fix(eps): area type's first line goes where the file lays it out

Area type made from the editing data's text document was laid out with
its first baseline the font's ascent below the frame's top. The text
document keeps where each of its lines starts, and the file's page draws
them there: for some fonts the first line sits well above the font's
ascent (Oswald's at about its cap height), so headings came in lower
than on the page and the layers were taken to differ from it.

When the file's first line is more than half a point from where it is
laid out here, the first baseline is now fixed where the file has it
(First Baseline: Fixed), measured in the text document's own frame so a
copied object's type moves with its frame.

# Conflicts:
#	docs/file-format-parity.md

docs/file-format-parity.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # File format parity
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-31 · **Change:** minor (type from an Illustrator file's text document takes the attributes of its character style) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-31 · **Change:** minor (area type from an Illustrator file's text document starts its first line where the file lays it out) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
 
 Every format Illustrator opens, places, saves or exports, against VectorCraft's format table (`FORMATS`,
 `OPEN_EXTS`, `PLACE_EXTS` in `crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/formats.rs`). Illustrator's list comes from its public
@@ -132,6 +132,7 @@ the app's own editing copy of a file (an EPS after its `%%EOF`, a `.ai`'s `AIPri
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-31 | minor | `.ai`/EPS editing data: area type made from the file's text document put its first baseline the font's ascent below the frame's top, where the file's own layout (and its page) can have it higher: Oswald's and Urbanist's headings came in a third and an eighth of their size lower than on the page, and each text over them was taken to differ. When the text document's first line is more than half a point from where it is laid out here, the first baseline is fixed (Area Type Options › First Baseline › Fixed) where the file has it; the type's own font metrics aren't changed. Test `import::ate::tests::area_type_s_first_line_goes_where_the_file_lays_it_out`; checked locally against users' files: two election posters come 5.4% → 1.1% and 8.6% → 4.3% from their pages, so they open from their layers, and another 1.7% → 0.3%; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | `.ai`/EPS editing data: type made from the file's text document took each character attribute its run doesn't set from the document's base attributes, not from the character style the run names (`[Normal Character Style]` or another of the file's, and the styles each is based on). Where they differ the type came in wrong: a user's file whose base fill is white and whose Normal Character Style is black came in with its text white, so most of its type was missing wherever the page's own type didn't stand in for it. A run now takes its own attributes, then its character style's, then the document's ([Character and paragraph styles](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/character-paragraph-styles.html)). Test `import::tests_native::type_from_the_text_document_takes_its_character_styles_attributes`; checked locally against 377 users' files: none newly opens from its PDF part, and with #4791 that file opens from its layers (6.3% → 1.1% from its page); scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | SVG export (and Object › Expand, EPS, DXF, EMF and the other outputs that cut a gradient mesh into flat pieces): each patch was cut into 8 × 8 quads whatever its colours, so a patch of one colour became 64 identical pieces. Neighbouring quads are now joined into square blocks wherever the colour changes by no more than about one 8-bit step across the block, so a flat patch is one piece and a patch that shades strongly keeps all 64; a block's outline runs through its quads' corners, and a patch that folds over itself is not joined. A synthetic page of 400 meshes (6 × 6 patches, half flat) exports 468,000 pieces instead of 921,600 (35 MB instead of 66 MB), and resvg draws the two files identically. Tests `mesh_export` (crate `vectorcraft-svg`), `tests::live::mesh_expand_to_flat_pieces`; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | PDF import (and a `.ai`'s PDF part): a transparency group's knockout and isolate flags (`/K`, `/I`; ISO 32000-1, 11.4.6.3) come from the interpreter as it pushes the group. They were read from the file in order and matched to the groups pushed, but a group that adds nothing (full opacity, Normal, no mask, neither flag) is drawn straight onto its parent without being pushed, so every group after one lost its own flags and took another's; and a page drawing form groups more than 10,000 times failed to import (the list of their flags was capped), which it no longer does. A blend's steps written as a knockout group of falling opacity drew as solid dark shapes: a user's `.ai` with 143 such bubbles now draws them as light rings, as poppler does (its bubble area 4.9% → 1.2% of pixels off from poppler's render); 16 other users' PDFs with transparency groups (44 pages) draw the same. Test `tests::import_fidelity::knockout_groups_after_a_group_drawn_straight_keep_their_flag`; scores unchanged |