diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9d6e47626..6c7b50058 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ and what's next; [`docs/target-app-parity.md`](docs/target-app-parity.md) the fu
 all of Illustrator): everyday
 vector illustration is close to usable: drawing and path tools,
 Pathfinder and Shape Builder, paint, gradients, appearance and transparency, type with styles, threading and Hebrew/Arabic bidirectional layout, and
-files (SVG, PDF and PDF-compatible `.ai` with PDF/X, legacy version 7 `.ai` keeping layers and groups, EPS, DXF, EMF/WMF, raster formats, PSD out and PSD/PSB in as their merged image, Print, Package).
+files (SVG, PDF and PDF-compatible `.ai` with PDF/X, legacy version 7 `.ai` keeping layers, groups and type, EPS, DXF, EMF/WMF, raster formats, PSD out and PSD/PSB in as their merged image, Print, Package).
 Affinity documents (`.af` from Affinity 3, `.afdesign`, `.afpub` and, by their content, `.afphoto` from Affinity 1 and 2) open
 and place natively: layers, groups, artboards and pages, curves and shapes, fills, gradients and strokes, clipping
 and masks, text and images, with what didn't come in (effects, adjustments, brushes, master pages…) listed in the
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/save_options.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/save_options.rs
index 859c1cbf9..fdb05c770 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/save_options.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/save_options.rs
@@ -9,8 +9,10 @@
 //! artboard to a separate file, with `all` (true: every artboard) or `range`, Include Linked Files,
 //! Embed ICC Profiles, Create PDF-Compatible File and Use Compression. A `.ai` file's Version comes
 //! first: PDF-compatible, or legacy version 7 (`aiVersion: "7"`, a file per artboard), which takes
-//! only Transparent Images and, with several artboards, a picker of the artboards to save
-//! (thumbnails to check, field `boards`, saved as `range`).
+//! only Transparent Images (`transparentImages`), Hidden Objects (`hiddenObjects`: a hidden layer,
+//! omitted or made visible), Text (`outlineText`: editable or outlines) and, with several
+//! artboards, a picker of the artboards to save (thumbnails to check, field `boards`, saved as
+//! `range`).
 
 use std::sync::OnceLock;
 
@@ -163,7 +165,7 @@ fn body(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, ui: &mut egui::Ui, d: &mut Dialog) -> bool {
 
 /// The `.ai` options only the legacy version takes (and the only ones it takes, besides the
 /// version).
-const LEGACY_ONLY: &[&str] = &["transparentImages"];
+const LEGACY_ONLY: &[&str] = &["transparentImages", "hiddenObjects", "outlineText"];
 
 /// Is a `.ai` file to be saved in the legacy version 7 (`aiVersion: "7"`)?
 fn legacy_ai(d: &Dialog) -> bool {
@@ -335,6 +337,30 @@ fn option_row(app: &VectorcraftApp, ui: &mut egui::Ui, d: &mut Dialog, o: &Forma
         ui.end_row();
         return;
     }
+    if o.name == "hiddenObjects" {
+        ui.label(egui::RichText::new(tl!("Hidden Objects:")).color(t.text_dim)).on_hover_text(o.description);
+        let choices = [tl!("Hidden Layer"), tl!("Omit"), tl!("Make Visible")];
+        let at = match d.str("hiddenObjects").trim() {
+            "omit" => 1,
+            "visible" => 2,
+            _ => 0,
+        };
+        if let Some(i) = widgets::dropdown(ui, ("save-option", o.name), choices.get(at).copied().unwrap_or_default(), &choices, 254.0) {
+            d.fields.insert(o.name.into(), json!(["layer", "omit", "visible"].get(i).copied().unwrap_or("layer")));
+        }
+        ui.end_row();
+        return;
+    }
+    if o.name == "outlineText" && legacy_ai(d) {
+        ui.label(egui::RichText::new(tl!("Text:")).color(t.text_dim)).on_hover_text(o.description);
+        let choices = [tl!("Editable"), tl!("Outlines")];
+        let at = usize::from(value.as_bool().unwrap_or(false));
+        if let Some(i) = widgets::dropdown(ui, ("save-option", o.name), choices.get(at).copied().unwrap_or_default(), &choices, 254.0) {
+            d.fields.insert(o.name.into(), json!(i == 1));
+        }
+        ui.end_row();
+        return;
+    }
     if o.ty == "boolean" {
         ui.label("");
         let on = value.as_bool().unwrap_or(false);
@@ -540,9 +566,13 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(app.run("file.saveAs", json!({})).unwrap()["pending"], KIND);
         assert_eq!(dialog(&app).str("aiVersion"), "pdf", "PDF-compatible unless asked");
         assert_eq!(dialog(&app).str("transparentImages"), "flatten");
+        assert_eq!(dialog(&app).str("hiddenObjects"), "layer");
+        assert!(!dialog(&app).bool("outlineText"));
         frame(&mut app, false);
         app.ui.dialog.as_mut().unwrap().fields.insert("aiVersion".into(), json!("7"));
         app.ui.dialog.as_mut().unwrap().fields.insert("transparentImages".into(), json!("omit"));
+        app.ui.dialog.as_mut().unwrap().fields.insert("hiddenObjects".into(), json!("visible"));
+        app.ui.dialog.as_mut().unwrap().fields.insert("outlineText".into(), json!(true));
         frame(&mut app, false);
         frame(&mut app, true);
         assert!(app.ui.dialog.is_none());
@@ -552,6 +582,7 @@ mod tests {
         let st = app.session.active().unwrap();
         assert_eq!((st.format, st.save_options["aiVersion"].clone()), ("ai", json!("7")), "Save remembers the version");
         assert_eq!(st.save_options["transparentImages"], json!("omit"));
+        assert_eq!((st.save_options["hiddenObjects"].clone(), st.save_options["outlineText"].clone()), (json!("visible"), json!(true)));
     }
 
     /// An Illustrator file opened, then saved as `.ai`: the options dialog stays open through the
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/cs.tsv b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/cs.tsv
index a2b2a541d..8d16b4fab 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/cs.tsv
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/cs.tsv
@@ -3186,6 +3186,11 @@ theme	Appearance	Motiv
 	A legacy .ai file holds one artboard: each artboard you check is saved as a separate file.	Soubor .ai ve starší verzi obsahuje jedinou kreslicí plochu: každá zaškrtnutá kreslicí plocha se uloží jako samostatný soubor.
 	{count} of {total} artboards	{count} z {total} kreslicích ploch
 	Check an artboard to save.	Zaškrtněte kreslicí plochu, kterou chcete uložit.
+	Hidden Objects:	Skryté objekty:
+	Hidden Layer	Skrytá vrstva
+	Make Visible	Zviditelnit
+	Text:	Text:
+	Editable	Upravitelný
 	PDF-compatible	Kompatibilní s PDF
 	Legacy vector clipboard (no transparency)	Starší vektorová schránka (bez průhlednosti)
 	Line Color	Barva čar
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/de.tsv b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/de.tsv
index b7d5a81b2..5ac139ea2 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/de.tsv
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/de.tsv
@@ -1469,6 +1469,11 @@
 	A legacy .ai file holds one artboard: each artboard you check is saved as a separate file.	Eine ältere .ai-Datei enthält eine Zeichenfläche: Jede aktivierte Zeichenfläche wird als eigene Datei gespeichert.
 	{count} of {total} artboards	{count} von {total} Zeichenflächen
 	Check an artboard to save.	Aktivieren Sie eine Zeichenfläche zum Speichern.
+	Hidden Objects:	Ausgeblendete Objekte:
+	Hidden Layer	Ausgeblendete Ebene
+	Make Visible	Einblenden
+	Text:	Text:
+	Editable	Bearbeitbar
 	PDF-compatible	PDF-kompatibel
 	Legacy vector clipboard (no transparency)	Ältere Vektorzwischenablage (ohne Transparenz)
 	Less	Weniger
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/es.tsv b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/es.tsv
index c64b2f344..3d9d8c0c8 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/es.tsv
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/es.tsv
@@ -1485,6 +1485,11 @@
 	A legacy .ai file holds one artboard: each artboard you check is saved as a separate file.	Un archivo .ai heredado contiene una mesa de trabajo: cada mesa de trabajo marcada se guarda como un archivo independiente.
 	{count} of {total} artboards	{count} de {total} mesas de trabajo
 	Check an artboard to save.	Marque una mesa de trabajo para guardarla.
+	Hidden Objects:	Objetos ocultos:
+	Hidden Layer	Capa oculta
+	Make Visible	Hacer visibles
+	Text:	Texto:
+	Editable	Editable
 	PDF-compatible	Compatible con PDF
 	Legacy vector clipboard (no transparency)	Portapapeles vectorial heredado (sin transparencia)
 	Less	Menos
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/fr.tsv b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/fr.tsv
index cc40e5330..a529e8d75 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/fr.tsv
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/fr.tsv
@@ -1484,6 +1484,11 @@
 	A legacy .ai file holds one artboard: each artboard you check is saved as a separate file.	Un fichier .ai hérité contient un seul plan de travail : chaque plan de travail coché est enregistré dans un fichier distinct.
 	{count} of {total} artboards	{count} plans de travail sur {total}
 	Check an artboard to save.	Cochez un plan de travail à enregistrer.
+	Hidden Objects:	Objets masqués :
+	Hidden Layer	Calque masqué
+	Make Visible	Rendre visibles
+	Text:	Texte :
+	Editable	Modifiable
 	PDF-compatible	Compatible PDF
 	Legacy vector clipboard (no transparency)	Presse-papiers vectoriel hérité (sans transparence)
 	Less	Moins
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/hu.tsv b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/hu.tsv
index 014e0cf7b..90767644c 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/hu.tsv
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/hu.tsv
@@ -1888,6 +1888,11 @@
 	A legacy .ai file holds one artboard: each artboard you check is saved as a separate file.	A régi .ai fájl egy rajztáblát tartalmaz: minden bejelölt rajztábla külön fájlba kerül.
 	{count} of {total} artboards	{count} / {total} rajztábla
 	Check an artboard to save.	Jelöljön be egy mentendő rajztáblát.
+	Hidden Objects:	Rejtett objektumok:
+	Hidden Layer	Rejtett réteg
+	Make Visible	Láthatóvá tétel
+	Text:	Szöveg:
+	Editable	Szerkeszthető
 	PDF-compatible	PDF-kompatibilis
 	Legacy vector clipboard (no transparency)	Régi vektoros vágólap (átlátszóság nélkül)
 	Legal	Legal
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/it.tsv b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/it.tsv
index 7629befb1..82dbf0194 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/it.tsv
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/it.tsv
@@ -1487,6 +1487,11 @@
 	A legacy .ai file holds one artboard: each artboard you check is saved as a separate file.	Un file .ai tradizionale contiene una tavola da disegno: ogni tavola selezionata viene salvata come file separato.
 	{count} of {total} artboards	{count} di {total} tavole da disegno
 	Check an artboard to save.	Seleziona una tavola da disegno da salvare.
+	Hidden Objects:	Oggetti nascosti:
+	Hidden Layer	Livello nascosto
+	Make Visible	Rendi visibili
+	Text:	Testo:
+	Editable	Modificabile
 	PDF-compatible	Compatibile PDF
 	Legacy vector clipboard (no transparency)	Appunti vettoriali tradizionali (senza trasparenza)
 	Less	Meno
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/ja.tsv b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/ja.tsv
index ba105523f..ffd8570f5 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/ja.tsv
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/ja.tsv
@@ -1674,6 +1674,11 @@
 	A legacy .ai file holds one artboard: each artboard you check is saved as a separate file.	従来の .ai ファイルにはアートボードが 1 つしか入りません。チェックした各アートボードは別々のファイルとして保存されます。
 	{count} of {total} artboards	{total} 個中 {count} 個のアートボード
 	Check an artboard to save.	保存するアートボードをチェックしてください。
+	Hidden Objects:	非表示のオブジェクト:
+	Hidden Layer	非表示レイヤー
+	Make Visible	表示する
+	Text:	テキスト:
+	Editable	編集可能
 	PDF-compatible	PDF 互換
 	Legacy vector clipboard (no transparency)	従来のベクタークリップボード (透明なし)
 	Less	少なく
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/ko.tsv b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/ko.tsv
index 2695baefe..8f7f63a00 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/ko.tsv
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/ko.tsv
@@ -1669,6 +1669,11 @@
 	A legacy .ai file holds one artboard: each artboard you check is saved as a separate file.	레거시 .ai 파일에는 대지가 하나만 들어갑니다. 선택한 각 대지는 별도의 파일로 저장됩니다.
 	{count} of {total} artboards	대지 {total}개 중 {count}개
 	Check an artboard to save.	저장할 대지를 선택하십시오.
+	Hidden Objects:	숨겨진 개체:
+	Hidden Layer	숨겨진 레이어
+	Make Visible	표시
+	Text:	텍스트:
+	Editable	편집 가능
 	PDF-compatible	PDF 호환
 	Legacy vector clipboard (no transparency)	레거시 벡터 클립보드 (투명도 없음)
 	Less	간단히
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/pl.tsv b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/pl.tsv
index 922a3900b..5761e8dcb 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/pl.tsv
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/pl.tsv
@@ -4659,6 +4659,11 @@ mark-style	Japanese	Japońskie
 	A legacy .ai file holds one artboard: each artboard you check is saved as a separate file.	Starszy plik .ai zawiera jeden obszar kompozycji: każdy zaznaczony obszar kompozycji jest zapisywany jako osobny plik.
 	{count} of {total} artboards	{count} z {total} obszarów kompozycji
 	Check an artboard to save.	Zaznacz obszar kompozycji, aby zapisać.
+	Hidden Objects:	Ukryte obiekty:
+	Hidden Layer	Ukryta warstwa
+	Make Visible	Uwidocznij
+	Text:	Tekst:
+	Editable	Edytowalny
 	PDF-compatible	Zgodny z PDF
 # Dimension tool and Object › Dimensions (dimension groups, their dialog and messages).
 	Dimension	Wymiar
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/pt-br.tsv b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/pt-br.tsv
index df16b056e..4ea720d4b 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/pt-br.tsv
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/pt-br.tsv
@@ -1233,6 +1233,11 @@
 	A legacy .ai file holds one artboard: each artboard you check is saved as a separate file.	Um arquivo .ai legado contém uma prancheta: cada prancheta marcada é salva como um arquivo separado.
 	{count} of {total} artboards	{count} de {total} pranchetas
 	Check an artboard to save.	Marque uma prancheta para salvar.
+	Hidden Objects:	Objetos ocultos:
+	Hidden Layer	Camada oculta
+	Make Visible	Tornar visíveis
+	Text:	Texto:
+	Editable	Editável
 	PDF-compatible	Compatível com PDF
 	Legacy vector clipboard (no transparency)	Área de transferência vetorial legada (sem transparência)
 	Less	Menos
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/ru.tsv b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/ru.tsv
index cc79c3664..c34ef3eac 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/ru.tsv
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/ru.tsv
@@ -1485,6 +1485,11 @@
 	A legacy .ai file holds one artboard: each artboard you check is saved as a separate file.	Устаревший файл .ai содержит одну монтажную область: каждая отмеченная монтажная область сохраняется в отдельный файл.
 	{count} of {total} artboards	{count} из {total} монтажных областей
 	Check an artboard to save.	Отметьте монтажную область для сохранения.
+	Hidden Objects:	Скрытые объекты:
+	Hidden Layer	Скрытый слой
+	Make Visible	Сделать видимыми
+	Text:	Текст:
+	Editable	Редактируемый
 	PDF-compatible	Совместимый с PDF
 	Legacy vector clipboard (no transparency)	Устаревший векторный буфер обмена (без прозрачности)
 	Less	Меньше
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/uk.tsv b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/uk.tsv
index 03edb3694..3692b8b15 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/uk.tsv
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/uk.tsv
@@ -1481,6 +1481,11 @@
 	A legacy .ai file holds one artboard: each artboard you check is saved as a separate file.	Застарілий файл .ai містить одну монтажну область: кожна позначена монтажна область зберігається в окремий файл.
 	{count} of {total} artboards	{count} з {total} монтажних областей
 	Check an artboard to save.	Позначте монтажну область для збереження.
+	Hidden Objects:	Приховані об’єкти:
+	Hidden Layer	Прихований шар
+	Make Visible	Зробити видимими
+	Text:	Текст:
+	Editable	Редагований
 	PDF-compatible	Сумісний із PDF
 	Legacy vector clipboard (no transparency)	Застарілий векторний буфер обміну (без прозорості)
 	Less	Менше
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/vi.tsv b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/vi.tsv
index 99ae5af8b..ca4e1df18 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/vi.tsv
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/vi.tsv
@@ -1702,6 +1702,11 @@
 	A legacy .ai file holds one artboard: each artboard you check is saved as a separate file.	Một tệp .ai cũ chỉ chứa một bảng vẽ: mỗi bảng vẽ bạn chọn được lưu thành một tệp riêng.
 	{count} of {total} artboards	{count} trên {total} bảng vẽ
 	Check an artboard to save.	Hãy chọn một bảng vẽ để lưu.
+	Hidden Objects:	Đối tượng ẩn:
+	Hidden Layer	Lớp ẩn
+	Make Visible	Hiện ra
+	Text:	Văn bản:
+	Editable	Có thể chỉnh sửa
 	PDF-compatible	Tương thích PDF
 	Legacy Macintosh RGB (Gamma 1.8)	RGB Macintosh cũ (Gamma 1.8)
 	Legacy vector clipboard	Bảng tạm vector cũ
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/zh-hans.tsv b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/zh-hans.tsv
index a73072b1b..9ba28c6e2 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/zh-hans.tsv
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/zh-hans.tsv
@@ -1389,6 +1389,11 @@
 	A legacy .ai file holds one artboard: each artboard you check is saved as a separate file.	旧版 .ai 文件只包含一个画板：勾选的每个画板都会存储为单独的文件。
 	{count} of {total} artboards	{total} 个画板中的 {count} 个
 	Check an artboard to save.	请勾选要存储的画板。
+	Hidden Objects:	隐藏的对象：
+	Hidden Layer	隐藏图层
+	Make Visible	设为可见
+	Text:	文本：
+	Editable	可编辑
 	PDF-compatible	与 PDF 兼容
 	Legacy vector clipboard (no transparency)	旧版矢量剪贴板 (无透明度)
 	Less	较少
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/zh-hant.tsv b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/zh-hant.tsv
index 74d85b238..0e8468271 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/zh-hant.tsv
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/zh-hant.tsv
@@ -1463,6 +1463,11 @@
 	A legacy .ai file holds one artboard: each artboard you check is saved as a separate file.	舊版 .ai 檔案只包含一個工作區域：勾選的每個工作區域都會儲存為獨立的檔案。
 	{count} of {total} artboards	{total} 個工作區域中的 {count} 個
 	Check an artboard to save.	請勾選要儲存的工作區域。
+	Hidden Objects:	隱藏的物件：
+	Hidden Layer	隱藏圖層
+	Make Visible	設為可見
+	Text:	文字：
+	Editable	可編輯
 	PDF-compatible	與 PDF 相容
 	Legacy vector clipboard (no transparency)	舊版向量剪貼簿 (無透明度)
 	Less	較少
diff --git a/docs/control-protocol.md b/docs/control-protocol.md
index 88d1bb9b8..391b802b3 100644
--- a/docs/control-protocol.md
+++ b/docs/control-protocol.md
@@ -622,7 +622,8 @@ Native save options: File → Save As to a native or `.ai` file opens the `saveO
 artboard; false: `range`, such as "1-3, 5"), `includeLinked`, `embedProfiles`, `pdfCompatible`, `compress`, and for
 native files `version` and `preview`. A bad range keeps the dialog open; `ui.dialog.confirm` writes the file and the
 artboards' files. A `.ai` file's `aiVersion` comes first: `"pdf"` (the default) or `"7"` (legacy, heading "Legacy .ai
-Options"), which takes only `transparentImages` (`"flatten"` or `"omit"`) and, with several artboards, the artboard
+Options"), which takes only `transparentImages` (`"flatten"` or `"omit"`), `hiddenObjects` (`"layer"`, `"omit"` or
+`"visible"`, the Hidden Objects menu), `outlineText` (the Text menu: false Editable, true Outlines) and, with several artboards, the artboard
 picker: `boards`, one bool per artboard (default: those last saved, else all), saved as `range`, one file per checked
 artboard. OK is disabled with none checked.
 
diff --git a/docs/file-format-parity.md b/docs/file-format-parity.md
index 9e753a335..5cf073425 100644
--- a/docs/file-format-parity.md
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 # File format parity
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-14 · **Change:** minor (PDF.R1: shared PDF reader with windowed content scanning and explicit incomplete-content errors; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF.W1: guarded shared PDF writer; output behavior, scores and estimates unchanged; later 2026-10-14 merges: SVG `:not()` selectors, #1557, stacked selectors, #1703, linked files, #1870; DXF VPORT, #1789; nesting caps, #1852; hostile PDF, `.ai`, EPS, Affinity and native data, #1862, #1863, #1871–#1873; failed saves, #1685, #1693, #1694; type in symbols after reopening, #1738; scores unchanged; verified PngSuite downloads, #1729; EPS stitched shadings, #1653; oversized images in WMF/EMF refused from the header, #1776; PDF name trees with shared nodes, #1781; native size limits for files read from memory, #1783; private temporary files on Unix, #1778; ruzstd 0.9.1, #1807; scores unchanged; SVG import: CSS transforms and the `font` shorthand, #1565, percentage lengths in symbols, #1596, Inkscape flowed text and pages, #1568, #1601, filter warnings, #1598; type on a path from PDF and `.ai`, #1585, #1586; ICC tag alignment in JPEG, TIFF and PSD, #1584; saves to folders that refuse the temporary file, #1620 in part; scores unchanged; TIFF is available in Export for Screens and Asset Export with shared format settings; scores and hours unchanged; compact native saves for documents with a lot of path data, #1492; PDF and EPS paste as vector art, #1499; `.ai` gradient stops listed upwards, #1530; SVG text on basic shapes, #1527; PDF soft masks drawn as images, #1551; Type 42 fonts in EPS, #1553; clips that only seem to cover the page, #1542; images too large to decode are reported, #1540; a `.ai` page's art past its artboard no longer lies over the page before it when read as its PDF part; grayscale TIFFs with an alpha channel or extra channels place and open, #1466 in part; a faded or masked fill keeps its stroke apart on PDF and `.ai` import, #1434; SVG knockout groups without masks, #1435; Affinity import: a text frame too short for its first line is made taller, #1423; `.ai` editing data: a compound path takes its last path's paint and keeps paths grouped inside it, #1410; a `.ai` whose PDF part is only text opens from it, #1387; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388; `.ai` editing data: gradients with middle stops, #1390; type of objects with an appearance, hidden layers and later artboards, #1391; area type in a frame too short for the fallback font, #1392; `.ai` editing data: placed (linked) files read, #1264; gradient-filled shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha soft masks, #1286 in part; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; `.ai` and PDF trim and bleed boxes as artboard and bleed, #1266; `.ai` gradient matrices, meshes and artboard names from the editing data; `.ai` art styles, clipping fills and compound looks from the editing data; `editingData: "always"` opens a `.ai` from its editing data; a `.ai` whose PDF part is only text opens from it, #1387; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388; `.ai` editing data: gradients with middle stops, #1390; type of objects with an appearance, hidden layers and later artboards, #1391; area type in a frame too short for the fallback font, #1392; `.ai` editing data: placed (linked) files read, #1264; gradient-filled shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha soft masks, #1286 in part; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; `.ai` and PDF trim and bleed boxes as artboard and bleed, #1266; `.ai` gradient matrices, meshes and artboard names from the editing data; `.ai` art styles, clipping fills and compound looks from the editing data; a `.ai` whose PDF part is only text opens from it, #1387; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388; `.ai` editing data: gradients with middle stops, #1390; type of objects with an appearance, hidden layers and later artboards, #1391; area type in a frame too short for the fallback font, #1392; `.ai` editing data: placed (linked) files read, #1264; gradient-filled shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha soft masks, #1286 in part; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; `.ai` and PDF trim and bleed boxes as artboard and bleed, #1266; `.ai` gradient matrices, meshes and artboard names from the editing data; a `.ai` whose PDF part is only text opens from it, #1387; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388; `.ai` editing data: gradients with middle stops, #1390; type of objects with an appearance, hidden layers and later artboards, #1391; area type in a frame too short for the fallback font, #1392; `.ai` editing data: placed (linked) files read, #1264; gradient-filled shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha soft masks, #1286 in part; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; `.ai` and PDF trim and bleed boxes as artboard and bleed, #1266; SVG knockout groups of opaque art without masks; a `.ai` whose PDF part is only text opens from it, #1387; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388; `.ai` editing data: gradients with middle stops, #1390; type of objects with an appearance, hidden layers and later artboards, #1391; area type in a frame too short for the fallback font, #1392; `.ai` editing data: placed (linked) files read, #1264; gradient-filled shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha soft masks, #1286 in part; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; `.ai` and PDF trim and bleed boxes as artboard and bleed, #1266; `.ai` keeps its RGB numbers; PDF import keeps a stroke apart from a fill masked or faded by its group) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-14 · **Change:** minor (legacy `.ai` of version 7 saved, with type as text, hidden objects and an artboard picker, and its type read, #868; PDF.R1: shared PDF reader with windowed content scanning and explicit incomplete-content errors; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF.W1: guarded shared PDF writer; output behavior, scores and estimates unchanged; later 2026-10-14 merges: SVG `:not()` selectors, #1557, stacked selectors, #1703, linked files, #1870; DXF VPORT, #1789; nesting caps, #1852; hostile PDF, `.ai`, EPS, Affinity and native data, #1862, #1863, #1871–#1873; failed saves, #1685, #1693, #1694; type in symbols after reopening, #1738; scores unchanged; verified PngSuite downloads, #1729; EPS stitched shadings, #1653; oversized images in WMF/EMF refused from the header, #1776; PDF name trees with shared nodes, #1781; native size limits for files read from memory, #1783; private temporary files on Unix, #1778; ruzstd 0.9.1, #1807; scores unchanged; SVG import: CSS transforms and the `font` shorthand, #1565, percentage lengths in symbols, #1596, Inkscape flowed text and pages, #1568, #1601, filter warnings, #1598; type on a path from PDF and `.ai`, #1585, #1586; ICC tag alignment in JPEG, TIFF and PSD, #1584; saves to folders that refuse the temporary file, #1620 in part; scores unchanged; TIFF is available in Export for Screens and Asset Export with shared format settings; scores and hours unchanged; compact native saves for documents with a lot of path data, #1492; PDF and EPS paste as vector art, #1499; `.ai` gradient stops listed upwards, #1530; SVG text on basic shapes, #1527; PDF soft masks drawn as images, #1551; Type 42 fonts in EPS, #1553; clips that only seem to cover the page, #1542; images too large to decode are reported, #1540; a `.ai` page's art past its artboard no longer lies over the page before it when read as its PDF part; grayscale TIFFs with an alpha channel or extra channels place and open, #1466 in part; a faded or masked fill keeps its stroke apart on PDF and `.ai` import, #1434; SVG knockout groups without masks, #1435; Affinity import: a text frame too short for its first line is made taller, #1423; `.ai` editing data: a compound path takes its last path's paint and keeps paths grouped inside it, #1410; a `.ai` whose PDF part is only text opens from it, #1387; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388; `.ai` editing data: gradients with middle stops, #1390; type of objects with an appearance, hidden layers and later artboards, #1391; area type in a frame too short for the fallback font, #1392; `.ai` editing data: placed (linked) files read, #1264; gradient-filled shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha soft masks, #1286 in part; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; `.ai` and PDF trim and bleed boxes as artboard and bleed, #1266; `.ai` gradient matrices, meshes and artboard names from the editing data; `.ai` art styles, clipping fills and compound looks from the editing data; `editingData: "always"` opens a `.ai` from its editing data; a `.ai` whose PDF part is only text opens from it, #1387; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388; `.ai` editing data: gradients with middle stops, #1390; type of objects with an appearance, hidden layers and later artboards, #1391; area type in a frame too short for the fallback font, #1392; `.ai` editing data: placed (linked) files read, #1264; gradient-filled shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha soft masks, #1286 in part; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; `.ai` and PDF trim and bleed boxes as artboard and bleed, #1266; `.ai` gradient matrices, meshes and artboard names from the editing data; `.ai` art styles, clipping fills and compound looks from the editing data; a `.ai` whose PDF part is only text opens from it, #1387; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388; `.ai` editing data: gradients with middle stops, #1390; type of objects with an appearance, hidden layers and later artboards, #1391; area type in a frame too short for the fallback font, #1392; `.ai` editing data: placed (linked) files read, #1264; gradient-filled shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha soft masks, #1286 in part; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; `.ai` and PDF trim and bleed boxes as artboard and bleed, #1266; `.ai` gradient matrices, meshes and artboard names from the editing data; a `.ai` whose PDF part is only text opens from it, #1387; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388; `.ai` editing data: gradients with middle stops, #1390; type of objects with an appearance, hidden layers and later artboards, #1391; area type in a frame too short for the fallback font, #1392; `.ai` editing data: placed (linked) files read, #1264; gradient-filled shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha soft masks, #1286 in part; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; `.ai` and PDF trim and bleed boxes as artboard and bleed, #1266; SVG knockout groups of opaque art without masks; a `.ai` whose PDF part is only text opens from it, #1387; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388; `.ai` editing data: gradients with middle stops, #1390; type of objects with an appearance, hidden layers and later artboards, #1391; area type in a frame too short for the fallback font, #1392; `.ai` editing data: placed (linked) files read, #1264; gradient-filled shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha soft masks, #1286 in part; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; `.ai` and PDF trim and bleed boxes as artboard and bleed, #1266; `.ai` keeps its RGB numbers; PDF import keeps a stroke apart from a fill masked or faded by its group) · **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/mod.rs`). Illustrator's list comes from its public
@@ -49,13 +49,18 @@ private editing data. VectorCraft:
   `{name}-{artboard}.ai` when there are several. It has no transparency: objects are written opaque, and images
   with see-through pixels, opacity or a blending mode are flattened (an opaque image of themselves and the art
   under them, clipped to where they show; that art stays) or omitted (Transparent Images,
-  `transparentImages: "flatten"|"omit"`). Type is written as outlines, sublayers as groups; appearances, effects
-  and brushes are expanded; object names are left out.
+  `transparentImages: "flatten"|"omit"`). Type is written as editable text objects (point type, area type and type
+  on a path, with their fonts' PostScript names, sizes, colours, alignment, indents, leading, tracking and
+  scaling), which the reading app sets in those fonts; characters outside Windows-1252, vertical type, inline
+  graphics and gradient or pattern fills make that type outlines, and Text: Outlines (`outlineText: true`) writes
+  all type as outlines. The format can hide only layers: hidden objects go to a hidden layer of their own above
+  their layer, are omitted, or are made visible (Hidden Objects, `hiddenObjects: "layer"|"omit"|"visible"`).
+  Sublayers become groups; appearances, effects and brushes are expanded; object names are left out.
 - **Known failures in users' files:** layer structure flattened or multiplied (#951: 109 layers instead of
   14; #868: round trip with Illustrator 2018 loses layers and groups), guides and non-printing construction
   lines lost (#779), some files 4× slower to open since the editing data is read whole (#758), live effects,
   brushes and symbols come in as their drawn look (#637; pattern fills are read since #1025); legacy `.ai`
-  without the prolog opens since #1027, its legacy type (`To` … `TO`) not read yet.
+  without the prolog opens since #1027, its legacy type (`To` … `TO`) since #868.
 - Estimate: **~65%** for real exchange with Illustrator users (open: ~75%; save: PDF-compatible, or legacy
   version 7 with layers and groups; not yet tested by users who hand files back).
   Closing the open-side issues: 10–20 h with users' files.
@@ -110,6 +115,7 @@ the app's own editing copy of a file (an EPS after its `%%EOF`, a `.ai`'s `AIPri
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | PDF.W1: PDF export and print composition use the shared guarded writer; drawing, colour policy and editable import stay app-owned. Metadata regression coverage and immutable dependency checks added; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Native documents with a lot of path data (traced or generated art, in layers, symbols or patterns) are saved as compact JSON, about a fifth of the size; small documents stay pretty-printed (#1492); Paste takes a PDF or EPS another app copied as editable vector art: from the macOS pasteboard (with SVG), EPS on Windows beside PDF, and `.eps` files copied in a file manager, with the new command `clipboard.importEps` (#1538, fixes #1499); Opening or placing a file with an image too large to decode says so, and the Links panel shows it on the row (#1540, part of #1479); a multi-artboard `.ai` with notes beside its artboards opens from its editing data, a page's art past its artboard no longer lying over the page before it (#1528); a `.ai` gradient whose stops are listed upwards keeps each midpoint on the stop that starts its part of the ramp (#1530); SVG text on a path follows basic shapes (circle, ellipse, rect, line, polyline, polygon) as their SVG 2 equivalent paths (#1531, fixes #1527); PDFs whose alpha soft masks are drawn as images import with the mask instead of empty art (#1551); EPS and PostScript type set in Type 42 (TrueType) fonts imports at its size instead of 1000 times too large (#1553); PDF and EPS import keep a clipping path whose bounding box covers the page but whose shape doesn't (#1544, fixes #1542) (the `.ai` row for #1528 was written by that PR); scores unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | `.ai` read as its PDF part: a page whose art reaches past its artboard to the left (notes beside a design) moves right in the row until that art clears the page before it, so it is no longer taken for that page's art; a multi-artboard `.ai` with such notes opened as its PDF part ("the art on them differs from the page's"), without the art outside its artboards, and now opens from its editing data |
+| 2026-10-12 | minor | Legacy `.ai` of version 7 (Save As › `ai` › Version: Legacy (version 7), #868): written from the published specification, keeping layers, groups, compound paths, clipping groups, gradients and images, one artboard per file chosen in an artboard picker; type as editable text objects (point, area and on a path, fonts by PostScript name, Windows-1252), or outlines (Text: Outlines); hidden objects, which the format can't hide, in a hidden layer of their own, omitted or made visible (Hidden Objects); images with see-through pixels flattened with the art under them or omitted (Transparent Images). The `.ai` reader reads legacy type (`To` … `TO`) and `Ar`; scores unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | TIFF: grayscale files with an alpha channel or other extra channels place, relink and open, read as CMYK files with alpha already were (8 and 16 bits, either polarity; #1489, part of #1466); the rows for #1434 (strokes kept apart from a faded or masked fill, a `.ai`'s RGB numbers) and #1435 (SVG knockout groups without masks, `--decimals`) were written by those PRs; scores unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | TIFF is available in Export for Screens and Asset Export with shared format settings; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | Affinity import: a text frame too short for its first line (a 64 pt title in a 54 pt frame) is made taller from its top, with a warning in the open result, instead of showing nothing (#1423), as `.ai` area type is (#1392); the spacing Affinity itself fits the line with isn't read; scores unchanged |
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+++ b/docs/gaps.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Gaps
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-14 · **Change:** minor (Revolve: automatic smooth shading and default-on Cap with continuous rims; later 2026-10-14: G8 untrusted files, #1852, #1862–#1873; G11 anchor X/Y/W/H, #1824, Snap to Grid over Snap to Pixel, #1816, redo during a drag, #1719, Dim Images, #1683, failed-save dialog, #1685; gaps noted for reporters: G1 Warp Options for Effect › Warp, #1760, Color Picker Tab order, #1692, key anchor, #1636; G7 custom toolbars, #1759, workspace panel widths, #1753; G11 Shape Builder gaps between closed shapes, #1691, interior anchor delete; G13 Intertwine, #1763, gradient mesh from an image, #1676, Image Trace radial gradients, #1849; G12 duplicated line removed; no entry closed, estimates unchanged; verified PngSuite downloads, #1729; synthetic control-input budgets, #1709; 2026-10-14 fixes: G11 anchor Align and Distribute, #1636, Delete and selection, #1674, #1666, #1743, #1686, Roughen and Scribble, #1643, #1648; G8 file and input hardening, #1776–#1783, #1786, #1807; G10 Wayland cursors and the Windows title bar, unconfirmed, #1645, #1758; no entry closed, estimates unchanged; later 2026-10-13 fixes, #1570, #1578, #1590, #1613, #1615, #1616, #1620 in part, #1602 in part; no entry closed, estimates unchanged; TIFF is available in Export for Screens and Asset Export with shared format settings; scores and hours unchanged; G1/M11: Artboard deletion and history selection normalization; history regressions and full workspace CI pass; scores and hours unchanged; Character styles retain explicit Auto leading, propagate resets and preserve local leading overrides; scores and hours unchanged; Width Point Edit: Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment; plain double-click keeps it off; scores and hours unchanged; G12: Identify Objects By acts, #394; ~16 → ~15 prefs still inert; G12: Appearance of Black › Printing / Exporting acts, #394; ~16 → ~15 prefs still inert; control transport deadlines, #1726; G1: Average and Join in one step with a corner or smooth choice added as missing (it was listed as done in ui-parity.md); Join after Average, #1533; guide objects, #1534; Keyboard Shortcuts, #1539; G9 and G11 fixes, #1528, #1530, #1544, #1553, #1512, #1537; estimates unchanged; Direct Selection anchor precedence, #1508; dialog slider rails, #1483; template layers in Outline view, #1486; Tabs panel stop drags, #1458; type that does not fit its frame is reported, #1471; 3D on outlined type, #1481, Twist range, #1524, twisted walls, #1525; print-size images, #1517; French catalog, #1511; estimates unchanged; G1: Split Into Grid options, #1462, Transform Objects and Reflect's angle, #1448 and #1460, Pathfinder on a group, #1450, value fields, #1457 and #1465 in part; G9: grayscale TIFFs with alpha, #1466 in part; G6: unknown parameter keys refused, #1442; G10: window surfaces past 8192 px, #1459 in part; G15: many-object edits, #1429 in part; estimates unchanged; G16: Vietnamese catalog added, complete under the tests; three key languages remain, 60–100 → 55–90 h; G3: Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate added, 45–75 → 25–45 h; G9: `.ai` compound path paint, #1410, overprint kept on import, #1388, text-only PDF parts, #1387; G1: Transform dialogs preview, #1412, transforms of direct-selected anchors, #1408, corner drags, #1229; G11: strokes wider than their shape, #1396; estimates unchanged; G9: `.ai` editing-data follow-ups (gradient stops, type placement, short area-type frames), #1390, #1391, #1392; G15: symbol instance art kept between frames, #1386; G1: dialog keyboard focus, #1367 and #1395; estimates unchanged; G9: placed (linked) files read from `.ai` editing data, #1264; G9: gradient shapes import as paths, #1304, and white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; G15: linear deselect on hide or lock, #1353; estimates unchanged; G7: custom ruler origin done, #1212; G1: Artboard object clicks create a fitted artboard (#1227); remaining interaction pass and estimate unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; G16: Korean catalog added, 70–110 → 60–100 h; Czech render-site localization follow-up; scores and estimates unchanged; Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged; Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged; G11: valid selection after Simplify and Add Anchor Points (#1272); estimates unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 29/57; 28 filters remain; G10: RPM runtime dependency metadata (#1275); estimates unchanged; G15: texture-effect distance searches optimized (#1257); idle-machine/platform drag QA still pending; estimate unchanged; G1: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); estimates unchanged; G4: full-name font matching (#1258); Windows font-service QA pending; estimate unchanged; G11: no-op anchor Align keeps history and saved state (#1180 follow-up); estimates unchanged; G1: dedicated Eyedropper cursor and precise-cursor checks (#1269); estimates unchanged; G1: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); estimate unchanged; G11: Direct Selection segment Delete (#1278); estimates unchanged; G1: painted strokes regain the existing default after None/zero-width inheritance (#1253); estimate unchanged; G15: large-selection edits, cached live effects and faster Pathfinder, #1173; G4: proportional vertical metrics done, #966; G11: Shape Builder merge seams on grids of lines fixed, #893; scaled text controls corrected, #1034; group font-size preservation deferred; G9: `.ai` gradient matrices and meshes from the editing data; estimate unchanged; G9: `.ai` art styles from the editing data; estimate unchanged; G9: `.ai` editing-data follow-ups (gradient stops, type placement, short area-type frames), #1390, #1391, #1392; G15: symbol instance art kept between frames, #1386; G1: dialog keyboard focus, #1367 and #1395; estimates unchanged; G9: placed (linked) files read from `.ai` editing data, #1264; G9: gradient shapes import as paths, #1304, and white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; G15: linear deselect on hide or lock, #1353; estimates unchanged; G7: custom ruler origin done, #1212; G1: Artboard object clicks create a fitted artboard (#1227); remaining interaction pass and estimate unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; G16: Korean catalog added, 70–110 → 60–100 h; Czech render-site localization follow-up; scores and estimates unchanged; Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged; Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged; G11: valid selection after Simplify and Add Anchor Points (#1272); estimates unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 29/57; 28 filters remain; G10: RPM runtime dependency metadata (#1275); estimates unchanged; G15: texture-effect distance searches optimized (#1257); idle-machine/platform drag QA still pending; estimate unchanged; G1: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); estimates unchanged; G4: full-name font matching (#1258); Windows font-service QA pending; estimate unchanged; G11: no-op anchor Align keeps history and saved state (#1180 follow-up); estimates unchanged; G1: dedicated Eyedropper cursor and precise-cursor checks (#1269); estimates unchanged; G1: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); estimate unchanged; G11: Direct Selection segment Delete (#1278); estimates unchanged; G1: painted strokes regain the existing default after None/zero-width inheritance (#1253); estimate unchanged; G15: large-selection edits, cached live effects and faster Pathfinder, #1173; G4: proportional vertical metrics done, #966; G11: Shape Builder merge seams on grids of lines fixed, #893; scaled text controls corrected, #1034; group font-size preservation deferred; G9: `.ai` gradient matrices and meshes from the editing data; estimate unchanged; G9: `.ai` editing-data follow-ups (gradient stops, type placement, short area-type frames), #1390, #1391, #1392; G15: symbol instance art kept between frames, #1386; G1: dialog keyboard focus, #1367 and #1395; estimates unchanged; G9: placed (linked) files read from `.ai` editing data, #1264; G9: gradient shapes import as paths, #1304, and white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; G15: linear deselect on hide or lock, #1353; estimates unchanged; G7: custom ruler origin done, #1212; G1: Artboard object clicks create a fitted artboard (#1227); remaining interaction pass and estimate unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; G16: Korean catalog added, 70–110 → 60–100 h; Czech render-site localization follow-up; scores and estimates unchanged; Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged; Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged; G11: valid selection after Simplify and Add Anchor Points (#1272); estimates unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 29/57; 28 filters remain; G10: RPM runtime dependency metadata (#1275); estimates unchanged; G15: texture-effect distance searches optimized (#1257); idle-machine/platform drag QA still pending; estimate unchanged; G1: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); estimates unchanged; G4: full-name font matching (#1258); Windows font-service QA pending; estimate unchanged; G11: no-op anchor Align keeps history and saved state (#1180 follow-up); estimates unchanged; G1: dedicated Eyedropper cursor and precise-cursor checks (#1269); estimates unchanged; G1: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); estimate unchanged; G11: Direct Selection segment Delete (#1278); estimates unchanged; G1: painted strokes regain the existing default after None/zero-width inheritance (#1253); estimate unchanged; G15: large-selection edits, cached live effects and faster Pathfinder, #1173; G4: proportional vertical metrics done, #966; G11: Shape Builder merge seams on grids of lines fixed, #893; scaled text controls corrected, #1034; group font-size preservation deferred; SVG knockout groups of opaque art export without masks; G9: `.ai` editing-data follow-ups (gradient stops, type placement, short area-type frames), #1390, #1391, #1392; G15: symbol instance art kept between frames, #1386; G1: dialog keyboard focus, #1367 and #1395; estimates unchanged; G9: placed (linked) files read from `.ai` editing data, #1264; G9: gradient shapes import as paths, #1304, and white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; G15: linear deselect on hide or lock, #1353; estimates unchanged; G7: custom ruler origin done, #1212; G1: Artboard object clicks create a fitted artboard (#1227); remaining interaction pass and estimate unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; G16: Korean catalog added, 70–110 → 60–100 h; Czech render-site localization follow-up; scores and estimates unchanged; Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged; Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged; G11: valid selection after Simplify and Add Anchor Points (#1272); estimates unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 29/57; 28 filters remain; G10: RPM runtime dependency metadata (#1275); estimates unchanged; G15: texture-effect distance searches optimized (#1257); idle-machine/platform drag QA still pending; estimate unchanged; G1: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); estimates unchanged; G4: full-name font matching (#1258); Windows font-service QA pending; estimate unchanged; G11: no-op anchor Align keeps history and saved state (#1180 follow-up); estimates unchanged; G1: dedicated Eyedropper cursor and precise-cursor checks (#1269); estimates unchanged; G1: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); estimate unchanged; G11: Direct Selection segment Delete (#1278); estimates unchanged; G1: painted strokes regain the existing default after None/zero-width inheritance (#1253); estimate unchanged; G15: large-selection edits, cached live effects and faster Pathfinder, #1173; G4: proportional vertical metrics done, #966; G11: Shape Builder merge seams on grids of lines fixed, #893; scaled text controls corrected, #1034; group font-size preservation deferred; G9: `.ai` keeps its RGB numbers, PDF import keeps strokes apart from fills faded or masked by their group; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-14 · **Change:** minor (G9: legacy `.ai` of version 7 saved with type as text and hidden objects kept, legacy type read, #868; estimate unchanged; Revolve: automatic smooth shading and default-on Cap with continuous rims; later 2026-10-14: G8 untrusted files, #1852, #1862–#1873; G11 anchor X/Y/W/H, #1824, Snap to Grid over Snap to Pixel, #1816, redo during a drag, #1719, Dim Images, #1683, failed-save dialog, #1685; gaps noted for reporters: G1 Warp Options for Effect › Warp, #1760, Color Picker Tab order, #1692, key anchor, #1636; G7 custom toolbars, #1759, workspace panel widths, #1753; G11 Shape Builder gaps between closed shapes, #1691, interior anchor delete; G13 Intertwine, #1763, gradient mesh from an image, #1676, Image Trace radial gradients, #1849; G12 duplicated line removed; no entry closed, estimates unchanged; verified PngSuite downloads, #1729; synthetic control-input budgets, #1709; 2026-10-14 fixes: G11 anchor Align and Distribute, #1636, Delete and selection, #1674, #1666, #1743, #1686, Roughen and Scribble, #1643, #1648; G8 file and input hardening, #1776–#1783, #1786, #1807; G10 Wayland cursors and the Windows title bar, unconfirmed, #1645, #1758; no entry closed, estimates unchanged; later 2026-10-13 fixes, #1570, #1578, #1590, #1613, #1615, #1616, #1620 in part, #1602 in part; no entry closed, estimates unchanged; TIFF is available in Export for Screens and Asset Export with shared format settings; scores and hours unchanged; G1/M11: Artboard deletion and history selection normalization; history regressions and full workspace CI pass; scores and hours unchanged; Character styles retain explicit Auto leading, propagate resets and preserve local leading overrides; scores and hours unchanged; Width Point Edit: Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment; plain double-click keeps it off; scores and hours unchanged; G12: Identify Objects By acts, #394; ~16 → ~15 prefs still inert; G12: Appearance of Black › Printing / Exporting acts, #394; ~16 → ~15 prefs still inert; control transport deadlines, #1726; G1: Average and Join in one step with a corner or smooth choice added as missing (it was listed as done in ui-parity.md); Join after Average, #1533; guide objects, #1534; Keyboard Shortcuts, #1539; G9 and G11 fixes, #1528, #1530, #1544, #1553, #1512, #1537; estimates unchanged; Direct Selection anchor precedence, #1508; dialog slider rails, #1483; template layers in Outline view, #1486; Tabs panel stop drags, #1458; type that does not fit its frame is reported, #1471; 3D on outlined type, #1481, Twist range, #1524, twisted walls, #1525; print-size images, #1517; French catalog, #1511; estimates unchanged; G1: Split Into Grid options, #1462, Transform Objects and Reflect's angle, #1448 and #1460, Pathfinder on a group, #1450, value fields, #1457 and #1465 in part; G9: grayscale TIFFs with alpha, #1466 in part; G6: unknown parameter keys refused, #1442; G10: window surfaces past 8192 px, #1459 in part; G15: many-object edits, #1429 in part; estimates unchanged; G16: Vietnamese catalog added, complete under the tests; three key languages remain, 60–100 → 55–90 h; G3: Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate added, 45–75 → 25–45 h; G9: `.ai` compound path paint, #1410, overprint kept on import, #1388, text-only PDF parts, #1387; G1: Transform dialogs preview, #1412, transforms of direct-selected anchors, #1408, corner drags, #1229; G11: strokes wider than their shape, #1396; estimates unchanged; G9: `.ai` editing-data follow-ups (gradient stops, type placement, short area-type frames), #1390, #1391, #1392; G15: symbol instance art kept between frames, #1386; G1: dialog keyboard focus, #1367 and #1395; estimates unchanged; G9: placed (linked) files read from `.ai` editing data, #1264; G9: gradient shapes import as paths, #1304, and white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; G15: linear deselect on hide or lock, #1353; estimates unchanged; G7: custom ruler origin done, #1212; G1: Artboard object clicks create a fitted artboard (#1227); remaining interaction pass and estimate unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; G16: Korean catalog added, 70–110 → 60–100 h; Czech render-site localization follow-up; scores and estimates unchanged; Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged; Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged; G11: valid selection after Simplify and Add Anchor Points (#1272); estimates unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 29/57; 28 filters remain; G10: RPM runtime dependency metadata (#1275); estimates unchanged; G15: texture-effect distance searches optimized (#1257); idle-machine/platform drag QA still pending; estimate unchanged; G1: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); estimates unchanged; G4: full-name font matching (#1258); Windows font-service QA pending; estimate unchanged; G11: no-op anchor Align keeps history and saved state (#1180 follow-up); estimates unchanged; G1: dedicated Eyedropper cursor and precise-cursor checks (#1269); estimates unchanged; G1: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); estimate unchanged; G11: Direct Selection segment Delete (#1278); estimates unchanged; G1: painted strokes regain the existing default after None/zero-width inheritance (#1253); estimate unchanged; G15: large-selection edits, cached live effects and faster Pathfinder, #1173; G4: proportional vertical metrics done, #966; G11: Shape Builder merge seams on grids of lines fixed, #893; scaled text controls corrected, #1034; group font-size preservation deferred; G9: `.ai` gradient matrices and meshes from the editing data; estimate unchanged; G9: `.ai` art styles from the editing data; estimate unchanged; G9: `.ai` editing-data follow-ups (gradient stops, type placement, short area-type frames), #1390, #1391, #1392; G15: symbol instance art kept between frames, #1386; G1: dialog keyboard focus, #1367 and #1395; estimates unchanged; G9: placed (linked) files read from `.ai` editing data, #1264; G9: gradient shapes import as paths, #1304, and white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; G15: linear deselect on hide or lock, #1353; estimates unchanged; G7: custom ruler origin done, #1212; G1: Artboard object clicks create a fitted artboard (#1227); remaining interaction pass and estimate unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; G16: Korean catalog added, 70–110 → 60–100 h; Czech render-site localization follow-up; scores and estimates unchanged; Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged; Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged; G11: valid selection after Simplify and Add Anchor Points (#1272); estimates unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 29/57; 28 filters remain; G10: RPM runtime dependency metadata (#1275); estimates unchanged; G15: texture-effect distance searches optimized (#1257); idle-machine/platform drag QA still pending; estimate unchanged; G1: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); estimates unchanged; G4: full-name font matching (#1258); Windows font-service QA pending; estimate unchanged; G11: no-op anchor Align keeps history and saved state (#1180 follow-up); estimates unchanged; G1: dedicated Eyedropper cursor and precise-cursor checks (#1269); estimates unchanged; G1: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); estimate unchanged; G11: Direct Selection segment Delete (#1278); estimates unchanged; G1: painted strokes regain the existing default after None/zero-width inheritance (#1253); estimate unchanged; G15: large-selection edits, cached live effects and faster Pathfinder, #1173; G4: proportional vertical metrics done, #966; G11: Shape Builder merge seams on grids of lines fixed, #893; scaled text controls corrected, #1034; group font-size preservation deferred; G9: `.ai` gradient matrices and meshes from the editing data; estimate unchanged; G9: `.ai` editing-data follow-ups (gradient stops, type placement, short area-type frames), #1390, #1391, #1392; G15: symbol instance art kept between frames, #1386; G1: dialog keyboard focus, #1367 and #1395; estimates unchanged; G9: placed (linked) files read from `.ai` editing data, #1264; G9: gradient shapes import as paths, #1304, and white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; G15: linear deselect on hide or lock, #1353; estimates unchanged; G7: custom ruler origin done, #1212; G1: Artboard object clicks create a fitted artboard (#1227); remaining interaction pass and estimate unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; G16: Korean catalog added, 70–110 → 60–100 h; Czech render-site localization follow-up; scores and estimates unchanged; Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged; Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged; G11: valid selection after Simplify and Add Anchor Points (#1272); estimates unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 29/57; 28 filters remain; G10: RPM runtime dependency metadata (#1275); estimates unchanged; G15: texture-effect distance searches optimized (#1257); idle-machine/platform drag QA still pending; estimate unchanged; G1: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); estimates unchanged; G4: full-name font matching (#1258); Windows font-service QA pending; estimate unchanged; G11: no-op anchor Align keeps history and saved state (#1180 follow-up); estimates unchanged; G1: dedicated Eyedropper cursor and precise-cursor checks (#1269); estimates unchanged; G1: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); estimate unchanged; G11: Direct Selection segment Delete (#1278); estimates unchanged; G1: painted strokes regain the existing default after None/zero-width inheritance (#1253); estimate unchanged; G15: large-selection edits, cached live effects and faster Pathfinder, #1173; G4: proportional vertical metrics done, #966; G11: Shape Builder merge seams on grids of lines fixed, #893; scaled text controls corrected, #1034; group font-size preservation deferred; SVG knockout groups of opaque art export without masks; G9: `.ai` editing-data follow-ups (gradient stops, type placement, short area-type frames), #1390, #1391, #1392; G15: symbol instance art kept between frames, #1386; G1: dialog keyboard focus, #1367 and #1395; estimates unchanged; G9: placed (linked) files read from `.ai` editing data, #1264; G9: gradient shapes import as paths, #1304, and white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; G15: linear deselect on hide or lock, #1353; estimates unchanged; G7: custom ruler origin done, #1212; G1: Artboard object clicks create a fitted artboard (#1227); remaining interaction pass and estimate unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; G16: Korean catalog added, 70–110 → 60–100 h; Czech render-site localization follow-up; scores and estimates unchanged; Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged; Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged; G11: valid selection after Simplify and Add Anchor Points (#1272); estimates unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 29/57; 28 filters remain; G10: RPM runtime dependency metadata (#1275); estimates unchanged; G15: texture-effect distance searches optimized (#1257); idle-machine/platform drag QA still pending; estimate unchanged; G1: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); estimates unchanged; G4: full-name font matching (#1258); Windows font-service QA pending; estimate unchanged; G11: no-op anchor Align keeps history and saved state (#1180 follow-up); estimates unchanged; G1: dedicated Eyedropper cursor and precise-cursor checks (#1269); estimates unchanged; G1: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); estimate unchanged; G11: Direct Selection segment Delete (#1278); estimates unchanged; G1: painted strokes regain the existing default after None/zero-width inheritance (#1253); estimate unchanged; G15: large-selection edits, cached live effects and faster Pathfinder, #1173; G4: proportional vertical metrics done, #966; G11: Shape Builder merge seams on grids of lines fixed, #893; scaled text controls corrected, #1034; group font-size preservation deferred; G9: `.ai` keeps its RGB numbers, PDF import keeps strokes apart from fills faded or masked by their group; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
 
 Every known shortfall against Illustrator, one entry each, **ranked by how much it stops a professional from
 switching**. This is the work list: unless you were given a task, pick the highest-ranked gap you can make
@@ -79,14 +79,15 @@ from G14 and the budget run of G15: **~170–270 h** one agent, ~50–80 h wall
 
 - **Missing:** faithful layer and group structure from the editing data in real files (#951: 109 layers instead
   of 14), guides and non-printing construction
-  lines (#779), open speed on large files (#758), legacy type in `.ai` files in PostScript form (those without
-  their prolog open since #1027), live effects, brushes and symbols as live objects (#637; pattern fills and global colours are read since #1025, placed (linked) files since #1264). Writing Illustrator's own editing data is out of scope
+  lines (#779), open speed on large files (#758), live effects, brushes and symbols as live objects (#637; pattern fills and global colours are read since #1025, placed (linked) files since #1264). Writing Illustrator's own editing data is out of scope
   (undocumented): a PDF-compatible `.ai` opens in Illustrator 2018 without its layers and groups (#868). Save As
   `.ai` › Version: Legacy (version 7) writes the PostScript form from the published version 7 specification
   instead, keeping layers (names, order, visibility, lock), groups, compound paths, clipping groups, gradients and
-  images, one artboard per file (an artboard picker chooses which); transparency, type, live effects and object
-  names don't survive it (transparent images are flattened or omitted). It waits for testing by users who hand
-  files back.
+  images, and type as editable text objects (or outlines), one artboard per file (an artboard picker chooses
+  which); transparency, live effects and object names don't survive it (transparent images are flattened or
+  omitted, hidden objects go to a hidden layer, are omitted or made visible), and type is set again in the
+  reader's fonts. Legacy type in `.ai` files in PostScript form is read on open. It waits for testing by users
+  who hand files back.
 - **Evidence:** the issues above; 28 of the 350 issues are about `.ai`/EPS (about 22 people, the most common single
   format theme), 20 fixed, and the 8 open ones are about structure (layers, guides, speed, live objects), not missing
   art. No real-file `.ai` corpus (users' files may be used locally, never committed).
@@ -302,6 +303,7 @@ from G14 and the budget run of G15: **~170–270 h** one agent, ~50–80 h wall
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | G1: Average and Join in one step with a corner or smooth choice is listed as missing (the ui-parity row said done; the command does not exist); Join merges the selected anchor points that lie on one another, as after Average, into one anchor (#1582, fixes #1533); Lock Guides also locks the objects made into guides: they can't be selected, moved or deleted (#1543); they are drawn in the guide colour and style of Preferences, and a dragged selection snaps to ruler guides with Smart Guides on (#1583, fixes #1534); Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts lists Edit › Duplicate and the other commands that are in no menu but run without parameters (panel-menu commands such as Break Link to Symbol), so they can be given shortcuts (#1549, #1580, fixes #1539). G11: Make Compound Path on a group (such as outlined type) keeps the paint of its backmost path instead of drawing nothing, and compound paths joined into one keep their holes (#1537); a round corner next to a curved side curves smoothly instead of sticking out of the shape and the Smooth tool smooths only the stretch of path under the drag (#1547, fixes #1512); Raster effects (blur, shadow, glow, grain) drawn after a pattern, radial or freeform gradient fill export at their place and size (#1541, fixes #1536). G9: a multi-artboard `.ai` with notes beside its artboards opens from its editing data, a page's art past its artboard no longer lying over the page before it (#1528); a `.ai` gradient whose stops are listed upwards keeps each midpoint on the stop that starts its part of the ramp (#1530); SVG text on a path follows basic shapes (circle, ellipse, rect, line, polyline, polygon) as their SVG 2 equivalent paths (#1531, fixes #1527); PDFs whose alpha soft masks are drawn as images import with the mask instead of empty art (#1551); EPS and PostScript type set in Type 42 (TrueType) fonts imports at its size instead of 1000 times too large (#1553); PDF and EPS import keep a clipping path whose bounding box covers the page but whose shape doesn't (#1544, fixes #1542); Paste takes a PDF or EPS another app copied as editable vector art: from the macOS pasteboard (with SVG), EPS on Windows beside PDF, and `.eps` files copied in a file manager, with the new command `clipboard.importEps` (#1538, fixes #1499); Opening or placing a file with an image too large to decode says so, and the Links panel shows it on the row (#1540, part of #1479). Native documents with a lot of path data (traced or generated art, in layers, symbols or patterns) are saved as compact JSON, about a fifth of the size; small documents stay pretty-printed (#1492); 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); Polish catalog (#1498); estimates unchanged, no gap entry closed |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Interaction: Direct Selection takes the selected object's anchor where anchors of overlapping objects coincide (#1508), sliders in dialogs show their rail (#1483), a template layer stays in Preview in Outline view (#1486), a tab stop in the Tabs panel drags from where the press landed (#1458); type: commands and MCP `add_text` report area type that does not fit its frame (#1471); 3D and Materials on outlined type and other shapes of many small curves (#1481), Twist 0° to 360° (#1524), twisted walls keep their faces (#1525); print-size images draw, export and crop (#1517); `vectorcraft-cli perf` reports load and memory on Windows (#1502; the idle-machine run is still missing); French catalog complete again (#1511); `graph.setData`'s CSV keeps each value exactly (#1485); estimates unchanged, no gap entry closed |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | Width Point Edit: Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment; plain double-click keeps it off; scores and hours unchanged |
+| 2026-10-12 | minor | G9: Save As `.ai` › Version: Legacy (version 7) writes the PostScript form from the published version 7 specification (#868): layers, groups, compound paths, clipping groups, type as text objects (or outlines), gradients and images, one artboard per file; hidden objects in a hidden layer, omitted or shown; transparent images flattened or omitted; legacy type read on open; it waits for users' testing, so the estimate is unchanged |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | G1: Split Into Grid has its documented options (#1462), Transform Objects in the Transform dialogs and Transform Each and Reflect across an angle (#1448, #1460), the Pathfinder panel works on a group selected alone (#1450; one plain path alone is not settled), a focused field follows its value (#1457), selected text in value fields is readable (#1465 in part); G9: grayscale TIFFs with an alpha channel or extra channels place (#1466 in part), strokes kept apart from a faded or masked fill on PDF and `.ai` import (#1434); G4: Fit Headline in a frame one line tall (#1444), frames beyond a billion points hold no text (#1451); G6: commands refuse a parameter key they don't take (#1442); G10: a window surface past 8192 px no longer closes the app (#1459 in part); G15: edits and Alt-drags of thousands of objects (#1429 in part); G16: 128 more Czech strings (#1461); estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | TIFF is available in Export for Screens and Asset Export with shared format settings; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | Character styles retain explicit Auto leading, propagate resets and preserve local leading overrides; scores and hours unchanged |
diff --git a/docs/mcp.md b/docs/mcp.md
index f47ad1465..a137567e6 100644
--- a/docs/mcp.md
+++ b/docs/mcp.md
@@ -597,7 +597,9 @@ document, takes the PDF options and keeps its path when reopened, so Save writes
 without giving the document a path. `options: {aiVersion: "7"}` writes legacy `.ai` files of version 7 instead (the
 PostScript form, which keeps layers, groups, compound paths and clipping groups in apps that read it), one per artboard
 of `range` (default all; `{name}-{artboard}.ai` when several, listed in the result's `files`), with
-`transparentImages: "flatten"` (default) or `"omit"` for images with see-through pixels, opacity or a blending mode.
+`transparentImages: "flatten"` (default) or `"omit"` for images with see-through pixels, opacity or a blending mode,
+`hiddenObjects: "layer"` (default: a hidden layer of each layer's hidden objects), `"omit"` or `"visible"`, and
+`outlineText: true` to write type as outlines instead of text objects.
 
 Drive a tool like a mouse:
 
diff --git a/docs/roadmap.md b/docs/roadmap.md
index e095dfb16..653713675 100644
--- a/docs/roadmap.md
+++ b/docs/roadmap.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Roadmap: milestones and what's next
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-14 · **Change:** minor (Revolve: automatic smooth shading and default-on Cap with continuous rims; PDF.R1: shared PDF reader with windowed content scanning and explicit incomplete-content errors; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF.W1: guarded shared PDF writer; output behavior, scores and estimates unchanged; later 2026-10-14 merges: per-corner radius, #1682; Width Point Edit from the Width tool, #1814, #1630; guides, #1782, #1836; anchor X/Y/W/H, #1824; toolbar and All Tools, #1751; macOS save sheets, #1855; rendering caches, #1667–#1792; untrusted files, #1852, #1862–#1873; failed-save dialog, #1685; Dim Images, #1683; estimates unchanged; M12 row: Image Trace's enhanced presets; verified PngSuite downloads, #1729; synthetic control-input budgets, #1709; 2026-10-14 merges: anchor Align and Distribute, #1636; Direct Selection and Delete fixes, #1674, #1666, #1743; Expand on repeats, #1756; file and input hardening, #1776–#1783, #1786, #1807; MCP limits and envelope, #1727, #1728; Image Trace #1647, #1657; estimates unchanged; later 2026-10-13 merges: SVG import, #1565, #1596, #1568, #1601; Warp Arc, #1578; Pathfinder strokes, #1570; saves, #1620 in part; OpenType features, #1607; intersect Smart Guides, #1602 in part; estimates unchanged; TIFF is available in Export for Screens and Asset Export with shared format settings; scores and hours unchanged; G1/M11: Artboard deletion and history selection normalization; history regressions and full workspace CI pass; scores and hours unchanged; Character styles retain explicit Auto leading, propagate resets and preserve local leading overrides; scores and hours unchanged; Width Point Edit: Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment; plain double-click keeps it off; scores and hours unchanged; per-corner radius fields with a link toggle, split from #1594; control transport deadlines, #1726; M12 row: Image Trace's presets and options as they are now; Polish interface, #1498; compact native saves, #1492; PDF and EPS paste as vector art, #1499; import fixes, #1528, #1530, #1531, #1544, #1551, #1553; guide objects, #1534; Join after Average, #1533; Keyboard Shortcuts, #1539; estimates unchanged; Direct Selection anchor precedence, #1508; dialog slider rails, #1483; template layers in Outline view, #1486; type that does not fit its frame is reported, #1471; 3D on outlined type, #1481; print-size images, #1517; French catalog, #1511; estimates unchanged; Split Into Grid options, #1462; Transform Objects and Reflect's angle, #1448 and #1460; Pathfinder on a group, #1450; unknown parameter keys refused, #1442; grayscale TIFFs with alpha, #1466 in part; estimates unchanged; M9: Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate; `.ai` compound path paint, #1410, overprint on import, #1388, text-only PDF parts, #1387; Transform dialogs preview, #1412, and transforms of direct-selected anchors, #1408; strokes wider than their shape, #1396; estimates unchanged; `.ai` editing-data follow-ups, #1390, #1391, #1392; dialog keyboard focus, #1367 and #1395; symbol instance redraw cache, #1386; font rescan, #1376; estimates unchanged; gradient shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; Live Corners widget click, #1239; custom ruler origin, #1212; M11: Artboard object clicks create a fitted artboard (#1227); estimate unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; desktop print transport adopts craft-print, Windows 7 fallback retained, scores unchanged; Czech render-site localization follow-up; scores and estimates unchanged; Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged; Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged; M6: Simplify preview/counts and valid topology selection (#1272); estimates unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 29/57; 28 filters remain; M14: RPM runtime metadata (#1275); estimates unchanged; M5: squared-distance texture redraws (#1257); clean-machine/platform drag measurements still pending; estimates unchanged; M2: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); estimates unchanged; M7: full-name font matching (#1258); Windows font-service QA pending; estimates unchanged; M1: no-op anchor Align keeps Undo, Redo and saved state (#1180 follow-up); estimates unchanged; M14: dedicated Eyedropper cursor (#1269); estimates unchanged; M3: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); estimates unchanged; M2: Direct Selection segment picks and Delete (#1278); estimates unchanged; M3: adding paint to an unpainted zero-width stroke restores 1 pt (#1253); estimates unchanged; M12: graph designs, graph data, Graph Type and label options; M14: native macOS save Format menu, #866; M6: compound appearance and member fill-rule fixes, #1197; estimates unchanged; M9: PDF raster-effect cap warnings; G11: #893 fixed, #937 open; M7: accurate character controls after scaling, #1034; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-14 · **Change:** minor (legacy `.ai` of version 7 saved, #868; estimates unchanged; Revolve: automatic smooth shading and default-on Cap with continuous rims; PDF.R1: shared PDF reader with windowed content scanning and explicit incomplete-content errors; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF.W1: guarded shared PDF writer; output behavior, scores and estimates unchanged; later 2026-10-14 merges: per-corner radius, #1682; Width Point Edit from the Width tool, #1814, #1630; guides, #1782, #1836; anchor X/Y/W/H, #1824; toolbar and All Tools, #1751; macOS save sheets, #1855; rendering caches, #1667–#1792; untrusted files, #1852, #1862–#1873; failed-save dialog, #1685; Dim Images, #1683; estimates unchanged; M12 row: Image Trace's enhanced presets; verified PngSuite downloads, #1729; synthetic control-input budgets, #1709; 2026-10-14 merges: anchor Align and Distribute, #1636; Direct Selection and Delete fixes, #1674, #1666, #1743; Expand on repeats, #1756; file and input hardening, #1776–#1783, #1786, #1807; MCP limits and envelope, #1727, #1728; Image Trace #1647, #1657; estimates unchanged; later 2026-10-13 merges: SVG import, #1565, #1596, #1568, #1601; Warp Arc, #1578; Pathfinder strokes, #1570; saves, #1620 in part; OpenType features, #1607; intersect Smart Guides, #1602 in part; estimates unchanged; TIFF is available in Export for Screens and Asset Export with shared format settings; scores and hours unchanged; G1/M11: Artboard deletion and history selection normalization; history regressions and full workspace CI pass; scores and hours unchanged; Character styles retain explicit Auto leading, propagate resets and preserve local leading overrides; scores and hours unchanged; Width Point Edit: Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment; plain double-click keeps it off; scores and hours unchanged; per-corner radius fields with a link toggle, split from #1594; control transport deadlines, #1726; M12 row: Image Trace's presets and options as they are now; Polish interface, #1498; compact native saves, #1492; PDF and EPS paste as vector art, #1499; import fixes, #1528, #1530, #1531, #1544, #1551, #1553; guide objects, #1534; Join after Average, #1533; Keyboard Shortcuts, #1539; estimates unchanged; Direct Selection anchor precedence, #1508; dialog slider rails, #1483; template layers in Outline view, #1486; type that does not fit its frame is reported, #1471; 3D on outlined type, #1481; print-size images, #1517; French catalog, #1511; estimates unchanged; Split Into Grid options, #1462; Transform Objects and Reflect's angle, #1448 and #1460; Pathfinder on a group, #1450; unknown parameter keys refused, #1442; grayscale TIFFs with alpha, #1466 in part; estimates unchanged; M9: Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate; `.ai` compound path paint, #1410, overprint on import, #1388, text-only PDF parts, #1387; Transform dialogs preview, #1412, and transforms of direct-selected anchors, #1408; strokes wider than their shape, #1396; estimates unchanged; `.ai` editing-data follow-ups, #1390, #1391, #1392; dialog keyboard focus, #1367 and #1395; symbol instance redraw cache, #1386; font rescan, #1376; estimates unchanged; gradient shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; Live Corners widget click, #1239; custom ruler origin, #1212; M11: Artboard object clicks create a fitted artboard (#1227); estimate unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; desktop print transport adopts craft-print, Windows 7 fallback retained, scores unchanged; Czech render-site localization follow-up; scores and estimates unchanged; Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged; Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged; M6: Simplify preview/counts and valid topology selection (#1272); estimates unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 29/57; 28 filters remain; M14: RPM runtime metadata (#1275); estimates unchanged; M5: squared-distance texture redraws (#1257); clean-machine/platform drag measurements still pending; estimates unchanged; M2: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); estimates unchanged; M7: full-name font matching (#1258); Windows font-service QA pending; estimates unchanged; M1: no-op anchor Align keeps Undo, Redo and saved state (#1180 follow-up); estimates unchanged; M14: dedicated Eyedropper cursor (#1269); estimates unchanged; M3: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); estimates unchanged; M2: Direct Selection segment picks and Delete (#1278); estimates unchanged; M3: adding paint to an unpainted zero-width stroke restores 1 pt (#1253); estimates unchanged; M12: graph designs, graph data, Graph Type and label options; M14: native macOS save Format menu, #866; M6: compound appearance and member fill-rule fixes, #1197; estimates unchanged; M9: PDF raster-effect cap warnings; G11: #893 fixed, #937 open; M7: accurate character controls after scaling, #1034; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
 
 Forward-looking plan. Where VectorCraft stands is in [`ROADMAP.md`](../ROADMAP.md) and
 [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md); the ranked work list is [gaps.md](gaps.md). Hours are Opus 5.5
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Checked 2026-10-10 from the code, tests and open issues; no workflow fails, so V
 | Set type: point and area type, Character and Paragraph styles, threading, outlines | yes | type core 80%; styles, threading, Create Outlines and font matching tested ([type-parity.md](type-parity.md)); hyphenation and justification options missing (not blocking) | 0 |
 | Organise layers and artboards and export assets (Export for Screens, SVG, PNG, PDF per artboard) | yes | Layers panel rework, Artboards panel and tool, Export for Screens and Asset Export done; ghost borders in some Asset Export output (#983) | 0 |
 | Print production: CMYK and spot colour, bleed and marks, PDF/X out, separations preview | yes | PDF/X-1a/3/4, presets, marks and bleed, ICC output intent, Separations Preview, Print with PostScript output | 0 |
-| Exchange files with Illustrator users: open their `.ai`/EPS/PDF, hand back a file they can open | partial (doesn't block alpha) | `.ai`, EPS and PDF open as editable art, but real files can get the wrong layer structure (#951) and lose guides (#779); Save As `.ai` is PDF-compatible, which Illustrator opens without its own editing data (#868). This is the beta main-format gap ([gaps.md](gaps.md) G9) | 10–20 (for beta) |
+| Exchange files with Illustrator users: open their `.ai`/EPS/PDF, hand back a file they can open | partial (doesn't block alpha) | `.ai`, EPS and PDF open as editable art, but real files can get the wrong layer structure (#951) and lose guides (#779); Save As `.ai` is PDF-compatible, which Illustrator opens without its own editing data (#868), or legacy version 7, which keeps layers, groups and type as text, one artboard per file, and waits for users' testing. This is the beta main-format gap ([gaps.md](gaps.md) G9) | 10–20 (for beta) |
 
 ## Current focus
 
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ After placed documents (File › Place of a `.vectorcraft` file, linked), M4.14
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | The interface is available in Polish (`pl`): menus, panels, dialogs and messages, with one/few/many plurals; AI-drafted, native review pending (#1498); Native documents with a lot of path data (traced or generated art, in layers, symbols or patterns) are saved as compact JSON, about a fifth of the size; small documents stay pretty-printed (#1492); Paste takes a PDF or EPS another app copied as editable vector art: from the macOS pasteboard (with SVG), EPS on Windows beside PDF, and `.eps` files copied in a file manager, with the new command `clipboard.importEps` (#1538, fixes #1499); Opening or placing a file with an image too large to decode says so, and the Links panel shows it on the row (#1540, part of #1479); a multi-artboard `.ai` with notes beside its artboards opens from its editing data, a page's art past its artboard no longer lying over the page before it (#1528); a `.ai` gradient whose stops are listed upwards keeps each midpoint on the stop that starts its part of the ramp (#1530); SVG text on a path follows basic shapes (circle, ellipse, rect, line, polyline, polygon) as their SVG 2 equivalent paths (#1531, fixes #1527); PDFs whose alpha soft masks are drawn as images import with the mask instead of empty art (#1551); EPS and PostScript type set in Type 42 (TrueType) fonts imports at its size instead of 1000 times too large (#1553); PDF and EPS import keep a clipping path whose bounding box covers the page but whose shape doesn't (#1544, fixes #1542); Make Compound Path on a group (such as outlined type) keeps the paint of its backmost path instead of drawing nothing, and compound paths joined into one keep their holes (#1537); a round corner next to a curved side curves smoothly instead of sticking out of the shape and the Smooth tool smooths only the stretch of path under the drag (#1547, fixes #1512); Join merges the selected anchor points that lie on one another, as after Average, into one anchor (#1582, fixes #1533); Lock Guides also locks the objects made into guides: they can't be selected, moved or deleted (#1543); they are drawn in the guide colour and style of Preferences, and a dragged selection snaps to ruler guides with Smart Guides on (#1583, fixes #1534); Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts lists Edit › Duplicate and the other commands that are in no menu but run without parameters (panel-menu commands such as Break Link to Symbol), so they can be given shortcuts (#1549, #1580, fixes #1539); Raster effects (blur, shadow, glow, grain) drawn after a pattern, radial or freeform gradient fill export at their place and size (#1541, fixes #1536); 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); estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Direct Selection takes the selected object's anchor where anchors of overlapping objects coincide (#1508); commands and MCP `add_text` report area type that does not fit its frame (#1471), a tab stop in the Tabs panel drags from where the press landed (#1458); M9: 3D and Materials on outlined type and other shapes of many small curves (#1481), Twist 0° to 360° (#1524), twisted walls keep their faces (#1525); print-size images draw, export and crop (#1517), `vectorcraft-cli perf` reports load and memory on Windows (#1502); sliders in dialogs show their rail (#1483), a template layer stays in Preview in Outline view (#1486), French catalog complete again (#1511), a Hungarian message in the informal address (#1474); `graph.setData`'s CSV keeps each value exactly (#1485); estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | Width Point Edit: Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment; plain double-click keeps it off; scores and hours unchanged |
+| 2026-10-12 | minor | Exchange with Illustrator users: Save As `.ai` › Version: Legacy (version 7) keeps layers, groups and type as text, one artboard per file (#868); estimate unchanged until users test it |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | M6: Split Into Grid has its documented options (#1462), the Pathfinder panel works on a group selected alone (#1450); M2: Transform Objects in the Transform dialogs and Transform Each, Reflect across an angle (#1448, #1460); M4: grayscale TIFFs with an alpha channel or extra channels place (#1466 in part), strokes kept apart from a faded or masked fill on PDF and `.ai` import (#1434), SVG knockout groups without masks (#1435); M7: Fit Headline in a frame one line tall (#1444), frames beyond a billion points hold no text (#1451); M13: commands refuse a parameter key they don't take (#1442); M5: edits and Alt-drags of thousands of objects (#1429 in part); M14: a focused field follows its value (#1457), selected text in value fields is readable (#1465 in part), a window surface past 8192 px no longer closes the app (#1459 in part); estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | TIFF is available in Export for Screens and Asset Export with shared format settings; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | Character styles retain explicit Auto leading, propagate resets and preserve local leading overrides; scores and hours unchanged |
diff --git a/docs/target-app-parity.md b/docs/target-app-parity.md
index e5b6b1267..8533a288d 100644
--- a/docs/target-app-parity.md
+++ b/docs/target-app-parity.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Parity with Adobe Illustrator
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-14 · **Change:** minor (Revolve: automatic smooth shading and default-on Cap with continuous rims; PDF.R1: shared PDF reader with windowed content scanning and explicit incomplete-content errors; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF.W1: guarded shared PDF writer; output behavior, scores and estimates unchanged; later 2026-10-14 merges: anchor X/Y/W/H, #1824; Snap to Grid over Snap to Pixel, #1816; toolbar and All Tools, #1751; Actions panel selection, #1629 in part; redo during a drag, #1719; preferences written on OK, #1747; type in symbols after reopening, #1738; macOS save sheets, #1855, the Format menu withdrawn; stroke outlines shared, #1667; untrusted files, #1852, #1862–#1873; failed-save dialog, #1685; effects, #1864, Dim Images, #1683; duplicated rows of the 2026-10-05 table noted for the owner; scores unchanged; Image Trace: Shapes rework, stroke caps, enhanced presets, gradients over noise, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; verified PngSuite downloads, #1729; synthetic control-input budgets, #1709; 2026-10-14 merges: anchor Align and Distribute, #1636; Direct Selection and Delete fixes, #1674, #1666, #1743; Escape while typing, #1686; Pen clicks, #1663; Expand on repeats, #1756; Roughen and Scribble, #1643, #1648; file and input hardening, #1776–#1783, #1786, #1807; MCP limits and envelope, #1727, #1728; Image Trace levelling and Flat Logo on scans, #1647, #1657; scores unchanged; later 2026-10-13 merges: SVG import, #1565, #1596, #1568, #1598, #1601; type on a path from PDF and `.ai`, #1585, #1586; ICC tag alignment, #1584; saves, #1620 in part; Warp Arc, #1578; Zig Zag, #1558; Pathfinder strokes, #1570; OpenType features, #1607; intersect Smart Guides, #1602 in part; a guide's position in the Transform panel, #1597 in part, a convenience with no parity claim; scores unchanged; TIFF is available in Export for Screens and Asset Export with shared format settings; scores and hours unchanged; G1/M11: Artboard deletion and history selection normalization; history regressions and full workspace CI pass; scores and hours unchanged; Character styles retain explicit Auto leading, propagate resets and preserve local leading overrides; scores and hours unchanged; Width Point Edit: Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment; plain double-click keeps it off; scores and hours unchanged; Units › Identify Objects By (`identifyObjectsBy`) acts on Layers, Variables and Layer Options, #394, scores unchanged; Appearance of Black › Printing / Exporting (`blackOutput`) acts on RGB raster export and Print as Bitmap, #394, scores unchanged; per-corner radius fields with a link toggle, split from #1594; control transport deadlines, #1726; Color panel: the mode picked last comes back after a restart, #1675; Image Trace: shared edges, memory, thin lines, strokes, corners, and the Shapes, Auto Grouping and Gradients options, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; 2026-10-13 merges: Polish interface, #1498; compact native saves, #1492; PDF and EPS paste as vector art, #1499; import fixes for `.ai`, PDF, EPS and SVG, #1528, #1530, #1531, #1544, #1551, #1553; guide objects, #1534; Join after Average, #1533; Keyboard Shortcuts lists commands outside the menus, #1539; correction: Average and Join with a corner or smooth choice is missing; scores unchanged; late 2026-10-12 merges: type that does not fit its frame is reported, #1471; Tabs panel drags, #1458; template layers in Outline view, #1486; dialog slider rails, #1483; Direct Selection anchor precedence, #1508; print-size images, #1517; 3D on outlined type, #1481; French catalog, #1511; scores unchanged; Split Into Grid options, #1462; Transform Objects and Reflect across an angle, #1448 and #1460; Pathfinder panel on a group, #1450; unknown parameter keys refused, #1442; grayscale TIFFs with alpha, #1466 in part; Localization: Vietnamese catalog added, 63% → 71%, hours 60–100 → 55–90, full readiness unchanged at ~62%; scores and hours unchanged; Image Trace places edges to a fraction of a pixel in every mode, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; 3D and Materials: Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate added, 3D ~8% → ~25% (estimated), menu stubs 25 → 22; Affinity text frames too short for their first line show it, #1423; Transform dialogs preview, #1412, and the transform tools and commands act on direct-selected anchors, #1408; `.ai` compound path paint, #1410; strokes wider than their shape, #1396; corner drags hide the bounding box, #1229; scores and hours unchanged; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388, scores unchanged; `.ai` editing-data follow-ups: gradient stops, type of objects with an appearance, short area-type frames (#1390, #1391, #1392); dialog keyboard focus on every open (#1382, #1395); art flush with an artboard (#1375); font rescan (#1376); symbol instance redraw cache (#1386); scores and hours unchanged; grid tool options, #1377 in part, scores unchanged; `.ai` placed (linked) files read from the editing data, #1264, scores unchanged; gradient shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; Live Corners widget click selects its corner, #1239; scores and hours unchanged; custom ruler origin, #1212; Artboard click-to-fit verified for objects, groups, visible bounds, undo and cancellation (#1227); scores and hours unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; Localization: Korean catalog added, 54% → 63%, full readiness unchanged at ~62%; desktop print transport adopts craft-print, Windows 7 fallback retained, scores unchanged; Image Trace: an image over 64 megapixels traces scaled down instead of being refused, scores unchanged; Czech render-site localization follow-up; scores and estimates unchanged; Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged; Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged; Path operations: Simplify preview/counts and component selection (#1272); scores unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 29/57; 28 filters remain; Platforms: RPM runtime capabilities and glibc floor (#1275); scores unchanged; Raster effects: squared-distance texture redraws (#1257); pixels unchanged; scores and hours unchanged; Drawing: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); scores unchanged; Type core: full-name font matching (#1258), scores and hours unchanged; Selection: no-op anchor Align preserves history and saved state (#1180 follow-up); scores unchanged; UI chrome: Eyedropper cursor and precise-setting regressions (#1269); scores unchanged; Colour: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); scores and hours unchanged; Selection: segment click/Delete preserves neighboring edges (#1278); scores unchanged; Colour: unpainted zero-width strokes regain 1 pt when painted (#1253); scores and hours unchanged; graphs: designs and markers, data, Graph Type and label options; UI chrome: native macOS save Format menu, #866, scores unchanged; compound paths inherit the backmost appearance and member fill-rule edits reach their owner, #1197; scores unchanged; Type core: Middle Eastern digit types done, Character panel menu › Digits; PDF export warns when the pixel cap lowers raster-effect resolution; Drawing tools: Live Corners round corners between curved sides, #1144; Type advanced: proportional vertical metrics (`vpal`) done, #966; Shape Builder: #893 fixed, merged regions of crossing lines no longer keep seams; scores unchanged while #937 is open; #1034: document-point character controls after object/group scaling; full readiness recomputed as the standard's additive weighted sum, ~62%; per-audience hours; essentials-user score ~75% added; ready-for-real-work re-examined: 50% → 55%, mainstream 65% added; earlier the same day: full re-measure against Illustrator 2026 30.x; merged the ROADMAP's parity estimate, honest assessment and "Shipped so far" into this file; SVG knockout groups of opaque art export without masks; Image Trace: colour presets no longer shatter noisy flat art and photos trace into smooth tones, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; Split Into Grid options, #1462; Transform Objects and Reflect across an angle, #1448 and #1460; Pathfinder panel on a group, #1450; unknown parameter keys refused, #1442; grayscale TIFFs with alpha, #1466 in part; scores and hours unchanged; Image Trace places edges to a fraction of a pixel in every mode, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; 3D and Materials: Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate added, 3D ~8% → ~25% (estimated), menu stubs 25 → 22; Affinity text frames too short for their first line show it, #1423; Transform dialogs preview, #1412, and the transform tools and commands act on direct-selected anchors, #1408; `.ai` compound path paint, #1410; strokes wider than their shape, #1396; corner drags hide the bounding box, #1229; scores and hours unchanged; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388, scores unchanged; `.ai` editing-data follow-ups: gradient stops, type of objects with an appearance, short area-type frames (#1390, #1391, #1392); dialog keyboard focus on every open (#1382, #1395); art flush with an artboard (#1375); font rescan (#1376); symbol instance redraw cache (#1386); scores and hours unchanged; grid tool options, #1377 in part, scores unchanged; `.ai` placed (linked) files read from the editing data, #1264, scores unchanged; gradient shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; Live Corners widget click selects its corner, #1239; scores and hours unchanged; custom ruler origin, #1212; Artboard click-to-fit verified for objects, groups, visible bounds, undo and cancellation (#1227); scores and hours unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; Localization: Korean catalog added, 54% → 63%, full readiness unchanged at ~62%; desktop print transport adopts craft-print, Windows 7 fallback retained, scores unchanged; Image Trace: an image over 64 megapixels traces scaled down instead of being refused, scores unchanged; Czech render-site localization follow-up; scores and estimates unchanged; Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged; Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged; Path operations: Simplify preview/counts and component selection (#1272); scores unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 29/57; 28 filters remain; Platforms: RPM runtime capabilities and glibc floor (#1275); scores unchanged; Raster effects: squared-distance texture redraws (#1257); pixels unchanged; scores and hours unchanged; Drawing: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); scores unchanged; Type core: full-name font matching (#1258), scores and hours unchanged; Selection: no-op anchor Align preserves history and saved state (#1180 follow-up); scores unchanged; UI chrome: Eyedropper cursor and precise-setting regressions (#1269); scores unchanged; Colour: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); scores and hours unchanged; Selection: segment click/Delete preserves neighboring edges (#1278); scores unchanged; Colour: unpainted zero-width strokes regain 1 pt when painted (#1253); scores and hours unchanged; graphs: designs and markers, data, Graph Type and label options; UI chrome: native macOS save Format menu, #866, scores unchanged; compound paths inherit the backmost appearance and member fill-rule edits reach their owner, #1197; scores unchanged; Type core: Middle Eastern digit types done, Character panel menu › Digits; PDF export warns when the pixel cap lowers raster-effect resolution; Drawing tools: Live Corners round corners between curved sides, #1144; Type advanced: proportional vertical metrics (`vpal`) done, #966; Shape Builder: #893 fixed, merged regions of crossing lines no longer keep seams; scores unchanged while #937 is open; #1034: document-point character controls after object/group scaling; full readiness recomputed as the standard's additive weighted sum, ~62%; per-audience hours; essentials-user score ~75% added; ready-for-real-work re-examined: 50% → 55%, mainstream 65% added; earlier the same day: full re-measure against Illustrator 2026 30.x; merged the ROADMAP's parity estimate, honest assessment and "Shipped so far" into this file; SVG knockout groups of opaque art export without masks) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; public release notes through 30.7, August 2026)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-14 · **Change:** minor (File interop: legacy `.ai` of version 7 saved with type as text, hidden objects kept and an artboard picker, #868, scores unchanged; Revolve: automatic smooth shading and default-on Cap with continuous rims; PDF.R1: shared PDF reader with windowed content scanning and explicit incomplete-content errors; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF.W1: guarded shared PDF writer; output behavior, scores and estimates unchanged; later 2026-10-14 merges: anchor X/Y/W/H, #1824; Snap to Grid over Snap to Pixel, #1816; toolbar and All Tools, #1751; Actions panel selection, #1629 in part; redo during a drag, #1719; preferences written on OK, #1747; type in symbols after reopening, #1738; macOS save sheets, #1855, the Format menu withdrawn; stroke outlines shared, #1667; untrusted files, #1852, #1862–#1873; failed-save dialog, #1685; effects, #1864, Dim Images, #1683; duplicated rows of the 2026-10-05 table noted for the owner; scores unchanged; Image Trace: Shapes rework, stroke caps, enhanced presets, gradients over noise, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; verified PngSuite downloads, #1729; synthetic control-input budgets, #1709; 2026-10-14 merges: anchor Align and Distribute, #1636; Direct Selection and Delete fixes, #1674, #1666, #1743; Escape while typing, #1686; Pen clicks, #1663; Expand on repeats, #1756; Roughen and Scribble, #1643, #1648; file and input hardening, #1776–#1783, #1786, #1807; MCP limits and envelope, #1727, #1728; Image Trace levelling and Flat Logo on scans, #1647, #1657; scores unchanged; later 2026-10-13 merges: SVG import, #1565, #1596, #1568, #1598, #1601; type on a path from PDF and `.ai`, #1585, #1586; ICC tag alignment, #1584; saves, #1620 in part; Warp Arc, #1578; Zig Zag, #1558; Pathfinder strokes, #1570; OpenType features, #1607; intersect Smart Guides, #1602 in part; a guide's position in the Transform panel, #1597 in part, a convenience with no parity claim; scores unchanged; TIFF is available in Export for Screens and Asset Export with shared format settings; scores and hours unchanged; G1/M11: Artboard deletion and history selection normalization; history regressions and full workspace CI pass; scores and hours unchanged; Character styles retain explicit Auto leading, propagate resets and preserve local leading overrides; scores and hours unchanged; Width Point Edit: Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment; plain double-click keeps it off; scores and hours unchanged; Units › Identify Objects By (`identifyObjectsBy`) acts on Layers, Variables and Layer Options, #394, scores unchanged; Appearance of Black › Printing / Exporting (`blackOutput`) acts on RGB raster export and Print as Bitmap, #394, scores unchanged; per-corner radius fields with a link toggle, split from #1594; control transport deadlines, #1726; Color panel: the mode picked last comes back after a restart, #1675; Image Trace: shared edges, memory, thin lines, strokes, corners, and the Shapes, Auto Grouping and Gradients options, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; 2026-10-13 merges: Polish interface, #1498; compact native saves, #1492; PDF and EPS paste as vector art, #1499; import fixes for `.ai`, PDF, EPS and SVG, #1528, #1530, #1531, #1544, #1551, #1553; guide objects, #1534; Join after Average, #1533; Keyboard Shortcuts lists commands outside the menus, #1539; correction: Average and Join with a corner or smooth choice is missing; scores unchanged; late 2026-10-12 merges: type that does not fit its frame is reported, #1471; Tabs panel drags, #1458; template layers in Outline view, #1486; dialog slider rails, #1483; Direct Selection anchor precedence, #1508; print-size images, #1517; 3D on outlined type, #1481; French catalog, #1511; scores unchanged; Split Into Grid options, #1462; Transform Objects and Reflect across an angle, #1448 and #1460; Pathfinder panel on a group, #1450; unknown parameter keys refused, #1442; grayscale TIFFs with alpha, #1466 in part; Localization: Vietnamese catalog added, 63% → 71%, hours 60–100 → 55–90, full readiness unchanged at ~62%; scores and hours unchanged; Image Trace places edges to a fraction of a pixel in every mode, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; 3D and Materials: Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate added, 3D ~8% → ~25% (estimated), menu stubs 25 → 22; Affinity text frames too short for their first line show it, #1423; Transform dialogs preview, #1412, and the transform tools and commands act on direct-selected anchors, #1408; `.ai` compound path paint, #1410; strokes wider than their shape, #1396; corner drags hide the bounding box, #1229; scores and hours unchanged; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388, scores unchanged; `.ai` editing-data follow-ups: gradient stops, type of objects with an appearance, short area-type frames (#1390, #1391, #1392); dialog keyboard focus on every open (#1382, #1395); art flush with an artboard (#1375); font rescan (#1376); symbol instance redraw cache (#1386); scores and hours unchanged; grid tool options, #1377 in part, scores unchanged; `.ai` placed (linked) files read from the editing data, #1264, scores unchanged; gradient shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; Live Corners widget click selects its corner, #1239; scores and hours unchanged; custom ruler origin, #1212; Artboard click-to-fit verified for objects, groups, visible bounds, undo and cancellation (#1227); scores and hours unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; Localization: Korean catalog added, 54% → 63%, full readiness unchanged at ~62%; desktop print transport adopts craft-print, Windows 7 fallback retained, scores unchanged; Image Trace: an image over 64 megapixels traces scaled down instead of being refused, scores unchanged; Czech render-site localization follow-up; scores and estimates unchanged; Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged; Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged; Path operations: Simplify preview/counts and component selection (#1272); scores unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 29/57; 28 filters remain; Platforms: RPM runtime capabilities and glibc floor (#1275); scores unchanged; Raster effects: squared-distance texture redraws (#1257); pixels unchanged; scores and hours unchanged; Drawing: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); scores unchanged; Type core: full-name font matching (#1258), scores and hours unchanged; Selection: no-op anchor Align preserves history and saved state (#1180 follow-up); scores unchanged; UI chrome: Eyedropper cursor and precise-setting regressions (#1269); scores unchanged; Colour: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); scores and hours unchanged; Selection: segment click/Delete preserves neighboring edges (#1278); scores unchanged; Colour: unpainted zero-width strokes regain 1 pt when painted (#1253); scores and hours unchanged; graphs: designs and markers, data, Graph Type and label options; UI chrome: native macOS save Format menu, #866, scores unchanged; compound paths inherit the backmost appearance and member fill-rule edits reach their owner, #1197; scores unchanged; Type core: Middle Eastern digit types done, Character panel menu › Digits; PDF export warns when the pixel cap lowers raster-effect resolution; Drawing tools: Live Corners round corners between curved sides, #1144; Type advanced: proportional vertical metrics (`vpal`) done, #966; Shape Builder: #893 fixed, merged regions of crossing lines no longer keep seams; scores unchanged while #937 is open; #1034: document-point character controls after object/group scaling; full readiness recomputed as the standard's additive weighted sum, ~62%; per-audience hours; essentials-user score ~75% added; ready-for-real-work re-examined: 50% → 55%, mainstream 65% added; earlier the same day: full re-measure against Illustrator 2026 30.x; merged the ROADMAP's parity estimate, honest assessment and "Shipped so far" into this file; SVG knockout groups of opaque art export without masks; Image Trace: colour presets no longer shatter noisy flat art and photos trace into smooth tones, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; Split Into Grid options, #1462; Transform Objects and Reflect across an angle, #1448 and #1460; Pathfinder panel on a group, #1450; unknown parameter keys refused, #1442; grayscale TIFFs with alpha, #1466 in part; scores and hours unchanged; Image Trace places edges to a fraction of a pixel in every mode, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; 3D and Materials: Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate added, 3D ~8% → ~25% (estimated), menu stubs 25 → 22; Affinity text frames too short for their first line show it, #1423; Transform dialogs preview, #1412, and the transform tools and commands act on direct-selected anchors, #1408; `.ai` compound path paint, #1410; strokes wider than their shape, #1396; corner drags hide the bounding box, #1229; scores and hours unchanged; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388, scores unchanged; `.ai` editing-data follow-ups: gradient stops, type of objects with an appearance, short area-type frames (#1390, #1391, #1392); dialog keyboard focus on every open (#1382, #1395); art flush with an artboard (#1375); font rescan (#1376); symbol instance redraw cache (#1386); scores and hours unchanged; grid tool options, #1377 in part, scores unchanged; `.ai` placed (linked) files read from the editing data, #1264, scores unchanged; gradient shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; Live Corners widget click selects its corner, #1239; scores and hours unchanged; custom ruler origin, #1212; Artboard click-to-fit verified for objects, groups, visible bounds, undo and cancellation (#1227); scores and hours unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; Localization: Korean catalog added, 54% → 63%, full readiness unchanged at ~62%; desktop print transport adopts craft-print, Windows 7 fallback retained, scores unchanged; Image Trace: an image over 64 megapixels traces scaled down instead of being refused, scores unchanged; Czech render-site localization follow-up; scores and estimates unchanged; Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged; Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged; Path operations: Simplify preview/counts and component selection (#1272); scores unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 29/57; 28 filters remain; Platforms: RPM runtime capabilities and glibc floor (#1275); scores unchanged; Raster effects: squared-distance texture redraws (#1257); pixels unchanged; scores and hours unchanged; Drawing: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); scores unchanged; Type core: full-name font matching (#1258), scores and hours unchanged; Selection: no-op anchor Align preserves history and saved state (#1180 follow-up); scores unchanged; UI chrome: Eyedropper cursor and precise-setting regressions (#1269); scores unchanged; Colour: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); scores and hours unchanged; Selection: segment click/Delete preserves neighboring edges (#1278); scores unchanged; Colour: unpainted zero-width strokes regain 1 pt when painted (#1253); scores and hours unchanged; graphs: designs and markers, data, Graph Type and label options; UI chrome: native macOS save Format menu, #866, scores unchanged; compound paths inherit the backmost appearance and member fill-rule edits reach their owner, #1197; scores unchanged; Type core: Middle Eastern digit types done, Character panel menu › Digits; PDF export warns when the pixel cap lowers raster-effect resolution; Drawing tools: Live Corners round corners between curved sides, #1144; Type advanced: proportional vertical metrics (`vpal`) done, #966; Shape Builder: #893 fixed, merged regions of crossing lines no longer keep seams; scores unchanged while #937 is open; #1034: document-point character controls after object/group scaling; full readiness recomputed as the standard's additive weighted sum, ~62%; per-audience hours; essentials-user score ~75% added; ready-for-real-work re-examined: 50% → 55%, mainstream 65% added; earlier the same day: full re-measure against Illustrator 2026 30.x; merged the ROADMAP's parity estimate, honest assessment and "Shipped so far" into this file; SVG knockout groups of opaque art export without masks) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; public release notes through 30.7, August 2026)
 
 The authoritative parity assessment. [`ROADMAP.md`](../ROADMAP.md) summarizes it; [`gaps.md`](gaps.md) is
 the work list made from it. Deep areas have their own checklists: [UI and interaction](ui-parity.md),
@@ -158,8 +158,8 @@ The discounts, with the evidence:
   ones are about structure, not missing art: layers flattened or multiplied (#951: 109 layers instead of 14;
   #868), guides lost (#779), slower opening (#758), live effects, brushes and symbols as their drawn look
   (#637). VectorCraft can't write Illustrator's editing data (undocumented), so its PDF-compatible `.ai` opens
-  in Illustrator as plain art; the legacy `.ai` of version 7 it also writes keeps layers and groups (one artboard
-  per file, no transparency or live type) but hasn't been tested by users yet (#868). That blocks beta (the main-format rule) for people who hand files back to Illustrator users,
+  in Illustrator as plain art; the legacy `.ai` of version 7 it also writes keeps layers, groups and type as text (one
+  artboard per file, no transparency) but hasn't been tested by users yet (#868). That blocks beta (the main-format rule) for people who hand files back to Illustrator users,
   but it doesn't stop someone opening and reworking their own archive.
 - **Interaction fidelity (×0.9).** Pen, Direct Selection, smart guides and snapping are deep
   ([ui-parity.md](ui-parity.md)), and there has never been a side-by-side session. The issue tracker says the
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ since 2026-10-01.
 | **Large missing subsystems** | 0–20% | 3D & Materials (~25%, initial 3D types without materials), Photoshop-style raster effects and the Effect Gallery (~19 of ~56 filters), SVG Filters, CJK composition (vertical type with kinsoku, tate-chu-yoko and the font's vertical metrics; ruby, mojikumi and proportional vertical metrics open), scripting |
 | **Interaction fidelity:** modifiers, cursors, small behaviours | ~30–40% | The dedicated pass hasn't started, and there has been no side-by-side session with Illustrator yet. A power user notices this first |
 | **Look & feel** | ~75–80% | Measured against Illustrator 2026 screenshots (2026-10-02); the panels added since haven't been re-measured |
-| **File interop** | ~85% | SVG/SVGZ, PDF and PDF-compatible `.ai` (and legacy version 7 `.ai` out, keeping layers and groups), EPS, DXF, EMF/WMF, raster formats, PSD export and PSD/PSB placement (merged image), Place and Links, Package, Print, clipboard flavours. Affinity documents (Affinity 1–3) open natively as editable art, checked against 51 pinned public files (33 current `.af`), with selected saved-thumbnail comparisons and every-board native/SVG/PDF/PSD checks for current files; Affinity export is missing and effects, adjustments and brushes don't import. Affinity isn't an Illustrator feature, so this doesn't raise the parity score. The editing copy inside an Illustrator EPS or `.ai` is read for its structure: layers, groups, names, hidden objects and type, colours, gradients, transparency, images and every artboard (see Out of scope for what it doesn't read yet); DWG has no open spec |
+| **File interop** | ~85% | SVG/SVGZ, PDF and PDF-compatible `.ai` (and legacy version 7 `.ai` out, keeping layers, groups and type as text), EPS, DXF, EMF/WMF, raster formats, PSD export and PSD/PSB placement (merged image), Place and Links, Package, Print, clipboard flavours. Affinity documents (Affinity 1–3) open natively as editable art, checked against 51 pinned public files (33 current `.af`), with selected saved-thumbnail comparisons and every-board native/SVG/PDF/PSD checks for current files; Affinity export is missing and effects, adjustments and brushes don't import. Affinity isn't an Illustrator feature, so this doesn't raise the parity score. The editing copy inside an Illustrator EPS or `.ai` is read for its structure: layers, groups, names, hidden objects and type, colours, gradients, transparency, images and every artboard (see Out of scope for what it doesn't read yet); DWG has no open spec |
 | **Bundled content:** brush, symbol, style and swatch libraries | ~30% | Ours are original and generated in code, and far fewer than Illustrator ships; brush and symbol libraries are still missing |
 | **Performance** | unverified | Multithreaded, off-thread rendering and caches are in place. The last budget run (2026-10-01, loaded machine) measured 290 ms for a 50k-path fit against a 16 ms budget. Re-run `vectorcraft-cli perf` on an idle machine |
 | **Robustness** | good, new | ~2,840 tests, property tests, no panics in shipped code (lints, the `guard` safety net, import fuzzing), Data Recovery. Missing: a corpus of real-world files, Windows/Linux/browser QA |
@@ -607,6 +607,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Tools and UI: Make Compound Path on a group (such as outlined type) keeps the paint of its backmost path instead of drawing nothing, and compound paths joined into one keep their holes (#1537); a round corner next to a curved side curves smoothly instead of sticking out of the shape and the Smooth tool smooths only the stretch of path under the drag (#1547, fixes #1512); Join merges the selected anchor points that lie on one another, as after Average, into one anchor (#1582, fixes #1533); Lock Guides also locks the objects made into guides: they can't be selected, moved or deleted (#1543); they are drawn in the guide colour and style of Preferences, and a dragged selection snaps to ruler guides with Smart Guides on (#1583, fixes #1534); Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts lists Edit › Duplicate and the other commands that are in no menu but run without parameters (panel-menu commands such as Break Link to Symbol), so they can be given shortcuts (#1549, #1580, fixes #1539). Correction: the combined Average and Join with its corner or smooth choice was listed as done in [ui-parity.md](ui-parity.md) and does not exist in the app (`path.join` and `path.average` are separate commands, and Join has no such choice); it is now listed as missing there and in [gap 1](gaps.md); scores and hours unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | UI and tools: sliders in Save for Web, the raster export options, Preferences and the opacity popup show their rail, filled up to the handle (#1506, fixes #1483); in Outline view a template layer stays in Preview, dimmed (#1505, fixes #1486); Direct Selection takes the selected object's anchor where anchors of overlapping objects coincide (#1509, fixes #1508); a tab stop in the Tabs panel drags from where the press landed (#1487, fixes #1458); type: commands and MCP `add_text` report area type that does not fit its frame (#1500, fixes #1471); graphs: `graph.setData`'s CSV keeps each value exactly (#1485); scores and hours unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | 3D and Materials: outlined words and other shapes of many small curves take Rotate, Extrude & Bevel and Inflate (#1481), Twist runs 0° to 360° (#1524) and twisted walls keep their faces (#1525), all described in [three-d.md](three-d.md); rendering: print-size images draw, export and crop (#1517); `vectorcraft-cli perf` on Windows reports load and memory (#1502; no budget re-run); localization: French catalog complete again with 423 strings added and 188 reworded (#1511), a Hungarian message in the informal address (#1474); scores and hours unchanged (estimated) |
+| 2026-10-12 | minor | File interop: Save As `.ai` also writes the legacy version 7 form (#868), keeping layers, groups, compound paths, clipping groups and type as text objects, one artboard per file, with Transparent Images, Hidden Objects and Text options; `.ai` legacy type is read on open; not yet tested by users who hand files back, so scores and hours are unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Image Trace, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`: the palette is made of the picture's own colours (#1504): 16 Colors on flat art 70 → 4.2 paths and 5.1 → 0.13 px off, paths in a colour the art lacks 5.9 → 0; photos are smoothed within their tones first and stacked layers go by lightness (#1516): High Fidelity Photo 3,653 → 121 paths with its colour error 2.30 → 1.75, 16 megapixels traced where 4 were refused. Score and hours unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | 3D and Materials: Inflate takes Twist, Taper and Cap ([three-d.md](three-d.md)); scores unchanged (3D ~25%) |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | Width Point Edit: Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment; plain double-click keeps it off; scores and hours unchanged |