The PencilStraight entry in cursors.toml now says the cursor does not
show while Alt is also held with Alt key toggles to Smooth Tool on, and
that the line follows 45° steps from the Constrain Angle. The parity doc
says the Option/Alt straight line waits for #3959.
With Shift held before a press, the Pencil now shows a new cursor,
PencilStraight: its crosshair with a short straight line where the
closing cursor has its ring. The cursor follows the rule the press uses
to start a straight line, so it shows exactly when the press draws one.
With Alt key toggles to Smooth Tool on and Alt held too, the Smooth
cursor shows as before. Once the press is down, and with the
Paintbrush, Shift leaves the tool's own cursor. Use Precise Cursors
turns the new cursor into the plain crosshair.
Draw straight lines with the Pencil tool describes a straight-line icon
on the Pencil while Shift or Alt is held:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/draw-shapes-and-paths/draw-shapes/draw-straight-lines-with-the-pencil-tool.html
Deselecting made the panel jump to the swatch of the paint new art gets
(White). It now keeps the deselected art's swatch until the paints for new
art change (a swatch or colour picked with nothing selected) or another
document shows; selecting other art highlights its swatch.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The editing data's palette (%AI5_BeginPalette) was skipped, so a .ai file
opened with the default swatches plus only the spot colours its art used:
inks the art doesn't use (a Pantone set kept in the file) and colour groups
were lost. The palette is now read in order (process, spot in CMYK, RGB or
Lab, and global colours, gradients and patterns, colour groups; versioned
content read once) and replaces the default swatches.
Xs/Xz (Registration at a tint, as printer's marks use it) are read as the
Registration swatch: before, art painted with them stopped the editing data
from being read at all.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Picking the two points of a Linear dimension snapped to anchors and to the
line under the pointer, but showed no guides and ignored the art around it.
The picks now go through the drawing tools' Smart Guides (DrawSnap), hovering
too, so the guides show before each click: a point slides into line with other
objects' anchors and centres, and the second onto the construction guides
through the first. An anchor of the line under the pointer still wins (it
links the dimension to that path), then a guide, then the closest point of the
line (#2432). The guides go once the dimension is being placed.
Test: linear_picks_show_and_snap_to_smart_guides (fails on the old tool, which
showed no overlays while hovering). docs/dimensions.md updated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When an agent followed the trace-and-style prompt step by step, it
failed at the second step: open_file leaves the image unselected, so
imageTrace.make returned "nothing selected". The text did not say that
the Default preset traces in black and white. No step expanded the
trace, so the source image stayed in the document. The set_paint step
gave every traced shape the same paint. Step 2 also said that
screenshots show the Image Trace view, while render_preview and
screenshot without window draw the tracing result. Step 1 said that
the image opens at its own pixel size, while an image that declares a
resolution opens at its size at that resolution.
The steps now select the image with select.all (or name its id), say
which presets keep colors, expand the trace with imageTrace.expand or
imageTrace.makeAndExpand, recolor with recolor.colors and recolor.apply,
and check the result with render_preview or screenshot. The prompt's
name, arguments and defaults are unchanged.
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.
BFlat