addon.document.exportAllOpen {folder, format?} writes a copy of every
open document to one folder as Save a Copy does, each named after its
document with taken names numbered so no file is replaced. Documents
keep their paths and modified state, the active one stays active, and a
document that can't be written is reported while the others are still
written. Object > Plug-ins > Document Tools gets Export All Open
Documents as PDF and as SVG, which ask for the folder.
Character panel menu > Standard Vertical Roman Alignment, with Show East
Asian Options, is now a check item. It sets a new character attribute,
`standardVerticalRoman` (text.setFormat, text.setRangeStyle), off by
default and saved only when on. In vertical type the marked Latin
letters, digits and other characters that would lie on their side stand
upright one below the other, each in its upright cell. Spaces keep their
width and tate-chu-yoko blocks stay across the column. Horizontal type
keeps the mark and does not change. A combining mark shaped as its own
glyph turns with its letter, in Latin and CJK upright type alike.
Character Style Options labels the Character Alignment row "Character
Alignment" and gives Standard Vertical Roman Alignment its own checkbox.
Reset Panel turns the attribute off. PDF and SVG export place the glyphs
from the layout and need no change.
A Perceptual linear or radial gradient was always written as an image,
so a gradient of spot ink tints lost its plate, and no warning named the
spot ink.
PDF export now writes a Perceptual gradient whose stops are tints of one
spot color (and paper white) as a Separation shading in that ink. Its
tints follow the gradient's curve: at each stop the renderer places on
the curve, the tint with the OKLab lightness of the color there.
Dithered fills, freeform gradients and Perceptual gradients that mix a
spot color with other colors are still images, and the export now warns
when such a gradient has stops linked to a spot swatch that its spot
colors are written in process colors.
Make Opacity Mask expands a layer among its targets to the art that can
be edited: an object in a sublayer of a hidden or locked layer, or on a
locked artboard, is neither the mask nor masked, so it stays where it is.
Make Opacity Mask took the topmost target as the mask. When that target was
a layer (a targeted layer above the art, or `ids` ending in a layer id), the
whole layer was removed from the layer tree and became the mask art. A layer
on top now stands for its visible, unlocked art, as a layer below the mask
already does: its topmost object is the mask and the rest of its art is
masked with the art below. A top layer with no such art is refused and the
document is left unchanged.
symbol.delete {names} expands every instance of the named symbols,
round by round, before it removes any definition, so a symbol and the
one placed inside it delete alike in either order. The Symbols panel's
picks belong to the document they were made in, and a single picked
symbol is deleted only while symbol.unused still lists it.
symbol.unused lists the symbols nothing places: instances in the art
(opacity masks included), graph designs, pattern tiles and brush art
count, and so do instances in a used symbol's art. The Symbols panel
menu's Select All Unused shows them selected, and Delete Symbol asks
once and deletes those still unused in one undo step
(symbol.delete {names}).
A 16-bit piece holding half of a UTF-16 surrogate pair was placed with
U+FFFD in its place; the document is now refused. A pair split between
two pieces is decoded as one character.
A field with no result (no separator, never ended, or nested past 64)
is left out with its own warning, and the warning about fields placed
as their results is given only for fields that have one.
File > Place reads a Word 97-2003 document (a compound file named .doc,
or one that holds a WordDocument stream) and sets its main text as area
type, as it does for .rtf and .docx files. The text comes from the
piece table, in 16-bit Unicode or compressed 8-bit pieces. Formatting
is resolved from the style sheet's default font, the paragraph style,
the character style and the direct character and paragraph properties,
and keeps the same properties the .docx reader maps.
Table cells are separated by tabs and each row is a paragraph, and a
field places as its result. Hidden and deleted text, pictures, headers,
footers, notes, comments and text boxes are left out, and the reply's
warnings name each kind of content left out or changed once. Word 6.0
and Word 95 documents, encrypted documents and documents last saved
with fast save are refused, and so are structures that lie outside
their streams.
The compound file is read with the cfb crate (MIT), which adds one
package to Cargo.lock.
Cmd/Ctrl held with the Pen lends the last-used selection tool (Direct
Selection until one is chosen), which already moved anchors, straight
segments and curves of the path being drawn, one undo step each, and
handed the path back to the Pen.
With the Selection tool used last, the lent tool hit-tested the
bounding box even though the canvas hides it while anchors are selected
on their own, as the end anchor of a path being drawn is. Over the
path it showed a resize pointer, and the drag scaled the path by a
handle nobody could see: a flat path did nothing at all.
The Selection tool's handles now take the pointer only while the box is
shown (View > Show Bounding Box, no anchors selected on their own), so
the lent Selection tool moves the path being drawn.
Tests: select::tests::hidden_box_handles_take_no_press_while_anchors_are_selected,
tests::draw2::pen_cmd_drag_edits_anchors_and_segments_and_goes_on_drawing.
On a Wayland session Linux Display Server's default, Automatic, opened
the window on native Wayland. winit 0.30 doesn't bind the Wayland tablet
protocol, and KWin (since Plasma 6.3) and Mutter turn no tablet input
into pointer input, so the pen moved only the compositor's cursor and
the app got no motion or presses. Only X11 (XWayland) When a Pen Is
Attached, which users had to find and choose, sent the window through
XWayland, where the pen works as a mouse with its pressure.
Automatic now opens the window through XWayland when a pen is attached
as the app starts, as PhotoCraft does by default.
VECTORCRAFT_NATIVE_WAYLAND=1 keeps the window on Wayland, like
PhotoCraft's PHOTOCRAFT_NATIVE_WAYLAND. The X11 choice is unchanged.
- A radial gradient from a spot swatch to a CMYK color is written as a
DeviceN shading (ShadingType 3) of Yellow and the spot ink.
- A Lab spot color used as a flat fill and in a mixed gradient is
written as one Separation space with the Lab alternate, which the
DeviceN space names under /Colorants.
- docs/roadmap.md lists the gradients that still export without the
spot ink: mixed spot/process gradients in SVG and PDF gradients with
RGB or Lab stops. docs/target-app-parity.md also notes that a
Perceptual gradient is written to PDF as an image.
A linear or radial gradient whose stops mix a spot color with process
colors, or two spot colors, was written in process colors with a
warning. It is now written as a DeviceN shading of the process inks
its stops use and its spot inks, so each spot ink separates onto its
own plate. An off-center midpoint becomes a stop with the inks halfway
between its two stops. A gradient that mixes a spot color with RGB or
Lab colors is still written without the spot ink, with a warning that
says so.
A stored projection whose determinant is not finite is read back as the
same map divided by the largest magnitude in its w row, the scale the
overflow branch of conjugated already uses, so points that overflowed at
the stored scale draw: the identity with every entry 1e308 maps (2, 2)
to (2, 2). The overflow branch of inverse scales the map so that the
largest of the products its determinant sums is near 1, so a map with
large entries and a small w row, such as a scale by 1e305 with a move
by -3.9e307, is still inverted and read back.
The two overflow tests in persp_text.rs build their stored projections
with a w row of 1, so they still overflow after the read-back.
The reply's index came from the last object the effect was added to, while
its item came from the first selected object (or the first target for an
explicit item). When those objects held different numbers of effects on the
row, the reply named no effect of that object. The index is now read from
that object's effect list.
tool.setOption kept any finite rotate, while the Objects on Path Tool
Options dialog shows Rotate clamped to -360 to 360 and saves the value
it was given, so a rotate of 450 showed as 360 and the next attach used
450. The tool now clamps rotate to -360 to 360, and attach clamps the
saved rotate it falls back to the same way.
Double-clicking the Objects on Path tool opens Objects on Path Tool
Options: a nine-point Pivot grid, a Rotate field, Reset (the center and
0) and Save. Save sets the tool's options, which last across tool
switches and are saved with the preferences. The tool sends them with
each attach, and object.objectsOnPath.attach without pivot or rotate
uses them, so they apply to the objects attached next; groups attached
before keep theirs.
addon.pathtools.divideDashes cuts the selected paths (or only their
direct-selected segments) into separate open paths of a dash length
measured along the curve, with an optional gap (gap pieces dropped
unless removeGaps is false) and Fit to Corners and Ends; pieces keep
the path's appearance, one undo step, at most 100000 pieces. Geometry
in vectorcraft-pathops; dialog with unit fields and Preview; tests,
sweep cases, catalog rows and docs.
addon.arrange.groupOverlapping groups the selected top-level objects
whose visual bounds overlap or touch, chains included (union-find over a
sweep along x, at most 20000 objects), only within one layer or group.
Each group takes its frontmost member's stacking place; one undo step,
all groups made in one pass over the tree. Menu item, tests, sweep case,
catalog rows and docs.
While Caps Lock is on, the tools whose pointer General > Use Precise
Cursors changes show the crosshair, and the saved preference does not
change. The desktop app reads the lock state on macOS, Windows and
Linux X11 and passes each change to the new view.capsLock command. A
change to view.capsLock or usePreciseCursors through app.run refreshes
the canvas pointer. The view.preciseCursors command is labeled Use
Precise Cursors, so command search finds it by the preference's name.
Character panel > Language sets the selected characters' language;
text.setFormat and text.setRangeStyle take `language` by name or tag
(unknown: an error), and character styles carry it. Document Setup's
language list gains Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil,
Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia and Urdu, with catalog rows; the
Digits menu's numeral names move to a digits context, as Hindi is now
also a language name.
Characters get a language (CharStyle::language, a BCP 47 tag of one of
Document Setup's languages; none for the default, English: USA, saved
only when set). The shaper sets it on the HarfRust buffer, so fonts use
their language forms (OpenType locl): Turkish keeps fi apart and the dot
on its i. Runs in different languages are shaped apart. New type takes
the document's language.
Ungroup multiplied each member's opacity by the group's, so a member of a
50% group stayed at 50% after the group was gone, and members that
overlapped showed through each other. Each member now keeps its own
opacity, and the group's opacity is removed with the group.
A Mesh tool click within the hit tolerance outside a gradient mesh hit the
mesh, but object.mesh.addLine looked for the point inside the outline only
and failed with "point is outside the mesh". The same click on a path's edge
made a 1x1 mesh without the line.
- GradientMesh::locate_within takes a tolerance: a point outside the mesh
within it of the outline gives the nearest point of the edge.
- object.mesh.addLine and object.mesh.create take an optional `tolerance`
(0 by default), and the Mesh tool sends its hit tolerance.
A save in the native, template or .ai formats with separateArtboards writes an
artboard file even when the document has one artboard, so an existing file with
that name now gives the data set the next free suffix too.
When a step can write one file per artboard (Save in the native, template or
.ai formats, or Export in SVG, EPS, the raster formats, DXF, EMF, WMF or .ai)
and the document has more than one artboard, an existing file with one of the
stem's artboard file names now gives the data set the next free -2, -3 suffix,
as the stem's own file does. Names a data set's outputs will take are also
reserved for the later data sets of the same batch.
Destination and Override Save/Export paths reject only the current platform's
path separators, so a folder batch writes `a\b.svg` into the destination
folder on systems where that is one file name.
The naming choice reaches batch_datasets as a field of the run, and the short
Batch entry in docs/mcp.md is back to main's text; the longer Batch section
names datasetFileNaming and when an existing output gets a suffix.
The `-2`, `-3` suffix for a data set output that already exists is now
looked up only when the destination folder and the output path pass the
read and write access checks, so a call cannot learn which files exist in
a folder it may not use.
The lookup uses only extensions of formats the app knows, without path
separators or `..`, and only paths whose parent is the destination folder.
A step whose `format` is unknown keeps its own path instead of being
pointed into the destination folder. A data set or document named `.` or
`..` gets the `Untitled` stem with its three-digit number.
The Batch dialog has a File Name choice for a Data Sets source, starting
with File + Number (`source001`), as well as File + Data Set Name
(`source_Alpha`) and Data Set Name (`Alpha`). `action.batch` takes it as
`datasetFileNaming`; a call without it keeps File + Data Set Name, and a
folder source ignores it. An unknown value is an error.
A data set output whose name already exists in the destination folder
now takes the next free `-2`, `-3` suffix instead of replacing the file,
and a Windows device name under Data Set Name gets a trailing `-`.
File › Open and File › Place read JP2 files and raw JPEG 2000
codestreams (.jpf, .jpx, .jp2, .j2k, .j2c, .jpc) through hayro-jpeg2000,
and store the pixels as PNG. Gray, RGB, CMYK and ICC-tagged images, with
or without alpha, are converted to RGBA. Several codestreams, JPX
composition or layers, other color spaces, inconsistent or oversize
palettes, inconsistent channel definitions, oversize tile grids and
images past the pixel allowance are refused with a message before the
pixels are decoded.
The capture and display resolution boxes size the image: the box that
comes last sets each axis, and an axis without a usable value uses
72 ppi.
IccProfile::to_srgb_into converts a pixel with the cached transform and
no heap allocation.
Don Omondi