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Fix #4938: Dynamic symbols keep per-instance appearance linked to the symbol
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# File format parity
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> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-01 · **Change:** minor (exports draw artboard background colors, #4937) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
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> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-01 · **Change:** minor (native format: dynamic symbols, #4938) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
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Every format Illustrator opens, places, saves or exports, against VectorCraft's format table (`FORMATS`,
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`OPEN_EXTS`, `PLACE_EXTS` in `crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/formats.rs`). Illustrator's list comes from its public
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| Format | Illustrator | Ours: open/place | Ours: save/export | Fidelity and tests |
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| 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) |
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| 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); a dynamic symbol's type (`dynamic` on the symbol) and an instance's appearance changes to its art (`symbol_overrides`, each path at most 64 deep, counted against the object budget) are written only when set, so documents without them save as before (#4938) |
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| Illustrator template `.ait` | open, save | yes | PDF-compatible only, from Save as Template (`.vctemplate` stays its default) | New from Template opens a saved `.ait` untitled with its layers and art (`tests_pdfedit.rs`) |
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| 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 |
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| 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 opens where the file draws it, glyph by glyph (#722: kerning or none, spacing per character, text rise as baseline shift, vertical writing, justified text boxes); alpha soft masks drawn as images import with the mask (#1551); a clip only counts as covering the page when its shape does (#1542); a PDF another app copied pastes as editable vector art (#1499); letter-spaced type on a path keeps its length and its glyph-by-glyph stroke comes in as one text object (#1586, #1585); a crafted name tree with shared nodes no longer takes exponential time on open (#1781); fonts named with hyphens (`Noto-Sans-Bold`) or with a composite font's CMap (`Name-Identity-H`) find the installed family; invisible text (rendering mode 3: a scanned page's recognized text) opens as type with no fill or stroke and saves back as invisible, searchable text (#2675); PDF/X-1a and X-3 flattening in a CMYK document keeps CMYK inks where it rasterizes (#2160) |
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| Date | Change | Summary |
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| 2026-11-01 | minor | Native format: a symbol's Symbol Type (`dynamic`) and a dynamic symbol instance's appearance changes to objects of its art (`symbol_overrides`) round-trip; both are left out when unset, so other documents save unchanged (#4938). `.ai` reading and writing of dynamic symbols remains. |
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| 2026-11-01 | minor | Exports draw each artboard's background color behind its art (#4937): PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, WebP, BMP, Targa and PSD (a layer of its own; on a transparent background too), PDF, SVG and EPS pages, a `.ai` file's PDF pages and PostScript and PDF print; `includeArtboardFill: false` leaves it out. Files with editing data (Preserve Editing, `.ai`, EPS, native) keep it as the artboard's color and reopen without extra art. Not read from the reference app's own `.ai` data, nor written to it. DXF, EMF and WMF leave it out |
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| 2026-10-31 | minor | PDF import finds an installed font whose PDF name holds hyphens (`Noto-Sans-Bold` is Noto Sans, Bold: the longest part before a hyphen that names an installed family) and a composite font by its CIDFont's name rather than its base name, which ends in the CMap's (`Name-Identity-H`, [ISO 32000-1 §9.7.6.1](https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/pdfstandards/PDF32000_2008.pdf)); a missing font is split only before a style part (`Helvetica-BoldOblique`), so it is reported as `MS PGothic`, not `MS`; scores unchanged (estimated) |
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| 2026-10-31 | minor | DXF export (2000–2018): the LAYOUT objects wrote the paper image origin as a point at group codes 148 and 158, but PLOTSETTINGS defines 148 and 149 and no 158, so strict readers could reject the file (Autodesk Fusion reported "DXF File failed to insert", #3085). They now write 148/149, the shade plot mode, resolution and DPI (76–78, 2004 and later) and flag 1024 on the Model layout; the plot style ACDBPLACEHOLDER no longer carries a subclass marker. Test `r2000_and_later_files_have_the_structure_cad_apps_require` (required sections and table entries, handles and references, LAYOUT group codes); exports pass ezdxf's recover and audit; not tested in Fusion itself; scores unchanged |
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# Gaps
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> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-01 · **Change:** minor (G13: artboard background colors in exports and print, #4937; estimate unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
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> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-01 · **Change:** minor (G5: dynamic symbols, #4938; estimate 15–26 → 14–24 h) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
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## Feature submission evidence
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| 8 | [G2 Photoshop-style raster effects and the Effect Gallery](#g2-photoshop-style-raster-effects-and-the-effect-gallery) | 1–2 | no | [effects-parity.md](effects-parity.md) |
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| 9 | [G13 Illustrator 2026 (30.x) additions](#g13-illustrator-2026-30x-additions) | 13–23 | no | [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md) |
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| 10 | [G14 Pen hardware beyond Windows pressure](#g14-pen-hardware-beyond-windows-pressure) | 4–10 | Wayland pressure | [hardware-parity.md](hardware-parity.md) |
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| 11 | [G5 Brushes, symbols and libraries](#g5-brushes-symbols-and-libraries) | 16–27 | no | [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md) |
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| 11 | [G5 Brushes, symbols and libraries](#g5-brushes-symbols-and-libraries) | 15–25 | no | [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md) |
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| 12 | [G3 3D and Materials](#g3-3d-and-materials) | 25–45 | no | [effects-parity.md](effects-parity.md) |
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| 13 | [G7 Views and windows](#g7-views-and-windows) | 15–25 | no | [ui-parity.md](ui-parity.md) |
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| 14 | [G6 Automation and scripting](#g6-automation-and-scripting) | 4–8 | no | [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md) |
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any place and size, narrowed by Appearance, Size and the artboards to search, take an edit of any one of
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them in proportion, as one undo step ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/edit-objects/edit-similar-objects.html));
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on a group (#4939), the groups like it (the same objects at the same places, moved or scaled) take an edit
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made to an object inside it at the object in the same place ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/edit-objects/edit-groups-with-similar-objects.html)).
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made to an object inside it at the object in the same place ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/edit-objects/edit-groups-with-similar-objects.html));
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dynamic symbols (#4938): Symbol Options › Symbol Type (Dynamic Symbol / Static Symbol; `type` on
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`symbol.new` / `symbol.options` / `symbol.list`), an instance's own fill, stroke, opacity and blend for an
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object of a dynamic symbol's art (`symbol.instance.setAppearance`, by child-index path), drawn and exported
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with the instance; redefining the symbol keeps each change whose object remains, Break Link bakes them,
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Reset (`symbol.instance.reset`, the Properties panel and the Symbols panel menu) drops them, and making the
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symbol static drops them; stored in the native format.
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Color eyedropper for scatter, art and pattern brushes (Hue Shift colorization; samples canvas art);
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symbol libraries ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/create-or-import-symbol-libraries.html)): Window › Symbol Libraries and the Symbols panel's Symbol
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Libraries Menu open each library in a library panel of its own (one original library generated in code,
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as a `.vectorcraft` library into the user library folder (listed under User Defined) or a file
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(`brush.libraries`, `brush.addFromLibrary`, `brush.saveLibrary`, `brush.loadLibrary`).
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- **Missing:** the Art brush's Overlap; more built-in brush, symbol and graphic-style libraries (original,
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generated in code, never Adobe's); dynamic symbols; Global Edit of groups holding type or
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generated in code, never Adobe's); dynamic symbols' on-canvas editing (Direct Selection of an object inside a
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dynamic instance, with the Fill/Stroke controls and Appearance panel then setting its change) and their `.ai`
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read and write; Global Edit of groups holding type or
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images, rotated copies as matches, Shift-click to leave a match out and highlighting matches before the start;
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drawing the 9-slice guides on the canvas in symbol edit mode and scaling by them.
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- **Estimate:** 15–26 h.
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- **Estimate:** 14–24 h.
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## G3 3D and Materials
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| Date | Change | Summary |
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| 2026-11-01 | minor | G5: dynamic symbols (#4938): Symbol Options › Symbol Type, per-instance fill, stroke, opacity and blend for objects of a dynamic symbol's art that stay linked (redefining keeps them, Break Link bakes them, Reset and Static drop them; `symbol.instance.setAppearance`, `symbol.instance.reset`; `crates/engine/src/tests/dynamic_symbols.rs`); on-canvas Direct Selection of the parts and `.ai` round trip remain. Estimate 15–26 → 14–24 h. |
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| 2026-11-01 | minor | G13: Artboard background colors in output (#4937): raster exports (a transparent background too), PDF, SVG and EPS pages, `.ai` files' PDF pages, Export for Screens and print (and its preview) draw each artboard's color behind its art, inside the artboard and in the color's own model; Export for Screens has Include Artboard Fill beside Include Bleed (on by default, remembered; `includeArtboardFill`, also on `document.export` and `file.print`); editing data keeps the color as the artboard's, and Export for Screens' document rows keep it too; estimate unchanged. |
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| 2026-11-01 | minor | G5: Select › Start Global Edit on a group takes the groups like it (the same objects at the same places, moved or scaled; Appearance, Size and the artboard options apply) and gives an edit made to an object inside one to the object at its place in each of the others, in proportion, as one undo step (#4939); rotated copies and Shift-click exclusion remain. Estimate unchanged. |
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| 2026-10-31 | minor | G4: PDF import finds an installed font whose PDF name holds hyphens (`Noto-Sans-Bold` is Noto Sans, Bold: the longest part before a hyphen that names an installed family) and a composite font by its CIDFont's name rather than its base name, which ends in the CMap's (`Name-Identity-H`, [ISO 32000-1 §9.7.6.1](https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/pdfstandards/PDF32000_2008.pdf)); a missing font is split only before a style part (`Helvetica-BoldOblique`), so it is reported as `MS PGothic`, not `MS`. Estimate unchanged. |
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These families are in the live catalog (`command_list` / `vectorcraft://commands`); the prompt `trace-and-style`
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already walks Image Trace. Short agent entry points:
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- Symbols: `symbol.list` (each row includes `registration` 0..8 and `exportType`: `movieClip`|`graphic`),
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`symbol.new {name?, registration?, exportType?, nineSlice?, nineSliceGuides?, ids?}`,
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`symbol.options {name?, newName?, registration?, exportType?, nineSlice?, nineSliceGuides?}` (`nineSlice` bool turns
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- Symbols: `symbol.list` (each row includes `registration` 0..8, `exportType`: `movieClip`|`graphic` and `type`:
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`static`|`dynamic`),
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`symbol.new {name?, registration?, exportType?, nineSlice?, nineSliceGuides?, type?, ids?}`,
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`symbol.options {name?, newName?, registration?, exportType?, nineSlice?, nineSliceGuides?, type?}` (`nineSlice` bool turns
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9-slice guides on or off; `nineSliceGuides` is `[left, top, right, bottom]`, fractions 0..1 of the symbol size; rows
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of `symbol.list` carry `nineSlice`: the guides or `null`),
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of `symbol.list` carry `nineSlice`: the guides or `null`; `type` is Symbol Type, `static` by default for the command
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and `dynamic` by default in the Symbol Options dialog),
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`symbol.place {name?, x?, y?}`, `symbol.breakLink {ids?}`, `symbol.replace`, `symbol.edit`, `symbol.duplicate`,
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`symbol.selectInstances {name}`. `symbol.new` and `symbol.duplicate {name, newName?}` trim the white space around the
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name they are given, as `symbol.options` trims `newName`; a blank one gives "New Symbol" or "<name> copy".
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- Dynamic symbols: an instance of a symbol whose `type` is `dynamic` changes the appearance of objects in the symbol's
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art for itself only and stays linked. `symbol.instance.setAppearance {id?, path, fill?, stroke?, opacity?, blend?}`
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names the object by `path`, child indices in paint order from the art's root down through its groups (`[]` is the
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root; `[1, 0]` is the first object of the art's second member when that member is a group). `fill` and `stroke` take
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a colour string or the paint params of `paint.setFill` (`color`, `none`, `swatch`, `tint`, `gradient`), `opacity` is
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0..100 and `blend` a blend mode name; `null` gives one back to the symbol. It is refused for a static symbol and for
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a path that names no object. `symbol.instance.reset {ids?}` drops the selected instances' changes (the Properties
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panel's Reset). Redefining the symbol (`symbol.update`) reshapes every instance and keeps each change whose path the
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new art still has; `symbol.breakLink` bakes the changes into the expanded art; `symbol.edit` expands the symbol's own
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art; making the symbol static drops them.
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```json
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{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"symbol.instance.setAppearance","params":{"id":42,"path":[1],"fill":"#d0021b","opacity":80}}}
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```
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- The Brushes panel menu's Select All Unused: `brush.unused` (a query) lists the brushes no stroke paints with, in
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library order, and the panel selects them. Strokes in the art (opacity masks included), symbols, graph designs,
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pattern tiles (with the tiles that pattern editing's Cancel puts back) and graphic styles count, and so do the
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# Parity with Adobe Illustrator
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> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-01 · **Change:** minor (artboard background colors in exports and print, #4937; scores unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; public release notes through 30.7, August 2026)
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> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-01 · **Change:** minor (dynamic symbols, #4938; score unchanged, hours 5–9 → 4–8) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; public release notes through 30.7, August 2026)
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## Feature submission evidence
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| 3D and Materials (and Turntable) | 4 | ~25% | live Revolve with automatic smooth vector shading and default-on continuous circular caps, Extrude & Bevel (twist, taper, caps, five bevel shapes), Inflate and Rotate with Position presets (colored Inflate uses smooth membrane lighting; white-light Inflate retains its existing shading; Extrude & Bevel and Rotate retain planar shading; one to ten colored lights, shared neutral ambient, painter visibility); materials, light presets, shadows, ray tracing, 3D Classic, Turntable views, 3D export | 30–55 | estimated (Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate added 2026-10-12) |
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| Type core | 9 | 80% | Auto-leading style resets are implemented; Hyphenation… and Justification… options are done (#2310, #2755), and a paragraph's Auto Leading also sets the Character panel's Leading, the Alt+↑/↓ leading nudge and Fill with Placeholder Text; remaining: Optical Margin Alignment, Middle Eastern features beyond bidi layout, optional group font-size preservation; transformed character controls fixed (#1034), see [type-parity.md](type-parity.md) | 14–19 | estimated; full-name font matches regression-tested (#1258); mixed paragraph alignment indication implemented; headless regressions, full integration CI and visual review pass; localized legacy family-name fallback with loaded/catalog regressions (#2208) |
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| Type advanced (CJK, spelling, Touch Type, Retype) | 4 | 50% | CJK vertical composition (ruby, mojikumi), variable font axes, tab leaders, spell check, Touch Type, Retype | 20–28 | estimated; upright fallback for fullwidth `！` / `？` regression-tested; score and hours unchanged |
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| Symbols, blends, envelopes, Repeat, perspective | 5 | 87% | 30.7's Blend panel with ease in/out, dynamic symbols, more built-in symbol libraries, envelope Anti-Alias/Preserve Shape; Symbol Options › Registration, Export Type (Graphic / Movie Clip) and 9-slice guide settings (stored, not drawn) are done | 5–9 | estimated; Blend panel Type and Ramp control step easing with a separate color Shift (#2539); Blend Options retains spacing and orientation; polynomial curves are original approximations; interactive selected mirror axis implemented; bounding-box handles take priority over the axis line (focused regression and native checks passed; full CI blocked by an unrelated text test); #2544 spine Anchor Point conversion and picking regression-tested; scores and hours unchanged |
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| Symbols, blends, envelopes, Repeat, perspective | 5 | 87% | 30.7's Blend panel with ease in/out, on-canvas Direct Selection of parts inside dynamic symbol instances and their `.ai` round trip, more built-in symbol libraries, envelope Anti-Alias/Preserve Shape; Symbol Options › Registration, Export Type (Graphic / Movie Clip) and 9-slice guide settings (stored, not drawn) and Symbol Type (dynamic symbols keep per-instance appearance linked, #4938) are done | 4–8 | estimated; Blend panel Type and Ramp control step easing with a separate color Shift (#2539); Blend Options retains spacing and orientation; polynomial curves are original approximations; interactive selected mirror axis implemented; bounding-box handles take priority over the axis line (focused regression and native checks passed; full CI blocked by an unrelated text test); #2544 spine Anchor Point conversion and picking regression-tested; scores and hours unchanged |
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| Type advanced (CJK, spelling, Touch Type, Retype) | 4 | 50% | CJK vertical composition (ruby, mojikumi), tab leaders, spell check, Touch Type, Retype | 20–28 | estimated; upright fallback for fullwidth `！` / `？` regression-tested; score and hours unchanged |
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| Symbols, blends, envelopes, Repeat, perspective | 5 | 87% | 30.7's Blend panel with ease in/out, dynamic symbols, symbol libraries, Start Global Edit, envelope Anti-Alias/Preserve Shape; Symbol Options › Registration, Export Type (Graphic / Movie Clip) and 9-slice guide settings (stored, not drawn) are done | 5–9 | estimated; Blend panel Type and Ramp control step easing with a separate color Shift (#2539); Blend Options retains spacing and orientation; polynomial curves are original approximations; interactive selected mirror axis implemented; bounding-box handles take priority over the axis line (focused regression and native checks passed; full CI blocked by an unrelated text test); #2544 spine Anchor Point conversion and picking regression-tested; scores and hours unchanged |
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| Symbols, blends, envelopes, Repeat, perspective | 5 | 87% | 30.7's Blend panel with ease in/out, on-canvas Direct Selection of parts inside dynamic symbol instances and their `.ai` round trip, symbol libraries, Start Global Edit, envelope Anti-Alias/Preserve Shape; Symbol Options › Registration, Export Type (Graphic / Movie Clip) and 9-slice guide settings (stored, not drawn) and Symbol Type (dynamic symbols keep per-instance appearance linked, #4938) are done | 4–8 | estimated; Blend panel Type and Ramp control step easing with a separate color Shift (#2539); Blend Options retains spacing and orientation; polynomial curves are original approximations; interactive selected mirror axis implemented; bounding-box handles take priority over the axis line (focused regression and native checks passed; full CI blocked by an unrelated text test); #2544 spine Anchor Point conversion and picking regression-tested; scores and hours unchanged |
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| Image Trace, graphs, image tools | 3 | 75% | graph Column designs, Image Trace Create Strokes depth (Create Object Mosaic is done; junction-returning piece survival has source-generated regressions in `image-trace-quality.md`; simpler contour walk, identical output; an edge's sub-pixel shift is the same from either side; notches read only their own piece; collapsed loops keep few segments, so Paths is monotone on the code-drawn sweep) | 5–8 | estimated (raised from 72%); quick presets reveal adjustment controls, Properties reopens them; Live trace result bounds and selection highlights exclude the retained bitmap except in source-image views (scores/hours unchanged) |
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| Live vector effects | 5 | 85% | Outline Object, SVG Filters, a Transform effect in a fill's or stroke's own effects ignoring Transform Patterns and Scale Strokes & Effects | 4–8 | measured count 49/50 (Pathfinder 13/13 with Trap), depth estimated; Warp Options controls verified by focused checks and original-image review |
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| 3D and Materials (and Turntable) | 4 | ~25% | live Revolve with automatic smooth vector shading and default-on continuous circular caps, Extrude & Bevel (twist, taper, caps, five bevel shapes), Inflate and Rotate with Position presets (colored Inflate uses smooth membrane lighting; white-light Inflate retains its existing shading; Extrude & Bevel and Rotate retain planar shading; one to ten colored lights, shared neutral ambient, original lighting presets, painter visibility); materials, shadows, ray tracing, 3D Classic, Turntable views, 3D export | 30–55 | estimated (Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate added 2026-10-12) |
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| Type core | 9 | 80% | Auto-leading style resets are implemented; remaining: hyphenation and justification options, Middle Eastern features beyond bidi layout, optional group font-size preservation; transformed character controls fixed (#1034), see [type-parity.md](type-parity.md) | 14–19 | estimated; recent-font groups in font pickers (#3515); full-name font matches regression-tested (#1258); mixed paragraph alignment indication implemented; headless regressions, full integration CI and visual review pass; localized legacy family-name fallback with loaded/catalog regressions (#2208); Fractional Widths per type object regression-tested; colour emoji fonts with bitmap glyphs (`sbix`, `CBDT`) draw and export; scores and hours unchanged |
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| Type advanced (CJK, spelling, Touch Type, Retype) | 4 | 50% | CJK vertical composition (mojikumi), tab leaders, spell check, Touch Type, Retype | 20–28 | estimated; No Break keeps marked characters on one line; upright fallback for fullwidth `！` / `？` regression-tested; score and hours unchanged |
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| Raster effects (Effect Gallery) | 4 | 52% | the Effect Gallery's filter thumbnails and in-dialog preview area ([Filter Gallery overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/desktop/effects-filters/get-started-with-filters/filter-gallery.html)) | 1–2 | estimated (raised from 49%: the Effect Gallery shipped, #2883, six categories, per-filter settings, ordered stack, live canvas preview, one undo step, `dialogs::effect_gallery::tests::stack_ok_is_one_undo_step`, `stack_preview_is_one_interaction`); measured count 57/57 (Artistic complete with Colored Pencil, Fresco, Paint Daubs, Palette Knife, Rough Pastels and Underpainting; Sketch complete with Torn Edges and Conté Crayon, `pixel::tests_sketch::conte_crayon_*`); texture redraw distances optimized (#1257), pixels verified; depth estimated |
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| Symbols, blends, envelopes, Repeat, perspective | 5 | 87% | 30.7's Blend panel with ease in/out, dynamic symbols, more built-in symbol libraries, envelope Anti-Alias/Preserve Shape; Symbol Options › Registration and Export Type (Graphic / Movie Clip) are done | 5–9 | estimated |
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| Symbols, blends, envelopes, Repeat, perspective | 5 | 87% | 30.7's Blend panel with ease in/out, on-canvas Direct Selection of parts inside dynamic symbol instances and their `.ai` round trip, more built-in symbol libraries, envelope Anti-Alias/Preserve Shape; Symbol Options › Registration and Export Type (Graphic / Movie Clip) and Symbol Type (dynamic symbols keep per-instance appearance linked, #4938) are done | 4–8 | estimated |
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| Image Trace, graphs, image tools | 3 | 75% | graph Column designs, Image Trace Create Strokes depth (Create Object Mosaic is done; junction-returning piece survival has source-generated regressions in `image-trace-quality.md`; large images trace with a warning; Auto Color keeps rare distinct colours) | 5–8 | estimated (raised from 72%); quick presets reveal adjustment controls, Properties reopens them |
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| Layers, artboards, document setup | 5 | 78% | Selected-artboard deletion is consistent across panel actions (all-selected retains artboard 1); history prunes removed indices while preserving valid multiselection; remaining: 30.0's artboard locking and colours and managing artboards from the canvas, Layers panel row context menus and Collect for Export (click-to-fit objects is done, #1227) | 5–8 | estimated (lowered from 82%: target moved); Artboard deletion keys keep artwork and the first of an all-selected set; Artboard Options' Show Center Mark and Show Cross Hairs draw on the canvas only (exports and print leave them out), regression-tested; Artboard Options' Show Video Safe Areas and Video Ruler Pixel Aspect Ratio (per artboard, native format) are done ([video display options](#evidence-what-ships-today-by-area)), score unchanged |
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| View & navigation | 3 | 70% | multiple windows and Arrange | 9–14 | estimated; document-tab artwork hover/copy and lossless transfer tested (2026-10-22; score/hours unchanged); cached canvas reprojection preserves scale during resize, rotation and DPI changes (regression and contributor original-file evidence below; scores/hours unchanged); cached canvas dimensions match the renderer limit before cache-key creation, view construction and worker submission (regression evidence below) |
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A VectorCraft addition, not a feature of the reference app, so no area score moves. Object › Plug-ins › Document Tools › New Symbols from Layers makes one symbol of each top-level layer's art (the layers given, else those highlighted in the Layers panel when two or more are, else every layer), named after the layer (a number added when a symbol has that name), with New Symbol's own steps: the art normalized to its natural size, registration in the centre, threaded text keeping the text it shows, and sublayers held as groups. Convert Layers to Symbols does the same and puts an instance of each symbol in place of its layer's art, at the same place and size, selecting the instances; locked layers are skipped then. Empty layers are skipped and reported, all in one undo step (none when nothing is made). Tests: `cmd::addons::document::tests` in `vectorcraft-engine` (a symbol per layer, unique names, empty and locked layers reported, replacement in place, the highlighted layers as the default, bad layer ids refused, one undo step), `new_symbols_from_layers_and_convert_layers_to_symbols` in `vectorcraft-ui-egui` and `command_sweep`. Commands: `docs/mcp.md` › Document Tools add-on.
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## Dynamic symbols (2026-11-01)
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Symbols area (#4938), from the public symbol documentation ([create and place symbols](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/create-and-place-symbols.html), [edit symbols](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/edit-symbols.html)). Symbol Options has Symbol Type (Dynamic Symbol / Static Symbol; the dialog's default is Dynamic, `symbol.new`'s `type` defaults to static so scripts behave as before). An instance of a dynamic symbol keeps its own fill, stroke, opacity and blend for any object of the symbol's art, named by a child-index path (`symbol.instance.setAppearance`), and stays an instance: the canvas, SVG, PDF, EPS, legacy `.ai`, EMF/WMF and DXF writers, effects and Expand draw the art with those changes. Redefining the symbol reshapes every instance and keeps each change whose object the new art still has; Break Link bakes the changes into the art; Edit Symbol expands the symbol's own art; Reset (`symbol.instance.reset`: the Properties panel's Quick Actions and the Symbols panel menu) and making the symbol static drop them. The type is stored on the symbol and the changes on the instance in the native format, both left out when unset, so documents without them save byte for byte as before. Remaining: Direct Selection of an object inside a dynamic instance on the canvas (with the Fill/Stroke controls then setting its change), and reading and writing the type and changes in `.ai` files. Evidence: `crates/engine/src/tests/dynamic_symbols.rs`, `crates/doc/src/symbol_overrides.rs` tests. Score unchanged at 87% (estimated); hours 5–9 → 4–8.
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## Revision history
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| 2026-11-01 | minor | Symbols: dynamic symbols (#4938): Symbol Options › Symbol Type, per-instance appearance for objects of a dynamic symbol's art that stays linked through redefinition, Break Link baking, Reset and Static dropping it; evidence added. Score unchanged at 87% (estimated), hours 5–9 → 4–8. |
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| 2026-11-01 | minor | Artboard background colors in output (#4937): raster exports (a transparent background too), PDF, SVG and EPS pages, `.ai` files' PDF pages, Export for Screens and print (and its preview) draw each artboard's color behind its art, inside the artboard and in the color's own model; Export for Screens has Include Artboard Fill beside Include Bleed (on by default, remembered; `includeArtboardFill`, also on `document.export` and `file.print`); editing data keeps the color as the artboard's, and Export for Screens' document rows keep it too; evidence updated; scores unchanged. |
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| 2026-11-01 | minor | Selection: Select › Start Global Edit on a group takes the groups like it (the same objects at the same places, moved or scaled; Appearance, Size and the artboard options apply) and gives an edit made to an object inside one to the object at its place in each of the others, in proportion, as one undo step (#4939); Global Edit of rotated copies and Shift-click exclusion remain. Score unchanged at 85% (estimated), hours unchanged. |
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| 2026-11-01 | minor | Document Tools add-on (a VectorCraft addition): New Symbols from Layers (#4927); evidence added; scores unchanged. |
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# UI and interaction parity
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> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-01 · **Change:** minor (Export for Screens: Include Artboard Fill, #4937) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
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> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-01 · **Change:** minor (dynamic symbols, #4938) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
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## Feature submission evidence
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| Make Compound Path on a group (such as outlined type) keeps its backmost path's paint; compound paths joined into one keep their holes | done | #1537 |
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| Symbol libraries: Window › Symbol Libraries (Basic Shapes, User Defined, Other Library…, Save Symbols…) and the Symbols panel's Symbol Libraries Menu button and its menu's Open Symbol Library / Save Symbol Library…; a click on a library symbol adds it to the document's Symbols (one undo step, it becomes the current symbol), Shift/Cmd-clicks select for Add to Symbols, and a symbol dragged onto the canvas is added and placed where it is dropped | done | [public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/create-or-import-symbol-libraries.html), [Symbols panel options](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/symbols-panel-options.html), [placing from a library](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/create-and-place-symbols.html); `window.symbolLibrary`, `window.symbolLibrary.other`, `ui.saveSymbolLibrary` (dialog `saveSymbolLibrary`), `window.userSymbolLibrary1`…`10`; `panels::tests_symbol_libraries`; only one built-in library (original, generated in code) |
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| Brush libraries: Window › Brush Libraries (Art Ribbons, Calligraphic Nibs, Pattern Borders, Scatter Shapes, User Defined, Other Library…, Save Brushes…) and the Brushes panel's Brush Libraries Menu button and its menu's Open Brush Library / Save Brush Library…; a click on a library brush adds it to the document's Brushes (one undo step, it becomes the current brush, and selected paths take it in the same step), Shift/Cmd-clicks select for Add to Brushes, a brush dragged onto a path is added and applied to it and one dragged onto the Brushes panel is added; thumbnails render with the library's patterns and symbols | done | [public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/apply-and-edit-strokes/create-new-brush-libraries.html), [import brushes](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/apply-and-edit-strokes/import-brushes-from-brush-libraries-or-other-files.html), [Brushes panel overview](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/apply-and-edit-strokes/brushes-panel-overview.html); `window.brushLibrary`, `window.brushLibrary.other`, `ui.saveBrushLibrary` (dialog `saveBrushLibrary`), `window.userBrushLibrary1`…`10`; `panels::tests_brush_libraries`; four built-in libraries (original, generated in code) |
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| Symbols panel: New Symbol opens Symbol Options (Name) before making the symbol; Alt-click skips it | partial | #1560 (#1566); Registration 9-point grid in Symbol Options (`symbol.new` / `symbol.place`); Export Type (Graphic / Movie Clip) and Enable Guides for 9-Slice Scaling (guides stored, not drawn on the canvas); Dynamic/Static symbol type still missing |
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| Symbols panel: New Symbol opens Symbol Options (Name) before making the symbol; Alt-click skips it | partial | #1560 (#1566); Registration 9-point grid in Symbol Options (`symbol.new` / `symbol.place`); Export Type (Graphic / Movie Clip) and Enable Guides for 9-Slice Scaling (guides stored, not drawn on the canvas); Symbol Type (Dynamic Symbol / Static Symbol, new symbols dynamic; #4938) |
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| Dynamic symbols: an instance changes the fill, stroke, opacity and blend of objects in its symbol's art and stays linked; Reset in the Properties panel's Quick Actions and the Symbols panel menu (Reset Symbol Instance) | partial | #4938; `symbol.instance.setAppearance` (by child-index path) and `symbol.instance.reset`; redefining keeps the changes, Break Link bakes them; on-canvas Direct Selection of a part inside an instance (with the Fill/Stroke controls then setting its change) remains |
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| Pathfinder Trim, Merge and Crop remove strokes; Merge joins same-fill objects whatever their strokes | done | #1570 (#1572) |
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| Pathfinder panel on one group selected alone; a greyed-out button says what it needs | partial | #1450; the group's members are combined; one plain path selected alone stays disabled (the public documentation doesn't say what the operations do to a single path) |
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| Pathfinder Divide: an open cutting line splits a filled path | done | #1307; straight, crossed, bent and curved cutters, holes and frontmost appearance regression-tested; native automation: independent piece movement, one Undo/Redo, saved-document round trip and window capture; existing bounded-map fallback remains |
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| Date | Change | Summary |
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| 2026-11-01 | minor | Dynamic symbols (#4938): Symbol Options › Symbol Type; per-instance appearance for objects of a dynamic symbol's art; Reset in the Properties panel and the Symbols panel menu; on-canvas Direct Selection of the parts remains |
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| 2026-11-01 | minor | Export for Screens has Include Artboard Fill beside Include Bleed (on by default, remembered; `includeArtboardFill`): the files draw each artboard's background color behind its art, as exports and print now do, and the Print dialog's preview shows it (#4937); scores and estimates unchanged |
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| 2026-11-01 | minor | Select › Start Global Edit on a group takes the groups like it (the same objects at the same places, moved or scaled; Appearance, Size and the artboard options apply) and gives an edit made to an object inside one to the object at its place in each of the others, in proportion, as one undo step (#4939). Scores and estimates unchanged |
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| 2026-11-01 | minor | Document Tools add-on (a VectorCraft addition): New Symbols from Layers and Convert Layers to Symbols (#4927); scores and estimates unchanged |
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