Docs: ROADMAP progress log for 2026-10-31

ROADMAP.md

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 **Stage: alpha** · next: beta, ~13 points (ready for real work ~62% → ~75%, and reliable `.ai` exchange) and ~170–270 h away
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-31 · **Change:** minor (Arrange Tools add-on: Arrange in Grid, Swap Objects, Replace with Top Object, Set Size of Each and Zoom to Selection; headline numbers unchanged; previously: OpenType SVG colour fonts draw and export as vector art; previously: COLR colour fonts (v0 and v1) draw and export as vector art; previously: G2: the Effect Gallery shipped (#2883): Effect › Effect Gallery… browses the Artistic, Brush Strokes, Distort, Sketch, Stylize and Texture filters, edits each filter's settings, builds an ordered stack (add, reorder, hide, remove) with a live canvas preview, and OK applies it as separate appearance effects in one undo step; remaining: filter thumbnails and a preview area inside the dialog; G2 estimate 4–6 → 1–2 h; Raster effects 82% → 85% (power-user view 49% → 52%), estimated, a modest move because the named missing dialog landed without thumbnails or an in-dialog preview; previously: colour emoji fonts with bitmap glyphs (`sbix`, `CBDT`) draw and export; headline numbers unchanged; previously:; Affinity import AF.5: master pages, tables, paragraph formats, shadows, glows, outlines, overlays and embedded documents; ruby (ふりがな) for live text: `type.ruby` sets or removes a reading over a byte range, above or below (right of the column in vertical type), aligned, sized and overhanging or squeezed; saved natively, laid out with line growth, drawn on the canvas and in SVG/PDF (outlines where ruby is present); headline numbers unchanged; previously:; 3D: original Standard, Diffuse, Top Left and Right lighting presets; command access, effective-setting recognition and preview/history; scores and estimates unchanged; Print: Japanese paper sizes in the Print dialog's Media list — JIS B4 257 × 364 mm, JIS B5 182 × 257 mm and JIS B6 128 × 182 mm beside the ISO B4/B5 (which keep their ISO 216 sizes), はがき, 往復はがき, 封筒 長形3号/長形4号/角形2号/角形3号 and 四六判; about 90 community PRs of 2026-10-19: Objects on Path, the Simplify slider, Pencil Edit Selected Paths in the middle of a path, Georgian, and more; Background Export progress dialog with Cancel, #2564; about 85 community PRs of 2026-10-18: Justification…, Word .docx placed as area type, CCITT Group 3 TIFF, Roman Hanging Punctuation, blend spines edited with the Anchor Point tool, shadows and glows in stack order, coloured 3D lights, a Dutch catalog completed; 3D lighting: one to ten colored lights, smooth colored Inflate, legacy white-light appearance preserved; surface batching and restored seam minimum; scores and estimates unchanged; about 145 community PRs of 2026-10-17: image-decode overflow guards, opaque floating panels, MCP export cancel and progress, editable Illustrator EPS import, scoped `doc_inspect`, Dutch, Danish and Indonesian, Simplified Chinese messages, screen-reader names; headline numbers unchanged; about 160 community PRs of 2026-10-15/16: PDF import crash fixes, Dimension tool, legacy `.ai` save, Intertwine, web pen input, Image Trace fixes, `.ai`/EPS/PDF import fidelity, Bulgarian, Greek, Swedish and Finnish catalogs; headline numbers unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-31 · **Change:** minor (Progress log rows for the Arrange Tools add-on, Export for Screens as the reference app's dialog and the 2026-10-31 community landings; headline numbers unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
 
 VectorCraft is a clean-room, open-source, pure-Rust reimplementation of the Adobe Illustrator workflow. It runs
 on macOS, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and the web (WASM), and agents can drive all of it over MCP, the CLI and a JSON
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 ## Progress log
 
+- 2026-10-31: Export for Screens works as the reference app's dialog: Artboards and Assets tabs with a grid or list of thumbnails, Clear Selection and Prefix, Create Sub-folders by Scale or Format (on by default), Export PDFs As Single File (the chosen artboards as one PDF's pages, `pdfs: "single"`) or Multiple Files, iOS and Android rows, format presets in a ☰ menu, and a count of the files the export writes (#4895). About 55 community PRs and fixes landed the same day: Find Font, Replace Font, Outline Stroke and Expand leave hidden and locked art alone (with a warning); DXF export writes LINE and ELLIPSE entities and outlines only the strokes a CAD line can't draw; Blob Brush Angle and Roundness; Shift-constrained Perspective Selection; Grid Repeat Options Preview; a gradient mesh from a file budgeted at about a million quads; width-profile strokes keep their shape zoomed out; `.ai`/EPS import fidelity (area type, envelopes, transparency in dictionaries, character styles); PDF import finds hyphenated and CMap-suffixed font names; Windows renders follow the process's core affinity; Enter or Escape in a floating panel's field no longer reaches the canvas (#4803); Properties shows Blend Options for any selected blend (#4817); Artwork Cleanup finds doubled type (#4835) and joins stacked lines into one object (Join Point Text, #4826). Headline numbers unchanged.
 - 2026-10-31: Arrange Tools, a built-in add-on (Object › Plug-ins › Arrange Tools): Arrange in Grid lays the selected objects out in rows and columns, a row or a column with gaps, from the selection's top-left or centred on the artboard; Swap Objects swaps two objects' places (and, with Swap Objects and Sizes, their sizes); Replace with Top Object puts a copy of the topmost selected object in place of each of the others, kept, stretched or fitted in proportion; Set Size of Each gives every selected object an exact width and/or height about a reference point; Zoom to Selection fits the view to the selection. Each is one undo step with a previewed dialog where it has options. A VectorCraft addition: headline numbers unchanged.
 - 2026-10-30: Gradient panel presets: a Presets menu applies one of the built-in gradient libraries' presets (grouped by theme) or a saved one to the gradient behind the active proxy, keeping its placement, as one undo step; the panel menu saves the current gradient as a preset, kept with the preferences, and deletes saved ones (`gradient.presets.list/apply/save/delete`).
 - 2026-10-23: Pathfinder › Trap: the Pathfinder panel's Trap… and Effect › Pathfinder › Trap… add a thin overprinting strip of the lighter colour inside the darker one where two solid colours meet, so misregistered plates leave no gap ([trapping](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/trapping.html)), with Thickness, Height/Width, Tint Reduction, Traps with Process Color and Reverse Traps. Illustrator effects 49/50 (SVG Filters remains); Live vector effects hours 6–10 → 4–8; headline numbers unchanged.
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 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-31 | minor | Progress log row for Export for Screens laid out as the reference app's (#4895) and the 2026-10-31 community landings; headline numbers unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | Progress log row for the Arrange Tools add-on; headline numbers unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-29 | minor | Progress log row for the Linux Flatpak clipboard's core Wayland protocol text fallback; headline numbers unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-29 | minor | Progress log row for the Linux clipboard retry backoff; headline numbers unchanged. |

docs/target-app-parity.md

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 # Parity with Adobe Illustrator
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-31 · **Change:** minor (Direct Selection: Alt-marquee selects whole paths, #4890; the centre point selects and moves its object, #4891; scores unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; public release notes through 30.7, August 2026)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-31 · **Change:** minor (Export for Screens laid out as the reference app's, with Export PDFs As and sub-folders by scale or format) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; public release notes through 30.7, August 2026)
 
 ## Feature submission evidence
 
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 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
-| 2026-10-31 | minor | Export for Screens is laid out as Illustrator's: Artboards and Assets tabs with a grid or list of thumbnails, Clear Selection and Prefix under them, Create Sub-folders by Scale or Format (on by default), Export PDFs As Single File or Multiple Files (`pdfs`), iOS and Android rows, the format presets in a ☰ menu, and a Selected / files-to-export count; the naming pattern, Layers and Selection pages and folders list stay in `document.exportForScreens` for scripts and MCP; scores unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-31 | minor | Export for Screens is laid out as the reference app's: Artboards and Assets tabs with a grid or list of thumbnails, Clear Selection and Prefix under them, Create Sub-folders by Scale or Format (on by default), Export PDFs As Single File or Multiple Files (`pdfs`), iOS and Android rows, the format presets in a ☰ menu, and a Selected / files-to-export count; the naming pattern, Layers and Selection pages and folders list stay in `document.exportForScreens` for scripts and MCP; scores unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | Artwork Cleanup add-on: Join Point Text (`addon.cleanup.joinText`) joins stacked one-line point type into one object, a paragraph per line keeping its baseline (#4826); scores unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | Width tool: a stroke with a width profile keeps its shape while the view zooms out; the minimum visible width goes to its widest point instead of scaling the whole profile (#995); scores unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | Patterns: Grid Repeat Options has a Preview checkbox, as the public grid options page lists (#2651); scores unchanged. |
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   - Batch…: Override Save and Override Export name each file with the extension of the format the step writes, however the step spells the format (`.svg` and `SVG` give `.svg`, `png8` gives `.png`), in `action.batch`.
   - Actions panel (record/playback, persisted), generic parameter dialogs for every "…" command.
   - Batch… over data sets names each file after the document and the data set (`action.batch`). It writes `/`, `\`, `:`, `<`, `>`, `"`, `|`, `?`, `*` and control characters in the data set's name as `-`, and adds `-2`, `-3`… to a name an earlier data set used.
-  - Export for Screens is laid out as Illustrator's dialog: on the left the Artboards and Assets tabs (thumbnails with their checkboxes, number and name, in a grid or a list), Clear Selection and Prefix; on the right Select (All, Range, Include Bleed, Full Document), Export to, Open Location after Export, Create Sub-folders by Scale or by Format (on by default), Export PDFs As (Single File writes the chosen artboards as the pages of one PDF named after the document, `pdfs: "single"`), and the format rows with the iOS and Android buttons, the format presets (☰) and Format Settings; under them, how many items are selected and how many files the export writes. File name patterns, the Layers and Selection sources and per-item folders stay available through `document.exportForScreens` (scripts and MCP). Tests: `dialogs::tests_screens` (layout, iOS/Android, Clear Selection, sub-folders, Single File) and `fileio::tests_screens::single_file_pdfs_hold_every_chosen_artboard`.
+  - Export for Screens is laid out as the reference app's dialog: on the left the Artboards and Assets tabs (thumbnails with their checkboxes, number and name, in a grid or a list), Clear Selection and Prefix; on the right Select (All, Range, Include Bleed, Full Document), Export to, Open Location after Export, Create Sub-folders by Scale or by Format (on by default), Export PDFs As (Single File writes the chosen artboards as the pages of one PDF named after the document, `pdfs: "single"`), and the format rows with the iOS and Android buttons, the format presets (☰) and Format Settings; under them, how many items are selected and how many files the export writes. File name patterns, the Layers and Selection sources and per-item folders stay available through `document.exportForScreens` (scripts and MCP). Tests: `dialogs::tests_screens` (layout, iOS/Android, Clear Selection, sub-folders, Single File) and `fileio::tests_screens::single_file_pdfs_hold_every_chosen_artboard`.
   - Save for Web: Preview in Browser writes each preview's page and images to a folder of its own inside `VectorCraft Save for Web` in the system's temporary folder. A later preview, from the same app or another one running, does not overwrite an earlier one. Each preview first removes the preview folders there that are an hour old or older and, on Linux, macOS and FreeBSD, belong to the current user; it leaves other files and folders alone. The folders a preview makes there are open to their owner only on those systems. When `VectorCraft Save for Web` is a link or is not a folder, or on those systems belongs to another user or can be written by other users, the preview goes to a new folder of its own in the temporary folder, which a later preview removes once it is an hour old (`file.saveForWeb.browser`).
   - Export for Screens, Save for Web (slice images, and files named after the document's title) and the Libraries panel name files with the characters Windows does not allow written as `-` and with a `-` after a Windows device name such as `CON`, on every platform (`document.exportForScreens`, `document.exportForWeb`, `library.create`).
   - Variables (data merge): text, visibility and image variables bound to objects (an object may carry several), dataset rows applied in one undo step (`variable.*`, `dataset.*`) from a Variables panel and Window › Variables, with dialogs to define, bind and edit, Make Text/Visibility/Image Dynamic, Capture/Update Data Set, CSV import/export (`dataset.import` / `dataset.export`), and a row in italics when an edit leaves the art not matching it; an image dataset value is a file path and apply keeps the object's bounds; bindings let go of deleted art and locked art is left alone; every command, like the rest, is drivable over MCP and the CLI.

docs/ui-parity.md

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 # UI and interaction parity
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-31 · **Change:** minor (Direct Selection: an Alt-marquee selects the paths it touches whole, #4890; a click on a selected object's centre point selects it whole and a drag moves it, #4891; scores unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-31 · **Change:** minor (Export for Screens laid out as the reference app's) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
 
 ## Feature submission evidence
 
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 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-31 | minor | Export for Screens is laid out as the reference app's: Artboards and Assets tabs with a grid or list of thumbnails, Clear Selection and Prefix under them, Create Sub-folders by Scale or Format (on by default), Export PDFs As Single File or Multiple Files (`pdfs`), iOS and Android rows, the format presets in a ☰ menu, and a Selected / files-to-export count; the naming pattern, Layers and Selection pages and folders list stay in `document.exportForScreens` for scripts and MCP; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | Direct Selection: with Alt held at the press, a marquee selects every path it touches whole and keeps the Group Selection pointer while dragging (#4890); a click on a selected object's centre point (Show Center) selects the object whole, and a drag from it moves the object (#4891); scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | Arrange Tools add-on (a VectorCraft addition): Object › Plug-ins › Arrange Tools; scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | Export for Screens is laid out as Illustrator's: Artboards and Assets tabs with a grid or list of thumbnails, Clear Selection and Prefix under them, Create Sub-folders by Scale or Format (on by default), Export PDFs As Single File or Multiple Files (`pdfs`), iOS and Android rows, the format presets in a ☰ menu, and a Selected / files-to-export count; the naming pattern, Layers and Selection pages and folders list stay in `document.exportForScreens` for scripts and MCP; scores unchanged |