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.
## Summary
Illustrator `%AI9` art styles already stop reading filters after 4096 entries so
hostile styles cannot grow without bound. This adds a regression test that
importing a style with more than `MAX_FILTERS` basic filters finishes with a
bounded effect list, matching the existing hardening behaviour.
## Tests
- `art_styles_ignore_filters_beyond_the_cap` in `crates/eps/src/import/ai/style.rs`
Part of gap G8
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## Summary
On Linux, asking winit to maximize before the window is mapped often does
nothing, and egui sometimes omits the maximized viewport flag while the
window manager still has the window maximized. Defer maximize until the
first frames after startup, and read maximized state from winit when
saving geometry for the next launch.
## Tests
cargo test -p vectorcraft window::
cargo clippy -p vectorcraft --all-targets -- -D warnings
Closesstorytold/vectorcraft#3635
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## Summary
When the Paragraph panel acts on more than one paragraph whose displayed
direction differs (explicit LTR/RTL or Auto resolved from content), neither
Left-to-Right nor Right-to-Left is highlighted, matching alignment and the
other mixed-value paragraph controls in Adobe Illustrator.
## Tests
- `paragraph_mixed_direction_buttons_show_neither` in `panels/paragraph.rs`
Part of gap G4
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File › Package… put the file's path in front of every error its writer
returned. A refusal from the automation write root already names the
path, so the dialog's error and the status bar named the file twice,
for example on Windows for a document named aux:
`<path>: automation path rejected: reserved device names are not
allowed: <path>`.
The dialog now keeps a writer error that already contains the path as
it is, and puts the path in front of one that does not, such as the
desktop's "Access is denied. (os error 5)".
PDF import measured each gap between two glyphs against the larger of
the line's first glyph size and the next glyph's. A word set beside a
much larger one, apart by positioning and no space glyph (a browser's
margin between two sizes), stayed under a fifth of that em: "≤ 4" at
20 pt and "hours" at 8 pt, 3.4 pt apart, came in as "≤ 4hours".
A gap is now measured against the smaller of the two glyphs beside it.
Lines in one size read their gaps as before.
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Enter and Escape went to the active tool whatever modifiers were held,
and the command bound to the chord then ran as well. With a command
bound to Cmd+Enter, Cmd+Enter ended the Pen tool's path, opened the
Move dialog with the Selection tool, or typed a line break while the
Type tool edited text, and then ran the command. With a command bound
to Cmd+Escape, Cmd+Escape ended the Pen path, the Type tool's text
editing or isolation mode before the command ran.
A press of Enter or Escape whose chord a command is bound to, matched as
the shortcut dispatcher matches it, now runs only that command, also
when the tool claims the key. While the Type tool edits text, only Cmd
chords count. While a tool is in the middle of an interaction (a drag,
or between the clicks of a tool such as Blend or Dimension), and for
plain Enter and Escape and chords that no command is bound to, the key
goes to the tool as before.
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.
Shared groundwork for gradient options SVG and PDF can't express (Illustrator
30's dither and perceptual gradients): GradientPaint::pixels samples a placed
linear or radial gradient on a grid (Ramp: its stops, midpoints as stops, mixed
as the renderer mixes them), and draws_as_pixels says which gradients are drawn
that way (freeform ones, so far). The SVG and PDF writers' freeform-gradient
image path takes any such gradient, a linear or radial one at the document's
raster effects resolution. No change in output yet.
A PDF or .ai page placed linked is a placed document, and File ›
Package listed only the fonts of the document's own type, so the fonts
of the page's type were left out of Fonts/ where an embedded page's
were copied. Package now reads each linked page a document places and
adds the fonts of its type, also when another document placing the same
file copied it first, and also with copyLinks off.
The Place dialog classed every .pdf, .ai and .ait path as a document
that Link places as one locked object. A .ai saved without PDF
compatibility is PostScript, and file.place embeds it as editable art
with Link on or off, so the tooltip was wrong for it. The dialog now
reads the file's header with the same PostScript check file.place uses,
and describes such a file as it does other files Link does not keep
linked.
Turkish is now a complete-message language, so the message file.place
gives for a file that is not a VectorCraft document, a PDF or a
PDF-compatible .ai file needs a tr row.
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.
Review follow-up (CodeRabbit): a line that wasn't valid JSON was reported
by its line only, while every other --commands error names the run's step.
It now says `step N (line L)`, N counted with the --cmd steps before it.
run_refuses_malformed_commands_naming_the_step expects `step 2 (line 3)`;
it fails without the change.
Review follow-up (CodeRabbit): the two older G2 bullets counting 46 and 49
filters were superseded by Conté Crayon (57/57) and are folded into one
current bullet; the G2 row in the ranked table and the entry's estimate now
both say 4–6 h, as ROADMAP.md and roadmap.md do. ROADMAP.md's revision
history gains its 2026-10-22 row.
Review follow-up (CodeRabbit): the blank-name check ran on the raw name, so
a name made only of characters XML can't hold (control characters) wrote an
empty <title>. The name is sanitised first, then the fallback applies. The
title test covers such a name; it fails without the change.
The SVG writer always wrote the document's title in <title>
(crates/svg/src/export.rs), so every file of Export As with Use
Artboards, Export for Screens or an `artboard`/`range` export was titled
after the document ("Icons"), whatever its artboard was called. The
writer's `artboard` option can't tell those apart from Save: Save writes
the first artboard too, standing for the whole document.
ExportOptions has a new `artboard_title` (set by the caller, as
`artboard` is, not deserialized): the file is that one artboard, exported
on its own, and its <title> is the artboard's name (XML-escaped as
before), or the document's title when the artboard has no name. The
engine's SVG encoder (fileio/svg.rs) sets it exactly when the export
names its artboards, which is also when a file holds only that
artboard's art (#550): Export As per artboard, document.export /
serialize with `artboard` or `range`, MCP export, and Export for Screens'
artboards, assets, layers and selections (each written as an artboard
named after it). Save and Save As keep the document's title. Export for
Screens' Full Document draws the art bounds as one artboard, which is now
named after the document, so its SVG keeps the document's title too.
docs/file-format-parity.md's SVG row says so.
Tests: title_control_chars::an_artboard_exported_alone_is_titled_after_it
(crates/svg: two named artboards, the second named with markup;
exporting either alone gives its escaped name, the default and an
artboard without artboard_title give the document's title, an unnamed
artboard falls back to it) and
tests_svgenc::an_svg_of_one_artboard_is_titled_after_it (the engine:
`artboard` 0 and 1, useArtboards range all, Save's SVG, Export for
Screens per artboard, an asset and Full Document). Both fail without the
change (the title was "Icons") and pass with it.
Review follow-up (CodeRabbit): step_value clamped once after all of a
frame's steps, so at the lower bound a step down then a step up in the
same frame left the field at the bound. Each step is now clamped as it is
applied. The Stroke panel test steps down and up in one frame at each
bound and expects one step above it; it fails without the change.
Wheel notches and the arrow keys over a focused number field step the
value its text shows (widgets::step_value), and nothing there knew the
field's bounds: the Stroke panel's Weight went on to -3 pt and its Limit
to 0 x in the field, while the panel only clamped what it applied (the
spinner's min, Limit's clamp to 1..500), so the next step went on from
the out-of-range text. A label scrub (scrub::field) had the same gap.
step_value and scrub::field now take the field's bounds and stop at
them, so the field shows where they stopped and the value applied is
the same. The fields that have bounds pass them:
- spin_field / spin_field_auto / spin_plain: their `min` (the spinner
and a typed value already stopped there);
- range_field: its range; it now also takes a value that may be blank
(None), as mixed_field does;
- opt_field (dash and gap lengths): 0;
- the Revolve dialog's values: their range.
Fields that clamped only what they applied now say their range with
range_field instead: the Stroke panel's Limit (1..500), the Transparency
and Properties opacity (0..100), the Transform panel's polygon sides,
and the dialogs' bounded counts, percentages and lengths (Blend Options,
Envelope, Flattener, Liquify, Freehand, Live Paint, Path ops, Perspective
Grid, PNG ppi, Print, Save for Web, Shape Builder, Slices, Swatch
Options, Symbol options, Justification, Dimension, PDF page, the effect
dialogs' number rows). docs/ui-parity.md's number-field row says so.
Test: panels::stroke::tests::the_wheel_stops_weight_at_zero_and_limit_at_one
(the Stroke panel in a headless frame; focus Weight at 1 pt and turn the
wheel down four notches: the field shows 0 pt and the stroke is 0 pt;
the same with Limit at 2 x: 1 x and a limit of 1). It fails without the
change (the field showed -3 pt) and passes with it; the other numeric
field, scrub and dialog tests still pass.
The MCP drawing tools ran the creating command (path.create, shape.*)
and only then paint.setFill, paint.setStroke, stroke.set,
object.setProps and effect.apply, each as a command of its own.
check_draw_options checked dash, cap, join, opacity, name and effects up
front, but not the paints: a fill or stroke the engine can't read
(stroke: "currentColor"), or a swatch the document lacks, failed after
the object was made, so the call returned an error and left the path,
its undo step and its SVG node behind. Each styling command was also an
undo step of its own.
The tools now send the creating command and the styling commands as one
command.batch (crates/mcp/src/tools.rs, draw): the engine rolls the
whole batch back when a step fails, so a refused paint leaves no object,
no undo step and nothing in the SVG, and a good call is one undo step
named as the creating command names its own (Pen, Rectangle, …). The
styling steps act on the new object, which the creating command selects,
with item: null (its whole appearance), as the ids did before. The
reply gives the failed step's own error, without the batch's prefix.
docs/mcp.md says so.
Test: tests_drawopts::a_bad_paint_draws_nothing (invalid fill, stroke,
a missing swatch and a non-numeric strokeWidth on draw_path and
draw_shape: error, node count, undo history and SVG export unchanged;
a good call adds one undo step named Pen / Rectangle). It fails without
the change (draw_path with stroke "currentColor" drew a path) and passes
with it; the other draw option and command_batch tests still pass.
A line style's `Patn` was copied twice (filtered, then scaled) whatever its
length, before any budget saw it. Patterns longer than 64 lengths now import
as solid lines, with a warning.
Addresses CodeRabbit's third review on #3548.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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