When text.setGlyphAlternate leaves the text unchanged, it now reads
the glyph from the unchanged text. A character after the first in a run
that holds a glyph choice could be reported with its own glyph instead
of the ligature drawn for it, which text.glyphAlternates reports.
Pasted art whose svg.filter effect named one of the document's SVG filters
but drew another definition kept that name, so editing or deleting the
document's filter rewrote the pasted art's filter. Paste now renames such
a filter to a free name ("Soft 2") when the art comes from another
document or from SVG, and takes the document's filter when the art is
pasted back into the document it was copied from. Symbols, patterns,
brushes and graphic styles on the clipboard follow the same rule.
With no glyph choice left on the character, text.setGlyphAlternate
returned the font's default glyph for it: 0 for a character the font
lacks, which a fallback font draws, and the lowercase glyph for a
letter under All Caps. It now reports the glyph the character is drawn
with, as text.glyphAlternates does.
After an aligned Remove Item or Duplicate Item, the active row was
re-pointed by the indices of the first object in paint order. When the
first selected object paints above the others, its own rows that changed
are different ones, so the active row could be dropped or land on the
wrong row, and a later paint edit changed that row instead.
The active row now follows the rows removed or copied in the first
selected object's own stack.
Follows #5591.
In horizontal type, tracking and manual kerning are now thousandths of
the em as the Horizontal Scale draws it: at 50%, a tracking of 100 adds
0.05 em after each character. They were added at the full em while the
glyph advances took the scale, so narrow tracked type drifted from the
page of users' .ai files letter by letter. That page writes such type's
character spacing as the tracking itself in a text space as wide as the
scale, which PDF scales by it (ISO 32000-1 9.4.4). Vertical type keeps
the full em: its advances down the column don't all take the scale.
vectorcraft_text::spacing_scale gives the factor. Shaping, inline
graphics and the Optical pairs use it, and so do the conversions from
points back to thousandths of an em: the automatic kerning the Character
panel reads and Touch Type's limits (glyph_em), Combine Point Text, and
PDF import, whose tracking is now the file's Tc. Scale Text Attributes
now keeps tracked type where a horizontal stretch drew it.
SVG export writes letter-spacing in thousandths of the font size it
writes (the vertical scale), so uniformly scaled type keeps its spacing
in a viewer.
Type with both a Horizontal Scale other than 100% and tracking or manual
kerning lays out differently than before, in every document.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Expand Appearance on a symbol instance with a fill tint and a color
adjustment applied the adjustment to the untinted art, so the expanded
colors differed from the canvas. The expand path now passes the tinted
instance art to adjust_in_document.
Break Link to Symbol on an instance just placed on a locked artboard
selected nothing: the art that replaced the instance has a new id, so the
locked-artboard check did not see it as new art. The art of an instance
that was new art is now checked without the locked artboards, and the
session keeps it selected as new art. The art of an older instance on a
locked artboard, named by id, is still left out of the selection.
Before writing a PDF preset, ICC profile, plug-in, Color Settings,
disabled list or grants file, the store compared the new bytes with the
file already there by reading the whole file into memory, so a large file
left in the folder was read in full. The comparison now reads at most one
byte more than the new content.
path.insertAnchor (the Add Anchor Point tool, the Pen's Auto Add, the
Smart Pen's Alt-click on a segment and Alt-click with the Scissors)
added the anchor without changing the selection, so the direct-selected
anchors and selected segments after it on the subpath kept their old
numbers and the selection shifted onto the next points along. It now
renumbers them with renumber_after_insert, the helper path.reshape
uses. A selected segment that the new anchor splits stays selected as
its two halves, and the new anchor is direct-selected with them. Undo
restores the path and the selection in one step.
Docs: params text, docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
alert(message[, title, errorIcon]), confirm(message[, noAsDflt, title])
and prompt(message, preset[, title]) are globals in a script run. In the
app the run waits at the call for the person's answer, spends no
instructions while it waits, and every dialog has Stop, which ends the
run and puts every document back. A run over MCP or the command line
takes its answers in order from script.run's answers, a list of
{kind, value} records; a missing, mismatched or unused answer ends the
run. The report lists each dialog with its answer in dialogs, with
dialogCount and dialogsTruncated.
The interpreter gains a host call that waits at the call for its
result, from the script's own code only; a dialog called in a callback
of a built-in, a getter or a conversion throws in the app.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Before a script runs, `script.run` reads its preprocessor lines (`#` or
`//@` at the start of a line, outside strings and comments):
- `#include` and `//@include` put another file's text in place of the
line, looked for beside the including file, then in each
`#includepath` folder, then in each `JSINCLUDE` folder. A later
`#includepath` replaces the list.
- `#script` names the run unless `name` is given; `#target` takes any
value; `#strict off` is taken. `#strict on`, `#targetengine` and
`#engine` are refused as unsupported, and any other `#name` as
unknown.
`$.evalFile(path, timeout?)` runs a file in the same global environment
and returns its last value, `$.fileName` is the file being run and
`$.includePath` the include folders.
A script run from a file reads these files only in its folder and the
folders below it. Paths with a `..` name, links or junctions that lead
out, device names, streams and network paths are refused; a script
given as text reads none. A run reads at most 64 files 16 levels deep,
32 MiB of source in all and 1,024 paths looked up. An error in an
included or evaluated file is reported at that file's line and column,
and the report's new `file` field names it.
Docs: docs/mcp.md (script.run, Script Console), docs/target-app-parity.md.
Break Link to Symbol on a selected group selected the art of every
instance it expanded that was itself shown and unlocked, including art in
a hidden or locked group inside the selection. The art now goes into the
selection only when it and every group and layer holding it are shown and
unlocked, the check Select All uses (select::is_selectable).
A PDF, an EPS or .ai without ruler units, a raster image, a metafile, an
Affinity file or an importer plug-in's document opened (and reverted) in
points whatever the General unit was. They now open in the General unit,
as the reference app opens files that record no unit. Native, SVG and DXF
files and a .ai or EPS with %AI5_RulerUnits keep their own units. Only the
displayed units change, not the art.
Break Link to Symbol on a selected group, and Delete Symbol with its
instances expanded, turned a hidden or locked instance into visible,
unlocked art. The art now keeps the instance's hidden and locked state,
as Object > Expand does, and Break Link leaves hidden or locked art out of
the selection.
Each artboard can carry a guide label: one of the layer colors or a
custom RGB. Guides that belong to an artboard draw in its label color,
and guides without an artboard, or on an artboard without a label, keep
the guide color from the preferences. Selected guides still draw in the
selection color.
- Artboard Options has a Guide Label row (None, the layer colors with
swatches, or Custom with a color swatch).
- artboard.new and artboard.setProps take guideLabel: null, a layer
color's name, or #rrggbb. Any other value is an error. The inspect
summary lists guideLabel when one is set.
- The native format saves the label and skips it when unset; a preset
index outside the layer colors reads as no label.
- artboard.setProps no longer adds an undo step when nothing changes.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
A script renamed to its whole file name could take the label another
script kept, as with tidy.js, tidy.jsx and tidy.js.js in one folder.
The rename now repeats until no label is shared. A folder entry whose
type cannot be read now marks the listing as incomplete.
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