, capped per line and per run. Installing checks every import and names the one it refuses. Regressions: `crates/plugins/src/host.rs`, `crates/plugins/tests/abi.rs`, `crates/engine/src/tests/plugins.rs`, `crates/engine/tests/plugin_fuzz.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/tests/plugin_runs.rs`. Scores and hours unchanged.
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- **Plug-in settings and cache (G17, #2191):** at plug-in API level 2 a plug-in with the `settings` permission keeps settings of its own (`env.vc_settings_get`, `_set`, `_delete`) and one with `cache` a cache the user can clear (`env.vc_cache_read`, `_write`, `_clear`), under its id in the `Plug-ins` folder. Keys are plain names, never paths; VectorCraft's own caps refuse a write past 256 settings, 1 MiB of settings or 512 MiB of cache; a damaged settings file is moved aside and the settings start empty. `plugin.clearCache` empties a cache, `plugin.list` and `plugin.info` give `cacheBytes`, replacing a plug-in keeps its storage and `plugin.remove` deletes it. Another module under an id that is installed or has storage installs only with `replace: true`, which the app asks the user for; each storage call counts the whole settings file or cache entry it reads and writes toward the run's 1 GiB. Regressions: `crates/plugins/src/storage.rs`, `crates/plugins/tests/abi.rs`, `crates/engine/src/tests/plugins.rs`, `crates/engine/tests/plugin_fuzz.rs`. Scores and hours unchanged.
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- **Plug-in settings and cache (G17, #2191):** at plug-in API level 2 a plug-in with the `settings` permission keeps settings of its own (`env.vc_settings_get`, `_set`, `_delete`) and one with `cache` a cache the user can clear (`env.vc_cache_read`, `_write`, `_clear`), under its id in the `Plug-ins` folder. Keys are plain names, never paths; VectorCraft's own caps refuse a write past 256 settings, 1 MiB of settings or 512 MiB of cache; a damaged settings file is moved aside and the settings start empty. `plugin.clearCache` empties a cache, `plugin.list` and `plugin.info` give `cacheBytes`, replacing a plug-in keeps its storage and `plugin.remove` deletes it. Another module under an id that is installed or has storage installs only with `replace: true`, which the app asks the user for; each storage call counts the whole settings file or cache entry it reads and writes toward the run's 1 GiB. Regressions: `crates/plugins/src/storage.rs`, `crates/plugins/tests/abi.rs`, `crates/engine/src/tests/plugins.rs`, `crates/engine/tests/plugin_clear_cache.rs`, `crates/engine/tests/plugin_fuzz.rs`. Scores and hours unchanged.
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- **Plug-in effects after a plug-in changes:** when a plug-in is installed for the first time, installed again or removed (`plugin.install`, `plugin.reload`, `plugin.remove`, File › Open of a `.wasm` file, the Additional Plug-ins Folder preference), the next frame the canvas draws uses the plug-ins then installed for objects with a plug-in effect and their raster effects, for the blends, envelopes and repeats that show such objects, and for pattern tiles and symbol instances whose art holds one.
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| 2026-11-06 | minor | `.ai` and EPS import: Art brushes in the older form of their objects come into the Brushes panel; evidence updated; scores unchanged. |
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| 2026-11-08 | minor | Panel numeric wheel turns do not seed canvas zoom glides; corrected the disabled-field scroll description (#5949). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
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| 2026-11-07 | minor | Numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking focus; keyboard focus and existing rounding rules remain (#5949). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
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| 2026-11-06 | minor | Direct Selection: with Snap to Grid, a dragged straight segment lands its anchors on the grid (#3835); evidence added; scores unchanged. |
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| 2026-11-06 | minor | Snap to Glyph › Glyph Bounds: the corners of each glyph's box are points a drawn point lands on, also on a curved side (`B`), and the box turns with rotated type, its edges then Angular Guides (#5112; [Snap to Glyph options](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/special-characters-glyphs/snap-to-glyph-options.html)); scores and estimates unchanged. |
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| 2026-11-06 | minor | Drop Shadow: a swatch beside Color opens the Color Picker over the dialog, as the other effect colour fields do (#5364); correction: the #5365 entry listed Drop Shadow, whose Color is drawn outside the shared grid and had no swatch; scores unchanged. |
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