The grid options' public page lists a Preview option: the repeat on the canvas follows the fields while the dialog is open. Object > Repeat > Options had none, so a change showed only after OK. Now a Grid Repeat's dialog has the checkbox: Cancel puts the original back without a history step, OK keeps the previewed values as one undo step. Radial and Mirror Repeat Options are left as they are, since their public pages list no Preview.
A mesh read from a file can have any number of patches, and the view any zoom: a 150 x 150 mesh from a 3 MB file exported at 20x asked for about 23 million quads (2 GB), and the command's own cap of 50 rows and columns does not apply to a loaded one. One tessellation now makes at most 1,048,576 quads, the subdivision per patch giving way before that, and a mesh with more patches than that is malformed, like a point count that does not fit.
When the conjugate a ∘ self ∘ a⁻¹ overflows, conjugated now forms every
entry of the product as a sum of terms whose factors are split into a
mantissa and a power of two, and scales the whole product by one power of
two from its w row at the end. Scaling each partial product to a largest
entry of 1 could round an entry to 0 that the next factor would restore,
so a projection with entries far apart in size, such as a scale by
(1e160, 1e-160) seen through the same scale, was removed and the art drew
flat.
The move drag remembers the plane it places loose art on. Pressing 4
during the drag, or dragging on after it, previews and commits the move
on that plane instead of dropping it. A 1-3 key pressed before the drag
threshold also sets the plane the move uses.
Each patch of a gradient mesh was cut into 8 x 8 flat quads for SVG export,
Object > Expand and the other outputs that cannot shade a mesh, whatever its
colours, so a patch of one colour became 64 identical pieces. Neighbouring
quads are now joined into square blocks wherever the colour changes by no
more than about one 8-bit step across the block; the block's outline runs
through its quads' corners, and a patch that folds over itself is not joined.
The Bosnian catalog still carried the Color (,) and Gradient (.) rows, which no longer match the toolbar's tips. It now translates Color (, or Shift+,) and Gradient (. or Shift+.) like the other catalogs.
When the conjugate of a projection overflows, it is now formed one factor
at a time, and each partial product is divided by its largest entry
magnitude. Scaling the affine factors up front let the w row underflow to
0, so a scale by 2 seen through a move by 1e308 returned None and the
projection was removed, though its conjugate is finite.
perspective.move takes constrain: true instead of a plane-space
direction. For each object, the command snaps the move to the nearest
axis or 45-degree diagonal of that object's own plane, so a selection on
several planes keeps every object on a line of its plane. The tool sends
the raw pointer with the flag.
On a diagonal, Snap to Grid now moves along the diagonal by the nearer
per-axis correction, so that edge lands on its gridline.
When conjugating a projection overflows, the scaled-down result is now divided by the largest entry in its w row. A valid conjugate is no longer dropped by the determinant cutoff at the arbitrary scale, and every point of a kept projection passes the horizon test in apply instead of none.
perspective.move takes an optional constrain: [dx, dy], a plane-space
direction. For an in-plane move, Snap to Grid's correction is projected
onto that direction, so a move the Shift key constrains to a plane axis
or a 45-degree diagonal stays on that line when an object edge lies near
a gridline. The Perspective Selection tool sends the direction for
Shift moves and copies. Moves without the param behave as before.
The Color and Gradient tips now read "Color (, or Shift+,)" and
"Gradient (. or Shift+.)". The shortcuts follow the key positions, so on
layouts where Shift at those keys types another character the tips name
the keys to press. The 25 catalogs with these rows and the toolbar
accessibility test follow.
When moving type or a symbol instance in perspective makes the
conjugated projection overflow, Homography::conjugated now forms the
product from factors scaled to a largest entry of 1 and returns it at
that scale, which maps every point to the same place. When even the
scaled result is not invertible, the transform removes the projection
and the art is drawn flat, instead of keeping the old projection while
the flat art moves.
The key-position match for Shift+Comma and Shift+Period now applies only
when Shift is the only modifier. Cmd/Ctrl+Shift and Alt+Shift presses at
those keys keep their logical key, so the type-size shortcuts on German-like
layouts behave as before. The typing test also checks that no paint command
runs while text is edited.
Homography::apply checked that w is in front of the horizon but not the quotients, so a point with w just above 1e-9 and a large x or y, or a NaN w, mapped to an infinite or NaN point. apply now returns None unless the mapped point is finite. inverse, conjugated and affine_at return None when their result has an entry that is not finite.
The targets are in paint order, so the first selected object is not always the first target. The active row is now matched against the first selected object wherever it is among them.
With a fill row selected in the Appearance panel, Add New Fill now
inserts a copy of that row directly above it and selects the new fill.
Rows already above the selected one stay where they are. Before, the
new fill was always a copy of the topmost fill, added at the top.
The selected row belongs to the first selected object. In a mixed
selection, an object that shares that row gets the copy above its own
equal row; an object that does not share it gets a copy of its top
fill on top, as before. With a stroke row selected, or with `ids` or
`target: "contents"`, Add New Fill works as before.
The panel drops rows that were Cmd- or Shift-clicked together when the
active row changes outside the panel, so after Add New Fill (button,
menu or shortcut) only the new fill is selected.
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