EPS, EMF, WMF and DXF exports gave each image they left out because it
couldn't be decoded its own warning, "image '<key>' could not be
decoded and was left out", which names the internal key the document
stores the image under. A version 7 .ai said "an image that can't be
decoded or is too large was left out".
The four writers now give the note raster exports, PDF and the legacy
.ai flattening give, "an image couldn't be decoded and is missing from
the picture", once per export. In a version 7 .ai it is one line with
the note for flattened art. The other image notes in the same
functions no longer name the key: EPS's note for an image too large to
write, and DXF's notes for an image with no pixels (its rows in 23
catalogs are reworded) and one that could not be written. Legacy .ai
gives a separate note for an image that is empty or too large.
Docs: docs/mcp.md (EPS, DXF export, EMF and WMF, aiVersion "7").
When the Compression settings keep a PNG as it is, the PNG goes to
the PDF writer unchanged, and the writer refuses images of 16 bits a
sample below PDF 1.5. Saving a document with a placed 16-bit PNG as
PDF 1.4, or as a .ai file at 1.4, failed with "PDF writer error:
SixteenBitImage(...)" and wrote nothing. PDF 1.3 and PDF/X-3 failed
the same way for an opaque 16-bit PNG, and PDF/X-1a failed for a
16-bit gray PNG.
In PDF 1.3 and 1.4 files, such a PNG is now decoded and encoded again
at 8 bits a sample, with the same color type and ICC profile, before
the writer reads it. From PDF 1.5 on, it keeps its 16 bits. A 16-bit
PNG whose pixel data can't be decoded is left out with the note "an
image couldn't be decoded and is missing from the picture".
Docs: docs/mcp.md (PDF options).
## Summary
object.align now moves selected ruler guides when aligning to the artboard,
matching Illustrator and the existing Distribute behaviour. Guide-only
selection can run align; the Align panel enables its buttons when only
guides are selected. Guides still stay put when objects are in the selection
and Align To is Selection; key-guide behaviour is unchanged.
## Tests
- engine tests_keyguide: guides_selected_alone_align_to_artboard; updated
selected_guides_align_to_a_clicked_key_object for artboard align
- ui-egui align panel: the_align_buttons_align_guides_selected_alone_to_artboard
Closesstorytold/vectorcraft#3463
Co-authored-by: nrq6993-a11y <nrq6993-a11y@users.noreply.github.com>
A face hidden on its own (for example with Object > Hide after Live
Paint Selection picks it) while its Live Paint group stays visible was
still highlighted, selected by Live Paint Selection and filled by the
Live Paint Bucket, and it kept the face of a group behind it from being
picked.
live_paint_at and lp_part_at now take the front-most face that is not
hidden (visible_face_at). A point on a hidden face falls through to the
visible face of a group behind it; where there is none, an edge pick
takes the nearest visible edge as it does outside the faces.
livePaint.fill also skips hidden faces. With group, a point on a hidden
face is an error. With ids, it fills the face there of another Live
Paint group among the objects, or else fails and does not merge the
group.
Docs: docs/mcp.md.
The docstring check of the review counts the functions a pull request
touches: effect.apply, effect.setParams, plugin.run, the line cap
name, the reader of an output object and seven of the object tests had
no doc comment. Each now says what it does or checks; the join and cap
names get one each.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HhvnnnD5fTFupK8WWq35un
A filter could reshape and repaint objects, but not set the stroke's
join, cap or miter limit, nor the effects an object's appearance holds.
A tool that prepares objects for a live effect (a sheet of samples,
each with the effect at its own settings) had to leave the user to
apply the effect to each object by hand.
- Each input stroke has its join, cap and miterLimit beside its paint
and width (live effects get the same, through the shared encoder),
and each object its own effect records, {id, params, visible}.
- An output stroke may set them (miter limit clamped to 1-500), and an
output object's "effects" replaces its own effects.
- The host admits each record as effect.apply does: an effect that
effect.list lists or an installed live-effect plug-in, parameters it
takes (filled in to their defaults; a plug-in's checked against its
manifest), one 3D effect that fits the object (its fills' and
strokes' own effects counted), and the texture of an effect with
Load Texture (Glass, Texturizer) as the effect stores it, never a
file to read. A record the object already had stays as
it is, so a filter that hands its input back changes nothing. One
refused record refuses the whole output and the document stays as
it was.
The plug-ins crate checks the records' form; which effects exist is the
engine's to say (objects::AdmitEffects, engine plugin::admit_effects).
effects::validate_three_d is the one check of whether a 3D effect fits
an object, for effect.apply, effect.setParams and the filters.
A path handed back as it was now stays the live shape it was: write()
dropped a live rectangle's or ellipse's parameters whenever the output
held a path, changed or not, so a filter that returned its input
turned a live rectangle into a plain path.
objects/tests.rs checks the round trip, stroke styles on existing and
new strokes, the host's refusal, the bad forms refused, and a live
rectangle handed back unchanged (a plain path before the fix);
tests_plugins.rs runs filters that set a built-in and a plug-in effect,
an echo that changes nothing, and six refused outputs.
CRAFT_PLUGIN_FRAME_WASM=<folder> saves a test filter to try in the app.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HhvnnnD5fTFupK8WWq35un
## Summary
Opening or placing a .pmd file now fails with a dedicated unsupported-format
hint (like DWG and PICT), telling users to export PDF or EPS from PageMaker
instead of a generic unknown-format error. document.formats lists PageMaker
in its unsupported table.
## Tests
- formats_list_dxf_and_what_can_not_be_written
- dwg_and_pict_say_what_to_use_instead (includes brochure.PMD open)
Part of storytold/vectorcraft#3343
Co-authored-by: nrq6993-a11y <nrq6993-a11y@users.noreply.github.com>
Document Info had no Repeat Objects category, and document.info
refused category "repeats". The reference app's Document Info panel
menu lists Repeat Objects after Font Details.
Document Info now has a Repeat Objects category after Embedded Images.
It lists each radial, grid and mirror Repeat object by name with its
kind and the number of instances it makes. For a grid it gives the
rows and columns instead, followed by the number of instances it
draws when that is fewer. The count comes from the new
RepeatSpec::instances, which gives the number of instances a repeat
draws. That number is smaller than its options give when repeats
nested in its source would pass the instance budget. With Selection
Only the category lists the Repeat objects in the selection.
document.info gives them as repeatObjects, the panel's flyout offers
the category, and the text report that Document Info › Save… and
File › Package write has a REPEAT OBJECTS section. The title has a row
in every catalog.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Illustrator documents Unite as a single compound path; use shape_node_styled and compoundPath.release in tests instead of wrapping islands in groups.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
After Unite, split the result with draw2::components so each island (outer
contour plus its holes) becomes one group child instead of one compound path.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Switch to the Touch built-in workspace when the preference is on and a touch
screen is present; restore the prior workspace when it is turned off.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
After scaling groups, type.scaleTextAttributes matches panel sizes to what draws on canvas without leaving scale in the affine.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Store corner radii as fractions of each corner's max so rounding scales with the shape; expose via Corners dialog and object.setLiveShape relativeRadii.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Users can pick an image in the Texturizer dialog; it is stored as relief heights and survives save/open like Glass textures.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Overlapping faces take the highest of each CMYK channel from every covering shape and drop strokes, matching Illustrator's Hard Mix effect.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Pen Cmd-borrow keeps Direct Selection when Alt is held so guide copy and other Alt modifiers on the lent tool still work.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
When Direct Selection was last used or is active, Cmd+Alt borrows Group Selection for pointer presses, matching the documented modifier chord.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
A Word paragraph justified with w:jc lowKashida, mediumKashida or
highKashida placed as plain justified type, and its kashida length was
dropped. ECMA-376 Part 1, 17.18.44 (ST_Jc) gives these values a
slightly longer, a medium and the widest kashida length.
Such a paragraph now places justified with Insert Kashidas set to
Short, Medium or Long. A paragraph justified with both, and every other
alignment, still places with Insert Kashidas set to None. VectorCraft
writes no Word or RTF files, so this change does not affect export.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The PDF writer's metadata has no copyright fields, so the XMP packet of
PDF exports and PDF-compatible .ai and .ait saves left out File Info's
copyright status, notice and URL. A PDF exported without its editing
data opened with the status Unknown and an empty notice and URL,
although the reader takes them from dc:rights, xmpRights:WebStatement
and xmpRights:Marked.
The export now adds those three properties to the XMP packet after
the writer has written it, as it does for the modification date.
Marked is True for Copyrighted and False for Public Domain, and is left
out for Unknown. The notice and URL are escaped for XML, and characters
XML 1.0 does not allow are left out. A document without a copyright
gets none of the properties.
Docs: docs/mcp.md (File Info), docs/target-app-parity.md.
The Print dialog's Media list only had Letter/Legal/Tabloid and the ISO A
and B papers, so Japanese papers had to be entered as a custom size, and
"B4"/"B5" were ISO 216 (250 × 353 and 176 × 250 mm) although Japanese
printing uses the JIS sizes (257 × 364 and 182 × 257 mm, JIS X 6310).
Media gains JIS B4, B5 and B6 next to the ISO ones, and はがき
(japanese postcard, 100 × 148 mm), 往復はがき (japanese double postcard,
148 × 200 mm), 封筒 長形3号/長形4号 (japanese envelope #3/#4, 120 × 235
and 90 × 225 mm), 角形2号/角形3号 (kaku #2/#3, 240 × 332 and 216 × 277 mm),
四六判 (yonroku-ban, 127 × 188 mm) and A6, all in millimetres at 72/25.4.
b4 and b5 keep their ISO 216 dimensions so print settings and presets
saved before the Japanese papers existed keep their paper; the dialog
labels say "B4 (ISO)"/"B5 (ISO)" beside "B4 (JIS)"/"B5 (JIS)".
A paper is named by its JSON id or by its dialog label, any case and
spacing ("b5 (jis)", "B5 (JIS)" and "b5jis" all mean the JIS B5), so
agents and the control channel need not know the id spelling; an unknown
name is still refused. Media is written out instead of through the
choice! macro to carry that lookup.
The print.setup/file.print parameter docs and docs/mcp.md list the new
papers; the Print dialog picks them up from Choice::ALL with no UI code
change, and the Japanese labels are translated in ja.tsv (はがき,
往復はがき, 長形3号, 長形4号, 角形2号, 角形3号, 四六判).
Tests: japanese_paper_sizes checks every added size in points, that the
ISO B4/B5 values did not change, name resolution and id/label round
trips, and that each paper prints a PDF page with its own MediaBox size.
Validation: cargo fmt --all -- --check clean; cargo clippy
-p vectorcraft-pdf --all-targets -- -D warnings clean; cargo test
-p vectorcraft-pdf -> 330 passed, 0 failed (328 lib + 2 integration).
**What:** Illustrator type styled through the Appearance panel came in as its drawn look (outlined compound paths). Comic and "text effect" templates are the common case, and the type couldn't be retyped. This keeps it as editable type with the style as a live VectorCraft appearance.
**Changes**
- **Art styles parsed as a tree.** Compound filters close at their `;`, basic ones at `/Part`. Each fill and stroke in a stack keeps its own effects, opacity and blend mode, and object-level effects stay on the object.
- **Type keeps any plain stack.** That covers several fills and strokes, pattern and gradient fills, Warp, Offset Path, Transform with copies, Drop Shadow, Outer Glow, Feather, Gaussian Blur and Bas Relief. Bas Relief settings are left at their defaults, because Illustrator stores them in a Photoshop plug-in's binary block. Gradients and patterns are placed as the drawn look places them. Other objects keep the existing plain-style rule, since their drawn look is the more faithful option.
- **Point type without a frame matrix.** Illustrator 24 omits the matrix when point type is neither rotated nor scaled. Such stories were left out entirely; they're now read with an identity matrix.
- **Page comparison.** The page's rendering of a style isn't held to match VectorCraft's live rendering where the replaced drawn look lay, and styled made type isn't pruned as unseen.
- **EPS override.** `editingData: "always"` / `convert --editing-data` now applies to Illustrator EPS as well as `.ai`.
**Tests:** 6 new tests, written from scratch; `vectorcraft-eps` passes all 298 on current main. clippy `-D warnings` and rustfmt are clean for eps, engine and cli. `docs/file-format-parity.md` has been updated, including its revision history.
**Clean-room note:** I found the bugs with a user's licensed stock EPS, used locally only; nothing from it is committed. Filter and key meanings come from the public Illustrator Effect docs and public LiveEffect scripting examples (`jntp`, the Warp style order).
**Not included:** VectorCraft's pixel effects treat transparent content as empty instead of using Document Raster Effects Settings › Background (white by default). Because of that, Bas Relief on a transparent pattern gives flat grey. That needs a separate renderer change.
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When two or more frames stayed in the thread, the first got the whole story while the others kept their shares, so the re-flow joined those twice. The frames after the first now start empty, and the story flows through them once.
Illustrator links type in an area or along a path (https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/manage-text-area.html); until now only area type threaded here. Type on a path that overflows ends its line where its text stops fitting, so a story flows on from it, and its red out port, just past its end bracket, loads the Selection tool with the text as area type's does. A new frame threaded from it at a point is type on a path of its shape.
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