`open -a` and PowerShell's `&` return before the app opens its control
port, and `vectorcraft-cli mcp` tries the port only once, so the docs
now say to wait for the VectorCraft window before starting the MCP
client. The `--connect` failure is documented as the full line the CLI
prints, `vectorcraft-cli: cannot connect to 127.0.0.1:7979: ` followed
by the system's connection error.
A paragraph split between two threaded frames took its first-line
indent again at the top of the next frame, and a list paragraph drew
its bullet or number there again. Each frame is laid out on its own,
and its first paragraph kept every paragraph attribute there.
A text object now marks a frame whose first paragraph continues from
the frame before (first_para_continues, not saved). The thread re-flow
sets the mark where each frame's share starts inside a paragraph and
measures each share with it, and a restored document reads the marks
from its saved text. Area type and type on a path set the first line of
such a paragraph as a wrapped line: no first-line indent and no bullet
or number. The paragraph after it takes the next number. Release
Selection, Remove Threading, Convert To Point Type and copies of a
frame clear the mark, so the first paragraph there has its indent and
bullet or number again. When Create Outlines, Expand or Expand
Appearance takes frames out of a thread, a frame that stays keeps the
mark only while it is threaded and the frames before it end inside a
paragraph. A frame whose mark changes lays out its first line again,
and when it is still threaded, its thread re-flows. When the outlined
frame is the last one, the text it has no room for is measured as the
frame lays it out: without the first-line indent when it continues a
paragraph, and with its numbers counted on from the frames before it.
The frame before it now takes exactly the text the last frame has no
room for. Duplicates, copies dragged in the Layers panel, the copies
that Release to Layers (Build), Release Opacity Mask and Edit Opacity
Mask make, and Draw Inside's clipping copy then have their cached
bounds computed again, as paste already does for pasted type.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The server lists two names for several calls (command_list and
list_commands, command_run and run_command, doc_inspect and
inspect_document, ui_inspect and inspect_ui, ui_screenshot and
screenshot with window:true), but no description said so, and the two
listing and running pairs take different argument names. Each
description now names its pair and the argument that differs, and undo
and redo name each other.
ui_screenshot took no arguments and returned the window at its full
size, which can be several megapixels on a large display.
ui_screenshot and screenshot {window: true} now take an optional
max_side (1..4096) that scales the returned image down to that many
pixels on its longer side. The reply's text gives the returned size as
width/height and the capture's as capturedWidth/capturedHeight; a file
written to path keeps the full capture. max_side on an artboard render
is an error that points to scale. render_preview reads its max_side
through the same check.
docs/mcp.md describes the pairs and the new argument.
A document opened or created between edit.undoGroup.begin and
edit.undoGroup.end opens an undo group of its own with the begun
group's name, so an atomic command_batch that starts with file.new or
document.open is one undo step in the new document. The group opens
after the command that opens the document: when that command also
edits it (a command.batch), those edits stay the command's own undo
step, and a canceled group keeps them, so the journal still replays.
Both commands also run with no document open, and a command.batch that
fails rolls back a begun group. Switching to a document that was
already open does not open a group in it.
The installed-release section of docs/mcp.md said how to register the
server but not how to start an installed app for a live session; the
only start command in the setup steps was the cargo run from a
checkout.
It now gives the command that starts the installed app with
--control 7979 on macOS, Windows and Linux, and says that the
launchers open no control port, that the flagless server checks for
the app once when it starts, and what --connect prints when no app
is listening.
The tool table in docs/mcp.md listed export and add_text twice. The first
export row omitted the ai format, the per-artboard files of SVG, SVGZ and
EPS, options.useArtboards and options.rect, and said that every format but
PDF writes one artboard. The second add_text row omitted vertical.
Each tool now has one row: export keeps the complete row, and add_text
keeps the row with vertical.
A native save was pretty-printed when the document had at most 2,000
layers and objects and its compact JSON was at most 1 MiB. Pretty
printing puts every coordinate on its own indented line, so traced art
with few paths and many anchors could pass that check and be written at
about five times the size of its compact JSON.
The 1 MiB limit now applies to the pretty-printed document, indented as
the file holds it and in the form the save writes: version 1 anchors,
and placed documents expanded for older versions or Include Linked
Files. Documents whose pretty-printed JSON is over 1 MiB are saved as
compact JSON, even when their compact JSON is under it. The 2,000-object
rule and compressed saves are unchanged. docs/mcp.md describes the rule.
With type written as text, PDF export drew the hyphen that ends a line
broken inside a word as a path. The file's text had no hyphen where the
canvas draws one, so copied or searched text read "considerations"
where the line shows "con-".
The hyphen is now written as text where the line draws it, as the
character the font gives its glyph to: "-", or U+2010 when the font
gives the glyph to U+2010 and not to "-". It is a text run of its own,
and right-to-left lines keep their /ReversedChars marking. The invisible
text of type without paint holds the hyphens too. Kashidas and list
markers are still drawn as paths.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
With model "keep" (the default), a row whose new color is in another
color model gives linked art the color converted into the art's model.
That art no longer stays linked to the rewritten group swatch, which
holds the color in its own model, and the reply's note reports the
conversion.
When recolor.apply with a group rewrites a global swatch with another
color than the row of the art linked to it, and that row leaves the art's
color as it is, the art now keeps the row's color and is no longer linked
to the swatch. Before, the link stayed and the group's rewrite gave the
art the swatch's new color.
Art linked to a global swatch of the group that recolor.apply rewrites stays
linked when the swatch takes its row's new color: it shows that color at its
tint, and a later swatch.edit still reaches it. Before, the art took the new
color unlinked. With group, the reply adds relinked, the count of other linked
paints that followed the group's new colors.
With Use Artboards and two or more artboards, EPS export now writes a
central file under the path's own name before the file of each artboard.
The central file contains the whole document, and its bounding box is
the visible art, as in an export without Use Artboards. An export of a
single chosen artboard still writes one file at the path's name, and
Export for Screens still writes one EPS per artboard. When no art shows,
only the artboard files are written.
Docs: the useArtboards params text, the MCP export tool's range text,
docs/mcp.md, docs/control-protocol.md and docs/target-app-parity.md.
document.find took only name, kind and text, so removing hairline slivers or
every object in one region needed the whole inspect tree and a filter
written outside the app. It now also takes within and intersects
([x, y, width, height] in document points), min and max width, height,
thickness (the smaller side) and area of the geometric bounds, and min and
max anchor count (a compound path counts its members together). Each given
filter must match, and limits are inclusive.
select: true also selects the matches, leaving out hidden and locked
objects, matches inside another match, and compound path members unless
the compound path is isolated; the reply adds selected. Select > Reselect
repeats the find, and an action being recorded records a find that
selects. The count that select.color, the Select > Same commands and the
Select > Object commands report is now the number of objects selected,
after Lock Guides leaves out guide paths.
The title field of document.inspect and the document.open reply is the
document's tab name, which comes from the file name once the document
is saved to or opened from a file. A client had to call file.info or
document.info to read the File Info title, so reading a saved
document's title from these replies gave the file name instead.
Both replies now add fileInfoTitle, the title file.info reports, and
keep title as it was. docs/mcp.md's File Info section describes both.
With --connect, open_file, save_file, export and screenshot {path} sent a
relative path to the app unchanged, and the app resolved it against its
own working directory (/ when started from the Finder). A relative path
then named a different file than it does headless, where the server
resolves it against its own working directory.
The server now makes these paths absolute against its working directory
before it sends them, including export's options.path and the path a
screenshot reply reports. Paths inside run_command and command_batch
params go to the app as given. docs/mcp.md describes the rule.
ui.render, which render_preview and screenshot call in the headless
session and in the app, rendered the artboard with the canvas options:
8-bit compositing and edges smoothed shape by shape. A PNG export
composites in floating point and supersamples edges, so the preview
showed edge colors the exported file does not have, most visibly where
shapes meet edge to edge.
ui.render now renders with the options of a PNG export on white, so
its pixels equal the export's at the same scale. render_preview also
no longer enlarges an artboard smaller than max_side: with the default
max_side of 1024, a 612 x 792 page came back as an interpolated
791 x 1024 image, and it now comes back at 612 x 792. docs/mcp.md and
docs/control-protocol.md describe this.
imageTrace.make and imageTrace.makeAndExpand checked their own keys, but
not the keys inside `params`. A misspelled setting such as `colours` was
dropped, and the trace ran with the preset's value and no error.
A key inside `params` that is not a trace setting is now an error that
names the nearest setting, as for a command's own keys. Errors from
imageTrace.makeAndExpand, including those for `enhanced` and a missing
swatch library, name that command instead of imageTrace.make.
recolor.colors and recolor.reduce were unavailable with nothing selected, so
listing a document's colors needed a select.all first, which also changed the
selection. Both now take ids and read the selection when ids is left out.
With nothing selected they read the objects Select All takes and the objects
inside them: hidden and locked objects are left out with what they hold, also
inside a group, as are the objects of hidden, locked and template layers, and
in isolation mode only the isolated art is read. The selection is left
unchanged. An object named in ids or selected is read with everything it
holds, and an object listed twice, or listed together with a group that holds
it, counts once. recolor.apply still recolors only the selection.
Create Outlines on a frame of threaded text removed the frame, and the
thread's re-flow then added the frame's text to the story, as it does
for a frame that was deleted. The other frames held that text a second
time while the outlines drew it. Object › Expand, and Expand Appearance
where it outlines type or groups it with a shadow, outer glow or Crop
Marks, did the same.
An outlined frame now leaves its thread with the text it shows, and the
other frames keep the text they hold. When the thread's last frame is
outlined, the text it has no room for goes after the text of the last
frame that stays. When Expand Appearance keeps a frame as type in a
group, the type takes the frame's place in the thread. A thread left
with one frame is no longer a thread, and undo restores the thread.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
VectorCraft had no lists. A bullet could only be typed as a character,
and the tab after it did not stop at the left indent. The reference app
turns paragraphs into a bulleted list from the Paragraph panel, the
context menu and Type › Bullets and Numbering › Apply Bullets.
text.setFormat takes list ("none" or "bullet") and bullet ("none",
"dot", "dash", "circle" or "square"). The layout draws the bullet before
the first line of each list paragraph that has text, in the font, size
and color of its first character, and starts the text at the next tab
stop, with the left indent counted as a stop. Wrapped lines start at
the left indent, and type on a path draws the bullet too. In a
horizontal right-to-left list paragraph the indents are mirrored: the
bullet hangs at the right, and the wrapped lines start at the right
where the first line's text starts after the bullet. The bullet is not
a character of the text. A paragraph whose left and first-line indents
are both 0 gets 18 pt and -18 pt when it joins a list. Return continues
the list, paragraph styles carry it, Reset Panel turns it off, and the
native file saves it only when it is set.
The Paragraph panel has a Bullets button with a list of the five
presets, and Type › Bullets and Numbering › Apply Bullets and the
context menu run type.applyBullets. Live SVG text writes the bullet's
character, and SVG writes type on a path with bullets as outlines. DXF
writes the bullet as a TEXT entity of its own, and legacy .ai export
warns that bulleted lists are left out. The caret, selections, Touch
Type and Show Hidden Characters skip the bullet.
Live SVG text of horizontally scaled type now writes each tab in a
tspan of its own. Before, the characters before a tab shared its tspan,
and its textLength made a viewer stretch them across the tab's gap.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Window › Symbol Libraries and the Symbols panel's Symbol Libraries Menu open each symbol library
in a library panel of its own, on the shared library panel code the swatch and graphic style
libraries use (https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/create-or-import-symbol-libraries.html,
.../symbols-panel-options.html, .../create-and-place-symbols.html).
- Basic Shapes: one original library generated in code (circle, squares, triangle, diamond,
hexagon, star, burst, arrow); no other app's libraries.
- A click adds a library symbol to the document's Symbols as one undo step, with its Symbol
Options and the resources it uses (nested symbols, patterns, swatches, brushes, graphic styles,
images), and makes it the current symbol; one already there isn't added again, a clash of
names numbers the library's. Shift/Cmd-clicks select for Add to Symbols. Dragging a library
symbol onto the canvas adds it and places an instance there, in the same step.
- Save Symbols… (library menu, Window menu) and Save Symbol Library… (Symbols panel menu) write
the document's symbols as a .vectorcraft document holding only them, into the user library
folder (User Defined, window.userSymbolLibrary1-10) or a file; Other Library… reads the symbols
of any document VectorCraft opens, and a file it can't read is an error.
Commands: symbol.libraries, symbol.library, symbol.addFromLibrary (place, x, y),
symbol.saveLibrary, symbol.loadLibrary; UI: window.symbolLibrary (.other), ui.saveSymbolLibrary
(dialog saveSymbolLibrary). i18n rows in every complete catalog; docs updated.
Distance Guides, from the public "Use Distance Guides for accurate
placement" and "Smart Guides options" (Invoke Distance Guides) pages:
with Smart Guides on, something selected and the Selection tool,
holding Alt/Option over another object shows the horizontal and
vertical distances between the selection and it, and over an empty
part of an artboard the selection's distances from the artboard's left,
right, top and bottom edges.
- guides::distance_guides measures the selection's bounds to a box: on
an axis on which they lie apart, the gap between their facing edges;
otherwise the offsets of both pairs of matching edges. Each line runs
across the middle of the overlap on the other axis (else the
selection's middle), with a dashed line out to the target's edge when
it passes beside it. An artboard is always measured edge to edge.
Labels are in the General unit, in the smart guide colour.
- The Selection tool keeps what its Alt hover points at and draws the
guides while idle; letting Alt go (the canvas re-hovers on a modifier
change), a press or moving off clears them.
- Overlay::Distance: the line with end ticks and its length in a pill;
the canvas draws it.
- Preferences › Smart Guides › Invoke Distance Guides (`distanceGuides`,
on by default), with i18n rows; View › Smart Guides gates it too.
- Hover only, as the pages describe: nothing while moving or nudging.
Tests: select::tests::alt_over_* (gap and edges beside and below,
artboard edges in pt and mm), distance_guides_need_alt_a_selection_and_
smart_guides, tests_prefs::invoke_distance_guides_measures_the_selection_
to_the_object_under_alt, canvas::tests::alt_over_another_object_draws_
the_distance_guide_label (frame test of the drawn label and line).
The Simplify help page says a path can be simplified whole or "a specific
path region with the Direct Selection tool"
(https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/draw-shapes-and-paths/modify-paths/manually-simplify-paths.html).
Simplify refitted every selected path whole, whatever part of it was
direct-selected.
object.path.simplify now looks at each path's direct selection: the
segments picked as segments, or else every segment with both anchors
selected. Each run of consecutive selected segments is refitted on its own
(vectorcraft_pathops::simplify_part) between its two end anchors, which stay
where they are with their handles on the side away from the run; every
other anchor and segment stays exactly as it was. A closed path's run may
cross its start point (the path then starts at the run's end anchor),
separate runs on one path simplify independently in one undo step, and the
runs stay direct-selected (as segments when segments were picked). A path
with only lone anchors selected still simplifies whole, as before, and
wholePaths: true simplifies partly selected paths whole. The slider, its
preview, Auto-Simplify and the Simplify dialog all run the command, so
they act on the part too. simplify_with now shares its run fitting with
the part refit (same results).
Verification: crates/engine/src/tests_simplify_part.rs (unselected anchors
and segments equal bit for bit, run end anchors fixed, the run within the
tolerance, two runs equal to each simplified alone in one undo step, a
closed run across the start point, picked segments, wholePaths, slider
preview and Auto-Simplify, a run that can't be simpler records no step)
and simplify_slider_and_dialog_simplify_only_the_direct_selected_part_of_a_path
(the slider's preview, Enter and the dialog's OK). Live: the release build's
slider at level 20 on a 91-anchor wave with anchors 30–60 selected refits
only that stretch.
The drawing modes help page
(https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/draw-shapes-and-paths/learn-drawing-basics/drawing-modes-overview.html)
has you draw or paste into the selected object in Draw Inside. The isolation
help page
(https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/select-objects/isolate-objects.html)
isolates a path, group or object on a double-click with the Selection tool,
and puts art added in isolation mode where the isolated art was once the mode
ends, so that art belongs with what is isolated.
Steps: select a path, choose Draw Inside, double-click the path with the
Selection tool (it is isolated), then draw or paste. The art went into the
clip group Draw Inside makes around the path, but isolation mode stayed on the
bare path, so the new art was outside it: drawn dimmed, passed through by
clicks and marquees, and a double-click on it selected the path and never
entered the clip group. Double-clicking an existing Draw Inside clip group
from outside isolation mode already isolated it, and pastes then went inside
it; that is unchanged.
Cause: create::insert_look_turned and edit::paste_clip put the art into
create::draw_inside_group's clip group but left DocState::isolation on the
object drawn into, and with a single object isolated, hit testing reaches
only that object.
Change: when the object drawn into is the isolated one, isolation moves to its
clip group (create::isolate_draw_inside_group), after new art and after Draw
Inside pastes. A drag's previews replay from its snapshot and make the group
under the same id, and cancelling the drag restores the isolation it began
with. Undo and redo end isolation mode when the isolated object is no longer
in the document (the undone clip group), as mask editing already does,
instead of keeping an id a later object may take.
Verification: drawing_inside_an_isolated_object_keeps_the_new_art_in_isolation_mode
fails without the change (isolation Some(NodeId(2)) instead of the clip group
Some(NodeId(6))). A whole-window egui run through the control channel's
ui.click/ui.drag (double-click the rectangle, drag an ellipse inside, paste,
click the copy) left isolation on the rectangle and the click selected the
rectangle before; after, isolation is on the clip group and the click selects
the copy.
Converting a frame of threaded text to point type left the frame's
text in the point type, and the re-flow also added that text to the
story, as it does for a frame that was deleted. The other frames then
held it a second time.
A frame that is still in the document as point type now leaves its
thread with the text it holds. The story flows through the other
frames without that text, so each character is held once. A thread
left with one frame is no longer a thread, and undo restores the
thread.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Many tools note things on SVG objects in attributes of their own XML
namespace: a plotter's pen, a cutter's passes, a game engine's
collision flag. Import dropped them, so a file that went through
VectorCraft lost what other software had set on its objects. #522
asked for unknown and data-* attributes to survive a round trip; #580
kept the data-* ones, and this keeps the ones in other applications'
namespaces.
- Import keeps every attribute in a namespace that isn't SVG's,
XLink's, XML's, Inkscape's, Sodipodi's or VectorCraft's own, on the
object or layer it belongs to, in order, with its namespace URI and
the prefix the file gave it (ObjectAttributes::foreign, beside the
data-* attributes and the event handlers). The file is untrusted: at
most 64 per object and 64 KiB per value, and what is left out is
warned about. Files that declare no other namespace skip the scan.
- They are the object's own, as its data-* attributes are: a pasted
copy and a duplicate keep them, and deleting the object takes them
with it. The native file keeps them in the object's attributes, a
key written only when an object has some.
- Export writes them back on the same elements and declares each
namespace once, on the root, under the file's prefix. A prefix the
export uses itself, or that another namespace already has, becomes
prefix2, prefix3...; one XML keeps for itself (xml...) becomes ns. A
name or value XML can't hold is left out with a warning.
Nothing in VectorCraft reads them, and nothing in the UI lists them.
svg/tests/foreign_attributes.rs: a layer's and a shape's attributes
survive import, export and import again, Inkscape's and Sodipodi's
own aside and with no warnings, and the native form round-trips;
prefixes are made unique, and bad names and values are left out with
a warning; the caps hold and are warned about once.
engine tests_attributes.rs: a pasted copy and a duplicate keep them, a
deleted object leaves none behind, and the native file and SVG export
keep them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HhvnnnD5fTFupK8WWq35un
The drawing-modes help page
(https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/draw-shapes-and-paths/learn-drawing-basics/drawing-modes-overview.html)
has you draw or paste into the selected object in Draw Inside. It also says
the modes apply to Paste in Place and Paste on All Artboards but not to Paste
in Front or Paste in Back.
Cause: only new art (create::insert_look) read the drawing mode. The paste
commands (edit::paste_clip) always used the insertion parent, so a paste in
Draw Inside landed on the layer above the object, outside the clip.
Double-clicking the object first only isolated the bare path, which didn't
change where the paste went. Separately, view.drawMode {} went from Draw
Behind to Draw Inside whenever one object was selected, then refused it unless
the object was a path, compound path or type. So with one group selected
(such as the clip group Draw Inside makes), Shift+D and the toolbar button
failed every time and stayed in Draw Behind.
Change: the clip-group wrapping moves into create::draw_inside_group, which
new art and pastes now share. In Draw Inside, Paste, Paste in Place and Paste
on All Artboards insert the copies at the top of that group, in the paste's
one undo step, ignoring Paste Remembers Layers. In Draw Behind, Paste in Place
and Paste on All Artboards go just below the selection, as Paste in Back does.
Paste in Front, Paste in Back and pasted artboards keep their placement.
Shift+D goes on to Draw Inside only when it can draw into the selection, and
otherwise back to Draw Normal.
Verification: pasting_in_draw_inside_puts_the_copies_inside_the_object,
paste_in_place_in_draw_behind_goes_behind_the_selection and
shift_d_goes_past_draw_behind_whatever_is_selected all fail without the
change ("Layer" != "Clip Group"; index 3 != 0; the Draw Inside error on a
selected group). cargo xtask ci: all 10 steps passed.
The Artboard Options help pages describe two display options
(https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/create-manage-artboards/organize-manage-artboards/modify-display-settings-of-artboards.html,
.../set-video-display-options-for-artboards.html): a mark at the artboard's
center, and lines from the middle of each side through the center. The
document already had show_center_mark and show_cross_hairs on Artboard, but
nothing set or drew them.
artboard.setProps (each `artboards` entry too) and artboard.new take
showCenterMark and showCrossHairs as true/false, in the same single undo
step as the other fields; a locked artboard can still change them.
Artboard Options has both checkboxes, filled in from the artboard whether
it opens from the panel or a double-click with the Artboard tool, and its
New Artboard form passes them to artboard.new. The canvas draws them in the
new theme token artboard_mark, 1 point wide on screen at any zoom: a cross
12 points across at the center whose arms follow the artboard's sides, and
the two cross hairs. They are screen-only like the edges; exports and print
never read the fields. inspect_document reports them when on. Saved files
are unchanged: the two keys were already always written, so a document that
never shows them saves byte for byte as before, and a file without the keys
opens with both off. Video safe areas, video rulers and the pixel aspect
ratio are not part of this change.
Verification: artboard_display_marks_are_set_and_cleared_in_one_undo_step,
artboard_display_marks_round_trip_through_the_native_format,
artboard_display_marks_stay_out_of_exports (SVG and PDF identical with the
marks on and off), an_artboard_shows_its_center_mark_and_cross_hairs
(positions, screen-constant size under zoom, rotated view) and
artboard_options_show_center_mark_and_cross_hairs. cargo xtask ci: all 10
steps passed.
The Simplify help page says the slider starts at an auto-simplified value
(https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/draw-shapes-and-paths/modify-paths/manually-simplify-paths.html).
The slider opened at a fixed level 50 (1 pt), whatever the size of the
selection, so the first preview was the same tolerance for a 30 pt icon as
for a 1000 pt drawing.
The level Auto-Simplify picks for the selection is now one engine function,
vectorcraft_engine::auto_simplify_level (the existing 1/400-of-the-longer-
side rule in vectorcraft_pathops), which object.path.simplify {auto: true}
and the slider's opening fields both use. Object › Path › Simplify (and
ui.menuDialog, the Properties and contextual task bar buttons, which go
through the same menu dialog) opens the slider there, and the canvas
previews that result; Auto-Simplify still moves the slider back to it.
The retained Simplify dialog path is unchanged.
Verification: simplify_slider_opens_at_the_auto_simplify_level_of_the_selection
opens the slider on 1140, 285 and 28.5 pt waves (levels 35, 55, 89) and
checks the preview is exactly object.path.simplify {auto: true}'s result;
without the change it fails with level 50 != 35, and
simplify_opens_a_slider_whose_drag_previews_fewer_or_more_points fails with
{"level": 50} != {"level": 55}. cargo xtask ci: all 10 steps passed.
Export for Screens and the Asset Export panel's Export encoded and wrote
every file on the UI thread, so the window stopped responding until the
last file was written. For 50 artboards in PNG at 1x, 2x and 3x, PDF and
SVG (250 files, 47 MiB), the dialog's OK took a median of 43.8 s in a
release build on Windows.
With Enable Background Export on (Preferences › File Handling), OK now
checks the settings, remembers them and takes a snapshot of the
document, and the dialog closes. The thread that writes background
saves and exports then encodes the files and writes them into the
folder, or one ZIP in it, and the export progress dialog's Cancel stops
it before the next file. The same OK takes under 0.001 s, and the files
have the same names and bytes. With the preference off, without a
folder, on the web and over MCP and scripts (document.exportForScreens
and assets.export), the files are made at once with the same reply as
before.
Both commands report one progress step per file, so the progress dialog
shows "File 3 of 250" and MCP progress notifications count the files in
place of the encoders' artboards and pages.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md, docs/control-protocol.md, docs/mcp.md.
A filter plug-in gets 50 M instructions and a minute for each run.
Filters that order a plotter's paths, pack shapes or run a simulation
need minutes, and the app shouldn't freeze while they compute.
A filter's manifest may now ask for "budget": "heavy" (Budget): each run
gets HEAVY_FUEL (1 G instructions) and HEAVY_WALL_TIME_MS (300 s). Only a
filter may ask. plugin.install refuses such a filter without allowHeavy:
true, and plugin.inspect returns the entry a module would have without
installing it. Install Plug-in… and File › Open ask the user and install
on OK; the plug-in store keeps the answer, and folder loads skip heavy
filters with a note, since they ask nobody.
The app runs a heavy filter on a thread of its own (plugin_runs), not in
Background Save's queue, with the status bar and a progress window
(Cancel, Continue in Background) that it shares with Background Export
(export_progress::window). FilterRun splits plugin.run: prepared on the
session, run on any thread, its output handed in, and the next
plugin.run with the same params applies that output instead of running
the plug-in again, so the edit stays one guarded, journaled command. A
result whose document or plug-in changed meanwhile is dropped, and the
status bar says to run it again. A cancelled plug-in run is now
EngineError::Cancelled.
What a filter keeps with the document (#3720) goes with the run: it is
given _context.documentData when the run is prepared, and the
documentData of its output is applied with its objects, in the same undo
step, when the run is handed in (FilterRun::finish).
Tests: plugins/tests/abi.rs (100 M loop steps out of a light budget,
within a heavy one; folders skip heavy filters), manifest.rs, engine
tests_plugins.rs (consent, inspect, the store, hand-in, a handed-in
run's document data, cancel) and
ui-egui tests_plugin_runs.rs (installing asks, no Preview, a background
run as one undo step, a stale result kept out, the progress window).
CRAFT_UI_HEAVY_FILTER_WASM=<folder> writes a test filter to try in the
app. Its strings and messages have rows in each complete catalog
(COMPLETE_MESSAGES).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HhvnnnD5fTFupK8WWq35un
A Shape Builder drag merged only the regions the pointer passed over,
and the tool did not read Shift. The reference app's Shape Builder page
describes a Shift-drag that draws a rectangular marquee to merge many
paths at once.
With Shift held at the press, the drag now draws a rectangular marquee
from where it started to the pointer. The regions it reaches are shaded
while it is drawn and merge into one shape on release; with Alt also
held at the press, they are deleted. The marquee reaches each region
whose outline crosses it or has an anchor inside it, and the region that
holds the whole marquee. A Shift-click that does not move is a click,
and a drag without Shift works as before. With In Merge Mode, Clicking
Stroke Splits the Path on, a Shift-click on a stroke splits it as a
click does; a marquee splits no stroke, and while it is drawn the
pointer does not show scissors and no stroke is highlighted.
shapeBuilder.merge takes the marquee as rect: [x, y, width, height],
where x and y are where the drag started, and points may then be left
out. For Pick Color From Artwork, the corner where the drag started
counts as the drag's first point, and the opposite corner counts as its
last. With rect, splitStroke does not split a stroke.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
With In Merge Mode, Clicking Stroke Splits the Path on, the run a click
split off could run against its path. A click on a rectangle's top side
gave a side from (100, 0) to (0, 0) on a rectangle that runs from
(0, 0) to (100, 0) there, so arrowheads and other settings that follow
a stroke's direction moved to the other end. The run now goes the way
the path goes.
The two paths of a split, and what an Alt-click or a merge leaves of a
path, had a gradient fitted to the path's bounds fitted again to their
own bounds. They now keep it where it was on the path.
A run that left 0.05 pt or less of a path still split it, into the
run and a speck. Such a path now does not split, and the tool shows
no scissors over it.
Docs: docs/mcp.md (Shape Builder Tool Options).
Illustrator 30.0's Method choice in the Gradient panel
(https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/create-and-edit-gradients/control-perceptual-interpolation-in-gradients.html).
- paint.editGradient takes `method: classic|perceptual` (one undo step);
paint.setFill/setStroke take it in `gradient`, and gradient params (swatches,
copied paints) carry it when Perceptual. Anything else is refused without
editing. One edit can set `method` and `dither` together.
- The Gradient panel shows a Method menu (Classic, Perceptual) for linear and
radial gradients, dimmed without a gradient; the Dither box stays under the
stops.
- i18n: "Perceptual" where a complete catalog lacked it, and the `method`
error in all 24 catalogs.
- Docs: G13 (estimate 14–24 h → 13–23 h, after Dither's 15–25 h → 14–24 h),
target-app-parity (row and evidence), ui-parity, mcp.md, plugins.md.
With the Artboard tool, File › Revert kept the active artboard, but a
command.batch with a file.revert step made artboard 1 the active one.
A batch that switched to another document and back, and the Actions
panel menu's Batch… over a folder whose files it closes or over data
sets with a Revert step, did the same. Each of them starts the tool
afresh and ends in the document it started in, and the app moved the
view to the fresh tool's artboard 1. Only a plain file.revert was
handled, by its command id.
The engine now counts the times switching or closing documents, or
replacing the active one, starts the tool afresh (Session::tool_resets),
and records whether the tool's options were set after that
(Session::tool_set_since_reset). When the count changes during a
command and nothing set the tool's options after it, the app starts
the tool on the active artboard, as it does when a command chooses
another document. When a later step chose the tool's artboards (a
Paste or Cut after the revert), the artboard the tool then has active
becomes the active one.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
With Pick Color From Artwork, a Shape Builder merge took the look of
the front-most object over the first covered region the drag touched,
and the current fill when the drag touched only areas no object
covers. The reference app's combine page gives the look of the object
where the drag starts, else of the object where it ends, else of the
topmost selected object.
shapeBuilder.merge now follows that rule: the merged shape takes the
appearance, opacity and blending mode of the front-most of the objects
it is given (the selection by default) under the first point, else of
the one under the last point, else of the front-most of those objects.
A drag from a hole across a gray bar into a red square now gives a red
shape, where it gave the bar's look. A click in an area no selected
object covers, such as a hole that gray bars enclose or a triangle
that lines enclose, takes the front-most selected object's look
instead of the current fill. Pick Color From Color Swatches works as
before. The tool already sends the press point first and the release
point last.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Illustrator 30.0's gradient Dither, from the public documentation
(https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/create-and-edit-gradients/control-dither-in-gradients.html):
a Dither checkbox in the Gradient panel; dither converts the gradient into
pixels with subtle noise, works with gradient fills only, and follows the
Document Raster Effects resolution.
- Gradient gains `dither` (serde default false, written only when on, so
older files open unchanged and new files keep it).
- The renderer draws a dithered linear or radial fill as an image paint: the
gradient sampled a cell per device pixel or finer (quarter-octave steps,
cached per thread), each channel given seeded triangular noise of up to a
level before rounding. Same pixels every run; strokes and undithered fills
draw exactly as before. PNG and other raster exports go through it.
- SVG and PDF write a dithered fill as an image at the document's raster
effects resolution, clipped to the shape (the freeform-gradient path);
characters' fills stay vector gradients in SVG, with a warning.
- paint.editGradient and paint.setFill take `dither`; strokes refuse it.
The Gradient panel's Dither box is dimmed behind the Stroke proxy.
- i18n rows in all 24 catalogs; docs: G13, target-app-parity, ui-parity,
mcp.md, plugins.md.
The File Handling preference Link Placed PDF and .ai Files
(linkPlacedPdf) is removed. File › Place with Link now places a page of
a PDF, .ai or .ait file read as PDF pages as a linked placed document,
as it links a raster image, and link: false embeds the page. Link is on
by default in the Place dialog and in file.place, so a PDF or .ai page
placed from a file, which used to be embedded, is now linked unless
Link is off. A password or textAs: "outlines" still embeds, and so do
EPS and PostScript .ai files.
The Place dialog's Link tooltip describes a PDF or .ai file as a
document.
A .ai file read from its editing data (its PDF part only a placeholder)
finds the files its art places by name, beside it. Package now copies
those files into the same folder as the .ai file, and warns when one has
to be copied under another name.
File › Place with Link kept a link only to raster images and VectorCraft
documents. A PDF, .ai or .ait page was always embedded as a group, so
Update Links never saw a newer version of the file.
A new preference, File Handling › Link Placed PDF and .ai Files
(linkPlacedPdf), is off by default. With it on, Link places the page as
a placed document, as it places a VectorCraft document: the object
keeps the file's bytes, a preview, the page number and the page's box
(crop, art, trim, bleed or media, stored as page_box). Links check,
update and relink it, Break Link and Object › Expand give the group
placing it without Link gives, every output draws the page's vectors,
and saving and reopening keep the link. With the preference off, or
with a password or textAs: "outlines", the page is embedded as before.
EPS and PostScript .ai files are still embedded.
Package copies a placed PDF or .ai file as it is. The Place dialog's
Link tooltip describes a PDF or .ai file as a document while the
preference is on. Relinking a placed document to a file that is not a
VectorCraft document, a PDF or a PDF-compatible .ai file says so.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
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