text.startList read a negative or fractional `at` as the end of the
text, so it could remove a typed list marker there and start a list.
The `start` and `end` of text.editRange, text.getRange,
text.setRangeStyle and the type shortcut commands given an `id` read
such values as the start or end of the text.
These now return "`at` must be a whole number" (naming the key) and
change nothing. Omitted or null keys keep their defaults, and 2.0 is
read as 2.
Object > Expand with Object on now turns each symbol instance in the
selection, including one in a selected group or in a placed document's
art, into its art, as Break Link to Symbol places it. It goes one level
deep: the instances in that art stay instances. The art keeps the
instance's id and place in the stacking order, and Expand stays one
undo step.
- Instances with effects stay instances, and Expand Appearance bakes
them as before. Instances with an effect on a fill or stroke,
instances in perspective, and those in blends, repeats and Intertwine
groups stay instances.
- The art keeps the instance's opacity mask, as Break Link gives it.
- A hidden or locked instance's art stays hidden or locked.
- A placed document in an instance's art is expanded too.
- When the instances' art would make more than 1,000,000 objects, they
stay instances, the limit Break Link uses.
- The Fill and Stroke options (object.expand.info, and the Expand
dialog) count the fills, strokes and gradients in the art of those
instances, with a dynamic instance's own changes applied. The info
reports under symbolArt which of them only that art holds, and the
dialog enables those options only while Object is on.
While the Type tool edits a frame of threaded text, Select All selects
the text of every frame of the story, highlighted in each frame. The
tool edits the first frame that holds text.
- Typing, Delete and Cut replace the whole story as one undo step
(`text.editRange` takes `clear`, the other frames whose text goes).
- Copy and Cut take the whole story (`text.getRange {id, story: true}`).
- Fills and strokes, `type.step`, `appearance.copyFrom`, the Character,
Paragraph, OpenType and text style panels, the Tabs panel's tab
stops, the font menus and the Justification dialog act on every
frame's text (`text.setRangeStyle {id, story: true}` styles them in
one edit).
- A caret move, a click or a word or paragraph selection ends it.
Select All in unthreaded type is unchanged.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Convert to Smooth or Corner on a blend whose spine came from Replace
Spine stored key anchors with the converted spine, so the spine's
points then moved onto the key centers. It now changes only the
spine's handles: the points stay where they are and the keys stay
spread along the spine. Direct Selection's spine conversion and the
other spine edits are unchanged.
Capture sweep-piece source attribution before endpoint pinning can move its
midpoint off the original outlines. Keep the existing lookup after pinning
when the original piece has no source.
Add planar coverage and native compound Make/Expand/undo regressions, and
document the existing front-most source-fill rule.
With a group isolated, a selected layer or group that holds the isolated
group is not selectable itself, so the type inside the isolated group was
never reached and the font Same commands returned "select a text object".
The walk now goes through such a layer or group to the type inside the
isolated group that can be selected.
A save as .ai or .ait (file.saveCopy, file.saveAs, document.save and
file.saveAsTemplate) set range to "all" before the file was written.
The one exception was a legacy .ai of version 7 given a range, which
its encoder checks. Every other save accepted an artboard, artboards or
range that names an artboard the document does not have (artboards: [5]
on a document of three artboards) and wrote every artboard.
document.export refuses the same value.
The save now refuses such a value with the export's error, under the
name of the command that was run, and writes no file. A range that is
not text, such as range: 42, was also replaced by "all". The save now
leaves it for the encoder, which refuses it as an export does. An
artboard the document has, or an empty artboards list, is still saved
with every artboard, and a legacy .ai still writes the artboards of its
range.
Select > Same > Fill Color, Stroke Color, Fill & Stroke, Stroke Weight,
Opacity, Blending Mode, Appearance, Shape, Graphic Style and Appearance
Attribute compared the other objects with the first selected object,
even when select.set had put a hidden or locked object, one on a
template layer or one outside the isolated group first. They now take
the first selected object that the Select commands could select, in
selection order, and keep the compound path and isolation rules for it.
A selection that holds no such object returns "nothing selected".
A layer that was selected (for example with select.set) gave no reference to
Select > Same > Font Family, Font Family & Style, Font Family, Style & Size,
Font Size and the text fill and stroke color commands: the layer itself is
not selectable, so the type on it was never reached and the command returned
"select a text object". A selected layer or sublayer now gives the type on it
that can be selected. A hidden, locked or template layer gives none.
Break Link to Symbol dropped the instance's opacity mask. The art now
keeps it, or a group around the art holds it when the symbol's art has
a mask of its own. The objects in the instance's mask art count against
Break Link's limit of 1,000,000 objects.
The test moves from an inline module in cmd/textedit.rs to
tests/charstroke.rs and uses that file's helpers. docs/mcp.md says that
text.setRangeStyle gives a range's stroke a 1 pt weight as text.setStyle
does, and that its strokeWidth and strokeOptions lengths are in document
points.
Select > Same > Font Family, Font Family & Style, Font Family, Style & Size,
Font Size and the text fill and stroke color commands took the type to match
from the first type found among the selected objects. Type that is hidden or
locked inside a selected group, type on a template layer and type outside the
isolated group could set the reference. They now take it from the type that
Link Block Series starts from, in the same selection order. A selection whose
only type cannot be selected returns "select a text object".
Option errors and notes for a .ai save called the file a
"PDF-compatible .ai" even when the save wrote a version 7 file
(aiVersion: "7") or a file without PDF content (pdfCompatible: false).
- Option errors: a version 7 .ai is now called a "legacy .ai
(version 7)" in the errors for its artboard, artboards and range
options. A .ai saved without PDF content is called a
"non-PDF-compatible .ai" in every .ai option error (includeLinked and
embedProfiles included), and a "non-PDF-compatible .ait template"
when Save as Template writes it. aiVersion: "7" takes precedence over
pdfCompatible: false, as it does when the file is written.
- The error for encoding a version 7 .ai of several artboards as one
file names the legacy .ai.
- The note for a native option the file does not read (version,
preview, precision) names the same kind of file.
- The error for aiVersion: "7" on a .ait template no longer says that a
.ait template is always PDF-compatible, since Save as Template writes
one without PDF content. It now reads "aiVersion 7 writes legacy .ai
files, not .ait templates", with its rows in the message catalogs
updated.
A PDF-compatible file keeps its name.
Follow-up to #5301. flavour_types (and clipboard.flavours) still listed PNG for art too large to render at the smallest scale, and the omission was only logged. PNG eligibility is now shared, and flavours_with_warnings returns a warning the status bar shows.
Follow-up to #5305. Stripping passwords from remembered settings made the next export of a password-protected PDF row write an unencrypted file without a word. The stripped settings now keep a non-secret passwordRequired flag, and an export refuses them until a password is given again (or security without the flag is given).
With one Objects on Path group of two or more objects selected, the
Selection and Objects on Path tools show a square Space widget beyond the
last object, ahead along the path. Dragging it moves the last object
along the path, around its bends, as far as the pointer moves along it,
and the objects between follow evenly while the first one stays. With
Alt (Option on macOS) the objects spread from both ends toward or away
from the center of an open path, or of the first anchor of a closed one.
The distance between the objects shows next to the pointer in the
document's units; the drag is one undo step, and Escape cancels it.
- object.objectsOnPath.options takes spacing (points, or "auto", the
default even spread) and start (points from the first anchor). A
spacing the path has no room for is drawn smaller and kept, so a
longer path brings it back. Older files read as Auto.
- Moving the group, Pivot, Rotate, path edits, copies and saving keep
the Space. Scaling, rotating or shearing the group keeps the first
and last objects where the transform takes them on the new path, live
shapes included; a value that cannot be kept that way scales with the
path's length.
- The Rotate All widget follows the first object when Space moves it.
Behavior: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/arrange-objects/rearrange-and-edit-objects-on-a-path.html
and https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/objects-on-path.html.
A drag that takes a selected freeform gradient point out of the object previews its removal,
which deselects it. A dropped press now selects again the point that was selected once the
tool took the press, and Escape reselects a point dragged out and back inside the object.
A dropped press (a long touch, a canceled touch, a second finger) now
goes to the tool through Tool::drop_press, which takes Escape as during
a drag by default. The Pen, Smart Pen and Curvature tools override it
so the path being drawn goes on: they forget the press, and a Curvature
point the press dragged goes back where it was.
The release that follows runs only the tool's Cancel and Notify actions,
so a Selection marquee selects nothing and a Shift-drag Artboard marquee
toggles nothing. The engine puts back the persistent options the tool
had at the press (the Polygon tool's sides changed with the arrow keys),
and stores none of them.
A long touch, a canceled touch or a second finger drops the tool press in
progress. The tool used to get a plain mouse-up, which it cannot tell from a
release: the options the drag changed (the Polygon tool's sides set with the
arrow keys) were stored, and a shape tool pressed and held still opened its
size dialog.
Session::drop_tool_press undoes the press's interaction, sends the tool
Escape as during a drag, and then a release that returns it to rest without
storing the tool's options. What the tool asks of the UI along the way is
dropped.
A stroke color given without strokeWidth left characters at weight 0, so
nothing was drawn. As paint.setStroke does, a painted stroke now gives a
run with no weight 1 pt, for the characters and for the label styles a
graph keeps; an explicit strokeWidth still sets the weight.
text.setStyle takes stroke (a color or "none") and strokeWidth (the character
stroke's weight in document points, as stroke.set gives it), with keepModel
for both colors. They apply to all the text or to the start..end range, and
to graph label styles, in the same undo step as the command's other keys.
A stroke key was ignored before.
Copy scaled its PNG down to fit 4096 pixels a side but never below 0.01
pixels a point, so art over 409,600 pt across produced a PNG far past
that side, up to the general raster export limit of a gigabyte of
pixels, on an ordinary copy. Such art now gets no PNG flavour.
An agent confined to automation roots could load the place cursor, with
file.place.queue or tool.setOption, and the files were placed later, by
a click of the person at the keyboard, outside any roots. tool.setOption
checked a queued path but not files given inline, whose linked files (an
SVG's referenced images) were then read with the keyboard user's
unrestricted access.
The session now keeps the automation roots in force when the cursor's
queue is loaded, and both the engine's own placement and the desktop
app's background placement read the queued file within them. A queue
loaded outside any roots places as before.
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