Highlight Substituted Fonts is now a preference in Preferences › Type,
next to Highlight Alternate Glyphs, on by default and saved with the
other preferences (`prefs.set highlightSubstitutedFonts`). The canvas
reads it through `RenderOptions::highlight_substituted_fonts` for every
open document; a document's own setup no longer decides it. File ›
Document Setup no longer shows the checkbox and keeps Highlight
Substituted Glyphs.
A file saved with Document Setup's Highlight Substituted Fonts off now
shows the pink highlight when it opens, while the preference is on.
The file still opens with the stored value, and saving it again keeps
that value.
`document.setup` no longer reports `highlightSubstitutedFonts`. It
ignores the key and adds a `warnings` entry that names `prefs.set` to
its reply, so an older reply passed back still applies its other keys.
The raster cache of type under a raster effect now also redraws when
Highlight Alternate Glyphs changes.
The reference app detects lists typed as 1., 1), A. or A), and makes
custom bullets from *, #, > or + followed by a space. In VectorCraft
the characters stayed as text.
When the Type tool types a space on its own after one of these at the
start of a paragraph in no list, the typing so far becomes one undo
step. The new command text.startList then removes the typed characters
and the space and makes the paragraph a numbered list in 1, 2, 3 or
A, B, C, or a bulleted list with the filled dot. A paragraph with no
indents gets the 18 pt hanging indent. One Undo puts the characters
back as text with no list, and the caret goes on after them; Redo
removes them again. The same characters later in a paragraph, list
characters pasted in one piece with the space and a paragraph already
in a list start nothing.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
After imageTrace.setView, screenshot and render_preview still drew the
tracing result, because ui.render renders with the export options and only
the canvas turns on trace views. Only the app window showed the view.
ui.render now takes traceViews. With traceViews: true, Image Trace objects
draw in the view set with imageTrace.setView, as on the canvas, both
headless and in the running app. screenshot and render_preview take
traceViews and pass it on; without it they draw the tracing result, as
exports do. The trace-and-style prompt names the argument.
A supersampled render drew Outline view's lines, type outlines and dotted
guides as little as a quarter of an output pixel wide, so they came out
pale gray. The renderer now scales those widths and the guides' dashes by
the supersampling factor in the larger frame, so the lines stay one output
pixel wide.
Docs: docs/mcp.md (render_preview, screenshot), docs/control-protocol.md
(ui.render).
draw_path, draw_shape and object.setProps take opacity in percent (0-100),
but the document.inspect / document.node summary behind doc_inspect,
inspect_document and vectorcraft://object/{id} reported the stored 0-1
fraction under the same name. An agent that read 0.55 and wrote it back
got a nearly invisible object.
The summary now adds opacityPct (0-100, rounded to 1/100 of a percent)
beside the unchanged opacity, and the tool, resource and command
descriptions say which scale each field uses. Round-trip test in the mcp
crate: draw at 55 %, read 55 back from doc_inspect, inspect_document and
the object resource, write it back unchanged.
Without an artboard choice an EPS export writes one file of the visible
art, not one file per artboard. options.rect is also refused with
options.artboards, as page_rect checks every artboard param.
With nothing selected and no ids, set_paint changes only the paint for
new art, but its reply was the same as when it painted objects, so a
caller could not tell that no object changed.
paint.setFill, paint.setStroke, paint.none, paint.lastColor,
paint.lastGradient and stroke.set now reply {objects}: how many objects
took the paint, as the commands resolve their targets (a selected group
counts the objects inside it). set_paint adds the largest of those
counts to its reply as `objects`, and when it is 0 a `note` says that
only the paint for new art changed. The tool description and the
set_paint row in docs/mcp.md describe the reply.
A misspelled parameter key got a did-you-mean suggestion, but a
misspelled command id only got "unknown command `select.al`", through
the CLI, MCP and the control channel alike. Session::execute now names
the nearest command id, using the same matching as parameter keys
(ignoring case), and action.batch does the same for an unknown step. An
id with no near match keeps the plain error.
The matching skips candidates whose length differs by more than the
allowed number of edits, so a very long unknown command id or parameter
key is answered at once instead of being measured against every command
id or accepted key.
The new message has a row in every catalog, and docs/mcp.md's
Parameter keys section shows it.
New Symbol and Redefine Symbol replaced a frame of threaded text by a
symbol instance whose art holds a copy of the frame. The thread's
re-flow then added the frame's text to the story, as it does for a
frame that was deleted, so the other frames held that text a second
time while the instance drew it.
A frame that New Symbol or Redefine Symbol puts in the symbol now
leaves its thread with the text it shows, and the other frames keep
the text they hold, as with Create Outlines, Expand and Flatten
Transparency. When the thread's last frame goes into the symbol, the
text it has no room for goes after the text of the last frame that
stays, and the copy in the symbol's art holds only the text the frame
shows. When every frame of a thread goes into the symbol, the copy of
the last frame keeps all its text. Undo restores the thread.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
In a file name pattern, <filename> is documented as the document's name
without its extension, but it expanded to the File Info title whenever the
document had one, so a saved my-logo.vectorcraft titled "Logo: final
version" exported as Logo--final-version__Artboard 1.png. The Full
Document file and the .zip took the same title.
Export for Screens and the dialog's Example line now take <filename> from
the document's file, as Save names it (save.rs), and fall back to the
title only for a document that has not been saved.
Object › Rasterize replaced a frame of threaded text by an image of
it. The thread's re-flow then added the frame's text to the story, as
it does for a frame that was deleted, so the other frames held that
text a second time while the image drew it.
A frame that Rasterize turns into an image now leaves its thread with
the text it shows, and the other frames keep the text they hold, as
with Create Outlines and Expand. When the thread's last frame is
rasterized, the text it has no room for goes after the text of the
last frame that stays. 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.
Holding Alt over a selection the Shape Builder had already mapped built
the planar map a second time, to add the outline edges that erasing
hits. A merge, and a Live Paint Bucket fill of a plain selection, also
dropped the map, so a gesture that left the document unchanged was
followed by another full build.
The Shape Builder now builds its map with the outline edges the first
time, and both tools keep the map until the document, its revision or
the selection changes.
When the inputs have more than 128 segments, a hover with the Shape
Builder or the Live Paint Bucket now builds the map on another thread
and highlights no region until it arrives, instead of holding up the
frame; the canvas checks for it each frame. A press waits for the map,
and the headless MCP host waits for it after a move. The web build has
no threads and builds the map at once. The Live Paint Selection tool's
hover no longer builds a map of the selection, which it did not use.
Object › Flatten Transparency replaced a frame of threaded text by its
outlines with Convert All Text to Outlines, and by flat regions or an
image where the frame was transparent. The thread's re-flow then added
the frame's text to the story, as it does for a frame that was deleted,
so the other frames held that text a second time while the outlines,
regions or image drew it.
A frame that Flatten Transparency outlines or flattens now leaves its
thread with the text it shows, and the other frames keep the text they
hold, as with Create Outlines and Expand. When the thread's last frame
is flattened, the text it has no room for goes after the text of the
last frame that stays. 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.
`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.
Taha-Mahmoodi