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vangel76andClaude Opus 5.5 1eb9bea82a Inspect: scope document.inspect / doc_inspect by ids, kind, limit and offset (#2167)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-17 13:49:48 +07:00
Fabio William Conceição 0ffe0c7c0e Part of #394: Highlight Alternate Glyphs defaults to off. 2026-10-17 12:26:13 +07:00
dotCooCoo 5527418234 Selection: pressing E while dragging a marquee selects only the objects inside it
A Selection tool marquee selected every object it touched, a Group
Selection marquee selected the anchors inside it, and E pressed during
the drag did nothing. Now E switches either marquee to selecting only
the objects that lie entirely inside it, measured by their geometric
bounds, and E pressed again switches it back. Each marquee starts in
the default mode.

- The Selection tool selects a group only when the whole group lies
  inside. Group Selection selects the objects inside groups, each as a
  whole object. Shift still toggles. Direct Selection does not take E.
- The ruler guides the marquee selects with the art are limited the same
  way: an artboard guide is selected when its whole length lies inside,
  and a canvas guide is not selected.
- Tools receive letter keys as ToolKey::Letter. While a tool is busy, the
  desktop app sends it each press of a letter it claims, without Cmd,
  Ctrl or Alt and without key repeats, and headless press_key sends a
  claimed letter the same way. With nothing dragged, press_key {key: "e"}
  still chooses the tool bound to E.

Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
2026-10-16 15:27:53 +07:00
dotCooCoo 6dfdf643d9 Type: Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+X resets horizontal scale to 100%
The reference app resets the horizontal scale of type to 100% with
Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+X. VectorCraft had no command for it, and the chord
cut the selection: egui reports it as a Cut with Shift held.

type.resetHorizontalScale (Reset Horizontal Scale, default
Cmd+Shift+X) sets the horizontal scale to 100% in the text the Type
tool has selected, or else in all the text of every selected type
object, in one undo step. The value is the one the Character panel
shows, so a type object stretched to twice its width keeps 50% stored.
The vertical scale does not change. At a caret the command leaves the
text as it is. Type objects given in ids are reset in full, as
type.resetTracking does.

Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
2026-10-16 14:58:09 +07:00
dotCooCoo ad1e8d1112 Type: Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+Shift+. and , step the font size by five increments
No command held Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+Shift+. and Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+Shift+,, so the
chords reached Increase and Decrease Font Size (Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+. and ,)
and changed the size by one Size/Leading increment.

Two commands, type.size.increaseByFive and type.size.decreaseByFive,
now hold the chords. They step the font size of the selected type, or
of the text the Type tool has selected, by five times the Size/Leading
increment (Preferences › Type). Agents reach them with press_key too.
Their labels have rows in every complete catalog.

Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
2026-10-16 14:58:09 +07:00
Ayberk A. d838af024b MCP: command listings take query, menu and brief (#2173)
The command catalogue is about 340,000 characters, more than many MCP
clients show, and `query` (the name agents reach for first) was refused as
an unknown argument. command_list and list_commands now take `query` as
another name for `filter`, `menu` to keep the commands under a menu path
("Object > Path"), and `brief` to leave out each command's params text,
which is most of the catalogue; the params of one command are a filtered
listing away.
2026-10-16 14:57:21 +07:00
Gert Pellin ba254a7481 MCP command_batch: draw_path and draw_shape run as steps (#2113)
A step whose id is draw_path or draw_shape runs that tool with its params,
checked as tools/call checks arguments; its result is the tool's, so later
steps can use "$N.id". The reply lists the ids the drawing steps made
under created. The unknown-argument check is shared with tools/call.
2026-10-16 04:44:52 +07:00
Gert Pellin 49fcfbd145 MCP draw_path / draw_shape: dash, cap, join, opacity, name and effects (#2112)
The drawing tools style the object they draw in the same call: dash, cap
and join go to the stroke.set that strokeWidth already sends, opacity and
name to object.setProps, and effects are applied in order as apply_effect
does. The options are checked (effect ids against effect.list) before
anything is drawn, so a bad one leaves no half-styled object behind.
2026-10-16 04:44:52 +07:00
YukiHiko 8b5e9e4927 G6: expose vertical writing in MCP add_text 2026-10-16 04:19:05 +07:00
dotCooCoo cb9522f7cd Type: Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+Q resets tracking to 0 and kerning to Auto
The reference app resets tracking and kerning to 0 with Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+Q.
VectorCraft had no command for it.

type.resetTracking (Reset Tracking and Kerning, default Cmd+Alt+Q) sets
tracking to 0 and kerning to Auto, which the Character panel shows as 0,
in the text the Type tool has selected, or else in all the text of
every selected type object. At a caret it resets only the kerning of
the character before it, where Alt+Left/Right kerns. It is one undo
step. The range logic of type.step moves into a shared type_ranges.

When a call gives ids, type.step and type.resetTracking change all the
text of those type objects even while the Type tool edits text, as
paint.setFill does. Before, type.step changed the Type tool's selected
text instead.

Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
2026-10-16 02:56:35 +07:00
dotCooCoo 5a83bcfafa Export: the export commands' params and the MCP export tool list the .ai format
document.export, document.serialize and document.exportSelection write
a PDF-compatible .ai (format: "ai"), and document.formats lists ai as
writable, but none of their params texts named it. The params text of
document.exportSelection named only png, jpg, webp, svg, svgz and pdf,
although the command writes all 20 writable formats. The description
of the MCP export tool and its row in docs/mcp.md named every format
of the tool's format enum except ai, and the range text and the row
said that only PDF writes several artboards.

The three params texts now list every format their command writes,
and document.export's range and useArtboards texts name .ai beside
PDF. The MCP export tool's description names ai, and its artboard and
range texts say that .ai, like PDF, writes one page per artboard. The
range text and the row also say that SVG, SVGZ and EPS write one file
per chosen artboard, and that rasters, DXF, EMF and WMF do so with
options.useArtboards: true.

Docs: docs/mcp.md (the export tool).
2026-10-16 02:56:34 +07:00
euisuh e9fc3c57ae fix(mcp): discard malformed JSON replies before reusing connections 2026-10-16 02:02:48 +07:00
skylar taylor-barrick a699a26221 refactor(pdf): use shared writer for export and print (PDF.W1) 2026-10-13 20:41:14 -06:00
bflatastic 63b0dc4c32 MCP: a connection holding bytes nobody asked for is replaced before the request is sent 2026-10-14 04:31:44 +07:00
KnottyDyesandClaude Opus 5.5 16366ce422 MCP: reconnect closed control sockets before sending requests
After the app restarted, the remote backend wrote the next request to
the old, closed connection and reported that the operation may have
completed, although the restarted app received nothing. Reused
connections are now checked without blocking before writing, and a
closed one is replaced first. If the app can't be reached, the error
says so and that nothing was sent. Failures after the request was
written still report uncertainty and are never replayed.

Loopback tests cover a restart between calls (the edit is applied
exactly once) and a refused reconnect. The lost-reply test from #1246
still passes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BSB7fMQUccqFQekksDGWpo
2026-10-14 04:31:44 +07:00
bflatastic 7e56066847 MCP: property test for the framing, batch and envelope limits; the refusal without an id is documented (#1727, #1728) 2026-10-14 04:31:44 +07:00
bflatastic d3327b17a1 MCP: a control refusal without an id reports the app's reason instead of an id mismatch (#1728) 2026-10-14 04:31:44 +07:00
Fahri Meral cc518797a8 Fix #1728: require the JSON-RPC 2.0 envelope and correlate control replies
The server dispatched requests and notifications without ever checking jsonrpc, so a missing or wrong version could invoke tools or flip notification state; Remote accepted any reply with ok/result/error without comparing ids, so a faulty endpoint could attribute a stray result to the current call. handle() now requires jsonrpc 2.0 before dispatch (other envelopes get -32600, or are ignored for notifications, which have no id for a reply) and Remote::call rejects a reply whose id doesn't echo the request's, dropping the connection so the next call starts fresh, with the usual uncertainty error. Three new tests cover wrong/missing versions (incl. batch entries and a state-changing notification) and the mismatch-reconnect; docs/mcp.md documents both. cargo test -p vectorcraft-mcp passes.
2026-10-14 04:31:44 +07:00
bflatastic 5336d80196 command_batch: the step whose result passes the size cap says that it ran (#1727) 2026-10-14 04:31:43 +07:00
Fahri Meral b75ced8a70 Fix #1727: cap MCP framing input, batches and kept command_batch results
The server read stdio lines and remote replies without any byte bound, answered batches of any size, and command_batch kept every step result: one faulty peer or batch could allocate and work without bound. Request lines are now read in bounded chunks (16 MiB; longer lines get a -32600 reply, are skipped, and framing continues), protocol batches hold at most 64 messages, control-channel replies past 256 MiB drop the connection with the usual uncertainty error, command_batch takes at most 256 steps and keeps at most 8 MiB of step results (past that the batch stops with the reason, still closing its atomic undo group). Eight new tests cover the line/batch/step/result caps and the atomic-group close; docs/mcp.md and the command_batch tool text document them. cargo test -p vectorcraft-mcp passes.
2026-10-14 04:31:43 +07:00
Gert Pellin ed1e976264 Fix #1748: text.create takes justify, so point type can be centred on its point
text.create, text.createInPath and the MCP add_text tool now take a
`justify` (auto|left|center|right|justifyAll, as text.setStyle). Point
type already laid out centred or right-aligned text around its origin;
it just could not be made that way, so scripts measured the bounds and
moved the text. Changing it afterwards stays text.setStyle {justify}.
2026-10-14 03:55:41 +07:00
bflatastic 175ad4a1e3 Effects: effect.apply and effect.setParams refuse parameters the effect doesn't take (#1592) 2026-10-13 11:53:38 +07:00
bflatastic 8b8fd1476b Fix #1471: making and restyling type reports text that doesn't fit its frame
text.create, text.createInPath, text.setText and text.setStyle answer with
overflow: [id…] for the area type and type on a path whose text doesn't fit (left
out when all fits), and MCP add_text with overflow: true. add_text takes area
type's fit and fitMinPercent.
2026-10-13 03:27:13 +07:00
bflatastic 3acc29f8e0 Fix #1442: an unknown parameter key is an error naming it and the nearest accepted key 2026-10-13 02:54:33 +07:00
KnottyDyes 44f3141c3d MCP: lost replies report uncertainty instead of replaying edits
Drop a failed control connection and reconnect for the next request, never resend an operation that may already have completed.

A loopback regression applies a rectangle then drops its reply. It reproduces two edits before the fix and verifies one edit, an error, and successful inspection afterward.
2026-10-12 06:59:49 +07:00
dotCooCoo 845aa6848f MCP: select.key checks its id, and agents can read the key object
Agents could set and clear the key object but not read it:
document.inspect, the control channel's ui.pointer reply and the
headless pointer_gesture reply left it out, and select.key returned
null. select.key with an id that was not selected, or with a value
that is not an id, such as "x", cleared the key without an error. A
compound-path member or an object inside a selected group could become
the key.

select.key now checks its id as select.set, select.add and
select.toggle do (#784). It returns an error for an id that is not a
selected top-level object and leaves the key as it was. Layers,
compound-path members and objects inside another selected object are
not top-level objects. select.key {id: null} used to clear the key and
is now an error; select.key {} still clears it. select.key returns
{key}, and document.inspect and both pointer replies include the key
object as "key".

In isolation mode a Selection-tool click can pick an object that
select.key does not accept as the key: a sublayer inside an isolated
layer, a member inside an isolated compound path, or an object in an
isolated group that is also selected. The tool no longer sends
select.key {id} for such an object. When the object is already the
key, the tool still sends select.key {}, which clears the key.

A recorded action whose select.key step names an object that is not a
selected top-level object when the action plays now fails and is
rolled back, as an action with a select.set step naming a deleted
object has failed since #784.

Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/control-protocol.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
2026-10-12 00:16:23 +07:00
bflatasticandClaude Opus 5.5 ed80181d70 #1163: command_batch can be one undo step
An agent's build over MCP left one undo step per batch step (about 280
for one job). `command_batch` takes `atomic: true` (and an optional
`label` naming the step) to make the whole batch one undo step. It runs
the batch in an undo group, opened and closed by the new commands
`edit.undoGroup.begin {label?}` and `edit.undoGroup.end {cancel?}`, so
every backend (headless or the connected app) supports it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-11 18:22:45 +07:00
bflatasticandClaude Opus 5.5 805d30e284 Review: DXF outlineText note and new-art wording in the MCP docs (#1148)
DXF already outlines type unless preserve: editability, so say so next to
the outlineText flag; reword the new-art sentence and point to paint.default.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-11 18:14:25 +07:00
KnottyDyes 4505ccb20d MCP: drawing tools describe inherited paint and export text options
Omitted paint fields keep the current appearance, so agents can get a black outline when they only set a fill. Document the initial white fill and 1 pt black stroke and recommend explicit paint for outline-free art.

Clarify SVG/SVGZ outlineText versus PDF options.advanced.outlineText and PDF's live-text default, noting DXF also accepts the top-level flag. Descriptions and documentation only; drawing and export behavior are unchanged.
2026-10-11 18:14:23 +07:00
bflatasticandClaude Opus 5.5 c3719b2e79 #1163: MCP render_preview takes an artboard index
render_preview only rendered the first artboard, so an agent couldn't
look at pages 2 and on of a multi-artboard document without switching
to screenshot. It now takes an optional 0-based `artboard` (as
screenshot does) and refuses an index the document doesn't have.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-11 18:13:26 +07:00
dotCooCoo a2abe63e8d Align, Reflect and Shear: object.align needs a direction; unknown choices are errors
object.align with neither horizontal nor vertical returned success
and moved nothing. The command palette, and a key bound to it in
Keyboard Shortcuts, run it with no params. It now returns
"give horizontal or vertical", as object.distribute already did.
An action recorded while Align ran from the palette or a bound key
contains an object.align step with no params. Playing that action now
fails at that step, and command.batch rolls back the whole action.

Values outside a parameter's choices were read as another choice or
ignored. Align ignored an unknown horizontal or vertical and aligned
to the selection for an unknown to value. Distribute read an unknown
direction as center. Distribute Spacing and Shear read any axis other
than "vertical" as horizontal, and Reflect read any axis other than
"horizontal" or a number as vertical. A bounds or to value that was
not a string fell back to the default, and a spacing that was not a
number gave automatic spacing. The commands now return an error that
names such a value, before they move anything or record an undo
step. When a to, bounds, axis or spacing value is missing or null,
the command uses the parameter's default: Distribute Spacing without
an axis spaces the objects horizontally.

The run_command description and docs/mcp.md showed object.align with
an align param it does not have; they now use horizontal. The new
status-bar messages have rows in the de, es, fr, it, ja, ru and uk
catalogs.

Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
2026-10-11 11:33:03 +07:00
bflatastic 7f17d980d4 #1003: MCP add_text colours type made on or in a path
add_text passed `color` to text.create only, and text.createInPath built its own character
style without a colour, so type on a path and path-based area type took the current fill.

text.createInPath now uses the same new-type style as text.create (size, font, style, color,
else the current fill), and add_text sends `color` on both routes.

The MCP test draws a blue rectangle (the current fill), turns it into on-path and area type
with color #ff0000, and reads red back through inspect_document.

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

# Conflicts:
#	ROADMAP.md
2026-10-11 03:51:15 +07:00
IHAGI-c 35c4a428ff Graph Data: blank cells are left out, not drawn as zero; quoted numbers are labels
A graph's data can now hold blank cells: an empty CSV cell, a null in
`rows` (any cell that isn't a finite number), the rest of a short row,
or a row that has only a label.

- Columns, bars and stacked segments leave a blank cell out instead of
  drawing a zero-height mark.
- Line and scatter graphs break their lines around it and draw no
  marker there; the value axis ignores it.
- Area, pie and radar graphs draw it as 0, which is what it adds to
  them.

The help pages don't describe blank cells, so this is our own choice:
a cell with no value has nothing to draw, which also matches how a
series with a missing year reads in a report.

In the file a blank cell keeps a 0 in `rows` and is listed in a new
`blanks` field ([category, series] pairs, written only when there are
any). A version that doesn't know blanks ignores the field and reads
the zeros, so files still open there, and files without blanks are
unchanged.

A number in straight quotes is a label, as the help page on graph
labels says (a year as a category name, for one). The CSV reader used
to strip the quotes first and read it as a value. Label columns are now
decided for the whole column: once any row starts with a label, every
row's first cell is its label, so a row with an empty label no longer
shifts its values one place left. The data window writes a header row,
labels that are empty, read as numbers or have spaces around them in
quotes, and blanks as empty cells, so they come back as they were.
graph.setData {} returns blanks in `rows` as null, so the rows it
returns can be edited and sent back. A label-only row keeps its place
with blank values; a row with neither a value nor a label is dropped,
and a first row that is a label followed by empty cells (`Year,,`) is
still read as a header with no series names.

The data grid is built in full for drawing and for the data window, so
it now stops at 10,000 categories of 256 series, which keeps a file
with one very long row from allocating without bound.

Behaviour (quoted labels): Add graph labels and data sets:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/visualize-data/add-graph-labels-and-data-sets.html
2026-10-10 17:59:45 +07:00
bflatasticandClaude Opus 5.5 9f875050ef Fix #832: --automation-read-root and --automation-write-root confine the MCP server's files
vectorcraft-cli mcp and vectorcraft --control take the flags PhotoCraft
takes. While roots are in force, every path a command reads (open, place,
relink, SVG image links, library and profile loads, plug-ins, preset
imports, font searches) must lie inside the read root and every path it
writes (save, export, package, Export for Screens and for Web, print to
file, captures, library saves) inside the write root. Paths are made
absolute, links are followed (a missing file's nearest folder's), and the
result is compared by whole components, ignoring case on Windows; `..`
below a missing folder, dangling links and device names are refused. A
root left out grants none of its access; without the flags nothing
changes.

The checks live in one place, vectorcraft_engine::file_access, consulted
by the engine's file helpers and the app's file services. The headless
server confines its whole process; the app confines control requests,
the frames carrying input they inject and the background saves they
start, leaving the person at the keyboard and the app's own folders
alone. The screenshot tool now has the backend write its file.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-10 14:27:24 +07:00
Fabio William Conceição 89812275d7 Part of #394: Show Font Names in English labels the font menus. 2026-10-10 14:10:31 +07:00
bflatasticandClaude Opus 5.5 b767e850ed Part of #785: run and command_batch steps can use earlier results
A run (vectorcraft-cli run, the MCP command_batch tool) had no way to use
an id an earlier step returned. A parameter string that is exactly
$N.path or $last.path now takes that value from step N's result
(0-based), e.g. {"id":"$1.id"}; $$ starts a literal $, and a
reference to nothing fails the step. Objects given to a command are now
used as given: an ids element or id that isn't an object id (or an
unresolved reference) fails instead of the command acting on the
selection. text.setRangeStyle styles the selected type object when no
id is given, as text.setStyle does.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-10 10:28:03 +07:00
bflatastic 58b95b51ef Merge branch 'pr719' into land/719 2026-10-09 15:19:04 +07:00
Jax SpenserandClaude Sonnet 5.5 29310175af Image Trace: Flat Logo mode (sub-pixel edges, restored corners, true lines and circles)
A fourth Image Trace mode for flat-colour logos. The existing tracer follows hard pixel
edges, so an outline can only be as good as the pixel grid; here each pixel is read as a
blend of the logo's flat colours, the blend is interpolated smoothly (cubic B-spline), and
every outline is placed where two colours are equally present, to a fraction of a pixel.

Outlines are then cleaned the way a person would:
- corners the blur rounded are put back (line fits either side of a bend, intersected);
- near-straight runs and near-circular arcs become exact lines and arcs (Snap Curves To Lines);
- the rest is fitted with as few cubic Beziers as the tolerance allows (Schneider);
- touching colours overlap by 0.06 px so no hairline gap opens between independent fits;
- shapes are painted biggest first; transparent areas fully enclosed by artwork (letters
  knocked out of a badge, the counters of an "o") are painted white so the logo reads the
  same on any background, or become real holes with Ignore White (each hole belongs to the
  smallest outline containing it);
- an outline whose fit strays more than 1.4 px from the raw contour is fitted plainly.

Colours are found automatically (and completed from pixels no blend of the known colours
explains, so a small accent is not lost) or named with `logoColors: ["#rrggbb", ...]` (white is
always its own class; colours closer than 12 count as one; at most ten). Gradients and photos
are refused with advice to use Color (a flat-colour score of the solid areas, 0.93). A
hard-edged source with no anti-aliasing is softened by under a pixel and fitted with looser
snap tolerances. Images over 1024 px on the long side are averaged down first (further, if
they are busy enough to make the unmixing expensive) and the result is mapped back exactly.
More real outlines than we will fit are refused, not silently truncated.

Also: a "Flat Logo" preset, the mode in the Image Trace panel (Method hidden: it always
stacks), the command docs and MCP prompt, es/fr/it/ru translations for the two new messages
and the mode name, and the ROADMAP.

Never-crash: no unwrap/expect/panic, every size and float is bounded and checked, with
tests for degenerate and extreme input (NaN/infinite parameters, 0x0 and 1x1 images, sparse
outlines, an anchor budget, a 200,000-entry palette) and a 250-run randomised no-panic
property test. The B-spline interpolation follows Unser et al. and Thevenaz et al., and the
curve fitter follows Schneider (Graphics Gems); both are written from the papers.

Measured (local experiment, not in CI): a flat-colour logo's vector original rendered down
to a soft 199x100 px PNG and traced. Mean edge error vs the original at 1600 px wide:
built-in colour presets 2.5 to 3.4 px, Flat Logo 0.78 px (0.48 px from a crisp source);
region overlap 0.88-0.91 vs 0.966. About 0.1 s for a 200 px logo.

Tests: 60 new in the trace crate (unmix, field, contours, geometry, Beziers, corners,
outline fitting, palette, end-to-end on synthetic shapes made in code) and 3 in the engine.
cargo xtask ci passes (fmt, clippy, test, assets, brands, layers, wasm): 4,290 tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 17:57:04 +11:00
storybored379andOpenAI Codex 829ec48581 M1: command catalog resource and version-aware MCP results
Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com>
2026-10-08 21:35:07 -07:00
storybored379andOpenAI Codex 2eb6b2fd7c M1: common MCP tools and strict argument handling
Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com>
2026-10-08 21:26:41 -07:00
bflatastic 66a5363629 Merge #656: Image Trace: Create Strokes
# Conflicts:
#	ROADMAP.md
#	crates/engine/src/cmd/buildcmds.rs
#	crates/engine/src/tests_build.rs
#	crates/mcp/src/prompts.rs
#	crates/trace/src/tests.rs
#	crates/ui-egui/src/panels/image_trace.rs
2026-10-09 10:16:02 +07:00
bflatastic eea4fe9e58 Merge #654: Image Trace: Palette (Limited, Full Tone, Automatic, Document Library)
# Conflicts:
#	ROADMAP.md
#	crates/engine/src/cmd/buildcmds.rs
#	crates/ui-egui/src/panels/image_trace.rs
2026-10-09 10:14:35 +07:00
bflatasticandClaude Opus 5.5 438f90c751 Part of #641: Image Trace: Create Strokes
Advanced › Create: Fills and/or Strokes, with Stroke (the widest line, px).
With Strokes, each colour's 8-connected parts no wider than the stroke width
(chamfer distance transform) trace as open centre lines instead of filled
outlines: the line is thinned to one pixel (Zhang-Suen with each removal
re-checked, so two-pixel lines survive; staircase corners dropped), its
skeleton becomes runs between ends and junctions (junction pixels merged,
spurs pruned, runs through two-way junctions joined, rings closed), and each
run is simplified and fitted with curves. The stroke width is the line's mean
width (pixels over length). Traced lines get round caps and joins in the
document. Without Fills, wider areas become 1 px stroked outlines.
`imageTrace.make` takes fills, strokes and strokeWidth, and refuses neither
fills nor strokes and a non-positive width.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 10:11:09 +07:00
bflatasticandClaude Opus 5.5 4a81e549a2 Part of #641: Image Trace: Palette (Limited, Full Tone, Automatic, Document Library)
Color mode's colours now come from a Palette (`palette` in imageTrace.make's
params), shown in the Image Trace panel under Mode:
- Limited: the `colors` best colours (what Color did before; the default).
- Full Tone: median cut until no colour box spans more than 96 (Less) … 8
  (More) levels per channel, up to 256 colours, set by `colorDetail` 0-100
  (the panel's Colors slider for this palette).
- Automatic: flat art (90% of the pixels in a few tight colours) traces with
  exactly its colours, anything else as Full Tone.
- Document Library: the most used (at most `colors`) colours of the
  document's swatches or of a swatch library (`library`: "document" or a
  library id or name, chosen in the panel's Library list), used as they are;
  traced shapes fill with the swatch's own colour, its colour model kept.
  The library's colours are looked up at every trace, not saved.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 09:51:49 +07:00
bflatasticandClaude Opus 5.5 5be583d1f7 Part of #641: Image Trace: Advanced as a section that stays open, and View modes
- The Image Trace panel's Advanced options sit under a full-width collapsible
  header (widgets::section_toggle, also used by New Document's Advanced
  Options); whether it is open is kept with the UI preferences.
- View: Tracing Result, Tracing Result with Outlines, Outlines, Outlines with
  Source Image and Source Image, in the panel, the Control bar and the
  Properties panel. The view is saved in the Image Trace object's settings
  (`trace.view`), kept when it is traced again, set with the new
  `imageTrace.setView` command (or `view` on imageTrace.make) and drawn by the
  canvas only (RenderOptions::trace_views): exports, printing and Expand keep
  the tracing result.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 09:33:22 +07:00
bflatasticandClaude Opus 5.5 1e2cb082ba Fix #526: the exports and the CLI write .ai as Save As does
file.saveAs and document.save wrote a PDF-compatible .ai, but
document.export (and with it the CLI's run --export x.ai and convert
in.svg out.ai, and MCP's export) refused it as a format that can only be
opened, and --help didn't list it as writable.

The .ai encoder is now shared: save.rs's ai_params and encode_ai (a PDF
of every artboard with the PDF options, carrying the native document,
blank pages with pdfCompatible: false) serve Save As and the exports
alike. The .ai format is writable, so document.formats, --help and the
MCP export tool list it; an export leaves the document's own path alone.
Export As and Export for Screens keep leaving .ai to Save As.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 03:18:07 +07:00
bflatasticandClaude Opus 5.5 4eac7b505f Fix #506: drawing tools snap to Smart Guides as the Selection tool does
Every drawing tool now asks one snapper (guides::DrawSnap) for the points it
places: the Pen's and Curvature tool's anchors, the Pencil's ends, the shape
tools' start and dragged corner or radius (Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle,
Ellipse, Polygon, Star, Line Segment, Arc, Spiral, the grids), the Type tool's
click and frame and a new artboard's corners. Points land on other objects'
anchors, centres and paths ("anchor", "center", "path") or line up with their
anchors, edges and centres ("align"); hovering shows it before the press, the
Pen's guides end its rubber band, and the Pen lands on the path being drawn
too. Shift keeps a point to its 45-degree step (from Constrain Angle) or a
box's diagonal and slides it along that way into line with a target.
Preferences > Smart Guides > Construction Guides and Angles now act: a drawn
point near a guide through the point it leaves from lands on it.

Before, the Pen snapped only its press and showed nothing, and the shape tools
re-gathered targets on every drag step from the document showing their own
preview, so the dragged corner stuck to where the last step left it.

Performance: targets are gathered once per document state (keyed on the
document's uid and revision, now in ToolContext), from the art in the window,
and sorted, so the anchors, centres and lines near the pointer are found by
bisection. Leaving objects out of the targets no longer looks up each node's
ancestry (quadratic in the document's size): one pruned walk does it, which
also speeds up the Selection tool's moves and resizes.

The direction handles' HandleSnap (#494) is now a DrawSnap holding its own
targets (Targets::for_handle) for the drag: one cache, one lookup.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-08 23:20:27 +07:00
bflatasticandClaude Opus 5.5 f6cd4588ee Fix #501: a Pen drag out of the first anchor always closes the path
Reported: closing a shape by pressing on the first anchor and dragging out a curve flickered, and
releasing at the wrong moment left the shape open.

The press decided to close (path.close preview), but every move asked again which path was being
drawn: the closing preview leaves the path closed, so no longer one the Pen extends, and the move
fell through to "first anchor of a new path" (a path.create preview), the next move back to a
close of a path that no longer existed in the preview... The release committed whichever was last.

- The press now records what it placed (Place: the anchor, the path it goes on, none for a new
  path, and whether it closes it), and the drag only shapes that anchor's handles: a close stays a
  close, symmetric by default and Alt breaking the handles, and the release closes the path wherever
  it ends. The first anchor of a new path no longer depends on the selection either.
- Tests: tools (the drag sees the closed path), engine (closed throughout a 12-move drag, symmetric
  handles at the release), MCP headless pointer_gesture. ROADMAP.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-08 22:00:24 +07:00
bflatasticandClaude Opus 5.5 aefd961bbd Fix #494: Pen + Cmd edits the path being drawn; Pen + Alt reshapes segments; handle drags fixed and fast
Reported: with the Pen there was no way to edit curves in place as Ctrl does in Illustrator on
Windows (Cmd on the Mac), segments couldn't be grabbed, and the curve-editing tools felt slow and
sometimes didn't take a handle.

- Cmd/Ctrl held at a press with any tool but a selection tool now borrows the selection tool in the
  engine (Session::pointer), not in the canvas: the selection tool chosen last, or Direct Selection
  for the Pen, Curvature and anchor tools until one is chosen. The tool lent to isn't deactivated,
  so the Pen goes on drawing its path after the release while that path stays selected; it no
  longer draws on another open path selected meanwhile. Agents reach it with pointer_gesture
  mods.cmd. With Cmd held the pointer is the borrowed tool's. Choosing a tool or switching
  documents mid-gesture gives the tool back first.
- Pen + Alt over a segment of a selected path reshapes it, as the Anchor Point tool does.
- The handles shown are the handles that drag (one helper for Direct Selection, the Anchor Point
  tool and Pen + Alt): Direct Selection now drags the handles of a path selected as a whole (as
  the Pen leaves it, so Cmd + drag of a handle while drawing works), the Anchor Point tool no
  longer grabs handles that Show handles when multiple anchors are selected hides, the nearest
  handle wins, and a handle shorter than the tolerance leaves its anchor to be picked. The anchor
  tools pick within Selection & Anchor Display > Tolerance instead of a fixed 4 px.
- path.reshapeSegment keeps a smooth anchor at either end smooth (its other handle turns with the
  moved one) instead of kinking it.
- A dragged handle gathered its smart guide targets from the whole document on every pointer move
  (21 ms per move on 20,000 paths): HandleSnap now gathers them once per drag (1 ms).
  vectorcraft-cli perf measures handle and segment drags on a 5,000-anchor path.
- catalog::is_selection_tool and catalog::edits_anchors replace the UI's own lists.
- Tests in tools, engine and MCP (headless pointer_gesture); docs/mcp.md, control-protocol.md,
  ROADMAP.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-08 22:00:13 +07:00
bflatasticandClaude Opus 5.5 377f236687 Fix #483: Shift-drag marquees toggle the selection; the Lasso's Alt keeps the rest
A Shift-drag marquee only ever added to the selection, so there was no way to
take some of the selected objects out with it. As in Illustrator, Shift-drag
now toggles what the marquee reaches: the selected ones are deselected, the
others selected, the rest of the selection stays.

- Selection tool: the Shift marquee runs select.toggle, which now also takes
  {ids} (each one toggles).
- Direct Selection and Group Selection: the Shift marquee toggles the anchors
  inside it (select.anchorsMany mode "toggle"); a path left with none leaves
  the selection, one with all of them is selected whole again.
- select.anchorsMany takes mode "set"|"add"|"toggle"|"subtract" (add: true is
  still mode add). Adding anchors of a path selected whole keeps it whole, and
  anchor references outside the path are ignored.
- Lasso: Shift adds and Alt subtracts through the same command, so an Alt lasso
  no longer drops selected type, groups and other non-path objects.
- Tests at the tool, engine (Session::pointer) and MCP (pointer_gesture) levels,
  command sweep cases for the new modes; docs/mcp.md and ROADMAP.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-08 20:21:36 +07:00