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docs/effects-parity.md

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 # Effects parity
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-06 · **Change:** minor (Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate apply to groups and layers, their objects turning about one shared axis (#4506); the Transform effect's copies of a path with a fill and a stroke (or several fills and strokes, an even-odd fill, or a partly transparent one) are drawn each above the one before, as Expand Appearance makes them (#5920); Expand Appearance makes each copy of a path's Transform effect an object of its own (#5612); previously: Pixelate › Color Halftone: Max Radius in pixels of the Document Raster Effects resolution, 4–127 px, with older documents converted on opening and radii written back in points for older app versions (#3260); Effect dialogs clamp bounded length inputs immediately on commit and flash rejection on invalid input (#4638); previously: Drop Shadow Darkness uses fixed RGB subtraction and CMYK black addition; scores unchanged; Pathfinder › Trap: the Pathfinder panel's Trap… and Effect › Pathfinder › Trap… add an overprinting strip of the lighter colour where two solid colours meet; recounted with Hard Mix (#3061) and Soft Mix already in the catalogue: Pathfinder 13/13, Illustrator effects 49/50) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-08 · **Change:** minor (Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate merge contours that cross, touch or overlap, as type often draws a glyph, before building a solid; previously: Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate apply to groups and layers, their objects turning about one shared axis (#4506); the Transform effect's copies of a path with a fill and a stroke (or several fills and strokes, an even-odd fill, or a partly transparent one) are drawn each above the one before, as Expand Appearance makes them (#5920); Expand Appearance makes each copy of a path's Transform effect an object of its own (#5612); previously: Pixelate › Color Halftone: Max Radius in pixels of the Document Raster Effects resolution, 4–127 px, with older documents converted on opening and radii written back in points for older app versions (#3260); Effect dialogs clamp bounded length inputs immediately on commit and flash rejection on invalid input (#4638); previously: Drop Shadow Darkness uses fixed RGB subtraction and CMYK black addition; scores unchanged; Pathfinder › Trap: the Pathfinder panel's Trap… and Effect › Pathfinder › Trap… add an overprinting strip of the lighter colour where two solid colours meet; recounted with Hard Mix (#3061) and Soft Mix already in the catalogue: Pathfinder 13/13, Illustrator effects 49/50) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
 
 Every entry of Illustrator's Effect menu, by its public feature name, against VectorCraft's effects catalogue
 (`effect_catalog()` in `crates/effects/src/lib.rs`) and the Effect menu built from it
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ VectorCraft choices; an original approximation, never compared with another appl
 | Item | Ours |
 |---|---|
 | Revolve | initial: live, editable profile, rotation and light gizmos, default-on Cap with continuous curved rims, smooth vector shading and round seam joins, SVG/PDF output, Expand Appearance ([revolve.md](revolve.md), #846) |
-| Extrude & Bevel, Inflate, Rotate | initial: live, depth, twist, taper, solid or hollow caps, five original bevel shapes, Inflate volume, both sides, twist, taper and cap, Rotate of every fill and stroke, groups and layers turned about one shared axis (#4506), Position presets, rotation and light gizmos, SVG/PDF output, Expand Appearance ([three-d.md](three-d.md)) |
+| Extrude & Bevel, Inflate, Rotate | initial: live, depth, twist, taper, solid or hollow caps, five original bevel shapes, Inflate volume, both sides, twist, taper and cap, Rotate of every fill and stroke, groups and layers turned about one shared axis (#4506), contours that cross, touch or overlap merged first ([three-d.md](three-d.md)), Position presets, rotation and light gizmos, SVG/PDF output, Expand Appearance ([three-d.md](three-d.md)) |
 | Materials panel, lighting, ray-traced render | Window › 3D and Materials panel with the object types (Plane, Extrude, Revolve, Inflate) and the Object, Rotation and Lighting settings of the applied effect ([three-d.md](three-d.md#3d-and-materials-panel)); one to ten directional lights with per-light Color (opaque RGB, white by default), Intensity, Rotation, Height, Softness and neutral Ambient Light, Revolve and colored Inflate use smooth vector shading; Extrude & Bevel and Rotate retain planar shading; original Standard, Diffuse, Top Left and Right lighting rigs; no materials, shadows or ray tracing |
 | 3D (Classic): Extrude & Bevel, Revolve, Rotate | none |
 | Turntable (30.0 beta) | none |
@@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ angular cut caps, exact visibility, 3D Classic, Turntable) is 25–45 h.
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-08 | minor | Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate merge contours that cross, touch or overlap (a glyph's arm across its stem) before building a solid, so the solid follows the shape as it is filled; others are built as drawn ([three-d.md](three-d.md)); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate apply to a group or layer: a solid for every path, compound path and type in it, all turned about one shared axis as the public documentation describes for groups ([three-d.md](three-d.md#groups), #4506); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | The Transform effect's copies of a path or compound path whose fills and strokes stack (a fill and a stroke, several of either, an even-odd fill, or a partly transparent or blended one) are drawn each as an object of its own above the one before, as Expand Appearance makes them, instead of one path of every copy whose fill lay under every copy's stroke (#5920). A single opaque stroke or nonzero fill still draws as one path. Counts unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-04 | minor | Expand Appearance of a path or compound path whose Transform effect makes copies gives a group of one object per copy, each with the path's fills and strokes, instead of one compound path of every copy; copies of copies nest (#5612). Counts unchanged. |

docs/file-format-parity.md

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 # File format parity
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-07 · **Change:** minor (EPS and `.ai` editing data: opacity mask art without its own paint takes the paint before its dictionary; a transparency set inside a clipping group stays after its `Q`; SVG import: filter and mask regions clip, #5876, #5875; SVG import: Gaussian blurs keep `color-interpolation-filters`, #5877; PDF and `.ai` export: objects' URLs as links, #5785; SVG import: `color-interpolation="linearRGB"` gradients, #5878; `.ai` import: paths with a Calligraphic brush open brushed, #372) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-07 · **Change:** minor (EPS import: composite fonts draw their Type 42 glyphs; SVG import: filter and mask regions clip, #5876, #5875; SVG import: Gaussian blurs keep `color-interpolation-filters`, #5877; PDF and `.ai` export: objects' URLs as links, #5785; SVG import: `color-interpolation="linearRGB"` gradients, #5878; `.ai` import: paths with a Calligraphic brush open brushed, #372) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
 
 Every format Illustrator opens, places, saves or exports, against VectorCraft's format table (`FORMATS`,
 `OPEN_EXTS`, `PLACE_EXTS` in `crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/formats.rs`). Illustrator's list comes from its public
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 | Illustrator template `.ait` | open, save | yes | PDF-compatible only, from Save as Template (`.vctemplate` stays its default) | New from Template opens a saved `.ait` untitled with its layers and art (`tests_pdfedit.rs`) |
 | Illustrator `.ai` | open, save | yes (PDF-compatible + editing-data structure with template layers and ruler guides, File Info) | PDF-compatible, or legacy version 7 (layers and groups) | see above; no real-file corpus |
 | PDF | open, place, save | yes (layers, masks, editable text, security, overprint, File Info from the XMP packet and the document information dictionary; Crop To › Trim takes the bleed box as the document's bleed) | yes (presets, PDF/X-1a/3/4, layers, marks and bleed, ICC, fast web view, 1.3+; objects' URLs as link annotations, not in PDF/X) | fuzzed import; shared guarded writer and windowed reader ([pdf-backend.md](pdf-backend.md)), metadata, incomplete-content and dependency-source regressions; PDF text opens where the file draws it, glyph by glyph (#722: kerning or none, spacing per character, text rise as baseline shift, vertical writing, justified text boxes); alpha soft masks drawn as images import with the mask (#1551); a clip only counts as covering the page when its shape does (#1542); a PDF another app copied pastes as editable vector art (#1499); letter-spaced type on a path keeps its length and its glyph-by-glyph stroke comes in as one text object (#1586, #1585); a crafted name tree with shared nodes no longer takes exponential time on open (#1781); fonts named with hyphens (`Noto-Sans-Bold`) or with a composite font's CMap (`Name-Identity-H`) find the installed family; invisible text (rendering mode 3: a scanned page's recognized text) opens as type with no fill or stroke and saves back as invisible, searchable text (#2675); PDF/X-1a and X-3 flattening in a CMYK document keeps CMYK inks where it rasterizes (#2160) |
-| EPS | open, place, save | yes (own PostScript L3 interpreter, Illustrator EPS editing data structure) | yes (L2/L3, TIFF previews) | CID-keyed CJK type not read; #505; images encoded with `CCITTFaxDecode` (ITU-T T.4 Group 3 and T.6 Group 4, with `K`, `Columns`, `Rows`, `EndOfBlock`, `EndOfLine`, `EncodedByteAlign` and `BlackIs1`) draw, and damaged data keeps the rows decoded before its first damaged row; Type 42 (TrueType) fonts set type at its size (#1553); a clip only counts as covering the page when its shape does (#1542); an EPS another app copied pastes as editable vector art (`clipboard.importEps`, #1499); a stitched shading keeps its hard colour changes on import (#1654); CMYK images, CMYK JPEGs included, keep their ink amounts on import, as from PDF, and the pixels a `MaskColor` or `ImageType 3` mask hides become a grayscale opacity mask; ruzstd 0.9.1 for compressed editing data (#1807, RUSTSEC-2026-0344) |
+| EPS | open, place, save | yes (own PostScript L3 interpreter, Illustrator EPS editing data structure) | yes (L2/L3, TIFF previews) | CID-keyed CJK type not read; #505; images encoded with `CCITTFaxDecode` (ITU-T T.4 Group 3 and T.6 Group 4, with `K`, `Columns`, `Rows`, `EndOfBlock`, `EndOfLine`, `EncodedByteAlign` and `BlackIs1`) draw, and damaged data keeps the rows decoded before its first damaged row; Type 42 (TrueType) fonts set type at its size (#1553); composite (Type 0) fonts with the 8/8 mapping, as PDF-to-PostScript converters write two-byte fonts, draw a Type 42 descendant's glyphs from the TrueType outlines it carries and set other descendants' characters as type at the composite font's size (other mappings and CID-keyed fonts are still set as type in the font of their name); a clip only counts as covering the page when its shape does (#1542); an EPS another app copied pastes as editable vector art (`clipboard.importEps`, #1499); a stitched shading keeps its hard colour changes on import (#1654); CMYK images, CMYK JPEGs included, keep their ink amounts on import, as from PDF, and the pixels a `MaskColor` or `ImageType 3` mask hides become a grayscale opacity mask; ruzstd 0.9.1 for compressed editing data (#1807, RUSTSEC-2026-0344) |
 | PostScript `.ps` | open, place | yes (the EPS reader reads its first page; `.epsf` files open and place as EPS) | via Print to PostScript | `tests_epsimport.rs` |
 | SVG / SVGZ | open, place, save | yes | yes (SVG Options, Preserve Editing, symbols, filters, rich text) | strongest format; tests in `crates/svg/tests`; text on a path follows basic shapes as their SVG 2 equivalent paths (#1527); CSS transforms and the `font` shorthand (#1565), percentage lengths in symbols (#1596), Inkscape flowed text as area type (#1568) and Inkscape pages as artboards (#1601) import; an unsupported filter is named in its warning (#1598); an artboard exported on its own (Export As with Use Artboards, Export for Screens, Asset Export) has the artboard's name as `<title>`, Save the document's (#3544); attributes in other applications' XML namespaces (`plotter:pen="2"`) kept on their objects from import to export, as `data-*` attributes are (`crates/svg/tests/it/foreign_attributes.rs`); simple shapes export as `<rect>`, `<circle>`, `<ellipse>`, `<line>`, `<polygon>` and `<polyline>` where they draw the same as the path (#4652, `crates/svg/tests/it/basic_shapes.rs`) |
 | DXF | open, export | yes | yes (R12–2018) | R13–2018 closed SPLINE flags and control-point closure on import verified (#1299); circular cubic paths export as native CIRCLE/ARC where stroke semantics permit; R12 weighted strokes remain POLYLINE while non-circular curves keep the existing fallback (`crates/cad/src/tests.rs`); [Autodesk group 70](https://help.autodesk.com/cloudhelp/2024/ENU/AutoCAD-DXF/files/GUID-E1F884F8-AA90-4864-A215-3182D47A9C74.htm). DXF 2000–2018 LAYOUT objects write the paper image origin as 148/149 (was a stray 158), the shade plot codes (2004+) and the model type flag, and the plot style placeholder carries no subclass marker (#3085; structure test `r2000_and_later_files_have_the_structure_cad_apps_require`, checked with ezdxf's audit; not yet confirmed in Autodesk Fusion). CNC preset and VCarve QA remain open |
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 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-06 | minor | EPS import: composite (Type 0) fonts with the 8/8 mapping (`FMapType` 2: PLRM 3rd ed., §5.10) draw a Type 42 descendant's glyphs from the TrueType outlines its `sfnts` carry (Adobe Technical Note #5012), spaced by their own widths or the show operator's numbers, and `charpath` and `stringwidth` read them; descendants found by name set their characters as type at the composite font's size instead of a thousand times it. EPS from `pdftops` of a PDF with embedded TrueType fonts showed nothing, or one black shape, where its type was. |
 | 2026-11-07 | minor | EPS and `.ai` editing data: opacity mask art that sets no paint of its own paints with the paint before the mask's dictionary, not the black a dictionary's state starts with. A logo of white letters masked by a rectangle with no colour no longer opens hidden: a user's `.ai` (used locally, not committed) shows its six logos. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | EPS and `.ai` editing data: an art style's stroke aligned inside or outside its path (Stroke panel › Align Stroke, written as its own `Adobe Stroke Offset` filter) comes in as a stroke with that alignment, so objects whose style has one keep the style live instead of coming in as their drawn look. Without its inside/outside switch the drawn look stays. |
 | 2026-11-06 | minor | EPS and `.ai` editing data: `Q` restores the painting state but not the transparency (`Xy`), which the writer only sets when the next object's differs from the last one written. A Screen glow followed by a clipping group set back to Normal no longer leaves the type after the group in Screen: two users' Illustrator 26.5 and 30 EPS posters (used locally, not committed) now show their gold heading and crescent, and both open from their layers (2.5% and 2.7% from the page before, under the limit after). Scores and estimates unchanged. |

docs/three-d.md

@@ -17,6 +17,14 @@ Preview changes are temporary until OK; Cancel restores the document; OK is one
 3D effect: edit its options in the Appearance panel or the 3D and Materials panel, or remove it before applying
 another.
 
+Each solid follows its shape as it is filled. Separate and nested contours are built as drawn. Contours that cross,
+touch or run along each other or themselves, as type often draws a glyph, are first merged into one outline by
+[`vectorcraft-pathops`](../crates/pathops/README.md), keeping every contour but the numerical debris a boolean leaves.
+Whether contours meet is judged on the outline as it is followed (see the curve tolerance below), so curves that
+overlap by less than that are built as drawn. All three effects share pathops'
+[limits](../crates/pathops/README.md#limits): a shape it refuses is built from its contours as drawn, where it can be.
+An open subpath is closed by a straight line either way.
+
 ## 3D and Materials panel
 
 **Window › 3D and Materials** opens a panel that edits the 3D effect of the selection without a dialog, as the
@@ -228,7 +236,9 @@ out, perspective). No Adobe software, assets, presets or bevel shapes were used.
   effect per object.
 - Curves are followed within 1/2000 of the shape's size (at least 0.05 pt), so a small curve takes a few points
   and a large one up to 32. Extrude & Bevel and Inflate take up to 2,048 outline points (a stroke's outline is
-  counted on its own), Rotate (which only turns the outline) 65,536.
+  counted on its own), Rotate (which only turns the outline) 65,536. The limit is counted on the shape as drawn and,
+  when its contours meet, again on the merged outline, which can have more points (bars crossing in a grid trace
+  every hole between them); past it, the shape is too complex for the effect.
 - **3D (Classic)** (the track cube, surface types, blend steps, map art), Turntable and 3D export are separate,
   unbuilt items.
 
@@ -238,6 +248,7 @@ Release measurements and a repeatable CLI scene are in [3D lighting performance]
 
 | Date | Change |
 |---|---|
+| 2026-11-08 | Contours that cross, touch or overlap are merged by vectorcraft-pathops before Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate build a solid, sharing its limits; others are built as drawn. |
 | 2026-11-06 | Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate apply to groups and layers: every path, compound path and type in them turns about one shared axis (#4506). |
 | 2026-10-21 | Four original lighting presets, shared by all four 3D effects and commands, with effective-setting recognition and existing preview/history behavior. |
 | 2026-10-17 | Smooth colored Inflate lighting and surface batching; legacy white-light appearance and the 0.05 seam minimum preserved; shared light Color and multiple lights remain vector output. |