Legacy .ai: docs say when the rotated-type warning shows, and record the change

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

docs/mcp.md

@@ -844,7 +844,7 @@ of `range` (default all; `{name}-{artboard}.ai` when several, listed in the resu
 `transparentImages: "flatten"` (default) or `"omit"` for images with see-through pixels, opacity or a blending mode,
 `hiddenObjects: "layer"` (default: a hidden layer of each layer's hidden objects), `"omit"` or `"visible"`, and
 `outlineText: true` to write type as outlines instead of text objects. Type with rotated characters (Character
-Rotation) is always written as outlines, which keep the rotation, with the warning "type with rotated characters is
+Rotation) is always written as outlines, which keep the rotation; without `outlineText: true` this gives the warning "type with rotated characters is
 written as outlines, which keep the rotation, and is no longer editable text (legacy .ai text can't rotate
 characters)". An image that can't be decoded is left out of
 the file and does not show in art that is flattened or whose raster effects are expanded; `warnings` carries "an image

docs/target-app-parity.md

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ Artboard Options forwards the active Artboard tool's Scale Artwork with Artboard
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-02 | minor | Legacy `.ai` saves (version 7) write type with rotated characters as outlines that keep each character's rotation, with a warning unless `outlineText` is on (#5186); scores unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | Object › Path › Smooth smooths a path along its length before refitting it, so Auto-Smooth takes a shaky line to one smooth curve instead of leaving its jags, and with anchor points direct-selected it smooths only that section; scores unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | New Document: More Settings has the Save Preset button beside the name too, saving its settings (artboard layout included) as a preset (#4893); scores unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-31 | minor | Object › Rasterize in a CMYK document with its CMYK colour model makes a CMYK image of the art's ink amounts (as CMYK exports draw them), so the Properties panel says CMYK and CMYK exports keep its inks; a transparent background becomes the image's opacity mask (#4882); scores unchanged. |
@@ -1064,7 +1065,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
     A `.ai` or EPS opened from its editing data whose text document makes the type of every text object that shows takes all its type from the text document: each text object stays in its own group, frame and layer, the page's type isn't matched with them, a file of more than 5,000 text objects still opens with its layers, and type the page draws differently (in another font) keeps the layers, with a warning. A line break inside a paragraph stays a line break in it (`crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs`, `crates/eps/src/import/ate.rs`).
     In SVG export without Fewer `<tspan>` Elements, each character of live type that justification or Mojikumi moves (the letter gaps of a Justify All line without word spaces, the gaps between the characters of a justified Japanese line, closed-up punctuation, the space between Japanese and Latin letters) starts its own positioned `<tspan>`, and type scaled horizontally on a justified line is stretched to its own width (`crates/svg/tests/it/text_layout.rs`).
     SVG export (live text), legacy `.ai` saves (text objects), DXF export (`TEXT` entities) and the CSS Properties panel write area type that Shrink Text to Fit scales down at the size it draws at, and scale its tracking, kerning, leading and baseline shifts the same way where the format holds them.
-    Legacy `.ai` saves (version 7) write type with rotated characters (Character Rotation, Touch Type turns) as its outlines, with a warning that it is no longer editable text: a version 7 text object has no character rotation ([Adobe Illustrator File Format Specification 7.0](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/fmt/423), §15), and the outlines keep each character's rotation, baseline shift and scale (`legacy_ai::tests::type_with_rotated_characters_is_outlines_that_keep_the_rotation`).
+    Legacy `.ai` saves (version 7) write type with rotated characters (Character Rotation, Touch Type turns) as its outlines, with a warning that it is no longer editable text (unless `outlineText` already asks for every type object as outlines): a version 7 text object has no character rotation ([Adobe Illustrator File Format Specification 7.0](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/fmt/423), §15), and the outlines keep each character's rotation, baseline shift and scale (`legacy_ai::tests::type_with_rotated_characters_is_outlines_that_keep_the_rotation`).
     A PDF saved with Illustrator's editing data opens through it as a PDF-compatible `.ai` does, with its layers and groups and with art reaching past its page unclipped; such a PDF holds the data in `AIPDFPrivateData` streams (part of #868). A shape a PDF or `.ai` paints with a gradient (a clip path round a shading) opens as one path filled with the gradient, not a clip group round a rectangle, so Shape Builder, Live Paint and Pathfinder work on its outline (#1304).
     In a `.ai` opened from its editing data, a text object on a layer that shows and doesn't print stays on that layer, made from the file's text document, even where the page doesn't draw it (`crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs`). Such a `.ai` opens without the PDF part's warnings that text was kept as outlines when no outlined glyphs come in, and a warning counts the text objects that hold the page's type next to glyphs the page has only as outlines, which don't come in (`crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_aiimport.rs`). Where the art of a `.ai` or EPS opened from its editing data differs a little from the file's page, the warning gives the share of the page that differs away from type. When that share is 0.2% or less, the warning names the type and gives the share of the page that differs where the type is; when all the type is made from the text document, the type's share has a warning of its own beside the art's (`crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs`).
     PDF text opens with every glyph where the file draws it (#722): the font's kerning or none, whichever the file followed, word and character spacing, `TJ` adjustments and horizontal scaling kept per character as tracking, text rise as baseline shift within its line, vertical glyphs narrower than an em centred on their column (`/W2`, `/W`, `/DW`), justified text boxes with word spacing back as justified area type (`tests_text_placement`, fixtures written from ISO 32000-1 §9).