diff --git a/crates/engine/src/cmd/links.rs b/crates/engine/src/cmd/links.rs
index 89492ad01..28d8be2ee 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/cmd/links.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/cmd/links.rs
@@ -849,9 +849,10 @@ impl Resolved {
 
 /// The linked files of document `d`, just read from `doc_path`: those found unchanged are read
 /// again (their images had the preview), modified ones are read again when `update`, links found
-/// away from their path take the new path. A link nothing is known of whose image shows a preview
-/// (a file another app wrote kept only that) was never read: its file is read now, into the
-/// image's bounds, which isn't a change to report. Nothing here is an undo step.
+/// away from their path take the new path. A link nothing is known of whose image, or placed
+/// document, shows a preview (a file another app wrote kept only that) was never read: its file is
+/// read now, into the object's bounds, which isn't a change to report. A placed document whose
+/// file's bytes are gone isn't showing a preview. Nothing here is an undo step.
 pub fn resolve(d: &mut Document, doc_path: Option<&str>, update: bool, low_res_proxy_eps: bool) -> Resolved {
     let mut out = Resolved::default();
     // The image (with its preview) and hash of each file read for a preview here, by path: images
@@ -863,7 +864,11 @@ pub fn resolve(d: &mut Document, doc_path: Option<&str>, update: bool, low_res_p
     let mut moved: Vec<(String, String, bool, LinkInfo)> = vec![];
     for g in groups(d, None) {
         let row = rows(std::iter::once(&g), doc_path);
-        let unread = g.document.is_none() && g.link.hash.is_none() && g.link.size.is_none() && previewing(d, &g.key);
+        let shows_preview = match g.document {
+            None => previewing(d, &g.key),
+            Some(_) => d.images.get(&g.key).is_some_and(ImageBlob::is_proxy),
+        };
+        let unread = g.link.hash.is_none() && g.link.size.is_none() && shows_preview;
         let eps_preview = keep_eps_preview(low_res_proxy_eps, &g, d);
         match probe(&g, doc_path) {
             (Status::Missing, _) => out.missing.extend(row),
diff --git a/crates/engine/src/cmd/place.rs b/crates/engine/src/cmd/place.rs
index 930559db3..40d176ab8 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/cmd/place.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/cmd/place.rs
@@ -308,8 +308,10 @@ pub(crate) fn pdf_art(
         read = Err(e);
     }
     let (mut doc, warnings, alone) = fileio::page_or_editing_data(src, bytes, &o, index, read).map_err(|e| bad(cmd, format!("{name}: {e}")))?;
-    if alone {
-        // Linked images show their files, found from its folder.
+    // Linked images show their files, found from its folder. Its placed documents can place this
+    // file again: one already being read further up, or past the most nested reads, keeps its links
+    // as stored, as a VectorCraft document's do.
+    if alone && let Some(_reading) = document::Reading::enter(bytes) {
         super::links::resolve(&mut doc, path, false, false);
     }
     doc.drop_edit_modes();
diff --git a/crates/engine/src/cmd/place/document.rs b/crates/engine/src/cmd/place/document.rs
index 9bc52c89b..bea33fcf3 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/cmd/place/document.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/cmd/place/document.rs
@@ -157,11 +157,11 @@ std::thread_local! {
 }
 
 /// A document's links being resolved ([`READING`]): the entry goes when this does.
-struct Reading;
+pub(super) struct Reading;
 
 impl Reading {
     /// `None` when the document of `bytes` is already being read, or [`MAX_NESTED_READS`] are.
-    fn enter(bytes: &[u8]) -> Option<Self> {
+    pub(super) fn enter(bytes: &[u8]) -> Option<Self> {
         let hash = hash_bytes(bytes);
         READING.with_borrow_mut(|r| (r.len() < MAX_NESTED_READS && !r.contains(&hash)).then(|| r.push(hash))).map(|()| Reading)
     }
diff --git a/crates/engine/src/tests/placed_document.rs b/crates/engine/src/tests/placed_document.rs
index 7616a4529..5f989db78 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/tests/placed_document.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/tests/placed_document.rs
@@ -474,6 +474,26 @@ fn update_links_on_open_reads_a_modified_file_again() {
     assert!(near(centre_colour(&s.doc().unwrap().doc), BLUE));
 }
 
+/// A placed document whose link keeps no size or hash and whose file's bytes are gone shows no
+/// preview: resolving its links reports the file as modified and leaves the object as it is.
+#[test]
+fn a_placed_document_without_its_bytes_or_a_hash_is_reported_not_read() {
+    let dir = Folder::new("placed-no-hash");
+    let src = dir.file("logo.vectorcraft");
+    source(&src, 100.0, 50.0, RED, 0);
+    let mut s = session();
+    let id = place(&mut s, &src);
+    let key = placed(&s, id).key;
+    let mut d = (*s.doc().unwrap().doc).clone();
+    d.images.remove(&key);
+    let Some(NodeKind::PlacedDocument(p)) = d.node_mut(id).map(|n| &mut n.kind) else { panic!("a placed document") };
+    p.link.hash = None;
+    p.link.size = None;
+    let r = crate::cmd::links::resolve(&mut d, None, false, false).to_json();
+    assert_eq!(r["modifiedLinks"].as_array().map(Vec::len), Some(1), "{r}");
+    assert!(!d.images.contains_key(&key), "not read");
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn relink_points_a_placed_document_at_another_file() {
     let dir = Folder::new("placed-relink");
@@ -663,6 +683,78 @@ fn saving_and_reopening_keeps_a_linked_pdf_pages_number_and_box() {
     assert!(near(centre_colour(&s.doc().unwrap().doc), RED));
 }
 
+/// A placed PDF page in a `.ai` file's editing data is a placed document of the page and box the
+/// dictionary after it names. Its file missing, it shows the preview the file keeps, in the same
+/// place. Its file found in the folder kept relative to the document, it shows that page.
+#[test]
+fn a_pdf_page_placed_in_an_ai_files_editing_data_opens_as_a_placed_document() {
+    use vectorcraft_testkit::ai;
+    let dir = Folder::new("placed-pdf-in-ai");
+    let place = "%AI5_BeginPlace\n%%FileType: 1\n[0.1 0 0 -0.1 20 80] 0 0 600 600 4 4 0\n(/no/such/folder/src/flyer.pdf)`\n\
+         %%IncludeFile:/no/such/folder/src/flyer.pdf\n%AI17_Begin_Content_if_version_gt:24 12\n%AI28_BeginPlacedRelativePath\n(src/)\n\
+         %AI28_EndPlacedRelativePath\n%AI17_Alternate_Content\n%AI17_End_Versioned_Content\n%AI26_BeginPlacedObjectPreview\n\
+         2 1 8 32 17 \x7f\x0a\x0a\x73\x7f\x0a\x0a\x73\n%AI26_EndPlacedObjectPreview\n~\n%AI5_EndPlace\n\
+         %_/ArtDictionary :\n%_2 /Int (AI11 PlacedPDFPageIndex) ,\n%_4 /Int (AI11 PlacedPDFCropTo) ,\n%_;\n%_\n";
+    let doc_path = dir.file("poster.ai");
+    let data = ai::editing_data(200.0, 100.0, &ai::layer("Art", place));
+    // The page draws what the half-covering preview draws over white.
+    write(&doc_path, &ai::ai(data.as_bytes(), "0.54 0.54 0.95 rg 20 20 60 60 re f"));
+    let shown = |s: &Session| {
+        let img = vectorcraft_render::Renderer::new().render_region(&s.doc().unwrap().doc, Rect::new(0.0, 0.0, 100.0, 100.0), 1.0, true);
+        let [r, g, b, _] = img.pixel(50, 50);
+        [r, g, b]
+    };
+    let one = |s: &Session| {
+        let mut found = vec![];
+        s.doc().unwrap().doc.visit_placed(|n, p| found.push((n.id, p.clone())));
+        let [(id, p)] = &found[..] else { panic!("one placed document: {found:?}") };
+        (*id, p.clone(), s.doc().unwrap().doc.images[&p.key].is_proxy())
+    };
+    let mut s = session();
+
+    let r = open(&mut s, &doc_path);
+    assert_eq!(r["missingLinks"][0]["name"].as_str(), Some("flyer.pdf"), "{r}");
+    let (id, p, proxy) = one(&s);
+    assert!(proxy, "the preview");
+    assert_eq!((p.link.page, p.page_box, p.bounding), (Some(2), vectorcraft_doc::PageBox::Media, false));
+    assert_eq!(p.link.relative.as_deref(), Some("src/flyer.pdf"));
+    let place = bounds(&s, id);
+    assert!((place.x0 - 20.0).abs() < 0.01 && (place.width() - 60.0).abs() < 0.01 && (place.height() - 60.0).abs() < 0.01, "{place:?}");
+    assert!(near(shown(&s), [138, 138, 243]), "the preview shows: {:?}", shown(&s));
+
+    pdf_source(&dir.file("src/flyer.pdf"), "pdf", &[BLUE, RED], 0);
+    let r = open(&mut s, &doc_path);
+    assert_eq!((r["missingLinks"].clone(), r["modifiedLinks"].clone()), (json!([]), json!([])), "{r}");
+    let (id, p, proxy) = one(&s);
+    assert!(!proxy, "the file's bytes, not the preview");
+    assert_eq!((p.link.page, p.page_box, p.bounding), (Some(2), vectorcraft_doc::PageBox::Media, false));
+    assert!(p.link.hash.is_some() && p.link.size.is_some(), "{:?}", p.link);
+    assert_eq!(bounds(&s, id), place, "the same place");
+    assert!(near(shown(&s), RED), "page 2 of the file shows: {:?}", shown(&s));
+}
+
+/// A `.ai` saved without PDF compatibility (its page only text) that places itself as a page is
+/// read once inside itself: the copy inside keeps its link as stored, and the file opens.
+#[test]
+fn an_ai_file_that_places_itself_opens() {
+    use vectorcraft_testkit::ai;
+    let dir = Folder::new("ai-places-itself");
+    let doc_path = dir.file("poster.ai");
+    let at = doc_path.replace('\\', "/");
+    let place = format!(
+        "%AI5_BeginPlace\n%%FileType: 1\n[0.1 0 0 -0.1 20 80] 0 0 600 600 4 4 0\n({at})`\n%%IncludeFile:{at}\n%AI26_BeginPlacedObjectPreview\n\
+         2 1 8 32 17 \x7f\x0a\x0a\x73\x7f\x0a\x0a\x73\n%AI26_EndPlacedObjectPreview\n~\n%AI5_EndPlace\n\
+         %_/ArtDictionary :\n%_1 /Int (AI11 PlacedPDFPageIndex) ,\n%_4 /Int (AI11 PlacedPDFCropTo) ,\n%_;\n%_\n"
+    );
+    let data = ai::editing_data(200.0, 100.0, &ai::layer("Art", &format!("0 g\n{}f\n{place}", ai::rect(120.0, 20.0, 180.0, 80.0))));
+    write(&doc_path, &ai::ai(data.as_bytes(), "BT /F1 12 Tf 10 50 Td (Saved without its PDF part) Tj ET"));
+    let mut s = session();
+    let r = open(&mut s, &doc_path);
+    let mut found = vec![];
+    s.doc().unwrap().doc.visit_placed(|_, p| found.push(p.link.path.replace('\\', "/")));
+    assert_eq!(found, [at], "{r}");
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn a_pdf_compatible_ai_file_places_linked_like_a_pdf() {
     let dir = Folder::new("placed-ai-linked");
diff --git a/crates/engine/tests/import_fuzz.rs b/crates/engine/tests/import_fuzz.rs
index 81d75ca70..d0bcedb73 100644
--- a/crates/engine/tests/import_fuzz.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/tests/import_fuzz.rs
@@ -3572,7 +3572,8 @@ proptest! {
                       %_/ArtDictionary :\n%_/Mask :\n%_X=\n%_0 g\n%_0 0 m\n%_5 0 l\n%_5 -5 l\n%_f\n%_X+\n%_ (Art) ,\n%_; (AI9_Mask) ,\n%_/XMLUID : (Photo) ; (AI10_ArtUID) ,\n%_;\n%_\n";
         let place = "%AI5_BeginPlace\n%%FileType: 1\n[1 0 0 -1 -8000 8000] 8000 8000 8002 8001 4 4 0\n(/tmp/p.png)`\n%%IncludeFile:/tmp/p.png\n\
                      %AI17_Begin_Content_if_version_gt:24 12\n%AI28_BeginPlacedRelativePath\n()\n%AI28_EndPlacedRelativePath\n%AI17_Alternate_Content\n%AI17_End_Versioned_Content\n\
-                     %AI17_Begin_Content_if_version_gt:24 5\n%AI26_BeginPlacedObjectPreview\n2 1 8 32 17 @@\n%AI26_EndPlacedObjectPreview\n%AI17_End_Versioned_Content\n~\n%AI5_EndPlace\n";
+                     %AI17_Begin_Content_if_version_gt:24 5\n%AI26_BeginPlacedObjectPreview\n2 1 8 32 17 @@\n%AI26_EndPlacedObjectPreview\n%AI17_End_Versioned_Content\n~\n%AI5_EndPlace\n\
+                     %_/ArtDictionary :\n%_2 /Int (AI11 PlacedPDFPageIndex) ,\n%_4 /Int (AI11 PlacedPDFCropTo) ,\n%_;\n%_\n";
         let text = ai::editing_data(100.0, 100.0, &ai::layer("L", &format!("{raster}{place}")));
         let samples: &[u8] = &[255, 0, 0, 0, 0, 255, 128, 0];
         let preview: &[u8] = &[255, 255, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0];
@@ -4644,6 +4645,9 @@ fn arb_ai_token() -> impl Strategy<Value = String> {
             "\n%AI26_EndPlacedObjectPreview\n",
             "[1 0 0 -1 0 0] 0 0 2 1 4 4 0 (a.png) `",
             "[1e308 0 0 1e308 0 0] 0 0 -1e308 1e308 4 4 0 (a.png) `",
+            "\n%_/ArtDictionary :\n%_2 /Int (AI11 PlacedPDFPageIndex) ,\n%_4 /Int (AI11 PlacedPDFCropTo) ,\n%_;\n%_\n",
+            "\n%_/ArtDictionary :\n%_-1e308 /Real (AI11 PlacedPDFPageIndex) ,\n%_99 /Int (AI11 PlacedPDFCropTo) ,\n%_;\n%_\n",
+            "\n%_/ArtDictionary :\n%_(2) /String (AI11 PlacedPDFPageIndex) ,\n%_5 /Int (AI11 PlacedPDFCropTo) ,\n%_;\n%_\n",
             "\n%AI28_BeginPlacedRelativePath\n",
             "\n%AI28_BeginPlacedRelativePath\n(src/)\n%AI28_EndPlacedRelativePath\n",
             "\n%AI28_BeginPlacedRelativePath\n(..\\\\..\\\\art\\\\)\n%AI28_EndPlacedRelativePath\n",
diff --git a/crates/eps/src/import/ai.rs b/crates/eps/src/import/ai.rs
index 5537b5d06..b0359e172 100644
--- a/crates/eps/src/import/ai.rs
+++ b/crates/eps/src/import/ai.rs
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ pub(crate) use envelope::{WARPED_TYPE_DRAWN, WarpedType};
 pub(crate) use frames::text_frames;
 pub(crate) use paint::MAX_STOPS as MAX_GRADIENT_STOPS;
 pub use read::{
-    BindingRef, Brushes, IMAGE_TOO_LARGE, PaletteSwatches, Structure, active_artboard, artboards, bindings_note, brushes, graphic_styles, palette,
-    read, read_beside, variables,
+    BindingRef, Brushes, IMAGE_TOO_LARGE, PaletteSwatches, PlacedPage, Structure, active_artboard, artboards, bindings_note, brushes, graphic_styles,
+    palette, read, read_beside, variables,
 };
 pub(crate) use read::{MAX_SYMBOLS, join_and, read_art_style, slot_frame, slot_of, symbol_art_member};
 
diff --git a/crates/eps/src/import/ai/read.rs b/crates/eps/src/import/ai/read.rs
index 60ccd43ca..f49c598dc 100644
--- a/crates/eps/src/import/ai/read.rs
+++ b/crates/eps/src/import/ai/read.rs
@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@
 //!   box is as large as the file has pixels; the matrix takes them into art space from the canvas
 //!   (y down, its centre the template box's), where they start at the point of art space's origin,
 //!   the first row the top one. Each is a linked image showing the preview until its file is found.
+//!   The dictionary after a placed PDF or `.ai` file has the page shown, from 1, in
+//!   `AI11 PlacedPDFPageIndex` and its box in `AI11 PlacedPDFCropTo` (0 Art, 1 Crop, 2 Trim, 3 Bleed,
+//!   4 Media, 5 Bounding Box): each is a placed document of that page and box, showing the preview
+//!   until its file is found. A value outside those leaves it a linked image.
 //!   The version 7 form (§16) has no `%AI5_BeginPlace`: `[matrix] llx lly urx ury (path)` and
 //!   `` ` ``, then `%%IncludeFile:` or the file between `%%BeginDocument:` and `%%EndDocument`,
 //!   then `~`; its box is the file's `%%BoundingBox`. Newer files have three more numbers before
@@ -112,7 +116,7 @@ use vectorcraft_color::{BlendMode, Paint};
 use vectorcraft_doc::cmyk::Inks;
 use vectorcraft_doc::{
     Appearance, AppearanceItem, Artboard, ColorMode, Dash, Document, FillLayer, ImageBlob, ImageObject, Knockout, LayerColor, LineCap, LineJoin,
-    LinkInfo, Node, NodeId, NodeKind, OpacityMask, PatternDef, StrokeLayer, Unit,
+    LinkInfo, Node, NodeId, NodeKind, OpacityMask, PageBox, PatternDef, StrokeLayer, Unit,
 };
 use vectorcraft_geom::{AnchorKind, FillRule, PathData};
 
@@ -139,10 +143,10 @@ pub use document::{
 };
 pub(crate) use document::{slot_frame, slot_of};
 pub(crate) use ops::read_art_style;
-pub use types::IMAGE_TOO_LARGE;
-use types::{BLEND_BUDGET, BrushArtColors, FLIP, Frame, GState, Graph, Kind, PatternHead, PendingEnvelope, Place, Raster, SymbolHead};
+use types::{BLEND_BUDGET, BrushArtColors, FLIP, Frame, GState, Graph, Kind, PatternHead, PendingEnvelope, Place, PlacedTail, Raster, SymbolHead};
 #[cfg(test)]
 pub use types::{GRAPH_PLAIN, GRAPH_UNENDED, LINKED_PLACEHOLDERS, NON_NATIVE_ART, NON_NATIVE_ART_UNREAD, VERSIONED_UNENDED};
+pub use types::{IMAGE_TOO_LARGE, PlacedPage};
 pub(super) use types::{blend_mode, blend_name};
 
 #[path = "legacy_text.rs"]
@@ -185,6 +189,8 @@ pub struct Structure {
     /// move, in its pixels, that places them there (the corner of the box they are written with,
     /// in place of the canvas point of art space's origin).
     pub placed_elsewhere: Vec<(NodeId, Affine)>,
+    /// The placed files that are pages of PDF or `.ai` files.
+    pub placed_pages: Vec<PlacedPage>,
     /// The live envelopes read from the editing data, by id, with the drawn art each took the place
     /// of: the importer puts that art back when the layers with the envelopes don't draw as the page.
     pub envelopes_drawn: Vec<(NodeId, Node)>,
@@ -438,6 +444,9 @@ struct Reader<'a> {
     image_link: Option<String>,
     /// The placed file being read (`%AI5_BeginPlace` … `~`).
     place: Option<Place>,
+    /// The placed files just read, until the dictionary after each: at most one for each depth of
+    /// frames, the innermost last.
+    placed_tails: Vec<PlacedTail>,
     /// The last object read is the last child of the innermost frame, and nothing started since.
     after_object: bool,
     /// The last object read is an image, and only the operators that end its raster (`XH`, `Xr`,
@@ -554,6 +563,8 @@ struct Reader<'a> {
     placeholders: Vec<Rect>,
     /// See [`Structure::placed_elsewhere`].
     placed_elsewhere: Vec<(NodeId, Affine)>,
+    /// See [`Structure::placed_pages`].
+    placed_pages: Vec<PlacedPage>,
     unread_elsewhere: Vec<(NodeId, Rect)>,
     /// CMYK samples converted, by value.
     cmyk_cache: HashMap<[u8; 4], [u8; 3]>,
@@ -732,6 +743,8 @@ impl<'a> Reader<'a> {
             restyled: vec![],
             placeholders: vec![],
             placed_elsewhere: vec![],
+            placed_pages: vec![],
+            placed_tails: vec![],
             unread_elsewhere: vec![],
             mesh: None,
             cmyk_cache: HashMap::new(),
diff --git a/crates/eps/src/import/ai/read/art.rs b/crates/eps/src/import/ai/read/art.rs
index bc7b88155..7f0b75823 100644
--- a/crates/eps/src/import/ai/read/art.rs
+++ b/crates/eps/src/import/ai/read/art.rs
@@ -2,13 +2,14 @@ use super::containers::close;
 use super::document::TEXT_SLOT;
 use super::types::{
     FLIP, Frame, IMAGE_TOO_LARGE, Kind, LINKED_PLACEHOLDERS, LINKED_PREVIEWS, MAX_PIXELS, MAX_PLACED_ELSEWHERE, MAX_POINTS, MAX_SIDE, NON_NATIVE_ART,
-    NON_NATIVE_ART_UNREAD, Place,
+    NON_NATIVE_ART_UNREAD, PLACED_CROP, PLACED_PAGE, Place, PlacedPage, PlacedTail,
 };
 use super::{
     Affine, AnchorKind, Appearance, AppearanceItem, Arc, BezPath, CANVAS_CENTRE, FillLayer, ImageBlob, ImageObject, Inks, Instance, LinkInfo, Node,
-    NodeId, NodeKind, Obj, OpacityMask, Paint, PathData, PathEl, Point, Reader, Rect, StrokeLayer, V, ps,
+    NodeId, NodeKind, Obj, OpacityMask, PageBox, Paint, PathData, PathEl, Point, Reader, Rect, StrokeLayer, V, ps,
 };
 use vectorcraft_doc::links::missing_placeholder;
+use vectorcraft_doc::placed_document::key_for;
 
 impl<'a> Reader<'a> {
     /// A text object (`/AI11Text`): an empty group standing for it, named after its story.
@@ -754,18 +755,59 @@ impl<'a> Reader<'a> {
         let bytes = Arc::new(png);
         let blob = ImageBlob { mime: "image/png".into(), bytes: bytes.clone(), proxy: Some(bytes) };
         let key = linked_key(&blob, &path);
+        let fresh = !self.doc.images.contains_key(&key);
         self.doc.images.entry(key.clone()).or_insert(blob);
         self.warn(LINKED_PREVIEWS);
+        let id = NodeId(self.doc.peek_next_id());
         if let Some(shift) = elsewhere
             && self.placed_elsewhere.len() < MAX_PLACED_ELSEWHERE
         {
-            self.placed_elsewhere.push((NodeId(self.doc.peek_next_id()), shift));
+            self.placed_elsewhere.push((id, shift));
         }
+        // One waits at each depth: a placed file in another's opacity mask doesn't take the place of the outer one.
+        // An outer one waiting shares its blob with this one now: it no longer has it alone.
+        let depth = self.frames.len();
+        self.placed_tails.retain(|t| t.depth < depth);
+        for t in self.placed_tails.iter_mut().filter(|t| t.key == key) {
+            t.fresh = false;
+        }
+        self.placed_tails.push(PlacedTail { id, key: key.clone(), size: (b.width(), b.height()), fresh, depth });
         let mut link = LinkInfo::new(path);
         link.relative = folder.and_then(|f| relative_path(&f, link.name()));
         self.add_image(ImageObject { key, width: w, height: h, xf, link: Some(link), placement: Default::default(), pixels: None }, hidden)
     }
 
+    /// The dictionary `o` after the placed file just read: with a page or a box in it, that file is
+    /// a page of a PDF or `.ai` file. Its image keeps the preview under a key of its own for that
+    /// page and box, so that it doesn't share one with an image of another page of the file.
+    pub(super) fn placed_page(&mut self, o: &Obj) {
+        // The dictionaries of art read inside the placed file's own (its opacity mask's) are not its.
+        let depth = self.frames.len();
+        self.placed_tails.retain(|t| t.depth <= depth);
+        if self.placed_tails.last().is_none_or(|t| t.depth != depth) {
+            return;
+        }
+        let Some(tail) = self.placed_tails.pop() else { return };
+        let (page, crop) = (o.get(PLACED_PAGE).map(|_| o.nums(PLACED_PAGE)), o.get(PLACED_CROP).map(|_| o.nums(PLACED_CROP)));
+        // A placed document's box runs from (0, 0) to a positive size: a box written backward stays a linked image.
+        if (page.is_none() && crop.is_none()) || !(tail.size.0 > 0.0 && tail.size.1 > 0.0) {
+            return;
+        }
+        // An entry that is there but not a number leaves a linked image, as an unknown number does.
+        let page = page.map_or(Some(1), |v| v.first().copied().and_then(placed_page_number));
+        let crop = crop.map_or(Some((false, PageBox::Crop)), |v| v.first().copied().and_then(placed_crop));
+        let (Some(page), Some((bounding, page_box))) = (page, crop) else { return };
+        let Some(NodeKind::Image(im)) = self.last_object().filter(|n| n.id == tail.id).map(|n| &mut n.kind) else { return };
+        let old = im.key.clone();
+        let key = key_for(&old, page, bounding, page_box);
+        im.key.clone_from(&key);
+        let blob = if tail.fresh { self.doc.images.remove(&old) } else { self.doc.images.get(&old).cloned() };
+        if let Some(blob) = blob {
+            self.doc.images.entry(key).or_insert(blob);
+        }
+        self.placed_pages.push(PlacedPage { id: tail.id, page, bounding, page_box, size: tail.size });
+    }
+
     pub(super) fn warn(&mut self, w: &str) {
         if !self.warnings.iter().any(|x| x == w) && self.warnings.len() < 64 {
             self.warnings.push(w.to_string());
@@ -867,6 +909,25 @@ pub(super) fn preview_png(data: &[u8]) -> Option<(Vec<u8>, u32, u32)> {
     Some((png, width, height))
 }
 
+/// The page a placed file's dictionary names: a whole number from 1.
+fn placed_page_number(v: f64) -> Option<u32> {
+    (v.fract() == 0.0 && v >= 1.0 && v <= f64::from(u32::MAX)).then_some(v as u32)
+}
+
+/// The box a placed file's dictionary names: whether the art's bounds are shown, and the box of
+/// the page otherwise.
+fn placed_crop(v: f64) -> Option<(bool, PageBox)> {
+    match v {
+        0.0 => Some((false, PageBox::Art)),
+        1.0 => Some((false, PageBox::Crop)),
+        2.0 => Some((false, PageBox::Trim)),
+        3.0 => Some((false, PageBox::Bleed)),
+        4.0 => Some((false, PageBox::Media)),
+        5.0 => Some((true, PageBox::Crop)),
+        _ => None,
+    }
+}
+
 /// A placed file's path relative to the document's folder (`/` separators): its relative `folder`
 /// (`src/`, `..\art`) followed by its file `name`; the name alone when the folder is empty (the
 /// document's own folder). `None` when the folder is absolute or holds control characters, or
diff --git a/crates/eps/src/import/ai/read/document.rs b/crates/eps/src/import/ai/read/document.rs
index 1cbadc044..8a79f53b1 100644
--- a/crates/eps/src/import/ai/read/document.rs
+++ b/crates/eps/src/import/ai/read/document.rs
@@ -612,6 +612,7 @@ impl<'a> Reader<'a> {
             head.registration = Some(*r);
         }
         self.constraint_art(o);
+        self.placed_page(o);
         // A blend's key object or spine.
         if let Some(kind) = o.text("ShapeBlendPathType")
             && let Some(id) = self.last_object().map(|n| n.id)
@@ -1183,6 +1184,7 @@ impl<'a> Reader<'a> {
             restyled: self.restyled,
             placeholders: self.placeholders,
             placed_elsewhere: self.placed_elsewhere,
+            placed_pages: self.placed_pages,
             envelopes_drawn: self.envelopes_drawn,
             warped_type: super::super::envelope::WarpedType {
                 looks: self.warped_type,
diff --git a/crates/eps/src/import/ai/read/types.rs b/crates/eps/src/import/ai/read/types.rs
index 8b9607d18..5fe93923a 100644
--- a/crates/eps/src/import/ai/read/types.rs
+++ b/crates/eps/src/import/ai/read/types.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-use super::{Affine, BlendMode, Dash, FillRule, HAIRLINE, Knockout, LayerColor, LineCap, LineJoin, Named, Node, Obj, Paint, Rect, V};
+use super::{
+    Affine, BlendMode, Dash, FillRule, HAIRLINE, Knockout, LayerColor, LineCap, LineJoin, Named, Node, NodeId, Obj, PageBox, Paint, Rect, V,
+};
 
 /// Deepest nesting of layers, groups and dictionaries.
 pub(super) const MAX_DEPTH: usize = 256;
@@ -310,6 +312,43 @@ pub(super) struct Place {
 /// The longest relative folder of a placed file read (bytes).
 pub(super) const MAX_PLACED_FOLDER: usize = 4096;
 
+/// The dictionary entry after a placed PDF or `.ai` file that holds the page shown (1-based).
+pub(super) const PLACED_PAGE: &str = "AI11 PlacedPDFPageIndex";
+/// The dictionary entry after a placed PDF or `.ai` file that holds the box it is cropped to.
+pub(super) const PLACED_CROP: &str = "AI11 PlacedPDFCropTo";
+
+/// The placed file just read, until the dictionary after it: it may say the file is a page of a
+/// PDF or `.ai` file.
+#[derive(Debug)]
+pub(super) struct PlacedTail {
+    /// Its linked image.
+    pub(super) id: NodeId,
+    /// Its image's key in the document's images.
+    pub(super) key: String,
+    /// The size of its box.
+    pub(super) size: (f64, f64),
+    /// Its image's blob was stored for it, not shared with an earlier image.
+    pub(super) fresh: bool,
+    /// The frames open when it was read: its dictionary closes at the same depth.
+    pub(super) depth: usize,
+}
+
+/// A placed file the dictionary after it says is a page of a PDF or `.ai` file. Its linked image
+/// becomes a placed document once the layers have been compared with the page.
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq)]
+pub struct PlacedPage {
+    /// The linked image.
+    pub id: NodeId,
+    /// The page shown (1-based).
+    pub page: u32,
+    /// The art's bounds are shown, not `page_box`.
+    pub bounding: bool,
+    /// The box of the page shown.
+    pub page_box: PageBox,
+    /// The size of the placed file's box.
+    pub size: (f64, f64),
+}
+
 /// What the open result says of placed files: they show the preview the file keeps of them.
 pub(super) const LINKED_PREVIEWS: &str =
     "linked pictures show the low-resolution preview saved in the file until their files are found: relink them in the Links panel";
diff --git a/crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs b/crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs
index 831be2edd..59f9ecd9b 100644
--- a/crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs
+++ b/crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs
@@ -3288,6 +3288,211 @@ fn placed_files_of_other_paths_keep_images_of_their_own() {
     assert_eq!(r.doc.images.len(), 2);
 }
 
+/// A placed file followed by the dictionary `numbers` (`value /Int (key)` lines, on `%_` lines).
+fn placed_with(numbers: &[(&str, &str)]) -> Structure {
+    let preview = [&b"2 1 12 32 17 "[..], &[255, 255, 0, 0, 128, 0, 64, 0, 9, 9, 9, 9]].concat();
+    let entries: String = numbers.iter().map(|(key, v)| format!("%_{v} /Int ({key}) ,\r")).collect();
+    let dictionary = format!("%_/ArtDictionary :\r{entries}%_;\r%_\r");
+    read(&placed(true, "[5 0 0 -5 0 200]", "/art/flyer.pdf", Some(&preview), &dictionary)).unwrap()
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn a_placed_files_dictionary_names_the_page_and_box_it_shows() {
+    use vectorcraft_doc::PageBox;
+    const PAGE: &str = "AI11 PlacedPDFPageIndex";
+    const CROP: &str = "AI11 PlacedPDFCropTo";
+    for (crop, bounding, page_box) in [
+        ("0", false, PageBox::Art),
+        ("1", false, PageBox::Crop),
+        ("2", false, PageBox::Trim),
+        ("3", false, PageBox::Bleed),
+        ("4", false, PageBox::Media),
+        ("5", true, PageBox::Crop),
+    ] {
+        let r = placed_with(&[(PAGE, "3"), (CROP, crop)]);
+        let a = art(&r.doc);
+        let NodeKind::Image(im) = &a[0].kind else { panic!("{:?}", a[0].kind) };
+        assert_eq!(r.placed_pages.len(), 1, "{crop}");
+        let p = r.placed_pages[0];
+        assert_eq!((p.id, p.page, p.bounding, p.page_box, p.size), (a[0].id, 3, bounding, page_box, (4.0, 2.0)), "{crop}");
+        assert_eq!(r.doc.images.keys().collect::<Vec<_>>(), [&im.key], "{crop}: the preview is stored once, under the image's key");
+        assert!(r.doc.images[&im.key].is_proxy(), "{crop}");
+    }
+    // One entry alone: the first page, or the page's crop box.
+    let r = placed_with(&[(CROP, "4")]);
+    assert_eq!((r.placed_pages[0].page, r.placed_pages[0].page_box), (1, PageBox::Media));
+    let r = placed_with(&[(PAGE, "2")]);
+    assert_eq!((r.placed_pages[0].bounding, r.placed_pages[0].page_box), (false, PageBox::Crop));
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn a_placed_files_dictionary_it_cant_read_leaves_a_linked_image() {
+    const PAGE: &str = "AI11 PlacedPDFPageIndex";
+    const CROP: &str = "AI11 PlacedPDFCropTo";
+    let plain = placed_with(&[]);
+    let plain_key = {
+        let a = art(&plain.doc);
+        let NodeKind::Image(im) = &a[0].kind else { panic!("{:?}", a[0].kind) };
+        im.key.clone()
+    };
+    assert!(plain.placed_pages.is_empty());
+    for entries in [
+        vec![(PAGE, "0"), (CROP, "4")],
+        vec![(PAGE, "-1"), (CROP, "4")],
+        vec![(PAGE, "1.5"), (CROP, "4")],
+        vec![(PAGE, "1e30"), (CROP, "4")],
+        vec![(PAGE, "2"), (CROP, "6")],
+        vec![(PAGE, "2"), (CROP, "-1")],
+        vec![(PAGE, "2"), (CROP, "0.5")],
+        vec![(PAGE, "(2)"), (CROP, "4")],
+        vec![(PAGE, "2"), (CROP, "(4)")],
+        vec![(PAGE, "(2)")],
+    ] {
+        let r = placed_with(&entries);
+        assert!(r.placed_pages.is_empty(), "{entries:?}");
+        let a = art(&r.doc);
+        let NodeKind::Image(im) = &a[0].kind else { panic!("{entries:?}: {:?}", a[0].kind) };
+        assert_eq!((im.key.as_str(), im.link.as_ref().and_then(|l| l.page)), (plain_key.as_str(), None), "{entries:?}");
+    }
+}
+
+/// The dictionaries of the art in a placed file's opacity mask, read inside its own dictionary,
+/// don't speak for the placed file.
+#[test]
+fn a_placed_files_mask_art_leaves_its_page_to_the_placed_files_dictionary() {
+    let preview = [&b"2 1 12 32 17 "[..], &[255, 255, 0, 0, 128, 0, 64, 0, 9, 9, 9, 9]].concat();
+    let dictionary = "%_/ArtDictionary :\r%_/Mask :\r%_X=\r%_0 g\r%_0 0 m\r%_5 0 l\r%_5 -5 l\r%_f\r\
+                      %_/ArtDictionary :\r%_/XMLUID : (Inner) ; (AI10_ArtUID) ,\r%_;\r%_\r%_X+\r%_ (Art) ,\r%_; (AI9_Mask) ,\r\
+                      %_2 /Int (AI11 PlacedPDFPageIndex) ,\r%_4 /Int (AI11 PlacedPDFCropTo) ,\r%_;\r%_\r";
+    let r = read(&placed(true, "[5 0 0 -5 0 200]", "/art/flyer.pdf", Some(&preview), dictionary)).unwrap();
+    let a = art(&r.doc);
+    assert_eq!(a.len(), 1, "{a:?}");
+    assert!(a[0].extras().mask.is_some(), "the mask is read");
+    assert_eq!(r.placed_pages.len(), 1);
+    assert_eq!((r.placed_pages[0].id, r.placed_pages[0].page_box), (a[0].id, vectorcraft_doc::PageBox::Media));
+}
+
+/// A placed file in a placed file's opacity mask, read before the outer file's dictionary closes,
+/// leaves the outer file's page to that dictionary.
+#[test]
+fn a_placed_file_in_a_placed_files_mask_leaves_the_outer_files_page() {
+    let preview = [&b"2 1 12 32 17 "[..], &[255, 255, 0, 0, 128, 0, 64, 0, 9, 9, 9, 9]].concat();
+    let mut inner =
+        b"%_%AI5_BeginPlace\r%_%%FileType: 1\r%_[5 0 0 -5 0 200] 10 20 14 22 4 4 0\r%_(/art/mask.pdf)`\r%_%AI26_BeginPlacedObjectPreview\r%_"
+            .to_vec();
+    inner.extend_from_slice(&preview);
+    inner.extend_from_slice(
+        b"\r%_%AI26_EndPlacedObjectPreview\r%_~\r%_%AI5_EndPlace\r%_/ArtDictionary :\r%_5 /Int (AI11 PlacedPDFPageIndex) ,\r%_;\r%_\r",
+    );
+    let mut dictionary = b"%_/ArtDictionary :\r%_/Mask :\r%_X=\r".to_vec();
+    dictionary.extend_from_slice(&inner);
+    dictionary
+        .extend_from_slice(b"%_X+\r%_ (Art) ,\r%_; (AI9_Mask) ,\r%_2 /Int (AI11 PlacedPDFPageIndex) ,\r%_4 /Int (AI11 PlacedPDFCropTo) ,\r%_;\r%_\r");
+    let data = placed(true, "[5 0 0 -5 0 200]", "/art/flyer.pdf", Some(&preview), "@@DICT@@");
+    let at = data.windows(8).position(|x| x == b"@@DICT@@").unwrap();
+    let data = [&data[..at], &dictionary[..], &data[at + 8..]].concat();
+    let r = read(&data).unwrap();
+    let a = art(&r.doc);
+    assert_eq!(a.len(), 1, "{a:?}");
+    assert!(a[0].extras().mask.is_some(), "the mask is read");
+    let outer: Vec<_> = r.placed_pages.iter().filter(|p| p.id == a[0].id).collect();
+    assert_eq!(outer.len(), 1, "{:?}", r.placed_pages);
+    assert_eq!((outer[0].page, outer[0].page_box), (2, vectorcraft_doc::PageBox::Media));
+    assert!(r.placed_pages.iter().any(|p| p.id != a[0].id && p.page == 5), "the inner one names its own page: {:?}", r.placed_pages);
+}
+
+/// A placed file in a placed file's opacity mask that shows the same file with no page of its own
+/// keeps the preview they share when the outer one's dictionary names a page.
+#[test]
+fn a_placed_file_in_a_placed_files_mask_keeps_the_preview_they_share() {
+    let preview = [&b"2 1 12 32 17 "[..], &[255, 255, 0, 0, 128, 0, 64, 0, 9, 9, 9, 9]].concat();
+    let mut dictionary =
+        b"%_/ArtDictionary :\r%_/Mask :\r%_X=\r%_%AI5_BeginPlace\r%_%%FileType: 1\r%_[5 0 0 -5 0 200] 10 20 14 22 4 4 0\r%_(/art/flyer.pdf)`\r\
+          %_%AI26_BeginPlacedObjectPreview\r%_"
+            .to_vec();
+    dictionary.extend_from_slice(&preview);
+    dictionary.extend_from_slice(
+        b"\r%_%AI26_EndPlacedObjectPreview\r%_~\r%_%AI5_EndPlace\r%_X+\r%_ (Art) ,\r%_; (AI9_Mask) ,\r\
+          %_2 /Int (AI11 PlacedPDFPageIndex) ,\r%_;\r%_\r",
+    );
+    let data = placed(true, "[5 0 0 -5 0 200]", "/art/flyer.pdf", Some(&preview), "@@DICT@@");
+    let at = data.windows(8).position(|x| x == b"@@DICT@@").unwrap();
+    let data = [&data[..at], &dictionary[..], &data[at + 8..]].concat();
+    let r = read(&data).unwrap();
+    let a = art(&r.doc);
+    assert_eq!(r.placed_pages.len(), 1, "{:?}", r.placed_pages);
+    let mask = a[0].extras().mask.clone().expect("the mask is read");
+    let mut keys = vec![];
+    mask.art.walk(&mut |n| {
+        if let NodeKind::Image(im) = &n.kind {
+            keys.push(im.key.clone());
+        }
+    });
+    let [inner] = &keys[..] else { panic!("{keys:?}") };
+    assert!(r.doc.images.contains_key(inner), "the mask's image keeps its preview");
+    let NodeKind::Image(outer) = &a[0].kind else { panic!("{:?}", a[0].kind) };
+    assert!(r.doc.images.contains_key(&outer.key) && outer.key != *inner);
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn a_placed_file_with_its_box_written_backward_stays_a_linked_image() {
+    let preview = [&b"2 1 12 32 17 "[..], &[255, 255, 0, 0, 128, 0, 64, 0, 9, 9, 9, 9]].concat();
+    let dictionary = "%_/ArtDictionary :\r%_2 /Int (AI11 PlacedPDFPageIndex) ,\r%_4 /Int (AI11 PlacedPDFCropTo) ,\r%_;\r%_\r";
+    let data = placed(true, "[5 0 0 -5 0 200]", "/art/flyer.pdf", Some(&preview), dictionary);
+    let at = data.windows(11).position(|x| x == b"10 20 14 22").unwrap();
+    let data = [&data[..at], b"14 22 10 20", &data[at + 11..]].concat();
+    let r = read(&data).unwrap();
+    assert!(r.placed_pages.is_empty());
+    let a = art(&r.doc);
+    let NodeKind::Image(im) = &a[0].kind else { panic!("{:?}", a[0].kind) };
+    assert_eq!(im.link.as_ref().and_then(|l| l.page), None);
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn only_the_dictionary_right_after_a_placed_file_names_its_page() {
+    let preview = [&b"2 1 12 32 17 "[..], &[255, 255, 0, 0, 128, 0, 64, 0, 9, 9, 9, 9]].concat();
+    let dictionary = "%_/ArtDictionary :\r%_2 /Int (AI11 PlacedPDFPageIndex) ,\r%_4 /Int (AI11 PlacedPDFCropTo) ,\r%_;\r%_\r";
+    // After another object: that object's dictionary. Art with such a dictionary stays art.
+    let after = format!("0 g\r0 0 m\r5 0 l\r5 5 l\rf\r{dictionary}");
+    let r = read(&placed(true, "[5 0 0 -5 0 200]", "/art/flyer.pdf", Some(&preview), &after)).unwrap();
+    assert!(r.placed_pages.is_empty());
+    assert_eq!(art(&r.doc).len(), 2);
+    // A second dictionary after the first: the first one spoke for the placed file.
+    let after = format!("%_/ArtDictionary :\r%_(Photo) /String (AIArtName) ,\r%_;\r%_\r{dictionary}");
+    let r = read(&placed(true, "[5 0 0 -5 0 200]", "/art/flyer.pdf", Some(&preview), &after)).unwrap();
+    assert!(r.placed_pages.is_empty());
+    // Without a placed file before it, nothing happens.
+    let r = read(stream(&layer(&format!("0 g\r0 0 m\r5 0 l\r5 5 l\rf\r{dictionary}"))).as_bytes()).ok();
+    assert!(r.is_none_or(|r| r.placed_pages.is_empty()));
+}
+
+/// Two pages of a file with the same preview don't share a key: reading one page's file in would
+/// change the other's image.
+#[test]
+fn placed_pages_of_one_file_keep_images_of_their_own() {
+    let preview = [&b"2 1 12 32 17 "[..], &[255, 255, 0, 0, 128, 0, 64, 0, 9, 9, 9, 9]].concat();
+    let one =
+        placed(true, "[5 0 0 -5 0 200]", "/art/flyer.pdf", Some(&preview), "%_/ArtDictionary :\r%_1 /Int (AI11 PlacedPDFPageIndex) ,\r%_;\r%_\r");
+    let two =
+        placed(true, "[5 0 0 -5 0 200]", "/art/flyer.pdf", Some(&preview), "%_/ArtDictionary :\r%_2 /Int (AI11 PlacedPDFPageIndex) ,\r%_;\r%_\r");
+    let find = |d: &[u8], w: &[u8]| d.windows(w.len()).position(|x| x == w).unwrap();
+    let body = two[find(&two, b"%AI5_BeginPlace")..find(&two, b"LB\n%AI5_EndLayer")].to_vec();
+    let mut both = one.clone();
+    let at = find(&both, b"LB\n%AI5_EndLayer");
+    both.splice(at..at, body);
+    let r = read(&both).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(r.placed_pages.len(), 2);
+    let keys: Vec<String> = art(&r.doc)
+        .iter()
+        .map(|n| match &n.kind {
+            NodeKind::Image(im) => im.key.clone(),
+            k => panic!("{k:?}"),
+        })
+        .collect();
+    assert_ne!(keys[0], keys[1]);
+    assert!(keys.iter().all(|k| r.doc.images.contains_key(k)) && r.doc.images.len() == 2, "{keys:?}");
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn placed_files_are_linked_images_showing_their_preview() {
     // A 2×1 preview (premultiplied ARGB, a padded row) of a file of 4×2 pixels.
diff --git a/crates/eps/src/import/native/build.rs b/crates/eps/src/import/native/build.rs
index bdb99e94c..7e6dd4cfc 100644
--- a/crates/eps/src/import/native/build.rs
+++ b/crates/eps/src/import/native/build.rs
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ use super::slots::{
 use super::{
     Affine, Arc, BTreeSet, Document, Node, NodeId, NodeKind, PathData, Rect, Scaling, Story, Structure, Texts, Unit, VariableKind, Vec2, ai,
 };
+use vectorcraft_doc::PlacedDocument;
 
 /// Which box of the editing copy is the page.
 #[derive(Clone, Copy)]
@@ -203,6 +204,7 @@ pub(super) fn build_from(
         restyled,
         placeholders,
         placed_elsewhere,
+        placed_pages,
         envelopes_drawn,
         styles_read,
         canvas_scale,
@@ -491,6 +493,7 @@ pub(super) fn build_from(
     }
     doc.limit_depth_noting(&mut notes);
     bind_variables(&mut doc, &bindings, bindings_skipped, &xml_ids, &filled, &mut notes);
+    placed_documents(&mut doc, &placed_pages);
     if small.is_some() {
         scale_document(&mut doc, unit, styles_read);
         relayout_wrapped(&mut doc);
@@ -498,6 +501,56 @@ pub(super) fn build_from(
     Ok((doc, notes))
 }
 
+/// The linked images of `pages` that are still in `doc`, opacity-mask art included, as placed
+/// documents of their page and box, over the same place, each showing the same preview until its
+/// file is read. An image bound to an image variable stays a linked image, the object an image
+/// variable binds.
+fn placed_documents(doc: &mut Document, pages: &[ai::PlacedPage]) {
+    if pages.is_empty() {
+        return;
+    }
+    let vars = &doc.variables;
+    let image_bound = |id: &NodeId| {
+        vars.bindings.get(id).is_some_and(|names| names.iter().any(|v| vars.variable(v).is_some_and(|v| v.kind == VariableKind::Image)))
+    };
+    let pages: std::collections::HashMap<NodeId, ai::PlacedPage> = pages.iter().filter(|p| !image_bound(&p.id)).map(|p| (p.id, *p)).collect();
+    for layer in &mut doc.layers {
+        to_placed_documents(Arc::make_mut(layer), &pages);
+    }
+}
+
+/// [`placed_documents`] in `n` and everything in it.
+fn to_placed_documents(n: &mut Node, pages: &std::collections::HashMap<NodeId, ai::PlacedPage>) {
+    // A box too small to take the image's pixels to (its transform not finite) keeps the linked image.
+    if let Some(page) = pages.get(&n.id)
+        && let NodeKind::Image(im) = &n.kind
+        && let Some(link) = &im.link
+        && let (width, height) = page.size
+        && let xf = im.xf * Affine::scale_non_uniform(f64::from(im.width) / width, f64::from(im.height) / height)
+        && xf.as_coeffs().iter().all(|v| v.is_finite())
+        && xf.determinant().abs() > 1e-12
+    {
+        let link = vectorcraft_doc::LinkInfo { page: Some(page.page), ..link.clone() };
+        let placed = PlacedDocument {
+            link,
+            key: im.key.clone(),
+            bounding: page.bounding,
+            page_box: page.page_box,
+            width,
+            height,
+            xf,
+            placement: im.placement,
+        };
+        n.kind = NodeKind::PlacedDocument(Box::new(placed));
+    }
+    if let Some(m) = n.extras_if_any().and_then(|e| e.mask.as_mut()) {
+        to_placed_documents(Arc::make_mut(&mut m.art), pages);
+    }
+    for c in n.children_mut().into_iter().flatten() {
+        to_placed_documents(Arc::make_mut(c), pages);
+    }
+}
+
 /// Bind the objects of `doc` to the variables of its library that `bindings` binds them to, each
 /// object named by its XML id (`ids`: the object read with that id, or what `filled` made of a text
 /// object's slot: for a visibility variable every object that took the slot's place, for a text
diff --git a/crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs b/crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs
index a2d6ec2af..d3fe5ec64 100644
--- a/crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs
+++ b/crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs
@@ -5329,6 +5329,103 @@ fn a_placed_file_at_its_boxs_corner_matches_the_page() {
     assert!([b.x0 - 30.0, b.y0 - 30.0, b.x1 - 70.0, b.y1 - 70.0].iter().all(|v| v.abs() < 0.01), "on the page's square: {b:?}");
 }
 
+/// A placed file of [`a_placed_file_at_its_boxs_corner_matches_the_page`] whose dictionary names
+/// page 2 and its media box: `%_` lines when `hidden` (art inside another object's dictionary).
+fn placed_page_two(hidden: bool) -> String {
+    let lines = [
+        "%AI5_BeginPlace".to_string(),
+        "%%FileType: 1".into(),
+        "[1 0 0 -1 -7970 8070] 8000 8000 8040 8040 4 4 0".into(),
+        "(/files/pages.pdf)`".into(),
+        "%AI26_BeginPlacedObjectPreview".into(),
+        format!("2 2 8 32 17 {}", "\x7f\0\0\0".repeat(4)),
+        "%AI26_EndPlacedObjectPreview".into(),
+        "~".into(),
+        "%AI5_EndPlace".into(),
+    ];
+    let hide = if hidden { "%_" } else { "" };
+    let place: String = lines.iter().map(|l| format!("{hide}{l}\n")).collect();
+    format!(
+        "{place}%_/ArtDictionary :\n%_/XMLUID : (pages) ; (AI10_ArtUID) ,\n%_2 /Int (AI11 PlacedPDFPageIndex) ,\n%_4 /Int (AI11 PlacedPDFCropTo) ,\n%_;\n%_\n"
+    )
+}
+
+/// The placed document of `n`, with its bounds.
+fn placed_document(n: &Node) -> (&vectorcraft_doc::PlacedDocument, vectorcraft_geom::Rect) {
+    let NodeKind::PlacedDocument(p) = &n.kind else { panic!("{:?}", n.kind) };
+    (p, n.geometric_bounds().unwrap())
+}
+
+/// A placed PDF page comes in as a placed document of its page and box, where its linked image
+/// would have gone: at its box's corner when that is where the layers draw as the page does.
+#[test]
+fn a_placed_pdf_page_is_a_placed_document_where_its_image_would_be() {
+    let data = native(&layer("Jig", true, &placed_page_two(false))).replace("%AI5_NumLayers", "%AI3_TemplateBox: 100 50 100 50\n%AI5_NumLayers");
+    let mut page = Document::new(100.0, 100.0);
+    let id = page.alloc_id();
+    let path = vectorcraft_geom::shapes::rectangle(vectorcraft_geom::Rect::new(30.0, 30.0, 70.0, 70.0));
+    let grey = vectorcraft_doc::FillLayer::new(vectorcraft_color::Paint::solid(vectorcraft_color::Color::gray(0.5)));
+    let n = Node::path(id, path, vectorcraft_doc::Appearance { items: vec![vectorcraft_doc::AppearanceItem::Fill(grey)], ..Default::default() });
+    let l = page.layers[0].id;
+    page.insert(Some(l), 0, n).unwrap();
+    let (d, w, read) = crate::layered_ai(&private(&data), page, vec![], false, false, 1.0);
+    assert!(read, "{w:?}");
+    let (p, b) = placed_document(&d.layers[0].children().unwrap()[0]);
+    assert_eq!((p.link.path.as_str(), p.link.page, p.page_box, p.bounding), ("/files/pages.pdf", Some(2), vectorcraft_doc::PageBox::Media, false));
+    assert_eq!((p.width, p.height), (40.0, 40.0));
+    assert!([b.x0 - 30.0, b.y0 - 30.0, b.x1 - 70.0, b.y1 - 70.0].iter().all(|v| v.abs() < 0.01), "on the page's square: {b:?}");
+    assert!(d.images[&p.key].is_proxy(), "the preview until the file is read");
+}
+
+/// A placed PDF page in an object's opacity mask is a placed document there too.
+#[test]
+fn a_placed_pdf_page_in_an_opacity_mask_is_a_placed_document() {
+    let mask = format!("%_/ArtDictionary :\n%_/Mask :\n%_X=\n{}%_X+\n%_ (Art) ,\n%_; (AI9_Mask) ,\n%_;\n%_\n", placed_page_two(true));
+    let data = native(&layer("Masked", true, &format!("{}\n{mask}", square(10, 10))));
+    let (d, notes) = crate::ai_alone(&private(&data)).unwrap();
+    let square = &d.layers[0].children().unwrap()[0];
+    let mask = square.extras().mask.clone().unwrap_or_else(|| panic!("{notes:?}"));
+    let art = if let NodeKind::Group { children, .. } = &mask.art.kind { children[0].clone() } else { mask.art.clone() };
+    let (p, _) = placed_document(&art);
+    assert_eq!((p.link.page, p.page_box), (Some(2), vectorcraft_doc::PageBox::Media));
+}
+
+/// A placed PDF page whose box is too small for a finite placement stays a linked image.
+#[test]
+fn a_placed_pdf_page_too_small_to_place_stays_a_linked_image() {
+    let place = placed_page_two(false).replace("[1 0 0 -1 -7970 8070] 8000 8000 8040 8040", "[1e308 0 0 -1 0 200] 0 0 1e-309 2");
+    let data = native(&layer("Jig", true, &place));
+    let (d, notes) = crate::ai_alone(&private(&data)).unwrap();
+    let mut kinds = vec![];
+    d.walk(|n| match &n.kind {
+        NodeKind::Image(im) => kinds.push(("image", im.xf.as_coeffs().iter().all(|v| v.is_finite()))),
+        NodeKind::PlacedDocument(p) => kinds.push(("placed", p.xf.as_coeffs().iter().all(|v| v.is_finite()))),
+        _ => {}
+    });
+    assert_eq!(kinds, [("image", true)], "{notes:?}");
+}
+
+/// A placed PDF page bound to an image variable stays a linked image, the object an image variable
+/// binds, so the binding is kept.
+#[test]
+fn a_placed_pdf_page_bound_to_an_image_variable_stays_a_linked_image() {
+    use vectorcraft_testkit::ai::{XmlValue, variable_library_data, xml_element, xml_node};
+    let declared = vec![xml_node(
+        1,
+        "variable",
+        XmlValue::Str(""),
+        &[("trait", XmlValue::Str("fileref")), ("varName", XmlValue::Unicode("v_file")), ("docRef", XmlValue::Raw("/XMLUIDREF : (pages) ;"))],
+        &[],
+    )];
+    let set = xml_element("variableSet", &[("locked", "none")], &[xml_element("variables", &[], &declared)]);
+    let library = variable_library_data(&xml_element("variableSets", &[], &[set]));
+    let data = native(&(library + &layer("Jig", true, &placed_page_two(false))));
+    let (d, notes) = crate::ai_alone(&private(&data)).unwrap();
+    let n = &d.layers[0].children().unwrap()[0];
+    assert!(matches!(&n.kind, NodeKind::Image(im) if im.link.as_ref().is_some_and(|l| l.page.is_none())), "{:?} {notes:?}", n.kind);
+    assert_eq!(d.variables.objects_of("v_file"), [n.id], "{notes:?}");
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn a_small_placed_file_goes_where_it_draws_closer_to_the_page() {
     // A 2 × 2 placed file (a small logo on a large page) whose box corner the matrix takes to
diff --git a/docs/file-format-parity.md b/docs/file-format-parity.md
index 9ab9f7fb2..9fc6094fd 100644
--- a/docs/file-format-parity.md
+++ b/docs/file-format-parity.md
@@ -215,6 +215,23 @@ private editing data. VectorCraft:
 
 ### Illustrator's private editing data
 
+the app's own editing copy of a file (an EPS after its `%%EOF`, a `.ai`'s `AIPrivateData` streams, a PDF's `AIPDFPrivateData` streams when it was saved with the editing data (#868), Zstandard or zlib, the EPS's in ASCII85) is not documented as a whole. VectorCraft reads its structure: layers and sublayers (names, order, visibility, lock, printing, preview, dimming, colour), groups as they were nested, compound paths (painted by their last path, or the last painted one, with the paths of groups inside them kept as their paths: #1410), clipping groups and layer clipping (several clipping paths in a clipping group, a layer or an opacity mask's art clip to their intersection, and a compound path of clipping paths stays one clip; clipping paths that would nest the art past the document's 32 levels stop the editing data from being read: #5789), object names, hidden and locked objects, fills and strokes (grey, CMYK, RGB, named and spot colours, spot colours defined in Lab with their Lab values (#1032), global process colours as global swatches at their tint; a stroke of width 0, `0 w`, on a path, a gradient-filled path, legacy type or in an art style comes in as a 0.25 pt hairline, as from PDF: #1671), linear and radial gradients, pattern fills with their patterns as pattern swatches (#1025), gradient and pattern names in the file up to their first newline (a name that another swatch, or a gradient or pattern defined earlier, already has is numbered "Sky 2"; a name without a newline is kept, and when another swatch has it, the pattern's swatch, or a named color sharing a gradient or pattern swatch's name, is numbered the same way), opacity, blend modes, isolation and knockout, embedded images where their matrix puts them, rotated ones too (#2269), with their alpha channel (CMYK images keep their ink amounts, as they do when a `.ai` opens from its PDF part, and an alpha channel that hides part of a CMYK image becomes a grayscale opacity mask), placed (linked) files as linked images in their place, each showing the low-resolution preview the file keeps of it until its file is found or relinked in the Links panel (#1264), with the folder the file keeps relative to the document's, where the link is looked for when its path is gone, guides, and every artboard where it is, with its center mark, cross hairs, video safe areas and video ruler pixel aspect ratio. VectorCraft reads `CropAreaActive`, an `/Int` in the dictionary that holds the artboard array, as the index of the active artboard in that array, and the file opens with that artboard active; without it, or when it names no artboard that opens, the first artboard is active. It also reads the Document Raster Effects Settings (resolution, color model, background, anti-alias, clipping mask, Add Around Object and Preserve Spot Colors), the author from the header's `%%For` (an EPS's own header when the editing data's has none), swatches for the header's `%%CMYKCustomColor` and `%%RGBCustomColor` colors that the document has none of, and `%%TemplateBox` in older files; a setting with a value of another type or out of range keeps its default. Objects on Path groups open live, with their path, their objects in order along it, Pivot and Rotate; one with a dragged spacing or other options opens as a plain group. A gradient with stops in the middle runs its whole ramp across its shape, and a gradient object does not pass its fill to the next path (#1390). An object whose art style is one fill and one stroke at most (solid colours, its own gradient, a variable-width profile) with Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Convert to Shape, Tweak (only when it moves nothing) or Pucker & Bloat at 0 comes in as itself with them and their saved settings. A path, compound path or group (not a clipping group) whose only effect is Transform (not with copies or Random) or a Free Distort whose corners make a parallelogram comes in as itself with it too, when neither it nor anything in it paints with a gradient or pattern and everything in it is a path, compound path or group with no opacity mask and no effects of its own; Transform that scales, rotates or reflects needs nothing in it to be stroked. Twist as the only effect is read the same way on an unstroked path or compound path whose segments are all straight. One with more, other effects (Zig Zag, a Pucker & Bloat of another amount, a Free Distort with other corners), an effect setting that is not read (an unknown key, a missing or out-of-range value, a Scribble with a color of its own), dashes aligned to corners, a brush other than a Calligraphic one, or a Calligraphic brush with settings of its own or an angle that follows the path comes in as its drawn look (a group named after it). Objects in a symbol defined before the file's art styles section, as newer files write it, take the same styles as the layers' objects. A path with a Calligraphic brush otherwise comes in as the path, the brush on its stroke at the stroke's weight, which scales the brush (#372). A Calligraphic brush's Pressure, Tilt, Bearing and Rotation come in as those channels (a 6D Art Pen's brushes vary with the pressure, the bearing and the barrel's rotation); its Stylus Wheel varies at random. The file's Calligraphic, Scatter, Art and Bristle brushes replace the default ones in the Brushes panel, in the file's order, also when the file comes in as its PDF part (a brush library has no layers); pattern brushes and brushes it can't read are left out with a note. Type keeps its art style as a live appearance whatever its stack, so it can be retyped: each fill and stroke of the style's stack (solid colours, gradients and pattern fills, placed as the drawn look places them) with its own opacity, blend mode and effects, the effects on the whole object, and where the characters paint among them; the effects read are Warp, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Transform (with copies, Transform Objects, Transform Patterns and Scale Strokes & Effects; not with Random), Free Distort, Pucker & Bloat, Twist, Zig Zag, Tweak (only when it moves nothing, the file holding none of its random outline), Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Gaussian Blur, Bas Relief (its settings at their defaults) and Convert to Shape, and a style with others, or with an effect setting that isn't read, keeps the type's drawn look. Convert to Shape keeps its Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle or Ellipse, its Absolute or Relative size (a relative size in the file is added to each side) and its corner radius; a relative Ellipse, or a setting that isn't read, keeps the drawn look. The page's drawing of such a style isn't held to look like VectorCraft's where its drawn look lay. Gradients take their matrix (`Xm`, radials and skewed ones too), focal point and the order of stops sharing a ramp point; gradient meshes, a clipping path's own fill and its stroke, and the artboards' names are read too. `editingData: "always"` (`convert --editing-data`) opens a `.ai` or an Illustrator EPS from its editing data even where it draws differently from its page, which can be older, with a note. Type is made from the file's text document, whole and editable, shown or not: point type (its frame's matrix, which newer files leave out when it is neither turned nor scaled, read as none), area type (a story in several frames as threaded type) and type on a path, with its characters, fonts, size, leading, tracking, scaling, baseline shift, fill and stroke (grey, RGB or CMYK), alignment, indents and paragraph spacing (a character attribute a run doesn't set comes from its character style, then the style that one is based on, then the document's defaults); area type keeps its frame's Area Type Options rows and columns, the gutter between rows and the gutter between columns, and its first baseline (Fixed, Cap Height, Leading or x Height) with its minimum; the page's drawing of it (often in pieces) is left out. Vertical type keeps its orientation, its columns from right to left, and a run set to Tate-chu-yoko keeps that setting. When it makes the type of every text object that shows, the page's type is only compared with it, each text object keeps its own group, frame and layer, and a line break inside a paragraph stays one. Where it can't make a text object's type (a frame of another kind), that text object takes the page's type where the text document puts its lines, or else what is left of the page's type in painting order (no group around it); the page's type where made type draws stays that type's, and hidden type is left out with a note. Text wrap is read too: an object whose dictionary has the wrap options (offset and Invert Wrap), or any graphic of a legacy wraparound group (`*w` … `*W`, before or after its type, with no offset), is a wrap object, and area type below it in its layer flows around it when the file opens, threaded type included (#2763). Kerning, underline and the other character and paragraph options aren't read yet. A `.ai` saved without PDF compatibility (a placeholder page) opens from its editing data alone, its point type, area type and type on a path made from the text document. A `.ai` whose PDF part shows only text isn't taken for that placeholder when its page states an art, trim or bleed box: it opens from its editing data alone where that reads, else from its PDF part (#1387). A `.ai` whose PDF part draws nothing at all (an empty page, with or without those boxes) opens from its editing data alone where that reads too: there is no page art to check its layers against, and the empty page would lose all of it. Text objects with an appearance keep their own text and frame, type of hidden layers stays hidden, and type on later artboards lands on its text objects (#1391); area type whose frame is too short for a line of the fallback font shows its first line (the frame is made taller, with a warning in the open result) (#1392). In a PDF saved with some of its artboards, the type on each page after the first goes to an artboard of that page's size after the previous page's artboard, and only to one that leaves an artboard for each later page; the first page's artboard also leaves one for each later page. When several artboards fit a later page, VectorCraft takes the one whose art draws most like the page, and compares at most 16 artboards for all the later pages together. Symbols are read into the Symbols panel, in the file's symbol list order, with their art, their registration point and the instances in their art, and their instances come in live with their matrix, name, hide, lock, opacity, blending mode, isolation, knockout and opacity mask; a symbol whose art isn't read whole (type, placed files, an image it leaves out or anything else it doesn't read) isn't kept. Symbols are read only with the layers: a file that comes in as its page or PDF part (editing data with no layers, layers that can't be read, or any of the cases below) opens with an empty Symbols panel. Instances of symbols it can't read, instances with appearance changes of their own (a dynamic symbol's), pattern fills whose pattern it can't read, placed files the data keeps no preview of and anything else it doesn't read make the file come in as its page (on a layer that doesn't show, they are left out of that layer), with a warning saying what. An unread object on a shown layer whose box can be found instead comes in as a group of the page's objects inside that box, named after it, with the rest of the layers and groups kept and a warning listing what came in as the page's art; the file still comes in as its page when live art or another unread object shares that page art, when the object spans two artboards or lies on an artboard that has no page, when no page art lies inside its box, when that page art is inside a page group with a clip, mask, transparency or appearance, when the object holds a frame of threaded type, when the page art uses a pattern, image or swatch that the page lacks or that differs from the editing data's, or when the page art doesn't carry its transparency (#4806). The layers' art is also compared with the page (by lightness, so colours written as their CMYK equivalents compare alike, and by whether a pixel is inked at all); the page is used when they differ by more than 5% (away from type, when all the type is made from the text document), where one draws an object the other doesn't (away from type, whose lines may be laid out afresh), and when an EPS whose page is its art's box has art printed outside it (#735). A `.ai` is not compared with its page, and its PDF part is not imported, when its text document makes the type of every text object (at least one shows, and none is drawn by the appearance of the layer or group it is in), no object is unread, no placed file has a second placement, no live envelope keeps its drawn art, it declares no large canvas, and its artboards are its pages' trim boxes one for one, in points or in the first page's `UserUnit`: it opens from its layers, with the bleed of its pages' bleed boxes. When they differ because some objects draw differently (an object in another color, or one that only one of them draws), each top-level object of the layers that holds such a difference comes in as a group of the page's objects inside its box and the layers stay, with a warning that names the layer or sublayer of each such object as the Layers panel shows it (`<Layer>` for one without a name) and how many came in from it; an export or Save As to the file's own path then needs `acknowledgeLoss: true`, and a wrap object replaced this way keeps its wrap options. The file still comes in as its page when only edges or type differ, when a difference lies outside every top-level object, when more than half of the top-level objects or more than 64 hold one, when such an object is or holds type or holds a wrap object inside a group, when the page's type of a text object that stays lies inside such an object's box, when the page's art can't replace such an object for one of the reasons above for an unread object, when matching the differences to the objects would take too much work, or when the result still differs from the page. `editingData: "always"` keeps the objects as read, and placed files at the other point their data gives are tried as well. An EPS whose page is its art's box keeps that page when it comes in through its layers, not the editing data's artboard, and a text object counts as drawn by the page by its colours, not only its lightness, so a red stroke stacked over a dark red one stays (#1102). `textAs: "outlines"` opens a `.ai` whose type shows from its PDF part, which has the outlines; `editingData: false` opens any of them as its page or PDF part only, for print pipelines (#735). A file whose import left something out (hidden text, art or layers) is never written over by an export or Save As to its own path unless `acknowledgeLoss: true` (`convert --replace-lossy`), so the original keeps what the document lacks. Where a `.ai` can't be read that way (or its layers are turned off in the import options), we read its PDF-compatible part, so Illustrator-only live objects arrive as appearance, and plain groups arrive ungrouped: that part draws each object on its own and marks only layers, clipping groups and groups with opacity, blending or a mask (those come back). Art outside the artboards isn't in that part at all (Illustrator's PDF part leaves it out), so it doesn't open; the import says so in a note (#472). Its pages still go where the editing data puts the artboards (a grid stays a grid), with the art on each, when it has as many artboards as pages, of the same sizes (#1068); the page of the artboard `CropAreaActive` names is then the active artboard. A `.ai` whose editing data has artboards but no layers also opens on that page under the same check, and its pages stay where they are. A `.ai` whose PDF part's pages are cropped to its art (each page the box of all the art, which is the editing data's bounding box) instead of its artboards opens from its layers, with its own artboards, where they draw as that page does. Its pages are laid out so that art one of them draws past its artboard (notes beside a design, which the part doesn't clip) doesn't lie over the page before it in the row, where it was taken for that page's art: the check against the editing data then found art its layers don't have there and opened the file as its PDF part, without the art outside the artboards. That part also has no paragraphs: area type is written line by line, and comes back as area type only where its font is installed and lays the lines out with the same breaks, else as a point type object per line (#508). Art off the page that a PDF does draw opens on the pasteboard.
+the app's own editing copy of a file (an EPS after its `%%EOF`, a `.ai`'s `AIPrivateData` streams, a PDF's `AIPDFPrivateData` streams when it was saved with the editing data (#868), Zstandard or zlib, the EPS's in ASCII85) is not documented as a whole. VectorCraft reads its structure: layers and sublayers (names, order, visibility, lock, printing, preview, dimming, colour), groups as they were nested, compound paths (painted by their last path, or the last painted one, with the paths of groups inside them kept as their paths: #1410), clipping groups and layer clipping (several clipping paths in a clipping group, a layer or an opacity mask's art clip to their intersection, and a compound path of clipping paths stays one clip; clipping paths that would nest the art past the document's 32 levels stop the editing data from being read: #5789), object names, hidden and locked objects, fills and strokes (grey, CMYK, RGB, named and spot colours, spot colours defined in Lab with their Lab values (#1032), global process colours as global swatches at their tint; a stroke of width 0, `0 w`, on a path, a gradient-filled path, legacy type or in an art style comes in as a 0.25 pt hairline, as from PDF: #1671), linear and radial gradients, pattern fills with their patterns as pattern swatches (#1025), gradient and pattern names in the file up to their first newline (a name that another swatch, or a gradient or pattern defined earlier, already has is numbered "Sky 2"; a name without a newline is kept, and when another swatch has it, the pattern's swatch, or a named color sharing a gradient or pattern swatch's name, is numbered the same way), opacity, blend modes, isolation and knockout, embedded images where their matrix puts them, rotated ones too (#2269), with their alpha channel (CMYK images keep their ink amounts, as they do when a `.ai` opens from its PDF part, and an alpha channel that hides part of a CMYK image becomes a grayscale opacity mask), placed (linked) files as linked images in their place, each showing the low-resolution preview the file keeps of it until its file is found or relinked in the Links panel (#1264), with the folder the file keeps relative to the document's, where the link is looked for when its path is gone, guides, and every artboard where it is, with its center mark, cross hairs, video safe areas and video ruler pixel aspect ratio. VectorCraft reads `CropAreaActive`, an `/Int` in the dictionary that holds the artboard array, as the index of the active artboard in that array, and the file opens with that artboard active; without it, or when it names no artboard that opens, the first artboard is active. It also reads the Document Raster Effects Settings (resolution, color model, background, anti-alias, clipping mask, Add Around Object and Preserve Spot Colors), the author from the header's `%%For` (an EPS's own header when the editing data's has none), swatches for the header's `%%CMYKCustomColor` and `%%RGBCustomColor` colors that the document has none of, and `%%TemplateBox` in older files; a setting with a value of another type or out of range keeps its default. Objects on Path groups open live, with their path, their objects in order along it, Pivot and Rotate; one with a dragged spacing or other options opens as a plain group. A gradient with stops in the middle runs its whole ramp across its shape, and a gradient object does not pass its fill to the next path (#1390). An object whose art style is one fill and one stroke at most (solid colours, its own gradient, a variable-width profile) with Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Convert to Shape, Tweak (only when it moves nothing) or Pucker & Bloat at 0 comes in as itself with them and their saved settings. A path, compound path or group (not a clipping group) whose only effect is Transform (not with copies or Random) or a Free Distort whose corners make a parallelogram comes in as itself with it too, when neither it nor anything in it paints with a gradient or pattern and everything in it is a path, compound path or group with no opacity mask and no effects of its own; Transform that scales, rotates or reflects needs nothing in it to be stroked. Twist as the only effect is read the same way on an unstroked path or compound path whose segments are all straight. One with more, other effects (Zig Zag, a Pucker & Bloat of another amount, a Free Distort with other corners), an effect setting that is not read (an unknown key, a missing or out-of-range value, a Scribble with a color of its own), dashes aligned to corners, a brush other than a Calligraphic or Art one, a Calligraphic brush with settings of its own or an angle that follows the path, or an Art brush other than the ones described next comes in as its drawn look (a group named after it). A path with a Calligraphic brush otherwise comes in as the path, the brush on its stroke at the stroke's weight, which scales the brush (#372), and so does a path with an Art brush, whose weight scales the art across the path, when all of these hold: the brush stretches its art along the path, unflipped, at 100% in Tints; the path's settings are the brush's own, with no entry that isn't read, no variable width and no effects; its stroke isn't a swatch; and the art is paths, compound paths and groups in solid fills, with no strokes, masks or effects, and has some length along the path. A stroke takes the brush the Brushes panel keeps under its name, and one whose name the panel doesn't keep comes in as its drawn look. Type with an Art brush keeps its drawn look under the type. A Calligraphic brush's Pressure, Tilt, Bearing and Rotation come in as those channels (a 6D Art Pen's brushes vary with the pressure, the bearing and the barrel's rotation); its Stylus Wheel varies at random. The file's Calligraphic, Scatter, Art and Bristle brushes replace the default ones in the Brushes panel, in the file's order, also when the file comes in as its PDF part (a brush library has no layers); pattern brushes and brushes it can't read are left out with a note. Type keeps its art style as a live appearance whatever its stack (an Art brush aside), so it can be retyped: each fill and stroke of the style's stack (solid colours, gradients and pattern fills, placed as the drawn look places them) with its own opacity, blend mode and effects, the effects on the whole object, and where the characters paint among them; the effects read are Warp, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Transform (with copies, Transform Objects, Transform Patterns and Scale Strokes & Effects; not with Random), Free Distort, Pucker & Bloat, Twist, Zig Zag, Tweak (only when it moves nothing, the file holding none of its random outline), Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Gaussian Blur, Bas Relief (its settings at their defaults) and Convert to Shape, and a style with others, or with an effect setting that isn't read, keeps the type's drawn look. Convert to Shape keeps its Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle or Ellipse, its Absolute or Relative size (a relative size in the file is added to each side) and its corner radius; a relative Ellipse, or a setting that isn't read, keeps the drawn look. The page's drawing of such a style isn't held to look like VectorCraft's where its drawn look lay. Gradients take their matrix (`Xm`, radials and skewed ones too), focal point and the order of stops sharing a ramp point; gradient meshes, a clipping path's own fill and its stroke, and the artboards' names are read too. `editingData: "always"` (`convert --editing-data`) opens a `.ai` or an Illustrator EPS from its editing data even where it draws differently from its page, which can be older, with a note. Type is made from the file's text document, whole and editable, shown or not: point type (its frame's matrix, which newer files leave out when it is neither turned nor scaled, read as none), area type (a story in several frames as threaded type) and type on a path, with its characters, fonts, size, leading, tracking, scaling, baseline shift, fill and stroke (grey, RGB or CMYK), alignment, indents and paragraph spacing (a character attribute a run doesn't set comes from its character style, then the style that one is based on, then the document's defaults); area type keeps its frame's Area Type Options rows and columns, the gutter between rows and the gutter between columns, and its first baseline (Fixed, Cap Height, Leading or x Height) with its minimum; the page's drawing of it (often in pieces) is left out. Vertical type keeps its orientation, its columns from right to left, and a run set to Tate-chu-yoko keeps that setting. When it makes the type of every text object that shows, the page's type is only compared with it, each text object keeps its own group, frame and layer, and a line break inside a paragraph stays one. Where it can't make a text object's type (a frame of another kind), that text object takes the page's type where the text document puts its lines, or else what is left of the page's type in painting order (no group around it); the page's type where made type draws stays that type's, and hidden type is left out with a note. Text wrap is read too: an object whose dictionary has the wrap options (offset and Invert Wrap), or any graphic of a legacy wraparound group (`*w` … `*W`, before or after its type, with no offset), is a wrap object, and area type below it in its layer flows around it when the file opens, threaded type included (#2763). Kerning, underline and the other character and paragraph options aren't read yet. A `.ai` saved without PDF compatibility (a placeholder page) opens from its editing data alone, its point type, area type and type on a path made from the text document. A `.ai` whose PDF part shows only text isn't taken for that placeholder when its page states an art, trim or bleed box: it opens from its editing data alone where that reads, else from its PDF part (#1387). A `.ai` whose PDF part draws nothing at all (an empty page, with or without those boxes) opens from its editing data alone where that reads too: there is no page art to check its layers against, and the empty page would lose all of it. Text objects with an appearance keep their own text and frame, type of hidden layers stays hidden, and type on later artboards lands on its text objects (#1391); area type whose frame is too short for a line of the fallback font shows its first line (the frame is made taller, with a warning in the open result) (#1392). In a PDF saved with some of its artboards, the type on each page after the first goes to an artboard of that page's size after the previous page's artboard, and only to one that leaves an artboard for each later page; the first page's artboard also leaves one for each later page. When several artboards fit a later page, VectorCraft takes the one whose art draws most like the page, and compares at most 16 artboards for all the later pages together. Symbols are read into the Symbols panel, in the file's symbol list order, with their art, their registration point and the instances in their art, and their instances come in live with their matrix, name, hide, lock, opacity, blending mode, isolation, knockout and opacity mask; a symbol whose art isn't read whole (type, placed files, an image it leaves out or anything else it doesn't read) isn't kept. Symbols are read only with the layers: a file that comes in as its page or PDF part (editing data with no layers, layers that can't be read, or any of the cases below) opens with an empty Symbols panel. Instances of symbols it can't read, instances with appearance changes of their own (a dynamic symbol's), pattern fills whose pattern it can't read, placed files the data keeps no preview of and anything else it doesn't read make the file come in as its page (on a layer that doesn't show, they are left out of that layer), with a warning saying what. An unread object on a shown layer whose box can be found instead comes in as a group of the page's objects inside that box, named after it, with the rest of the layers and groups kept and a warning listing what came in as the page's art; the file still comes in as its page when live art or another unread object shares that page art, when the object spans two artboards or lies on an artboard that has no page, when no page art lies inside its box, when that page art is inside a page group with a clip, mask, transparency or appearance, when the object holds a frame of threaded type, when the page art uses a pattern, image or swatch that the page lacks or that differs from the editing data's, or when the page art doesn't carry its transparency (#4806). The layers' art is also compared with the page (by lightness, so colours written as their CMYK equivalents compare alike, and by whether a pixel is inked at all); the page is used when they differ by more than 5% (away from type, when all the type is made from the text document), where one draws an object the other doesn't (away from type, whose lines may be laid out afresh), and when an EPS whose page is its art's box has art printed outside it (#735). A `.ai` is not compared with its page, and its PDF part is not imported, when its text document makes the type of every text object (at least one shows, and none is drawn by the appearance of the layer or group it is in), no object is unread, no placed file has a second placement, no live envelope keeps its drawn art, it declares no large canvas, and its artboards are its pages' trim boxes one for one, in points or in the first page's `UserUnit`: it opens from its layers, with the bleed of its pages' bleed boxes. When they differ because some objects draw differently (an object in another color, or one that only one of them draws), each top-level object of the layers that holds such a difference comes in as a group of the page's objects inside its box and the layers stay, with a warning that names the layer or sublayer of each such object as the Layers panel shows it (`<Layer>` for one without a name) and how many came in from it; an export or Save As to the file's own path then needs `acknowledgeLoss: true`, and a wrap object replaced this way keeps its wrap options. The file still comes in as its page when only edges or type differ, when a difference lies outside every top-level object, when more than half of the top-level objects or more than 64 hold one, when such an object is or holds type or holds a wrap object inside a group, when the page's type of a text object that stays lies inside such an object's box, when the page's art can't replace such an object for one of the reasons above for an unread object, when matching the differences to the objects would take too much work, or when the result still differs from the page. `editingData: "always"` keeps the objects as read, and placed files at the other point their data gives are tried as well. An EPS whose page is its art's box keeps that page when it comes in through its layers, not the editing data's artboard, and a text object counts as drawn by the page by its colours, not only its lightness, so a red stroke stacked over a dark red one stays (#1102). `textAs: "outlines"` opens a `.ai` whose type shows from its PDF part, which has the outlines; `editingData: false` opens any of them as its page or PDF part only, for print pipelines (#735). A file whose import left something out (hidden text, art or layers) is never written over by an export or Save As to its own path unless `acknowledgeLoss: true` (`convert --replace-lossy`), so the original keeps what the document lacks. Where a `.ai` can't be read that way (or its layers are turned off in the import options), we read its PDF-compatible part, so Illustrator-only live objects arrive as appearance, and plain groups arrive ungrouped: that part draws each object on its own and marks only layers, clipping groups and groups with opacity, blending or a mask (those come back). Art outside the artboards isn't in that part at all (Illustrator's PDF part leaves it out), so it doesn't open; the import says so in a note (#472). Its pages still go where the editing data puts the artboards (a grid stays a grid), with the art on each, when it has as many artboards as pages, of the same sizes (#1068); the page of the artboard `CropAreaActive` names is then the active artboard. A `.ai` whose editing data has artboards but no layers also opens on that page under the same check, and its pages stay where they are. A `.ai` whose PDF part's pages are cropped to its art (each page the box of all the art, which is the editing data's bounding box) instead of its artboards opens from its layers, with its own artboards, where they draw as that page does. Its pages are laid out so that art one of them draws past its artboard (notes beside a design, which the part doesn't clip) doesn't lie over the page before it in the row, where it was taken for that page's art: the check against the editing data then found art its layers don't have there and opened the file as its PDF part, without the art outside the artboards. That part also has no paragraphs: area type is written line by line, and comes back as area type only where its font is installed and lays the lines out with the same breaks, else as a point type object per line (#508). Art off the page that a PDF does draw opens on the pasteboard.
+the app's own editing copy of a file (an EPS after its `%%EOF`, a `.ai`'s `AIPrivateData` streams, a PDF's `AIPDFPrivateData` streams when it was saved with the editing data (#868), Zstandard or zlib, the EPS's in ASCII85) is not documented as a whole. VectorCraft reads its structure: layers and sublayers (names, order, visibility, lock, printing, preview, dimming, colour), groups as they were nested, compound paths (painted by their last path, or the last painted one, with the paths of groups inside them kept as their paths: #1410), clipping groups and layer clipping (several clipping paths in a clipping group, a layer or an opacity mask's art clip to their intersection, and a compound path of clipping paths stays one clip; a filled clipping path keeps its fill, which paints under the art it clips, except the path of a mask that covers several layers, whose fill is read as a path of its own in the layer that holds the mask's path, and a compound clipping path whose subpaths paint differently, whose filled subpaths are read as a compound path of their own under the art it clips; clipping paths that would nest the art past the document's 32 levels stop the editing data from being read: #5789), object names, hidden and locked objects, fills and strokes (grey, CMYK, RGB, named and spot colours, spot colours defined in Lab with their Lab values (#1032), global process colours as global swatches at their tint; a stroke of width 0, `0 w`, on a path, a gradient-filled path, legacy type or in an art style comes in as a 0.25 pt hairline, as from PDF: #1671), linear and radial gradients, pattern fills with their patterns as pattern swatches (#1025), gradient and pattern names in the file up to their first newline (a name that another swatch, or a gradient or pattern defined earlier, already has is numbered "Sky 2"; a name without a newline is kept, and when another swatch has it, the pattern's swatch, or a named color sharing a gradient or pattern swatch's name, is numbered the same way), opacity, blend modes, isolation and knockout, embedded images where their matrix puts them, rotated ones too (#2269), with their alpha channel (CMYK images keep their ink amounts, as they do when a `.ai` opens from its PDF part, and an alpha channel that hides part of a CMYK image becomes a grayscale opacity mask), placed (linked) files as linked images in their place, each showing the low-resolution preview the file keeps of it until its file is found or relinked in the Links panel (#1264), with the folder the file keeps relative to the document's, where the link is looked for when its path is gone, guides, and every artboard where it is, with its center mark, cross hairs, video safe areas and video ruler pixel aspect ratio. VectorCraft reads `CropAreaActive`, an `/Int` in the dictionary that holds the artboard array, as the index of the active artboard in that array, and the file opens with that artboard active; without it, or when it names no artboard that opens, the first artboard is active. It also reads the Document Raster Effects Settings (resolution, color model, background, anti-alias, clipping mask, Add Around Object and Preserve Spot Colors), the author from the header's `%%For` (an EPS's own header when the editing data's has none), swatches for the header's `%%CMYKCustomColor` and `%%RGBCustomColor` colors that the document has none of, and `%%TemplateBox` in older files; a setting with a value of another type or out of range keeps its default. Objects on Path groups open live, with their path, their objects in order along it, Pivot and Rotate; one with a dragged spacing or other options opens as a plain group. A gradient with stops in the middle runs its whole ramp across its shape, and a gradient object does not pass its fill to the next path (#1390). An object whose art style is one fill and one stroke at most (solid colours, its own gradient, a variable-width profile) with Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Convert to Shape, Tweak (only when it moves nothing) or Pucker & Bloat at 0 comes in as itself with them and their saved settings. A path, compound path or group (not a clipping group) whose only effect is Transform (not with copies or Random) or a Free Distort whose corners make a parallelogram comes in as itself with it too, when neither it nor anything in it paints with a gradient or pattern and everything in it is a path, compound path or group with no opacity mask and no effects of its own; Transform that scales, rotates or reflects needs nothing in it to be stroked. Twist as the only effect is read the same way on an unstroked path or compound path whose segments are all straight. One with more, other effects (Zig Zag, a Pucker & Bloat of another amount, a Free Distort with other corners), an effect setting that is not read (an unknown key, a missing or out-of-range value, a Scribble with a color of its own), dashes aligned to corners, a brush other than a Calligraphic one, or a Calligraphic brush with settings of its own or an angle that follows the path comes in as its drawn look (a group named after it). Objects in a symbol defined before the file's art styles section, as newer files write it, take the same styles as the layers' objects. A path with a Calligraphic brush otherwise comes in as the path, the brush on its stroke at the stroke's weight, which scales the brush (#372). A Calligraphic brush's Pressure, Tilt, Bearing and Rotation come in as those channels (a 6D Art Pen's brushes vary with the pressure, the bearing and the barrel's rotation); its Stylus Wheel varies at random. The file's Calligraphic, Scatter, Art and Bristle brushes replace the default ones in the Brushes panel, in the file's order, also when the file comes in as its PDF part (a brush library has no layers); pattern brushes and brushes it can't read are left out with a note. Type keeps its art style as a live appearance whatever its stack, so it can be retyped: each fill and stroke of the style's stack (solid colours, gradients and pattern fills, placed as the drawn look places them) with its own opacity, blend mode and effects, the effects on the whole object, and where the characters paint among them; the effects read are Warp, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Transform (with copies, Transform Objects, Transform Patterns and Scale Strokes & Effects; not with Random), Free Distort, Pucker & Bloat, Twist, Zig Zag, Tweak (only when it moves nothing, the file holding none of its random outline), Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Gaussian Blur, Bas Relief (its settings at their defaults) and Convert to Shape, and a style with others, or with an effect setting that isn't read, keeps the type's drawn look. Convert to Shape keeps its Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle or Ellipse, its Absolute or Relative size (a relative size in the file is added to each side) and its corner radius; a relative Ellipse, or a setting that isn't read, keeps the drawn look. The page's drawing of such a style isn't held to look like VectorCraft's where its drawn look lay. Gradients take their matrix (`Xm`, radials and skewed ones too), focal point and the order of stops sharing a ramp point; gradient meshes, a clipping path's own fill and its stroke, and the artboards' names are read too. `editingData: "always"` (`convert --editing-data`) opens a `.ai` or an Illustrator EPS from its editing data even where it draws differently from its page, which can be older, with a note. Type is made from the file's text document, whole and editable, shown or not: point type (its frame's matrix, which newer files leave out when it is neither turned nor scaled, read as none), area type (a story in several frames as threaded type) and type on a path, with its characters, fonts, size, leading, tracking, scaling, baseline shift, fill and stroke (grey, RGB or CMYK), alignment, indents and paragraph spacing (a character attribute a run doesn't set comes from its character style, then the style that one is based on, then the document's defaults); area type keeps its frame's Area Type Options rows and columns, the gutter between rows and the gutter between columns, and its first baseline (Fixed, Cap Height, Leading or x Height) with its minimum; the page's drawing of it (often in pieces) is left out. Vertical type keeps its orientation, its columns from right to left, and a run set to Tate-chu-yoko keeps that setting. When it makes the type of every text object that shows, the page's type is only compared with it, each text object keeps its own group, frame and layer, and a line break inside a paragraph stays one. Where it can't make a text object's type (a frame of another kind), that text object takes the page's type where the text document puts its lines, or else what is left of the page's type in painting order (no group around it); the page's type where made type draws stays that type's, and hidden type is left out with a note. Text wrap is read too: an object whose dictionary has the wrap options (offset and Invert Wrap), or any graphic of a legacy wraparound group (`*w` … `*W`, before or after its type, with no offset), is a wrap object, and area type below it in its layer flows around it when the file opens, threaded type included (#2763). Kerning, underline and the other character and paragraph options aren't read yet. A `.ai` saved without PDF compatibility (a placeholder page) opens from its editing data alone, its point type, area type and type on a path made from the text document. A `.ai` whose PDF part shows only text isn't taken for that placeholder when its page states an art, trim or bleed box: it opens from its editing data alone where that reads, else from its PDF part (#1387). A `.ai` whose PDF part draws nothing at all (an empty page, with or without those boxes) opens from its editing data alone where that reads too: there is no page art to check its layers against, and the empty page would lose all of it. Text objects with an appearance keep their own text and frame, type of hidden layers stays hidden, and type on later artboards lands on its text objects (#1391); area type whose frame is too short for a line of the fallback font shows its first line (the frame is made taller, with a warning in the open result) (#1392). Symbols are read into the Symbols panel, in the file's symbol list order, with their art, their registration point and the instances in their art, and their instances come in live with their matrix, name, hide, lock, opacity, blending mode, isolation, knockout and opacity mask; a symbol whose art isn't read whole (type, placed files, an image it leaves out or anything else it doesn't read) isn't kept. Symbols are read only with the layers: a file that comes in as its page or PDF part (editing data with no layers, layers that can't be read, or any of the cases below) opens with an empty Symbols panel. Instances of symbols it can't read, instances with appearance changes of their own (a dynamic symbol's), pattern fills whose pattern it can't read, placed files the data keeps no preview of and anything else it doesn't read make the file come in as its page (on a layer that doesn't show, they are left out of that layer), with a warning saying what. An unread object on a shown layer whose box can be found instead comes in as a group of the page's objects inside that box, named after it, with the rest of the layers and groups kept and a warning listing what came in as the page's art; the file still comes in as its page when live art or another unread object shares that page art, when the object spans two artboards or lies on an artboard that has no page, when no page art lies inside its box, when that page art is inside a page group with a clip, mask, transparency or appearance, when the object holds a frame of threaded type, when the page art uses a pattern, image or swatch that the page lacks or that differs from the editing data's, or when the page art doesn't carry its transparency (#4806). The layers' art is also compared with the page (by lightness, so colours written as their CMYK equivalents compare alike, and by whether a pixel is inked at all); the page is used when they differ by more than 5% (away from type, when all the type is made from the text document), where one draws an object the other doesn't (away from type, whose lines may be laid out afresh), and when an EPS whose page is its art's box has art printed outside it (#735). A `.ai` is not compared with its page, and its PDF part is not imported, when its text document makes the type of every text object (at least one shows, and none is drawn by the appearance of the layer or group it is in), no object is unread, no placed file has a second placement, no live envelope keeps its drawn art, it declares no large canvas, and its artboards are its pages' trim boxes one for one, in points or in the first page's `UserUnit`: it opens from its layers, with the bleed of its pages' bleed boxes. When they differ because some objects draw differently (an object in another color, or one that only one of them draws), each top-level object of the layers that holds such a difference comes in as a group of the page's objects inside its box and the layers stay, with a warning that names the layer or sublayer of each such object as the Layers panel shows it (`<Layer>` for one without a name) and how many came in from it; an export or Save As to the file's own path then needs `acknowledgeLoss: true`, and a wrap object replaced this way keeps its wrap options. The file still comes in as its page when only edges or type differ, when a difference lies outside every top-level object, when more than half of the top-level objects or more than 64 hold one, when such an object is or holds type or holds a wrap object inside a group, when the page's type of a text object that stays lies inside such an object's box, when the page's art can't replace such an object for one of the reasons above for an unread object, when matching the differences to the objects would take too much work, or when the result still differs from the page. `editingData: "always"` keeps the objects as read, and placed files at the other point their data gives are tried as well. An EPS whose page is its art's box keeps that page when it comes in through its layers, not the editing data's artboard, and a text object counts as drawn by the page by its colours, not only its lightness, so a red stroke stacked over a dark red one stays (#1102). `textAs: "outlines"` opens a `.ai` whose type shows from its PDF part, which has the outlines; `editingData: false` opens any of them as its page or PDF part only, for print pipelines (#735). A file whose import left something out (hidden text, art or layers) is never written over by an export or Save As to its own path unless `acknowledgeLoss: true` (`convert --replace-lossy`), so the original keeps what the document lacks. Where a `.ai` can't be read that way (or its layers are turned off in the import options), we read its PDF-compatible part, so Illustrator-only live objects arrive as appearance, and plain groups arrive ungrouped: that part draws each object on its own and marks only layers, clipping groups and groups with opacity, blending or a mask (those come back). Art outside the artboards isn't in that part at all (Illustrator's PDF part leaves it out), so it doesn't open; the import says so in a note (#472). Its pages still go where the editing data puts the artboards (a grid stays a grid), with the art on each, when it has as many artboards as pages, of the same sizes (#1068); the page of the artboard `CropAreaActive` names is then the active artboard. A `.ai` whose editing data has artboards but no layers also opens on that page under the same check, and its pages stay where they are. A `.ai` whose PDF part's pages are cropped to its art (each page the box of all the art, which is the editing data's bounding box) instead of its artboards opens from its layers, with its own artboards, where they draw as that page does. Its pages are laid out so that art one of them draws past its artboard (notes beside a design, which the part doesn't clip) doesn't lie over the page before it in the row, where it was taken for that page's art: the check against the editing data then found art its layers don't have there and opened the file as its PDF part, without the art outside the artboards. That part also has no paragraphs: area type is written line by line, and comes back as area type only where its font is installed and lays the lines out with the same breaks, else as a point type object per line (#508). Art off the page that a PDF does draw opens on the pasteboard.
+the app's own editing copy of a file (an EPS after its `%%EOF`, a `.ai`'s `AIPrivateData` streams, a PDF's `AIPDFPrivateData` streams when it was saved with the editing data (#868), Zstandard or zlib, the EPS's in ASCII85) is not documented as a whole. VectorCraft reads its structure: layers and sublayers (names, order, visibility, lock, printing, preview, dimming, colour), groups as they were nested, compound paths (painted by their last path, or the last painted one, with the paths of groups inside them kept as their paths: #1410), clipping groups and layer clipping (several clipping paths in a clipping group, a layer or an opacity mask's art clip to their intersection, and a compound path of clipping paths stays one clip; a filled clipping path keeps its fill, which paints under the art it clips, except the path of a mask that covers several layers, whose fill is read as a path of its own in the layer that holds the mask's path, and a compound clipping path whose subpaths paint differently, whose filled subpaths are read as a compound path of their own under the art it clips; clipping paths that would nest the art past the document's 32 levels stop the editing data from being read: #5789), object names, hidden and locked objects, fills and strokes (grey, CMYK, RGB, named and spot colours, spot colours defined in Lab with their Lab values (#1032), global process colours as global swatches at their tint; a stroke of width 0, `0 w`, on a path, a gradient-filled path, legacy type or in an art style comes in as a 0.25 pt hairline, as from PDF: #1671), linear and radial gradients, pattern fills with their patterns as pattern swatches (#1025), gradient and pattern names in the file up to their first newline (a name that another swatch, or a gradient or pattern defined earlier, already has is numbered "Sky 2"; a name without a newline is kept, and when another swatch has it, the pattern's swatch, or a named color sharing a gradient or pattern swatch's name, is numbered the same way), opacity, blend modes, isolation and knockout, embedded images where their matrix puts them, rotated ones too (#2269), with their alpha channel (CMYK images keep their ink amounts, as they do when a `.ai` opens from its PDF part, and an alpha channel that hides part of a CMYK image becomes a grayscale opacity mask), placed (linked) files as linked images in their place, each showing the low-resolution preview the file keeps of it until its file is found or relinked in the Links panel (#1264), with the folder the file keeps relative to the document's, where the link is looked for when its path is gone, guides, and every artboard where it is, with its center mark, cross hairs, video safe areas and video ruler pixel aspect ratio. VectorCraft reads `CropAreaActive`, an `/Int` in the dictionary that holds the artboard array, as the index of the active artboard in that array, and the file opens with that artboard active; without it, or when it names no artboard that opens, the first artboard is active. It also reads the Document Raster Effects Settings (resolution, color model, background, anti-alias, clipping mask, Add Around Object and Preserve Spot Colors), the author from the header's `%%For` (an EPS's own header when the editing data's has none), swatches for the header's `%%CMYKCustomColor` and `%%RGBCustomColor` colors that the document has none of, and `%%TemplateBox` in older files; a setting with a value of another type or out of range keeps its default. Objects on Path groups open live, with their path, their objects in order along it, Pivot and Rotate; one with a dragged spacing or other options opens as a plain group. A gradient with stops in the middle runs its whole ramp across its shape, and a gradient object does not pass its fill to the next path (#1390). An object whose art style is one fill and one stroke at most (solid colours, its own gradient, a variable-width profile) with Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Convert to Shape, Tweak (only when it moves nothing) or Pucker & Bloat at 0 comes in as itself with them and their saved settings. A path, compound path or group (not a clipping group) whose only effect is Transform (not with copies or Random) or a Free Distort whose corners make a parallelogram comes in as itself with it too, when neither it nor anything in it paints with a gradient or pattern and everything in it is a path, compound path or group with no opacity mask and no effects of its own; Transform that scales, rotates or reflects needs nothing in it to be stroked. Twist as the only effect is read the same way on an unstroked path or compound path whose segments are all straight. One with more, other effects (Zig Zag, a Pucker & Bloat of another amount, a Free Distort with other corners), an effect setting that is not read (an unknown key, a missing or out-of-range value, a Scribble with a color of its own), dashes aligned to corners, a brush other than a Calligraphic or Art one, a Calligraphic brush with settings of its own or an angle that follows the path, or an Art brush other than the ones described next comes in as its drawn look (a group named after it). A path with a Calligraphic brush otherwise comes in as the path, the brush on its stroke at the stroke's weight, which scales the brush (#372), and so does a path with an Art brush, whose weight scales the art across the path, when all of these hold: the brush stretches its art along the path, unflipped, at 100% in Tints; the path's settings are the brush's own, with no entry that isn't read, no variable width and no effects; its stroke isn't a swatch; and the art is paths, compound paths and groups in solid fills, with no strokes, masks or effects, and has some length along the path. A stroke takes the brush the Brushes panel keeps under its name, and one whose name the panel doesn't keep comes in as its drawn look. Type with an Art brush keeps its drawn look under the type. A Calligraphic brush's Pressure, Tilt, Bearing and Rotation come in as those channels (a 6D Art Pen's brushes vary with the pressure, the bearing and the barrel's rotation); its Stylus Wheel varies at random. The file's Calligraphic, Scatter, Art and Bristle brushes replace the default ones in the Brushes panel, in the file's order, also when the file comes in as its PDF part (a brush library has no layers); pattern brushes and brushes it can't read are left out with a note. Type keeps its art style as a live appearance whatever its stack (an Art brush aside), so it can be retyped: each fill and stroke of the style's stack (solid colours, gradients and pattern fills, placed as the drawn look places them) with its own opacity, blend mode and effects, the effects on the whole object, and where the characters paint among them; the effects read are Warp, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Transform (with copies, Transform Objects, Transform Patterns and Scale Strokes & Effects; not with Random), Free Distort, Pucker & Bloat, Twist, Zig Zag, Tweak (only when it moves nothing, the file holding none of its random outline), Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Gaussian Blur, Bas Relief (its settings at their defaults) and Convert to Shape, and a style with others, or with an effect setting that isn't read, keeps the type's drawn look. Convert to Shape keeps its Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle or Ellipse, its Absolute or Relative size (a relative size in the file is added to each side) and its corner radius; a relative Ellipse, or a setting that isn't read, keeps the drawn look. The page's drawing of such a style isn't held to look like VectorCraft's where its drawn look lay. Gradients take their matrix (`Xm`, radials and skewed ones too), focal point and the order of stops sharing a ramp point; gradient meshes, a clipping path's own fill and its stroke, and the artboards' names are read too. `editingData: "always"` (`convert --editing-data`) opens a `.ai` or an Illustrator EPS from its editing data even where it draws differently from its page, which can be older, with a note. Type is made from the file's text document, whole and editable, shown or not: point type (its frame's matrix, which newer files leave out when it is neither turned nor scaled, read as none), area type (a story in several frames as threaded type) and type on a path, with its characters, fonts, size, leading, tracking, scaling, baseline shift, fill and stroke (grey, RGB or CMYK), alignment, indents and paragraph spacing (a character attribute a run doesn't set comes from its character style, then the style that one is based on, then the document's defaults); area type keeps its frame's Area Type Options rows and columns, the gutter between rows and the gutter between columns, and its first baseline (Fixed, Cap Height, Leading or x Height) with its minimum; the page's drawing of it (often in pieces) is left out. Vertical type keeps its orientation, its columns from right to left, and a run set to Tate-chu-yoko keeps that setting. When it makes the type of every text object that shows, the page's type is only compared with it, each text object keeps its own group, frame and layer, and a line break inside a paragraph stays one. Where it can't make a text object's type (a frame of another kind), that text object takes the page's type where the text document puts its lines, or else what is left of the page's type in painting order (no group around it); the page's type where made type draws stays that type's, and hidden type is left out with a note. Text wrap is read too: an object whose dictionary has the wrap options (offset and Invert Wrap), or any graphic of a legacy wraparound group (`*w` … `*W`, before or after its type, with no offset), is a wrap object, and area type below it in its layer flows around it when the file opens, threaded type included (#2763). Kerning, underline and the other character and paragraph options aren't read yet. A `.ai` saved without PDF compatibility (a placeholder page) opens from its editing data alone, its point type, area type and type on a path made from the text document. A `.ai` whose PDF part shows only text isn't taken for that placeholder when its page states an art, trim or bleed box: it opens from its editing data alone where that reads, else from its PDF part (#1387). A `.ai` whose PDF part draws nothing at all (an empty page, with or without those boxes) opens from its editing data alone where that reads too: there is no page art to check its layers against, and the empty page would lose all of it. Text objects with an appearance keep their own text and frame, type of hidden layers stays hidden, and type on later artboards lands on its text objects (#1391); area type whose frame is too short for a line of the fallback font shows its first line (the frame is made taller, with a warning in the open result) (#1392). Symbols are read into the Symbols panel, in the file's symbol list order, with their art, their registration point and the instances in their art, and their instances come in live with their matrix, name, hide, lock, opacity, blending mode, isolation, knockout and opacity mask; a symbol whose art isn't read whole (type, placed files, an image it leaves out or anything else it doesn't read) isn't kept. Symbols are read only with the layers: a file that comes in as its page or PDF part (editing data with no layers, layers that can't be read, or any of the cases below) opens with an empty Symbols panel. Instances of symbols it can't read, instances with appearance changes of their own (a dynamic symbol's), pattern fills whose pattern it can't read, placed files the data keeps no preview of and anything else it doesn't read make the file come in as its page (on a layer that doesn't show, they are left out of that layer), with a warning saying what. An unread object on a shown layer whose box can be found instead comes in as a group of the page's objects inside that box, named after it, with the rest of the layers and groups kept and a warning listing what came in as the page's art; the file still comes in as its page when live art or another unread object shares that page art, when the object spans two artboards or lies on an artboard that has no page, when no page art lies inside its box, when that page art is inside a page group with a clip, mask, transparency or appearance, when the object holds a frame of threaded type, when the page art uses a pattern, image or swatch that the page lacks or that differs from the editing data's, or when the page art doesn't carry its transparency (#4806). The layers' art is also compared with the page (by lightness, so colours written as their CMYK equivalents compare alike, and by whether a pixel is inked at all); the page is used when they differ by more than 5% (away from type, when all the type is made from the text document), where one draws an object the other doesn't (away from type, whose lines may be laid out afresh), and when an EPS whose page is its art's box has art printed outside it (#735). A `.ai` is not compared with its page, and its PDF part is not imported, when its text document makes the type of every text object (at least one shows, and none is drawn by the appearance of the layer or group it is in), no object is unread, no placed file has a second placement, no live envelope keeps its drawn art, it declares no large canvas, and its artboards are its pages' trim boxes one for one, in points or in the first page's `UserUnit`: it opens from its layers, with the bleed of its pages' bleed boxes. When they differ because some objects draw differently (an object in another color, or one that only one of them draws), each top-level object of the layers that holds such a difference comes in as a group of the page's objects inside its box and the layers stay, with a warning that names the layer or sublayer of each such object as the Layers panel shows it (`<Layer>` for one without a name) and how many came in from it; an export or Save As to the file's own path then needs `acknowledgeLoss: true`, and a wrap object replaced this way keeps its wrap options. The file still comes in as its page when only edges or type differ, when a difference lies outside every top-level object, when more than half of the top-level objects or more than 64 hold one, when such an object is or holds type or holds a wrap object inside a group, when the page's type of a text object that stays lies inside such an object's box, when the page's art can't replace such an object for one of the reasons above for an unread object, when matching the differences to the objects would take too much work, or when the result still differs from the page. `editingData: "always"` keeps the objects as read, and placed files at the other point their data gives are tried as well. An EPS whose page is its art's box keeps that page when it comes in through its layers, not the editing data's artboard, and a text object counts as drawn by the page by its colours, not only its lightness, so a red stroke stacked over a dark red one stays (#1102). `textAs: "outlines"` opens a `.ai` whose type shows from its PDF part, which has the outlines; `editingData: false` opens any of them as its page or PDF part only, for print pipelines (#735). A file whose import left something out (hidden text, art or layers) is never written over by an export or Save As to its own path unless `acknowledgeLoss: true` (`convert --replace-lossy`), so the original keeps what the document lacks. Where a `.ai` can't be read that way (or its layers are turned off in the import options), we read its PDF-compatible part, so Illustrator-only live objects arrive as appearance, and plain groups arrive ungrouped: that part draws each object on its own and marks only layers, clipping groups and groups with opacity, blending or a mask (those come back). Art outside the artboards isn't in that part at all (Illustrator's PDF part leaves it out), so it doesn't open; the import says so in a note (#472). Its pages still go where the editing data puts the artboards (a grid stays a grid), with the art on each, when it has as many artboards as pages, of the same sizes (#1068); the page of the artboard `CropAreaActive` names is then the active artboard. A `.ai` whose editing data has artboards but no layers also opens on that page under the same check, and its pages stay where they are. A `.ai` whose PDF part's pages are cropped to its art (each page the box of all the art, which is the editing data's bounding box) instead of its artboards opens from its layers, with its own artboards, where they draw as that page does. Its pages are laid out so that art one of them draws past its artboard (notes beside a design, which the part doesn't clip) doesn't lie over the page before it in the row, where it was taken for that page's art: the check against the editing data then found art its layers don't have there and opened the file as its PDF part, without the art outside the artboards. That part also has no paragraphs: area type is written line by line, and comes back as area type only where its font is installed and lays the lines out with the same breaks, else as a point type object per line (#508). Art off the page that a PDF does draw opens on the pasteboard.
+the app's own editing copy of a file (an EPS after its `%%EOF`, a `.ai`'s `AIPrivateData` streams, a PDF's `AIPDFPrivateData` streams when it was saved with the editing data (#868), Zstandard or zlib, the EPS's in ASCII85) is not documented as a whole. VectorCraft reads its structure: layers and sublayers (names, order, visibility, lock, printing, preview, dimming, colour), groups as they were nested, compound paths (painted by their last path, or the last painted one, with the paths of groups inside them kept as their paths: #1410), clipping groups and layer clipping (several clipping paths in a clipping group, a layer or an opacity mask's art clip to their intersection, and a compound path of clipping paths stays one clip; a filled clipping path keeps its fill, which paints under the art it clips, except the path of a mask that covers several layers, whose fill is read as a path of its own in the layer that holds the mask's path; clipping paths that would nest the art past the document's 32 levels stop the editing data from being read: #5789), object names, hidden and locked objects, fills and strokes (grey, CMYK, RGB, named and spot colours, spot colours defined in Lab with their Lab values (#1032), global process colours as global swatches at their tint; a stroke of width 0, `0 w`, on a path, a gradient-filled path, legacy type or in an art style comes in as a 0.25 pt hairline, as from PDF: #1671), linear and radial gradients, pattern fills with their patterns as pattern swatches (#1025), gradient and pattern names in the file up to their first newline (a name that another swatch, or a gradient or pattern defined earlier, already has is numbered "Sky 2"; a name without a newline is kept, and when another swatch has it, the pattern's swatch, or a named color sharing a gradient or pattern swatch's name, is numbered the same way), opacity, blend modes, isolation and knockout, embedded images where their matrix puts them, rotated ones too (#2269), with their alpha channel (CMYK images keep their ink amounts, as they do when a `.ai` opens from its PDF part, and an alpha channel that hides part of a CMYK image becomes a grayscale opacity mask), placed (linked) files as linked images in their place, each showing the low-resolution preview the file keeps of it until its file is found or relinked in the Links panel (#1264), with the folder the file keeps relative to the document's, where the link is looked for when its path is gone, guides, and every artboard where it is, with its center mark, cross hairs, video safe areas and video ruler pixel aspect ratio. VectorCraft reads `CropAreaActive`, an `/Int` in the dictionary that holds the artboard array, as the index of the active artboard in that array, and the file opens with that artboard active; without it, or when it names no artboard that opens, the first artboard is active. It also reads the Document Raster Effects Settings (resolution, color model, background, anti-alias, clipping mask, Add Around Object and Preserve Spot Colors), the author from the header's `%%For` (an EPS's own header when the editing data's has none), swatches for the header's `%%CMYKCustomColor` and `%%RGBCustomColor` colors that the document has none of, and `%%TemplateBox` in older files; a setting with a value of another type or out of range keeps its default. Objects on Path groups open live, with their path, their objects in order along it, Pivot and Rotate; one with a dragged spacing or other options opens as a plain group. A gradient with stops in the middle runs its whole ramp across its shape, and a gradient object does not pass its fill to the next path (#1390). An object whose art style is one fill and one stroke at most (solid colours, its own gradient, a variable-width profile) with Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Convert to Shape, Tweak (only when it moves nothing) or Pucker & Bloat at 0 comes in as itself with them and their saved settings. A path, compound path or group (not a clipping group) whose only effect is Transform (not with copies or Random) or a Free Distort whose corners make a parallelogram comes in as itself with it too, when neither it nor anything in it paints with a gradient or pattern and everything in it is a path, compound path or group with no opacity mask and no effects of its own; Transform that scales, rotates or reflects needs nothing in it to be stroked. Twist as the only effect is read the same way on an unstroked path or compound path whose segments are all straight. One with more, other effects (Zig Zag, a Pucker & Bloat of another amount, a Free Distort with other corners), an effect setting that is not read (an unknown key, a missing or out-of-range value, a Scribble with a color of its own), dashes aligned to corners, a brush other than a Calligraphic one, or a Calligraphic brush with settings of its own or an angle that follows the path comes in as its drawn look (a group named after it). Objects in a symbol defined before the file's art styles section, as newer files write it, take the same styles as the layers' objects. A path with a Calligraphic brush otherwise comes in as the path, the brush on its stroke at the stroke's weight, which scales the brush (#372). A Calligraphic brush's Pressure, Tilt, Bearing and Rotation come in as those channels (a 6D Art Pen's brushes vary with the pressure, the bearing and the barrel's rotation); its Stylus Wheel varies at random. The file's Calligraphic, Scatter, Art and Bristle brushes replace the default ones in the Brushes panel, in the file's order, also when the file comes in as its PDF part (a brush library has no layers); pattern brushes and brushes it can't read are left out with a note. Type keeps its art style as a live appearance whatever its stack, so it can be retyped: each fill and stroke of the style's stack (solid colours, gradients and pattern fills, placed as the drawn look places them) with its own opacity, blend mode and effects, the effects on the whole object, and where the characters paint among them; the effects read are Warp, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Transform (with copies, Transform Objects, Transform Patterns and Scale Strokes & Effects; not with Random), Free Distort, Pucker & Bloat, Twist, Zig Zag, Tweak (only when it moves nothing, the file holding none of its random outline), Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Gaussian Blur, Bas Relief (its settings at their defaults) and Convert to Shape, and a style with others, or with an effect setting that isn't read, keeps the type's drawn look. Convert to Shape keeps its Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle or Ellipse, its Absolute or Relative size (a relative size in the file is added to each side) and its corner radius; a relative Ellipse, or a setting that isn't read, keeps the drawn look. The page's drawing of such a style isn't held to look like VectorCraft's where its drawn look lay. Gradients take their matrix (`Xm`, radials and skewed ones too), focal point and the order of stops sharing a ramp point; gradient meshes, a clipping path's own fill and its stroke, and the artboards' names are read too. `editingData: "always"` (`convert --editing-data`) opens a `.ai` or an Illustrator EPS from its editing data even where it draws differently from its page, which can be older, with a note. Type is made from the file's text document, whole and editable, shown or not: point type (its frame's matrix, which newer files leave out when it is neither turned nor scaled, read as none), area type (a story in several frames as threaded type) and type on a path, with its characters, fonts, size, leading, tracking, scaling, baseline shift, fill and stroke (grey, RGB or CMYK), alignment, indents and paragraph spacing (a character attribute a run doesn't set comes from its character style, then the style that one is based on, then the document's defaults); area type keeps its frame's Area Type Options rows and columns, the gutter between rows and the gutter between columns, and its first baseline (Fixed, Cap Height, Leading or x Height) with its minimum; the page's drawing of it (often in pieces) is left out. Vertical type keeps its orientation, its columns from right to left, and a run set to Tate-chu-yoko keeps that setting. When it makes the type of every text object that shows, the page's type is only compared with it, each text object keeps its own group, frame and layer, and a line break inside a paragraph stays one. Where it can't make a text object's type (a frame of another kind), that text object takes the page's type where the text document puts its lines, or else what is left of the page's type in painting order (no group around it); the page's type where made type draws stays that type's, and hidden type is left out with a note. Text wrap is read too: an object whose dictionary has the wrap options (offset and Invert Wrap), or any graphic of a legacy wraparound group (`*w` … `*W`, before or after its type, with no offset), is a wrap object, and area type below it in its layer flows around it when the file opens, threaded type included (#2763). Kerning, underline and the other character and paragraph options aren't read yet. A `.ai` saved without PDF compatibility (a placeholder page) opens from its editing data alone, its point type, area type and type on a path made from the text document. A `.ai` whose PDF part shows only text isn't taken for that placeholder when its page states an art, trim or bleed box: it opens from its editing data alone where that reads, else from its PDF part (#1387). A `.ai` whose PDF part draws nothing at all (an empty page, with or without those boxes) opens from its editing data alone where that reads too: there is no page art to check its layers against, and the empty page would lose all of it. Text objects with an appearance keep their own text and frame, type of hidden layers stays hidden, and type on later artboards lands on its text objects (#1391); area type whose frame is too short for a line of the fallback font shows its first line (the frame is made taller, with a warning in the open result) (#1392). Symbols are read into the Symbols panel, in the file's symbol list order, with their art, their registration point and the instances in their art, and their instances come in live with their matrix, name, hide, lock, opacity, blending mode, isolation, knockout and opacity mask; a symbol whose art isn't read whole (type, placed files, an image it leaves out or anything else it doesn't read) isn't kept. Symbols are read only with the layers: a file that comes in as its page or PDF part (editing data with no layers, layers that can't be read, or any of the cases below) opens with an empty Symbols panel. Instances of symbols it can't read, instances with appearance changes of their own (a dynamic symbol's), pattern fills whose pattern it can't read, placed files the data keeps no preview of and anything else it doesn't read make the file come in as its page (on a layer that doesn't show, they are left out of that layer), with a warning saying what. An unread object on a shown layer whose box can be found instead comes in as a group of the page's objects inside that box, named after it, with the rest of the layers and groups kept and a warning listing what came in as the page's art; the file still comes in as its page when live art or another unread object shares that page art, when the object spans two artboards or lies on an artboard that has no page, when no page art lies inside its box, when that page art is inside a page group with a clip, mask, transparency or appearance, when the object holds a frame of threaded type, when the page art uses a pattern, image or swatch that the page lacks or that differs from the editing data's, or when the page art doesn't carry its transparency (#4806). The layers' art is also compared with the page (by lightness, so colours written as their CMYK equivalents compare alike, and by whether a pixel is inked at all); the page is used when they differ by more than 5% (away from type, when all the type is made from the text document), where one draws an object the other doesn't (away from type, whose lines may be laid out afresh), and when an EPS whose page is its art's box has art printed outside it (#735). A `.ai` is not compared with its page, and its PDF part is not imported, when its text document makes the type of every text object (at least one shows, and none is drawn by the appearance of the layer or group it is in), no object is unread, no placed file has a second placement, no live envelope keeps its drawn art, it declares no large canvas, and its artboards are its pages' trim boxes one for one, in points or in the first page's `UserUnit`: it opens from its layers, with the bleed of its pages' bleed boxes. When they differ because some objects draw differently (an object in another color, or one that only one of them draws), each top-level object of the layers that holds such a difference comes in as a group of the page's objects inside its box and the layers stay, with a warning that names the layer or sublayer of each such object as the Layers panel shows it (`<Layer>` for one without a name) and how many came in from it; an export or Save As to the file's own path then needs `acknowledgeLoss: true`, and a wrap object replaced this way keeps its wrap options. The file still comes in as its page when only edges or type differ, when a difference lies outside every top-level object, when more than half of the top-level objects or more than 64 hold one, when such an object is or holds type or holds a wrap object inside a group, when the page's type of a text object that stays lies inside such an object's box, when the page's art can't replace such an object for one of the reasons above for an unread object, when matching the differences to the objects would take too much work, or when the result still differs from the page. `editingData: "always"` keeps the objects as read, and placed files at the other point their data gives are tried as well. An EPS whose page is its art's box keeps that page when it comes in through its layers, not the editing data's artboard, and a text object counts as drawn by the page by its colours, not only its lightness, so a red stroke stacked over a dark red one stays (#1102). `textAs: "outlines"` opens a `.ai` whose type shows from its PDF part, which has the outlines; `editingData: false` opens any of them as its page or PDF part only, for print pipelines (#735). A file whose import left something out (hidden text, art or layers) is never written over by an export or Save As to its own path unless `acknowledgeLoss: true` (`convert --replace-lossy`), so the original keeps what the document lacks. Where a `.ai` can't be read that way (or its layers are turned off in the import options), we read its PDF-compatible part, so Illustrator-only live objects arrive as appearance, and plain groups arrive ungrouped: that part draws each object on its own and marks only layers, clipping groups and groups with opacity, blending or a mask (those come back). Art outside the artboards isn't in that part at all (Illustrator's PDF part leaves it out), so it doesn't open; the import says so in a note (#472). Its pages still go where the editing data puts the artboards (a grid stays a grid), with the art on each, when it has as many artboards as pages, of the same sizes (#1068); the page of the artboard `CropAreaActive` names is then the active artboard. A `.ai` whose editing data has artboards but no layers also opens on that page under the same check, and its pages stay where they are. A `.ai` whose PDF part's pages are cropped to its art (each page the box of all the art, which is the editing data's bounding box) instead of its artboards opens from its layers, with its own artboards, where they draw as that page does. Its pages are laid out so that art one of them draws past its artboard (notes beside a design, which the part doesn't clip) doesn't lie over the page before it in the row, where it was taken for that page's art: the check against the editing data then found art its layers don't have there and opened the file as its PDF part, without the art outside the artboards. That part also has no paragraphs: area type is written line by line, and comes back as area type only where its font is installed and lays the lines out with the same breaks, else as a point type object per line (#508). Art off the page that a PDF does draw opens on the pasteboard.
+the app's own editing copy of a file (an EPS after its `%%EOF`, a `.ai`'s `AIPrivateData` streams, a PDF's `AIPDFPrivateData` streams when it was saved with the editing data (#868), Zstandard or zlib, the EPS's in ASCII85) is not documented as a whole. VectorCraft reads its structure: layers and sublayers (names, order, visibility, lock, printing, preview, dimming, colour), groups as they were nested, compound paths (painted by their last path, or the last painted one, with the paths of groups inside them kept as their paths: #1410), clipping groups and layer clipping (several clipping paths in a clipping group, a layer or an opacity mask's art clip to their intersection, and a compound path of clipping paths stays one clip; a filled clipping path keeps its fill, which paints under the art it clips, except the path of a mask that covers several layers, whose fill is read as a path of its own in the layer that holds the mask's path; clipping paths that would nest the art past the document's 32 levels stop the editing data from being read: #5789), object names, hidden and locked objects, fills and strokes (grey, CMYK, RGB, named and spot colours, spot colours defined in Lab with their Lab values (#1032), global process colours as global swatches at their tint; a stroke of width 0, `0 w`, on a path, a gradient-filled path, legacy type or in an art style comes in as a 0.25 pt hairline, as from PDF: #1671), linear and radial gradients, pattern fills with their patterns as pattern swatches (#1025), gradient and pattern names in the file up to their first newline (a name that another swatch, or a gradient or pattern defined earlier, already has is numbered "Sky 2"; a name without a newline is kept, and when another swatch has it, the pattern's swatch, or a named color sharing a gradient or pattern swatch's name, is numbered the same way), opacity, blend modes, isolation and knockout, embedded images where their matrix puts them, rotated ones too (#2269), with their alpha channel (CMYK images keep their ink amounts, as they do when a `.ai` opens from its PDF part, and an alpha channel that hides part of a CMYK image becomes a grayscale opacity mask), placed (linked) files as linked images in their place, each showing the low-resolution preview the file keeps of it until its file is found or relinked in the Links panel (#1264), with the folder the file keeps relative to the document's, where the link is looked for when its path is gone, guides, and every artboard where it is, with its center mark, cross hairs, video safe areas and video ruler pixel aspect ratio. VectorCraft reads `CropAreaActive`, an `/Int` in the dictionary that holds the artboard array, as the index of the active artboard in that array, and the file opens with that artboard active; without it, or when it names no artboard that opens, the first artboard is active. It also reads the Document Raster Effects Settings (resolution, color model, background, anti-alias, clipping mask, Add Around Object and Preserve Spot Colors), the author from the header's `%%For` (an EPS's own header when the editing data's has none), swatches for the header's `%%CMYKCustomColor` and `%%RGBCustomColor` colors that the document has none of, and `%%TemplateBox` in older files; a setting with a value of another type or out of range keeps its default. Objects on Path groups open live, with their path, their objects in order along it, Pivot and Rotate; one with a dragged spacing or other options opens as a plain group. A gradient with stops in the middle runs its whole ramp across its shape, and a gradient object does not pass its fill to the next path (#1390). An object whose art style is one fill and one stroke at most (solid colours, its own gradient, a variable-width profile) with Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Convert to Shape, Tweak (only when it moves nothing) or Pucker & Bloat at 0 comes in as itself with them and their saved settings. A path, compound path or group (not a clipping group) whose only effect is Transform (not with copies or Random) or a Free Distort whose corners make a parallelogram comes in as itself with it too, when neither it nor anything in it paints with a gradient or pattern and everything in it is a path, compound path or group with no opacity mask and no effects of its own; Transform that scales, rotates or reflects needs nothing in it to be stroked. Twist as the only effect is read the same way on an unstroked path or compound path whose segments are all straight. One with more, other effects (Zig Zag, a Pucker & Bloat of another amount, a Free Distort with other corners), an effect setting that is not read (an unknown key, a missing or out-of-range value, a Scribble with a color of its own), dashes aligned to corners, a brush other than a Calligraphic or Art one, a Calligraphic brush with settings of its own or an angle that follows the path, or an Art brush other than the ones described next comes in as its drawn look (a group named after it). A path with a Calligraphic brush otherwise comes in as the path, the brush on its stroke at the stroke's weight, which scales the brush (#372), and so does a path with an Art brush, whose weight scales the art across the path, when all of these hold: the brush stretches its art along the path, unflipped, at 100% in Tints; the path's settings are the brush's own, with no entry that isn't read, no variable width and no effects; its stroke isn't a swatch; and the art is paths, compound paths and groups in solid fills, with no strokes, masks or effects, and has some length along the path. A stroke takes the brush the Brushes panel keeps under its name, and one whose name the panel doesn't keep comes in as its drawn look. Type with an Art brush keeps its drawn look under the type. A Calligraphic brush's Pressure, Tilt, Bearing and Rotation come in as those channels (a 6D Art Pen's brushes vary with the pressure, the bearing and the barrel's rotation); its Stylus Wheel varies at random. The file's Calligraphic, Scatter, Art and Bristle brushes replace the default ones in the Brushes panel, in the file's order, also when the file comes in as its PDF part (a brush library has no layers); pattern brushes and brushes it can't read are left out with a note. Type keeps its art style as a live appearance whatever its stack (an Art brush aside), so it can be retyped: each fill and stroke of the style's stack (solid colours, gradients and pattern fills, placed as the drawn look places them) with its own opacity, blend mode and effects, the effects on the whole object, and where the characters paint among them; the effects read are Warp, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Transform (with copies, Transform Objects, Transform Patterns and Scale Strokes & Effects; not with Random), Free Distort, Pucker & Bloat, Twist, Zig Zag, Tweak (only when it moves nothing, the file holding none of its random outline), Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Gaussian Blur, Bas Relief (its settings at their defaults) and Convert to Shape, and a style with others, or with an effect setting that isn't read, keeps the type's drawn look. Convert to Shape keeps its Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle or Ellipse, its Absolute or Relative size (a relative size in the file is added to each side) and its corner radius; a relative Ellipse, or a setting that isn't read, keeps the drawn look. The page's drawing of such a style isn't held to look like VectorCraft's where its drawn look lay. Gradients take their matrix (`Xm`, radials and skewed ones too), focal point and the order of stops sharing a ramp point; gradient meshes, a clipping path's own fill and its stroke, and the artboards' names are read too. `editingData: "always"` (`convert --editing-data`) opens a `.ai` or an Illustrator EPS from its editing data even where it draws differently from its page, which can be older, with a note. Type is made from the file's text document, whole and editable, shown or not: point type (its frame's matrix, which newer files leave out when it is neither turned nor scaled, read as none), area type (a story in several frames as threaded type) and type on a path, with its characters, fonts, size, leading, tracking, scaling, baseline shift, fill and stroke (grey, RGB or CMYK), alignment, indents and paragraph spacing (a character attribute a run doesn't set comes from its character style, then the style that one is based on, then the document's defaults); area type keeps its frame's Area Type Options rows and columns, the gutter between rows and the gutter between columns, and its first baseline (Fixed, Cap Height, Leading or x Height) with its minimum; the page's drawing of it (often in pieces) is left out. Vertical type keeps its orientation, its columns from right to left, and a run set to Tate-chu-yoko keeps that setting. When it makes the type of every text object that shows, the page's type is only compared with it, each text object keeps its own group, frame and layer, and a line break inside a paragraph stays one. Where it can't make a text object's type (a frame of another kind), that text object takes the page's type where the text document puts its lines, or else what is left of the page's type in painting order (no group around it); the page's type where made type draws stays that type's, and hidden type is left out with a note. Text wrap is read too: an object whose dictionary has the wrap options (offset and Invert Wrap), or any graphic of a legacy wraparound group (`*w` … `*W`, before or after its type, with no offset), is a wrap object, and area type below it in its layer flows around it when the file opens, threaded type included (#2763). Kerning, underline and the other character and paragraph options aren't read yet. A `.ai` saved without PDF compatibility (a placeholder page) opens from its editing data alone, its point type, area type and type on a path made from the text document. A `.ai` whose PDF part shows only text isn't taken for that placeholder when its page states an art, trim or bleed box: it opens from its editing data alone where that reads, else from its PDF part (#1387). A `.ai` whose PDF part draws nothing at all (an empty page, with or without those boxes) opens from its editing data alone where that reads too: there is no page art to check its layers against, and the empty page would lose all of it. Text objects with an appearance keep their own text and frame, type of hidden layers stays hidden, and type on later artboards lands on its text objects (#1391); area type whose frame is too short for a line of the fallback font shows its first line (the frame is made taller, with a warning in the open result) (#1392). Symbols are read into the Symbols panel, in the file's symbol list order, with their art, their registration point and the instances in their art, and their instances come in live with their matrix, name, hide, lock, opacity, blending mode, isolation, knockout and opacity mask; a symbol whose art isn't read whole (type, placed files, an image it leaves out or anything else it doesn't read) isn't kept. Symbols are read only with the layers: a file that comes in as its page or PDF part (editing data with no layers, layers that can't be read, or any of the cases below) opens with an empty Symbols panel. Instances of symbols it can't read, instances with appearance changes of their own (a dynamic symbol's), pattern fills whose pattern it can't read, placed files the data keeps no preview of and anything else it doesn't read make the file come in as its page (on a layer that doesn't show, they are left out of that layer), with a warning saying what. An unread object on a shown layer whose box can be found instead comes in as a group of the page's objects inside that box, named after it, with the rest of the layers and groups kept and a warning listing what came in as the page's art; the file still comes in as its page when live art or another unread object shares that page art, when the object spans two artboards or lies on an artboard that has no page, when no page art lies inside its box, when that page art is inside a page group with a clip, mask, transparency or appearance, when the object holds a frame of threaded type, when the page art uses a pattern, image or swatch that the page lacks or that differs from the editing data's, or when the page art doesn't carry its transparency (#4806). The layers' art is also compared with the page (by lightness, so colours written as their CMYK equivalents compare alike, and by whether a pixel is inked at all); the page is used when they differ by more than 5% (away from type, when all the type is made from the text document), where one draws an object the other doesn't (away from type, whose lines may be laid out afresh), and when an EPS whose page is its art's box has art printed outside it (#735). A `.ai` is not compared with its page, and its PDF part is not imported, when its text document makes the type of every text object (at least one shows, and none is drawn by the appearance of the layer or group it is in), no object is unread, no placed file has a second placement, no live envelope keeps its drawn art, it declares no large canvas, and its artboards are its pages' trim boxes one for one, in points or in the first page's `UserUnit`: it opens from its layers, with the bleed of its pages' bleed boxes. When they differ because some objects draw differently (an object in another color, or one that only one of them draws), each top-level object of the layers that holds such a difference comes in as a group of the page's objects inside its box and the layers stay, with a warning that names the layer or sublayer of each such object as the Layers panel shows it (`<Layer>` for one without a name) and how many came in from it; an export or Save As to the file's own path then needs `acknowledgeLoss: true`, and a wrap object replaced this way keeps its wrap options. The file still comes in as its page when only edges or type differ, when a difference lies outside every top-level object, when more than half of the top-level objects or more than 64 hold one, when such an object is or holds type or holds a wrap object inside a group, when the page's type of a text object that stays lies inside such an object's box, when the page's art can't replace such an object for one of the reasons above for an unread object, when matching the differences to the objects would take too much work, or when the result still differs from the page. `editingData: "always"` keeps the objects as read, and placed files at the other point their data gives are tried as well. An EPS whose page is its art's box keeps that page when it comes in through its layers, not the editing data's artboard, and a text object counts as drawn by the page by its colours, not only its lightness, so a red stroke stacked over a dark red one stays (#1102). `textAs: "outlines"` opens a `.ai` whose type shows from its PDF part, which has the outlines; `editingData: false` opens any of them as its page or PDF part only, for print pipelines (#735). A file whose import left something out (hidden text, art or layers) is never written over by an export or Save As to its own path unless `acknowledgeLoss: true` (`convert --replace-lossy`), so the original keeps what the document lacks. Where a `.ai` can't be read that way (or its layers are turned off in the import options), we read its PDF-compatible part, so Illustrator-only live objects arrive as appearance, and plain groups arrive ungrouped: that part draws each object on its own and marks only layers, clipping groups and groups with opacity, blending or a mask (those come back). Art outside the artboards isn't in that part at all (Illustrator's PDF part leaves it out), so it doesn't open; the import says so in a note (#472). Its pages still go where the editing data puts the artboards (a grid stays a grid), with the art on each, when it has as many artboards as pages, of the same sizes (#1068); the page of the artboard `CropAreaActive` names is then the active artboard. A `.ai` whose editing data has artboards but no layers also opens on that page under the same check, and its pages stay where they are. A `.ai` whose PDF part's pages are cropped to its art (each page the box of all the art, which is the editing data's bounding box) instead of its artboards opens from its layers, with its own artboards, where they draw as that page does. Its pages are laid out so that art one of them draws past its artboard (notes beside a design, which the part doesn't clip) doesn't lie over the page before it in the row, where it was taken for that page's art: the check against the editing data then found art its layers don't have there and opened the file as its PDF part, without the art outside the artboards. That part also has no paragraphs: area type is written line by line, and comes back as area type only where its font is installed and lays the lines out with the same breaks, else as a point type object per line (#508). Art off the page that a PDF does draw opens on the pasteboard.
+the app's own editing copy of a file (an EPS after its `%%EOF`, a `.ai`'s `AIPrivateData` streams, a PDF's `AIPDFPrivateData` streams when it was saved with the editing data (#868), Zstandard or zlib, the EPS's in ASCII85) is not documented as a whole. VectorCraft reads its structure: layers and sublayers (names, order, visibility, lock, printing, preview, dimming, colour), groups as they were nested, compound paths (painted by their last path, or the last painted one, with the paths of groups inside them kept as their paths: #1410), clipping groups and layer clipping (several clipping paths in a clipping group, a layer or an opacity mask's art clip to their intersection, and a compound path of clipping paths stays one clip; a filled clipping path keeps its fill, which paints under the art it clips; clipping paths that would nest the art past the document's 32 levels stop the editing data from being read: #5789), object names, hidden and locked objects, fills and strokes (grey, CMYK, RGB, named and spot colours, spot colours defined in Lab with their Lab values (#1032), global process colours as global swatches at their tint; a stroke of width 0, `0 w`, on a path, a gradient-filled path, legacy type or in an art style comes in as a 0.25 pt hairline, as from PDF: #1671), linear and radial gradients, pattern fills with their patterns as pattern swatches (#1025), gradient and pattern names in the file up to their first newline (a name that another swatch, or a gradient or pattern defined earlier, already has is numbered "Sky 2"; a name without a newline is kept, and when another swatch has it, the pattern's swatch, or a named color sharing a gradient or pattern swatch's name, is numbered the same way), opacity, blend modes, isolation and knockout, embedded images where their matrix puts them, rotated ones too (#2269), with their alpha channel (CMYK images keep their ink amounts, as they do when a `.ai` opens from its PDF part, and an alpha channel that hides part of a CMYK image becomes a grayscale opacity mask), placed (linked) files as linked images in their place, each showing the low-resolution preview the file keeps of it until its file is found or relinked in the Links panel (#1264), with the folder the file keeps relative to the document's, where the link is looked for when its path is gone, guides, and every artboard where it is, with its center mark, cross hairs, video safe areas and video ruler pixel aspect ratio. VectorCraft reads `CropAreaActive`, an `/Int` in the dictionary that holds the artboard array, as the index of the active artboard in that array, and the file opens with that artboard active; without it, or when it names no artboard that opens, the first artboard is active. It also reads the Document Raster Effects Settings (resolution, color model, background, anti-alias, clipping mask, Add Around Object and Preserve Spot Colors), the author from the header's `%%For` (an EPS's own header when the editing data's has none), swatches for the header's `%%CMYKCustomColor` and `%%RGBCustomColor` colors that the document has none of, and `%%TemplateBox` in older files; a setting with a value of another type or out of range keeps its default. Objects on Path groups open live, with their path, their objects in order along it, Pivot and Rotate; one with a dragged spacing or other options opens as a plain group. A gradient with stops in the middle runs its whole ramp across its shape, and a gradient object does not pass its fill to the next path (#1390). An object whose art style is one fill and one stroke at most (solid colours, its own gradient, a variable-width profile) with Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Convert to Shape, Tweak (only when it moves nothing) or Pucker & Bloat at 0 comes in as itself with them and their saved settings. A path, compound path or group (not a clipping group) whose only effect is Transform (not with copies or Random) or a Free Distort whose corners make a parallelogram comes in as itself with it too, when neither it nor anything in it paints with a gradient or pattern and everything in it is a path, compound path or group with no opacity mask and no effects of its own; Transform that scales, rotates or reflects needs nothing in it to be stroked. Twist as the only effect is read the same way on an unstroked path or compound path whose segments are all straight. One with more, other effects (Zig Zag, a Pucker & Bloat of another amount, a Free Distort with other corners), an effect setting that is not read (an unknown key, a missing or out-of-range value, a Scribble with a color of its own), dashes aligned to corners, a brush other than a Calligraphic one, or a Calligraphic brush with settings of its own or an angle that follows the path comes in as its drawn look (a group named after it). Objects in a symbol defined before the file's art styles section, as newer files write it, take the same styles as the layers' objects. A path with a Calligraphic brush otherwise comes in as the path, the brush on its stroke at the stroke's weight, which scales the brush (#372). A Calligraphic brush's Pressure, Tilt, Bearing and Rotation come in as those channels (a 6D Art Pen's brushes vary with the pressure, the bearing and the barrel's rotation); its Stylus Wheel varies at random. The file's Calligraphic, Scatter, Art and Bristle brushes replace the default ones in the Brushes panel, in the file's order, also when the file comes in as its PDF part (a brush library has no layers); pattern brushes and brushes it can't read are left out with a note. Type keeps its art style as a live appearance whatever its stack, so it can be retyped: each fill and stroke of the style's stack (solid colours, gradients and pattern fills, placed as the drawn look places them) with its own opacity, blend mode and effects, the effects on the whole object, and where the characters paint among them; the effects read are Warp, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Transform (with copies, Transform Objects, Transform Patterns and Scale Strokes & Effects; not with Random), Free Distort, Pucker & Bloat, Twist, Zig Zag, Tweak (only when it moves nothing, the file holding none of its random outline), Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Gaussian Blur, Bas Relief (its settings at their defaults) and Convert to Shape, and a style with others, or with an effect setting that isn't read, keeps the type's drawn look. Convert to Shape keeps its Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle or Ellipse, its Absolute or Relative size (a relative size in the file is added to each side) and its corner radius; a relative Ellipse, or a setting that isn't read, keeps the drawn look. The page's drawing of such a style isn't held to look like VectorCraft's where its drawn look lay. Gradients take their matrix (`Xm`, radials and skewed ones too), focal point and the order of stops sharing a ramp point; gradient meshes, a clipping path's own fill and its stroke, and the artboards' names are read too. `editingData: "always"` (`convert --editing-data`) opens a `.ai` or an Illustrator EPS from its editing data even where it draws differently from its page, which can be older, with a note. Type is made from the file's text document, whole and editable, shown or not: point type (its frame's matrix, which newer files leave out when it is neither turned nor scaled, read as none), area type (a story in several frames as threaded type) and type on a path, with its characters, fonts, size, leading, tracking, scaling, baseline shift, fill and stroke (grey, RGB or CMYK), alignment, indents and paragraph spacing (a character attribute a run doesn't set comes from its character style, then the style that one is based on, then the document's defaults); area type keeps its frame's Area Type Options rows and columns, the gutter between rows and the gutter between columns, and its first baseline (Fixed, Cap Height, Leading or x Height) with its minimum; the page's drawing of it (often in pieces) is left out. Vertical type keeps its orientation, its columns from right to left, and a run set to Tate-chu-yoko keeps that setting. When it makes the type of every text object that shows, the page's type is only compared with it, each text object keeps its own group, frame and layer, and a line break inside a paragraph stays one. Where it can't make a text object's type (a frame of another kind), that text object takes the page's type where the text document puts its lines, or else what is left of the page's type in painting order (no group around it); the page's type where made type draws stays that type's, and hidden type is left out with a note. Text wrap is read too: an object whose dictionary has the wrap options (offset and Invert Wrap), or any graphic of a legacy wraparound group (`*w` … `*W`, before or after its type, with no offset), is a wrap object, and area type below it in its layer flows around it when the file opens, threaded type included (#2763). Kerning, underline and the other character and paragraph options aren't read yet. A `.ai` saved without PDF compatibility (a placeholder page) opens from its editing data alone, its point type, area type and type on a path made from the text document. A `.ai` whose PDF part shows only text isn't taken for that placeholder when its page states an art, trim or bleed box: it opens from its editing data alone where that reads, else from its PDF part (#1387). A `.ai` whose PDF part draws nothing at all (an empty page, with or without those boxes) opens from its editing data alone where that reads too: there is no page art to check its layers against, and the empty page would lose all of it. Text objects with an appearance keep their own text and frame, type of hidden layers stays hidden, and type on later artboards lands on its text objects (#1391); area type whose frame is too short for a line of the fallback font shows its first line (the frame is made taller, with a warning in the open result) (#1392). Symbols are read into the Symbols panel, in the file's symbol list order, with their art, their registration point and the instances in their art, and their instances come in live with their matrix, name, hide, lock, opacity, blending mode, isolation, knockout and opacity mask; a symbol whose art isn't read whole (type, placed files, an image it leaves out or anything else it doesn't read) isn't kept. Symbols are read only with the layers: a file that comes in as its page or PDF part (editing data with no layers, layers that can't be read, or any of the cases below) opens with an empty Symbols panel. Instances of symbols it can't read, instances with appearance changes of their own (a dynamic symbol's), pattern fills whose pattern it can't read, placed files the data keeps no preview of and anything else it doesn't read make the file come in as its page (on a layer that doesn't show, they are left out of that layer), with a warning saying what. An unread object on a shown layer whose box can be found instead comes in as a group of the page's objects inside that box, named after it, with the rest of the layers and groups kept and a warning listing what came in as the page's art; the file still comes in as its page when live art or another unread object shares that page art, when the object spans two artboards or lies on an artboard that has no page, when no page art lies inside its box, when that page art is inside a page group with a clip, mask, transparency or appearance, when the object holds a frame of threaded type, when the page art uses a pattern, image or swatch that the page lacks or that differs from the editing data's, or when the page art doesn't carry its transparency (#4806). The layers' art is also compared with the page (by lightness, so colours written as their CMYK equivalents compare alike, and by whether a pixel is inked at all); the page is used when they differ by more than 5% (away from type, when all the type is made from the text document), where one draws an object the other doesn't (away from type, whose lines may be laid out afresh), and when an EPS whose page is its art's box has art printed outside it (#735). A `.ai` is not compared with its page, and its PDF part is not imported, when its text document makes the type of every text object (at least one shows, and none is drawn by the appearance of the layer or group it is in), no object is unread, no placed file has a second placement, no live envelope keeps its drawn art, it declares no large canvas, and its artboards are its pages' trim boxes one for one, in points or in the first page's `UserUnit`: it opens from its layers, with the bleed of its pages' bleed boxes. When they differ because some objects draw differently (an object in another color, or one that only one of them draws), each top-level object of the layers that holds such a difference comes in as a group of the page's objects inside its box and the layers stay, with a warning that names the layer or sublayer of each such object as the Layers panel shows it (`<Layer>` for one without a name) and how many came in from it; an export or Save As to the file's own path then needs `acknowledgeLoss: true`, and a wrap object replaced this way keeps its wrap options. The file still comes in as its page when only edges or type differ, when a difference lies outside every top-level object, when more than half of the top-level objects or more than 64 hold one, when such an object is or holds type or holds a wrap object inside a group, when the page's type of a text object that stays lies inside such an object's box, when the page's art can't replace such an object for one of the reasons above for an unread object, when matching the differences to the objects would take too much work, or when the result still differs from the page. `editingData: "always"` keeps the objects as read, and placed files at the other point their data gives are tried as well. An EPS whose page is its art's box keeps that page when it comes in through its layers, not the editing data's artboard, and a text object counts as drawn by the page by its colours, not only its lightness, so a red stroke stacked over a dark red one stays (#1102). `textAs: "outlines"` opens a `.ai` whose type shows from its PDF part, which has the outlines; `editingData: false` opens any of them as its page or PDF part only, for print pipelines (#735). A file whose import left something out (hidden text, art or layers) is never written over by an export or Save As to its own path unless `acknowledgeLoss: true` (`convert --replace-lossy`), so the original keeps what the document lacks. Where a `.ai` can't be read that way (or its layers are turned off in the import options), we read its PDF-compatible part, so Illustrator-only live objects arrive as appearance, and plain groups arrive ungrouped: that part draws each object on its own and marks only layers, clipping groups and groups with opacity, blending or a mask (those come back). Art outside the artboards isn't in that part at all (Illustrator's PDF part leaves it out), so it doesn't open; the import says so in a note (#472). Its pages still go where the editing data puts the artboards (a grid stays a grid), with the art on each, when it has as many artboards as pages, of the same sizes (#1068); the page of the artboard `CropAreaActive` names is then the active artboard. A `.ai` whose editing data has artboards but no layers also opens on that page under the same check, and its pages stay where they are. A `.ai` whose PDF part's pages are cropped to its art (each page the box of all the art, which is the editing data's bounding box) instead of its artboards opens from its layers, with its own artboards, where they draw as that page does. Its pages are laid out so that art one of them draws past its artboard (notes beside a design, which the part doesn't clip) doesn't lie over the page before it in the row, where it was taken for that page's art: the check against the editing data then found art its layers don't have there and opened the file as its PDF part, without the art outside the artboards. That part also has no paragraphs: area type is written line by line, and comes back as area type only where its font is installed and lays the lines out with the same breaks, else as a point type object per line (#508). Art off the page that a PDF does draw opens on the pasteboard.
+the app's own editing copy of a file (an EPS after its `%%EOF`, a `.ai`'s `AIPrivateData` streams, a PDF's `AIPDFPrivateData` streams when it was saved with the editing data (#868), Zstandard or zlib, the EPS's in ASCII85) is not documented as a whole. VectorCraft reads its structure: layers and sublayers (names, order, visibility, lock, printing, preview, dimming, colour), groups as they were nested, compound paths (painted by their last path, or the last painted one, with the paths of groups inside them kept as their paths: #1410), clipping groups and layer clipping (several clipping paths in a clipping group, a layer or an opacity mask's art clip to their intersection, and a compound path of clipping paths stays one clip; a filled clipping path keeps its fill, which paints under the art it clips; clipping paths that would nest the art past the document's 32 levels stop the editing data from being read: #5789), object names, hidden and locked objects, fills and strokes (grey, CMYK, RGB, named and spot colours, spot colours defined in Lab with their Lab values (#1032), global process colours as global swatches at their tint; a stroke of width 0, `0 w`, on a path, a gradient-filled path, legacy type or in an art style comes in as a 0.25 pt hairline, as from PDF: #1671), linear and radial gradients, pattern fills with their patterns as pattern swatches (#1025), gradient and pattern names in the file up to their first newline (a name that another swatch, or a gradient or pattern defined earlier, already has is numbered "Sky 2"; a name without a newline is kept, and when another swatch has it, the pattern's swatch, or a named color sharing a gradient or pattern swatch's name, is numbered the same way), opacity, blend modes, isolation and knockout, embedded images where their matrix puts them, rotated ones too (#2269), with their alpha channel (CMYK images keep their ink amounts, as they do when a `.ai` opens from its PDF part, and an alpha channel that hides part of a CMYK image becomes a grayscale opacity mask), placed (linked) files as linked images in their place, each showing the low-resolution preview the file keeps of it until its file is found or relinked in the Links panel (#1264), with the folder the file keeps relative to the document's, where the link is looked for when its path is gone, guides, and every artboard where it is, with its center mark, cross hairs, video safe areas and video ruler pixel aspect ratio. VectorCraft reads `CropAreaActive`, an `/Int` in the dictionary that holds the artboard array, as the index of the active artboard in that array, and the file opens with that artboard active; without it, or when it names no artboard that opens, the first artboard is active. It also reads the Document Raster Effects Settings (resolution, color model, background, anti-alias, clipping mask, Add Around Object and Preserve Spot Colors), the author from the header's `%%For` (an EPS's own header when the editing data's has none), swatches for the header's `%%CMYKCustomColor` and `%%RGBCustomColor` colors that the document has none of, and `%%TemplateBox` in older files; a setting with a value of another type or out of range keeps its default. Objects on Path groups open live, with their path, their objects in order along it, Pivot and Rotate; one with a dragged spacing or other options opens as a plain group. A gradient with stops in the middle runs its whole ramp across its shape, and a gradient object does not pass its fill to the next path (#1390). An object whose art style is one fill and one stroke at most (solid colours, its own gradient, a variable-width profile) with Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Convert to Shape, Tweak (only when it moves nothing) or Pucker & Bloat at 0 comes in as itself with them and their saved settings. A path, compound path or group (not a clipping group) whose only effect is Transform (not with copies or Random) or a Free Distort whose corners make a parallelogram comes in as itself with it too, when neither it nor anything in it paints with a gradient or pattern and everything in it is a path, compound path or group with no opacity mask and no effects of its own; Transform that scales, rotates or reflects needs nothing in it to be stroked. Twist as the only effect is read the same way on an unstroked path or compound path whose segments are all straight. One with more, other effects (Zig Zag, a Pucker & Bloat of another amount, a Free Distort with other corners), an effect setting that is not read (an unknown key, a missing or out-of-range value, a Scribble with a color of its own), dashes aligned to corners, a brush other than a Calligraphic or Art one, a Calligraphic brush with settings of its own or an angle that follows the path, or an Art brush other than the ones described next comes in as its drawn look (a group named after it). A path with a Calligraphic brush otherwise comes in as the path, the brush on its stroke at the stroke's weight, which scales the brush (#372), and so does a path with an Art brush, whose weight scales the art across the path, when all of these hold: the brush stretches its art along the path, unflipped, at 100% in Tints; the path's settings are the brush's own, with no entry that isn't read, no variable width and no effects; its stroke isn't a swatch; and the art is paths, compound paths and groups in solid fills, with no strokes, masks or effects, and has some length along the path. A stroke takes the brush the Brushes panel keeps under its name, and one whose name the panel doesn't keep comes in as its drawn look. Type with an Art brush keeps its drawn look under the type. A Calligraphic brush's Pressure, Tilt, Bearing and Rotation come in as those channels (a 6D Art Pen's brushes vary with the pressure, the bearing and the barrel's rotation); its Stylus Wheel varies at random. The file's Calligraphic, Scatter, Art and Bristle brushes replace the default ones in the Brushes panel, in the file's order, also when the file comes in as its PDF part (a brush library has no layers); pattern brushes and brushes it can't read are left out with a note. Type keeps its art style as a live appearance whatever its stack (an Art brush aside), so it can be retyped: each fill and stroke of the style's stack (solid colours, gradients and pattern fills, placed as the drawn look places them) with its own opacity, blend mode and effects, the effects on the whole object, and where the characters paint among them; the effects read are Warp, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Transform (with copies, Transform Objects, Transform Patterns and Scale Strokes & Effects; not with Random), Free Distort, Pucker & Bloat, Twist, Zig Zag, Tweak (only when it moves nothing, the file holding none of its random outline), Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Gaussian Blur, Bas Relief (its settings at their defaults) and Convert to Shape, and a style with others, or with an effect setting that isn't read, keeps the type's drawn look. Convert to Shape keeps its Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle or Ellipse, its Absolute or Relative size (a relative size in the file is added to each side) and its corner radius; a relative Ellipse, or a setting that isn't read, keeps the drawn look. The page's drawing of such a style isn't held to look like VectorCraft's where its drawn look lay. Gradients take their matrix (`Xm`, radials and skewed ones too), focal point and the order of stops sharing a ramp point; gradient meshes, a clipping path's own fill and its stroke, and the artboards' names are read too. `editingData: "always"` (`convert --editing-data`) opens a `.ai` or an Illustrator EPS from its editing data even where it draws differently from its page, which can be older, with a note. Type is made from the file's text document, whole and editable, shown or not: point type (its frame's matrix, which newer files leave out when it is neither turned nor scaled, read as none), area type (a story in several frames as threaded type) and type on a path, with its characters, fonts, size, leading, tracking, scaling, baseline shift, fill and stroke (grey, RGB or CMYK), alignment, indents and paragraph spacing (a character attribute a run doesn't set comes from its character style, then the style that one is based on, then the document's defaults); area type keeps its frame's Area Type Options rows and columns, the gutter between rows and the gutter between columns, and its first baseline (Fixed, Cap Height, Leading or x Height) with its minimum; the page's drawing of it (often in pieces) is left out. Vertical type keeps its orientation, its columns from right to left, and a run set to Tate-chu-yoko keeps that setting. When it makes the type of every text object that shows, the page's type is only compared with it, each text object keeps its own group, frame and layer, and a line break inside a paragraph stays one. Where it can't make a text object's type (a frame of another kind), that text object takes the page's type where the text document puts its lines, or else what is left of the page's type in painting order (no group around it); the page's type where made type draws stays that type's, and hidden type is left out with a note. Text wrap is read too: an object whose dictionary has the wrap options (offset and Invert Wrap), or any graphic of a legacy wraparound group (`*w` … `*W`, before or after its type, with no offset), is a wrap object, and area type below it in its layer flows around it when the file opens, threaded type included (#2763). Kerning, underline and the other character and paragraph options aren't read yet. A `.ai` saved without PDF compatibility (a placeholder page) opens from its editing data alone, its point type, area type and type on a path made from the text document. A `.ai` whose PDF part shows only text isn't taken for that placeholder when its page states an art, trim or bleed box: it opens from its editing data alone where that reads, else from its PDF part (#1387). A `.ai` whose PDF part draws nothing at all (an empty page, with or without those boxes) opens from its editing data alone where that reads too: there is no page art to check its layers against, and the empty page would lose all of it. Text objects with an appearance keep their own text and frame, type of hidden layers stays hidden, and type on later artboards lands on its text objects (#1391); area type whose frame is too short for a line of the fallback font shows its first line (the frame is made taller, with a warning in the open result) (#1392). Symbols are read into the Symbols panel, in the file's symbol list order, with their art, their registration point and the instances in their art, and their instances come in live with their matrix, name, hide, lock, opacity, blending mode, isolation, knockout and opacity mask; a symbol whose art isn't read whole (type, placed files, an image it leaves out or anything else it doesn't read) isn't kept. Symbols are read only with the layers: a file that comes in as its page or PDF part (editing data with no layers, layers that can't be read, or any of the cases below) opens with an empty Symbols panel. Instances of symbols it can't read, instances with appearance changes of their own (a dynamic symbol's), pattern fills whose pattern it can't read, placed files the data keeps no preview of and anything else it doesn't read make the file come in as its page (on a layer that doesn't show, they are left out of that layer), with a warning saying what. An unread object on a shown layer whose box can be found instead comes in as a group of the page's objects inside that box, named after it, with the rest of the layers and groups kept and a warning listing what came in as the page's art; the file still comes in as its page when live art or another unread object shares that page art, when the object spans two artboards or lies on an artboard that has no page, when no page art lies inside its box, when that page art is inside a page group with a clip, mask, transparency or appearance, when the object holds a frame of threaded type, when the page art uses a pattern, image or swatch that the page lacks or that differs from the editing data's, or when the page art doesn't carry its transparency (#4806). The layers' art is also compared with the page (by lightness, so colours written as their CMYK equivalents compare alike, and by whether a pixel is inked at all); the page is used when they differ by more than 5% (away from type, when all the type is made from the text document), where one draws an object the other doesn't (away from type, whose lines may be laid out afresh), and when an EPS whose page is its art's box has art printed outside it (#735). A `.ai` is not compared with its page, and its PDF part is not imported, when its text document makes the type of every text object (at least one shows, and none is drawn by the appearance of the layer or group it is in), no object is unread, no placed file has a second placement, no live envelope keeps its drawn art, it declares no large canvas, and its artboards are its pages' trim boxes one for one, in points or in the first page's `UserUnit`: it opens from its layers, with the bleed of its pages' bleed boxes. When they differ because some objects draw differently (an object in another color, or one that only one of them draws), each top-level object of the layers that holds such a difference comes in as a group of the page's objects inside its box and the layers stay, with a warning that names the layer or sublayer of each such object as the Layers panel shows it (`<Layer>` for one without a name) and how many came in from it; an export or Save As to the file's own path then needs `acknowledgeLoss: true`, and a wrap object replaced this way keeps its wrap options. The file still comes in as its page when only edges or type differ, when a difference lies outside every top-level object, when more than half of the top-level objects or more than 64 hold one, when such an object is or holds type or holds a wrap object inside a group, when the page's type of a text object that stays lies inside such an object's box, when the page's art can't replace such an object for one of the reasons above for an unread object, when matching the differences to the objects would take too much work, or when the result still differs from the page. `editingData: "always"` keeps the objects as read, and placed files at the other point their data gives are tried as well. An EPS whose page is its art's box keeps that page when it comes in through its layers, not the editing data's artboard, and a text object counts as drawn by the page by its colours, not only its lightness, so a red stroke stacked over a dark red one stays (#1102). `textAs: "outlines"` opens a `.ai` whose type shows from its PDF part, which has the outlines; `editingData: false` opens any of them as its page or PDF part only, for print pipelines (#735). A file whose import left something out (hidden text, art or layers) is never written over by an export or Save As to its own path unless `acknowledgeLoss: true` (`convert --replace-lossy`), so the original keeps what the document lacks. Where a `.ai` can't be read that way (or its layers are turned off in the import options), we read its PDF-compatible part, so Illustrator-only live objects arrive as appearance, and plain groups arrive ungrouped: that part draws each object on its own and marks only layers, clipping groups and groups with opacity, blending or a mask (those come back). Art outside the artboards isn't in that part at all (Illustrator's PDF part leaves it out), so it doesn't open; the import says so in a note (#472). Its pages still go where the editing data puts the artboards (a grid stays a grid), with the art on each, when it has as many artboards as pages, of the same sizes (#1068); the page of the artboard `CropAreaActive` names is then the active artboard. A `.ai` whose editing data has artboards but no layers also opens on that page under the same check, and its pages stay where they are. A `.ai` whose PDF part's pages are cropped to its art (each page the box of all the art, which is the editing data's bounding box) instead of its artboards opens from its layers, with its own artboards, where they draw as that page does. Its pages are laid out so that art one of them draws past its artboard (notes beside a design, which the part doesn't clip) doesn't lie over the page before it in the row, where it was taken for that page's art: the check against the editing data then found art its layers don't have there and opened the file as its PDF part, without the art outside the artboards. That part also has no paragraphs: area type is written line by line, and comes back as area type only where its font is installed and lays the lines out with the same breaks, else as a point type object per line (#508). Art off the page that a PDF does draw opens on the pasteboard.
+the app's own editing copy of a file (an EPS after its `%%EOF`, a `.ai`'s `AIPrivateData` streams, a PDF's `AIPDFPrivateData` streams when it was saved with the editing data (#868), Zstandard or zlib, the EPS's in ASCII85) is not documented as a whole. VectorCraft reads its structure: layers and sublayers (names, order, visibility, lock, printing, preview, dimming, colour), groups as they were nested, compound paths (painted by their last path, or the last painted one, with the paths of groups inside them kept as their paths: #1410), clipping groups and layer clipping (several clipping paths in a clipping group, a layer or an opacity mask's art clip to their intersection, and a compound path of clipping paths stays one clip; clipping paths that would nest the art past the document's 32 levels stop the editing data from being read: #5789), object names, hidden and locked objects, fills and strokes (grey, CMYK, RGB, named and spot colours, spot colours defined in Lab with their Lab values (#1032), global process colours as global swatches at their tint; a stroke of width 0, `0 w`, on a path, a gradient-filled path, legacy type or in an art style comes in as a 0.25 pt hairline, as from PDF: #1671), linear and radial gradients, pattern fills with their patterns as pattern swatches (#1025), gradient and pattern names in the file up to their first newline (a name that another swatch, or a gradient or pattern defined earlier, already has is numbered "Sky 2"; a name without a newline is kept, and when another swatch has it, the pattern's swatch, or a named color sharing a gradient or pattern swatch's name, is numbered the same way), opacity, blend modes, isolation and knockout, embedded images where their matrix puts them, rotated ones too (#2269), with their alpha channel (CMYK images keep their ink amounts, as they do when a `.ai` opens from its PDF part, and an alpha channel that hides part of a CMYK image becomes a grayscale opacity mask), placed (linked) files as linked images in their place, each showing the low-resolution preview the file keeps of it until its file is found or relinked in the Links panel (#1264), with the folder the file keeps relative to the document's, where the link is looked for when its path is gone, guides, and every artboard where it is, with its center mark, cross hairs, video safe areas and video ruler pixel aspect ratio. VectorCraft reads `CropAreaActive`, an `/Int` in the dictionary that holds the artboard array, as the index of the active artboard in that array, and the file opens with that artboard active; without it, or when it names no artboard that opens, the first artboard is active. It also reads the Document Raster Effects Settings (resolution, color model, background, anti-alias, clipping mask, Add Around Object and Preserve Spot Colors), the author from the header's `%%For` (an EPS's own header when the editing data's has none), swatches for the header's `%%CMYKCustomColor` and `%%RGBCustomColor` colors that the document has none of, and `%%TemplateBox` in older files; a setting with a value of another type or out of range keeps its default. Objects on Path groups open live, with their path, their objects in order along it, Pivot and Rotate; one with a dragged spacing or other options opens as a plain group. A gradient with stops in the middle runs its whole ramp across its shape, and a gradient object does not pass its fill to the next path (#1390). An object whose art style is one fill and one stroke at most (solid colours, its own gradient, a variable-width profile) with Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Convert to Shape, Tweak (only when it moves nothing) or Pucker & Bloat at 0 comes in as itself with them and their saved settings. A path, compound path or group (not a clipping group) whose only effect is Transform (not with copies or Random) or a Free Distort whose corners make a parallelogram comes in as itself with it too, when neither it nor anything in it paints with a gradient or pattern and everything in it is a path, compound path or group with no opacity mask and no effects of its own; Transform that scales, rotates or reflects needs nothing in it to be stroked. Twist as the only effect is read the same way on an unstroked path or compound path whose segments are all straight. One with more, other effects (Zig Zag, a Pucker & Bloat of another amount, a Free Distort with other corners), an effect setting that is not read (an unknown key, a missing or out-of-range value, a Scribble with a color of its own), dashes aligned to corners, a brush other than a Calligraphic or Art one, a Calligraphic brush with settings of its own or an angle that follows the path, or an Art brush other than the ones described next comes in as its drawn look (a group named after it). Objects in a symbol defined before the file's art styles section, as newer files write it, take the same styles as the layers' objects. A path with a Calligraphic brush otherwise comes in as the path, the brush on its stroke at the stroke's weight, which scales the brush (#372), and so does a path with an Art brush, whose weight scales the art across the path, when all of these hold: the brush stretches its art along the path, unflipped, at 100% in Tints; the path's settings are the brush's own, with no entry that isn't read, no variable width and no effects; its stroke isn't a swatch; and the art is paths, compound paths and groups in solid fills, with no strokes, masks or effects, and has some length along the path. A stroke takes the brush the Brushes panel keeps under its name, and one whose name the panel doesn't keep comes in as its drawn look. Type with an Art brush keeps its drawn look under the type. A Calligraphic brush's Pressure, Tilt, Bearing and Rotation come in as those channels (a 6D Art Pen's brushes vary with the pressure, the bearing and the barrel's rotation); its Stylus Wheel varies at random. The file's Calligraphic, Scatter, Art and Bristle brushes replace the default ones in the Brushes panel, in the file's order, also when the file comes in as its PDF part (a brush library has no layers); pattern brushes and brushes it can't read are left out with a note. When the file opens from its layers, the spot colors in the art of each brush that comes in become swatches, and that art's colors count toward the document's color mode, as a pattern's do. The swatches take at most 20,000 color names in all across the brush art, and each brush-art section keeps at most 20,000 names. Each name keeps its first definition, with the color operators' names before the gradient stops' names. A spot color past those limits makes no swatch, and its color still counts toward the color mode. A spot color that the page's art, a pattern or a symbol also defines keeps the value defined there. Type keeps its art style as a live appearance whatever its stack (an Art brush aside), so it can be retyped: each fill and stroke of the style's stack (solid colours, gradients and pattern fills, placed as the drawn look places them) with its own opacity, blend mode and effects, the effects on the whole object, and where the characters paint among them; the effects read are Warp, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Transform (with copies, Transform Objects, Transform Patterns and Scale Strokes & Effects; not with Random), Free Distort, Pucker & Bloat, Twist, Zig Zag, Tweak (only when it moves nothing, the file holding none of its random outline), Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Gaussian Blur, Bas Relief (its settings at their defaults) and Convert to Shape, and a style with others, or with an effect setting that isn't read, keeps the type's drawn look. Convert to Shape keeps its Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle or Ellipse, its Absolute or Relative size (a relative size in the file is added to each side) and its corner radius; a relative Ellipse, or a setting that isn't read, keeps the drawn look. The page's drawing of such a style isn't held to look like VectorCraft's where its drawn look lay. Gradients take their matrix (`Xm`, radials and skewed ones too), focal point and the order of stops sharing a ramp point; gradient meshes, a clipping path's own fill and its stroke, and the artboards' names are read too. `editingData: "always"` (`convert --editing-data`) opens a `.ai` or an Illustrator EPS from its editing data even where it draws differently from its page, which can be older, with a note. Type is made from the file's text document, whole and editable, shown or not: point type (its frame's matrix, which newer files leave out when it is neither turned nor scaled, read as none), area type (a story in several frames as threaded type) and type on a path, with its characters, fonts, size, leading, tracking, scaling, baseline shift, fill and stroke (grey, RGB or CMYK), alignment, indents and paragraph spacing (a character attribute a run doesn't set comes from its character style, then the style that one is based on, then the document's defaults); area type keeps its frame's Area Type Options rows and columns, the gutter between rows and the gutter between columns, and its first baseline (Fixed, Cap Height, Leading or x Height) with its minimum; the page's drawing of it (often in pieces) is left out. Vertical type keeps its orientation, its columns from right to left, and a run set to Tate-chu-yoko keeps that setting. When it makes the type of every text object that shows, the page's type is only compared with it, each text object keeps its own group, frame and layer, and a line break inside a paragraph stays one. Where it can't make a text object's type (a frame of another kind), that text object takes the page's type where the text document puts its lines, or else what is left of the page's type in painting order (no group around it); the page's type where made type draws stays that type's, and hidden type is left out with a note. Text wrap is read too: an object whose dictionary has the wrap options (offset and Invert Wrap), or any graphic of a legacy wraparound group (`*w` … `*W`, before or after its type, with no offset), is a wrap object, and area type below it in its layer flows around it when the file opens, threaded type included (#2763). Kerning, underline and the other character and paragraph options aren't read yet. A `.ai` saved without PDF compatibility (a placeholder page) opens from its editing data alone, its point type, area type and type on a path made from the text document. A `.ai` whose PDF part shows only text isn't taken for that placeholder when its page states an art, trim or bleed box: it opens from its editing data alone where that reads, else from its PDF part (#1387). A `.ai` whose PDF part draws nothing at all (an empty page, with or without those boxes) opens from its editing data alone where that reads too: there is no page art to check its layers against, and the empty page would lose all of it. Text objects with an appearance keep their own text and frame, type of hidden layers stays hidden, and type on later artboards lands on its text objects (#1391); area type whose frame is too short for a line of the fallback font shows its first line (the frame is made taller, with a warning in the open result) (#1392). Symbols are read into the Symbols panel, in the file's symbol list order, with their art, their registration point and the instances in their art, and their instances come in live with their matrix, name, hide, lock, opacity, blending mode, isolation, knockout and opacity mask; a symbol whose art isn't read whole (type, placed files, an image it leaves out or anything else it doesn't read) isn't kept. Symbols are read only with the layers: a file that comes in as its page or PDF part (editing data with no layers, layers that can't be read, or any of the cases below) opens with an empty Symbols panel. Instances of symbols it can't read, instances with appearance changes of their own (a dynamic symbol's), pattern fills whose pattern it can't read, placed files the data keeps no preview of and anything else it doesn't read make the file come in as its page (on a layer that doesn't show, they are left out of that layer), with a warning saying what. An unread object on a shown layer whose box can be found instead comes in as a group of the page's objects inside that box, named after it, with the rest of the layers and groups kept and a warning listing what came in as the page's art; the file still comes in as its page when live art or another unread object shares that page art, when the object spans two artboards or lies on an artboard that has no page, when no page art lies inside its box, when that page art is inside a page group with a clip, mask, transparency or appearance, when the object holds a frame of threaded type, when the page art uses a pattern, image or swatch that the page lacks or that differs from the editing data's, or when the page art doesn't carry its transparency (#4806). The layers' art is also compared with the page (by lightness, so colours written as their CMYK equivalents compare alike, and by whether a pixel is inked at all); the page is used when they differ by more than 5% (away from type, when all the type is made from the text document), where one draws an object the other doesn't (away from type, whose lines may be laid out afresh), and when an EPS whose page is its art's box has art printed outside it (#735). A `.ai` is not compared with its page, and its PDF part is not imported, when its text document makes the type of every text object (at least one shows, and none is drawn by the appearance of the layer or group it is in), no object is unread, no placed file has a second placement, no live envelope keeps its drawn art, it declares no large canvas, and its artboards are its pages' trim boxes one for one, in points or in the first page's `UserUnit`: it opens from its layers, with the bleed of its pages' bleed boxes. When they differ because some objects draw differently (an object in another color, or one that only one of them draws), each top-level object of the layers that holds such a difference comes in as a group of the page's objects inside its box and the layers stay, with a warning that names the layer or sublayer of each such object as the Layers panel shows it (`<Layer>` for one without a name) and how many came in from it; an export or Save As to the file's own path then needs `acknowledgeLoss: true`, and a wrap object replaced this way keeps its wrap options. The file still comes in as its page when only edges or type differ, when a difference lies outside every top-level object, when more than half of the top-level objects or more than 64 hold one, when such an object is or holds type or holds a wrap object inside a group, when the page's type of a text object that stays lies inside such an object's box, when the page's art can't replace such an object for one of the reasons above for an unread object, when matching the differences to the objects would take too much work, or when the result still differs from the page. `editingData: "always"` keeps the objects as read, and placed files at the other point their data gives are tried as well. An EPS whose page is its art's box keeps that page when it comes in through its layers, not the editing data's artboard, and a text object counts as drawn by the page by its colours, not only its lightness, so a red stroke stacked over a dark red one stays (#1102). `textAs: "outlines"` opens a `.ai` whose type shows from its PDF part, which has the outlines; `editingData: false` opens any of them as its page or PDF part only, for print pipelines (#735). A file whose import left something out (hidden text, art or layers) is never written over by an export or Save As to its own path unless `acknowledgeLoss: true` (`convert --replace-lossy`), so the original keeps what the document lacks. Where a `.ai` can't be read that way (or its layers are turned off in the import options), we read its PDF-compatible part, so Illustrator-only live objects arrive as appearance, and plain groups arrive ungrouped: that part draws each object on its own and marks only layers, clipping groups and groups with opacity, blending or a mask (those come back). Art outside the artboards isn't in that part at all (Illustrator's PDF part leaves it out), so it doesn't open; the import says so in a note (#472). Its pages still go where the editing data puts the artboards (a grid stays a grid), with the art on each, when it has as many artboards as pages, of the same sizes (#1068); the page of the artboard `CropAreaActive` names is then the active artboard. A `.ai` whose editing data has artboards but no layers also opens on that page under the same check, and its pages stay where they are. A `.ai` whose PDF part's pages are cropped to its art (each page the box of all the art, which is the editing data's bounding box) instead of its artboards opens from its layers, with its own artboards, where they draw as that page does. Its pages are laid out so that art one of them draws past its artboard (notes beside a design, which the part doesn't clip) doesn't lie over the page before it in the row, where it was taken for that page's art: the check against the editing data then found art its layers don't have there and opened the file as its PDF part, without the art outside the artboards. That part also has no paragraphs: area type is written line by line, and comes back as area type only where its font is installed and lays the lines out with the same breaks, else as a point type object per line (#508). Art off the page that a PDF does draw opens on the pasteboard.
+the app's own editing copy of a file (an EPS after its `%%EOF`, a `.ai`'s `AIPrivateData` streams, a PDF's `AIPDFPrivateData` streams when it was saved with the editing data (#868), Zstandard or zlib, the EPS's in ASCII85) is not documented as a whole. VectorCraft reads its structure: layers and sublayers (names, order, visibility, lock, printing, preview, dimming, colour), groups as they were nested, compound paths (painted by their last path, or the last painted one, with the paths of groups inside them kept as their paths: #1410), clipping groups and layer clipping (several clipping paths in a clipping group, a layer or an opacity mask's art clip to their intersection, and a compound path of clipping paths stays one clip; clipping paths that would nest the art past the document's 32 levels stop the editing data from being read: #5789), object names, hidden and locked objects, fills and strokes (grey, CMYK, RGB, named and spot colours, spot colours defined in Lab with their Lab values (#1032), global process colours as global swatches at their tint; a stroke of width 0, `0 w`, on a path, a gradient-filled path, legacy type or in an art style comes in as a 0.25 pt hairline, as from PDF: #1671), linear and radial gradients, pattern fills with their patterns as pattern swatches (#1025), gradient and pattern names in the file up to their first newline (a name that another swatch, or a gradient or pattern defined earlier, already has is numbered "Sky 2"; a name without a newline is kept, and when another swatch has it, the pattern's swatch, or a named color sharing a gradient or pattern swatch's name, is numbered the same way), opacity, blend modes, isolation and knockout, embedded images where their matrix puts them, rotated ones too (#2269), with their alpha channel (CMYK images keep their ink amounts, as they do when a `.ai` opens from its PDF part, and an alpha channel that hides part of a CMYK image becomes a grayscale opacity mask), placed (linked) files as linked images in their place, each showing the low-resolution preview the file keeps of it until its file is found or relinked in the Links panel (#1264), with the folder the file keeps relative to the document's, where the link is looked for when its path is gone, guides, and every artboard where it is, with its center mark, cross hairs, video safe areas and video ruler pixel aspect ratio. VectorCraft reads `CropAreaActive`, an `/Int` in the dictionary that holds the artboard array, as the index of the active artboard in that array, and the file opens with that artboard active; without it, or when it names no artboard that opens, the first artboard is active. It also reads the Document Raster Effects Settings (resolution, color model, background, anti-alias, clipping mask, Add Around Object and Preserve Spot Colors), the author from the header's `%%For` (an EPS's own header when the editing data's has none), swatches for the header's `%%CMYKCustomColor` and `%%RGBCustomColor` colors that the document has none of, and `%%TemplateBox` in older files; a setting with a value of another type or out of range keeps its default. Objects on Path groups open live, with their path, their objects in order along it, Pivot and Rotate; one with a dragged spacing or other options opens as a plain group. A gradient with stops in the middle runs its whole ramp across its shape, and a gradient object does not pass its fill to the next path (#1390). An object whose art style is one fill and one stroke at most (solid colours, its own gradient, a variable-width profile) with Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Convert to Shape, Tweak (only when it moves nothing) or Pucker & Bloat at 0 comes in as itself with them and their saved settings. A path, compound path or group (not a clipping group) whose only effect is Transform (not with copies or Random) or a Free Distort whose corners make a parallelogram comes in as itself with it too, when neither it nor anything in it paints with a gradient or pattern and everything in it is a path, compound path or group with no opacity mask and no effects of its own; Transform that scales, rotates or reflects needs nothing in it to be stroked. Twist as the only effect is read the same way on an unstroked path or compound path whose segments are all straight. One with more, other effects (Zig Zag, a Pucker & Bloat of another amount, a Free Distort with other corners), an effect setting that is not read (an unknown key, a missing or out-of-range value, a Scribble with a color of its own), dashes aligned to corners, a brush other than a Calligraphic or Art one, a Calligraphic brush with settings of its own or an angle that follows the path, or an Art brush other than the ones described next comes in as its drawn look (a group named after it). Objects in a symbol defined before the file's art styles section, as newer files write it, take the same styles as the layers' objects. A path with a Calligraphic brush otherwise comes in as the path, the brush on its stroke at the stroke's weight, which scales the brush (#372), and so does a path with an Art brush, whose weight scales the art across the path, when all of these hold: the brush stretches its art along the path, unflipped, at 100% in Tints; the path's settings are the brush's own, with no entry that isn't read, no variable width and no effects; its stroke isn't a swatch; and the art is paths, compound paths and groups in solid fills, with no strokes, masks or effects, and has some length along the path. A stroke takes the brush the Brushes panel keeps under its name, and one whose name the panel doesn't keep comes in as its drawn look. Type with an Art brush keeps its drawn look under the type. A Calligraphic brush's Pressure, Tilt, Bearing and Rotation come in as those channels (a 6D Art Pen's brushes vary with the pressure, the bearing and the barrel's rotation); its Stylus Wheel varies at random. The file's Calligraphic, Scatter, Art and Bristle brushes replace the default ones in the Brushes panel, in the file's order, also when the file comes in as its PDF part (a brush library has no layers); pattern brushes and brushes it can't read are left out with a note. When the file opens from its layers, the spot colors in the art of each brush that comes in become swatches, and that art's colors count toward the document's color mode, as a pattern's do; a spot color that the page's art, a pattern or a symbol also defines keeps the value defined there. Type keeps its art style as a live appearance whatever its stack (an Art brush aside), so it can be retyped: each fill and stroke of the style's stack (solid colours, gradients and pattern fills, placed as the drawn look places them) with its own opacity, blend mode and effects, the effects on the whole object, and where the characters paint among them; the effects read are Warp, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Transform (with copies, Transform Objects, Transform Patterns and Scale Strokes & Effects; not with Random), Free Distort, Pucker & Bloat, Twist, Zig Zag, Tweak (only when it moves nothing, the file holding none of its random outline), Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Gaussian Blur, Bas Relief (its settings at their defaults) and Convert to Shape, and a style with others, or with an effect setting that isn't read, keeps the type's drawn look. Convert to Shape keeps its Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle or Ellipse, its Absolute or Relative size (a relative size in the file is added to each side) and its corner radius; a relative Ellipse, or a setting that isn't read, keeps the drawn look. The page's drawing of such a style isn't held to look like VectorCraft's where its drawn look lay. Gradients take their matrix (`Xm`, radials and skewed ones too), focal point and the order of stops sharing a ramp point; gradient meshes, a clipping path's own fill and its stroke, and the artboards' names are read too. `editingData: "always"` (`convert --editing-data`) opens a `.ai` or an Illustrator EPS from its editing data even where it draws differently from its page, which can be older, with a note. Type is made from the file's text document, whole and editable, shown or not: point type (its frame's matrix, which newer files leave out when it is neither turned nor scaled, read as none), area type (a story in several frames as threaded type) and type on a path, with its characters, fonts, size, leading, tracking, scaling, baseline shift, fill and stroke (grey, RGB or CMYK), alignment, indents and paragraph spacing (a character attribute a run doesn't set comes from its character style, then the style that one is based on, then the document's defaults); area type keeps its frame's Area Type Options rows and columns, the gutter between rows and the gutter between columns, and its first baseline (Fixed, Cap Height, Leading or x Height) with its minimum; the page's drawing of it (often in pieces) is left out. Vertical type keeps its orientation, its columns from right to left, and a run set to Tate-chu-yoko keeps that setting. When it makes the type of every text object that shows, the page's type is only compared with it, each text object keeps its own group, frame and layer, and a line break inside a paragraph stays one. Where it can't make a text object's type (a frame of another kind), that text object takes the page's type where the text document puts its lines, or else what is left of the page's type in painting order (no group around it); the page's type where made type draws stays that type's, and hidden type is left out with a note. Text wrap is read too: an object whose dictionary has the wrap options (offset and Invert Wrap), or any graphic of a legacy wraparound group (`*w` … `*W`, before or after its type, with no offset), is a wrap object, and area type below it in its layer flows around it when the file opens, threaded type included (#2763). Kerning, underline and the other character and paragraph options aren't read yet. A `.ai` saved without PDF compatibility (a placeholder page) opens from its editing data alone, its point type, area type and type on a path made from the text document. A `.ai` whose PDF part shows only text isn't taken for that placeholder when its page states an art, trim or bleed box: it opens from its editing data alone where that reads, else from its PDF part (#1387). A `.ai` whose PDF part draws nothing at all (an empty page, with or without those boxes) opens from its editing data alone where that reads too: there is no page art to check its layers against, and the empty page would lose all of it. Text objects with an appearance keep their own text and frame, type of hidden layers stays hidden, and type on later artboards lands on its text objects (#1391); area type whose frame is too short for a line of the fallback font shows its first line (the frame is made taller, with a warning in the open result) (#1392). Symbols are read into the Symbols panel, in the file's symbol list order, with their art, their registration point and the instances in their art, and their instances come in live with their matrix, name, hide, lock, opacity, blending mode, isolation, knockout and opacity mask; a symbol whose art isn't read whole (type, placed files, an image it leaves out or anything else it doesn't read) isn't kept. Symbols are read only with the layers: a file that comes in as its page or PDF part (editing data with no layers, layers that can't be read, or any of the cases below) opens with an empty Symbols panel. Instances of symbols it can't read, instances with appearance changes of their own (a dynamic symbol's), pattern fills whose pattern it can't read, placed files the data keeps no preview of and anything else it doesn't read make the file come in as its page (on a layer that doesn't show, they are left out of that layer), with a warning saying what. An unread object on a shown layer whose box can be found instead comes in as a group of the page's objects inside that box, named after it, with the rest of the layers and groups kept and a warning listing what came in as the page's art; the file still comes in as its page when live art or another unread object shares that page art, when the object spans two artboards or lies on an artboard that has no page, when no page art lies inside its box, when that page art is inside a page group with a clip, mask, transparency or appearance, when the object holds a frame of threaded type, when the page art uses a pattern, image or swatch that the page lacks or that differs from the editing data's, or when the page art doesn't carry its transparency (#4806). The layers' art is also compared with the page (by lightness, so colours written as their CMYK equivalents compare alike, and by whether a pixel is inked at all); the page is used when they differ by more than 5% (away from type, when all the type is made from the text document), where one draws an object the other doesn't (away from type, whose lines may be laid out afresh), and when an EPS whose page is its art's box has art printed outside it (#735). A `.ai` is not compared with its page, and its PDF part is not imported, when its text document makes the type of every text object (at least one shows, and none is drawn by the appearance of the layer or group it is in), no object is unread, no placed file has a second placement, no live envelope keeps its drawn art, it declares no large canvas, and its artboards are its pages' trim boxes one for one, in points or in the first page's `UserUnit`: it opens from its layers, with the bleed of its pages' bleed boxes. When they differ because some objects draw differently (an object in another color, or one that only one of them draws), each top-level object of the layers that holds such a difference comes in as a group of the page's objects inside its box and the layers stay, with a warning that names the layer or sublayer of each such object as the Layers panel shows it (`<Layer>` for one without a name) and how many came in from it; an export or Save As to the file's own path then needs `acknowledgeLoss: true`, and a wrap object replaced this way keeps its wrap options. The file still comes in as its page when only edges or type differ, when a difference lies outside every top-level object, when more than half of the top-level objects or more than 64 hold one, when such an object is or holds type or holds a wrap object inside a group, when the page's type of a text object that stays lies inside such an object's box, when the page's art can't replace such an object for one of the reasons above for an unread object, when matching the differences to the objects would take too much work, or when the result still differs from the page. `editingData: "always"` keeps the objects as read, and placed files at the other point their data gives are tried as well. An EPS whose page is its art's box keeps that page when it comes in through its layers, not the editing data's artboard, and a text object counts as drawn by the page by its colours, not only its lightness, so a red stroke stacked over a dark red one stays (#1102). `textAs: "outlines"` opens a `.ai` whose type shows from its PDF part, which has the outlines; `editingData: false` opens any of them as its page or PDF part only, for print pipelines (#735). A file whose import left something out (hidden text, art or layers) is never written over by an export or Save As to its own path unless `acknowledgeLoss: true` (`convert --replace-lossy`), so the original keeps what the document lacks. Where a `.ai` can't be read that way (or its layers are turned off in the import options), we read its PDF-compatible part, so Illustrator-only live objects arrive as appearance, and plain groups arrive ungrouped: that part draws each object on its own and marks only layers, clipping groups and groups with opacity, blending or a mask (those come back). Art outside the artboards isn't in that part at all (Illustrator's PDF part leaves it out), so it doesn't open; the import says so in a note (#472). Its pages still go where the editing data puts the artboards (a grid stays a grid), with the art on each, when it has as many artboards as pages, of the same sizes (#1068); the page of the artboard `CropAreaActive` names is then the active artboard. A `.ai` whose editing data has artboards but no layers also opens on that page under the same check, and its pages stay where they are. A `.ai` whose PDF part's pages are cropped to its art (each page the box of all the art, which is the editing data's bounding box) instead of its artboards opens from its layers, with its own artboards, where they draw as that page does. Its pages are laid out so that art one of them draws past its artboard (notes beside a design, which the part doesn't clip) doesn't lie over the page before it in the row, where it was taken for that page's art: the check against the editing data then found art its layers don't have there and opened the file as its PDF part, without the art outside the artboards. That part also has no paragraphs: area type is written line by line, and comes back as area type only where its font is installed and lays the lines out with the same breaks, else as a point type object per line (#508). Art off the page that a PDF does draw opens on the pasteboard.
+the app's own editing copy of a file (an EPS after its `%%EOF`, a `.ai`'s `AIPrivateData` streams, a PDF's `AIPDFPrivateData` streams when it was saved with the editing data (#868), Zstandard or zlib, the EPS's in ASCII85) is not documented as a whole. VectorCraft reads its structure: layers and sublayers (names, order, visibility, lock, printing, preview, dimming, colour), groups as they were nested, compound paths (painted by their last path, or the last painted one, with the paths of groups inside them kept as their paths: #1410), clipping groups and layer clipping (several clipping paths in a clipping group, a layer or an opacity mask's art clip to their intersection, and a compound path of clipping paths stays one clip; clipping paths that would nest the art past the document's 32 levels stop the editing data from being read: #5789), object names, hidden and locked objects, fills and strokes (grey, CMYK, RGB, named and spot colours, spot colours defined in Lab with their Lab values (#1032), global process colours as global swatches at their tint; a stroke of width 0, `0 w`, on a path, a gradient-filled path, legacy type or in an art style comes in as a 0.25 pt hairline, as from PDF: #1671), linear and radial gradients, pattern fills with their patterns as pattern swatches (#1025), gradient and pattern names in the file up to their first newline (a name that another swatch, or a gradient or pattern defined earlier, already has is numbered "Sky 2"; a name without a newline is kept, and when another swatch has it, the pattern's swatch, or a named color sharing a gradient or pattern swatch's name, is numbered the same way), opacity, blend modes, isolation and knockout, embedded images where their matrix puts them, rotated ones too (#2269), with their alpha channel (CMYK images keep their ink amounts, as they do when a `.ai` opens from its PDF part, and an alpha channel that hides part of a CMYK image becomes a grayscale opacity mask), placed (linked) files as linked images in their place, each showing the low-resolution preview the file keeps of it until its file is found or relinked in the Links panel (#1264), with the folder the file keeps relative to the document's, where the link is looked for when its path is gone, guides, and every artboard where it is, with its center mark, cross hairs, video safe areas and video ruler pixel aspect ratio. VectorCraft reads `CropAreaActive`, an `/Int` in the dictionary that holds the artboard array, as the index of the active artboard in that array, and the file opens with that artboard active; without it, or when it names no artboard that opens, the first artboard is active. It also reads the Document Raster Effects Settings (resolution, color model, background, anti-alias, clipping mask, Add Around Object and Preserve Spot Colors), the author from the header's `%%For` (an EPS's own header when the editing data's has none), swatches for the header's `%%CMYKCustomColor` and `%%RGBCustomColor` colors that the document has none of, and `%%TemplateBox` in older files; a setting with a value of another type or out of range keeps its default. Objects on Path groups open live, with their path, their objects in order along it, Pivot and Rotate; one with a dragged spacing or other options opens as a plain group. A gradient with stops in the middle runs its whole ramp across its shape, and a gradient object does not pass its fill to the next path (#1390). An object whose art style is one fill and one stroke at most (solid colours, its own gradient, a variable-width profile) with Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Convert to Shape, Tweak (only when it moves nothing) or Pucker & Bloat at 0 comes in as itself with them and their saved settings. A path, compound path or group (not a clipping group) whose only effect is Transform (not with copies or Random) or a Free Distort whose corners make a parallelogram comes in as itself with it too, when neither it nor anything in it paints with a gradient or pattern and everything in it is a path, compound path or group with no opacity mask and no effects of its own; Transform that scales, rotates or reflects needs nothing in it to be stroked. Twist as the only effect is read the same way on an unstroked path or compound path whose segments are all straight. One with more, other effects (Zig Zag, a Pucker & Bloat of another amount, a Free Distort with other corners), an effect setting that is not read (an unknown key, a missing or out-of-range value, a Scribble with a color of its own), dashes aligned to corners, a brush other than a Calligraphic one, or a Calligraphic brush with settings of its own or an angle that follows the path comes in as its drawn look (a group named after it). A path with a Calligraphic brush otherwise comes in as the path, the brush on its stroke at the stroke's weight, which scales the brush (#372). A Calligraphic brush's Pressure, Tilt, Bearing and Rotation come in as those channels (a 6D Art Pen's brushes vary with the pressure, the bearing and the barrel's rotation); its Stylus Wheel varies at random. The file's Calligraphic, Scatter, Art and Bristle brushes replace the default ones in the Brushes panel, in the file's order, also when the file comes in as its PDF part (a brush library has no layers); pattern brushes and brushes it can't read are left out with a note. When the file opens from its layers, the spot colors in the art of each brush that comes in become swatches, and that art's colors count toward the document's color mode, as a pattern's do; a spot color that the page's art, a pattern or a symbol also defines keeps the value defined there. Type keeps its art style as a live appearance whatever its stack, so it can be retyped: each fill and stroke of the style's stack (solid colours, gradients and pattern fills, placed as the drawn look places them) with its own opacity, blend mode and effects, the effects on the whole object, and where the characters paint among them; the effects read are Warp, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Transform (with copies, Transform Objects, Transform Patterns and Scale Strokes & Effects; not with Random), Free Distort, Pucker & Bloat, Twist, Zig Zag, Tweak (only when it moves nothing, the file holding none of its random outline), Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Gaussian Blur, Bas Relief (its settings at their defaults) and Convert to Shape, and a style with others, or with an effect setting that isn't read, keeps the type's drawn look. Convert to Shape keeps its Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle or Ellipse, its Absolute or Relative size (a relative size in the file is added to each side) and its corner radius; a relative Ellipse, or a setting that isn't read, keeps the drawn look. The page's drawing of such a style isn't held to look like VectorCraft's where its drawn look lay. Gradients take their matrix (`Xm`, radials and skewed ones too), focal point and the order of stops sharing a ramp point; gradient meshes, a clipping path's own fill and its stroke, and the artboards' names are read too. `editingData: "always"` (`convert --editing-data`) opens a `.ai` or an Illustrator EPS from its editing data even where it draws differently from its page, which can be older, with a note. Type is made from the file's text document, whole and editable, shown or not: point type (its frame's matrix, which newer files leave out when it is neither turned nor scaled, read as none), area type (a story in several frames as threaded type) and type on a path, with its characters, fonts, size, leading, tracking, scaling, baseline shift, fill and stroke (grey, RGB or CMYK), alignment, indents and paragraph spacing (a character attribute a run doesn't set comes from its character style, then the style that one is based on, then the document's defaults); area type keeps its frame's Area Type Options rows and columns, the gutter between rows and the gutter between columns, and its first baseline (Fixed, Cap Height, Leading or x Height) with its minimum; the page's drawing of it (often in pieces) is left out. Vertical type keeps its orientation, its columns from right to left, and a run set to Tate-chu-yoko keeps that setting. When it makes the type of every text object that shows, the page's type is only compared with it, each text object keeps its own group, frame and layer, and a line break inside a paragraph stays one. Where it can't make a text object's type (a frame of another kind), that text object takes the page's type where the text document puts its lines, or else what is left of the page's type in painting order (no group around it); the page's type where made type draws stays that type's, and hidden type is left out with a note. Text wrap is read too: an object whose dictionary has the wrap options (offset and Invert Wrap), or any graphic of a legacy wraparound group (`*w` … `*W`, before or after its type, with no offset), is a wrap object, and area type below it in its layer flows around it when the file opens, threaded type included (#2763). Kerning, underline and the other character and paragraph options aren't read yet. A `.ai` saved without PDF compatibility (a placeholder page) opens from its editing data alone, its point type, area type and type on a path made from the text document. A `.ai` whose PDF part shows only text isn't taken for that placeholder when its page states an art, trim or bleed box: it opens from its editing data alone where that reads, else from its PDF part (#1387). A `.ai` whose PDF part draws nothing at all (an empty page, with or without those boxes) opens from its editing data alone where that reads too: there is no page art to check its layers against, and the empty page would lose all of it. Text objects with an appearance keep their own text and frame, type of hidden layers stays hidden, and type on later artboards lands on its text objects (#1391); area type whose frame is too short for a line of the fallback font shows its first line (the frame is made taller, with a warning in the open result) (#1392). Symbols are read into the Symbols panel, in the file's symbol list order, with their art, their registration point and the instances in their art, and their instances come in live with their matrix, name, hide, lock, opacity, blending mode, isolation, knockout and opacity mask; a symbol whose art isn't read whole (type, placed files, an image it leaves out or anything else it doesn't read) isn't kept. Symbols are read only with the layers: a file that comes in as its page or PDF part (editing data with no layers, layers that can't be read, or any of the cases below) opens with an empty Symbols panel. Instances of symbols it can't read, instances with appearance changes of their own (a dynamic symbol's), pattern fills whose pattern it can't read, placed files the data keeps no preview of and anything else it doesn't read make the file come in as its page (on a layer that doesn't show, they are left out of that layer), with a warning saying what. An unread object on a shown layer whose box can be found instead comes in as a group of the page's objects inside that box, named after it, with the rest of the layers and groups kept and a warning listing what came in as the page's art; the file still comes in as its page when live art or another unread object shares that page art, when the object spans two artboards or lies on an artboard that has no page, when no page art lies inside its box, when that page art is inside a page group with a clip, mask, transparency or appearance, when the object holds a frame of threaded type, when the page art uses a pattern, image or swatch that the page lacks or that differs from the editing data's, or when the page art doesn't carry its transparency (#4806). The layers' art is also compared with the page (by lightness, so colours written as their CMYK equivalents compare alike, and by whether a pixel is inked at all); the page is used when they differ by more than 5% (away from type, when all the type is made from the text document), where one draws an object the other doesn't (away from type, whose lines may be laid out afresh), and when an EPS whose page is its art's box has art printed outside it (#735). A `.ai` is not compared with its page, and its PDF part is not imported, when its text document makes the type of every text object (at least one shows, and none is drawn by the appearance of the layer or group it is in), no object is unread, no placed file has a second placement, no live envelope keeps its drawn art, it declares no large canvas, and its artboards are its pages' trim boxes one for one, in points or in the first page's `UserUnit`: it opens from its layers, with the bleed of its pages' bleed boxes. When they differ because some objects draw differently (an object in another color, or one that only one of them draws), each top-level object of the layers that holds such a difference comes in as a group of the page's objects inside its box and the layers stay, with a warning that names the layer or sublayer of each such object as the Layers panel shows it (`<Layer>` for one without a name) and how many came in from it; an export or Save As to the file's own path then needs `acknowledgeLoss: true`, and a wrap object replaced this way keeps its wrap options. The file still comes in as its page when only edges or type differ, when a difference lies outside every top-level object, when more than half of the top-level objects or more than 64 hold one, when such an object is or holds type or holds a wrap object inside a group, when the page's type of a text object that stays lies inside such an object's box, when the page's art can't replace such an object for one of the reasons above for an unread object, when matching the differences to the objects would take too much work, or when the result still differs from the page. `editingData: "always"` keeps the objects as read, and placed files at the other point their data gives are tried as well. An EPS whose page is its art's box keeps that page when it comes in through its layers, not the editing data's artboard, and a text object counts as drawn by the page by its colours, not only its lightness, so a red stroke stacked over a dark red one stays (#1102). `textAs: "outlines"` opens a `.ai` whose type shows from its PDF part, which has the outlines; `editingData: false` opens any of them as its page or PDF part only, for print pipelines (#735). A file whose import left something out (hidden text, art or layers) is never written over by an export or Save As to its own path unless `acknowledgeLoss: true` (`convert --replace-lossy`), so the original keeps what the document lacks. Where a `.ai` can't be read that way (or its layers are turned off in the import options), we read its PDF-compatible part, so Illustrator-only live objects arrive as appearance, and plain groups arrive ungrouped: that part draws each object on its own and marks only layers, clipping groups and groups with opacity, blending or a mask (those come back). Art outside the artboards isn't in that part at all (Illustrator's PDF part leaves it out), so it doesn't open; the import says so in a note (#472). Its pages still go where the editing data puts the artboards (a grid stays a grid), with the art on each, when it has as many artboards as pages, of the same sizes (#1068); the page of the artboard `CropAreaActive` names is then the active artboard. A `.ai` whose editing data has artboards but no layers also opens on that page under the same check, and its pages stay where they are. A `.ai` whose PDF part's pages are cropped to its art (each page the box of all the art, which is the editing data's bounding box) instead of its artboards opens from its layers, with its own artboards, where they draw as that page does. Its pages are laid out so that art one of them draws past its artboard (notes beside a design, which the part doesn't clip) doesn't lie over the page before it in the row, where it was taken for that page's art: the check against the editing data then found art its layers don't have there and opened the file as its PDF part, without the art outside the artboards. That part also has no paragraphs: area type is written line by line, and comes back as area type only where its font is installed and lays the lines out with the same breaks, else as a point type object per line (#508). Art off the page that a PDF does draw opens on the pasteboard.
+the app's own editing copy of a file (an EPS after its `%%EOF`, a `.ai`'s `AIPrivateData` streams, a PDF's `AIPDFPrivateData` streams when it was saved with the editing data (#868), Zstandard or zlib, the EPS's in ASCII85) is not documented as a whole. VectorCraft reads its structure: layers and sublayers (names, order, visibility, lock, printing, preview, dimming, colour), groups as they were nested, compound paths (painted by their last path, or the last painted one, with the paths of groups inside them kept as their paths: #1410), clipping groups and layer clipping (several clipping paths in a clipping group, a layer or an opacity mask's art clip to their intersection, and a compound path of clipping paths stays one clip; clipping paths that would nest the art past the document's 32 levels stop the editing data from being read: #5789), object names, hidden and locked objects, fills and strokes (grey, CMYK, RGB, named and spot colours, spot colours defined in Lab with their Lab values (#1032), global process colours as global swatches at their tint; a stroke of width 0, `0 w`, on a path, a gradient-filled path, legacy type or in an art style comes in as a 0.25 pt hairline, as from PDF: #1671), linear and radial gradients, pattern fills with their patterns as pattern swatches (#1025), gradient and pattern names in the file up to their first newline (a name that another swatch, or a gradient or pattern defined earlier, already has is numbered "Sky 2"; a name without a newline is kept, and when another swatch has it, the pattern's swatch, or a named color sharing a gradient or pattern swatch's name, is numbered the same way), opacity, blend modes, isolation and knockout, embedded images where their matrix puts them, rotated ones too (#2269), with their alpha channel (CMYK images keep their ink amounts, as they do when a `.ai` opens from its PDF part, and an alpha channel that hides part of a CMYK image becomes a grayscale opacity mask), placed (linked) files as linked images in their place, each showing the low-resolution preview the file keeps of it until its file is found or relinked in the Links panel (#1264), with the folder the file keeps relative to the document's, where the link is looked for when its path is gone, guides, and every artboard where it is, with its center mark, cross hairs, video safe areas and video ruler pixel aspect ratio. VectorCraft reads `CropAreaActive`, an `/Int` in the dictionary that holds the artboard array, as the index of the active artboard in that array, and the file opens with that artboard active; without it, or when it names no artboard that opens, the first artboard is active. It also reads the Document Raster Effects Settings (resolution, color model, background, anti-alias, clipping mask, Add Around Object and Preserve Spot Colors), the author from the header's `%%For` (an EPS's own header when the editing data's has none), swatches for the header's `%%CMYKCustomColor` and `%%RGBCustomColor` colors that the document has none of, and `%%TemplateBox` in older files; a setting with a value of another type or out of range keeps its default. Objects on Path groups open live, with their path, their objects in order along it, Pivot and Rotate; one with a dragged spacing or other options opens as a plain group. A gradient with stops in the middle runs its whole ramp across its shape, and a gradient object does not pass its fill to the next path (#1390). An object whose art style is one fill and one stroke at most (solid colours, its own gradient, a variable-width profile) with Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Convert to Shape, Tweak (only when it moves nothing) or Pucker & Bloat at 0 comes in as itself with them and their saved settings. A path, compound path or group (not a clipping group) whose only effect is Transform (not with copies or Random) or a Free Distort whose corners make a parallelogram comes in as itself with it too, when neither it nor anything in it paints with a gradient or pattern and everything in it is a path, compound path or group with no opacity mask and no effects of its own; Transform that scales, rotates or reflects needs nothing in it to be stroked. Twist as the only effect is read the same way on an unstroked path or compound path whose segments are all straight. One with more, other effects (Zig Zag, a Pucker & Bloat of another amount, a Free Distort with other corners), an effect setting that is not read (an unknown key, a missing or out-of-range value, a Scribble with a color of its own), dashes aligned to corners, a brush other than a Calligraphic one, or a Calligraphic brush with settings of its own or an angle that follows the path comes in as its drawn look (a group named after it). Objects in a symbol defined before the file's art styles section, as newer files write it, take the same styles as the layers' objects. A path with a Calligraphic brush otherwise comes in as the path, the brush on its stroke at the stroke's weight, which scales the brush (#372). A Calligraphic brush's Pressure, Tilt, Bearing and Rotation come in as those channels (a 6D Art Pen's brushes vary with the pressure, the bearing and the barrel's rotation); its Stylus Wheel varies at random. The file's Calligraphic, Scatter, Art and Bristle brushes replace the default ones in the Brushes panel, in the file's order, also when the file comes in as its PDF part (a brush library has no layers); pattern brushes and brushes it can't read are left out with a note. Type keeps its art style as a live appearance whatever its stack, so it can be retyped: each fill and stroke of the style's stack (solid colours, gradients and pattern fills, placed as the drawn look places them) with its own opacity, blend mode and effects, the effects on the whole object, and where the characters paint among them; the effects read are Warp, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Transform (with copies, Transform Objects, Transform Patterns and Scale Strokes & Effects; not with Random), Free Distort, Pucker & Bloat, Twist, Zig Zag, Tweak (only when it moves nothing, the file holding none of its random outline), Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Gaussian Blur, Bas Relief (its settings at their defaults) and Convert to Shape, and a style with others, or with an effect setting that isn't read, keeps the type's drawn look. Convert to Shape keeps its Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle or Ellipse, its Absolute or Relative size (a relative size in the file is added to each side) and its corner radius; a relative Ellipse, or a setting that isn't read, keeps the drawn look. The page's drawing of such a style isn't held to look like VectorCraft's where its drawn look lay. Gradients take their matrix (`Xm`, radials and skewed ones too), focal point and the order of stops sharing a ramp point; gradient meshes, a clipping path's own fill and its stroke, and the artboards' names are read too. `editingData: "always"` (`convert --editing-data`) opens a `.ai` or an Illustrator EPS from its editing data even where it draws differently from its page, which can be older, with a note. Type is made from the file's text document, whole and editable, shown or not: point type (its frame's matrix, which newer files leave out when it is neither turned nor scaled, read as none), area type (a story in several frames as threaded type) and type on a path, with its characters, fonts, size, leading, tracking, scaling, baseline shift, fill and stroke (grey, RGB or CMYK), alignment, indents and paragraph spacing (a character attribute a run doesn't set comes from its character style, then the style that one is based on, then the document's defaults); area type keeps its frame's Area Type Options rows and columns, the gutter between rows and the gutter between columns, and its first baseline (Fixed, Cap Height, Leading or x Height) with its minimum; type on a path keeps its frame's Type on a Path effect, Align to Path and Flip (a frame whose options set key 6 to true keeps their defaults), and the first frame's Spacing is fitted from the file's layout, not read from the dialog's value; the distance from the path under Align to Path comes from VectorCraft's font metrics, and on Arial at 24 pt it differs from the distance the file keeps by 1.1 pt (Ascender), 0.3 pt (Center) and 2.7 pt (Descender); the fit under Gravity does not reproduce the file's layout, and its glyphs can lie up to 7.4 pt from the positions the file keeps; the page's drawing of it (often in pieces) is left out. Vertical type keeps its orientation, its columns from right to left, and a run set to Tate-chu-yoko keeps that setting. When it makes the type of every text object that shows, the page's type is only compared with it, each text object keeps its own group, frame and layer, and a line break inside a paragraph stays one. Where it can't make a text object's type (a frame of another kind), that text object takes the page's type where the text document puts its lines, or else what is left of the page's type in painting order (no group around it); the page's type where made type draws stays that type's, and hidden type is left out with a note. Text wrap is read too: an object whose dictionary has the wrap options (offset and Invert Wrap), or any graphic of a legacy wraparound group (`*w` … `*W`, before or after its type, with no offset), is a wrap object, and area type below it in its layer flows around it when the file opens, threaded type included (#2763). Kerning, underline and the other character and paragraph options aren't read yet. A `.ai` saved without PDF compatibility (a placeholder page) opens from its editing data alone, its point type, area type and type on a path made from the text document. A `.ai` whose PDF part shows only text isn't taken for that placeholder when its page states an art, trim or bleed box: it opens from its editing data alone where that reads, else from its PDF part (#1387). A `.ai` whose PDF part draws nothing at all (an empty page, with or without those boxes) opens from its editing data alone where that reads too: there is no page art to check its layers against, and the empty page would lose all of it. Text objects with an appearance keep their own text and frame, type of hidden layers stays hidden, and type on later artboards lands on its text objects (#1391); area type whose frame is too short for a line of the fallback font shows its first line (the frame is made taller, with a warning in the open result) (#1392). Symbols are read into the Symbols panel, in the file's symbol list order, with their art, their registration point and the instances in their art, and their instances come in live with their matrix, name, hide, lock, opacity, blending mode, isolation, knockout and opacity mask; a symbol whose art isn't read whole (type, placed files, an image it leaves out or anything else it doesn't read) isn't kept. Symbols are read only with the layers: a file that comes in as its page or PDF part (editing data with no layers, layers that can't be read, or any of the cases below) opens with an empty Symbols panel. Instances of symbols it can't read, instances with appearance changes of their own (a dynamic symbol's), pattern fills whose pattern it can't read, placed files the data keeps no preview of and anything else it doesn't read make the file come in as its page (on a layer that doesn't show, they are left out of that layer), with a warning saying what. An unread object on a shown layer whose box can be found instead comes in as a group of the page's objects inside that box, named after it, with the rest of the layers and groups kept and a warning listing what came in as the page's art; the file still comes in as its page when live art or another unread object shares that page art, when the object spans two artboards or lies on an artboard that has no page, when no page art lies inside its box, when that page art is inside a page group with a clip, mask, transparency or appearance, when the object holds a frame of threaded type, when the page art uses a pattern, image or swatch that the page lacks or that differs from the editing data's, or when the page art doesn't carry its transparency (#4806). The layers' art is also compared with the page (by lightness, so colours written as their CMYK equivalents compare alike, and by whether a pixel is inked at all); the page is used when they differ by more than 5% (away from type, when all the type is made from the text document), where one draws an object the other doesn't (away from type, whose lines may be laid out afresh), and when an EPS whose page is its art's box has art printed outside it (#735). A `.ai` is not compared with its page, and its PDF part is not imported, when its text document makes the type of every text object (at least one shows, and none is drawn by the appearance of the layer or group it is in), no object is unread, no placed file has a second placement, no live envelope keeps its drawn art, it declares no large canvas, and its artboards are its pages' trim boxes one for one, in points or in the first page's `UserUnit`: it opens from its layers, with the bleed of its pages' bleed boxes. When they differ because some objects draw differently (an object in another color, or one that only one of them draws), each top-level object of the layers that holds such a difference comes in as a group of the page's objects inside its box and the layers stay, with a warning that names the layer or sublayer of each such object as the Layers panel shows it (`<Layer>` for one without a name) and how many came in from it; an export or Save As to the file's own path then needs `acknowledgeLoss: true`, and a wrap object replaced this way keeps its wrap options. The file still comes in as its page when only edges or type differ, when a difference lies outside every top-level object, when more than half of the top-level objects or more than 64 hold one, when such an object is or holds type or holds a wrap object inside a group, when the page's type of a text object that stays lies inside such an object's box, when the page's art can't replace such an object for one of the reasons above for an unread object, when matching the differences to the objects would take too much work, or when the result still differs from the page. `editingData: "always"` keeps the objects as read, and placed files at the other point their data gives are tried as well. An EPS whose page is its art's box keeps that page when it comes in through its layers, not the editing data's artboard, and a text object counts as drawn by the page by its colours, not only its lightness, so a red stroke stacked over a dark red one stays (#1102). `textAs: "outlines"` opens a `.ai` whose type shows from its PDF part, which has the outlines; `editingData: false` opens any of them as its page or PDF part only, for print pipelines (#735). A file whose import left something out (hidden text, art or layers) is never written over by an export or Save As to its own path unless `acknowledgeLoss: true` (`convert --replace-lossy`), so the original keeps what the document lacks. Where a `.ai` can't be read that way (or its layers are turned off in the import options), we read its PDF-compatible part, so Illustrator-only live objects arrive as appearance, and plain groups arrive ungrouped: that part draws each object on its own and marks only layers, clipping groups and groups with opacity, blending or a mask (those come back). Art outside the artboards isn't in that part at all (Illustrator's PDF part leaves it out), so it doesn't open; the import says so in a note (#472). Its pages still go where the editing data puts the artboards (a grid stays a grid), with the art on each, when it has as many artboards as pages, of the same sizes (#1068); the page of the artboard `CropAreaActive` names is then the active artboard. A `.ai` whose editing data has artboards but no layers also opens on that page under the same check, and its pages stay where they are. A `.ai` whose PDF part's pages are cropped to its art (each page the box of all the art, which is the editing data's bounding box) instead of its artboards opens from its layers, with its own artboards, where they draw as that page does. Its pages are laid out so that art one of them draws past its artboard (notes beside a design, which the part doesn't clip) doesn't lie over the page before it in the row, where it was taken for that page's art: the check against the editing data then found art its layers don't have there and opened the file as its PDF part, without the art outside the artboards. That part also has no paragraphs: area type is written line by line, and comes back as area type only where its font is installed and lays the lines out with the same breaks, else as a point type object per line (#508). Art off the page that a PDF does draw opens on the pasteboard.
+the app's own editing copy of a file (an EPS after its `%%EOF`, a `.ai`'s `AIPrivateData` streams, a PDF's `AIPDFPrivateData` streams when it was saved with the editing data (#868), Zstandard or zlib, the EPS's in ASCII85) is not documented as a whole. VectorCraft reads its structure: layers and sublayers (names, order, visibility, lock, printing, preview, dimming, colour), groups as they were nested, compound paths (painted by their last path, or the last painted one, with the paths of groups inside them kept as their paths: #1410), clipping groups and layer clipping (several clipping paths in a clipping group, a layer or an opacity mask's art clip to their intersection, and a compound path of clipping paths stays one clip; clipping paths that would nest the art past the document's 32 levels stop the editing data from being read: #5789), object names, hidden and locked objects, fills and strokes (grey, CMYK, RGB, named and spot colours, spot colours defined in Lab with their Lab values (#1032), global process colours as global swatches at their tint; a stroke of width 0, `0 w`, on a path, a gradient-filled path, legacy type or in an art style comes in as a 0.25 pt hairline, as from PDF: #1671), linear and radial gradients, pattern fills with their patterns as pattern swatches (#1025), gradient and pattern names in the file up to their first newline (a name that another swatch, or a gradient or pattern defined earlier, already has is numbered "Sky 2"; a name without a newline is kept, and when another swatch has it, the pattern's swatch, or a named color sharing a gradient or pattern swatch's name, is numbered the same way), opacity, blend modes, isolation and knockout, embedded images where their matrix puts them, rotated ones too (#2269), with their alpha channel (CMYK images keep their ink amounts, as they do when a `.ai` opens from its PDF part, and an alpha channel that hides part of a CMYK image becomes a grayscale opacity mask), placed (linked) files as linked images in their place, each showing the low-resolution preview the file keeps of it until its file is found or relinked in the Links panel (#1264), with the folder the file keeps relative to the document's, where the link is looked for when its path is gone, guides, and every artboard where it is, with its center mark, cross hairs, video safe areas and video ruler pixel aspect ratio. VectorCraft reads `CropAreaActive`, an `/Int` in the dictionary that holds the artboard array, as the index of the active artboard in that array, and the file opens with that artboard active; without it, or when it names no artboard that opens, the first artboard is active. It also reads the Document Raster Effects Settings (resolution, color model, background, anti-alias, clipping mask, Add Around Object and Preserve Spot Colors), the author from the header's `%%For` (an EPS's own header when the editing data's has none), swatches for the header's `%%CMYKCustomColor` and `%%RGBCustomColor` colors that the document has none of, and `%%TemplateBox` in older files; a setting with a value of another type or out of range keeps its default. Objects on Path groups open live, with their path, their objects in order along it, Pivot and Rotate; one with a dragged spacing or other options opens as a plain group. A gradient with stops in the middle runs its whole ramp across its shape, and a gradient object does not pass its fill to the next path (#1390). An object whose art style is one fill and one stroke at most (solid colours, its own gradient, a variable-width profile) with Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Convert to Shape, Tweak (only when it moves nothing) or Pucker & Bloat at 0 comes in as itself with them and their saved settings. A path, compound path or group (not a clipping group) whose only effect is Transform (not with copies or Random) or a Free Distort whose corners make a parallelogram comes in as itself with it too, when neither it nor anything in it paints with a gradient or pattern and everything in it is a path, compound path or group with no opacity mask and no effects of its own; Transform that scales, rotates or reflects needs nothing in it to be stroked. Twist as the only effect is read the same way on an unstroked path or compound path whose segments are all straight. One with more, other effects (Zig Zag, a Pucker & Bloat of another amount, a Free Distort with other corners), an effect setting that is not read (an unknown key, a missing or out-of-range value, a Scribble with a color of its own), dashes aligned to corners, a brush other than a Calligraphic or Art one, a Calligraphic brush with settings of its own or an angle that follows the path, or an Art brush other than the ones described next comes in as its drawn look (a group named after it). A path with a Calligraphic brush otherwise comes in as the path, the brush on its stroke at the stroke's weight, which scales the brush (#372), and so does a path with an Art brush, whose weight scales the art across the path, when all of these hold: the brush stretches its art along the path, unflipped, at 100% in Tints; the path's settings are the brush's own, with no entry that isn't read, no variable width and no effects; its stroke isn't a swatch; and the art is paths, compound paths and groups in solid fills, with no strokes, masks or effects, and has some length along the path. A stroke takes the brush the Brushes panel keeps under its name, and one whose name the panel doesn't keep comes in as its drawn look. Type with an Art brush keeps its drawn look under the type. A Calligraphic brush's Pressure, Tilt, Bearing and Rotation come in as those channels (a 6D Art Pen's brushes vary with the pressure, the bearing and the barrel's rotation); its Stylus Wheel varies at random. The file's Calligraphic, Scatter, Art and Bristle brushes replace the default ones in the Brushes panel, in the file's order, also when the file comes in as its PDF part (a brush library has no layers); pattern brushes and brushes it can't read are left out with a note. Type keeps its art style as a live appearance whatever its stack (an Art brush aside), so it can be retyped: each fill and stroke of the style's stack (solid colours, gradients and pattern fills, placed as the drawn look places them) with its own opacity, blend mode and effects, the effects on the whole object, and where the characters paint among them; the effects read are Warp, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Transform (with copies, Transform Objects, Transform Patterns and Scale Strokes & Effects; not with Random), Free Distort, Pucker & Bloat, Twist, Zig Zag, Tweak (only when it moves nothing, the file holding none of its random outline), Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Gaussian Blur, Bas Relief (its settings at their defaults) and Convert to Shape, and a style with others, or with an effect setting that isn't read, keeps the type's drawn look. Convert to Shape keeps its Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle or Ellipse, its Absolute or Relative size (a relative size in the file is added to each side) and its corner radius; a relative Ellipse, or a setting that isn't read, keeps the drawn look. The page's drawing of such a style isn't held to look like VectorCraft's where its drawn look lay. Gradients take their matrix (`Xm`, radials and skewed ones too), focal point and the order of stops sharing a ramp point; gradient meshes, a clipping path's own fill and its stroke, and the artboards' names are read too. `editingData: "always"` (`convert --editing-data`) opens a `.ai` or an Illustrator EPS from its editing data even where it draws differently from its page, which can be older, with a note. Type is made from the file's text document, whole and editable, shown or not: point type (its frame's matrix, which newer files leave out when it is neither turned nor scaled, read as none), area type (a story in several frames as threaded type) and type on a path, with its characters, fonts, size, leading, tracking, scaling, baseline shift, fill and stroke (grey, RGB or CMYK), alignment, indents and paragraph spacing (a character attribute a run doesn't set comes from its character style, then the style that one is based on, then the document's defaults); area type keeps its frame's Area Type Options rows and columns, the gutter between rows and the gutter between columns, and its first baseline (Fixed, Cap Height, Leading or x Height) with its minimum; type on a path keeps its frame's Type on a Path effect, Align to Path and Flip (a frame whose options set key 6 to true keeps their defaults), and the first frame's Spacing is fitted from the file's layout, not read from the dialog's value; the distance from the path under Align to Path comes from VectorCraft's font metrics, and on Arial at 24 pt it differs from the distance the file keeps by 1.1 pt (Ascender), 0.3 pt (Center) and 2.7 pt (Descender); the fit under Gravity does not reproduce the file's layout, and its glyphs can lie up to 7.4 pt from the positions the file keeps; the page's drawing of it (often in pieces) is left out. Vertical type keeps its orientation, its columns from right to left, and a run set to Tate-chu-yoko keeps that setting. When it makes the type of every text object that shows, the page's type is only compared with it, each text object keeps its own group, frame and layer, and a line break inside a paragraph stays one. Where it can't make a text object's type (a frame of another kind), that text object takes the page's type where the text document puts its lines, or else what is left of the page's type in painting order (no group around it); the page's type where made type draws stays that type's, and hidden type is left out with a note. Text wrap is read too: an object whose dictionary has the wrap options (offset and Invert Wrap), or any graphic of a legacy wraparound group (`*w` … `*W`, before or after its type, with no offset), is a wrap object, and area type below it in its layer flows around it when the file opens, threaded type included (#2763). Kerning, underline and the other character and paragraph options aren't read yet. A `.ai` saved without PDF compatibility (a placeholder page) opens from its editing data alone, its point type, area type and type on a path made from the text document. A `.ai` whose PDF part shows only text isn't taken for that placeholder when its page states an art, trim or bleed box: it opens from its editing data alone where that reads, else from its PDF part (#1387). A `.ai` whose PDF part draws nothing at all (an empty page, with or without those boxes) opens from its editing data alone where that reads too: there is no page art to check its layers against, and the empty page would lose all of it. Text objects with an appearance keep their own text and frame, type of hidden layers stays hidden, and type on later artboards lands on its text objects (#1391); area type whose frame is too short for a line of the fallback font shows its first line (the frame is made taller, with a warning in the open result) (#1392). Symbols are read into the Symbols panel, in the file's symbol list order, with their art, their registration point and the instances in their art, and their instances come in live with their matrix, name, hide, lock, opacity, blending mode, isolation, knockout and opacity mask; a symbol whose art isn't read whole (type, placed files, an image it leaves out or anything else it doesn't read) isn't kept. Symbols are read only with the layers: a file that comes in as its page or PDF part (editing data with no layers, layers that can't be read, or any of the cases below) opens with an empty Symbols panel. Instances of symbols it can't read, instances with appearance changes of their own (a dynamic symbol's), pattern fills whose pattern it can't read, placed files the data keeps no preview of and anything else it doesn't read make the file come in as its page (on a layer that doesn't show, they are left out of that layer), with a warning saying what. An unread object on a shown layer whose box can be found instead comes in as a group of the page's objects inside that box, named after it, with the rest of the layers and groups kept and a warning listing what came in as the page's art; the file still comes in as its page when live art or another unread object shares that page art, when the object spans two artboards or lies on an artboard that has no page, when no page art lies inside its box, when that page art is inside a page group with a clip, mask, transparency or appearance, when the object holds a frame of threaded type, when the page art uses a pattern, image or swatch that the page lacks or that differs from the editing data's, or when the page art doesn't carry its transparency (#4806). The layers' art is also compared with the page (by lightness, so colours written as their CMYK equivalents compare alike, and by whether a pixel is inked at all); the page is used when they differ by more than 5% (away from type, when all the type is made from the text document), where one draws an object the other doesn't (away from type, whose lines may be laid out afresh), and when an EPS whose page is its art's box has art printed outside it (#735). A `.ai` is not compared with its page, and its PDF part is not imported, when its text document makes the type of every text object (at least one shows, and none is drawn by the appearance of the layer or group it is in), no object is unread, no placed file has a second placement, no live envelope keeps its drawn art, it declares no large canvas, and its artboards are its pages' trim boxes one for one, in points or in the first page's `UserUnit`: it opens from its layers, with the bleed of its pages' bleed boxes. When they differ because some objects draw differently (an object in another color, or one that only one of them draws), each top-level object of the layers that holds such a difference comes in as a group of the page's objects inside its box and the layers stay, with a warning that names the layer or sublayer of each such object as the Layers panel shows it (`<Layer>` for one without a name) and how many came in from it; an export or Save As to the file's own path then needs `acknowledgeLoss: true`, and a wrap object replaced this way keeps its wrap options. The file still comes in as its page when only edges or type differ, when a difference lies outside every top-level object, when more than half of the top-level objects or more than 64 hold one, when such an object is or holds type or holds a wrap object inside a group, when the page's type of a text object that stays lies inside such an object's box, when the page's art can't replace such an object for one of the reasons above for an unread object, when matching the differences to the objects would take too much work, or when the result still differs from the page. `editingData: "always"` keeps the objects as read, and placed files at the other point their data gives are tried as well. An EPS whose page is its art's box keeps that page when it comes in through its layers, not the editing data's artboard, and a text object counts as drawn by the page by its colours, not only its lightness, so a red stroke stacked over a dark red one stays (#1102). `textAs: "outlines"` opens a `.ai` whose type shows from its PDF part, which has the outlines; `editingData: false` opens any of them as its page or PDF part only, for print pipelines (#735). A file whose import left something out (hidden text, art or layers) is never written over by an export or Save As to its own path unless `acknowledgeLoss: true` (`convert --replace-lossy`), so the original keeps what the document lacks. Where a `.ai` can't be read that way (or its layers are turned off in the import options), we read its PDF-compatible part, so Illustrator-only live objects arrive as appearance, and plain groups arrive ungrouped: that part draws each object on its own and marks only layers, clipping groups and groups with opacity, blending or a mask (those come back). Art outside the artboards isn't in that part at all (Illustrator's PDF part leaves it out), so it doesn't open; the import says so in a note (#472). Its pages still go where the editing data puts the artboards (a grid stays a grid), with the art on each, when it has as many artboards as pages, of the same sizes (#1068); the page of the artboard `CropAreaActive` names is then the active artboard. A `.ai` whose editing data has artboards but no layers also opens on that page under the same check, and its pages stay where they are. A `.ai` whose PDF part's pages are cropped to its art (each page the box of all the art, which is the editing data's bounding box) instead of its artboards opens from its layers, with its own artboards, where they draw as that page does. Its pages are laid out so that art one of them draws past its artboard (notes beside a design, which the part doesn't clip) doesn't lie over the page before it in the row, where it was taken for that page's art: the check against the editing data then found art its layers don't have there and opened the file as its PDF part, without the art outside the artboards. That part also has no paragraphs: area type is written line by line, and comes back as area type only where its font is installed and lays the lines out with the same breaks, else as a point type object per line (#508). Art off the page that a PDF does draw opens on the pasteboard.
+the app's own editing copy of a file (an EPS after its `%%EOF`, a `.ai`'s `AIPrivateData` streams, a PDF's `AIPDFPrivateData` streams when it was saved with the editing data (#868), Zstandard or zlib, the EPS's in ASCII85) is not documented as a whole. VectorCraft reads its structure: layers and sublayers (names, order, visibility, lock, printing, preview, dimming, colour), groups as they were nested, compound paths (painted by their last path, or the last painted one, with the paths of groups inside them kept as their paths: #1410), clipping groups and layer clipping (several clipping paths in a clipping group, a layer or an opacity mask's art clip to their intersection, and a compound path of clipping paths stays one clip; clipping paths that would nest the art past the document's 32 levels stop the editing data from being read: #5789), object names, hidden and locked objects, fills and strokes (grey, CMYK, RGB, named and spot colours, spot colours defined in Lab with their Lab values (#1032), global process colours as global swatches at their tint; a stroke of width 0, `0 w`, on a path, a gradient-filled path, legacy type or in an art style comes in as a 0.25 pt hairline, as from PDF: #1671), linear and radial gradients, pattern fills with their patterns as pattern swatches (#1025), gradient and pattern names in the file up to their first newline (a name that another swatch, or a gradient or pattern defined earlier, already has is numbered "Sky 2"; a name without a newline is kept, and when another swatch has it, the pattern's swatch, or a named color sharing a gradient or pattern swatch's name, is numbered the same way), opacity, blend modes, isolation and knockout, embedded images where their matrix puts them, rotated ones too (#2269), with their alpha channel (CMYK images keep their ink amounts, as they do when a `.ai` opens from its PDF part, and an alpha channel that hides part of a CMYK image becomes a grayscale opacity mask), placed (linked) files as linked images in their place, each showing the low-resolution preview the file keeps of it until its file is found or relinked in the Links panel (#1264), with the folder the file keeps relative to the document's, where the link is looked for when its path is gone, guides, and every artboard where it is, with its center mark, cross hairs, video safe areas and video ruler pixel aspect ratio. VectorCraft reads `CropAreaActive`, an `/Int` in the dictionary that holds the artboard array, as the index of the active artboard in that array, and the file opens with that artboard active; without it, or when it names no artboard that opens, the first artboard is active. It also reads the Document Raster Effects Settings (resolution, color model, background, anti-alias, clipping mask, Add Around Object and Preserve Spot Colors), the author from the header's `%%For` (an EPS's own header when the editing data's has none), swatches for the header's `%%CMYKCustomColor` and `%%RGBCustomColor` colors that the document has none of, and `%%TemplateBox` in older files; a setting with a value of another type or out of range keeps its default. Objects on Path groups open live, with their path, their objects in order along it, Pivot and Rotate; one with a dragged spacing or other options opens as a plain group. A gradient with stops in the middle runs its whole ramp across its shape, and a gradient object does not pass its fill to the next path (#1390). An object whose art style is one fill and one stroke at most (solid colours, its own gradient, a variable-width profile) with Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Convert to Shape, Tweak (only when it moves nothing) or Pucker & Bloat at 0 comes in as itself with them and their saved settings. A path, compound path or group (not a clipping group) whose only effect is Transform (not with copies or Random) or a Free Distort whose corners make a parallelogram comes in as itself with it too, when neither it nor anything in it paints with a gradient or pattern and everything in it is a path, compound path or group with no opacity mask and no effects of its own; Transform that scales, rotates or reflects needs nothing in it to be stroked. Twist as the only effect is read the same way on an unstroked path or compound path whose segments are all straight. One with more, other effects (Zig Zag, a Pucker & Bloat of another amount, a Free Distort with other corners), an effect setting that is not read (an unknown key, a missing or out-of-range value, a Scribble with a color of its own), dashes aligned to corners, a brush other than a Calligraphic one, or a Calligraphic brush with settings of its own or an angle that follows the path comes in as its drawn look (a group named after it). A path with a Calligraphic brush otherwise comes in as the path, the brush on its stroke at the stroke's weight, which scales the brush (#372). A Calligraphic brush's Pressure, Tilt, Bearing and Rotation come in as those channels (a 6D Art Pen's brushes vary with the pressure, the bearing and the barrel's rotation); its Stylus Wheel varies at random. The file's Calligraphic, Scatter, Art and Bristle brushes replace the default ones in the Brushes panel, in the file's order, also when the file comes in as its PDF part (a brush library has no layers); pattern brushes and brushes it can't read are left out with a note. Type keeps its art style as a live appearance whatever its stack, so it can be retyped: each fill and stroke of the style's stack (solid colours, gradients and pattern fills, placed as the drawn look places them) with its own opacity, blend mode and effects, the effects on the whole object, and where the characters paint among them; the effects read are Warp, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Transform (with copies, Transform Objects, Transform Patterns and Scale Strokes & Effects; not with Random), Free Distort, Pucker & Bloat, Twist, Zig Zag, Tweak (only when it moves nothing, the file holding none of its random outline), Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Gaussian Blur, Bas Relief (its settings at their defaults) and Convert to Shape, and a style with others, or with an effect setting that isn't read, keeps the type's drawn look. Convert to Shape keeps its Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle or Ellipse, its Absolute or Relative size (a relative size in the file is added to each side) and its corner radius; a relative Ellipse, or a setting that isn't read, keeps the drawn look. The page's drawing of such a style isn't held to look like VectorCraft's where its drawn look lay. Gradients take their matrix (`Xm`, radials and skewed ones too), focal point and the order of stops sharing a ramp point; gradient meshes, a clipping path's own fill and its stroke, and the artboards' names are read too. `editingData: "always"` (`convert --editing-data`) opens a `.ai` or an Illustrator EPS from its editing data even where it draws differently from its page, which can be older, with a note. Type is made from the file's text document, whole and editable, shown or not: point type (its frame's matrix, which newer files leave out when it is neither turned nor scaled, read as none), area type (a story in several frames as threaded type) and type on a path, with its characters, fonts, size, leading, tracking, scaling, baseline shift, fill and stroke (grey, RGB or CMYK), alignment, indents and paragraph spacing (a character attribute a run doesn't set comes from its character style, then the style that one is based on, then the document's defaults); area type keeps its frame's Area Type Options rows and columns, the gutter between rows and the gutter between columns, and its first baseline (Fixed, Cap Height, Leading or x Height) with its minimum; type on a path keeps its frame's Type on a Path effect, Align to Path and Flip, and the first frame's Spacing is fitted from the file's layout, not read from the dialog's value; the distance from the path under Align to Path comes from VectorCraft's font metrics, and on Arial at 24 pt it differs from the distance the file keeps by 1.1 pt (Ascender), 0.3 pt (Center) and 2.7 pt (Descender); the fit under Gravity does not reproduce the file's layout, and its glyphs can lie up to 7.4 pt from the positions the file keeps; the page's drawing of it (often in pieces) is left out. Vertical type keeps its orientation, its columns from right to left, and a run set to Tate-chu-yoko keeps that setting. When it makes the type of every text object that shows, the page's type is only compared with it, each text object keeps its own group, frame and layer, and a line break inside a paragraph stays one. Where it can't make a text object's type (a frame of another kind), that text object takes the page's type where the text document puts its lines, or else what is left of the page's type in painting order (no group around it); the page's type where made type draws stays that type's, and hidden type is left out with a note. Text wrap is read too: an object whose dictionary has the wrap options (offset and Invert Wrap), or any graphic of a legacy wraparound group (`*w` … `*W`, before or after its type, with no offset), is a wrap object, and area type below it in its layer flows around it when the file opens, threaded type included (#2763). Kerning, underline and the other character and paragraph options aren't read yet. A `.ai` saved without PDF compatibility (a placeholder page) opens from its editing data alone, its point type, area type and type on a path made from the text document. A `.ai` whose PDF part shows only text isn't taken for that placeholder when its page states an art, trim or bleed box: it opens from its editing data alone where that reads, else from its PDF part (#1387). A `.ai` whose PDF part draws nothing at all (an empty page, with or without those boxes) opens from its editing data alone where that reads too: there is no page art to check its layers against, and the empty page would lose all of it. Text objects with an appearance keep their own text and frame, type of hidden layers stays hidden, and type on later artboards lands on its text objects (#1391); area type whose frame is too short for a line of the fallback font shows its first line (the frame is made taller, with a warning in the open result) (#1392). Symbols are read into the Symbols panel, in the file's symbol list order, with their art, their registration point and the instances in their art, and their instances come in live with their matrix, name, hide, lock, opacity, blending mode, isolation, knockout and opacity mask; a symbol whose art isn't read whole (type, placed files, an image it leaves out or anything else it doesn't read) isn't kept. Symbols are read only with the layers: a file that comes in as its page or PDF part (editing data with no layers, layers that can't be read, or any of the cases below) opens with an empty Symbols panel. Instances of symbols it can't read, instances with appearance changes of their own (a dynamic symbol's), pattern fills whose pattern it can't read, placed files the data keeps no preview of and anything else it doesn't read make the file come in as its page (on a layer that doesn't show, they are left out of that layer), with a warning saying what. An unread object on a shown layer whose box can be found instead comes in as a group of the page's objects inside that box, named after it, with the rest of the layers and groups kept and a warning listing what came in as the page's art; the file still comes in as its page when live art or another unread object shares that page art, when the object spans two artboards or lies on an artboard that has no page, when no page art lies inside its box, when that page art is inside a page group with a clip, mask, transparency or appearance, when the object holds a frame of threaded type, when the page art uses a pattern, image or swatch that the page lacks or that differs from the editing data's, or when the page art doesn't carry its transparency (#4806). The layers' art is also compared with the page (by lightness, so colours written as their CMYK equivalents compare alike, and by whether a pixel is inked at all); the page is used when they differ by more than 5% (away from type, when all the type is made from the text document), where one draws an object the other doesn't (away from type, whose lines may be laid out afresh), and when an EPS whose page is its art's box has art printed outside it (#735). A `.ai` is not compared with its page, and its PDF part is not imported, when its text document makes the type of every text object (at least one shows, and none is drawn by the appearance of the layer or group it is in), no object is unread, no placed file has a second placement, no live envelope keeps its drawn art, it declares no large canvas, and its artboards are its pages' trim boxes one for one, in points or in the first page's `UserUnit`: it opens from its layers, with the bleed of its pages' bleed boxes. When they differ because some objects draw differently (an object in another color, or one that only one of them draws), each top-level object of the layers that holds such a difference comes in as a group of the page's objects inside its box and the layers stay, with a warning that names the layer or sublayer of each such object as the Layers panel shows it (`<Layer>` for one without a name) and how many came in from it; an export or Save As to the file's own path then needs `acknowledgeLoss: true`, and a wrap object replaced this way keeps its wrap options. The file still comes in as its page when only edges or type differ, when a difference lies outside every top-level object, when more than half of the top-level objects or more than 64 hold one, when such an object is or holds type or holds a wrap object inside a group, when the page's type of a text object that stays lies inside such an object's box, when the page's art can't replace such an object for one of the reasons above for an unread object, when matching the differences to the objects would take too much work, or when the result still differs from the page. `editingData: "always"` keeps the objects as read, and placed files at the other point their data gives are tried as well. An EPS whose page is its art's box keeps that page when it comes in through its layers, not the editing data's artboard, and a text object counts as drawn by the page by its colours, not only its lightness, so a red stroke stacked over a dark red one stays (#1102). `textAs: "outlines"` opens a `.ai` whose type shows from its PDF part, which has the outlines; `editingData: false` opens any of them as its page or PDF part only, for print pipelines (#735). A file whose import left something out (hidden text, art or layers) is never written over by an export or Save As to its own path unless `acknowledgeLoss: true` (`convert --replace-lossy`), so the original keeps what the document lacks. Where a `.ai` can't be read that way (or its layers are turned off in the import options), we read its PDF-compatible part, so Illustrator-only live objects arrive as appearance, and plain groups arrive ungrouped: that part draws each object on its own and marks only layers, clipping groups and groups with opacity, blending or a mask (those come back). Art outside the artboards isn't in that part at all (Illustrator's PDF part leaves it out), so it doesn't open; the import says so in a note (#472). Its pages still go where the editing data puts the artboards (a grid stays a grid), with the art on each, when it has as many artboards as pages, of the same sizes (#1068); the page of the artboard `CropAreaActive` names is then the active artboard. A `.ai` whose editing data has artboards but no layers also opens on that page under the same check, and its pages stay where they are. A `.ai` whose PDF part's pages are cropped to its art (each page the box of all the art, which is the editing data's bounding box) instead of its artboards opens from its layers, with its own artboards, where they draw as that page does. Its pages are laid out so that art one of them draws past its artboard (notes beside a design, which the part doesn't clip) doesn't lie over the page before it in the row, where it was taken for that page's art: the check against the editing data then found art its layers don't have there and opened the file as its PDF part, without the art outside the artboards. That part also has no paragraphs: area type is written line by line, and comes back as area type only where its font is installed and lays the lines out with the same breaks, else as a point type object per line (#508). Art off the page that a PDF does draw opens on the pasteboard.
+the app's own editing copy of a file (an EPS after its `%%EOF`, a `.ai`'s `AIPrivateData` streams, a PDF's `AIPDFPrivateData` streams when it was saved with the editing data (#868), Zstandard or zlib, the EPS's in ASCII85) is not documented as a whole. VectorCraft reads its structure: layers and sublayers (names, order, visibility, lock, printing, preview, dimming, colour), groups as they were nested, compound paths (painted by their last path, or the last painted one, with the paths of groups inside them kept as their paths: #1410), clipping groups and layer clipping (several clipping paths in a clipping group, a layer or an opacity mask's art clip to their intersection, and a compound path of clipping paths stays one clip; clipping paths that would nest the art past the document's 32 levels stop the editing data from being read: #5789), object names, hidden and locked objects, fills and strokes (grey, CMYK, RGB, named and spot colours, spot colours defined in Lab with their Lab values (#1032), global process colours as global swatches at their tint; a stroke of width 0, `0 w`, on a path, a gradient-filled path, legacy type or in an art style comes in as a 0.25 pt hairline, as from PDF: #1671), linear and radial gradients, pattern fills with their patterns as pattern swatches (#1025), gradient and pattern names in the file up to their first newline (a name that another swatch, or a gradient or pattern defined earlier, already has is numbered "Sky 2"; a name without a newline is kept, and when another swatch has it, the pattern's swatch, or a named color sharing a gradient or pattern swatch's name, is numbered the same way), opacity, blend modes, isolation and knockout, embedded images where their matrix puts them, rotated ones too (#2269), with their alpha channel (CMYK images keep their ink amounts, as they do when a `.ai` opens from its PDF part, and an alpha channel that hides part of a CMYK image becomes a grayscale opacity mask), placed (linked) files as linked images in their place, each showing the low-resolution preview the file keeps of it until its file is found or relinked in the Links panel (#1264), with the folder the file keeps relative to the document's, where the link is looked for when its path is gone, guides, and every artboard where it is, with its center mark, cross hairs, video safe areas and video ruler pixel aspect ratio. VectorCraft reads `CropAreaActive`, an `/Int` in the dictionary that holds the artboard array, as the index of the active artboard in that array, and the file opens with that artboard active; without it, or when it names no artboard that opens, the first artboard is active. It also reads the Document Raster Effects Settings (resolution, color model, background, anti-alias, clipping mask, Add Around Object and Preserve Spot Colors), the author from the header's `%%For` (an EPS's own header when the editing data's has none), swatches for the header's `%%CMYKCustomColor` and `%%RGBCustomColor` colors that the document has none of, and `%%TemplateBox` in older files; a setting with a value of another type or out of range keeps its default. Objects on Path groups open live, with their path, their objects in order along it, Pivot and Rotate; one with a dragged spacing or other options opens as a plain group. A gradient with stops in the middle runs its whole ramp across its shape, and a gradient object does not pass its fill to the next path (#1390). An object whose art style is one fill and one stroke at most (solid colours, its own gradient, a variable-width profile) with Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Convert to Shape, Tweak (only when it moves nothing) or Pucker & Bloat at 0 comes in as itself with them and their saved settings. A path, compound path or group (not a clipping group) whose only effect is Transform (not with copies or Random) or a Free Distort whose corners make a parallelogram comes in as itself with it too, when neither it nor anything in it paints with a gradient or pattern and everything in it is a path, compound path or group with no opacity mask and no effects of its own; Transform that scales, rotates or reflects needs nothing in it to be stroked. Twist as the only effect is read the same way on an unstroked path or compound path whose segments are all straight. One with more, other effects (Zig Zag, a Pucker & Bloat of another amount, a Free Distort with other corners), an effect setting that is not read (an unknown key, a missing or out-of-range value, a Scribble with a color of its own), dashes aligned to corners, a brush other than a Calligraphic one, or a Calligraphic brush with settings of its own or an angle that follows the path comes in as its drawn look (a group named after it). A path with a Calligraphic brush otherwise comes in as the path, the brush on its stroke at the stroke's weight, which scales the brush (#372). A Calligraphic brush's Pressure, Tilt, Bearing and Rotation come in as those channels (a 6D Art Pen's brushes vary with the pressure, the bearing and the barrel's rotation); its Stylus Wheel varies at random. The file's Calligraphic, Scatter, Art and Bristle brushes replace the default ones in the Brushes panel, in the file's order, also when the file comes in as its PDF part (a brush library has no layers); pattern brushes and brushes it can't read are left out with a note. Type keeps its art style as a live appearance whatever its stack, so it can be retyped: each fill and stroke of the style's stack (solid colours, gradients and pattern fills, placed as the drawn look places them) with its own opacity, blend mode and effects, the effects on the whole object, and where the characters paint among them; the effects read are Warp, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Transform (with copies, Transform Objects, Transform Patterns and Scale Strokes & Effects; not with Random), Free Distort, Pucker & Bloat, Twist, Zig Zag, Tweak (only when it moves nothing, the file holding none of its random outline), Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Gaussian Blur, Bas Relief (its settings at their defaults) and Convert to Shape, and a style with others, or with an effect setting that isn't read, keeps the type's drawn look. Convert to Shape keeps its Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle or Ellipse, its Absolute or Relative size (a relative size in the file is added to each side) and its corner radius; a relative Ellipse, or a setting that isn't read, keeps the drawn look. The page's drawing of such a style isn't held to look like VectorCraft's where its drawn look lay. Gradients take their matrix (`Xm`, radials and skewed ones too), focal point and the order of stops sharing a ramp point; gradient meshes, a clipping path's own fill and its stroke, and the artboards' names are read too. `editingData: "always"` (`convert --editing-data`) opens a `.ai` or an Illustrator EPS from its editing data even where it draws differently from its page, which can be older, with a note. Type is made from the file's text document, whole and editable, shown or not: point type (its frame's matrix, which newer files leave out when it is neither turned nor scaled, read as none), area type (a story in several frames as threaded type) and type on a path, with its characters, fonts, size, leading, tracking, scaling, baseline shift, fill and stroke (grey, RGB or CMYK), alignment, indents and paragraph spacing (a character attribute a run doesn't set comes from its character style, then the style that one is based on, then the document's defaults); area type keeps its frame's Area Type Options rows and columns, the gutter between rows and the gutter between columns, and its first baseline (Fixed, Cap Height, Leading or x Height) with its minimum; type on a path keeps its frame's Type on a Path effect, Align to Path and Flip, and the first frame's Spacing is fitted from the file's layout, not read from the dialog's value; the page's drawing of it (often in pieces) is left out. Vertical type keeps its orientation, its columns from right to left, and a run set to Tate-chu-yoko keeps that setting. When it makes the type of every text object that shows, the page's type is only compared with it, each text object keeps its own group, frame and layer, and a line break inside a paragraph stays one. Where it can't make a text object's type (a frame of another kind), that text object takes the page's type where the text document puts its lines, or else what is left of the page's type in painting order (no group around it); the page's type where made type draws stays that type's, and hidden type is left out with a note. Text wrap is read too: an object whose dictionary has the wrap options (offset and Invert Wrap), or any graphic of a legacy wraparound group (`*w` … `*W`, before or after its type, with no offset), is a wrap object, and area type below it in its layer flows around it when the file opens, threaded type included (#2763). Kerning, underline and the other character and paragraph options aren't read yet. A `.ai` saved without PDF compatibility (a placeholder page) opens from its editing data alone, its point type, area type and type on a path made from the text document. A `.ai` whose PDF part shows only text isn't taken for that placeholder when its page states an art, trim or bleed box: it opens from its editing data alone where that reads, else from its PDF part (#1387). A `.ai` whose PDF part draws nothing at all (an empty page, with or without those boxes) opens from its editing data alone where that reads too: there is no page art to check its layers against, and the empty page would lose all of it. Text objects with an appearance keep their own text and frame, type of hidden layers stays hidden, and type on later artboards lands on its text objects (#1391); area type whose frame is too short for a line of the fallback font shows its first line (the frame is made taller, with a warning in the open result) (#1392). Symbols are read into the Symbols panel, in the file's symbol list order, with their art, their registration point and the instances in their art, and their instances come in live with their matrix, name, hide, lock, opacity, blending mode, isolation, knockout and opacity mask; a symbol whose art isn't read whole (type, placed files, an image it leaves out or anything else it doesn't read) isn't kept. Symbols are read only with the layers: a file that comes in as its page or PDF part (editing data with no layers, layers that can't be read, or any of the cases below) opens with an empty Symbols panel. Instances of symbols it can't read, instances with appearance changes of their own (a dynamic symbol's), pattern fills whose pattern it can't read, placed files the data keeps no preview of and anything else it doesn't read make the file come in as its page (on a layer that doesn't show, they are left out of that layer), with a warning saying what. An unread object on a shown layer whose box can be found instead comes in as a group of the page's objects inside that box, named after it, with the rest of the layers and groups kept and a warning listing what came in as the page's art; the file still comes in as its page when live art or another unread object shares that page art, when the object spans two artboards or lies on an artboard that has no page, when no page art lies inside its box, when that page art is inside a page group with a clip, mask, transparency or appearance, when the object holds a frame of threaded type, when the page art uses a pattern, image or swatch that the page lacks or that differs from the editing data's, or when the page art doesn't carry its transparency (#4806). The layers' art is also compared with the page (by lightness, so colours written as their CMYK equivalents compare alike, and by whether a pixel is inked at all); the page is used when they differ by more than 5% (away from type, when all the type is made from the text document), where one draws an object the other doesn't (away from type, whose lines may be laid out afresh), and when an EPS whose page is its art's box has art printed outside it (#735). A `.ai` is not compared with its page, and its PDF part is not imported, when its text document makes the type of every text object (at least one shows, and none is drawn by the appearance of the layer or group it is in), no object is unread, no placed file has a second placement, no live envelope keeps its drawn art, it declares no large canvas, and its artboards are its pages' trim boxes one for one, in points or in the first page's `UserUnit`: it opens from its layers, with the bleed of its pages' bleed boxes. When they differ because some objects draw differently (an object in another color, or one that only one of them draws), each top-level object of the layers that holds such a difference comes in as a group of the page's objects inside its box and the layers stay, with a warning that names the layer or sublayer of each such object as the Layers panel shows it (`<Layer>` for one without a name) and how many came in from it; an export or Save As to the file's own path then needs `acknowledgeLoss: true`, and a wrap object replaced this way keeps its wrap options. The file still comes in as its page when only edges or type differ, when a difference lies outside every top-level object, when more than half of the top-level objects or more than 64 hold one, when such an object is or holds type or holds a wrap object inside a group, when the page's type of a text object that stays lies inside such an object's box, when the page's art can't replace such an object for one of the reasons above for an unread object, when matching the differences to the objects would take too much work, or when the result still differs from the page. `editingData: "always"` keeps the objects as read, and placed files at the other point their data gives are tried as well. An EPS whose page is its art's box keeps that page when it comes in through its layers, not the editing data's artboard, and a text object counts as drawn by the page by its colours, not only its lightness, so a red stroke stacked over a dark red one stays (#1102). `textAs: "outlines"` opens a `.ai` whose type shows from its PDF part, which has the outlines; `editingData: false` opens any of them as its page or PDF part only, for print pipelines (#735). A file whose import left something out (hidden text, art or layers) is never written over by an export or Save As to its own path unless `acknowledgeLoss: true` (`convert --replace-lossy`), so the original keeps what the document lacks. Where a `.ai` can't be read that way (or its layers are turned off in the import options), we read its PDF-compatible part, so Illustrator-only live objects arrive as appearance, and plain groups arrive ungrouped: that part draws each object on its own and marks only layers, clipping groups and groups with opacity, blending or a mask (those come back). Art outside the artboards isn't in that part at all (Illustrator's PDF part leaves it out), so it doesn't open; the import says so in a note (#472). Its pages still go where the editing data puts the artboards (a grid stays a grid), with the art on each, when it has as many artboards as pages, of the same sizes (#1068); the page of the artboard `CropAreaActive` names is then the active artboard. A `.ai` whose editing data has artboards but no layers also opens on that page under the same check, and its pages stay where they are. A `.ai` whose PDF part's pages are cropped to its art (each page the box of all the art, which is the editing data's bounding box) instead of its artboards opens from its layers, with its own artboards, where they draw as that page does. Its pages are laid out so that art one of them draws past its artboard (notes beside a design, which the part doesn't clip) doesn't lie over the page before it in the row, where it was taken for that page's art: the check against the editing data then found art its layers don't have there and opened the file as its PDF part, without the art outside the artboards. That part also has no paragraphs: area type is written line by line, and comes back as area type only where its font is installed and lays the lines out with the same breaks, else as a point type object per line (#508). Art off the page that a PDF does draw opens on the pasteboard.
+the app's own editing copy of a file (an EPS after its `%%EOF`, a `.ai`'s `AIPrivateData` streams, a PDF's `AIPDFPrivateData` streams when it was saved with the editing data (#868), Zstandard or zlib, the EPS's in ASCII85) is not documented as a whole. VectorCraft reads its structure: layers and sublayers (names, order, visibility, lock, printing, preview, dimming, colour), groups as they were nested, compound paths (painted by their last path, or the last painted one, with the paths of groups inside them kept as their paths: #1410), clipping groups and layer clipping (several clipping paths in a clipping group, a layer or an opacity mask's art clip to their intersection, and a compound path of clipping paths stays one clip; clipping paths that would nest the art past the document's 32 levels stop the editing data from being read: #5789), object names, hidden and locked objects, fills and strokes (grey, CMYK, RGB, named and spot colours, spot colours defined in Lab with their Lab values (#1032), global process colours as global swatches at their tint; a stroke of width 0, `0 w`, on a path, a gradient-filled path, legacy type or in an art style comes in as a 0.25 pt hairline, as from PDF: #1671), linear and radial gradients, pattern fills with their patterns as pattern swatches (#1025), gradient and pattern names in the file up to their first newline (a name that another swatch, or a gradient or pattern defined earlier, already has is numbered "Sky 2"; a name without a newline is kept, and when another swatch has it, the pattern's swatch, or a named color sharing a gradient or pattern swatch's name, is numbered the same way), opacity, blend modes, isolation and knockout, embedded images where their matrix puts them, rotated ones too (#2269), with their alpha channel (CMYK images keep their ink amounts, as they do when a `.ai` opens from its PDF part, and an alpha channel that hides part of a CMYK image becomes a grayscale opacity mask), placed (linked) files as linked images in their place, each showing the low-resolution preview the file keeps of it until its file is found or relinked in the Links panel (#1264), with the folder the file keeps relative to the document's, where the link is looked for when its path is gone, guides, and every artboard where it is, with its center mark, cross hairs, video safe areas and video ruler pixel aspect ratio. VectorCraft reads `CropAreaActive`, an `/Int` in the dictionary that holds the artboard array, as the index of the active artboard in that array, and the file opens with that artboard active; without it, or when it names no artboard that opens, the first artboard is active. It also reads the Document Raster Effects Settings (resolution, color model, background, anti-alias, clipping mask, Add Around Object and Preserve Spot Colors), the author from the header's `%%For` (an EPS's own header when the editing data's has none), swatches for the header's `%%CMYKCustomColor` and `%%RGBCustomColor` colors that the document has none of, and `%%TemplateBox` in older files; a setting with a value of another type or out of range keeps its default. Objects on Path groups open live, with their path, their objects in order along it, Pivot and Rotate; one with a dragged spacing or other options opens as a plain group. A gradient with stops in the middle runs its whole ramp across its shape, and a gradient object does not pass its fill to the next path (#1390). An object whose art style is one fill and one stroke at most (solid colours, its own gradient, a variable-width profile) with Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Convert to Shape, Tweak (only when it moves nothing) or Pucker & Bloat at 0 comes in as itself with them and their saved settings. A path, compound path or group (not a clipping group) whose only effect is Transform (not with copies or Random) or a Free Distort whose corners make a parallelogram comes in as itself with it too, when neither it nor anything in it paints with a gradient or pattern and everything in it is a path, compound path or group with no opacity mask and no effects of its own; Transform that scales, rotates or reflects needs nothing in it to be stroked. Twist as the only effect is read the same way on an unstroked path or compound path whose segments are all straight. One with more, other effects (Zig Zag, a Pucker & Bloat of another amount, a Free Distort with other corners), an effect setting that is not read (an unknown key, a missing or out-of-range value, a Scribble with a color of its own), dashes aligned to corners, a brush other than a Calligraphic one, or a Calligraphic brush with settings of its own or an angle that follows the path comes in as its drawn look (a group named after it). Objects in a symbol defined before the file's art styles section, as newer files write it, take the same styles as the layers' objects. A path with a Calligraphic brush otherwise comes in as the path, the brush on its stroke at the stroke's weight, which scales the brush (#372). A Calligraphic brush's Pressure, Tilt, Bearing and Rotation come in as those channels (a 6D Art Pen's brushes vary with the pressure, the bearing and the barrel's rotation); its Stylus Wheel varies at random. The file's Calligraphic, Scatter, Art and Bristle brushes replace the default ones in the Brushes panel, in the file's order, also when the file comes in as its PDF part (a brush library has no layers); pattern brushes and brushes it can't read are left out with a note. Type keeps its art style as a live appearance whatever its stack, so it can be retyped: each fill and stroke of the style's stack (solid colours, gradients and pattern fills, placed as the drawn look places them) with its own opacity, blend mode and effects, the effects on the whole object, and where the characters paint among them; the effects read are Warp, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Transform (with copies, Transform Objects, Transform Patterns and Scale Strokes & Effects; not with Random), Free Distort, Pucker & Bloat, Twist, Zig Zag, Tweak (only when it moves nothing, the file holding none of its random outline), Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Gaussian Blur, Bas Relief (its settings at their defaults) and Convert to Shape, and a style with others, or with an effect setting that isn't read, keeps the type's drawn look. Convert to Shape keeps its Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle or Ellipse, its Absolute or Relative size (a relative size in the file is added to each side) and its corner radius; a relative Ellipse, or a setting that isn't read, keeps the drawn look. The page's drawing of such a style isn't held to look like VectorCraft's where its drawn look lay. Gradients take their matrix (`Xm`, radials and skewed ones too), focal point and the order of stops sharing a ramp point; gradient meshes, a clipping path's own fill and its stroke, and the artboards' names are read too. `editingData: "always"` (`convert --editing-data`) opens a `.ai` or an Illustrator EPS from its editing data even where it draws differently from its page, which can be older, with a note. Type is made from the file's text document, whole and editable, shown or not: point type (its frame's matrix, which newer files leave out when it is neither turned nor scaled, read as none), area type (a story in several frames as threaded type) and type on a path, with its characters, fonts, size, leading, tracking, scaling, baseline shift, fill and stroke (grey, RGB or CMYK), alignment, indents and paragraph spacing (a character attribute a run doesn't set comes from its character style, then the style that one is based on, then the document's defaults); area type keeps its frame's Area Type Options rows and columns, the gutter between rows and the gutter between columns, and its first baseline (Fixed, Cap Height, Leading or x Height) with its minimum; the page's drawing of it (often in pieces) is left out. Vertical type keeps its orientation, its columns from right to left, and a run set to Tate-chu-yoko keeps that setting. When it makes the type of every text object that shows, the page's type is only compared with it, each text object keeps its own group, frame and layer, and a line break inside a paragraph stays one. Where it can't make a text object's type (a frame of another kind), that text object takes the page's type where the text document puts its lines, or else what is left of the page's type in painting order (no group around it); the page's type where made type draws stays that type's, and hidden type is left out with a note. Text wrap is read too: an object whose dictionary has the wrap options (offset and Invert Wrap), or any graphic of a legacy wraparound group (`*w` … `*W`, before or after its type, with no offset), is a wrap object, and area type below it in its layer flows around it when the file opens, threaded type included (#2763). Kerning, underline and the other character and paragraph options aren't read yet. A `.ai` saved without PDF compatibility (a placeholder page) opens from its editing data alone, its point type, area type and type on a path made from the text document. A `.ai` whose PDF part shows only text isn't taken for that placeholder when its page states an art, trim or bleed box: it opens from its editing data alone where that reads, else from its PDF part (#1387). A `.ai` whose PDF part draws nothing at all (an empty page, with or without those boxes) opens from its editing data alone where that reads too: there is no page art to check its layers against, and the empty page would lose all of it. Text objects with an appearance keep their own text and frame, type of hidden layers stays hidden, and type on later artboards lands on its text objects (#1391); area type whose frame is too short for a line of the fallback font shows its first line (the frame is made taller, with a warning in the open result) (#1392). Symbols are read into the Symbols panel, in the file's symbol list order, with their art, their registration point and the instances in their art, and their instances come in live with their matrix, name, hide, lock, opacity, blending mode, isolation, knockout and opacity mask; a symbol whose art isn't read whole (type, placed files, an image it leaves out or anything else it doesn't read) isn't kept. Symbols are read only with the layers: a file that comes in as its page or PDF part (editing data with no layers, layers that can't be read, or any of the cases below) opens with an empty Symbols panel. Instances of symbols it can't read, instances with appearance changes of their own (a dynamic symbol's), pattern fills whose pattern it can't read, placed files the data keeps no preview of and anything else it doesn't read make the file come in as its page (on a layer that doesn't show, they are left out of that layer), with a warning saying what. An unread object on a shown layer whose box can be found instead comes in as a group of the page's objects inside that box, named after it, with the rest of the layers and groups kept and a warning listing what came in as the page's art; the file still comes in as its page when live art or another unread object shares that page art, when the object spans two artboards or lies on an artboard that has no page, when no page art lies inside its box, when that page art is inside a page group with a clip, mask, transparency or appearance, when the object holds a frame of threaded type, when the page art uses a pattern, image or swatch that the page lacks or that differs from the editing data's, or when the page art doesn't carry its transparency (#4806). The layers' art is also compared with the page (by lightness, so colours written as their CMYK equivalents compare alike, and by whether a pixel is inked at all); the page is used when they differ by more than 5% (away from type, when all the type is made from the text document), where one draws an object the other doesn't (away from type, whose lines may be laid out afresh), and when an EPS whose page is its art's box has art printed outside it (#735). A `.ai` is not compared with its page, and its PDF part is not imported, when its text document makes the type of every text object (at least one shows, and none is drawn by the appearance of the layer or group it is in), no object is unread, no placed file has a second placement, no live envelope keeps its drawn art, it declares no large canvas, and its artboards are its pages' trim boxes one for one, in points or in the first page's `UserUnit`: it opens from its layers, with the bleed of its pages' bleed boxes. When they differ because some objects draw differently (an object in another color, or one that only one of them draws), each top-level object of the layers that holds such a difference comes in as a group of the page's objects inside its box and the layers stay, with a warning that names the layer or sublayer of each such object as the Layers panel shows it (`<Layer>` for one without a name) and how many came in from it; an export or Save As to the file's own path then needs `acknowledgeLoss: true`, and a wrap object replaced this way keeps its wrap options. The file still comes in as its page when only edges or type differ, when a difference lies outside every top-level object, when more than half of the top-level objects or more than 64 hold one, when such an object is or holds type or holds a wrap object inside a group, when the page's type of a text object that stays lies inside such an object's box, when the page's art can't replace such an object for one of the reasons above for an unread object, when matching the differences to the objects would take too much work, or when the result still differs from the page. `editingData: "always"` keeps the objects as read, and placed files at the other point their data gives are tried as well. An EPS whose page is its art's box keeps that page when it comes in through its layers, not the editing data's artboard, and a text object counts as drawn by the page by its colours, not only its lightness, so a red stroke stacked over a dark red one stays (#1102). `textAs: "outlines"` opens a `.ai` whose type shows from its PDF part, which has the outlines; `editingData: false` opens any of them as its page or PDF part only, for print pipelines (#735). A file whose import left something out (hidden text, art or layers) is never written over by an export or Save As to its own path unless `acknowledgeLoss: true` (`convert --replace-lossy`), so the original keeps what the document lacks. Where a `.ai` can't be read that way (or its layers are turned off in the import options), we read its PDF-compatible part, so Illustrator-only live objects arrive as appearance, and plain groups arrive ungrouped: that part draws each object on its own and marks only layers, clipping groups and groups with opacity, blending or a mask (those come back). Art outside the artboards isn't in that part at all (Illustrator's PDF part leaves it out), so it doesn't open; the import says so in a note (#472). Its pages still go where the editing data puts the artboards (a grid stays a grid), with the art on each, when it has as many artboards as pages, of the same sizes (#1068); the page of the artboard `CropAreaActive` names is then the active artboard. A `.ai` whose editing data has artboards but no layers also opens on that page under the same check, and its pages stay where they are. A `.ai` whose PDF part's pages are cropped to its art (each page the box of all the art, which is the editing data's bounding box) instead of its artboards opens from its layers, with its own artboards, where they draw as that page does. Its pages are laid out so that art one of them draws past its artboard (notes beside a design, which the part doesn't clip) doesn't lie over the page before it in the row, where it was taken for that page's art: the check against the editing data then found art its layers don't have there and opened the file as its PDF part, without the art outside the artboards. That part also has no paragraphs: area type is written line by line, and comes back as area type only where its font is installed and lays the lines out with the same breaks, else as a point type object per line (#508). Art off the page that a PDF does draw opens on the pasteboard.
+the app's own editing copy of a file (an EPS after its `%%EOF`, a `.ai`'s `AIPrivateData` streams, a PDF's `AIPDFPrivateData` streams when it was saved with the editing data (#868), Zstandard or zlib, the EPS's in ASCII85) is not documented as a whole. VectorCraft reads its structure: layers and sublayers (names, order, visibility, lock, printing, preview, dimming, colour), groups as they were nested, compound paths (painted by their last path, or the last painted one, with the paths of groups inside them kept as their paths: #1410), clipping groups and layer clipping (several clipping paths in a clipping group, a layer or an opacity mask's art clip to their intersection, and a compound path of clipping paths stays one clip; clipping paths that would nest the art past the document's 32 levels stop the editing data from being read: #5789), object names, hidden and locked objects, fills and strokes (grey, CMYK, RGB, named and spot colours, spot colours defined in Lab with their Lab values (#1032), global process colours as global swatches at their tint; a stroke of width 0, `0 w`, on a path, a gradient-filled path, legacy type or in an art style comes in as a 0.25 pt hairline, as from PDF: #1671), linear and radial gradients, pattern fills with their patterns as pattern swatches (#1025), gradient and pattern names in the file up to their first newline (a name that another swatch, or a gradient or pattern defined earlier, already has is numbered "Sky 2"; a name without a newline is kept, and when another swatch has it, the pattern's swatch, or a named color sharing a gradient or pattern swatch's name, is numbered the same way), opacity, blend modes, isolation and knockout, embedded images where their matrix puts them, rotated ones too (#2269), with their alpha channel (CMYK images keep their ink amounts, as they do when a `.ai` opens from its PDF part, and an alpha channel that hides part of a CMYK image becomes a grayscale opacity mask), placed (linked) files as linked images in their place, each showing the low-resolution preview the file keeps of it until its file is found or relinked in the Links panel (#1264), with the folder the file keeps relative to the document's, where the link is looked for when its path is gone, placed PDF and `.ai` pages as placed documents of the [page and Crop to box](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/add-and-import-files/import-other-file-types/adobe-pdf-placement-options.html) their dictionary names (`AI11 PlacedPDFPageIndex`, `AI11 PlacedPDFCropTo`; a value VectorCraft doesn't read, or a binding to an image variable, leaves a linked image), guides, and every artboard where it is, with its center mark, cross hairs, video safe areas and video ruler pixel aspect ratio. VectorCraft reads `CropAreaActive`, an `/Int` in the dictionary that holds the artboard array, as the index of the active artboard in that array, and the file opens with that artboard active; without it, or when it names no artboard that opens, the first artboard is active. It also reads the Document Raster Effects Settings (resolution, color model, background, anti-alias, clipping mask, Add Around Object and Preserve Spot Colors), the author from the header's `%%For` (an EPS's own header when the editing data's has none), swatches for the header's `%%CMYKCustomColor` and `%%RGBCustomColor` colors that the document has none of, and `%%TemplateBox` in older files; a setting with a value of another type or out of range keeps its default. Objects on Path groups open live, with their path, their objects in order along it, Pivot and Rotate; one with a dragged spacing or other options opens as a plain group. A gradient with stops in the middle runs its whole ramp across its shape, and a gradient object does not pass its fill to the next path (#1390). An object whose art style is one fill and one stroke at most (solid colours, its own gradient, a variable-width profile) with Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Convert to Shape, Tweak (only when it moves nothing) or Pucker & Bloat at 0 comes in as itself with them and their saved settings. A path, compound path or group (not a clipping group) whose only effect is Transform (not with copies or Random) or a Free Distort whose corners make a parallelogram comes in as itself with it too, when neither it nor anything in it paints with a gradient or pattern and everything in it is a path, compound path or group with no opacity mask and no effects of its own; Transform that scales, rotates or reflects needs nothing in it to be stroked. Twist as the only effect is read the same way on an unstroked path or compound path whose segments are all straight. One with more, other effects (Zig Zag, a Pucker & Bloat of another amount, a Free Distort with other corners), an effect setting that is not read (an unknown key, a missing or out-of-range value, a Scribble with a color of its own), dashes aligned to corners, a brush other than a Calligraphic or Art one, a Calligraphic brush with settings of its own or an angle that follows the path, or an Art brush other than the ones described next comes in as its drawn look (a group named after it). A path with a Calligraphic brush otherwise comes in as the path, the brush on its stroke at the stroke's weight, which scales the brush (#372), and so does a path with an Art brush, whose weight scales the art across the path, when all of these hold: the brush stretches its art along the path, unflipped, at 100% in Tints; the path's settings are the brush's own, with no entry that isn't read, no variable width and no effects; its stroke isn't a swatch; and the art is paths, compound paths and groups in solid fills, with no strokes, masks or effects, and has some length along the path. A stroke takes the brush the Brushes panel keeps under its name, and one whose name the panel doesn't keep comes in as its drawn look. Type with an Art brush keeps its drawn look under the type. A Calligraphic brush's Pressure, Tilt, Bearing and Rotation come in as those channels (a 6D Art Pen's brushes vary with the pressure, the bearing and the barrel's rotation); its Stylus Wheel varies at random. The file's Calligraphic, Scatter, Art and Bristle brushes replace the default ones in the Brushes panel, in the file's order, also when the file comes in as its PDF part (a brush library has no layers); pattern brushes and brushes it can't read are left out with a note. Type keeps its art style as a live appearance whatever its stack (an Art brush aside), so it can be retyped: each fill and stroke of the style's stack (solid colours, gradients and pattern fills, placed as the drawn look places them) with its own opacity, blend mode and effects, the effects on the whole object, and where the characters paint among them; the effects read are Warp, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Transform (with copies, Transform Objects, Transform Patterns and Scale Strokes & Effects; not with Random), Free Distort, Pucker & Bloat, Twist, Zig Zag, Tweak (only when it moves nothing, the file holding none of its random outline), Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Gaussian Blur, Bas Relief (its settings at their defaults) and Convert to Shape, and a style with others, or with an effect setting that isn't read, keeps the type's drawn look. Convert to Shape keeps its Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle or Ellipse, its Absolute or Relative size (a relative size in the file is added to each side) and its corner radius; a relative Ellipse, or a setting that isn't read, keeps the drawn look. The page's drawing of such a style isn't held to look like VectorCraft's where its drawn look lay. Gradients take their matrix (`Xm`, radials and skewed ones too), focal point and the order of stops sharing a ramp point; gradient meshes, a clipping path's own fill and its stroke, and the artboards' names are read too. `editingData: "always"` (`convert --editing-data`) opens a `.ai` or an Illustrator EPS from its editing data even where it draws differently from its page, which can be older, with a note. Type is made from the file's text document, whole and editable, shown or not: point type (its frame's matrix, which newer files leave out when it is neither turned nor scaled, read as none), area type (a story in several frames as threaded type) and type on a path, with its characters, fonts, size, leading, tracking, scaling, baseline shift, fill and stroke (grey, RGB or CMYK), alignment, indents and paragraph spacing (a character attribute a run doesn't set comes from its character style, then the style that one is based on, then the document's defaults); area type keeps its frame's Area Type Options rows and columns, the gutter between rows and the gutter between columns, and its first baseline (Fixed, Cap Height, Leading or x Height) with its minimum; the page's drawing of it (often in pieces) is left out. Vertical type keeps its orientation, its columns from right to left, and a run set to Tate-chu-yoko keeps that setting. When it makes the type of every text object that shows, the page's type is only compared with it, each text object keeps its own group, frame and layer, and a line break inside a paragraph stays one. Where it can't make a text object's type (a frame of another kind), that text object takes the page's type where the text document puts its lines, or else what is left of the page's type in painting order (no group around it); the page's type where made type draws stays that type's, and hidden type is left out with a note. Text wrap is read too: an object whose dictionary has the wrap options (offset and Invert Wrap), or any graphic of a legacy wraparound group (`*w` … `*W`, before or after its type, with no offset), is a wrap object, and area type below it in its layer flows around it when the file opens, threaded type included (#2763). Kerning, underline and the other character and paragraph options aren't read yet. A `.ai` saved without PDF compatibility (a placeholder page) opens from its editing data alone, its point type, area type and type on a path made from the text document. A `.ai` whose PDF part shows only text isn't taken for that placeholder when its page states an art, trim or bleed box: it opens from its editing data alone where that reads, else from its PDF part (#1387). A `.ai` whose PDF part draws nothing at all (an empty page, with or without those boxes) opens from its editing data alone where that reads too: there is no page art to check its layers against, and the empty page would lose all of it. Text objects with an appearance keep their own text and frame, type of hidden layers stays hidden, and type on later artboards lands on its text objects (#1391); area type whose frame is too short for a line of the fallback font shows its first line (the frame is made taller, with a warning in the open result) (#1392). Symbols are read into the Symbols panel, in the file's symbol list order, with their art, their registration point and the instances in their art, and their instances come in live with their matrix, name, hide, lock, opacity, blending mode, isolation, knockout and opacity mask; a symbol whose art isn't read whole (type, placed files, an image it leaves out or anything else it doesn't read) isn't kept. Symbols are read only with the layers: a file that comes in as its page or PDF part (editing data with no layers, layers that can't be read, or any of the cases below) opens with an empty Symbols panel. Instances of symbols it can't read, instances with appearance changes of their own (a dynamic symbol's), pattern fills whose pattern it can't read, placed files the data keeps no preview of and anything else it doesn't read make the file come in as its page (on a layer that doesn't show, they are left out of that layer), with a warning saying what. An unread object on a shown layer whose box can be found instead comes in as a group of the page's objects inside that box, named after it, with the rest of the layers and groups kept and a warning listing what came in as the page's art; the file still comes in as its page when live art or another unread object shares that page art, when the object spans two artboards or lies on an artboard that has no page, when no page art lies inside its box, when that page art is inside a page group with a clip, mask, transparency or appearance, when the object holds a frame of threaded type, when the page art uses a pattern, image or swatch that the page lacks or that differs from the editing data's, or when the page art doesn't carry its transparency (#4806). The layers' art is also compared with the page (by lightness, so colours written as their CMYK equivalents compare alike, and by whether a pixel is inked at all); the page is used when they differ by more than 5% (away from type, when all the type is made from the text document), where one draws an object the other doesn't (away from type, whose lines may be laid out afresh), and when an EPS whose page is its art's box has art printed outside it (#735). A `.ai` is not compared with its page, and its PDF part is not imported, when its text document makes the type of every text object (at least one shows, and none is drawn by the appearance of the layer or group it is in), no object is unread, no placed file has a second placement, no live envelope keeps its drawn art, it declares no large canvas, and its artboards are its pages' trim boxes one for one, in points or in the first page's `UserUnit`: it opens from its layers, with the bleed of its pages' bleed boxes. When they differ because some objects draw differently (an object in another color, or one that only one of them draws), each top-level object of the layers that holds such a difference comes in as a group of the page's objects inside its box and the layers stay, with a warning that names the layer or sublayer of each such object as the Layers panel shows it (`<Layer>` for one without a name) and how many came in from it; an export or Save As to the file's own path then needs `acknowledgeLoss: true`, and a wrap object replaced this way keeps its wrap options. The file still comes in as its page when only edges or type differ, when a difference lies outside every top-level object, when more than half of the top-level objects or more than 64 hold one, when such an object is or holds type or holds a wrap object inside a group, when the page's type of a text object that stays lies inside such an object's box, when the page's art can't replace such an object for one of the reasons above for an unread object, when matching the differences to the objects would take too much work, or when the result still differs from the page. `editingData: "always"` keeps the objects as read, and placed files at the other point their data gives are tried as well. An EPS whose page is its art's box keeps that page when it comes in through its layers, not the editing data's artboard, and a text object counts as drawn by the page by its colours, not only its lightness, so a red stroke stacked over a dark red one stays (#1102). `textAs: "outlines"` opens a `.ai` whose type shows from its PDF part, which has the outlines; `editingData: false` opens any of them as its page or PDF part only, for print pipelines (#735). A file whose import left something out (hidden text, art or layers) is never written over by an export or Save As to its own path unless `acknowledgeLoss: true` (`convert --replace-lossy`), so the original keeps what the document lacks. Where a `.ai` can't be read that way (or its layers are turned off in the import options), we read its PDF-compatible part, so Illustrator-only live objects arrive as appearance, and plain groups arrive ungrouped: that part draws each object on its own and marks only layers, clipping groups and groups with opacity, blending or a mask (those come back). Art outside the artboards isn't in that part at all (Illustrator's PDF part leaves it out), so it doesn't open; the import says so in a note (#472). Its pages still go where the editing data puts the artboards (a grid stays a grid), with the art on each, when it has as many artboards as pages, of the same sizes (#1068); the page of the artboard `CropAreaActive` names is then the active artboard. A `.ai` whose editing data has artboards but no layers also opens on that page under the same check, and its pages stay where they are. A `.ai` whose PDF part's pages are cropped to its art (each page the box of all the art, which is the editing data's bounding box) instead of its artboards opens from its layers, with its own artboards, where they draw as that page does. Its pages are laid out so that art one of them draws past its artboard (notes beside a design, which the part doesn't clip) doesn't lie over the page before it in the row, where it was taken for that page's art: the check against the editing data then found art its layers don't have there and opened the file as its PDF part, without the art outside the artboards. That part also has no paragraphs: area type is written line by line, and comes back as area type only where its font is installed and lays the lines out with the same breaks, else as a point type object per line (#508). Art off the page that a PDF does draw opens on the pasteboard.
 the app's own editing copy of a file (an EPS after its `%%EOF`, a `.ai`'s `AIPrivateData` streams, a PDF's `AIPDFPrivateData` streams when it was saved with the editing data (#868), Zstandard or zlib, the EPS's in ASCII85) is not documented as a whole. VectorCraft reads its structure: layers and sublayers (names, order, visibility, lock, printing, preview, dimming, colour), groups as they were nested, compound paths (painted by their last path, or the last painted one, with the paths of groups inside them kept as their paths: #1410), clipping groups and layer clipping (several clipping paths in a clipping group, a layer or an opacity mask's art clip to their intersection, and a compound path of clipping paths stays one clip; clipping paths that would nest the art past the document's 32 levels stop the editing data from being read: #5789), object names, hidden and locked objects, fills and strokes (grey, CMYK, RGB, named and spot colours, spot colours defined in Lab with their Lab values (#1032), global process colours as global swatches at their tint; a stroke of width 0, `0 w`, on a path, a gradient-filled path, legacy type or in an art style comes in as a 0.25 pt hairline, as from PDF: #1671), linear and radial gradients, pattern fills with their patterns as pattern swatches (#1025), gradient and pattern names in the file up to their first newline (a name that another swatch, or a gradient or pattern defined earlier, already has is numbered "Sky 2"; a name without a newline is kept, and when another swatch has it, the pattern's swatch, or a named color sharing a gradient or pattern swatch's name, is numbered the same way), opacity, blend modes, isolation and knockout, embedded images where their matrix puts them, rotated ones too (#2269), with their alpha channel (CMYK images keep their ink amounts, as they do when a `.ai` opens from its PDF part, and an alpha channel that hides part of a CMYK image becomes a grayscale opacity mask), placed (linked) files as linked images in their place, each showing the low-resolution preview the file keeps of it until its file is found or relinked in the Links panel (#1264), with the folder the file keeps relative to the document's, where the link is looked for when its path is gone, guides, and every artboard where it is, with its center mark, cross hairs, video safe areas and video ruler pixel aspect ratio. VectorCraft reads `CropAreaActive`, an `/Int` in the dictionary that holds the artboard array, as the index of the active artboard in that array, and the file opens with that artboard active; without it, or when it names no artboard that opens, the first artboard is active. It also reads the Document Raster Effects Settings (resolution, color model, background, anti-alias, clipping mask, Add Around Object and Preserve Spot Colors), the author from the header's `%%For` (an EPS's own header when the editing data's has none), swatches for the header's `%%CMYKCustomColor` and `%%RGBCustomColor` colors that the document has none of, and `%%TemplateBox` in older files; a setting with a value of another type or out of range keeps its default. Objects on Path groups open live, with their path, their objects in order along it, Pivot and Rotate; one with a dragged spacing or other options opens as a plain group. A gradient with stops in the middle runs its whole ramp across its shape, and a gradient object does not pass its fill to the next path (#1390). An object whose art style is one fill and one stroke at most (solid colours, its own gradient, a variable-width profile) with Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Convert to Shape, Tweak (only when it moves nothing), Pucker & Bloat at 0 or Bas Relief (read from its settings block: [raster effects reference](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/special-effects-styles/apply-filter-effects/raster-effects-reference.html), [Photoshop File Formats Specification](https://www.adobe.com/devnet-apps/photoshop/fileformatashtml/), [scripting the filter gallery](https://community.adobe.com/questions-712/scripting-support-for-the-filter-gallery-1064646)) comes in as itself with them and their saved settings. A path, compound path or group (not a clipping group) whose only effect is Transform (not with copies or Random) or a Free Distort whose corners make a parallelogram comes in as itself with it too, when neither it nor anything in it paints with a gradient or pattern and everything in it is a path, compound path or group with no opacity mask and no effects of its own; Transform that scales, rotates or reflects needs nothing in it to be stroked. Twist as the only effect is read the same way on an unstroked path or compound path whose segments are all straight. One with more, other effects (Zig Zag, a Pucker & Bloat of another amount, a Free Distort with other corners), an effect setting that is not read (an unknown key, a missing or out-of-range value, a Scribble with a color of its own), dashes aligned to corners, a brush other than a Calligraphic one, or a Calligraphic brush with settings of its own or an angle that follows the path comes in as its drawn look (a group named after it). Objects in a symbol defined before the file's art styles section, as newer files write it, take the same styles as the layers' objects. A path with a Calligraphic brush otherwise comes in as the path, the brush on its stroke at the stroke's weight, which scales the brush (#372). A Calligraphic brush's Pressure, Tilt, Bearing and Rotation come in as those channels (a 6D Art Pen's brushes vary with the pressure, the bearing and the barrel's rotation); its Stylus Wheel varies at random. The file's Calligraphic, Scatter, Art and Bristle brushes replace the default ones in the Brushes panel, in the file's order, also when the file comes in as its PDF part (a brush library has no layers); pattern brushes and brushes it can't read are left out with a note. Type keeps its art style as a live appearance whatever its stack, so it can be retyped: each fill and stroke of the style's stack (solid colours, gradients and pattern fills, placed as the drawn look places them) with its own opacity, blend mode and effects, the effects on the whole object, and where the characters paint among them; the effects read are Warp, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Transform (with copies, Transform Objects, Transform Patterns and Scale Strokes & Effects; not with Random), Free Distort, Pucker & Bloat, Twist, Zig Zag, Tweak (only when it moves nothing, the file holding none of its random outline), Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Gaussian Blur, Bas Relief (its detail, smoothness and light direction from its settings block, or the effect's defaults when the style holds no settings block; a settings block that isn't read keeps the drawn look) and Convert to Shape, and a style with others, or with an effect setting that isn't read, keeps the type's drawn look. Convert to Shape keeps its Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle or Ellipse, its Absolute or Relative size (a relative size in the file is added to each side) and its corner radius; a relative Ellipse, or a setting that isn't read, keeps the drawn look. The page's drawing of such a style isn't held to look like VectorCraft's where its drawn look lay. Gradients take their matrix (`Xm`, radials and skewed ones too), focal point and the order of stops sharing a ramp point; gradient meshes, a clipping path's own fill and its stroke, and the artboards' names are read too. `editingData: "always"` (`convert --editing-data`) opens a `.ai` or an Illustrator EPS from its editing data even where it draws differently from its page, which can be older, with a note. Type is made from the file's text document, whole and editable, shown or not: point type (its frame's matrix, which newer files leave out when it is neither turned nor scaled, read as none), area type (a story in several frames as threaded type) and type on a path, with its characters, fonts, size, leading, tracking, scaling, baseline shift, fill and stroke (grey, RGB or CMYK), alignment, indents and paragraph spacing (a character attribute a run doesn't set comes from its character style, then the style that one is based on, then the document's defaults); area type keeps its frame's Area Type Options rows and columns, the gutter between rows and the gutter between columns, and its first baseline (Fixed, Cap Height, Leading or x Height) with its minimum; the page's drawing of it (often in pieces) is left out. Vertical type keeps its orientation, its columns from right to left, and a run set to Tate-chu-yoko keeps that setting. When it makes the type of every text object that shows, the page's type is only compared with it, each text object keeps its own group, frame and layer, and a line break inside a paragraph stays one. Where it can't make a text object's type (a frame of another kind), that text object takes the page's type where the text document puts its lines, or else what is left of the page's type in painting order (no group around it); the page's type where made type draws stays that type's, and hidden type is left out with a note. Text wrap is read too: an object whose dictionary has the wrap options (offset and Invert Wrap), or any graphic of a legacy wraparound group (`*w` … `*W`, before or after its type, with no offset), is a wrap object, and area type below it in its layer flows around it when the file opens, threaded type included (#2763). Kerning, underline and the other character and paragraph options aren't read yet. A `.ai` saved without PDF compatibility (a placeholder page) opens from its editing data alone, its point type, area type and type on a path made from the text document. A `.ai` whose PDF part shows only text isn't taken for that placeholder when its page states an art, trim or bleed box: it opens from its editing data alone where that reads, else from its PDF part (#1387). A `.ai` whose PDF part draws nothing at all (an empty page, with or without those boxes) opens from its editing data alone where that reads too: there is no page art to check its layers against, and the empty page would lose all of it. Text objects with an appearance keep their own text and frame, type of hidden layers stays hidden, and type on later artboards lands on its text objects (#1391); area type whose frame is too short for a line of the fallback font shows its first line (the frame is made taller, with a warning in the open result) (#1392). In a PDF saved with some of its artboards, the type on each page after the first goes to an artboard of that page's size after the previous page's artboard, and only to one that leaves an artboard for each later page; the first page's artboard also leaves one for each later page. When several artboards fit a later page, VectorCraft takes the one whose art draws most like the page, and compares at most 16 artboards for all the later pages together. Symbols are read into the Symbols panel, in the file's symbol list order, with their art, their registration point and the instances in their art, and their instances come in live with their matrix, name, hide, lock, opacity, blending mode, isolation, knockout and opacity mask; a symbol whose art isn't read whole (type, placed files, an image it leaves out or anything else it doesn't read) isn't kept. Symbols are read only with the layers: a file that comes in as its page or PDF part (editing data with no layers, layers that can't be read, or any of the cases below) opens with an empty Symbols panel. Instances of symbols it can't read, instances with appearance changes of their own (a dynamic symbol's), pattern fills whose pattern it can't read, placed files the data keeps no preview of and anything else it doesn't read make the file come in as its page (on a layer that doesn't show, they are left out of that layer), with a warning saying what. An unread object on a shown layer whose box can be found instead comes in as a group of the page's objects inside that box, named after it, with the rest of the layers and groups kept and a warning listing what came in as the page's art; the file still comes in as its page when live art or another unread object shares that page art, when the object spans two artboards or lies on an artboard that has no page, when no page art lies inside its box, when that page art is inside a page group with a clip, mask, transparency or appearance, when the object holds a frame of threaded type, when the page art uses a pattern, image or swatch that the page lacks or that differs from the editing data's, or when the page art doesn't carry its transparency (#4806). The layers' art is also compared with the page (by lightness, so colours written as their CMYK equivalents compare alike, and by whether a pixel is inked at all); the page is used when they differ by more than 5% (away from type, when all the type is made from the text document), where one draws an object the other doesn't (away from type, whose lines may be laid out afresh), and when an EPS whose page is its art's box has art printed outside it (#735). A `.ai` is not compared with its page, and its PDF part is not imported, when its text document makes the type of every text object (at least one shows, and none is drawn by the appearance of the layer or group it is in), no object is unread, no placed file has a second placement, no live envelope keeps its drawn art, it declares no large canvas, and its artboards are its pages' trim boxes one for one, in points or in the first page's `UserUnit`: it opens from its layers, with the bleed of its pages' bleed boxes. When they differ because some objects draw differently (an object in another color, or one that only one of them draws), each top-level object of the layers that holds such a difference comes in as a group of the page's objects inside its box and the layers stay, with a warning that names the layer or sublayer of each such object as the Layers panel shows it (`<Layer>` for one without a name) and how many came in from it; an export or Save As to the file's own path then needs `acknowledgeLoss: true`, and a wrap object replaced this way keeps its wrap options. The file still comes in as its page when only edges or type differ, when a difference lies outside every top-level object, when more than half of the top-level objects or more than 64 hold one, when such an object is or holds type or holds a wrap object inside a group, when the page's type of a text object that stays lies inside such an object's box, when the page's art can't replace such an object for one of the reasons above for an unread object, when matching the differences to the objects would take too much work, or when the result still differs from the page. `editingData: "always"` keeps the objects as read, and placed files at the other point their data gives are tried as well. An EPS whose page is its art's box keeps that page when it comes in through its layers, not the editing data's artboard, and a text object counts as drawn by the page by its colours, not only its lightness, so a red stroke stacked over a dark red one stays (#1102). `textAs: "outlines"` opens a `.ai` whose type shows from its PDF part, which has the outlines; `editingData: false` opens any of them as its page or PDF part only, for print pipelines (#735). A file whose import left something out (hidden text, art or layers) is never written over by an export or Save As to its own path unless `acknowledgeLoss: true` (`convert --replace-lossy`), so the original keeps what the document lacks. Where a `.ai` can't be read that way (or its layers are turned off in the import options), we read its PDF-compatible part, so Illustrator-only live objects arrive as appearance, and plain groups arrive ungrouped: that part draws each object on its own and marks only layers, clipping groups and groups with opacity, blending or a mask (those come back). Art outside the artboards isn't in that part at all (Illustrator's PDF part leaves it out), so it doesn't open; the import says so in a note (#472). Its pages still go where the editing data puts the artboards (a grid stays a grid), with the art on each, when it has as many artboards as pages, of the same sizes (#1068); the page of the artboard `CropAreaActive` names is then the active artboard. A `.ai` whose editing data has artboards but no layers also opens on that page under the same check, and its pages stay where they are. A `.ai` whose PDF part's pages are cropped to its art (each page the box of all the art, which is the editing data's bounding box) instead of its artboards opens from its layers, with its own artboards, where they draw as that page does. Its pages are laid out so that art one of them draws past its artboard (notes beside a design, which the part doesn't clip) doesn't lie over the page before it in the row, where it was taken for that page's art: the check against the editing data then found art its layers don't have there and opened the file as its PDF part, without the art outside the artboards. That part also has no paragraphs: area type is written line by line, and comes back as area type only where its font is installed and lays the lines out with the same breaks, else as a point type object per line (#508). Art off the page that a PDF does draw opens on the pasteboard.
 the app's own editing copy of a file (an EPS after its `%%EOF`, a `.ai`'s `AIPrivateData` streams, a PDF's `AIPDFPrivateData` streams when it was saved with the editing data (#868), Zstandard or zlib, the EPS's in ASCII85) is not documented as a whole. VectorCraft reads its structure: layers and sublayers (names, order, visibility, lock, printing, preview, dimming, colour), groups as they were nested, compound paths (painted by their last path, or the last painted one, with the paths of groups inside them kept as their paths: #1410), clipping groups and layer clipping (several clipping paths in a clipping group, a layer or an opacity mask's art clip to their intersection, and a compound path of clipping paths stays one clip; clipping paths that would nest the art past the document's 32 levels stop the editing data from being read: #5789), object names, hidden and locked objects, fills and strokes (grey, CMYK, RGB, named and spot colours, spot colours defined in Lab with their Lab values (#1032), global process colours as global swatches at their tint; a stroke of width 0, `0 w`, on a path, a gradient-filled path, legacy type or in an art style comes in as a 0.25 pt hairline, as from PDF: #1671), linear and radial gradients, pattern fills with their patterns as pattern swatches (#1025), gradient and pattern names in the file up to their first newline (a name that another swatch, or a gradient or pattern defined earlier, already has is numbered "Sky 2"; a name without a newline is kept, and when another swatch has it, the pattern's swatch, or a named color sharing a gradient or pattern swatch's name, is numbered the same way), opacity, blend modes, isolation and knockout, embedded images where their matrix puts them, rotated ones too (#2269), with their alpha channel (CMYK images keep their ink amounts, as they do when a `.ai` opens from its PDF part, and an alpha channel that hides part of a CMYK image becomes a grayscale opacity mask), placed (linked) files as linked images in their place, each showing the low-resolution preview the file keeps of it until its file is found or relinked in the Links panel (#1264), with the folder the file keeps relative to the document's, where the link is looked for when its path is gone, guides, and every artboard where it is, with its center mark, cross hairs, video safe areas and video ruler pixel aspect ratio. VectorCraft reads `CropAreaActive`, an `/Int` in the dictionary that holds the artboard array, as the index of the active artboard in that array, and the file opens with that artboard active; without it, or when it names no artboard that opens, the first artboard is active. It also reads the Document Raster Effects Settings (resolution, color model, background, anti-alias, clipping mask, Add Around Object and Preserve Spot Colors), the author from the header's `%%For` (an EPS's own header when the editing data's has none), swatches for the header's `%%CMYKCustomColor` and `%%RGBCustomColor` colors that the document has none of, and `%%TemplateBox` in older files; a setting with a value of another type or out of range keeps its default. Objects on Path groups open live, with their path, their objects in order along it, Pivot and Rotate; one with a dragged spacing or other options opens as a plain group. A gradient with stops in the middle runs its whole ramp across its shape, and a gradient object does not pass its fill to the next path (#1390). An object whose art style is one fill and one stroke at most (solid colours, its own gradient, a variable-width profile) with Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Convert to Shape, Tweak (only when it moves nothing), Pucker & Bloat at 0 or Bas Relief (read from its settings block: [raster effects reference](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/special-effects-styles/apply-filter-effects/raster-effects-reference.html), [Photoshop File Formats Specification](https://www.adobe.com/devnet-apps/photoshop/fileformatashtml/), [scripting the filter gallery](https://community.adobe.com/questions-712/scripting-support-for-the-filter-gallery-1064646)) comes in as itself with them and their saved settings. A path, compound path or group (not a clipping group) whose only effect is Transform (not with copies or Random) or a Free Distort whose corners make a parallelogram comes in as itself with it too, when neither it nor anything in it paints with a gradient or pattern and everything in it is a path, compound path or group with no opacity mask and no effects of its own; Transform that scales, rotates or reflects needs nothing in it to be stroked. Twist as the only effect is read the same way on an unstroked path or compound path whose segments are all straight. One with more, other effects (Zig Zag, a Pucker & Bloat of another amount, a Free Distort with other corners), an effect setting that is not read (an unknown key, a missing or out-of-range value, a Scribble with a color of its own), dashes aligned to corners, a brush other than a Calligraphic or Art one, a Calligraphic brush with settings of its own or an angle that follows the path, or an Art brush other than the ones described next comes in as its drawn look (a group named after it). A path with a Calligraphic brush otherwise comes in as the path, the brush on its stroke at the stroke's weight, which scales the brush (#372), and so does a path with an Art brush, whose weight scales the art across the path, when all of these hold: the brush stretches its art along the path, unflipped, at 100% in Tints; the path's settings are the brush's own, with no entry that isn't read, no variable width and no effects; its stroke isn't a swatch; and the art is paths, compound paths and groups in solid fills, with no strokes, masks or effects, and has some length along the path. A stroke takes the brush the Brushes panel keeps under its name, and one whose name the panel doesn't keep comes in as its drawn look. Type with an Art brush keeps its drawn look under the type. A Calligraphic brush's Pressure, Tilt, Bearing and Rotation come in as those channels (a 6D Art Pen's brushes vary with the pressure, the bearing and the barrel's rotation); its Stylus Wheel varies at random. The file's Calligraphic, Scatter, Art and Bristle brushes replace the default ones in the Brushes panel, in the file's order, also when the file comes in as its PDF part (a brush library has no layers); pattern brushes and brushes it can't read are left out with a note. Type keeps its art style as a live appearance whatever its stack (an Art brush aside), so it can be retyped: each fill and stroke of the style's stack (solid colours, gradients and pattern fills, placed as the drawn look places them) with its own opacity, blend mode and effects, the effects on the whole object, and where the characters paint among them; the effects read are Warp, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Transform (with copies, Transform Objects, Transform Patterns and Scale Strokes & Effects; not with Random), Free Distort, Pucker & Bloat, Twist, Zig Zag, Tweak (only when it moves nothing, the file holding none of its random outline), Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Gaussian Blur, Bas Relief (its detail, smoothness and light direction from its settings block, or the effect's defaults when the style holds no settings block; a settings block that isn't read keeps the drawn look) and Convert to Shape, and a style with others, or with an effect setting that isn't read, keeps the type's drawn look. Convert to Shape keeps its Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle or Ellipse, its Absolute or Relative size (a relative size in the file is added to each side) and its corner radius; a relative Ellipse, or a setting that isn't read, keeps the drawn look. The page's drawing of such a style isn't held to look like VectorCraft's where its drawn look lay. Gradients take their matrix (`Xm`, radials and skewed ones too), focal point and the order of stops sharing a ramp point; gradient meshes, a clipping path's own fill and its stroke, and the artboards' names are read too. `editingData: "always"` (`convert --editing-data`) opens a `.ai` or an Illustrator EPS from its editing data even where it draws differently from its page, which can be older, with a note. Type is made from the file's text document, whole and editable, shown or not: point type (its frame's matrix, which newer files leave out when it is neither turned nor scaled, read as none), area type (a story in several frames as threaded type) and type on a path, with its characters, fonts, size, leading, tracking, scaling, baseline shift, fill and stroke (grey, RGB or CMYK), alignment, indents and paragraph spacing (a character attribute a run doesn't set comes from its character style, then the style that one is based on, then the document's defaults); area type keeps its frame's Area Type Options rows and columns, the gutter between rows and the gutter between columns, and its first baseline (Fixed, Cap Height, Leading or x Height) with its minimum; the page's drawing of it (often in pieces) is left out. Vertical type keeps its orientation, its columns from right to left, and a run set to Tate-chu-yoko keeps that setting. When it makes the type of every text object that shows, the page's type is only compared with it, each text object keeps its own group, frame and layer, and a line break inside a paragraph stays one. Where it can't make a text object's type (a frame of another kind), that text object takes the page's type where the text document puts its lines, or else what is left of the page's type in painting order (no group around it); the page's type where made type draws stays that type's, and hidden type is left out with a note. Text wrap is read too: an object whose dictionary has the wrap options (offset and Invert Wrap), or any graphic of a legacy wraparound group (`*w` … `*W`, before or after its type, with no offset), is a wrap object, and area type below it in its layer flows around it when the file opens, threaded type included (#2763). Kerning, underline and the other character and paragraph options aren't read yet. A `.ai` saved without PDF compatibility (a placeholder page) opens from its editing data alone, its point type, area type and type on a path made from the text document. A `.ai` whose PDF part shows only text isn't taken for that placeholder when its page states an art, trim or bleed box: it opens from its editing data alone where that reads, else from its PDF part (#1387). A `.ai` whose PDF part draws nothing at all (an empty page, with or without those boxes) opens from its editing data alone where that reads too: there is no page art to check its layers against, and the empty page would lose all of it. Text objects with an appearance keep their own text and frame, type of hidden layers stays hidden, and type on later artboards lands on its text objects (#1391); area type whose frame is too short for a line of the fallback font shows its first line (the frame is made taller, with a warning in the open result) (#1392). In a PDF saved with some of its artboards, the type on each page after the first goes to an artboard of that page's size after the previous page's artboard, and only to one that leaves an artboard for each later page; the first page's artboard also leaves one for each later page. When several artboards fit a later page, VectorCraft takes the one whose art draws most like the page, and compares at most 16 artboards for all the later pages together. Symbols are read into the Symbols panel, in the file's symbol list order, with their art, their registration point and the instances in their art, and their instances come in live with their matrix, name, hide, lock, opacity, blending mode, isolation, knockout and opacity mask; a symbol whose art isn't read whole (type, placed files, an image it leaves out or anything else it doesn't read) isn't kept. Symbols are read only with the layers: a file that comes in as its page or PDF part (editing data with no layers, layers that can't be read, or any of the cases below) opens with an empty Symbols panel. Instances of symbols it can't read, instances with appearance changes of their own (a dynamic symbol's), pattern fills whose pattern it can't read, placed files the data keeps no preview of and anything else it doesn't read make the file come in as its page (on a layer that doesn't show, they are left out of that layer), with a warning saying what. An unread object on a shown layer whose box can be found instead comes in as a group of the page's objects inside that box, named after it, with the rest of the layers and groups kept and a warning listing what came in as the page's art; the file still comes in as its page when live art or another unread object shares that page art, when the object spans two artboards or lies on an artboard that has no page, when no page art lies inside its box, when that page art is inside a page group with a clip, mask, transparency or appearance, when the object holds a frame of threaded type, when the page art uses a pattern, image or swatch that the page lacks or that differs from the editing data's, or when the page art doesn't carry its transparency (#4806). The layers' art is also compared with the page (by lightness, so colours written as their CMYK equivalents compare alike, and by whether a pixel is inked at all); the page is used when they differ by more than 5% (away from type, when all the type is made from the text document), where one draws an object the other doesn't (away from type, whose lines may be laid out afresh), and when an EPS whose page is its art's box has art printed outside it (#735). A `.ai` is not compared with its page, and its PDF part is not imported, when its text document makes the type of every text object (at least one shows, and none is drawn by the appearance of the layer or group it is in), no object is unread, no placed file has a second placement, no live envelope keeps its drawn art, it declares no large canvas, and its artboards are its pages' trim boxes one for one, in points or in the first page's `UserUnit`: it opens from its layers, with the bleed of its pages' bleed boxes. When they differ because some objects draw differently (an object in another color, or one that only one of them draws), each top-level object of the layers that holds such a difference comes in as a group of the page's objects inside its box and the layers stay, with a warning that names the layer or sublayer of each such object as the Layers panel shows it (`<Layer>` for one without a name) and how many came in from it; an export or Save As to the file's own path then needs `acknowledgeLoss: true`, and a wrap object replaced this way keeps its wrap options. The file still comes in as its page when only edges or type differ, when a difference lies outside every top-level object, when more than half of the top-level objects or more than 64 hold one, when such an object is or holds type or holds a wrap object inside a group, when the page's type of a text object that stays lies inside such an object's box, when the page's art can't replace such an object for one of the reasons above for an unread object, when matching the differences to the objects would take too much work, or when the result still differs from the page. `editingData: "always"` keeps the objects as read, and placed files at the other point their data gives are tried as well. An EPS whose page is its art's box keeps that page when it comes in through its layers, not the editing data's artboard, and a text object counts as drawn by the page by its colours, not only its lightness, so a red stroke stacked over a dark red one stays (#1102). `textAs: "outlines"` opens a `.ai` whose type shows from its PDF part, which has the outlines; `editingData: false` opens any of them as its page or PDF part only, for print pipelines (#735). A file whose import left something out (hidden text, art or layers) is never written over by an export or Save As to its own path unless `acknowledgeLoss: true` (`convert --replace-lossy`), so the original keeps what the document lacks. Where a `.ai` can't be read that way (or its layers are turned off in the import options), we read its PDF-compatible part, so Illustrator-only live objects arrive as appearance, and plain groups arrive ungrouped: that part draws each object on its own and marks only layers, clipping groups and groups with opacity, blending or a mask (those come back). Art outside the artboards isn't in that part at all (Illustrator's PDF part leaves it out), so it doesn't open; the import says so in a note (#472). Its pages still go where the editing data puts the artboards (a grid stays a grid), with the art on each, when it has as many artboards as pages, of the same sizes (#1068); the page of the artboard `CropAreaActive` names is then the active artboard. A `.ai` whose editing data has artboards but no layers also opens on that page under the same check, and its pages stay where they are. A `.ai` whose PDF part's pages are cropped to its art (each page the box of all the art, which is the editing data's bounding box) instead of its artboards opens from its layers, with its own artboards, where they draw as that page does. Its pages are laid out so that art one of them draws past its artboard (notes beside a design, which the part doesn't clip) doesn't lie over the page before it in the row, where it was taken for that page's art: the check against the editing data then found art its layers don't have there and opened the file as its PDF part, without the art outside the artboards. That part also has no paragraphs: area type is written line by line, and comes back as area type only where its font is installed and lays the lines out with the same breaks, else as a point type object per line (#508). Art off the page that a PDF does draw opens on the pasteboard.
 the app's own editing copy of a file (an EPS after its `%%EOF`, a `.ai`'s `AIPrivateData` streams, a PDF's `AIPDFPrivateData` streams when it was saved with the editing data (#868), Zstandard or zlib, the EPS's in ASCII85) is not documented as a whole. VectorCraft reads its structure: layers and sublayers (names, order, visibility, lock, printing, preview, dimming, colour), groups as they were nested, compound paths (painted by their last path, or the last painted one, with the paths of groups inside them kept as their paths: #1410), clipping groups and layer clipping (several clipping paths in a clipping group, a layer or an opacity mask's art clip to their intersection, and a compound path of clipping paths stays one clip; a filled clipping path keeps its fill, which paints under the art it clips, except the path of a mask that covers several layers, whose fill is read as a path of its own in the layer that holds the mask's path, and a compound clipping path whose subpaths paint differently, whose filled subpaths are read as a compound path of their own under the art it clips; clipping paths that would nest the art past the document's 32 levels stop the editing data from being read: #5789), object names, hidden and locked objects, fills and strokes (grey, CMYK, RGB, named and spot colours, spot colours defined in Lab with their Lab values (#1032), global process colours as global swatches at their tint; a stroke of width 0, `0 w`, on a path, a gradient-filled path, legacy type or in an art style comes in as a 0.25 pt hairline, as from PDF: #1671), linear and radial gradients, pattern fills with their patterns as pattern swatches (#1025), gradient and pattern names in the file up to their first newline (a name that another swatch, or a gradient or pattern defined earlier, already has is numbered "Sky 2"; a name without a newline is kept, and when another swatch has it, the pattern's swatch, or a named color sharing a gradient or pattern swatch's name, is numbered the same way), opacity, blend modes, isolation and knockout, embedded images where their matrix puts them, rotated ones too (#2269), with their alpha channel (CMYK images keep their ink amounts, as they do when a `.ai` opens from its PDF part, and an alpha channel that hides part of a CMYK image becomes a grayscale opacity mask), placed (linked) files as linked images in their place, each showing the low-resolution preview the file keeps of it until its file is found or relinked in the Links panel (#1264), with the folder the file keeps relative to the document's, where the link is looked for when its path is gone, guides, and every artboard where it is, with its center mark, cross hairs, video safe areas and video ruler pixel aspect ratio. VectorCraft reads `CropAreaActive`, an `/Int` in the dictionary that holds the artboard array, as the index of the active artboard in that array, and the file opens with that artboard active; without it, or when it names no artboard that opens, the first artboard is active. It also reads the Document Raster Effects Settings (resolution, color model, background, anti-alias, clipping mask, Add Around Object and Preserve Spot Colors), the author from the header's `%%For` (an EPS's own header when the editing data's has none), swatches for the header's `%%CMYKCustomColor` and `%%RGBCustomColor` colors that the document has none of, and `%%TemplateBox` in older files; a setting with a value of another type or out of range keeps its default. Objects on Path groups open live, with their path, their objects in order along it, Pivot and Rotate; one with a dragged spacing or other options opens as a plain group. A gradient with stops in the middle runs its whole ramp across its shape, and a gradient object does not pass its fill to the next path (#1390). An object whose art style is one fill and one stroke at most (solid colours, its own gradient, a variable-width profile) with Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Convert to Shape, Tweak (only when it moves nothing), Pucker & Bloat at 0 or Bas Relief (read from its settings block: [raster effects reference](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/special-effects-styles/apply-filter-effects/raster-effects-reference.html), [Photoshop File Formats Specification](https://www.adobe.com/devnet-apps/photoshop/fileformatashtml/), [scripting the filter gallery](https://community.adobe.com/questions-712/scripting-support-for-the-filter-gallery-1064646)) comes in as itself with them and their saved settings. A path, compound path or group (not a clipping group) whose only effect is Transform (not with copies or Random) or a Free Distort whose corners make a parallelogram comes in as itself with it too, when neither it nor anything in it paints with a gradient or pattern and everything in it is a path, compound path or group with no opacity mask and no effects of its own; Transform that scales, rotates or reflects needs nothing in it to be stroked. Twist as the only effect is read the same way on an unstroked path or compound path whose segments are all straight. One with more, other effects (Zig Zag, a Pucker & Bloat of another amount, a Free Distort with other corners), an effect setting that is not read (an unknown key, a missing or out-of-range value, a Scribble with a color of its own), dashes aligned to corners, a brush other than a Calligraphic one, or a Calligraphic brush with settings of its own or an angle that follows the path comes in as its drawn look (a group named after it). Objects in a symbol defined before the file's art styles section, as newer files write it, take the same styles as the layers' objects. A path with a Calligraphic brush otherwise comes in as the path, the brush on its stroke at the stroke's weight, which scales the brush (#372). A Calligraphic brush's Pressure, Tilt, Bearing and Rotation come in as those channels (a 6D Art Pen's brushes vary with the pressure, the bearing and the barrel's rotation); its Stylus Wheel varies at random. The file's Calligraphic, Scatter, Art and Bristle brushes replace the default ones in the Brushes panel, in the file's order, also when the file comes in as its PDF part (a brush library has no layers); pattern brushes and brushes it can't read are left out with a note. Type keeps its art style as a live appearance whatever its stack, so it can be retyped: each fill and stroke of the style's stack (solid colours, gradients and pattern fills, placed as the drawn look places them) with its own opacity, blend mode and effects, the effects on the whole object, and where the characters paint among them; the effects read are Warp, Offset Path, Outline Object, Outline Stroke, Transform (with copies, Transform Objects, Transform Patterns and Scale Strokes & Effects; not with Random), Free Distort, Pucker & Bloat, Twist, Zig Zag, Tweak (only when it moves nothing, the file holding none of its random outline), Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feather, Round Corners, Scribble, Gaussian Blur, Bas Relief (its detail, smoothness and light direction from its settings block, or the effect's defaults when the style holds no settings block; a settings block that isn't read keeps the drawn look) and Convert to Shape, and a style with others, or with an effect setting that isn't read, keeps the type's drawn look. Convert to Shape keeps its Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle or Ellipse, its Absolute or Relative size (a relative size in the file is added to each side) and its corner radius; a relative Ellipse, or a setting that isn't read, keeps the drawn look. The page's drawing of such a style isn't held to look like VectorCraft's where its drawn look lay. Gradients take their matrix (`Xm`, radials and skewed ones too), focal point and the order of stops sharing a ramp point; gradient meshes, a clipping path's own fill and its stroke, and the artboards' names are read too. `editingData: "always"` (`convert --editing-data`) opens a `.ai` or an Illustrator EPS from its editing data even where it draws differently from its page, which can be older, with a note. Type is made from the file's text document, whole and editable, shown or not: point type (its frame's matrix, which newer files leave out when it is neither turned nor scaled, read as none), area type (a story in several frames as threaded type) and type on a path, with its characters, fonts, size, leading, tracking, scaling, baseline shift, fill and stroke (grey, RGB or CMYK), alignment, indents and paragraph spacing (a character attribute a run doesn't set comes from its character style, then the style that one is based on, then the document's defaults); area type keeps its frame's Area Type Options rows and columns, the gutter between rows and the gutter between columns, and its first baseline (Fixed, Cap Height, Leading or x Height) with its minimum; the page's drawing of it (often in pieces) is left out. Vertical type keeps its orientation, its columns from right to left, and a run set to Tate-chu-yoko keeps that setting. When it makes the type of every text object that shows, the page's type is only compared with it, each text object keeps its own group, frame and layer, and a line break inside a paragraph stays one. Where it can't make a text object's type (a frame of another kind), that text object takes the page's type where the text document puts its lines, or else what is left of the page's type in painting order (no group around it); the page's type where made type draws stays that type's, and hidden type is left out with a note. Text wrap is read too: an object whose dictionary has the wrap options (offset and Invert Wrap), or any graphic of a legacy wraparound group (`*w` … `*W`, before or after its type, with no offset), is a wrap object, and area type below it in its layer flows around it when the file opens, threaded type included (#2763). Kerning, underline and the other character and paragraph options aren't read yet. A `.ai` saved without PDF compatibility (a placeholder page) opens from its editing data alone, its point type, area type and type on a path made from the text document. A `.ai` whose PDF part shows only text isn't taken for that placeholder when its page states an art, trim or bleed box: it opens from its editing data alone where that reads, else from its PDF part (#1387). A `.ai` whose PDF part draws nothing at all (an empty page, with or without those boxes) opens from its editing data alone where that reads too: there is no page art to check its layers against, and the empty page would lose all of it. Text objects with an appearance keep their own text and frame, type of hidden layers stays hidden, and type on later artboards lands on its text objects (#1391); area type whose frame is too short for a line of the fallback font shows its first line (the frame is made taller, with a warning in the open result) (#1392). Symbols are read into the Symbols panel, in the file's symbol list order, with their art, their registration point and the instances in their art, and their instances come in live with their matrix, name, hide, lock, opacity, blending mode, isolation, knockout and opacity mask; a symbol whose art isn't read whole (type, placed files, an image it leaves out or anything else it doesn't read) isn't kept. Symbols are read only with the layers: a file that comes in as its page or PDF part (editing data with no layers, layers that can't be read, or any of the cases below) opens with an empty Symbols panel. Instances of symbols it can't read, instances with appearance changes of their own (a dynamic symbol's), pattern fills whose pattern it can't read, placed files the data keeps no preview of and anything else it doesn't read make the file come in as its page (on a layer that doesn't show, they are left out of that layer), with a warning saying what. An unread object on a shown layer whose box can be found instead comes in as a group of the page's objects inside that box, named after it, with the rest of the layers and groups kept and a warning listing what came in as the page's art; the file still comes in as its page when live art or another unread object shares that page art, when the object spans two artboards or lies on an artboard that has no page, when no page art lies inside its box, when that page art is inside a page group with a clip, mask, transparency or appearance, when the object holds a frame of threaded type, when the page art uses a pattern, image or swatch that the page lacks or that differs from the editing data's, or when the page art doesn't carry its transparency (#4806). The layers' art is also compared with the page (by lightness, so colours written as their CMYK equivalents compare alike, and by whether a pixel is inked at all); the page is used when they differ by more than 5% (away from type, when all the type is made from the text document), where one draws an object the other doesn't (away from type, whose lines may be laid out afresh), and when an EPS whose page is its art's box has art printed outside it (#735). A `.ai` is not compared with its page, and its PDF part is not imported, when its text document makes the type of every text object (at least one shows, and none is drawn by the appearance of the layer or group it is in), no object is unread, no placed file has a second placement, no live envelope keeps its drawn art, it declares no large canvas, and its artboards are its pages' trim boxes one for one, in points or in the first page's `UserUnit`: it opens from its layers, with the bleed of its pages' bleed boxes. When they differ because some objects draw differently (an object in another color, or one that only one of them draws), each top-level object of the layers that holds such a difference comes in as a group of the page's objects inside its box and the layers stay, with a warning that names the layer or sublayer of each such object as the Layers panel shows it (`<Layer>` for one without a name) and how many came in from it; an export or Save As to the file's own path then needs `acknowledgeLoss: true`, and a wrap object replaced this way keeps its wrap options. The file still comes in as its page when only edges or type differ, when a difference lies outside every top-level object, when more than half of the top-level objects or more than 64 hold one, when such an object is or holds type or holds a wrap object inside a group, when the page's type of a text object that stays lies inside such an object's box, when the page's art can't replace such an object for one of the reasons above for an unread object, when matching the differences to the objects would take too much work, or when the result still differs from the page. `editingData: "always"` keeps the objects as read, and placed files at the other point their data gives are tried as well. An EPS whose page is its art's box keeps that page when it comes in through its layers, not the editing data's artboard, and a text object counts as drawn by the page by its colours, not only its lightness, so a red stroke stacked over a dark red one stays (#1102). `textAs: "outlines"` opens a `.ai` whose type shows from its PDF part, which has the outlines; `editingData: false` opens any of them as its page or PDF part only, for print pipelines (#735). A file whose import left something out (hidden text, art or layers) is never written over by an export or Save As to its own path unless `acknowledgeLoss: true` (`convert --replace-lossy`), so the original keeps what the document lacks. Where a `.ai` can't be read that way (or its layers are turned off in the import options), we read its PDF-compatible part, so Illustrator-only live objects arrive as appearance, and plain groups arrive ungrouped: that part draws each object on its own and marks only layers, clipping groups and groups with opacity, blending or a mask (those come back). Art outside the artboards isn't in that part at all (Illustrator's PDF part leaves it out), so it doesn't open; the import says so in a note (#472). Its pages still go where the editing data puts the artboards (a grid stays a grid), with the art on each, when it has as many artboards as pages, of the same sizes (#1068); the page of the artboard `CropAreaActive` names is then the active artboard. A `.ai` whose editing data has artboards but no layers also opens on that page under the same check, and its pages stay where they are. A `.ai` whose PDF part's pages are cropped to its art (each page the box of all the art, which is the editing data's bounding box) instead of its artboards opens from its layers, with its own artboards, where they draw as that page does. Its pages are laid out so that art one of them draws past its artboard (notes beside a design, which the part doesn't clip) doesn't lie over the page before it in the row, where it was taken for that page's art: the check against the editing data then found art its layers don't have there and opened the file as its PDF part, without the art outside the artboards. That part also has no paragraphs: area type is written line by line, and comes back as area type only where its font is installed and lays the lines out with the same breaks, else as a point type object per line (#508). Art off the page that a PDF does draw opens on the pasteboard.
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     PDF export warns when a PDF/X file has no bleed on a side where the document's bleed has one, and writes the file as asked.
     Placed (linked) files in a `.ai`'s editing data come in as linked images in their place, each showing the low-resolution preview the file keeps of it until its file is found or relinked in the Links panel (a file found next to the document, at its path, or in the folder the editing data names relative to the document's, such as `src/`, is read as the document opens, and its link takes that file's size, modification time and hash). A file with them no longer falls back to its PDF part, so its guides, sublayers and hidden objects open (#1264; `crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs`, `crates/engine/src/tests/links.rs`). In a file opened that way, a gradient with stops in the middle runs its whole ramp across its shape and a gradient object no longer passes its fill to the next path (#1390); text objects with an appearance keep their own text and frame, type of hidden layers stays hidden, and type on later artboards lands on its text objects (#1391); area type whose frame is too short for a line of the fallback font shows its first line, the frame made taller with a warning in the open result (#1392).
     Placed (linked) files in a `.ai`'s editing data come in as linked images in their place, each showing the low-resolution preview the file keeps of it until its file is found or relinked in the Links panel (a file found next to the document or at its path is read as the document opens). A file with them no longer falls back to its PDF part, so its guides, sublayers and hidden objects open (#1264; `crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs`, `crates/engine/src/tests/links.rs`). In a file opened that way, a gradient with stops in the middle runs its whole ramp across its shape and a gradient object no longer passes its fill to the next path (#1390); text objects with an appearance keep their own text and frame, type of hidden layers stays hidden, and type on later artboards lands on its text objects (#1391); area type whose frame is too short for a line of the fallback font shows its first line, the frame made taller with a warning in the open result (#1392).
+    A placed PDF or `.ai` file in a `.ai`'s editing data comes in as a placed document instead of a linked image: it shows the page and Crop to box its dictionary names, and the preview the file keeps until its file is found, then the page as vectors. A placed file in opacity-mask art keeps showing its preview (`crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs`, `crates/engine/src/tests/placed_document.rs`).
     In a `.ai` or EPS opened from its editing data, and in a legacy `.ai`, each anchor is smooth or a corner as the case of the segment operator ending on it says (`l`, `c`, `v`, `y` smooth; `L`, `C`, `V`, `Y` corner), and a closed path's first anchor takes the case of the segment back to it; points and handles stay where they are. Paths, compound paths, clipping paths, guide paths, area type frames and type-on-a-path paths all keep it (`crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs`, `crates/eps/src/legacy_ai/tests.rs`).
     In `.ai` and EPS editing-data import, a clipping group, layer or opacity mask's art with several clipping paths (`W`) clips to their intersection: each clipping path after the first clips a clipping group nested inside the one before it, and each keeps its own stroke and transparency. A compound path of clipping paths (`*u` … `*U`) is still one clipping path, and clipping paths that would nest the art past the document's 32 levels stop the editing data from being read (`crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs`).
     `.ai` and EPS editing-data import keeps template layers, and opens canvas and artboard ruler guides as ruler guides on their layers; guide objects stay editable guide paths (#779; `crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs`, `crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs`).