diff --git a/crates/pdf/src/export.rs b/crates/pdf/src/export.rs
index 910ba4426..77be57d01 100644
--- a/crates/pdf/src/export.rs
+++ b/crates/pdf/src/export.rs
@@ -130,10 +130,10 @@ fn export_with_report_inner(doc: &Document, opts: &PdfOptions, left_out: &mut Ha
         w.page(&mut ex, &sheet).map_err(|_| PdfError::BadArtboard(i))?;
     }
     vectorcraft_doc::cancel::check().map_err(|_| PdfError::Cancelled)?;
-    let (layers, overprinted) = (ex.layers, ex.overprinted);
+    let (layers, overprinted, invisible) = (ex.layers, ex.overprinted, ex.invisible);
     w.absorb(ex);
     let (bytes, more) = w.finish(left_out)?;
-    let bytes = crate::forms::finish(bytes, doc, set, layers, overprinted)?;
+    let bytes = crate::forms::finish(bytes, doc, set, layers, overprinted, invisible)?;
     // The writer gives the file its creation date as its modification date too.
     let bytes = match opts.modified.filter(|m| Some(*m) != created_at) {
         Some(modified) => crate::post::modification_date(bytes, modified)?,
@@ -597,6 +597,8 @@ pub(crate) struct Exporter<'a> {
     pub overprint: bool,
     /// An overprinting fill or stroke was drawn so.
     pub overprinted: bool,
+    /// Characters with neither fill nor stroke were written as text in forms marked invisible.
+    pub invisible: bool,
     /// Inline graphics being drawn inside inline graphics (text in a symbol shown inline in
     /// text…): deeper ones are left out.
     inline_depth: u32,
@@ -639,6 +641,7 @@ impl<'a> Exporter<'a> {
             in_layer: 0,
             overprint: false,
             overprinted: false,
+            invisible: false,
             inline_depth: 0,
             left_out: HashSet::new(),
         }
@@ -1564,6 +1567,18 @@ impl Exporter<'_> {
                 }
                 s.pop();
             });
+            // Characters with neither fill nor stroke (a scanned page's recognized text) are still
+            // text: written invisible (rendering mode 3), so they can still be selected and searched.
+            if let Some(text) = plain.as_deref().filter(|_| fill.is_none() && !run.style.has_stroke()) {
+                self.invisible = true;
+                crate::forms::form(s, Mark::Invisible, |s| {
+                    s.push_transform(&text_space);
+                    // The paint only lets the writer write the text; the glyphs it can't write
+                    // as text draw nothing.
+                    self.glyph_text(s, &layout, i, text, &Paint::solid(Color::gray(0.0)));
+                    s.pop();
+                });
+            }
             s.push_transform(&text_space);
             let path = run.style.has_stroke().then(|| to_path(s, &bp)).flatten();
             s.pop();
diff --git a/crates/pdf/src/forms.rs b/crates/pdf/src/forms.rs
index c9cfe82dc..e382ccb0f 100644
--- a/crates/pdf/src/forms.rs
+++ b/crates/pdf/src/forms.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
-//! What the PDF writer has no operators for — optional content (PDF layers) and overprint — drawn
-//! as form XObjects of their own (without a transparency group, so they draw as if in place),
-//! each starting with a mark: an empty clip whose first point says what the form is. Marked
-//! forms also stay apart (the writer shares identical forms). [`finish`] completes them in the
-//! written file: a layer's form is drawn as the layer's optional content (`/OC … BDC`), and an
-//! overprinting form sets a graphics state that overprints first.
+//! What the PDF writer has no operators for — optional content (PDF layers), overprint and
+//! invisible text — drawn as form XObjects of their own (without a transparency group, so they
+//! draw as if in place), each starting with a mark: an empty clip whose first point says what the
+//! form is. Marked forms also stay apart (the writer shares identical forms). [`finish`] completes
+//! them in the written file: a layer's form is drawn as the layer's optional content (`/OC …
+//! BDC`), an overprinting form sets a graphics state that overprints first, and the text of an
+//! invisible form is drawn in rendering mode 3 (neither filled nor stroked).
 
 use std::collections::HashMap;
 use std::io::Read;
@@ -28,6 +29,8 @@ pub(crate) enum Mark {
     Layer(usize),
     /// A fill or stroke that overprints.
     Overprint,
+    /// Text that draws nothing (rendering mode 3): characters with neither fill nor stroke.
+    Invisible,
 }
 
 /// A layer written as a PDF layer (an optional content group).
@@ -58,6 +61,8 @@ pub(crate) fn pdf_layers(doc: &Document) -> Vec<PdfLayer<'_>> {
 const LAYER_X: i32 = -32000;
 /// The x coordinate of an overprint mark's first point.
 const OVERPRINT_X: i32 = -32001;
+/// The x coordinate of an invisible text mark's first point.
+const INVISIBLE_X: i32 = -32002;
 
 impl Mark {
     fn at(self) -> (f32, f32) {
@@ -65,6 +70,7 @@ impl Mark {
             // Exact in `f32` up to 2^24 layers.
             Self::Layer(i) => (LAYER_X as f32, i as f32),
             Self::Overprint => (OVERPRINT_X as f32, 0.0),
+            Self::Invisible => (INVISIBLE_X as f32, 0.0),
         }
     }
 }
@@ -100,7 +106,7 @@ const LAYER_OC: &str = "VCoc";
 const HEAD: u64 = 64;
 
 fn bad(why: &str) -> PdfError {
-    PdfError::Write(format!("can't write PDF layers or overprint: {why}"))
+    PdfError::Write(format!("can't write PDF layers, overprint or invisible text: {why}"))
 }
 
 /// An object of the written file with a dictionary, and its stream's [`StreamSpans`].
@@ -149,6 +155,7 @@ impl Object<'_> {
         match x {
             _ if x == i64::from(LAYER_X) => usize::try_from(y).ok().map(Mark::Layer),
             _ if x == i64::from(OVERPRINT_X) && y == 0 => Some(Mark::Overprint),
+            _ if x == i64::from(INVISIBLE_X) && y == 0 => Some(Mark::Invisible),
             _ => None,
         }
     }
@@ -225,14 +232,52 @@ fn mark_layers(content: &[u8], forms: &HashMap<&[u8], usize>) -> Option<(Vec<u8>
     Some((out, layers))
 }
 
+/// `content` (an invisible form's) with its text drawn in rendering mode 3: the mode set first,
+/// and every mode the writer sets (it sets one for each run of glyphs) made 3. `None` when the
+/// content can't be read to its end.
+fn invisible_text(content: &[u8]) -> Option<Vec<u8>> {
+    let mut lx = Lexer::at(content, 0);
+    let mut operand = None;
+    let mut modes = vec![];
+    let mut read = 0;
+    while let Some((tok, start, end)) = lx.next() {
+        read = end;
+        operand = match tok {
+            Tok::Word(b"Tr") => {
+                modes.extend(operand);
+                None
+            }
+            Tok::Word(w) if int(w).is_some() => Some((start, end)),
+            // Inline image data isn't PDF syntax (the writer writes none).
+            Tok::Word(b"ID") => return None,
+            _ => None,
+        };
+    }
+    // The lexer also stops at a string it can't read: a mode after it would be missed.
+    if !content.get(read..)?.iter().all(u8::is_ascii_whitespace) {
+        return None;
+    }
+    let mut out = Vec::with_capacity(content.len() + 8);
+    out.extend_from_slice(b"3 Tr\n");
+    let mut at = 0;
+    for (start, end) in modes {
+        out.extend_from_slice(content.get(at..start)?);
+        out.push(b'3');
+        at = end;
+    }
+    out.extend_from_slice(content.get(at..)?);
+    Some(out)
+}
+
 /// Finish the marked forms of `pdf` (as [`crate::export`] writes `doc` with `set`): with
 /// `layers`, each layer and sublayer (but template layers) becomes an optional content group —
 /// named as the layer, off when it is hidden, not printed (`/PrintState /OFF`) when its Print
 /// option is off, locked when it is locked — and the uses of its forms its optional content;
 /// with `overprint`, the overprinting forms get a graphics state that overprints (`/OP`, `/op`,
-/// `/OPM 1`; `/OPM 0` in PDF/A, which allows no other with ICC-based CMYK colours).
-pub(crate) fn finish(pdf: Vec<u8>, doc: &Document, set: &PdfSettings, layers: bool, overprint: bool) -> Result<Vec<u8>, PdfError> {
-    if !layers && !overprint {
+/// `/OPM 1`; `/OPM 0` in PDF/A, which allows no other with ICC-based CMYK colours); with
+/// `invisible`, the text of the invisible forms is drawn in rendering mode 3.
+pub(crate) fn finish(pdf: Vec<u8>, doc: &Document, set: &PdfSettings, layers: bool, overprint: bool, invisible: bool) -> Result<Vec<u8>, PdfError> {
+    if !layers && !overprint && !invisible {
         return Ok(pdf);
     }
     let xref = Xref::read(&pdf).ok_or_else(|| bad("the written PDF has no cross-reference table"))?;
@@ -253,6 +298,13 @@ pub(crate) fn finish(pdf: Vec<u8>, doc: &Document, set: &PdfSettings, layers: bo
             add_resources(&mut patch, res, "ExtGState", &format!("/{OVERPRINT_GS} {gs} 0 R"))?;
         }
     }
+    if invisible {
+        for (n, _) in marks.iter().filter(|(_, m)| **m == Mark::Invisible) {
+            let Some(o) = objects.get(n) else { continue };
+            let content = o.data(&pdf, u64::MAX).ok_or_else(|| bad("an invisible text form can't be read"))?;
+            o.rewrite(&mut patch, &invisible_text(&content).ok_or_else(|| bad("an invisible text form can't be read"))?)?;
+        }
+    }
     if layers {
         write_layers(&pdf, &xref, &objects, &marks, &mut patch, doc, set)?;
         for (n, _) in marks.iter().filter(|(_, m)| matches!(m, Mark::Layer(_))) {
diff --git a/crates/pdf/src/import.rs b/crates/pdf/src/import.rs
index 6e665c1a4..9bbb6257b 100644
--- a/crates/pdf/src/import.rs
+++ b/crates/pdf/src/import.rs
@@ -149,10 +149,10 @@ pub const PAST_PAGE_NOTE: &str = "art reaching past the page was clipped to it,
 
 /// Warning: glyphs were kept as outlines rather than read as type.
 pub const OUTLINED_TEXT_NOTE: &str = "text was converted to outlines";
-/// Warning: text drawn invisibly (text rendering mode 3, as a scanned page's OCR layer is) was left
-/// out: VectorCraft has no type that is kept but not drawn, so a PDF saved from it loses that
-/// searchable text (#2675).
-pub const INVISIBLE_TEXT_NOTE: &str = "invisible text (such as a scanned page's searchable OCR layer) was left out";
+/// Warning: text drawn invisibly (text rendering mode 3, as a scanned page's OCR layer is) that
+/// can't come in as type (text read as outlines, or a Type 3 font) was left out: as outlines it
+/// would draw nothing (#2675).
+pub const INVISIBLE_TEXT_NOTE: &str = "invisible text (such as a scanned page's searchable OCR layer) that couldn't be read as type was left out";
 /// Warning: glyphs that differ from the installed font of their name were kept as outlines.
 pub const UNMATCHED_GLYPHS_NOTE: &str = "text whose glyphs differ from the installed font of the same name was kept as outlines";
 /// The end of the warning that glyphs whose characters the file doesn't name were kept as
@@ -1654,13 +1654,14 @@ impl<'p> Builder<'p> {
     }
 
     /// Glyph `o` as type: added to the line being gathered (or starting one). `false`: it keeps
-    /// its outline (no Unicode text, mirrored, or not type mode).
+    /// its outline (no Unicode text, mirrored, or not type mode). No `paint`: invisible text,
+    /// type with neither fill nor stroke.
     fn type_glyph(
         &mut self,
         o: &craft_pdf::interpret::font::OutlineGlyph,
         m: Affine,
         scale: f64,
-        paint: &craft_pdf::interpret::Paint<'_>,
+        paint: Option<&craft_pdf::interpret::Paint<'_>>,
         stroke: Option<&StrokeProps>,
         overprint: bool,
     ) -> bool {
@@ -1692,7 +1693,8 @@ impl<'p> Builder<'p> {
             Some(BfString::Char(c)) => c.to_string(),
             Some(BfString::String(s)) => s,
             None => {
-                if o.as_unicode().is_some_and(|u| replacement(&u)) {
+                // Invisible text isn't kept as outlines: the caller says it was left out.
+                if paint.is_some() && o.as_unicode().is_some_and(|u| replacement(&u)) {
                     let name = self.font_name(key, o).family;
                     self.warn(&format!("text in {name} {UNNAMED_CHARACTERS_NOTE}"));
                 }
@@ -1718,16 +1720,18 @@ impl<'p> Builder<'p> {
         {
             let decided = match self.matched.get(&key) {
                 Some(m) => m.clone(),
-                // A glyph that can't be compared (several characters, a vertical form) decides
-                // nothing: it takes the face of its name until one that can be compared does.
-                None if comparable(&text, upright).is_none() => Some(face.clone()),
+                // A glyph that can't be compared (several characters, a vertical form) or that
+                // shows nothing (invisible text) decides nothing: it takes the face of its name
+                // until one that can be compared does.
+                None if paint.is_none() || comparable(&text, upright).is_none() => Some(face.clone()),
                 None => {
                     let m = matching_face(face, &text, o, upright);
                     self.matched.insert(key, m.clone());
                     m
                 }
             };
-            let Some(f) = decided else {
+            // Invisible text shows no glyphs that could differ: it keeps the face of its name.
+            let Some(f) = decided.or_else(|| paint.is_none().then(|| face.clone())) else {
                 self.warn(UNMATCHED_GLYPHS_NOTE);
                 return false;
             };
@@ -1745,8 +1749,14 @@ impl<'p> Builder<'p> {
             None if self.matched.contains_key(&key) => self.versions.entry(key).or_insert_with(|| named(&info.face)).clone(),
             None => named(&info.face),
         };
-        let (paint, opacity) = self.paint(paint, stroke.is_some(), self.walked(true));
-        let stroke = stroke.map(|p| (paint.clone(), line_width(p, scale)));
+        let (paint, opacity) = match paint {
+            Some(p) => {
+                let (paint, opacity) = self.paint(p, stroke.is_some(), self.walked(true));
+                (Some(paint), opacity)
+            }
+            None => (None, 1.0),
+        };
+        let stroke = stroke.zip(paint.clone()).map(|(p, paint)| (paint, line_width(p, scale)));
         let look = Look {
             font: key,
             family: info.family,
@@ -1756,7 +1766,7 @@ impl<'p> Builder<'p> {
             h_scale: at.h_scale,
             overprint_fill: stroke.is_none() && overprint,
             overprint_stroke: stroke.is_some() && overprint,
-            fill: stroke.is_none().then_some(paint),
+            fill: if stroke.is_none() { paint } else { None },
             stroke,
         };
         let advance = width.map_or(at.size * 0.5, |w| w as f64 / 1000.0 * at.size * at.h_scale / 100.0);
@@ -1967,8 +1977,16 @@ impl<'a> Device<'a> for Builder<'_> {
     ) {
         self.pending = false;
         let stroke = match draw_mode {
+            // Invisible text (a scanned page's recognized text, over the scan) draws nothing but
+            // is still text: type with neither fill nor stroke, so it stays searchable.
             GlyphDrawMode::Invisible => {
-                self.warn(INVISIBLE_TEXT_NOTE);
+                let typed = match glyph {
+                    Glyph::Outline(o) => self.type_glyph(o, transform * glyph_transform, mean_scale(transform), None, None, false),
+                    Glyph::Type3(_) => false,
+                };
+                if !typed {
+                    self.warn(INVISIBLE_TEXT_NOTE);
+                }
                 return;
             }
             GlyphDrawMode::Fill => None,
@@ -1978,7 +1996,7 @@ impl<'a> Device<'a> for Builder<'_> {
             Glyph::Outline(o) => {
                 let scale = mean_scale(transform);
                 let overprint = self.glyph_overprint(stroke.is_some());
-                if self.type_glyph(o, transform * glyph_transform, scale, paint, stroke.as_ref(), overprint) {
+                if self.type_glyph(o, transform * glyph_transform, scale, Some(paint), stroke.as_ref(), overprint) {
                     return;
                 }
                 self.flush_text();
diff --git a/crates/pdf/src/import_text.rs b/crates/pdf/src/import_text.rs
index 04c5b3129..f0dfaf4c8 100644
--- a/crates/pdf/src/import_text.rs
+++ b/crates/pdf/src/import_text.rs
@@ -88,14 +88,15 @@ pub(crate) struct Look {
 
 impl Look {
     /// Can a glyph drawn with `other` join a run drawn with this? A fill joins a run whose
-    /// glyphs were also stroked over (fill and stroke rendering draws each glyph twice).
+    /// glyphs were also stroked over (fill and stroke rendering draws each glyph twice); invisible
+    /// text (neither fill nor stroke) joins only invisible text.
     fn takes(&self, other: &Look) -> bool {
         self.font == other.font
             && (self.size - other.size).abs() <= self.size * 0.01
             && (self.h_scale - other.h_scale).abs() < 0.5
             && self.fill == other.fill
             && self.overprint_fill == other.overprint_fill
-            && (other.stroke.is_none() || (self.stroke == other.stroke && self.overprint_stroke == other.overprint_stroke))
+            && ((other.stroke.is_none() && other.fill.is_some()) || (self.stroke == other.stroke && self.overprint_stroke == other.overprint_stroke))
     }
 
     fn style(&self) -> CharStyle {
diff --git a/crates/pdf/src/print/mod.rs b/crates/pdf/src/print/mod.rs
index 38e31b42a..2bd8f01b0 100644
--- a/crates/pdf/src/print/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/pdf/src/print/mod.rs
@@ -422,11 +422,12 @@ fn print_inner(doc: &Document, opts: &PrintOptions, left_out: &mut HashSet<Strin
         w.page(ex, &s.sheet())?;
     }
     let overprinted = exporters.iter().any(|ex| ex.overprinted);
+    let invisible = exporters.iter().any(|ex| ex.invisible);
     for ex in exporters {
         w.absorb(ex);
     }
     let (bytes, more) = w.finish(left_out)?;
-    let bytes = crate::forms::finish(bytes, doc, &pdf, false, overprinted)?;
+    let bytes = crate::forms::finish(bytes, doc, &pdf, false, overprinted, invisible)?;
     let mut warnings = plan.warnings;
     for m in more {
         if !warnings.contains(&m) {
diff --git a/crates/pdf/src/tests_import_fidelity.rs b/crates/pdf/src/tests_import_fidelity.rs
index 73478de36..446e84ee8 100644
--- a/crates/pdf/src/tests_import_fidelity.rs
+++ b/crates/pdf/src/tests_import_fidelity.rs
@@ -309,6 +309,43 @@ fn text_becomes_point_type() {
     assert!(all(&r.document).iter().any(|n| n.name.as_deref() == Some("<Text Outlines>")));
 }
 
+/// Invisible text (rendering mode 3: a scanned page's recognized text, laid over the scan) is
+/// type with neither fill nor stroke, and the visible text keeps its paint. On a line with
+/// stroked text it is a run of its own, not stroked. As outlines it would draw nothing: it is left
+/// out, and the open says so (#2675).
+#[test]
+fn invisible_text_becomes_type_without_paint() {
+    let bytes = one_page(
+        "0.5 g 10 40 80 40 re f \
+         BT /F1 10 Tf 3 Tr 12 70 Td (Invisible one) Tj 0 -12 Td (Invisible two) Tj ET \
+         BT /F1 10 Tf 0 g 0 Tr 12 20 Td (Visible) Tj ET \
+         BT /F1 10 Tf 1 0 0 RG 1 Tr 12 90 Td (Out) Tj 3 Tr (line) Tj ET",
+        HELVETICA,
+        &[],
+    );
+    let r = open_with(&bytes, |_| {});
+    let t = texts(&r.document);
+    let text = |o: &vectorcraft_doc::TextObject| o.runs.iter().map(|r| r.text.as_str()).collect::<String>();
+    assert_eq!(t.iter().map(text).collect::<Vec<_>>(), ["Invisible one", "Invisible two", "Visible", "Outline"], "{t:?}");
+    let unpainted = |st: &vectorcraft_doc::CharStyle| st.fill.is_none() && !st.has_stroke();
+    for o in &t[..2] {
+        assert!(o.runs.iter().all(|r| unpainted(&r.style)), "{:?}", o.runs);
+    }
+    assert!(t[2].runs.iter().all(|r| !r.style.fill.is_none()), "{:?}", t[2].runs);
+    let runs: Vec<(&str, bool)> = t[3].runs.iter().map(|r| (r.text.as_str(), unpainted(&r.style))).collect();
+    assert_eq!(runs, [("Out", false), ("line", true)]);
+    assert!(t[3].runs[0].style.has_stroke());
+    assert!(!r.warnings.iter().any(|w| w == INVISIBLE_TEXT_NOTE), "{:?}", r.warnings);
+    // As outlines: only the visible text's.
+    let r = open_with(&bytes, |o| o.text_as = TextAs::Outlines);
+    assert!(texts(&r.document).is_empty());
+    assert!(r.warnings.iter().any(|w| w == INVISIBLE_TEXT_NOTE), "{:?}", r.warnings);
+    let outlines: Vec<Rect> =
+        all(&r.document).iter().filter(|n| n.name.as_deref() == Some("<Text Outlines>")).filter_map(|n| n.geometric_bounds()).collect();
+    // y down: "Visible" sits on 80, "Out" on 10; the invisible lines on 30 and 42 left nothing.
+    assert!(!outlines.is_empty() && outlines.iter().all(|b| b.y1 < 20.0 || b.y0 > 70.0), "{outlines:?}");
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn font_names_resolve_to_available_families() {
     let f = crate::import_text::Families::available();
diff --git a/crates/pdf/src/tests_live_text.rs b/crates/pdf/src/tests_live_text.rs
index 63ebb0dff..b61dcb847 100644
--- a/crates/pdf/src/tests_live_text.rs
+++ b/crates/pdf/src/tests_live_text.rs
@@ -160,6 +160,32 @@ fn a_glyph_whose_unicode_names_another_letter_stays_outlined() {
     assert!(r.warnings.iter().any(|w| w.contains("differ from the installed font")), "{:?}", r.warnings);
 }
 
+/// Invisible text (rendering mode 3) shows no glyphs that could differ from the installed font:
+/// the glyph of `l` labelled `W` comes in as type showing `W`, and nothing is said to be kept as
+/// outlines (#2675).
+#[test]
+fn invisible_text_is_type_whatever_its_glyphs_look_like() {
+    let font = vectorcraft_text::FontDb::global().find_postscript("SourceSans3-Regular").unwrap();
+    let l = font.glyph_for('l');
+    let mut pdf = krilla::Document::new_with(krilla::SerializeSettings { compress_content_streams: false, ..Default::default() });
+    let mut page = pdf.start_page_with(PageSettings::from_wh(300.0, 200.0).unwrap());
+    let mut s = page.surface();
+    let kfont = Font::new(SOURCE_SANS.into(), 0).unwrap();
+    let glyph = krilla::text::KrillaGlyph::new(krilla::text::GlyphId::new(l), 0.25, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0..1, None);
+    s.draw_glyphs(KPoint::from_xy(20.0, 50.0), &[glyph], kfont, "W", 24.0, false);
+    s.finish();
+    page.finish();
+    let mut bytes = pdf.finish().unwrap();
+    // Filled (mode 0) made invisible: the same length, so the cross-reference table still holds.
+    let at = bytes.windows(4).position(|w| w == b"0 Tr").expect("a rendering mode");
+    bytes[at] = b'3';
+    let r = import_with_report(&bytes, &ImportOptions::default()).unwrap();
+    let t = texts(&r.document);
+    assert_eq!(t.iter().map(TextObject::plain_text).collect::<Vec<_>>(), ["W"]);
+    assert!(t[0].runs.iter().all(|r| r.style.fill.is_none() && !r.style.has_stroke()), "{:?}", t[0].runs);
+    assert!(!r.warnings.iter().any(|w| is_outlines_note(w) || w == INVISIBLE_TEXT_NOTE), "{:?}", r.warnings);
+}
+
 /// `font` with each of `names` (`from`, `to`, the same length) replaced, in ASCII and UTF-16.
 fn renamed(font: &[u8], names: &[(&str, &str)]) -> Vec<u8> {
     let mut bytes = font.to_vec();
diff --git a/crates/pdf/src/tests_reader_compat.rs b/crates/pdf/src/tests_reader_compat.rs
index 0707263d6..83933393e 100644
--- a/crates/pdf/src/tests_reader_compat.rs
+++ b/crates/pdf/src/tests_reader_compat.rs
@@ -178,31 +178,41 @@ fn soft_mask_inversion_uses_quantized_transfer_endpoints() {
     transfer_contract();
 }
 
-/// #2675: text in rendering mode 3 (invisible, as a scanned page's OCR layer) isn't kept, and the
-/// import now says so, for type and outlines alike. Visible text beside it still comes in, and a
-/// page without invisible text gets no such warning.
+/// #2675: text in rendering mode 3 (invisible, as a scanned page's OCR layer) comes in as type
+/// with neither fill nor stroke. Where it can't come in as type (text read as outlines) it is
+/// left out, and the import says so. Visible text beside it still comes in, and a page without
+/// invisible text gets no such warning.
 #[test]
 fn invisible_text_is_reported_when_left_out() {
     let open = |content: &str, text_as: TextAs| import_with_report(&text_pdf(content), &ImportOptions { text_as, ..Default::default() }).unwrap();
     let invisible = "BT /F1 20 Tf 3 Tr 1 0 0 1 10 40 Tm (AB) Tj 0 Tr 1 0 0 1 10 10 Tm (CA) Tj ET";
     for text_as in [TextAs::Text, TextAs::Outlines] {
         let r = open(invisible, text_as);
-        assert!(r.warnings.iter().any(|w| w == crate::INVISIBLE_TEXT_NOTE), "{text_as:?}: {:?}", r.warnings);
-        // What came in: the type's text, and where the art lies. On the 60 pt page the visible
-        // line (baseline 10 pt up) lies 35–50 pt down, the invisible one (40 pt up) 5–20 pt down.
-        let (mut text, mut tops) = (String::new(), vec![]);
+        let warned = r.warnings.iter().any(|w| w == crate::INVISIBLE_TEXT_NOTE);
+        assert_eq!(warned, text_as == TextAs::Outlines, "{text_as:?}: {:?}", r.warnings);
+        // What came in: the type's text and whether it is painted, and where the painted art
+        // lies. On the 60 pt page the visible line (baseline 10 pt up) lies 35–50 pt down, the
+        // invisible one (40 pt up) 5–20 pt down.
+        let (mut painted, mut unpainted, mut tops) = (String::new(), String::new(), vec![]);
         r.document.walk(|n| {
             if let NodeKind::Text(t) = &n.kind {
-                text.push_str(&t.plain_text());
+                for run in &t.runs {
+                    let out = if run.style.fill.is_none() && !run.style.has_stroke() { &mut unpainted } else { &mut painted };
+                    out.push_str(&run.text);
+                }
             }
-            if matches!(n.kind, NodeKind::Text(_) | NodeKind::Path { .. } | NodeKind::Compound { .. })
+            let shows = !matches!(&n.kind, NodeKind::Text(t) if t.runs.iter().all(|r| r.style.fill.is_none() && !r.style.has_stroke()));
+            if shows
+                && matches!(n.kind, NodeKind::Text(_) | NodeKind::Path { .. } | NodeKind::Compound { .. })
                 && let Some(b) = n.visual_bounds()
             {
                 tops.push(b.y0);
             }
         });
         if text_as == TextAs::Text {
-            assert!(text.contains("CA") && !text.contains("AB"), "{text_as:?}: {text:?}");
+            assert_eq!((painted.as_str(), unpainted.as_str()), ("CA", "AB"), "{text_as:?}");
+        } else {
+            assert_eq!(unpainted, "", "{text_as:?}");
         }
         assert!(!tops.is_empty(), "{text_as:?}: the visible line still comes in");
         assert!(tops.iter().all(|y| *y > 25.0), "{text_as:?}: only the visible line's art, tops at {tops:?}");
diff --git a/crates/pdf/src/tests_realtext.rs b/crates/pdf/src/tests_realtext.rs
index 45ae74830..d88e064f7 100644
--- a/crates/pdf/src/tests_realtext.rs
+++ b/crates/pdf/src/tests_realtext.rs
@@ -315,6 +315,50 @@ fn subset_thresholds_below_100_percent_are_accepted_with_a_warning() {
     assert_eq!(texts(&import_as(&r.bytes, TextAs::Text)), ["Subset"]);
 }
 
+/// Characters with neither fill nor stroke (a scanned page's recognized text, as a PDF opens) are
+/// written as invisible text, in rendering mode 3: searchable, drawing nothing, and type without
+/// paint again when the file opens. Compressed or not, in PDF/X-1a and PDF/A too (#2675).
+#[test]
+fn type_without_paint_is_written_as_invisible_text() {
+    let unpainted = CharStyle { fill: Paint::None, ..style(24.0) };
+    let d = doc(vec![
+        TextObject::point(Point::new(20.0, 60.0), "Recognized", unpainted),
+        TextObject::point(Point::new(20.0, 160.0), "Visible", style(24.0)),
+    ]);
+    let r = pdf(&d, false);
+    assert!(r.warnings.is_empty(), "{:?}", r.warnings);
+    let ops = String::from_utf8_lossy(&r.bytes).split_whitespace().collect::<Vec<_>>().join(" ");
+    assert!(ops.contains("3 Tr") && ops.contains("0 Tr"), "the invisible text in mode 3, the visible in mode 0");
+    let written = |v: serde_json::Value| {
+        let settings: PdfSettings = serde_json::from_value(v).unwrap();
+        export(&d, &PdfOptions { settings, created: Some(0), ..Default::default() }).unwrap()
+    };
+    let files = [
+        ("uncompressed", r.bytes.clone()),
+        ("compressed", written(json!({"advanced": {"outlineText": false}}))),
+        ("PDF/X-1a", written(json!({"standard": "pdfX1a", "compatibility": "1.3", "advanced": {"outlineText": false}}))),
+        ("PDF/A-2b", written(json!({"standard": "pdfA2b", "advanced": {"outlineText": false}}))),
+    ];
+    for (what, bytes) in files {
+        let back = import_as(&bytes, TextAs::Text);
+        assert_eq!(texts(&back), ["Recognized", "Visible"], "{what}");
+        let mut paints = vec![];
+        back.walk(|n| {
+            if let NodeKind::Text(t) = &n.kind {
+                paints.push(t.runs.iter().all(|r| r.style.fill.is_none() && !r.style.has_stroke()));
+            }
+        });
+        assert_eq!(paints, [true, false], "{what}: only the recognized text has no paint");
+        // It draws nothing: as outlines, only the visible text is there (its baseline on 160).
+        let drawn = ink(&import_as(&bytes, TextAs::Outlines));
+        assert!(drawn.y0 > 100.0, "{what}: {drawn:?}");
+    }
+    // Text exported as outlines has no invisible text: there is nothing to draw.
+    let outlined = import_as(&pdf(&d, true).bytes, TextAs::Text);
+    assert!(texts(&outlined).is_empty());
+    assert!(ink(&outlined).y0 > 100.0);
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn pdf_a_takes_real_text() {
     let d = doc(vec![TextObject::point(Point::new(20.0, 60.0), "Archive", style(24.0))]);
diff --git a/docs/file-format-parity.md b/docs/file-format-parity.md
index 5793f5e7e..a52f8909e 100644
--- a/docs/file-format-parity.md
+++ b/docs/file-format-parity.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # File format parity
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-18 · **Change:** minor (DXF circular cubic paths export as native CIRCLE/ARC where stroke semantics permit (R13–2018 for weighted strokes; R12 weighted strokes remain POLYLINE) (#1299); non-circular curves stay SPLINE; scores and hours unchanged; an Illustrator 3 file without layers, as image editors export their paths, opens with its art on one layer, storytold/photocraft#6036; EPS editing data: legacy mesh corners, vector opacity masks and compound member paint retained; raster page comparison filters minification without relaxing limits; scores and hours unchanged; batch exporting, #1935; legacy `.ai` runs as PostScript with a prolog of its own, #868; legacy `.ai` of version 7 saved, with type as text, hidden objects and an artboard picker, and its type read, #868; PDF.R1: shared PDF reader with windowed content scanning and explicit incomplete-content errors; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF.W1: guarded shared PDF writer; output behavior, scores and estimates unchanged; later 2026-10-14 merges: SVG `:not()` selectors, #1557, stacked selectors, #1703, linked files, #1870; DXF VPORT, #1789; nesting caps, #1852; hostile PDF, `.ai`, EPS, Affinity and native data, #1862, #1863, #1871–#1873; failed saves, #1685, #1693, #1694; type in symbols after reopening, #1738; scores unchanged; verified PngSuite downloads, #1729; EPS stitched shadings, #1653; oversized images in WMF/EMF refused from the header, #1776; PDF name trees with shared nodes, #1781; native size limits for files read from memory, #1783; private temporary files on Unix, #1778; ruzstd 0.9.1, #1807; scores unchanged; SVG import: CSS transforms and the `font` shorthand, #1565, percentage lengths in symbols, #1596, Inkscape flowed text and pages, #1568, #1601, filter warnings, #1598; type on a path from PDF and `.ai`, #1585, #1586; ICC tag alignment in JPEG, TIFF and PSD, #1584; saves to folders that refuse the temporary file, #1620 in part; scores unchanged; TIFF is available in Export for Screens and Asset Export with shared format settings; scores and hours unchanged; compact native saves for documents with a lot of path data, #1492; PDF and EPS paste as vector art, #1499; `.ai` gradient stops listed upwards, #1530; SVG text on basic shapes, #1527; PDF soft masks drawn as images, #1551; Type 42 fonts in EPS, #1553; clips that only seem to cover the page, #1542; images too large to decode are reported, #1540; a `.ai` page's art past its artboard no longer lies over the page before it when read as its PDF part; grayscale TIFFs with an alpha channel or extra channels place and open, #1466 in part; a faded or masked fill keeps its stroke apart on PDF and `.ai` import, #1434; SVG knockout groups without masks, #1435; Affinity import: a text frame too short for its first line is made taller, #1423; `.ai` editing data: a compound path takes its last path's paint and keeps paths grouped inside it, #1410; a `.ai` whose PDF part is only text opens from it, #1387; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388; `.ai` editing data: gradients with middle stops, #1390; type of objects with an appearance, hidden layers and later artboards, #1391; area type in a frame too short for the fallback font, #1392; `.ai` editing data: placed (linked) files read, #1264; gradient-filled shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha soft masks, #1286 in part; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; `.ai` and PDF trim and bleed boxes as artboard and bleed, #1266; `.ai` gradient matrices, meshes and artboard names from the editing data; `.ai` art styles, clipping fills and compound looks from the editing data; `editingData: "always"` opens a `.ai` from its editing data; a `.ai` whose PDF part is only text opens from it, #1387; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388; `.ai` editing data: gradients with middle stops, #1390; type of objects with an appearance, hidden layers and later artboards, #1391; area type in a frame too short for the fallback font, #1392; `.ai` editing data: placed (linked) files read, #1264; gradient-filled shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha soft masks, #1286 in part; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; `.ai` and PDF trim and bleed boxes as artboard and bleed, #1266; `.ai` gradient matrices, meshes and artboard names from the editing data; `.ai` art styles, clipping fills and compound looks from the editing data; a `.ai` whose PDF part is only text opens from it, #1387; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388; `.ai` editing data: gradients with middle stops, #1390; type of objects with an appearance, hidden layers and later artboards, #1391; area type in a frame too short for the fallback font, #1392; `.ai` editing data: placed (linked) files read, #1264; gradient-filled shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha soft masks, #1286 in part; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; `.ai` and PDF trim and bleed boxes as artboard and bleed, #1266; `.ai` gradient matrices, meshes and artboard names from the editing data; a `.ai` whose PDF part is only text opens from it, #1387; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388; `.ai` editing data: gradients with middle stops, #1390; type of objects with an appearance, hidden layers and later artboards, #1391; area type in a frame too short for the fallback font, #1392; `.ai` editing data: placed (linked) files read, #1264; gradient-filled shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha soft masks, #1286 in part; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; `.ai` and PDF trim and bleed boxes as artboard and bleed, #1266; SVG knockout groups of opaque art without masks; a `.ai` whose PDF part is only text opens from it, #1387; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388; `.ai` editing data: gradients with middle stops, #1390; type of objects with an appearance, hidden layers and later artboards, #1391; area type in a frame too short for the fallback font, #1392; `.ai` editing data: placed (linked) files read, #1264; gradient-filled shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha soft masks, #1286 in part; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; `.ai` and PDF trim and bleed boxes as artboard and bleed, #1266; `.ai` keeps its RGB numbers; PDF import keeps a stroke apart from a fill masked or faded by its group) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-18 · **Change:** minor (PDF invisible text, as a scanned page's recognized text is, opens as type with no fill or stroke and is written back as invisible text, #2675; DXF circular cubic paths export as native CIRCLE/ARC where stroke semantics permit (R13–2018 for weighted strokes; R12 weighted strokes remain POLYLINE) (#1299); non-circular curves stay SPLINE; scores and hours unchanged; an Illustrator 3 file without layers, as image editors export their paths, opens with its art on one layer, storytold/photocraft#6036; EPS editing data: legacy mesh corners, vector opacity masks and compound member paint retained; raster page comparison filters minification without relaxing limits; scores and hours unchanged; batch exporting, #1935; legacy `.ai` runs as PostScript with a prolog of its own, #868; legacy `.ai` of version 7 saved, with type as text, hidden objects and an artboard picker, and its type read, #868; PDF.R1: shared PDF reader with windowed content scanning and explicit incomplete-content errors; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF.W1: guarded shared PDF writer; output behavior, scores and estimates unchanged; later 2026-10-14 merges: SVG `:not()` selectors, #1557, stacked selectors, #1703, linked files, #1870; DXF VPORT, #1789; nesting caps, #1852; hostile PDF, `.ai`, EPS, Affinity and native data, #1862, #1863, #1871–#1873; failed saves, #1685, #1693, #1694; type in symbols after reopening, #1738; scores unchanged; verified PngSuite downloads, #1729; EPS stitched shadings, #1653; oversized images in WMF/EMF refused from the header, #1776; PDF name trees with shared nodes, #1781; native size limits for files read from memory, #1783; private temporary files on Unix, #1778; ruzstd 0.9.1, #1807; scores unchanged; SVG import: CSS transforms and the `font` shorthand, #1565, percentage lengths in symbols, #1596, Inkscape flowed text and pages, #1568, #1601, filter warnings, #1598; type on a path from PDF and `.ai`, #1585, #1586; ICC tag alignment in JPEG, TIFF and PSD, #1584; saves to folders that refuse the temporary file, #1620 in part; scores unchanged; TIFF is available in Export for Screens and Asset Export with shared format settings; scores and hours unchanged; compact native saves for documents with a lot of path data, #1492; PDF and EPS paste as vector art, #1499; `.ai` gradient stops listed upwards, #1530; SVG text on basic shapes, #1527; PDF soft masks drawn as images, #1551; Type 42 fonts in EPS, #1553; clips that only seem to cover the page, #1542; images too large to decode are reported, #1540; a `.ai` page's art past its artboard no longer lies over the page before it when read as its PDF part; grayscale TIFFs with an alpha channel or extra channels place and open, #1466 in part; a faded or masked fill keeps its stroke apart on PDF and `.ai` import, #1434; SVG knockout groups without masks, #1435; Affinity import: a text frame too short for its first line is made taller, #1423; `.ai` editing data: a compound path takes its last path's paint and keeps paths grouped inside it, #1410; a `.ai` whose PDF part is only text opens from it, #1387; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388; `.ai` editing data: gradients with middle stops, #1390; type of objects with an appearance, hidden layers and later artboards, #1391; area type in a frame too short for the fallback font, #1392; `.ai` editing data: placed (linked) files read, #1264; gradient-filled shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha soft masks, #1286 in part; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; `.ai` and PDF trim and bleed boxes as artboard and bleed, #1266; `.ai` gradient matrices, meshes and artboard names from the editing data; `.ai` art styles, clipping fills and compound looks from the editing data; `editingData: "always"` opens a `.ai` from its editing data; a `.ai` whose PDF part is only text opens from it, #1387; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388; `.ai` editing data: gradients with middle stops, #1390; type of objects with an appearance, hidden layers and later artboards, #1391; area type in a frame too short for the fallback font, #1392; `.ai` editing data: placed (linked) files read, #1264; gradient-filled shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha soft masks, #1286 in part; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; `.ai` and PDF trim and bleed boxes as artboard and bleed, #1266; `.ai` gradient matrices, meshes and artboard names from the editing data; `.ai` art styles, clipping fills and compound looks from the editing data; a `.ai` whose PDF part is only text opens from it, #1387; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388; `.ai` editing data: gradients with middle stops, #1390; type of objects with an appearance, hidden layers and later artboards, #1391; area type in a frame too short for the fallback font, #1392; `.ai` editing data: placed (linked) files read, #1264; gradient-filled shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha soft masks, #1286 in part; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; `.ai` and PDF trim and bleed boxes as artboard and bleed, #1266; `.ai` gradient matrices, meshes and artboard names from the editing data; a `.ai` whose PDF part is only text opens from it, #1387; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388; `.ai` editing data: gradients with middle stops, #1390; type of objects with an appearance, hidden layers and later artboards, #1391; area type in a frame too short for the fallback font, #1392; `.ai` editing data: placed (linked) files read, #1264; gradient-filled shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha soft masks, #1286 in part; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; `.ai` and PDF trim and bleed boxes as artboard and bleed, #1266; SVG knockout groups of opaque art without masks; a `.ai` whose PDF part is only text opens from it, #1387; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388; `.ai` editing data: gradients with middle stops, #1390; type of objects with an appearance, hidden layers and later artboards, #1391; area type in a frame too short for the fallback font, #1392; `.ai` editing data: placed (linked) files read, #1264; gradient-filled shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha soft masks, #1286 in part; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; `.ai` and PDF trim and bleed boxes as artboard and bleed, #1266; `.ai` keeps its RGB numbers; PDF import keeps a stroke apart from a fill masked or faded by its group) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
 
 Every format Illustrator opens, places, saves or exports, against VectorCraft's format table (`FORMATS`,
 `OPEN_EXTS`, `PLACE_EXTS` in `crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/mod.rs`). Illustrator's list comes from its public
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ the app's own editing copy of a file (an EPS after its `%%EOF`, a `.ai`'s `AIPri
 | VectorCraft `.vectorcraft` / `.vctemplate` | — | yes | yes | lossless JSON, versioned, save down to v1; property-tested round trips (`format/tests/prop_format.rs`); documents with a lot of path data are written as compact JSON, about a fifth of the size (#1492); a save falls back to a plain fsync and to writing elsewhere and copying in when the folder refuses the usual steps (#1625, #1649, part of #1620; not confirmed on a real network share); the size limits on embedded data also apply to files read from memory (#1783), and saving over a private file on Unix leaves no readable temporary copy beside it (#1778) |
 | Illustrator template `.ait` | open, save | yes | PDF-compatible only, from Save as Template (`.vctemplate` stays its default) | New from Template opens a saved `.ait` untitled with its layers and art (`tests_pdfedit.rs`) |
 | Illustrator `.ai` | open, save | yes (PDF-compatible + editing-data structure, File Info) | PDF-compatible, or legacy version 7 (layers and groups) | see above; no real-file corpus |
-| PDF | open, place, save | yes (layers, masks, editable text, security, overprint, File Info from the XMP packet and the document information dictionary; Crop To › Trim takes the bleed box as the document's bleed) | yes (presets, PDF/X-1a/3/4, layers, marks and bleed, ICC, fast web view, 1.3+) | fuzzed import; shared guarded writer and windowed reader ([pdf-backend.md](pdf-backend.md)), metadata, incomplete-content and dependency-source regressions; PDF text placement issues in some files (#722); alpha soft masks drawn as images import with the mask (#1551); a clip only counts as covering the page when its shape does (#1542); a PDF another app copied pastes as editable vector art (#1499); letter-spaced type on a path keeps its length and its glyph-by-glyph stroke comes in as one text object (#1586, #1585); a crafted name tree with shared nodes no longer takes exponential time on open (#1781) |
+| PDF | open, place, save | yes (layers, masks, editable text, security, overprint, File Info from the XMP packet and the document information dictionary; Crop To › Trim takes the bleed box as the document's bleed) | yes (presets, PDF/X-1a/3/4, layers, marks and bleed, ICC, fast web view, 1.3+) | fuzzed import; shared guarded writer and windowed reader ([pdf-backend.md](pdf-backend.md)), metadata, incomplete-content and dependency-source regressions; PDF text placement issues in some files (#722); alpha soft masks drawn as images import with the mask (#1551); a clip only counts as covering the page when its shape does (#1542); a PDF another app copied pastes as editable vector art (#1499); letter-spaced type on a path keeps its length and its glyph-by-glyph stroke comes in as one text object (#1586, #1585); a crafted name tree with shared nodes no longer takes exponential time on open (#1781); invisible text (rendering mode 3: a scanned page's recognized text) opens as type with no fill or stroke and saves back as invisible, searchable text (#2675) |
 | EPS | open, place, save | yes (own PostScript L3 interpreter, Illustrator EPS editing data structure) | yes (L2/L3, TIFF previews) | CID-keyed CJK type not read; #505; images encoded with `CCITTFaxDecode` (ITU-T T.4 Group 3 and T.6 Group 4, with `K`, `Columns`, `Rows`, `EndOfBlock`, `EndOfLine`, `EncodedByteAlign` and `BlackIs1`) draw, and damaged data keeps the rows decoded before its first damaged row; Type 42 (TrueType) fonts set type at its size (#1553); a clip only counts as covering the page when its shape does (#1542); an EPS another app copied pastes as editable vector art (`clipboard.importEps`, #1499); a stitched shading keeps its hard colour changes on import (#1654); CMYK images, CMYK JPEGs included, keep their ink amounts on import, as from PDF, and the pixels a `MaskColor` or `ImageType 3` mask hides become a grayscale opacity mask; ruzstd 0.9.1 for compressed editing data (#1807, RUSTSEC-2026-0344) |
 | PostScript `.ps` | open, place | yes (the EPS reader reads its first page; `.epsf` files open and place as EPS) | via Print to PostScript | `tests_epsimport.rs` |
 | SVG / SVGZ | open, place, save | yes | yes (SVG Options, Preserve Editing, symbols, filters, rich text) | strongest format; tests in `crates/svg/tests`; text on a path follows basic shapes as their SVG 2 equivalent paths (#1527); CSS transforms and the `font` shorthand (#1565), percentage lengths in symbols (#1596), Inkscape flowed text as area type (#1568) and Inkscape pages as artboards (#1601) import; an unsupported filter is named in its warning (#1598) |
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ the app's own editing copy of a file (an EPS after its `%%EOF`, a `.ai`'s `AIPri
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-18 | minor | PDF import: invisible text (rendering mode 3, which carries a scanned page's recognized text) opens as type with no fill or stroke instead of being dropped without a word; when it can't be type (text opened as outlines, Type 3 fonts) it is left out with a warning. PDF export writes characters with no fill or stroke as invisible text in rendering mode 3, so a scanned PDF opened and saved keeps its searchable text, in PDF/X-1a and PDF/A too (#2675); own-fixture tests; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-18 | minor | DXF circular cubic paths export as native CIRCLE/ARC where stroke semantics permit (R13–2018 for weighted strokes; R12 weighted strokes remain POLYLINE); R12 stroked circles/arcs retain their POLYLINE width, and ClosePath geometry with an implicit closing chord is not promoted to CIRCLE (#1299); scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-17 | minor | PDF Place and clipboard paste preserve live text; explicit outlines remain supported on Place. Synthetic regressions; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-16 | minor | An Illustrator 3 file without prolog or layers (an image editor's exported paths) opens with its art on one layer instead of being refused (storytold/photocraft#6036); scores unchanged |
diff --git a/docs/target-app-parity.md b/docs/target-app-parity.md
index 8153c9d33..977102523 100644
--- a/docs/target-app-parity.md
+++ b/docs/target-app-parity.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Parity with Adobe Illustrator
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-19 · **Change:** minor (status-readout sample widths cached by language, document unit and pixels per point; status messages and readouts use stable responsive allocations sized for localized labels and ordinary coordinates; cached canvas dimensions match the renderer limit before cache-key creation, view construction and worker submission; cached canvas reprojection preserves scale during resize, rotation and DPI changes; interactive Mirror Repeat axis; bounding-box handles take priority over the axis body while the center and end handles retain their move and rotation actions; 3D lighting: one to ten colored lights, smooth colored Inflate, legacy white-light appearance preserved; surface batching and restored seam minimum; scores and estimates unchanged; Blend spine Anchor Point conversions, selection/stacking priority and Shift regression coverage (#2544); scores and hours unchanged; Artboard Options' X and Y with a reference point, #1876; Image Trace: Auto Color keeps rare but distinct colours; Image Trace: large images trace with a warning; anchor limit raised to 8,000,000; Image Trace: Raster::new returns an error for a buffer of the wrong length; M12 maximal-disc graph pruning and junction merging measured; M12 crop EDT and Guo–Hall thinning measured; M12 centre-lines baseline measured; scores and hours unchanged; installed plug-ins stay installed after a restart, #2541; Group Selection picks and moves one path of a compound path, #2441 in part; the Move dialog opens on the last move and its last checkboxes; Image Trace: a higher Paths never gives fewer segments on collapsed loops; Image Trace: the notch rule reads only its own piece; Image Trace: an edge's sub-pixel shift is the same from either side; Image Trace Flat Logo traces line art on white paper instead of a blank result; score and hours unchanged; Image Trace: a simpler contour walk with no precomputed direction table; transparency grid visibility saved in native documents, #1968; MCP cancellation, progress and busy answers during long exports, #2165, #2171, #2172; EPS editing data: legacy mesh corners, vector opacity masks and compound member paint retained; raster page comparison filters minification without relaxing limits; scores and hours unchanged; native family-name fallback from English-only typographic names, #2208; scores unchanged; batch exporting, #1935; G2: Effect › Sketch › Halftone Pattern; Photoshop filters 30/57, 27 remaining (22–38 h); G5: Symbol Options Export Type (Graphic / Movie Clip); Localization: Brazilian Portuguese complete under the tests, #1914, 71% → 74%; G6 image variables: Automation ~60% → ~62% / detail ~65% → ~68%, hours lowered; Warp Options controls verified by focused checks and original-image review; estimates unchanged; G11: Asset Export Art Optimized seam (#983 / #1037) and supersampled thumbs; Export for Screens 85% → 90%; existing-guide Escape cancellation validated 2026-10-14; scores and hours unchanged; open-path anchor Delete keeps surviving runs separate; estimates unchanged; PDF.R1: shared PDF reader with windowed content scanning and explicit incomplete-content errors; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF.W1: guarded shared PDF writer; output behavior, scores and estimates unchanged; Artboard tab-switch follow-up historically validated on `a0671777`; scores and hours unchanged; Artboard clean active-tab close/Delete follow-up validated 2026-10-15; later 2026-10-14 merges: anchor X/Y/W/H, #1824; Snap to Grid over Snap to Pixel, #1816; toolbar and All Tools, #1751; Actions panel selection, #1629 in part; redo during a drag, #1719; preferences written on OK, #1747; type in symbols after reopening, #1738; macOS save sheets, #1855, the Format menu withdrawn; stroke outlines shared, #1667; untrusted files, #1852, #1862–#1873; failed-save dialog, #1685; effects, #1864, Dim Images, #1683; duplicated rows of the 2026-10-05 table noted for the owner; scores unchanged; Image Trace: Shapes rework, stroke caps, enhanced presets, gradients over noise, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; verified PngSuite downloads, #1729; synthetic control-input budgets, #1709; 2026-10-14 merges: anchor Align and Distribute, #1636; Direct Selection and Delete fixes, #1674, #1666, #1743; Escape while typing, #1686; Pen clicks, #1663; Expand on repeats, #1756; Roughen and Scribble, #1643, #1648; file and input hardening, #1776–#1783, #1786, #1807; MCP limits and envelope, #1727, #1728; Image Trace levelling and Flat Logo on scans, #1647, #1657; scores unchanged; later 2026-10-13 merges: SVG import, #1565, #1596, #1568, #1598, #1601; type on a path from PDF and `.ai`, #1585, #1586; ICC tag alignment, #1584; saves, #1620 in part; Warp Arc, #1578; Zig Zag, #1558; Pathfinder strokes, #1570; OpenType features, #1607; intersect Smart Guides, #1602 in part; a guide's position in the Transform panel, #1597 in part, a convenience with no parity claim; scores unchanged; TIFF is available in Export for Screens and Asset Export with shared format settings; scores and hours unchanged; G1/M11: Artboard deletion and history selection normalization; history regressions and full workspace CI pass; scores and hours unchanged; Character styles retain explicit Auto leading, propagate resets and preserve local leading overrides; scores and hours unchanged; Width Point Edit: Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment; plain double-click keeps it off; scores and hours unchanged; Units › Identify Objects By (`identifyObjectsBy`) acts on Layers, Variables and Layer Options, #394, scores unchanged; Appearance of Black › Printing / Exporting (`blackOutput`) acts on RGB raster export and Print as Bitmap, #394, scores unchanged; per-corner radius fields with a link toggle, split from #1594; control transport deadlines, #1726; Color panel: the mode picked last comes back after a restart, #1675; Image Trace: shared edges, memory, thin lines, strokes, corners, and the Shapes, Auto Grouping and Gradients options, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; 2026-10-13 merges: Polish interface, #1498; compact native saves, #1492; PDF and EPS paste as vector art, #1499; import fixes for `.ai`, PDF, EPS and SVG, #1528, #1530, #1531, #1544, #1551, #1553; guide objects, #1534; Join after Average, #1533; Keyboard Shortcuts lists commands outside the menus, #1539; correction: Average and Join with a corner or smooth choice is missing; scores unchanged; late 2026-10-12 merges: type that does not fit its frame is reported, #1471; Tabs panel drags, #1458; template layers in Outline view, #1486; dialog slider rails, #1483; Direct Selection anchor precedence, #1508; print-size images, #1517; 3D on outlined type, #1481; French catalog, #1511; scores unchanged; Split Into Grid options, #1462; Transform Objects and Reflect across an angle, #1448 and #1460; Pathfinder panel on a group, #1450; unknown parameter keys refused, #1442; grayscale TIFFs with alpha, #1466 in part; Localization: Vietnamese catalog added, 63% → 71%, hours 60–100 → 55–90, full readiness unchanged at ~62%; scores and hours unchanged; Image Trace places edges to a fraction of a pixel in every mode, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; 3D and Materials: Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate added, 3D ~8% → ~25% (estimated), menu stubs 25 → 22; Affinity text frames too short for their first line show it, #1423; Transform dialogs preview, #1412, and the transform tools and commands act on direct-selected anchors, #1408; `.ai` compound path paint, #1410; strokes wider than their shape, #1396; corner drags hide the bounding box, #1229; scores and hours unchanged; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388, scores unchanged; `.ai` editing-data follow-ups: gradient stops, type of objects with an appearance, short area-type frames (#1390, #1391, #1392); dialog keyboard focus on every open (#1382, #1395); art flush with an artboard (#1375); font rescan (#1376); symbol instance redraw cache (#1386); scores and hours unchanged; grid tool options, #1377 in part, scores unchanged; `.ai` placed (linked) files read from the editing data, #1264, scores unchanged; gradient shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; Live Corners widget click selects its corner, #1239; scores and hours unchanged; custom ruler origin, #1212; Artboard click-to-fit verified for objects, groups, visible bounds, undo and cancellation (#1227); scores and hours unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; Localization: Korean catalog added, 54% → 63%, full readiness unchanged at ~62%; desktop print transport adopts craft-print, Windows 7 fallback retained, scores unchanged; Image Trace: an image over 64 megapixels traces scaled down instead of being refused, scores unchanged; Czech render-site localization follow-up; scores and estimates unchanged; Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged; Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged; Path operations: Simplify preview/counts and component selection (#1272); scores unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 29/57; 28 filters remain; Platforms: RPM runtime capabilities and glibc floor (#1275); scores unchanged; Raster effects: squared-distance texture redraws (#1257); pixels unchanged; scores and hours unchanged; Drawing: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); scores unchanged; Type core: full-name font matching (#1258), scores and hours unchanged; Selection: no-op anchor Align preserves history and saved state (#1180 follow-up); scores unchanged; UI chrome: Eyedropper cursor and precise-setting regressions (#1269); scores unchanged; Colour: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); scores and hours unchanged; Selection: segment click/Delete preserves neighboring edges (#1278); scores unchanged; Colour: unpainted zero-width strokes regain 1 pt when painted (#1253); scores and hours unchanged; graphs: designs and markers, data, Graph Type and label options; UI chrome: native macOS save Format menu, #866, scores unchanged; compound paths inherit the backmost appearance and member fill-rule edits reach their owner, #1197; scores unchanged; Type core: Middle Eastern digit types done, Character panel menu › Digits; PDF export warns when the pixel cap lowers raster-effect resolution; Drawing tools: Live Corners round corners between curved sides, #1144; Type advanced: proportional vertical metrics (`vpal`) done, #966; Shape Builder: #893 fixed, merged regions of crossing lines no longer keep seams; scores unchanged while #937 is open; #1034: document-point character controls after object/group scaling; full readiness recomputed as the standard's additive weighted sum, ~62%; per-audience hours; essentials-user score ~75% added; ready-for-real-work re-examined: 50% → 55%, mainstream 65% added; earlier the same day: full re-measure against Illustrator 2026 30.x; merged the ROADMAP's parity estimate, honest assessment and "Shipped so far" into this file; SVG knockout groups of opaque art export without masks; Image Trace: colour presets no longer shatter noisy flat art and photos trace into smooth tones, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; Split Into Grid options, #1462; Transform Objects and Reflect across an angle, #1448 and #1460; Pathfinder panel on a group, #1450; unknown parameter keys refused, #1442; grayscale TIFFs with alpha, #1466 in part; scores and hours unchanged; Image Trace places edges to a fraction of a pixel in every mode, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; 3D and Materials: Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate added, 3D ~8% → ~25% (estimated), menu stubs 25 → 22; Affinity text frames too short for their first line show it, #1423; Transform dialogs preview, #1412, and the transform tools and commands act on direct-selected anchors, #1408; `.ai` compound path paint, #1410; strokes wider than their shape, #1396; corner drags hide the bounding box, #1229; scores and hours unchanged; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388, scores unchanged; `.ai` editing-data follow-ups: gradient stops, type of objects with an appearance, short area-type frames (#1390, #1391, #1392); dialog keyboard focus on every open (#1382, #1395); art flush with an artboard (#1375); font rescan (#1376); symbol instance redraw cache (#1386); scores and hours unchanged; grid tool options, #1377 in part, scores unchanged; `.ai` placed (linked) files read from the editing data, #1264, scores unchanged; gradient shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; Live Corners widget click selects its corner, #1239; scores and hours unchanged; custom ruler origin, #1212; Artboard click-to-fit verified for objects, groups, visible bounds, undo and cancellation (#1227); scores and hours unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; Localization: Korean catalog added, 54% → 63%, full readiness unchanged at ~62%; desktop print transport adopts craft-print, Windows 7 fallback retained, scores unchanged; Image Trace: an image over 64 megapixels traces scaled down instead of being refused, scores unchanged; Czech render-site localization follow-up; scores and estimates unchanged; Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged; Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged; Path operations: Simplify preview/counts and component selection (#1272); scores unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 29/57; 28 filters remain; Platforms: RPM runtime capabilities and glibc floor (#1275); scores unchanged; Raster effects: squared-distance texture redraws (#1257); pixels unchanged; scores and hours unchanged; Drawing: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); scores unchanged; Type core: full-name font matching (#1258), scores and hours unchanged; Selection: no-op anchor Align preserves history and saved state (#1180 follow-up); scores unchanged; UI chrome: Eyedropper cursor and precise-setting regressions (#1269); scores unchanged; Colour: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); scores and hours unchanged; Selection: segment click/Delete preserves neighboring edges (#1278); scores unchanged; Colour: unpainted zero-width strokes regain 1 pt when painted (#1253); scores and hours unchanged; graphs: designs and markers, data, Graph Type and label options; UI chrome: native macOS save Format menu, #866, scores unchanged; compound paths inherit the backmost appearance and member fill-rule edits reach their owner, #1197; scores unchanged; Type core: Middle Eastern digit types done, Character panel menu › Digits; PDF export warns when the pixel cap lowers raster-effect resolution; Drawing tools: Live Corners round corners between curved sides, #1144; Type advanced: proportional vertical metrics (`vpal`) done, #966; Shape Builder: #893 fixed, merged regions of crossing lines no longer keep seams; scores unchanged while #937 is open; #1034: document-point character controls after object/group scaling; full readiness recomputed as the standard's additive weighted sum, ~62%; per-audience hours; essentials-user score ~75% added; ready-for-real-work re-examined: 50% → 55%, mainstream 65% added; earlier the same day: full re-measure against Illustrator 2026 30.x; merged the ROADMAP's parity estimate, honest assessment and "Shipped so far" into this file; SVG knockout groups of opaque art export without masks; MCP `add_text` exposes the existing `vertical` option for point, area and path type; horizontal remains the default; scores and hours unchanged; Vertical fullwidth question and exclamation marks keep their nominal glyph upright when the font has no vertical alternate; scores and hours unchanged.; Curvature curve geometry, #1236 in part; Width-point finite-arithmetic follow-up validated; scores and hours unchanged; Image Trace adjustment discovery; File interop: legacy `.ai` of version 7 saved with type as text, hidden objects kept and an artboard picker, #868, scores unchanged; Revolve: automatic smooth shading and default-on Cap with continuous rims; PDF.R1: shared PDF reader with windowed content scanning and explicit incomplete-content errors; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF.W1: guarded shared PDF writer; output behavior, scores and estimates unchanged; later 2026-10-14 merges: anchor X/Y/W/H, #1824; Snap to Grid over Snap to Pixel, #1816; toolbar and All Tools, #1751; Actions panel selection, #1629 in part; redo during a drag, #1719; preferences written on OK, #1747; type in symbols after reopening, #1738; macOS save sheets, #1855, the Format menu withdrawn; stroke outlines shared, #1667; untrusted files, #1852, #1862–#1873; failed-save dialog, #1685; effects, #1864, Dim Images, #1683; duplicated rows of the 2026-10-05 table noted for the owner; scores unchanged; Image Trace: Shapes rework, stroke caps, enhanced presets, gradients over noise, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; verified PngSuite downloads, #1729; synthetic control-input budgets, #1709; 2026-10-14 merges: anchor Align and Distribute, #1636; Direct Selection and Delete fixes, #1674, #1666, #1743; Escape while typing, #1686; Pen clicks, #1663; Expand on repeats, #1756; Roughen and Scribble, #1643, #1648; file and input hardening, #1776–#1783, #1786, #1807; MCP limits and envelope, #1727, #1728; Image Trace levelling and Flat Logo on scans, #1647, #1657; scores unchanged; later 2026-10-13 merges: SVG import, #1565, #1596, #1568, #1598, #1601; type on a path from PDF and `.ai`, #1585, #1586; ICC tag alignment, #1584; saves, #1620 in part; Warp Arc, #1578; Zig Zag, #1558; Pathfinder strokes, #1570; OpenType features, #1607; intersect Smart Guides, #1602 in part; a guide's position in the Transform panel, #1597 in part, a convenience with no parity claim; scores unchanged; TIFF is available in Export for Screens and Asset Export with shared format settings; scores and hours unchanged; G1/M11: Artboard deletion and history selection normalization; history regressions and full workspace CI pass; scores and hours unchanged; Character styles retain explicit Auto leading, propagate resets and preserve local leading overrides; scores and hours unchanged; Width Point Edit: Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment; plain double-click keeps it off; scores and hours unchanged; Units › Identify Objects By (`identifyObjectsBy`) acts on Layers, Variables and Layer Options, #394, scores unchanged; Appearance of Black › Printing / Exporting (`blackOutput`) acts on RGB raster export and Print as Bitmap, #394, scores unchanged; per-corner radius fields with a link toggle, split from #1594; control transport deadlines, #1726; Color panel: the mode picked last comes back after a restart, #1675; Image Trace: shared edges, memory, thin lines, strokes, corners, and the Shapes, Auto Grouping and Gradients options, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; 2026-10-13 merges: Polish interface, #1498; compact native saves, #1492; PDF and EPS paste as vector art, #1499; import fixes for `.ai`, PDF, EPS and SVG, #1528, #1530, #1531, #1544, #1551, #1553; guide objects, #1534; Join after Average, #1533; Keyboard Shortcuts lists commands outside the menus, #1539; correction: Average and Join with a corner or smooth choice is missing; scores unchanged; late 2026-10-12 merges: type that does not fit its frame is reported, #1471; Tabs panel drags, #1458; template layers in Outline view, #1486; dialog slider rails, #1483; Direct Selection anchor precedence, #1508; print-size images, #1517; 3D on outlined type, #1481; French catalog, #1511; scores unchanged; Split Into Grid options, #1462; Transform Objects and Reflect across an angle, #1448 and #1460; Pathfinder panel on a group, #1450; unknown parameter keys refused, #1442; grayscale TIFFs with alpha, #1466 in part; Localization: Vietnamese catalog added, 63% → 71%, hours 60–100 → 55–90, full readiness unchanged at ~62%; scores and hours unchanged; Image Trace places edges to a fraction of a pixel in every mode, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; 3D and Materials: Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate added, 3D ~8% → ~25% (estimated), menu stubs 25 → 22; Affinity text frames too short for their first line show it, #1423; Transform dialogs preview, #1412, and the transform tools and commands act on direct-selected anchors, #1408; `.ai` compound path paint, #1410; strokes wider than their shape, #1396; corner drags hide the bounding box, #1229; scores and hours unchanged; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388, scores unchanged; `.ai` editing-data follow-ups: gradient stops, type of objects with an appearance, short area-type frames (#1390, #1391, #1392); dialog keyboard focus on every open (#1382, #1395); art flush with an artboard (#1375); font rescan (#1376); symbol instance redraw cache (#1386); scores and hours unchanged; grid tool options, #1377 in part, scores unchanged; `.ai` placed (linked) files read from the editing data, #1264, scores unchanged; gradient shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; Live Corners widget click selects its corner, #1239; scores and hours unchanged; custom ruler origin, #1212; Artboard click-to-fit verified for objects, groups, visible bounds, undo and cancellation (#1227); scores and hours unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; Localization: Korean catalog added, 54% → 63%, full readiness unchanged at ~62%; desktop print transport adopts craft-print, Windows 7 fallback retained, scores unchanged; Image Trace: an image over 64 megapixels traces scaled down instead of being refused, scores unchanged; Czech render-site localization follow-up; scores and estimates unchanged; Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged; Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged; Path operations: Simplify preview/counts and component selection (#1272); scores unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 29/57; 28 filters remain; Platforms: RPM runtime capabilities and glibc floor (#1275); scores unchanged; Raster effects: squared-distance texture redraws (#1257); pixels unchanged; scores and hours unchanged; Drawing: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); scores unchanged; Type core: full-name font matching (#1258), scores and hours unchanged; Selection: no-op anchor Align preserves history and saved state (#1180 follow-up); scores unchanged; UI chrome: Eyedropper cursor and precise-setting regressions (#1269); scores unchanged; Colour: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); scores and hours unchanged; Selection: segment click/Delete preserves neighboring edges (#1278); scores unchanged; Colour: unpainted zero-width strokes regain 1 pt when painted (#1253); scores and hours unchanged; graphs: designs and markers, data, Graph Type and label options; UI chrome: native macOS save Format menu, #866, scores unchanged; compound paths inherit the backmost appearance and member fill-rule edits reach their owner, #1197; scores unchanged; Type core: Middle Eastern digit types done, Character panel menu › Digits; PDF export warns when the pixel cap lowers raster-effect resolution; Drawing tools: Live Corners round corners between curved sides, #1144; Type advanced: proportional vertical metrics (`vpal`) done, #966; Shape Builder: #893 fixed, merged regions of crossing lines no longer keep seams; scores unchanged while #937 is open; #1034: document-point character controls after object/group scaling; full readiness recomputed as the standard's additive weighted sum, ~62%; per-audience hours; essentials-user score ~75% added; ready-for-real-work re-examined: 50% → 55%, mainstream 65% added; earlier the same day: full re-measure against Illustrator 2026 30.x; merged the ROADMAP's parity estimate, honest assessment and "Shipped so far" into this file; SVG knockout groups of opaque art export without masks; Image Trace: colour presets no longer shatter noisy flat art and photos trace into smooth tones, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; Split Into Grid options, #1462; Transform Objects and Reflect across an angle, #1448 and #1460; Pathfinder panel on a group, #1450; unknown parameter keys refused, #1442; grayscale TIFFs with alpha, #1466 in part; scores and hours unchanged; Image Trace places edges to a fraction of a pixel in every mode, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; 3D and Materials: Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate added, 3D ~8% → ~25% (estimated), menu stubs 25 → 22; Affinity text frames too short for their first line show it, #1423; Transform dialogs preview, #1412, and the transform tools and commands act on direct-selected anchors, #1408; `.ai` compound path paint, #1410; strokes wider than their shape, #1396; corner drags hide the bounding box, #1229; scores and hours unchanged; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388, scores unchanged; `.ai` editing-data follow-ups: gradient stops, type of objects with an appearance, short area-type frames (#1390, #1391, #1392); dialog keyboard focus on every open (#1382, #1395); art flush with an artboard (#1375); font rescan (#1376); symbol instance redraw cache (#1386); scores and hours unchanged; grid tool options, #1377 in part, scores unchanged; `.ai` placed (linked) files read from the editing data, #1264, scores unchanged; gradient shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; Live Corners widget click selects its corner, #1239; scores and hours unchanged; custom ruler origin, #1212; Artboard click-to-fit verified for objects, groups, visible bounds, undo and cancellation (#1227); scores and hours unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; Localization: Korean catalog added, 54% → 63%, full readiness unchanged at ~62%; desktop print transport adopts craft-print, Windows 7 fallback retained, scores unchanged; Image Trace: an image over 64 megapixels traces scaled down instead of being refused, scores unchanged; Czech render-site localization follow-up; scores and estimates unchanged; Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged; Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged; Path operations: Simplify preview/counts and component selection (#1272); scores unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 29/57; 28 filters remain; Platforms: RPM runtime capabilities and glibc floor (#1275); scores unchanged; Raster effects: squared-distance texture redraws (#1257); pixels unchanged; scores and hours unchanged; Drawing: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); scores unchanged; Type core: full-name font matching (#1258), scores and hours unchanged; Selection: no-op anchor Align preserves history and saved state (#1180 follow-up); scores unchanged; UI chrome: Eyedropper cursor and precise-setting regressions (#1269); scores unchanged; Colour: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); scores and hours unchanged; Selection: segment click/Delete preserves neighboring edges (#1278); scores unchanged; Colour: unpainted zero-width strokes regain 1 pt when painted (#1253); scores and hours unchanged; graphs: designs and markers, data, Graph Type and label options; UI chrome: native macOS save Format menu, #866, scores unchanged; compound paths inherit the backmost appearance and member fill-rule edits reach their owner, #1197; scores unchanged; Type core: Middle Eastern digit types done, Character panel menu › Digits; PDF export warns when the pixel cap lowers raster-effect resolution; Drawing tools: Live Corners round corners between curved sides, #1144; Type advanced: proportional vertical metrics (`vpal`) done, #966; Shape Builder: #893 fixed, merged regions of crossing lines no longer keep seams; scores unchanged while #937 is open; #1034: document-point character controls after object/group scaling; full readiness recomputed as the standard's additive weighted sum, ~62%; per-audience hours; essentials-user score ~75% added; ready-for-real-work re-examined: 50% → 55%, mainstream 65% added; earlier the same day: full re-measure against Illustrator 2026 30.x; merged the ROADMAP's parity estimate, honest assessment and "Shipped so far" into this file; SVG knockout groups of opaque art export without masks) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; public release notes through 30.7, August 2026)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-19 · **Change:** minor (PDF invisible text opens as type with no fill or stroke and is written back invisible, #2675; status-readout sample widths cached by language, document unit and pixels per point; status messages and readouts use stable responsive allocations sized for localized labels and ordinary coordinates; cached canvas dimensions match the renderer limit before cache-key creation, view construction and worker submission; cached canvas reprojection preserves scale during resize, rotation and DPI changes; interactive Mirror Repeat axis; bounding-box handles take priority over the axis body while the center and end handles retain their move and rotation actions; 3D lighting: one to ten colored lights, smooth colored Inflate, legacy white-light appearance preserved; surface batching and restored seam minimum; scores and estimates unchanged; Blend spine Anchor Point conversions, selection/stacking priority and Shift regression coverage (#2544); scores and hours unchanged; Artboard Options' X and Y with a reference point, #1876; Image Trace: Auto Color keeps rare but distinct colours; Image Trace: large images trace with a warning; anchor limit raised to 8,000,000; Image Trace: Raster::new returns an error for a buffer of the wrong length; M12 maximal-disc graph pruning and junction merging measured; M12 crop EDT and Guo–Hall thinning measured; M12 centre-lines baseline measured; scores and hours unchanged; installed plug-ins stay installed after a restart, #2541; Group Selection picks and moves one path of a compound path, #2441 in part; the Move dialog opens on the last move and its last checkboxes; Image Trace: a higher Paths never gives fewer segments on collapsed loops; Image Trace: the notch rule reads only its own piece; Image Trace: an edge's sub-pixel shift is the same from either side; Image Trace Flat Logo traces line art on white paper instead of a blank result; score and hours unchanged; Image Trace: a simpler contour walk with no precomputed direction table; transparency grid visibility saved in native documents, #1968; MCP cancellation, progress and busy answers during long exports, #2165, #2171, #2172; EPS editing data: legacy mesh corners, vector opacity masks and compound member paint retained; raster page comparison filters minification without relaxing limits; scores and hours unchanged; native family-name fallback from English-only typographic names, #2208; scores unchanged; batch exporting, #1935; G2: Effect › Sketch › Halftone Pattern; Photoshop filters 30/57, 27 remaining (22–38 h); G5: Symbol Options Export Type (Graphic / Movie Clip); Localization: Brazilian Portuguese complete under the tests, #1914, 71% → 74%; G6 image variables: Automation ~60% → ~62% / detail ~65% → ~68%, hours lowered; Warp Options controls verified by focused checks and original-image review; estimates unchanged; G11: Asset Export Art Optimized seam (#983 / #1037) and supersampled thumbs; Export for Screens 85% → 90%; existing-guide Escape cancellation validated 2026-10-14; scores and hours unchanged; open-path anchor Delete keeps surviving runs separate; estimates unchanged; PDF.R1: shared PDF reader with windowed content scanning and explicit incomplete-content errors; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF.W1: guarded shared PDF writer; output behavior, scores and estimates unchanged; Artboard tab-switch follow-up historically validated on `a0671777`; scores and hours unchanged; Artboard clean active-tab close/Delete follow-up validated 2026-10-15; later 2026-10-14 merges: anchor X/Y/W/H, #1824; Snap to Grid over Snap to Pixel, #1816; toolbar and All Tools, #1751; Actions panel selection, #1629 in part; redo during a drag, #1719; preferences written on OK, #1747; type in symbols after reopening, #1738; macOS save sheets, #1855, the Format menu withdrawn; stroke outlines shared, #1667; untrusted files, #1852, #1862–#1873; failed-save dialog, #1685; effects, #1864, Dim Images, #1683; duplicated rows of the 2026-10-05 table noted for the owner; scores unchanged; Image Trace: Shapes rework, stroke caps, enhanced presets, gradients over noise, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; verified PngSuite downloads, #1729; synthetic control-input budgets, #1709; 2026-10-14 merges: anchor Align and Distribute, #1636; Direct Selection and Delete fixes, #1674, #1666, #1743; Escape while typing, #1686; Pen clicks, #1663; Expand on repeats, #1756; Roughen and Scribble, #1643, #1648; file and input hardening, #1776–#1783, #1786, #1807; MCP limits and envelope, #1727, #1728; Image Trace levelling and Flat Logo on scans, #1647, #1657; scores unchanged; later 2026-10-13 merges: SVG import, #1565, #1596, #1568, #1598, #1601; type on a path from PDF and `.ai`, #1585, #1586; ICC tag alignment, #1584; saves, #1620 in part; Warp Arc, #1578; Zig Zag, #1558; Pathfinder strokes, #1570; OpenType features, #1607; intersect Smart Guides, #1602 in part; a guide's position in the Transform panel, #1597 in part, a convenience with no parity claim; scores unchanged; TIFF is available in Export for Screens and Asset Export with shared format settings; scores and hours unchanged; G1/M11: Artboard deletion and history selection normalization; history regressions and full workspace CI pass; scores and hours unchanged; Character styles retain explicit Auto leading, propagate resets and preserve local leading overrides; scores and hours unchanged; Width Point Edit: Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment; plain double-click keeps it off; scores and hours unchanged; Units › Identify Objects By (`identifyObjectsBy`) acts on Layers, Variables and Layer Options, #394, scores unchanged; Appearance of Black › Printing / Exporting (`blackOutput`) acts on RGB raster export and Print as Bitmap, #394, scores unchanged; per-corner radius fields with a link toggle, split from #1594; control transport deadlines, #1726; Color panel: the mode picked last comes back after a restart, #1675; Image Trace: shared edges, memory, thin lines, strokes, corners, and the Shapes, Auto Grouping and Gradients options, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; 2026-10-13 merges: Polish interface, #1498; compact native saves, #1492; PDF and EPS paste as vector art, #1499; import fixes for `.ai`, PDF, EPS and SVG, #1528, #1530, #1531, #1544, #1551, #1553; guide objects, #1534; Join after Average, #1533; Keyboard Shortcuts lists commands outside the menus, #1539; correction: Average and Join with a corner or smooth choice is missing; scores unchanged; late 2026-10-12 merges: type that does not fit its frame is reported, #1471; Tabs panel drags, #1458; template layers in Outline view, #1486; dialog slider rails, #1483; Direct Selection anchor precedence, #1508; print-size images, #1517; 3D on outlined type, #1481; French catalog, #1511; scores unchanged; Split Into Grid options, #1462; Transform Objects and Reflect across an angle, #1448 and #1460; Pathfinder panel on a group, #1450; unknown parameter keys refused, #1442; grayscale TIFFs with alpha, #1466 in part; Localization: Vietnamese catalog added, 63% → 71%, hours 60–100 → 55–90, full readiness unchanged at ~62%; scores and hours unchanged; Image Trace places edges to a fraction of a pixel in every mode, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; 3D and Materials: Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate added, 3D ~8% → ~25% (estimated), menu stubs 25 → 22; Affinity text frames too short for their first line show it, #1423; Transform dialogs preview, #1412, and the transform tools and commands act on direct-selected anchors, #1408; `.ai` compound path paint, #1410; strokes wider than their shape, #1396; corner drags hide the bounding box, #1229; scores and hours unchanged; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388, scores unchanged; `.ai` editing-data follow-ups: gradient stops, type of objects with an appearance, short area-type frames (#1390, #1391, #1392); dialog keyboard focus on every open (#1382, #1395); art flush with an artboard (#1375); font rescan (#1376); symbol instance redraw cache (#1386); scores and hours unchanged; grid tool options, #1377 in part, scores unchanged; `.ai` placed (linked) files read from the editing data, #1264, scores unchanged; gradient shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; Live Corners widget click selects its corner, #1239; scores and hours unchanged; custom ruler origin, #1212; Artboard click-to-fit verified for objects, groups, visible bounds, undo and cancellation (#1227); scores and hours unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; Localization: Korean catalog added, 54% → 63%, full readiness unchanged at ~62%; desktop print transport adopts craft-print, Windows 7 fallback retained, scores unchanged; Image Trace: an image over 64 megapixels traces scaled down instead of being refused, scores unchanged; Czech render-site localization follow-up; scores and estimates unchanged; Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged; Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged; Path operations: Simplify preview/counts and component selection (#1272); scores unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 29/57; 28 filters remain; Platforms: RPM runtime capabilities and glibc floor (#1275); scores unchanged; Raster effects: squared-distance texture redraws (#1257); pixels unchanged; scores and hours unchanged; Drawing: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); scores unchanged; Type core: full-name font matching (#1258), scores and hours unchanged; Selection: no-op anchor Align preserves history and saved state (#1180 follow-up); scores unchanged; UI chrome: Eyedropper cursor and precise-setting regressions (#1269); scores unchanged; Colour: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); scores and hours unchanged; Selection: segment click/Delete preserves neighboring edges (#1278); scores unchanged; Colour: unpainted zero-width strokes regain 1 pt when painted (#1253); scores and hours unchanged; graphs: designs and markers, data, Graph Type and label options; UI chrome: native macOS save Format menu, #866, scores unchanged; compound paths inherit the backmost appearance and member fill-rule edits reach their owner, #1197; scores unchanged; Type core: Middle Eastern digit types done, Character panel menu › Digits; PDF export warns when the pixel cap lowers raster-effect resolution; Drawing tools: Live Corners round corners between curved sides, #1144; Type advanced: proportional vertical metrics (`vpal`) done, #966; Shape Builder: #893 fixed, merged regions of crossing lines no longer keep seams; scores unchanged while #937 is open; #1034: document-point character controls after object/group scaling; full readiness recomputed as the standard's additive weighted sum, ~62%; per-audience hours; essentials-user score ~75% added; ready-for-real-work re-examined: 50% → 55%, mainstream 65% added; earlier the same day: full re-measure against Illustrator 2026 30.x; merged the ROADMAP's parity estimate, honest assessment and "Shipped so far" into this file; SVG knockout groups of opaque art export without masks; Image Trace: colour presets no longer shatter noisy flat art and photos trace into smooth tones, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; Split Into Grid options, #1462; Transform Objects and Reflect across an angle, #1448 and #1460; Pathfinder panel on a group, #1450; unknown parameter keys refused, #1442; grayscale TIFFs with alpha, #1466 in part; scores and hours unchanged; Image Trace places edges to a fraction of a pixel in every mode, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; 3D and Materials: Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate added, 3D ~8% → ~25% (estimated), menu stubs 25 → 22; Affinity text frames too short for their first line show it, #1423; Transform dialogs preview, #1412, and the transform tools and commands act on direct-selected anchors, #1408; `.ai` compound path paint, #1410; strokes wider than their shape, #1396; corner drags hide the bounding box, #1229; scores and hours unchanged; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388, scores unchanged; `.ai` editing-data follow-ups: gradient stops, type of objects with an appearance, short area-type frames (#1390, #1391, #1392); dialog keyboard focus on every open (#1382, #1395); art flush with an artboard (#1375); font rescan (#1376); symbol instance redraw cache (#1386); scores and hours unchanged; grid tool options, #1377 in part, scores unchanged; `.ai` placed (linked) files read from the editing data, #1264, scores unchanged; gradient shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; Live Corners widget click selects its corner, #1239; scores and hours unchanged; custom ruler origin, #1212; Artboard click-to-fit verified for objects, groups, visible bounds, undo and cancellation (#1227); scores and hours unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; Localization: Korean catalog added, 54% → 63%, full readiness unchanged at ~62%; desktop print transport adopts craft-print, Windows 7 fallback retained, scores unchanged; Image Trace: an image over 64 megapixels traces scaled down instead of being refused, scores unchanged; Czech render-site localization follow-up; scores and estimates unchanged; Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged; Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged; Path operations: Simplify preview/counts and component selection (#1272); scores unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 29/57; 28 filters remain; Platforms: RPM runtime capabilities and glibc floor (#1275); scores unchanged; Raster effects: squared-distance texture redraws (#1257); pixels unchanged; scores and hours unchanged; Drawing: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); scores unchanged; Type core: full-name font matching (#1258), scores and hours unchanged; Selection: no-op anchor Align preserves history and saved state (#1180 follow-up); scores unchanged; UI chrome: Eyedropper cursor and precise-setting regressions (#1269); scores unchanged; Colour: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); scores and hours unchanged; Selection: segment click/Delete preserves neighboring edges (#1278); scores unchanged; Colour: unpainted zero-width strokes regain 1 pt when painted (#1253); scores and hours unchanged; graphs: designs and markers, data, Graph Type and label options; UI chrome: native macOS save Format menu, #866, scores unchanged; compound paths inherit the backmost appearance and member fill-rule edits reach their owner, #1197; scores unchanged; Type core: Middle Eastern digit types done, Character panel menu › Digits; PDF export warns when the pixel cap lowers raster-effect resolution; Drawing tools: Live Corners round corners between curved sides, #1144; Type advanced: proportional vertical metrics (`vpal`) done, #966; Shape Builder: #893 fixed, merged regions of crossing lines no longer keep seams; scores unchanged while #937 is open; #1034: document-point character controls after object/group scaling; full readiness recomputed as the standard's additive weighted sum, ~62%; per-audience hours; essentials-user score ~75% added; ready-for-real-work re-examined: 50% → 55%, mainstream 65% added; earlier the same day: full re-measure against Illustrator 2026 30.x; merged the ROADMAP's parity estimate, honest assessment and "Shipped so far" into this file; SVG knockout groups of opaque art export without masks; MCP `add_text` exposes the existing `vertical` option for point, area and path type; horizontal remains the default; scores and hours unchanged; Vertical fullwidth question and exclamation marks keep their nominal glyph upright when the font has no vertical alternate; scores and hours unchanged.; Curvature curve geometry, #1236 in part; Width-point finite-arithmetic follow-up validated; scores and hours unchanged; Image Trace adjustment discovery; File interop: legacy `.ai` of version 7 saved with type as text, hidden objects kept and an artboard picker, #868, scores unchanged; Revolve: automatic smooth shading and default-on Cap with continuous rims; PDF.R1: shared PDF reader with windowed content scanning and explicit incomplete-content errors; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF.W1: guarded shared PDF writer; output behavior, scores and estimates unchanged; later 2026-10-14 merges: anchor X/Y/W/H, #1824; Snap to Grid over Snap to Pixel, #1816; toolbar and All Tools, #1751; Actions panel selection, #1629 in part; redo during a drag, #1719; preferences written on OK, #1747; type in symbols after reopening, #1738; macOS save sheets, #1855, the Format menu withdrawn; stroke outlines shared, #1667; untrusted files, #1852, #1862–#1873; failed-save dialog, #1685; effects, #1864, Dim Images, #1683; duplicated rows of the 2026-10-05 table noted for the owner; scores unchanged; Image Trace: Shapes rework, stroke caps, enhanced presets, gradients over noise, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; verified PngSuite downloads, #1729; synthetic control-input budgets, #1709; 2026-10-14 merges: anchor Align and Distribute, #1636; Direct Selection and Delete fixes, #1674, #1666, #1743; Escape while typing, #1686; Pen clicks, #1663; Expand on repeats, #1756; Roughen and Scribble, #1643, #1648; file and input hardening, #1776–#1783, #1786, #1807; MCP limits and envelope, #1727, #1728; Image Trace levelling and Flat Logo on scans, #1647, #1657; scores unchanged; later 2026-10-13 merges: SVG import, #1565, #1596, #1568, #1598, #1601; type on a path from PDF and `.ai`, #1585, #1586; ICC tag alignment, #1584; saves, #1620 in part; Warp Arc, #1578; Zig Zag, #1558; Pathfinder strokes, #1570; OpenType features, #1607; intersect Smart Guides, #1602 in part; a guide's position in the Transform panel, #1597 in part, a convenience with no parity claim; scores unchanged; TIFF is available in Export for Screens and Asset Export with shared format settings; scores and hours unchanged; G1/M11: Artboard deletion and history selection normalization; history regressions and full workspace CI pass; scores and hours unchanged; Character styles retain explicit Auto leading, propagate resets and preserve local leading overrides; scores and hours unchanged; Width Point Edit: Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment; plain double-click keeps it off; scores and hours unchanged; Units › Identify Objects By (`identifyObjectsBy`) acts on Layers, Variables and Layer Options, #394, scores unchanged; Appearance of Black › Printing / Exporting (`blackOutput`) acts on RGB raster export and Print as Bitmap, #394, scores unchanged; per-corner radius fields with a link toggle, split from #1594; control transport deadlines, #1726; Color panel: the mode picked last comes back after a restart, #1675; Image Trace: shared edges, memory, thin lines, strokes, corners, and the Shapes, Auto Grouping and Gradients options, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; 2026-10-13 merges: Polish interface, #1498; compact native saves, #1492; PDF and EPS paste as vector art, #1499; import fixes for `.ai`, PDF, EPS and SVG, #1528, #1530, #1531, #1544, #1551, #1553; guide objects, #1534; Join after Average, #1533; Keyboard Shortcuts lists commands outside the menus, #1539; correction: Average and Join with a corner or smooth choice is missing; scores unchanged; late 2026-10-12 merges: type that does not fit its frame is reported, #1471; Tabs panel drags, #1458; template layers in Outline view, #1486; dialog slider rails, #1483; Direct Selection anchor precedence, #1508; print-size images, #1517; 3D on outlined type, #1481; French catalog, #1511; scores unchanged; Split Into Grid options, #1462; Transform Objects and Reflect across an angle, #1448 and #1460; Pathfinder panel on a group, #1450; unknown parameter keys refused, #1442; grayscale TIFFs with alpha, #1466 in part; Localization: Vietnamese catalog added, 63% → 71%, hours 60–100 → 55–90, full readiness unchanged at ~62%; scores and hours unchanged; Image Trace places edges to a fraction of a pixel in every mode, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; 3D and Materials: Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate added, 3D ~8% → ~25% (estimated), menu stubs 25 → 22; Affinity text frames too short for their first line show it, #1423; Transform dialogs preview, #1412, and the transform tools and commands act on direct-selected anchors, #1408; `.ai` compound path paint, #1410; strokes wider than their shape, #1396; corner drags hide the bounding box, #1229; scores and hours unchanged; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388, scores unchanged; `.ai` editing-data follow-ups: gradient stops, type of objects with an appearance, short area-type frames (#1390, #1391, #1392); dialog keyboard focus on every open (#1382, #1395); art flush with an artboard (#1375); font rescan (#1376); symbol instance redraw cache (#1386); scores and hours unchanged; grid tool options, #1377 in part, scores unchanged; `.ai` placed (linked) files read from the editing data, #1264, scores unchanged; gradient shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; Live Corners widget click selects its corner, #1239; scores and hours unchanged; custom ruler origin, #1212; Artboard click-to-fit verified for objects, groups, visible bounds, undo and cancellation (#1227); scores and hours unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; Localization: Korean catalog added, 54% → 63%, full readiness unchanged at ~62%; desktop print transport adopts craft-print, Windows 7 fallback retained, scores unchanged; Image Trace: an image over 64 megapixels traces scaled down instead of being refused, scores unchanged; Czech render-site localization follow-up; scores and estimates unchanged; Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged; Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged; Path operations: Simplify preview/counts and component selection (#1272); scores unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 29/57; 28 filters remain; Platforms: RPM runtime capabilities and glibc floor (#1275); scores unchanged; Raster effects: squared-distance texture redraws (#1257); pixels unchanged; scores and hours unchanged; Drawing: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); scores unchanged; Type core: full-name font matching (#1258), scores and hours unchanged; Selection: no-op anchor Align preserves history and saved state (#1180 follow-up); scores unchanged; UI chrome: Eyedropper cursor and precise-setting regressions (#1269); scores unchanged; Colour: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); scores and hours unchanged; Selection: segment click/Delete preserves neighboring edges (#1278); scores unchanged; Colour: unpainted zero-width strokes regain 1 pt when painted (#1253); scores and hours unchanged; graphs: designs and markers, data, Graph Type and label options; UI chrome: native macOS save Format menu, #866, scores unchanged; compound paths inherit the backmost appearance and member fill-rule edits reach their owner, #1197; scores unchanged; Type core: Middle Eastern digit types done, Character panel menu › Digits; PDF export warns when the pixel cap lowers raster-effect resolution; Drawing tools: Live Corners round corners between curved sides, #1144; Type advanced: proportional vertical metrics (`vpal`) done, #966; Shape Builder: #893 fixed, merged regions of crossing lines no longer keep seams; scores unchanged while #937 is open; #1034: document-point character controls after object/group scaling; full readiness recomputed as the standard's additive weighted sum, ~62%; per-audience hours; essentials-user score ~75% added; ready-for-real-work re-examined: 50% → 55%, mainstream 65% added; earlier the same day: full re-measure against Illustrator 2026 30.x; merged the ROADMAP's parity estimate, honest assessment and "Shipped so far" into this file; SVG knockout groups of opaque art export without masks; Image Trace: colour presets no longer shatter noisy flat art and photos trace into smooth tones, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; Split Into Grid options, #1462; Transform Objects and Reflect across an angle, #1448 and #1460; Pathfinder panel on a group, #1450; unknown parameter keys refused, #1442; grayscale TIFFs with alpha, #1466 in part; scores and hours unchanged; Image Trace places edges to a fraction of a pixel in every mode, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; 3D and Materials: Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate added, 3D ~8% → ~25% (estimated), menu stubs 25 → 22; Affinity text frames too short for their first line show it, #1423; Transform dialogs preview, #1412, and the transform tools and commands act on direct-selected anchors, #1408; `.ai` compound path paint, #1410; strokes wider than their shape, #1396; corner drags hide the bounding box, #1229; scores and hours unchanged; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388, scores unchanged; `.ai` editing-data follow-ups: gradient stops, type of objects with an appearance, short area-type frames (#1390, #1391, #1392); dialog keyboard focus on every open (#1382, #1395); art flush with an artboard (#1375); font rescan (#1376); symbol instance redraw cache (#1386); scores and hours unchanged; grid tool options, #1377 in part, scores unchanged; `.ai` placed (linked) files read from the editing data, #1264, scores unchanged; gradient shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; Live Corners widget click selects its corner, #1239; scores and hours unchanged; custom ruler origin, #1212; Artboard click-to-fit verified for objects, groups, visible bounds, undo and cancellation (#1227); scores and hours unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; Localization: Korean catalog added, 54% → 63%, full readiness unchanged at ~62%; desktop print transport adopts craft-print, Windows 7 fallback retained, scores unchanged; Image Trace: an image over 64 megapixels traces scaled down instead of being refused, scores unchanged; Czech render-site localization follow-up; scores and estimates unchanged; Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged; Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged; Path operations: Simplify preview/counts and component selection (#1272); scores unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 29/57; 28 filters remain; Platforms: RPM runtime capabilities and glibc floor (#1275); scores unchanged; Raster effects: squared-distance texture redraws (#1257); pixels unchanged; scores and hours unchanged; Drawing: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); scores unchanged; Type core: full-name font matching (#1258), scores and hours unchanged; Selection: no-op anchor Align preserves history and saved state (#1180 follow-up); scores unchanged; UI chrome: Eyedropper cursor and precise-setting regressions (#1269); scores unchanged; Colour: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); scores and hours unchanged; Selection: segment click/Delete preserves neighboring edges (#1278); scores unchanged; Colour: unpainted zero-width strokes regain 1 pt when painted (#1253); scores and hours unchanged; graphs: designs and markers, data, Graph Type and label options; UI chrome: native macOS save Format menu, #866, scores unchanged; compound paths inherit the backmost appearance and member fill-rule edits reach their owner, #1197; scores unchanged; Type core: Middle Eastern digit types done, Character panel menu › Digits; PDF export warns when the pixel cap lowers raster-effect resolution; Drawing tools: Live Corners round corners between curved sides, #1144; Type advanced: proportional vertical metrics (`vpal`) done, #966; Shape Builder: #893 fixed, merged regions of crossing lines no longer keep seams; scores unchanged while #937 is open; #1034: document-point character controls after object/group scaling; full readiness recomputed as the standard's additive weighted sum, ~62%; per-audience hours; essentials-user score ~75% added; ready-for-real-work re-examined: 50% → 55%, mainstream 65% added; earlier the same day: full re-measure against Illustrator 2026 30.x; merged the ROADMAP's parity estimate, honest assessment and "Shipped so far" into this file; SVG knockout groups of opaque art export without masks) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; public release notes through 30.7, August 2026)
 > **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-19 · **Change:** minor (a drag over art whose effects reach past the view, such as a wide blur, draws them from the still frame's raster, #2558; interactive Mirror Repeat axis; bounding-box handles take priority over the axis body while the center and end handles retain their move and rotation actions; 3D lighting: one to ten colored lights, smooth colored Inflate, legacy white-light appearance preserved; surface batching and restored seam minimum; scores and estimates unchanged; Blend spine Anchor Point conversions, selection/stacking priority and Shift regression coverage (#2544); scores and hours unchanged; Artboard Options' X and Y with a reference point, #1876; Image Trace: Auto Color keeps rare but distinct colours; Image Trace: large images trace with a warning; anchor limit raised to 8,000,000; Image Trace: Raster::new returns an error for a buffer of the wrong length; M12 maximal-disc graph pruning and junction merging measured; M12 crop EDT and Guo–Hall thinning measured; M12 centre-lines baseline measured; scores and hours unchanged; installed plug-ins stay installed after a restart, #2541; Group Selection picks and moves one path of a compound path, #2441 in part; the Move dialog opens on the last move and its last checkboxes; Image Trace: a higher Paths never gives fewer segments on collapsed loops; Image Trace: the notch rule reads only its own piece; Image Trace: an edge's sub-pixel shift is the same from either side; Image Trace Flat Logo traces line art on white paper instead of a blank result; score and hours unchanged; Image Trace: a simpler contour walk with no precomputed direction table; transparency grid visibility saved in native documents, #1968; MCP cancellation, progress and busy answers during long exports, #2165, #2171, #2172; EPS editing data: legacy mesh corners, vector opacity masks and compound member paint retained; raster page comparison filters minification without relaxing limits; scores and hours unchanged; native family-name fallback from English-only typographic names, #2208; scores unchanged; batch exporting, #1935; G2: Effect › Sketch › Halftone Pattern; Photoshop filters 30/57, 27 remaining (22–38 h); G5: Symbol Options Export Type (Graphic / Movie Clip); Localization: Brazilian Portuguese complete under the tests, #1914, 71% → 74%; G6 image variables: Automation ~60% → ~62% / detail ~65% → ~68%, hours lowered; Warp Options controls verified by focused checks and original-image review; estimates unchanged; G11: Asset Export Art Optimized seam (#983 / #1037) and supersampled thumbs; Export for Screens 85% → 90%; existing-guide Escape cancellation validated 2026-10-14; scores and hours unchanged; open-path anchor Delete keeps surviving runs separate; estimates unchanged; PDF.R1: shared PDF reader with windowed content scanning and explicit incomplete-content errors; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF.W1: guarded shared PDF writer; output behavior, scores and estimates unchanged; Artboard tab-switch follow-up historically validated on `a0671777`; scores and hours unchanged; Artboard clean active-tab close/Delete follow-up validated 2026-10-15; later 2026-10-14 merges: anchor X/Y/W/H, #1824; Snap to Grid over Snap to Pixel, #1816; toolbar and All Tools, #1751; Actions panel selection, #1629 in part; redo during a drag, #1719; preferences written on OK, #1747; type in symbols after reopening, #1738; macOS save sheets, #1855, the Format menu withdrawn; stroke outlines shared, #1667; untrusted files, #1852, #1862–#1873; failed-save dialog, #1685; effects, #1864, Dim Images, #1683; duplicated rows of the 2026-10-05 table noted for the owner; scores unchanged; Image Trace: Shapes rework, stroke caps, enhanced presets, gradients over noise, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; verified PngSuite downloads, #1729; synthetic control-input budgets, #1709; 2026-10-14 merges: anchor Align and Distribute, #1636; Direct Selection and Delete fixes, #1674, #1666, #1743; Escape while typing, #1686; Pen clicks, #1663; Expand on repeats, #1756; Roughen and Scribble, #1643, #1648; file and input hardening, #1776–#1783, #1786, #1807; MCP limits and envelope, #1727, #1728; Image Trace levelling and Flat Logo on scans, #1647, #1657; scores unchanged; later 2026-10-13 merges: SVG import, #1565, #1596, #1568, #1598, #1601; type on a path from PDF and `.ai`, #1585, #1586; ICC tag alignment, #1584; saves, #1620 in part; Warp Arc, #1578; Zig Zag, #1558; Pathfinder strokes, #1570; OpenType features, #1607; intersect Smart Guides, #1602 in part; a guide's position in the Transform panel, #1597 in part, a convenience with no parity claim; scores unchanged; TIFF is available in Export for Screens and Asset Export with shared format settings; scores and hours unchanged; G1/M11: Artboard deletion and history selection normalization; history regressions and full workspace CI pass; scores and hours unchanged; Character styles retain explicit Auto leading, propagate resets and preserve local leading overrides; scores and hours unchanged; Width Point Edit: Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment; plain double-click keeps it off; scores and hours unchanged; Units › Identify Objects By (`identifyObjectsBy`) acts on Layers, Variables and Layer Options, #394, scores unchanged; Appearance of Black › Printing / Exporting (`blackOutput`) acts on RGB raster export and Print as Bitmap, #394, scores unchanged; per-corner radius fields with a link toggle, split from #1594; control transport deadlines, #1726; Color panel: the mode picked last comes back after a restart, #1675; Image Trace: shared edges, memory, thin lines, strokes, corners, and the Shapes, Auto Grouping and Gradients options, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; 2026-10-13 merges: Polish interface, #1498; compact native saves, #1492; PDF and EPS paste as vector art, #1499; import fixes for `.ai`, PDF, EPS and SVG, #1528, #1530, #1531, #1544, #1551, #1553; guide objects, #1534; Join after Average, #1533; Keyboard Shortcuts lists commands outside the menus, #1539; correction: Average and Join with a corner or smooth choice is missing; scores unchanged; late 2026-10-12 merges: type that does not fit its frame is reported, #1471; Tabs panel drags, #1458; template layers in Outline view, #1486; dialog slider rails, #1483; Direct Selection anchor precedence, #1508; print-size images, #1517; 3D on outlined type, #1481; French catalog, #1511; scores unchanged; Split Into Grid options, #1462; Transform Objects and Reflect across an angle, #1448 and #1460; Pathfinder panel on a group, #1450; unknown parameter keys refused, #1442; grayscale TIFFs with alpha, #1466 in part; Localization: Vietnamese catalog added, 63% → 71%, hours 60–100 → 55–90, full readiness unchanged at ~62%; scores and hours unchanged; Image Trace places edges to a fraction of a pixel in every mode, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; 3D and Materials: Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate added, 3D ~8% → ~25% (estimated), menu stubs 25 → 22; Affinity text frames too short for their first line show it, #1423; Transform dialogs preview, #1412, and the transform tools and commands act on direct-selected anchors, #1408; `.ai` compound path paint, #1410; strokes wider than their shape, #1396; corner drags hide the bounding box, #1229; scores and hours unchanged; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388, scores unchanged; `.ai` editing-data follow-ups: gradient stops, type of objects with an appearance, short area-type frames (#1390, #1391, #1392); dialog keyboard focus on every open (#1382, #1395); art flush with an artboard (#1375); font rescan (#1376); symbol instance redraw cache (#1386); scores and hours unchanged; grid tool options, #1377 in part, scores unchanged; `.ai` placed (linked) files read from the editing data, #1264, scores unchanged; gradient shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; Live Corners widget click selects its corner, #1239; scores and hours unchanged; custom ruler origin, #1212; Artboard click-to-fit verified for objects, groups, visible bounds, undo and cancellation (#1227); scores and hours unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; Localization: Korean catalog added, 54% → 63%, full readiness unchanged at ~62%; desktop print transport adopts craft-print, Windows 7 fallback retained, scores unchanged; Image Trace: an image over 64 megapixels traces scaled down instead of being refused, scores unchanged; Czech render-site localization follow-up; scores and estimates unchanged; Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged; Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged; Path operations: Simplify preview/counts and component selection (#1272); scores unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 29/57; 28 filters remain; Platforms: RPM runtime capabilities and glibc floor (#1275); scores unchanged; Raster effects: squared-distance texture redraws (#1257); pixels unchanged; scores and hours unchanged; Drawing: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); scores unchanged; Type core: full-name font matching (#1258), scores and hours unchanged; Selection: no-op anchor Align preserves history and saved state (#1180 follow-up); scores unchanged; UI chrome: Eyedropper cursor and precise-setting regressions (#1269); scores unchanged; Colour: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); scores and hours unchanged; Selection: segment click/Delete preserves neighboring edges (#1278); scores unchanged; Colour: unpainted zero-width strokes regain 1 pt when painted (#1253); scores and hours unchanged; graphs: designs and markers, data, Graph Type and label options; UI chrome: native macOS save Format menu, #866, scores unchanged; compound paths inherit the backmost appearance and member fill-rule edits reach their owner, #1197; scores unchanged; Type core: Middle Eastern digit types done, Character panel menu › Digits; PDF export warns when the pixel cap lowers raster-effect resolution; Drawing tools: Live Corners round corners between curved sides, #1144; Type advanced: proportional vertical metrics (`vpal`) done, #966; Shape Builder: #893 fixed, merged regions of crossing lines no longer keep seams; scores unchanged while #937 is open; #1034: document-point character controls after object/group scaling; full readiness recomputed as the standard's additive weighted sum, ~62%; per-audience hours; essentials-user score ~75% added; ready-for-real-work re-examined: 50% → 55%, mainstream 65% added; earlier the same day: full re-measure against Illustrator 2026 30.x; merged the ROADMAP's parity estimate, honest assessment and "Shipped so far" into this file; SVG knockout groups of opaque art export without masks; Image Trace: colour presets no longer shatter noisy flat art and photos trace into smooth tones, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; Split Into Grid options, #1462; Transform Objects and Reflect across an angle, #1448 and #1460; Pathfinder panel on a group, #1450; unknown parameter keys refused, #1442; grayscale TIFFs with alpha, #1466 in part; scores and hours unchanged; Image Trace places edges to a fraction of a pixel in every mode, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; 3D and Materials: Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate added, 3D ~8% → ~25% (estimated), menu stubs 25 → 22; Affinity text frames too short for their first line show it, #1423; Transform dialogs preview, #1412, and the transform tools and commands act on direct-selected anchors, #1408; `.ai` compound path paint, #1410; strokes wider than their shape, #1396; corner drags hide the bounding box, #1229; scores and hours unchanged; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388, scores unchanged; `.ai` editing-data follow-ups: gradient stops, type of objects with an appearance, short area-type frames (#1390, #1391, #1392); dialog keyboard focus on every open (#1382, #1395); art flush with an artboard (#1375); font rescan (#1376); symbol instance redraw cache (#1386); scores and hours unchanged; grid tool options, #1377 in part, scores unchanged; `.ai` placed (linked) files read from the editing data, #1264, scores unchanged; gradient shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; Live Corners widget click selects its corner, #1239; scores and hours unchanged; custom ruler origin, #1212; Artboard click-to-fit verified for objects, groups, visible bounds, undo and cancellation (#1227); scores and hours unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; Localization: Korean catalog added, 54% → 63%, full readiness unchanged at ~62%; desktop print transport adopts craft-print, Windows 7 fallback retained, scores unchanged; Image Trace: an image over 64 megapixels traces scaled down instead of being refused, scores unchanged; Czech render-site localization follow-up; scores and estimates unchanged; Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged; Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged; Path operations: Simplify preview/counts and component selection (#1272); scores unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 29/57; 28 filters remain; Platforms: RPM runtime capabilities and glibc floor (#1275); scores unchanged; Raster effects: squared-distance texture redraws (#1257); pixels unchanged; scores and hours unchanged; Drawing: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); scores unchanged; Type core: full-name font matching (#1258), scores and hours unchanged; Selection: no-op anchor Align preserves history and saved state (#1180 follow-up); scores unchanged; UI chrome: Eyedropper cursor and precise-setting regressions (#1269); scores unchanged; Colour: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); scores and hours unchanged; Selection: segment click/Delete preserves neighboring edges (#1278); scores unchanged; Colour: unpainted zero-width strokes regain 1 pt when painted (#1253); scores and hours unchanged; graphs: designs and markers, data, Graph Type and label options; UI chrome: native macOS save Format menu, #866, scores unchanged; compound paths inherit the backmost appearance and member fill-rule edits reach their owner, #1197; scores unchanged; Type core: Middle Eastern digit types done, Character panel menu › Digits; PDF export warns when the pixel cap lowers raster-effect resolution; Drawing tools: Live Corners round corners between curved sides, #1144; Type advanced: proportional vertical metrics (`vpal`) done, #966; Shape Builder: #893 fixed, merged regions of crossing lines no longer keep seams; scores unchanged while #937 is open; #1034: document-point character controls after object/group scaling; full readiness recomputed as the standard's additive weighted sum, ~62%; per-audience hours; essentials-user score ~75% added; ready-for-real-work re-examined: 50% → 55%, mainstream 65% added; earlier the same day: full re-measure against Illustrator 2026 30.x; merged the ROADMAP's parity estimate, honest assessment and "Shipped so far" into this file; SVG knockout groups of opaque art export without masks; MCP `add_text` exposes the existing `vertical` option for point, area and path type; horizontal remains the default; scores and hours unchanged; Vertical fullwidth question and exclamation marks keep their nominal glyph upright when the font has no vertical alternate; scores and hours unchanged.; Curvature curve geometry, #1236 in part; Width-point finite-arithmetic follow-up validated; scores and hours unchanged; Image Trace adjustment discovery; File interop: legacy `.ai` of version 7 saved with type as text, hidden objects kept and an artboard picker, #868, scores unchanged; Revolve: automatic smooth shading and default-on Cap with continuous rims; PDF.R1: shared PDF reader with windowed content scanning and explicit incomplete-content errors; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF.W1: guarded shared PDF writer; output behavior, scores and estimates unchanged; later 2026-10-14 merges: anchor X/Y/W/H, #1824; Snap to Grid over Snap to Pixel, #1816; toolbar and All Tools, #1751; Actions panel selection, #1629 in part; redo during a drag, #1719; preferences written on OK, #1747; type in symbols after reopening, #1738; macOS save sheets, #1855, the Format menu withdrawn; stroke outlines shared, #1667; untrusted files, #1852, #1862–#1873; failed-save dialog, #1685; effects, #1864, Dim Images, #1683; duplicated rows of the 2026-10-05 table noted for the owner; scores unchanged; Image Trace: Shapes rework, stroke caps, enhanced presets, gradients over noise, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; verified PngSuite downloads, #1729; synthetic control-input budgets, #1709; 2026-10-14 merges: anchor Align and Distribute, #1636; Direct Selection and Delete fixes, #1674, #1666, #1743; Escape while typing, #1686; Pen clicks, #1663; Expand on repeats, #1756; Roughen and Scribble, #1643, #1648; file and input hardening, #1776–#1783, #1786, #1807; MCP limits and envelope, #1727, #1728; Image Trace levelling and Flat Logo on scans, #1647, #1657; scores unchanged; later 2026-10-13 merges: SVG import, #1565, #1596, #1568, #1598, #1601; type on a path from PDF and `.ai`, #1585, #1586; ICC tag alignment, #1584; saves, #1620 in part; Warp Arc, #1578; Zig Zag, #1558; Pathfinder strokes, #1570; OpenType features, #1607; intersect Smart Guides, #1602 in part; a guide's position in the Transform panel, #1597 in part, a convenience with no parity claim; scores unchanged; TIFF is available in Export for Screens and Asset Export with shared format settings; scores and hours unchanged; G1/M11: Artboard deletion and history selection normalization; history regressions and full workspace CI pass; scores and hours unchanged; Character styles retain explicit Auto leading, propagate resets and preserve local leading overrides; scores and hours unchanged; Width Point Edit: Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment; plain double-click keeps it off; scores and hours unchanged; Units › Identify Objects By (`identifyObjectsBy`) acts on Layers, Variables and Layer Options, #394, scores unchanged; Appearance of Black › Printing / Exporting (`blackOutput`) acts on RGB raster export and Print as Bitmap, #394, scores unchanged; per-corner radius fields with a link toggle, split from #1594; control transport deadlines, #1726; Color panel: the mode picked last comes back after a restart, #1675; Image Trace: shared edges, memory, thin lines, strokes, corners, and the Shapes, Auto Grouping and Gradients options, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; 2026-10-13 merges: Polish interface, #1498; compact native saves, #1492; PDF and EPS paste as vector art, #1499; import fixes for `.ai`, PDF, EPS and SVG, #1528, #1530, #1531, #1544, #1551, #1553; guide objects, #1534; Join after Average, #1533; Keyboard Shortcuts lists commands outside the menus, #1539; correction: Average and Join with a corner or smooth choice is missing; scores unchanged; late 2026-10-12 merges: type that does not fit its frame is reported, #1471; Tabs panel drags, #1458; template layers in Outline view, #1486; dialog slider rails, #1483; Direct Selection anchor precedence, #1508; print-size images, #1517; 3D on outlined type, #1481; French catalog, #1511; scores unchanged; Split Into Grid options, #1462; Transform Objects and Reflect across an angle, #1448 and #1460; Pathfinder panel on a group, #1450; unknown parameter keys refused, #1442; grayscale TIFFs with alpha, #1466 in part; Localization: Vietnamese catalog added, 63% → 71%, hours 60–100 → 55–90, full readiness unchanged at ~62%; scores and hours unchanged; Image Trace places edges to a fraction of a pixel in every mode, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; 3D and Materials: Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate added, 3D ~8% → ~25% (estimated), menu stubs 25 → 22; Affinity text frames too short for their first line show it, #1423; Transform dialogs preview, #1412, and the transform tools and commands act on direct-selected anchors, #1408; `.ai` compound path paint, #1410; strokes wider than their shape, #1396; corner drags hide the bounding box, #1229; scores and hours unchanged; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388, scores unchanged; `.ai` editing-data follow-ups: gradient stops, type of objects with an appearance, short area-type frames (#1390, #1391, #1392); dialog keyboard focus on every open (#1382, #1395); art flush with an artboard (#1375); font rescan (#1376); symbol instance redraw cache (#1386); scores and hours unchanged; grid tool options, #1377 in part, scores unchanged; `.ai` placed (linked) files read from the editing data, #1264, scores unchanged; gradient shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; Live Corners widget click selects its corner, #1239; scores and hours unchanged; custom ruler origin, #1212; Artboard click-to-fit verified for objects, groups, visible bounds, undo and cancellation (#1227); scores and hours unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; Localization: Korean catalog added, 54% → 63%, full readiness unchanged at ~62%; desktop print transport adopts craft-print, Windows 7 fallback retained, scores unchanged; Image Trace: an image over 64 megapixels traces scaled down instead of being refused, scores unchanged; Czech render-site localization follow-up; scores and estimates unchanged; Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged; Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged; Path operations: Simplify preview/counts and component selection (#1272); scores unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 29/57; 28 filters remain; Platforms: RPM runtime capabilities and glibc floor (#1275); scores unchanged; Raster effects: squared-distance texture redraws (#1257); pixels unchanged; scores and hours unchanged; Drawing: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); scores unchanged; Type core: full-name font matching (#1258), scores and hours unchanged; Selection: no-op anchor Align preserves history and saved state (#1180 follow-up); scores unchanged; UI chrome: Eyedropper cursor and precise-setting regressions (#1269); scores unchanged; Colour: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); scores and hours unchanged; Selection: segment click/Delete preserves neighboring edges (#1278); scores unchanged; Colour: unpainted zero-width strokes regain 1 pt when painted (#1253); scores and hours unchanged; graphs: designs and markers, data, Graph Type and label options; UI chrome: native macOS save Format menu, #866, scores unchanged; compound paths inherit the backmost appearance and member fill-rule edits reach their owner, #1197; scores unchanged; Type core: Middle Eastern digit types done, Character panel menu › Digits; PDF export warns when the pixel cap lowers raster-effect resolution; Drawing tools: Live Corners round corners between curved sides, #1144; Type advanced: proportional vertical metrics (`vpal`) done, #966; Shape Builder: #893 fixed, merged regions of crossing lines no longer keep seams; scores unchanged while #937 is open; #1034: document-point character controls after object/group scaling; full readiness recomputed as the standard's additive weighted sum, ~62%; per-audience hours; essentials-user score ~75% added; ready-for-real-work re-examined: 50% → 55%, mainstream 65% added; earlier the same day: full re-measure against Illustrator 2026 30.x; merged the ROADMAP's parity estimate, honest assessment and "Shipped so far" into this file; SVG knockout groups of opaque art export without masks; Image Trace: colour presets no longer shatter noisy flat art and photos trace into smooth tones, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; Split Into Grid options, #1462; Transform Objects and Reflect across an angle, #1448 and #1460; Pathfinder panel on a group, #1450; unknown parameter keys refused, #1442; grayscale TIFFs with alpha, #1466 in part; scores and hours unchanged; Image Trace places edges to a fraction of a pixel in every mode, measured in `image-trace-quality.md`, score unchanged; 3D and Materials: Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate added, 3D ~8% → ~25% (estimated), menu stubs 25 → 22; Affinity text frames too short for their first line show it, #1423; Transform dialogs preview, #1412, and the transform tools and commands act on direct-selected anchors, #1408; `.ai` compound path paint, #1410; strokes wider than their shape, #1396; corner drags hide the bounding box, #1229; scores and hours unchanged; PDF and `.ai` import keep overprint, #1388, scores unchanged; `.ai` editing-data follow-ups: gradient stops, type of objects with an appearance, short area-type frames (#1390, #1391, #1392); dialog keyboard focus on every open (#1382, #1395); art flush with an artboard (#1375); font rescan (#1376); symbol instance redraw cache (#1386); scores and hours unchanged; grid tool options, #1377 in part, scores unchanged; `.ai` placed (linked) files read from the editing data, #1264, scores unchanged; gradient shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; Live Corners widget click selects its corner, #1239; scores and hours unchanged; custom ruler origin, #1212; Artboard click-to-fit verified for objects, groups, visible bounds, undo and cancellation (#1227); scores and hours unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; Localization: Korean catalog added, 54% → 63%, full readiness unchanged at ~62%; desktop print transport adopts craft-print, Windows 7 fallback retained, scores unchanged; Image Trace: an image over 64 megapixels traces scaled down instead of being refused, scores unchanged; Czech render-site localization follow-up; scores and estimates unchanged; Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged; Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged; Path operations: Simplify preview/counts and component selection (#1272); scores unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 29/57; 28 filters remain; Platforms: RPM runtime capabilities and glibc floor (#1275); scores unchanged; Raster effects: squared-distance texture redraws (#1257); pixels unchanged; scores and hours unchanged; Drawing: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); scores unchanged; Type core: full-name font matching (#1258), scores and hours unchanged; Selection: no-op anchor Align preserves history and saved state (#1180 follow-up); scores unchanged; UI chrome: Eyedropper cursor and precise-setting regressions (#1269); scores unchanged; Colour: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); scores and hours unchanged; Selection: segment click/Delete preserves neighboring edges (#1278); scores unchanged; Colour: unpainted zero-width strokes regain 1 pt when painted (#1253); scores and hours unchanged; graphs: designs and markers, data, Graph Type and label options; UI chrome: native macOS save Format menu, #866, scores unchanged; compound paths inherit the backmost appearance and member fill-rule edits reach their owner, #1197; scores unchanged; Type core: Middle Eastern digit types done, Character panel menu › Digits; PDF export warns when the pixel cap lowers raster-effect resolution; Drawing tools: Live Corners round corners between curved sides, #1144; Type advanced: proportional vertical metrics (`vpal`) done, #966; Shape Builder: #893 fixed, merged regions of crossing lines no longer keep seams; scores unchanged while #937 is open; #1034: document-point character controls after object/group scaling; full readiness recomputed as the standard's additive weighted sum, ~62%; per-audience hours; essentials-user score ~75% added; ready-for-real-work re-examined: 50% → 55%, mainstream 65% added; earlier the same day: full re-measure against Illustrator 2026 30.x; merged the ROADMAP's parity estimate, honest assessment and "Shipped so far" into this file; SVG knockout groups of opaque art export without masks) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; public release notes through 30.7, August 2026)
 
 The authoritative parity assessment. [`ROADMAP.md`](../ROADMAP.md) summarizes it; [`gaps.md`](gaps.md) is
@@ -707,6 +707,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
   A font family removed while the app runs leaves the font menus when the app scans the font folders again (when its window comes to the front after a font folder changed, or Refresh Font List), also when type had used it: that type then draws in the fallback font and Find Font lists the font as missing, until the font is installed again and the folders are scanned.
 - **Files (M4):**
   - PDF export and print composition use the optional shared guarded writer ([pdf-backend.md](pdf-backend.md)); app drawing and output policy and desktop printer submission remain in their existing layers. The shared reader keeps the app-owned import adapter; synthetic tests cover layer and overprint state across windows, long operands, inline images, failed decoding, document limits and incomplete tails. Empty and populated metadata key presence is regression-tested, and CI checks the immutable backend source.
+    Invisible text in a PDF (rendering mode 3, which carries a scanned page's recognized text over the scan) opens as type with no fill or stroke, a run of its own beside visible text on the same line; text that can't come in as type (opened as outlines, Type 3 fonts) is left out with a warning. PDF export, and printing, write characters with no fill or stroke as real text in rendering mode 3, so they draw nothing but stay selectable and searchable, also in PDF/X-1a and PDF/A-2b (#2675, `pdf/src/tests_import_fidelity.rs`, `pdf/src/tests_realtext.rs`).
     A PDF, or a `.ai` read through its PDF part, whose spot inks have the same values but different names opens with a spot swatch for each ink. The solid fills and strokes of paths and type, and the stops of gradients on paths, link to the swatch of the ink they are painted in, the points of a gradient mesh in one of these inks keep the ink's color, and PDF export writes each of these inks as its own separation (`pdf/src/tests_import_color.rs`). Paint in these inks inside pattern cells, soft masks and type 3 glyphs, and gradients on type in these inks, still import as RGB. Type in one of these inks can also import as RGB when type in another Separation or DeviceN ink is shown with no path drawn between them.
   - `.vectorcraft` (lossless JSON, compressed, atomic saves, save down to v1), Save As with a format chooser, Save a Copy, Revert, templates, Data Recovery after a crash (browser tabs hold their copies with Web Locks too, so a background tab's copies are never taken for a crash's, and a tab repairs copies another removed when it resumes: #367), background save and export. The desktop app writes its warnings and errors (graphics adapter, a lost graphics device, panics the guard recovered from) to standard error and to `logs/vectorcraft.log` next to the preferences, the two previous runs kept and each file capped at 16 MiB, so a launch without a terminal still leaves something to attach to a bug report (#465). Native documents with a lot of path data (traced or generated art, in layers, symbols or patterns) are saved as compact JSON, about a fifth of the size; small documents stay pretty-printed (#1492). Saving to a network drive on macOS falls back to a plain fsync when the share refuses a full flush (#1625, part of #1620; not confirmed on a real share), and a save still succeeds when a folder refuses the temporary file, the rename over the document or copying permissions: the content is written elsewhere first and copied in, and a failed copy keeps the temporary file and names it (#1649, part of #1620). A document opened by a relative path finds its relatively linked images, and `vectorcraft-cli convert` lists what reading the input left out as `importWarnings` (#1606, fixes #1604).
     A name typed in the desktop save panel without the file type's extension gets it, and when a file of that name exists, which the panel did not ask about, Save, Save As, Save a Copy, Save as Template, the exports and every other write through a save panel ask before replacing it (dialog `replaceFile`; Cancel writes nothing).
@@ -845,6 +846,7 @@ Evidence for the shared light Color: geometry tests in `tests_lighting`, effect
 | 2026-10-19 | minor | Cached canvas dimensions match the renderer limit before cache-key creation, view construction and worker submission. Regression coverage; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-19 | minor | Cached canvas reprojection preserves scale during resize, rotation and DPI changes. Contributor original-file acceptance confirmed; scores and estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-18 | minor | PDF Place and clipboard paste use Open's live-text choice instead of forcing outlines; synthetic regressions cover page selection and explicit outlines. Scores and hours unchanged. |
+| 2026-10-18 | minor | File formats: PDF invisible text (rendering mode 3, a scanned page's recognized text) opens as type with no fill or stroke instead of being dropped without a warning, and characters with no fill or stroke export as invisible text, so a scanned PDF opened and saved keeps its searchable text (#2675); own-fixture tests; scores and hours unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-19 | minor | Effect rasters cropped to the view or made coarser are kept while the view stays the same: a drag over a 500 pt blur draws it from the still frame on this thread and on the worker, and an interaction stays on the worker that drew the frame shown (#2558). Scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-19 | minor | Color Picker layout (#2008): compact controls, centered header, stacked actions and aligned inputs; screen-reader channel values, current shared button names and styling, screen sampler and model-by-model Tab order retained. Narrow windows scroll vertically; scores and hours unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-18 | minor | Mirror Repeat shows its axis when selected (#2877): drag the line or center handle to move it, drag an end handle to rotate it (Shift: 45°), Escape cancels and each drag is one undo step. Engine and headless canvas gesture regressions passed; native move, rotation and Escape screenshots reviewed. Formatting, Clippy, WASM and repository checks passed; the undo label reuses translated Repeat Options. (#2877) Scores and hours unchanged. |