After Object › Path › Remove Anchor Points the anchor that follows each
removed one is selected: round the end of a closed subpath, or the one
before it at an open subpath's end. Running the command again goes on
along the path, without picking each anchor first. Several anchors,
subpaths and paths each get their own next anchor; a path that goes
leaves nothing selected; one undo step restores the anchors and the
selection.
The Delete key still selects the remainder whole so a second Delete
removes it, and the Delete Anchor Point tool still leaves the path
selected whole.
Fixes#2241
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Tab set the panels, the toolbar and the Control bar to one value on
each press. Two presses turned on a Control bar that had been off.
When the toolbar was hidden with Window › Tools, Tab showed the toolbar
and the Control bar instead of hiding the panels.
Tab now records which of the three showed when it hides them, and the
next Tab shows those again. Panels shown with Shift+Tab in between
stay shown. While the panels are hidden and the toolbar or the
Control bar shows, as after Shift+Tab, Tab hides those bars instead of
showing all three. When the toolbar or the Control bar was shown another way
after Tab hid them, the next Tab hides what shows and records that
instead. A switch of workspace clears the record. When none of the
three shows and Tab hid none, Tab shows all three, as before. The
record is saved with the other UI settings, so the first Tab after a
restart shows the same bars.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md.
On macOS the canvas paints the tool cursor into the window and hides
the system pointer. winit hides the pointer with a cursor rect that
holds a transparent cursor, and AppKit applies cursor rects only in the
key window. Over a VectorCraft window behind another app, or under its
own File › Open… sheet, macOS showed its arrow next to the painted tool
cursor.
On macOS the canvas now paints the tool cursor only while the window
has the focus. Without the focus it sets the tool's system cursor icon,
and the system pointer shows alone. Windows, X11, Wayland and the web
are unchanged.
Part of #2020.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md.
In the Swatches panel, a swatch dragged onto another swatch moved next
to it whether or not Alt was held. With Alt held at the release, a
swatch dropped on a swatch of its kind now gives that swatch its color,
gradient or pattern in one undo step, and the swatch keeps its name and
place. Art linked to a global swatch takes the new color. Drags of
None, Registration or color groups, and drops on a tint swatch or on a
swatch of another kind, work as before.
A color dragged in from outside the panel, such as from a Fill/Stroke
proxy, and Alt-dropped on a tint swatch failed with an error that the
swatch is a tint. It now becomes a new swatch, as a drop on a swatch of
another kind does.
Docs: docs/control-protocol.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The raster matrix [a b c d tx ty] is an art-space matrix (y up) applied to
the pixels with their rows running downwards, (u, -v). The reader flipped
the matrix's result instead, which only agrees when b = c = 0, so a rotated
image came in turned 180 degrees around its corner. The legacy version 7
writer and its prolog used the same convention; they now write and draw
the matrix the reader takes.
dataset.select, dataset.next and dataset.prev rewrite bound type with
the data set's text but replied only {name, applied, skipped}. A long
value could push lines out of a fixed frame and the reply had no
overflow key, while text.setText answers overflow: [id] for the same
text.
The three commands now add overflow: [id...] with the area type and
type on a path whose text they rewrote and that doesn't fit, through
typecmd::with_overflow, as text.setText does. An object that two text
variables rewrite is named once. Type that the data set left alone is
not named, and the key is left out when all of the rewritten text
fits.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
As in the reference app's Contextual Task Bar, which offers "options like
Image Trace, Retype, and Crop Image" for images and lets you "quickly
expand traced artwork from the bar" (public announcement:
https://community.adobe.com/announcements-651/contextual-task-bar-in-illustrator-2025-quick-actions-when-you-need-them-1546580):
- One image selected: Image Trace traces it at once with the Default
preset, leaving the Image Trace panel as it was (like the quick trace
from Properties and the Control bar); Crop Image shows the crop box.
Offset Path and Simplify, which don't apply to an image, are gone.
- One Image Trace object selected: Expand keeps only the traced paths,
in place of Ungroup and Isolate.
Retype isn't offered: the app doesn't have it.
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dataset.import trimmed every cell, quoted or not. dataset.export quotes
a text value with leading or trailing spaces, so a value such as
" padded " came back from its own export as "padded".
The CSV reader now trims an unquoted cell as before and keeps a quoted
cell as written between its quotes, spaces included. White space
between the closing quote and the next comma or line end is still
dropped. Image, graph and visibility cells, data set names and header
cells are trimmed as before.
A `.ai` opened from its editing data lost a text object on a layer that
shows and has Print off when its page drew no type for it. prune_unseen
weighs each text object made from the text document that the page's
type doesn't match against the page, and the layers are drawn for that
comparison as they print (as_printed), with such layers hidden. Taking
one of these objects out never changed the comparison, so each was
removed with the note "text objects that the file keeps but its page
doesn't draw ... are left out".
unmark now carries a print flag next to the shown flag, and a layer
with printable off clears it for everything it holds. Only made text
objects that show and print are weighed against the page; the others
stay on their layer.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The command catalogue is about 340,000 characters, more than many MCP
clients show, and `query` (the name agents reach for first) was refused as
an unknown argument. command_list and list_commands now take `query` as
another name for `filter`, `menu` to keep the commands under a menu path
("Object > Path"), and `brief` to leave out each command's params text,
which is most of the catalogue; the params of one command are a filtered
listing away.
Found while testing crates/engine/src/cmd/typemenu.rs:668 (find_replace / edit_runs)
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The family list scrolled with egui's floating scroll bar, which is drawn
over the rows' right ends, where each family's star is: with the pointer
there the bar widened over the star and a click went to the bar. The list
now takes the scroll bar the menus got for the same reason (#2086), slim
and in a column of its own; `widgets::list_scroll_style` holds it for both.
- "Font Style:" in Dimension Tool Options is Teckensnittsstil: Teckenstil
is already Character Style.
- The drawing-scale help reads "1:10 visar 1 enhet på sidan som 10".
- The layered-file fallback message and "Check an artboard to save" read
more naturally.
- "File › Place…" names the menu as the menus do (Fil, not Arkiv).
- The rows are reviewed, so the "machine-drafted; review welcome" note
above them goes.
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A second colour scheme next to Modern: the neutral greys and blue accent of
earlier versions, on the same cards, corners and layout. Picked in
Preferences › User Interface › Color Scheme (pref uiColorScheme:
modern|classic); Accent Color is dimmed while Classic is chosen, which has
its own blue.
Seven app screenshots retaken at 2240x1400 (UI at 1.6x), two of them new: a 3D still life with the Revolve dialog (examples/still-life.vectorcraft) and a bracket drawing with linked dimensions (examples/bracket-drawing.vectorcraft). The still life also joins Made in VectorCraft. The older examples are saved again in the current native format; they render the same.
