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| `engine.execute` `file.exportSelection` | `{multiple?}` | File › Export Selection…: collects the selected objects as one asset (`assets.add`; one per object with `multiple: true`) and opens `exportForScreens` on its Assets tab with just them checked → `{assets}`. `document.exportSelection` still exports the selection in one go, without the dialog |
| CSS Properties panel | `window.panel {panel: "cssProperties"}`; `engine.execute` `css.copy` / `css.exportFile` | the panel shows `css.selection` of the selection (after Generate CSS, while nothing is selected, `css.generate`); its menu holds the options the commands take (`units`, `position`, `dimensions`, `unnamed`, `rasterize`). `css.copy {scope?, …options}` copies the CSS to the clipboard → `{css, rules}`; `css.exportFile {path?, scope?, …options}` writes `css.export` to `path` (else a picked file; the web downloads it) with the pictures of rasterized art next to it → `{path, rules, images, warnings}`, and the status bar shows the first of `warnings` as Export As shows an export's notes |
| `ui.dialog.*` on `importPdf` | `{field: "page" \| "allPages" \| "range" \| "cropTo" \| "password", value}` | opening (`app.open`, `file.open`) a PDF or `.ai` with several pages or a password, or placing one (`file.place` without `page`), opens the Import PDF dialog (`mode`: `open` or `place`; `pageCount`). While `__locked` is true, set `password` and `ui.dialog.confirm` to unlock it (a one-page file then opens or is placed). Then set `allPages: false` and `range` ("2-3, 5") to open some pages, or `page` to place one, and `cropTo` (`bounding`, `art`, `crop`, `trim`, `bleed`, `media`); `ui.dialog.confirm` opens or places them (placing keeps the other `file.place` params, such as `link`, `template` and `at`, in `__place`). `document.open {pages, cropTo, password}` and `file.place {page, crop, password}` do the same without the dialog |
| `ui.dialog.*` on `importPdf` | `{field: "page" \| "allPages" \| "range" \| "cropTo" \| "password", value}` | opening (`app.open`, `file.open`) a PDF, `.ai` or `.ait` with a password, or one with several pages unless it is a `.ai` or `.ait` with its editing data or carries its VectorCraft document (those open whole), or placing (`file.place` without `page`) any of them with several pages or a password, opens the Import PDF dialog (`mode`: `open` or `place`; `pageCount`). While `__locked` is true, set `password` and `ui.dialog.confirm` to unlock it (a one-page file then opens or is placed). Then set `allPages: false` and `range` ("2-3, 5") to open some pages, or `page` to place one, and `cropTo` (`bounding`, `art`, `crop`, `trim`, `bleed`, `media`); `ui.dialog.confirm` opens or places them (placing keeps the other `file.place` params, such as `link`, `template` and `at`, in `__place`). `document.open {pages, cropTo, password}` and `file.place {page, crop, password}` do the same without the dialog |
Swatch editors: `engine.execute` with `ui.swatchOptions {name}` opens the `swatchOptions` dialog for a colour swatch
(fields `name`, `spot`, `global`, `mode`: `gray`/`rgb`/`hsb`/`lab`/`cmyk`/`web`, `color`: `"#rrggbb"` or a colour object,
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# Effects parity
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-06 · **Change:** minor (Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate apply to groups and layers, their objects turning about one shared axis (#4506); the Transform effect's copies of a path with a fill and a stroke (or several fills and strokes, an even-odd fill, or a partly transparent one) are drawn each above the one before, as Expand Appearance makes them (#5920); Expand Appearance makes each copy of a path's Transform effect an object of its own (#5612); previously: Pixelate › Color Halftone: Max Radius in pixels of the Document Raster Effects resolution, 4–127 px, with older documents converted on opening and radii written back in points for older app versions (#3260); Effect dialogs clamp bounded length inputs immediately on commit and flash rejection on invalid input (#4638); previously: Drop Shadow Darkness uses fixed RGB subtraction and CMYK black addition; scores unchanged; Pathfinder › Trap: the Pathfinder panel's Trap… and Effect › Pathfinder › Trap… add an overprinting strip of the lighter colour where two solid colours meet; recounted with Hard Mix (#3061) and Soft Mix already in the catalogue: Pathfinder 13/13, Illustrator effects 49/50) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-08 · **Change:** minor (Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate merge contours that cross, touch or overlap, as type often draws a glyph, before building a solid; previously: Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate apply to groups and layers, their objects turning about one shared axis (#4506); the Transform effect's copies of a path with a fill and a stroke (or several fills and strokes, an even-odd fill, or a partly transparent one) are drawn each above the one before, as Expand Appearance makes them (#5920); Expand Appearance makes each copy of a path's Transform effect an object of its own (#5612); previously: Pixelate › Color Halftone: Max Radius in pixels of the Document Raster Effects resolution, 4–127 px, with older documents converted on opening and radii written back in points for older app versions (#3260); Effect dialogs clamp bounded length inputs immediately on commit and flash rejection on invalid input (#4638); previously: Drop Shadow Darkness uses fixed RGB subtraction and CMYK black addition; scores unchanged; Pathfinder › Trap: the Pathfinder panel's Trap… and Effect › Pathfinder › Trap… add an overprinting strip of the lighter colour where two solid colours meet; recounted with Hard Mix (#3061) and Soft Mix already in the catalogue: Pathfinder 13/13, Illustrator effects 49/50) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
Every entry of Illustrator's Effect menu, by its public feature name, against VectorCraft's effects catalogue
(`effect_catalog()` in `crates/effects/src/lib.rs`) and the Effect menu built from it
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| Item | Ours |
|---|---|
| Revolve | initial: live, editable profile, rotation and light gizmos, default-on Cap with continuous curved rims, smooth vector shading and round seam joins, SVG/PDF output, Expand Appearance ([revolve.md](revolve.md), #846) |
| Extrude & Bevel, Inflate, Rotate | initial: live, depth, twist, taper, solid or hollow caps, five original bevel shapes, Inflate volume, both sides, twist, taper and cap, Rotate of every fill and stroke, groups and layers turned about one shared axis (#4506), Position presets, rotation and light gizmos, SVG/PDF output, Expand Appearance ([three-d.md](three-d.md)) |
| Extrude & Bevel, Inflate, Rotate | initial: live, depth, twist, taper, solid or hollow caps, five original bevel shapes, Inflate volume, both sides, twist, taper and cap, Rotate of every fill and stroke, groups and layers turned about one shared axis (#4506), contours that cross, touch or overlap merged first ([three-d.md](three-d.md)), Position presets, rotation and light gizmos, SVG/PDF output, Expand Appearance ([three-d.md](three-d.md)) |
| Materials panel, lighting, ray-traced render | Window › 3D and Materials panel with the object types (Plane, Extrude, Revolve, Inflate) and the Object, Rotation and Lighting settings of the applied effect ([three-d.md](three-d.md#3d-and-materials-panel)); one to ten directional lights with per-light Color (opaque RGB, white by default), Intensity, Rotation, Height, Softness and neutral Ambient Light, Revolve and colored Inflate use smooth vector shading; Extrude & Bevel and Rotate retain planar shading; original Standard, Diffuse, Top Left and Right lighting rigs; no materials, shadows or ray tracing |
| 3D (Classic): Extrude & Bevel, Revolve, Rotate | none |
| Turntable (30.0 beta) | none |
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| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-08 | minor | Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate merge contours that cross, touch or overlap (a glyph's arm across its stem) before building a solid, so the solid follows the shape as it is filled; others are built as drawn ([three-d.md](three-d.md)); scores and estimates unchanged |
| 2026-11-06 | minor | Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate apply to a group or layer: a solid for every path, compound path and type in it, all turned about one shared axis as the public documentation describes for groups ([three-d.md](three-d.md#groups), #4506); scores and estimates unchanged |
| 2026-11-06 | minor | The Transform effect's copies of a path or compound path whose fills and strokes stack (a fill and a stroke, several of either, an even-odd fill, or a partly transparent or blended one) are drawn each as an object of its own above the one before, as Expand Appearance makes them, instead of one path of every copy whose fill lay under every copy's stroke (#5920). A single opaque stroke or nonzero fill still draws as one path. Counts unchanged. |
| 2026-11-04 | minor | Expand Appearance of a path or compound path whose Transform effect makes copies gives a group of one object per copy, each with the path's fills and strokes, instead of one compound path of every copy; copies of copies nest (#5612). Counts unchanged. |
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# File format parity
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-06 · **Change:** minor (SVG CSS classes survive export and repeated import in all four styling modes (#2480); current-main integration retains event attributes and scripts; EPS and `.ai` editing data: a transparency set inside a clipping group stays after its `Q`; SVG import: filter and mask regions clip, #5876, #5875; SVG import: Gaussian blurs keep `color-interpolation-filters`, #5877; PDF and `.ai` export: objects' URLs as links, #5785; SVG import: `color-interpolation="linearRGB"` gradients, #5878; `.ai` import: paths with a Calligraphic brush open brushed, #372) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-07 · **Change:** minor (EPS import: composite fonts draw their Type 42 glyphs; SVG import: filter and mask regions clip, #5876, #5875; SVG import: Gaussian blurs keep `color-interpolation-filters`, #5877; PDF and `.ai` export: objects' URLs as links, #5785; SVG import: `color-interpolation="linearRGB"` gradients, #5878; `.ai` import: paths with a Calligraphic brush open brushed, #372) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
Every format Illustrator opens, places, saves or exports, against VectorCraft's format table (`FORMATS`,
`OPEN_EXTS`, `PLACE_EXTS` in `crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/formats.rs`). Illustrator's list comes from its public
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A multi-layer mask (`Mb` … `Md` … `MB`) comes in as a clipping group in each layer it covers, each
clipped by a copy of the mask's path.
An opacity mask's art of one shown object, other than a guide or a clipping path, opens as that object in the
editing data of a `.ai`, EPS or PDF; other art opens in a group.
editing data of a `.ai`, EPS or PDF; other art opens in a group. Art in the mask that sets no paint of its
own paints with the paint before the mask's dictionary, as the writer leaves out paint that doesn't change.
RGB in the PDF page's `ICCBased` spaces keeps the file's numbers in a `.ai` (the `uncalibrated_rgb`
import option, on for editor documents, off for PDFs), so `.ai` files tagged with a non-sRGB RGB profile
open with different, unconverted RGB colours than before.
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| Illustrator template `.ait` | open, save | yes | PDF-compatible only, from Save as Template (`.vctemplate` stays its default) | New from Template opens a saved `.ait` untitled with its layers and art (`tests_pdfedit.rs`) |
| Illustrator `.ai` | open, save | yes (PDF-compatible + editing-data structure with template layers and ruler guides, File Info) | PDF-compatible, or legacy version 7 (layers and groups) | see above; no real-file corpus |
| PDF | open, place, save | yes (layers, masks, editable text, security, overprint, File Info from the XMP packet and the document information dictionary; Crop To › Trim takes the bleed box as the document's bleed) | yes (presets, PDF/X-1a/3/4, layers, marks and bleed, ICC, fast web view, 1.3+; objects' URLs as link annotations, not in PDF/X) | fuzzed import; shared guarded writer and windowed reader ([pdf-backend.md](pdf-backend.md)), metadata, incomplete-content and dependency-source regressions; PDF text opens where the file draws it, glyph by glyph (#722: kerning or none, spacing per character, text rise as baseline shift, vertical writing, justified text boxes); alpha soft masks drawn as images import with the mask (#1551); a clip only counts as covering the page when its shape does (#1542); a PDF another app copied pastes as editable vector art (#1499); letter-spaced type on a path keeps its length and its glyph-by-glyph stroke comes in as one text object (#1586, #1585); a crafted name tree with shared nodes no longer takes exponential time on open (#1781); fonts named with hyphens (`Noto-Sans-Bold`) or with a composite font's CMap (`Name-Identity-H`) find the installed family; invisible text (rendering mode 3: a scanned page's recognized text) opens as type with no fill or stroke and saves back as invisible, searchable text (#2675); PDF/X-1a and X-3 flattening in a CMYK document keeps CMYK inks where it rasterizes (#2160) |
| EPS | open, place, save | yes (own PostScript L3 interpreter, Illustrator EPS editing data structure) | yes (L2/L3, TIFF previews) | CID-keyed CJK type not read; #505; images encoded with `CCITTFaxDecode` (ITU-T T.4 Group 3 and T.6 Group 4, with `K`, `Columns`, `Rows`, `EndOfBlock`, `EndOfLine`, `EncodedByteAlign` and `BlackIs1`) draw, and damaged data keeps the rows decoded before its first damaged row; Type 42 (TrueType) fonts set type at its size (#1553); a clip only counts as covering the page when its shape does (#1542); an EPS another app copied pastes as editable vector art (`clipboard.importEps`, #1499); a stitched shading keeps its hard colour changes on import (#1654); CMYK images, CMYK JPEGs included, keep their ink amounts on import, as from PDF, and the pixels a `MaskColor` or `ImageType 3` mask hides become a grayscale opacity mask; ruzstd 0.9.1 for compressed editing data (#1807, RUSTSEC-2026-0344) |
| EPS | open, place, save | yes (own PostScript L3 interpreter, Illustrator EPS editing data structure) | yes (L2/L3, TIFF previews) | CID-keyed CJK type not read; #505; images encoded with `CCITTFaxDecode` (ITU-T T.4 Group 3 and T.6 Group 4, with `K`, `Columns`, `Rows`, `EndOfBlock`, `EndOfLine`, `EncodedByteAlign` and `BlackIs1`) draw, and damaged data keeps the rows decoded before its first damaged row; Type 42 (TrueType) fonts set type at its size (#1553); composite (Type 0) fonts with the 8/8 mapping, as PDF-to-PostScript converters write two-byte fonts, draw a Type 42 descendant's glyphs from the TrueType outlines it carries and set other descendants' characters as type at the composite font's size (other mappings and CID-keyed fonts are still set as type in the font of their name); a clip only counts as covering the page when its shape does (#1542); an EPS another app copied pastes as editable vector art (`clipboard.importEps`, #1499); a stitched shading keeps its hard colour changes on import (#1654); CMYK images, CMYK JPEGs included, keep their ink amounts on import, as from PDF, and the pixels a `MaskColor` or `ImageType 3` mask hides become a grayscale opacity mask; ruzstd 0.9.1 for compressed editing data (#1807, RUSTSEC-2026-0344) |
| PostScript `.ps` | open, place | yes (the EPS reader reads its first page; `.epsf` files open and place as EPS) | via Print to PostScript | `tests_epsimport.rs` |
| SVG / SVGZ | open, place, save | yes | yes (SVG Options, Preserve Editing, symbols, filters, rich text) | strongest format; tests in `crates/svg/tests`; text on a path follows basic shapes as their SVG 2 equivalent paths (#1527); CSS transforms and the `font` shorthand (#1565), percentage lengths in symbols (#1596), Inkscape flowed text as area type (#1568) and Inkscape pages as artboards (#1601) import; an unsupported filter is named in its warning (#1598); an artboard exported on its own (Export As with Use Artboards, Export for Screens, Asset Export) has the artboard's name as `<title>`, Save the document's (#3544); attributes in other applications' XML namespaces (`plotter:pen="2"`) kept on their objects from import to export, as `data-*` attributes are (`crates/svg/tests/it/foreign_attributes.rs`); simple shapes export as `<rect>`, `<circle>`, `<ellipse>`, `<line>`, `<polygon>` and `<polyline>` where they draw the same as the path (#4652, `crates/svg/tests/it/basic_shapes.rs`) |
| DXF | open, export | yes | yes (R12–2018) | R13–2018 closed SPLINE flags and control-point closure on import verified (#1299); circular cubic paths export as native CIRCLE/ARC where stroke semantics permit; R12 weighted strokes remain POLYLINE while non-circular curves keep the existing fallback (`crates/cad/src/tests.rs`); [Autodesk group 70](https://help.autodesk.com/cloudhelp/2024/ENU/AutoCAD-DXF/files/GUID-E1F884F8-AA90-4864-A215-3182D47A9C74.htm). DXF 2000–2018 LAYOUT objects write the paper image origin as 148/149 (was a stray 158), the shade plot codes (2004+) and the model type flag, and the plot style placeholder carries no subclass marker (#3085; structure test `r2000_and_later_files_have_the_structure_cad_apps_require`, checked with ezdxf's audit; not yet confirmed in Autodesk Fusion). CNC preset and VCarve QA remain open |
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| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-06 | minor | EPS import: composite (Type 0) fonts with the 8/8 mapping (`FMapType` 2: PLRM 3rd ed., §5.10) draw a Type 42 descendant's glyphs from the TrueType outlines its `sfnts` carry (Adobe Technical Note #5012), spaced by their own widths or the show operator's numbers, and `charpath` and `stringwidth` read them; descendants found by name set their characters as type at the composite font's size instead of a thousand times it. EPS from `pdftops` of a PDF with embedded TrueType fonts showed nothing, or one black shape, where its type was. |
| 2026-11-07 | minor | EPS and `.ai` editing data: opacity mask art that sets no paint of its own paints with the paint before the mask's dictionary, not the black a dictionary's state starts with. A logo of white letters masked by a rectangle with no colour no longer opens hidden: a user's `.ai` (used locally, not committed) shows its six logos. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-11-06 | minor | EPS and `.ai` editing data: an art style's stroke aligned inside or outside its path (Stroke panel › Align Stroke, written as its own `Adobe Stroke Offset` filter) comes in as a stroke with that alignment, so objects whose style has one keep the style live instead of coming in as their drawn look. Without its inside/outside switch the drawn look stays. |
| 2026-11-06 | minor | EPS and `.ai` editing data: `Q` restores the painting state but not the transparency (`Xy`), which the writer only sets when the next object's differs from the last one written. A Screen glow followed by a clipping group set back to Normal no longer leaves the type after the group in Screen: two users' Illustrator 26.5 and 30 EPS posters (used locally, not committed) now show their gold heading and crescent, and both open from their layers (2.5% and 2.7% from the page before, under the limit after). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-11-06 | minor | EPS and `.ai` editing data: a blend whose spine was never edited, written with its keys and no spine part, comes in as a live blend along the straight lines between its keys' centres (in its record's order) instead of as its drawn steps. Checked on six users' Illustrator EPS files (used locally, not committed): every blend in four of them now comes in live, their renders unchanged; two still have blends the reader can't match to their drawn steps. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-11-06 | minor | EPS and `.ai` editing data: the art styles are found before the art is read, so objects in symbols defined ahead of `%AI9_BeginArtStyles` (as Illustrator 24 writes it) come in as themselves with their style instead of their drawn look. Checked on two users' EPS files (used locally, not committed): one's Symbols panel gains live Feather and Round Corners, its drawn-look count drops from 5 to 2, and both render unchanged; own-fixture test in `import::ai::tests`; scores and hours unchanged |
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`document.setup` with no params reports the document setup: units, the bleed ([top, bottom, left, right] in pt, drawn
as a red outline around each artboard), the transparency grid (size and two colours; the first is also the simulated
paper colour), the flattener preset and Discard White Overprint (Overprint Preview keeps white overprints visible while
it is on), the type options (language and its quotes, Use Typographer's Quotes for typed quotes, superscript, subscript
it is on), the type options (language and its quotes, Use Typographer's Quotes for typed straight quotes and a typed `”` where a quote opens, superscript, subscript
and small caps proportions, SVG text export) and the background contents (white: raster exports are white behind the
art). Pass any of these keys to change them in one undo step; `document.setUnits` stays as an alias for `units`.
A file whose bleed (0 to 72 pt a side), superscript and subscript sizes (1 to 500%) and positions (-500 to 500%) or
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# Roadmap: milestones and what's next
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-07 · **Change:** minor (Selection QoL: marquee modes and visible feedback, #5313; SVG CSS classes survive export and repeated import in all four styling modes (#2480); current-main integration retains event attributes and scripts; Indian-language hyphenation review and license allowlist, #4947; Hindi catalog and contributor loanword preferences; full wording review in progress; Effect dialogs: a colour swatch beside a hex colour opens the Color Picker, #5365; shape tools move the selection from its centre point and turn it from the zone outside a box corner, #5477; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-08 · **Change:** minor (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)
## Feature submission evidence
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| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-08 | minor | Character Styles panel: a double-click on a user style's row opens its Character Style Options (`ui.charStyleOptions`); the dialog keeps a fixed width and scrolls its sections in a shorter window, so OK and Cancel stay on screen. Tests `panels::text_styles::tests::double_clicking_a_character_style_row_opens_its_options` and `dialogs::char_style_options::tests::the_sections_scroll_in_a_window_shorter_than_the_general_list`. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-11-02 | minor | Selection QoL: saved marquee modes, screen drag direction with a 3 px dead zone, and translated mode/E feedback (#5313); VectorCraft addition, scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-11-07 | minor | Indian-language hyphenation (#4947): eleven MIT-licensed pattern sets, with grapheme and shaping-cluster protection in both composers and existing paragraph limits. Assamese and Sanskrit are selectable; Sanskrit automatic patterns remain pending an allowlisted source. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-11-05 | minor | Effect dialogs: a colour swatch beside a hex colour field follows typed values, and a double-click opens the Color Picker over the dialog, whose OK fills the field (#5365); scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-11-05 | minor | Selection Tools add-on: Select Linked, Embedded, Missing and Modified select the images and placed documents with that link status (Object › Plug-ins › Selection Tools and the Links panel menu; Shift adds), and Select by Link Status… lists them by name, status and format to pick from, optionally zooming to them; what is hidden, locked, on a template layer or outside the isolated group is left out and the status bar says how many (#5526, a VectorCraft addition); scores and estimates unchanged (estimated). |
| 2026-11-05 | minor | Pencil and Paintbrush: a new stroke with Keep selected off leaves nothing selected, the earlier selection included, while Keep selected on selects only the new path (#5752); scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-11-05 | minor | Layers panel: a layer whose Layer Options › Print is off shows its name italic, as the reference application shows non-printing layers, and keeps it while the row is dragged (#5739); scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-11-04 | minor | M7: Select Text by Font takes a scope: the document, chosen artboards or chosen layers; Find Font's Find In offers Document, Artboard (the active one) and Layers (the selected ones, else the current one) (#5529, a VectorCraft addition); estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-11-04 | minor | M7: Find Font's Replace With Font lists family and style rows with a search, and the list and the document's font list scroll on their own (#4972); scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-11-04 | minor | Selection Tools add-on: Select by Artboards selects the objects overlapping, fully inside or fully outside several chosen artboards, from a dialog that lists, searches and multi-selects the artboards and fits one in the window on double-click (#5525, #5548, #5549, a VectorCraft addition); scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-11-04 | minor | M4: raster/PSD exports default to document resolution; CLI run/convert expose --ppi, matching the engine and MCP precedence. Scores and hours unchanged. |
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| M0 | Skeleton + vertical slice | ✅ done | — |
| M1 | Selection, transform, layers, MCP (common command tools, strict keys, session resources and version-aware result hints) | ✅ mostly done (document-tab artwork drag with lossless resource transfer and one target Undo; malformed MCP app replies discard the connection without replay, #1761; bounded control socket waits and connection-slot recovery, #1726; bounded synthetic control input, #1709; no-op anchor Align keeps Undo, Redo and saved state (#1180 follow-up); transform reference point snaps to anchors/centres; rotated objects keep a rotated bounding box and their angle; Free Transform, Scale and Reflect along a rotated box pending; the Transform fields take one Tab each, the W/H link after them) | 4–6 |
| M2 | Drawing tools + smart guides | ✅ mostly done (Polygon/Star exact-size count persistence, with repeated-drag, tool-switch and Cancel regression coverage; Curvature point markers without direction handles (#1236, in part); Direct Selection segment click/Delete preserves neighboring edges, #1278; Flare, Reshape, Live Corners widget dragging and per-corner radii and kinds landed, on any path's corners; Shaper rough-shape recognition and orientation steps, the remaining Pen modifier nuances; Shaper Groups with editable sources and separate fill/stroke edits landed; custom ruler origin with drag preview, active-artboard reset, relative X/Y fields and native round-trip (#1212); construction widget/refinements pending); a shape just drawn moves by its centre point and turns from the zone outside a corner with its tool still active (#5477); Tangent and straight-segment perpendicular snapping use saved Smart Guides Geometric Guides preferences and Control bar quick access (#2537); no View submenu | 12–18 |
| M2 | Drawing tools + smart guides | ✅ mostly done (Polygon/Star exact-size count persistence, with repeated-drag, tool-switch and Cancel regression coverage; Curvature point markers without direction handles (#1236, in part); Direct Selection segment click/Delete preserves neighboring edges, #1278; Flare, Reshape, Live Corners widget dragging and per-corner radii and kinds landed, on any path's corners; Shaper rough-shape recognition and orientation steps, the remaining Pen modifier nuances; Shaper Groups with editable sources and separate fill/stroke edits landed; custom ruler origin with drag preview, active-artboard reset, relative X/Y fields and native round-trip (#1212); construction widget/refinements pending); a shape just drawn moves by its centre point and turns from the zone outside a corner with its tool still active (#5477); Tangent and straight-segment perpendicular snapping use saved Smart Guides Geometric Guides preferences and Control bar quick access (#2537); no View submenu; Copy and Cut with the Pen or Curvature tool take the anchors a Cmd/Ctrl-lent Direct Selection picked (#6123) | 12–18 |
| M2 | Drawing tools + smart guides | ✅ mostly done (Polygon/Star exact-size count persistence, with repeated-drag, tool-switch and Cancel regression coverage; Curvature point markers without direction handles (#1236, in part); Direct Selection segment click/Delete preserves neighboring edges, #1278; Flare, Reshape, Live Corners widget dragging and per-corner radii and kinds landed, on any path's corners; Shaper rough-shape recognition and orientation steps, the remaining Pen modifier nuances; Shaper Groups with editable sources and separate fill/stroke edits landed; custom ruler origin with drag preview, active-artboard reset, relative X/Y fields and native round-trip (#1212); construction widget/refinements pending); Tangent and straight-segment perpendicular snapping use saved Smart Guides Geometric Guides preferences and Control bar quick access (#2537); no View submenu | 12–18 |
| M3 | Paint & appearance (swatches, color, gradient, stroke, appearance, transparency, styles) | ✅ done (M3.7–M3.98): swatches, groups, libraries, tints, Lab spots and Registration; Eyedropper styles highlighted text only (atomic transparency rejection); Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); Color Picker, Color panel, Color Guide, Color Themes, Edit Colors and Recolor Artwork (screen-bounded Edit chip list, #3416); gradients that follow every transform, the annotator, linked stops, freeform gradients, focal points, gradients on strokes and Expand; visible strokes when paint is added to inherited None/zero-width art (#1253); stroke geometry, arrowheads, dashes fitted to corners, stroke on type, width profiles and the Width tool (Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment in Width Point Edit; finite-arithmetic follow-up regressions and full CI passed ([Validation evidence](target-app-parity.md#evidence-what-ships-today-by-area))), Scale Strokes and preview bounds; Appearance targeting, container appearance, target circles, Expand Appearance; knockout, isolation, blend accuracy, CMYK blending, overprint, Attributes, masks and clipping, Flatten Transparency; graphic styles, links and libraries; CSS library export preserves fractional linear and radial gradient stop positions. Left: freeform gradients in SVG/PDF, mixed spot/process gradients in SVG and PDF gradients mixing a spot color with RGB or Lab stops export as stops or process colors; PDF export writes dithered gradient fills with spot stops, and Perceptual spot gradients with RGB or Lab stops other than white or more than 4,096 stops on their curve, as images in process colors; confirm the Scale Strokes & Effects default; Recolor model selection is available through the engine and MCP only (#2520); the dialog retains its existing controls | 4–8 |
| M2 | Drawing tools + smart guides | ✅ mostly done (Curvature point markers without direction handles (#1236, in part); Direct Selection segment click/Delete preserves neighboring edges, #1278; Flare, Reshape, Live Corners widget dragging and per-corner radii and kinds landed, on any path's corners; Shaper rough-shape recognition and orientation steps, the remaining Pen modifier nuances; Shaper Groups with editable sources and separate fill/stroke edits landed; custom ruler origin with drag preview, active-artboard reset, relative X/Y fields and native round-trip (#1212); construction widget/refinements pending) | 12–18 |
@@ -181,6 +183,7 @@ separate. Scores and hours unchanged. [Behavior and command details](development
| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-07 | minor | M2: with the Pen or Curvature tool, Edit › Copy and Cut take the anchors and segments a Cmd/Ctrl-lent Direct Selection picked, not the whole path (#6123); estimates unchanged |
| 2026-11-06 | minor | M2: a shape just drawn moves by its centre point (Show Center) and turns from the rotate zone just outside a bounding-box corner with its tool still active, as the Selection tool's gestures do (#5477); estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-11-06 | minor | 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 |
| 2026-11-04 | minor | New Document: the units chosen in Preset Details belong to the chosen preset; Recent and Saved cards keep their own units; scores and estimates unchanged. |
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3D effect: edit its options in the Appearance panel or the 3D and Materials panel, or remove it before applying
another.
Each solid follows its shape as it is filled. Separate and nested contours are built as drawn. Contours that cross,
touch or run along each other or themselves, as type often draws a glyph, are first merged into one outline by
[`vectorcraft-pathops`](../crates/pathops/README.md), keeping every contour but the numerical debris a boolean leaves.
Whether contours meet is judged on the outline as it is followed (see the curve tolerance below), so curves that
overlap by less than that are built as drawn. All three effects share pathops'
[limits](../crates/pathops/README.md#limits): a shape it refuses is built from its contours as drawn, where it can be.
An open subpath is closed by a straight line either way.
## 3D and Materials panel
**Window › 3D and Materials** opens a panel that edits the 3D effect of the selection without a dialog, as the
@@ -228,7 +236,9 @@ out, perspective). No Adobe software, assets, presets or bevel shapes were used.
effect per object.
- Curves are followed within 1/2000 of the shape's size (at least 0.05 pt), so a small curve takes a few points
and a large one up to 32. Extrude & Bevel and Inflate take up to 2,048 outline points (a stroke's outline is
counted on its own), Rotate (which only turns the outline) 65,536.
counted on its own), Rotate (which only turns the outline) 65,536. The limit is counted on the shape as drawn and,
when its contours meet, again on the merged outline, which can have more points (bars crossing in a grid trace
every hole between them); past it, the shape is too complex for the effect.
- **3D (Classic)** (the track cube, surface types, blend steps, map art), Turntable and 3D export are separate,
unbuilt items.
@@ -238,6 +248,7 @@ Release measurements and a repeatable CLI scene are in [3D lighting performance]
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-11-08 | Contours that cross, touch or overlap are merged by vectorcraft-pathops before Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate build a solid, sharing its limits; others are built as drawn. |
| 2026-11-06 | Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate apply to groups and layers: every path, compound path and type in them turns about one shared axis (#4506). |
| 2026-10-21 | Four original lighting presets, shared by all four 3D effects and commands, with effective-setting recognition and existing preview/history behavior. |
| 2026-10-17 | Smooth colored Inflate lighting and surface batching; legacy white-light appearance and the 0.05 seam minimum preserved; shared light Color and multiple lights remain vector output. |
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# Type parity
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-07 · **Change:** minor (Indian-language hyphenation review and license allowlist, #4947; Bulgarian among the languages, with its quote marks and the fonts' Bulgarian forms, #5945; previously minor: Show Snap to Glyph Options scrolls to the options, with a Snap to Glyph checkbox, #5273; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-08 · **Change:** minor (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)
Type is Illustrator's largest single area by use (weight 13 of 105 across "Type core" and "Type advanced" in
[target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md)). This checklist lists the features one by one. Status is from the
@@ -29,12 +29,12 @@ against Illustrator's public documentation; **estimated** unless noted.
| Threaded text, Fit Headline, Text Wrap | done | Fit Headline sees wrapping in a frame one line tall (#1444); a thread holds area type and type on a path in any mix, as Illustrator links type in an area or along a path ([help](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/manage-text-area.html)) |
| Threading from the ports: selected area type and type on a path show an in port and an out port, empty, with an arrow on a side where the frame is threaded, or with a red "+" in the out port when the text doesn't fit; a click on either port loads the text; a click on a closed path, area type or type on a path threads into it, a click on empty canvas makes a frame of the same kind, shape and size there, a drag draws a rectangular frame; the frame placed comes after the clicked one from its out port and before it from its in port (the story then starts there); Escape or another tool cancels; a double-click on a threaded port breaks the thread there | partial | #2572: the Selection tool, `text.thread.add {from, to?, rect?, at?, before?}`, as the reference app's help describes ports and threading ([archived help, Threading text between objects](https://web.archive.org/web/20210119051048/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/creating-text.html), [create text threads](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/add-manage-text/create-text-threads-between-objects.html)); area type's in port sits on the left side below the top-left corner, type on a path's just before its start bracket; Show Text Threads draws its lines between the same ports; with more than 1,000 such objects selected no ports are drawn. a double-click on a port where the frame is threaded breaks the thread there, the story flowing into the frames before the break and the frames after it left empty, still threaded with each other when two or more (`text.thread.break`, [archived help](https://web.archive.org/web/20220127090642/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/creating-text.html)). Remaining: the ports only take clicks with the Selection tool, and the loaded cursor borrows the I-beam until it's drawn |
| Type on a Path effects and options; brackets | done | #429; Type on a Path Options has a Preview checkbox (#5360, as public tutorials of the dialog show) |
| Character and Paragraph panels, styles with overrides | done | Character-style Auto-leading resets, partial definitions, local leading overrides, override markers, Undo/Redo and native serialization have regression coverage; differing paragraph alignments leave the shared alignment buttons unselected (headless regressions, full integration CI and visual review pass); mixed-value display for other paragraph fields remains missing |
| Character and Paragraph panels, styles with overrides | done | Character-style Auto-leading resets, partial definitions, local leading overrides, override markers, Undo/Redo and native serialization have regression coverage; differing paragraph alignments leave the shared alignment buttons unselected (headless regressions, full integration CI and visual review pass); mixed-value display for other paragraph fields remains missing. Double-clicking a user character style's row opens its Character Style Options, and the dialog keeps a fixed width while its sections scroll when the window is shorter, so its buttons stay on screen; a paragraph style's row opens its Paragraph Style Options, the rename dialog the panel menu opens. Evidence: `panels::text_styles::tests::double_clicking_a_character_style_row_opens_its_options`, `dialogs::char_style_options::tests::the_sections_scroll_in_a_window_shorter_than_the_general_list` |
| Copy or Cut selected characters, then paste as separate text art | done | A Type-range copy keeps the selected characters' font family, size and color when pasted on the canvas after leaving text editing, in the same document or another. On desktop the clipboard offers plain text to text consumers and rich art for canvas Paste; Paste Without Formatting while editing uses the destination text's style. `tests::clipboard::type_range_copy_stays_styled_when_pasted_as_art` (#5636) |
| Character size and horizontal scale after object/group scaling | done | #1034: fields and setters compensate the stored affine; point size follows the transformed em-height axis, not the glyph ink bounds. Range edits, keyboard increments, leading and baseline shift use document points; rotation, reflection and shear remain editable. |
| Preserve font sizes while scaling a group | missing | Separate enhancement; scaling still scales text with the other artwork. |
| OpenType panel, Glyphs panel, alternates | done | Highlight Alternate Glyphs preference (#394, off by default) paints pink behind OpenType substitutions on screen when on (required shaping such as Arabic joining forms and the lam-alef ligature, including a lam-alef older fonts file under `liga`, is not highlighted; an optional feature that changes the ligature is); stylistic sets ss01–ss20, stylistic and titling alternates, proportional and lining figures, superscript and subscript are character-style features (`text.setStyle {features}`, #1607); the OpenType panel's Position menu sets superscript, subscript, numerator or denominator glyphs (`sups`, `subs`, `numr`, `dnom`). The OpenType panel's Stylistic Sets menu lists the selected font's `ss01`–`ss20` features, using a font-supplied name where available and `Set N` otherwise; several sets can be active, and selecting an active one removes it. For a mixed-font selection it uses the first selected character's font, a VectorCraft design choice ([public help](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/special-characters-glyphs/add-stylistic-sets-to-selected-text.html), [OpenType feature specification](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/features_pt)). The Glyphs panel highlights the character selected with the Type tool (a range's first character, else the one before the caret) and scrolls it into view as the selection moves (#4908; `panels::glyphs` tests); its Show menu lists Unicode ranges and Alternates for Current Selection, the selected character's alternate glyphs from the font's `GSUB` table, one of which a double-click draws for that character (`text.setGlyphAlternate`); the glyph-cell pop-up of alternates is not there yet |
| Font menu: samples, live preview, filters, favourites, recent families; font matching by any name; Find Font | done | #3515: recently applied families appear first, once each; missing families are omitted and the existing Number of Recent Fonts setting applies; #339; script filter: Japanese, Latin, Thai; the font scan on Linux also reads the folders fontconfig's configuration lists, such as TeX fonts under `/usr/share/texmf/fonts` (#1548, fixes #1529; not verified on Linux) Replace With Font lists family and style rows, one click setting both, with a search over them; its list scrolls on its own, apart from the document's font list (#4972). |
| Font menu: samples, live preview, filters, favourites, recent families; font matching by any name; Find Font | done | #3515: recently applied families appear first, once each; missing families are omitted and the existing Number of Recent Fonts setting applies; #339; script filter: Japanese, Latin, Thai; the font scan on Linux also reads the folders fontconfig's configuration lists, such as TeX fonts under `/usr/share/texmf/fonts` (#1548, fixes #1529; not verified on Linux); Select Text by Font takes a scope: the document, chosen artboards or chosen layers; Find Font's Find In offers Document, Artboard (the active one) and Layers (the selected ones, else the current one) (#5529, a VectorCraft addition); Replace With Font lists family and style rows, one click setting both, with a search over them; its list scrolls on its own, apart from the document's font list (#4972). |
| Missing glyphs set in an installed font made for their script (Thai, Lao, Khmer, Myanmar first; then any font that has them) | done | Thai: Leelawadee UI, Tahoma, Thonburi, Sukhumvit Set, Noto Sans Thai, TLWG |
| Full font-name matching (OpenType name ID 4) | done | #1258: loaded/cataloged faces and Missing Fonts searches; localized names and variable default faces; Windows font-service QA pending |
| Variable fonts | done | named instances as styles; Character panel › Variable Font sets each axis (`fontAxes`); the font menu's Font Technology › Variable lists only variable font families, with the script, kind and ★ filters ([Find, apply, and adjust variable fonts](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/fonts-and-scripts/find-apply-and-adjust-variable-fonts.html)); a family with a variable file beside static ones counts as variable. Evidence: `font_menu::tests::the_variable_filter_lists_only_variable_families`, `tests_axes::a_family_with_variation_axes_is_variable`, `tests_sysfonts::a_family_with_a_variable_file_beside_static_ones_is_variable` |
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ against Illustrator's public documentation; **estimated** unless noted.
| Hidden characters (Show Hidden Characters) | done | `type.hiddenCharacters` |
| Spell check (Check Spelling, Auto Spell Check, custom dictionary) | missing | menu stubs; needs an openly licensed dictionary |
| Smart Punctuation, Change Case, Find & Replace | done | |
| Alt + numeric-keypad codes while typing (Windows: `Alt+0176` → °) | partial | #5108: on Windows the character Windows posts when Alt comes up after keypad digits is typed at the caret like any other, in the typing's undo step, and the keypad digits typed with Alt run no shortcut (`windows_alt_codes` tests; not yet tried on a Windows machine). `type.insert {code}` (Windows Alt+0 code, Windows-1252 for 128–159) and `{unicode}` (hex code point) insert a character by its code (`menucmds::insert_a_character_by_its_code`). macOS and Linux have no such system convention and egui reports a keypad digit as the top-row digit, so there it does nothing; a floating panel window doesn't receive the character |
| Alt + numeric-keypad codes while typing (Windows: `Alt+0176` → °) | partial | #5108: on Windows the character Windows posts when Alt comes up after keypad digits is typed at the caret like any other, in the typing's undo step, and the keypad digits typed with Alt run no shortcut. With NumLock off the keypad keys (Insert, End, arrows, Clear, Home, Page Up/Down without the extended-key flag) count as digits too and don't move the caret (`windows_alt_codes` unit tests; neither NumLock on nor off has been tried on a Windows machine yet). `type.insert {code}` (Windows Alt+0 code, Windows-1252 for 128–159) and `{unicode}` (hex code point) insert a character by its code (`menucmds::insert_a_character_by_its_code`). macOS and Linux have no such system convention and egui reports a keypad digit as the top-row digit, so there it does nothing; a floating panel window doesn't receive the character |
| Caret: the arrows and Delete step over whole clusters (Thai consonant with its marks, combining accents, emoji); Backspace removes one character | done | in text with right-to-left characters the arrows move in visual order and stop on both sides of a character drawn with no width, such as a zero width non-joiner |
| Touch Type tool | done | moves, scales and rotates one character through its kerning, baseline shift, scales and rotation (`text.touchType`); a character with a preceding logical character on the same line can move along the line in either reading direction; the first logical character moves only up and down. Positive `dx` follows reading order. These direction rules are VectorCraft's choices. |
| Retype (identify fonts in outlines/images) | missing | Illustrator's uses a cloud model |
@@ -82,11 +82,15 @@ Character Styles menu New/Redefine and footer New capture the first selected cha
| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-08 | minor | Style panels: a double-click on a user character style's row opens its Character Style Options (`ui.charStyleOptions`), and on a paragraph style's row its Paragraph Style Options (rename); the Character Style Options dialog keeps a fixed width and scrolls its sections in a shorter window, so OK and Cancel stay on screen. Tests `panels::text_styles::tests::double_clicking_a_character_style_row_opens_its_options` and `dialogs::char_style_options::tests::the_sections_scroll_in_a_window_shorter_than_the_general_list`. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-11-07 | minor | Alt + numeric-keypad codes with NumLock off: the keypad keys arrive as Insert, End, arrows, Clear, Home and Page Up/Down, which Windows still composes into the code; with Alt held they now count as digits and are taken out of the frame instead of moving the caret, while the separate navigation keys (extended-key flag) keep their meaning (follow-up to #5939). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-11-07 | minor | Indian-language hyphenation (#4947): eleven MIT-licensed pattern sets, with grapheme and shaping-cluster protection in both composers and existing paragraph limits. Assamese and Sanskrit are selectable; Sanskrit automatic patterns remain pending an allowlisted source. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-11-06 | minor | Alt + numeric-keypad codes (`Alt+0176` → °) type their character at the caret on Windows, and `type.insert` inserts a character by `code` or `unicode` (#5108); scores and estimates unchanged |
| 2026-11-06 | minor | Snap to Glyph › Glyph Bounds: each glyph's box gives four corners a drawn point lands on, also on a curved side (`B`), and its box and edges turn with rotated type (#5112); scores and estimates unchanged |
| 2026-11-05 | minor | Character panel › Show Snap to Glyph Options scrolls the panel down to the Snap to Glyph section, which comes after every character attribute and could sit out of sight, and the section starts with a Snap to Glyph checkbox (View › Snap to Glyph) so its dimmed options can be turned on there (#5273); scores and estimates unchanged |
| 2026-11-05 | minor | Release Type on a Path joins the Type Tools add-on: type on a path splits into point type and its path (#5532, beyond Illustrator). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-11-04 | minor | Select Text by Font takes a scope: the document, chosen artboards or chosen layers; Find Font's Find In offers Document, Artboard (the active one) and Layers (the selected ones, else the current one) (#5529, a VectorCraft addition); scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-11-04 | minor | Typographer's Quotes: a lone typed `”` (U+201D) is set like a straight `"` where a quote opens (at the start, after a space), taking the document's opening quote, and stays `”` where one closes: the macOS Serbian Cyrillic layout has no straight quote and types `”` on Shift+2, which now gives „…” (#5247). `“ „` and the single quotes `‘ ’ ‚` stay as typed (that layout's apostrophe key types `’`, and `’90s` keeps its apostrophe); pasted text keeps its quotes; with the option off `”` stays as typed. Evidence: `docsetup::a_typed_closing_double_quote_opens_where_a_quote_opens`; scores unchanged |
| 2026-11-04 | minor | A Type-range Copy or Cut publishes styled art alongside plain text, so a later canvas Paste keeps its character formatting after editing ends (#5636). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-11-03 | minor | Glyphs panel adds Alternates for Current Selection. A chosen alternate changes one character's drawn glyph while keeping its Unicode text; character-style capture does not copy that per-character choice. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-11-04 | minor | Find Font's Replace With Font lists family and style rows, one click setting both, with a search over them; the list scrolls apart from the document's font list and refreshes after each replacement (#4972); scores and estimates unchanged. |
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# UI and interaction parity
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-06 · **Change:** minor (Selection QoL: marquee modes and visible feedback, #5313; Drop Shadow and glow dialogs: spinner arrows, #5367, #5368; Stroke Weight Up and Down shortcuts, #5797; Layers: Rename (`ui.rename`) opens the name field of the selected layer, group or object, #5324; Properties in Edit Artboards: Transform section above the Artboards section, #5219; scrubby labels: the Control bar's Stroke: and Opacity: links and the Properties panel's Stroke link scrub their fields, #4088; Properties: Quick Actions has Repeat Options for one selected repeat, #5181; Direct Selection: Shift-click picks several blend spine points, which drag together, #5285; Direct Selection: Cmd/Ctrl held lends the Selection tool and shows its bounding box, #3901; Join tool trims two crossing open paths and joins them at the crossing, #5844; Control bar: Paragraph: link and Align left/center/right while type is selected, #5372; shape tools: a press on the selection's centre point moves it and one in the rotate zone outside a box corner turns it, #5477; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; Units › East Asian Type acts, with Q and Ha units; scores unchanged)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-08 · **Change:** minor (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; Units › East Asian Type acts, with Q and Ha units; scores unchanged)
## Feature submission evidence
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ Artboard Options forwards the active Artboard tool's Scale Artwork with Artboard
| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-08 | minor | Style panels: a double-click on a user character style's row opens its Character Style Options (`ui.charStyleOptions`), and on a paragraph style's row its Paragraph Style Options (rename); the Character Style Options dialog keeps a fixed width and scrolls its sections in a shorter window, so OK and Cancel stay on screen. Tests `panels::text_styles::tests::double_clicking_a_character_style_row_opens_its_options` and `dialogs::char_style_options::tests::the_sections_scroll_in_a_window_shorter_than_the_general_list`. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-11-02 | minor | Selection QoL: saved marquee modes, screen drag direction with a 3 px dead zone, and translated mode/E feedback (#5313); VectorCraft addition, scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-30 | minor | Home screen: welcome, New / Open and Community are centred and the large Discord button uses the theme accent, part of #4684; scores and estimates unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-11-06 | minor | Snap to Grid: a straight segment dragged with Direct Selection lands its anchors on the grid, not the pressed point (#3835); scores and estimates unchanged |
@@ -131,7 +132,7 @@ tools, never checked side by side) isn't captured row by row.
| Click the first anchor to close; the drag shapes the closing curve | done | |
| Click the last anchor to retract its outgoing handle; drag from it to pull a new one | done | |
| Alt over a handle, anchor or segment acts as the Anchor Point tool | done | |
| Cmd/Ctrl lends the last-used selection tool | done | the path being drawn continues afterwards; with Direct Selection (the default until a selection tool is chosen) a Cmd drag moves an anchor of the path being drawn, moves a straight segment or bends a curved one, one undo step each, and a Cmd-click away from art ends the path; with Selection the hidden bounding box of the path being drawn takes no press, so the drag moves the path (#4980) |
| Cmd/Ctrl lends the last-used selection tool | done | the path being drawn continues afterwards; with Direct Selection (the default until a selection tool is chosen) a Cmd drag moves an anchor of the path being drawn, moves a straight segment or bends a curved one, one undo step each, and a Cmd-click away from art ends the path; with Selection the hidden bounding box of the path being drawn takes no press, so the drag moves the path (#4980); anchors or segments the lent Direct Selection picks are what Copy and Cut take, as with Direct Selection chosen, while Copy with the Pen's own last anchor selected takes the whole path (#6123) |
| Click an open path's end to continue it; click another path's end to join | done | #776 |
| Rubber Band preview | done | Preferences option |
| Auto Add/Delete on a selected path; Shift or the preference disables it | done | |
@@ -191,7 +192,7 @@ tools, never checked side by side) isn't captured row by row.
| Alt with Direct Selection makes a marquee Group Selection's for the drag: it selects every path it touches, whole (Shift toggles them), and the Group Selection pointer stays until the release | done | #4890 |
| Direct Selection: a click on a selected object's centre point (Attributes › Show Center) selects the object whole, and a drag from it moves the object in one undo step | done | #4891 |
| Escape cancels a Direct Selection drag | done | #1803 (#1743) |
| Live Corners widgets (radius readout, Alt-click cycles kind, double-click the Corners dialog) | done | a Direct Selection click on a widget selects its corner (#1239); a press-and-drag on a widget of a path selected whole still rounds every corner (#908), and adding widgets to the selection by Shift-click (#1232) is missing; the bounding box hides while a widget is dragged with the Selection tool (#1229); a round corner next to a curved side curves smoothly instead of sticking out of the shape (#1512); a corner rounds until its cut reaches its neighbours' cuts, so one corner of a square alone reaches the whole side (#2332) |
| Live Corners widgets (radius readout, Alt-click cycles kind, double-click the Corners dialog) | done | a Direct Selection click on a widget selects its corner (#1239), and with every corner selected a Shift-click on a widget picks that corner alone instead of deselecting it (#5188); a press-and-drag on a widget of a path selected whole still rounds every corner (#908), and adding widgets to the selection by Shift-click (#1232) is missing; the bounding box hides while a widget is dragged with the Selection tool (#1229); a round corner next to a curved side curves smoothly instead of sticking out of the shape (#1512); a corner rounds until its cut reaches its neighbours' cuts, so one corner of a square alone reaches the whole side (#2332) |
| Corners between curved sides (#1144), Relative rounding | done | #1144 closed; Relative rounding in the Corners dialog (Relative / Absolute, radius as a percentage of each corner's maximum, kept as the shape is resized; `object.setLiveShape` `relativeRadii`, #3091, `tests_livecorners::relative_corner_rounding_keeps_fraction_on_resize`) |
| Pie widgets on a live ellipse: drag one to set Pie Start or End Angle, double-click one to make the ellipse whole | done | Selection tool, with the bounding box showing |
| A shape just drawn shows its bounding box and Live Shape widgets with the shape tool still active, and the selection can be moved and turned without switching tools | done | #5477: Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse, Polygon and Star keep the selection's bounding box, corner widgets and pie widgets on show while they draw nothing; a drag on a corner or pie widget adjusts it (arrows step the corner kind, Escape cancels), a press on the selection's centre point (Attributes › Show Center) moves the selection — the Selection tool's move arrow, snapping and Alt copy — a press just outside a corner of the box turns it about the centre (the Selection tool's rotate zone and cursor), and a press anywhere else draws (so a second shape drawn from the first one's centre moves the first: press elsewhere or deselect first). Public descriptions: [Live Shapes](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/live-shapes.html) (live shapes adjust without switching tools) and [CreativePro, Working with Live Shapes](https://creativepro.com/?p=23921) (a widget shows in every corner on release; drag one toward the centre to round). The bounding-box handles show but scale only with the Selection tool, so a press on a corner still starts a new shape there; double-clicking a widget opens nothing with a shape tool. Tests `a_shape_tool_drags_the_selected_shapes_widgets` and `a_shape_tool_moves_the_selection_by_its_centre_point_and_turns_it_from_a_corner` |
@@ -436,6 +437,7 @@ next unit in the order a right-click on a ruler lists them, from Feet back to Po
| Color Effects add-on (VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Color Effects › Find Nearest Swatch… picks a Library (Document Swatches, a built-in library, or a library or colour book the user saved or loaded) and Fill and Stroke, lists each colour of the selection with its three closest swatches (chip, name, ΔE 2000), and Apply gives each colour its nearest swatch (global and spot swatches linked; a library's swatches added to the document first), one undo step | done | #4923; `addon.color.nearestSwatch`, `addon.color.applyNearestSwatch`, `crates/engine/src/cmd/addons/color/nearest.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/color/nearest.rs` and their tests; not a feature of the reference app, so it is not scored |
| Selection Tools add-on (VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Selection Tools › Select by Artboards… lists every artboard (number, name, width × height in the document's units), filters them by name, chooses several (click, Shift-click for a range, Cmd/Ctrl-click to toggle; Select All / None act on the rows shown; a count of those chosen), fits a row's artboard in the window on double-click and makes it active, and on OK selects the objects overlapping, fully inside or fully outside the chosen artboards (Overlapping is All on Active Artboard's test) | done | #5525, #5548, #5549; `addon.select.byArtboards`, `crates/engine/src/cmd/addons/select.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/select.rs` and their tests; not a feature of the reference app |
| Selection Tools add-on (VectorCraft addition): Select Linked, Select Embedded, Select Missing and Select Modified in Object › Plug-ins › Selection Tools and the Links panel menu (off when no image has that status; Shift adds to the selection) select the images and placed documents with that link status, leaving out hidden, locked, template-layer and outside-isolation ones, which the status bar counts (e.g. "Selected 9 missing images; 3 more are hidden or locked"); Select by Link Status… lists them with name, status and format, searches by name, filters by status, picks with checkboxes and All / None, and selects with Zoom to Selection on by default | done | #5526; `addon.select.byLinkStatus`, `crates/engine/src/cmd/addons/select.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/addons/select/link_status.rs` and their tests; not a feature of the reference app |
| Style panels: a double-click on a user character style's row opens its Character Style Options, and on a paragraph style's row its Paragraph Style Options (rename), and the Character Style Options dialog keeps a fixed width, its sections scrolling when the window is shorter so OK and Cancel stay on screen | done | `ui.charStyleOptions`, `ui.paramDialog` (`paraStyle.rename`); `panels::text_styles::tests::double_clicking_a_character_style_row_opens_its_options`, `dialogs::char_style_options::tests::the_sections_scroll_in_a_window_shorter_than_the_general_list` |
## Look and feel
@@ -480,6 +482,8 @@ separate. Scores and hours unchanged. [Behavior and command details](development
| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-07 | minor | Pen and Curvature tool with Cmd/Ctrl held: Edit › Copy and Cut take the anchors and segments the lent Direct Selection picked, as with Direct Selection chosen, not the whole path; with the Pen's own last anchor selected Copy still takes the whole path (#6123); scores and estimates unchanged |
| 2026-11-07 | minor | Live Corners: with Direct Selection, while every corner of a path is selected, a Shift-click on a corner widget picks that corner alone instead of deselecting it (#5188); adding a hidden corner's widget by Shift-click stays open (#1232); scores and estimates unchanged |
| 2026-11-06 | minor | Keyboard shortcuts: Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+. and Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+, (Stroke Weight Up and Down) step each selected stroke's weight, or the next object drawn's (#5797); scores and estimates unchanged |
| 2026-11-06 | minor | Properties: Quick Actions has Repeat Options for one selected radial, grid or mirror repeat, opening Object › Repeat › Options with its values (#5181); scores and estimates unchanged |
| 2026-11-06 | minor | Control bar: with type selected, a Paragraph: link (the Paragraph panel in a popover) and the Align left, Align center and Align right buttons follow the Character controls; the bar leaves them out from its right end when short of room, after X/Y/W/H and the Align buttons (#5372); scores and estimates unchanged |